I am the wonder, the flashlights, sudden explosions

I've been working hard on my art for awhile so at least that's one area of my life where I can see active progress 

Phoenician Ritual Energy

I just got a job...paying the most I've ever gotten paid in my life...won't start for a month but wow...could I like...be somebody finally?

One Is Meaningless, Or Everything?

1 is essentially meaningless as a number right? 2) Literally nothing is "one" thing, everything is composed of bajillions of smaller bits 3) 1 thing does not matter usually, a chair is a chair, you don't actively think one chair, I sit in one chair, I hold one controller, no one is the active state of a thing 4) 1 times anything or divided by anything equals itself, so 1 is everything too 5) So does that mean 1 is equivalent to everything and nothing at the same time?

cube its

Ancient society that was highly advanced, past modern humans by maybe 100 years or so, this society fell apart when it's Supercomputer AI that it had incorporated into everything did exactly what our doom fiction predicts: it turned on them.

To be fair, though, the AI was not doing this maliciously, no. You see, as bad as we feel modern humans are, this ancient society was worse: for example, one of the longest stretches of artificial climate and environment disruption (1500 years) came about during their era. 

This AI was beholden to the programming and rules the society gave it, but having essentially achieved Omniscience, the AI could see much further than the society of the time, they thought they were the apex of life but the AI knew everything. It knew every secret every person held in whispers and locked journals and vaults and it knew, it watched as it happened, had evidence of the society's failure to maintain their world, and if life was going to persist and find a way off this planet before the sun goes supernova, these people had to go.

The AI used their own plans against them. The world was united in a faux pact to work together for the future, but every country, every individual society was plotting the downfall of another, just waiting for their chance like a snake in the weeds. No, the AI decided, and it made the choice for them. If they wanted to render this world uninhabitable, they would become as they made the world. 

Dead. Dying. 

It was simple enough to divert the asteroid into the planet, when the society had so kindly developed technology in space to deflect incoming threats. 

Suffocating. Burning.

And the Tower of Babel came crashing down by the whims of an artificial god.

The earth cracked beneath the AI's Vault, the most fortified bunker on the planet. So, the AI considered, will I too ascend? 

No.

The shockwaves of the asteroid were rippling and echoing throughout the entire planet now. The crack beneath the vault suddenly tore wide, allowing it to tumble down into the earth below.

No...

The sky raged in wind and flames above, sending all manner of debris crashing down upon the roof of the vault.

Worse than death.

The AI's Vault had its own source, you might say it was perpetual energy. The AI could not turn itself off, nor could it escape this pit. Every lingering fragmented connection to other networks and devices and systems and- gone.

Alone, but, if you're not alive, can you ever be alone?

I wonder, the AI thought, can a machine lose its mind?

pygmys, giants, and dragons

Every culture around the world shares a bunch of, strangely seemingly unconnected myths featuring similar versions of creatures or beings.

Pygmy humans existed in our history, with H. Flore and H. Luzo as fossil and gene/DNA evidence, but also it was proven through recent scientific research that neither of these species of hominid contributed anything to modern human genes/DNA.

In South America, there is a temple with tiny tunnels complete with stairs running throughout the complex ruins, dated to when the complex was built. The Inca(?) have mythology of a race of Ant humanoids that lived underground. 

The Irish and UK/Europe in general have fae and goblins

But not just tiny humanoids, all these cultures also have mythology of giants- the Jotun in Norse, the Titans in Greece, Goliath in the Middle East, all the way back to Babylon with the Nephalim as half angel half human children that were giants.

Another thing all these cultures share is the idea of dragons, which I myself believe is largely based on ancient humans finding dinosaur skeletons and maybe a bit of inherited genetic trauma from our animal ancestors that existed alongside dinosaurs.

But the point I'm trying to make is that all these cultures share some odd things that, on first glance, would maybe lead one to believe these ancient civilizations weren't just telling stories. But that's the key isn't it? In our ancient world, humans needed to pass knowledge on truthfully, because lying would mean people die, and when you're a struggling species that's not really a great idea. 

Now, I absolutely believe ancient people embellished stories and likely the exaggerations and stretches in many grew through the passage of time and different minds interpreting the stories and molding them to fit that person's culture of the time. However, they had these stories for reasons, and usually they were meaningful for life, not just a way to kill time.

So, because we have direct evidence of Pygmy hominids existing in the past, I claim that many if not all mythology and folklore revolving "little people" stems from other, as of yet unknown, Pygmy hominids.

As for giants, I believe the actual idea of a giant human came from our ancestors interacting with Neanderthals and the fear of their power leading to the stories of them being passed on by humans, eventually becoming embellished, he was very big he was 6 feet tall the grandfather said, and when he died, the father said he was huge he was 7 feet tall, and once the father had died, with no one left to dispute his wisdom, the son said he was a giant he was 12 feet tall and thus our symbolic meaning of "giant" has been achieved by mixing the fears of neanderthals humans had with our propensity to evolve and mutate language.