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Thanks for sharing those examples. I struggle with storyboarding, scenes and cartoon type styles. So you and I would have very complimentary skills if we were on the same production team.
Example: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ravenslore/shop
Based on that blog post this is a very nuanced topic that I’ll have to observe and think on for a long time. Thanks for your help.
Ok, I have another question. I’ve been reading a lot of the books and watching a lot of videos that are outside of this class. And usually they all make perfect sense. But this week I am coming across a lot that confuses me.
I hope this is still the right place to ask. But I was watching this video about what the Ten Commandments are: youtu.be/0pVAtvb59gs?si=rDU8cldk8qKdGRL4
And he says the one not to bear false witness is basically not to create fiction. (Only things that actually happen reflect the true forces and relationships.) And then farther along he says according to Baal HaSulaam there are only two commandments, which are basically to benefit society and fulfill society’s members. The example of fulfillment is to help turn them towards the Creator.
But what if all of your abilities and work and influence have to do with writing and illustrating games and fiction? I am a professional writer and illustrator. My favorite personal project topics to illustrate are spiritual concepts. But, they discuss in this video how it’s intrinsically impossible to depict these things. So any depiction is bearing false witness, in a way.
So if my abilities are in writing and illustrating, and this is what people listen to and respond to, how do I work to benefit the collective by it?
I was thinking about this last night. And if this is true, that we are being led to the realization of our one true and unique desire, the question of freewill is moot. Because it means that regardless of if our thoughts and actions originate from the Creator, or from our own will, they are advancing us towards the one thing that we truly want.
In which case we would choose each thought and action to be the same, even if we had full knowledge and attainment. If we had it to go back and do again, and this was the path to that end, we would do and think exactly the same things.
It’s completely irrelevant who is in control, because functionally the two entities are in lock step.
The egoistic desire was in agreement with the altruistic one all along. The only point of the whole process was to realize itself.
Thanks
I went on the YouTube channel after asking this and it seemed like the first video was about my question. It said that we each have a unique desire that is intrinsic, genuine and authentic. And that we are being lead to realize what it is. I imagine that must be the one that has the potential to be altruistic, and be the “button” to enter the spiritual world.
There are so many paradoxes in these spiritual concepts. What I am trying to understand is impossible. It’s like imagining a 5th dimensional object.
So, if that is true. The only way I can reach an intention to bestow is if I am led into a context, condition, or situation where it pops into my capacity to imagine it, comprehend it, and see that it’s something I want.
Is that what is happening here? We are spending as much time as we can following the breadcrumbs of these concepts that take us on some kind of a path to this epiphany?
