Wrote it quite quickly, although I'm satisfied with the ideas.

There are a couple of revisions I'd like to do

For Enoch-666...

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Very cool, man.

The last stanza I'm not sure if I'm understanding. It seems that if one kept following that parabola without breaking free of it they'd continue to have the same negativity. Maybe I'm just missing something there.

And I don't know if this was intentional or not, but in the Reality stanza when the visual I got from the last two lines were lines drawn scoring out the negativity and they formed a plus sign.

Interesting piece as usual.

edit: okay, I have to ask about the math stuff at the beginning. What's that about? I'm old so humor me.

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Well I did say it was inspired by mathematics, I see everything as being mathematically explainable, I managed here to describe a circumstance with calculus and the idea of there being spaces for different operations, and now that I look at it, some of the potential implications of this particular description are beautiful, and folk who know calculus can see them very easily. I simply included the basic mathematics behind it. The example I gave is actually usually the first taught, although in a more lengthy and explanatory form, to people learning calculus.

Basically the parabola has a rise and decline respectively from and towards infinity, whether in a negative or positive direction. I make the moral assumption that being far from the pinnacle, or turning point, is a chaos, which is further assumed to be an undesirable thing. The axioms, if you like...

The parabola's formula is a product, it contains x times x. And I make the link between this and the fact that some people use a kind of 'product' way of going about things. Retaliation is a 'product' behaviour, as it tries to cancel out a negative with another negative, to produce a positive. But in the real world, or on the whole of things, or the 'sum' of things (heh heh...), it doesn't work like this. If one group of people kills 50 people, and the group the 50 belonged to retaliate and kill 50 of the offending group, then 100 are now dead, twice as much as before. There are two wounds now. You have to be ignorant and self-absorbed to follow the product way.

Now when one differentiates x times x, one get x plus x. See the magic now?

Also, when ones differentiates a parabola's formula, or any other function, then they get the gradient, or the formula for the slope of the original function, an implication which I noted upon the final stanza, basically meaning that one tries to lead the 'product way', they are simply caused to decline by reality itself. Thus I propose the following proverb, "reality is the slope of demise".

There are some revisions I want to make in the final stanza, so look out for an update.

Oh, and thanks problematic.

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WOW... you weren't kidding dude... There's enough here to boggle me for about a hundred years.. Very cool and original piece.
You should do an entire book on this idea of yours.

Well, the basic principles of calculus can be learned quite quickly actually. It starts with plotting co-ordinates on a graph, almost like a treasure map.

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