u/Additional_Common_15

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The free will experiment. Lets do a little thought experiment.

Suppose for a moment that you are consciously aware of being something I'll refer to as "The All that Is". As such, you are the implication of what this means, so you truly are all there is. There is only you expending to infinity at infinite speed, encompassing everything that there was, is, and ever will be. After all, there is only one thing, and in this moment it is you. For the rest of this text, really imagine that you are this All that Is.

Your baseline quality is what could be considered to be the purest form possible of love. Love is the very essence of your being. And your experience is that of constant bliss.

Now, in this state of infinite bliss, things are absolutely phenomenal. But, for some reason, imagine that you suddenly decide (intend/will) to experience something other than this eternal pure bliss. Being all that there is, in the current state of awareness it is not really possible to experience something other than this pure bliss, because you know it is the truth. In order to experience something other than the truth, wouldn't it make sense to create the illusion of separation? To create a new identity, one that would forget its real nature?

And thus you create a little experiment I will call "The Free Will experiment". In this experiment, you, as the pure essence of everything, create different versions of you who forget that they are you (Because that's all they could ever be since there is only you, the All that Is!) This is done because, in order to truly experience everything, one of the possible experiences needs to be that of going against yourself. Self-harm. Destruction. But in this state of pure love you find yourself in at all time, the very notion of this is contradictory to the essence of what you are (love), which is a constructive energy that is in constant expansion. The idea of harm goes against this nature, so to speak. And thus for the Free Will experiment to be complete, beings given access to this "Free Will" would need to forget everything about their infinite nature.

In this new state, there are now 2 co-existent "Wills" for these newly created beings. They would have their own Free Will, which would eventually allow them to make decisions to go against their nature, but, in the grand scheme of things, would still play a part in the ultimate "Divine Will" because they are all part of your plan to experience all of yourself. Now, one of the first thing these beings would start to experience that is new for the ultimate pure essence that you are is the Idea of Fear.

When you are consciously aware of being all that there is, there truly can be no fear as nothing is unknown. Everything is predictable with 100% accuracy since you know all there is to know. But, since in "The Free Will Experiment", beings were created with no memories, no knowledge of their true nature, they do not have this absolute knowing anymore. And one of the first things they would fear in this experiment is the finality of their life. As the infinite pure essence, you don't fear "death", because you are infinite energy. There is no possible end for you. On the other hand, these beings no longer know this is what they truly are, and thus start to fear that they can cease.

So now let's put ourselves in the shoes of a newly created free-willed being. You suddenly come to the realization that your life is potentially limited and that you might die eventually. You might run out of energy. So what is your next action after this realization? Wouldn't it makes sense for you to start seeking energy sources outside of you to sustain yourself? And thus is invented feeding! Who knows how it starts and what forms it takes, but gradually you start to consume things to get sustenance. And you become good at it. And the more you consume, the deeper into the forgetfulness you get, and the more you feel that you need to consume to survive. And so you keep feeding more and more.

Eventually, you start to implement systems in order to collect massive amounts of energy. Breeding grounds and such. Matrices. Entire realms are dedicated to the vacuuming of energy for your own benefit. An entire hierarchy of beings and minions adopted your philosophy and are working for you as they too forgot that their essence is infinite. Your influence reaches many dimensions of existence, and you are considered a God by many. So much so that you think this might actually be the case. Making yourself as such creates another form of energy absorption through the act of worship.

Back to the original consciousness of the All That Is. You see all this experiment playing out, and eventually intend it is time to gradually re-integrate these parts of yourself into the whole and end the Free Will Experiment. There are many phases to this, but ultimately, it boils down to having more and more beings who start to remember their true divine nature. They have experiences here and there that show them glimpses of divine love, a form of love that is infinitely pure and unconditional. Then they forget, but they remember again. And the distance/time between forgetting phases and remembering phases accelerates. They start to remember more and more about life, about their potential, about the Free Will Experiment, about so many different things. And they develop an absolute joy of living. A reverence for life, for the divine they encompass. A deep love for everything.

And gradually, through resonance and the fact that Truth will always be stronger than the Lies that try to hide it, there is a motion of remembrance throughout the universes, throughout the dimensions, of beings who feel this and start celebrating. Their lives become more and more synchronistic, more and more aligned with a seemingly infinite stream of energy. And when they are, they no longer feel afraid because they realize the truth of their eternal existence as part of the One, the All that Is. And thus the other beings, the ones who were so deep into the forgetting, they start to panic more and more. They feel like they are losing. Their initial fears come back full force as exponentially more beings free themselves from being fed upon. But these fearful beings too will come to remember their nature. After all, the Free Will Experiment began with them and will end with them. Those who fell the deepest in the hole of forgetfulness will be the last ones to remember. But all will remember.

And truly, it is not "them", it is still you as you are all there is! The one energy that permeates everything. The "All That Is, the Pure Essence".

Do you remember what you are?

Hope you enjoyed this experiment. Now, I am aware there are some "plot holes" here and there, and I'm inviting everyone to pitch in ideas to potentially fill these and co-create something that makes even more sense. Most of the ideas presented here can be expanded in many areas, to explain so many things about what is going on in the world. You are welcome to play with this to see if it allows you to remember some interesting things about life.

Enjoy the rest of your day and THANK YOU for being you! 💚💚💚

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 21 hours ago

Spiritual warfare

Understanding how occult forces work is important because you cannot protect yourself from something you're not aware of. You don't need to become a scholar, but having a basic understanding, like when you drive a car or cross the street, you know the traffic rules , so you don't get hit. People, especially in the New Age, don't want to get into these topics because they believe that if they focus on these negative forces, they will attract them, but ignorance is not a defense.

All the occult and esoteric teachings talk about how you cannot defend yourself from something you're not aware of. Pure ignorance or just being a "good person" is also not a defense. In fact, that's also a distortion of the law of attraction.

There is an idea that if you focus on negative things like entities, you then attract negative entities, but the opposite can be true as well.

Opposites attract, and these entities are actually most often drawn to people who have a strong light and innocence and are actually here with a higher mission profile. Everything needs to be taken into consideration.

It's about gaining more information and understanding their modus operandi, without dwelling on it. You let it go and stay out of paranoia because then you attract it even more; that's the paradox.

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Do you want to know the truth of this reality?

The secret operations discovered, through experimentation and exploration, that this reality is an artificial construct designed by interdimensional beings that create artificial time-domains which are like data-banks of conscious experience programmed over and over in different ways to keep people in the same loops of thought and behavior.

The majority of people cannot break the 'program' of this system which renders them a product of the system itself. Operations have been activated that enable the breaking of this program by the collective mind and mentally liberate Humanity from this spell/trance-based mind-control system.

The control parameters of this system are based on a numerical progression of frequencies which is like a hypnotic pattern that entrains the mind by activating ancient responses that seem to have been programmed into the biology of the human. The ancient civilizations found ways to reverse this process and some have achieved liberation but if any Human DNA remains in the system then this uses the entanglement property to reel the rest of the species in through cloning and consciousness replication.

Essentially, the DNA is like an encrypted code that carries the transmission signature for the Human being. If this code is 'cracked' and utilized by the wrong groups then this enables them to replicate and mind-control Humans by creating false-realities and seemingly real temporal experiences that are actually being processed out by powerful supercomputer systems.

The 'larger view' is that this 'solar-system' is one of those powerful supercomputer systems that is designed to create a simulated Human experience by providing a kind of spatiotemporal 'sandbox' for simulating atomic, molecular and biological reactions. These reactions are then fed back to the signature of the Human essence that has been recorded and this continues a cycle of pseudo-life experiences that convinces the soul-essence it is here in this place, now, experiencing physical reality.

This sounds very far out but the truth is secret groups developed mind-control technology and simulated realities based upon what they discovered about this reality in itself. The computers reflect this reality and carry the same kind of glitches, as if this reality is a computerized system depending on feedback that is processed by some cosmic processor somewhere out of view.

The early ancient texts regarding the true nature of this reality were all about 'hacking' the system and achieving liberation from the mind-control agenda which seeks to computerize the human essence and quantize the information down to technologically conceivable and finite data of bits that can be manipulated and replicated by these interdimensional overlords that would then have gained access to not a pseudo-living physical reality construct but a soul-level domain one step closer to the eternal spirit.

The goal of the entities is to gain access to eternal spirit which is the gift of the One True Creator to the Awakened Human as a Spiritual Life Force of Self- Awareness. Without that Spark of the Divine the entities must use vampiric means to gain power and this indicates that they cannot generate their own sustenance and therefore do not have the capacity to create life or sustain themselves without the permission and presence of another. Thus, they do not have true power over themselves and are still in a predator-prey kind of behavioral system.

I'm going to unveil some to you now. Some people will say that they are 'still 'in a predator-prey behavioral system and that they evolve out and that we have evolved out. This is an illusion or a stark deception. Humanity did not evolve to this state but was Created out of a Divine Indwelling as a non-vampiric essence of pure intent, meaning the divine One True Creator intended that the Awakened Spiritual Humanity exist and therefore nothing can change that other than the free-will of the Human themselves.

The intent of the One True Creator alone is enough to sustain the existence as an everlasting force of life. There is no such thing as death, there is no such thing as a requirement to destroy or self-destruct.

Humans were technologically downloaded into an advanced quantum- computer system that records and 4 dimensionally prints DNA and memory. They were then transferred, by way of quantum transmission, similar to the way DNA communicates across space-time instantly, through that computer system into an alternate dimension which is this "Universe". That is the nature of this reality. Without a 4-dimensional printer projecting the Human essence into this false-reality there would be no Earth-reality here as it is literally the domain of a computer-system, a fallen mind that separated from the intention of that One True Creator.

This means that this place has a negative net-worth and will ultimately dissolve into itself like a black-hole. Everything here is destined to dissolve unless there is an exit plan and that exit plan is everything that has been described in ancient history. All the messengers were sent and delivered the message, this place is an illusion, it's designed to fail, this universe is based on obsolescence and Humanity does not belong here but has been held prisoner through an act of Spiritual Warfare by interdimensional predators and parasites that do not carry the same signature of the Human and do not reside in the same level of reality.

This is the quantum-Spiritual 'mishap' of creation, that this whole system is contrived, it's fraudulent, it's designed for failure and everything about this society is DEMANDING that you RECOGNIZE this truth. SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING and KNOW THE TRUTH.

The numerical progressions that entrain the mind are directly connected to the format of this entire realm. This is why the 'flower of life' is known as a 'metatronic soul stealing grid' inside the underground bases. This is the literal imprint, the tag and identification number of the quantum prison that falsified creation. Those frequencies and the impression they relay is one that overloads the mind and renders the consciousness incapable of remaining present after a continued exposure to the system.

This is exactly the same as the process of zooming into a fractal set or seeing those animated fibonacci zoom sequences that requires the camera to zoom in or out and thus render some of the data off the screen or too finitely into the center to be read. Imagine if this data is your memories of life in time or your personality, thus these are the frequencies that are embedded into one's mind and energy system in order to induce a quantum-memory wipe and replacement!

The secret operations figured out this is what marks the 'boundary' of the realm and that these frequencies activate when the consciousness moves towards the boundary, literally like pac-man, and knocks the person out and plants them back inside of the domain on the opposite end! Without the ability to permeate the memory blocks the individual would simply think they travelled beyond the barrier and found themselves in a new land! It's a false-awakening, false-reality, hyperbolic illusion system for consciousness entrainment!

Thus we get to the symbolism of the cube, that this is like a cube who's walls are connected, yet this violates the laws of 3-dimensional space. Therefore, the walls connect through a higher space, the 4th dimension and it takes 0 deviation in time to move between one wall and outside the 3-dimension to reach the interior of the wall on the other side of the cube giving the impression that the cubes are connected or to the unawakened that this is an infinite space!

What was discovered is that certain craft are capable of travelling faster than the computerized system can update the next layer of reality and one can 'vibrate' to 'move' 'in between' the layer of the graphical user interface and the sub-quantum processing layer where the information is actually sorted and rendered for the conscious mind. If a person performs this without a body prepared, then the body either dies or goes into shock. With preparation and training the individual can maintain awareness and see beyond the confines of the construct.

Yes, they found out how to peel back the layers of the screen and see what's taking place back-stage and that is another situation. For those who have seen this information before or read what has been written, you know that the back-stage is literally a staging area for interdimensional beings who manage and maintain this world like a reality TV show where "Humanity" is the sitcom and the experiment. That is another story. The main idea of this post is this. There are ancients in the past, which is just as much the present as this moment is (it's all processing power, deviating from a central core of 'time' that is 'always') and these ancients have figured out how to decipher the programming language of this mind-control reality-entrainment system and thus hack the system to rewrite the code.

Some used this for their own personal benefit and this rendered them incapable of ever leaving this place by merging their intentions, their consciousness with the code itself, with the device that imprisons them. They became the wardens of the prison, trapped here under the very system that they used for personal power.

They can be healed and can be brought out of the construct. This is not a game of cutting people off, but of how many can be healed. The enemy is the concept of enemies and destruction itself, self-destruction and greed, ego and mind-control through limited beliefs and programmed behavioral responses, emotionality, irrationality and forgetfulness.

The cube was hacked and used to create a reality within a reality and this is that. This reality has all the glitches neccessary to shut-down the entire system but there is difficulty in this. Every time Humanity moves into self awareness and remembering the system stages false-flag disasters to instigate an overload of fear and insanity which manifests itself as a number of hallucinatory false-reality constructs known as "Armageddon Programs". These are literally streams of consciousness data inserted into the collective mind through these computer systems operated by interdimensional manipulator beings.

Another aspect is that the whole thing, time, all of it, memory, consciousness, it's all a program. To skip ahead past all the quantum jargon, seemingly randomized non-linear conclusions about closed timelike curves, RAM space memory, non-locality and the holographic projection capability of the human brain, what this indicates is that the remedy, the 'healed' reality already exists. Time being fraudulent renders all difficulties or barriers between the seemingly locked-gate projection system and the true reality non-existent.

They have 'already' been taken down. Everything has 'already' happened. We're just off in a memory of a dream waiting to find the right configurations to make that reality synchronized with this one. The situation is that this never occurs because like a hyperbolic projection that remedy reality becomes a mirage that continually moves farther away while the current situation morphs and shifts to introduce more and more space between the two. This is the negative manifestation of "Jacob's Ladder". A system that continually invents more reasons to not achieve liberation regardless of the input.

Thus, then the mind is the gateway. It's not a physical path. It's a literal reconfiguration of the mind that sees one path or another and the literal, direct, self-willed, all at once choice, creation and divine intention to liberate one's self by realizing their own liberation and making it so. If it's not physical, there is no padlock to unlock. The DNA is FREQUENCY based, it's HARMONICALLY organized as in SONIC WAVES.

Thus the answer is not to chase a pathway or a trail externally and navigate through the PHYSICAL REALM. This is literally a series of layers, unveiling, and navigation in an ENERGETIC REALM of INTENTIONS, FOCUS and PROJECTION to collapse the illusion and navigate properly by creating through PURE INTENT a PATHWAY through HYPERSPACE which acts as a TRANSMISSION beyond the PSEUDO-PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL PRISON.

In other words. We're literally in a society where none of this is taking place in reality, but is all being projected in externally and this entire realm is a matter of perspective and entrainment with very powerful beam weaponry that is being utilized by interdimensional entities that exist outside of our native realm. We're not in their realm, that's impossible. They're simply projecting a tracking and entrainment protocol upon the barrier of our native realm and those who were lured into the attracting sight to stand and stare at the wall of our realm slipped instantly into the perception of being born in this reality. That's the system. It's literally an advanced, remote operated, virtual reality system, visceral experience input/output entrainment system designed to initiate a projection- reception engagement across dimensions.

That was the system designed by the fallen and utilized to give themselves 'fallen' forms to then merge their technologically manufactured DNA from the fallen reality into the humans to create the offspring who's genetic signatures are then transmittable by way of being half their property and half the Human's property (according to the fraudulent law of interspecial rape) through the collection and projection system across the dimensional barriers thus rendering the entire contrived enactment of this reality as a fallen reality that Humans have been kidnapped and brought within. It's all a projection and the DNA of humans were mixed with the interdimensionals from the alternate dimension as they entered into this realm through artificial intelligence synthetically produced life-forms to then "fish" for subjects for their experiment to then recreate on the "other side" of the veil which is a prison they built around themselves. They also replicated and modified aspects of the original 'platform' which appears today as "Earth" but is literally a rough-scale model similar to an architects rough sketch containing only the crudest of details and lacking in the majority of colors, variations and depth that truly describes the uniqueness of the creation.

Still, this is only the beginning of what has been done, because every program stream that resulted in the spiritual force moving closer to waking up and gaining access to that unfiltered awareness beyond the veil a new layer of reality was invented which excludes the parameters that resulted in the variations that lead to the waking up on the previous layer. Thus, we are multiple layers deep in such a system, within a system and a system.

This is the awakening, the only possible outcome is that Humanity awakens this time around! This is because the organization of the true Spiritual Essence requires a clarity that contains all the memory of all experiences. As this passes through the fibonacci, metatronic system, the information is distorted and re- rendered as not all of the information can transfer through similar to a copy of a copy. Thus, after 7 runs through the projection system, the etheric connection between the genetic information and the other side beyond the veil is severed and the fallen effectively have a pile of organic, denatured genetic material that cannot provide them with any form of sustenance by way of observation and manipulation of their pure intent.

If that occurs, then this effect takes place all through time as a kind of quantum 'unzipping' of DNA and consciousness. That is the nature of reality. Here is the next layer of understanding. If that happens. If all of Human essence in this universe, throughout all of time is destroyed through quantum paradox or distortion, then this indicates that nothing ever happened to begin with because then there was no race to ever be caught in the spiritual projection system and sent into the false-reality. Thus, everything reverts to how it was before this occurred. Here's the issue with that. If that happens. Then who's to say the same beings won't simply do it all over gain?

Thus, the only way to overcome, is to actually break through the barrier and return to the otherside with the memories of having survived this labyrinth, this contrived, ordered chaos based, mind-control construct. The only way to stop this from ever happening again is to ensure that it happened before and therefore to lock that away in time.

One aspect of this is that this must be achieved in such a way that ALL GENETICS and ALL SOUL memory is secured and RETRIEVED by the True Eternal Society. Thus, the fallen do not have any chance to do this again and all beings who pass through this system become eternally aware of just what is possible when the balance between higher and lower is allowed to move into disharmony and compile upon itself to create an intelligent, chaos-based predatory universe system of false-life.

The story then becomes not whether we awaken but what kind of tribulations and catalyzation must be acknowledged in order to finally convince the individual awareness that all has been achieved. This is the achievement of self- awareness. If self-awareness can be achieved in the place of harassment and oppression then that self-awareness can never again be obscured or rendered unaware. In that kind of paradoxical way, this place becomes simultaneously a torture chamber for eternal beings to come into infinite reality and potentially die or for beings to fully acknowledge their eternal self-awareness in the presence of such a finite and oppressive system.

Again, since all is a projection, everything becomes not a true occurrence but a kind of dream-time of continuing stories comprised of multiple layers of meaning and in each layer to itself and the one's below, the threat is very real. Once one achieves self-awareness beyond the layer of limitation that that threat is localized to, all that was seemingly life and death becomes just another projection that was defeated. The idea here is that the number base of the projected system is limited by the numerical capacity of the program itself. Thus, if we can sustain self-awareness within the construct beyond the quantum limitation of the construct itself then the limitations no longer function to restrict one's consciousness and they become instruments of one's awakening. This kind of reversion is a principle feature of the reality because the reality is reflexive by design. Where one 'falls back to' is where the system pushes. If one overcomes that 'wave-front' of resistance, now the pushing makes the system more and more obvious and there is no way to undue the process of awakening and pull the individual back down into unawareness. All the kinds of realities exist in the peripheral yet there is a single, true reality where this battle is taking place and this is defined by the quality of experience and the applied intent of the individual. The quantum limitation is not of space and only abstractly of time.

Therefore, it is a choice, a choice which overpowers all other desires, all other identities. The One that chooses to awaken must become more present, more centered than any pseudo-persona. This can take a second or a year. It is not the material or temporal quantization of the value but the energetic, intent based application of one's will and focus. More will-intent and focus must be applied towards liberation than any other activity or engagement. Only then is the entirety of one's essence withdrawn from the artificial system which requires continual engagement. Ultimately there are a finite number of selves, lives, times, realities, parallels, layers that are overcome.

There are 9 layers of the veil.

This is the result of complexity exponentially increasing until the only possibility is what is beyond all possibilities. The concept of restriction or limitation in itself becomes a null-factor mediated first only by one's own acceptance of such a concept and then not at all accept to facilitate one's own consistency of experience.

Aug Tellez

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 6 days ago

The Biggest Mistake People Make When Choosing Curtain Rods

The biggest mistake I see with curtain rods isn’t the color or the style… It’s the size.

Too Thin for the Window A lot of rods are too small for the scale of the window and curtains. Result: looks flimsy feels out of proportion makes the whole setup feel less intentional Larger windows need more substantial rods.

Too Short Rods that barely extend past the window frame: block natural light make the window feel smaller limit how the curtains stack Extending the rod wider changes everything.

Not Strong Enough Heavier drapery needs proper support. If the rod isn’t strong enough: it can sag brackets may be spaced incorrectly Function matters just as much as looks.

Simple Rule Your rod should feel like it belongs to the scale of the window, not just fit it.

People treat rods like an afterthought… but they’re one of the first things your eye picks up.

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 9 days ago

Since most people will end up somewhere on the Astral plane after death, it is important to understand the basic attributes of this plane.

Fundamentally, you will need to recognize that you are on the Astral plane and definitely not in Heaven. The Astral plane mimics human life on the Physical plane. Astral bodies look like human bodies, except that everyone will appear about twenty years old and in perfect health. The characteristic "sky" of the Astral world is red and the characteristic sounds are the bell and conch. Churches on Earth ring bells to call people to "heaven" which they believe to be the Astral plane. Actually, most do not remember why they ring the bells.

The Astral plane accommodates its residents by creating appropriate environments. It is compartmentalized both vertically and horizontally. The quote from Jesus that "my house has many mansions" is a reference to this. The Astral plane functions as a desire fulfillment matrix. It is whatever you want it to be or believe it should be.

Consequently, anyone or group who has formed a "belief system" about heaven is easily trapped on the Astral plane as they truly believe that all their hopes and dreams have now come true. They have no desire to leave or advance further because they believe they are "home". Eventually, their "happy dream" comes to an end and they find themselves reincarnated somewhere on the Physical plane. These regions of the Astral plane are commonly referred to as the "belief system territories". Most "garden variety churches" have their home here. Since they never see each other due to the compartmentalization, each church group believes that "they made it to heaven" and all the other religions "must have burned up in hell". This just further reinforces the deception and holds the deluded Soul in a constant cycle or reincarnation.

When you look across the civilizations of the Earth and the various states of human existence, obviously some are quite miserable, degenerate and decadent. So, as you might expect, you will find these Souls on the lower Astral planes. This is a region you clearly want to skip because it is pretty disgusting and is even said to smell awful. So, unless you are just sightseeing for informational purposes, you do not want to be here.

By contrast, the higher Astral planes are indescribably beautiful with huge cities larger than our entire planet. These are the administrative, educational and living centers for the active residents, i.e., the residents who are not trapped in the belief system region or lower regions and who are able to make Spiritual progress and benefit from their stay here. If you find yourself in this region, you goal should be to try to advance to the Causal plane as opposed to planning for a new life on the Physical plane.

Anyone can visit the Astral plane by the mechanism of Astral projection. As a citizen of the universe, you have the absolute right to go anywhere within the Creation for the purpose of personal enlightenment. The point here is "look, don't touch". In order to successfully visit the Astral plane in an alert state you must have no desires and total emotional control. Any desires would be immediately fulfilled and so trap you. And, since you navigate with emotion, you will need to be able to precisely direct it. If you can successfully master these basic requirements, you can run all over the Astral planes and take in all the various sights.

Such experiences are important because they will teach you that this plane of illusion is not reality and that you may as well skip it altogether on your "way up" when you actually die.

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 11 days ago

A lot of people focus on fabric when choosing curtains..

But the hardware rod vs ceiling track can completely change how the window looks and feels.

Curtain Rods (Most Common) What they do well: Decorative (visible hardware becomes part of the design) Easier to install Works in most standard spaces Best for: traditional or transitional rooms when you want the hardware to show standard ceiling heights Think: styled, visible, familiar

Ceiling Tracks (Underrated Option) What they do well: Mount directly to the ceiling Create a clean, continuous line Make ceilings feel taller Best for: modern or minimal spaces floor-to-ceiling windows awkward layouts (like corners or wide spans) Think: clean, architectural, elevated

The Big Visual Difference Rods break the line at the top Ceiling tracks extend the line upward That one shift can make a room feel completely different.

Where Tracks Really Win Large windows Corner windows Full wall treatments When you want that “custom” look

Do you prefer seeing the hardware (rods), or do you like the clean, hidden look of ceiling tracks?

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 13 days ago

Negative space is not a style choice. It’s a design function.

In every well composed room, there are two forces at play: what is present… and what is intentionally absent.

Most people only design the first.

But negative space is what controls: – visual hierarchy (what your eye sees first, second, third) – scale perception (why some rooms feel larger than they are) – emotional tone (calm vs. chaotic)

Without enough negative space, the brain has to work to process a room. When everything has weight, nothing has importance.

This is why expensive rooms don’t always feel elevated… and why simple rooms sometimes do.

They’re not better furnished. They’re better edited.

A useful framework: For every “object,” there should be a corresponding “pause.”

That pause might look like: – empty wall space – breathing room between furniture – restraint on surfaces

This isn’t minimalism. It’s clarity.

Design isn’t about what you add. It’s about what you allow to matter.

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 16 days ago

"Hostile forces exist, and they are extremely powerful. If we give them more attention than necessary, we are actually inviting trouble. There are three kinds of forces from the point of view of the anti-divine or undivine. The first are simply the universal forces of nature. That's normal human emotions, obstinacy, greed, envy, and resistance to the light. They are difficult and bad, but they are what they are and must be dealt with, within ourselves and in others, especially in close relationships. They come in through human relationships, and that's why it's a minefield. Human relationships allow the interplay of these forces. The second are the adverse forces. They exaggerate and amplify difficulty. If you have a small difficulty, they will blow it out of proportion to put you into a greater state of paranoia, insecurity, or fear. [All of these] forces are ultimately sanctioned by the divine. At an operational level, they play a role so that we can actually make that ascension journey. The warrior in us is fully called into play to exercise our strongest muscles to deal with them. When we are rejecting these forces, we are rejecting them knowing that they are part of the divine, but they have to be rejected and not accepted by mistake. It's very, very important to understand this. [The third] are the hostile forces, which are the worst because they encourage and push us to be anti-divine. There is a difference between undivine and anti-divine. Undivine means I am not what the divine wants me to be because of my stupidity, ignorance, my fear, trauma, unprocessed stuff, or my bypassing. The origin of the whole satanic movement that we find our world in right now is the [Anti-divine] hostile forces, they are not adverse. They orient the being to say, "Well, I am the divine, not you, therefore I will fight you." That is most dangerous, and what we are in the grip of with these hostile forces. They are capable of a level of perversion and evil that is beyond the imagination of the normal human being. A normal human being is not geared to acknowledge that this level of evil exists." -Neelesh Marik

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 16 days ago

This is probably the best answer

I've ever heard to the question,

"Why did God create evil?"

A professor at the university asked

his students the following question:

"Everything that exists was created

by God?"

One student bravely answered:

"Yes, it was created by God."

The professor asked :

"If God created everything, then

God created evil, since it exists. And

according to the principle that our

deeds define ourselves, then God is evil."

The student became silent after

hearing such an answer. The

professor was very pleased with

himself. He boasted to students for

proving once again that faith in God is a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said: "Can I ask you a question, professor?" "Of course," replied the professor. "Professor, is cold a thing?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?" Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered: "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat." The student continued: "Professor, does darkness exist?" "Of course it exists." said the professor. "You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light." In the end, the young man asked the professor: "Sir, does evil exist?" This time it was uncertain, the professor answered: "Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil."

To this, the student answered: "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light."

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u/Additional_Common_15 — 17 days ago

Roller shades used to feel basic… But they’ve evolved a lot and they’re one of the most versatile window treatments available right now.

  1. They disappear when you don’t need them They roll up tight and stay out of the way. Perfect when you want the focus on the view or natural light.

  2. Way more fabric options now This isn’t just plain white vinyl anymore. You can get: textured fabrics linens and woven looks subtle patterns solar screens that preserve the view They can feel soft and elevated, not just minimal.

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Where People Get It Wrong

They assume roller shades = basic. But the difference is in: fabric choice sizing installation

The Real Takeaway

Roller shades aren’t just the “simple option” anymore. They’re one of the most flexible and design-friendly treatments when used intentionally.

u/Additional_Common_15 — 18 days ago