Muratus del Mur

[center][size="7"]Eight[/size] [size="7"]∞[/size] [i]The opposite of the center[/i] [/center] Balance. What means balance? First of all it is a word with many meanings. The word itself could even refer to accounting, or to justice, or stability or sound or other things. When trying to communicate something to someone, first you need to be sure the words you use have the same meaning for the one you try to communicate them too. Excuse me if i assume that you think about the balance i refer to as a good-bad, full-empty, male-female sort of thing. Well, its not that far from what i mean by balance, but it is two complexity levels less than what i will eventually reveal in this book. A very interesting and accurate meaning of balance is this one: Balance = desirable point between two or more opposite forces (source Wikipedia) In general, this is close to the meaning of balance i will need you to understand in order to fully understand the things i will try to describe. I will use on different occasions different wording for balance because it will put more focus on one or the other meaning. When I was little, my father asked me one day what I think about each thing having its counter, something to balance it, something opposed to it. He talked about things like fire and water, good and bad, but with a certain feeling that there is more to it than just opposing things. He obviously was talking alone and just needed someone to pretend to listen to him and I was the perfect subject for rhetoric talking. I guess he never imagined I will take his question so seriously that 20 years later I would elaborate an entire structure model on how things balance and even do wild experiments with this. If you are already familiar with my previous book “Mastering the Void” you already know I will not limit this to a simple metaphysical talk about general mysteries of life and universe and such useless talks. Anyone can ask general questions and pretend to be smart talking hard to understand shit to people that want to believe anything. No, the things i share here are secrets, discoveries of my own, applied things, things that you might consider theories but for me they are based on reality, not just potential truth but actual facts about things i did and managed to understand only much later. Of course i will keep certain things for myself because they are beyond what i can explain in words, or too dangerous in the wrong minds, or simply because i want to enjoy abusing them before sharing them eventually. The deep secrets I won’t openly share will be written in this book in concealed form, but the concealing is not visual, but logical, structural. I will give you the right seeds to grow in your mind and discover the secrets on your own. In this way only some will manage to do that, but they will feel the things they understand after this are so natural and obvious. [center] [size="5"]Stages of balance[/size] [/center] A stability point between points can be found between any number of points. Take for example a group of people each with opposing views on a given subject. Eventually they could reach a middle point where all could agree on or give up an equal part of their original view in order to agree with each other. Its no doubt about that. In the same way two opposing forces will find a middle point where they will be canceled or made equal, same way this will happen with regardless how many points involved. Nature however gives as a clue. This balance makes sense as long as they are more than one forces. One, be it point of view, or force, is balanced in itself, unity...and you shall see soon that nothing is one. Or better said Nothing IS one... that is if nothing could be anything at all, but “nothing” isn’t and therefore it “is” all the impossible things that are unreachable by the things that “are”. Confused? You should be. Our brain can’t normally handle concepts such as NOTHING or INFINITY but it can assume what they are or what they mean and as long as you understand you can’t understand fully certain concepts you will actually understand them much better than those that assume they know. Its a paradox, i know. For example a child could consider “one billion billlions” as equal to infinity, but an adult would have a more respectful appreciation to what infinity is and wouldn’t give it an actual value regardless how big that value is. In the same way, ignorant people could consider “void” as a space with no air and no particles, sinply because a space without even the space wouldn’t make a sense. Now try to respect the fact that none of us can understand “nothing” for what it is and stop considering it as an empty space. -- Hey that's enough reading! ... a teaser page from what i am working on now, hope you enjoyed it. It more like a note and might end up different in the final version. It will be signed Mur i think, not Manu, mainly because i lost my fucking mind in the process...nono, i mean, beacause i will use a slightly styled way of putting things, something that only my Mur side of me could do, and actualy its responsable for the discoveries so ... i owe "him" that I am still having a hard time deciding if i should totally separate symbols analysis from the 8fold balance subject. I could combine them nice, but it would limit the symbols subject pretty much. I am thinking to write something extensive about symbols, both graphical and logical symbols (not sure how to name symbols that have no drawing). I realised nobody ever wrote the things i have to say on the subject, but i am lazy, i cant even move on with the "Eight" subject.. i shall see...

oh my..what drastic options. (you fail to see an intentional point in spoiling things with the TC but fine , lets ignore that point because i am not willing to explain its logic public) .. why not limiting TC to invited only, and/or limit attacks to only people invited during that competition (not necessarly holding a torch that moment). Each King cold appoint a general to decide who fits for the land and who not, sort of an army structure. Think of it, if a land gather a bigger army the other lands will need to gather more fighters too. The spoiling "opportunity" is intentional. don't think to much why, i won't explain more...but it can go. [color="#C0C0C0"]The main issue in my opinion with the torch competition is somethign none of you thoght about...the timing/frequency. For those that understand, an event goverened by cyclicity in an environement not designed to sustain it will fail or collapse with ugly side effects. I intend to make TC a triggered event, not at all a sheduled one...but this doesn't affect HOW the TC will run, just when it will run, so it is not the sbject of this topic and not debateable either.[/color] Dst idea with taking out mp3 and mp4 out of this is interesting too. Or..what about age reqirement to enter TC? it would justify the spoiling better, afterall if you are 3-4 month in md you should deserve a chance to see LR aaaaannyyyyway... compared to the things there you don't know about, the TC "spoiling" is nothing wait to see on md birthday party what i mean. tic tac..tic...

oh and...the birthday festivities will take place on a ...*cough*...new map...did i mentioned that? don't worry there are plenty other things you still have to find out about this event hehe

As some of you already know, MD birthday party is just a litle more more than a month away..well almost two but anyway, not THAT far The event will last as usual an equal number of days to the number of years we celebrate, that would be 6 days this year. When is it exactly? Well you have ways to find out The festival (six days party can be called festival don't you think?) will host a competition. This is the main reason i am announcing this now. This competition requires preparation. [b]MD Birthday Festival Competition:[/b] All of you that want to participate, regardless of Social rank, popularity, age, stats, achievements, guild, land or whatever else, will split in two teams, just two not four or more. Each team will have to select its members so that each one will bring its addition to the team success. Each team will have to prepare quests and challenges, things that should remain secret until the competition starts. Espionage is unavoidable so be careful at least you should protect the solutions of the riddles if you can't protect them entirely. Each quest, puzzle or riddle should be solvable within a few hours not more than 4-5hours but preferably a lot less time per quest. 1hour would be ideal. So no huge impossible quests or riddles. The teams will have to communicate so that both will have the same number of challanges ready. [b]Competition rules:[/b] Understand these well so you know how to make your quests better During the festival, each team will put forward a challenge for the other team to solve. The other team needs to solve it and will get a small score for solving it but also will rate it based on how entertaining and challanging it was. These two scores will add and form the scoring that will determine the winning team. Basically, each team will give points to the OTHER team if they enjoy their challanges. Of course you could just be mean and pretend you didn't enjoy the challenge and therefore you could give a low score to the other team, but i am hoping on your honesty...something rare these days. Be honest and you will have lots of fun, be greedy and you will just get an "empty" competition. Can you rate your opponent? its up to you. Don't worry about the rewards "budget" for this event, it will be as usual insane The event will be managed by Ailith because she already has experience in organizing large scale events. Yeah , she seems to be still alive, i poked her once and she seemed to move..might be a reflex idk, we shall see Teams are NOT defined, I will let that up to you , not Ailith and i am sure it will be a hard thing to decide and get organized with. For things related to this event that you need to contact me for please talk to Curiose, she will be taking my messages related to this event. There are a lot more surprises related to this event but for now this is enough to start preparing....and you should start preparing , two month time will run out fast! Good luck.

this topic will be closed in one day. some of you will be contacted with further instructions about this. Thank you all that posted, sadly i can't make this public on a forum that can be checked by anyone (outside md i mean) but soon you will figure it out and those selected may share the info just NOT in a public place. This post will be removed eventually

hehe..it is a bug in the sense that it wasn't intended, but since its not causing any harm and leaves the possibility of using it as an achievement, Rendril is right. However, i think the display should be fixed. It should say actually 100%+ not 105% or so, and maybe link it to activate an achievement or something. Thanks Rumi for the explenation, it makes sense. There are other things with higher priority than this so it remains up to Rendril when or IF this will be done.

You know, just to mention this, i feel "best game" based on raw trafic and "votes" is such a wrong concept. Doesn't make a gam better at all if its able to send more traffic to them, it only makes it more "popular" at most. Popularity is an indirect measure of "best". Anyway, this whole bbgsite thing motivated me to do something regarding this. As you know i run other mmorpg related sites, and there will be a change. Remember i said there will be party with gifts and all that if we get a reward there? Well, I think that the amount of votes md has gathered, compared to its number of active players to other games, is _enormous_ so regardless of what you (i say 'you' yes, so 'you' get the credit for it) manage to acomplish in bbgsites "best game" competition, I believe you already deserve that party. I am impressed by the amount of motivation i saw. We might not have the swarm of players others have ...but hey... a few but good, right?

since one of the numbers is not a serial representation (as in onethousandthewntyeight) but a parallel one like two.four.eight.one i am tempted to see what the difference between them actually is if size is left aside. this might be too intuitevely for a math mind but math was never my strong point so... here is what i got so far, maybe one of you can find better on same concept 2481 1028 shifted becomes 1248 1028 difference remains 24 to 02, with 24 being the result of a shift. Shifted back after the comparison, it makes 4 related to 0 somehow. This might have been obvious from the initial numbers but if placed in any other order the numbers would have been impossible to compare other than just taking out the numbers that differ. 0 in md (1028 is related to md) 4 in rl (2481 is a balance model in rl) An other possible meaning could be 2 becomes 4 while 0 becomes 2, while this is a mathematical nonesense it might be a logical deduction somehow. Comparing the numbers in other numeric bases especially 2, or xor'ing them, might show other things Again, this will probably lead nowhere, but its interesting to see

if what you say its true, it is awsome. please think that if you provide false info other gamers will know and it will be very bad for my credibility/reputation after. imagine a stranger claiming on an other site he is a md king or such. prepare screenshots with date of your achievements just in case there will be some frustrated competitor to claim otherwise. I must say i didnt expected to get such replies, and you will love what i have in plan for you (all those in the above posts are acceptable for the task) waiting for more, there are plenty seats and any game is acceptable as long as you "ruled" it in some way. There will be MD representatives also but those i will name based on my own criteria.

post here LE: by voluntary i mean no money, but there will be benefits offered by the respective games, gifts to share and such. The assabled team might be on long term and then things could also be different regarding the voluntary aspect.

I talked a while ago about a secondary shop / permanent tombola , that will consider your total supporter status (spend plus current credits) and allow you to pick certain things from a list. The details about how this shop will function should be discussed there (or moved here by a mod maybe?), i am opening this topic to start making a list of potential items in this gift shop. I call it gift shop because you wont be spending extra on them , they are things you can pick for having credits or spending them on other things. All previous values, everything your supporter tag sais will be considered. please reply with your suggestions, and most important, vets, please warn me if any of the items in this shop hurt the concepts md is based on, i might miss some things. For example B/W creatures are never to be "sold" for money dependent things, but only WP. Active days will _NEVER_ be influenced either down or up by any spell or purchased item, and so on.. mostly you know these things, or feel how they should be. This list should contain ONLY things you cant get in the shop or wp shop. Silver and gold are the exception because they matter as ammounts not as individual items (like morphs) consider it will be a shop with limited stoc across users and not for each user so if one gets the big gift , the others wont see it anymore. 100 spent credits per item, maybe more maybe less, suggestions are welcome. Check the tombola awards , something like that i am thinking.

This one is a puzzle with no end solution i aim at. Considering there were a series of shocking coincidences that happaned to me in MD, i am thinking that there might be something in this too since there is a visual similarity to it. it might be nothing also. When you look for somehting, you will find it, have no doubt about that. You tell me what you found and i will decide on my own if the discovery is a stretched answer or its indeed an interesting coincidence to consider. What could possibly be the relation (math, geometry, logic, history, anything) between the following numbers. They may be seen as a number or a series of individual numbers in that order, at most shifted, but not mixed. finding a mathematical way to shift them both to the same result using same formula is also an interesting find. (except the obvious zero multiplication and such) [b]2481 vs 1028[/b] the first is the balance model i am researching in md and the second is my id totally random selected at that time. It happend i made 1028 days with id 1028 at 28 years (accounts start at 1000 so mine is nr 28). There are other things that made me look a bit at potential funny coincidences between numbers that i run into in general. Lets see if any can find something about this particular pair.

its not that simple , to get free of the maze you need to be aware of its rules, beat it by its rules, otherwise you will just be a rat in denial. Its sadly fight one has to fight against the others that don't realise yet their slavery.

ahhh , one of those posts i wish i had a forum alt to partiipate too, lol 2 + 2 redundancy

mmm now i feel kind of bad about this but i told you to email me your address before you go wild and send me postcards or i wont be able to send one too. If you missed that part i didnt send any obviously. So many thanks to those that sent me one anyhow. I found some to be quite amazing, Nice how so much personal touch could go in an evelope. A warm thank you

this topic is indeed awsome, makes me laugh every time add this: I have a cat (one of 4) that is quite dumb, i guess thinking of md too much made me think one day to ..upgrade.. it and i was confused i couldn't find the requirements. *blink* reading forums at 6am while on mobile connection at 2kb/sec is for noob md addicts to brag about, i need more heavy stuff to feel something is not right

warning long post ahead. alright, its more clear for me now that i have a very unusual concept of how md should be .. because most of the things described as issues are planned to be so. I know how a game should be, the cursive flow of solvable quests that keep you active, spiced with optional increased difficulty stages. The character classes with selectable sets of abilities ordered nicely in branches and such. etc etc ...etc I am trying for 5 years to fight all that. MD is supposed to reach you indirectly and bring certain things in some to life, not to drag you step by step through a series of setups. Otherwise if i would have made md like that, and use the 'techniques' used in md, i would be a rich fat guy and MD would have zillions of users I am not trying to make it more commercial. I am trying however not to scare away those that until now were attracted by md and used to stay. I could explain each situation you describe as hindering to noobs, they are mainly the filters those that are around long enough heard of. I am not very sure i want to do that however. Its true they are not staded as such and they appear as a indirect result of how md is 'badly made' or 'unfinished'. Other things are really unfinished and will be eventually, like the full use of principles. Yet their MAIN use is the one to put players mind in motion and make him intrigued about them, wanting to digg more, and if he diggs he will find about them more than just a game means. In that aspect they act as great character attractors quite well. Obviously i cant say that in the help files. One unexpected thing ..better said something with uncalculated effects... are the player quests. A rating could help quite a lot and its a planned feature since i implemented wishpoints. WP rating is related to quest quality, questi winner gets a wp and he can rate back depending on how valuable the quest seemed to him AFTER he solved it (to avoid frustrated people). One day will get done i hope. I can not guarantee over what players create as quests, and a new player might consider them as the game itself. I also don't plan on adding more integrated quests, md is not a series of quests, its not a series of anything..in fact everything should go in parallel not in series if you get my point. And about /me vs ** thing.. in my opinion, which sadly is the only opinion that matters when it is about conceptual things in md, /me makes the speaker differentiate too much between in-character and out-of-character. I want a more natural behaviour of players not a theatrical one. when i started md i had no idea what role-play is (yeah)..my concept of role-play was that players will just be themselves but will obviously "fail" or better said "succeed" to be fully themselves , so the played character will be eventually different than they are in reality. By that, certain aspects of their true self will come forth and could be enhanced, trained, or changed, repaired. Interesting how rp looked for me back then when i didn't knew this thing had a name assigned to it. So /me won;t be added to the list of rp triggers because is suited in an environement where slash is used for various other commands, not in one where i can use whatever else i consider appropriate. Keeping standards is obviously not my concern. MD defies standards in itself. [b]Suggestion: Will it do a major difference if before registration a clear message will be shown to the future player, stating very clear that MD is not a game where you have to do things in order so you get to its end, but a WORLD where you enter by doing those things but in the end you are on your own to experience it as you can.[/b] this message could also have a 10sec delay so you cant click next just to skip it, dictatorship style, so they get used to things around here Most..sorry, all... of the people that managed to understand what md is are those that somehow developed their so called "role" in ways that have nothing to do with a predefined quest/adventure game. Its also them that managed to stick around most because from their point of view the things achieved are out of md's range...and its just so..md is just the ground that facilitates some things, but what things...it just up to you. I am talking about people that changed their life with things learned here, changed themselves, and most interesting for me, managed to change others. I consider the active days to be of amazing accuracy of that, since you can't stay in a place that you fail to survive. They even have the needed 'error' in them, its called Venger ..i need one day to meet that guy and figure out how is it possible to play without playing, lol. (inside joke for those that look at active vet list) I realised only recently what the effects of a 8-fold balance systems are,..not sure if you will understand this but ... "it reaches outside its reality". Back on topic, your comments are VERY useful, those of the noobs that replied to this topic and had under 10 posts at the time they did contact me for a little thank you/welcome gift. (pray you dont have old alts or you will die in pain, lol). i didnt counted how many you are but to make things a bit more chalanging, this is valid only for the first 4 people to contact me. spoiler so you see how things work. as each character should do in md, i am adding to my requirements the things that i consider valuable in someone. that is very personal and only valid for certain cases, i do realise that, but its a personal role i play here and not how md is entirely. The real reward stated above is actually for the noobs that were involved enough to check back if it was a reply to their post and also had the patience to read all this long post i wrote here, which in itself is sort of a personality filter too. Same like the 24h waiting. My secret Ary will be following this too i hope or i will lock her in the dungeon with some zombies .. oh, we dont have a dungeon, hmmm...and no zombies...i wonder why..lol

he he .. i love it when its called abiliy not disorder [quote]"Equally important, however, is the idea that a creative person can also use his/her unique synesthetic abilities to make a living and bring significant contributions to the world. Such talents as utilized by artists and other creative individuals are highlighted within."[/quote]

It is possible that not all ctc codes i sent will work as expected, if so please email me and i will unlock them. This concerns anyone that received a ctc from me that didnt work as expected. thx

That is extraordinary yes indeed one can "cheat" in one art by seeing it in an other. For example someone could match colors and combine them to look nice together but in fact those are not colors but sounds, he just sees them as colors because of synesthesia.... i know that because i did it..sorry...DO..it.. very often, but not with sounds usualy. I guess its on topic to mention that the poems i wrote are actualy words put on a melodic shape for me. The poem was there before the words, its musical shape I mean and the the words were fitted on that shape. Same concept was planned for the Angien "bot" if any remembers what i am talking about. I have a feeling that the uses of such a thing are of extraordinary power if educated. I also think they can be extended to unexpected areas..not at all just art. very interesting. p.s. i made some advancements with Paganini's music , no wonder since i listen to it since then day and night. It is like a language, one that says something without fixing it into words or facts, i cant explain better for now. Also some plays have a different personality behind them .. some of his best plays actually. If it was in "talking" I could say its his voice, but the speaking style of an other person. I need to read about his life more maybe i am just hearing him over the years as he seems much much older, calmer, more sad and stable at the same time in some plays, while in other he is almost as mysterious and restless as Mozart.

I will remove his ban, he will tell me on pm ip and all, thanks. no need to email council this time.

my current theory is that there is one single form a message can exist in , a complex one. Our senses are adapted to reach that form from various side ways, but basically what you can say in music you can say in paintings, or write or anyhow else. It is a choice of what "channel" you pic to read that info. I feel as i am reading entire tomes, i will need weeks, maybe even month to translate the meanings in my head, but i feel like LEARNING.. not music, i have no musical talent at all, but not sure what. its pure info in there. [b]edit: some interesting ones, but you need to listen to the entire thing otherwise passages wont make sense, dont skip to see whats all about, lose a few minuts for a good cause [/b] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BQY6A3rLRY&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BQY6A3rLRY&feature=related[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DrCKi4Jbw&feature=BF&list=PL12445CB7CECABB2F&index=32"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DrCKi4Jbw&feature=BF&list=PL12445CB7CECABB2F&index=32[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOiZlFh7Oxs&feature=BF&list=PL12445CB7CECABB2F&index=29"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOiZlFh7Oxs&feature=BF&list=PL12445CB7CECABB2F&index=29[/url]

Synesthesia is a something that makes you interpret some things with other senses. I consider its a "feature" not a "bug" because so far i had only to learn from it never to suffer. The association of colors with numbers you all had a look at it with the md dna questions. However there are lots and lots of other possible associations , depending on person. It was not very clear for me with what sound gets interpreted because i ignored one little aspect. Now, thanks to the violin master Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840) i realised how the connection is made, at least in my head. Sound equals shapes... but just any shapes. Four dimensional shapes. I see them, i can form them, understand their past present and future, but i couldn't possible "stop" them to be carved or drawn. I don't know if it is the right way to call them but I am opening this topic to hear your opinion. The work of this particular author exceed _everything_ I ever heard in music, also the other big masters, everyone. It is probably because of a subjective thing that i can "read" his sounds so clearly as if they were images. If anyone wishes to talk about an other author but still about sound synesthesia connections, please do. So..subject: Paganini's work and four dimensional shapes Excited to hear your replies but ready to listen to the silence. p.s topic pending to be moved in border research later