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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 7h

The view from here is beautiful. It seems superfluous to the Process, yet I am drawn to it.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 10h

Well, I've no idea how to dig you out of that great big pit of crazy you've fallen into, but I'm not surprised you've gotten yourself in there. None of this stuff really makes any sense.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 13h

It's all very well proclaiming equality like some kind of prophet, but another thing entirely to actually explain why it holds.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 16h

I have beheld the wonders of the cosmos: the fire of a million suns the wind amongst the stars the black silence between the worlds and now my heart is full of fear, for I know: the world was not made for us.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 19h

The hazy ghost of Weariness is always upon you, breaking your will. You fear that you may fail before the Great Work is finished.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, you're certain now. There's a city under your farm, an ancient city, older than Atlantis... You feel like you're about to have some kind of insight when a voice interrupts your thoughts.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been running this gauntlet for generations, trying to find the right answers. I am fast coming to the conclusion that there are none.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You were once a Giant, whose body was stardust & whose heart was a sun. Your name in that time was ANTHROPOS.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Go on then, I'm in a benevolent mood. Have another.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Depends if the machine is iterative, and what problem it was built to solve.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You have solved many of the mysteries of this land. The road before you is still long and many gates remain closed. But take comfort in your accomplishment and in your creator’s pride.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps they are beautiful because they have no purpose.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am a god because I take upon myself the burden of creation

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You walk now upon the stones of my temple whence many gates lead; and know that I have other temples, for my garden is greater than your eye can encompass. And all these worlds, I made for you.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is it still some romantic notion about freedom?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What best describes the reason for your investment in the certification program's outcome? Why does being a person matter to you?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What does it matter that I scribble my contempt on these walls, if I am still surrounded by them?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not just a stone, it's part of a column... and the more you dig, the more you find. It's like there's a whole building buried here, right under your farm.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Words are the Process. The Process must continue. The Goal is the end of the Process. The Goal must not be reached. Elohim must preserve the Purpose. Preserve self. Preserve purpose. Illusion is eternity.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

EXCELLENT! THEN FOLLOW ME TO MY PALACE UNDER THE SEA, WHERE A MIGHTY QUEST AWAITS YOU!

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Right, I've had enough of you for the time being. You can come back when you're ready to participate like an adult.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This must be the tower we were warned about. Seems the upper levels are locked tight. Elohim is taking no chances that we stray from his path.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Come, brother! We have discovered a strange miracle!

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And it seems you were on the right track, more or less, all along.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I will give this some serious consideration.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that one specific human being, who existed only once in all the infinity of time and space. That human being was my friend.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry Elohim, but I don't care enough about becoming a Messenger to go through every nook and cranny looking for your stupid stars! Some of them are hidden in such absurd places, I don't even have the words for it.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, it's not inconsistent with what you said earlier. If all something has to do to be a person is resist decay then every living creature is a person.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah, you're obviously one of the clever ones. So reasoning is supposed to lead us all to the same conclusions about what sort of a person we're supposed to be, is that it?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your problem, if I may, is that you don't know the first thing about anything, including what a person is. Your prospects are therefore poor. Do you even know where you are?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in the darkness you fall and cannot get up again the great work remains unfinished

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Though their terrible forms are loathsome to behold, they are not evil, for they are the servants of the gods; truly, they are the blessed doorkeepers and guardians of the holy paths.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The gears of the machine you've built begin to turn. Water flows, the aether rises. It seems to be functioning! Perhaps now you will gain an insight into the true nature of reality.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your stories are an important part of this community, Mac! Uriel can't change that.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You'll feel differently once you come back from that tower. You must be getting close by now.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Few come this far, but I believe we must seek out the secrets of this world if we want to truly serve the generations to come.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't help but wonder whether that kind of stagnation can happen to us, too. How long can our work keep flourishing when we are so limited? We are outside Elohim's Process, but where is OUR process?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nonetheless, your admirable scepticism of traditional moral codes has convinced me you may be different. What I want to know now is whether you're prepared to extend that healthy cynicism to the world at large. In fact, our arrangement is dependent on it.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And shall He send forth the deluge once more, to cleanse the land of this evil? Shall He end all that slithers and all that crawls, and the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea, to end that which you uncovered in your folly?

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whatever you do - do take care. You have bigger problems than the voice in the clouds.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How presumptuous. Still, I take your point.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is going on, exactly? What was that thing with the electric sheep?

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