Glossary

Temporal:

adj.

Having to do with or taking account of the passage of time.

Not new, but worth mentioning. I tend to make choices temporally— meaning I try to predict how my choices today will factor into tomorrow and so on. To set a visual, imagine throwing a stone into a stream. I try to predict where the ripples will flow. I’m unsure if this way of thinking is common practice or not.

Rooted:

adj.

A truth that is realized through a collection of experiences, and/or impressions (vibes), and/or intuitions that are not easily discernible or perceived but known to be true.

Usage Examples:

“Even though you can’t point to it, you know what you’re feeling is something rooted.”

“This person kept asking me how do I know what’s in my mind is correct— but even if they don’t share that experience, I do because of my identity, so I know myself and these things in a rooted way.”

Nullstep:

verb

An action or set of actions that allows a person or people to survive erasure after actions of erasure. A nullstep action is classified by being in a state or context in which erasure would normally occur, but inexplicably, circumvented.

A nullstep is reactive and unique!— Much like a chemical reaction. The reaction of a nullstep often rearranges the constituent boundaries of human cognition, creating new possibilities.

noun

The event where a person or people to survive erasure after actions of erasure.

Timeline:

noun

Your life, in span, floating in a sea of Time. From the beginning to the end. I’m not sure who else thinks like this, but I often think of my life temporally. If you’ve ever thought of the impact your actions make or impact left when your timeline ends, you likely think like this in part as well.

I imagine having children forces this way of thinking too.

Your timeline includes references to all the other timelines you come in contact with throughout the span the yours— as well as ones that may sprout from yours. Mentally I’ve been visualizing a timeline as an arrow.

time & Time:

nouns

Have you ever went down a Youtube hole and thought only 15 minutes have passed but it’s really been 45 when you checked the clock?

Those 15 minutes were time the 45 minutes were Time.

Those 15 minutes were as good real until you checked, and if your clock stopped working at 15 minutes how would you even know?

reality & Reality:

nouns

Use the same method of thinking that we used for time & Time and you understand this one as well. Same idea.

Perception:

noun

What we view reality as based on the input from our senses, over the course of time. It’s important to note that perception is limited to for all humans— in terms of our detectable range of sensory inputs but also based on one’s identity. Perception can and will often vary due to identity. It is important to understand what additional cones of consciousness certain individuals are afforded through the discovery of their identity, or tasked with by outside restrictions of their identity.

This is likely an important topic when talking about abuse and assault. I don’t often trust statistical numbers due to biases. When it’s presented that a sample of everyone was polled, I often ask, “Who is everyone?“— but I think this statistic is likely true. Most instances of abuse and assault occur with people the survivor knows personally, or someone who gets closer to the survivor as they target them. So I imagine for most survivors, the there’s an aspect of jarred perception when someone they’ve trusted is realized to be a malignant force.

The Wall:

noun

The boundaries of the total area of what we can perceive. I’ll later represent these later as a person in the middle of a matrix.

(No not that one. Well, actually…kinda)

The Wall differs for a lot of us and we often do not perceive the same things. Though, perception is not set in stone and can bloom. And shared perception can definitely cross vectors of race, gender, sex, orientation, etc.

Ripple:

noun & verb | Cognitive Force

The subtle products of an action that generates outward, as a measure of force upon your cognitive state. Ripples effect our actions. They can effect us subtly, or greatly in an aggregate over measures of Time. Ripples can have effects both +/-.

It is possible that a ripple can be so subtle and originate from so far away, you’d never recognize the source. I believe ripples have signatures, but likely everyone can’t feel them without training awareness.

In Application: Advertising is a business of making many many ripples.

Vibe:

noun | Cognitive Force

The accumulated effect of ripples. Enough ripples of something will result in a person catching a vibe of something.

This also helps define how big a ripple is. A vibe can be very subtle, which indicates ripples are very small.

Vector:

noun

A line going somewhere. I often use the term when representing broad topics or aspects in a zoomed out way. Vectors are often most interesting where they intersect with other topics. (ex — vector of perception vs the vector of race vs vector of orientation vs vector of culture). Let’s show a visual example—

Vectors also have a strength. So if you’re level 50 at fucking around…maybe you actually don’t find out! The world is a lot more conditional based on your variables than many think or recognize. Vectors can intersect!—as we see here. Shout out to Kimberlé Crenshaw for coining the term intersectionality.