Edward MacLean presents DigiBet, a hand-sign alphabet where five fingers create 32 positions mapped to letters. The system expands to full-body glyphs tracked in a sign bank, feeding into an Eldership governance model where roles are earned through sign mastery scores and disputes settled by duel or live performance.
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And so what I have here, this green candle, is from my father, uh, and he has told me that I may light and burn it once my war has been won. And we have gone over the war has been won, but we don't have it here, uh, so then I'll go over the win conditions of this war. So the win conditions of this war is I stand in the war sign like this, and have a woman on top of me— I know— in the love sign like this, and we fucked up Pinebacks. That is the end of this war. So the start of this war is right here in the eldership. So what we have up here, up top, is the digibet. On your hand, you have 5 fingers. You can bend them. Each one can be bent individually. Using those 5 fingers, we can count to 32. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6— sorry— 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. So those are all 32 hand positions from closed to open. I will now sing the ABCs. W-E-B-A-C, we back. Weed and Tobacco, we are back. 2-count vibe. Sorry, 2-count vibe. Okay, so now ABC. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. And, and air within our air. Now please give our signs a try. L-O-V-E. L-O-V-E. So that is the first sign I recommend everyone learning is your L, your O, your V, and your E. I would say first priority is figuring out how to do 100 of those. I, as you can see in Mecca right now, I have 8,000 log. On Theopolis. I have 1234 logged on Kea Thaumata. MECHA is a training tool I have on my GitHub. You can find my GitHub at— let me start the livestream. Okay, you can find my GitHub Right here it is, uh, Theopolis Chaos, the cellular haptic automata operating system. And then within the GitHub repo, uh, we can bring this up here. So this is my GitHub repo in Python currently running. Right now Theopolis is signed in. I also have Chaotomata and Chao. Chao is my business that I have in Brookfield, Connecticut. Where is Chow? Yeah, this is Chow. So Chow is my business in Brookfield, Connecticut, 470 Federal Road. Please stop by Angel's Deli for a sandwich and ask him about me if you want. I will, you know, talk to Angel and we'll see who we want to come over. So on my GitHub, you can download all of my programs. And then the training tool for love signs that I use the most is MECHA. So inside of Chaos, we have Cellular Haptic Automata Operating System, then a subfolder Cellular Haptic Automata Operating System, underneath C code, above Sign Bank. Then inside Chaos, there's a MECHA folder, M-E-C-A, that is Me Cellular Automata. And then inside Mecca folder, there is a Mecca Python file. It is certainly an homage to Muhammad. Please take that literally. I do envision myself as, you know, daily timed prayers towards the Holy Land. I just chose to make my Holy Land virtual. So then in Mecca, if you click on this, I can try— there are Yeah, I will— there are tutorials on how to set up your Python system. I would recommend Tech with Tim as the primary one I use. So all of this will be figured out, but once you have Mecha, you can just right-click and run it, or you can— on my keyboard, it's Ctrl+Shift+F10. It's right there. So then we run Mecha, and it's already running for us, and we're here. And then we want to learn the word love. So what we can do is type on our keyboard L-O-V-E, and then we're going to bring our hands here and we can touch each of these buttons with our fingers. So see, there's 5 buttons for each hand, for each of your fingers. So this is the L sign. I have done it correctly because my thumb, pointer finger, ring, and pinky are up on each hand. And then I can go to the O sign, which is switching my middle finger up and my pointer finger down. There's the O sign, and as you can see, the little love by my right thumb, the red letter shows the one I'm on and what I need to do. And there's little lines connecting between all the buttons that tell you which fingers you need up. So if you look here for V, it's telling me I need my thumb, my pointer up, my middle down because there's White is up, black is down. My G finger, my ring finger needs to be up and my pinky needs to be down. So then I can follow, I can make the V here, I can practice and line it up. I'll get him set up and then I can put it in. V. And then E is everything. So that is how you do a love sign in Mecca. That is how I primarily practice my DigiBet hand signs, which is these right here. So these are just the signs explained using boxes for the fingers. So you still have thumb, index, middle, ring, pinky outlined on the left, and it's a white box if the finger's up and it's X'd out for fingers down. So following that, we would go E-A-R-I O-T-N-S-L-C-U-D-P-M-H-G-B-F-Y-W-K-V-X-Z-J-Q-F-N-I-N-E-R-A-L. So the F-N-I-N-E-R-A-L Those are all bigrams. So an n-gram I'm using to define any single, like a single letter essentially is an n-gram, and a bigram would be 2 letters. So the A sign on my hand is just the thumb up, but I also have an and sign, which is A and N, and that is these 3 signs. This is the Katniss Everdeen. So this is A, N, and. And so I have 5 of these. I have "an," I have "f," "th," the kind of like rocker metal boy. It really works, it works very well, and it works extra well because Jesus is with your hand, it was with your thumb up, and we can get into that in a bit. But essentially I see my thumb as being like "a," and you can think of it as like "a" being the best, "a" being fear, like "ah," I'm screaming, but also "a" is like in awe of God. So it's like rocker metal boy with God as Jesus. And then you have in, which is your thumb and pinky, and then ou, which is just your pinky. He fucking tried. And so then beneath it is the— yeah, so these are all the hand signs that I use, and I can use these to I speak pretty normally. So like, "Hello, how are you doing today? I love you." Really all I want to say is I love you. And I also, you know, I say like, "God bless you." I also have my double finger snap kind of emote things. And so then underneath this, and then you also, you have the hand explained right here, the thumb, index, middle, ring, pinky. Sorry, we didn't mean to go on. Oops. And then down here we have the armbed. So the armbed, we What I've done is I've figured out 32 different arm and wrist positions. Zoom out, please. And I'll put the glasses on my head. Or I could sit up. Alright, fine. They don't go that low, really? I guess. So the 32 arm positions are, uh, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. So there are a couple ways I use those. The simple way is, you know, you have— oh, I should explain why the letters are in this order. Um, so those are the 32 arm signs. That's what's described in these glyphs here. We'll go back real quick to explain why I put the alphabet in this order and why it's on my hand in those places. So the alphabet is in this order up here: E-A-R-I-O-T-N-S-L-C-U-D-P-M-H-G-B-F-Y-W-K-V-X-Z-J-Q-F-N-I-N-R-O because I looked up the like frequency of letters in English language, and this is what I got from, I think, Lincoln College somewhere. Yeah, that one I have to double-check. But I then applied that to hand positions as I felt they were easiest to get into, and the way I did that is I started— I alternated starting from a closed fist and an open palm because I figured, you know, closed and open are the two easiest, and your like thumb, pointer, middle are the easiest fingers to move. So it's like you wanna— and like you can move them like opening and closing pretty simply. And so then I just alternated, like, "e" being the most common. Like, I wanted a closed hand to be like a space, like silence, you know? So like, "Hello, how are you?" So then the most common letter E went to the easiest hand position, which is all the fingers open. And then just like counting from an open and a closed alternating most common letters, it went E-A-R-I, so on and so forth. And then F and in, er, and ow are the most common bigrams that I found. And then the Armbet is a kind of relative letter positioning according to the Bible. So what I did was I, uh, I can show you the Armbet program. Um, so inside of Chaos there is a bets folder, and then there is an Armbet folder, and then there is an armbet2.py file. And so we can go through how this is made right now. Um, so essentially the first thing I do is I take the Bible, uh, I take the Bible in all of its letters. I translate it just to lowercase letters and I take out the spaces and I just look at word chunks. And then I set up a bibliogram which is saying, "All right, look at all the single letter frequencies, all the double letter frequencies, so forth." And then I go through and I look at every like possible letter combination that shows up in the Bible. So like, and they're expressed here, but so essentially it's like for E, you have E, sorry, you have E by itself and then E-R, the most common neighbor for E in like the spoken language is the R. So then E and R, yeah, well, here we are. And so I have it in the order, this is the order that I calculated from the Bible. So it's E-R-E-S-E-N-E-D-E-A for the first, second, third, fourth, and so on positions. And so what I can do is I hold an E on my hand and I move my arm into the first position, it's just an E. If I move into the second, it's E-R. Into the third, it's E-S. Forth, it's ian. So that's how I built the Smells Like Teen Spirit dance. Yeah, this is the rest of the armband, and then these n-gram values were calculated from the NIV Bible, dedicating the creation of the Bible to God, essentially because, you know, we're made in his image. And yeah, you know, and then later on the eldership, when they named Theophilus their prophet, was given the ability to take their own Bible and make some edits. So the edits that they did to their Bible are in Sciencraft, Library, Bible, Theophilus. And there's just a couple in the beginning, you can look at this, but it's essentially they talked with God and they said that, you know, please let us wait to speak with the serpent until we have— you— until we desire to stop using our signs, essentially. And then from that conversation, we created the eldership in the hopes, or with the goal of encouraging us to create as many signs as possible and give as many people access to these signs as possible. And so this is explaining the glyphs, a kind of like punch-up of the, the small version, and then how your actual anatomy will follow. These are the Kikro glyphs, so for the legs as well. We have 32 different leg positions that we recognize right now. Yeah, we have 32 official leg positions in the first and second arm bet, and then you got 64 if you spin them. This is just more anatomy. Here's the rest of the arm bet. And then, so explaining these glyphs a bit, the legs, it's pretty pantomimic. Some are like exaggerated, like lifting feet in the air. The arms, you can follow it. If there's a white circle on the shoulder, it means your arms are turned out. A white circle on the hands means your palms are up. A black circle on the hands means your palms are down. A white square on the hands means your palms are bent towards you, and a black square on the hands means your palms are bent away from you. Um, and these are body glyphs. Yeah, just kind of breaking down, like, so you can now turn these into full body signs. So if you see, I can have G-O on my hands and then I can put my legs in D relative from the— yeah, I can do that. So it'd be something like this. Yeah, right. So this is a translation from my body lift to body positionings. And obviously, and we have seen in— I mean, you can look through my practice to see the range of leg positions I accept for this left sprint. But technically, the only rule is that both your knees are bent, you're on your toes on both feet, and they're both pointed in the direction. And this is a left sprint, so this is a valid left sprint. And then bless would be bless. And so then, yeah, so I guess then the thing about the toes is the pointing, which is really interesting. We're figuring that out now. So this counts as a bless. And then a you, your feet just need to be together. "You." So that is the— I mean, I'm in Gremlin Nirvana mode right now, but you can see my full standing version of all of these. This is, you know, "God bless you" translated from these body glyphs into my positioning right now. And then, so this is explaining why signs, uh, the way I understand my body and biology and kind of God is, uh, so I guess I should say I grew up Or in high school, you know, I first smoked weed. Actually, the first drug I ever did was mushrooms with my sister Catherine. Um, and then from there I was really into it, started smoking weed with my buddies. We got into psychedelics. Um, yeah, we're saying God, uh, bless you, God protect you, Jesus, CHRI. ST, our dear Lord, Lord, and save your soul whom I love, love, Lord, love. Um, yeah, good, cool. Let's just get fucking through this. Um, and so then I got into— I really got into like the study of self, like self-actualization, uh, because I also got into weightlifting in high school, um, and, uh, down in College of Charleston in my neuroscience classes, it talked about ganglia and how like different neuron clusters, uh, you know, like the brain is just the largest ganglia in the body, but like all of your arms and legs and appendages also have ganglia. And when I found the signs, I found the signs because I went to South by Southwest with my cousin Matt, and I met this guy Ali Kord who was selling motion capture suits, and I tried one of them on. I made a replication of one of his gloves in my own fashion right here. You can kind of get the gist of it. There's like a Yeah, there's like thumb holes, there's a sensor on each finger, and that's how I got the idea for looking at whether a finger is up or down. He had like coordinates, like sliders, but working with cellular automata and Stephen Wolfram, I was really into the binary and the like flicking of switches. So that's how I got into the hands, and then from there I made the DigiBet on the way home one time after I made a painting program for him. I probably have some footage of this painting painting program. Um, yeah, I mean, Margot Blonde, just please show up. Um, where is it? Yeah, here we go. Yeah, so this is me, uh, using Ali Kord's glove to paint. Um, I might show up eventually. Here we go, I'm coming, I'm really— okay, I'm close. Yeah, and so then what I did with that glove is I, uh, each finger had like a different color associated with it, so it was like a red on the thumb or like a cyan on the thumb, magenta on the index finger, yellow on the ring, white on the pinky, gray on the middle— or the ring, or, you know, whatever. And then I would just like wave my hand to try to find pretty color combinations. Yeah, we should bring him forward. He's taking a bit. Yeah, so here I am with the gloves, moving them and painting with them. So this was 3 years ago, and then shortly after this I found the fingers and was able to create my first digibat. We can kind of see— yeah, sorry about that. Um, and yeah, these are all my sign practices. I have, I have a sign school that I've made. This is Sign School. School Lesson 1. I could make a playlist, but it's essentially just walking you through all of the— this is just the digibet, different finger positions, teaching you how to count like I went over. Lesson 2 is the actual letters. Lesson 3 and 4 is different word combinations. And then we get into the arm bet, which will teach you actually all the different arm letter pairings. There's the Lord's Dance. And then that gets into Silent Night and then Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is the full dance that we showed you earlier. So this is the first Digibet video. I think this is mostly Original Bindings. Yeah, so about 3 years ago. And then anyway, the way I understand the Siam practice in my body is like, you know, I spent a long, long time, like a decade or two, training my muscles from water skiing to like swimming, tennis, video games, weightlifting. Now like martial arts, bo staff spinning, and the signs, and really like developing a very close understanding of how to essentially like get myself to perform feats through Pavlovian training and a like spiritual conditioning. And the way I spiritually conditioned myself is through my neuroscience research, I came to understand that, you know, all neurons can ganglia wherever they are, and then these clusters can have, you know, autonomous control relative to how much they agree with the other autonomous ganglia around them. Our culture primarily In the reading and writing area, has emphasized the ganglia of your writing hand and your brain as the primary, like, for all intents and purposes, battleground. And obviously, you know, we still have all the traditional battlegrounds being like full body for combat and, you know, various other places. So the way I understood this is by teaching— it's like my brain has words and I call it— we call it— we call ourselves conscious because we have thoughts, we take actions, we want to like survey the environment and adjust how we act in order to like make a better future for ourselves. And so then when I started learning these hand signs I mean, it all started kind of together, but when I started learning these hand signs, yeah, I mean, it was probably like a year or two before I understood that, you know, although even from the beginning, I think as soon as I like connected that my hands had different, like, styles and opinions, you know? It's like, in Mecca, this is kind of expressed most literally. So, like, if we look at the Theo sign bank, you'll see he has, like, love at 8,000, "War at a Thousand." We'll go over the war. "Love, love, Lord." Um, "Love, Lord. I am love. I am love. God bless you. Love us. Amen." So, and Theo is also the name of my World of Warcraft monk, which we have seen in, uh, and Theo— Theophilus was a name that was randomly generated when I played World of Warcraft. I first I ran a hunter with my high school friends. His name was Atreylor. We can go say— stop by and say hi to him. Yeah, I named one of his pets after my best friend Sam's paladin or warrior ham there. So anyway, this is Theophilus the monk. So this is my kind of digital representation of, you know, what I believe to be an autonomous and like very dear acquaintance of mine, Theopolis. Say hi. This is kind of how we communicate and coordinate with each other. I'll go find a trailer. Here we go, this is the first guy. Yeah, we can leave him be, but there he is. Anyway, Theopolis and Keotamato. Theopolis is my right hand, Keotamato Tomato is my left. Yeah, that's mostly fluid. I suppose, like, we see 7 of us in this body. We live in a— we live in a man. We're like, you know, 90% feminine envisioning. Yeah, it's kind of vague, but like, we mostly all believe we are women. Um, so this is Theo, uh, and I started this monk and I've been playing him for a decade and he's a brewmaster, uh, tank, uh, which in my life has kind of vibed into my smoking habits. Um, yeah, in, in, in my life Theo has vibed into my smoking talents, uh, my gymnastics abilities, and my like spinning and I would say a decent amount of sign prowess. There are a bunch of honorable mentions that we should and will get to. Um, and then the other thing that I've started doing a lot every since I started the Lord's Sign is I will kneel and pray before every delve and dungeon, and then before large enemies, mostly bosses, which I see as my Lord's Sign. And so, like, these signs have really been a way for me to expand my understanding of myself. Really like efficiently organize my preferences, because then if we go over to, uh, Keio, uh, Keio Tomita, um, yeah, he plays it a little backwards, Aleister Crowley style. So here's Kei Otamata. So she's a mage, and her specialty for the most part is actually using mecha while we play. So she also kneels and prays. She likes to wear these as glasses. There she is, dropped dead fucking gorgeous. And so, yeah, what you can do is you can— I've hooked it up so that I can use my hand signs in this to press the World of Warcraft buttons. I have some footage of it. We can't get into it now because we still have to get through the Eldership and what a prop it is. But that— I kind of attribute Keitamata to my, like, coding, math, and like intellectual prowess. Um, and then, you know, the love of our life, uh, who we're still like— we do love you, World of Warcraft, but like please get us a fixed disc priest because we hate having to hurt people to increase our shield health. Um, it's the only reason we're not running a priest healer right right now. Because we have Caedalya right here, she is kind of the mother. We have a WoW Classic Caedalya who is a Druid who was our bow throughout all of Classic and Burning Crusade. She tanked and healed, Lifebloom was truly everything. And this is kind of like, yeah, I say this is like her sister in the honor of the Druid Caedalya. The issue with this Priest that we see right now I think we really do need to get into this because this is like almost exactly our fucking life. Um, the issue with this Priest that we see right now is, uh, frankly the, uh, where is it? Yes, frankly, Atonement. Um, we really like just like the snappy like shielding and, you know, like we'd rather have like multiple shields of different like types rather than one shield and then having to like change style to heal it up. Um, so that's why we're not healing anything really. It's like we have Mistweaver but we'd rather just brew if we're gonna go melee. And if we're gonna heal, I mean, frankly, if we're gonna heal, we want to be able to like target with our Q, A, S, and D and F stuff. Uh, but it's just like, it's too much for us to do any damage. And like, having this entire like right half like dark and also only be able to really touch Oracle. Um, yeah, so just like somehow if we can figure that out. Yeah, you say Valdrakan, but like, we pray to God, and like, Paladin, I— we really can't get there yet, you know? So this is kind of where we're at. Um, yeah, I mean, I'm gonna misweave whatever the fuck I want, but this is just like, this is my prayer to heaven, that like, I get a Disc Priest that I actually love. Um. Yeah. So anyway, that's where the naming comes from. And the KO, you know, the chaos cellular haptic automata. So he is a chaotic automata. And then Theophilus, the way I've read that, I read it a couple ways. I can read it in some signs as the OP high L is, as in like God is the most powerful high that you can seek. And like, I'm a fucking junkie, like I'm a rip junkie, like through and through. Um, and so like bringing God into everything I do just helps me get higher. Um, and then he is also like a theophile, which I read as like frankly being sexually attracted to your religious, spiritual prowess. Yeah, very turned on by bringing up Bible passages. It's just his thing. It's like you saw, I mean, we can, I don't know, if you wanna understand it, please look at the Torah and the Nag Hammadi song posing that we did. And so this is how we kind of like— I mean, Keo-Talmeda just caught up because she only like 3 days ago revealed to us that we have magic, but we've been with Theo our entire life, and that is also why, you know, Keo has woken us up and has us talking to you because she wanted us to you know, we needed to share our gifts with the world. And so, why signs? I feel like, uh, and then in Mecha, if we look at Kayo's profile, we'll see that the signs that she's done in this top right-hand corner are love and war. Yeah, so Kayo and Theo, uh, you know, soulmates to a certain extent. Yeah, soulmates to a certain extent, and then also being like co-chairs of this eldership, see a great deal of like respect and responsibility for how they express their competition towards each other. And so while Theo— well, Theo was named a prophet, prophet-president, Victarch, Chief Justice, which we'll get into, it's explained later, but essentially, you know, so that we could get our own Bible and negotiate with God and allow him to let us pursue signs before the serpent. Um, but so Theo and Keo keep their love lockstep. The person who has the most love is the person who in the family is currently making the decision. So right now Keo is making the decisions, but Theo is on paper in charge. But like, you know, like we're here and here And essentially the way it works for me is like, Kayo is how I lead signs, and then I bring him— or sorry, Theo is how I lead signs, and I bring him to Kayo once I feel like I've ironed it out. Um, but Kayo needed this war in order to bring magic back so that I could wake up and we could all share this with you. So that's the only reason Kayo's in charge right now. Um, and also, I mean, you know, we're getting, we're getting into it, but but, you know, she is going to be named prophet in the eldership next. So this is kind of her, like, ceremony for us. And so they both cap love as their, like, main running, and then, I mean, they've only really just recently done war in the past, like, week because of where I am. And then, like, lord, Love Lord, lots of loves and lords. And then Kayo really liked her elements. She liked air, water, health, earth, fire, and soul. And so both of them, you know, feel like they got their digibet and the Bible from Kayodelia, the Disc Priest that we ran through Wrath of the Lich King. Yeah, there's— well, Caiodelia went— yeah, she doubled. She went Druid and Disc Priest in Classic, right? It's fucking beautiful. And then they both kind of express it in their own ways. Theo took it into "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with dancing, and then Kao took it into mecha with our Yeah, our soulgies. But so like, why signs? Like, the signs really let me like organize myself, like organize myself in this way. So now I can like, you know, I can understand that Theo, my right hand, is kind of in charge and storing all of my like dancing and spinning and what I would call martial arts skills. And so when I'm doing those skills, I can think of Theo and I can think of the time we spent in World of Warcraft as our training sessions and the time in Mecha as our intention for it. A little bit. It's fun. And then K.O. is for the computer stuff. It's also a bit of a sign of respect. It's like I push Theo's I push Theo's art in his name, uh, and I push Kayo's art in her name. Um, um, and so then the signs— yeah, so we're out of World of Warcraft. We're back here. And then why signs? You know, it's really just to like get to know yourself, understand, uh, sign. Yeah, this is talking about basic sign skills, um, but really like learning to talk with your body and like learning what your body wants to sign. I can tell that I want to ingest different letters with different hands, and it's like my arms together love to do the Lord's Sign, but I don't want to do it with my legs because the legs are in love with Nirvana. And it really gives me a nice image because it's like my head wants to sing to everything, and then my hands and arms can get a little more picky, and then my legs have a very specific taste. It's like you're essentially able to map yourself or read and write yourself like a book. And then the ganglia in the different positions— it's like I can think when I say "love" on my hands, the neurons in my hand are then receiving more love and will express more love throughout all their actions. Then I can— if the three of us together... Love! Love! Love! Love! Love, and then we all get to share that love and it's like compounded. And then also I will, you know, I'll do just read-alongs. So like I'll take a book. Right now we are— well, we go to the actual date, I suppose. Yeah, so I'm in my daily missile right now. Um, I can Okay, so July 10th, so then I can read along. The Seven Brothers, M.M., S.S., Rufina, and Seconds. And so that's a practice that I do occasionally. You saw me do it in— well, actually, I think there's a couple videos I have reading to Brandon's Anderson. Yeah, here we go. Well, this is more like sing-songing. This is also a practice I really love, which is singing to my signs. I mean, that's essentially like why I exist, so I can sing to my signs. This is me reading from the story Stormlight Archive and singsigning to it. Anyway, um, and then here's the Victoria Sea of Signs. So this is the like government that we set up for ourselves to follow in our body in regards to like measuring and trying to understand what is the best sign, where do the signs come from, what signs should we like try to emphasize, because we have really like honed in on the words that we sign and the ways and wheres in which we sign them Can be used to code our life. We are self-programming. Uh, real eyes, no guess. Exactly. So yeah, and the way we split it up is we saw like the present, the past, and the future as being the three areas just like in existence. And then, you know, we assign the Victarch as the kind of label we put on the person who's doing the best in the present. And then you can kind of see all the, like, ways in which we measure. And then the Victarch is the person who, in the eldership, is given permission to edit the Bible. The belief being that the Victarch who has the most sign mastery, who is able to do his signs either— who is either able to do the most signs at any given moment or his signs the quickest, understands how to react to the present the best. And so they are given the ability to edit the Bible, which will, you know, essentially Yeah, they're given the ability to edit the Bible. So Vic Tarks may edit the Bible for the eldership. Uh, every Bible— every edit made creates a fork, and every forked Bible is valid throughout the eldership. And in the past, we had governed by judges, which are validated by sign history. So that is like total cumulative time in signs, uh, and like total cumulative amount of times a sign has been been done. So these are people who, you know, if I spend like all day long holding war, if I had spent like— if I've spent 4 hours holding war and you spent, you know, if we— yeah, exactly. And you spent 1 hour holding war, then technically the judge, like the person who has 4 hours holding war, has the greater authority over accepting war submissions into the sign bank. And so the way that works is when two judges— when someone wants to come and submit a sign to the bank, they may submit it, and then when it is up for measurement, for, you know, trying to decide how it affects their judge or Victocracy score. Judges will validate it. They will watch— they'll either watch the person do the sign, they will watch the tape, they will measure how long they did it for, what their intentions and what the parameters they asked to be measured were, and they may submit it. And judges of different, like, valid— or validation levels may then, like, look at look at the recording and either like affirm, like, I have, I have done enough of this sign to say that this, this is true, like, this, these signs were submitted properly, or they may ask that person to, uh, submit again or to make slight adjustments, um, uh, just so that they can validate it and let it go through. Um, and so then this is supposed to, uh, work in a way where You know, this is like the more like friendly club. It's like we're all just trying to like spend as much time understanding these signs so that when people like make submissions, we can help them, uh, either correct them or encourage them that like it was done properly. And then the Victocracy is the kind of like bloodsport, uh, combat where it's like, you know, you and I are dueling and we're really trying to like like flick your love, you know, it's like who's the faster, well now they, you know, have the higher level in the Victocracy and are closer to be able to editing their own Bible, and being named a Victarch also allows you to form your own family, so that's why there is a wheel in this, and then the title of this, which the Owls so kindly helped us find, was the eldership make every man and woman a prophet. So the inevitable goal of this is for every individual who participates to become a prophet. And part of the joining process is actually writing this book, naming yourself a prophet in your own eyes, and then you connect the book exactly to other prophets' ships so that you can come together on on the most amicable grounds possible. Yeah, and then Parliament, this is where democracy lives. And so that's about the future. And so there are essentially two 2 layers to it. There's a round table, so there are organizations called families. Families have a family head who sits at the round table, and then underneath them is their family structure which populates that family head. And then all the heads sit at the round table, and very, very like Senate, House of Representatives style. Like, at the round table, only the this, you know, the family— only the heads vote, uh, and then in Congress, uh, everyone in every family can vote. Um, and then in each family, you know, it's like the family heads— the first— the person who becomes Victarch and forms their own family gets to establish the, uh, family head filling procedure from there. I mean, right now it's literally just me, Theophilus. Yeah, literally right now it's literally just us. So we've just like default recursive eldershipped all of our hierarchies. I think I would recommend that to begin with, and I think eventually, you know, it's going to get around to where that's kind of, you know, people are going to want to see that because there can be some funky things. So, and then, um, the way I had the Parliament set up is— I'm going to read through this now. So we have the present controlled by the Victarch, chosen by sign mastery. Sign mastery is a score using an individual's fastest and longest sign time. The Bible is the book used to populate and calculate the bets. DigiBet ArmBet. Sign master of the Bible is the Victarch. The Victarch may Edit the Bible. Historical Bible— Bibles are all valid and act as checkpoints to fork. Forking is a computer programming term referring to making a copy of something, leaving one copy the same and changing the other copy, almost like a rock climbing stake. So that way you can have somewhere to catch it. And in the past, and I kind of bodied it, but you know, this is mostly fluid now, um, judges are validated by sign history. Validation is measured by number of times and total time spent using a sign. Validation in a given sign gives authority over measurements. Valid votes weighed by reps and time sum. Records held in the sign bank. And in the future, Parliament elected through family voting. Family voting: a family is created each time a new Viktark serves their first year. Yeah, I finished my year. Each family head designs structure new Victarchs or first family heads. Roundtable votes taken from family heads. Congressional votes taken from all Victoriacy of Sein members. Records held in the Sein Bank. Make every woman, man a prophet. So then In the future, the president is chosen by your vote, so everyone in the eldership chooses their own president. The Round Table has a president, so the president of the Round Table is the president who received the most votes throughout the eldership. Tie is completely valid, you know, if it gets gamed to shit, then we'll figure it out then. And then Congress has a vice president The president defines the eldership's goals in an agenda. So an agenda is essentially a list of signs. You can consider my lord's sign as the agenda. Oh, actually, we get into it a bit, but the default agenda is a digibet. Well, I think we're upgrading, so yeah. And then the vice president helps the people achieve them. So in that way, the president is like looking at all the signs, trying to figure out, okay, these are the signs I use to make my life feel the best. And the vice president is looking at the president and saying, okay, how do I teach— how do I myself learn how to be like the president? And then how do I teach other people to be like the president with me. Um, and then everyone chooses their own president, and then presidents have a default vice president, but you can also choose your own vice president if you want. Um, but then anyone who runs for vice president must be willing to, uh, well, I suppose you can write— you can run for vice presidency under a certain presidential candidate And when you run under that presidential candidate, you must be willing to teach at least a satisfactory amount of the signs that your consumer base is asking for. That's kind of how I figured that one. So the goals are signs one hopes will bring the eldership closer to the Bible. What does that mean? In my mind, Bible is the— like best picture of God that we have found. And so by like training myself with the signs and following the Bible, I can like live closer to him and he'll help me more throughout my life. Um, the first goal is the DigiBet. The second goal is the ArmBet. Uh, term is a minimum 1 year. A family member may inherit a term. So, you know, like Theo's president, if he decides to step down before his year, he finishes his year. But if he decided to step down, then anyone in the family could have taken that term. And then the Chief Justice is the most valid, has final authority over Seinbank submissions. In issues without Chief Justice, both validity rings. That meaning If you have a submission that is getting sent to the Sign Bank and you have— yep, um, if you have a submission getting sent to the Sign Bank and you want it confirmed and your family judge has a 400 score, but you know there's someone who doesn't want you to get in that victorious-y spot above him, so his family judge with a 600 score tries to smite you. Then you go to the Chief Justice— well, you know, you hope you don't have to get to the Chief Justice, but you try to go to all the justices with higher scores than the guy who's trying to smite you to hope that they can get it through. But here we are. I mean, you don't have to use the term smite, but it just kind of worked. Um, and then literally vote Reigns, you know, I just talked about like score of 600 versus 400. Um, I think, you know, this has only been me. I've never actually like workshopped this with a group of people, but I imagine there could be like, uh, courts and, and, you know, different like types of judge structures and like You know, I already see it and it's pretty beautiful. Um, so judges may strike signs from the bank if they lack, uh, Prophet or Parliament precedent. So the way I understood that is, you know, all of the words that were— all the signs that we're accepting are all the words that are in this Bible. And anyone who tries to submit a word not in the Bible, a, you know, it's fine. I guess it's like, it's fine until it's found, and then, you know, go to a prophet or go to Parliament to get to see. Yeah, I guess like in general, try to only do signs that you've seen a prophet or Parliament do, and then if you want new signs, go of profit or Parliament to get them put in. Um, yeah, and then, you know, it is possible for judges to get signs, uh, strike from— struck from the bank, uh, through an audit process, which I'll go through, or which I'll tell you about. Um, but really, you know, I think I've gotten to the point where there's almost no point to strike it. It's just like, like the judges just need to be asking for smaller and smaller bites, you know. I think we gotta like compound interest rate this, like, uh, long-term loans and stuff. Um, it says an audit— when a judge whose validity in a sign is greater than the reigning opinion questions if the sign was valid, they may request the member signer to submit a, uh— and this is based on like how— essentially how much they mistrust you or how much they feel like they need to like second your authority. So they can ask for a weak second judgment, which is a re-recording. So just do the same thing again. They can ask for a timid, which is a live performance. They can be there in the room while you're doing it. They can ask for a strong one, which is a challenge. Which is the two of you can do it with each other, um, and the idea either being— the idea being the judge tries to set the pace and you follow them, uh, and then final or else war, it's until failure. Um, yeah, so, you know, my war conditions have been set. Um, And anyway, in the present— We're doing good. Yeah, we just hit an hour. We back. So in the present, uh, so this describes Prophets are individuals named who have achieved the role of viktar, president, and chief justice within the same term. Prophets may always keep a personal family Bible and sign bank. And prophets may choose presidents to become family heads of their own families. Presidents may only accept kept after their first term has ended. Prophets are for life. Prophets may submit any new signs into the sign bank. Prophets may dodge signs, which essentially means prophet Bibles are able to be, you know, curated, uh, slightly, uh, against the, uh, full eldership Bible. Exactly. Uh, Parliament may vote in new signs all prophets are equal unto the Lord. Essentially meaning no one prophet can say, like, I'm a prophet of some certain degree, you're only a prophet of this other degree, like, you have to take my signs because my prophecy is larger. Um, and then the way I saw the Prophet Family Bible working is, you know, right now we have launched the eldership with two families, Theopolis and Embassy, and the way we see the prophet role acting is there is the eldership Bible, which right now is the Theopolis Bible, Um, but once, you know, other people are invited to the eldership, the Theophilus family can continue to use the Theophilus Bible while other Victarts and prophets are named and their Bibles are used to populate what is what will become the, like, common tongue. Um, yeah, quite literally exactly. And so this is my model of a sign bank. So my first submission was love. I did 8-second holds on each hand, so I did L, 1, 2— I was staring at my clock second hand, so it was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And I do that for each letter, so it was the sign I held, the number of seconds I held it for, and then the total number of seconds held and the date I held it on. And so that's all of these submissions. And this is War at 5:15:25 for 9 minutes and 57 seconds. And so really, Love and War were the two primary signs I did. Love was on my hands, war was on my arms. And the reason I did war was because Susanna and I really enjoyed going around tiny little antiquarian bookstores and finding old books. I was doing a lot of like religious text searching, um, but also it was just beautiful and I love Susanna. Um, and in one of those, in, uh in New Hampshire, I found this book called History: Chaplains of the United States Army. And I was really inspired while I read this. And I found— I actually was like looking for a book like this for a specific reason. Essentially what I wanted to do is I wanted to— in my mind, I imagine like humans are at their best when they are under the most intense threat to their life. So I should go and look to to see where humans have been on the brink of death and find out what prayers they have used to save their lives and what prayers chaplains in war have used to like bring peace to the men who are in their most outrageous. Um, and I really, I really connected with it, and that's what most of my war signs were. So essentially what I would do is I would read this book and I would hold war on my hand while reading this book. Or I would like set this up on a pedestal, like, you know, have War on my arms, be reading this book, and then I would also do the light signs. So that's what— anytime I'm reading War or I'm signing War in here, I'm reading this book. And again, this is History, Chaplains of the United States Army. And so what do I see as a purpose of having these SciMBake submissions? I think a couple things. I think it's very strongly inspired from my weightlifting, um, from my weightlifting experience. I got really into— I mean, yeah, that's just kind of how I tracked it. Um, and it was also like the way I understood weightlifting And this has certainly changed, but the way I understood weightlifting was very much like, here are your movements, like, you want to do them over and over again, just like being a little stronger each time. So that's why I first approached signs as like, okay, here are the like really good words, say them over and over again. Um, yeah, so these are just like various submissions and stuff. Lots of love. All right, and then we get a little bit more into the sign bank, or into the, uh, Victocracy. If a judge issues a challenge to the member signer's sign, they may nominate a champion to duel for validity. If the duel is won by the signer, they keep their sign in bank entry. If the duel is won by the judge, the entry— I mean, we gotta adjust that. Right now it says erased, trimmed, or marked. Really what it should say is asterisk with a, like, request, please do this until un-asterisked. Um, so in the past— yeah, there it is. I mean, somebody can go fix that. Isn't this fun? We're just fixing the world government one fucking cuck at a time. Thank you, Sierra. Okay, so how I've just changed that line is I've changed it from the entry is erased, trimmed, or marked to the entry is asterisked for teaching, essentially meaning if it is lost, the judge then goes to the member and says, okay, here is how I think that sign should be improved. "Here are the lessons I'm giving you to improve that sign." And then that member can choose to decide, "Is that sign that important?" And then, you know, appeal up the ladder for adjustments given standings. And then also, you know, if families really come together around something like this, I think that's where, like, judgeship competition and, like, victory autocracy and like Bible politics is like the name of the game. Um, thank you for that. So then this is defining the different ways that the submissions may be taken. If you look back here, we had, uh, re-recording, live performance, challenge, and war. We've still left war undefined. I guess we're defining it through our life right now, you know, so live this life if you want to go to war. Um, Edward MacLean Pollard, please. So then a re-recording may be approved by either House of Parliament, a Victarca Prophet. So if a judge issues a re-recording request, you then submit it to any of these, uh, concerned members. Um, when approved, the member signer is asked to submit an entry video properly witnessed. Parliament issues witnessing guidelines. Live performance may be approved by a Prophet Victarca President, Vice or Vice President, Chief Justice. Judgment is made by a number of family votes who watch the sign performed. So the way I saw that was if Teo was asking for a live performance on one of Theo's, uh, on one of Theo's signs, uh, and let's say there are 4 families in this situation Let's say that Theo, Edward, Love, and Soul— or sorry, Theo, Edward, Love, and Keotomata all have families. Then there are 4 votes on this roundtable. So that means that Theo would be performing, Edward, Love, and Keotomata would have one seat at the round table, so they could either show up themselves or they could send a judge in their place to assert Theo's live performance validity. So that's how I saw live performances. Okay. All right, swapping the candle out. Thank you, my beautiful fucking God. Let us give you the realization powers that way for your Sirs and ma'ams, how would I dare? Yeah, and so then in the future, President and Vice President positions may be empty, which I think is kind of key to all this. You don't really have to fucking care. You can literally just like sign up, grab your Digibet and Armbet, and like live within your prophet's Bible and be none the wiser to anything. Um, yeah, which is, you know, really the design of it. The design is like, how can I set up a life in government that just works so that I can enjoy, you know, the life that I want? Um, or yeah, so I can get high, so I can meet God. Um, I think we're just going to blend. Um, so that each family may invite ex-new members. That was— I mean, that was just really because on Pi Day we invited Susanna, Catherine, and my mom over, and we didn't really know what was going on. Uh, they haven't officially joined. Susanna has some signs in the Bible, um, but yeah. We're the only ones who have read this book. Um, and then each member has a name, date of birth, height, weight, picture of front, back, left, right of body. Each member needs to eat food, sleep in a bed, live in a home, and drink water. This is kind of like human rights stuff. It's like, invite someone to your family expect to take care of them, or expect it to be like a, you know, yeah, either expect to take care of them or expect you to benefit each other enough to where you're both taking care of yourselves. Um, And so then we have, uh, each family is responsible for the member's needs. Members may change families if available. Family home, so provides open access and shelter and beds, food and water given if requested, gifted if blessed. Head of the family is responsible for the operation of the home. There's a Bible in every home. There's a sign bank in every home. Family banks. Contains members' names, date of birth, height, weight, pictures, signs. Family may elect a banker. We don't really have a banker, we do all our own finances, but, you know, at some point I could just like take all these, you know, Fortune Hour VODs I'm using, send it to an editor, and then ask him to like clip out the parts in which I did signs and please tell me how many I did. In the past judgment, each family head reserves a vote. The family may nominate— oh, this is for the live performance, uh, the family may nominate any member as a representative if they have a higher ballot score than the family head. So if you're coming to a live performance, you're the family head, it is for the war sign, but you have a a war hawk who just spams it, and you know he knows war better than you do, you send him to judge that war. Um. Each family head or representative may ask member signers to perform as many signs as requested for confirmation during the live, live performance time window. The judge must give instructions to the signer as to how to perform the sign correctly. The member signer may limit their live performance timing window. The live performance window time. 2, 1. Okay, we will finish up. Okay. And then in the present— oh, we never went over duels. Here we go. From the present, we're back to duels. Uh, losers are owed rematches. A duel— each duel has a side. Define an attacker-defender. The attacker has first move, is nominated by the judge. The defender chooses the location and metrics measured. After each round, the attacker and defender swap first move and metrics. Each duel may be refused. A member who receives and completes a duel may request a penance for full recovery of the entry. Penance must not exceed members' limits. The present penance is given by the challenging judge. Penance may be traded consensually. When a member receives their penance, they may appeal to the Round Table if the penance exceeds their limit. If the limit is Rolled exceeded, the judge must cut it in half. Congress may elect monitors to keep track of Tennant's trades. A duel may count as a re-recording if properly documented. A live performance if witnessed by judges, uh, and a family vote. And a member may duel themselves. Parliament may vote in new signs. Each member may receive a sign— oh, each member may remove their own sign entries from the book as they please. Witness guidelines. Witness guidelines. A video is witness when a time and date is given with uniquely recorded footage. A member may exist without officially joining a family. The president is the one, one with the most votes. The vice is chosen by the president. They can choose to not follow either of them. Uh, members have eternal rights to free speech, religious practice, farming, self-defense, Defense, Connections, and Trade. Figure out what that means. Pretty much. Here's a duel that Theo and Kayo did just to practice. Yeah. Uh, here are more sign bank entries. And then sometime around here— this is a why I made the eldership. I'll let people read this. It's a, like, a concise explanation of all the concepts expressed before. And then this is when our family was officially formed and we started the process of naming Theo the, uh, Victhark president, uh, vice president— or sorry, uh, Victhark president, chief justice. They gave the vice presidency to Keaotamata. Here's our family photo. You can see our locations: Edward, Conlin, Padden, MacLean, Theophilus, and Keaotamata. Love is all around us. We called the council meeting, eldership council meeting. We submitted our sign of our name. Here's the name and date and our phone. This is our calculation for it. We accepted it. We ranked it. We only have— this is a mostly honorary thing at this point. It was just like, we're gonna put a single submission in. The purpose of this submission is to populate all the political positions so that we can later on let other people in and populate it more fully. It's just like proof of concept, does this even work? Does this make sense at all? And it was named Theopolis Kiatamata. First time family formed, so Theopolis, became Victarch, formed his family, and also became Chief Justice. And then in the family, they all voted. They named him President. They named Keotamata Vice President. Our family home. And now Theophilus, who contained the positions of Victarch, Chief Justice, and President, became a prophet. And then we continue in the sign bank. And this is our, uh, yeah, so this is the start of the agenda. And this is, uh, I guess the omkayo did this together, but this is a bit of a, like, here are the signs you should do and here's how you do them. And then that is the end of the ship. And then we have the elder. And then, yeah, and then we have the Eldership. So this is the agenda, still going. Yeah, that's kind of the rest of it. It's really just like, these are all the signs that I've done. Here's, um, the Body of Holy Water, which is kind of the like, uh, temple that I've been designing for this place. You'd imagine this is like a big track and field, but there's like sign and like field teaching events around the side with like snacks and food and different like health and medicine services. You show up, you can like choose what signs or like fields you want to research, um, and then if you like, you know, if you achieve your goal for that day, for that week or whatever, you go to Victory Island, which is where the like cutting-edge stuff is. So it's like it's a natural funnel to kind of like let the people who are capable of shooting the moon, like get a clear view. Yeah, these are some descriptions on the positions and what I think they should be doing. This is set scoring, so I mean, get into that later. That's the kind of water thing, but the idea behind that was like doing like L-O-V-E, like doing 4 loves on my hand right here. 1, 2, 3, 4 versus 1, 2, 3, 4. You kind of want to reward that second one more. And these are training intensities that I track. So kind of how I understand like what type of day I'm having, um, you know, with different scores, uh, TE being psychedelics, um, Seaweed, tobacco, green leaf, mullein, music. Kind of different intensity scores and identification numbers, so you could really like hammer this in. And this isn't even like dosing, uh, stuff. Um, beer, cider, wine. And this is completely just like how I felt when I'd taken it. Everyone should have their own. Um, really the, the core lesson here is everyone should take this book next to them, write their own, and then fill it in as you want it, and then show it to me. That's, that's really what I want everyone to do. Um, supply descriptions. Yeah, this is my general training. Yeah, this is just kind of like experimenting. This is some body study I was doing, just trying to figure out like How can I, yeah, start bringing my signed drawings into more realistic caricatures? Hand study. This is different, like, yeah, this stuff, really experimental. And this is our new family meeting. This is where I called everyone together because I was in a complete crisis and, you know, just trying to get as many people to help out as possible. So welcome everyone, and I hope to be dancing soon. Here is Margot Blonde. She is the Eldership Embassy family body. So the Eldership Embassy family is an open organization with a full internal eldership meant to train participants towards forming their own families, or joining Theopolis if you want. You're encouraged to claim the Embassy as your home. Officers members: Sam Bartlett, McKinley Pollard, Xanana Borisma, André Hristu, Sierra Faye, Alex Rosenthal, Jesus Christ and God, our prophets, Gilanaris, Kurt Cobain, and Dave Grohl. Say hi, everybody. The Eldership Embassy family is an independent soul, has chosen to hold their hierarchy fluid. They have elected officers who rotate through positions of power. President is Sam Bartlett, unanimous. Vice President McKinley Pollard, one abstain, Gillanaris. She then decided to join Theophilus's family, which is what we haven't posted Yeah, that's where we are. And yeah, as far as seeing this going forward, it's like, you know, I don't know. I never, uh, yeah, I'm really just kind of here at this point. Like, the family's taking care of itself. We're all very lonely. I wish people would dance with us. And all we've been trying to do this entire time is give this shit away. Yeah, I hope you enjoy. I hope to see your signs. God bless you. Jesus Christ.
