By Mike Zonta, BB editor

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.

The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here’s my Translation this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so.  Therefore Truth is all that is.  Truth being all, there is nothing other than Truth, therefore truth is one, therefore united, therefore harmonious, therefore atoned.  I think therefore I am. Since I am and since truth is all that is, therefore the beingness of me is truth.  Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I am Truth (or the beingness of me is Truth), therefore Truth is Mind.  (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)

2)    The world, like my father, is trying to fuck me.

Word-tracking:
world:  all beings collectively, everything, everyone
father: owner, authority, ruler, sovereign
sovereign:  above, over, superanus, superior
try:  attempt, attack
fuck:  fuck off, fuck you, fuck me, fuck it, fuck this, fuck that, What the fuck? Who the fuck? How the fuck? Why the fuck? For fuck’s sake, give a fuck, don’t give a fuck, I couldn’t give a fuck, fuck around, fuck around and find out, fuck up, I fucked up, get fucked, fucked up, we’re fucked. fucking hell, fucking A! fuck-all, not giving a flying fuck, fuck with someone, don’t fuck with me, fuck someone over, fuck off and die. Can intensity positive or negative expression, to cheat someone
cheat:  marital infidelity
marriage, matricarchy, mother
wed:  to pledge

3)    Truth being one cannot be divided into patriarchy and matriarchy, men and women, masculine and  feminine, father and mother, therefore Truth is wedded (pledged) to Itself.  Truth being one, there can be no infidelity ’cause there is nothing other than Truth, therefore Truth is always true to Itself.  Truth being one, there is nothing other to attack Truth, therefore Truth is always safe.  Truth being one, there is no superior or inferior in truth, Therefore Truth is equality.  Truth being one, there is no everyone, there only one One.  Therefore Truth is one One.

4)    Truth is wedded (pledged) to Itself. 
Truth is always true to Itself.
Truth is always safe. 
Truth is equality. 
Truth is one One.

5)    Truth is equal, safe, true and one.

And now I’ll ask ChatGPT:

Me:  Please Translate the following sense testimony: The world, like my father, is trying to fuck me.

ChatGPT:  Absolutely. This is a particularly charged testimony, and I think the distinction between what is being experienced and what is being asserted about Reality is important.

1. Statement of Being

Truth is that which is so. That which is not Truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore only. Truth being only is therefore one. Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, atoned.

I think, therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside or other than all that is; therefore my beingness is the same beingness as Truth, or my being is Truth being. Since I am consciousness (self-evident), and since my being is the being of Truth, therefore the being of Truth is consciousness/Mind.

2. Sense Testimony

“The world, like my father, is trying to fuck me.”

There are really two assertions here:

• The world is hostile toward me.
• The world is repeating the experience of my father.

The sexual language appears to be functioning metaphorically here: fuck me means something like violate, overpower, exploit, hurt, or take advantage of me.

The deeper assumption may therefore be:

What is outside me is potentially hostile, invasive, and determined to overpower me.

And the comparison with the father introduces a second assumption:

The world is like the original source of my experience of being violated or overpowered.

That is a very powerful identification.

2½. Word-Tracking

World

From Old English weorold, literally related to the idea of human existence, the age of man.

The “world” can mean the physical universe, society, other people, or simply everything outside the individual.

That ambiguity is important.

Father

From Old English fæder.

Beyond the literal parent, “father” can represent authority, origin, protection, judgment, or power.

Thus “father” can become a symbol for an early experience of authority.

Trying

To make an effort toward an intended result.

The word implies intention.

The testimony therefore attributes intention to the world:

The world is trying to do something to me.

Fuck

Originally a vulgar term for sexual intercourse, but in contemporary usage it has developed an enormous range of figurative meanings:

• violate
• exploit
• defeat
• mistreat
• cheat
• ruin
• overpower

In this testimony, its figurative meaning appears to be closer to:

“The world is going to overpower or violate me.”

Me

Again, this is crucial.

The testimony doesn’t merely say:

“The world is fucked up.”

It says:

“The world is doing something to me.”

The self is positioned as the object of the world’s action.

3. Argument

Truth is all that is.

Therefore there is nothing outside Truth that can ultimately oppose Truth.

Since my being is Truth being, I am not fundamentally separate from Reality.

The experience of being attacked, exploited, violated, or overpowered may be real as an experience, but the experience does not establish that the world is inherently hostile to my Being.

Furthermore, the fact that the world may resemble an earlier relationship does not make the world identical with that relationship.

The past may provide a pattern through which the present is interpreted, but interpretation is not necessarily Truth.

If I identify the world with my father, I transfer an earlier relationship onto Reality itself.

But Reality is not my father.

The world is not required to repeat the past.

Since Truth is One, harmonious, and infinite Intelligence, my Being cannot ultimately be defined as the helpless object of an external power.

What happened to me does not establish what the world is, and what my father was does not establish what Reality is.

That last distinction seems to me to be the heart of this Translation.

4. Summing Up Results

The past does not define the present.
An experience of violation does not define Being.
The world is not identical with the past.
My father does not define Reality.
I am not separate from Truth.
Truth is One and harmonious.

5. Establishing the Absolute

Several possibilities emerge.

Direct:

The world is not my father.

More metaphysical:

Reality does not repeat the past; Truth is present now.

More personal:

I am not the object of a hostile universe.

And the one I find most powerful in relation to your Step 1 is:

My Being is not subject to the past.

Or, combining the two levels:

Truth is not my father’s world; Truth is my Being.

I think there’s something especially profound here. The original testimony says, essentially:

“What happened in my first relationship with the world has become what I expect from the world.”

The Translation separates history from Being.

It doesn’t have to deny what happened with the father. It doesn’t have to say the experience wasn’t painful or violating. It says something more radical:

The past may explain an expectation without having the authority to define Reality.

That seems very much in keeping with the Translation principle we’ve been developing: an appearance can be true as an experience without being Truth as an absolute.

Me:   I especially like this one: Truth is not my father’s world; Truth is my Being.

ChatGPT:  Yes. I think that one has real power.

Truth is not my father’s world; Truth is my Being.

It does something that I think a good fifth step should do: it doesn’t argue with the historical experience. It doesn’t say, “My father wasn’t hurtful,” or “the world isn’t sometimes cruel.” Instead, it breaks the identification between the father’s world and Reality itself.

And it has a beautiful progression:

my father’s world → something I experienced
Truth → what is
my Being → what I fundamentally am

So the statement ultimately brings the person back to your Step 1:

Since I am, and since Truth is all that is, my beingness is Truth being.

In that light, “Truth is my Being” isn’t merely an affirmation. It is the conclusion of the metaphysical argument.

I think you’ve found a very good fifth step here.

Me:   

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