A Short Primer on Metaphysics within Tar Shakan
as viewed and subsequently written by a Pope
Tar Shakan is Confusing
It is confusing. It is. So let's lay out some basic terms to aid in Understanding.
Mundo - That is the consensus reality that many people (7.6 billion at someone's last estimate) reside. It includes people, places, things, concepts.
Tar Shakan - Currently an e-country seen in a Divine Vision by King Magnus V Baghataur the Braut, destined by Bona Fide Religious Prophecy to at some Glorious but unspecified date to merge into the Dirt of the Mundo. It is believed that those people fortunate enough to claim Dirt within the e-realm of Tar Shakan will seamlessly transition into that Dirt but in an Exalted Tar Shakan/Mundo Dirt State upon the Prophesied and Holy Union of the e-realm Dirt and the Mundo dirt realm. Wow!
Tar Shakan - is a micronation. It is a micronation Ordained By Goddess. It has dirt within Tar Shakan, claimed dirt within the Mundo and a destiny to be a peer among the small, the weak, the oppressed, the strange and the wackos, the delusional and even the hallucinatories that comprise the micronation community.
Tar Shakan - is a historical simulation as the nation goes on about its business, setting its affairs in order in anticipation of the Blessed Union of Dirt. The realm faces its challenges, threats, battles and stuff. Individually, the "you" that is of Tar Shakan will face your Fair Portion of these also. Escitement, romance, danger and Rumored Financial Rewards await.
Tar Shakan - is a writing exercise with an open invitation to those of a creative bent. If your mind can think up stuff with even the barest, tenuous relation to Tar Shakan, well then, bring it on! SEE HISTORY OF TAR SHAKAN.
Tar Shakan - is a shared world. All of its inhabitants can interact with any and all other inhabitants. Theoretically. Or be the Holy Hermit on the Mount. Just tell us about it.
Persona of Tar Shakan - is an identity that you "activate" to participate within Tar Shakan while in its e-form.
Activation
- Activation can be: "remembering" your e-self or "being remembered" by some other e-self or Mundo self.
- Activation can be: "making up" your e-self or "claiming a previously made up or remembered e-self".
- Activation can be: part of a creative writing process. Get the words out of your head and into the e-realm.
History of Tar Shakan - The history of Tar Shakan is written by "you" and other "yous". Knowing now some of the different things that Tar Shakan is will illuminate how actual facts are hard to pin down. Persona A "remembers" an event, but Persona B "made up" a contradictory event and Persona C "creatively wrote" something that ignores both events. What then are the facts? What can we look at with Certainty. I sure don't know. But all truths are valid in Tar Shakan, even the ones that don't relate to any other truths. What will be will shakeout in the end.
Shakeout - is the process in which any of "you" can definitively cause change and cause the end result that you believe to become the Truth of the Day. Incessant scribing is powerful. Careful diplomacy is an option or coalitions of the same type of thinking minds. War and battle, sadly to say, has been a way the world has been changed. (Simulated here in Tar Shakan. We are mostly an e-nation. Simulation would make sense, no?)
Lost - is a state of being, when a being, either Activated by its own motive force, or one Activated by another, no longer participates within the Realm of Tar Shakan. Many of the best people from our past are Lost. But we hope that they shall be Found soon.
Found - is when a being that was Lost but is now Found. It can be the original Mundo initiator or perhaps someone else "remembers" being that person now. It has happened that the same Tar Shakan persona has been Found more than once. So which Finded one is legitimate? Does it really matter? One is obviously a pretender. They will jockey and maneuver for position, build alliances, plan physical mayhem. One of them may predominate and reign supreme. Or not.
Goddess Eris aka Discordia aka Mother of Chaos etc. - Honestly, look around or scoot around the e-verse. Plenty of info about the Mad Cackling Queen who might be Eris, or someone else who just has a highly descriptive name, which probably doesn't embody the Concept but only a brief interlude of Time before mutating into a Shrieking Siren of Confusion or something else. Visit the Chapel. Ask Ben. I'm getting a headache.