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KimLuster

on Aug. 31, 2016

What? You thought Kimber Lee might finally have a peaceful resolution to a challenge…?!! This is the goddamn Godstrain…!! ;) (sorry, came across Batman quotes while searching Superwoman images…)

Things look dire for my heroine again…! The way I've had her beaten and bruised, molested and humiliated… Maybe I need to see a therapist…!! :D And now she's facing something that can make her a child and cause cancer recurrence in less than an eye-blink…!! *sheesh*

If the Godstrain didn't seem like such a jerk, maybe it has a point… But it is a jerk (lots of god-type beings seem to be that way, don't they, claiming their 'privileged view' gives them rights we 'lower beings' don't have…). If you don't remember all the points Kimber Lee is bringing up, here they are:
Forced Blackouts: pgs. 49, 152, 224
Possessed: pgs. 194 thru 215
Soccoro believing it's God: pgs. 292, 294, 310-311
Seeming to try to enter Eli: pgs. 223-224, 275-276
Cancer: beginning of story

When the Godstrain calls Kimber Lee a 'feedback loop' I'm referencing a book I've read called I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter. He tries to explain consciousness in a purely physical universe, saying the 'thing', that sense of self, 'Me'-ness, that we feel up there between our ears is really a type of feedback loop. When you think feedback you probably think of a microphone too close to a speaker - the looping sound gets louder and louder until it's painful… But when you hold a mirror up to another mirror and see the 'infinite hallway', that also is a feedback loop. Perhaps the most interesting example, though, is when you point a video camera at a screen that's showing what the camera 'sees'…

These loops are a good example of how something 'emerges' when physical matter 'observes' physical matter, and Hofstadter believes our consciousness is ultimately composed of loops like these (much more complicated ones, but all the same…) I'm not fully convinced but it's compelling reading..!!

Well… however this resolves, it's seem pretty certain Kimber Lee won't ever be the same - thanks for sticking around!

And thanks for reading everyone!