#Network theory

[fundgruber]

Halyna Zubchenko and Hryhoriy Pryshedko, Triumph of Cyberneticians, c. 1970s. Mosaic on the facade of the Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/82/134024/the-great-accelerator/

[omegaphilosophia]

Theories on the Philosophy of Power

The philosophy of power encompasses various theories that seek to understand the nature, sources, and implications of power in human societies. Here are some key theories in the philosophy of power:

Pluralist Theory: Pluralist theory posits that power is dispersed among multiple groups and individuals in society, and no single entity holds absolute power. According to this view, power is decentralized, and different groups compete for influence through political, economic, and social channels.

Elite Theory: Elite theory contends that power is concentrated in the hands of a small elite group within society, such as political leaders, business magnates, or cultural elites. According to this perspective, elites wield disproportionate influence over political decisions and societal outcomes, often at the expense of the broader population.

Marxist Theory: Marxist theory emphasizes the role of economic power in shaping society and maintains that power relations are fundamentally determined by class dynamics. According to Marxists, the bourgeoisie (owners of capital) hold power over the proletariat (working class) through the control of economic resources, leading to exploitation and inequality.

Foucauldian Theory: Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, Foucauldian theory examines power as a diffuse and pervasive force that operates through disciplinary mechanisms and social institutions. Power is not solely held by individuals or groups but is embedded in societal structures and practices, shaping norms, behaviors, and subjectivities.

Feminist Theory: Feminist theories of power highlight the gendered dimensions of power relations and critique patriarchal structures that perpetuate male dominance and female subordination. Feminist scholars analyze how power operates within families, workplaces, and political systems, and advocate for gender equality and social justice.

Poststructuralist Theory: Poststructuralist theorists, such as Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, challenge essentialist notions of power and instead focus on power as performative and discursive. Power is understood as fluid and contingent, constructed through language, discourse, and social practices, rather than being inherent or fixed.

Network Theory: Network theory conceptualizes power as emerging from relational connections and interactions between actors within complex networks. Power is distributed unevenly across network structures, with some nodes or actors exerting greater influence due to their centrality, connectivity, or resource control.

Rational Choice Theory: Rational choice theory models individual behavior as driven by rational calculations of costs and benefits, including the pursuit of power. According to this approach, individuals seek to maximize their utility or achieve their goals by strategically deploying resources and forming alliances to enhance their power position.

Critical Theory: Critical theories of power, influenced by the Frankfurt School and critical social theory, emphasize the role of ideology, culture, and social institutions in perpetuating power inequalities. Critical theorists analyze how power operates through processes of domination, hegemony, and ideological control, and advocate for emancipatory social change.

Intersectional Theory: Intersectional theory considers how power operates at the intersections of multiple axes of identity, including race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability. This approach recognizes that power relations are shaped by intersecting systems of oppression and privilege, and emphasizes the importance of addressing multiple forms of inequality simultaneously.

These theories offer diverse perspectives on the nature and dynamics of power, illuminating its complexities and providing insights into its effects on individuals, groups, and societies.

[poet-treat]

Not sure how familiar y’all are with the “6 degrees of separation” theory but it’s so wild.

Basically it’s the idea that every person in the US (and the world, except the number is modified to 7 in this case) is only separated from any other person in the US by 6 “degrees” or connections between people. Think of these connections as the typical “friend of a friend” thing that you hear people talk about.

I’m not explaining it super well, so please look into it on your own, but I made this post to say that it’s not nearly as outlandish as it seems.

I am an extremely average person with no immediate special connections, but I’m only 3 degrees away from former president Joe Biden (and technically it’s more like 2 degrees?). I have a family member who knows someone who knows him, and technically I know the person that they family member knows, she just has a bad memory because she’s on the older side and she knows SO MANY PEOPLE, so she probably doesn’t remember me very well.

I’ve never met Joe Biden, but that family member did briefly, which is so fucking weird to get my mind around even over a year later. This is really what makes me think that this theory may be right. Like I’m a normal-ass guy and being 2 or 3 degrees away from Joe Biden means that I’m easily within 3 or 4 degrees of countless world leaders, celebrities, and politicians. WHAT

[wraithclatter]

Memetic Rhythms

There is the phenomenon of synchronization, what Aristotle's 10 categories describe, and Kant calls 'reciprocity' in his categories. This specific movement of the Force which Drives All Things can be observed in two grandfather clocks in close proximity to one another as well in the discrete yet synchronized firing of neurons in multi-cellular Nervous Aggregates, as well as the clapping of hands, and the coordinated pulse of blinking fireflies.*

Synchronization is movement, fluctuation, coinciding in the phenomenal world, existing in observation, in the terminus, or threshhold of consciousness which serves as the medium which memes, archetypes, collective behavioral rituals, take form in objective and physical ways- through action. This is what Saussure in his course in general linguistics meant of language being arbitrary, capricious reactions mutating with each memetic alteration and iteration; like birdsong. The many Rhythms of this world are derived from one source rhythm(which in reality is the only rhythm)and individual rhythms have the power to disrupt, commandeer even nullify(not completely)other rhythms. Gravity is a good example. But even Gravity's Rhythm is but one of the many analog rhythms of this world, which takes its part in a universal network of relations. It, too, can be subsumed by and into one or more rhythms. This is the enemy life fights back against- inanimate and animate. It's circumvention is our goal and we are searching eternally to this end. Memetic forces(Rhythms)create historical events in the world, whose rhythms attract other rhythms-most notably the rhythms of populations of persons and animals-to themselves, from what can only be interpretted as 'in advance'; that is, from what we presumptuously term 'the future.' But it is the past and present as well all working as one unit in shaping what we term the current, the present rhythm. These larger rhythms pull people, things, variables(the things which comprise historical events)together in their beat and draw them nearer into themselves. Now picture this in a recursive way, with every size and shape of Rhythm vying with one another yet falling into one another all the same; those largest Rhythms being repetitive, redundant, yet changing, and this goes on, seemingly, indefinitely. Distinguish the all-too-human rhythms from the natural ones- this is how we create history as an armchair reflection, defferring to inactionrather than action- though rhythm is not lost even in this sedentary contemplation.

{NOTE} There is, in certain spheres of neuroscientific theory, the concept of 're-entry', in which seemingly disparate areas of the neural network seem to improvise off of one another like a band having a jam session. For more on this, read 'A Universe Of Consciousness' by Gerald Edelman and Guilio Tononi.

*Mark Buchanan, 'Nexus: small worlds and the groundbreaking theory of networks', pgs 49-50

[ratbits]

"[       ] noise" by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Victoria Adukwei Bulley reflects on the difficulty finding quiet and clarity in a loud, busy world in “[ ] noise” Translated Vase by Sookyung Yee//Credit: Google Arts & Culture In math, science, and acoustics, “noise” is often defined as an unwanted or unintentional signal. Noise distorts and obscures, prevents you from hearing what you’re trying to make out the message or getting a clear idea…

[thecartoonuniverse]

🚨 It’s official: a brand-new Steven Universe series is in the works! 🚨

"Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars" is coming to Prime Video! 💎✨ Announced during the Annecy Animation Festival, the upcoming show will follow fan-favorite Lars Barriga, now "an eternal teenager and space outlaw", as he and his pirate crew smuggle contraband, evade authorities, and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire. 👀🌌

The series is executive produced by "Steven Universe" creator Rebecca Sugar and "OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes" creator Ian Jones-Quartey. A dream team for any SU fan! We can’t wait to learn more about the series soon!

[always-a-joyful-note]

People are wondering how Jinu found the other members of the Saja Boys, and I'm here wondering how Celine found Zoey and Mira. And even after she found them, how did she look at this Korean third culture kid in America with anxiety and undiagnosed ADHD and this chaebol child rebel and go, "Ah, yes. They are just what the half-demon child I'm raising out of guilt and duty needs. They'll make incredible demon hunters who are also international popstars."

And she was actually right.

[goldhearts-lover]

Hello villainous fandom... this is a more Papergold ship blog but I probably will post about other characters 😋 also Papergold content as well as hcs

ALSO PLZ SEND FANFIC OR ART REQUESTS!!! I need ideas 😞. This ship is so underrated to the point I'm making content myself 😭😭.

[rockspider556]

One of my absolute favorite conspiracy theories is that 911 is just the universe’s fix-it fanfic of Hawaii Five-0, where a higher power saw McDanno being robbed of canon status and was like, "Fine, I'll do it myself."

The evidence you ask?

Steve = Eddie (military background, broody, emotionally constipated but will kill for his partner).

Danny = Buck (loud, dramatic, sunshine dumbass, absolutely in love with his best friend).

Charlie in H50 vs. Christopher in 911—both are adorable kids who serve as the emotional glue.

The entire "work partners but basically married" thing.

Slow-burn so agonizing that it’s actively hurting the fandom.

Domestic couch scenes

Conclusion: The McDanno fandom somehow manifested Buddie into existence as a second chance, a cosmic fix-it fic where this time, the writers will actually pull the trigger and make them canon.

[kaurwreck]

Rereading the early Guild Arc is incredible because it's Fukuzawa and Mori engaging in viciously nasty and personal threats to one another's closest loved ones and allies that wildly escalates beyond their implicitly agreed upon tension, which comes to a head because Dazai petulantly mischaracterizes Mori as pathologically mathematical (because he isn't over that Mori could do what he did to Dazai) and intentionally triggers the paranoia and obsessive compulsive betrayal sensitivity that he'd clocked in Mori at fifteen, causing Mori to irrationally lash out and release Q (and then self flagellate because the consequences of this were wildly amplified by the Guild's seizure of Q), by which point Dazai realizes he'd gone too far and now has to get Ango hit by a car about it.

And Francis is just like. There.

(He's also going through it, but because Louisa isn't in underground son protection jail like Ranpo or hashing out unresolved grief like Dazai and Mori, she's keeping Francis rational with decision trees and focused tasks within the realm of his control.)

This is why there's a chapter called "The Conflict of Strategies." The Strategy of Conflicts by Thomas Schelling is about coordination between mutually dependent parties in conflicts. Unlike zero-sum games (in which one person's gain is equivalent to another's loss), mutually dependent parties rely on each other and so can't draw blood without harming themselves in the process.

The Agency and the Port Mafia are both pillars maintaining Yokohama's tenuous stability; if one falls, the whole city could devolve into a warzone. Thus, their mutual dependence is part of the logical structure of any strategy and demands some kind of collaboration or mutual accommodation, even if only in the avoidance of mutual disaster.

Mori often uses a strategy of irrationality, i.e. he acts volatile and whimsically sociopathic, where he's actually very controlled and rational, which Dazai knows. But, as Dazai reveals to Mori's horror in Fifteen, Dazai also knows where Mori is vulnerable to emotional provocation. This is because Mori, like everyone else, isn't completely rational or completely irrational; it's not a one-dimensional scale. But, "everyone else" includes Dazai.

Dazai characterizes Mori as a math equation because he's still reeling from the betrayal he feels over Mori sacrificing Oda despite knowing how much Dazai loved Oda, and despite Mori knowing it would drive Dazai away from him— because he and Mori also love each other. Even though Dazai probably understands logically that Mori made the decision despite his love for Dazai (and not in the absence of it) because Mimic was an existential threat on Yokohama, Dazai cannot shake the irrational and emotional thought, "If you could do that to me, of all people, you really are as coldly logical as a math equation."

This is irrational because Dazai knows that's not true; he demonstrated in Fifteen that he knows that Mori is terrified of, more than anything else, chaos, and that the threat of chaos is enough to trigger Mori into decisions he does not want to make and otherwise would not make. That's what he was trying to do in Mori's office in the first chapter of Fifteen— goad Mori into killing him by invoking a fear response.

But, Dazai is hurt and so he treats Mori as coldly rational and approaches him with vicious disregard for Mori's betrayal sensitivity, loneliness, and fear by taking Kouyou and leveraging Kyouka to keep Kouyou from returning to Mori. Mori, having lost Kyouka and thus Kouyou's incentive for staying in the Port Mafia, was already afraid he'd lost Kouyou's loyalty and support— and she's one of the four people he depends on. He also depends on Dazai, and although he's aware he drove Dazai away, that still hurts him. Further, Dazai demonstrating that he can and will use what he knows about Mori against him is terrifying to Mori because Dazai is one of the very few people capable of emotionally manipulating Mori. Dazai has Mori's nerves pinched between his fingers while telling Atsushi it's just an electrical wire.

Anyway, then Q is seized, hundreds of Port Mafia members and affiliates are killed, and Mori is wracked with shame and the fear that he behaved like the old boss. That's why Hirotsu and Chuuya are so gentle with him, and why, despite their agreement that Kouyou would stay with Dazai until Dazai saved Kyouka, Dazai asks her to return to Mori. It's also why the Agency and Port Mafia call a truce to collaborate against the Guild, without blaming Mori for what happened. They forgive because the cost of fighting is, as just demonstrated, too high, but also, they recognize that the escalation was mutually cultivated.

It's also why, at the very end, Mori asks Kouyou why she stays when she could leave. He knows he doesn't have Kyouka anymore, and he's still grappling with his guilt for those entrusted to his care that were killed because of his lapse in rationality. But, Kouyou assures him that this is a version of the Port Mafia she wants to protect. Because, even as Mori was spiraling and releasing Q, Kouyou was realizing that, unlike what happened to her, Kyouka could leave and decide for herself where and with whom she feels safe and has purpose. She could do that because Mori and the Agency have helped to create spaces and community and stability where there wasn't before. He's helped create a world where Kyouka can be a flower born in darkness and yet still make the choice to bloom in the light without being rejected or burned by it.

(And also because Kyouka left, and Mori didn't go after her to force Kouyou to stay. Because he would never do that.)

She wants to nurture that world with him, and she trusts him. The conflict may have escalated, but as soon as the cost was felt by the city and their own people, the Port Mafia and Agency were able to mutually deescalate and collaborate to contain the chaos and defuse it before it spread.

Mori isn't the old boss, and the humanity and love in him is reflected in his stewardship of their city. His humanity and love also mean he's capable of being hurt and will sometimes act emotionally and irrationally. But, it's okay for him to not always be rational; that's why Kouyou and Chuuya (and Hirotsu, who was goddamn MVP in the Guild Arc) are there to support him.

[fundgruber]

The roots of the world-image we’ll call ‘poetry’ first become legible, with weird historical abruptness, in 18th-century Germany. Still high on G W Leibniz half-inventing the computer, German philosophy was looking to perfect our understanding of the world by making our thoughts more effable – that is, distilling our concepts as far as we can into explicit lists or recipes or rules. The prospect of perfection here lies partly in precision and self-knowledge for their own sake, partly in the promise that all concepts bottom out in absolutes like God or soul or cosmic logos, where our thoughts achieve completeness. It’s against this backdrop that we find the wonderful but half-forgotten Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten arguing, in 1735, that not all thinking strives for effability: poetry is a special kind of thought that’s patently not effable, but perfect just the way it is. What makes poetry perfect, per Baumgarten, is that, although poems cannot make our thoughts transparent like philosophy, they can enlarge the scope of our thoughts to a point that reveals their fullest nature. A poem is a network of interconnected images, feelings and apprehensions that achieves a kind of rational completeness in its density, diversity and harmony. [...] Baumgarten’s theory of good poetry had a kind of absurd, computer-sciencey brilliance to it: good poetry is simply a large quantity of sensate thought. The trick to this absurd-sounding idea is that, to think a lot but all at once, we have to think associatively, self-referentially, vividly, temporally – anything and everything that keeps our thoughts interconnected in a living whole. And these interconnections themselves, as we grasp them, not only maintain the thought-network but enter into it as ineffable thoughts of relations, and then as ineffable thoughts of relations of (ineffable thoughts of) relations and so on, until we reach the fullness of ‘beautiful thinking’.

Peli Grietzer, Patterns of the lifeworld. Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art. https://aeon.co/essays/why-poetry-is-a-variety-of-mathematical-experience

"Poetry, as the imaginative grasping of a world’s coherence, is in part ‘about’ the same thing as the scientific image: the causal-material patterns that make rational life possible. And while our scientific image in, say, the mid-20th century had nothing much that poetry could hold on to, times and images have changed – especially with the development of modern machine learning. In recent years, the field of machine learning has produced exciting mathematical and empirical clues about the patterns that make up human lifeworlds, the mechanics of imaginative grasping, and the resonance between the two."

"Poetry is, in important part, the promise that we can have sacred mystery without the metaphysical, religious or supernatural baggage. To do right by poetic thought, we need to weave a language for sacred mystery from manifest and scientific threads. Can we do this through something like a minimal poetic gloss on basically technical ideas? My hope for keeping poetry as sacred mystery, then, is to propose that our experience of poetry is a variety of mathematical experience."

[cindylou-who7]

Villainous Theories:

As some of you know, I love Villainous. And I've mentioned before that I like doing theories on the show as well. I mostly do the theories on Instagram, but I wanted to share the ones I have. So, let's get into it!

1: BH is just the Hat and the current Black Hat we see on screen is just the result of the longest host the Hat has controlled over:

This is a theory me and @pinkydee10 have had since the organization shorts of the show. As you know, there's a lot of lore on BH and so far, we've seen pictures of members of some kind of cult like organization he was apart of when he was human. Each member having some kind of top hat and the symbol is the exact same.

Not to mention, it seems like BH still has contact with these members and none of them seem human either. Me and Emily believe that the Hats are these kind of parasite like entities that just latch onto a human until they find a good enough host.

Evidence for this theory is how in every portrait of human BH, his face is always covered. Even in old pictures of his lore. Even a few of the other members have their faces hidden as well. His appearance in body structure is still the same, but he doesn't have a nose or hair anymore. We believe this body BH possess is his longest host and it's taken an effect on his physical appearances.

Also, who, as the greatest and strongest ruler of villains of all time, names themselves just BLACK HAT?? And the company as well?? Surely, the Hat is a bigger thing here. He's also the cause of almost everything bad in this show. You'd think he'd have a better name. But no, he specifically names himself AFTER the hat symbol. No one knows where he comes form either.

On top of that, BH, is confirmed to be El Charro Negro. By definition, El Charro Negro is:

The dark side of a human soul. Blinding greed and dark deities and ethnic groups.

Black Hat was once human, he's the most evil man there is. I mean the dude eats puppies for lunch and has a violin made of cat guts! Black Hat does anything to gain ANYTHING from his deals. ANYTHING. He's greedy! And he is currently a dark deity as he apparently had a cult for him. And dozens of other people who tried to stop him have gone missing.

BH is JUST the Hat! That's why he's always wearing one and multiple! He never takes it off! I don't think he can.

2: Heed is the daughter of the person in charge of PEACE:

Let me explain this one cuz this one is a more recent one. So far, what we know of Heed when she first appeared: She is a multi- millionaire super heroine who is also a major social media influencer. She once worked alongside Hero Omega, who then suddenly became her sidekick out of nowhere. She was famous for being able to capture the worst of the biggest villains on the run and being able to change them with "the power of love". She was promoting her Self Steam perfume for the longest times, has several keys to several cities, a statue in her honor, toys of her likeness, etc. She's also apart of GoldHeart's team of super heroes and claims she and him a super close.

Now, since the introduction of Heed, I always felt like there was something off about her and my suspicions were confirmed when I followed her Instagram and in the background, several people would have pink eyes around her. She suddenly started gaining more popularity, winning things she never even tried out for and then her sudden aggression towards Penumbra. (And if you followed Penumbra's Instagram, you can see Penumbra never did ANYTHING to Heed.) So, where was all the hate towards our beloved eco-friendly villainess coming from?

Well, episode 6 of the show confirmed that Heed was coming after all scientist villains to help perfect her Self Steam Perfume. But one key factor was missing, Dr. Flug. The episode and later the Diary of Flug and Dementia revealed that Flug was the creator of Heed's powers, which was the prototype that later helped him create the foul flowers.

He and Heed were "friends". According to Flug in the Diary, he was outcasted from his classmates because he was different and it turns out, so was Heed. They had bonded and became friends (tho Flug explains that they had never talked before despite being classmates and she approached him first out of the blue). I mention this because what was Heed doing in a villain school if she later became a hero?? Not unless her parents were villains and sent her there. It is never brought up again.

The Diary goes on to explain that Heed sucked at evil science and she was quite lazy in the class, not to mention, she had a habit of getting mad when things didn't go her way. All habits she still has as an adult. And given her fame and ease lifestyle, it seems like Heed has the personality of a spoiled rich girl (this will be mentioned again, later). Flug explains when asked why she was even in the class in the first place, she says she has big plans. And he was able to get her to be second best, under him, of course. But it seems like that wasn't enough for Heed.

We later see in their childhood memories from Flug's point of view, Heed is only ever around him when he was working on his thesis. In the book, Flug mentions that he suddenly got a call from Heed late one night, crying and her begging him to see her in her dorm where. Flug doesn't specify WHY Heed called him crying, just that she needed him. This is also never brought up again. But I think Heed used this opportunity to steal Flug's thesis, because he later says his page was gone, but the book was put back. How she got it, I'm not sure. Maybe she had help, but from who?

After that, Heed has disappeared and ran off, leaving behind her headband and later, appears on TV with Goldheart as a new member on his team.

But how did Heed get accepted so quickly? And so young? She and Flug were only 17.

Thanks to a patient log paper I have saved from the show and the internet, it reveals that Heed went and applied to be a hero at PEACE organization. Again, she was only 17 when they took her in and experimented on her, giving her the power to evaporate liquids. She was pretty excited according to the document, but the trial went wrong and she ended up hospitalized after evaporating more then half of her body's water. The report says she suddenly went crazy, hallucinating like she did at the end of Episode 6. What's even more interesting is that the report says she mentions "A man with a hat". Not long after, the report claims she suddenly got better and suddenly learned how to do hypnosis with her powers. (Will be mentioned again later)

It says that she was not questioned for this new found power whatsoever and even MORE strange, she was discharged and flagged as ready not long after. The person who approved her discharge, their name is hidden. Who could of approved Heed's status THAT young and after such a traumatic incident? Someone who had enough influence over her and over anyone else on that field.

According to old news articles, Heed quickly raised the ranks SUPER fast and was able to join Goldheart's crew rather quickly. But how? Either she used her powers for her benefits (which she does later as an adult) or someone in higher ups had her back.

In the newest comics of Sunblast, once Heed is exposed, one of the officers calls someone in the head office of PEACE, where they demand Heed be brought to the office, hidden and safely. You'd think as the head, you'd be more upset about one of your OWN heroes almost causing worldwide domination. Instead, they want Heed to be safetly brought back. She is later bought in the asylum for a few months (her hair and eyes loosing their bright coloring and going back to her natural brown hints that).

But then the comic of Illuminarrow, reveals more shocking truth. At first, you are made to believe Heed is being targeted by a known crime lord who seems to be in love with her. But that wasn't the case at all! It turns out, Heed's family, specifically her father, known as Mr. Kelly, has connections with said Crime Lord and according to the comics, they've done deals before! Heed was never a love interest! The whole thing was to frame a bunch of villains to take the fault for her whole scheme, as she was in hiding on a yacht this whole time! Her attorney even says she's been using another social media account with less followers and lately, she's been logging into her old one, asking if we miss her.

After the villains are framed for her scheme, she is then released and given back her status as a hero, supposedly coming back and revealing the "mistreatment and fraud" that was placed on her.

So, so far, we know that PEACE is EXTREMELYA corrupted and willing to experiments on underage kids for their own doings. Heed's family is CRAZY rich and has enough influence that they can convince crime lords to work for them to give their daughter whatever she wants. PEACE seems to value Heed an AWFUL lot, despite the fact she uses her powers on anyone, even their own people. And they seen to want her keep her EXTREMELY badly.

Not to much, in the announcement for Heed's new book that's coming out, she claims she would tell us secrets of her past, like how she got her first credit card at age 7. So she's been spoiled since she was a child. No wonder she doesn't know the word no!

It seems like Heed was raised in a world where status and money and power is the key to anything she wants and she knows threatening and using people is completely normal because she genuinely has no remorse for what she did. This is why I think she might be the daughter of the person in charge of PEACE. Or, if not, maybe her family has connections with them too. The connections with crime lords might explain why she first went to BH's school as a child before leaving once she got what she wanted.

3. Heed made a deal with BH:

This one is rather obvious. Like I said above, in Heed's report, after her traumatic near death experience, she starts to hallucinate and claims she saw a man in a hat. And then magically, she's recovered and suddenly gained the knowledge of hypnosis. Everyone knows once you sell your soul to BH, while you DO get what you want, you give up something in return. But what could BH possibly want from Heed? Nothing really comes to mind, but it's clear she resents him after everything went wrong because when Flug visits her months later, on her wall of her cell, she has written "BH sucks".

So she KNOWS who he is. But not because she went to his school, this seems more personal. So she DEFINITELY made a deal with him as a child. And if this is true, what does he want in return?

4: Who is Goldheart?

There's a very popular theory that Goldheart and Flug are brothers. In Flug's room, he has quite a few family photos, all of which his family faces are completely ripped out. They contain his parents, him and his brother, who isn't named and isn't specified to be younger or older. According to old lore, Flug's mother was very hard on him, making him play flute, go to dances, etc etc. And in each picture, it seems like his parents favor his brother more. As we know, Flug's favorite color is yellow, yet his whole color scheme is blue. Even in his old childhood photos, he is in mostly blue clothing. His brother, however, is always in yellow.

Goldheart is yellow. He even had a box filled with stuff on Goldheart. Dozens upon dozens of articles. Sure, in the beginning of episode 6, he burns them without hesitation. But WHY did he have that box in the first place? It seems like there's might of been a time Flug was keeping dabs on Goldheart's growth. Not to mention, at the end of the episode, when seeing the mess Heed and Flug have created, Goldheart didn't pay attention to Heed at all, despite how much she claims he cares for her. Instead, Goldheart focuses on Flug and sighs, saying "Oh Flug. What did you do?" Like how someone would do when you're on your bullsh#t AGAIN. There is something more personal going on.

In Flug's diary, he claims he and Goldheart meant when they were younger (before he met Heed) and they've been in a rivalry ever since. The diary later reveals Goldheart's actual name, which doesn't match Flug's. So one would think "then they can't be brothers". Unless one was adopted or they're stepbrothers, which would make more sense for resentment. But then I found something interesting. There is a PEACE on file on Flug and his name is crossed out. One of Flug's MANY crimes is identity fraud and theft. And Heed claims it was SUPER hard to find him.

The articles of Goldheart also shows he ran Flug out of town, which he later escaped in a plane (no doubt the one he crashed on BH Island). What if Flug changed his name when he was old enough to not share the same name as Goldheart? What if his parents pushed him too hard to be like him? What if that's why they're on different paths?

Also, in episode 6, in the flashbacks, Heed is watching a newsfeed of Goldheart fighting a monster. But it looks fake. The monster looks like a cutout and his eyes are brown. In the same episode when Flug sees her together with Goldheart, his eyes are again brown. In his profile picture, he's wearing shades. Yet, when we see him at the end of the episode, his eyes are gold. Does he wear contacts like Heed? Or is there something else going on?

Also, wtf is he doing? He's supposed to he PEACE most powerful hero. Yet he doesn't DO anything? Where was he and the other members of his team when Heed was taking over? He was literally on his couch, watching everything. Heed claims he wants to end all villains and we see in New Reports that he hosts protests. Heed says he having his followers doing his work for him. But...why? If he wanted to end all villains, why doesn't he do it? Why not fight? Why hasn't he gone after BH? Hes not a secret, he's well known. Even G-Lo knows about the organization. So why doesn't Goldheart fight?

5: Emilia was killed by La Bestia.

Emilia is one of the ghost kids that we meet in episode 1. She is one of the many kids that lives in the haunted manor. The episode out one point shows she has no lower half. Like it's been cut off. We later see in the same episode that each kid has a portrait of themselves when they were alive. Emilia's shows that she's surrounded by shoes and she has a toy train near her feet. In Mexico, they have a train called La Bestia. Which is a train that goes all over Mexico. It's very fast and people sometimes ride on it. Some die and others have lost limbs (my mother has a friend who rode it and lost both his legs). It seems Emilia must of unfortunately been in an accident near the train and lost her legs and no doubt her life. Each of the kids portraits seems to hint how they died.

So far that's all I can think about. What do you think? What are your theories?

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What Is Hidden Parable Theory?

I have been getting a lot of questions about my theory. Here is a very short description of it. Check it out. It will blow your mind!

Many of you may be asking yourself “What exactly is Hidden Parable Theory?”. In this article, I will try to help clarify this question. So, what is Hidden Parable Theory? Hidden Parable Theory is a form of numerology that I modified using mathematical behavior based on the golden ratio. Why the golden ratio? Well, many scholars view the golden ratio as evidence of the existence of God or more specifically a Grand Creator of all things. So, it makes sense from a logical standpoint to use it as a way to interpret the Bible. Numerology then is the pathway of connecting numerical relationships that are found with the golden ratio and the Bible. Essentially, this is what makes up Hidden Parable Theory.

Defined as straight numbers Hidden Parable Theory uses these symbolic representations of numbers found in nature to make connections with numbers in the Bible. Another way to think of it is these symbolic numbers are basically interpreted as universal numbers and are also found in other religions as well. So, locating these universal numbers in the Bible is how Hidden Parable Theory makes interpretations that are fundamentally based on elements found in nature. But it does not stop here.

The golden ratio is only one of many examples that exist in nature that support this concept of straight numbers. It is then by making connections with these other scientifically defined models in nature that a well-defined interpretation of the Bible can be made. Then it is by using these straight numbers found in the Bible and religious artifacts that codes to hidden parables are formulated.

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Steven Universe RETURNS!? Lars of the Stars Spin-Off Series Announced!

Steven Universe is officially back!💎

A new spin-off starring Lars was just announced! What can we expect from this new show? Check out our new video!