COMPONENT OF THE GREAT CLOCK: THE PENDULUM OF DESTINY
Determining the Rhythm of "what will be"
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Definition
The Pendulum of Destiny is the deepest component of the Great Clock, which does not regulate time,
except the possibilities that are permitted to become the future.
If:
gears = law,
hands = the flow of time,
zodiac = core law,
then the Pendulum of Destiny is:
> a balance between certainty and possibility.
It determines how far the future can deviate
without causing reality to collapse.
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Shape & Position
Located beneath the center of the Great Clock
Not tied to the zodiac
Swings in conceptual space, not physical space
This pendulum:
Never stops
Never conveys or persists
Cannot be directly touched by any entity
📌 Even the Lord of the Zodiac has no direct authority over it.
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Main Function
1. Determining the Elasticity of Destiny
The Pendulum of Destiny regulates:
Hard possibilities of the future are "locked"
Soft possibilities can bend
Swings of World Conditions
Narrow pendulum of Destiny: Strong, deterministic
Wide pendulum: High Freedom, many anomalies
Unstable swing: Era of crisis, heroes and monsters are born
📌 The Old Dao operates on a narrow swing
📌 The Second Dao emerges when the swing widens
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2. Synchronizing the Clock Hands (Future)
The clock hands cannot move on their own.
The Pendulum:
Provides "rhythm"
Determines when the future:
can be accelerated
delayed
or canceled
Without the Pendulum of Destiny:
> The future would collapse into formless possibilities.
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3. Determining the "Price of Change"
Any attempt to resist fate:
increases pressure on the Pendulum
forces the swing to widen or narrow
📌 Fighting fate is not forbidden
📌 But it always comes at a price
The price can be:
tragedy
loss of meaning
fracture of reality
extreme narrative escalation
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Relationship with New Principles
Thesis
The Pendulum leans towards stability
The future "makes sense"
Anti-Thesis
The Lying Swing
Futures cancel each other out
True Emptiness
The Pendulum has almost no diameter
No "chosen" future
Chaos
Random Swing
Many futures vibrate
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Pendulum vs. the Principle of Being
This is the most subtle conflict.
The Pendulum says:
> "This is what will happen."
The Principle of Existence states:
> "I exist even if I don't happen."
Consequence:
The pendulum cannot erase Existon
But it can:
render it fatefully irrelevant
cut off its future path
📌 This is the origin of beings that exist but "go nowhere."
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The Case of the Anomia World
When Anomia breaks the Seal of Validation:
The Pendulum of Destiny loses its center of reference
Its swings become asymmetrical
The future of Anomia:
cannot be predicted
cannot be locked
cannot be undone
The Great Clock is forced to:
> Allow a world with permanent non-linear destiny
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Weaknesses of the Pendulum of Destiny
The pendulum cannot be directly opposed,
but it can be confused.
Rare methods:
The collective consciousness of the world
Extreme narrative level
The Principle of Hope Intervention
The Presence of the Ruler of Principle
📌 Proto-Existence doesn't stop the pendulum
📌 It makes its swings no longer absolutely meaningful
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Pendulum Axiom
> Destiny is not a chain.
It is swinging.
And as long as the pendulum is still moving:
The world still has a future
Struggles still matter
Decisions are still relevant
But if one day the pendulum stops…
> It's not destruction that comes.
It's the future itself that ends.
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