HakutoRei000
He/Him- 1,172
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The Outside is the absolute departure from all things—not just existence, but the very idea of existence. It is not a higher plane, not a greater reality, not an ultimate truth—it is simply what remains when all things, including nothingness itself, are let go. There is no space, no time, no logic, no transcendence, because all of those still imply a system to exist within. The Outside is not infinite, not beyond infinite—it is neither. It is where all definitions, all meanings, all structures cease, not because they are destroyed, but because they were never necessary to begin with.
To enter the Outside is not to ascend, evolve, or reach enlightenment—it is to shed all need for such things. There is no self to realize, no truth to grasp, no higher state to attain, because even the concept of "attainment" dissolves. The Outside is neither existence nor non-existence, neither void nor fullness; it is what remains when even the contrast between something and nothing is abandoned. In this absence of all distinction, all identity, all purpose, one does not gain understanding—one simply no longer requires it.
And Tier.
To enter the Outside is not to ascend, evolve, or reach enlightenment—it is to shed all need for such things. There is no self to realize, no truth to grasp, no higher state to attain, because even the concept of "attainment" dissolves. The Outside is neither existence nor non-existence, neither void nor fullness; it is what remains when even the contrast between something and nothing is abandoned. In this absence of all distinction, all identity, all purpose, one does not gain understanding—one simply no longer requires it.
And Tier.
