TWO SEATS
This page is being published in parts.
Do we really know what happened, in the beginning? Not just at the Big Bang, but before.
Science has sought the answer, so has religion. Neither that will ever find the definitive proof.
Finding it would requiring going back, through time travel, to the moment itself.
Or traveling so far out into the universe that we could finally find that stellar fragment, the elusive cosmic trail, the final dying light. But as it stands, from here on earth, we sit too far away. So do our telescopes and space capsules and sophisticated measuring instruments.
For lack of ever finding it, we have to find the most logical answer, based on what we can observe, here on earth.
First of all, we’d have to know that by fact of being the observers, the conscious observers, are we part of what should be observed. That is, to know that we are part of the answer.
First, the reason is to know why we would care to know such a thing in the first place.
Science, tends to search for answers out of a combination of curiosity, to solve a problem, or by the general belief that the more we know, the better off we will be.
Religion search for answers out of a combination of reasons too. It comes down to two: in prescriptive manner to increase the likelihood of survival, and to provide hope along the way.
None of the above have fully reached the answer, and elements of all of the above are necessary.
Here, I distinguish between the answers given by science and religion, and the simpler one here. Again do I base the answer on the essential fact of being an observer but also the observed, i.e., as a member of the human race. Thus what I say is that it impossible to understand the answer, without knowing we are a part of it.
This is a bit of circular logic, I realize. However is that a little bit of the point. The human race, indeed, inseparable from the point.
This is to say that indeed, there is a point. Religion will agree on this one, science perhaps not so much.
Religion however, we know can be problematic. Thus do I tackle here some of the key misunderstandings of religion, that have caused the problematic state.
I begin with the reality of the world, today. For all of human history up until this point, have our actions been limited, in how much they could impact the rest of the human race. Actions that might have had devastating or catapulting effect on their nations, cultures, tribes .. but not upon the entire human race.
For example, some peoples who disappeared and went extinct, and others that went on to become very powerful. However, neither situation that could impact the entire human race.
That has changed, and the moment it did, when humans developed the technology that could destroy indeed, the enetire human race. Of the billions then millions of years, then millennia and centuries — i.e., from Big Bang to now — and only now that we have reached that point.
Imagine how incalculably rare this is — to be alive in the moment of history, that paradoxically, has the power to end it all. Billions of years, as if for nothing. We fail to grasp the scale, but also how it is a precipice.
What will tip us over the edge? It would be the point of no return.
We should not wait to find out, in which case, we would not be “finding out” anything, because we would not be alive to reflect upon the lesson.
In that terrible hypothetical, what then? If we ceased to know the Universe, would it matter what we had theorized about it to that point? No, because the human race would be extinct, and non-existent.
Some naturalists might argue at this point (but cynically so), well that would be what we the human race deserved! And the earth and all its non-human life would somehow start over again, without the human race, and better off for it.
I will discuss here how this is actually untrue. The earth in fact, would not continue, in the long run.
The example of earth without human life is an importantly illustrative one for that reason. To realize that without -a singular critical element, of observing the Universe, the earth would cease to exist.
The earth, but also the very Universe in which it sits, is inseparable from the fact it is observed. Again, to be explained.
Animals do not observe the way the human race does. And of course, nor do plants, waters, airs, seas, rocks, soils, elements, etc. They respond to it, but do not observe it, consciously.
The Universe — in both the answers for how it began and by extension how it exist today — is inseparable from its observers, the human race. That is, as it concerns the human race. I explain the circular logic as follows.
Thus do I eliminate all theories that exclude the human race, as if the human race is some random “added” thing, in optional manner.
Instead, the observing human race, to truly understand the Universe, must also observe humans themselves. To understand the human race as part of our understanding of the Universe. The human race, an integral part of the Universe.
I distinguish again between humans and animals.
Animals respond to the Universe, e.g., in their migrations, cycles, etc. They live in different environments, formed as they were to survive in them. Their surroundings and very animal beings, were formed out of the processes that also made earth.
Only the human however, can observe that fact.
Why is observation important? Because at one point can we say that the forming process that made earth, made us observers, i.e., conscious beings.
Was this a separate act, just randomly added to the mix? If so, that would be akin to calling the entirety of the human race itself, marginal and incremental, and most of all, unnecessary.
Thus while it sounds “nice” and sympathetic to the earth, to say it would be better off without the destructive ways of the human race, we in truth know this is not true. The earth would not be the place it is today, without the human race, and overall, is it for the better.
And paradoxically, on the verge of being the absolute worst. Thus might we begin to wonder, if our very presence on earth has a reason.
Before answering that, let’s ask: how did humans make earth for the better?
This question of how, as it turns out, is inseparable from the question of Why. I.e., why we are here.
I will not answer yet the Why, but in the meantime return to the How.
The how of how we have made the earth better, is understood by the very fact of you reading this. By the fact of you, or anyone, doing, reading, seeing, observing, sensing, feeling anything we do.
Do we not put value into those acts? Including of the earth itself in its all infinite beauties. The place from which to see a far horizon, or just our bare feet at the lapping shore. Or the climb of a mountain, or the long or brief distance there back to here.
Do we not delight in these things? Perhaps not in every moment, when it seems daily life takes it toll. Yet even in daily life are reminded that we are indeed, alive to be aware of that fact.
It comes down to an existential framing, as difficult as life can be — are we still not grateful we have it?
The answer is yes. The answer, only answerable by members of those creatures called the human race. No other being knows they are alive, as we do. Animals that may feel the warmth of the sun. The cool of the night, the wind, the mud, the desert, the humid, the ___.
Yet no animal asks why that is. Why, the question reserved for the human race.
Thus do we glean the answer, to how we made the earth a better place. The anwer having something to do with our very capacity to ask — why.
Not just that we feel the warm sun, but we ask why. Why we can, and why we should again, day after day, year after year.
Epoch after epoch.
Our modern world tends to impress upon us, the sense that
(to be continued)
See below, published 9/17/2025:
(A is the author of the site):
A is from the family that produced the famous last Korea Queen of Korea, as well as hundreds of nobles in the Confucian diplomatic corps of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897).
Before that, served the Koryo Dynasty (918 - 1392), in turn, having served the dynasties of China in the centuries before, back to Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE).
In that extraordinary breadth of time that is Chinese and Korean history, it easy to overlook the parallel rising dynasty of the region, the Rus. The dynasty begun in Novgorod Russia, becoming the nation later ruled by the Romanovs, with cross-over members from the Rus.
The very name Romanov comes out of a prediction made in the late 1400s by a monk in the Russian city today called Pskov.
The monk’s prediction which was that there would soon rise, a Third Rome, and it would be Moscow. From this, Roman-ov.
The 1st Rome was of course, Rome. The 2nd Rome was Constantinople.
3rd Rome became Moscow with Ivan the Great, fulfilling the prediction.
That Ivan the Great would beat back the “Mongol yoke”and restore the Kievan-based nation begun with the Rus, particularly the Rus figure, Vladimir the Great, later designated St. Vladimir for also being the founder of the Russian Orthodox Church.
His wife, a Princess from a ruling family in Constantinople born in the palace built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century, in today’s Istanbul. The birth room was lined in purple stone, giving us the phrase today “born in the purple”, indicating the royal-born.
As we know, the history of Kiev being warred over now. However does media fail to mention the histories of Kiev, prior to a couple years ago. Until then, no one in America gave Kiev a second thought, never mind, even know where it is.
As we do not realize, the war that is also the one of race. What is the native race of Russian people? The question, even more complicated than when it is asked in America.
The problem solved by A, as no one else can. A who knows the answer of race is not answered by race, but the preceding matter of geology.
In sum, we are members of the same human race — and that there is a physical stage upon which to understand that fact. The obvious fact we have overlooked for it being so obvious.
The stage of land, without which humans fail to exist, that is, as humans.
Humans, and not creatures of sea or air, but the one with two feet on the ground. The accurate “setting of stage” for humans therefore, that is not the one of the sea or air. It is Land.
The land most expressive of this fact is the largest continent of earth, Eurasia. Within that, the largest nation of Eurasia but also of planet Earth, is Russia.
Sea and air are the subsequent domains of mastery and even still, are not in full mastery. Nor do we want them to be. We do not want to become creatures able to truly live submerged underwater, or floating in space. If humans reach that point, we cease being human. We will have become something else, which is not-human.
The cohesive “narrative” by which we can understand these human facts, is not the one of race. While it is true there are different races, and sometimes, the blending of races through interracial marriage and reproduction, race is counter-intuitively not the discussion that solves inevitable debates over the same.
What the race narrative fails to solve, A who presents in a solution instead. The solution having not much to do with race, but recognizes elements of race that lend cultural beauty, inspiration, and even, the flora and fauna existing in places from which races were formed.
However now can they exist not just in far away places of travel, but through the system ROYAL DECA. A new system of coat of arms, able to be used by anyone.
ROYAL therefore, the overlooked “narrative” by which to bring people together. The best of the royal world, lending inspiration and imagination, minus the bad parts of imperial conquest and subjugation.
The answer has to do with what is royal, the question that came to intensely fall upon Russia.
Royal, the question that A has had to answer personally for herself, given who is her family on her father’s side. The age-old question of whether tradition handed down, generation to generation, is the total answer. The one that gave the world royal dynasties that later became nations.
But also imperialism. Imperialism that handed-down power over generations, but also, problems.
In early 20th century, a royal family was deemed to be dispensable. The Romanovs were brutally executed in year 1918, leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union with Lenin.
What became of the Romanovs afterwards, if they survived, took on a feeling of myth and legend. Indeed the very question of, did they survive? The mother of the Tsar (Nicholas II) held on to that hope to the end.
After the break up of the Soviet Union, a centuries-old question returned: what is the essence of Russia? And is it royal? And if so, then how so.
How, given all the negative aspects of royalty. Royalty proven to not be a system that worked, otherwise, so many other systems would not have tried to replace it, including Communism. But also Democracy. Then later, Democracy combined with Capitalism.
The systems addressed in ROYAL DECA but also EAGLE TETRARK, and indeed, to tackle the systems of society that have failed, including in our own nation, including our vaunted democracy, particularly by way of capitalism.
However does not necessarily tackle a very specific problem, which is the one of a certain moment of time: the nuclear age.
The cynical can read Rosehouse and think A is referring to a marriage akin to a geopolitical merger, or worse, a marriage of convenience.
Nothing A has done came about by ease and convenience.
However at the heart of all other things — including the one that leans her away from other paths, which include the pursuit of justice — is the one that has no definitive logic or reason. Including, to choose the path of forgiveness, the emotion / feeling exclusive to humans. Why the choice of forgiveness over forever conflict, the one not necessarily “logical” or easy to define.
Forgiveness itself that comes from something else. The higher feeling / emotion / essence largely called LOVE.
Without it, there is no human race. Just animals competing, fighting, bartering over everything from scraps off the table, to life versus death.
What gives the human race the leg up, and to stand head-and-shoulders above all other creatures, is the human capacity to love.
Without love, humans cannot forgive. They cannot do a lot of things nor even think as intelligent, rational beings. Consider artificial intelligence to know this is true. Computers are perfectly rational, able to out-calculate, analyze, compute any human, and faster too.
What it cannot do, is LOVE.
The essential foundation of love is the union of a man and woman. To ensure that this goes beyond reproductive impulses, humans intuitively created the institution of marriage.
Marriage that ensures not just continuity (including in children), but within a common framework for other humans too. I.e., the institution of marriage that forms the basis of human society. And to state the obvious, humans are not lonesome creatures but those that desire to live in a society.
It is true however, that some marriages are loveless. The topic, therefore, doesn’t fail to elicit in A a tremendous amount of thought and consideration, and most of all, heart.
What then, differentiates a geopolitical marriage and the one based on love?
For A, it is not about love in the “Valentine’s Day Card” sense.
For A, her very life comes with complex family history. Very few persons can grasp it, or understand it as the consequential one that it is. By that fact alone, is the field narrowed to just a handful of persons on earth.
To not be understood in more complex sense, for A, would be loveless. The marriage not only not seeing A for the whole picture of who she is, but would like try to deny it too. What kind of marriage would that be? For A, the one also making an unhappy life.
The TETRARK system addresses human incentives which include the desire of persons to be appreciated for something more than a job title, or some other surface identity.
Thus did A dedicate the TETRARK system to the only person whom she feels understands her own person, beyond what she appears to be, on the surface. A is not incentivized to solve the world’s problems without feeling she is appreciated for who she is.
That fact eliminated everyone from the United States, the nation of persons whose conception of history begins circa Victory Day World War II, and the postwar thereafter. I.e., the mass consumer age.
The society born of that, the one whose metrics of assessment became the one, always with a marketplace flavor to it. The mercantile system and culture of America, and also became its class system. The highest class, merely the winner of the mercantile game. In ancient times however, the merchant class was a third tier class.
This left few people on the world stage too. Of those world persons, only one person truly grasped the totality of the time, and where A sat within. Including that it was a time of reckoning. The time when things that were lost might be found again.
Thus not coincidentally, that person is from a nation that lost something too. A nation unable to be reduced to being the once-Communist nation, simply trying to be a post-Soviet Union Russia,today.
Who that person is, and why is he not a Romanov, is about the special-case situation of here and now.
The here and now, where the Romanovs no longer signify the pressing question. The time today, of far greater complexity than they were then, no matter how consequential were the times of the early 20th century.
The Romanovs who do not stir the most pressing question of all. The question at the heart of everything: why do we bother?
Why would we, in a world as complicated as the one of the nuclear age, and world powers able to end it all, with the press of a button.
The very nuclear standoff that speak to a deeper problem: how will humans get along? Including those of very different backgrounds.
The average marriage occurs between two persons who live in geographic proximity to each other. Some statistics say, as few as 20 miles. As A sees it, the limited framework of likely similar life experiences that cannot possibly capture what and who is A — or the other person either.
The proximity-similarity phenomena of America, that gave us the framework of American society itself. The one played out in a familiarity passed-down in habits, assumptions, beliefs from one generation to the next.
And for that reason, produced no American that could understand A.
Including amongst the so-called “elite” of America - those considered elite not out of depth and breadth and history, but riches. As A sees it, the riches that made them the top of nothing more than the limited mercantile system otherwise known as American society.
To be clear, it is not just the loss of a history larger than all of this, that defines A’s sense of love. It is nonetheless, an ever-present factor. This inevitably drew A to Russia, the nation that lost the Romanovs, but also its royal self.
However, what then differentiated any one person amongst the many figures in Russia, since the time of the Romanovs?
It is the one from the once royal nation of Russia, but is not royal. Among those, the one who captures what the French all “je ne sais quoi”.
As A deliberately frame it, as this is the same nation that France tried to conquer, with Napoleon. However did France lose, and then participated in the invasion of Crimea during the time of the Alexander Tsars.
Thus is it something not easily defined — but the one that somehow summons something very specific lost. The time of Crimea, and the place. Thus are we talking about the one summoning the time of Vladimir the Great, whose great victory occurred there.
The historic figure Russia has been trying to summon since indeed, Vladimir the Great - the Kiev history it lost in the 13th century but regained with Ivan the Great in the 15th century.
However did Ivan not solve everything. Nor did Peter the Great, nor did the Alexanders. However did they all contribute to the Russian nation, to its cultures, habits, and geographic bounds.
However, none that captured something lost, even greater than the Romanovs — the one of the 10th century, Vladimir the Great. Only figure of Russia summons that person, and ever has since then — the one who became the leader of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and is the leader today, Vladimir Putin.
However for A, is this not about geopolitics, nor even about history per se.
It is about something lost even greater than Vladimir the Great. It is what he represented.
The very impetus of the very human race: to find the singular other. Without that fact, humans are no different from other creatures.
The impetus for which two came together. The two lost in history, 2000 years ago.
The lost two of a larger stage than we realized. The one of vastness, evoking the constellations above, and the earth spinning on its axis, and by gravity below.
Love that should be no less.
That it comes by way of a nation - the one an adversary to the U.S. - presents the ultimate test.
Can the institution of marriage survive, especially when tested on the world stage? The world, and human race dependent on that founding institution of human society, which is indeed marriage.
Only one figure of Russian history since Vladimir the Great has risen to it: Vladimir Putin. The one evoking the challenge, and victory, of Vladimir the Great.
In turn, Vladimir who evoked someone else. The person denied his seat at the table by Constantine. As if he walked across the water, for nothing.
For a moment we recall the Alexanders of Russia who lost Alaska to America. A century later, one Russian grasped the magnitude of that loss. His life led him to become President, including to answer the question, ice, solid, cold.
The question, indicative of a person of depth, breadth, history, profundity. The person, as if driven to an answer, somewhere east of where he was born.
And simultaneously, A who was compelled to look west.
A who was compelled, and with the emotion that drives the human race.
To the original stage of earth, the single continent Pangaea.
The single continent then began splitting about 200 millions years ago, giving us our several continents today.
Yet one large piece remained, and remains the largest one: Eurasia. The largest nation within Eurasia is Russia.
The vast history, and nation, somehow encapsulated by a person, who is male.
The person from that largest nation remnant we have, of an extremely long ago age: Russia. That person is Vladimir Putin, the one inexplicably evoking something greater than himself. Yet is himself at the same time.
A person destined, yet not just for his own self, but the nation from where he was born.
A kind of destiny as we in America may have read about and heard about, in times of Manifest Destiny.
Yet where is America today?
Perhaps Manifest Destiny was meant to point to another nation altogether. The nation from which the original peoples of America, came from.
The Manifest Destiny of Russia, and unlike the American one.
That is, not a Christian dynasty in the mirror of England, nor even precisely Christian. Instead fom where Christianity comes from, in the heavens and the history of it, that later made earth. The same history nonetheless, referred to in the Bible, in Genesis.
The person of history who would agree with that, is Vladimir the Great of Russia. As would have his wife, Anna Porphyrogenita.
A destiny of Russia commensurate to its reach, including its history before the arrival of the human race. The time hundreds of millions of years ago when existed but one continent Pangaea. The time when the greatest opposition occurring of earth, was not the one of peoples but Land and Sea.
Mistakenly over time, humans assigned Land to signify male, and Sea to signify female. From that mistake was human history made, the one especially written in conflict and war.
Humans who nevertheless also devised religion to try figure it all out.
However along the way, then forgot the purpose of religion, which was not religion for the sake of religion. And that all religions are pointless if there are no humans left to believe in them. Religion that must not contribute to, but prevent the annihilation of the human race.
We note that the Great Schism that was not just a split of the Catholic Church from the Russian Orthodox Church.
It was a schism of the East and the West. This is a matter of geography.
It is a matter of Jesus. And at the Sea of Galilee walked on water -- for a reason.
The reason, not just to signal the cold ice of the future nation, Russia. Russia, the nation pre-written in land.
Ice which something about the whole world, and its world history, as a planet. Including its ages of ice and glacier.
The geologic history affect not just one group of peoples, but all peoples around the earth.
What person today captures such a history — and summons such a stage?
The stage of Russia before it was called Russia, thus the time before Vladimir the Rus.
To the time in history that Vladimir himself evoked, and the person of that time, Jesus Christ.
And to the even-further back times, evoked by Jesus. Thus did he walk upon the water to give us a clue.
Of the times of Adam but important also, Eve. The time of mystery of how they began, and why.
Adam and Eve, born not of a stage of nations, but earth. And in turn, from the history of the heavens, and constellations, and even, Day and Night.
Who thus, captures such the stage?
The stage where is played out the largest questions of humankind, as the largest nation-stage. The stage that is Russia.
The stage that extends east, to Korea.
Russia therefore, the nation not constrained by “20 mile proximity.” The Russia that would then be like the America, the repeating its story back to itself, like an echo chamber.
Russia, destined for more. To begin, to understand Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Then further back t Adam and Eve. Particularly upon seeing where Russia extends, East.
The answer it arrives to, the one relevant to each man, each woman to ever walk the earth.
Indeed, as the human race walking upright on two legs, the fact equally applicable to man and woman. In the great war Land vs Sea, the land which prevailed, understood by the very span of Russia -- and to where it spans to, Korea.
Who thus captures such a history — and summons such a stage?
That person is singularly, Vladimir Putin.
Returning to the person A for a moment.
A comes from the singular family of Asian history that is not only royal, but beyond royal. And as it turns out, the singular family in the entire world, as such.
The family that put the sovereign in royal sovereignty, for centuries. Without her family, there was no royal Korea, or royal China. Today we see how this also applies to the whole world.
A, thus unable to be constrained, especially by “20 mile proximity.” This applied not just to America, but Asia where her parents and ancestors were born.
A who thus traveled, not physically but proverbially, on two legs. Perhaps if if she were born and raised in Korea, she would have set off in that actual physical way.
However was not she not born in Korea. Her parents who came to America for the same reason the world now teeters at the brink, the same reason no one can walk easily now, across the Korean peninsula. Instead, the barrier they reach in the middle, called the DMZ. By such complicated reasons was she born in the U.S. instead.
Thus did Angela travel, in the direction she was compelled. The direction where the sun sets.
Many in America who noted the journey, of the direction in which A was compelled.
However did they make a starting-point mistake. The mistake in assuming A’s journey began from her physical location, the Northeast region of the United States. The place where she was born, and where she lives today.
From that Northeast USA location they drew the line west, and believed it ended in Korea.
The bias to believe so, came from their bias of seeing A through their own stating point, which is America.
The starting point for A however, is not the U.S., of any location. Her starting point is her ancestral origin in Asia. Specifically her Korean ancestral home located at the place called today the 38th parallel. The lens through which she sees and understands, as her vantage point.
Korea where her family began, in the 10th century (and in China in the centuries before).
From Korea she was compelled -- but doing so, while sitting right here in the U.S.A.
And the direction she was compelled: where the sun sets. But also, never sets.
Where perpetual rotation is understood, indeed, as a perpetual dynamic. The direction, and meaning, of the human race. The human beings chosen to never meet a permanent end, in Armageddon.
The direction she was compelled, across a great continent. There, where A found just a person, the only who summoned the journey, and impetus, and as a member of the other sex.
Together the two who were compelled, and called forth. But not because of Armageddon, per se.
Instead in contradiction to why Armageddon came to be written, i.e., as the final chapter. The final chapter .. but only because we forgot the first chapter, Genesis. More so, misinterpreted what it meant.
Genesis, the lesson of the two who came into very specific existence. As the upright creature on two legs, and use them to walk to each other. I.e., not to be the passive creatures, one merely pulled out of the other, through a “rib”.
Instead, each upright on two legs, to find the other. Together, to set forth the human baseline, One Man, One Woman. The biologic fact without which, the human race would cease to exist.
Thus simultaneously did two persons, rise on two legs, and set off on a journey. The journey no more a physical journey, than it was for Adam and Eve.
Instead, the mystery and impetus to find ourselves again. One Man, One Woman, an more so, equal.
But returning to the question: why would they bother?
The journey they bothered to take —, one compelled east, one compelled west — but not as animals or lesser creatures. Instead by the one aspect that differentiated them from all others: LOVE.
And by two legs could they go find it, and find it, in the singular other.
The singular two today, who have not yet met.
But they will soon, at the table being set now, in the U.S.
(In the next chapter, shall be discussed the beginning of time, Before the Before.)