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    Burning Down the Archive Edition

    >Autumn Equinox 2026: "There is not a hidden valley where invisible but still somehow tangibly human-like Reimu and Sanae fight it out."
    >2026 front page, same site: "When reading the texts, is best to understand spirits as non-corporeal forms of inteligence that have agency of their own"
    >also 2026 letter: "Even if spirits were somehow 'purely psychological'... they have a real impact and therefore a form of reality"

    Since the Archive's front page says visibility brings "the responsibility to present the case I am trying to make here in the best way possible," here are five Esoteric Touhou questions after reading every page on the site:

    1. What observation would convince you the spirits of Gensokyo are not real?
    2. Is the Jōmine ankle healing a claim about the physical world? If yes, how would it look different from expectation + descending stress analgesia from rushing 3km for the last train?
    3. Why do the spirits' faces follow ZUN's drawing style from year to year, and why does the Suwa god of the 2020s ask for good posture and fresh air when the historical Suwa Ontōsai offered 75 severed deer heads?
    4. If spirits are real "even if purely psychological," and Kōfuku-ji's Yogācāra school (visited in Homecoming) explicitly classes projected beings as parikalpita ("no reality at all," Triṃśikā v. 20), what does "real" add?
    5. Descartes predicted the primary rainbow to 42° in 1637. In two years and 230,000 views, has the Archive ever written down a single prediction before the event?

    Also checked script.js on Fantasy Scope (linked on External Sources): all 128 rolls are computed in <0.1ms before the first dot appears, the suspense is a random sleep() timer, and (127/128)^128 = 36.64% (~1/e) of all visitors get "Unreachable" regardless of belief or spirit.


    Full writeup and links:
    https://burning-down-the-archive.neocities.org/
    https://rentry.co/burningdownthearchive
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    Play Touhou '
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    >>51364113
    >Number your answers so the thread can quote them.
    >If I've misstated your view anywhere, correct me in the thread and I'll fix the page.

    Impressive writeup.
    May I ask what inspired you to have ChatGPT make it?
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    >>51364113
    >5. Has the Archive ever written down a prediction before the event? Link it.
    Wasn't the Archive itself but one of the anons who frequented the threads:
    Prediction:
    https://warosu.org/jp/thread/48572548#p48669547
    Time of result:
    https://warosu.org/jp/thread/49796992#p49906744
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    Back to your Discord fag
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    Aren't those esoteric faggots got bullied out off this board by real schizos?
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    >>51364943
    Those two lines are addressed to you guys in the thread so if someone answers the 5 questions, people can quote #1 through #5 by number instead of a wall of text. And if you know a prompt that opens fantasyscope.neocities.org/script.js and kogasa.boo/omikuji.html, pulls out (d1%2===0?64:0)+8*d2+d3-8, and tracks across five hours of posts in warosu, let me know, as that'd make the process easier! Feel free to take a swing at #1 through #5.
    >If I've misstated your view anywhere, correct me in the thread and I'll fix the page.
    Is also addressed to you, it'd be pretty weird to have an AI mention the /jp/ thread.

    >>51364997
    Thank you for linking those, I missed that one

    >Jan 11, 2025 (No.48669547): anon dreams of a building full of turquoise "skiing toilets" (which he connects to the Aztec dung goddess Tlazolteotl), a ship called The Black Moon, and pixel-art Yukari -> predicts he will see Yukari on the Black Moon
    >Aug 24, 2025 (No.49906744 the night of the seasonal Black Moon)
    >Literally nothing happened. This is embarrassing. Have I been the subject of some kind of interdimensional prank? Is something only going to happen once everyone's been put off guard?

    Look at the last two sentences of that, even when someone in the thread finally does make a dated prediction and gets a flat null result on the night of the Black Moon, the takeaway isn't "my toilet dream wasn't Yukari" It immediately turns into
    >The spirits are playing an interdimensional prank on me
    >It will only happen once we stop looking for it

    That is Point #3 ("By its own rules, the method cannot fail") in... two sentences?
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    What are the spiritual implications of fucking a youkai?
    This is kind of a serious question, in eastern religions (namely Tao), semen was seen as a form of life essence, hence why releasing it too frequently was seen as harmful, and as something that could bring bad health or even earlier death.
    During normal sex the partners exchange their energies (or rather the one who comes first does), but how would this even work with yooks given that their energy is completely different, would this just work one way? From human to yook, or could the human also cultivate his qi using the traditional methods? Would he even be human if that was the case? Given that he would accept inbalanced form of qi?
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    >>51365599
    Yes
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    >>51365390
    NO. I don't like the taste of them. Make them into gummies, then I will reconsider it.
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