For over four years this Internet community we call Delphi has held my attention to one degree or another. For four years I have observed events which many have forgotten come to pass again and again. Indeed even I have been within that circle of events that has transpired multiple times over the years. Kingdoms rising and falling, friends turning into enemies, and then back to friends. It becomes an odd yet enchanting experience.

I have been deep within the bowels of contention, as well as just a watcher in the effects of another's war. I have been apart of what I thought of as things great only to have found myself in nothing truly special, nothing truly unique as it had already been done before.

Pattern after pattern repeating itself on its endless infinite loop. If there truly was anything new about it perhaps it was the names and or roles that each of us played in the next repeat. This new role could be so fascinating so fresh to us yet when we take a step away and look at it, we find ourselves lost in nothing but a whirlpool in which everything eventually comes back to its beginnings.

To me Delphi is a small microcosm of our offline lives. We have nations with boundaries. Lines of control. We have rulers which to some degree control these nations. We have oppression or salvation in the way of the Delphi administration who holds all the power even life and death for any nation we might build. Because we are men, we have politic in both society and these governmental powers our leaders hold. Each of these things setting a tone and distinct flavor in how we move about and how we interact with others in this small universe.

I watch with fascination in some sense wondering if any others are awake as I am. Can they see what is happening or why certain actions were bound to take place? Do they understand why they have made decisions that may have taken them sleepless nights to make or have simply made without knowing there was a decision? I am oddly reminded of the Matrix in how only a few were really aware of their surroundings, and most of the world was asleep to the machinations of a minority collective.

As time goes by I stand more apart from Delphi but in a sense I feel more connected to its events. My biases and expectations flavor the events that I watch and how I think about them but on the whole I begin to see more than what was apparent before. I wonder why something so simple was never apparent to me before when I was here for the majority of the hours in the day.

It seems the more observant I become the more pieces I begin to have that directly pertain to my own life. I understand more of where my own thinking is rooted from. I understand to a fuller degree where my energy interacts with other objects around me and then flavors it in different ways for different agendas. Tipping the dominoes in some fasion. Control and power come to those that know the past, and can manipulate the pattern for an event that is advantageous to them.