Flying Scroll Exhibit#
New here, or short on time? The whole call — avert accidental nuclear winter and build a ResearchCity for all — fits on five business-card-sized pages. Here are the first two (click either card to open all five):
➜ See all five cards on the Nano Flying Scroll Exhibit — free to download, print, and share.
Existential Questions
Is it possible to keep humanity from destroying itself, with God’s help?
If yes, can a gentle kind reasonable plan be envisioned to explain how?
If yes, can that plan be written down, to ask for help and for feedback?
If yes, will enough people support reviewing such a plan to save the world?
Will people do that even when complex problems require a complex plan?
A world as tangled as a Gordian knot#
The world is complex. Like a hairball. Like the Gordian Knot. The temptation is to reach for Alexander the Great’s solution — cut the knot of how to rule the world with sheer force. It works for a moment. Then it self-destructs. That “solves” the knot, but not really.
To really untie the Gordian Knot of how to reach a better world takes gentle kind reasonableness — the life-trifecta with the power to overcome the death-trifecta of over-Simplifying, over-Complicating, and over-Reaching.
It is easy to read a sentence like that; it can take a lifetime to grasp what it means. Reality is all connected, so there are many ways to say it. It is like coming out of darkness into the light of love and truth — because only the Truth can set us free, and only in Love can we see the Truth.
Yet how can such high abstractions become a practically lived reality in today’s complex world? That is where the rubber hits the road — or shall we say, where the missiles hit their targets.
What this exhibit is#
In case we haven’t met: I’m Laurence Loewe, since 2022 “of Laodicea” — or LLoL for short. As a scientist I’ve been racing since 2020 on a wid-e research marathon to avert existential disasters like accidental nuclear winter by scaling up in 7-8 stages a global ResearchCity for all as Balospe.com describes. More about me is here.
The Flying Scroll Exhibit is my best attempt so far to distil what it might take to gentle kind reasonably save the world for real — in a way that genuinely improves it, rather than merely changing it for the worse through yet another round of disappointed hopes.
To avoid raising false hopes, I deliberately front-loaded the worst risks, to guard true hope as much as I can. Three ways:
Test privately first. I stress-tested this plan in private against every experience and critique I could find, to anticipate failures as early as possible and shield the public from avoidable risk.
Spread the cost of review. What serves the community should be paid for by the community — and what the community pays for should be bound to serve the community, worldwide.
Be the canary. Like a canary in a coal mine, I tried to concentrate the risk of this idea’s earliest, most dangerous stage on the one volunteering it, so that most people don’t have to carry that risk themselves. The canary here is me.
The prophecy it turns around#
What came out of all this is a poster exhibit that offers an alternative reading of an ancient prophecy — Zechariah 5:1-4, later echoed in Revelation. There, a giant flying scroll, about the size of a modern nuclear ballistic missile, enters essentially every house to burn it to the ground.
Is this how it has to end?
Through this website I try to persuade Reality and humanity to consider a gentle kind reasonable alternative — a non-violent, symbolic reading that is no less real. What if, instead of letting accidental nuclear war and winter toy with this world, humanity actively averts that disaster — by inviting a different giant scroll, about the same size, into all its houses?
Not that this works by magic, without the work of the narrow path: the intense searching, finding, and testing of better ways forward. It can work like this, if humanity chooses to leave death by default for life by choice:
Use the PDFs to learn how to avoid the over-Simplifying, over-Complicating, and over-Reaching that form the core of the BABL algorithm — the pattern that destroys the world by getting people to destroy themselves. The alternative is to learn to be consistently gentle kind reasonable. It sounds simple, yet it runs deep. And it is immensely doable — with the help of Reality.
This whole website is dedicated to explaining how that may work.
See the whole scroll#
Here is a horizontal overview of the Flying Scroll as I composed it — Side A (the outside) and Side B (the inside):
And here is a vertical view of the beautiful — or terrifying — gothic and romanesque architecture of this abstract, globalised temple for worshipping Reality:
And here is an outline of all the core posters of the Flying Scroll Exhibit. Note how some posters nest inside others — which is why the exhibit scales easily up to about 80 posters, including supplemental sheets that did not fit this format:
Hang it on a building you don’t want destroyed#
The exhibit is built to go big. Here are the fully scalable, print-ready vector PDFs that generated the screenshots above — two combined sheets, 5×10 m each. These are large files (about 12 MB and 20 MB); lighter webp previews are linked below too:
Print-ready vector PDFs (large): Side A — the song-book combo (~12 MB PDF) · Side B — the cross / guilt / Ark / 7e / Iron Rod combo (~20 MB PDF)
Lighter previews (webp images — quick to open, but raster, so not the vector fonts you need for actual printing): Side A preview · Side B preview
If you have a building you would not want destroyed in an accidental nuclear winter — and the means to print a full 5×10 m copy — consider hanging the Flying Scroll on it: a public, wall-sized plea to Reality and to humanity to spare this world, and that building with it. Send the PDFs to your preferred building-banner printer.
Prefer something smaller? Banners, stickers, flags, and single posters are in the full visual collection.
Prepare an exhibit — and let’s talk#
Want to do more than print one sheet? Mount a Flying Scroll exhibit — in a hall, a foyer, a campus, a community space, a place of worship — and use it to start the conversation this world keeps avoiding. A few ways in:
Show it. Print one or more posters and put them where people will stop and read.
Discuss it. Host a viewing, a reading circle, a friendly debate. Bring sceptics — being tested is the whole point.
Plan for continuity. If an exhibit grows into something ongoing, the Continuity of Operations Plan (SD10) sketches how such efforts can keep running responsibly instead of fizzling out.
Tell me how it went. I would love to hear what landed and what fell flat — that feedback is exactly how the next version improves.
And, as always: don’t take my word for any of it. Audit the math, and if it holds, buy in at about ~$8/year so the people who check and explain this work can afford to keep doing it.
Where to go next#
The 5-card Nano Flying Scroll Exhibit — the whole call, pocket-sized
The full visual collection — banners, stickers, flags, posters, the Iron Rod, the 12 Transwarp Stadia
1600 Stadia — where the maths and the prophecy point at the same number
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