I know there was other threads for the specificness and relativity, to the names of John and Locke in Halo 5: Guardians.
Being connected to a John Locke, from the 1600s…
> John Locke was a English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism”. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
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> Locke’s theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.
This quote greatly summarizes John-117 journey or pilgrimage of self-preservation and purpose. It also offers some clues as to a new Empire and Revolution… as well as Agent Locke needing to base his direction of the Master Chief through his own experiences…
But one of the most intriguing things is he was a philosopher…
> 1. The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
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> 2. a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behavior.
Both of these definitions connect to either the Forerunner GEAs manipulating certain behavior… and the constant thinking about reality, existance and knowledge… all bottles down to the Precursor and their Nueral Physics…
It is quite an interesting connection to these two charcaters who seem to be reflections of each other…
Geas are implanted by Forerunners they have nothing to do with Precursor technology. Forerunners stored the personalities and memories of Ancient Humans in post Human-Forerunner War Era humans in the hope that a cure that humanity had could be shared. Geas are a tug toward something not explicit instructions. Geas can store information that can only be accessed when the stars align. For example Chakas and Riser singing songs when the Djamonkin Crater
Cryptum is opened. Geas are a force that pull you toward something but you are perfectly free to go the away from it. Like how Vinnerva was able to resist going to the Palace of Pain in Primordium.
Also all Precursor artifacts, architecture, and technology were destroyed when the Halos were activated a 100,000 years ago in both the Milky Way and the neighbouring galaxy Path Kethona.
> Geas are implanted by Forerunners they have nothing to do with Precursor technology. Forerunners stored the personalities and memories of Ancient Humans in post Human-Forerunner War Era humans in the hope that a cure that humanity had could be shared. Geas are a tug toward something not explicit instructions. Geas can store information that can only be accessed when the stars align. For example Chakas and Riser singing songs when the Djamonkin Crater
> Cryptum is opened. Geas are a force that pull you toward something but you are perfectly free to go the away from it. Like how Vinnerva was able to resist going to the Palace of Pain in Primordium.
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> Also all Precursor artifacts, architecture, and technology were destroyed when the Halos were activated a 100,000 years ago in both the Milky Way and the neighbouring galaxy Path Kethona.
This but remember how hard it was for Vinnerva to resist! I think geas are little stronger than we think.
> > Geas are implanted by Forerunners they have nothing to do with Precursor technology. Forerunners stored the personalities and memories of Ancient Humans in post Human-Forerunner War Era humans in the hope that a cure that humanity had could be shared. Geas are a tug toward something not explicit instructions. Geas can store information that can only be accessed when the stars align. For example Chakas and Riser singing songs when the Djamonkin Crater
> > Cryptum is opened. Geas are a force that pull you toward something but you are perfectly free to go the away from it. Like how Vinnerva was able to resist going to the Palace of Pain in Primordium.
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> > Also all Precursor artifacts, architecture, and technology were destroyed when the Halos were activated a 100,000 years ago in both the Milky Way and the neighbouring galaxy Path Kethona.
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> This but remember how hard it was for Vinnerva to resist! I think geas are little stronger than we think.
I never said it was easy to resist geas I said it is was possible.