As I've given more thoughts on that Ignus Loci, and I realized them Unseen Things are commonly known as abstract things (it was quite facepalm the time it took me to realize that out), it was easy to ungap the rest of other unseen things. However, I could go and read some philosopher thinking about abstraction, but hey, why shouldn't I keep thinking myself first? It's not even like I'm already stuck and need to read the walkthrough, that ruins all the fun. So when I'm filled with doubts and dead-ends I'll absorb the content like there's no tomorrow. But for know there's still a lot I can think on things we can't see.
First of all, time. We have the very clear conception of past, present and future, despite always living only in the present, seeing only what is present. And the logistics of time tell us that past shows hints, so it can be retold by hints. Those hints allowed mankind to have People Who See The Past, like historians and archeologists and paleontologists and geologists. But future got no such hints, so People Who See The Future have no much credibility. Science demands hints. However, the combination of past and present can show a certain trend, which is sort of a possible hint to the future, so professionals like economists and meteorologists who can make the proper equation of past and present can try predicting possible events, even some of erratic nature.
Past can be retold by hints because mankind will even unwillingly create signatures of its own time. The zeitgeist and arts and trends and fashions of a time period are its hints. However, nature is Time With No Hints. In an untouched, virgin forest, one can't tell the time they are in (at least man's time). That is, your memory and the hints in your body can tell you that, but not anything you can see around you. Maybe that's the reason nature appeals to us like this, it is the place nature is itself, the way the world is without our interference. The forest we see today is the same one our ancestors used to see thousands of years ago. In a forest we can be either in the present, the 80s, the XVth century, or BC's time. We look at the sun and we are seeing something all people, in all time periods, in all places, saw the same (except people who've been locked in a cellar throughout their whole lives and never made to see the sky, which the odds tell that extreme sad cases like this unfortunately have happened more than we like to think).
The forces of nature are very interesting abstract subjects too. Life and death. Amazing how these two things are so important to us and we can't even see them, just their hints. Or else, death being the lack of hints of life, like bodies made for life losing their ability to make any sort of movements. Still organs, motionless eyes. Love, love is an abstract concept as well, and it's one of the forces of nature like life and death (as love is our instinct of reproduction, so life goes on after our death). Maybe by being seeds of nature within us they are such powerful motherfuckers, that they have to be abstract and only small hints are enough to make us feel and behave in extra-ordinary ways. And it was by thinking of this that I noticed that Realizations are all about being able to see the unseen with the help of some faint hints of their presence. Indeed, realizations most of the times are about obvious things, and that's the point, for the very essence of the word "obvious" means seeing something right in front of you.
We may think man has turned the tide in the battle against nature, and that we have to save the planet now. I'll agree with George Carlin here, the planet is fine. We may get so powerful one day that nature will feel a little itching and wipe us out forever if we keep on thinking this is actually a war. A war is when any of the sides can win. It's not the case with this "man against nature". Nature can erase us and all our hints, for time plays on nature's side. With time, nature is able to first erase our lives, and then our bodies, and it's as we have never existed. The arts (paintings, books, all kinds of buildings) we created to extend our existence in this world will be destroyed by time as well. A whole civilization can be lost in time if a hecatomb is to happen upon it, and nature is not known for being merciful to leave ruins as a hint of the past that mankind once belonged to.
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