watching the fawning of atheists over dawkins and nietsche i'd say that they don't get it either. or nietsche. but dawkins is a total satan lite evangelist.

see, the thing is, i know a few things about big numbers and randomness and chaos theory. i don't think it's enough to explain some of the things i've seen and read about and experience on a daily basis. i used to think it was "magick" but after i fell right into the hole of determinism i became sure that this was what God was. not all powerful. all knowing. and offering hints to progress the journey. i came to think of God as like the Game Designer.

because life is a game, of sorts. you can choose many different outcomes but the best ones are the ones that came to you in a dream, or were whispered in your ear by who knows who.

also, one of the things you learn when you study cryptography and number theory is that there is something in there, something spooky, and eternal. deep in physics there is also something funny going on that doesn't fit the "there is no purpose and there is eternal decay into the void" story.

lao tzu wrote that there is a beginning, but there is no end. who started it?

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I really love the idea of God as the game designer. Maybe we all listen to the nice voices in our heads 🫂

yup. that insight came to me after a period of intense prayer too, as described in Phillipians 4:6-7

it's not likely anyone living a comfortable life is going to try it though. i had no money, and no hope at the time. i spent the next 6 months or so through the winter and was guided back to my favourite city, Sofia, and there i weathered the winter in relative comfort, on the street, but full of purpose. it was my "conversion on teh road to damascus" experience. up until that point i was mostly in a mind of deterministic nihilism. and then i found the opposite pole, of deterministic infinity. the two things are valid but one is a road to hell.

This is a long-winded god of the gaps. Your god shrinks with every new scientific discovery.

Idk the more science I learn the more I believe in a divine presence flowing through all of God's creation.

Reality created us, is ever present, & contains all information. Reality is the body of God.

If two people are married to God/reality first then their relationship might work, if not then someone will be enslaved to the delusions of the other.

Whether there is some external consciousness that we can communicate with, or some deep & ancient internal wisdom we can tap into makes for an interesting discussion.

yeah, i am inclined towards the model of the akashic records - a conduit to accessing the information of the universe for all time, but more likely there is only a limited data set that you can even comprehend out of that, let alone is relevant to you. this would be some kind of far out quantum nonlocality wave function type stuff.

there is, however, a pretty good chance that since that model has some viability based on what we already know about physics, that there is also ways to exploit some kind of quantum nonlocality effect that is part of our brain function that an advanced civilization might know how to use to communicate with us, as well.

I think the electromagnetic fields that are within our bodies are our pathway to that quantum nonlocality wave function. I think we all are capable of tapping into that and making spooky action at a distance happen 🥰

Wild baseless assertions.

I'm out. I have better things to to today than convince you to let go of your imaginary friend.