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There's no good options, church-wise. Wrong this way, or wrong this other way... Orthodox seem less wrong at first, but test them and see. Fruits, indeed. Bad fruit, IMO. But still, you can't love your neighbor as yourself if you wall them off for being wrong. Everyone is a brother in Christ, even non-Christians, and even the Christians who think its a team sport. Our job is to minister to them, despite being imperfect ourselves. Man... There's so much work to do... It's insane.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah, i don't wall them off but i don't hold back on scolding them on their credulity, either.

to me, all doctrines are red flags for cultish manipulation. none of them are entirely free of it. even the least prescriptive ones like variants of zen and taoism are polluted with dumb ideas, missing the point of the original texts.

actually, the Tao Te Ching was a truly amazing revelation for me. i felt like i was reading the best version of the laws of the universe i had ever seen. the book first landed in my lap by chance (though i'd read The Tao of Pooh years before, not the classic itself) as a book that junkie friends had swiped to resell, but nobody wanted. kinda portentious, i guess. that was 1999, NYE, in fact, literally it was the first day of the new millennium i it landed on me. it was beside the bed of a girl i had a one-night stand with in a drunken NYE party. i asked if i could take the book and she explained how it arrived there, and said to take it.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

Dude that's an awesome way to find it. I love that book. There's so much cool shit in the world... Like, I look back on the stuff I've learned or found, like the Dao de Jing or Cryptography (cliche here, and I'm not claiming to be an expert - just really amazed) or the gnostic gospels, or Philip K Dick, and I try remembering how I thought about things before I found these things... And its crazy, cuz I can't imagine the hole where these things should be, like constantly blowing my mind. There was once a version of me that didn't even know each of these things existed... 🤔

Speaking of dumb ideas... And daoists...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2c_-9kIjyU&pp=ygUcRGFvaXN0cyBzbWFzaGluZyB0aGVpciBiYWxsc9IHCQkVCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah. i honor what has worth, and all these things are important to understand. the orthodoxy doesn't want you to understand these things because it takes you out of their controlled system of lies, designed to neuter your natural power to challenge their authority, and the passion, the holy spirit, that drives progress for our species.

Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

It's the empire... The empire never ended.