Well yeah and narcissists, same story. The question is did God create those people or did their circumstances? I’m given to believe narcissism is an adaptation, the kind you’d develop if you were say one of the guards on the trail of tears. Or in a war, or any of the other zillion fucked up scenarios human beings have been in. Again, I see God as an energy more than a deity. Seems more to me like God created the conditions for humanity, for life to exist and develop and develop it did. It just went in every direction. Jesus has a parable akin to this. He talks about some seed will fall on stone and wither in the sun and blow away. Some will fall on infertile soil and sprout, but soon dry up because it never had roots deep enough to grow fully. Then other seed will fall on fertile soil and multiply hundreds of times over. You might be that seed that falls on stone. Maybe you have nothing but degens and derelicts around you. But in reality you have two feet and a heartbeat. You have the freedom to go where you find good influences. You are capable of making decisions for yourself that your influences wouldn’t. You can make decisions guided by your own intent to be better for yourself and others. Will you? Or will you swallow that feeling that the people around you are peices of shit and just do what they do? I think God has compassion for those who recognize that something is wrong and do something about it. For people who give in to lust and greed and adultery and all the things that don’t do anything truly good for anyone? Less so. I might go to hell for killing someone who didn’t do anything to me besides a slight of disrespect. That would be a huge moral leep for me because I wasn’t brought up in a world like that. I would have to make the conscious decision to make that moral leep. For someone whose dad is in the pen for life and all his friends are thugs? Maybe God has more empathy for that person in a similar scenario. Or maybe if you kill somebody, God finds a way to kill you back and you get the extra crispy treatment. I won’t know until I get there. But I’m willing to bet my soul that the next life exists and that it’s a better chance of it being a good experience if I put effort into being decent while I’m on this earth.

“God” is absolutely energy.

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Can energy create itself?

Wouldn’t surprise me if base reality is far stranger than we can possibly imagine and literally incomprehensible to the human mind.

There is so much information we can’t perceive. I’d be amazed if humans could measure even 50% of total information available.

Literally virtual reality. Tom Campbell has had my interest lately

Who is that?

Look him up. MBT

Is this the author of the hero with a thousand faces?

No, that’s Joseph Campbell