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“There is the sense that somehow or other, at some time, there was a fall, a point at which we became unnatural.

There’s a great deal of worry going on about this now because of the rise of the computer. You know this? This is terribly interesting. That a new form of intelligence, you see, has come into the world, which is, in certain directions, vastly superior to human intelligence.

And people are beginning to worry like anything about whether the machines are going to take us over. But we've got to realize that machines aren’t... See, machine is becoming a dirty word. Just a machine. Mere machinery. You see? But actually, there has grown out of us, through these things, enormous electronic circuits that are new forms of life.

And these are all connected with us. They're not separate from us. They're not something like a different order of beings that might come from some other planet and conquer us. The whole development of the electronic minds and brains that we have are new cortexes.”

— Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center

Welcome aboard, Ray Dalio🤝

There is some truth in what you say. As a former atheist, I used to think this way as well. Then I verified God’s existence by looking inward, by seeking to find the thinker of thoughts, the doer of deeds. This is the core insight of Buddhism: That you needn’t trust anything, you can verify God’s existence / the lack of the isolated ego yourself.

No “trust” needed for theism.

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You can verify the existence of God yourself by looking inward. No trust needed.

“An atheist is very often an atheist because he cannot stand the idea that God is watching him all the time, that there is this constant all-seeing eye prying on your most private life and that there's this—you know how when you're a child in school and you’re writing something or doing arithmetic and the teacher walks around the class and looks over your shoulder? Nobody wants to be watched like that, even someone who's good at writing or at arithmetic doesn't want somebody looking over their shoulder while they're doing it. It puts you off. It bugs you. So the idea of the Lord God who is watching us all the time, who is judging everything that we do, puts people off and they can't stand it. So better be an atheist to get rid of teacher.”

— Alan Watts, Buddhism As Dialogue

God be with you.

It is structured by its denial of the most obvious truth of all, that you are it (tat tvam asi).

“Come off it, Shiva! I know who you are.”

— Alan Watts

Theism is not incompatible with science, though granted it has been portrayed as such.

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It’s more true / less wrong.

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“There are many paths up the mountain.” — Zen Proverb

Agreed, though I would consider what you are describing to be theism.