False dichotomies are mental trash

Good argument that mastery of any trade requires at least cursory understanding of many others

On point. How do people manage that level of cognitive dissonance? To believe that, you have to believe something can cause itself, which makes no sense.

Asking someone to share a verse is Christian lingo to request a passage. A single verse is accepted but isn't actually the expectation.

Thanks bro. What I get from this in FAQ style:

Q. If God is really in control, then what is he doing?

A. Being patient with you.

Please, can you share the verse?

You missed out the "The". 😝

The Count of Monte Cristo

Really quite amazing that "what can be known about God is plain to them" (v.19) and "they knew God" (v.21). But from my own experience this is correct. When I was at a low point and out of touch with God, the feeling was more similar to that procrastination feeling than a feeling of being hopelessly lost.

People are accepting #wordcoin because the vast majority of people's lives are based on barren and destitute philosophies.

There's just no way about it. People are becoming more inclined to a materialist worldview. And if no Creator God exists, if there's no loving and living Reason behind everything, then moral relativism is all you have.

And under this worldview, if the majority say that something is right, then that makes it right, no matter how wrong it may seem.

#worldcoin is central planning taking advantage of this weakness of the average person so that the technocrat overlords who go around calling themselves "elites" get to play one more round of their favourite game - communism.

Anyone reading this is in one of four groups in a matrix of Reason-connected plotted against Compliance.

People who are high Reason-connected are those who believe that there's a beneficent and intelligent creator behind all.

There are those who are in the high-Reason-connected-low-Compliance quadrant who believe that something is wrong and they have the philosophical underpinning to support their position.

Those in the high-Reason-connected-high-Compliance group are the lukewarm-fluffy and seemingly harmless that host Pride events in their churches and are the most dangerous of the entire matrix.

The low Reason-connected are a waking contradiction from the start as they propose to be "reasonable" and "rationalists" whilst lacking any actual non-fabricated Reason at all.

Those in the low-Reason-connected-high-compliance group are the sheep. They are mostly just like chaff that blows around in the wind and in the end gets burned off when found mixed in with the grain. Harmless audience - the actors don't notice nor care how the faces in the crowd change. Money from tickets and a nice applause from time to time.

Then there are those in the low-Reason-connected-low-compliance group.

These are those who propose to be the resistance. Be careful not to mix in with these too much - their opinions melt at the first heat. Like a house built on sand, they could never die for their beliefs as a martyr because they have nothing larger than themselves to support their ideas.

Strive to be found in the first group. A solid Reason is required. But make sure you truly live out this Reason, not like those who propose to have this Reason but do not. A sheep dressed as a lion won't last long in the fight - his mouth and limbs are ultimately those of a sheep, after all. A real lion, on the other hand, never backs down because what he IS can never be taken away from him.

I was lucky to be a pain-in-the-arse kid who simply didn't see the teachers as any authority at all.

I feel bad for some kids who really wanted to please authority and never got a single good teacher.

Then again, I also feel bad for myself because having an authority you can actually respect and trust to care for you is healthy. Don't think I had one.

You're so on point about textbooks. Why do they even exist? Hadn't properly thought about this before.

What's that all about?...

I think I've got it - making a textbook is pretty much saying the following:

"Let me put everything you need to know about this subject in one book for you."

Which is saying:

"I know hold the absolute truth on this subject"

and

"The best way to present this information is in one book."

Nobody so delusional should ever be providing information for children.

Write a book and put your name on it like a reasonable human being. Stop hiding behind acronym-named companies that shouldn't even exist.

Had a look at this. Thanks for the recommendation. This was actually exactly what I believed for a good portion of my life. I have spent a lot of time studying these exact topics over the years so I took the time to write get my thoughts out in writing. I believe the following to be especially important to any truth-seeker reader of this book.

At first glance I couldn't help noticing that he avoids Genesis 1:1 completely. Probably because it unambiguously refutes his work entirely. He underemphasizes the importance of plurality in Hebrew functioning completely differently to the way it does in English. Plural nouns can be either to signify more than one member or a single member of great importance or magnitude. You know which it is by the verb. In Genesis 1:1, the verb for "created" is ברא which is, with no shadow of a doubt, a singular masculine verb. So it definitely means "he created".

https://void.cat/d/7KkurEiUWjrMEFBzhRVPmT.webp

https://void.cat/d/3ripwtrJNPGoRwVhbKvuYN.webp

Note that it cannot be either "they created" nor "she created", that would require a load more letters (Hebrew is very specific on verbs, much more so than English. Ancient languages tend to be non-ambiguous on verbs as they are more concrete than abstract.)

https://void.cat/d/HqdFFFrT5qjxwYEZgXVd6d.webp

He's jumping to conclusions fast without analysis. It shows that he's more of an essayist than a scholar. I do suspect some preconceived agenda, though, as even the parts he does discuss he seems to get wrong, despite the simplicity of the verses. For example, in chapter 2 he discusses Exodus 3:13, and misleads the reader into believing that there's some doubt about whether the verse is discussing one or multiple gods.

https://void.cat/d/DcarvTs6tvmWjUJZriVZpe.webp

If you know how to translate Hebrew, there is no doubt:

https://void.cat/d/RhU51Up9f3dbsfVGpVsmv6.webp

The word שלחנו here can only mean "he sent". (Note again that there is no ambiguity here in the Hebrew about either the gender or that it is singular, but in English the noun "Elohim" or "God" replaces "he" making the gender less clear.)

https://void.cat/d/DQDZvtjevXFx1dUtLDEprn.webp

Again, see that in order for this verb to be plural and perfect tense, the letters would have to be different:

https://void.cat/d/r27NGZWzngf9XLQhnuoKQ.webp

The word שמו that I highlighted in red is consistent being also singular and masculine, meaning "his name":

https://void.cat/d/LqRWvQecXL2Lk1MHijSmGg.webp

There is just no doubt about this. These two verses are about one God.

Now, with that said, there is some truth in the ideas presented in the book but there's so much dangerously misleading misinformation that it's just not worth reading. You just don't know which is lies (or ignorance, if you want to give the benefit of the doubt). One thing which is quite correct is that other "elohim" are mentioned often in the Bible. But it is clear that there is one God that created everything, including those other elohim.

I would recommend the work of Michael Heiser for more on this, especially his work titled "The Divine Council". When you realise that Psalm 82:1 should be translated this way...

"God has taken his place in the divine council;

in the midst of the gods he holds judgment."

...then the whole Bible really starts to make sense, alleged inconsistencies fall away, and stories like the tower of Babel suddenly make sense.

"If one were to imagine Christ as something larger than an individual man (Jesus) an energy or a consciousness"

This misrepresents this perspective as some new or unconventional alternative, where seeing Christ in this way is the standard Christian perspective ever since the first century CE.

"is it therefore possible one may come to the Father through another vector of that same Christ energy?"

We are discussing the Divinity here - there is only one Vector. How can the Divinity be both divided against himself and divine? On the other hand, you could consider each human experience as a vector, which may be what you mean. But still then, your question is asking something like "Is there some other option? I'm not sure I like the standard option". This is the wrong way of thinking about it. The question should be: "How can I align my experience, as a vector, with the Vector".

"It may not look *physically* as Jesus did, or rather how we imagine him to have looked."

Discussion of how the Vector physically appears is strange seeing as "there is none beside him". Figuratively speaking, you are talking about the appearance of pure blinding light that no one sees and lives to discuss. You do, however, also seem to be hinting that appearances are not so important, which is right on the money.

Please correct me if I misunderstand somewhere.

My closing points would be that if you truly seek to align yourself, then you will be pleasantly surprised how harmoniously the Vector manifests in your experience. However, you must not forget that the Vector manifested in the collective human experience as a man, and maintained perfect alignment surrounded by absolute misalignment, ultimately overcoming the greatest misalignment of all - death - by rising from the grave, thereby treading the impossible path that we can now follow.

Beware of false dichotomies.

By all means hodl.l,

But check your fear.

Hodling can make you feel warm and fuzzy,

But when the materia is thrown to the furnace,

What you have goes first up in smoke,

What you know goes up next, but

What you are remains glowing.

Have you noticed how podcasts, streamers, and mainstream media have been presenting Sam Altman as a smart guy who you can trust.

Now you know why.

#worldcoin

World coin fits in with Revelation perfectly. Without this key of all keys, you are lost.

#worldcoin