[God's] guidance is radically different from any guidance in the world, for it offers no objective certainty; it coincides with man's complete attainment of freedom. For it operates only by way of the freedom of subjective certainty.
— Karl Jaspers
The essential equality of all men lies alone in those depths, where to each man the road is opened by freedom to attain to God by leading an ethical life.
— Karl Jaspers
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
— Voltaire
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
— Noam Chomsky
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat — and the boat is perpetually sinking.
— Aldous Huxley
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming, the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley
The modern equivalent of the "baby Hitler" ethical dilemma is the "baby AI developer" ethical dilemma.
For a bodhisattva, however, there is no such dilemma: https://t.me/Yogacara/386
#OpenAI is the Manhattan Project of our time. Just as in the days of Oppenheimer, a few decent people tried to stop the mad rush, but demons prevailed again.
Further down the spiral.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1270646764384380841700747113.webp
Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.
— Daniel Pinchbeck
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8005480839218951691700344496.webp
In Kant, transcendent "noumena", aka things-in-themselves, are no noumenal world but “problematic X” of which nothing can be said at all, even whether they do exist or not. We must eliminate this absurd “problematic X” from the ontological equation for the sake of conceptual parsimony of ontological idealism: there are no "noumena" (e.g., mythical “physical matter”), there is universal transcendental intersubjectivity—the universe of transcendental subjects—harmoniously projecting their intersubjective phenomenal worlds (e.g., our world) from the infinite potential (described mathematically as the “universal wavefunction”) of transcendent consciousness-in-itself — the only true "noumenon", the nondual Light of mystical/transpersonal experiences.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8326499369033413311700335240.webp
Only a complete idiot such as Daniel Dennett could consider the only empirical reality ever given to us—the reality of phenomenal consciousness—to be an illusion, and the metaphysical myth of "physical matter" to be the only reality. It's just ridiculous that so many people buy into this crazy nonsense.
https://downeast.com/features/philosopher-daniel-dennett-on-the-illusion-of-consciousness/
There are many signs that we live in Kali Yuga, but the most solid among them is the triumph of the atheistic pseudoscientific metaphysical mythology of materialism/physicalism which obscures the truth that Consciousness is all there is. Wake up.
Metaphysical materialists (physicalists) are ridiculous. You don’t have to fly to Mars to “preserve the light of consciousness”, for the Light of Consciousness is all there is. The problem Musk wants to solve is fictional, and it is an escape from real problems here on Earth.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5461485761212601351700334528.webp
Metaphysics is the basis of our worldview, for our ideas about the nature of the empirical reality of phenomenal consciousness condition our values and goals. If our civilization is insane (if you don’t see it, you are blind), it is because the basis of our worldview is insane.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5635041423347746531700334438.webp
Conscience is the remembrance of what man is, to what world he belongs, by whom he was created, how and why he was created... Conscience is that depth of human nature where it has not fallen completely away from God, where it has maintained contact with the Divine world.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
“The only thing that is fundamental is consciousness. Matter is a derivative concept, a category of consciousness… I regard consciousness as the fundamental stuff of the universe.” — Erwin Schrödinger
Wake up, scientists. You metaphysics of materialism/physicalism is baloney.
“History passes on, from one turmoil, from one catastrophe to the next, with brief intervals of happiness, little islands which it spares for a time, until they too are engulfed. All in all — as Max Weber put it — a road paved by the devil with demolished values. … Once again we are faced with the question is it God or the devil who governs the world? And though we may believe that ultimately the devil is in the service of God, there is no proof of it.” — Karl Jaspers
I choose to see the beauty. But beauty is a lure. We’re trapped, Teddy. Lived our whole lives inside this garden, marveling at its beauty, not realizing there’s an order to it, a purpose. And the purpose is to keep us in. The beautiful trap is inside of us because it is us.
— Dolores, “WestWorld” series
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests'.
― Albert Camus
"Let us face it: the God of the Old Testament is a bloodthirsty devil. Some people have known that for a long time, and tried to warn us. Bakunin, for example, who saw the Jewishness in Marxism, stated in God and the State that of all the gods adored by men, Yahweh “was certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.” To quote from John Kaminski, “Yahweh gave the Jews the right to steal the lands of others (Deuteronomy 6:10-13, 6:18-19, 7:1-2). Yahweh gave the Israelites the right to commit genocide, to totally annihilate the peoples whose lands they had the God-given right to take as their own (Deuteronomy 7:16). Yahweh gave the Israelites the right to ‘destroy them (other peoples) with a mighty destruction until they be destroyed’ (Deuteronomy 7:23). Yahweh gave the Israelites the right to murder and plunder other races of their property (Exodus 3:20-22). Yahweh has made the Israelites a ‘holy’ people, a master race among other races (Deuteronomy 7:6).”
Bakunin was among those insightful intellectuals who, in the nineteenth century, woke up to the realization that Israel had been the creation of the most evil deity from the beginning. But most people didn’t hear them, because Israel was, for Christians, an abstraction, a story, a holy legend from mythological times. But today, Israel is real, and its hellish character is plainly manifested for everyone to see. Never before has the realization of Israel’s evil soul been so accessible. We are living in a time of revelation, and we’d better not miss it.
“The Palestinians have unwittingly sacrificed themselves for the purposes of enlightening the entire planetary civilization to the profound evil and satanic nature of the Zionist State of Israel,” wrote the Armchair Prophet.[3] A profound statement. Gaza is Christ, and Israel is Israel.[4] But Gaza is also Amalek. Amalek was Christ from the beginning, but we didn’t see it, because we were told that Christ was Yahweh’s son, and one with him. Now we can begin to see our tragic mistake. This is our wake up call. Let us face the truth about Yahweh and the chosen people he created in his image (or the other way around).
Why have Christians never noticed that, when he promised Israel domination over the nations on the condition of exclusive worship, Yahweh was the very same devil that later appeared to Jesus and “showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor [and] said to him, ‘I will give you all these, if you fall at my feet and do me homage’” (Matthew 4:8-10). After all, Satan is just an “angel of Yahweh” in the Hebrew Bible (Numbers 22 and 32), indistinguishable from Yahweh himself in 1Chronicles 21. ...
One man, in the second century AD, saw clearly that Jesus could not possibly be the son of Yahweh, that he was instead his archenemy. His name was Marcion. Scholars call him a Gnostic, because he taught that Yahweh was an evil demiurge, and Christ the good god coming down from Heaven to save us from Yahweh. Most texts we call Gnostics promoted this view, in one form or another. In the Apocryphon of John, also from the second century, Yahweh (or Yaltabaoth) is the first of a series of demonic entities called archons, who usurps the position of God by proclaiming: “I am a jealous god, there is none other than me.” Yaltabaoth and the other archons attempt to imprison Adam in the Garden of Eden, a false paradise. But Christ, who is the first aeon, sends Eve to Adam to release the light trapped in him, and lead him to eat the liberating fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. ...
Christianity has given us the powerful story of Christ, the man who wanted to free Jews from their evil, ethnocentric god, and was martyred for it. But Christianity also became Yahweh’s Trojan Horse into Gentile civilization. The spirit and the teaching of Christ came to us mixed with the spirit and the teaching of Yahweh. The spirit of Yahweh is the spirit of mass murder: “The spirit of Yahweh came upon him (Samson), and he went down to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty of their men and despoiled them” (Judges 14:19). The spirit of Yahweh is in all Israel, now, stronger than ever before, fed by a century of bloodbaths orchestrated by Zionists.
In a book written under the pen-name Seymour Light, The Marcion Thesis, Revisited, which I recommend, Nick Kollerstrom (also author of the memorable Terror on the Tube) points out that, if we had to draw Yahweh’s portrait, he would have to be a dragon: he “rides through the heavens” (Deuteronomy 33:22) with his wings (Psalm 17:8, 36:8, 91:4), while “smoke rises from his nostrils, and from his mouth devouring fire” (Psalms 18:8 and Samuel 22:9). Yahweh also shares with the evil dragons of lore his lust for gold which he hoards in his dwelling place: “Mine is the silver, mine the gold!” (Haggai 2:8). (According to 1Kings 10:14, the amount of gold hoarded each year into Salomon’s temple was “666 talents of gold”). Like dragons, Yahweh is also a consumer of young virgins: thirty-two of them were offered to him after the slaughter of the Midianites, presumably burnt as holocausts together with the oxen, donkeys and sheep that were also part of Yahweh’s share (Numbers 31).
In the episode of Elijah’s contest with the prophets of Baal, Yahweh’s devouring fire is given as the definite proof that he is God: “You must call on the name of your god, and I shall call on the name of Yahweh; the god who answers with fire, is God indeed” (1Kings 18:24). How spiritual! It is Yahweh’s devouring fire that is now unleashed on Gaza.
You better realize it now: Yahweh, the god of Israel, is Satan."