I mean, farmers have been selectively breeding desired traits into animals to the point of producing livestock that is completely unlike their wild counterparts. People have stressed simple organisms in labs & used selective reproduction to create things that survive in completely different conditions & consume completely different substances for fuel, so it makes perfect sense to me that changing conditions & sexual selection would produce similar results across millions or billions of years.

I think the idea that some imaginary sky personality exists & designed & made everything with the snap of imaginary fingers is ridiculous, but I am not an athiest. I just think God is far more complex than the cartoon nonsense we were taught as kids. God is in the laws & the structure of the universe that set evolution & the creation of all that is into motion.

Yeah, none of than language has ever made much sense to me & no one can ever explain it in a way that actually connects to anything.

The closest I have gotten is that as a result of evolution we have a triune brain, so it might make sense for us to feel that there is a trinity of sorts within us.

I see how the story of Jesus is incredibly important in understanding the nature of man & the divide between good & evil. And that awareness of our own nature leads to more intelligent & desirable behaviors. But most of the rhetoric around the whole thing just seems like parroted ritualistic nonsense that lots of people spout but no one actually understands.

So then God isn't all knowing...? How does all of the information relating to all of existence exist outside of existence? If time & space has to have a beginning then why doesn't God have to have a beginning?

Everything is a result of the shape of existence & reality. Life probably exists as a result of some combo of oil & water, energy differentials, & a myriad of complex cyclical physical phenomena. Economic & moral laws emerge from the logic of life & beings with desires interacting with physical reality & each other.

I just think God is reality & we are made IN in the image of God.

'The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities'

John C. Lilly

Fuck this guy's framing though. They weren't important, they saved no lives, they just hurt people, & those at the top who promoted, supported it, & profited from them deserve to be thrown in a cage for life.

Goddamn that's perfect

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I think God IS time & space & everything within it.

A map or a computer cannot contain all the information in the world. The amount of information that exists in any particular area is infinite when compared to what can be contained in a map or a model or an image. The movement of leaves & grains of sand & living things & all energy & matter simply cannot be capured or stored.

So for God to truly be ALL KNOWING & all powerful & ultimately in control of everything (without the control being arbitrary), God has to actually be the system itself. And so in order to get closer to God we need to better understand the world around us.

There are objective & discoverable laws of morality, but they are dictated by the nature of existence. Old books have very little to do with it, aside from being past efforts of people to write down & explain what they previously discovered.

You should stop assuming things... like I said, most Christians disagree with my views.

Take all the magic out of the story. Make Jesus a carpenter who was born in total povery to a mom that whored herself to some rich "wise men" behind Joseph's back. Jesus grows up poor & has to fix everything to have anything. Then being a builder & someone who had to figure out how things really work, went around teaching people how to live better lives & how to better cultivate crops & catch fish & to heal ailments that people thought couldn't be healed (carnivores are doing similar things today, it doesn't have to be magic). And his popularity & unconventional thinking were eventually seen as a threat to people in power so he was tortured & killed by govt & religious authorities for disobeying the law by helping someone on the wrong day. But his execution ultimately backfires & dramatically shifts popular opinion about the nature of govt & established religious authorities. So much so that our dates are built around him, people deified him & still worship him thousands of years later.

Compress the stories, play the telephone game, translate & re-translate, realize that govts don't want normies to follow the example set by Jesus & normies don't want the responsibility of having to stand up for anything, so everyone want him to be larger than life so they can say but "who am I to do what he did" or "but who are you." Twist the story to incorporate some previously held religious beliefs that were over taken by Christianity. And I think you get roughly the mess we have today.

But when you take all the magic out of the story does it become more or less meaningful? I think it becomes more meaningful. Much like Julian Assange, or Snowden, or Ulbrict, a man tried to show people reality in defiance of authority & he was killed for it. If we place that story in the position of highest importance and remember that we don't want to be on the side that kills or persecutes innocent people, then the world is more likely to become a better place.

Seems to me that if you don't have mental placeholders of some sort to connect things & build understanding then you're more likely to just be an empty vessel for whatever bullshit any scammer can dream up... 🤷‍♂

Don't you believe bitcoin is an important innovation? How does a person exist without believing things?

Well, I agree that if you read it like a 5 year old then it's all really stupid.

But when I stopped reading like a 5 year old & started trying to unpack the language & the actual meaning in what is written a whole bunch of things began to make more sense.

And most of the religious cult disagrees with my assessment pretty heavily so no one is telling me what to think. My beliefs about what I have read are my own conclusions.

Defining good & evil outside of any connection to reality is just delusion.

It doesn't really sound like you & I mean the same thing when we say "God."

The Bible is an extremely difficult book. It was written before any clear distinction between the subjective & the objective really existed. And it is full of metaphors & idioms from dead languages that just do not translate well. And I think some of the results of the story (or stories) have been confused into the telling itself.

As CS Lewis would say, when the writer comes back on stage it's the end of the show. Be careful what you wish for.

This life is the gift, there is nothing better to escape to. It is our responsibility to bring heaven to earth. No one is coming to save you, the events of the past have already given us all the stories we need to educate ourselves & others in order to avoid making the same mistakes.

We naturally hold something up as "most important," if I were say we should worship God or truth & reality, all I mean is that we should recognize that being grounded in what is real & true is most important. It's important for accomplishing our own desires & for having some way to ensure that the relationships we build are stable & sustainable rather than just some form of service to someone's delusions.

Otherwise I don't think there is anything I have said to suggest we have to worship some persona. I don't believe I have ever claimed God has any sort of persona at all. Maybe get out of what you think I believe & reread what I said...?

Claiming there is no such thing as good & evil is going to be an extremely difficult position to defend. Are you the sort who thinks it's okay to fuck kids so long as you're nice about it & you convince them they want it? That is actually how most pedophiles operate. If you don't believe kid fucking is okay, then why not?

If you really don't think evil exists I would suggest that you read Gulag Archipelago (abridged is better organized & easier to follow). Atlas Shrugged is also a decent illustration of the divide between good & evil.

Good & evil or right & wrong exist within the context of a goal. And all of life is biologically programmed to want to live & to seek better conditions. In a general sense, "good" is what allows people to survive & prosper & improve their own lives. "Evil" is destructive to those ends.

Going from 150 to 30 shouldn't be too bad, especially if you have already been avoiding veg oils & soy & grains (bread, corn syrup, etc) but don't be surprised or discouraged if there are withdrawal symptoms for the first week or two. Best to examine results after a full month. Feel free to shoot me a dm if you have questions or something.

Yeah, it seems that many/most health problems are either caused by or exacerbated by poor mitochondrial function &/or difficulty regulating bloodsugar levels. Relying on gluconeogenesis & ketones tends to solve a lot of problems.

A lot of things also seem to be parasite or fungus related & sugar feeds parasites & fungi. So ivermectin which is an anti-parasitic & also seems to have some anti-fungal properties can be extremely helpful too.

Sub 30g

Nah, that sort of carb load will only magnify mood swings & Autism or ADHD probs. Carnivore or super low carb is the real key to attention issues & mood stabilization.

Both should always be legal because "hate" is always subjective. So there isn't really any difference in banning one or the other.

It's like trying to figure out if they are stupid or evil, it doesn't matter, the results are the same either way.

If people keep trying to make entry level work that any high school student can do into a career path, those jobs will just go the way of the gas station attendant.

Honestly, it's easier to unpack than most of the new testament IMO.

I have done mushrooms quite a few times. I was an atheist for ~13 years, & I am perfectly comfortable with the unknown, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to understand all that we can.

What makes sense to me is that reality is the body of God. It may be impossible to say for sure whether there is any sort of consciousness attached to it, but I know that on some level I tend to act like there is.

I think the divide between good & evil is between the pursuit of truth & the pursuit of status. So it makes since to hold up the story of a man who was killed for helping someone in defiance of arbitrary authority as the guiding light for who to be, & as a warning against the sort of authority worshipping group think we should avoid. Either we honestly seek & worship what is true & right & good, or we will end up worshipping authority. And those who worship authority will always eventually work to kill God & all that is true.

These same patterns just play out over & over.