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Then why are all the Christian evangelicals so anti-woke? Tom Holland should stick to making movies. It's a mistake to attribute general western moral virtues to Christianity. Moral virtues are developed based on principles that support survival and pragmatism, they are just culturally steeped in Christianity in the west. Like a coat of paint on a house, it doesn't matter what color (religion) you paint it, you still have a house (moral virtues). Because moral virtues are a social reflection of Life's ultimate purpose, they are not an arbitrary religious construction.

@gengarThis is like shit talking the first cosmonauts for being overwhelmed with the experience of visiting outer space. If you've never been to space, what do you know of it? A little bit of love and empathy on this forum you enjoy for free would be nice.

God has a personality. God is not as unbiased as you think, although this bias is not a product of ego or agenda. This bias is a result of functionality, what exists in God's creation are only things that function. All life shares a soul. A soul that chooses to survive, multiply and seek love in all its forms. That is the personality of God.

Ralston is quite an outlier in terms of personality and lifestyle though. A traditional marriage doesn't really work for a non-traditional person. Marriage is a lot more functional for the average person.

You exist. You are a product of reality. You are made of reality. Whatever reality is, is God. You are God.

Curation is creation. Creation is curation.

Make Actualized.org great again.

I'm manifesting. 🔮💅

Yes way. That is the only way, and you do that until you're able to replace the 9-5 with your life purpose. There's no shortcut.

Throw out the Qigong book, and write a better one. Forget about success and money, focus on being effective and doing things well and accurately for the sake of it. Money should be a secondary priority to effectiveness.

Great post @Joshe Yeah, the incentive from Theil is pretty clear - there's no better way to make your high-risk investments pay off than by manipulating public opinion. It's a dying game though, the generation that follows us will be clued into how these bastards manipulated a whole civilization. The same way we are 'woke' where our parents were not - our boomer dilemma will be having thought social media was ever good for us. There was once a time when smoking was cool.

Depends how hard the market crashes. I sold most of my shares (less than 100k) about 6 months ago when I could tell Trump was going to be elected. In that six months since it would have climbed a combined 15%. Now crashed about 7%. If I held, I would still be up. Will it crash another 8% or more? I doubt it honestly. The oligarchs are already feeling the burn. This is Moloch in action. It was better for me to keep my money in a sick system rather than opt out. Is the lesson here: Don't bet against Moloch?

Kidding, great episode. Lots of tools here for understanding God.

Me when people need proof for God.

People aren't sharp enough to get facts straight sober most of the time anyway. Funny - a 'truth serum' is only be as effective as the mind you give it to.

Yep, God is a logical necessity! That is part of what I call completeness. Everything has a logical explanation if you look for it because in order for a thing to exist, God must create an infinite causal chain that explains it. God justifies everything to an infinite degree because it can't not do it. Although the first bit about God seeing goodness is still new to me, I haven't gotten to that part. I'm still dark and edgy.

The trans people I know are totally happy to use a gender neutral or 'disabled' toilet separate from gendered bathrooms too. It keeps them safe and keeps the sanity of people who don't understand trans people intact. So the solution is really open ended and case by case, if decision makers could just use a bit of empathy and perspective we could find good solutions. But that's often a big ask for little minds

My trans friends just want to live totally as the gender they transitioned to without being demonized by people. View it through that lens and you have all the answers you need.

Maybe, but that's an assumption too. Solipsism can come in a 'exclusive' or 'inclusive' flavors. Both are functional perspectives that make more or less sense logically. That's why people can even hold those perspectives in the first place. So what does that mean for solipsism, if it functions under so many different interpretations?

Yes, but I don't think most of us do that honestly on this forum. Which is hard to admit. We have built up spiritual models with tons of assumptions we don't question anymore. And who's to say one's direct experience is accurate or unbiased? That's an assumption.

We are a community professional conceptualizers and severely detached from reality. We need to start making some basic distinctions, not build fantastical concepts of how reality works. I'm very guilty of this. No more conceptualizing for me here.

I see reality as an infinite matrix of potential distinctions, nested within one ultimate system that is God. Perspectives are just a collection of distinctions. Different minds exist if you believe multiple collections are active at any one time. Reality is one being if you are talking about the system itself, rather than the sub collections.

Truth is a spectrum. The most true things are distinctions that are highly functional under many or all perspectives. The least true things function under very few or no perspectives. 'I exist' functions under any perspective. To have a perspective is to exist. So it's TRUE. 2 + 2 = 4 functions under any perspective that understands mathematics. So it's true if you understand basic math. 'Donald Trump is a hero to the united states' only functions under a very specific state of consciousness. So it's true, but only within that narrow state. The broader range of human perspectives obviously disagree, so it is less true.