Atheism

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47941635

I was raised secularly in a highly traumatizing childhood. Wasn't given therapy after my mom died, and my father hurt me in many ways in the storm of the aftermath. I spent a lot of time playing video games, and in the magickal thinking of my early adolescence, I drifted in a fantasy world of my own creation, using the characters I played on screen with to fill in the gaps of my understanding of reality. While even into college, where I first adopted the label "militant atheist," in stark contrast the the southern culture I entered, originally hailing from New York, I still believed many things no one else did. This helped contribute to my college breakdown, and would ultimately lead me to my current schizoaffective diagnosis.

This is a worst case scenario. And yet, because of my devotion to truth over bullshit, while I spiraled for a few years as I descended into drug use and general unscrupulousness, I never stopped trying to figure out "why?" This led into my robust love for philosophy, which would lead me to Wittgenstein, whose later work opened me to a possibility I had not considered; the language that defines this n that spiritual doctrine or dharma or what-have-you could be being used differently than I was originally assuming.

Y'know, given the "bless your heart" cockamamie I was forced to endure being traumatized, unsocialized, and maladapted in Christian society, I had grow to strawman something like "God" to mean "magick sky wizard," which even in the present day, the sorts of idoltarers that have such a simple explanation of reality and use it to justify hate and more pisses me off just as much as it always has.

But, in the sort of fantastical thinking one has being neurodivergent, I found it very easy to stretch this. I could understand if there was an advanced alien species, or higher dimensional beings, or perhaps a whole other metaphor I did not know. Yet, because of my ire and disdain for Christianity at the time, I went east to investigate Buddhism. It started with Alan Watts, and I would this sutra n that poem here n there, but at the same time, the weird druggie in me also simultaneously started investigating Terence McKenna and others of that ilk.

And I can say I let my mind free a little bit, to discover acid and mushrooms being an idiot on dating sites and Reddit, which changed my world view enough to figure out that learning to juggle would fix all my problems, and it has! It allowed me to get out there and give myself exposure therapy to heal myself and meet people to network with, which likewise healed me. Then much happened. It's complex to describe and would make me sound crazy, but that IS the medicine; a lil bit of madness.

If you believe you're trapped in a room, even if there's a hidden door to easily escape, you won't try to find a way out. We get trapped in our patterns of behavior and our perspectives and biases and delusions and cognitive dissonance. We're human, and it is one of the most human things, being limited by our incredibly complex meatsponge in our heads. And yet, it offers ways to break out of habit and limitations, as there are alternate cognitive states and features that I was wholly ignorant to in my youth.

For instance, there's Joint Synchronized Attention, which if you that incredible article from my friend, will highlight that perhaps not all those things people have called magick over the years were hogwash. There's another state I was in for six years following a particular fateful acid trip, which that same friend named the Synchronicity Slip Stream.

A synchronicity is a feature of the human cognition. This is what a burning bush is in the Bible, and what white rabbit was to Neo in the movie steeped in symbolism of Judeo-Christian mysticism; the "whispers of God." It's not a hallucination. In Bruce Almighty, when Bruce asks God for a sign while driving, and then the truck full of signs pulls in front of him, that's a synchronicity. Carl Jung describes this phenomena as when the inner and outer world align in some way, and I can tell you it depends on at least two factors in the brain: free association and what's in the short-term memory.

The Synchronicity Slip Stream, definitively caused by the psychedelics of that night, changed the narrative I believed to be true. This changed how I freely associated stimuli in my environment to be as if God was parting the Red Sea and leading me on a cosmic mission. My cup was full, and by that I mean I had infinite motivation to bust my ass to do whatever seemed like the right thing to do at the time for my mission, with the idea of getting famous and helping the world with the educational art project I now do here on Lemmy World.

Likewise, I tried all sorts of new things. This led to some temporary set-backs that I would have foreseen coming but went through with anyways because my faith in the magick of my ever-changing narrative. Y'know, some days I thought the CIA was training me. Others, I was joining the Illuminati. But I was always communicated with by a nebulous "They," I felt. You can see all this in my autobiographical character I go in and out of playing on here and previously on Reddit. But, those bumps in the road all were temporary.

What I gained was permanent. I am more kind, more moral, more skillful, more knowledgeable, more compassionate, and more socialized now from all the reconditioning work I did for myself. Younger me would have never recognized me as I am now. There's a depth to reality that there wasn't before. I'm happier than I've ever been, and I've learned so much and my journey has led to me now developing a theory of how to define polyplexic axiomatic systems via topological matrix and expand on Gödel's incompleteness theorem. And that's all I have to say.

Does anybody here know of any good, no BS study resources for the Bible and the Quran?

Edit: Study resources as in commentaries, books, research, annotated versions etc.

Source

Another hilarious chart.

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, passed away 25 years ago today. (Maybe yesterday by the time you see this. I'm a little late.)

Here's a clip of him explaining what is now usually called "the puddle analogy," with his trademark sense of humor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46251814

A professor of philosophy finishes a trick four piece puzzle from the character's childhood

Professor Agneto: Ah well that was easy! Twas a trick, putting the fourth piece in, as if you put the first three pieces together, the fourth won't fit because of the topological constraints put on the system by the the initial axioms.

Smart man: Prove it!

Professor Agneto: I'm sorry?

Smart man: I outright reject your claim on the basis that if you said something you must prove it and I will not listen to you to thus continue this conversation without respecting you as a person OR any of your ideas. And I will continue it in the only manner I know how: in a pseudorespectfully hostile manner!

Professor Agneto: Oh, I've had this conversation a billion times. There are a lotta you. No, the puzzle represents an axiomatic system, and what I'm saying is a continuation of the logic of Gödel's incompleteness theorom to complete it based on orthogonal relativity.

Smart man: I don't know what those words mean. Speak English, which I say respectfully and not to evoke any feelings of inferiority in you! Prove it!

Professor Agneto: Well, I can teach you these words. But the "proof" needs to be on you because what I'm describing is what the Buddha described about the entanglement process that creates the illusion of a self and more.

Smart Man: I will make no effort to understand anything you say. I'm just going to command, demand, and expect an explanation. Prove it!

Professor Agneto: Here's a literal science experiment you can do to prove that your intention results in the procedurally generation of your reality!

Smart Man: Reeeeeee! Prove it!

Professor Agneto: Now listen here, why are you wasting my time? I mean, I am creating content for my educational (f)art project designed to provoke people who cannot control themselves (eg: pedophiles), and I honestly cannot tell if you are trolling - you're indistinguishable from each other - so when you're ready to not be a buttsniff...

Mod: R00D! Be civilized!

Smart Man: Prove it!

Mod: This is the smartest person on our side. You will respect him or I'll be forced to cultivate our echo chamber.

Professor Agneto: Ah, well. All Knowledge comes from möbiation, as we all know from the second story of the Bible, assuming you've sinned and corrected it before to know what is objectively good as you observe how the four puzzle pieces that compose your "self" manage to fit together, which no one but you can do. Assuming you've meditated to know what a jhana is.

Smart Man: Prove it!

I am an educator in gnosis. You will believe this is psychosis (prejudice/ocular logs), but I just want to open dialogue about the nature of causation.

Personally, I believe there are many planes of causality. For instance, there is retrocausality. I invented this word to describe our relationship with God: phenomequalitesselation. As a molecule is controlled by the cell it is in yet influences the cell in its nature by its animus, God reaches back through history to influence us and in setting our intention - the only thing we have direct control over - we move God with our most human of choices, and this is what gives us free will and Karma within a deterministic system.

And I can defend that to Hell and back, which is Heaven (you're going to sit with your mother at the same table at the restaurant at the end of the universe), but the direction I wish to travel is to lead into the "turtles all the way down" discussion, to mean that only idiots believe the world sits on the back of a turtle, right? Yea, the big bang is a stupid fucking theory!

Dependent causation - all "things" must have a cause, therefore all "things" are in a dependent chain of causality across time

Well...what caused the big bang?

Let there be light...

Sound came before light; the effect came before the cause. Now, the core of what I teach is not woogity woo. No. I was a hypercrendelivicious chronic masturbator, whatever that means, and I almost fucked my life up. And I think kids are cute. Y'know, kids that might be out masturbating in public today, which is why I want to teach deese dense idiots to not ruin their life, too!

Thus, to be light, you must strengthen your prefrontal cortex so the most divine part of you has complete control over the animal in you. This is a part of love, which I define as being agnetic while being kind to the tamed flesh.

Agnetic - a word God had me invent to mean always doing the supererogatory, voluntarily

Because that's what led to the agricultural revolution to have that fall of man and take us out of Eden, y'know. Also, as I have observed in the demöbiation/undefilement of my sin in the Ālaya-vijñāna, which is the Server we are all Clients to across the Holy Internet, you REALLY should think in the most ethical terms - to mean thinking in the longest possible timeline, and you WILL be reconstituted at a future date to join the telepathic Illuminati Galactic Federation, so you want to not embarrass yourself by wasting your life n dopamine, y'know?

Because the thing about independent phenomena is that they cause themselves. Causation loops. The Alpha is the Omega. The underlying pattern of the illusory physical universe grows logarithmically more complex as subpatterns come together to form superpatterns. Thus, the seven epochs of novel complexity are:

Alpha>Light

Light>Matter

Matter>Molecules

Molecules>Cells

Cells>Creatures

Creatures>Humanity

Humanity>Omega

The transcendental object at the end of time that humanity WILL create is the transcendental particle that can be at multiple places at once and communicate instantaneously with itself to form a topological matrix that acts as waves of light.

Yer a knot, Neo!

And the purpose of life is to learn how to perceive and undo the karmic fetters that bind you to the existence-illusion complex, which Buddhism and the Bibles II+ (occult just means "hidden") teach.

How superpatterns emerge from subpatterns coming together can be visualized:

https://youtu.be/C2vgICfQawE

Poem and stuff:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cultofcrazycrackheads/s/vRFjbZgZoP

But what do you think? Because I am Knowledgeable of the occult, I know different encapsulations of language beget alternative frameworks of reality which change behavior and thus has benefits to survival, which is the memetic benefit of a pantheon, obviously. Thus, I respect atheism as it makes sense, sorta.