Visst, så är det kanske. Ska du eller jag berätta för honom om den demografiska krisen?
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Visst, så är det kanske. Ska du eller jag berätta för honom om den demografiska krisen?
Materialists are funny. So supposedly consciousness comes from some kind of quantum effects related to phosphorus molecules. Or something. Sabine isn´t buying it, but even if true, how does this disprove "God" or "the Divine"? So a certain kind of phosphorus can give rise to subjective lived experience, wow, sounds like the God molecule or something...
This has nothing to do with "low IQ". As if smart people can´t be cocksure dogmatists, emotion-driven or paranoid "misunderstood geniuses". Oh, and who wrote this stuff? Some LLM? Still, entertaining after a fashion. After all, the personality types described in the video do exist, LOL. Especially on-line.
Is this "the end" of this particular content-creator? Whatever he calls himself this week. Goodbye! God and spirituality has nothing to do with Artificial Intelligence, bruh.
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Här är planen för resten av året:
1/ Vi utnyttjar det faktum att högerregeringen halverat priset för månadskort i kollektivtrafiken.
2/ Vi röstar rött ändå.
3/ Vi välkomnar Ebba Busch i en socialdemokratisk koalitionsregering.
4/ Vi skrattar åt alla på Aftonbladets redaktion som vuxenmobbat Ebba i åratal, men som nu måste acceptera henne som en "tillgång".
HA HA HA HA!
It seems we´re back where we started. The first time I asked ChatGPT (as an experiment, mind you!) what god I should worship, the System actually proposed Shiva. It recently did so again, after a one-year detour through very different gods and god-forms. And Gemini confirmed it.
It feels like a cycle is closing. So that was that, then. What should I do next? Try Grok?
Or should I actually start worshipping, you know, Shiva...
Thomas Sheridan is...well, controversial. Often coded as Alt Right or even Satanist. But listen to this old video from 2009, which apparently got him banned from (Irish?) public access TV. He sounds like somebody who old fashioned feminists might want to take a bear with!
What happened, Thomas me man?
Very little about Iran on pro-Trump "news site" Breitbart News just now. Sure wonder why. Imagine if Biden had fucked up this hard somewhere in the Greater Middle East, I mean, Breitbart would have been all over the place attacking him for betraying Amerika, sounding almost like bellicose Neo-Cons in the process...
I *know* they would sound like that. Because, you see, they did...in 2021, at the fall of Kabul. But now, radio silence is apparently the more prudent course of action.
Oh, and I sure wonder who negotiated that take-over deal with the Taliban in the first place? Right.
Egypt, Iran irate over LGBTQ+ pride symbols at World Cup match in Seattle
This is an interesting synthesis because it doesn't simply reproduce one existing religion. Instead, it combines themes from several traditions while trying to remain metaphysically coherent. Let me break it down.
Your starting point is:
If God exists, God must in some sense be consciousness.
This is actually a fairly common position in the history of philosophy.
It resembles:
I think your point about human consciousness having many layers (waking, dreaming, subconscious, mystical, autonomic) is philosophically valuable. It suggests that "consciousness" is an analogical term rather than a univocal one: if finite consciousness already has many modes, we should not expect divine consciousness to resemble human consciousness in a straightforward way.
I think this is one of your more original ideas.
Rather than asking:
Is God personal or impersonal?
you propose:
God is supra-personal.
That idea has precedents.
For example:
So "supra-personal" is not unprecedented. It is a reasonable way of expressing the idea that God includes what we mean by personality without being exhausted by it.
This is perhaps the most distinctive part of your proposal.
You describe two principles:
whose harmony appears as love.
This reminds me of several traditions without being identical to any of them.
Reality proceeds outward from the One and returns toward the One.
There is:
which resembles your freedom and unity.
Reality consists of:
Manifestation differentiates.
Recognition reunites.
The doctrine of the Trinity has often been interpreted as:
perfect unity without loss of distinction.
Modern theologians sometimes describe divine love precisely as:
unity preserving freedom.
Your formulation is surprisingly close to this.
Thinkers such as Alfred North Whitehead describe reality as balancing creativity and order.
That is another interesting parallel.
Your treatment of evil is nuanced.
You begin existentially:
Evil feels like a real opposing force.
But then conclude:
Metaphysically it probably cannot be an independent substance.
That actually follows a trajectory seen in many traditions.
For example:
Your proposal differs slightly:
evil is distortion of freedom and/or unity.
I think that's philosophically interesting because it preserves evil's experiential reality while avoiding an absolute dualism.
This idea has a very long pedigree.
It appears in:
The hierarchy becomes something like:
God
↓
high celestial intelligences
↓
lesser divine beings
↓
humans
↓
other creatures
One could call these beings:
depending on one's tradition.
Your final speculation is perhaps the closest to Mahayana Buddhism.
You suggest:
Different religions may represent different skillful means.
That is remarkably close to the Mahayana concept of upāya.
At the same time, your system remains theistic, whereas Mahayana generally avoids positing an ultimate creator.
I also notice a few unresolved questions.
You begin by saying:
God must be consciousness.
Many philosophers would challenge that.
Plotinus, for example, held that the One is beyond intellect and consciousness because consciousness normally implies a distinction between knower and known.
So someone influenced by Neoplatonism might ask whether your concept of consciousness is broad enough to include a reality beyond subject-object awareness.
Your metaphysics gives freedom equal status with unity.
Many traditions would instead say:
Whether the two are equally ultimate is an interesting philosophical question.
Sometimes your language sounds as though creation participates in God's unfolding.
At other points it sounds like classical theism, where God is complete and creatures evolve.
Those lead to rather different metaphysical pictures.
If I had to classify your philosophy, I would say it sits closest to a family of traditions rather than a single one:
The one feature that strikes me as most original is not the individual ingredients, but your proposal that freedom and unity are the two fundamental "poles" of divine life, with love emerging as their perfect equilibrium. It echoes ideas found in several traditions, yet I don't know of a major historical system that formulates the relationship in exactly that way. It would be an interesting idea to develop further, especially by asking whether freedom and unity are truly independent principles or whether one is ultimately grounded in the other. That question would likely determine whether your metaphysics ends up closer to classical Neoplatonism, a nondual Hindu philosophy, or a more process-oriented view of reality.