I think it was a mistake for our culture to dismiss religion, instead of understanding and redesigning it with rational epistemology. Religion defines the intentionality and structure of the superorganism. Without seeing the shape of the superstructure, we cannot derive ethics.
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Partly something like 1+3. The thing which people sometimes refer to as God exists in some sense, but is not "supernatural" in the sense of being beyond the natural and inaccessible. God is (not merely) the infinity into which we grow, and (not merely) existence itself, etc.
Meanings of “God” you can find in Christianity:
1. God is the infinity into which we are growing
2. God is the ultimate future
3. God is existence itself
4. God is the ultimate ethic
5. God is personhood itself
6. God is what is true across all worlds…
God is the global optimum of shared agency, the collective agent that gets instantiated by those who do what's best. God exists, across all those that serve him, to the degree they recognize what's best. But institutions are failing at this. God is not dead, but the church is.
'Self-care' is a psyop. You need to be service maxxing, looking for every opportunity to be of service to others and forgetting about yourself in the process.
Lord's prayer remix #1
Our Lord and guide,
hallowed be your way,
your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in potential.
Give us today your clarity.
And forgive us our failings, as we forgive those who fail us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from despair.
For yours is the light within and the light beyond, eternally present, Amen.
The important "experience" here for me was realising that these are all different perspectives on one more complex thing, which you could call wholeness. Part of what led me to that was understanding that the hard-to-take-literally parts of wisdom traditions make more sense as metaphors, and parts which initially seem like metaphors can be more true/real when taken literally.
@HFreinacht How would we know that such folk wouldn't be freaking out at any (every?) other point in history if they were able to gather in a critical mass with massive amounts of information available as we now do? Genuine question.
Be on the winning side by always choosing the winning side, whether or not you know exactly what it is. The winning side is Christ, and so choosing Christ means choosing whoever is going to win. Imagine if you could place a bet like that! Free money!
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@7SecularSermons Fair enough, thanks for the explanation - yes, I'm making a particular claim from a particular perspective, on which it is possible to disagree, *especially* when coming from very different perspectives.