Oddbean new post about login | logout That's a rather grandiose explanation, thank you, I echo a great number of your sentiments. You're clearly a philosopher, of sorts🤷🏻♂️. Have you read Philosophy? When you boil it all down, YOU are God. Prove me wrong, either way.
Mmm I myself don't believe that. But there are many ways of thinking that explicitly say that straight out so who's to say🤷🏽 I find myself too imperfect to have done anything as great as even being a party of the creation of the universe in the many myths from around the world. But I mean things as serious as Hinduism teach that you are God pretty explicitly. And things as fictional as the Exorcist novel basically spell out that the big band or the let there be light, the creation of the universe is God tearing himself into pieces so that we may live , his body being space and time, and God being Lucifer and it mirrors in the birth working deteriorating and death that every humanlives through. Which mirrors other things like 2001 A Space Odyssey in that you can look at it as the monolith being the full history of man. From evolving from apes via the Discovery of tools leading to our final mental achievements being landing on the moon and becoming God. And what do gods do? They create life being the ai before they pass on to the next plane a space baby learning everything a new.
I'm an atheist per se. If I was to be inclined, I'd be Buddhist, which I've studied at length. I've also seen the spiritual leader, The Dali Lama, giving a speech, at no more than 30 yards away. Separately, I've read his works, of which, he said this: and I'm paraphrasing here; A Westerner thinks he's interested in Buddhism till he thinks it is too difficult, then let's it fall by the way side. At which point, he finds his mind in a body without a home. I'll just let that sink in. "At which point, he finds his mind in a body without a home". That's a fucking difficult proposition man, believe me🙏🏻.