Every expert in science, finance, and health want control over what you think, achieving it through the "ministry of Truth" (fact checkers). They're all influenced by the same powers that run our governments. How else do they get their government grants, by telling the truth? Fauci Lied. Gates Lied. The climate "scientists" lied. Your news lied. Your doctor's lied. Your teachers lied. Your accountants and bankers lied. And they all lied to who they taught and mentored, trickling down to the local level. And we don't even need them.
We have millions of independent researchers and fact finders throughout the world, people with brilliant minds like Nikola Tesla, regardless of whether they went to college. These self-professed "experts" are irrelevant. We live in the age of information, and they're doing their damnedest to take that away from us.
*Yeah I know it's a wall of text, but SR's comments are always great food for thought!
I've been thinking a lot about the 'optimal human' looks like, feels like; especially what that perfect version of any of us thinks like. I also think whoever coined the term '7 Deadly Sins' did a pretty efficient job. We may be able to narrow them down even further now, but I digress.
Each of us has this ideal state in us already, IMO. The potential to fulfill your best self is always there, we just need to recognize then embrace it. This doesn't mean we all just magically become perfect humans; we'll still be subject to our individual environments. Many things can also get in the way of achieving this, almost all traceable back to one of those Deadly Sins, traceable back further to the one source.
Satan's limited time in "his" realm is spelled out clearly: it will end; he is utterly defeated. I believe this makes our existence a test. Literally the highest stakes: eternal soul/life in paradise. Do you live like a king in Satan's fleeting realm, never knowing exactly when everything ends for you[soon]. The tradeoff being it's REAL. It's here and now and they can do whatever the fuck they want because this is Satan's realm! So is it worth it? Many of us know what those pleasures feel like.
Do you know that feeling seeing someone's eyes light up when you've done them a real act of kindness? Or, that feeling when you've chipped away at a long term goal long enough to see not just the end, but goals you never even thought of? Hell, we can even combine those two things, and often! I'll take those feels over sleep-hugging a public toilet--or worse--any time, every time. How could God not exist? I've been skeptical for a long time, but even my most cunning intellect can't deny His glory.
To bring this home if anyone made it this far, lol thank you. If you told me that I'd be writing a post like this even 6 months ago I would have laughed in your face. I would have apologized, but I can't testify any differently: this whole thing has brought me closer to God and through Him, closer to fulfilling MY potential. Being the best version of myself that I can be, despite my faults. The deck may be stacked against us here in satan's realm, but God's hand is always open, and the decision is ours to make. Until it's not, anyway, but I've made my choice!
tl;dr: God wins.