this low level consciousness may also have a very high level consciousness as well
That's an interesting possibility. I don't think we would even recognize such an intelligence, just as we don't (well, we do now, sort of) recognize geological time and astrophysical time; human lives are too short. And mice don't understand quantum physics because their brains are much smaller than ours.
But what I actually think is that WE ARE THE WAY THE UNIVERSE HAS BECOME SELF-AWARE. OUR brains, with their captured bits of the Universal Consciousness, give direct, focused, self-aware access to everything the brain sees, learns, feels, and KNOWS. The Universe doesn't have eyes -- or didn't, until LIFE came along. And with human brains, it has all the intellectual awareness that we create as well. Our souls, our little walled-off bits of Universal Consciousness, merge back into that same Universal Consciousness when we die.
I don't know exactly what that means; for instance, I don't see a way for memory storage, and certain kinds of brain damage include memory loss, so without our physical brains being intact, what is left? Kastrup believes we continue on as identifiable entities after death; I'm not so sure. That could change; new knowledge ensures change, and I love new knowledge.
it is now the anon movement which is about to do what Gandhi did but in a much larger scale & more permanently, because we are being guided by Q, whoever they are, who has the plan thought out & gave us the info that we need to spread in clever, loving & non violent ways. As long as we remain non violent & loving in our dissemination of what Q enlighten us of, there is no way the cabal can stop us. Their every attempt only hastens their own doom.
I love that idea and hope we can bring it to fruition.
Repent and believe the Gospels.
I do, for the most part, "believe the Gospels", but I don't interpret them as you do. For that matter, there are many interpretations in "official" forms of Christianity, thus all the differing denominations. And what, for instance, does Jesus mean in Luke: 17:21 --
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
I'm pretty sure I have a different interpretation of that than you do.
And I'm fine with that -- I'm not trying to change the way you interpret the Gospels at all. For that matter, it doesn't bother me that you think I'm "damned to hell" (if indeed that's what you think). Think of me what you will.
The whole POINT of my essay is that people with (some) different religions can be ALLIES AGAINST THE CABAL.
Russia isn't America and doesn't have completely similar traditions and beliefs as America (although it IS a mostly Christian nation) -- but we allied with Russia to take down the Axis nations in WWII.
Allies don't have to share identical belief systems: they just have to have compatible Earthly goals.
distinguish between his physical embodiment (named Jesus) and his spiritual essence
Yes, exactly.
And as it happens, that fits perfectly well with Bernardo Kastrup's theory of Idealism, which posits (with much to back it up) that the human soul is a blocked-off piece of the Universal Consciousness, dissociated (separated from and out of direct contact with) each other person's trapped bit of consciousness and from the greater, Universal Consciousness that underlies the universe as a whole.
Luke: 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
IDK if that's the actual way things are, but then I don't imagine I ever WILL know for certain what the nature of the universe is. For now, I've pretty much embraced most of Kastrup's paradigm as part of my own, and I see it as a good alternative interpretation of much in Christianity and some other religions.
That sounds, yes, quite memorable. Kastrup discusses evidence (a surprising amount of it) that out-of-body, end-of-life, psychedelic, and other special forms of consciousness that involve a feeling of greatly expanded awareness and oneness with the universe (among other things) typically involve LOWER brain activity. He believes this points to a partial breakdown of the dissociation (separation) between the Universal Consciousness [i.e., the overall universe, AKA "God"] and our individual minds / souls, which are captured (by the physical brain) bits of the Universal Consciousness -- which return to the overall Consciousness after we die. And the frequent similarities among those altered states also suggest that something real is happening.
IDK what you mean here. Q said a lot of things, a few of which I quoted here. In any case, I'm not saying we shouldn't focus on what's important. I'm saying that what's important is UNITY (and THAT'S quoting Q) and that UNITY in our opposition to the Cabal cannot be achieved if we (that is, some sizable percentage of us) sees people who are not professing Christians as the enemy, or even as unworthy of working with to defeat the Cabal and put an end to the overwhelming Evil in this world.
I AM with Jesus, or did you not understand that?
You think you have the ONE and ONLY interpretation of Jesus' teachings.
You are almost certainly wrong.
There are many versions of Christianity. I grew up in the Methodist church. What say you: is THAT the proper interpretation? Or not?
Some bible translations (most, actually) say in essence that "anger is bad" (in various wordings. Others say "Thou shalt not be anger with another WITHOUT CAUSE" (or the like). Which is right?
And how do you know?
Great comment, inspoken. I mostly agree.
So yes, you could say that none of these faiths actually worship any God other than the God of Abraham.
I have, after many years, come around to thinking that "God" = "Nature" = "the universe" -- which is a low-level but omnipresent consciousness. A bit of that universal consciousness is trapped in each of our brains, by the highly recursive and other characteristics of brain architecture and of the elements (neurons etc) of which it is constructed. This trapped bit of consciousness is dissociated from the overall universal consciousness and from other individual, trapped portions of consciousness in other individual brains.
That's the soul, or so I believe (for now at least). And yes, it means your soul and mine are PART OF the Universal Consciousness, AKA "God." Or as Jesus put it:
Luke: 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
That all would have sounded laughable to me even a few years ago, but the mental, non-material foundation of the universe (i.e., sub-atomic particles are point disturbances in various types of waves -- photons are point disturbances in light waves, for example; thus the results of the double-split experiment) -- is beyond dispute at this point. The beginnings of Quantum Wave Theory go back to the 1920s. Even most physicists ignore the implications, apparently, because the math -- quantification -- for particle physics works so well.
Note that consciousness cannot be quantified. The material world is precisely quantifiable, but experience is not. The components of a food item can be broken down to specifics including the percentage of each, the TASTE of that food cannot be.
See Bernardo Kastrup for more (I've barely touched the surface here) --
The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
We are inherently inclined to do continuous evil to each other
I disagree with that completely.
Sociopaths -- neurotics who are damaged enough in certain ways -- have damaged views of life and damaged attitudes towards others -- they are cut off to some extent from the sense of connection to and love for others, blocking or dimming empathy -- and are generally harmful in their behavior.
Psychopaths -- people with certain frontal-lobe deficits -- are also cut off from the sense of connection to others, which must be somewhat akin to spending life in solitary confinement, seeing and sensing others without connecting with them. Psychopaths who are also sociopaths are exceptionally dangerous, and even psychopaths who are not emotionally damaged (to the extent THAT is possible) are somewhat dangerous because (like AI, btw) they don't experience much or any empathy.
Emotionally HEALTHY people, on the other hand, are NOT evil and do NOT typically hurt their fellow man -- or even animals, at least unnecessarily. And, thank goodness, most humans on Earth are not so terribly damaged as to be sociopathic.
A good early life usually prevents sociopathic damage, and Jesus was absolutely right in his teachings about "not offending children" and otherwise treating them well.
Pregnant women, newborns, infants, and children: if they were all treated properly, with love, compassion, and common sense, the world would very quickly (in a few decades) become the heaven on Earth that we all expect at birth.
Yes, there's a lot of good in the Old Testament. Plenty of not-so-good also, imo. Jesus' genius was to bring the need for love and compassion to the fore, tempering the OT, and actually teaching the need to have love for others "a new commandment."
What do you have against the supernatural?
Nothing at all.
I just have a different view of it. A different paradigm, if you will. As I say in the post, I don't believe "the supernatural" -- the basic truth of what the universe IS -- can be comprehended by human brains, any more than I think we (or at least I) can visualize a 5-dimensional object. I agree with you that Jesus used parables to help people understand what he was saying, and the reason for that is because some of what he was talking about could only be perceived implicitly, not explicitly, because, again, human brains are not adequate for some perceptions and understandings.
I started to write about what my view IS but it'll take an essay about as long as this one, I think (and I doubt that most people would care about it). I've got other things I need to do now, so maybe later.
There is no life for those outside the body of Christ; only death and eternal separation from God. Nobody gets to the Father but through Christ.
You and I have different interpretations of what that means.
Your interpretation (correct me if I'm wrong) means that EVERY single soul who lived and died in the many centuries before Jesus is writhing in Hell, now and forever.
Every person who lived in a place where the name and teachings of Jesus was unknown, is also suffering eternally in Hell.
Every skeptic and person born into a different religion than Christianity is likewise doomed to an eternity in Hell.
My idea of a "loving God" does not include anything like that.
More on this another time.
Christ ushered in a new age in which love is the law.
YES! That was the entire purpose of Jesus' ministry, as I understand it. But the world wasn't ready for it -- and Christianity, along with EVERY OTHER religion and movement that also taught the need for LOVE, has been repeatedly attacked and followers imprisoned, massacred and otherwise mistreated.
It often feels pollyanna-ish to me, but I wonder if we're not ACTUALLY entering a time when Jesus' vision of an emotionally healthy world where love and compassion are powerfully present in ever-more of us.
Treatment of pregnant women, infants, and children is the key. Decent treatment of ALL is the goal, but we won't get there if more new, incoming lives aren't treated well.
I agree with you that organized religion has serious downsides, although I believe that without organized Christianity, Christ's message would have been lost forever. I also believe that the supernatural elements, which I've never been able to embrace, were a major draw, bringing people to the Church, although at the same time those portions of Christian dogma overshadowed and somewhat minimized the importance of and adherence to the MORE important (in my opinion) Earthly teachings that Jesus bequeathed to us.
Even if someone believes the afterlife is more important than THIS life, Christ is clear that the road TO heaven instead of hell involves following His "new commandment" to love one another.
Jesus lived in a time of incredible cruelty (public crucifixion for even minor crimes in some cases; death by stoning for infidelity; whipping and scourging and other tortures, etc) and corruption. Many people grew up with enough trauma to make today's emotionally-damaged sheep seem healthy, and people's beliefs and behaviors were all over the map. You'll recall that a large group of the public cheered Jesus' crucifixion on -- an entertaining spectacle!
I don't doubt that divisions even among family members often included people who were seriously evil in their beliefs and behaviors.
We are fighting evil today. So was Jesus, in an even more barbarous time.
This graph (of heart attacks in 18-44 yr-olds) from the story tells the tale.
It's the jabs.
Many things are contributing to the rise in cancer, and the incident rate of most cancers have been climbing for years. Removing toxins and cancer-causing ingredients from the food supply is a huge part of MAHA. And having said all that, of course the jabs have caused a large uptick in cancers, cardiovascular problems, neurological problems, sudden deaths, and so on. We're screwed from many directions at this point, and Trump / RFK Jr. have arrived just in the nick of time, imo.
https://nitter.poast.org/makisMD -- lots of posts, possibly including some with people who didn't use Chemo.
(or use X; I can't access that site)
Here's the particular item referenced in this post:
https://nitter.poast.org/MakisMD/status/1903403503990775994#m
The link at top of THIS post is Dr. Makis' Substack account, and if you aren't subscribed to that, I recommend you do.
https://nitter.poast.org/makisMD
(or use X; I can't access that site)
Here's the particular item referenced in this post:
https://nitter.poast.org/MakisMD/status/1903403503990775994#m
Forgiveness in heaven is one thing; protecting children from predators is another. Jesus seemed clear on that; thus the quotation from Jesus that OP mentions:
18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Yes. "Shit happens", if you'll pardon my language. Or "to err is human."
If there's neither malice nor harm from egregious incompetence, there's no sin.