There are so many different ideas about God; one is crazier than the other. There are many different kinds of Christianity, many different kinds of Hinduism, and many different kinds of Islam. All believe they have it right, and the others have got it wrong. But this fact does not prove there is no God; that belief in God is a delusion. Maybe there is a God somewhere, but nobody knows anything about him (or her). Maybe God is, in reality, an alien civilization that studies us as if we were some kind of laboratory rats.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Friday, June 23, 2023
God
God ordered the Israelites to exterminate the people of Canaan. He ordered the Crusaders to slaughter the people in Jerusalem and the Americans to invade Iraq. He has persuaded thousands of selected Muslims to blow themselves and their fellow human beings into pieces.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Intelligent design
If God created this world, why did he make it so horrible? Cancer, ALS, leprosy... natural disasters, excruciating pain, and suffering?
Perhaps a good and benevolent God created this world, but evil forces toppled him.
Maybe the world created itself - by chance; perhaps there is no designer.
In the beginning, there was nothing. Did the world also create God, the devil, and all the angels in the Big Bang?
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Neti neti
If you are a fentanyl addict, you have lost touch with your true self; likewise, if you are obsessed with a political ideology or a religious cult. You can also be lost because you are convinced you are a spiritually awakened being. You may be filled with hatred or bewitched by the idea that you must, at all costs, get rich. You may have a personality disorder or suffer from neurotic guilt and shame. There are endless possibilities to lose touch with oneself. Where do all these crazy ideas come from?
I am not a right-winger, not a left-winger, and not something in between.
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic.
I am not a materialist, not an idealist, not a nihilist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
Transgenderism and transhumanism
Have you been born in the wrong body? No problem. The doctors can fix this—first surgery and then hormonal treatment. A boy can be turned into a girl and a girl into a boy. Gender is just a social construct. You decide who you are, not nature, not society.
Are your serotonin or dopamine levels too low? This can also be fixed. Your ears, your nose, your mindset, everything can be corrected.
Life sucks. Get yourself a VR headset. The kingdom of virtual heaven is there for you. You no longer need to fantasize or smoke dope. Suffering is for losers.
You can be the one you want to be; you can be wealthy and successful; you can be wonderful. You don't have to be poor and miserable. You can be a hero. It's up to you if you want to sleep under a bridge or in a mansion.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
War
Human history is the history of war, thousands of years of horrors, atrocities, and brutality. This king or that king is fighting some other crazy king or emperor. His subjects do all the dirty work. They do whatever they are told to do; they have no will of their own. Democracy didn't change anything. Nowadays, all the horrors are perpetrated in the name of freedom, women's rights, rules-based international order, preemptive self-defense, or some other noble cause, anything but power.
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine...
WWI, WWII, WWIII...
The thirty-years War, The Peloponnesian War, The Troian War...
There is absolutely no hope for humankind.
To make life bearable, try to find and hold on to a pleasant fantasy of your liking. Try self-hypnosis, positive thinking, medication, distraction, or meditation, something that works for you. Get yourself a hobby.