Everyone's got their own theory on the matrix
and in the past I have immersed myself in lots
of different theories for example the theory
that It's a financial thing like We're stuck
in the rat race the matrix and we had to make
money become a millionaire to escape the matrix
Another theory is oh, it was the education system.
We have to rework the education system to destroy
the matrix and Another theory is like health
related stuff like if We're in a world that's
built for a sedentary lifestyle. That's the matrix.
We have to break out of it and do a live a healthy
lifestyle and I'm sure they all have hint of
truth to them but one recent thing that I've
really started to think a lot about lately is
the possibility that maybe it's a lot more holistic
a lot more structural a lot more deeply integrated
than we think and I'm not sure At this point,
I'm just talking about the concept of a matrix.
I'm not talking about any theories from the film.
I'm taking inspiration of the ideas presented
in that film, like the idea of a matrix and a
disconnected abstract reality that most people
perceive in. That's what I'm talking about. I'm
not talking about necessarily the movie itself.
I've seen it a couple times in the past, but
I'm not talking about any key theory within the
movie. What I'm talking about are theories and
making connections with key ideas presented in
that movie to our everyday life and the way that
our world is set up. And what I've been thinking
about a lot lately about in terms of that is
The matrix is a lot more fundamental if okay,
so preface if the matrix is a Concept that is
real like analogous in real life then it's a
lot more deep a lot more fundamental than we
think and I will even go so far to say that whenever
we discuss the matrix or think about it, we are
actively within it. And the meaning of those
lines will become a little bit more clear in
the following minutes. So I think that the matrix,
well, first of all, let's define the structure
of the matrix. So in that movie the matrix is
a separated reality. It's like an abstract realm
where people perceive and live in that way of
life. So let's just say true reality is the real
world that has been destroyed that most people
are unaware of in that movie. And if you've never
seen the movie, it's basically The entire world
has been destroyed by humans and then they made
AI and then AI put humans in like Sorry, AI needed
humans to harvest energy off of the humans and
so the AI made a artificial world for the humans
to perceive life in through their psyche, I guess
and their physical bodies were still in the physical
world, but they were just unaware of it. So in
that movie, the structure is that their physical
bodies are in the physical world, but they are
experiencing and perceiving and they are only
aware of the matrix. And the matrix is a abstract
realm. It's a bunch of code on a computer. If
the real world represents infinity, as in like
their code does not represent it, it's not representable
by code. The real world in the matrix is infinity
because it contains, for example, like atoms
have infinite Like like every object has an infinite
amount of data within it for example there are
atoms there are thousands and millions and billions
of atoms and then you can go deeper and go into
like neutrons and then you can go deeper and
to like corks and deeper and deeper and deeper
and the deeper you go the more and more data
is available and We just perceive it all immediately
Like we don't perceive, we don't necessarily
perceive each individual electron, but we perceive
the collections of the billions and trillions
of electrons. And so in my view, physical reality,
at least in The Matrix, represents, or I mean,
physical reality in real life and in the movie
The Matrix, is infinity. And it's not really
a concept that we really think a lot about. And
we'll get to why I think that is in a little
bit. But basically, in physical life, it's infinity
because there are an infinite amount of things
being perceived and it contains infinite amount
of information. So for example, we have five
senses. We see with one of our senses and we
perceive infinite amounts of information, whether
it's like lighting information, subtle lighting
information, we perceive. billions and trillions
and infinite amounts of electrons infinite amounts
of like uncountable amounts of atoms electrons
Neutrons like that you can't even count and we're
perceiving it immediately and Then in the realm
of hearing we're hearing an infinite amount of
information In the sense of like sound waves
and all of that stuff And the same thing with
smell, same thing with sense, and same thing
with touch, and then the same thing with taste.
And that's five infinities, basically. So my
friend told me you can't really do that, but
I don't know why. Just for convenience sake,
we're going to make a distinction between Mean
it doesn't really matter basically the point
is that we are perceiving infinite infinity every
day in physical reality and That's the structure
of in the movie the matrix Physical reality that
contains infinite information like that That's
infinity is the real world the world that was
destroyed in the matrix. Now in. The actual matrix
in inside the program that represents the finite
realm, because it is all being. Represented,
it's an abstraction from reality, so it's being
represented with code. which is an abstraction
so like numbers now my friend also told me that
that is a thing that's in physical reality too
like on and off like ones and zeros but the point
is that like counting symbol language all that
stuff is an abstract realm it's a realm separate
from physical reality in the sense that it's
finite. So for example, an actual water bottle,
like let's just take any object for a water bottle.
For example, a water bottle itself contains an
infinite amount of information. I have one right
in front of me and I can see lots of subtle lighting
changes on it. I can see the actual object itself,
which contains billions and trillions and trillions
of infinite amounts of molecules, atoms, neutrons,
electrons, quarks, you can go deeper and deeper.
It basically contains infinity, just one singular
object. But when you abstract it and label it
with the word water bottle, the word water bottle
only contains one piece of information, and it's
that word. And it's pointing to the actual water
bottle itself, which the actual water bottle
itself contains infinite amounts of information.
So in the matrix, it is an abstracted world.
So it is in that realm. So going back to the
water bottle analogy, the water bottle itself
is infinity. It's in the infinity realm. And
then The word water bottle like the label is
in the abstract realm because it it's separate
it's distinct from reality and it's labeling
reality and it's It contains a finite amount
of information. It only contains one piece of
information water bottle Versus a water bottle
in reality contains infinite amounts of information
It contains all the billions and trillions of
molecules all the lighting things and you can
feel it You can taste it you can hear it and
all all that stuff now Going back to the movie
The Matrix physical reality is infinity. That's
where all their physical bodies are that's where
the the humans who have escaped the matrix or
were born in real life are and then in The actual
matrix itself, it's finite reality. It's a abstraction
So those are the structural Elements of that
movie the matrix as depicted in the movie The
Matrix, is a finite abstract realm. Now, let's
create an analogy and compare that set of elements
to real life, our world. So in real life, like
in The Water Battle, contains infinite. amounts
of data, infinite amount of information in all
different sites, all different senses. And it's
hard to explain because, so imagine like a timeline,
just like imagine a time, like a line that's
like 10 meters long. Actually, never mind, forget
about that. It's easier for me to explain on
video because I can show it with hands. But basically
the point is that in reality itself, I think
contains infinite amounts of data, but then human
reality contains infinite, but not the same infinite
as reality itself. So what I mean by that is
reality itself contains every possible thing
that can be perceived. But human reality contains
everything that can be perceived with human senses,
which is still infinite But it's not a the same
infinite as greater reality. So what I mean by
that is It's a known fact that dogs have a better
sense of smell and hearing and possibly sight
than humans So if humans have this amount of
and I'm like holding a distance of my hands in
a set of distance apart so let's say humans have
like 10 meters worth of sense in sight smell
touch taste here but dogs have like 15 or 20
Does that make sense? So dogs have more information.
They're able to perceive more information than
humans. So therefore, humans' perception is still
infinite, but it's not the same infinite as dogs,
for example, because dogs can perceive a lot
more. More data, more accurately, more width,
more surface area, like all that. Take a different
example like bats. Bats, they have echolocation.
That's a completely different sense. That's like
a sixth sense that humans don't have. So that
unlocks a completely different realm of perception.
So you can stack all of these senses. So for
example, human sense of smell, and then taste,
hearing, sight. touch, all of that can stack,
and then you can stack on top of that echo location.
And then you can stack on top of that a different
animals sense of something. And so basically,
the way I define it, like total reality is all
possible perceptions stacked on top of on top
of each other to the maximum, which I'm, I think
is even larger than if then I think infinite
reality itself is even larger than if you even
did that. But that's kind of how I visualize
infinite reality. So let's just say infinite
reality is like 100 meters of infinity. And then
human perception is like 10 meters of infinity,
or maybe even less. But just just for convenience
sake, let's just say it's 10 meters of infinity.
And now That's infinite perception. That's if
you're perceiving life with your senses and your
senses are operating on their full skill or whatever.
But going back to the matrix analogy, there is
another element in play. There's abstraction.
There's an abstract realm. So in this abstract
realm, you've got language, math, symbol. So
physical reality has infant information, but
then the abstract realm is just a collection
of labels or symbols that describe things in
physical reality. For example, any label, like
pen, water bottle, lamp, computer. notebook,
these are all things in front of me. But they
all have labels and the labels themselves are
in the abstract realm. But the actual things
that the labels are describing, the things that
are actually in front of me are in the physical
realm. And the matrix in that movie, the physical
reality is the destroyed world. And then the
abstract realm is the world that they're all
perceiving inside the code, inside the computer.
Now, in real life, I don't think that we are
hooked up to machines and we're perceiving inside
of a computer. I'm not proposing that, but I
am suggesting that maybe the matrix is abstract
thought, the abstract realm. For example, in
our world or in our civilization today, in the
modern day, abstract realm or like the abstract
realm has encompassed our entire life, our entire
life. Like we are operating in analytical mode,
we are operating in language, basically 24 seven,
like it's if, if infinite reality, the mode of
operation and human experience is like presence,
calm, awareness. And then abstract realm, the
mode of operation that it manifests in, in human
experience is analytical thought, stress, anxiety,
and Navy fight or flight, language, internal
dialogue, the opposite of presence, internal
dialogue, all that stuff. If we define it like
that, then in our day -to -day life, the dominant
mode of behavior or of behaving and existing
is in the abstract mode. It's with internal dialogue.
Everyone has an internal dialogue. The internal
dialogue is non -stop. Most people can't turn
it off for longer than a second. And even if
they really tried to do it. So what I'm proposing
is that the matrix is actually a language thing.
It's a abstraction thing. And we are living in
the matrix analogously because our mode of operation
in life is in the abstract mode, which is analytical
thought, having an internal dialogue all day,
anxiety, not being present. Fight or flight all
that stuff. That is our default mode of operating.
That's how we operate in most Most of the time
so that's that's my model on the matrix is If
the matrix is representing something in real
life It would be very fundamental like the fact
that we are living in a matrix of language and
it is dominated our mode of behaving so much
that we actually don't realize it and we don't
realize that we are living in a finite we're
living in a infinite world but we're only perceiving
a finite realm and that is affecting the way
that we think the way that we behave and the
way that we see the world for example I like
the example of looking, like let's say you're
at a park in a big grass field and you see all
the grass. There are billions, there's like thousands
of blades of grass and then within each of those
blades of grass there are infinite amounts of
molecules, atoms, electrons, neutrons, quarks,
all of that stuff. And there are plenty of different
species of grass. There are weeds, there are
different, there are like hundreds of different
species of plant in that grass field. But we
only perceive one thing because we operate on
language and language, we chunk that entire field
of grass into just a big carpet of one thing
and we call it grass, we call it like a park
or something like that. So in reality, we are
receiving infinite amounts of information. But
in practice, we are only interpreting or we're
only actually, there's a word, it's we receive
it and then we interpret, I don't know, we're
only interpreting one piece of data and it's
just a sheet, like a big blanket of grass, just
one thing. We're like chunking it and we do that
with everything. Like a water bottle, I'm chunking
this entire object into one object. I'm chunking
all of these. this collection of infinite amounts
of data into one object. We do that with every
single object, and we do that with every single
phenomenon. And whenever we discover a new phenomenon,
we immediately put a label to it. We do that
with everything physical, emotional, mental,
all of that stuff. We just put a label to it
immediately. And so that's what I'm proposing
that if the matrix is representing something,
it is a very fundamental thing like language.
And now that brings me to my next model that
I've started to develop. And it's the point.
It's called the point. So basically the matrix,
I like to call the point because we have infinite
reality, which is, let's just say, Going back
to the yardstick analogy, total reality is like
100 yards of infinity. And then human reality
that humans are able to perceive is like 10 yards
of infinity. Just for convenience sake, I'm making
these numbers up. I don't even know if it's possible
to actually, no, it's impossible to actually
say this, but we're just saying these numbers
for conversation sake. 100 meters of infinity
is total reality, 10 meters of infinity is human
reality, and then just a tiny speck that isn't
even a fraction, that's not even anything, is
abstract realm, and that's like the matrix, that's
everything abstract, like numbers, labels, symbols,
language, all of that stuff is what I call the
point, and it's finite. So if you compare 100
yards of infinity to 10 yards of infinity, and
then to a point of finite, of finiteness, that's
the comparison we're making. So 100 yards of
infinity is total reality. 10 yards of infinity
is human perception of reality, like human reality,
still infinity, still fully reality. But then
there is a point of finite perception. It's not
even on the same scale It's a tiny point that
that single point isn't even Comparable to a
yard of infinity or a point of infinity It's
a point of finiteness and that's our language.
That's and that's all that stuff. That's what
I call the point And the point is also the matrix,
analogously to what we were just talking about
a moment ago. But I'm going to call it the point
because I like that word better. Because it's
easy to visualize the 100 yards of infinity,
10 yards of infinity, and then the point. So
the point is supposed to be a tool. It's supposed
to be a tool, a tool to help us understand or
make sense of reality. But by definition, that
is a flawed assumption because you can't understand
infinity. Infinity is fundamentally mysterious.
And also when you translate infinity into a finite
realm, it becomes severed. So for example, the
pen, a pen, like a writing utensil itself, the
actual object itself, contains an infinite amount
of data. But the word pen only contains one bit
of data, and it doesn't contain all of the information.
Like when you label it, and then you stick with
the word instead of the thing, you immediately
lose an infinite amount of information. And it's
a different type of information. So for example,
in our culture, we point at things to direct
people's attention to the thing we're pointing
at. So right now I'm pointing at a Rubik's Cube.
This, when you point, the finger that's doing
the pointing is called a label. And that's a
label is also a word. So me pointing to this
object, a Rubik's Cube, I'm directing your attention
to the Rubik's Cube. And that's how labels and
words behave. When you say the word pen, you
are not... necessarily bringing your attention
to the word pen itself you're bringing your their
attention to the thing that that word is pointing
to which is the object of a pen if that makes
sense and so that's where the point the point
is supposed to just pull the point of in in the
context of 100 yards of infinity, 10 yards of
infinity, and then a point of finiteness, that
point is supposed to just be a pointer that's
pointing to all of infinity. But it's fundamentally
flawed, especially if, no, it's fundamentally
flawed as a mode of operation. And in practice,
it is our mode of operation because we are living
in the point. We are usually not present. We
have internal dialogue going on forever and all
that stuff. But. So that's the point, and it
creates issues. It creates a. The reason why
it's dangerous is because it creates a, it severs
you from reality. For example, and the way that
it affects our behavior is very potent, but it's
become so normalized that we don't really notice
it. For example, I'm going to give two examples
that. One of them happens every day another one
happens once I mean it probably happens every
day too, but it doesn't really it's a lot more
Separated from everyday civilian life, but both
these examples are structurally very similar
So imagine you're a manager who's in charge of
managing the park the parks in your town like
the the grass parks and You're in the office
and someone tells you that this one park park
a needs To be Mowed like the the grass has grown
too too high and it needs to be mowed So like
okay, and you send someone out to go mow the
lawn Now, you've never been to that park. You
may have, but in this example, you're not at
that park. You just received data from someone.
Someone told you that the lawn needed to be mowed,
and so you sent someone to go mow the lawn. You
didn't know what happened before. You didn't
know what happened during. You didn't know what
happened after, except from the language. You
weren't at the park yourself to see that it was.
Overgrown you you weren't at the park while this
being mowed you weren't at the park after it
was mowed That is a separation from reality that
was only made possible because of language and
This is a seemingly harmless example because
no one really cares about if a field of grass
gets Mowed down but I'm going to connect that
example to a thing that a lot of people care
about and a thing that really affected millions
of human beings and It's an example of the atomic
bomb being dropped on Japan or like both both
both times so In the office in the Oval Office
in the White House the president was given information
that This country on the other side of the world
needed to be disciplined like we needed to We
needed to Obliterate that country or not even
just obliterate it. We just needed to kind of
like Like mow them down I guess we needed to
mow them down to end the war to just keep order.
Okay. Which mowing a lawn is also keeping order.
Um, so we just needed to keep order. The president
was given that information and he was like, all
right, here's the green light. Let's do it. He
was never in Japan. He never lived a life there.
He was never in there before, during, or after.
Maybe he was there. I don't know. But the point
is that He didn't, he didn't have firsthand experience
being a Japanese citizen. He didn't have a firsthand
experience while he was there. He didn't, and
now like the, he very well might have, I don't
know the actual history of it, but in the point,
in the purpose of this analogy, those details
aren't really important. The thing that's important
is the disconnection. from reality that was made
possible. So he was given data. And sure, it
was a heavy decision. But not really, because
that's millions of people. That's an entire land
of an entire country that you are making, like
polluting and destroying and all that. the sure
they might have taken a long time to weigh the
the decision and feel the the the emotional elements,
but no like it's not the same thing because if
he grew up with every single one of those human
beings if he Actually, like if every single one
of those human beings was his mom. He wouldn't
have even considered that possibility and so
the I'm not like bringing point to the moral
issues here, I'm only bringing the moral issues
up to prove or to like shine light on the deeper
structural issues. And it's that language, the
abstraction made all that possible. In the lawn
mowing example, the abstraction made it possible
to mow their lawn, to go mow that lawn. And it
was just like, not that big of a deal. And it's
very alarming how structurally similar that analogy
is or that example, that everyday example is
to the example of dropping the bomb on Nagasaki
and Hiroshima. And actually, it's not it doesn't
even have to be a nuclear bomb. That's just like
the most emotional, emotionally packed. Example
in history in my opinion, but like there's everyday
examples happening like like people like military
generals dropping bombs on other countries or
sending troops to go Spray down the enemy or
like all like these are all examples that happen
every day and it's not even just in like military
or war settings. It's also like in everyday examples
like we Like I mean we Send I don't know, but
basically the the point is that The language
makes it possible to have a disconnection and
I should have come Ready with examples of everyday
Things that's being made possible. Oh Well, here's
one example of an everyday thing There it's become
a big trend Nowadays to acknowledge the land
that you live on and who that land used to belong
to so for example like people A lot of people
nowadays acknowledge that they live on like a
certain indigenous tribes land and that they
don't They're only able to live here because
they were forced out the indigenous tribe was
forced out but that is a Perfect example of the
separation because They're literally only acknowledging
the label of that tribe. They're not acknowledging
the actual people well first of all the actual
people that were Pushed away are long dead now,
but like the ancestors are still alive And they
don't have direct experience of living with them.
They don't have direct experience of pushing
the people away from their land. It's a disconnection
from reality. They're acknowledging the language.
And sure, there might be people who have experienced
it. But I would still say that it's still a disconnection
because if there was a physical If there was
no disconnection then things would be very different
like people wouldn't be so Tolerant of living
like that and I am speaking as a hypocrite right
now because I live on Stolen land I and I'm still
Okay with it because I am disconnected right
now. I am not Saying things are good or bad.
I'm just pointing out things that I've observed
that I'm not sure people pay attention to and
These are so structurally Fundamental in our
mode of life that I have no possible clue on
how to go about fixing it because I don't think
the answer is to acknowledge the natives or acknowledge
the people that you're dropping a bomb on. I
don't think those are the answers. I think the
answer is going to be something a lot more fundamental.
So that's the point and how it affects our life.
Its implications on life is on our behavior is
disconnection from reality. And that is not just
the outside world. And that is also inside in
our own beings. And that brings me to the next
model that I've come up with. And this model
I came up with because I'm still injured. I injured
my foot three or four months ago during the summertime.
It's November now. And I kept re -injuring it.
I kept healing it and then re -injuring it. Healing
and re -injuring it. Like probably six times
at least by now. I should have, this injury should
have been healed probably within a week, but
I'm still injured. I have a boot on right now
actually, like a walking boot. Three months later,
I'm still injured. Like two weeks ago, I was
the worst injured. like the most injured that
I've been all three months, all three months.
And I should have healed probably less than a
week when I first got injured. And so that that
injury, this whole injury made me start thinking
about a lot of things. And one of the things
I've I thought about was like the matrix theory,
the point that I just discussed. But the the
main thing or I mean, one of the things that
directly Or that I was directly made aware of
because of this injury was something I like to
call the root cause so the root cause is So my
model it's easier for me to describe it with
a video So you can see my hand gestures, but
imagine the root cause is a circle on top and
then there are three circles underneath so a
line of three circles on the bottom, and then
a one circle on the top, which I label that one
circle the root cause, and then the three circles
on the bottom are different symptoms, different
aspects of life that the root cause is manifested
in. So, for example, the root cause, or we'll
get into the root cause, but let me describe
what I'm getting at. So, I have probably six,
at least six injuries on my body right now. They're
like chronic, a lot of them are chronic injuries.
So for example, my shoulder has been chronically
injured for the past four, four years, four to
five, like four years. And my elbow, I got nerve
damage on that, like a couple, Months ago like
in the beginning of this year my left knee Has
issues if I Overuse it sometimes My foot has
an acute injury right now that's been injured
for the past three months where I can't walk
I have to wear a boot and Even with a boot. I
can't walk longer than like a couple minutes
a day Like basically I have a bunch of injuries
on my on my body. Those are all symptoms of The
root cause Manifesting itself in the physical
aspect of my life so I Don't listen to my body
that's what the root cause is the root cause
is a Not listening to it's a disconnection from
our being a holistic sense so in the physical
sense that's where the three circles come in
the three circles are the physical sense like
movement and and eating and then Like posture
and all that stuff like movement and eating the
second circle is Emotional it's like mental.
It's all all of the all the emotional stuff all
the spiritual stuff all that stuff like internal
dialogue, emotions, soul, spirit, all of those
labels that you like are going that. And then
the third one is like social aspect, like being
in isolation or being in social settings and
just your social realm aspect of life. And the
root cause, which is the circle on top, affects
All of those, the root cause is a disconnection
from reality. And in this case, disconnection
from my own being, disconnection from my physical
sense, like my physical aspect, my mental, like
my emotional, spiritual, that aspect, and my
social aspect, disconnection from that. And the
root cause, and then a symptom. in the physical
aspect that has continually manifested for me
over the years is injuries, overuse injuries.
I don't listen to my body when I'm injured or
when I'm working out. I work out and I feel like
pain, but I keep pushing through. I work out
and I feel something that shouldn't be there
and I keep pushing through and I end up getting
injured. So that's a example of the cause manifesting
in the physical aspect. Another example is in
the eating aspect, where I'm not really doing
this that much right now. Well, actually, right
now I'm eating really fast. Like, I always eat
really fast. And especially if I fast in the
morning, like don't eat until later in the morning.
and then I eat my breakfast really fast, then
I get a really bad stomach ache for the rest
of the day, and my stomach is in a lot of pain
for the rest of the day. But I still do it, and
I ignore, I'm disconnected from the reality of
that, and I still do it, and I feel the consequences
of it very often. But a thing that I used to
do, which I don't really do that much right now,
is I would eat a lot. Like I would get really
bored. Or, like, whenever I get bored, I would
just go to the kitchen and eat food. Eat food.
Eat food. And I would feel really full, but I
would still be bored, so I would just eat food.
Eat food. Keep eating more food. And I would
get a bad, like, my stomach would be so bloated,
it would hurt, it would be uncomfortable, and
all that. That's two examples, or a couple examples,
of the physical aspect. Now, it's not just the
physical aspect. A lot of people just focus on
one thing. They just focus on, oh, I'm getting
fat. I need to pay attention to my body. Or,
oh, I exercise too much. I need to pay attention
to my body. No, no, no. It's in a holistic sense.
It's also in the mental sense. where I don't
listen to my emotions. I have a disconnection
from my emotions because I'm too focused, my
attention is too focused on my internal dialogue
or it's too focused on, or for example, there's
structural things in place to where if I do pay
attention to my emotion, I don't actually take
action on it because there's something that needs
to be done in the real world. For example, With
my my actual injury my foot injury that has continually
gotten re -injured for the past Three months
It's a pattern. So I feel my foot starting to
get a little icky and I'm like, okay Well, it's
about to get injured But then I have commitments
or I have something that I need to do which is
the structural thing that's in place For example,
the next day I might have to go to the park,
or I might have to go work, or I might have to,
whatever it is, I might have to go to class,
or whatever it is, I have a thing in place that
I have to go. So I feel the emotion, I feel the
warning signs in my emotion, like, I can feel
the emotions of my body, of my emotional being
being, getting anxiety, getting stress, all that,
I can feel those emotions, the warning signs.
But there's a structural element in play to where
I ignore the emotions so that I can pursue that
structural necessity. And what ends up happening
is I ignore that emotion and I end up re -injuring
myself. Root cause manifests in the physical
and the mental. I don't listen to my emotions.
I don't know how to listen. In the past, I didn't
listen to my desires, my real desires. And now
I am, but it's really hard to decipher between
my real desires and my not real desires. It's
hard to know what my desires are, all that stuff.
I think because of the skill has attribute in
the past because of the disconnection from From
reality the root cause is a disconnection from
reality and now in the in the social side of
things I have social warning signs like are like
signs in my body like oh I need to socialize
more or oh I may need to be isolated more right
now but I always ignore it for example like when
I was in school there were times where maybe
I needed to be maybe I need to just spend like
a period of time in isolation just so I can like
come back to equilibrium, which isolation is
still important, just not if it's only isolation.
Same thing with socializing is important. Like
socializing is a necessity. But also isolation
is important too. Because you come back to equilibrium,
you can re -entune with yourself. But like when
I was in school, there might have been times
where I needed to be in more isolated for a little
bit to come back to equilibrium, but I couldn't
because there was a structural element in play
to where I had to ignore that feeling and I had
to go to school. Another example is right now,
since I am more introverted by nature, which
I don't like those labels, introvert and extrovert,
for the same reason I don't like labels of like
Christianity or Muslim, all that stuff. And like
different reasons to like it's I feel like it's
a spectrum and I also feel like it's Debilitating
to label thing people like that like I don't
like labels like autism or ADHD and all that
stuff Because it's like debilitating or like
eating disorders eating disorder that labels
so debilitating That's I don't like the label
introvert or extrovert for a similar reason why
I don't like the label eating disorder It might
provide valuable information on how to effectively
improve, but I don't like it at the price of
the label. But that's a different topic. Basically,
what was I even saying? The example of the root
cause manifesting, oh, in the social aspect.
So it manifests in the social aspect, since I
am more introverted by nature. I lean more, if
I don't have those structural elements in play,
I lean more towards introversion, which right
now, the way I set up my life recently to make
a lot of progress in the pursuits that I wanted
to make, it led to a deficit of social skill,
or not skill, well skill, yeah, but also social,
experience socializing and That made it so that
like there are times where I'm like, okay I need
more socializing but I needed to ignore it or
not even just needed to ignore it but I just
ignored it because I just did and so that's a
disconnection from reality and A lot of the solutions
basically all the solutions that I have found
only deal with the symptoms. So for example,
like the solution in the physical and right now
I'm talking about solutions of the root cause
in a holistic sense of the physical, mental and
social aspects of life, all aspects of life.
And the solutions I found only target symptoms.
For example, like if you wanna fix that root
cause manifesting in your in it creates injuries,
like in my case, I have lots of injuries, well,
then go to physical therapy, and then you'll
heal your injuries. But it never heals the root
cause, which is the thing that made the injury
happen in the first place. And it's the thing
that will make another injury happen again in
the future. So it's not really effective. It's
really effective for fixing the injury that you
have right now, but it's not effective for fixing
anything, for fixing anything long -term or lasting
or worthwhile. Like if you want to fix your injury,
the best way is to fix the root cause so that
you don't have injuries in the future. And you
also do physical therapy so you can fix the injuries
you currently have. Then in the mental it's also
like therapy people suggest therapy or they are
like that's like an emotional side, but in like
the spiritual side people suggest like Religion
or like reading the Bible like have you read
if you tried the Bible? That's a symptom fixing
the symptom Therapy is fixing a symptom, but
it's not fixing the root cause for the same reason
that physical therapy doesn't fix the root cause
that is going to cause you to get injured again
in the future. So therapy, I've never been to
therapy, so I'm not speaking from experience,
but I'm speaking from experience of living for
20 years in the civilization that is so disconnected
from reality. So I imagine I'm making a logical
leap that therapy also similar to physical therapy
in the sense that it may not necessarily fix
the root cause and even if it did it doesn't
fix it in the holistic sense like I have issues
in the material in the physical movement eating
all that stuff in the spiritual emotional desire
like all that aspect and in the social aspect
I have issues my root cause is affecting all
of my life So I don't want to just fix one issue
I want to focus the entire I want to fix the
entire thing and I think that it's all being
um, I Think the cause of it all is Disconnection
from reality its language. It's like it's the
way that our language is just like the structural
elements of our language, it's highly disconnected
from reality and Or maybe just language in general.
But especially our language is highly disconnected
from reality. And that's why I think that that
root cause is abstraction. It's the point that
I talked about earlier. The point. Living in
the point. And so I'm not satisfied with trying
to find solutions in s - one or two aspects because
it's that by definition is not going to actually
not necessarily by definition but that in this
case is not going to fix all of it or the entire
root cause and so that brings me to two different
approaches. There's a structured approach, and
there's an improvement approach. So the structured
approach of trying to fix these issues looks
like this. So in the movement issue, if you want
the improvement, our society is all about improvement
approaches for all of this stuff. The movement,
like the physical, the mental, and the social.
It's all about improvement for everything. And
it's not about structural. So if you wanted to
improve your movement with the improvement approach,
or if you wanted to fix your movement issue with
the improvement approach, you would start working
out, you would start... Improving your posture
being mindful of your posture all that stuff
and what like some issues that come with that
is That you you'll have like there's relapse
There's a high chance of relapse like most people
that start diets or who start going to the gym.
Don't Don't stick with it and It takes a lot
of effort But if you tackle it with a structured
approach, then it looks totally different. You
would totally change your environment. For example,
in a city, like in a home, in a city, it is very
gridlocked in the sense that right now I'm sitting
in my basement. If I want to move around in the
basement, I can only move in certain places.
because there are objects in the way, which is
a normal part of reality, like whether you're
in a home or outside in the forest. But if I
want to go outside, I have to follow a predetermined
path to get out there. So I have to turn right,
go left, go up the stairs, go out the door. Like,
I can't just, like, it's a... There's a barrier
to entry. There's friction involved with going
outside. But then once you are actually outside,
which has a higher degree of freedom of movement
as opposed to inside. For example, like you can
run around. You can like go run outside, but
you can't really run inside. You'll have, you
can't like freely run like and not stop for a
while inside. You have to like run back and forth
and stop every every couple moments. But outside
you have a higher degree of freedom in movement.
But in a city that's not really true because
you can only move on sidewalks in a straight
up and down line because you can't really move
around in the street because that's dangerous.
That's like the area for cars. You can't really
move. In other people's property because that's
trespassing that's illegal but also if you even
if you could it would be inconvenient because
you'd have to like hop the fence you'd have to
like go through a bunch of obstacles like basically
the only areas that are have free degrees of
movement are sidewalks and parks and Usually
people have to walk or travel a couple blocks
to even get to the park So that's another that's
a lot of friction to achieve freedom of movement
And even in a park, you're still confined to
that area, that area of park. So that is gridlock.
That's what I like to call gridlock in the sense
that there are lots of objects, there are lots
of obstacles preventing you from achieving freedom
of movement in this instance. And so... an improvement
approach on fixing your movement issues like
fitness and all that stuff would be operating
within the gridlock like start going to the gym
start going on walks that's operating within
the gridlock keeping that gridlock element intact
but a structural approach is totally different
it would it would address the gridlock itself
And then naturally you'll fix your other movements.
And so like, for example, a solution would be
like to move out into the, into like a hundred
gathered lifestyle. And that would naturally,
you'll naturally work out all day. You'll naturally
fix your movement and all that stuff. That's
like the structural, like I'm just giving these
examples to explain. differences in approaches.
One ignores the structural thing and addresses
the symptoms and the activities, like the improvement
approach. And then the other addresses the structural
thing. And then the activities are kind of like
a byproduct of addressing the structural thing,
like in the hunter -gatherer approach. So that's
an important concept when dealing with the root
cause. All of the solutions that I have found
when dealing with the root cause in terms of
physical emotional and Social they all are improvement
approaches Which is totally fine. Like I am all
for improvement approaches but Not if that's
all you think about like it when you only think
about the improvement approach then you are not
made aware of a fundamentally different way of
operating. I have always improved my improvement
approaches, but I've also done structural approaches
too, but not to this degree. And so that's where
improvement approaches by definition never fix
the root cause. And it always is like putting
a bandaid on it. Just addressing the symptom
and it's not going to fix or prevent any Issues
in the future. So that's why I'm turned off by
a lot of the solutions proposed to me on How
to solve the root cause and another important
thing is that this root cause is not unique to
me It's actually I I feel like it's Prevalent
in everyone in the world less so in other cultures
like hunter -gatherer less document or less Documented
tribes, but like more so like very much so in
our Humans in our civilization Like if it's to
the degree of a hundred with us It's probably
like to the degree of one or like point one with
people in like a hunter -gatherer setting who
like the parahas are who I'm thinking about because
their language is Totally different and we'll
get to language in a little bit. So That's the
root cause and that's why I am turned off by
improvement approaches Now let's let's talk about
language Language is supposed to be a tool Not
a mode of operation, but in our way of life.
It is a mode of operation not a tool And so here
are an example. So the English language is very
much, it labels everything. So first of all,
it has lots of nouns. It has a label for every
object. It has a label for every phenomenon,
every possible thing. And then the And then it
also has tenses. So it has like the past tense,
the present tense, and the future. And it also
has a mathematical system, and it has a scientific
system. It has all this stuff. And let's create
a spectrum. So on one side of the spectrum is
highly abstracted, and that's English. And then
I'm not sure if English is the most abstract
language. known to man? I actually am curious.
I'm going to write that down to look that up.
What is the most abstract language? But let's
just assume that English is. I'm not sure if
it is or not, but for this conversation, let's
just assume it is. I'm really curious if it is.
And if it's not, I want to find out what is and
understand what that's all about. But basically,
Let's say English is the most abstract on the
right side of the spectrum. And then on the totally
opposite side of the spectrum is a language spoken
by the Paraha tribe, which is a hunter gatherer
tribe in the Amazon rainforest. These guys languages
or this language does not have a past tense or
a future tense. It is only in the present. And
I'm not sure if it has large amount of labels
like nouns and I also am not sure if it has labels
for things like anxiety which points to like
if they haven't needed to create a label for
that maybe it's because it's not in their environment
but basically the point is that their label let's
just stick with the tenses and they are also
in their their counting system, I think they
have like one, two, and many. I'm pretty sure
there was a guy who tried to teach them how to
count, but they literally couldn't, like grown
adults could not count. They didn't have the
faculties for it, apparently. Even though they're
still the same species as us, so they still have
the same brain, it's just that. the way their
brains have been wired because of the language.
And this is where it gets to this. My question
is, how much of our thinking and way of living,
perceiving the life, perceiving the world and
behavior is really affected by our language?
Because if I am able to count so easily, I'm
able to visualize numbers and like, Count my
reps that I'm doing without even saying the actual
number in my my head I just point straight to
the essence if I'm if I'm able to Do all that
and I was raised in the English language, which
is heavily abstracted But someone my age who
was raised who's the same species same human
being? Who was raised in a totally different
language that does not have those? that abstraction,
if they're not able to do that, they didn't develop
that skill or they don't have that way of thinking,
how much of our actions and our behavior and
our way of perceiving the world is affected by
that? So that's just something that I'm really
curious about. And that's where it gets to, I
connect it back to the point where the point
is because Our language, English, is heavily
disconnected from reality. We have past tense,
we have future tense, which by definition are
abstract. They are disconnected from reality
because the past tense is not real. Like it's
what we can talk about the past, but it's not
now. The only thing that's real is right now.
And what I mean by that is the only possible
way to convey or perceive information from the
past or the future is to use language. I'm unaware
of any examples of time travel or like being
able to perceive past or future. There might
be like dreams and stuff like that, but basically
the main way that we as a civilization do it
is through language. And that by definition is
disconnected from reality. And so whenever we
talk about the past and the future, which are
fundamental parts of our language, we are disconnected
from reality. And a lot, a huge portion of our
day -to -day life is in past tense and future
tense. Like it's really weird to say, I am making
food. Or I mean, no, that's not weird. But like,
like people usually don't like label the things
they're doing right now all the time. So if the
past and the future are so fundamental in our
language, and we are in the past and the future
a lot, which is disconnected from life, and this
other language, the Paraha language, on the opposite
side of the spectrum, they don't even have a
past or future. They are, and they are operating,
okay, let's assume that we are operating in a
mode of language. Our language is heavily disconnected
from reality. It has lots of labels, has lots
of tenses. The Paraha language is not heavily
disconnected from reality. They only tell stories
about things that have happened to them, like
things they've actually experienced. They only
have a present tense, which is happening right
now. If they're operating in that mode, They're
only in present and all of the benefits in like
neuroscience and like psychology have been documented
on like presence and mindfulness How different
of their way of life is it to ours simply because
they have a different language now? Yeah, they
they have a different environment too, but like
The different language I think is an important
factor now. Obviously the environment is a very
important factor too, but right now I'm talking
about language so That's just something I've
been so fascinated about lately. Just how different
is it? I can't even comprehend how, and it's
impossible to speculate. You have to experience
it for yourself, which I have not experienced
it for myself. But it's just so fascinating to
me, something I've been really curious about.
Yeah, that is language and now I Still on the
topic of language. I started learning Spanish
like maybe one or two months ago But I was really
only just learning a bunch of vocab words because
my strategy was I just wanted a bunch Learn a
bunch of vocab words to lay a foundation for
when I went to Mexico which I want to go to Mexico
and Once I feel my foot in like January maybe
Was gonna lay that foundation memorize thousands
of words and then go to Mexico and immerse myself
because I thought that was the best way to learn
But I actually discovered a real way to like
or not a real way because both are both work
but a Way faster way more effective way more
efficient way and a way you don't have to go
to Mexico to learn Spanish and so I started that
method maybe like one or two weeks ago Probably
like nine days ago actually or less than two
weeks ago. I bet Less than two weeks ago. Basically,
it's where you memorize thousands of sentences
And not just memorize them but internalize them
so review them every day so that you immediately
can recall them and then you listen to them Basically,
I found the guy. He's a polyglot. His name is
like superglot Mikkel on YouTube or something
like that, or Hyperglot Mikkel. I don't know,
but he can speak 12 languages. He has a website
called Natural Language Learning, and I went
through his seven -day course, and right now
I'm going through his 30 -day course. And basically,
the three things that are important are learning
a bunch of sentences, having a bunch of listening
input. Then having speaking practice with feedback
and so what I've been doing is Memorizing hundreds
of sentences so far. I've memorized like right
now. I'm doing like 50 a day today I'm taking
a full rest day from Spanish, but Right now I'm
doing 50 a day for four days and then for two
days. I I learned the opposite so like I do 50
a day with English -facing flashcards, so I have
to generate the Spanish to learn 200 sentences
and then for two days I basically learned those
same 200 kind of like review but with Spanish
-facing flashcards so I kind of confirm like
and solidify that doesn't really matter basically
I'm learning a bunch of sentences a day and he
said and then that's to learn a bunch of sentences
and then you have to have massive input not just
random videos quite yet, but have like he gave
text to speech files of in a really good voice
over AI in Spanish with a clear voice sounds
natural saying all the sentences that we're learning.
And so you memorize the sentences and then you
listen to them actively throughout the day or
passively throughout the day. And then that confirms
it, and it also gets it so that you learn it.
But then once you hear it, eventually you'll
be able to start understanding what it's saying
without having to translate it to English first.
And that's started to happen with me already.
And so that is the listening, massive listening
input. And then speaking practice is like pronouncing
correctly, speaking fast. also having feedback
with your speaking so that's like what the flashcards
are about all about where you can see the English
sentence and then translate it to Spanish out
loud and then you immediately get feedback on
what you got right and what got you got wrong
which you don't get in conversations even with
a tutor so that's why I like it a lot Because
I was doing tutors for like four days straight
on baseline like two weeks ago, but then I realized
that I needed to focus on my Sentences I needed
to do this method for a little while until I
learned a bunch of sentences worked on my pronunciation
and then talk with tutors But yeah, that's so
basically I've made more progress learning Spanish
in the past one or two weeks than I have in the
past month before that, just doing flashcards
with single words. Single word flashcards are
terrible, because I learned 1 ,200 words and
hundreds of conjugations. But then once I actually
started talking with a tutor, I didn't know how
to use any of them. So I basically learned nothing.
But now that I'm learning sentences, I actually
know how to use them, and it's a different story.
And so I've learned more. In the past two weeks
of using this method of Spanish, it made more
progress than I have in over a decade of learning
Spanish, like in school and on my own. Like in
middle school, I would practice on my own. And
in high school, I would practice on my own. And
also over the past month learning in isolated
vocab terms, which is such a terrible way. Like
you don't learn anything that way. And so Yeah,
that's I'm actually learning Spanish for real
this time. So yeah, and I'm excited about that
and Yeah, all right. So now this is the last
thing I want to talk about Why I'm not Christian
I I never really cared for Christianity even
when I was growing up like I I was taught to
care about it, but I never really like It was
always kind of weird to me. And then once I read
a book called Reality Transurfing, that's when
I was like, okay, yeah, I'm not this. That's
when I began to be able to articulate why I didn't
want to be that. But lately, I actually have
a better explanation of why I'm not Christian.
And over the course of the months and years,
I always have better and better explanations.
I'm able to articulate it better. But right now,
I just wanted to say what I have right now, why
I'm not Christian right now. So there's two important
aspects, labels and faith. So labels is Christianity
is a label itself, but also all of Christianity
operates within the point, which is just labels.
And then the other aspect is faith. Faith is
like a primary behavior of Christianity. It's
a one of the most important behaviors to cultivate
in yourself in order to be a Christian. So the
going back to so with the first part with labels.
When you point at something people in our culture
know immediately to look at the thing you're
pointing to so they their attention is directed
at your your finger for a split second and then
their and their attention is immediately directed
to the essence like the actual object that you're
pointing to and It's the same thing with text
where when people read a book or they read a
sentence like The pen was gray. Their attention
is not stuck on the sentence. They immediately
visualize or they immediately understand from
their experience the essence of a gray pen, if
that makes sense. So like I'm using a direct
analogy of the way that pointing operates is
the same as the way labels, like words operate,
where it's just the pointer, the finger itself
is not the thing to be studied, the thing to
be studied or paid attention to is the thing
that it's pointing to. And same thing with labels,
like words themselves are not the things that
are supposed to be studied, but it's the thing
that's paid attention to. And the thing that
has always turned me off about Christianity is
that one of the main behaviors, another main
behavior of Christianity is words. Whether it's
reading the Bible, going to the church and listening
to the sermon and all that stuff. And also the
scholars that we so praise are the people who
have studied the words for decades. Those are
the people and like the priests the pastors They're
the ones who have studied the words for decades
And so the thing that I'm turned off about Christianity
is that It's very much stuck our attention is
very much stuck focused on the words on the label
on the finger and That's extremely Like that's
um, that's also very relevant or prevalent Because
a lot of words we actually don't know What it's
pointing to so like when I read the apple was
green. I Know exactly what it's describing I
can immediately visualize a Green apple and I
just from experience just from being able to
just know You know what I mean? There is no friction
between the word and the essence it's pointing
to. But there are some key fundamental words
in Christianity, and I'm sure in other religions
too, that there's a lot of friction that's involved
and a lot of rational leaps in order to Get to
the essence. For example, faith, God, sin. So
if someone asks what sin is, usually people describe
another definition. They give another definition.
If you ask what sin is, they can't. And it's
really abstract. It's like separation from God.
OK, well, what's God? It's breath. It's Yahweh,
it's wind, it's your heartbeat. That's not really
something that has a direct essence that I can
connect to. And from all of my years of being
raised in Christianity and exposed to all that
stuff, the thing that I really think about of
what is God is this energy. Right now I'm like
picturing in like a dark pitch black realm, but
like this golden energy that's like full of life
and it's vibrant. That's like kind of the essence
that I'm describing, that I'm visualizing. But
it's not, but it's stuck in like the abstract,
if that makes sense, where like the apple, I
can immediately picture something tangible or
real. something that's not so tangible like love
I still can immediately feel a feeling or like
know what that feeling of love is but like um
with God first of all it's depicted as like a
humanoid thing which is very symbolic so I can't
really picture that very much, but I Mean I can
picture it but not in not in reality not connected
to something tangible or something I can feel
And then with faith faith is like when you're
asked what faith is its belief in something that's
not That you don't necessarily understand or
you don't necessarily know is real. And so this
gets to the next part. Okay, so basically, the
first part of why I'm turned off by Christianity
is, and just any religion in general, and spiritual
system too, is because they focus way too much
on the words. And a lot of times the words are
abstract, and you don't really have something
to connect it to. And the arguments that people
get into are usually arguments over words. People
use the Bible to prove their point, but one person
can use it for something and another person can
use it for a totally opposite, contradictory
cause to that other person. And they're both
right, because the Bible says both of those things.
Or at least, Parts of the Bible do and so basically
I'm turned off by the Bible because it's stuck
in the point Or not just the not the Bible. I've
never read the Bible, but I'm turned off by Christianity
because it's stuck in the point and then how
it actually is important is the second part of
my explanation is deals with faith where faith
is like the holy grail almost of Christianity
where Lot of times you just need faith just have
faith like that's what people say just have faith
and Or it's like a really important part but
the implications of the way that it's used in
modern -day Christianity is Debilitating so let's
let's create an analogy So I'm an American I've
I live in America. I've never been to Sweden
But I have faith that that country exists I have
been told information I've been it's been described
to me I've read articles. I've read books About
Sweden now connecting this analogy to Christianity.
I have faith that heaven exists or You can interchange
that with God or heaven or whatever you want.
I have faith that X thing in Christianity exists.
So I have faith that heaven exists. I have been
told descriptions of it. I have seen pictures
of it. I've seen artist interpretations of it.
I've read books about it, I've read passages
about it, I have had words, sentences, I've read
sentences that describe it, word pictures, all
of that stuff. I have a, I have lots of information
about it in the point. And I have faith that
it exists. Now going back to the Sweden example,
I have faith that Sweden exists. but Let's say
that I actually take a ticket and Go to Sweden
that was made possible because first of all I
was told that Sweden exists because I didn't
know it exists before that I probably was never
gonna know it exists and So because I was told
that information now I can go to Sweden and go
check it out for myself But now once I actually
check it out for myself. I don't need faith because
I know that it exists. And I also don't need
all the descriptions because now I have infinite
information. It's going back to the point and
it's going back to the point and like staying
in the point and infinite reality. Once you have
an experience of something, it is an infinite,
it's part of infinite reality now. And now it
doesn't need to be a Now you don't need to be
solely focused on the point. And then relating
this back to the Christian analogy, I have faith
that heaven exists. Oh, but wait. I actually
can't get there until I die. So I have to have
faith to the very last moment. Very well, my.
It very well could be my last opportunity to
actually go to heaven, because how is it possible
that people who are alive described heaven if
they've never been there? But this is just an
example. If my very last opportunity, I have
to hold faith. In practice, in modern day Christianity,
you have to hold faith until you die, and then
you can go to heaven. Now we don't need to get
into like the theological discussions like people
disagree on that doesn't matter basically the
point is that in real life I can have faith in
Sweden and then I can go to Sweden and Once I'm
actually in Sweden. That's the real thing. I'm
not focused on the finger like pointing at something
I'm experiencing the real thing and then and
it's possible to go to the real thing but Christianity,
it's like debilitating because we have to satisfy
ourselves with just faith. We have to satisfy
ourselves with just the finger. Faith is supposed
to be a tool to be able to direct our attention
to the real thing and to be able to experience
and perceive the real thing. But staying in faith
the way that it's practiced in modern -day Christianity
is debilitating because we are keeping our attention
locked on the finger and that is why that's a
big thing that I'm turned off about Christianity
because you have people that study the Bible
for like decades and they still have never experienced
like they've probably experienced less than like
a child in terms of like spiritual stuff and
so that's like that's a just Something that's
so curious to me how in Christianity No one like
we are just stuck on on the point We're stuck
in the point and we never go to heaven until
after we die which very well could be our last
opportunity I'm not I don't know if it is or
not, but like That doesn't matter So that's that's
what Just so fascinating to me Because the only
reason why it Because knowing about Sweden is
Not the same as being in Sweden It's literally
a qualitative different different thing and it's
hard to visualize that but the best way to visualize
that is the difference between a lamp and the
finger that the and and the or the difference
between a finger and the the lamp that the finger
is pointing to So like the finger is something
qualitatively different than the lamp and that's
the same thing with knowing about Sweden is something
qualitatively different than being in Sweden
and actually Experiencing Sweden for yourself
in the same way that the finger is different
to the lamp and it's the same thing with knowing
about heaven and actually experiencing it for
yourself and It's debilitating because no one
even realizes that you can go because there's
no procedure and Because no one does it But I
mean I've read stories about people doing it
in real life and like or like people experiencing
it and like and lots of different procedures
so there's definitely procedures, but It's that's
why I that's why I'm not Christian because the
Christian in practice is debilitating. Christian
in practice is a label, the word Christian is
a label itself, but also it's restricting you
to the point. You have to have faith and stay
in the point. And so, no modern day Christian
that I have met, not a single Christian that
I have met, has achieved levels of skill in Christianity
that have been depicted in the Bible stories,
for example. Like the disciples, like one of
the disciples could walk on water. Like Paul
walked on water, literally walked on water. Like
how much skill is that? Let's just say that Jesus'
skill was like 99. Then Paul he was able to walk
on water. So maybe he reached like skill level
60 and then like the other guys They were all
able to like heal people. So maybe they reached
like level like level 40 But like the modern
-day Christian I'd say is like level one like
not exaggerating like level one Like no one and
so that's why I'm not a Christian because it's
stuck on level one and people think they're making
people don't even Yeah, like basically that that's
why that's why I'm not a Christian because in
practice it's all about Staying in one just the
way that it's set up the the nature of the point
and the nature of faith. It's like a It's like
a parrot. It's not a paradox, but it's a trap.
It's a double -sided trap where the structure
of The though Christianity itself exists on paper
in the point And like in order to be a Christian
you have to read the papers or you have to hear
through words how to do it. And usually people
determine who is more Christian or more advanced
of a Christian in terms of who knows more about
the Bible, who can talk more theologically. So
a fundamental piece of it is that you have to
know more and more point, like language, relating
to it. But then important behavior that you need
to adopt is faith. That stuff exists. but it's
a double -sided trap because you need faith that
these words exist, but there is no procedure
to go experience it yourself. So in practice,
Christianity is stuck at level one in principle
and in practice. Well, not necessarily in principle
because there are Bible stories of people like
walking on water so and like people separating
an entire ocean and letting a bunch of slaves
walk across and then collapsing it on top of
an army like that was a different guy to Jesus
and that is just as much of a A miracle or godly
feat so but basically That's why I'm turned off
on Christianity because it's stuck in the point
and because it's stuck on level one. Yeah. And
we're basically taught to accept a lot lesser.
Like the miracles, the standards that the ancestors,
the people in the Bibles set for us, the standards
for quality of miracles, like walking on water
or duplicating food, loaves of bread. healing
people or Being resurrected like all that stuff
like coming alive from the dead which Jesus Did
it himself and then some other person was resurrected
from the dead But those are the standards of
miracles not like oh My but my bike was stolen
and I I was in a hard time That stuff wasn't
written about in I mean, maybe it was I don't
know I never read the Bible But like the the
standard that they set are like level 99 level
Miracles like healing people duplicating loaves
of bread the level 99 level miracles, but we
have been conditioned to accept Level one miracles
like oh my bike was stolen and then I Saw it
was returned next to my trash can the next morning
like that's a level one miracle if you're comparing
it to like walking on water like like i literally
could have pulled a prank on somebody now i'm
not saying this is what happened but like uh
i'm just giving this example to where you can
explain things any way um i could have literally
achieved the same result through material means
of like pulling a prank on my friend stealing
their bike during a Hard dark period of their
life and then the next day return it on at their
trash can and so that's a miracle to them But
I literally did that through material means you
can't oh I mean actually you can do that with
walking on water like there's pranks on YouTube
But people like setting up a carpet they can't
really see underneath a lake and then you walk
on it but basically like Like a lot of the materials
are a lot of the miracles that are level 99.
You can't You can't fake or like you can't get
the same result not fake. You can't get the same
result through material means Or at least the
same it's not the same thing Just like it's not
the same thing to pull a prank on my friend and
steal his bike and then return it to Like God
Performing a miracle and returning the bike.
That's not the same thing. They're different
but comparing the God miracle of the bike to
the miracle of walking on water that's like level
one to level 99 and we have we're stuck at level
one and we're stuck accepting level one miracles
and it's that's why I'm not a Christian so yeah
all right peace