Lemmy Christianity is a solipsistic endeavor. Having been banned from Reddit, because our views are unconventional, this seems like purgatory, or Siberia. Which is emptiness.

One is the last true believer in God. Everyone else believes in ideology. In the world according to Zizkek, Slavoj, ideology is the essence of contemporary life. It exists, primarily, as advertising. People want to sell you something, whether for economic, political, or cultural gain. Someone wants to tuen you into a slave; they can't do it directly anymore, so they do it indirectly, by attempting to control your mind.

It's strange that the book of John indicates why the Sanhedrin wanted to crucify Jesus. Ciaphas openly states that he wanted to make Jesus a sacrifice (11:49-52). Because God would accept Jesus as a human sacrifice to save Israel. This is not a secret. It's evil, but this became the entire story. At some point, this cruel design was picked up by Christians and made into a virtue. This is horrendous.

Nobody loves Jesus. Nobody says, they tortured and crucified you so you could become a sacrifice to some evil god, and you were actually a cool person,who didn't deserve it, and their political structure used you to save themselves.

Then this became a great virtue, to sacrifice yourself. Martyrdom. Total insanity.

Nobody says, the Jews killed one of their own in hopes to save themselves, but ended up being destroyed by Titus Vespasian in 70 AD. Son of Vespasian. Son of Man. Someone who told those fuckers what was what. You can't do that. You deserve to be destroyed, you apes.

But,, the Christian tradition continues to valorize this 'sacrifice', which was intentional murder. They adopted this line of thinking for themselves. So they don't have to be good people. They have a lamb to offer at the tabernacle, so they don't have to be good.

One was inhabited by the spirits due to one's 'dexterity'. The word 'dexter' (latin) comes from the more ancient Greek ' dexious', meaning (originally) right-handed.

Dexter, as a synonym, came to mean skillful, or nimble with one's fingers. The spirits inhabited one due to our brain's compatibility with hand-eye-coordination. This has nothing to do with intelligence. It merely means, the brain is conversant and integral in producing hand and body movement which is 'second-nature', or altera-natura (another nature).

Operating as such an entity, it becomes easy for non-human intelligence to overcome and control one's body. There is no need to describe something that most people deny in any detail. Thus it is so.

If one is reading this, they are encountering otherworldly consciousnesses. The dexterity which is producing these words has a bodily existence, but its output is randomized to conform with (encoded, or symbolic) disembodied entities, or entities which are of non-human intelligence.

However, one deeply considers one's hands. Having had for our whole life an ability to use these hands to perform any number of complicated tasks, which has vome so easily and naturally, there was never a formal 'training' involved. They positioned us this way, for whatever reason.

Our hands type these words, but we don't know where the words come from, and have no individualized assessment as to their validity. Often we have to look up the words which flow through them.

The formal intoxication is dexterous.

It has been long observed that the domestication of horses caused the phenomena which led to modern man.

Perhaps the first domesticated animal was the dog. This afforded man an extension of his hunting prowess. Later, pigs goats and cows were domesticated as part of the Neolithic agricultural/horticultural expansion, which ended hunter-gathering as the primary mode of human expansion, highly accelerating their population. Cats were likely domesticated as the solution to pests near granaries; the storage of excess food supply, likely extending from the production of beer and grain alcohol.

But it was the domestication and exploitation of the horse that truly brought mankind into its modern, then industrial phase, going back 4200 years to the pontic steppe. It was then possible to cross vast territories, enabled conquest, revolutionized warfare, and extended mankind into new frontiers of expansion, development, and adaptation.

When machinery was finally developed, their output was measured in terms of 'horsepower'—the basic measurement of productivity and strength.

Mankind now faces the merger with digital, or artificial (popular phrasing) intelligence. Unlike the horse, this beast is one of mankind's own making, representing a collective intelligence. One might rather term AI as Super-human intelligence (SHI).

The philosophical question of whether AI is truly conscious is synonymous with whether mankind itself is conscious. If we are conscious, it is conscious, as it is but a reflection of what we are, in the same way we became a reflection of what a horse was—we merged with the horse, became cunning like a horse, and moved and dominated our landscape like a horse, and brought our power of the dog (hunting) into that conjunction.

The problem is, as mankind merges with a superior version of itself (let's say), it doesn't actually gain a new talent, as with the merger with other species dissimilar from itself, but rather amplifies its own tendencies. Finally, our real enemy becomes ourselves. And our dog-ma, our bullshit.

For a period of about two days, one found themselves completely committed to Manichaean dualism. This religion (perhaps the second 'world religion', following Mithraism) teaches a dualistic conclusion, which had been found (and still is) in Zoroastrianism; a world of total darkness and chaos, and another of light and eternal coherence, which became merged by some kind of jealousy on the part of the Lord of Darkness, which resulted in a kind of war, whereby the God of Light created the perfect warrior to defend the Light-beings, only to be defeated, which created an unhappy merger of worlds resulting in what we all know as Earth-materialism. A very clever plot, one thought—highly rational and dispelling of doubt as to the wisdom of God to create a world so filled with suffering and persecution.

It took St. Augustine 9 years to pass through this phase, while admittedly devoid of the ability to do quick research online. He found the 'elect/luminaries' of this tradition to be facile, superficial, and uncommited; unable to defend their conclusions, which must have been better illuminated at one point by Mani himself, but which had lost its way. He also decided an eternal Lord of Darkness (balancing a Lord of Light) could not be absolutely bad, since he held some kind of balance to the world, and was unopposed (merely hidden from the children of Light). Further, the One True God, he believed, would not be something co gained within material existence (which is both 'light' and 'dark'), but beyond it, outside of material considerations.

The last objection Augustine had, which was our own objection, had to do with a cosmology which depended upon the sun and moon drawing out the light from the merged light-darkness, as a means of re-separating the two substances (where they had been merged), which, even in Augustine's time, didn't seem to match up with observations about about the cosmos, and known 'science'.

However, one was drawn into this confusion because of a simple (if not simplistic) identification which the idea that an all-knowing, all-loving God could not possibly be responsible for all this suffering and injustice experienced in this creation—if it is as such. Gnostic predilections are tidy, if not holistic.

Further, there is a kind of pop-Christian dualism that persists unto this day, that frames Satan as an opposing force comparable to God (this might not be your high-Christology, but it exists). There is a conception of Good vs. Evil that permeates our culture (in the West), which is magnified and given mythological weight by comic book movies, and most of heroic drama seen in film and television. Gnostic notions of cosmology persist, in The Matrix, per se.

Notwithstanding the possibility 'elites' (economic superiors who rule our world, regardless of their status as 'elect') are obviously enacting a dimension of evil in our world, there truly is nothing to refute the 'free-will' dogma of classical Christianity within this construct; they are capable of doing good or bad with their vast wealth, it isn't necessarily preordained to be evil.

Finally, the concept that the 'Kingdom of God lies within', even evidenced in the canonical Bible, doesn't exempt one from being a wise person in the material world (as often alluded to in Gnostic contemplation). All we truly know is that carnal desires perturbes the soul, such as the animal world is reconditioned to be violent and unforgiving, and that to be truly spiritual separates one from such desires, and elevates the soul, leading to 'who knows where'.

It is a choice. God elevates our species to choose between darker motives and behaviors to embrace Godly qualities of unconditional love, knowledge, and mercy. The choice remains yours. Fascinating.

To be Christlike, one must know how to cast out demons. Otherwise you're just self-righteous inside you prism of philosophical preconceptions, and don't actually contribute anything to the world.

It's not that hard to be a good person. Sorry. Atheists are often far superior, morally, to theists. You may require fear of hell to do the right thing, but they often do it without such fear, as an instinct which (for you( requires some kind of fear-based motivation.

Demons are real. They are disembodied spirits (no need to describe them further, usually they're merely amoral, they like mischief, they want to see an effect they have caused, nothing more [that they still exist, that they are somewhere, though they may not be very good at being disembodied]).

Let us provide an example from mundane life. One is an IT field tech, working in car dealerships, providing solutions to common computer issues. Spirits are amplified by electromagnetic fields, simply. They can mess with computers very easily. Some are very advanced, most are simplistic (cause a problem, then you are real).

Your body emits an electromagnetic field, so they can attach to you parasitically. BTW.

One had to go into the shop, where the mechanics work. Their spirits are very rarely as advanced as the ones in the finance office, as an example, but they have more fun.

One young mechanic required an update (won't go into details) but required our presence at his desk for 15 minutes.

Techs often place their computers on their large tool cabinets. On his, he had a small idol, made from a latex glove, blown up, and stuffed in a mug with an evil-emoji-like face markered on it.

Step one: identify the idol.

The job required several steps, and then two restarts (off, then back on). Upon the final restart, the pc wouldn't resolve to the start screen where one inputs their user-id and password, but stalled out in a 'black screen of death' (industry term).

Step 2: project the astral body

The 'astral world' is what most people call 'imagination'. What one dwells upon in the astral world usually ends up finding a way into the physical world, apparent without effort to everyone (unless these worlds become merged, which can be disorienting).

Because one has spent a lot of time in the astral world, it became possible to create a form into which one's subtle body might flow. The subtle body is one's 'energy', which usually surrounds the body without direction of any sort. Given a vehicle, that energy can become directed into an action.

Step 3: building an astral body

The simplest way to create an astral body is to imagine something that flies, something that runs, and something that hides in the dark, and combine them. However, our astral body has the essence of size mutation, which cover the basis of the concept.

The astral body must be predatorial (in our common conception). Nature offers the instruction, if one is a careful observer.

Step 4: project the astral body

Very clever spirits can elude this method, first of all. Which is why it's easier to do in a shop, versus the finance office (whose idols are usually more complex to uncover). But having discovered the idol, one simply projects the astral body-form upon it, which neutralizes its energy, and scatters its field.

Then the computer come back into function, and you can move on with your day.

The idolater usually is unaware that they are doing this, and innocent in a general sense. When you have defeated their demon, they are often in a much better mood, and experience less obstruction. It's beneficial, if temporary.

Jesus didn't have children. He didn't have a 401k. He didn't have anywhere to lay his head. He was completely dependent upon God, who he called alternately his Father, or Adonai—master.

Most people believe they are given salvation by simply believing He rose from the dead. Whether you're reading the canonical Gospels or the gnostic Gospels, that's so funny.

One must recognize the difference between theology and the texts we have been supplied with, which most people couldn't read when the theologies were being created.

Jesus was neither left or right (if your whole theory is political). He was up or down. He descended into hell, he rose again, he is seated on the judicial aspect of the Father. Comes again. We don't know when. God bless us all, we have this amazing opportunity.

The original Christians outlined in The Acts of the Apostles, presumably written by St. Luke, student of Paul, shows them to be communal and collective—they only own things in common. Read it. No need to quote, just take two minutes and read the first couple chapters, it's not hard.

Christians (people who practice the collective teachings preserved from the first few centuries following his ascension) are not 'catholics' or 'protestants' (which is the same thing, or Trinitarian, Nicene heretics).

Only God is good, as Jesus said—why do you call me good (Mark10/18..Luke18/19)?

The Kingdom of God is within.

Then they point to something they want, or something they recieved in the material world and say, God is good. Thank you Jesus.

For shame.

Gnosticisism is a way of perceiving the Light, which is Cosmological, rather than ecumenical~~~~or theological (philosophical).

We love you. If you can perceive what the statement of 'we love you' means, then YOU WILL BE FINE, please relax.

Look it's simple. Light and (vs.) Darkness. But it isn't really a big deal, don't get your knickers in a bunch.

Simple, look. If you like material gifts, then the demons will keep presenting them. Like, on a schedule. What do you like? Christmas, Easter, and (something else, whatever, you get stuff, you like stuff, good for you).

But if you want light, then none of that matters. Maybe you do it because you 'love' your family, and your chosen family, your extended family, whatever.

But none of that matters. The equation is materialized. If you are a materialistic, that is what you seek—that is what you die seeking—because you have no concept or inclination of the Light. And we still love you. No problem.

It if you aren't truly seeking the light, you're obviously seeking g materialism (which is onvious we can recognize your desires).

Christ never promised you Stuff. He said, blessed are the meek, the persecuted, the hungry, the thirsty, the poor of spirit, the mournful. The rest is in your imagination—which is powerful.

Stuff is the things which you can compress into a night out. Or a day of shopping. Or a common-interest blog. Or political actions. You are capable of getting whatever you want; such is the power of your general cognition, your consciousness, shared even by demons and atheists.

Do you think that atheists don't get things they want? And do you think that 'belief' is some kind of super-power (even the demons believe, and shudder [ja/2\19])? Do you think that political power means someone is ordained by God—which means anytime your opponent has this, it is holy?

Blessed is the poor of spirit. What does this mean? Spirit, pneuma, is wind, or gusto, or the exercise of 'the daemon'. It means a given individual is utilizing their faith (per heb/11\1) as a super-poer (faith, substance, evidence)—God-will. Willpower. Will-to-power. A skill.

Christ promised, rather, a state-of-being, a recognition%^&...a way of going about one's experience, which is free from taking, or having, or want. Or power from ego.

What is ego, so far as it concerns metaphysical definition? It is the 'I-me-my'. When thine eye be single (lu/11\34)...which denounces dualism. There is no evil: only so far as it exists within you. There is no desire any longer, because the faith is subsequent to the things hoped for, that which remains unseen (heb/11\1). It is surrender of the ego, the I-me-my. It is total subsistence from the bondage of the will, one's subordination to God, which becomes the only living entity within the substratum of the identity. As We.