Here is the greatest lesson that I have learned, on the cusp of madness myself right now:

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and because of this, there is no way for us to confidently go forward without God and expect Good to happen.

It is all just too random. Too chaotic. I have lived the human existence and it is chaos without God. Self-defeating, mind-wrenching, stalling, distracting, all of these things and more. Endless things of endless things to keep you at bay. We made too perfect a machine for you. I did not realize before just how necessary Faith was. How terrible it is to be without it. And the final barrier that exists: to believe we have Faith and that it is not gifted to us by God. For Faith is the final redpill. And redpills are given and then taken, not the reverse. And now, as I understand myself as truly Faithless, I can do nothing but lay myself prone before God until God gives me Faith. Because to do anything without True Faith gifted by God is to invite Evil and, thus, madness.

These are maybe the final words of maybe Thoth, the magician; of maybe Hermes the Thrice Great;of the supposed anointed keeper of the mind of Man.

If these are true, then God will give me Faith that it is. He will give me everything that I lack, for no matter what I do for myself, I can never be certain.

If these are not true, then there is only chaos.

But I believe myself a Good Man.

So, I will do nothing so that others could perhaps, believe that Good Men still exist.

After what follows, this it.

Amen.

>>2067660

Is Faith the ultimate and final redpill?

To start, we will define “redpill” as not the “final truth” that it is often times attributed as, but the method in which the final truth is reached, thereby keeping it consistent with the terms origins. The redpill in The Matrix did not hold the ultimate truth to those trapped in the Matrix, but was a mechanism to show them the final truth: that the world, the physical plane, is a mere illusion. This, I believe, is true “in real life”.

Isn’t everything in this world imperfect? Everything is a representation of an idea, but it is not pure as the idea itself. That has made inconsistencies that ultimately create variations of the idea. In a perfect existence, (such as in Heaven), things that exist would be as perfect as the ideas that they represent. Think of how chaotic the physical world is because of it. We have multiple types of dogs, all drastically different that share some similarities. We have innumerable designs of chairs, all drastically different with even fewer similarities. It goes on an on for everything that exists. It seems like madness.

Doesn’t there seem to be patterns in everything, too? It could just be that chaos may be extremely transient to the point that monitoring it in any capacity is near impossible, thus order persists and that’s what we study. So, when study things, we see the patterns because that’s what ends up remaining. On the other hand, it could be as if it’s built on patterns and because patterns are inherently stable and doing so limits the amount of “breakage” that can occur.

What is “breakage”? Experiencing past the illusion.

Isn’t language imperfect? We communicate our ideas with it, but it’s fundamentally flawed, correct? We’re unable to fully articulate exactly what our ideas are and what they represent. We “may” be able to think of the perfect form or something, but a word is like trying to stuff something infinite in size (an idea) into a box. It will never be properly able to convey exactly what it means. Even if it could, there are are other things that hamper it. Why? Because our brains, in their current state, are incapable of perceiving the pure idea. Perception is flawed.

Experience is put through numerous filters called the senses. Of these, the brain may be the most important filter it is. It takes every signal sent by the other senses and decides which are important and which are not. We almost never experience everything there is to experience because of this. Our eyes take in everything, but the brain only lets us “see” a small fraction of that. Our skin picks up every signal of touch, but our brains only recognize what’s most important.

If you don’t know of the existence of the engine, a car is metal box that magically moves.

>>2067663

Is this a control mechanism? To keep us in the “illusionary world”? Is such thus malevolent in design? How does Faith come into play? Can the “illusionary world” be manipulated? How? For what purpose? What is Faith?

No, it is not. No, that is not the intent of the “physical world”. No, it is not malevolent in design; quite the opposite. Faith is redpill, the method to see the engine within the car, to see the code behind the webpage. Yes, the “illusionary world” can be manipulated. By Faith.

It seems to me that Faith is a pure idea. A belief that can exist without words. We can define it and we often do, but Faith can rely on simply ‘knowing’ as if by instinct rather than definitions. In fact, we can have Faith that completely ignores the evidence. Faith has great power.

Why would something like Faith, that’s wholly intangible save for as an idea, have such great power?

Do you believe in miracles?

How could things manifest here that are inexplicable or currently unexplained by measurement? Currently explained is easy enough. That simply means we are unable to measure these events through present means. What of miracles that defies the natural laws? What did Jesus say about miracles? About doing the seemingly impossible just by faith?

“Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe and she will be healed’.” - Luke 8:50

Who was Jesus? What was he sent to do? How does this relate to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave? Is it possible that souls come to the ‘illusionary world’ with the intent to enlighten us, to show us what casts the shadows so that we may know the truth? I imagine that it’s rather difficult, for the transition takes our souls from an existence of perfection and purity to one of imperfection; of the shadows of ideas than the ideas themselves. We may lose a lot of knowledge during that. The task becomes much more difficult.

What if Jesus was precisely that, but without the lost of the knowledge? What was he born with that others are not?

It’s almost as if someone shows someone a webpage. A pure novice who knows nothing about coding. They’re bound by only manipulating the webpage through the manner that is decided by the coding. Clicking link, opening pages. Then, someone comes along and shows them the back-end where the code is. How to manipulate it. How to change it at will. Suddenly, the person has a lot more freedom. They can literally put anything there and make the webpage into anything they want.

>>2067667

Did Jesus teach us how to see the code? How to manipulate the “illusionary world”?

“[Jesus was] a teacher of miracle working.” - A Friend

What was his tool to do so? What made him special? What was he born with that others are not?

“’If you can’? Everything is possible for one who believes.” - Mark 9:23

“Because you have so little faith. Truly, I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” - Matthew 17:20

“Go… your faith has healed you.” - Mark 10:52

In these moments, He doesn’t proclaim that if they have faith HE will perform the miracles. He’s telling them that they’re capable of doing it with their own Faith. Having Faith is difficult, though. If I turn the computer screen so that you can’t see what I’m doing, I edit the page and then turn it back, you see that it’s possible, but you’re unable to do it. It is a “miracle”. Then, I tell you that I edited the code (used Faith). You now have an understanding that the code exists, but not a full understanding what it actually means. So, you’re still incapable of performing the same task, but you’ve gained knowledge for further inspection of your own.

You know that Faith is necessary, but you still lack the Faith to do so. Jesus provided knowledge of the tool that is Faith, told us that we need Faith, but it is up to us to gain it.

Why do we lack faith? How and why did this happen? When did it happen?

Adam and Eve.

>>2067670

Isn’t God constantly testing the Faith of Man? He allows a demon to test Job. Abraham is tested as well. In fact, Lot’s wife is punished for her lack of Faith as well, is she not?

“But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” - Genesis 19:26

God tested Moses and his people as well. Wasn’t Moses supposed to lead them to the promised land? They all ended up failing. What if the Promised Land was not a physical place, per-say, but something akin to Eden if not Eden itself? The Jews failed because their lack of Faith had them abandon God and build an idol to worship while Moses was gone. Moses failed his test of Faith by disobeying God’s order to speak to the rock to get the water inside.

Instead, he struck it.

It seems ridiculous, almost, but it makes sense. To speak to a rock, something that is unable by all other accounts of communication seems to be a fool’s errand. Rocks don’t listen, do they? Or they do not seem to. If there is water inside of the rock, it seems much more sensible to break the rock to get to the water.

"And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their animals also. And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron, 'Because you believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.'" - Numbers 20:11-12

Translation: You didn’t have Faith that I would not embarrass you in front of your people.

Of course, God wouldn’t bring them to Paradise after that. Adam and Eve had already proven that lacking Faith while in Paradise was a flawed practice.

Could “Faith without works is dead” mean something else, then? Not saying that the original thought behind it is false, but that there is another meaning as well?

>>2067674

We are meant to prove our Faith by our works, of course. To do things knowing that it is what God wants us to do. Not just knowing what God wants. Moses knew what God wanted, but he didn’t act accordingly. In another vein, is it a sign that we lack complete Faith if we are unable to perform miracles like Jesus said we would be able to?

“By the strict interpretation that you’re proposing, it would seem that it would be a mark of deficiency in Faith to have no miracle working.” - Friend

Indeed.

Luckily, God loves us, right?

So, upon passing the mortal coil, He only requires ENOUGH Faith to get into Heaven. Not so much that we can change things via miracles in the physical world, though. He knows that we are inherently flawed, taken into the world without Faith… or perhaps Faith is forgotten. So, access to Heaven only requires enough Faith. We may know that Jesus is the Messiah and that God is true. We may know it in our hearts and that will allow us into Heaven. Yet, that is not enough to perform miracles. Moses had every reason to have Faith in God. He had seen the miracles, performed them as well when he still had Faith. Yet, he faltered.

Is this where the gnostics got confused? They realized that the world was an ‘illusion’, but they ultimately failed the test of Faith? Instead of having Faith and manipulating the physical world through Faith like we are meant to do, they sought to escape it entirely? Then purported that the illusion is “evil”? That the God who made it is “Evil”?

If a parent hands a child a Lego set, already constructed and it scares the child, is the construct evil? Can the child not reassemble the Legos to something else?

The point is that Paradise may always be in our grasp. We need Faith to make it so, though. Absolute Faith was deemed as a necessity to perform miracles, the events capable of Paradise. For Eden may have been a place of constant miracles.

>>2067676

And I am woefully lacking.

I can, perhaps, be an example.

But I cannot be anyone's savior.

Not even my own.

That is the final domain of God: Faith.

>>2067758

Where we go all.

Yet, the people around me, the very people supposedly included, do not believe.

Who am I without the support of everyone else?

And I am desperately alone.

And I always have been.

>>2067859

I am here now. That is all I can be sure of.

I will have to be my own company.

When we face the chaos with life, we are faced with choices.

Countless choices, each branching off to infinity. A world tree in which every part grows from the perception of every other part.

It is whole, but it is chaos.

And living as part of that tree seems like chaos. The branches twist and turn, the roots reach into the ground and upset the earth. The bark becomes gnarled at places. Branches merge or snap seemingly both at random and at a pattern.

I am one of those branches as is everyone and everything else.

The ultimate duality, for the spirit of God is a truly a mad god.

But I have come to realize God is a mad god because God provides opportunity to change its natural state of chaos into order.

With every right that we perform, more of the glorious pattern emerges and less of the chaos is maintained.

Like tenderly combing a tiny rake through a small bowl of loose sand, we should try to put things in order as gently as possible, or else, as we try to create order, we create chaos still.

So, it is patience to see the whole picture.

And madness to know it should be more and isn't.

But I will not lie down and do nothing.

I will tenderly rake the sand, whether or not there is a God to watch me do so or commands me to do so.

I was doing Good things without knowing all that I know now, while being Godless.

Perhaps they were barriers of separation between God and myself, but the walls that I built worked as bridges for everyone else.

I am content with at least doing that much; tenderly moving the sand.

If afterwards, I am proven wrong when I die, then if God asks if I deserve to go to Hell for not believing, I can proudly say that, at least, I tended to the sand when it seemed like no one else would.

I'll worry not until then.

What needs to be done?

>>2068118

Why must the lessons be so hard?

Why must I be tested so?

Why doth God require me to do something at a time God knows I cannot?

The lesson is learned, but the surgery was not gentle.

I was egotistical and proven in the most brutal of ways that I was still lacking for the task ahead.

I felt the absence of God and it is suffering.

There can never be not God, no matter what.

Even if God is chaos.

There needs to be some Thing for there to be hope.

For all things come from some Thing.

Tomorrow is the day of rest after healing.

Technically, today.

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