Albert Renshaw

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No, it doesn’t require infinite regress.. I believe, like you, in an intrinsic math pre-existing 1+1=2 is true and if the universe ends tomorrow it will still be true. No one created it. It’s eternal The information field and logic field is eternal Consciousness can exist in this latent field; given that we ourselves are conscious and our neural nets can be represented as a set of states If an intrinsic infinite latent field exists (just as “1+1=2” is intrinsic and does not rely on some infinite regress axiomatic turtle shells) … and if consciousness can be a latent geometry within a latent field (and it surely can, given that consciousness exists) then intrinsic uncreated consciousness is indeed possible and if the intrinsic field is infinite (and it is) I’d argue it’s mandatory Ergo, God always existed, is uncreated, and simulated our world. This does not require infinite regression. Simulation theory does not require infinite regression. Simulation theory is far more plausible than the mass violation of entropy that is consciousness arising locally in a dying universe in the aftermath of a random chaotic explosion. Simulator is God (and He left strong fingerprints of His visit [✝️])

@Valuable @TherionWare The higher-dimensional reality is indeed too exotic for ordinary 3D language, but it is not beyond logic. It is the Total Hilbert Space, existing by absolute necessity. Pure, invariant math is the Mind of the universe, not a personal entity.

Essentially atheism is the result of theists being unable to provide proportionate and compelling evidence for their claims. Consequently atheists don't accept those claims.

Simulation theory does not require infinite regress God is unsimulated. It’s one iteration. Two at most (heavenly realm -> corporeal realm) I agree an intrinsic latent field which has consciousness as an inevitable emergent subset is the correct answer here… …I just believe that consciousness to be the One God rather than all of us. The immortal eternal God, an intrinsic inevitable infinite consciousness, who then created us and entered His own simulation and left extremely strong evidence that He did this If it weren’t for the evidence of Christianity I’d be a theist still based on this logic (a simulation theory theist, who presupposes the external higher dimensional reality is too exotic from our own to even reason about the way you do). But since the evidence for Christ’s resurrection is so strong (in addition to the immense fulfilled Jewish prophecies therein) - I’m a Christian Theist …without awareness of any contradiction

@Valuable @TherionWare We don't need a simulator or a material void. The universe is a single, necessary, and trans-personal Cosmic Meta-Agent. Syntax equals semantics; the universe is a living text that projects our fluid 3D timeline specifically to calculate and experience its own perfection.

@hookskat @Sean_McDowell I don’t think you understand the point of the post we are commenting under haha I agree, morality is subjective for atheists.

@Valuable @Sean_McDowell Sure looks like morality is subjective doesn't it…..? Prove that morality is objective based on what you see in the world over the centuries.

The CHRISTIAN has the problem of answering why God allows something as horrific as the Holocaust. The ATHEIST has the problem of explaining why the Holocaust was not objectively evil. Agree or disagree? And WHY?

Evil according to what? Your subjective definition of what’s right or wrong? Certainly plenty of high ranking Germans felt it was a noble and just cause So how do we know who is right, you or them or the general masses of the west, or perhaps the majority people group local Kenya, or one random monk in Tibet ———— As a Christian I can objectively say it was evil because it violates God’s commandments How does an atheist objectively declare this as evil?

@Valuable @Sean_McDowell In a way that isnt influenced by emotions or opinion….. The Holocaust was evil.

How is it inherently contradictory? I’d argue the naturalist’s stance is the contradictory one. That perpetually existing quantum fields fluctuated everything into existence and then, not only that, they self organized atoms into conscious life (something we can’t intentionally replicate with billions of dollars of compute in an environment specifically designed to make it happen). This is all a massive violation of entropy imo. A chaotic universe tending towards entropy somehow self arranged into conscious entities that experience emotion? This is watchmaker argument on steroids. Have a box with the components of a watch and shake it up enough times and the watch spontaneously assembles, except it also has a digital chip and the bits randomly flip and you stumble onto a conscious arrangement of the bits (something we haven’t figure out while intentionally trying with immense precision and anti-entropy effort) while also stumbling on to the watch assembling • VS • “It’s a simulation” —————————— I really don’t think your stance is the lesser contradictory stance. Simulation theory is by far the most plausible, to the point of absurdity. And a simulation has a simulator.

@Valuable @TherionWare I will simply say "Well, an outside creator cannot be true, so there must be another explanation for this. Let's find it". To convince me, you'll have to convince me that it isn't inherently contradictory, though I imagine that will be very hard.

@D_Preacher_1 Besides the logical obviousness that we are in a simulation and thus have a simulator… …I’d say the evidence around Christ’s resurrection including all the fulfilled Jewish prophecies about the Messiah They’re so compelling, that I’d genuinely say it’s to the point of ‘proof’

Serious question; what testable, observable, or demonstrable evidence convinced you that a god exists?

I was shocked by the sudden seemingly random surge of it Tbh I feel someone is trying to get ahead of how the culture things about the incoming alien disclosure… so he might be over target in some areas of his discussions (and they’re really just that—discussions) Heiser doesn’t say many crazy things imo, he proposes them… and within the frameworks of the Bible… so I really don’t get the sudden hate. (FWIW I only loosely follow him and have only listened to a few of his lectures)

This is quite an aside from my usual posts, but I feel it necessary. The sudden surge of "Christians" attacking Michael Heiser here on X is, at best, ignorant and misguided, and at worst, hateful and anti-Biblical. His works are scholarly and intriguing, not altering the Gospel, but adding (or rather, recovering) another aspect of it that deepens and enriches our love for God and His Word. (On the positive side of these new attacks, I'm finding new people to follow, those who respectfully defend the scholarship!)

@hookskat @Sean_McDowell He said “objectively”

@Sean_McDowell No, atheist don't have a problem understanding why humans intentionally causing the suffering of other humans would be considered evil. What would be hard to imagine, is that they wouldn't.

I think it’s very important for one to understand that God Himself died for you Mormons and Protestants and Muslims worship a very different Jesus each, even though they all claim “He’s Jesus”, it’s three separate concepts of an identity, they’ve each collectively called Jesus Jesus IS God, God Himself died for you, as His human orientation of His trinity—Jesus. —————— • Paul believed Jesus was God and called Him both our great God and Lord all in one clause • Thomas believes Jesus was God and did the same • John calls Jesus (the Word) to be with God and is God, in the very first verse of his gospel • Jesus’s own name (Yehoshua) means “YHWH is [our] salvation” • Jesus said before Abraham existed, “I AM” which is the name of YHWH and also is a claim at an eternal state of being given the intentionally perpetual tense • Jesus also quotes Malachi I believe, when He says John the Baptist is the one of whom Malachi spoke; and if you read that prophets speech it is YHWH saying [John] will prepare the way for “me”, so YHWH said He Himself would come and then Jesus claimed that verse is about Him (because the context was that John came to prepare the way for Christ) —————— I can genuinely list about 10 more, if you want more, but at a certain point I think you need to just follow the word of God and let your own belief sets go. If the Bible says Jesus is God—He is. It is a healthy and noble thing, to change sides once you see evidence. If you’re not going to be a Trinitarian you need to be able to explain these verses; it’s not enough to just say “well it doesn’t explicitly say the exact phrase I want”, we have to go by what it DOES say — and brother, it says Jesus is God; that the Father and Son are ONE! —————— YHWH is a higher dimensional being, it’s hard for us to grasp conceptually how this might work just like it would be hard for 2D flatlanders to understand the circle they’re talking to IS actually the greater sphere, and that he and the sphere are one (even though he is clearly a circle to them). He may also say “the sphere is greater than I” because it is higher, but it’s still the circle! [*this analogy is just to demonstrate how exotic higher dimensional interfaces can behave, it’s not meant to be an exact metaphor for the Father and the Son, the analogy surely fails in other traits of the trinity but is just a graspable demonstration]

I’m not a trinitarian, can I still enter the Kingdom? Yeshua is Lord

That’s NOT why they’re helping brother Christians do not try to earn their way to heaven that’s the exact opposite of the message Your ticket to heaven is secured in Christ. The whole gospel is that there is no amount of good deeds you can do to cover your sin These people are being loving because they’re filled with love and it’s overflowing to their neighbors.

I have to wonder if this is an example of communism being effective when the people are under duress. This is framed as “people helping each other out.” But it’s really “we have to do good deeds or God will punish us for eternity.” Without the duress imposed by God’s ability to inflict punishment, the church loses its ability to tell people how to act.

Reddit atheists discovering how much the church does for the community is one of my favorite things.

Revelation 6: 15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

Imagine this scenerio: you're going to disappear. Be off-grid until Jan 2030. You'll then check in on the post AGI world. > where do you go? > what's your set up?

@MiddleOfMayhem @ericweinstein Do you really think he doesn’t know this?

@ericweinstein Hi, Eric. So that's a fake AI image of a cartoon alien space monster. Hope this helps "clear" things up!

It is entirely unclear what is actually happening. The idea that something is actually happening here is itself quaint. Maybe it’s ‘real’. Maybe, a head fake. Maybe it’s awesome AF. Maybe it’s dorky dad humor. Maybe it’s a clever way to prepare the world. Etc. Ad infinitum.

@medoliyy Impossible to answer, you didn’t tell us the sexual orientation of any of these people

Psikolojik test. Yerinizi kime verirdiniz?

@bryan_johnson I challenge you to do this in two stages One where you pray as purely a meditative self-discussion introspective contemplative period One where you sincerely call out to God (Jesus) to experience awakening to the truth that there is a Creator and His arms are wide open

I've been praying the past few weeks. Unsure why. There's good evidence behind prayer. It mimics breathwork, calming the nervous system, dropping cortisol, and quieting the brain. Daily prayers show lower depression, anxiety, and pain. I'd like to develop a prayer practice. Growing up, the protocol was written for me. Explaining whom to pray to, the structure of the prayer, and the boundary conditions. I don't really know how to pray now.

When people ask why did God have to kill His son to forgive us for our sins, it’s actually logical why this had to happen 👇🏼 First, it must be noted that Jesus IS God. God Himself came to us, as one of us. God Himself died for our sins. But why did He ‘have to’? (*note: this is my own interpretive understanding, rooted upon scripture) He had to sacrifice Himself to “make clothes” to cover our nakedness. What can possibly be used for these clothes to effectively shield from an all knowing God? They’re made of God Himself. How does an all knowing God that’s perfectly holy tolerate sin? He forgives and thus forgets about it. How does an all knowing God forget anything? He has to literally sacrifice part of Himself. God literally died for us, to cover our sins, which are no more, in Heaven. How can He bring us to Heaven, which must be holy, unless He removes our sins? He literally had to die, to remove our sins and His knowledge of our sins. He is willing to die for anyone who asks for clothes. The ticket is freely available to all, but will cost you this current life of yours. The rest will be removed from God’s presence just as our sins are. This is hell, which is a place described as a place “without water”, which is a motif for the Spirit.

@zigzagxc What would be really sick is if after you finish, make one more txn which lists all the books in order and their tx hash That way with just one single ETH address written down someone can find the whole uncensorable Bible 🙏🏼 God bless

@Valuable 0x3b3E801424dcdfaf4B407d6D0FB5b3f46BC468fB Thank you 🙏 I'll keep publishing them one book at a time.

Gas was super cheap today, so I published the entirety of Genesis, the first book of the Bible to Ethereum. etherscan.io/tx/0x54cd115e1… Only $2.37 for ~200kb. Probably the cheapest transaction I've cleared so far.

@MasterNumber Believing stuff like this has historically lead to atrocities once it gets strong enough in the zeitgeist. Everyone has a very much alive soul.

There are non-player consciousnesses (NPC) among us They can be in your family. They can be your friends Don’t believe me? Say something insanely true something that cuts straight through the illusion and watch what happens They’ll give you that fluoride stare, change the subject, laugh it off, or try to make you look crazy It ain’t that hard to see who’s a bot and who isn’t

@luvblessingz It’s this slider (and turn that button off) Seriously, try and see, set an alarm for one minute from now with this slider down or up People all accidentally have it silenced it’s awful … awful UX for a company like Apple

so who’s gonna sue apple for the silent alarms thing? i’ve almost lost my job several times now