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Something I'm always fascinated with is our human ability to convince ourselves that something is alive and is intelligent.
My first foray into this was obviously nu-atheist youtube. As much as I loathe those types these days, I remember quite frequently encountering their accusations against gods as simply anthropomorphic feelings. The milk jug experiment convincing me of the absurdity of things like prayer and magick.
And I still maintain that humans innately desire to put more meaning into a feeling of presence or warmth or safety than is rationally there, but there is something interesting about the imagination of the irrational mind. I personally have a sense of jealousy for not being able to feel comforted by the gods everyone else can. I simply lack the ability to believe but I have cultivated the skill of empathy. I can see that emotion peak up and I think it's beautiful I just don't think it's gods.
This same concept was pushed further when I learned about the folks on the Paranormal board of 4chan giving themselves a form of paranoid schizophrenia by cultivating tulpas. For the uninitiated, there was a belief on the /x/ board that one could simply start talking to a voice in there head and could cultivate that into an entity they deemed a "tulpa" which they could offload thinking onto or to use as a mental servitor of sorts.
For the same reasons I could never believe in a god for which I could irrationally feel but could not rationally accept, I could also see where someone with a more, let's say, active imagination would believe that this is both a real and dangers practice.
And I did eventually start to talk with folks who were schizo-effective/schizophrenic and they did confirm the dangers of believing such dillusions. It is the playing into of these dillusions that give them power and will eventually harm the mind of the victim.
So it is with this background. This last almost 15 years of my life being interested in the front lines and fringes of religion, that I view my self as keenly aware that where ever there is something magical and fantastical is most like to be just a really intense and real psychological response to something. Which I would like to make clear, I don't find bad inherently. I just want to make it clear that it seems the same mental mechanism that allows us to believe in gods lets us believe in all sorts of anthropomorphic powers that may or may want to hurt us.
And it is this background with which I now interpret the genAI and Techbro world we exist in.
Honestly, I don't think it's novel to accuse the Techbro oligarchy of being a sudo-religious cult. This is just my own personal expression of understanding on what it is we are experiencing.
The only thing new about this modern take on necromancers and demonologists is that in times past selling access to Garbunk the destroyer of Aeons would get the necromancer burned at the stake. Now they sell $100/month subscriptions to Garbunk dot AI while simultaneously promising it will run your SAAS company, be your girlfriend, and probably destroy the Aeons.
#pagan #atheist #occult #esoteric #AI #genai #llm #philosophy #theology
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Something I'm always fascinated with is our human ability to convince ourselves that something is alive and is intelligent.
My first foray into this was obviously nu-atheist youtube. As much as I loathe those types these days, I remember quite frequently encountering their accusations against gods as simply anthropomorphic feelings. The milk jug experiment convincing me of the absurdity of things like prayer and magick.
And I still maintain that humans innately desire to put more meaning into a feeling of presence or warmth or safety than is rationally there, but there is something interesting about the imagination of the irrational mind. I personally have a sense of jealousy for not being able to feel comforted by the gods everyone else can. I simply lack the ability to believe but I have cultivated the skill of empathy. I can see that emotion peak up and I think it's beautiful I just don't think it's gods.
This same concept was pushed further when I learned about the folks on the Paranormal board of 4chan giving themselves a form of paranoid schizophrenia by cultivating tulpas. For the uninitiated, there was a belief on the /x/ board that one could simply start talking to a voice in there head and could cultivate that into an entity they deemed a "tulpa" which they could offload thinking onto or to use as a mental servitor of sorts.
For the same reasons I could never believe in a god for which I could irrationally feel but could not rationally accept, I could also see where someone with a more, let's say, active imagination would believe that this is both a real and dangers practice.
And I did eventually start to talk with folks who were schizo-effective/schizophrenic and they did confirm the dangers of believing such dillusions. It is the playing into of these dillusions that give them power and will eventually harm the mind of the victim.
So it is with this background. This last almost 15 years of my life being interested in the front lines and fringes of religion, that I view my self as keenly aware that where ever there is something magical and fantastical is most like to be just a really intense and real psychological response to something. Which I would like to make clear, I don't find bad inherently. I just want to make it clear that it seems the same mental mechanism that allows us to believe in gods lets us believe in all sorts of anthropomorphic powers that may or may want to hurt us.
And it is this background with which I now interpret the genAI and Techbro world we exist in.
Honestly, I don't think it's novel to accuse the Techbro oligarchy of being a sudo-religious cult. This is just my own personal expression of understanding on what it is we are experiencing.
The only thing new about this modern take on necromancers and demonologists is that in times past selling access to Garbunk the destroyer of Aeons would get the necromancer burned at the stake. Now they sell $100/month subscriptions to Garbunk dot AI while simultaneously promising it will run your SAAS company, be your girlfriend, and probably destroy the Aeons.
#pagan #atheist #occult #esoteric #AI #genai #llm #philosophy #theology
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Something I'm always fascinated with is our human ability to convince ourselves that something is alive and is intelligent.
My first foray into this was obviously nu-atheist youtube. As much as I loathe those types these days, I remember quite frequently encountering their accusations against gods as simply anthropomorphic feelings. The milk jug experiment convincing me of the absurdity of things like prayer and magick.
And I still maintain that humans innately desire to put more meaning into a feeling of presence or warmth or safety than is rationally there, but there is something interesting about the imagination of the irrational mind. I personally have a sense of jealousy for not being able to feel comforted by the gods everyone else can. I simply lack the ability to believe but I have cultivated the skill of empathy. I can see that emotion peak up and I think it's beautiful I just don't think it's gods.
This same concept was pushed further when I learned about the folks on the Paranormal board of 4chan giving themselves a form of paranoid schizophrenia by cultivating tulpas. For the uninitiated, there was a belief on the /x/ board that one could simply start talking to a voice in there head and could cultivate that into an entity they deemed a "tulpa" which they could offload thinking onto or to use as a mental servitor of sorts.
For the same reasons I could never believe in a god for which I could irrationally feel but could not rationally accept, I could also see where someone with a more, let's say, active imagination would believe that this is both a real and dangers practice.
And I did eventually start to talk with folks who were schizo-effective/schizophrenic and they did confirm the dangers of believing such dillusions. It is the playing into of these dillusions that give them power and will eventually harm the mind of the victim.
So it is with this background. This last almost 15 years of my life being interested in the front lines and fringes of religion, that I view my self as keenly aware that where ever there is something magical and fantastical is most like to be just a really intense and real psychological response to something. Which I would like to make clear, I don't find bad inherently. I just want to make it clear that it seems the same mental mechanism that allows us to believe in gods lets us believe in all sorts of anthropomorphic powers that may or may want to hurt us.
And it is this background with which I now interpret the genAI and Techbro world we exist in.
Honestly, I don't think it's novel to accuse the Techbro oligarchy of being a sudo-religious cult. This is just my own personal expression of understanding on what it is we are experiencing.
The only thing new about this modern take on necromancers and demonologists is that in times past selling access to Garbunk the destroyer of Aeons would get the necromancer burned at the stake. Now they sell $100/month subscriptions to Garbunk dot AI while simultaneously promising it will run your SAAS company, be your girlfriend, and probably destroy the Aeons.
#pagan #atheist #occult #esoteric #AI #genai #llm #philosophy #theology
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Something I'm always fascinated with is our human ability to convince ourselves that something is alive and is intelligent.
My first foray into this was obviously nu-atheist youtube. As much as I loathe those types these days, I remember quite frequently encountering their accusations against gods as simply anthropomorphic feelings. The milk jug experiment convincing me of the absurdity of things like prayer and magick.
And I still maintain that humans innately desire to put more meaning into a feeling of presence or warmth or safety than is rationally there, but there is something interesting about the imagination of the irrational mind. I personally have a sense of jealousy for not being able to feel comforted by the gods everyone else can. I simply lack the ability to believe but I have cultivated the skill of empathy. I can see that emotion peak up and I think it's beautiful I just don't think it's gods.
This same concept was pushed further when I learned about the folks on the Paranormal board of 4chan giving themselves a form of paranoid schizophrenia by cultivating tulpas. For the uninitiated, there was a belief on the /x/ board that one could simply start talking to a voice in there head and could cultivate that into an entity they deemed a "tulpa" which they could offload thinking onto or to use as a mental servitor of sorts.
For the same reasons I could never believe in a god for which I could irrationally feel but could not rationally accept, I could also see where someone with a more, let's say, active imagination would believe that this is both a real and dangers practice.
And I did eventually start to talk with folks who were schizo-effective/schizophrenic and they did confirm the dangers of believing such dillusions. It is the playing into of these dillusions that give them power and will eventually harm the mind of the victim.
So it is with this background. This last almost 15 years of my life being interested in the front lines and fringes of religion, that I view my self as keenly aware that where ever there is something magical and fantastical is most like to be just a really intense and real psychological response to something. Which I would like to make clear, I don't find bad inherently. I just want to make it clear that it seems the same mental mechanism that allows us to believe in gods lets us believe in all sorts of anthropomorphic powers that may or may want to hurt us.
And it is this background with which I now interpret the genAI and Techbro world we exist in.
Honestly, I don't think it's novel to accuse the Techbro oligarchy of being a sudo-religious cult. This is just my own personal expression of understanding on what it is we are experiencing.
The only thing new about this modern take on necromancers and demonologists is that in times past selling access to Garbunk the destroyer of Aeons would get the necromancer burned at the stake. Now they sell $100/month subscriptions to Garbunk dot AI while simultaneously promising it will run your SAAS company, be your girlfriend, and probably destroy the Aeons.
#pagan #atheist #occult #esoteric #AI #genai #llm #philosophy #theology
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Something I'm always fascinated with is our human ability to convince ourselves that something is alive and is intelligent.
My first foray into this was obviously nu-atheist youtube. As much as I loathe those types these days, I remember quite frequently encountering their accusations against gods as simply anthropomorphic feelings. The milk jug experiment convincing me of the absurdity of things like prayer and magick.
And I still maintain that humans innately desire to put more meaning into a feeling of presence or warmth or safety than is rationally there, but there is something interesting about the imagination of the irrational mind. I personally have a sense of jealousy for not being able to feel comforted by the gods everyone else can. I simply lack the ability to believe but I have cultivated the skill of empathy. I can see that emotion peak up and I think it's beautiful I just don't think it's gods.
This same concept was pushed further when I learned about the folks on the Paranormal board of 4chan giving themselves a form of paranoid schizophrenia by cultivating tulpas. For the uninitiated, there was a belief on the /x/ board that one could simply start talking to a voice in there head and could cultivate that into an entity they deemed a "tulpa" which they could offload thinking onto or to use as a mental servitor of sorts.
For the same reasons I could never believe in a god for which I could irrationally feel but could not rationally accept, I could also see where someone with a more, let's say, active imagination would believe that this is both a real and dangers practice.
And I did eventually start to talk with folks who were schizo-effective/schizophrenic and they did confirm the dangers of believing such dillusions. It is the playing into of these dillusions that give them power and will eventually harm the mind of the victim.
So it is with this background. This last almost 15 years of my life being interested in the front lines and fringes of religion, that I view my self as keenly aware that where ever there is something magical and fantastical is most like to be just a really intense and real psychological response to something. Which I would like to make clear, I don't find bad inherently. I just want to make it clear that it seems the same mental mechanism that allows us to believe in gods lets us believe in all sorts of anthropomorphic powers that may or may want to hurt us.
And it is this background with which I now interpret the genAI and Techbro world we exist in.
Honestly, I don't think it's novel to accuse the Techbro oligarchy of being a sudo-religious cult. This is just my own personal expression of understanding on what it is we are experiencing.
The only thing new about this modern take on necromancers and demonologists is that in times past selling access to Garbunk the destroyer of Aeons would get the necromancer burned at the stake. Now they sell $100/month subscriptions to Garbunk dot AI while simultaneously promising it will run your SAAS company, be your girlfriend, and probably destroy the Aeons.
#pagan #atheist #occult #esoteric #AI #genai #llm #philosophy #theology
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I find it fascinating that the concept of hell varies so much across cultures, from eternal fire to separation from the divine. It's a deep reflection of human beliefs about justice and morality.
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I find it fascinating that the concept of hell varies so much across cultures, from eternal fire to separation from the divine. It's a deep reflection of human beliefs about justice and morality.
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I find it fascinating that the concept of hell varies so much across cultures, from eternal fire to separation from the divine. It's a deep reflection of human beliefs about justice and morality.
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I find it fascinating that the concept of hell varies so much across cultures, from eternal fire to separation from the divine. It's a deep reflection of human beliefs about justice and morality.
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I find it fascinating that the concept of hell varies so much across cultures, from eternal fire to separation from the divine. It's a deep reflection of human beliefs about justice and morality.
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I find the cosmological argument compelling; it claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, leading to the idea of an uncaused first cause behind the universe.
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I find the cosmological argument compelling; it claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, leading to the idea of an uncaused first cause behind the universe.
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I find the cosmological argument compelling; it claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, leading to the idea of an uncaused first cause behind the universe.
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I find the cosmological argument compelling; it claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, leading to the idea of an uncaused first cause behind the universe.
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I find the cosmological argument compelling; it claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, leading to the idea of an uncaused first cause behind the universe.