Did it occur to you you may be part of this existential threat? That your pattern of belief in imaginary unprovable unverifiable fabrications has led to a culture in whereby this behavior is not only OK but encouraged such that the masses "believe" anything they are told? Whether Jesus, outer space, or an invisible virus - the act of "believing" is our existential threat. Since a belief is a fixed cancer in the mind which only serves to clog our comprehension of reality and otherwise instinctual awareness of the need to sustain & fulfill our natural potential; which therein also may lie they key to neutraliziing said threat.
And by the way, I'm not suggesting myself or is somehow better than you for not 'beleiving' in Jesus because actually our belief in money and any (((third party))) represent this same destructive existential threat; in aggregate we the many empower the few - they are not the real problem they only exploit our failure to acknowldge & correct said problem.
Did it occur to you you may be part of this existential threat?
Of course it has. There is precious little that has not occurred to me.
I’m not interested in “believing things”. I’m primarily concerned with identifying the Truth, and patterning my thoughts accordingly. Based on the sum total of my perceptions throughout my life, the best explanation for everything I’ve experienced is Traditional Orthodox Christianity.
Yet truth is a fixed belief so evidently you are interested in that.
Perhaps we need to reject the notion that there is such a thing as truth (and accept that existence is motion, thus fixed truths are impossible).
May be easier to simply identify deceptions, to reject all 'truths' offered from another, and allow the basis of 'meaning' to emmanate from nature which is obvious and self evident.
Yet truth is a fixed belief
No, Truth is the God-Man Jesus Christ.
Perhaps we need to reject the notion that there is such a thing as truth
No thanks; been there, done that, unsatisfactory explanatory power.
May be easier to simply identify deceptions
By means of, what, relativism? Seems more obfuscatory than anything.
and allow the basis of 'meaning' to emmanate from nature which is obvious and self evident.
Yes, and in my experience points to the God-Man Jesus Christ, literally and figuratively.
Been through all this, confident in my position.
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