Asking dumb questions eg "What is consciousness?" demonstrates that you doubt the existence of the immortal soul, which you are supposed to believe in as Christians.
AI Overview
Pretentious people often ask "What is consciousness?" not to seek an actual answer, but as a performative flex to signal deep intellect, foster an air of mystery, and steer conversations into abstract, unprovable realms where they can dominate the philosophical high ground.The behavior boils down to a mix of psychology and social posturing:The Performance of Depth: It projects an image of a brooding, intellectual thinker. Because the nature of human awareness is genuinely complex—even classified by science as an elusive phenomenon—asking about it sounds profound without requiring the speaker to cite any actual data.Semantic Ambiguity: Words can be stretched to mean almost anything. By using a nebulous term, the speaker can pivot to vague, new-age concepts or pseudo-scientific jargon to mystify the people around them.Control of the Discussion: By introducing an unresolvable problem, they render everyone else's opinions equally valid or invalid. It shuts down practical conversation and elevates the speaker to a perceived guru-like status.Albert Einstein famously reduced consciousness to its true, pragmatic scale, noting that the feeling of being a "separated" entity is merely an "optical delusion of our consciousness". In many scientific and psychological circles, true intelligence is actually linked to asking precise, actionable questions to solve tangible problems rather than ruminating on unanswerable ones.
17:00 Because the Abrahamic God who forbade idolatry and blasphemy is the most powerful being conceivable, it would be logical to worship Him, if one were minded to worship a deity.
Christians instead worship an executed blasphemer. This practice is all the more unforgivable in Americans who ought to know better considering the trouble the Founding Fathers took to allow Americans the liberty to choose their own moral system that is nothing to do with following the religion of their ancestors who were force-fed the Trinity by their absolute monarch ie the practice of worshiping an executed blasphemer as the co-equal of the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God who created the Universe. Is this absurdity really any better than the Aztecs who practised human sacrifice?
If Jews and Muslims have any purpose, it is to remind Christians that they reject this practice of son-sacrifice as well as the deliberate flouting of God's Commandments forbidding idolatry. Anthropomorphism is idolatry.
18:00 The Koran is poetry.
24:00 Isn't it a bit adolescent to watch X-Men? Perhaps you think in your idolatrous way that American superheroes are like American deities.
42:00 God has no image.
56:00 God is logos.
1:03:00 The Trinity is a theological problem if you want to avoid being guilty of the mortal sin of idolatry.
1:09:00 Narratives eg the narrative that good will triumph over evil can motivate the morally apathetic eg American Christians.
1:15:00 It would be right thing for American men to be properly masculine ie defend the principle of being masculine and discuss what it means to embody masculinity.
1:17:00 American men don't need poetry. They need to find principles to defend, particularly the principle of solving their political problems with facts and logic. To do this, they they have to abandon Christianity, known to be the religion of women and slaves in Roman times. Gibbon attributed the decline and fall of Rome to Christianity. The Founding Fathers quarantined the religion of European absolute monarchs from their constitutional republic. It is time American men acquainted themselves with this historical fact.
1:22:00 "The Word" = The Big Idea
There is no bigger idea than the Abrahamic God.
1:24:00 Jews and Muslims would not agree that God should be divided into three, which they regard as blasphemy. Don't their opinions matter? What makes you so sure that you are right and they are wrong? If you are so sure you are right, then why don't you engage with Jews and Muslims who are not afraid to tell you that it is idolatry to worship a man? Do you not feel you have to engage in negotiations or arguments because you have the biggest bombs, the biggest navy and the biggest armies? Imperial supremacy AKA white supremacy is dependent on military supremacy. Is America nothing more than the most powerful nation of gangsters and pirates? Then call yourself that instead of "one nation under God trusting in God" because the hypocrisy must surely induce nausea in honest and decent Americans - if any still exist. P
