I agree with the others here who are saying "it needs to be personal", a lived experience.
My own path has included studying most major world religions, seeing them as being something like "emotional technologies." I ended up finding enough similarities and commonalities in these faiths that I new feel comfortable borrowing from them f…
I agree with the others here who are saying "it needs to be personal", a lived experience.
My own path has included studying most major world religions, seeing them as being something like "emotional technologies." I ended up finding enough similarities and commonalities in these faiths that I new feel comfortable borrowing from them freely. I have my own self-constructed faith that follow. I lean heavily into the roman catholicism of my ancestors, but i see this primarily as a form of ancestor connnection. I swear a sikh kara, and I think regularly about karma, enlightenment, and various theologie's perspectives on where i am, and where the world is.
If you assume that there is some truth to all of this, and you pursue that truth as being important, i think you'll find that you grow so much along the way, you may end up in a place where you are comfortable saying that you don't really know these answers.
If my own personal religion has one central tenet, it's that each person needs to perform this search, on their own, and that the act of performing the search is probably more important than wherever it leads you. If you're still interested in the conclusions i've reached:
- I believe "God" is an anthropomorphic interface to the good, as defined above
- I think we live in a simulation constructed of our own believe systems, and much of personal growth comes from consciously tinkering with your belief system in order to define 'yourself' in such a way that you act more effectively in the world. See: https://apxhard.com/2021/01/18/the-hypnotoad-pill/
I agree with the others here who are saying "it needs to be personal", a lived experience.
My own path has included studying most major world religions, seeing them as being something like "emotional technologies." I ended up finding enough similarities and commonalities in these faiths that I new feel comfortable borrowing from them freely. I have my own self-constructed faith that follow. I lean heavily into the roman catholicism of my ancestors, but i see this primarily as a form of ancestor connnection. I swear a sikh kara, and I think regularly about karma, enlightenment, and various theologie's perspectives on where i am, and where the world is.
If you assume that there is some truth to all of this, and you pursue that truth as being important, i think you'll find that you grow so much along the way, you may end up in a place where you are comfortable saying that you don't really know these answers.
If my own personal religion has one central tenet, it's that each person needs to perform this search, on their own, and that the act of performing the search is probably more important than wherever it leads you. If you're still interested in the conclusions i've reached:
- I believe there is a solution to the is/ought problem that is totally commensurate with scientific materialism. See: https://apxhard.com/2020/11/27/a-moral-system-from-scientific-rationality/
- I believe "God" is an anthropomorphic interface to the good, as defined above
- I think we live in a simulation constructed of our own believe systems, and much of personal growth comes from consciously tinkering with your belief system in order to define 'yourself' in such a way that you act more effectively in the world. See: https://apxhard.com/2021/01/18/the-hypnotoad-pill/