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That’s not controversial at this point. What’s controversial is I’m not exactly Christian but Trump is/was a perfect fit for the description of the Anti-Christ, and I’ve personally had a semi-lucid dream that apologized for being unable to stop painful life events that would only happen five years later. Anecdotal, sure. You don’t have to believe me. Just saying I have to believe my own experiences.
Guys, I mean this in the most scientifically-plausible way I can imagine… I think maybe our own unconscious minds might be railroading our conscious souls according to one great big mythological Batman Gambit. There are way too many coincidences or predictions that came true in too small a timespan for a conscious human to produce, and too much of the content of dreams is symbolic and detailed for it to be just neuron misfiring noises.
I mean, obviously real life isn’t a story, but the “Dream Land” trope is as old as Aboriginal settlement of Australia and as recent as that new Lego theme/cartoon (Dreamzzz), as lighthearted as Kirby and as dark as the Backrooms (wait, is their lore really that different?) or Changeling: The Lost, as famous as Nightmare on Elm Street or Inception and as obscure as the Tabletop RPG Dreamscape from a 24-hour creator jam back in 2004. Songs about dreams range for the vaporwave-inspired “Dreamland” by Glass Animals, to “Into the Ocean” by Blue October. In short, I can absolutely see there being some truth to the stories behind Complete Me, and the hub page for the Oneiroi Collective had a point; we hadn’t even realised it but dreams got into everything, not that shitty Minecraft streamers and a song about a breakup by Juice WRLD really count.
As for how dreams predict the future… You know how supercomputers predict the weather? Do you think a computer is aware it’s simulating a planet’s weather? If you uploaded a human mind to a hypothetical brain emulation program on some sort of hyper computer, and also ran a weather simulation program on the same super-advanced computer, would the uploaded mind necessarily be aware of the weather simulation? Yeah, something like that, except replace the weather simulation with a mental Siri/ChatGPT.
Yeah, they are literally just making shit up.
If everything not in the Bible was untrue, the universe could not exist even if/when God DID want to create one; Contemporary people from Yeshua of Nazareth’s time considered E’l to be NIGH-Omnipotent, capable of doing anything that is logically possible I.e. non-paradoxical. God can’t rewind time, and god can’t lift a rock that he made so heavy he couldn’t lift it but CAN make that rock because he can then make the rock lighter so he can lift it because multiple-step projects are still possible if complex. Therefore, even god can’t write a guide to reality so perfect that it makes reality trivial. That, or he could, but our free will was made so free that even God cannot chain us (though we could chain ourselves and not be able to unchain ourselves) and therefore a book of rules is - while potentially true - not a legally-binding contract, and even if it was a law of reality, laws list what you can’t do, not what you have to do and therefore the bible cannot imply “guilt” on the part of those who want to be or simply are different.
Hermaphroditic babies are not sinners. Homosexuals were born with a genital structure of one gender or the other, how does that make them evil? Oh right, that’s just old-fashioned sexism. You do know Jesus/Yeshua criticized his own religion’s followers for being sexist bastards who thought “it is a woman’s place to be on her knees (and, the men implied, with her open mouth filled, because men like that are creeps)” and that gay men filling that role i n a sexual encounter somehow emasculated all men by proxy, right?
Yeah, there was an Islamic renaissance at some point in the 1200s CE, but as it is now, it was par-for-the-course in Jesus’ time to be a misogynistic asshole, yet it has never been a Christian thing to do to look down on femininity or any man that does not meet society’s standard of masculinity. Good Christians don’t hate lesbians or gay men or people who were born one gender but act like another or do not feel their gender defines them in any way, and if you are a “christian” who believes that hating someone for being a curveball to your worldview is somehow mandated by the Bible, you’re either going to hell or you will not be missed when you cease existing.
Besides, the Old Testament is literally the entire Torah and Talmud (from Judaism, if you’re too Murican Conservative to know that) translated, and Judaism/Christianity/Islam are practically the prototype writ-large of The Matrix, so clearly the Bible spent a LONG time as a work of progress if it was really written by god.
These lemmies saved the world with this one weird tip! Big Oil HATES them!
But seriously, the above. Big Oil and corporate lobbyists in general don’t want you to know that lobbying can be done by the public, by making it so taboo that it makes good causes look bad if they lobby.
Sorry, I might have “come on too strong”; I came to the conclusions in the third and onward paragraph but I’m not trying to get anyone else to. It does sound a bit crazy when you haven’t noticed that dreams seem to play a far more important role even in pop-culture and mythology than we give them credit for. I just think it’s likely that as images, ideas and feelings created by our unconscious rather than conscious mind and experienced only by our subconscious, dreams are being drastically underestimated.
Yeah, tbh I wish I knew more about the Indian caste system so I can properly understand how horrible it is. It’s like someone who has never lived in a capitalist society, doesn’t understand what steam trains are or what mustard gas is, and has only a basic understanding of the Abrahamic religions mostly via American Christianity, trying to explain the Holocaust to themselves beyond “Nazis kill children” and “Hitler was an evil overlord who hated Jews”; It gets the general picture (slave labor, cruel oppression, etc.) but is far too vague to trigger the sadness, anger and desire to never forget or repeat it that should accompany it.
I’d upload everyone. I’d also give them something for their trouble, since apparently all religious people and all hardcore atheists hate the sci-fi story I wrote where humanity’s descendants resurrect everyone who ever died that was ever part of the Homo genus; the body their heart truly desires would be their VR avatar, though with delicious ironic caveats because if what your heart truly desires is money or power or fame over all other aspects, and that’s been detrimental to others, deserves to be trapped as a virtual solid gold statue or somesuch forever for being a selfish fuck.
Basically, what if heaven and hell were not places, but literally whether being your true self truly makes you happy? That hell is if you needed to rethink your shallow, fake or otherwise hollow-feeling lifestyle but didn’t do so soon enough and now you’re stuck looking and feeling like what you slowly come to hate about yourself or at least who you were when you died.