Your mind is about to be blown

I wrote this e-mail in response to a Bible-bumper and decided I needed to share it. I hope he comes around. Merry Christmas (and Happy Hanukkah).

[Slightly modified for readability and effect]

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I (and others) have reasons to believe that many ancient books were composed sort of as "Arks of the Covenant", with the real knowledge hidden between lines of the literal text. Here is something that I have synthesized about the past based on things I have read and interpreted from a variety of different reputable sources over the years. Yes, reputable is kind of subjective -- deal with it:

Up until around fifty to one hundred years ago (at least as of recently), knowledge of things such as stars, causes of atmospheric phenomena, and the Earth rotating around the Sun, was not colloquial. The "gap" between educated and uneducated has only grown larger in the past twenty years, thanks mostly to the internet. Anyway, those that are taught "sacred" or "classified" knowledge are also able to confound the commoners by using either high technology and/or their learned pattern recognition to perform miracles and/or predict the future. Of course, many of these people were considered and worshiped as Gods in the past, when the commoners didn't know any better. Some of them used their knowledge and influence for good, but some of them got greedy, as those with power tend to do, and instead used it maliciously...

Being more "fit" to thrive and reproduce, the "Gods", their progeny, and perhaps some of their lucky disciples remained in power, many accumulating more, primarily in the form of money, land, and/or influence. Unfortunately, altruistic elites with the desire to stop the malicious were either outnumbered, outspoken, overpowered, or a combination of those, and the deception was allowed to continue. Apparently this viral cycle has repeated itself multiple times in recent history.

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Relevant definitions:

The Alpha Mentality: Primal survival instinct associated most heavily with type-A personalities -- an aggressive tendency to be the most successful, have the most women, the most money, most power, etc. -- that is inherited from the genetic material (RNA/DNA) that encodes us, itself wanting simply to replicate and thereby spread its influence.

Inertia: An object in motion remains in motion until acted on by force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

Entropy: Defined mathematically as the heat differential over the temperature differential (dQ/dT), entropy can philosophically be rationalized as an effective signal to noise ratio of the universe. The signal to noise ratio is always increasing as more particles encounter one another and become entangled. As this occurs, the universe "learns", or maybe more accurately, "evolves", almost exactly as a human brain does, making new connections among existing neurons, which allow electrical signals to travel more quickly and efficiently through the neural network. A perfect crystal (i.e. a structure so stable that there is no motion whatsoever) has zero entropy because it does not evolve, no matter how much heat, pressure, or time it is subjected to. A perfect crystal has never been discovered, at least to my knowledge.

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The modern archetype of God may in fact have been derived from a real, living human(s) with light skin and a long beard, as many ancient texts and drawings depict mysterious predecessor humans with these physical characteristics. Whether or not they had real superhuman powers is still up for debate, however I certainly wouldn't be surprised if they did given that humans in earlier times probably didn't have to deal with nearly as much ridiculous, artificial shit as we do today, thus were able to focus much more on their own personal growth and exploring the world around them.

My view of God is as a metaphor for the force of creation and being, not unlike your own, however I think that God set the universe in motion approximately 13 billion years ago and subsequently became everything within its bounds. By that logic, you and I and everyone else all have the potential to awaken that which sleeps within us and reunite with our LORD once again. All it takes is an open mind and practice -- we've been misled, but we are still the children of God. As per math, when infinity is divided by anything less than itself, the quotient is still infinite.

I hope this makes some sense, too...

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Smell ya later, dweeb.