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Kevin's Bacon _@kb.mynostr.com 11 months ago

My brothers in Christ, stop using logical fallacies to ignore truth. Don't be like atheists.

Kevin's Bacon

Which is why the meme is still funny 😜 I'm a Christian and I believe in evolution much like I believe that cells make up the body or that cars function via internal combustion that exerts force on a piston to spin a shaft with a flywheel. It's clear that the process of evolution is real and that that is a true description of how creatures develop across generations. Is it the only mechanism at play, and that the only way to describe it? No. Is it probable that humans came from chimplike ancestors like Australopithecus? Yes. Is this incompatible with God, Creation, and Jesus and all that? Not in the slightest, if one truly believes what he says about God and understands it properly.

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Kevin's Bacon _@kb.mynostr.com 11 months ago

Well said!!!! I didn't realize that was the full parable of the eye of the needle! Much much more meaning I can discern from it now. Risk losing the things you are beholden to (say, unjustified claims to knowledge that you have left unchallenged) to discover the truths, the greater riches, the opportunities that cone with inspection, with the unknown.

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npub1ncxn...29r0 11 months ago

I think it clearly distinguishes the difference between that which is a proxy to riches, and the riches themselves. Much like an analogy that is spoon fed to you, rather than the proof itself that you verified yourself, which all too commonly is missing. This proxy to riches is counterfeit prone, and used to enslave us. We chase the proxy.

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RedTailHawk redtailhawk@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago

Yes, I think riches are a proxy concept for “attachments”. In this case the economic wealth is used as a proxy to represent “possessions” but not economic/physical possessions. These “possessions” are beliefs or preconceived notions. This eye of the needle teaching echoes the teaching of the empty tea cup koan from the Zen tradition. If we are unwilling to let go of what we hold, we may be preventing ourselves from holding onto something better in the future.

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Kevin's Bacon _@kb.mynostr.com 11 months ago

I think I'm holding onto paying the extortion fees of the government too much. Time to let go of that panic button and just ride the freedom that comes from not filing taxes. They probably would refund me more than I have to pay in capital gains and self employment anyway, self employment yielding me I think a net 0 too, so it's probably pretty safe to just not file. That notion of having to cover my ass, I feel like I can't risk losing it. Maybe I can't risk keeping it.

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npub1ncxn...29r0 11 months ago

Another one I like that is disturbingly true is the monkey trap tree. Dealing with asymmetry hard coded in the brain hints that the house always wins. You can burn all your possessions to the ground, but you will still find yourself picking things out of the burn pile even though you told yourself red pills from this point forward. Reading the book thinking fast and slow only reminds you that these bugs are hard coded. Like any handicap, strategy becomes your tool of choice.

npub1ncxn...29r0 9 months ago

I've used this meme in the past before you sent me the Tea cup note. It's a little different. I captured this from a game I was playing: Legacy of the Ancients