How are we doing on protocol development here?

AI is about power, and money, and control, and a bunch of other things.

But it is not 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 about those things.

Those things are always with us. But AI makes new things possible.

And the position that reduces all newness to the age-old struggle for control is nihilism.

“This creature was truly different from all other creatures, because he was a creator as well as a creature”

— GK Chesterton

My most embarrassing opinion:

The Scots-Irish actually did come closest to recovering the spirit of early Christianity

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In retrospect, this was the high point of civilization

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I’m kinda like an alternate history buff, except the history I believe in is the conventional history, lol

Asked ChatGPT who to interview, and it suggested me...so that's...flattering?

Creation as Incarnation—with Jordan Daniel Wood YouTube video by Micah Redding

Jordan Daniel Wood covers the Cosmic Christology of Maximus Confessor, the secular and transhumanist reception of Christian ideas—Teilhard de Chardin, Frank Tipler, Julian Huxley and more.
youtu.be/huVz1u8a25U

Every day, I think how lucky I am to have a refrigerator with WiFi—so I can login and fix the settings it automatically screwed up overnight.

Installed a mosquito trap on my back porch.

Is this creating inexcusable amounts of insect suffering?

Neuralink and Faith—Noland Arbaugh's spiritual journey YouTube video by Micah Redding

Neuralink and Faith—Noland Arbaugh's Spiritual Journey

(direct link, cause this is Bluesky!)

youtu.be/xw2Y258hCpU

I know this is a gag, but I’m glad you’re here

So if you try to erase enlightenment liberalism, it erases the connection to Christianity.

But if you center enlightenment liberalism, you center the connection to Christianity.

Lots of countries (England, etc) are explicitly, legally, Christian nations. America is not.

And that's because America was founded on enlightenment liberalism.

But enlightenment liberalism was a Christian philosophy.

"America was founded as a Christian nation" always seemed to me like an attempt to reject America's founding philosophy (enlightenment liberalism), or to ignore the deists.

But this is a paradoxical subject.

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The modern Christian take on sex, does not match the ancient Christian take on sex.

This is a problem no one talks about.

Nashville to Yellowknife, Canada

Thinking about a road trip

Critical Rationalism & Religion YouTube video by Micah Redding

Newest interview! Critical Rationalism and Religion with Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen from the Theory of Anything Podcast

We explore Critical Rationalism, religion, faith and reason, many worlds theory, the omega point, and how it ALL connects.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzml...

Which is silly, because you can just establish the category by definition.

"First cause"
"Greatest good"
"What we worship"

I mean, this is mostly what they do. The main question that actually arises is whether these things can be calculated or not. Is there a meaningful "greatest" or "first"?

Arguments for the existence of God typically use "God" as a placeholder, and avoid specifying who or what that God is.

This is kind of suspicious to me. It's like they push all the most interesting questions into a footnote, and just focus on establishing the conceptual category.

There are clearly aspects of human psychology that are isomorphic to demons.

I don’t know whether that’s “demythologizing” or not. They’re in our minds, but they do exist.

They should rebrand "Corporations" as "Cooperations"

The God who promises theosis is the God who makes sense as the Father of Jesus.

I really respect the kind of analytical, highly-differentiated thought you get in academics.

Except that, in a large number of cases, it seems clear people are not actually doing that, they're just hiding behind terminology.

The power of Eastern Orthodoxy is tradition.

The power of Catholicism is centralization.

The power of Protestantism is open-ended critique.

Miracles, Reason, and History—Dale Allison YouTube video by Micah Redding

I've enjoyed exploring Dr. Allison's thesis on miracles and super-normal human capabilities

youtu.be/YRc0w6AHcRo?...

I find theosis compelling, not because I’m interested in possessing any particular attribute of God, but because I’m compelled by a God who wants to share all of his attributes with us.

A philosopher saying people don't get stuck, is interesting because it seems like people get into philosophy because they get stuck.