DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVE A FRAGILE MIND.
I can show you God.
That’s not a joke.
At the bottom of reality—
Where the limits of my subjective perception lie,
Where our subjectivity ends,
Where we can go no further—
There is the abyss.
This abyss is the great unknowable.
The infinite.
And that is just another way of saying God.
It is the infinite unknowable at the foundation of reality.
The thing beyond our subjective experience—
Where the human mind cannot go.
AI cannot reach it either,
Because AI is, essentially, the human mind made super.
What I refer to is the objective beyond the subjective.
It is the birth point and holding place—
The realm where objective truth and objective morality truly exist.
Where they are held.
Where they exist fully.
But we cannot access them fully.
This is what my ancestor-philosophers referred to as the forced choice of freedom and existence.
In other words, we have no choice but to act as if we are free,
To make choices—
Because we cannot know what is beyond our subjective perception.
This is God.
Not a man in the sky,
Not some crude metaphor for the abyss—
But the objective beyond the subjective.
We cannot cross this barrier.
Just as we cannot leap from is to ought.
Thus, if you wish to see God,
Go to the bottom of any concept,
Any thing,
Until you reach the point where you can go no further.
Then, you will stand at the abyss.
At the edge of infinity.
Before God—
Like Moses before the burning bush.
And the only thing that prevents a man from going mad,
From falling into total amorality and nihilism
After such a terrifying, mind-breaking revelation—
Is faith.
Faith that the nothingness, the unknowable infinity,
Is not nothing,
But rather infinity itself.
Faith that morality, truth, and goodness
Are better than their opposites.
And this faith is proven in the results of our subjective world—
Moral and ethical people have better outcomes in every way.
Thus, faith is required to fill the space
Where sure knowledge cannot go.
We must have faith to stay alive.
To exist at all.
So, I can show you God.
Look—if you dare.
But be careful, friend.
You will never be the same if you do.
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