4. In Quantum field theory - as I understand it from the Children's Picture-book Introduction series I got from Ribbonfarm -- a similar claim is made. In the beginning there was the field. There is a pattern beneath all things, from which all is madehttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/08/20/qft/
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5. There is an order beneath all things - and Jesus was that pattern made flesh - that's the central claim I take away from Christianity. And it doesn't conflict remotely for me with the ideas that 1) Humans Evolved 2) Religions are the result of a memetic evolutionary process
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6. To me Jesus could be "The Word Made Flesh" even if there was never a Palestinian Jew named Jesus who lived, healed the sick, was crucified under Pontius Pilot, or rose from the dead. Jesus, as a living thing, is as real now as the chair you're sitting on.
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7. First started thinking about the idea of Jesus being the result of an evolutionary process in college -- when I saw the intensely anti-religious conspiracy theory documentary Zeitgeisthttps://youtu.be/OrHeg77LF4Y?t=665 …
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8. There is a good argument that the story of Jesus was a chimera of a number of other middle eastern gods working their way back into Judaism / Rome The Egyptian God Horus - similar origin story to Jesuspic.twitter.com/u9N2pyKQQG
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9. Horus - similar life and death arc to Jesus (I'm skeptical these match up as closely in fact as presented in the film -- but seem to be some connections -- see here https://beliefmap.org/jesus-existed/myth-copy/horus …)pic.twitter.com/HRfOHKQPoH
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10. Again - not precisely sure how close all these gods match the description on the slides - but definitely some common narrative elements here -- would be good to map out in
@RoamResearch Many elements in the story of Jesus that had been "sticky" across many prior culturespic.twitter.com/0etiJ22e4Z
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11. Now I'm going to be taking some entheogens soon (in preparation for Midnight Mass), so won't do a huge amount of this thread tonight But I'll leave you with some of the better links - so you can pursue this rabbit hole over Christmas if you so wish.
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12. The important question for me is - what does it mean for a thing to "live"? Can an idea, or thought pattern, be as alive as physical organism? I say this "something is alive if it takes in elements of the environment and transforms them into itself" Metabolism is life
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very schrödinger
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the superposition of that joke and the essay about how life is all about the localized elimination of entropy http://www.whatislife.ie/downloads/What-is-Life.pdf …
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