The Abrahamic religions are very confusing. I have no idea how Christians, Muslims, and Jews keep their shared mythology all sorted out. It’s like Bitcoin forks except they all continue to transact with each other.
By contrast Hinduism only *looks* confusing. It’s all NFTs.
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The way you join an Abrahamic religion is you convert to it by trading in some fiat secular beliefs.
The way you join Hinduism is by making up a new god and minting an associated NFT and tweeting it to pump it. It’s more cinematic universe/shared namespace and canonicity rules.
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I’m clearly going to be canceled around the world with a single tweet someday. Should find some way to fold Confucianism into this crypto-theology.
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My understanding of middle-east politics news growing up. It hasn’t improved much despite >half my life in the west tbh.
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Even though Muslims, Christians, and Jews exist as significant minorities in India at least, there was something very incomprehensible about why the middle-east played the weird role it did in the global news.
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Possibly because all 3 religions arrived in Asia before the first crusade, so predates the history-religion entanglement 🤔
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I think there’s something I just don’t grok about historicist religions with a narrative built around an end-date. I guess it’s like 21m bitcoins end-of-mining-history. So a deflationary narrative. The last soul born (or dead) just before judgment day will be like last Bitcoin.
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Oh wait, born, since the rapture doesn’t assume everyone is dead. So if last baby is born just a few seconds before rapture, it won’t time to be baptized so it will get left behind?
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And then second-coming Christ defeats antichrist, and everybody still standing goes straight to judgment day court without needing to die. Does this actual mop-up event have a name? The rapture is sort of the TSA pre-check type people if I understand correctly.
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Someday I’ll figure all this out and create a consistent grand-unified East-West religion. Unifying cyclic and non-cyclic timelines is the big challenge. Maybe zero-knowledge proof singularity event between full karmic cycles.
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Ledger not zeroed out, but residual sins randomly redistributed among non-dissolved souls for new cycle. Creates a new genesis event with original sin. It’s inherited but you can never know from where. The ZK proof event creates a bi-directional veil of ignorance.
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I used to think middle-east stuff was mainly about oil. It’s more like oil just raised the stakes but didn’t change the fundamentally religious nature of the conflict. If all the actors were merely jockeying for oil geopolitics position, this would have all been solved already.
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If the Middle East had been a historically Hindu region, every oil well would have its own god/goddess and associated caste 🤔
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