Christ and His Church is the ultimate truth. I've been a hardcore atheist for the better part of my life and know both sides of the argument inside and out. I can get into a philosophical discussion about truth and knowledge and demonstrate to you all knowledge is faith based. There are no self-evident truths or brute facts that are not interpreted through a worldview and that exist absent of a mind.
I meant faith in epistemological sense, not religious. Atheists base their worldview on faith also. The question is how is each worldview grounded and how are beliefs justified in that worldview.
I know you're not an atheist since you mentioned God. My guess was you're gnostic, most likely coming from a protestant background judging by your outlook on organized religion. You have a idiosyncratic system centered around pantheism/monism (God is all of us) and gnosticism which is very prevalent in conspiracy circles.
Anyways, I'm not going to debate you on religion here. I'd rather concentrate on our common ground which is conspiracy and geopolitics.
I based my guess off the things you said apart from the prot background which was a blind guess since you could have been an atheist before that. You may not agree to the labels but that's how those ideas are generally referred to.
There are only so many possible positions one can hold about the world regarding metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. For example you either hold that the universe is strictly material and deterministic or you believe in non-material existence. You either hold that we can have true knowledge about the world or are an epistemological nihilist. You either hold that morals are objectively true or that they are human constructs and so on.
Sometimes the choice could be multiple like in the famous philosophical problem of the one and the many as follows.
Is the world ultimately expressed in:
oneness (monism; "We're all One/God, man. All distinctions are an illusion"),
multiplicity (pantheism; "Everything is God, man" - basically reduces to monism),
dialectical opposition (dualism; yin and yang; struggle between one and many; basis for marxism and many other worldviews)
Trinity (the Christian doctrine that transcends the dialectic and brings harmony between the opposites).
Falling into one category or another is inevitable. You can pick and choose your different positions that form your worldview but all of them come with entailments and such a reductionist approach to worldviews leads to views that contradict each other leading to incoherency. All forms of gnosticism falls prey to this.
Christ and His Church is the ultimate truth. I've been a hardcore atheist for the better part of my life and know both sides of the argument inside and out. I can get into a philosophical discussion about truth and knowledge and demonstrate to you all knowledge is faith based. There are no self-evident truths or brute facts that are not interpreted through a worldview and that exist absent of a mind.
I meant faith in epistemological sense, not religious. Atheists base their worldview on faith also. The question is how is each worldview grounded and how are beliefs justified in that worldview.
I know you're not an atheist since you mentioned God. My guess was you're gnostic, most likely coming from a protestant background judging by your outlook on organized religion. You have a idiosyncratic system centered around pantheism/monism (God is all of us) and gnosticism which is very prevalent in conspiracy circles. Anyways, I'm not going to debate you on religion here. I'd rather concentrate on our common ground which is conspiracy and geopolitics.
I based my guess off the things you said apart from the prot background which was a blind guess since you could have been an atheist before that. You may not agree to the labels but that's how those ideas are generally referred to.
There are only so many possible positions one can hold about the world regarding metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. For example you either hold that the universe is strictly material and deterministic or you believe in non-material existence. You either hold that we can have true knowledge about the world or are an epistemological nihilist. You either hold that morals are objectively true or that they are human constructs and so on.
Sometimes the choice could be multiple like in the famous philosophical problem of the one and the many as follows.
Is the world ultimately expressed in:
Falling into one category or another is inevitable. You can pick and choose your different positions that form your worldview but all of them come with entailments and such a reductionist approach to worldviews leads to views that contradict each other leading to incoherency. All forms of gnosticism falls prey to this.