Of course

Of course that is what drawing lots are for.

Knew before I read up to that point.

Gnosticism simply makes sense.

Archetypes

 Seen on a youtube comment.

""" I'd just like to corroborate something Greg said about "who sees what deity when they pass on". I haven't had an NDE but had a profound experience when my father died back in 1985. My family is Catholic, but I've been following Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since 1983. During the Catholic funeral service, the priest was preparing the Eucharist, and suddenly my father was standing at the altar with the Mother next to him. He looked young and healthy like he did in his 30's. The priest kept walking through them as he did his preparations. I was seeing things and kept rubbing my eyes and looking again, expecting them to not be there - but they were. Mother looked over at me and winked. I heard a voice in my head saying, "You see me as the Mother, your father sees me as the Virgin Mary. People will see the Divine in a form they are familiar and comfortable with." When the service ended, they were gone. I believe that what I experienced was real and true. What she said just made so much sense to me as that's something that a God of Love would do! Love your podcast Alex. You and your guests bring a great service to humanity. Thank you. """"

Riddle

 "If two mind readers read each other's minds, whose mind are they reading?" -- seen on random fb post

Later update: of course the answer is that there is really only one mind in this situation.

How The Final Boss of Classic WoW Hardcore Was Defeated

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023jLQJT1SM

Pretty crazy. Raid leader died but calmly continued leading the raid until the boss died.

Storm

There is definitely a storm happening, right now.

It's like, I'm merely peripherally affected, but I seem to have subconsciously rearranged my life to realign with the new order.

I guess I'm barely perceptive enough to feel it, but it's so powerful that we all can't help but look at it.

Gettier

The confusion in modern philosophy is best illustrated by the case of the Gettier problem.

Apparently modern philosophers believe that “knowledge” is “justified true belief”, an inoffensive definition that wouldn’t be out of place in a run-of-the-mill dictionary.

In so far as philosophy as a discipline is concerned with ensuring that dictionary definitions are logically sound, the fuss with the Gettier problem does make a lot of sense. But if philosophy is in any way a study of knowledge itself, the fact that it has no definitive answer to what “knowledge” actually means is reflective of the sad and confused state it is currently in.

Perhaps it is a historical problem. The gnostics had no trouble understanding knowledge. They definitely did not make the mistake of thinking it had to be justifiable. And the gnostics were heretics, which probably led to modern philosophy's feigned ignorance towards such ideas. Yet still, this underlies the fundamental problem of modern philosophy, and potentially most other intellectual pursuits: the obsession with "justification".

This is basically the same problem exemplified by social media, where content is not optimized for truth and positive impact to society, but for "likes, subscriptions and shares". In this context, “justification” is just a fancy synonym of “like”. The “justified true belief” (JTB) formulation of knowledge encodes a truth not of knowledge but of social dynamics: nothing is real unless it is embodied in the academic equivalent of a viral TikTok video.

This is not to say that justification is unimportant. Justification is necessary for communication. One cannot communicate truth without some form of justification. But justification is not part of knowledge itself, only communication of such. The confusion of knowledge with its communication is fatal for the JTB formulation, and the fact that many continued to cling onto it after the Gettier problem was known is a testament to the deep confusion between knowledge, truth and the communication of such among philosophy circles.

So, for sake of clarifying the relationships between the concepts, here is my formulation:

Objective truth is justified belief.

Unfortunately, it does not explain what knowledge is, because knowledge is a bit more nuanced, and requires invoking the concept of Subjective Truth, which, in turn, is outside the scope of this mini-rant.

Soul-talk

Sometimes they just speak to souls, not the body.

Like how in MMORPGs we often speak to the players, not the characters.

In a sense we don't really see a difference (except with hard core roleplay servers), so I suppose they don't either.

Eg. https://youtu.be/848bf9TV2MM?si=GmQXW7iQTJggaaI5&t=3068 ~51:08