Don’t do this. You should take a break from this forum, or at least from this thread. I will leave you alone. We can try again later maybe.

Don't do what? Ask you to make your points clearly?

What can be said at all, can be said clearly. - C.S. Lewis (maybe)

Why? The only reason I read your posts is because I still can't find my ball-peen hammer to hit myself in the head with.

Peace!

Do you know yet what it is like to become male?

-To be able to stay awake and alert
-To resist the feminine call for comfort
-To resist the impulse for short term pleasure seeking
-To rebel against the gravity of the status quo
-To stand your ground against the storm of sexual desire
-To resist the warmth of the social
-To be capable of being disliked (even by yourself)

Death and hell are inevitable. We can follow “the will of the Father” and voluntarily, consciously, and gradually will ourselves there. Or we can be thrown into hell and death involuntarily. To accept and stand in this truth, and become fully male, is to know the Groom.

The door to the Kingdom of Heaven does not open without the Holy Wedding. Once you determine that you know the Groom, and can sustain standing in the truth described above, then it is time to bring the feminine back into the story, reconcile with the female, and seek out the Bride.

Understand the message being communicated when Jesus said, “To whom much is given, much will be required.” Understand that since it is difficult to know the Groom and become male, then it will be even more difficult to know the Bride.

It's cool that your Jesus is polyamorous and bi. It's disappointing to find out I'm not male. How do I change my screenname?

The strong man will degrade himself and sacrifice whatever necessary to ensure that those who he is in relationship with will succeed. When he is disgraced and killed, he will resurrect himself and shine so intensely that he cannot be denied.

The strongman toils to his death achieve ends that reap only death. The smartman rises above and is not reborn but immortalised. Never disgraced, never martyred, only shining his light on the path of independence.

The smart man will never lower himself in the way that the strong man does. He will never risk and sacrifice his self image in that way. Because of this, the door remains closed for the smart man.

The smartman would never need to lower himself. To lower oneself is to move from the path upwards to enlightenment, as the strongman sinks the smartman rises ever stronger. This is the pale death to which the strongman is doomed.

Two opposing claims about the structure and pattern of reality. Only one can be truth.. and the other illusion.

And so the strongman must cry out "Is my path truth or illusion?", but the strongman knows that strength alone cannot answer such questions. The strongman must use what he has, and begins to roll the boulder again.

The strong man gets his strength from his faith, not just from pushing boulders. I purposely differentiated the strong man from Sisyphus earlier in order to illustrate this.

Through strong faith, the strong man walks the narrow path of truth. Strong faith makes the strong man lower himself and doubt the path he is on.

And so the strongman, in his illusions, realises he was Sisyphus all along. What then does the strongman do? He redoubles his efforts. He puts his faith into his task, his purpose, his meaning, and rolls the boulder again.

The Matrix

In the movie The Matrix, the central question for Neo seems to be the question “Am I the One?” The movie is about Neo embodying an affirmative answer to that question and having reality repeatedly reject him, telling him “No”.

However, that is not actually the central question. The real question is: How much should Neo commit to this game? How many times should Neo keep entertaining the question? After each rejection, the cost of asking the question increases and the “No” is more emphatic, convincing, and impacting.

In the movie, when the Oracle tells Neo that he is not the One, she is correct. It’s not just that Neo is not the One up to that point, but there is no possible reality in which he will ever become the One. It’s impossible to continue playing the game within this context. It’s impossible to assume that cost, to sentence yourself to Hell hoping for a moment that will never come. It’s impossible to commit fully to that game and sentence yourself to eternal Hell. Right?

What can someone who completely commits to that game become? At the end of the movie, it’s not that Neo finally gets a “Yes” to the question. That isn’t what happens. Rather, he transcends the world in which the question exists.

He transcends the game because he sentences himself to eternal Hell, hoping for a moment that won’t ever come to pass. When he gets rejected and dies, then he resurrects himself and reestablishes his position back in Hell, waiting for that moment to come. Anyone capable of this is greater than the world and will be provided with a moment to transcend the world. A moment that can’t possibly ever exist.

I tell the truth. I am the serpent who you stomp your foot on and strangle to death. Whoever repents, picks up the serpent and raises it to the heavens - that person will be provided with the food that fills.

Not being honored in your own country doesn't make you a prophet.

There is no problem with killing the one from below who depends on you lifting him up. The one who has already been trampled and killed many times over.

The battle of truth should be fair, though. Kill the ones you honor too. Kill the ones who just appear in the heavens and don’t depend on you lifting them up.

Truth can never die, so let’s bring death into it for all and see who survives.

+1

Why?

Otherwise, the primary motivation is not truth.

I don't see how that follows, but even if it did, so what? Why care about 'truth' iyo?

I choose to only meet people at the point where they are beyond asking this question. Which is not to diminish the importance of someone contemplating the question, but it needs to be done in solitude.

I reject the premise on at least a couple of grounds: first, you are not contemplating anything here in solitude; second, since you diminish rationalism, my question is something you should anticipate (though doing so would also indicate you do value rationalism - quite the conundrum).

Me not contemplating anything here in solitude matters how? You lost me..

No you really got me, you win.

glhf

Someone fill me in on what just happened here.