u/Exaltist

I realized my last poll was kind of screwy, so here's a better poll. And sorry about the last choice ... there can only be six options.

View Poll

View Poll

not clickbait

Spectrum is running a promotion for a year which you can get 1 Gig of Internet + TV Stream, their basic TV steaming package with 85+ channels that works with smart TVs, at no additional cost for a year.

How does it work?

If you don't take the promotional rate, the cost is $60/month just for Internet. The promotion lowers the cost of Internet for $40/month, and TV Stream to $20/month. The only thing you'll be paying extra for is a tax on TV.

You have to go to their customer service department, threaten to cancel for 20+ minutes, but I was able to lock in that rate. I was even able for them to throw in DVR for no additional cost.

TV Stream includes entertainment and news channels. Virtually no sports. If your TV is connected to an antenna it will automatically pick up those channels, without paying extra for them.

This might seem like an offer too good to be true. But I've had it for two months and can confirm the cost. I pay as much if not more for streaming services as I do for my Spectrum bill. It's pretty sweet.

Anyone else happen to be as lucky as me to lock in this awesome promotional rate? Unfortunately you cannot lock a promotional rate for just Internet for less than $60/month, but I still consider this a win in my department.

I swear I'm not trying to sound like an advertisement - I'm just trying to save cord cutters money.

View Poll

View Poll

Pretty much what the title implies. I used to make music with SoundTrap by using their loops in my songs. Then I switched to Suno and was impressed with the quality of AI generated music. Now I'm looking for a service that combines the best elements. I do not want AI generated loops. I want to be able to listen to loops before importing them in the project. I don't want to have to pay for two different services and I don't want to use an outside website of free royalty-free loops - I want it all integrated on one service. As someone who used to use loops, then AI, I think combining both with one service would be the most benefitable to me. I think a fair price to pay for this would be $20/month mark, with a generous amount of credits/songs and downloads.

Can someone tell me a service that offers both of these features in one comprehensive package?

View Poll

View Poll

First of all, I would call myself a deist. This is why I am posting it here. However, I would like to stress that the type of deism I believe in isn't anything remotely like any other kind of deism you may have witnessed or read about before.

I believe God is the First Mover. The First Mover... And the Last Movers. The First Mover, we would consider, is the chain of reactions that led to the fruition of all that has come before it.

I am not merely a deist. Or a pandeist. I am a panendeist. I believe that at the beginning, all substance was one. Substance created spacetime and entropy in order for existence to exist.

Thus, we separated from God, yet God did not disappear. I believe in black hole cosmology: that universes are born within black holes, through the other end from unstable white holes.

This distinction has led me to believe that the First Mover is actually a self-originating black/white hole that started the first Universe. I say start and not cause because I do not believe this natural phenomenon was in any way intelligent.

To bridge the gap from God to human, we must divinize humans to eventually divinize God. God is already in the process of partially divinizing itself by expanding and, as time flows forward, lasting longer.

But humans have the ability to be omniscient and omnibenevolent. Qualities the First Mover cannot have. Meanwhile, the First Mover is slowly losing omnipotence, and humans are collectively developing it through entropy and syntropy.

What is leading humans towards the ultimate reunification with God are the STEM fields and our ability to become a spacefaring species. We aren't just trying to use nature to our advantage. We are actually inventing language to discover God.

The medium through which this occurs is through media. Like with No Man's Sky, we will observe and interact with many planets and species of animals on those planets. The only difference between energy and information is the discovery of nature to bridge the gaps between what is observed and what isn't.

This observation and evolution of the state to suit the intelligent lifeforms that discovered it is its divinization. A type one Kardashev Scale on Earth would mean that Earth has entered a theistic phase in its lifetime.

As a species advances ever forward, it will become more and more abundantly clear that the transfer of energy into information, with the heat it generates by doing so, is in fact creating rudimentary forms of intelligence.

And as such, the panendeism that we see in today's world will be reshaped into panentheism. First through small pockets, but expanded further. And it shall be done through the process of syntheism.

The Sun outputs enough energy that humans will not need to exhaust all of its resources and ultimately destroy the world, as Earthseed and Parable of the Sower would suggest.

Instead, humans are becoming omnipotent through our ability to discover and enhance nature to suit the desires of our species. Humans thirst for wisdom no matter where they might find that.

Like Hegel suggests, we are God understanding itself, but even more so, we are God divinizing itself, and we are doing it in efforts to develop consciousness, a conscience, and agency to nature. First indirectly, then directly.

The process will be complete once we reshape the First Mover towards sapience so that we can become the Last Movers, with our primary goal being the creation of Universes, which I see as the ultimate form of media -- cosmic media.

Thus, panendeism becomes panentheism, and the realms we can only experience digitally now will be represented in physical substrates later on. Turning panendeism into panentheism, with the First Mover possessing all of the characteristics of a monotheistic God.

View Poll

View Poll

View Poll

Enlightenment, nirvana, exaltation, divinization, theosis - whatever you want to call it - pretty much every religion has their way to make people more spiritual beings, which calls for personal growth and sacred meaning. So according to your religion, how does someone become best person they can be?

View Poll

View Poll

View Poll

Upon my experiences with people who are religious, both online and off, I often get the sense that importance matters more than truth. After all, if science explains how something happens, it doesn't fully explain why that might be important to someone - even if many people are interested in the sciences and the reasoning-deducting skills they present to reach their conclusions. But religion explains why things happen, and I think the very basis of that question - "why" places a significant amount of importance to something. That importance becomes a purpose. When that purpose is fulfilled, it creates meaning in your life. And thus religion resolves the question.

So, according to you and your religion, what are the most important things? How does your religion attempt to solve the question regarding why we are here? Why does your mind place your religion more important than any other religion? And if you prefer to deconstruct religion, what makes deconstructing religion so valuable to you? I'd love to hear as many takes on this as I possibly can get and get inside the thoughts of those who have a religious mindset.

Doesn't matter if it's released commercially or not.

View Poll

View Poll