u/Exaltist

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.

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.

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In your religious life, what is the most to least important?

My Type of Deism

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