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It was strand-ed.

Store-age.

They scale them.

The steaks are way too high.

Because splitting up goes nuclear.

Because they have no time.

Because the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plane.

Yeah, they both steal, but both also end up in the pits.

This might be shocking and you probably won't be able to wrap your head around it at first. Don't jump to conclusions. Read the whole thing. If you stop in the middle it will be all wrong.

Our reality, the only one we have, does not offer any absolute capacity whatsoever. None at all. Not something behind the curtain that we just can't explain. No capacity at all. The only thing we ever have is ourselves. We have zero capacity to go outside our reality, or to even think about an outside. It’s just another room we make.

This is not atheism. Atheism just switches from an absolute outside to an absolute inside. We have no outside vantage point for either. Not to establish an absolute outside, and not to establish that we are absolute.

Reality is completely neutral. There is no absolute option available.

That leads to a second point. We think all numbers must exist because we can keep adding. But if it is all, it is not endless, and if it is endless, it is not all. The truth is we only have whatever we have whenever we have it. You can't backdate something once it exists to before it did. This solves many paradoxes.

We can never examine reality in any existential way or backdate it. We can't judge any part of reality in an absolute sense because reality does not offer us any absolute capacity to do so.

But that's not the whole story.
We can still frame the neutrality however we like. And we still act responsibly because things have consequences. Those consequences don't exist until they do, and what we do is not a cause that brings them about, they just exist whenever they do, like we do. But we aren't stupid. We see what generally happens when we do things.

We cannot judge any part of reality, but we can choose one part we like and not choose a part we don't. Our choice is sovereign. It doesn't answer to anything. We choose what we want. Consequences come with it.

Religion is not about an absolute God behind a curtain. Reality does not offer that. If you make God some thing your mind came up with, that's idolatry. That thing is finite, just like you.
God is a way we frame the neutrality because we choose to do so. It's a frame, a performance.

We still get to choose the frame we want. And it has the consequences it has.
We are not supposed to think about it to examine it as if it were absolute reality. Not because it is mysterious. But because reality does not offer us any absolute capacity. Not examining it doesn't mean we can't think about it. We can and should. But it should be absolutely clear that how we assess these things is a frame and not reality itself, because reality does not offer us that.

If you think I have no sources for this biblically or Talmudically, that's wrong. The Mishnah says don't peer or ask about above, below, or to the sides of our reality. That is God territory and yet it says not to go there. You might say it means only go there a little but not a lot. I say it means don't go there at all thinking it is our actual reality.

The Zohar says about God that no one knows You at all. I take "at all" literally.

The Bible says about God I Am or Will Be, but it is said to be God's name, not an actual reality our awareness offers.

Surely if you think about it, the conclusion will be that there is a God and I do that as well. I frame it religiously. I think we should.
But we have to understand it as a sovereign choice to frame the neutrality in that way, with consequences. Once we think about any absolute as if it is realistic, it isn't absolute anymore. It's just our finite mind making an idol.

So don't think to examine. Just do — inside the frame you choose.

Sorry, I’m in a jam right now.

Through table talk.

Roast beef.

Deiting.

Wow, the guy says, that’s good. Doc says, you think that’s good? Yesterday it was 100%.