Religion

TLDR: Every morning you trust the floor exists without checking—that’s faith, not reason We’ve never met the number “2” or visited “the past,” yet base our lives on these abstractions Science celebrates these tools while ignoring they’re built on pure belief Project management taught me we always work backward from faith in an unseen future If we all share this foundational belief system, we should build societies that reflect it The Floor Beneath Your Feet You wake up. Your feet hit the floor. No structural analysis, no existential crisis, no flashlight to confirm reality. Just pure, unconscious faith that the world continues to exist between yesterday’s last glance and this morning’s first step. ...

There’s a phrase in Latin that refuses to let us hide: hic et nunc—here and now. Whatever your story—your religion, your cosmology, your philosophy of where souls come from or where they’re headed—today you are a human among humans. You woke up inside this species, on this planet, with agency. That is enough to give you a duty. Respect the origin story. Respect the destination. But protect the present. I’m convinced of something simple: if, by whatever cosmic lottery, your consciousness ended up in a living human, then you are responsible for what happens to us—now. Not responsible for everything, but responsible to someone. Responsible for the choices you touch, the systems you influence, the harms you prevent, the goods you can advance. ...

TLDR: Intelligence might be fundamental to reality rather than an accidental outcome of random processes Science explains “how” things happen but not “why” the universe’s laws enable consciousness The universe appears “coded” like software with fine-tuned conditions for life and intelligence to emerge Random chance seems insufficient to explain consciousness—suggesting intelligence may be woven into reality’s fabric In the beginning… Have you ever wondered if the universe’s intricate workings suggest more than mere chance? Science offers a compelling narrative of how everything happens—how stars form, how life emerges, and how consciousness arises. But it doesn’t address the deeper “Why?” questions. In this post, I’ll explore why it’s plausible to believe intelligence is not an accidental outcome but a fundamental part of reality’s design. ...

I am a nerd 🙂 But I am fascinated with religion, not in a dogmatic way, and sometimes I write philosophical things. Baruch Spinoza wrote this text, and for some reason, I just learned about it today. It seems Einstein also used it as his own God definition. God would have said: Stop being praying and giving you blows in the chest. What I want you to do is to go out into the world to enjoy your life. ...