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I've adopted a personal faith due to mushrooms. We're all just dreams of soil made manifest. All of life is connected in a giant network of consciousness. It's

I've adopted a personal faith due to mushrooms. We're all just dreams of soil made manifest. All of life is connected in a giant network of consciousness. It's truly wild.

masijo 3y ago
Any details about this personal faith of yours? Is it like pantheism?
- throwaway20222 3y ago
  For me it is almost exactly this. I was not a heavy indulger, but that’s what I came away with. It has stuck with me for nearly 20 years since.
zug_zug 3y ago
I don't share that faith, but I appreciate you sharing your experience. I imagine you've found your faith an overall very positive force in your life (like most people do with most faiths), no? One thing I'm curious about - what happens when lovers/friends/family hear about your faith? Do they laugh it off? Or just accept as valid as any faith? Or do you not feel the need to tell them?
- mathgladiator 3y ago
  For context, I was not raised religious at all and kind of thought a bunch of it was hokum. But then I did a heroic dose, and I went to the church of engineering where I saw the entire construction of the machines use from the transistor all the way up to the platform I'm building. My faith is more a faith that humanity is worth it, and I've come to see "The Lord" as an appropriate metaphor for the collective conciseness of several billion people living their lives. At core, I'm rejecting nihilism as a valid way to live, and I'm writing an essay to outline the way. In this, I also reject cynicism, and this is because it offers nothing. The way forward is to embrace the responsibility that comes with great knowledge and to build an organization that helps push technology forward. This is why my platform is open source ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I'm working very hard to get my handful of clients in a good place.

I've adopted a personal faith due to mushrooms. We're all just dreams of soil made manifest. All of life is connected in a giant network of consciousness. It's truly wild.

masijo 3y ago

Any details about this personal faith of yours? Is it like pantheism?

throwaway20222 3y ago
For me it is almost exactly this. I was not a heavy indulger, but that’s what I came away with. It has stuck with me for nearly 20 years since.

zug_zug 3y ago

I don't share that faith, but I appreciate you sharing your experience. I imagine you've found your faith an overall very positive force in your life (like most people do with most faiths), no? One thing I'm curious about - what happens when lovers/friends/family hear about your faith? Do they laugh it off? Or just accept as valid as any faith? Or do you not feel the need to tell them?

mathgladiator 3y ago
For context, I was not raised religious at all and kind of thought a bunch of it was hokum. But then I did a heroic dose, and I went to the church of engineering where I saw the entire construction of the machines use from the transistor all the way up to the platform I'm building. My faith is more a faith that humanity is worth it, and I've come to see "The Lord" as an appropriate metaphor for the collective conciseness of several billion people living their lives. At core, I'm rejecting nihilism as a valid way to live, and I'm writing an essay to outline the way. In this, I also reject cynicism, and this is because it offers nothing. The way forward is to embrace the responsibility that comes with great knowledge and to build an organization that helps push technology forward. This is why my platform is open source ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I'm working very hard to get my handful of clients in a good place.