True vs. False Prophets | Plastic Pills on Religion III

the secret is the profit. And whether or not the prophet wants the belief of his disciples or not, that's just how it shakes out. So to recap what I've been saying, religion and everything that constitutes religion is a metaphor for society. So to be religious is just then to have faith in society, and it doesn't necessarily mean

that you have faith in society as it is. In fact, most religious movements all the time say society as it is is not working in one respect or another, so we have to change it, we have to reform it. But in principle, the promise of a future for society is the thing that draws the belief from people and transforms it. Even if we have to clean some stuff up, even if we have to purge some aspects of the

status quo that are causing problems. Still, to be religious is to believe in society in some way ritually, and usually some reformation is required. You don't want to you don't want to destroy society itself. That's basically impossible to believe to destroy society itself. But purgations this is a common way to fix societies, to get rid of the bad stuff and return to the past that was good, or move to the future where the Golden Age is waiting for us. So in a sense, we are all

cultists too. Knowledge itself is cultic in structure, I'll argue, and that'll be a future musing, not this one. But they are also anti cults. They are still cults, but they, like I said, want to reform the cult in some way. And every prophet too, is against religion in some way.

They speak on behalf of God usually or the truth, against what is, against what the world looks like right now, the world as is, because the world is corrupt, and the prophet has a knowledge or a revelation of the secret and the method for how to return the world

to justice for those who follow him. And if we analyze the prophet, the teacher of the New Wisdom, we can basically see that they use metaphor, that is their language, and they rely on like archetypes or tropes to especially and I mean tropes, not as in like medieval philosophy, and not tropes as in just figurative language, but trope as in the cliche as a meme, the way Dawkins

used to talk about memes as a meaning unit. This is how prophets speak, and even prophets today they speak in terms of war and battle and light and darkness and hero against the mob. So as tropes, these are extremely simplified metaphors. They're just associations between two things. They're extremely simple. They're understood immediately, which is why profits in search of crowds to follow them deploy language this way. Like h. Trump. Trump is a prophet for many, and

he speaks in memes basically exclusively. It's superlatives. This is the best, that is the worst. These people love me, these people hate me. And then all the epic words like destroy we will destroy them. They are destroying us. They are invading us. I will usher in the golden age. There's nothing here to be misunderstood because there's no nuance, because it's dualities and associations that are immediately understood. And I'm not gonna say anything like, well, society is at

bottom real and metaphors are illusion. And there's a good reason that I cannot say that, And it's because the language that I would use to say it is itself metaphoric. Like the only way we arrived at this point where what I'm saying makes sense to you, where we can think the thoughts that we think, is through a long history of abstraction and language exactly like religion is a process of abstraction. One of my favorite things that nietzscha Ever said was we are not yet rid of God

because we still have faith in grammar. Now, the coherence of God as that being that knows, still expresses itself psychologically as our faith in language. This is a faith that even if you criticize language, even if you're a specialist, like when linguists and philosophers go home and they just like anyone else, educated non educated, who's thought about life, which who hasn't thought about language, just like anyone else, they say to their spouse, how is your day? Now?

Even asking that question belies their faith in what language is. For here, the question itself presumes faith in what the question is doing. And I phrase it that way because the question how was your day? It's not really seeking out information that you don't know. It's more establishing communication

or re establishing communication after an absence. But like everyone else, even specialists of language who might criticize it professionally or have some special theories about it professionally, but they go home and continue to act just like they have faith in it. And basically, I'd say that is what faith really is. It's your actions that demonstrate your belief ritually, repeatedly. Now,

this is exactly how religion works too. Just like you can study language critically and I can still guarantee that you believe in it, you can criticize society and claim

all sorts of things. You can claim it's fundamentally unjust, or claim that the apparent world is a lie, or that we live in some sort of cave, and whatever you claim about it, it doesn't matter, because I know you're still going to act like you believe in it, which is what I'm saying, believe it is, and sociologically, what I'm saying is that religion is a grand metaphor for society, and no matter the religion, it always seems to end up in tropes like good versus evil, what

a good father is and a good son, and the corrupted world versus the true world, And then what you are owed as a member of society or as a member of a cult that should be benefit to you, because otherwise you wouldn't be in it. And that's why in times of crisis, when the future looks worse than the past, the cult is not okay with the status quo.

It has to be reformed in some way. And prior to having the cosmic categories of good and evil, or the good in itself as it's sometimes called, what is good is pretty simply what accidentally but practically happened to work out at some time in the past. Cleanliness is good for society because that society gets less sick than the other society down the road who doesn't value cleanliness. By extension, dirtiness is bad for society because you get sick more. And realizing this wasn't as a result of

science or germ theory. It's just the knowledge of experience and then habit that was built upon that experience. But then we get immediately into the realm of metaphor and the metaphors of cleanliness. So to say what a metaphor is, I'll say it briefly here and I'll probably have to talk about it a lot more. But what a metaphor is is a translation, and what it translates is often a familiar relationship that is known to the listener and says, this other thing is like that thing that I described.

So you translate an existing and understood meaning to elucidate the relationship between two other things. So you say this is like that, this is to this as that is to that. And why this matters is that certain metaphors work and certain metaphors don't. You can definitely have bad metaphors in the sense that they don't hit, they don't land on their object the way that you hope they would, or the way that you expect them to, or the

listener doesn't understand. But you also have metaphors that work. And prophecy in parts particular depends on the ones that work, which means they have to be pretty universalizable and pretty simple. That's why I'm focusing on this health stuff because everybody

understands it. So with that in mind, that something's being translated from one zone of experience to another zone of experience, let's get to some examples, examples of some that are downstream or the effects of these concerns for cleanliness, reasonable rational concerns for cleanliness, like sin is filthy until you are washed by the blood of the lamb, or America was clean until it was corrupted by the woke mind virus and the parasitic immigrants, or communism is the future

cleansing of the earth from the parasitic landlords and greedy capitalists. And of course Israel, irrespective of whether it's a country, it's a religious object. Exterminating Palestinians is an autoimmune project, just like the Holocaust was an autoimmune project. The world is infected. And what's the source. Well, if you can get people to believe in a source, you can point

to basically anything you want. It depends upon the distinction of the pure body from the corrupting parasites, the corrupting germs, the negative influences that they may live in society, but they do not have society's best interests at heart. They have secret, nefarious interests at heart. And anytime you hear about the corruption of children, or the corruption of the youth, or the corruption of the spirit of the nation sin purgation.

There we are in the territory of religious metaphor. And all this religious metaphor goes back to the inarguable fact that a society with some basic rules for cleanliness gets sick less often. Now, COVID was a profoundly religious event, perhaps the religious event of my lifetime, or it's on par with maybe nine to eleven, another very religious event. But in COVID we have religion displayed in its originary sense here and then we also immediately see what happens

to religion in its original sense. So the first rule in the early days is people can die from this, especially old people, especially your grandparents. So wash your hands, don't go out with friends. I know you want to, but for the good of society, to keep them and everyone else safe, just stay at home. Then almost immediately you have sin emerge from that social rule, which is a pretty good rule, but it becomes if you go

out in public or you're not wearing a mask. Now you are sinful, and you'll be reprimanded or just socially punished for it. And then in the next stage you have anti vaccine or drinking bleach or using horse dwarmer stuff. Well, actually, let's separate those into their own categories. To be anti vax is rational from this perspective, because you don't trust that the government is going to mandate good things for you, and why would you write it doesn't seem that they have.

But the next step after that is to say, well, the government is evil and it's full of evil people who are now demanding that you take a syringe of the evil substance and put it through the sacred barrier that is the only thing that protects you from them. They want you to put evil inside your body. Now, horse to wormer. Why does this make more sense than a vaccine, because it's a de wormer. It's a thing

that kills the bad thing. Like bleach. We have ingrained into our unconscious as people who have watched TV and seen commercials, we have ingrained the purifying effects of soaps and bleach and cleaner. If you ever saw a commercial growing up, you see the evil germs being purged, and you get your towels and blankets and white shirts pure white again, white as snow, washed in the blood of the lamb. So this is the effect of a de wormer.

It goes in and kills the bad thing. A vaccine, on the other hand, it puts the bad thing inside you. And because you can't trust the government, the government is evil, it has in its mind to corrupt inside past the barrier of your skin, straight into your soul. That's what they seek to do. Now. Another example came from a comment that I thought was very apt, So thank you will for this. But Trump proposing that we nuke a hurricane,

Now this is funny. It's inarguably funny. It's in arguably stupid if you believe in what the scientists say about what would happen if you try to drop a nuclear missile into a hurricane. However, it is perfectly logical if your mind is part of the cosmic war between good and evil. Because hurricane is on the evil side, we can use violence to purge it. Because the hurricane is evil, we can literally irradiate it. It is a perennial trope of religion in general that evil wants to get inside

your body. And of course we need like sexual discipline to protect society from corruption. And it's why sexuality is a top priority for the pious. And it's not like this is without reason. The institution of marriage as a sacred bond obviously has nothing to do with love. That's ideology. That's a story that comes after the fact. But what

but marriage has to do with what worked? Like society won't work very well if men get women pregnant and then fuck off women in any culture of any time, unless they're rich, of course, but if they're not the upper cross of society, they're gonna have a very hard time both taking care of an infant and find some way to provide for herself and for the infant. So who can we put this responsibility on? Well, what about

the other? What about the guy? So we need someone to pin this responsibility on as a social responsibility so that we have a next generation, because fundamentally, that's what society really is about, creating the next generation. So every society basically independently invents marriage because that makes it so Dad has to stick around or face either social judgment

or ostracization or legal punishment punitive measures. And it doesn't need to be the case that all humans at some point in time universally recognized that this was a better way to do things than the alternative. It just needs to be the case that for societies to reach higher levels of complexity, you need stability at this basic level.

So the societies that we observe, they all did this because it happens to be the best way to organize society in order that there can be at least stable population. And every sexual purity, obligation and ritual come from the need to protect this institution. Marriage. Why, because it worked very well, and that's why every society that made it this far has some sort of marriage agreement, marriage ritual, marriage contract. Anyway, Sorry, that's a little off topic. Evil

wants to get inside your body. We know what religions say when they mean that, but it also means this Bill Gates wants to chip you, or they the shadowy they are putting chemicals into the water trying to make you gay, or musicians in their music videos are trying to hypnotize children into worshiping Satan. That's another way to get past the barrier of the skin is to the mind using hypnosis, and of course evil doctors are doing

operations on children, they're cutting past the skin barrier. And all of this is sickness and health metaphors, and the surface of those metaphors is something we're all familiar with the body, So immediately we go from healthy body equals purity to sick body equals corruption. And the reason I think this makes so much sense and why it pops up everywhere is that it's pre rational and it's absolutely logical. From a religious perspective, it is. It's logical. Logical, of course,

does not mean correct from all perspectives. Like I'd say that germ theory is a better explanation than measma theory about what causes sicknesses. Similarly, I'd say that an economic account of inequality driving up the prices of assets explains a declining standard of living better than parasitic immigrants who

are sent to destroy America by lizards or something. But from its own cult perspectives, these explanations are logical, and it has to have something to do with the fact of common experience that metaphors find purchase, that metaphors even get picked up. Only the ones really that work get picked up. Only the ones that are recognizable can be used. Like every human knows what it means to get a cut,

every human knows that your skin breaking hurts. Every human knows what it means to eat something that's bad, like it's too hot or it stinks, or something that can make you sick from the inside. This pain, this bad These stuff that's too hot, these stuff that stinks, the stuff that makes you sick and hurt. This is simple badness that becomes evil. And not just historically in the history of civilization or whatever, but even in your own life.

When you're a child, hurt and pain are just hurt and pain, and as you grow up, these become abstracted and the causes of those pains and hurts are categorized along with evil, particularly as either individual people as evil or groups of people that take on the burden of being evil. And so with this example on the previous one, we see something that systems theory would predict here, which is distinct realities that no longer affect each other directly.

They are closed off. Original religion here was a metaphor that solved a material or physical social problem. So original religion institutes sexual purity rules, laws even to defend the marriage ritual, and people like prostitutes are ostracized and adulterers or sexual deviance are punished, and this is done for

the good of society. But something else happens here, which is the metaphor or the abstraction of the original use case now spins off and becomes a new reality, the reality of the law and morality with its symbols and rituals that are completely disconnected from the circumstances that gave rise to those laws in the first place. Now we have a wholly distinct reality from the first one, where changes in the base no longer have any effect on

the superstructural reality, or at least not immediately. So, for example, you could invent a bit of rubber or a pill that prevents pregnancy as the effect of sex, and once that occurs, you know, if these two systems were connected, you could tone down the slutshaming a little bit, because the problem that sluts shame emerged to deal with in

the first instance, it's no longer a problem. But that's not what happens, of course, And the reason that slut shaming continues to exist after birth control is that at a certain point, these become distinct realities that no longer interact. It is separate from the world that spawned it, and now has its own signs and own symbols that continue to say, No, what is good is that your soul

stays pure. This is the highest priority. And now this symbolic universe gets mapped backwards onto the material reality that spawned it in the first place, a reality wherein vaccines produce immunity to contagions. No, fuck that, because it's not only our bodies that are on the line. Here, our souls, which are now at a certain point of complexity. Our souls are distinct from our body and it's those that are on the line. And you know what, that's the

reality we're going to go with. So you can fuck off with your bas scenes. Now. This story about original religion and the metaphysical spinoff reality of say the Catholic Church, this is paralleled in the etymology of the word religion. What religion or religio meant the first time it was used has nothing to do with what we now think it means. So religio the Latin I don't No one's really sure what the root is, but there are some

candidates for what the root of religion means. The first is that the lidge in religion, which is lig in religio, is to care or to care for. This etymology is probably the most commonly cited because the root of religio if it's to care for and recare for, that's what the re means. Then it's easy to arise at something like to venerate. So the origin of religion in this etymology is to venerate something and venerate it repeatedly, and

there you get ritual. Not too difficult now. Option two is that the lig in religio comes from the verb lego, which basically means to go over something again, to to recite it again or to reread it again, just to go over go over the thing that you already went over. This also makes sense as as an origin point because it would point to the recitation of you know, wisdom, chance or story or sacred sayings or whatever it is. If you religio, it is to go over that thing repeatedly.

An option three for where religion the word religio comes from is the lig could mean to bind, as in to tie something or to tie two things together. So if you are tying yourself to something. I suppose that's what's being pictured here. The lig in obligation a different word, but the lig in obligation means to tie yourself to something, and obligation is something you are bound to, and religion is to rebind yourself to something repeatedly. So we could

pick one to go with. It doesn't matter which because they all do something cool. But whatever the lig is, it's the re that's most important. Religging religioning means the repetition, and that repetition might be caring for something, or going over something, or continually tying yourself to something. But ritual is the origin here. It's something that is repeated regardless of what the lig means. And rituals, of course, began

as pragmatic things to do, and they become increasingly metaphoric. Now, metaphorizing something isn't in itself bad. Our language is just layers of metaphor that we forgot our metaphors, so there's no good and bad. But you can see from our perspective that the metaphorization of sickness and health can lead us down some harmful trails to certain people that are singled out as the source of the corruption or parasites. Now, real estate religions, which are the big religions. They are

religions that are old enough to own real estate. Christianity, Scientology, Islam, Mormons. Real estate religions are our stacks, mountains of metaphors erected on the original accident that happened to work. And today I wanted to focus on the personas of religious belief, the prophets, the gurus, the wisdom teachers, and mostly focus on the similarities between them. And I'm also going to do something that's wholely well, it's not very academic, okay,

but whatever, it's my podcast. You can deal with it or you can turn it off. I'm going to say that there are true prophets and false prophets. Most are false. And I'm sorry to tell you this because I know that we have a big overlap in audience. But Andrew Tate is a false prophet. Jordan Peterson is both a true and a false prophet, and Jesus Christ is mostly a true prophet but could be interpreted as a false prophet. And of course Buddha is a true prophet. Now, every

prophet is anti religious in some dimension. They arrive on the scene in their day and say, look, you guys fucked all this up, but there's a way to fix it. And true and false prophets are difficult to distinguish because they are identical in structure. Sure, and that's the structure right there. They show up in a religious context and

say I know the secret. Either I have discovered the secret or it has been revealed to me, and I'm going to teach it to you so that we can fix this corrupted world that we happen to find ourselves in here. So when someone says that, I repeat, you don't know just because they say that, you don't know whether they are a true or a false prophet because they both say the same thing. And whether a profit goes on to become a fully fledged real estate religion,

well that's entirely dependent on the circumstances. These circumstances produce profits, and suffice it to say, you don't really need profits to show up when everything is going well. Profits show up with a new revelation because the old revelation is not really doing its job of addressing or producing a socially cohesive system using metaphors, So when they do show up. Religious reformers or teachers are profits which just encompasses them. They come on behalf of the secret. The same program

goes it's something like the world. This world as it is, apparently with its current regime and its current leaders, it's fallen into corruption and immorality. And I have the insight now by which I've seen through this corruption to either what the world truly is, or I know what has to be done to replace this sham and then restore the correct order of things and profits. Every profit is created by believers. They're created by the flow of belief.

But what really creates the profit is that they're needed at that time. A social crisis, a world that is not getting better, needs a profit to address the right problem at the right time. So you really don't need profits when everyone has a full belly and a bright future. You believe in the future that teachers present when the actual future isn't looking so hot, so when you're in a state of decline. So none of this, most of

it is old hat. I only have really one unique thing to say, and that's if belief is the one thing that distinguishes a profit in the religious sense from just I don't know someone who's a popular speaker or a smart and funny guy that you like listening to. It's different from that because the profit here has spiritual authority, and I wish there was a different word that I could say that invoking the spiritual realm. But hey, I'm sorry to say it's real. It's not to say it exists,

but it's it's real. And the way that they are believed in is that they are a channel or near in proximity at least to what is the true object of all belief. And the true object of all belief is a secret and it's and it's not a secret in the in that I'm not going to tell you what it is, but it's the secret of the truth of the world, or the code that gives rise to the rest of the world with all of its illusions

and corruptions. That secret code of the world exists somewhere, but as a regular dude, you're not going to know where it is. The prophet is the one who has the best idea of where it is. So the secret is going to be my technical term that I used for a while, and I think the first time I mentioned it was my analysis of Warhol cultists in a

YouTube video. Warhol cultists can simply not accept that Andy Warhol's art is about whatever meaningless stuff he had in his studio and made his assistants produce, because they believe that he is a guru and that there's a secret that can uncode this banal work and give you the key to really understanding it. Of course, I argue there's no point in understanding it because the meaning is the surface. Similarly, the prophet, in a religious sense, it's almost always a he,

So I'm just gonna say he. But he has proximity to the secret, the secret knowledge, or the secret truth, or the secret relationship with the gods. And it's because of the proximity to the secret the prophet's feet leave the ground. In a sense, it's a sort of deification, and it is why if people believe in a prophet, or if you believe in a profit, you will defend him to the death. Any criticism of your profit is

unjust persecution. That unjust persecution can also be proved that the message is correct, that the secret is true, because the elites of the world do not want the secret getting out, and because of this, the standards of argument for a profit, they disappear. The profit can get away with stuff from his followers that they would never tolerate from any other normal person in their life. Because the

standards have shifted. The standards of behavior, what you should do, what you expect of people, they don't apply to the profit because the prophet has the secret that is beyond the simple rules of religion. It's why although profits tend to be a part of a religion or co out of a religion, they're fundamentally anti religious in a sense. So if the society's in crisis, that means religion in its status quo current state is also in a crisis.

And this is when you're going to allow the profits to emerge and present the new secret, the secret about what's really going on. So the prophet has a very different structure from just an intelligent person who's a compelling speaker. He also has a different structure from what a priest is and what a priest does in a society. So someone like this is start with intelligent person. People like to listen to intelligent people, they want to learn from them,

and they respect their intelligence. But there's no difference in nature or there's no difference in principle between you and a person who you respect for being smart. They might have more experience, they might i have read more, they might have had more time, but you listen to them not out of their knowledge of the secret, but simply their knowledge of things that you have not yet had time to figure out. So the intelligent person is not sacred.

You still listen to them, but they are not infallible. Now the priest. Maybe prophets can be priests, or priests can be prophets, but their structure is different. I'm saying the priest is a normal person with normal knowledge, and they become sacred only for the purpose of a ritual when they put on their vestments and so on. And they are important, having been chosen to do this, whether God gave them a calling or whether society just said, here,

this is the job that you're going to do. Priests still can be wrong as people, but they can't be wrong in their office as a priest. However, they're not a prophet because they are normal people that have a sacred job. The prophet now is not a normal person. The prophet is to the believer a sacred person, which means you hang on every word they say. And this is not because the prophet is doing his job well, because that's the priest. The priest is a normal person

with a job. And the priest takes off his special clothes and now he's on the same side of the sacred profane divide as you are. You're profane. But the prophet, because of the secret he has access to, he basically becomes the holy man. And this is the structure of every cult. The leader of the cult, the profit of the cult, the guru. He is near the center and however close you can get to him is how much

of his sacredness rubs off onto you. And now when I say that the secret is at the center of the cult and the prophet is closest to it, obviously this is why I chose the secret to explain this. Because secretness and sacredness the two words, they have the same etymology, They mean different things, but they come from the same place. So the prophet is a sacred office because he's the closest one to the secret. Now, for a cult, outsiders, they're not in on the secret. They

don't know that there's a secret there. They just distrust it. That's why they look at your cult and laugh. But they are the ones who are deceived because they don't understand that the secret is there. This is also why if when you hear people talk about getting out of a cult, they kind of say, I don't know why I believe that. Holy shit, I have no idea why I believe that. Well, guess what. Being social and intersubjective is our cult state that we can't get out of.

You can never see yourself from an outside perspective, and you can't ever say, holy shit, I can't believe I believed all that because you will believe it until you die. And that's what death is. Death is finally when you can stop believing in society. Religions of course can't have that. They can't let you end belief in society, which is why they don't let you believe that death is really death. It's a portal to the next stage, which they have

power over to. Anyway, when it comes to being believers, we're all believers in some people in some way. I don't know that we all believe in prophets. I think I don't know. It must be a sliding scale, but we do all believe that there are some especially capable people who I guess we don't worship, but you know, the lower form of that admire respect. Like everyone listening

to this has a favorite writer or philosopher. I'm sure probably someone who's dead, and other people, normal people, they have their favorite author, their favorite band or intellectuals, celebrities, whatever. You send your belief to them by reading, listening to watching them, and they don't know that they're getting your belief, but there's you know, this is how communities fandoms form, and most normal people believe in priests, someone with a

sacred office. So of course there's the priest. Who's the priest or the pastor or I mom or shaikh and some other people the libs, let's just say the libs. They believe in politicians this way, as someone who holds a sacred office. They're a normal person. But when they put on the special clothes or they go on the special TV show, now there's someone with a sacred office. Successful business people sometimes take this image that might be

a sort of sacred office. Now, when it comes to belief in a prophet, like above, a priest, a prophet is far more than a priest. A priest is a normal person who puts on the sacred clothes. The prophet himself is sacred, and it's much easier to see what a prophet can do if you don't believe in the prophet that you're talking about, because if you're not within the cult, the profit does things that are inexplicable. They're

the acts of a crazy person. And part of the job of the cult around the prophet is then to justify. They can't help but justify to themselves that what appears to be crazy is not in fact crazy, and they have to do this in so far as they are members of the cult, because if they did believe that crazy things were crazy, then they would not be in the cult. And as soon as you're outside of the cult member, as soon as you're outside the boundary there,

then everything that goes on inside seems particularly insane. But within the cult, all that crazy amounts to something divine. If it's inexplicable, then it's accounted to the mystery of the secret that has been given to the prophet. And prophets do do crazy things. They have to because they are coming from out of time into time. A prophet does not become a prophet by being nice and being

polite given the statards of the society. They become a prophet by breaking and disrupting the standards of the society. True and false prophets. Now, of course it's not difficult to come up with examples of crazy cults or crazy cult leaders or doing crazy things within cults. But even with the examples of our real estate religions, founders like Jesus Christ was crazy. He was in this sense he

was willing to die for what he talked about. And not only that, but hanging out with the dregs of society like prostitutes and tax collectors and counting these among his friends. Oh and like he's supposed to be, this rabbi right, it's it's the most disrespectful job to do is to wash people's feet. That's what slaves do. But

he goes down and does it. That's that's crazy. And with Buddha, I mean in any culture, to sit under a tree for fifty days, not to mention shirking your responsibility to your father and your family name by by leaving all your giving all your stuff away, and leaving your family. These are these are crazy things to do. And now in a sort of post hawk justification. The followers of those religions will tell you how those were not crazy things to do. They were they were totally

reasonable given what they were attempting to do. But in that context, if your brother or sister decided to go do that, you would say, yeah, no, uh, that's not who they are. This is really weird. They should stop. And so this brings us to the contemporary example of the prophet who can do no wrong, Donald Trump and

trump Ism. Now, not everyone believes that Trump is a prophet, not even people that like him, but some people that like him, uh the trump pisted, perhaps not to mention the Qanonist, but they do believe in Trump, not as a priest, not as in an inspiration, but as a prophet. The cult exists. The trumpst cult exists literally to justify anything that the prophet does. Now, if you go too crazy,

if you get too wacky, yes you'll lose members. But as long as there's even one member still in there, the purpose of that member, insofar as he or she is a cult member, is to trust the plan to send belief sending belief like we send thoughts and prayers. And if you're not on the inside. This justification makes no sense to us. It's mysterious. But the real answer for why all of this craziness can be justified is because the prophet has special awareness of the secret, whatever

that is. And the cultists, with their purpose is here, is to spin all the craziness into winning. They have to do that for themselves. It's not that they want to justify something that they know is wrong. It's that they have to because if they didn't, they wouldn't be in the cult. That's what their identity is at this moment. Now you can leave the cult, but that hurts to do a lot. It hurts to lose faith, it hurts to lose ritual, it hurts to lose your friends and family,

you know, depending on the cult. And if you've ever talked to a trump Is, you'll know that contrary evidence, Like if you try to count it with science or economics, this is entirely futile. It's useless because those are not the correct metaphoric systems to fit in with this metaphoric system. This is part of this version of the Trumpists called is winning business deals. Don't let people take advantage of you, get rid of the parasites. If we are in a

trade deficit, that means we're losing. So using contrary evidence, if it comes from a different metaphoric system, like hey, look at what happened to the Nasdaq, this doesn't matter. It's useless because to the trumpest Trump is a prophet. He knows the secret and the job of the member, the job of the disciple or the cult member, is

to trust the plan. Now this is taking longer than I thought, but I do want to look at another fave, the profit who seems crazy to any one outside, but is either an intellectual or a prophet if you cross the line. Let's talk about Jordan Peterson. Now, Jordan Peterson's star has certainly dimmed. I don't hear much about him anymore. I think you still going on TikTok. Though five years ago, man, he was everywhere. That's when we saw the cult firing

on all cylinders. I'm just using him because we all know who he is, so it's a good example. Now, he used to have more believers, true believers, hanging on every word he said. But Jordan Peterson, depending on who you're asking, might fit any of these roles. He might just be a guy who's pretty admirable, pretty smart. He might be a priest who's a regular guy but doing

the holy work of combating trans Marxists. Or he can be the prophet who is ushering a new world for poor abandoned teenage boys and their parents that are happy that they're cleaning their room instead of just playing video games all day. Now, not many people can be profits because, first of all, the conditions have to be right. There are times when we need profits and times when we don't. But when we do, you need to see zealous, blind devotion before you can say that someone has ascended to

the status of a prophet. So Trump in QAnon, Trump in trump Land, those are basically two different figures. One is combating satanic pedophiles and one is just the boss who wins. Who's other examples Andrew Tait, he seems to be someone who can do no wrong according to his followers. Maybe Bernie Sanders ten years ago, maybe Taylor Swifts Marx Marx.

For some people, you get the creation of cults of the prophet where if you can find like an echo chamber, an echo chamber where contrary opinions or criticisms of the prophet are just immediately shut down. So these are just like famous people. They are the modern examples of faith in the prophetic. There's probably much smaller ones. You know, there might be a cultic faith in the church down the road and you would never know because there's only

twenty people in it. But yeah, let's look out. Let's look at Peter Sen circa five years ago when his star Wars at its apex. His general teaching follows the pattern of prophecy. If you ask what he's teaching today, though I don't know that it fits so well. It's a confusing question because it depends on the day. They have the woke over lords. Of course, they never go anywhere.

They're teamed up with the transgender Marxists feminists, and they are making teenage boys feel bad, and also Justin Trudeau and Elmo, who he really hates for some reason. So Trudeau, Almo, transgender Marxist. All this is tied up into what the world that Peterson enters as profit, which is the corrupted world. The prophet always enters the corrupted world, and the corrupted world is not the everyday world, but it's the toxicness, the poisons, the parasites, the things that if you got

rid of them, we could live in utopia. So for Trump, there are a lot of parasites. There's an endless list of parasites. Immigrants, China's sending disease, other countries that are profiting off of American winningness. Those are parasites. This is why we are not able to arrive at our destiny until we go to war. So Peterson and Trump, of course, because we're not members of the cults, it seems very

obvious they're following the prophet playbook. There is a good world, and in the good world you would be happy because there you would have what you are owed. You would have the good life, in this case because you're an American, or in Peterson's case, because you are a disciplined young man. For Peterson, what you're owed is a good life of self respect, dignity, freedom of speech, especially freedom to work hard, to put your nose down, to not complain, to raise

a family. But this good world has been corrupted by lazy, anti family, parasitic leftists who blame everything on racism. Now, if you remember from last time, it's actually the same as the cargo cult profits in the Pacific islands now another they have a much broader religious system and the cargo cult plays a role in that. But the initial cargo cult profits, they were censured from society at large, but they grew in followers, and there's more than one,

there's many islands. But they were preaching because they're trying to deal with a civilizational crisis. They the islanders saw airplanes that they didn't know existed, and then they saw American and Japanese soldiers who didn't have to work for anything. So this caused a crisis, a social crisis, and these profits had the answer, and their lesson was your birth right is cargo. And these sneaky whites are changing the tags on the cargo so that you don't get it.

But follow me. I have the secret, and if you follow me, you're going to get all the cargo you want. This is a metaphoric universe because they know what cargo is, they know where it came from. And yet there's some of them who still believe in this anyway. I'm sure there are, you know, communist profits past and present too.

They'll tell you that we're just a little bit of correction, a little bit of organizing away from the revolution, and then there will be the non capitalist world that you deserve as long as you defend your leader from criticism in YouTube comments, and then the world will become ushered in that you are destined. Don't worry. The rapture is soon. Capitalism is in its death throws. We're almost there. But how does Jordan Peterson, I'm trying to focus here, sorry,

how does he see through the corruption? This is confusing because you can see what he says, or you can see what he does, and they don't. They don't really align. What he says in twelve Rules for Life is extremely normal for a religious teacher. There he says like take take responsibility, improve yourself a little every day, don't be too negative, and don't be too arrogant. This is good advice,

very normal advice. You could take this advice and be perfectly in line with original religion, which is be a good member of society. Don't be too greedy. You can be a little bit greedy, but don't be too greedy. Don't steal, don't hurt people, and act predictably. We can find this again just in the phrase like be a

good man. And what is good is almost all the time, defined as what society needs from its members to keep it going, and metaphorized to be good is just what God wants of you, which is what society needs of you to continue to improve, to create a better life for your children than you have, And in that sense, a lack of selfishness is quite important. However, however, let's not be stupid about why JBP is famous and known and recognized as a prophet by some now trigger warning.

In this sense, Jordan Peterson is a true prophet. I mean, the advice in this book is totally blase. I'm sure it's good for some people to hear it. They could pick up any self help book. It's the same stuff, be a good member of society. True prophets, especially Jesus, notably say that these these labyrinthine rules that you have created for society are not for the good. Jesus says, well, we'll get to him, I think. But Jesus says, there's

only two rules. I got two commandments. Peterson says, there's twelve, which maybe he could have reduced a bit, but I can I can tell you from experience. The thing that he's reacting to is coming from the speech codes in the university. These aren't legal, they're just like what everyone else does. Then you feel like you have to do them, the codes of how you show respect to people. And I don't know if it's like this anymore. This was how it was like ten to five years ago. And

in certain cases I have to admit they're weird. Like there's six people in the room for a comp exam for a doctoral student and you have to do a land acknowledgment, like you know all these people. You go for coffees with these people, and you're doing a land acknowledgment, which which is in principle a useless speech act. And everyone in the room studies the same thing, so they all agree with that. And look, I'm an I'm not

an anti woke guy, like I'm generally pretty woke. But if you're at like a department meeting and you have to go around in a circle and announce what your third person pronouns are, this is a real example. This is not something I'm making up, but being compelled to announce your third person pronouns in a meeting where you know everyone in there, it's a very weird, surreal thing

to do. Even if like just by sight. Let's say, even if just by sight there's a person who's pronouns like, you wouldn't want to have to guess because they're ambiguous. Why the fuck anyway would you be referring to a person in the third person in a meeting that they are in Like that would be more culturally disrespectful anyway than getting their pronouns wrong if they are ambiguous looking.

I mean, this is some bullshit, like you can't have you can't have two different you can't have a fish and a bird on the plate at the same time. But bullshit aside, Peterson's audience has never been in that meeting. I have, and I bet Peterson has because he got famous off of whining about pronouns. However, that is not what twelve Rules for Life is about. Twelve Rules for

Life is not about university department mandated speech codes. Twelve Rules for Life is just about take responsibility, do your best to be good, improve yourself a little bit every day, don't complain too much, and don't be too negative, and good salt of the earth. Advice like this is very appealing, especially in a civilizational upswing, a civilization where people feel an affection or love or duty towards society. Now, this happens because you feel effervescent to society out of gratitude,

because it's benefiting you. This is what I really want to harp on. Everything changes about belief. When you no longer believe that the belief is benefiting you, That's when all the crazy stuff starts happening. That's when you get profits. That's when you get apocalypticism in religion. And I have to admit here, I may be dumb, but I never realize this about Jordan Peterson until now, is that in his public persona, he's an apocalyptic end of times. Armageddon

is nigh kind of manic. And when you read Twelve Rules for Life, and if he or whoever wrote that, it's kind of a grandpa telling you to stick cardboard under your hockey pads kind of advice. It's saying, whatever's happening in society, focus on you, keep your head down, follow this good advice, and I don't know, dot dot dot everything will be okay, not percent sure, but following the Twelve Rules for Life is not at all what

Jordan Peterson himself actually does or says. That advice didn't work for him because he's out there combating the evil forces in society and in public and calling them evil and fitting things into his duality of chaos and order, but calling Justin Trudeau a Nazi and lashing out at Elmo. You know, from his perspective, from this perspective of his cult, he's warring for the future of civilization, which of course is a civilization purged of the corrupting influences Marxism, transgenders

and Elmo. Now there's two completely different characters here, because we have Jordan Peterson, the self help Salt of the Earth, keep your head down and everything will be okay for you. And then we also have the other kind of prophet, the apocalyptic doom fire Brimstone, the world's going to end. Turn your eyes towards God and beg for forgiveness because he's coming. We have that kind of Jordan Peterson too. So these are two kinds of prophets. There is the

Salt of the Earth. Here's some good advice. This is the kind of advice that's good for all people of all times because it's just pro social behavior advice. And then there is the end times prophet. This is exemplified by the Old Testament, the second half of the Old Testament, those prophets who are always preaching at Assyrian or Persian kings and saying, woe to you, you have offended God. God shall bring destruction upon you and salt your fields

and send plagues on your head. This is an apocalyptic prophecy because it says the world that you've created here, especially if it's directed at Xerxes or whoever they're directed at, the world you've created here is so corrupt that nothing can change it, that nothing can repair it except for destruction. And now that's a different message from the put some put some cardboard under your hockey pads type of advice,

don't take religion so seriously kind of advice. What we're gonna keep saying, what we're gonna see more often as the threads of society continue to come apart for whatever reason. You know, I think I think we got a pretty good explanation. But whatever the reason, as they continue to come apart, you see more apocalypticism, which is to say, if the world continues to get worse, there's nothing to do here anymore. We have to wait for the end.

The end will be ushered in. And I do want to note that I'm much more afraid of apocalyptic profits because they get people to do some really crazy shit. They can get people to do really crazy shit. Hitler is an apocalypse prophet. Many Christians too. Their religion is also apocalyptic because this world has to end for the good one to start. But Christ himself, now this is a harder question, and I'll have to cover it at

some point in the future. But Christ, a majority of his ministry is saying that your religion is corrupt and then demonstrating how to fix it, which is to not just follow the law for the law's sake, but to address the particulars, address the outsiders. And he says, this is what the law was meant to do, But you guys, the Pharisees and the Sadducees have corrupted it and skewed it and followed legalistically all these sets and mazes of rules,

and they believe that they're good for following that. And Christ basically tells those people, no, you're not good for doing that. You're a show off and a fraud. And the secret that Christ follows, or that Christ is adjacent to, is this thing that he calls his father. That is this violently loving, compassionate, forgiving, but also very powerful kind of force. So Christ as religious reformer, this is kind

of where I think he's the true prophet. But he also just says many apocalyptic things like I come to bring a sword, and I come to cause wars, and I come to separate the sheep from the goats, and if it were up to me, I could call a thousand legions of angels to wipe out this city. So he has these moments in the record of him as saying apocalyptic things, like when he's dying, he says to the guy, the guy next to him, today you will see me come into my k kingdom. He's always talking

about his kingdom. So there's definitely a thread of apocalypticism in there. But Christians only took the apocalyptic part. Basically, they forgot the don't follow religious rules for their own for their own sake, because they're not made for their own sake. They're made to, you know, help you be a better member of society. So that's where i'd say, you know, Christ can be interpreted as an apocalyptic prophet,

but he's morey. I'd say most of His message falls on the side of let us return to original religion. We're going to follow the secret. The secret is my father. My father made the original law. And the way to repair society is to take down all this shit that you put up to go back to basics. Right, we only need two rules. That actually doesn't make practicing your

religion easier. It actually makes it very hard because you have to think at all times, how in this moment, in this way, do I serve society as best I can now, and then the next moment and then the next moment. Whereas religions they make it so people can get by with minimal effort, which is go to your church, volunteer at your church, give money to your mosque on the holidays, and try to pray at least once a day. And then you're in what I'm calling the true prophet.

They arrive onto the scene where religions like that are happening and say, no, you don't understand. The religious life is very difficult. It's so difficult that if you do it properly, they're going to kill you at thirty three years old. And what the true prophet says, in so far as he's a true prophit is we need to go back to basics. We need to take all this stuff off. We need to go back to what made society important in the first place. And that's what you

have to do. And it's hard, and you're gonna have to get up every day and do it. But that's what actual religion is. False prophets, they don't say that. False prophets they offer you the easy way out. So armageddon is the easy way out. It doesn't take any effort on your part. True prophets say that real religion is going to take all of the effort and all the energy you have for the rest of your life. And if you do it right, people are going to

try to kill you. But if you don't do it, you may as well be dead already because your life doesn't matter. So beware false prophets who make things easy for you. Just because Christ replays the law with only two commandments doesn't mean that it's easier to keep those two commandments than all the rest of the law. In fact, it's easier to just follow the law for their own sake than to try to love your neighbor as yourself.

So all this is why I began with trying to systems theorize how we get from basic rules that are good because they work, to metaphor metaphor a metaphor universe of rules where the rules are good because they are the rules. The true prophet, on the other hand, he arrives to de metaphorized to return us to what was good in the law in the first place. Is that which is that it keeps people together with a purpose. So the message of a reformer, and basically every religion

has one, some of them become their own religions. But the message of the reformer is, let's get back to basics. Don't pay attention to all these rules, don't pay attention to the labyrinthine mazes of morality that people put you in. Just get back to basics, and the basics are clean your room, take responsibility, and be nice to cats. For Christ,

it is uh love God, just loves society. And then love your neighbor, which means don't love society in general, but love the particular parts of society that are in front of you. And he demonstrates in this Midustry by hanging out with the ostracized and the outcast, but just

to maybe wrap this up. I want to. I want to look at one more apocalyptic preacher by the name of Andrew Tate, because this is yeah, this is frightening for every high school teacher that I've talked to, and I thought we thought we might be rid of him, but that was too optimistic for me to have believed.

And there really isn't anything that explains Andrew Tate except religion. Okay, so for him and the sort of trend of red pill red pill content people, this is perfect here because the matrix where the red pill comes from, it's a gnostic pair. This too, is a gnostic parable, but it's for guys who tell other guys that you have a right to be frustrated by women because women only care about appearances. They're just like moths if you make money

and work out. In red pill philosophy, women are repulsed if you give off the wrong appearance, and the wrong appearance is of course to be poor, but also to be too nice, because if you're too nice to a woman, then you're signaling that you're a pushover, or if you are a cock who is vulnerable or sensitive around females. This causes females to revert to their original form, which is like a sort of emotional vampire who use men

and then discard them. So in this religious teaching that you have to dominate and be strong and make a lot of money and not be sensitive because then you'll cause women to feed off you. This is, of course, in this religious story, the apparent world, and the profit comes to overthrow this apparent world. Now, how is Andrew Tate going to help you do this? I'm not an expert on Entwtaate, but I think i've heard him answer this before. You can overthrow the matrix, the false world

by not letting females get the upper hand. You treat them, you don't treat them like you want them. You want cars and money. And if you get cars and money, then women will follow after you too. And if you keep women on their toes, then they can't ever return to their natural vampire form and you can do whatever you want with them. So this in red pill religion is the utopian heaven. And this is not just heaven for you, but it's also heaven for the women, because

this is what they unconsciously want as well. All of this freedom and feminism stuff. You know, this is confusing for them. They're confused, and if you set them back to their natural state, then we'll all get what we want. But Andrew Tate converse to the twelve rules for life of Peterson. Andrew Tate is more like the other Peterson. This is an end of the world cult. We have to end this world so that it can be reborn. And the correct world for Andrew Tate is that feminism

is everywhere. It has to be destroyed. And how is it going to be destroyed? Well, you have to tell the truth on YouTube. Tatism as a religion is apocalyptic because the world in its current form has to end, and when it ends, he will, he will come into his kingdom. And until such a time arrives the job of the tatist. This is as far as I can gather. The job of the tatist is to spread the teachings of the Tates and to pay him. And you can pay to be in the inner circle. So I opened

up with saying that cults are concentric. The secret is Tate's red pill. He is the prophet, and then there's an inner circle that receive his wisdom directly, I think in the form of YouTube videos or something like that. The rest of the followers, the rest of the flock, the parishioners, their job is to go out and defend asw Tate from the matrix that seeks to undermine and destroy him. The reason that they're undermining and undermining and destroying him and trying to put him in jail is

because what he says is the truth. It's because he has the secret. Now I know what it means to run a rye of a cult, because when the Boys and I released an episode on mega communism that I thought was quite thorough in analyzing an argument, the cult was unleashed on us. And of course, when you're arguing

with the members of a cult, reason arguments care. None of these things matter, because the problem is that you are attacking the leader, and the leader is the sole person in the universe that has access to the secret. And by attacking the secret, or by declaring that the prophet is a false prophet and does not have access to the secret, you are coming against history itself, history in terms of its social purpose. You are coming against

society itself, and that can't happen. You have to repel invaders, you have to defend the leader because otherwise the world is not going to change, the world's going to stay the same. And it's bad as it is, because otherwise would need a profit, and because the leader has access is the only one with access to the secret of how to change it. This must be defended at all costs if we are to have a future logical. It's

a logical position from its own perspective, all right. So with these two pillars of wisdom, there's something, there's something of a similar cloth in their apocalyptic mode that they both point to. They both point out that the social code is indecipherable, and it's indecipherable if you're a man and not a minority or something. You can't win unless you're a minority or a woman, and women don't know

what they want. Postmodernists don't know what they want. Feminist feminist neo Marxists want the power that was meant for you. And when you tell someone that who feels disempowered, this becomes a perfect metaphoric structure to hang a religion. Not so these four, the postmodernists and the feminists, of course, they have aligned to force you to play their weird little word games to try to advance in society, and the reason that you're not advancing in society is because

you teenage boy. The game isn't fair for you. The game's not fair for you because the code is indecipherable. But that's what the red pill is for, right, That's what Neo did to be able to decipher the code, to see through the apparent code into the secret world. And Peterson and Tate will be the profits that enable you to see why you're really losing. And of course the answer is uh, feminism. Now the red pill, I mean with the matrix as analogy, because in the Matrix

and gnosissism, society is an illusion. And if you take the red pill, you can see the source code that's in this case the prophet's secret knowledge. The Matrix is a gnostic parable because in narcissism, the world has been generated by a deluded God who thinks he's all powerful, but he's very insecure, so he built a prison world for us so that we would worship him instead of the true truth. Now you'll see parallels here with Christ's message because his the Gospel of Christ is basically the

same in structure to our two wisdom teachers. Here, the content's not the same. But the structure is now one thing that all prophets do or say that they are doing. They have to break the code. They have to say you have heard it said this. Now I'm coming to you to say this. The code that is being broken, just like with Peterson, just like with Tate, the code that is being broken is the code of the corrupt world. And so this is the Jesus red pill. Okay, Christ says.

Christ says multiple times, especially when he's in debates with the religious leaders, he says, you have all these laws, you have all these abstractions, and you have all these prophets. However, you can reduce all of those teachings to two commandments boiled down. Those two commandments are respect God and respect others. And what is respect God and respect others? These are just statements of the original religion. These are anti cartoon religion.

And this is what prophets often say. Basically, you have made this way too complicated. Time to go back to basics. This is to respect the general whole, the first commandment, and then to respect others. This is to respect the particulars of the whole. Now, this is really revolutionary. If you're within a religious legal system because respect society in general, which is to honor God. Now everyone already does this

by functioning in public properly. Everyone respects society in general if they're if they're able to, you know, and if they're not able to, we lock them up in asylums. But this is what every religious law abstracts, and not just religious law. This is what law is, the general at a general level. When you write laws, you can't have particulars in mind because there's just too many things that could happen. Literally, what a law is is a general,

a generality. But to respect society in particular, to respect your neighbor. Jesus is saying. This is the flip side, or the corollary of the commandment to honor the general. And this is what today's Christians, if you look around, they're terrible at this generally speaking. Of course, like the Chrysto fascist wing, they're entirely focused on the honor God commandment, which is to honor society in general, just like the parasitic lawyers are trying to do. And this is what

Christendom is right. Christian law in this world, Jesus is really adamant, though that his kingdom is not of this world. I guess they took that. I took that as a challenge. No, we're going to turn you into a religion despite your anti religious teachings. But if you look at Christ's actual ministry, he breaks the general law all the time. Yes, he participates, he's debating theology, he's following the Jewish commandments and festivals, but he also breaks the law. I guess he breaks

the code by washing his follower's feet. That's the opposit of what's supposed to happen. He defends prostitutes and adulterrostes, and he eats with the rats of society, like the tax collectors, because they're betraying the Jewish community to the Romans. So Christ as a guy is against religion in order to show what real religion is about, which is to say, you respect the general, but you also respect the particular, which means the prostitutes and the guy who's running around

naked saying that he's a demon horde. So the Christian religion, Jesus as a prophet. This was revolutionary for like ten minutes. So let's get back on track here. Sorry. The message of Christ is to honor the code that allows society to function i e. God, but also to break the code when necessary. Some people want to be told what to do, though, that's the purpose of religion in their life is just to make sure they squeak by. They're

in heaven, their kids are in heaven. Hallelujah. What Jesus is saying makes religion a lot harder because you can't just follow the rules. You have to respect the code and break it when it is good to do so. This is religion on hardest difficulty. But this gets what actually matters here. True prophets. They realize that what matters is the good life, and that the good life is

a hell of a lot of work. The good life means that a the rules are good, respect God, but b that breaking the rules can be good too, respect people. This is the opposite of how real estate religions function. That being good is not easy, that getting into heaven is impossible. It's not easy. You don't just follow the requirements. You have to be thinking about being good all day all the time. Being good is exhausting. Actually so the

false prophets. The self help gurus the red Pill pick up artists on YouTube, they say all the same thing in structure to Christ, but with the opposite effect. Christ says, there's no secret, it's just a hell of a lot of work. There's a similarity here. They had a false prophet and a true prophet. They both have a secret, or they are both believed to have a secret. The false prophet and the priests as well. They make being

good pretty easy for you. You pay the profit, your money, you buy the book, you commit to the teachings, you defend the leader, or you pay your tithe, volunteer in the community, whatever it is. You're good if you just do these few things. Now, a good person basking in the light of the truth that radiates out from the center the secret. That's the secret of the false prophet.

Whether that is a red pill influencer or a wisdom teacher, or the founder of a religion or a president, they are all believed in because their believers believe there's a secret, the secret of the true prophet. Conversely, that there is no secret that the laws of society are made up. They are conventions. They're not immutable, and they're not eternal. In fact, you have to break them. Sometimes you have to beat up people. If they are selling things in

the temple. Sometimes you can give away all you have to the poor, but even that's not a guarantee that you're going to get into heaven. That might be what it takes to get one person to heaven, but another person might have to give up something else for the sake of God or for the sake of others the society. Maybe you have to give up your life, maybe you have to wrought in prison for the rest of your life.

Because he realized that the good thing to do was to gun down a CEO of a health insurance company in New York City. Yes, this is extremely disrespectful to society, and he has to be punished, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good thing to do. I'm also not saying it was a good thing to do, but it is the sort of crazy things the prophets do. So Christ has to believe in the Father's power as his secret.

He references it all the time. But for Christ to really be a Christian like the Buddha, the Buddhas are the real Christians. That that is, unless you unless you take the doctrine of reincarnation literally, because then it's just whatever. But Christ should have to do everything that he does still except not believing in the invisible person called God. And I don't know if he did or not, but based on what we have recorded of him saying, it

seems to be what he says. If you believe that God is an invisible person who is going to reward you for doing good things, and that's why you're doing good things, then you're not good. You're doing that for some advantage. Later. You're only good if you do good things and do not believe in God the person, but God as the metaphor of society, which is of course all made up, but it is still the social world that makes being unselfish, sacrificing things that you want, breaking

the law to defend the weak. That's what being good is, and that takes everything you have all the time, because you constantly have to be negotiating in your mind. Is this the time that I follow the law or the time that I break it. So the secret of true prophets is that there is no secret. The secret of false prophets is that they think there really is a secret,

that they have figured it out. So send them your belief and money, buy the books, and then they on your behalf will end this world and create the new one, the utopia, purged of evil, and you can just watch them do this on TV and YouTube. This is easy for you, This is easy for the believer. Ending the world is easy. Improving the world, on the other hand, that takes everything you have, That takes sacrificing up everything you want for the good