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I agree information suggests Intelligence (and Intent), and not the random forces of chance happenings to explain our existence and origins, including the universe's beginnings.
Two things: they wanna recruit more people and they’re super naive that’s why they don’t want people who detransitioned telling their stories on mainstream media.
I met Lou during this era of his life. He shook my hand super hard and it pissed him off that I wasn't flinching. Most martial arts is such bullshit lol.
This book, The Alchemist, is not even cheap wisdom. It’s the reverse. Like all these vague, unfocused “new age” offerings, this is a pseudo-psalm sung to the only god it knows, The Ego. Coelho is not a scientist, or a seer. He is a wanna-be whose principal ambition, as he says, was to be “a successful writer.” He aligns the “wisdom” contained in The Alchemist with the fact that it became a NewYorkTimes bestseller. The message of the book is essentially a form of capitalist individualism transposed into the language of a children’s book - “If you really really want something, the ENTIRE UNIVERSE will subscribe itself to your ego needs, like a cosmic overindulgent mother.” This unspeakably shallow moral vision aligns very well with the fatuous New Age temperament of the West at its worst, deeply invested in the faith that it’s really “all about me”, and all that’s necessary to bring such a vision forth is to be yet more self-involved. This is not wisdom, but childish tom-foolery, worthy only of adaptation into some kind of Hollywood kitsch. This is to say nothing of the writing itself, which is platitudinous and appalling. It’s a book that is loved only by persons who have never read a book before.
Bart Erhman "Did jesus exist is a historical detective 🕵️♂️ story & i invite you to look at the cold facts of the case & decide for yourself". J. Warner Wallace : Hold my beer 🍺
Bart, why would you mislead people? That statement was dishonest. When Jesus says God would intervein and destroy the evil powers, He said it would be during the generation that He described as the last. Matthew 24:33-34 "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation(as in, the one generation who sees all of these things) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Matthew 24 is all about the end times and what we would see at that time.
I enjoyed the book and documentary tremendously. It was until almost the end where it felt that Christianity was being shoved down my throat that it kind of ruined it for me.
