Another great post man. I found myself feeling invigorated the whole way through, even while thinking on those forces of darkness and their pernicious machinations of control and subjugation. Why? It’s like you say: faith.
I believe more than anything else in the world, that the good — that GOD — will triumph in the end. The new heaven and the new earth are coming, and there’s nothing that any man or false god can do to stop it!
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Love this and resonate. At the bedrock of my whole belief system is a faith that people might even call irrational, but that's unbreakable, that Truth will win, and that no matter what, God's always with us.
I’m just freestyling, but I think we’ve got to always remember not to let reason get in the way of faith. It sounds backwards to us who have been indoctrinated to worship materialism, scientism, and reason as the highest virtues and human faculties, but I think it’s fundamentally the correct mode of being // existential stance… The human heart is designed to abide in faith and in perfect communion with God… I think there’s a point where faith is so strong, so powerful that “rationality” and “irrationality” cease to mean anything at all…
This is something that’s difficult for me, to be honest. Maybe it is for you too. Throughout my life I’ve worshipped my intellect and used it to guide every one of my beliefs. It’s only recently that I’ve been able to see the value in the opposite: belief according to faith, according to the “knowledge” of the heart. Ironically, reason had no small part in this recognition and shift… It’s a balance, I guess. The heart and the mind are not actually enemies, after all.
At the end of the day, what I need most is humility. Radical humility, surrender, and submission to the mystery of existence (the mystery of God). Anything that gets in the way of this surrender — which is for me, again, my “reason” — must be taught its proper place. I have complete faith that God has the power to enact this exact change in those who ask it of Him.
You have SUCH a gift, not just for having wisdom and the patience to work through that wisdom, but in your ability to use a matrix of symbols holding self-referential meaning to impart vital pieces of that wisdom to others. This incredibly intricate piece somehow kept my ADHD brain engaged the entire way through, and I walk away from it inspired to embrace my truth-seeking masculine, which I (and those around me) often see as an annoyance, and to indulge my awe-filled feminine. Those grains of sand—GAH! Beyond stunning.
Thank you for answering my question, and thank you for taking the time to put all of this together. I hope writing it was also beneficial to you, cool guy.
Wow. I've been following you from the beginning and this is one of my favorite posts. I've also been following what's going on since I started awaking to this in 2020. This article is very well written, much of it I knew but I did learn quite a number of things I find interesting. There may be some going down rabbit holes in my future inspired by things in your post. Keep putting truth out there, the world needs more awakening. Thank you.
Loved this piece! Your argument that “beliefs are not just conclusions, but commitments” really struck a chord with me—especially as a gay person. You point out how people hold onto beliefs not necessarily because they are true, but because they are useful, which is exactly why so many people resist queerness at first. They’ve built an identity around a certain worldview, and letting go of it feels like losing part of themselves.
It also made me think: if belief functions the way you describe, then maybe sexuality does too. Maybe people don’t just discover they’re gay, but rather they commit to it, lean into it, and let it shape how they see the world. You talk about conspiracy theorists finding meaning in their narratives—well, have you considered how much meaning and joy there is in being gay? You get a vibrant community, a new way of looking at life, and (best of all) you finally get to escape the tragic hetero dating pool.
Honestly, if belief is about usefulness, then being gay is one of the most useful things I’ve ever believed in. Have you tried it? You might like it.
So here's the thing, Bledsoe. I think you're onto some lovely and essential things here―the cosmic sameness of it all, the manic recognition of a unifying thread, even the need for our own individual critical thought. But there's something in how you say it, something that I saw in you (and―I must admit―in myself) when I first saw you on my screen in the forests of Cagayan: you just seem like you think you're better than everyone. The way you spill your instantaneous knowledge and latest revelations onto a page in declarative phrases, like they're not malleable and interpretive. The way you twist words (beautifully, yes) into a lecture on what IS and not simply What Reiman Believes Right Now. It's so final, so wiser-than-thou, so hostile to opposition.
Take a deep breath. Remember that truth fuzzes at the edges and it is in these greyed out boundaries that we humans can find the most meaningful connections. Let the logic soften. The magic lies in the feelings, anyway, and those are inherently disconnected from logic. Lean into the soft, receptive femininity of the divine and let the hard, prescriptive masculinity take a break for a moment. Let the change flow around you, then flow with it.
Dip out of the echo chambers, my guy. I also think psychedelics are powerful and important, but when you get to aliens and secret nanotech conspiracy, you've jumped from one duality into another. The less common delusions may feel better because they're less common, but delusion is delusion
Another great post man. I found myself feeling invigorated the whole way through, even while thinking on those forces of darkness and their pernicious machinations of control and subjugation. Why? It’s like you say: faith.
I believe more than anything else in the world, that the good — that GOD — will triumph in the end. The new heaven and the new earth are coming, and there’s nothing that any man or false god can do to stop it!
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Love this and resonate. At the bedrock of my whole belief system is a faith that people might even call irrational, but that's unbreakable, that Truth will win, and that no matter what, God's always with us.
Well said.
I’m just freestyling, but I think we’ve got to always remember not to let reason get in the way of faith. It sounds backwards to us who have been indoctrinated to worship materialism, scientism, and reason as the highest virtues and human faculties, but I think it’s fundamentally the correct mode of being // existential stance… The human heart is designed to abide in faith and in perfect communion with God… I think there’s a point where faith is so strong, so powerful that “rationality” and “irrationality” cease to mean anything at all…
This is something that’s difficult for me, to be honest. Maybe it is for you too. Throughout my life I’ve worshipped my intellect and used it to guide every one of my beliefs. It’s only recently that I’ve been able to see the value in the opposite: belief according to faith, according to the “knowledge” of the heart. Ironically, reason had no small part in this recognition and shift… It’s a balance, I guess. The heart and the mind are not actually enemies, after all.
At the end of the day, what I need most is humility. Radical humility, surrender, and submission to the mystery of existence (the mystery of God). Anything that gets in the way of this surrender — which is for me, again, my “reason” — must be taught its proper place. I have complete faith that God has the power to enact this exact change in those who ask it of Him.
Peace, man!
You have SUCH a gift, not just for having wisdom and the patience to work through that wisdom, but in your ability to use a matrix of symbols holding self-referential meaning to impart vital pieces of that wisdom to others. This incredibly intricate piece somehow kept my ADHD brain engaged the entire way through, and I walk away from it inspired to embrace my truth-seeking masculine, which I (and those around me) often see as an annoyance, and to indulge my awe-filled feminine. Those grains of sand—GAH! Beyond stunning.
Thank you for answering my question, and thank you for taking the time to put all of this together. I hope writing it was also beneficial to you, cool guy.
Fascinating. Some of it was over my head, but so much of it was spot on.
The Awakening is both exhilarating and exhausting. A constant push and pull. And it all feels worth it.
Wow. I've been following you from the beginning and this is one of my favorite posts. I've also been following what's going on since I started awaking to this in 2020. This article is very well written, much of it I knew but I did learn quite a number of things I find interesting. There may be some going down rabbit holes in my future inspired by things in your post. Keep putting truth out there, the world needs more awakening. Thank you.
Loved this piece! Your argument that “beliefs are not just conclusions, but commitments” really struck a chord with me—especially as a gay person. You point out how people hold onto beliefs not necessarily because they are true, but because they are useful, which is exactly why so many people resist queerness at first. They’ve built an identity around a certain worldview, and letting go of it feels like losing part of themselves.
It also made me think: if belief functions the way you describe, then maybe sexuality does too. Maybe people don’t just discover they’re gay, but rather they commit to it, lean into it, and let it shape how they see the world. You talk about conspiracy theorists finding meaning in their narratives—well, have you considered how much meaning and joy there is in being gay? You get a vibrant community, a new way of looking at life, and (best of all) you finally get to escape the tragic hetero dating pool.
Honestly, if belief is about usefulness, then being gay is one of the most useful things I’ve ever believed in. Have you tried it? You might like it.
So here's the thing, Bledsoe. I think you're onto some lovely and essential things here―the cosmic sameness of it all, the manic recognition of a unifying thread, even the need for our own individual critical thought. But there's something in how you say it, something that I saw in you (and―I must admit―in myself) when I first saw you on my screen in the forests of Cagayan: you just seem like you think you're better than everyone. The way you spill your instantaneous knowledge and latest revelations onto a page in declarative phrases, like they're not malleable and interpretive. The way you twist words (beautifully, yes) into a lecture on what IS and not simply What Reiman Believes Right Now. It's so final, so wiser-than-thou, so hostile to opposition.
Take a deep breath. Remember that truth fuzzes at the edges and it is in these greyed out boundaries that we humans can find the most meaningful connections. Let the logic soften. The magic lies in the feelings, anyway, and those are inherently disconnected from logic. Lean into the soft, receptive femininity of the divine and let the hard, prescriptive masculinity take a break for a moment. Let the change flow around you, then flow with it.
Dip out of the echo chambers, my guy. I also think psychedelics are powerful and important, but when you get to aliens and secret nanotech conspiracy, you've jumped from one duality into another. The less common delusions may feel better because they're less common, but delusion is delusion