LIBERTY INFINITY

I asked AI how followers of Abrahamic religions (Old Testament, New Testament, Quran) explain the fact that if you count all those mentioned tribes and who gave birth to whom in the Bible, it results in only 6,000 years, while Earth is actually 4.5 billion years old. AI said, well… religious leaders say not to take the words in the Bible literally, that one day of creation could be equal to a million years… basically, making stuff up… I really hate the fact that when they dont allow women into leadership positions in religious institutions, they follow literal instructions in the Bible, citing the words of the Apostle Paul that women should remain silent in church (1 Cor. 14:34), but when you show them real nonsense and gaps in chronology, they say “you shouldn’t take everything literally”…

And I had to read all the main religious books of the world to understand it.

I accidentally found a sect of Shakers on fb, its a branch of Quakers. I read about them and realized that I really like their principles:

“The Christian Society of Friends of the Inner Light,” better known as the Quakers, was founded by George Fox in the mid-17th century in England and Wales. At that time, religious disagreements, disputes, and violent conflicts on religious grounds were escalating: between Catholics and Protestants, and among different branches of Protestantism. Debates about Biblical interpretations did not lead to agreement and reconciliation, but only multiplied religious splits within Christianity. In the Quaker doctrine, the way out of this situation was found in the belief that every person can receive direct revelation from God, who is within every man as “Inner Light.” Such direct and often unspoken revelation is more important to Quakers than Holy Books.

Quakers promote moral values such as the equality of all people before God regardless of external differences, the rejection of any discrimination and oppression, pacifism and non-violence, honesty, the unacceptance of oaths or sworn pledges, simplicity of life, and voluntary renunciation of excess and luxury. Completely unusual for Christian religious communities of the 18th century was granting women the opportunity to preach and lead. Many Christians still do not accept this, citing the words of the Apostle Paul that women should remain silent in church (1 Cor. 14:34). But the Quakers became an exception: as early as 1670, the founder of the Society of Friends, George Fox, appointed women to leadership positions within the community, as he believed that the Spirit of God dwells in every person.

The Shakers, having separated from the Quakers, still share these values, adding to them mandatory celibacy and religious communism (shared belongings). As convinced pacifists, the Shakers considered it unacceptable to kill people or inflict bodily harm, even during wartime.

From my own perspective, even among Vaishnavas (Hare Krishna ppl), gender equality at the head of that community is not observed, although celibacy is present, which Vaishnavas may break for procreation… Throughout the time I’ve followed them, I’ve only seen 2 female preachers; it’s mostly the same male lobby.

More about the Shakers and Quakers: they are based on the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ… It’s hard to say if I even believe in the virgin birth and the resurrection from the dead. I also don’t understand celibacy, as I am asexual because my desire for sex has just finished at 30 y.o. so I never practiced celibacy myself and dont think i have any right to push someone towards it. Also, the Bible claims the world is 6,000 years old, while Earth is 4.5 billion years old, so this concept’s bias towards Christianity is questionable. I suppose they developed in period when there was no access to the religious books of other religions. Now, when one can learn and study not only the Abrahamic religions, but Bhagavad Gita and Dhammapada, we can attach multi-religious approach to the Quakers approach, not only Christian one.

But the main ideas of Quakers seem very interesting.

A Critical Review from a Traditionalist

How long will we feed ourselves fairy tales for retards? How long will we dance to the tune of gurus skilled in fooling naive followers, promising to turn water into wine by the power of thought, and become rich through visualization? Stop multiplying an army of infantile consumers convinced that the universe owes them something! The subject is the universal epidemic of “Thoughts Are Material” – the rotten core of New Age pop-trash, parasitizing on fragments and by-products of ancient knowledge, and that maniacal striving for a free wealth.

These “enlightened” adepts from “The Secret,” who consider themselves conduits of higher powers (and, conveniently, successful sellers of air), offer people not a path to self-improvement, but a cheap trick: squeeze your eyes shut, repeat the mantra “I am worthy,” and voilà – a villa in the Bahamas, a private jet, and a harem of young virgins. It’s just curious that these very gurus, so actively selling the success formula, don’t live in harems themselves, but in modest apartments, begging for donations from their brainwashed followers for their teaching – a food for fools. The irony, isn’t it?

Let’s rip the mask off this shit, expose this cynical fraud hiding behind noble slogans of “positive thinking.” True esoteric teachings are not a set of incantations to summon a wish-granting genie. They are the hard work of the spirit, requiring discipline, asceticism, self-denial, and the comprehension of the universe’s profound laws. And those mindless affirmations about positive thinking are merely a pathetic parody, the bad smell from the corpse of original knowledge. It is a desecration of sacred things, worthy of contempt.

The Cult of Infantilism and Egoism: “Wish it – get it,” “focus on yourself,” “you deserve the very best” – what a vile cocktail of egocentrism and consumerism! New Age places at its core not spiritual growth, not the cultivation of virtues, not service to higher ideals, but an overgrown EGO, demanding constant gratification of its base lusts. These domestic degenerates, incapable of even earning their own living, become parasites, sucking the life resources from their followers while giving nothing in return.

The Denial of Reality and the Law of Retribution:
Life is not Disneyland, where all wishes are granted by the wave of a magic wand. Our fate is determined not by our thoughts alone, but by the consequences of our actions and by predestination from above. To ignore these factors is to doom oneself to cruel disappointment and personal catastrophe. The ignorance of the New Age is boundless – their faith in this lie knows no end.

“Manifesting desires” is not a spiritual path; it is a disguised form of consumerist madness. Instead of seeking life’s meaning in spiritual development, they reduce everything to the banal accumulation of material goods. They worship the very mammon (the golden calf), reeking of New Age mantra stench. This greed is disgusting.

All “positive thinking” gurus are not enlightened teachers, but brazen swindlers profiting from the ignorance of the masses. They use psychological tricks and pseudoscientific theories to sell their useless courses and books upon people, squeezing out their last pennies. Oh, the obedient sheep, lining up for the shearing by cynical shepherds.

True values are: labor, self-discipline, uncompromising work on oneself and one’s ego. The only way to truly change one’s life is to take responsibility for oneself and stop blaming the Universe for everything. Learn to rely on God, learn to ask Him correctly (not to dream and visualize), to ask oneself the fundamental question: why do I live at all? Am I missing my one and only chance, and how should I prepare for death so as not to regret a life wasted?

No, if you are so weak that you cannot manage yourself yet want a yacht – go work, study, act!
Or, for heaven’s sake, sit in meditation on Mount Athos – at least you will achieve something, even if it’s not a yacht. Enough already with breeding useless infantilism!

Zaur Sefevi

Everything depends on what kind of illusion you have created for yourself — one that makes life easier or, on the contrary, complicates it.

God appears where logic stops working.

Historically, God fulfills important functions:

• keeps a person from falling apart
• provides a solution for surviving suffering
• makes it possible to bear loneliness
• creates a stable point when the world is chaotic

In my youth, I read Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and there was a line like: “Look at who surrounds you now – in five years, you’ll become like them.” The main idea was: surround yourself with businessmen, and in five years you’ll become a businessman yourself. I got really inspired by this idea and once even refused to visit a former classmate because she was a single mother – something I was terribly afraid of becoming. Anyway, I regret that now.

So why am I writing this? Later in life, I met all kinds of people—people at different financial levels, with different spiritual development, with various mental health struggles, even with suicidal thoughts. I think Covey’s principle shouldn’t be taken as dogma—that whole “success-only mindset, I only befriend people richer and more successful than me,” and so on. I think that’s a road to nowhere.

I feel closer to the Biblical ideas:
“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others,”
or
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
Because when you give desirably you will never have to.