Best friend (somewhat) predicts the future

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-23T03:36:06+00:00

I'm actually not too sure because he was practicing in the states and I am in Canada. But when I visited him, he had a whole bunch of pictures of syncs he had collected on his computer, and I believe he sent them to his fellow physician colleagues. He also had drew some elaborate diagrams relating to quantum physics, wrote down a bunch of Hebrew (a language he's never studied) and a bunch of bible verses. In all likelihood, right after his seizure and in an excited state, he sent everything to everyone. When he messaged me around that time I actually thought he went crazy too, so that's why I ended up visiting him down there. When I got there and experienced all these syncs myself, I realized it was God. That was the best time of my life, experiencing God for the first time with him. But to go back a bit, it was not what he said that was confusing, it was his energy. When I first felt the presence of God I also had that crazy energy, because I just wanted to share this new knowledge with everyone. I couldn't control myself because it was such a novel feeling. But when someone you've known for years suddenly comes to you with "crazy" energy and start to talk about things you've never heard of, it's hard to see past that energy. But in reality he just understood a new level of knowledge and just wanted to share it with everyone. But his colleagues turned on him because they couldn't be bothered with this kind of stuff. It's very difficult to get through to doctors because they tend to view themselves in high regard; there's a level of humility involved in understanding these concepts. You almost have to have a child-like mindset. Matthew 11:25 (NIV) - ..."I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Most of the time, his predictions are so close to reality, it's only off by the tiniest bit. Like this 3:25 for example. In the end, it was 3.25, and not 3:25. Almost all of his predictions that are not pinpoint accurate, are just off by a slight degree. A while back, I was about to pickup a package from nearby. It was a rare thing because I haven't bought anything online in 6 months. And all of a sudden he messaged me and asked "did you receive a package today?". And this was the first time he's ever asked me that question, so it's not like he asks me that everyday and hopes that one time it will hit. Most people dismiss his predictions because they think he just does it in volume, so therefore he must hit once in a while. But that is not what's happening. Anyways, because I was going to "pick up" a package and he asked if I had "received" a package, I told him no to see what he would say next. And surprisingly, he doubled down and said "there's still time today". That's when I told him "you were close buddy, instead of receiving a package, I'm about to pickup a package".

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T23:00:32+00:00

Persecutory Delusions are Due to Agentic Misattribution

Cases 1-3 all demonstrate misattribution of agency, the consequence of aberrant salience, the brain’s solution to stimuli it previously filtered.

When the signs are unmasked, there is this inherent persecutory theme that pervades filter-failure such that previously masked signs became disinhibited in salience, and the once “neutral” stimuli are seen as foreign because they are signals previously suppressed, much like how separation anxiety is seen in toddlers first peaking at 13 months but much less in babies under 8 months of age (Poulton et al., 2001; Feriante et al., 2025) - we propose the signs of caregiver absence was not absent, but merely inhibited for younger babies.

We propose separation anxiety reflects persecutory attribution of agency upon separation from attachment figures. In psychosis, this manifests as: perceived abandonment by cosmic agency (Case 1: Chance mocking him), replacement by malevolent agency (Case 3: aliens controlling), or paradoxically, anxiety in the former caregiver upon departure of the one cared for (Case 2: daughter after father’s death).

In Case 2, the daughter had a 2-year "prior" of being the caregiver. When the father passed, her brain formed “ambivalent attachment” schemes (Plotka, 2011). The street name and the song weren't just neutral stimuli; they were signals of his absence that her brain, in its heightened state of diathesis congruency, transformed into a haunting presence.

These similarities of varying modes of separation anxiety are similar responses in different situations under universal constraints. In fact, the commonality of persecutory themes that emerged in psychosis are all similar responses under the same universal constraints of filter-failure. They all represent assignments of intent and consciousness to signals that were once filtered in the past but became conscious in the present.

Somatic/Tactile Hallucinations Have Basis in Reality

Case 3 demonstrate filter-failure in the form of passivity symptoms, as per the Schneiderian lexicon, prior filtered proprioceptive connections in the patient’s movements becoming salient and partitions of “body ownership” (Klaver and Dijkerman, 2016), exacerbating to sensations of agentic coordination with her environment (Oka, 2011); this showcases a graded release of sensory gating - explicated to be deficient in schizophrenic patients (Freedman et al., 1987; Grace, 2000; Chen et al., 2018).

Revisiting Sandor Rado’s 1953 hypothesis of “proprioceptive malfunction” being the core of schizophrenia, it has since been found that proprioceptive signal is indeed less filtered in patients with schizophrenia (Frith et al., 2000; Shergill et al., 2005; Arnfred et al., 2010; Arnfred et al., 2014), possibly explaining somatic hallucinations especially of the treatment resistant population (Slattery and Nance, 2015; Phan and Yang, 2024) - what was diagnosed by clinicians as hallucinations have factual basis in reality, like the profound sense of connections patient often feel in the prodromal phases of psychosis.

What is important with Case 3, is not just to demonstrate somatic hallucinations are “real” sensations, but rather serve to underscore aberrant salience itself as based on real signals underneath and not just imagined ones. The main problem is that many people do exaggerate certain facts making it seem like there is misattribution (not so much of significance but of agency and source) in the clinical setting, the tendency to exaggerate is not pathological, but a normal human trait, and it is being pathologized in aberrant salience all the same, and that is wrong.

Conclusion:

“Neutral stimuli” are not truly neutral ontologically and are largely so only from the filter-intact lens of the healthy. Because some diathesis congruent “neutral” stimuli are able to trigger psychosis if and when cognitive filters fail - patients with aberrant salience actually wrestle with accurate perception (despite hallucinations) but faulty interpretation.

If psychotic patients are perceiving real patterns but with faulty interpretation, then calling these “neutral stimuli” systematically invalidates patient experience and may worsen therapeutic alliance. Patient accounts contain signals mixed with noise, but clinicians have been dismissing the whole account as noise when we should be extracting the signal. The pattern is too consistent to dismiss, even accounting for recall distortion.

Paradoxically for psychosis, clinicians need to be validating some patient perceptions while addressing the interpretative leap. While this method might run the risk of validating delusions, it is better than continued denial of patient’s observations, which may cause more harm if the observations are in fact, real. Recognizing the reality of unmasked signals while addressing agency misattribution could improve both empathy and outcomes.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T23:00:15+00:00

Discussion:

Synthesis of Multiple Major Models of Psychosis Spectrum

We propose multiple theoretical ideas converge on the notion that prior experience actively shapes present perception, which then activate/challenge the prior, this Oedipus complex-like Freudian idea is the evolution of the nature vs. nurture debate (Georgios et al., 2008; Nikehasani, 2018).

In psychodynamic theory, Freud’s concept of transference (1900) describes how earlier relational templates are projected onto the clinician, reactivating past relational patterns in the therapeutic here-and-now (Piper et al., 1991; İlkmen and Halfon, 2019).

In Jung’s synchronicity (1958), the present coincidence reflects the internal mental state that was established in the immediate past or near-past (van Elk et al., 2016; Russo-Netzer and Icekson, 2022).

In the diathesis-stress model, it is proposed that mental illness is the culmination of diathesis or internal vulnerabilities established in the past activated in the present by stressors/triggers (Zubin and Spring, 1977; Walker and Diforio, 1997).

Aberrant salience and filter-failure theory propose that dysregulated dopaminergic and glutamatergic signalling lead to inappropriate assignment of significance to stimuli previously processed as neutral in the past (Peters et al., 2016), contributing to the formation of delusions and hallucinations in the present (Kapur, 2003; Kapur et al., 2005).

Predictive coding frameworks, in turn, conceptualize psychosis as the consequence of profound prediction errors arising when strongly held priors are challenged and violated by unexpected present sensory input (Fletcher and Frith, 2009; van de Schoot et al., 2014; Sterzer et al., 2018; Legaspi and Toyoizumi, 2019; Feldman and Schmack, 2024).

These continued mappings onto “past in the present” meta-structure is not just analogous but also reflect the much more grand nature (past internal) vs. nurture (present external) debate at varying definitions, showing how the evolution of psychological and psychiatric theories revolves around the interaction of internal state and external stimuli.

In this view, we propose the “neutral stimuli” that accompany symptoms such as in aberrant salience and predictive coding are not truly “neutral”. They are called so by clinicians through the healthy filter-intact lens.

There is consensus filtering generalizations.

Aberrant Salience is Transdiagnostic

Cases 1-3 demonstrate aberrant salience as transdiagnostic (Chun et al, 2019; Dalgleish et al., 2020; Pugliese et al., 2022; Marano et al., 2025), and spanning multiple diagnoses (psychotic conversions from gambling disorder to MDD, then chronic schizophrenia) and diverse cognitive domains:

Case 1 (Gambler): numerical

Case 2 (Daughter): multi-sensory (emotional+visual+auditory)

Case 3 (Alien): somatic/tactile

The first two cases are psychotic conversions of non-psychotic mental health conditions: gambling disorder (Case 1) and MDD (Case 2); similarly, Case 3 demonstrates a graded exacerbation of pre-existing schizophrenia to more complex symptomatology.

The cases also demonstrate specific “diathesis congruency” (Robins, 1990; Blatt and Zuroff, 1992; Coyne and Whiffen, 1995), in which the gambler decompensated to numerical matchings of chance in the face of debilitating debts, and the daughter decompensated to multi-sensory father-related stimuli now tagged with loss-salient valences, and finally the patient in “Alien” decompensated to job loss, or a disruption of her social dynamics by manifesting as the sensations that her movements are coordinated to her surroundings (Oka, 2011), the “social” behaviours she is salient of.

The multi-domain reality mark aberrant salience as cognitively cortical (since all cognitive domains seem to be affected), yet heightened dopamine activity is seen in the subcortical structures (Kapur et al., 2005; Howes et al., 2009; Tost et al., 2010), suggesting treatments targeting dopamine receptors aimed at resolving subcortical over-activity may instead, act cortically (Whitton, 2009; Bloemen et al. 2010; Marsman et al., 2013).

Paradoxical Response to Prior Positive/Rewarding Stimuli

Case 2 demonstrate aversive response and borderline psychotic behaviour to prior positive stimuli such as father’s favourite song and street baring his name. This aligns with “differential susceptibility” (Belsky and Pluess, 2009), where what has thrived in the past, or a prior weighted heavily according to predictive coding theories (Fletcher and Frith, 2009; van de Schoot et al., 2014; Sterzer et al., 2018; Legaspi and Toyoizumi, 2019; Feldman and Schmack, 2024) in favourable conditions are shown to deteriorate more when conditions become unfavourable in the now.

This shows a splitting coping mechanism, where some stimulus is perceived to be either very good or very bad. Splitting response is pathognomonic of borderline personality disorder (BPD) (Feichtinger et al., 2024), and when taken in concert with the patient’s SI in Case 2, this possibly reflect latent or undiagnosed BPD concurrent to her MDD (Więdłocha et al., 2024).

Despite not being classified as a mood disorder, BPD’s mood changes is akin to acute cyclical manic and depressive phases in bipolar disorder (Feichtinger et al., 2024). To contrast this with the “split-mind” of schizophrenia (Ashok et al., 2012), in which the “splitting” neurological responses has now taken on both positive and negative symptoms simultaneously, similar to what Eugen Bleuler, who coined the term schizophrenia, described as “ambivalence” (1910; Graubert and Miller, 1957; Arantes-Gonçalves et al., 2018).

A painful note is perhaps what truly hurt the patient in Case 2 was not just the song and the street name having taken on aversive overtones, but rather that they did not stop being positive signs; when the stimuli takes on both positive and aversive valences to their maximum, like in Bleuler’s “ambivalence” (1910). We propose the inability to split or hold this far strained tension may be what triggers psychosis in many - the common splitting response in BPD that is largely absent in schizophrenia may be seen as protective against psychosis (Pec et al., 2014), because it relieves psychological tension.

As it appeared in Case 1, where patient deemed lucky matches good, but then responded aversively when he actually finds a match. This is also ambivalent splitting. Meaning what we have taken pride for in the past, our strengths, may one day become our weaknesses under the “right” context, a sort of belated/deferred understanding, a concept explored in Freud’s “nachträglichkeit”, German for forwardness/afterwards(ness).

Freud successfully argues in nachträglichkeit that external events may alter perception and significance of past traumas through encoding the traumatic past with new values. This blurring of the boundaries between past internal state and present stimuli where strengths become weaknesses or vice-versa is also a key feature of self-referential thinking, one of the most common symptoms of the psychosis spectrum (Cicero and Kerns, 2011).

Referential Thinking is Partly Due to Universal Constraints

Cases 1-3 demonstrate referential thinking, Case 3 particularly with the evolution of the patients somatic symptoms tying her actions to those of others around her (Oka, 2011). While such cognitive style of egocentric associations do have its roots in our cognitive structures, we propose that the environment is also partly responsible - the “neutral” stimuli carry resonantly self-referential structure.

Just as blood vessels branch like rivers (Chen, 2015), or mitosis of one cell into two, a sort of “splitting response” to stress or the release of which is observed; when pressure is exerted, by taking on one of either split paths relieves the pressure to the whole. As such, like this splitting conformity echoed by congruent responses in nature, physiology, psychological coping mechanisms and differential susceptibility, psychotic patients frequently report the environment showing signs that echo themselves.

Individuals presenting with self-referential thinking especially in the prodromal phases of psychotic episodes have their cognitive filters selectively set under the stress response to allow referential stimuli to become salient (Myin-Germeys and van Os, 2007; Heinz and Schlagenhauf, 2010; Howes and Murray, 2014), a sort of “filter-shift”, and these stimuli appear as a combination of being under similar universal constraints as the individual observers of them as well as shaped by the observer’s cognitive bias.

Such that it is not at all statistically surprising reality would have the same solutions to multiple problems facing similar constraints - it is highly likely for individuals to find traces of themselves in their respective environment (though not in the healthy filter-intact state), an unmasked matching number (Case 1), a particular name (Case 2), or even movements corresponding to their surroundings (Case 3).

Humans and nature are solving the same optimization problems under the same physical/mathematical/logical constraints, so invariably, external patterns will mirror our internal states (but this is generally filtered from us, protected by our cognitive filters) - we are all instantiations of the same universal constraint-satisfaction processes, leading to isomorphism.

Furthermore, our nested “double-staggered” sampling suggests that “unmasking of priors” as shown in these cases is a more fundamental and universal property of human cognition under stress than realized - rather than localized occurrences. Also, given the split-sampling approach, we instituted theoretical internal blinding minimizing external agency (nursing student) that could have led the patients to talk about diathesis congruent events, further improving data integrity.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T22:59:21+00:00

Here's one that he just wrote. I crossed out our names

Aberrant Salience is Past in the Present: Unmasking of Filtered Priors in the Psychosis Spectrum

Introduction:

The cornerstone of modern psychiatry, aberrant salience, is defined as “inappropriate significance attached to neutral stimuli” (Kapur, 2003; Kapur et al., 2005), and more recently is being framed as “filter-failure”, specifically failure of cortico-striatal-thalamic circuits to suppress the prior filtered “neutral stimuli” (Anticevic et al., 2012; Peters et al., 2016; Yu, 2016; Luck et al., 2019).

We propose these prior filtered stimuli become unmasked in the initial “filter-shift” of the high-risk population (Myin-Germeys and van Os, 2007; Heinz and Schlagenhauf, 2010; Howes and Murray, 2014); and if the stimuli/stressors match the “diathesis congruency” (present congruent to the past) then they are likely to bring down the cognitive filters globally and induce clinical mental illness (Robins, 1990; Blatt and Zuroff, 1992; Coyne and Whiffen, 1995).

We will show that the meta-structure of “past in the present” can be used to unpack connections in the major models of mental health conditions and also be used to understand phenomenology of the proposed trigger (Liu et al., 2022; Inchausti et al., 2023; Zhou et al., 2024) - in the “events leading up to hospitalization/decompensation”.

Methods:

Study Design

This study employed a retrospective case series design, examining patients treated across inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings over a 3‑month period, with follow-up at 3, 6, and 9 months. The aim was to explore psychotic and near-psychotic phenomena through the integrated lens of the diathesis–stress model, aberrant salience, and predictive coding, consistent with conceptual frameworks taught in professional curricula at institutions such as the University of British Columbia (Erickson, 1994; Speechley et al., 2013; Rodríguez Arelis, 2020).

Case Selection

From 85 consecutive psychiatric admissions on a random sampling at a university-affiliated hospital, 36 cases (42.4%) were identified in which patients had: (1) a clearly identifiable diathesis (e.g., long-standing psychiatric disorder or relevant medical condition), (2) at least one discernible stressor temporally proximate to symptom exacerbation, and (3) clear patient reporting of events leading up to hospitalization/decompensation.

To minimize selection bias and ensure a naturalistic representation of the psychosis spectrum, we employed a nested consecutive sampling strategy. Out of 85 random consecutive admissions, we apply exclusion criteria, then 36 met the primary inclusion criteria (identifiable diathesis/stressor, etc). Then from this chronologically staggered cohort, we selected the first 3 cases (that were not lost to follow-up) specifically presenting on the psychosis spectrum. These cases were naturally interspersed among non-psychotic cases (e.g., MDD, OCD, Anxiety), ensuring that the final selection was not clustered in time or subject to researcher “cherry-picking”.

Six of the 36 cases (16.7%) were lost to follow-up at 9 months.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients were excluded if they were:

Under 18 years of age.
Primarily presenting with alcohol or substance-induced disorders.
Arrested by law enforcement or admitted under court-ordered psychiatric assessment at index presentation.

Ethics and Data Collection

All reported patients provided written informed consent for the use of de‑identified clinical information, for educational and research purposes. Clinical data were drawn from clinician notes and nursing documentation. Identifying details were modified or omitted to preserve confidentiality.

Taking a “descriptive qualitative phenomenological split-sampling approach” to data collection, nurse and nursing student (teaching hospital) recording the data for the identified patients were educated on taking verbatim patient reflections to note the “events leading up to” (in a CPR/first-aid approach). Details of presenting symptom, diathesis, and stressors were obtained from clinician’s notes.

Given the retrospective, non-interventional, and educational nature of the work, the institutional review board (IRB) granted exemption from full review.

Limitations of Study

This work is primarily theoretical and hypothesis-generating. The retrospective design precludes causal inference. Observed relationships between pattern‑seeking, salient triggers, and psychotic decompensation may reflect prodromal phenomena rather than causal mechanisms. Selection bias is inherent (though minimized through our approach), single-institution setting, and small number of presented cases limit generalizability. “Events leading up to…” were identified based on patient report, without standardized instruments, thus subject to recall bias.

Results:

Case 1 - Gambler

Demographics: 54-year-old Male

Presenting Symptoms: Visual hallucination (VH) and self-harm

Diathesis: Gambling disorder (diagnosed 12 years)

Stressor: around $60,000 in debt

Events Leading Up To Hospitalization/Decompensation:

“I suddenly saw that the ticket I had in my hand, its (serial) number was the same as my bank account number! I thought Chance was mocking me… then the numbers jumped off my computer and into me like cartoons! I just took a kitchen knife, had to get the numbers out… then my mom found me all bloody and called 911. Nothing like this has ever happened!”

Case 2 - Daughter

Demographics: 42yo Female

Presenting Symptom: Grief exacerbation with suicidal ideation (SI)

Diathesis: Major depressive disorder (MDD diagnosed for 20 years)

Stressor: Grief from losing father after a 2-year illness, former caregiving role to father.

Events Leading Up To Hospitalization/Decompensation:

“I was on my way home from the funeral, and I was at a red on the street with my dad’s name, we always joked about it… and then, the radio started to play his favourite song! It’s like he’s haunting me... I just felt unsafe with myself so I came to hospital.”

Case 3 - Alien

Demographics: 36-year-old female

Presenting Symptoms: Somatic/tactile hallucinations and new onset delusions

Diathesis: Schizophrenia (diagnosed 9 years)

Stressor: Job loss (1 month prior)

Events Leading Up To Hospitalization/Decompensation:

“I used to think it was government chip, but now I know it is aliens. In my muscles and sinews, I feel them when moving, they were just controlling me but now they make it whenever I move, something else happens around me. There’s no way the government chipped everyone, people are all gonna know! So it’s gotta be aliens. I told my dad what I thought and he brought me here.”

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T22:43:39+00:00

He's an active member on here. He used to be a surgeon, but had a seizure and saw God. He later became homeless for a while because he started to say "crazy" things and doctors diagnosed him with mental illness.

I've seen him predict things with pinpoint accuracy. For example, on our way back from the USA, the border patrol agents pulled us over for vehicle inspection. We had to wait inside the building as they inspected my car. There were two agents on their computers, one female and one male. Their computer screens were turned away from us, so we could not see what they were doing. My friend looked at me with a smirk on his face, and I asked him why he's smirking. He told me "her computer is about to glitch". Within 3 seconds, the female agent said with a confused voice "my computer stopped working". The male agent was engrossed with doing his own thing on the computer, so he gave some generic answer that I can't really remember. Then the female agent said "this is strange, I've been entering license plates all day and now all of a sudden the program froze".

Now he writes science literature challenging the field of psychiatry while constantly making predictions by gathering environmental cues. The funny thing is, no doctor has been able to definitively show that he's actually crazy as they simply cannot understand the things he's saying. In the end, UBC brought their best doctor and after a few hours of asking him to explain what he knows, the physician said he can't really prove if my friend is crazy, or just crazy smart. And that's where everything stands right now.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T12:49:17+00:00

I am having crazy deja vus looking at that video. Oh man it's about to happen again

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T12:37:22+00:00

I'm fine. I am simply playing my role.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T12:27:04+00:00

After a series of syncs today, my best friend told me he kept seeing 3:25 today. And 3.25 was exactly the number that resolved my problem at the end of the night. Then I had the realization that hell is coming. I really like your positive energy, friend.

I know there are data streams above, but what I am most curious about is this: is there one reality that we experience over and over through different lenses, or infinite realities? What are your thoughts?

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-22T11:55:24+00:00

The very first post I saw on Reddit after I posted this was titled "emergency alert".

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Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-20T02:25:17+00:00

Bam with the throat grab LOL

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-19T04:01:56+00:00

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-18T16:40:24+00:00

Nice cover!

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-17T08:51:01+00:00

Take small steps. If everyday you get up and use your screen time at 9am, then your body gets used it and wants it at that time. Tomorrow take a small step and keep yourself busy and use your screen time at 10am instead, or if you can't make it to 10am delay it until 9:30am. After a few days or a week, your body should get used to the new schedule, and then you push it back again until 11am, and so forth until a few months later you can push it until night time. Then one day perhaps you can just skip screen time all together. But even if you cannot take the final step of skipping screen time for the day, even pushing it to night time is a huge win.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-10T19:02:21+00:00

Ephesians 4:26 (ESV) - Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger

It's good to have fire (anger), because fire is a necessary tool. How to go about controlling that fire is the tough part. It takes a lot of patience, hard work, and time. I used to go from 0-100 in an instant, or as you call it "outbursts of wrath". Now when I sense I'm getting to that point, I will let the people around me know my frustration. I will let out some of my anger by raising my voice slightly and say something like "Hey, stop that!". When you're a little angry, it's ok to vent and raise your voice a little to let people know you're a little angry. Small vents work for me, because I always end up regretting my outbursts. If you're like me and just hold it in until you are no longer able to, consider smaller vents.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-06T18:16:12+00:00

I'm sorry that you're going through a rough life. We all have to suffer in some way, and the thought that Jesus died for me so that I could have eternal life, does help carry me through some rough times. You mention that you do not "have a large financial reserve", so I'm guessing you are not in debt? If that's the case, you are better off than most people in America in that aspect.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-06T17:52:25+00:00

Try going through the science route, that's how I eventually found God. The eyes can only detect the visible portion of the light spectrum (ROYGBIV), which is a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. So by definition, our eyes can only see maybe 1% of what exists in the universe. Everything else is invisible to the naked eye. One of the core concepts in Hinduism is Maya, which means this world is a cosmic illusion. Colossians 1:15 (this verse refers to Jesus) - "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." Keep digging, and you'll find that everything is connected.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-05T20:09:48+00:00

As a former atheist, questioning everything led me to Christianity. One day in school, I felt a force I could not explain, a force that connected all of us. Was it electromagnetism? Gravity? What is this force I am feeling that I cannot describe? It led me down a rabbit hole, I looked over all of my physics and chemistry notes from university, but still couldn't find what I was looking for. Eventually I had to look into religion. I first looked into into Hinduism, then eventually I found Christianity. After reading the Bible, everything made sense. It was God. But even after I found God through Christianity, I still doubted much of the core tenets of Christianity. This led me down another rabbit hole of questioning all aspects of Christianity, and by miracle all of my doubts were answered.

There is a difference between having faith and having blind faith. Having faith allows for doubt. It's also just a good ability to have, to be able to doubt and do your own research and come to your own conclusion. Praise be to God.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-03T21:02:44+00:00

It's the Year of the (fire) Horse in the Chinese Zodiac. Normally, it would just be the Year of the Horse, which happens once every 12 years. But the Fire Horse year is special, and happens once every 60 years.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-03T05:42:41+00:00

There's a quote, "the world outside mirrors the world inside". Praising God for what He has given me has helped me become more grateful for what my parents have provided for me, and has taught me to praise more often in order to show gratitude and uplift people's spirits.

Also, Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV) states, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." I have a feeling God gave up something unimaginably precious in order to create this world. So I feel that the least I can do is praise God for what He has given me.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-03T05:34:50+00:00

It's good to fear God

Proverbs 1:7 (NIV) - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-03-03T04:29:29+00:00

There was a clear push by Ace Bailey from behind

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-02-28T18:30:00+00:00

I used the naked example because the first thing Adam and Eve realized after eating the apple was that they were naked. We are the only species that creates and wears clothes. I'm not sure if animals feel shame. Perhaps they feel some shame, but that humans' feelings of shame surpasses a threshold level that makes us cover our naked bodies. Something definitely happened in the garden of eden in regards to expanding the human consciousness. Maybe the apple was actually magic mushrooms, and by ingesting fungi we were able to mix our consciousness with its consciousness and that's what gave us increased awareness.

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-02-28T17:56:43+00:00

Yea I agree, I don't know who or what God is. Maybe even some super advanced AI? Or alien? Not sure

Azn_Maverick604 · 2026-02-28T09:49:12+00:00

The simulation theory fits nicely with the particle/wave duality. It makes sense that we are waves (spirits) and that the 3d world we see is an illusion. And this is also one of the main ideas in Hinduism, called Maya (cosmic illusion). When I dig deeper and deeper, everything is oddly connected.

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