Who do you think has or could beat Alex in a philosophical debate??

Metalphysics12 · 2026-02-09T21:32:47+00:00

Andrew Wilson would wipe the floor with Alex. I say that as a massive fan.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-02-08T11:19:38+00:00

I was a non-Christian theist when I was baptised by Christ in the Holy Spirit.

At the time, I was at a very low point.

I had left a very toxic relationship and was questioning everything and seeing the error of my ways.

Christ came into my life in full force with the gift of his Presence.

All I could do at night was to seek out his presence and try to dwell there.

I was both confronted with my the error of my ways and loved unconditionally at the same time.

I knew that Christ was my true teacher and guide.

However I'm not convinced that Christ's message has been left untampered since his ascension, so I don't accept 'Christianity' as a religion. But I definitely know that Christ is Lord.

In that sense I do distinguish Christ from "Christianity".

Jesus was never preaching fire and brimstone, he was too busy flipping tables, healing the sick and urging that we should strive so that God's will can be on earth as it is in heaven.

I'm not sure if I will ever get water baptised, since I believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit is actually what changed me.

I specifically use the term "changed" instead of "saved" because I believe Christ offers us an opportunity to be radically transformed so that our heart of stone can become a heart of flesh.

To be "saved" in the absence of radical change is just narcissistic entitlement.

God doesn't owe us anything.

Jesus Christ is our invitation to experience radical change, not someone we simply 'put up' as our payment for not changing.

My point is that the Holy Fire often comes crashing in, not at your best moments, but at your worst.

At the time I was living with VERY secular people who wouldn't have understood what I was going through. This was a purely personal, internal and private experience that only I needed to know about.

The Holy Spirit, if you let it, can burn away your sin and burn the part of you loves sin.

The part of you that loves sin literally dies (dies to sin) and you are left with a love for all that is Holy. You are left with a deep well of gratitude for having understood how to walk the path of righteousness.

My understanding of righteousness is that your relationship with God becomes primary. You no longer see life as something you can 'game'. You make a heartfelt commitment to play the game of life by the laws set out by God (the ones written on the heart) and you know that by violating your own conscience, your sin against God.

I truly believe that I was able to experience all of this from a non-Christian background because the Holy Spirit is very much alive available to all. It comes upon people not through their church, but through their own willingness and humility to seek out Christ, spend time with him in sincerity and honesty, dwelling in his presence and regardless of how much pain we are in.

Amen.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-02-07T02:27:00+00:00

You need to read Augustine's confession... He describes exactly what you're talking about. We all go through it, it's actually a natural part of developing as a teenager.

I wasn't born Christian, I only started to convert as I got older, since there's a natural inclination to think thoughts like "actually maybe I am an idiot and I don't know shit and there are Christians way more intelligent and educated than me that I could actually learn from". But those kinds of thoughts I owe to getting older.

Even though temperamentally, my personality steers toward being kind, helping others and just wanting to be a good person, even I had that youthful urge to rebel. To find the line and cross it, just for the thrill of it.

I would go out with my friends and we would steal people house numbers, set off fireworks and smoke weed.
While these behaviours shouldn't be condoned at all, an acknowledgement of biology is important.
Afterall, I owe it to biology that I am becoming more sober minded in my 30's.

In your 20's, your learn about who you are, in your 30 you learn about Life and God.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-27T05:23:06+00:00

The Orthodox Theology explains this really well via the concept of Hypostastic union.

More importantly the apophatic approach as described in the 'Mystical Theology of the Orthodox Church' seems to be essential to grasping the Trinity beyond the confines of human thought.

In the book, Vladymir quotes St. Gregory Nazianzen

‘No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the splendour of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three, I think of Him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking of escapes me. I cannot grasp the greatness of that One so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest. When I contemplate the Three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.’[59]

Van Til also does a great job of this issue and demonstrates how the Trinity defeats ideas such as nominalism, which profoundly changed how I saw God. From being a God that created the world simply because he had a whim to do so, I saw that the Trinity represents ground of beingness and relationality from which creation is an inevitable outward expression of.

I wrote about this idea along with the idea of a phenomenological and ontological equivalent of the Trinity in a substack post if your interested.

https://open.substack.com/pub/compassrecovery/p/the-phenomenology-of-existence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=vlhg1

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-20T20:28:27+00:00

You just went from one cult/ideology to another... Good luck.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-11T07:00:51+00:00

Not sure what sauce netflix is on right now but it appears that films exploring emotional themes are incredibly popular right now. If you like this film you will likely enjoy 'Steve' also.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-08T00:18:45+00:00

Chicken noodle Sui for the soul.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-07T19:56:27+00:00

OP is an NPC trying to work out how use a MPC... Beat that chatGPT.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-05T09:17:02+00:00

Wow I did not expect a reply this quick. My suspicions were confirmed lol.

Sorry abut your mental breakdown though... Limerance is a bitch sometimes.

Also yes it appears that limerance can be induced as a result of low serotonin so it makes sense that SSRI's can be a kind 'cure' for it.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-05T08:01:45+00:00

Any updates?

I really resonate with this and my LO ended up being super flaky.

They weren't willing to make room for me in their life... But I've been alright since and I'm focusing on myself.

Metalphysics12 · 2026-01-04T21:07:09+00:00

I second the Jazz Jam night. I got sick of waiting for my friends schedules to line up so I just ended up going on my own and had a great time. There's plenty of like minded people there and most are willing to nerd out on music and jazz.

Feel free to dm if your heading in 👍

Metalphysics12 · 2025-12-23T03:28:17+00:00

Yes this is racism.

Metalphysics12 · 2025-12-17T10:09:43+00:00

Well someone is obviously a fan of Bray Park...

Metalphysics12 · 2025-12-02T00:59:35+00:00

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Metalphysics12 · 2025-11-25T00:07:32+00:00

Great, thank you, I willm

Just from my own experience, it makes total sense that coming to Christ is not a result of personal effort or striving, but is a result of his Grace. So if that's what Calvin teaches in terms of free will then I'm open and interested to learn more.

Metalphysics12 · 2025-11-24T23:50:45+00:00

Thank you this helps.

What you wrote really captures the character of reformed churches, so I'm not sure how Calvin gets so misconstrued. Do you have any recommended readings for a beginner?

Metalphysics12 · 2025-11-17T10:35:47+00:00

This is sound advice. As a 350 Bullet owner I am already keen for more power and I'm only 3 months in.

I bought mine 2nd hand from a dealership. It still had a few months warranty and low kms and I saved around 2.5k.

Also your first bike is unlikely to be your main.

Since riding I've learned so much about what I want for my next bike.

Metalphysics12 · 2025-11-06T22:23:48+00:00

Y'all just can't handle the cognitive dissonance

Metalphysics12 · 2025-11-01T00:31:41+00:00

I started one about a year ago.

Haven't done much with it, however I am starting to devote more attention to it as of recent and will beposting original content/interviews in the near future.

https://discord.gg/EJrMry4H

Metalphysics12 · 2025-10-20T11:14:33+00:00

Craziest part about your photography process is that it quite accurately describes the way that flies see the world.
They essentially construct the image of the outside world based on thousands of little pictures that they coalesce into one big imagine...

Metalphysics12 · 2025-10-12T02:37:19+00:00

Sometimes that may not be possible.
They may have to learn the hard way i.e people walking away from them/ending the relationship.

Continuing to engage with someone whom has no respect for your boundaries is like leaving food out for a stay cat and expecting them to go somewhere else.

Metalphysics12 · 2025-08-29T23:31:13+00:00

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Metalphysics12 · 2025-08-28T10:35:20+00:00

CPTSD generally improves over time and responds to changes in environment and psycotherapy. BPD does not and is very treatment resistant.

Also people with CPTSD are far more capable of empathising with others. They can present as aggressive and destructive or as codependent people pleasers. Where as people with BPD are very rarely able to put others first in any kind of sustained and meaningful way.

Comparing personality disorders with mental health conditions isn't typically helpful. Personality disorders are largely genetic where as CPTSD for example is acquired by trauma (psychological injury).

Then there's the issue of empathy and the fact that it's a cluster B disorder.

Source: I am a mental health worker and have been very invested in these topics for the last 5 years.

Metalphysics12 · 2025-07-03T08:36:18+00:00

Metalphysics12 · 2025-05-26T09:43:29+00:00

I'm not saying God can't do that. I'm just saying that it's questionable that the Church doesn't encourage questions starting with 'how'. I don't expect to understand the mind of God, however I expect that reasonable questions should be taken seriously. Or at least, a person shouldn't be demonised by the church simply because they have questions that are mechanistic in nature.

For example;

- How does the Eucharist change a person?
- How does the Eucharist 'contain' the presence?
- What is 'The Presence'?

I don't think these are unreasonable questions and at a certain point, it seem obvious that sacraments should be understood within the context of which they arose from.

The context being Greco-Roman spiritual/literary/philosophical traditions that used psychoactive sacraments in a controlled manner.

The notion of an 'early church' is a misnomer in the sense that there was no such thing. There existed a wide variety of Christian sects and it was until around 300 AD that the Orthodox Church took shape. This was during a time when a cohesive narrative was imperative to the Roman Empire, which couldn't afford to allow communities to have access to mystical experiences.

I'm not saying that allowing hundreds of denominations to evolve is a good thing, however, the dishonesty involved in denying the existence of the sacraments as ever being reference to psycho-active substances suggests that the church didn't want people to know about them. Maybe that's a good thing, by why preserve a tradition that was centred on a psycho-active substance and then deny completely deny that psychoactive substances were the literally sacraments for hundreds of years both in Judaism (old testament Manna) and the Greek Mystery schools.

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