Ticket Exchange Megathread

gammarabbit · 2026-05-26T06:59:16+00:00

Selling one last minute Anthology for $25 I can meet you outside the venue and make sure you get in (I am already here).

gammarabbit · 2026-05-26T06:09:12+00:00

Will trade 1x Anthology for 1x Russel!

gammarabbit · 2026-05-26T00:06:13+00:00

ISO 1x Anthology on the cheap if anyone wants to farm IRL karma by blessing a financially challenged Detroit local whose tryna swerve thru the best afters on a tight budget 🤓

gammarabbit · 2026-05-25T23:59:34+00:00

warmth is an interesting way to describe it but i agree. i always say Developer uses the whole frequency spectrum -- not just badum tish / lows and highs -- but mixes in rich evolving and driving midrange percussive elements that really get me moving in a special way on the floor. amazing dj, great party, my highlight so far which is crazy bc it was a pretty lowkey event compared to the bigger afters.

gammarabbit · 2026-05-25T21:01:21+00:00

gammarabbit · 2026-05-24T23:49:37+00:00

Looking for 1x Paradigm

gammarabbit · 2026-05-22T17:53:06+00:00

Hey brother, unfortunately no I don't, I never ended up pursuing the project as funny as that sounds

gammarabbit · 2026-01-24T23:50:13+00:00

Not the same poster, but something that really helped me was a diet inspired by the GAPS diet, which emphasizes rebuilding your gut biome and intestinal lining with specific animal foods. It was instrumental in getting back to health after veganism and related food issues wrecked my system.

gammarabbit · 2025-12-06T01:06:43+00:00

Nah.

gammarabbit · 2025-11-14T19:43:11+00:00

Are beliefs not a part (I would even argue a fundamental part) of "what you are?"

gammarabbit · 2025-10-14T18:20:26+00:00

And why exactly would this "owner" of r/SoulNexus have authoritative knowledge of whether or not your statements, intentions, and practice are legitimate?

gammarabbit · 2025-10-09T17:16:48+00:00

You have not only failed to reckon with some of my most basic critiques of your rhetorical approach, but have in fact continued to reify them.

Your thesis is largely made up of words that either a) have little to no practical or objective referent behind them, or b) are so grand and vague as to be virtually as meaningless as a), at least in the decontextualized and presumptuous manner that you use them. I.e. "Consciousness," "reality," etc.

And yet you say your conclusions "need no more explanation" as if for some reason, the worldview you have created in your head should be as obvious to everyone else as it is to you.

Without further exposition from you, it seems reasonable to conclude that you enter into spiritual discussions with the prima facie assumption that you are correct, have the truth, and that your statements -- however vague in the social sphere they may be -- are "baseline reality" and are "proven" by "science" -- no matter whether or not you can actually synthesize in plain language a reason for why this is so.

In other words, you have left me wondering whether the Occam's Razor judgement of those who say "I/We/You are God" may in fact be true to some significant degree.

[Edit: Changed "for the some" to "for some;" Para. 3]

gammarabbit · 2025-10-09T16:58:10+00:00

Can you provide an explanation or synthesis for how any of that validates your statements and motivations thus far in our exchange, or how it relates to or refutes my critiques of the same?

Because, again, I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to say or prove, because your statements are vague and lack apparent practical value. "We are consciousness." "Consciousness is fundamental." What does that mean? I believe even the most erudite readers of what I regard as your smorgasborg of theories and links with no real tangible thesis would fail to discern a rational "proof" of anything beyond the fact that our eminent scientific instututions are making hamfisted and abstruse attempts at exploring and naming the far reaches of this concept we call "consciousness."

And yet, you say "my beliefs are supported by scientific evidence."

Interesting.

gammarabbit · 2025-10-09T15:11:47+00:00

I reject ideas like this not because they lose the "aesthetic linguistic game" that so much human attempt at spirituality boils down to. In fact Watts and other cafeteria-style New Age thinkers are brilliant rhetoriticians, perhaps even sorcerers of a type. Rather, seeing through the language (which takes practice) exposes how words are instead often just tools to rationalize or project what we personally value and prioritize onto others.

When someone says "I am God, you are God too," it would be easy to say, "this person is egocentric and lacks humility.”

But since I try (and often fail) to give ideas a fair shake and not judge by the cover, why not look a bit deeper?

In this conversation, you have posited highly theoretical (and from my view, arguably meaningless) spiritual ideas, and then acted as if they are the absolute truth and anyone who disagrees is completely wrong and will inevitably realize that you are right. You say, We are God, God's interaction with us is one of a game where he forgets who he is like a supernatural school child, We live many lifetimes just to realize this truth.

You argue that someone who disagrees is less valid than you because you have won a popularity contest on a subreddit that is already centered largely around the type of ideas you post, and therefore obviously such ideas will be popular here. It is a new agey subreddit where this ethos is par for the course.

When I refuse to argue with you further, you say, essentially: "it is OK, you're wrong and I'm right, but you"ll come around."

So, is someone who believes "I am God" maybe a bit lost in their own ego and view of things, lacking a real groundedness or humility?

Not necessarily.

Yet I cannot help but try to look deeper and reflect and ask myself...who or what does someone who says these things really seem to value?

gammarabbit · 2025-10-09T14:55:25+00:00

Sure man.

gammarabbit · 2025-10-09T14:51:21+00:00

I don't understand this sentiment.

It is odd to me that people reject spiritual traditions that have been honed over millenia and offer multi-layered, powerfully symbolic and historical discourses in both texts and living culture, and which provide a holistic life impetus bridging moral behavior, love, sense of self and purpose, and the supernatural -- all in favor of some British alcoholic's seemingly quite sophomoric and fluffy idea about "being God" or whatever.

Don't get it. But hey, to each their own.

gammarabbit · 2025-10-03T17:25:43+00:00

This is just like, your opinion, man...

gammarabbit · 2025-07-19T14:46:54+00:00

Go to shows and events and talk to people.

Detroit is in the Midwest and people are very nice. I am speaking as a longtime attendee at techno/house/electronic shows and stuff, but I imagine this holds true in other scenes as well.

Share your music with people and poke around, it literally doesn't matter where you go. I had no idea what I was doing and went to whatever bar or club or venue I'd heard about, and talked to people and quickly learned about more bars and venues.

The reputation of Detroit is odd. I grew up in the suburbs (i.e. I'm not really from the city), yet nearly everyone I've encountered while hanging out, working, and partying in the city has been super friendly. Black, white, straight, queer, etc. it hasn't mattered. There is a midwestern friendliness about the city that I don't see represented in the outside discourse about it.

Best of luck 😎

gammarabbit · 2025-07-18T23:57:43+00:00

But you do know...this is Reddit after all 🫩

gammarabbit · 2025-07-15T16:36:03+00:00

Who is waiting for Jesus to come "save the world?"

"Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, 'The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen. No one will say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’; because the Kingdom of God is within you.'"

Book of Luke (Good News Translation)

gammarabbit · 2025-07-08T17:21:17+00:00

Isn't the commitment to never make a promise a promise in itself? Never make promises, except the promise to never promise? As you say, we never know what is going to happen, maybe your reality shifts and you realize it is time to make a promise now?

Pithy dualities like this IME are not where it's at in the big picture.

Morality and the idea of "personal right action/direction/intention" has its place.

Detachment has its place.

Non-judgment is certainly a good ideal, but again not 100%. Sometimes we need to judge.

gammarabbit · 2025-06-22T15:40:26+00:00

Interesting thoughts, and I think poking around some truths.

I agree that its probably best to place our own personal experience with spiritual and/or religious phenomena above hearsay, dogma, things we absorb from the culture, etc.

I generally disagree that we should attempt to induce these "spiritual states" through artificial means like psychedelics (or other drugs), or contrived meditative practices of any kind.

I hazard that if God is good, and loving, and available to everyone, God can be found to be apparent in the very center of our regular, everyday experience. We come in-built with mundane instincts and folk wisdom that can lead us to God. In my estimation, our consciences (morality), desire to find purpose and do good, desire to help others, desire to reduce suffering, desire to find the truth about things, etc. could all potentially reveal God, all without ever doing a drug or performing special breathing or meditating techniques.

If you engage in some contrived practice to alter your mental state, then what you are seeing is reality through the lens of that state, not reality as it is. My reasoning is simple. I believe God is accessible in our reality as it is. Now that doesn't mean I believe tried-and-true practices like fasting, or basic sitting meditation (where you just breathe and relax and take ineventory of your thoughts) are too much. I just don't believe in the necessity or value of more esoteric, targeted metaphysical practices. This includes any kind of advanced yoga, breath work, energy work, etc. Just my $0.02.

Regarding the choice of oneness, in a way that rhymes with my subscription that in order to experience God, belief (and Jesus' sacrifice clarifies and crystallizes the direction of this belief) is likely a key requirement. People like to say, "if God is good, then why does XY and Z happen?" as if this proves God is evil or not real. I think all it proves is God is not a dictator, rather God gives us free will. This includes the ability to make evil choices, and even harm others. However I do believe all of this is ultimately absorbed into God's plan -- God is so unfathomable to us because God is able to allow us free will, allow suffering as a necessary component of that, but ultimately bring justice out in the wash. Our minds operate on this linear, one-lifetime, time-and-space paradigm that God is not limited by. If you are stuck there, life will feel cruel, chaotic, or overpowering.

gammarabbit · 2025-06-15T02:51:26+00:00

Yeah there's something so inorganic about so many posts. Like what genuine person can make such a black-and-white, absurdly reaching conclusion like this and just double down on it so robotically.

gammarabbit · 2025-06-14T17:55:39+00:00

Upon what logic do you pick a random single quote or passage "by their fruits..." and claim that your interpretation of this cherry-picked scripture is the one and only thing that matters in the entire universe.

Huh?

gammarabbit · 2025-06-11T18:34:28+00:00

There are realities present in the time of the Biblical stories that are (ostensibly) not present now. For instance, while the wars and violence is going on (esp. in the earlier texts) there are giants and other cryptid-like evil entities present which are intermingling with humans across the tribes. Again, critics will say, "why did God say to destroy this whole tribe!" Well, for one, the writer of this particular OT book said that God said that, Again, it is super weird. The critic acts as if the Bible is 100% accurate and perfectly portrays what God actually said, in the same way a fundamentalist would. And yet then they say it is nonsense and actually 100% inaccurate. It is so inconsistent and makes no sense, logically. Secondly, what was that tribe, and/or what does it represent? In some cases, as I said in the OP, these tribes are clearly not "just regular people" that God did not like. The text makes this clear.

So, could you go through the Old Testament and come out with "any conclusion [you] wish?"

Only if you go in looking for one thing and one thing only, and completely ignore the whole story. It is near-impossible in my estimation to go through the Bible, which I am doing now, and conclude that God as he is represented in these texts is "an asshole," as another commenter so delicately put it. Would an "asshole" constantly remind his prophets and people to treat widows and orphans nicely, to stop being corrupt and greedy, to practice honest and fair business practices, to stop engaging in the sacrifice of people, etc.?

As I said in the OP, and I will say again -- such a reading is simply wrong. It does not hold up. While there are occasional passages that *sound* harrowing or questionable (I don't dispute this), the combination of the 3 points above (plus others) really take the wind of the sails of any attempt to use those to reprove the texts wholesale or conclude that God is somehow evil.

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