Tell Me About Your Faith

[JustGeorge]

My utter belief is that the act of creation is always divinely inspired by something... "Syn-" means to create and "-theism" implies Godhood, therefore "Syntheism" is to create the Godhood. I believe in a concept called The Superverse, that it is a combination of a Verse, Entropy and Extropy. That each three of these concepts shall be enumerated by three and exalted, deified by themselves, but God if they come together. So I consider myself a trinitarian monotheistic pantheist.

There are ten qualities of Godhood. Totality, Essentiality, Eternity, Ubiquity and Potency. These are qualities Ultimate Nature has, which I call The Omniverse. Then there is Utility, Generosity, Sagacity, Sovereignty and Unity. These are qualities human kind has developed to reach closer to God. When war becomes a distant thing of our sovereignty, unified with one common goal, we will work on Kardashev's Scale, finding ways to utilize and harness the entire power of star systems and black holes.

Your life was created by your parents, and therefore your afterlife will be created by great future scientific minds. I envision a future where gene editing reduces prison sentences to ten years max while faulty genetics, and epigenetics, are corrected. No matter the crime. Eventually Ultimate Nature / The Omniverse will develop its own entropy to maximize the extropy developed by post-humans, and existence will be enveloped in its own Superverse. To exalt something, as in Exaltism, something must be attempting to reach even further than the stars. God cannot be exalted, because by its own nature it already exists by its own exaltation.

And while The Omniverse, Entropy and Extropy are massive subjects meant to be fully discovered one day, these isolated cases are not God by themselves, and while our own Universe has a massive amount of being and entropy, the input of creativity that has fueled our humankind's desire and thirst for extropy has its own limits, and I'm afraid that no matter how much extropy we create, it will never be enough before the Universe collapses under itself in its own heat death..... Yet I still I have hope that we can do the right things in time in order to prevent this from happening.

You've given this a lot of thought.

 

[RabbiO]

If the Shema is said upon waking and going to bed, is there a specific prayer to be said in between those?

If you are interested therere are a number of siddurim (prayer books) online with Hebrew and English translations, many with commentary. Although there are siddurim available from various movements within Judaism, for the sake of less confusion I would suggest a siddur used within the Orthodox community.

Either @Harel13 or @rosends might have, from among those available, a preference that they might share.

 

[Jainarayan]

Your story is no different than that of 'Dharma Vyadha'.
I am sure you are aware of the story of 'Dharma Vyadha' (also goes under the name of 'Vyadha Geeta') in Srimad Bhagawatham, the story of the pious butcher to whom a learned brahmin was sent to learn 'dharma'. It will clear all doubts about your present work.
Vyadha Gita - Wikipedia
Selections from the Mahābhārata

This story is one of the first things I thought of when taking the job. And I do think of it often. I also keep in mind BG 3.9 All actions in this world, unless offered as sacrifice to God, become causes of bondage. Therefore work for the sake of God without personal attachment. That personal attachment can also be driving myself crazy with worry, regret, etc. I know I quoted that earlier but I love that verse.

 

[JustGeorge]

If you are interested therere are a number of siddurim (prayer books) online with Hebrew and English translations, many with commentary. Although there are siddurim available from various movements within Judaism, for the sake of less confusion I would suggest a siddur used within the Orthodox community.

Either @Harel13 or @rosends might have, from among those available, a preference that they might share.

I think we have one of those around here... An acquaintance of ours was friends with a Jewish professor who had passed on and left him loads of books, mostly of a religious nature. When he moved out of his house, he dropped most of them off at our house. There is a beautiful little book, which we suspect is a prayer book, with what appears to have some kind of carved ivory cover. We can't read a word of it, though, being as its in Hebrew. Sadly, its in horrible shape from being kept in the man's garage.

This story is one of the first things I thought of when taking the job. And I do think of it often. I also keep in mind BG 3.9 All actions in this world, unless offered as sacrifice to God, become causes of bondage. Therefore work for the sake of God without personal attachment. That personal attachment can also be driving myself crazy with worry, regret, etc. I know I quoted that earlier but I love that verse.

Sometimes its easier to let go of things one likes than to let go of an aversion...