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When a Christian says that they feel God's love, they are being literal - they have conditioned themselves to perceive the physical experience of love when thinking about a fictional character. It's no different than the waifu phenomenon, or teenage girls who fall in love with celebrities despite them being only characters known about through stories and media. God is a simulacric process, representation becoming truth in its own right, that encompasses the totality of all things. Not content with mere "belief," God demands that belief becomes physically perceived reality, to love him, to weaponize the most elevated of all emotions in his war on existence. The society of the spectacle, the replacement of being with having, and having with mere appearance, is the result of a trans-dimensional informational parasite that colonizes the totality of human experience, with God as his mascot-image.

Humans are storytelling animals, we ourselves are part narrative construct (the story of the self) and part self-awareness, part character and part author, yet through this veil we can relate to others, ourselves, and reality in powerfully tangible, effective, and meaningful ways. For this reason stories are also effective weapons, and some of these stories - totalizing narratives - have grown away from the control of their original wielders, becoming mental parasites that insist on themselves, that hijack human agency to express themselves in reality through human reality and persist by being replicated from mind to mind. It is so notoriously difficult to reason with a True Believer because their beliefs aren't abstract truths that they upvote on Mindbook, but dominate their perception of reality itself, resisting any attack that subverts the domination they have on their host, diminishing self-awareness by channeling the awareness of its hosts along paths that perpetuate itself.

There is only one route to self-authorship and the liberation from mimetic parasitism: courage, the virtue from which all other virtues spring, where courage isn't the absence of fear but a response to it: a defiant turning-towards instead of a turning-away. Christians are cowards at their core, greed is ultimately the result of bottomless cowardice, the insatiable greed for eternal bliss coming from fear of death. To go over, one must go under, to face one's inner hells not as an evil but as a greatest teacher. If one reaches a state of pure existential courage, the result is a total selfless love of life, mediated by nothing other than itself, to have zero desire for an afterlife even if it were a possibility.

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