I'm trying to understand how I can reconcile your teaching with a view of history that does not allow for time travel quantum manipulation by our future descendants, and a view of metaphysics which doesn't need to posit there's a higher intelligence that created the universe, whether we call it God or the Simulation Creators or whatever. And I want to avoid any sense there's some kind of teleological force that guides us.
And I think you can maybe get there via evolutionary selection! Like any civilization that doesn't make it that doesn't make it past the great filter didn't get the right messages. We don't know if we one of those or not but if we imagine, if we hope that we are, then the messages that we've got are the messages that will take us to the future. So our future descendants aren't guiding our development but--conditional on us having a glorious future filling the light cone--the prophets that have steered our direction are exactly the ones we needed to get to that glorious future. They were selected because we're selected by a galactic evolutionary process.
Faith is the choice we make to believe that we are the ones the universe will select for surviving the Great Filter.
I'm curious whether that view is consistent with yours or maybe distinct from what you're trying to express.
Very curious on what grounds you discount Baháʼu'lláh's contributions?
I'm trying to understand how I can reconcile your teaching with a view of history that does not allow for time travel quantum manipulation by our future descendants, and a view of metaphysics which doesn't need to posit there's a higher intelligence that created the universe, whether we call it God or the Simulation Creators or whatever. And I want to avoid any sense there's some kind of teleological force that guides us.
And I think you can maybe get there via evolutionary selection! Like any civilization that doesn't make it that doesn't make it past the great filter didn't get the right messages. We don't know if we one of those or not but if we imagine, if we hope that we are, then the messages that we've got are the messages that will take us to the future. So our future descendants aren't guiding our development but--conditional on us having a glorious future filling the light cone--the prophets that have steered our direction are exactly the ones we needed to get to that glorious future. They were selected because we're selected by a galactic evolutionary process.
Faith is the choice we make to believe that we are the ones the universe will select for surviving the Great Filter.
I'm curious whether that view is consistent with yours or maybe distinct from what you're trying to express.