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Re: On consolation
StJohn Piano
4 December 2025
Post #89
http://tela.network/forum/89/

- Great post. Very true.
- Where I'm at mentally: Human activity can be so bad that it's preferable to believe in God in order to have a defense against demonic behavior.
- To go one level deeper, and to turn the focus away from other people, I understand my own proclivity towards evil / sin, which is quite strong, and the church offers a remedy, which is significantly better than the only two real alternatives: buddhism & nilihism. (I don't consider Nietzche's Ubermensch a viable alternative.)
- That said, i still think the faith should be held in balance / tension against instinct / thor / odin / zeus / darwin. Sanity / truth emerges from the tension of opposites.
- Incidentally, this is a way to avoid the temptation to try to justify christianity in the terms of scientific proof. I watched a lot of people try to do this. It's pointless. Cedes frame.
- The faith is the faith. It needs no further justification.
- cf "I am who i am" / ipsum esse