RE: China To Ban Cryptocurrency Exchanges Once Again - Don't Make Me Laugh!
I guess more accuratly what I meant to say is:
Satan is jealous of humanity and wants to corrupt us. (metaphorically speaking, not literally).
Satan didn't give us knowledge, he gave us knowledge of good and evil, which is artificial dichotomy that starts confllict in mans life - i.e. the knowledge itself destroys paradise you live in. We must abolish the evil and spread good, thus we fight against half the creation, so how can there be paradise?
By this act satan made us suffer and in war and the knowledge he provided is only artificial, since creation is as god made it and all has its place here.
Ergo, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - Hamlet, Shakespeare
And that is exactly the problem here with the crypto space: some people invest money they should not invest. Then they hear news about their investment. Then they think: "Oh that's bad news". Then they sell their investment and lose money because they sell it too early and then they cry about the unfairness of the world because they acted because they deceived themselves into believing that their investment was bad because they worried about it because they heard some news about it. Yet, if they hadn't had these negative thoughts about their investment and if they had just seen the news about their investment for what it is and held onto it instead of falling for the deception then all of these bad things would not have happened.
Clearer now?
Thus, I meant that buying into the dichotomy of good and evil, is the deception of Satan and that is in itself a metaphor.
The world 'just is' and to me 'being' is good. Well, you could say it's neutral, but I think that 'being' is better than 'not being' so I classify 'being' as good and therfore I just view the world as inherently good. Of course you can disagree with me but I think that would be falling for the deception and encourage you to take the highroad. Afterall, that was the call of Bitcoin to take away the power to manipulate markets from banks to free people from war.
Now, personally, I also like to put myself into the shoes of an author of the Bible. How would I write if I lived 5000 years ago and wanted to communicate a positive message to people? I then read the text as follows: The garden of Eden can be interpreted as the brain, and the two hemispheres left + right as the false dichotomy that create conflict between themselves. Eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge in this view becomes a metaphor akin to forgetting because you eat away from your knowledge and become ignorant of the world as it is. You start to be deceived.
Of course, there is only the world (the creation), but from neuroscience we know that it gets interpreted by your brain twice via two different pathways. One of these pathways is called the "what pathway" and the other the "where pathway". Where just tells you where in the world you are and where other things in the world are, while what can tell you that the "where" is good or bad. From these thought experiments I drew the conclusion that the Bible is the first attempt by humans to scientifically descibe nature. Of course, over time the words they used got somewhat outdated. For example, when I read the Bible I think the tree of life means "lung" in modern English, while the tree of knowledge of good and evil means "brain". If you read the Bible that way you can actually learn a lot and get mind blown regularly. You also start to realize how retarded it is to murder because of religion and then you try to enlighten your fellow human being.
I am getting a PhD in Psychology. You see that I think quite a lot about this :D
Cool but I think we will have to disagree on this. I don't believe in any kind of Satan.