Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I am titling this thread Brain Droppings to reflect and respect the great man George Carlin once was, and I also felt like it was a proper title for a series of ongoing journal reflections about my life. The title is meant to be as ubiquitous as possible, because one day I may have deep insight into a subject, and the next day I may talk about how cute cats are. I already have a journal set up on my own website, but would like to use this space to gain a wider audience, if that audience has an open mind and can respect my thoughts and feelings.
Today I have learned that I am no longer part of the Projectionist server on Discord, primarily for two reasons. One, I do not consider myself a Projectionist, but also two, I used the Projectionist server as my own realm for brain droppings. I was advised by my friend Ed Penny to thus create a journal entry here to talk about what is on my mind. I intend to update this thread often with interpersonal relationships and thoughts whenever I can. I am not making any promises though - this could be the one and only entry, or this could be a long dialogue between myself and multiple people.
I had a very interesting discussion with Ed Penny today. I laid out my Exaltism on him. The way I described it to him, is that even the most basic things can be viewed as great and wonderous things as well. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. And Exaltism by its own only means to have an adherence to raising the status of things. When I tell of other people the people and things I experience, I always try to frame it in a way that exalts their image.
Ed is a very interesting guy, with a lot to say about multiple topics. He has allowed me to open up about my philosophy of Exaltism in ways I haven't imagined possible. We explored numerous topics together. I explained to him that if God exists, The Omniverse will always exist above it and that the only two actions that primarily exist are entropy and extropy. I told Ed that The Omniverse has massive amounts of entropic decay, and alluded to the fact that our extropy is insignificant compared to this. However, if human extropy equals the amount of entropy The Omniverse develops, we will essentially create a Synverse, or God.
A Synverse is anything that can be created on another level. A piece of paper is a 2D representation of a Synverse. Syn means to create, a Verse points to a place in space-time. My theory is, humans will continue to create wondrous Synverses and grow beyond our current capabilities. The Internet, for example, is a Synverse. Possibly the largest Synverse ever to be. My idea is that if the concept of God exists, and if God exists, it must exist somewhere within a Synverse, making the Synverse itself God rather than the God of that Synverse. It's inherently transtheistic and I posed that concept to Ed regarding his own views of God and his concept of a "University" above all else.
I also conceived this idea that not only do we exist in 3-dimensional space, but in fact it may be possible that we are living in a 3-dimensional time as well. Past, present and future. Some consider time to be just now, and the only thing that exists right now is present. This is the folly of Projectionism. I sense they believe that the present is the only thing that exists, and, the only things that exists are things to be known by people. If you do not observe something, it merely exists only as a wave function, which studies conducted have seemingly have proven. The problem with this hypothesis lays in the fact that if Projectionism is correct, then panpsychism also exists and all objects could in theory observe themselves. I think therefore I am? More like, I exist, therefore, I am.
Upon my topics I reached out to Ed Penny today, I described part of the value of one of my divine concepts, sovereignty. Sovereignty lays between sagacity, or wisdom and unity. Things that have sovereignty have the wisdom of property. When the properties come together, such as computers or electronics, they form bodies of unity. That is what the Internet is, it is a unified Synverse of knowledge waiting to be tapped at any moment.
While the topic of my Brain Droppings happens to be my Exaltism, I fully intend on keeping this thread active and alive with new thoughts. I intend on sharing all aspects of my brain droppings here, including projects and thoughts I may have for that day. For example, I recently created an EP music album of airport ambience called Airplane Ambience and I released it on all the available services, including but not limited to, Spotify and YouTube. If you search "Ethan T Reilly Airplane Ambience" you will find it. It is my fourth album, conceived and created in one night, it is roughly 34 minutes long with three parts. I did not intend on creating anything like this, but when I was investigating SoundTrap's abilities, I came across many sounds of the airport and airplanes, thus, this was created. But I do not create music for people to listen to or to make money, I do it because I find it fun and creative and I like to work on projects like this. And Exaltism.
I am going to wrap this up before this thread gets so long that I can't even post it. I will say that despite the big letdown I had today, I wouldn't be creating this thread or became such good friends with Ed if it wasn't for the catalyst that caused it. While I am disappointed, I sincerely believe the idea that one door closed opens up three new doors, especially when it comes to online interactions and personas.
Before I go though, I have reminded myself of a concept that Ed brought out on me. He said that he wants to be "monogamous" with his own beliefs. Projectionism. However, I tried to explain to him that no idea is truly "monogamous". Exaltism is syntheism. Syntheism is futurism. Futurism is transtheism. Transtheism is theism. Theism is monotheism. Monotheism is Abrahamic monotheism. Abrahamic monotheism is Christianity. Christianity is Catholicism. Yet, Exaltism and Catholicism, while both being types of theism, are completely different points of views. However, in this vast web that we have created, all things are relative to each other. Religion is religion. Exaltism is a religion, Catholicism is a religion and Projectionism is a religion. Maybe I have a monogamous relationship with religion. Or politics. Or the Internet. I don't know. All I know is when I hear an idea I either agree with it, disagree with it, or I'm indifferent to it. And that's more important than being married to a concept, even in my own philosophy of Exaltism. To be Exaltist one must keep faith and exalt all concepts, not just the ones you happen believe in.
Alright, that's all I have. If someone wants to chime in and give their thoughts on my thoughts, that would be great. Otherwise, thank you for reading my introductory post of my brain droppings!
Today I have learned that I am no longer part of the Projectionist server on Discord, primarily for two reasons. One, I do not consider myself a Projectionist, but also two, I used the Projectionist server as my own realm for brain droppings. I was advised by my friend Ed Penny to thus create a journal entry here to talk about what is on my mind. I intend to update this thread often with interpersonal relationships and thoughts whenever I can. I am not making any promises though - this could be the one and only entry, or this could be a long dialogue between myself and multiple people.
I had a very interesting discussion with Ed Penny today. I laid out my Exaltism on him. The way I described it to him, is that even the most basic things can be viewed as great and wonderous things as well. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. And Exaltism by its own only means to have an adherence to raising the status of things. When I tell of other people the people and things I experience, I always try to frame it in a way that exalts their image.
Ed is a very interesting guy, with a lot to say about multiple topics. He has allowed me to open up about my philosophy of Exaltism in ways I haven't imagined possible. We explored numerous topics together. I explained to him that if God exists, The Omniverse will always exist above it and that the only two actions that primarily exist are entropy and extropy. I told Ed that The Omniverse has massive amounts of entropic decay, and alluded to the fact that our extropy is insignificant compared to this. However, if human extropy equals the amount of entropy The Omniverse develops, we will essentially create a Synverse, or God.
A Synverse is anything that can be created on another level. A piece of paper is a 2D representation of a Synverse. Syn means to create, a Verse points to a place in space-time. My theory is, humans will continue to create wondrous Synverses and grow beyond our current capabilities. The Internet, for example, is a Synverse. Possibly the largest Synverse ever to be. My idea is that if the concept of God exists, and if God exists, it must exist somewhere within a Synverse, making the Synverse itself God rather than the God of that Synverse. It's inherently transtheistic and I posed that concept to Ed regarding his own views of God and his concept of a "University" above all else.
I also conceived this idea that not only do we exist in 3-dimensional space, but in fact it may be possible that we are living in a 3-dimensional time as well. Past, present and future. Some consider time to be just now, and the only thing that exists right now is present. This is the folly of Projectionism. I sense they believe that the present is the only thing that exists, and, the only things that exists are things to be known by people. If you do not observe something, it merely exists only as a wave function, which studies conducted have seemingly have proven. The problem with this hypothesis lays in the fact that if Projectionism is correct, then panpsychism also exists and all objects could in theory observe themselves. I think therefore I am? More like, I exist, therefore, I am.
Upon my topics I reached out to Ed Penny today, I described part of the value of one of my divine concepts, sovereignty. Sovereignty lays between sagacity, or wisdom and unity. Things that have sovereignty have the wisdom of property. When the properties come together, such as computers or electronics, they form bodies of unity. That is what the Internet is, it is a unified Synverse of knowledge waiting to be tapped at any moment.
While the topic of my Brain Droppings happens to be my Exaltism, I fully intend on keeping this thread active and alive with new thoughts. I intend on sharing all aspects of my brain droppings here, including projects and thoughts I may have for that day. For example, I recently created an EP music album of airport ambience called Airplane Ambience and I released it on all the available services, including but not limited to, Spotify and YouTube. If you search "Ethan T Reilly Airplane Ambience" you will find it. It is my fourth album, conceived and created in one night, it is roughly 34 minutes long with three parts. I did not intend on creating anything like this, but when I was investigating SoundTrap's abilities, I came across many sounds of the airport and airplanes, thus, this was created. But I do not create music for people to listen to or to make money, I do it because I find it fun and creative and I like to work on projects like this. And Exaltism.
I am going to wrap this up before this thread gets so long that I can't even post it. I will say that despite the big letdown I had today, I wouldn't be creating this thread or became such good friends with Ed if it wasn't for the catalyst that caused it. While I am disappointed, I sincerely believe the idea that one door closed opens up three new doors, especially when it comes to online interactions and personas.
Before I go though, I have reminded myself of a concept that Ed brought out on me. He said that he wants to be "monogamous" with his own beliefs. Projectionism. However, I tried to explain to him that no idea is truly "monogamous". Exaltism is syntheism. Syntheism is futurism. Futurism is transtheism. Transtheism is theism. Theism is monotheism. Monotheism is Abrahamic monotheism. Abrahamic monotheism is Christianity. Christianity is Catholicism. Yet, Exaltism and Catholicism, while both being types of theism, are completely different points of views. However, in this vast web that we have created, all things are relative to each other. Religion is religion. Exaltism is a religion, Catholicism is a religion and Projectionism is a religion. Maybe I have a monogamous relationship with religion. Or politics. Or the Internet. I don't know. All I know is when I hear an idea I either agree with it, disagree with it, or I'm indifferent to it. And that's more important than being married to a concept, even in my own philosophy of Exaltism. To be Exaltist one must keep faith and exalt all concepts, not just the ones you happen believe in.
Alright, that's all I have. If someone wants to chime in and give their thoughts on my thoughts, that would be great. Otherwise, thank you for reading my introductory post of my brain droppings!