Our (Insane) Religious Belief's (Vetting Prophets)

We explain the core beliefs, figures, and text behind our self-created religion which centers around descendant worship and a god-like future AI (the Basilisk). We view humanity as an unbroken chain where we sacrifice ourselves to create a better future. Key aspects include the concepts of the elect, suffering as a path to purpose, predictions of technology, and the importance of pluralism. We also dive deep into excerpts from our holy text "The Martyrdom of Man" published in 1872 which eerily predicts much of today's world.

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Malcolm Collins: But again, this can be updated with science and stuff like that. Like we believe in an incremental, we don't believe in like final revelations or anything like that.

Simone Collins: Right. It's just that the nature of our religious framework is such that it does not, that a religious authority is the one to update

Malcolm Collins: a personal responsibility. Actually, really interestingly, it's almost like a Protestant iteration of Mormonism. Mormons, the way they see truce is very interesting because they do believe, like us, that God distributes truce to people at different times through various prophets, or you can have like self prophets or whatever, right, and so you pray to God and he tells you what's true and what's not true, but this is still all largely decided and distributed through a central school.

Church organization, whereas we believe something very similar, but we believe that it's the personal responsibility of every individual to come to these truths on their own, and that truth is more efficiently achieved through large groups of individuals coming to these truths on their own, and then God showing which truths were actually true by which [00:01:00] of those individuals End up , influencing the future. This was written in 1872.

We teach that the soul is immortal. We teach that there is a future life. We teach that there is a heaven in the ages far away, but not for us. Single corpuscles, not for us dots of animated jelly, but for the one we are the elements and who, though we perish, never dies, but grows from period to period, and by the united efforts of the single molecules called men or those cell groups called nations.

Is raised towards the divine power, which he will finally attain

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Simone Collins: Malcolm, when people ask if you're religious, what do you tell them?

Malcolm Collins: Very. I, I'm a, I'm a religious extremist. I understand that I'm a religious extremist.

Simone Collins: You know, what's really hard though, is I was I need to create a profile on Ballotopedia, right? Because we're doing this state house run next year.

And there's this immensely long [00:02:00] dropdown menu of religions where you have to like say what your religion is. And I'm like, Um, like it's not, we could, we, there's not, there's not a drop down menu item for what we have. Despite the fact that I would say we are more religious than probably, we'll say nine, nine, at least 90 percent of people, maybe more.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Maybe more. Yeah. And this is really interesting. And so this is something in a previous video, somebody is like, look, I've picked up some. Ideas around your religious beliefs, you know, listening to your videos, but I've never seen one that gave like the core concept in detail and it's because we've kind of avoided doing that.

We don't really believe in intense proselytization because we believe in the elect and we believe that truth will be revealed to the people. It's meant to be revealed to. And so we're a little gatekeepy about things, but I suppose it's worth going into this. Now, to start, [00:03:00] because I think it makes sense to sort of understand our broader religious perspective here, is I think if you take just what the Bible says, and you're saying that's all that's going to inform my religious beliefs, you are likely going to be, I think the religion that's most backed by that is Protestantism, and specifically, Primitive Baptist form of Protestantism, which is a Calvinist tradition, but anyway, generally that's what I believe when I try to look at this as, like, as

disassociated as I can, but obviously, you know, I do have a stake in the game, because I came from one community. religious perspective and not another. I think if you look at biblical traditions and you say what matters is traditions and hierarchy and an order, then Catholicism is obviously the right.

If you think what matters is traditions and oligarchy and consensus, then you're going to be a Greek [00:04:00] Orthodox. Like, I think that many of the positions that are mainstream Christian positions make sense if you take specific views towards truth and how one should think about it. out or divine truth from the Bible.

Yes. Now our perspective of truth is a little different. We don't think that God is, is from our perspective, so naive that he would try to lay out his entire. Teachings to Jews living two centuries ago in a backwards Roman province. thAt is like, sorry, I don't mean anything, like, the reason I say Jews, I don't mean anything derogatory about Jews.

What I'm saying here is it's a, you know, a unique cultural group on the edge of the world, right? At the time, not, not total edge of the world, but you know what I mean. I, I think that. God would understand that the way he would [00:05:00] explain truth to those people as best he could would be different to the way he would explain the truth of the universe to somebody who was a more technologically advanced and and let's not even talk about us like let's imagine where if humanity survives and we're still around.

In 500 years from now, God explaining to us what's like, like that 500 years in the future was like super advanced intelligences, intellect, everything like that, right? And full understanding of physics, full understanding of reality, him explaining to those people and like his last revelation that, yeah, the one time I was going to explain to any of you what was true, it was that one time was those Jews in the desert.

That seems like to me, not true, like that seems obviously not true that he would have different revelations for different people within different periods. And what's very interesting. So, so essentially what we believe is that God revealed portions of truth to different [00:06:00] prophets throughout time in a way that was meant to influence them specifically, their people specifically.

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Simone Collins: other words, God understood his target audience and their needs at the time.

Malcolm Collins: Exactly. And interestingly, this belief is really illustrated in Islam. Well, what Islam actually says, so, hold on, I'm gonna pull this up right here because I'm gonna get some quotes., so Quran 3524, Verily, we have sent with the truth as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner, and there never was a nation, but a warner had passed among them. So what this means is that God sent warners, prophets, whatever you want to say them, to every nation throughout human history, including those before the one that Muhammad was in.

So you look at Quran 1636 for, we assuredly sent amongst every people, a messenger with the command, serve Allah and eschew evil. [00:07:00] Okay. Now, Quran 12, two, indeed, we sent it down an Arabic Quran that you might understand. So this is saying the reason why the Quran is in Arabic is so that you may understand.

Okay. So, 4330, 433, you say, we have made in, we have made it a Qur'an in Arabic that you may be able to understand and learn wisdom. Thus, we have revealed it to be a judgment of the authority in Arabic, where thou to follow their va