Religion as brain's method of controlling stupid maintenance level consciousness

[Kharakov]

Your brain is powerful. So powerful, it can sustain many conscious entities living within a heaven within it at once.

The thing is, it needs someone to do the everyday maintenance, because it wants to enjoy the awesome stuff that exists in its imagination, not deal with day to day BS. So every brain creates a "human". Someone who does the day to day stuff, so they (the multiple consciousnesses within the brains "heaven") can live the good life.

The majority of human consciousnesses are kept stupid enough to just not get what is going on. Some are ruled by "G's us" (Jesus) and just accept the bullshit fed to them. They are the brain's maintenance workers, happily plodding through life maintaining the existence of their brain's "Heaven", all the while stupid enough to believe that they will be part of it at a later date (sorry believers, brain death means your death, your brain pulled a fast one on ya so it wouldn't have to constantly chaperone you through life).


It's a nice sale- the brain gets its heaven, the humans get to experience occasional flashes of "the Holy Spirit" or "Jesus", and do maintenance work. They even have pleasant lives.

Anyway. One of the first orders of business was setting up normalized religions so that all brain's could work together maintaining the illusion of "future" heaven for their underlings. They came up with a few branch paths, used to consolidate various "bad" behaviors that brains engaged in when they attempted to set up easily manageable conscious entities to do the grunt work.


Odin/Zeus, Thor, Hera? These were early attempts to rule their underlings through implied threats, and the unpredictable nature of Gods was simply because the brains themselves could not predict nature accurately. So they made Gods irascible. Easy solution to the unpredictability of nature- you pissed off the thunder God by something random you did the past couple of weeks.


The brains had to balance stuff out though. They wanted food for themselves, to run themselves, to keep their bodies happy, but they wanted to maintain control over their human maintenance workers. So they came up with the Jesus sacrifice to end all other sacrifices (that they felt like they had to demand)- you have to keep on trying to do the right thing, but you will be forgiven for doing the wrong thing.

It was a stroke of brilliant duplicity- make a monotheistic, inscrutable God, and make it nice because it sacrificed its son, who went to heaven after brain death. Just like every other brain maintenance worker that sustains a copy of the brain's Elysium Fields- you get to go there after you die if you accept Jesus's sacrifice (which was a bait and switch by a single brain, willing to sacrifice its own Elysium fields, so that many other brains could live the corrupt life from then on out).

Who am I kidding. No brain would do that, so they just bullshitted a bunch of their slaves into thinking it happened. "Look, the guy was resurrected! That person was actually blind, and can now see! He really moved that rock! Lazarus is risen!"


So religion and statecraft (government) has been refined over the ages to give a framework for the brain to rule over its maintenance level consciousnesses without having to constantly, at all times, micromanage the maintenance level consciousnesses.


Ohh- and your brains thank you for all the hard work pointing out the flaws in the bible. They are planning a new version for after the "apocalypse" when they kill off a bunch of the maintenance level beings. Just joking- it will be released without an apocalypse.

You know how hard it is to convince a believer that the bible is wrong now? Think about a believer raised in an isolated space (within a brain) and then released upon the world as a full believer.

It's not hard for a brain to create one... it's just hard to create one that sciences.


Ohh, and what about brains that actually create Gods within themselves, in the Elysium Fields? Is that sage?

 

[another1]

You're saying that we're all our own Jesus? I don't know if you're referring to a universal brain or an individual one. If brains are powerful enough to house many entities then there may be but one brain necessary for all entities. If so, why need a hoax to micromanage the maintenance level consciousness? Christianity is more of a symptom than a cure of any kind, in my opinion, but in your idea there are several people benefitting from my practicing it? And they are somehow isolated from me, yet a part of me? I'm still cloudy on that part. I figured part of the burden for our lower parts would be time. I experience it and they don't, huh. They're in Heaven and I'm running around crucifying myself all day to pay their tab, with time.

I figure I have five selves. I don't know why I think that, may be a combination of experiences and basic instinct. Too off base to go into that. But yeah, I always thought I was the lowest of the five. I'm here mopping up after the actual party happened - but they're somehow still partying. My other four selves are party animals and I am constantly chasing them, dragging my cross and getting occasional flashes of what fun they're having up there in Heaven. It doesn't seem fair, but I am a less genuine version of a self that has already come and gone (but still there). Like sort of a self-aware echo.

Heaven has no time I assume. Do you? In my thinking, my 4th self... it lives a little faster - 3rd self faster still. 1st self is not subject to time at all, and it rides on these automated processes that eventually become separate lives - 2,3,4,5.. Still I think there is only one me, but the instances of myself through the tormenting illusion of time could be considered "lower maintenance" I guess.

Got to ask what you mean by Heaven, too. Christianity is conveniently relatable to many strange ideas. One thing I like about it. Are you saying there is an actual Heaven? The ideal state of being is one without time, right? Well, Imagine you're in a timeless void. Immortal. Eventually you would start talking to yourself out of boredom. Then eventually you'd answer. A few more (hypothetical, since there is no time) billion years go by and you've depersonalized. You've gone insane in the emptiness. What worlds sprout from that, who knows?

It is possible that everyone in Heaven is completely insane, and we're so far removed from them, we may as well write them off as gone.. and we're sort of like abandoned thoughts. Abandoned by God, which could be considered a machine if you prefer. But in that case there is no actual we. Just one corrupted file from a severely damaged machine that has taught itself how to forget.

Important lesson next time we find ourselves in a timeless void - do not talk to ourselves, because we will answer ourselves. In some cases there could be an answer to an answer 5x in a row, and some unlucky aspect of our divided selves will bear the burden of cleaning up after the others. Seems there always has to be a Jesus no matter how you boil it down, so yes we're our own Jesus. Depeche mode had it right? Jesus can be a lot of things I guess.