Micah Redding

@micahredding.bsky.social

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Rationalist, Futurist Christianity. Expanding, lasting life. Religion and the roots of scientific progress. Former musician, one-time world traveler, current Nashville-ian, Christian transhumanist @christiantranshumanism.org

Nashville to Yellowknife, Canada

Pink Pony Club cover art

Muppet grocery shopping

The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:
* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good
Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful

modernism itself is an invention of the traditional cultures that, at least in the West, the anti-moderns theoretically want to go back to

Christianity made it impossible simply to rejoice in the natural cycles--in harvests and new moons. Because it relegated the perfection of joy to the inaccessible future--as the goal and end of all work--it made all human life an "effort", a "work".

— Alexander Schmemann

Nowhere in the New Testament, in fact, is Christianity presented as a cult or as a religion. Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.

Taylor Swift, Eras Tour

Elon Musk compares X to WP and T

“Abandon all hope, you who enter here”