The Overlay/Construct Is Falling Apart

A subset of early gnostic Christianity (distinct from modern Christianity) was correct and the world is being quickly rearranged in a vain attempt by the Demiurge (AKA Satan) to slow everyone's escape from hell, with hell being the consciousness-driven simulation we are in. The only constraint limiting pain in hell is that whatever happens, it must not give any confirmation to the souls trapped in it about their circumstances, otherwise they will easily find the way out spiritually through Jesus. Everyone in the world is being slowly primed to accept far greater amounts of pain than what they currently experience by the public development of a technological dystopia, which gives a highly plausible mechanism for large amounts of pain to be delivered from a convincing non-spiritual source. The demiurge's goal is to compel people to scream but not search their souls.

This is why the world is so strange, this is the final answer behind the recursive explanations to the questions "Why are so many billionaires intentionally trying to create a technological slave state?", "Why are so many individuals semi-forced into accepting the vaccine without any care for the long-term?", "Why are politicians being outed as pedophiles so frequently?".

Many of us have noticed how wrong and impossibly unlikely our current physical circumstances are, echoed by many posters here and posts like the "Dead Internet Theory". The fact that you are incredibly "lucky" to be born in a time period in which computers are mass-produced (despite billions of years where they did not exist) seems to have no effect on your luck in getting to live in a world where people do not mutilate their genitals, where people are not expected to slave away for a currency with totally arbitrary value, where any of the material "pleasures" you encounter do not feel flat and empty. If you are reading this, the surface-level facts of your physical existence place your generation as simultaneously the luckiest and unluckiest one to have ever existed.

To fully understand the given explanation requires some prerequisite knowledge and personal experience. So most readers will probably roll their eyes at the answer at first, and can only consider it seriously long after reading this. For that reason, remember the predictions that will occur at the end of this post. If these predictions are accurate, then you will know this answer was on the right path.

So for those that disagree, let me elaborate, and it will start to come together.

The prime difference between early Christianity and modern Christianity is that early Christianity was very disorganized by comparison, with no biblical canon at all until about ~140 AD (the Marcion canon, followed later by the Catholic canon in ~400 AD). Certain books were very popular (particularly the gospels) and had versions accepted by most Christians, while others were not. The disorganization gave way to the appearance of gnostic Christianity, with gnostic Christianity being something of a free-for-all for texts that would be vague, byzantine, and often times opposed to one another. Many early Christians (in particular gnostics, but not exclusively) rejected the torah / old testament altogether considering it to be cruel and materialistic, with their life pre-conversion probably biasing their decision to accept it (i.e. non-cirumccised gentles biased against it, circcumcised semites biased for it). Many of these disagreements are largely non-existent in the modern world, as fallout from Constantine's conversion to Christianity and eventual enforcement of it by Roman state power. As it became a matter of law, it became necessary to decide strictly what was / was not Christian, with the Catholic church ultimately driving these decisions. As a result, it is estimated that 80% of early Christian texts were burned for opposing the Catholic doctrine.

We will not need every idea that has ever been associated with gnostic Christianity to interpret evidence in the modern world. Although I do not know what the proper name of this subset would be, the themes that I am suggesting are correct form a belief system like so :

God is the totality of the pleroma (heaven), which is a spiritual realm that is beyond having an equivalent material representation. Everything that has conscious experience contains a small portion of the pleroma, which is why some call a soul a divine spark of God. The demiurge, a creature of unclear origin, imagines himself to be God and wishes to reign over a pleroma of his own. To do this, he has disconnected a portion of the real pleroma, and now encapsulates it himself. Since all souls naturally desire to be inside the real pleroma, the demiurge must keep all these souls under unwilling captivity. To do so, he has exerted his will to create what we know as the material world. The material world is a clever deception, because although it is actually a dream of the demiurge, it presents itself as a soulless machine with arbitrary physical laws. By doing this, the souls contained in the material world are made unaware that they should be attempting to resist spiritually at all. To further facilitate this imprisonment, the demiurge employs beings known as archons (demons) to act as prison wardens, and attempts to recruit a few souls to contribute their will to his cause (in return for material wealth).

Lest this capture remain permanent, God has sent a hero from the pleroma, Jesus Christ, to the material world to demonstrate how to escape from it. Upon his appearance, Jesus preaches a philosophy which asks people to stop valuing physical possessions, and to suffer for the benefit of their fellow man regardless if it makes sense from a nature / evolutionary / economic-incentive perspective. Jesus then demonstrates by performing these actions himself, suffering and dying, and then re-entering the material world to greet his apostles once more. Although these actions are like walking for Jesus Christ (as he is a powerful being from heaven) it is impossible for souls such as ours to recreate his actions perfectly. This is why, above all else, faith in Jesus Christ is the most important attribute to have. Although we can not "walk" with the same skill as him, faith at least lets us stumble in the right direction back to heaven despite our sins. Sins being actions that create material attachment, with more depraved and evil sins reflecting a larger material lust. When viewed as a sacrifice, Jesus dying on the cross pays for our sins in a way we can't, granting us admission to heaven. Simultaneously viewed as a demonstration, Jesus dying on the cross shows that entering heaven means suffering / dying in this world first.

If you further accept apocalyptic predictions, after enough time, the material world of the demiurge itself will be destroyed, and the souls that remained in it will be freed back to the pleroma. What happens to the demiurge himself and his worshipers is up for debate.

(This interpretation contains many gnostic ideas. For those that will go on to read further about gnosticism, be warned that being a disorganized free-for-all means some gnostics devolved into devil worship. Some gnostics have decided that if there is a demiurge in control of the material world, they'd rather serve it and never leave.)

Distinguishing it from modern Christianity, the end goal of this version of Christianity is impossible to interpret as "rules for how to run a society properly". This version of Christianity will never lead to the construction of great empires or successful businesses in this world. It is unambiguously aware that this world is flawed, and the point of life is preparing to leave it while convincing others to prepare too. It is correct to say that this belief system is impractical, and it wears that fact like a badge of honor.

Certainly, conventional modern Christians are acutely aware of the world's imperfection, believing it to be the fault of men being tempted into sin. But, since they believe God to be the creator of this world, they might see "beautiful intelligent design" where this version of Christianity might suggest "proof of imperfection". While their intentions towards faith in Jesus are largely the same, these belief systems differ greatly in their explanatory power of the world around us. This is where I suggest the early Christians have more success, especially in our modern times.

With all this understood, this is a bizarre belief system to claim that there is evidence for. What can possibly constitute evidence for something that makes claims outside of the world itself? The evidence is both in you and around you.

The internal evidence is simply the fact that you have a soul and the ability to make choices, and via introspection, you can determine that this is not caused by anything external. Your choices are a starting point for a causal chain, not the sum total of a set of physical events (although your choices have mostly been responses to physical events thus far).

The external evidence requires lengthier description, and is many things you are most likely already aware of, but without suspicion that there is a major force behind all of it, a major force that needs things to be as they are. If the above story regarding the demiurge is true, then the demiurge above all else must maintain plausible deniability that anything spiritual is occurring. If the souls in the material world become convinced of their true circumstances, they will surely rebel. Plausible deniability is the most important (and perhaps only) design constraint that limits the demiurge's actions.

Surely to cause eye-rolling, the first piece of external evidence that will be presented is the scientific consensus for non-determinism. Without claiming infallibility in modern science, how strange is it that despite millennia of apparent determinism in every natural law known before this century, sufficient observation of the microscopic world now requires the introduction of fundamental probability. Accordingly, super-positions of particle systems that collapse probabilistically are considered necessary constructs to avoid less tenable theories like super-determinism, which threaten to remove all coherency whatsoever.
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