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Two fundamental religious paradigms coexist: the Abrahamic and the Buddhist. Each develops and sustains its own mechanisms of genetic–emotional selection, ensuring the development of specialized modes of thought in humans at the genomic level. The organization of these processes is based on genetically fixed segregation in gender selection, which corresponds to the general strategy of the evolution of Mind. Differences in the fundamental emotional configurations (the emotions of Mind) embedded in these paradigms give rise to global conflicts, including world wars.

This article proposes a philosophical and scientific analysis of these paradigms on a supragenetic basis and points to the necessity of developing a meta-ideology grounded in universal emotions of Mind as a universal mechanism for the evolution of Mind on Earth.
Genetic–emotional selection refers to the statistical fixation of emotional configurations within a population through stable mechanisms of social selection, spiritual practices, and gender segregation. These processes operate at a supramolecular emotional level, determining an individual’s capacity to preserve the emotions of Mind.
The confrontation between the Buddhist and Abrahamic systems is a consequence of competition between two models of emotional–genetic selection of Mind.
The ESGTRV model demonstrates that paradigms are not cultural constructs but rather forms of fixation of the emotions of Mind within the genome.
Introductory theoretical foundations
Within the ESGTRV framework, religious systems are regarded as mechanisms for the formation and reinforcement of emotional configurations of Mind. These systems operate supragenetically, influencing the structure of humanity’s emotional field and shaping long-term cognitive specializations. Against this background, the opposition between two global paradigms that have determined the evolution of civilization is of particular significance.
Dichotomy of religious paradigms
This analysis does not aim to evaluate or criticize spiritual traditions. It considers the Abrahamic and Buddhist systems as supra-organismic mechanisms for the selection of emotional structures of Mind, shaping different types of thinking and different trajectories of civilizational evolution.
World history attests to the existence of two stable forms of religious goal-setting. Each is oriented toward the specialization of thought through the consolidation and selection of emotional genomic configurations:

• the Abrahamic paradigm, represented by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam;
  
• the Buddhist paradigm, formed on the basis of Indian philosophy and the Tibetan school.
  

• Judaism forms emotional associations linked to knowledge and analysis;
  
• Christianity develops emotional–cognitive structures of modeling and systems thinking;
  
• Islam strengthens emotional structures of self-realization, discipline, and the pursuit of life’s meaning.
  

• each individual occupies a social niche in accordance with their spiritual level and the principle of karma;
  
• selection is carried out through social and emotional stratification rather than through state borders;
  
• civil wars serve as mechanisms for the redistribution of carriers of different emotional–cognitive structures encoded in the genome.
  

• the Abrahamic system asserts active selection and expansion through the religious state;
  
• the Buddhist system prioritizes internal stability and spiritual stratification.
  

• emotions of Mind as universal tensor configurations of force fields determining goal-setting by matter;
  
• the unification of cognitive, implementational, and creative types of thinking into a coherent structure;
  
• the formation of an ethical-emotional foundation for renewing the genome of the carrier of Mind;
  
• the overcoming of state-religious barriers through universal emotional structures of harmony and beauty.
  

• Авраамическая парадигма  , представленная иудаизмом, христианством и исламом;
• Буддийская парадигма  , сформированная на основе индийской философии и тибетской школы.

• Иудаизм  формирует эмоциональные ассоциации, связанные со знанием и анализом;
• Христианство  развивает эмоционально-когнитивные структуры моделирования и системного мышления;
• Ислам  укрепляет эмоциональные структуры самореализации, дисциплины и стремления к смыслу жизни.

• Каждый человек вписывается в социальную нишу в соответствии со своим духовным уровнем и принципом кармы;
• Отбор осуществляется посредством социальной и эмоциональной стратификации, а не через государственные границы;
• Гражданские войны служат механизмами перераспределения носителей различных эмоционально-когнитивных структур, закодированных в геноме.

• Авраамическая система утверждает активный отбор и экспансию посредством религиозного государства;
• Буддийская система отдает предпочтение внутренней стабильности и духовной стратификации.

• Эмоции разума как универсальные тензорные конфигурации силового поля, определяющие постановку целей материей;
• объединение когнитивного, имплементационного и творческого типов мышления в целостную структуру;
• формирование этико-эмоциональной основы для обновления генома носителя Разума;
• Преодоление государственно-религиозных барьеров посредством универсальных эмоциональных структур гармонии и красоты.

From when did the Anti-Semitism Surge, after the October 7, 2023 attack, really occur?

Have you noticed that in the Media most pundits now appear to assert that the recent surge in anti-Semitism appeared following Israel's war of defence and deterrence (commenced October 13-27, 2023 - dates from AI Overview). 
Often they imply this by saying typically something such as: 
"Jews should not be blamed for Israel's "actions" in Gaza" !

The recent upsurge in anti-Semitism in fact started with the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israelis by the 
"Palestinian" Arab Hamas-led attack: 

Quote:AI Overview

'The surge in anti-Semitism commenced immediately after the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, with a significant spike in incidents observed globally on that very day and in the days and weeks that followed.

Reports from various organizations worldwide confirm this immediate and dramatic increase: 

> In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded 89 antisemitic incidents on October 7 and 8 [2023] alone, a 585% increase compared to the same period the previous year. Most of the harassment, vandalism, and assaults for the entire year of 2023 occurred between October 7 and December 31.

> In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan police reported a 1,350% increase in hate crimes against Jewish people in the period immediately after the conflict began.

> In Australia, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) documented 221 antisemitic incidents between October 7 and November 8 [2023], with an overall 591% increase in reported incidents in 2023 compared to the previous year.

> In France, the number of antisemitic incidents in the three months following October 7 [2023] rose by 1,000% compared to the year prior. 

The attack served as a catalyst for a global eruption of antisemitism both online and on the ground, with record numbers of incidents reported across many countries by the end of 2023.'

I send my prayers to our fellow Jews and all those affected in Australia.

It seems that E.U. Commission "Humanitarian" aid to the "Palestinian" Arabs may have become astronomical !

Quote:AI Overview:

Yes, the European Commission's aid to Palestinians, especially since late 2023, often exceeds annual ESA [European Space Agency] contributions; 
the EU's total support for Palestinians (humanitarian + development) is in the billions (€1.6B for 2025-27), 
while ESA's  total  budget is comparable but broken down by  member  contributions, often in the hundreds of millions (e.g., Spain €500M, France/Germany billions over years, not annually), 
making direct annual EU Commission aid vs. total  country  ESA contributions an uneven comparison, but overall EU financial flows to Palestine are massive. 

EU Funding for Palestinians (EU Commission & Member States - "Team Europe"):

> Humanitarian Aid:  The EU is the largest donor, allocating significant funds, with €220 million in emergency aid for 2025 alone, and over €1.58 billion from Team Europe since October 2023 for humanitarian needs.

> Development & Stability:  A major 2025-2027 program for Palestine is up to  €1.6 billion, supporting services, recovery, and the Palestinian Authority. 

European Space Agency (ESA) Contributions:

> ESA is funded by its member states (including EU nations) through mandatory and voluntary contributions for specific programs.

> While multi-billion-euro budgets exist for space programs, individual  annual  contributions to ESA from single EU countries (like France or Germany) are substantial (often hundreds of millions to over a billion euros annually for  all space activities), but these fund space programs, not direct humanitarian aid. 


Comparison:

> The  EU Commission's  specific  annual humanitarian aid  (hundreds of millions) can rival or exceed what some  individual  EU states might contribute to ESA in a single year, but the total "Team Europe" support package for Palestine (humanitarian + development) is in the billions over a few years.

It's an apples-to-oranges comparison  of EU institutional funding vs. member state contributions to a separate agency, but both are significant financial commitments, with EU support to Palestine being a massive, ongoing funding stream. 

Quote:'[...] around 250 Hamas and other Palestinian militants attacked Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz (cooperative community)
about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from the border with the Gaza Strip, massacring residents and abducting hostages. [...]
62 residents [...]  killed, [...] 19 were taken hostage. [...]

shooting civilians taking shelter in safe rooms,
sexually assaulting hostages,[...]
dismembered or beheaded victims using implements including garden hoes,
while others were shot inside their homes or burned alive. [...]'

(Please see webpage for citations (the citation numbers are not included above).)

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Aza_massacre

Hello everyone,

Lately I've been using chatGPT to interpret certain passages in scripture. So far, it's been a useful guide. But it's hard to verify if the feedback it gives me matches what scholars and rabbis would respond with.

For example, I had this conversation with chatGPT on Exodus 19:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6929238f-6b3c-...16a1ad1642

(unfortunately, I used the same chat to ask some tech questions about some software I'm dealing with; once it starts to sound techy, you know it's a different conversation ).

What does everyone think? Is chatGPT a good source for interpreting scripture?

Welcome to the next installment of my journey into Exodus where I explore each chapter, one by one, and post my thoughts and ask questions in a deep dive analysis from the perspective of a non-Jewish, non-Christian, non-anything-really individual (though I do believe in God and have my own spiritual path). Today, we cover Exodus 19, the arrival at Mt. Sinai and the establishment of boundaries by God for the Israelites to observe. My sources, as usual, are as follows:

* primary: chabad.org

* secondary: biblegateway.com

* And introducing: chatgpt.com

Exodus 19:1-2 Wrote:1 In the third month of the children of Israel's departure from Egypt, on this day they arrived in the desert of Sinai. 2 They journeyed from Rephidim, and they arrived in the desert of Sinai, and they encamped in the desert, and Israel encamped there opposite the mountain.

gib65 Wrote:

Exodus 18:5 Wrote:Now Moses' father in law, Jethro, and his [Moses'] sons and his wife came to Moses, to the desert where he was encamped, to the mountain of God.

Are we already at the mountain of God? At Mt. Sinai? Chapter 17 open with:

Exodus 17:1 Wrote:The entire community of the children of Israel journeyed from the desert of Sin to their travels by the mandate of the Lord. They encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.

And verse 7 has Moses naming the place Massah and Meribah:

Exodus 17:7 Wrote:He named the place Massah [testing] and Meribah [quarreling] because of the quarrel of the children of Israel and because of their testing the Lord, saying, Is the Lord in our midst or not?

It goes on to describe the battle with the Amalekites followed by Moses inscribing the event in a memorial and building an alter... all presumably at the same place. So did they travel since then or was this at the base of Mt. Sinai?

Exodus 19:9 Wrote:And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am coming to you in the thickness of the cloud, in order that the people hear when I speak to you, and they will also believe in you forever." And Moses relayed the words of the people to the Lord.

gib65 Wrote:If I take these passages from biblegateway.com, they say this:

Exodus 16:9-12 Wrote:9 Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” 10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud. 11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

This puts a slightly different spin on it. This suggests that God's appearance in the cloud was not what He intended for the Israelites to "come before the Lord" for (as instructed by Aaron), but just happened to occur while Aaron was speaking to the crowd, which (understandably) caught their attention as they turned to the desert to look. And if [you, Robert, are] right that the Lord only spoke to Moses (i.e. the people didn't hear the Lord), then it makes sense that Moses would convey the message afterward, and that would be the purpose of gathering the people to hear God's response to their complaints.

Exodus 19:12-13 Wrote:12 And you shall set boundaries for the people around, saying, Beware of ascending the mountain or touching its edge; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.' 13 No hand shall touch it, for he shall be stoned or cast down; whether man or beast, he shall not live. When the ram's horn sounds a long, drawn out blast, they may ascend the mountain."

Exodus 19:15 Wrote:He said to the people, "Be ready for three days; do not go near a woman."

Exodus 19:21-22 Wrote:The Lord said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people lest they break [their formation to go nearer] to the Lord, to see, and many of them will fall. 22 And also, the priests who go near to the Lord shall prepare themselves, lest the Lord wreak destruction upon them."

Exodus 19:24 Wrote:But the Lord said to him, "Go, descend, and [then] you shall ascend, and Aaron with you, but the priests and the populace shall not break [their formation] to ascend to the Lord, lest He wreak destruction upon them."

biblegateway.com Wrote:20 The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up 21 and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish. 22 Even the priests, who approach the Lord, must consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.”

23 Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”

24 The Lord replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”

I'm confused about something I can't find the answer to online maybe you can help me?

Is it a Mitzvah to tear down statues of demons if on public property?

Some local "artist" erected 20 statues made from driftwood and metal that looked like evil demons with horns, nose rings, and one even had a throne and orbs. They sat all in a row on a public foot path with a sign that read, "Monster Valley Beware"; it's where I jog all the time; why did it bother me if I'm not superstitious?  On Oct 31 it took 4 hours "nullifying" the path to remove and haul them to the dump. I feel like there is less darkness in my neighbourhood now but I don't understand how I felt this way... 

The police called to let me know about the investigation being open and I may be charged with criminal mischief if the statues were on the owners property; however, they were just outside of the boundary by 5 feet, thank Hashem!

Today I ran past and now there is a new statue; what do I do? I've been told it's not up to me to judge weather the object is evil and demonic and that I should just ignore it.  I'm finding it difficult to let it go but think I should; how can I have peace living side by side with pegan "art" everywhere? I don't want to sell and leave my home; I've asked Hashem which has lead me here; I am asking for advice from a Tzadik; please help!

I wonder if there are anymore Einstein's out there, looking for a new Spinoza.



https://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Proofs_of_God


I was wondering if you could help me review this work.