Blaine Coleman
2 min readDec 3, 2022

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"worshiping the real god, the energy from the sun. The real god gives, whilst the false god takes away."

I agree with much of what you say but worshipping the sun as God- the "real" God is what the Egyptians did. RA, the Sun God who passed below the earth to give us night so we can rest and returned to bring us the light of day so work can be done, and food hunted or harvested. But the star we call the "sun" is not the source of all energy, it's not even a large or powerful star. It is one of trillions of "suns", many that emit far more energy than the star we orbit, the one we named the "Sun". Under that reasoning, wouldn't the largest or most energetic star be the real "God"? And capitalism is a trap that keeps the majority in extreme poverty, often to the point of starving to death or dying from a simple bacterium, many others working as serfs, many as "wage slaves", rewards many with a decent, but unsustainable lifestyle, while a minority gain vast wealth. Energy extracted from the earth is, as you point out, nothing more than stolen energy but its theft has enabled the starving poor/wage slave/middle class/ultra-rich false God that capitalism has brought us. And capitalists have hooked society on extracted energy just as heroin can hook a person into a (shortened) life of drug addiction. Usury is bad because if one has money to lend and another needs to borrow, the lender should not enrich himself by taking advantage of another's needs, not to mention the moral duty one has to help one in need without placing greater burdens upon them.

Money, as you say, is fiat currency, nothing more than IOUs with no intrinsic value and as such should be free to all; the ancient Hebrews held a Jubilee every fifty years wherein all debts were forgiven, and slaves freed. That was the claim, at least. Whether it was ever adhered to is a different story, though. If the real god is energy and I've long believed that since nothing physical exists except at the macro level, we "see" then all that "exists" is the energy that underlies all things, then God is that energy, thus all "things". In effect, God is no "thing" because the "things" we see are mere energy then the word "nothing" is "no thing", that is, God. The "real god is energy for energy is all there "exists". What we perceive is energy that just happens to be touchable because we're so far removed from the underlying energy, the potential that composes all "matter".

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Blaine Coleman
Blaine Coleman

Written by Blaine Coleman

Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well

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