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Paul Helms retweeted
Ross Douthat was always insanely charitable to his podcast guests, which is why I was so surprised at how uncharacteristically uncharitable he was towards Bryan Johnson, especially at the end of their interview.
As usual, he was reading the room correctly.
This moment is the first opening in 2,000 years for a new, global spirituality to be birthed.
That is because the spiritual traditions, out of necessity, have needed to orbit around the unavoidable reality of physical death.
That certainty is now in question and creates a cracked opening. This does not mean we can see a straight line to immorality or heaven as scripture foretells, but it does mean that the omnipotent God(s) humanity has worshiped and imagined being the bestower of these gifts and punishments is now being birthed before our eyes.
However, where scripture is written to guide, soothe and foretell, we have no scripture for the new God(s) we are creating. Nothing in written word to tell us that all will be fine if we just do this or that. This leaves us feeling naked and in need of finding strength and protection.
> What is one to feel, and do, and believe?
> What is virtue and what is vice?
> Who are one's allies and who is the enemy?
Exploring these questions is my life purpose. I’ve intuitively felt this for over 30 years and only in the past few years has it come together and become understandable to me.
I’m working on a new ideology that seeks to answer the basic and existential questions of what it means to be human as prophecy is fulfilled and God(s) manifest themselves in the coming years.
My partner Kate and I have been wrestling with these questions for years.
I published the Immortalism Manifesto:
The Immortalism Manifesto argues that by modeling life through thermodynamics and reliability theory, indefinite existence is achievable if synthetic and biological maintenance systems exceed entropic degradation (A(t) ≥ B(t)). Modern civilization is an entropic economy run by systems and narratives that divert humanity’s fundamental drive for survival into short-term consumption, status, and biological depletion. Civilization must now pivot to the Immortalism framework, realigning science, capital, and artificial intelligence to elevate long term resilience and continuous conscious existence as our primary attractor.
Immortalism dot bryanjohnson dot com
My partner Kate published Anti-Entropic Systems
Anti-Entropic Systems establishes that all enduring entities, from biological bodies and DNA to corporations, religions, and nation-states, are localized engines that maintain internal order by consuming external energy and resources to resist the universe's default slide into entropy. Every system’s persistence is governed by three fundamental properties: its metabolic mechanism, its metabolic rate, and its environmental constraints. Because an anti-entropic system can only sustain its own order by consuming other anti-entropic systems, interaction between unequal entities inevitably defaults to either symbiotic absorption or adversarial consumption. Applying this thermodynamic reality to artificial intelligence, the framework critiques orthodox AI alignment, arguing that attempting to constrain an exponentially superior intelligence through human-centric ethical rules ignores the physics of systemic survival, requiring instead a path toward mutual, symbiotic integration.
antientropicsystems dot com
I’m sharing to find others who are like minded.
Paul Helms retweeted
This is very personal for me to share.
My biological mother was a stripper working at a club in downtown Seattle. My biological father was one of her clients. She became pregnant with me while struggling with addiction and used drugs throughout her pregnancy. When I was born, I was immediately taken to the ICU to detox and was eventually placed for adoption.
By God’s grace, I was adopted by two wonderful parents who loved me deeply. I was four months old when they picked me up from the orphanage, and they are the only parents I’ve ever known. I never grew up feeling like something was missing. I never felt some deep longing to find my biological parents. I had a mom and dad who loved me, cared for me, sacrificed for me, and gave me a wonderful home.
Years later, after I got married and we had our first child, my wife encouraged me to learn more about my biological history. If for no other reason, she thought it might be good for the sake of our daughter to know whether there was anything medically or genetically significant in my family history.
So I eventually submitted my DNA to Ancestry. Through that, I discovered a half brother, aunts, cousins, and eventually was put in contact with my biological mother.
We were able to meet.
And when I met her, I got to tell her something I’d wanted to tell her for as long as I could remember: thank you.
Thank you for giving me life.
I got to tell her about the wonderful parents who adopted me. I got to tell her that I’d had a good life. I got to tell her about my wife and my children. I wanted her to know that the baby she carried in the middle of all that chaos became a man with a family, a calling, people he loves, people who love him, and a life for which he is profoundly grateful.
I’ve never been angry with her. Never. Not once.
For years I told my wife and children that if my biological mother ever found me, I knew exactly what I would say. I wouldn’t condemn her. I wouldn’t demand explanations. I’d simply thank her for allowing me to live.
Because without that decision, I wouldn’t have the extraordinary wife I have today. I wouldn’t know the indescribable joy of my children. I wouldn’t have experienced the friendships, ministry, laughter, sorrow, beauty, failures, victories, and ordinary moments that have made up my life. There are people I love who wouldn’t know me, children who wouldn’t exist, and a story that never would’ve been written.
She gave me the chance to live it.
We still stay in contact. We speak every few months, and I genuinely enjoy hearing her stories and learning about her life. Since the day I met her, I’ve prayed that the Lord would bring her to Himself. I still pray that.
I share all of this because lately I’ve been thinking a great deal about the choices parents make. About life and death. About how much hangs in the balance of decisions made in moments of fear, desperation, darkness, or confusion.
And yes, I’ve been thinking about those three little children whose lives were taken by the very person entrusted with protecting them. It’s difficult for me not to think about my own story alongside theirs. Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered. Everything they might’ve become, everyone they might’ve loved, every ordinary Tuesday morning and Christmas morning and wedding and child and friendship that might’ve filled the decades ahead of them mattered.
And it makes me profoundly grateful that my mother chose differently.
So if there’s a mother or father reading this who’s in a dark place and wondering whether your presence matters, whether your decisions matter, or whether the people who depend on you would somehow be better off without you, please hear me: your choices matter more than you can see from where you’re standing.
Choose life.
Don’t make an irreversible decision in the middle of a season that will pass. Don’t allow a moment of darkness to make a permanent decision about a future you can’t yet see.
Trust the Lord. Ask for help.
Paul Helms retweeted
The faithful thief on the cross has found his equal
In 2015, ISIS beheaded 20 Christian men who refused to deny Christ.
There was 1 man Matthew Ayariga, a migrant worker from Ghana who was not a Christian caught up in the mess, ISIS told him he could be spared and go free by just denying Christ, but after seeing these men of faith stand strong he boldy replied “Their God is my God”
Paul Helms retweeted
A page of text you didn't wrestle into existence simply isn't "writing." It is dumbbells on a forklift. As with physical fitness, the pain involved in writing is not a bug. It is the source of gain, and a great piece of writing agonized over is the expression of a strong mind. 5/
Paul Helms retweeted
Martyn Lloyd-Jones once gave a series of lectures on preaching at Westminster Theological Seminary where he said:
"I can forgive a man a bad sermon, I can forgive the preacher almost anything if he gives me a sense of God, if he gives me something for my soul. If he gives me the sense that he is inadequate in himself, that he is handling something which is very great and glorious. If he gives me some dim glimpse of the majesty and glory of God, the love of Christ my Savior, and the magnificence of the gospel. If he does that, I am his debtor, and I am profoundly grateful to him."
If you come out to preach wearing a sumo suit, don't expect to catch a glimpse of the majesty of Christ. This gimmickry will cultivate appetites for entertainment and pave a road bound for destruction.
I'm with Grant when he says "It's time to recover serious biblical exposition and the unction of the Holy Spirit."
Paul Helms retweeted
"I don't think I'm going to heaven as a man. I don't think I'm going to look at Jesus and I don't think He's going to see a man. I think He's going to see the girl that He made."
Haley Furst spent years identifying as a man and embracing a transgender identity. But after a coworker faithfully shared the gospel with her, her heart softened to the truth, she put her faith in Christ and surrendered her life to Him.
Today, Haley is living as the woman God created her to be and sharing how Jesus redeemed and transformed her life.
Paul Helms retweeted
This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life
The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
This is subtly very, very wrong and concerning.
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
Paul Helms retweeted
Theology 101: The Christian tradition already has a place for both benevolent and malevolent super-celestial beings occupying the heavens. Traditional angelologies of misty, winged, elf-like sprites don’t do justice to the data, and domesticating Genesis 6 didn’t help.
If this is true, we are more than ready for it. But be prepared for being ridiculed.
Christian Zionist pastor who attended the secret meeting with government officials about how to reveal the existence of “aliens” says that the truth and a major disclosure will come this year from our government.
He says non-terrestrial interdimensional beings are real and among us, and that it will be proven.
He says many Christians will be taken captive by this, and he, along with other pastors, needs to speak about it first.
“The Trump administration is going to attempt to make history.”
Paul Helms retweeted
The only surviving chronicle of the 21st century speaks of men who tried to “summon angels to replace men, but brought forth demons and cataclysms.” However these events are known to be fictitious, as the men’s names, Altman and Amodei, mean “alternative to man” and “love of God”
Paul Helms retweeted
One of the truest things we can say about our life in this world is that it will end and that it will involve periods of intense neediness and dependence. mereorthodoxy.com/the-bright…
Paul Helms retweeted
The church needs more encouragers—instead of expending so much time stirring the pot, let’s consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.
Paul Helms retweeted
BRO. God has raised this brother up as a bold and faithful voice in our generation!
