Johannes C. van Nieuwkerk
1 min readNov 25, 2023

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It is a parable, which I use to elaborate on the concepts people use to explain or accept the unknown, it has no necessarily link to any reality or pre-existing harmonious status as such. It is imaginary in this sense, nevertheless explaining thoughts behind religious positions.

The only thing that I try to describe here is my observation that spiritual processes have more in common than what separates them and that such differences can mostly be explained by a cultural context.

I agree with you that the common part is the sum of internalized experiences, I disagree that Abrahamic faiths are by definition rivalrous, this is something often added culturally from a clan perspective, but not the essence of Abrahamic religions.

From a parable point of view I describe extreme polarities here, meaning a fundamental necessary change in balance required that would replace certain cultural elements by others, most of them not being dominantly spiritual by the way. The point is to separate the factors that make people growing apart from those that let them grow together.

Although humans possess territorial characteristics and we are a single species, not every culture cultivates these and we will have to control or vanquish them to become AI resistant…

(https://refival.medium.com/cultural-divergence-as-a-result-of-using-artificial-intelligence-a-human-convergence-d396205e7136)

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