My Study Habits

1. Start with a question.
a. When you're doing a project for school even, starting with a question can be the best beginning. You want to know something, learn that one thing in your class.
2. Find numerous sources with a credible ethos expounding upon your question, trying to answer it.
a. Find dozens if not hundreds of people to give you an answer. Listen to all of them, and derive from all of it a meaning.
b. There was once a treasure that was found, by simply asking millions of people where it was, and then taking the bulk data, and finding a location through analyzing it. Studying is like that, where you'll find many different views, to find the location.
3. Synthesize an answer. Find the truth, using all the data you collected, and synthesize an answer.
a. By using all the information--even information you disagree with is helpful, as it can find avenues for new areas of learning, and even your opponents can have hidden gems wrapped up in their disagreements--you can find a good answer.
4. Test your answer.
a. Don't just be happy with your answer, ask people in every day about your answer. Discuss with people the answer. Talk to people. Have dialogues. Get opinions from people who are more advanced than you are, and people who know nothing of the topic.
5. Revise your answer based on the testing.
a. Revising your answer, gives you more correct analysis. Always be asking people, and actively listening. Don't assume your knowledge is complete, but rather get knowledge from every source.
6. Write down your entire process.
a. From start to finish, document your entire process. Get the wrong answers, and then find when they've reached the nuance to where they're correct, and don't stop revising your answer, just because you think you know it.
7. Be humble. And have good faith.
a. No one has complete knowledge. So listening to many people, and gathering insights from many people, all having studied and come to answers too, you build upon it to a correct solution.
8. Making connections.
a. Make connections with everything else you've learned, and don't just isolate the knowledge into one context. Connect it to everything else you know, and learn through making webs of contexts.

Argument Through Number

It’s not “Things are real, therefore God exists.” Neither is it “God says this is good, therefore He exists.”

So, the reason we know God exists from Mathematics, isn’t because they’re real, but because they’re so intricate, and so complex, but also impossible to have not been designed. Like, study Euclid for a few days, you’ll understand the argument from Math a lot better than abstractions about Algebra.

Like, why do these things work this way? Why does a number used for Cosine or Sine shape an exact formula for a triangle? Always? Why does tangent get you to a singular point? Why? Why does calculus work? But we know it does… and that’s a lot like faith, actually. Calculus is a leap of faith. We know the answer—because we study the pattern—but obviously you can’t reach the limit without division. Even division is a leap of faith. There’s no way to divide, beside through trial and error, and simply understanding the answer. Unlike Subtraction, Multiplication and Addition, Division’s the only one where you have to make a leap to the answer. And that’s also why I think some Biblical phrases talk about “Dividing” the truth.

But you understand through that that there’s a design in the fabric of the universe. It’s not “It’s real, therefore we know.” It’s “Wow, that looks designed.”

My Pithy Thoughts on Different Beliefs

Do you want to know why I’m not an Atheist? Because I feel ethics are inherently visible in the real world, and beyond human judgment.

Do you know why I’m not a Hindu? Because I believe Castes are abhorrent, and are an excuse to make people miserable.

Do you know why I’m not a Muslim? Because they teach violence as part of their faith.

Do you know why I’m not a Buddhist? Because I think the real world is able to be understood, and isn’t a product of our mind.

Do you know why I’m not a Pagan? Because their gods are petty and cruel, and sometimes outright teach people to do the worst things imaginable.

Do you know why I’m not a Sikh or Bahi? Because I think people do rotten things, and need forgiven, and only Christianity has that covered.

Do you know why I’m not a Jew? Because its law, though perfectly just, would kill me.

Do you know why I’m a Christian? Because Christ taught perfect moral ethics, and died for us.

Do you know why I’m not a Pythagorean? Because I think humans have violent streaks, and eating meat is good for us, and so are violent stories.

Do you know why I’m not a Confucian? Because though it aligns with everything I believe perfectly, Christ died for us and gave us a hope, when we’ve blatantly failed.

Do you know why I’m not a Taoist or Mozi? Because though it aligns perfectly with my beliefs, I think Christ is paramount to raise and therefore give us hope, as this life cannot satisfy.

Do you know why I’m not Zoroastrian? Because I can’t believe evil and good are coequal.

Ultimately, Christ is the only wise or good God. And the only answer to life’s pointless suffering.

The True Artist Lives By His Art, or Dies. He Does No Harm to Anyone for not Receiving Him.

Leviticus 19:20

19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

Word to meditate on is "Scourged."

[H1244] (biqqoreth/bik-ko-reth) from 1239; 
properly, examination, i.e. (by implication) 
punishment:--scourged. see H1239 


[H1239] (baqar/baw-kar) a primitive root; 
properly, to plough, or (generally) break forth, i.e. 
(figuratively) to inspect, admire, care for, consider:--(make) inquire (-ry), (make) search, seek out

Myer’s Briggs

On my best days an INFJ.
On my worst days an INTP.
On my normal days an INFP.
Could I ever be an INTJ? What would that look like?

The Garden of Eden and The Mark of the Beast

[I don't believe] in Original Sin. [I believe in Anabaptist theology and] those are some of the best saints in history. {} I think no one is guilty, until they can know what they did was wrong. That's what the Book of Genesis means, when Man and Woman ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That's what made them guilty, was the knowledge. Before that, they were like the beasts, who had no knowledge, therefore no condemnation. Which some may say the Mark of the Beast is a reversion back to that state, when man ought not be in it.

The History of Magic

Jim Morrison once said
A saint is really a criminal
And a criminal is really a saint.
I suppose wanting to be a saint
While being a criminal,
That makes me like Socrates' Eros
Half Wise, and in a mean between them both.
A true philosopher, knowing both
The deep evil and the deep joys;
Yet, I still wish to be a saint,
While have mercy on the criminal
For having been so, too, once myself.

On Matthew

Matthew writing in Hebrew constructions shows Papias is correct, that Matthew wrote His gospel in Hebrew first. And Mark and Luke are not exactly like Matthew. I study the Greek in transliterated form. It’s more likely the similarities are from the same source, true, which is Jesus Christ. That’s the only determination to be made here, is that the similarities show they come from the same source. Not plagiarisms of earlier gospels, but from the man Jesus Himself. Q must be Christ.

Coincidentally, while researching this I’ve found many idioms and parallels to Hebrew constructions in Matthew, all from various sources. And also Matthew’s lack of punctuation, they say, shows a primary Hebrew manuscript. And his use of Hebrew Prophecies from the Old Testament. I even found one source, saying that Matthew is constructed in Aramaic Grammar. (Matthew Black)

On Calling the New Testament The New Testament

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

[G2537] (kainos/kahee-nos') of uncertain affinity; 
new (especially in freshness; while 3501 is properly 
so with respect to age:--new. see G3501 

[G1242] (diatheke/dee-ath-ay'-kay) from 1303; 
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract 
(especially a devisory will):--covenant, testament. 
see G1303 

Webster's Dictionary Access 5/11/25
Testament: a person's will, especially the part relating to personal property.