Also Peter Thiel.

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    I always wondered about the sex of monotheistic gods. Like… if there’s only one, then why the implied sex organs? They presumably don’t reproduce or could do so just by willing it. It seems pointless to even have any sex-linked traits if you’re the only if your kind, eternal, and omnipotent.

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      Everything is a reflection of the infinite, and the infinite a reflection of everything. So both asexual, asexual reproduction must be reflected in the all.

      You’d have to go deep into both Hermetic and Jewish Kabbalistic lore to understand it, but the shattering of the vessels (mazel Tov!) and trees of life and death are as good a place as any.

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        I guess that makes sense. It still seems like a contrived question that just needed an answer. Any answer that would fit, like a scientist actively looking for results that confirm a theory.

        I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, btw, just that it always seemed naive to me.

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          I know you didn’t. Council of Nicea had an emperor’s whims to justify and imperialism to uphold, so cutting out about half of the debates (because that’s what judeocristian scriptures were, before they were made into the infallible word and will of the Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnibenevolent, One True.