9INE 🇵🇱 2-0 🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles

Ancient: 16-13 Vertigo: 16-8 Mirage
 
 

Map picks:

9INE	MAP	Bad News Eagles
	Nuke	X
X	Inferno
	Ancient	✔
✔	Vertigo
	Anubis	X
X	Overpass
	Mirage

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇵🇱 9INE
🇵🇱 hades	52-25	85.9	81.1%	1.50
🇵🇱 KEi	42-35	94.2	69.8%	1.27
🇵🇱 Kylar	38-27	73.2	73.6%	1.22
🇵🇱 Goofy	38-33	79.0	75.5%	1.10
🇵🇱 mynio	32-36	75.2	69.8%	0.99
🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles
🇽🇰 juanflatroo	43-37	85.8	64.2%	1.11
🇨🇭 rigoN	28-43	66.2	67.9%	0.84
🇽🇰 SENER1	25-37	66.0	54.7%	0.80
🇽🇰 sinnopsyy	31-44	69.1	56.6%	0.79
🇽🇰 gxx-	29-41	56.4	52.8%	0.72

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Ancient

Team	CT	T	Total
🇵🇱 9INE	9	7	16
	T	CT
🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles	6	7	13

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇵🇱 9INE
🇵🇱 hades	24-14	76.6	79.3%	1.35
🇵🇱 KEi	22-18	85.1	65.5%	1.17
🇵🇱 Kylar	18-17	57.9	69.0%	0.95
🇵🇱 mynio	18-22	74.8	65.5%	0.88
🇵🇱 Goofy	17-21	79.9	65.5%	0.87
🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles
🇽🇰 juanflatroo	28-17	107.3	72.4%	1.47
🇨🇭 rigoN	17-21	74.1	72.4%	1.00
🇽🇰 sinnopsyy	20-22	79.6	55.2%	0.99
🇽🇰 SENER1	11-18	51.9	62.1%	0.73
🇽🇰 gxx-	16-21	46.6	55.2%	0.71

Ancient detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Vertigo

Team	T	CT	Total
🇵🇱 9INE	13	3	16
	CT	T
🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles	2	6	8

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇵🇱 9INE
🇵🇱 hades	28-11	97.2	83.3%	1.69
🇵🇱 Kylar	20-10	91.8	79.2%	1.55
🇵🇱 KEi	20-17	105.1	75.0%	1.40
🇵🇱 Goofy	21-12	77.9	87.5%	1.40
🇵🇱 mynio	14-14	75.6	75.0%	1.13
🇽🇰 Bad News Eagles
🇽🇰 SENER1	14-19	83.1	45.8%	0.91
🇽🇰 gxx-	13-20	68.3	50.0%	0.76
🇽🇰 juanflatroo	15-20	59.9	54.2%	0.72
🇨🇭 rigoN	11-22	56.8	62.5%	0.67
🇽🇰 sinnopsyy	11-22	56.3	58.3%	0.57

Vertigo detailed stats and VOD

 
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Posts in the series:

• First: Here
• Second: Here
• Third: Here
• Fourth: Here (Unplanned)
• Fifth: Here
• Sixth: Here
• Seventh: This

Brief recap

In the previous post, we analyzed then eliminated the religions that didn't reference any God. Again, I am not claiming that any religion is true or false, simply that it can or cannot be a communications from a judging and fair God. The religions that we eliminated in the last post cannot possibly be communications from a judging and fair God. How can they be when they don't reference any God or Gods?!
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In this post, we will continue our analysis. This time, we will analyze many religions, starting with those that do not have any known founder or messenger. We have already seen that a judging and fair God would choose indirect communication through a human messenger over direct communication with everyone (*). This makes the religions that do not have a founder or messenger susceptible to elimination, but let's analyze them correctly still.
(*) Please don't challenge this again here, we have already talked about it in previous posts! I shared all the arguments I had. If you're still not convinced, I have no more arguments for you. That said, in this reality, no God is communicating directly. So you can either choose to conclude that a judging and fair God doesn't exist, or you can evaluate the indirect communication possibility, which you should, based on the drawbacks of direct communication.
Let's begin!
Last time, we were left with the following religions:

• Christianity (2.4B)
• Islam (2.0B)
• Hinduism (1.2B)
• Voodoo (60M)
• Sikhism (30M)
• Mormonism (16M)
• Judaism (14.5M)
• Spritism (5 to 15M)
• Korean Shamanism (5 to 15M)
• Caodaism (5 to 9M)
• Baha'i Faith (5 to 7.3M)
• Cheondoism (3 to 4M)
• Tenrikyo (2M)
• Tengrism (1.2M)
• Druze (1M)

The religions that do not have any known founder or messenger are: Hinduism, Voodoo and Tengrism.

Hinduism

Let's apply the message criteria to Hinduism to see what it passes and what it fails.

• Criterion 0 (God reference): PROBLEMATIC. While Hinduism does have many deities. The issue is that it's not a single religion, rather, it's an umbrella word that covers diverse beliefs that don’t agree on the Gods involved and their roles. It also encourages differences in belief, and clearly states that no one has a claim on the truth. Consequently, it cannot be a communication from a judging and fair God who must communicate in a clear unambiguous way since judgement is involved.
• Criterion 1 (Living religion ): PASS
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. It doesn’t warn of any judgment, so it is safe to dismiss.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It’s not universal. It is mostly bound to India, as 95% of Hindus live there (1). The remaining 5% covers both immigration of Hindus, as well as actual conversions. Another issue is that it is not simple to understand. The reader is encouraged to go over to its dedicated page here on Britannica for example and attempt to understand the core beliefs. We saw that simplicity is one of the core foundations of universality.
• Criterion 4 (Past references): FAIL. It doesn’t reference previous religions. Rather, it claims to be eternal. However, it has considerably changed over time to the point that Gods lost influence, while others rose. How? Why? Who decides?
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. It doesn’t align with reality well. Depending on the branch of Hinduism one follows, the Gods are different, and have different roles. There is no way to tell which version is true, and they can’t all be true since they don’t agree, sometimes on the same Gods. How can various and distinct versions of a story all align with reality at the same time?

Sources:
(1) From WorldPopulationReview: ...Additionally, about 95% of the world's Hindus live in India. The majority of Hindus in India belong to the Shaivite and Vaishnavite denominations...

Voodoo

• Criterion 1 (Living religion ): PASS
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. Voodoo borrows concepts from multiple religions, including the God of the Bible, called Bondye (from French: “Bon Dieu”, literally “Good God”), who is viewed as the creator of everything, but one who doesn’t judge. In Voodoo, spirits (called Iwa) are to be served in exchange for protection, health and favor. It doesn’t speak of any judgment and is consequently safe to dismiss.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It’s far from being universal, as it is geographically and ethnically bound.
• Criterion 4 (Past references): FAIL. It borrows concepts from many religions (1) , but it doesn’t reference any past religions that it might have taken over from.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. It cannot align with reality well since it’s born from a mix of multiple different and incompatible worldviews. For example, the God of the Bible cannot possibly create spirits to be worshiped instead of himself. If he did, he wouldn’t be the God of the Bible. One might say, “well, the Bible is wrong about its own God, and Voodoo corrects that mistake”. Ok, fair enough! But why would it reference him as the God of the Bible then?! Voodoo borrows a popular God only to redefine him but doesn’t end up being more successful than the original and supposedly false definition.

Sources:
(1) From Wikipedia: ...It arose through a process of syncretism between several traditional religions of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism...

Tengrism

• Criterion 0 (God reference): FAIL. Tengrism does reference a God, the sky God Tengri, as the highest deity (it has other deities). However, it isn’t a deity in the sense of other religions. Rather, it’s an abstract phenomenon.
• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. It doesn’t warn of any judgment, so it can be safely dismissed.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It’s far from being universal and is geographically and ethnically bound.
• Criterion 4 (Past references): FAIL. It doesn’t reference any past religions it would have taken over from.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. Like Shinto, it doesn’t align with reality well. Its cosmology aspects demonstrate a local understanding that is linked to Earth. For example, it defines Gods that are specific to local concepts, like wind, clouds, sun, moon, thunder… It’s one thing to state that a God created everything including these concepts, it’s a whole other to assign a God to each one of these concepts (1). Is the God of clouds for example responsible for clouds on any planet? Where was he when clouds didn’t exist anywhere yet?

Sources:
(1) From New World Encyclopedia: ...Tengri is the supreme god of Tengriism. In ancient Mongolian cosmology, the Sky-Father (Tengri/Tenger Etseg) and Mother Earth (Eje/Gazar Eej) were the central beings of a group of 99 deities. The ancient Turks believed that Tengri was the leader of the seventeen deities who ruled the universe: Tengri, Yer-Sub, Umai, Erlik, Earth, Water, Fire, Sun, Moon, Star, Air, Clouds, Wind, Storm, Thunder and Lightning, and Rain and Rainbow...
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This eliminates 3 more religions leaving us with the remaining religions that both reference a deity or deities, as well as have a known founder:

• Christianity (2.4B) x
• Islam (2.0B) x
• Hinduism (1.2B)
• Voodoo (60M)
• Sikhism (30M)
• Mormonism (16M) x
• Judaism (14.5M) x
• Spritism (5 to 15M)
• Korean Shamanism (5 to 15M)
• Caodaism (5 to 9M)
• Baha'i Faith (5 to 7.3M) x
• Cheondoism (3 to 4M)
• Tenrikyo (2M)
• Tengrism (1.2M)
• Druze (1M) x

6 of the remaining religions above (the ones with an "x") reference the same God, the God of Abraham. Being related, we will analyze them together last. Let's move on with the others.

Sikhism

Let's analyze the message of Sikhism.

• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. Sikhism doesn’t warn of any judgment, consequently it can be safely dismissed. This also means that the God of Sikhism cannot be the judging and fair God we are looking for.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. Sikhism is far from being universal. 90% of Sikhs are in India where it first appeared. The next four major communities of Sikhs are located in Canada, the U.K, the U.S and Australia (1). All of which are popular destinations for Indian immigration, suggesting that Sikhism is heavily bound by ethnicity, on top of being bound by geography.
• Criterion 4 (Past reference): FAIL. Sikhism doesn’t explicitly reference any previous religions from which it has taken over. What about the people who died before Guru Nanak was even born? Did the One God of Sikhism not communicate with them? This questions the fairness of the God of Sikhism.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. There are two elements that seem disconnected from reality when it comes to Sikhism: First, if it started with Guru Nanak, what about the people who died long before him? The One God of Sikhism has always been there, so why wait until Guru Nanak to teach people the path of salvation? After Guru Nanak, there was a continuity of Gurus who supposedly helped show people the way. It all ended with the scripture being the last eternal Guru. This means that Sikhism covers the timeline from Guru Nanak onward. What about before? Second, it was born in a time of religious persecution. It takes elements from both Hinduism and Islam. It claims that the Gods of Hinduism, as well as the God of Islam, are references to the same One God (2). This essentially goes against the foundation of both Hinduism and Islam, which extend back in time before Sikhism was even born. If the One God sent Guru Nanak to correct both of these religions, it didn’t happen. So not only did the One God ignore people before Guru Nanak, he couldn’t or didn’t want to establish Sikhism as the correct worldview, leaving people at the mercy of supposedly wrong, but more universal worldviews. It doesn’t make sense.

Now let's analyze Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism.

• Criterion 1 (Impeccable social reputation): FAIL. Guru Nanak was born in 1469 in Northern India, and yet, there is very little information about him. It’s impossible to reasonably authenticate the man. When someone has a considerable impact on their time, they become a person of interest and a subject of scrutiny, which translates to many words spoken and written about them. We have more information on Buddha and Confucius, who were born a long time before Guru Nanak, than we have on him. The story of his life was written 50 to 80 years after his death by followers without any regard to historical accuracy (3), Why? Why would a God choose a messenger who is unknown or difficult to authenticate?!
• Criterion 2 (Non-involvement rule): FAIL. He was raised a Hindu as part of the Sant tradition, which were known for their poetry and composed hymns about the divine. This makes him violate the non-involvement rule on two accounts: First, he founded a religion that had many similarities with a tradition of Hinduism that worships the God Vishnu (4). Second, he used his poetry skills to compose hymns that later became part of Sikhism scripture (5). Both of these are natural progressions.
• Criterion 3 (Sudden self-produced life direction change): FAIL. What little is known of his life doesn’t show any sudden change in his life direction after he was supposedly contacted by the One God. Again, why? Being contacted by some God is an exceptional event, why are there no known markers in the life of this man?
• Criterion 4 (Complete devotion): FAIL. There was no particular resistance to Sikhism to demonstrate any form of devotion.
• Criterion 5 (Wide reach of message): FAIL. Guru Nanak couldn’t widely spread Sikhism. It is still concentrated in the place of its inception and is relatively unknown.

It is extremely unlikely that Sikhism represents a communication from a judging and fair God. It actually says so itself.
Sources:
(1) According to Wikipedia
(2) From Wikipedia: ...The Sikh scriptures use Hindu terminology, with references to the Vedas, and the names of gods and goddesses in Hindu bhakti movement traditions, such as Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Parvati, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Rama, Krishna, but not to worship. It also refers to the spiritual concepts in Hinduism (Ishvara, Bhagavan, Brahman) and the concept of God in Islam (Allah) to assert that these are just "alternate names for the Almighty One"...
(3) From Britannica: ...Nanak’s authorship of these works is beyond doubt, and it is also certain that he visited pilgrimage sites throughout India. Beyond this very little is known. The story of his life has been the imagined product of the legendary janam-sakhis (“life stories”), which were composed between 50 and 80 years after the Guru’s death in 1539, though only a tiny fraction of the material found in them can be affirmed as factual...
(4) From Britannica: ...Sikhs claim that their tradition has always been separate from Hinduism. Nevertheless, many Western scholars argue that in its earliest stage Sikhism was a movement within the Hindu tradition; Nanak, they point out, was raised a Hindu and eventually belonged to the Sant tradition of northern India... Their tradition drew heavily on the Vaishnava bhakti (the devotional movement within the Hindu tradition that worships the god Vishnu), though there were important differences between the two.
(5) From Britannica: ...Nanak composed many hymns, which were collected in the Adi Granth by Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru, in 1604...

Caodaism

Let's analyze the message of Caodaism.

• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. Caodaism doesn’t warn of any upcoming judgment, nor does it detail any conditions of success or failure. It is safe to dismiss.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It is far from being universal. It was born in Vietnam, and it stayed in Vietnam. There are some communities in some countries, but they remain among the diaspora. Caodaism couldn’t spread and is bound by geography and ethnicity. If this was a communication from a judging and fair God, the least that can be said is that it wasn’t good communication.
• Criterion 4 (Past reference): FAIL. Caodaism doesn’t reference any past religions. Instead, it is a syncretic religion, which means that it mixes concepts from multiple religions to build a unique worldview. However, since it borrows concepts from religions that are not compatible with each other, it ends up at odds with those it borrows from. For example, Caodaism claims that God sent many prophets, including Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and Victor Hugo (Yes, Victor Hugo!!), to name a few. Buddha doesn’t speak of any God nor any judgment, while Jesus and Muhammad do. Buddha speaks of reincarnation, while Jesus and Muhammad speak of an afterlife. Also, Victor Hugo never claimed to be a prophet (Vietnam was colonized by France!), neither did many people that Caodaism claims they were prophets.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. As with all syncretic religions that borrow contradicting concepts, Caodaism doesn’t and cannot align with reality well. In addition, the fact that there were four prophets only made it worse, as they didn’t even agree amongst themselves. Sending four messengers at the same time is a recipe for disaster.

Caodaism has multiple prophets: Ngô Văn Chiêu, Phạm Công Tắc, Cao Quỳnh Cư and Cao Hoài Sang. They fail most criteria.

• Criterion 1 (Impeccable social reputation): FAIL. It’s surprising that there is very little information about the founders of Caodaism even though it was founded recently compared to most of the religions mentioned in this book. One of them died as late as 1971, and yet, very little information is available. Why? How can we authenticate these people? How can the people that will be born 100 years from now authenticate these people if there is so little info? You can check their respective pages, they’re nearly empty.
• Criterion 2 (Non-involvement rule): FAIL. They all violate the rule of non-involvement. There is very little info, but among the info that is available, it shows that they were involved with existing religious activity. The first founder was interested in Chinese folk religion and developed a fascination with Spiritism (1). The three other founders were actually trying to contact spiritual entities using table-tapping, so basically looking for revelation (2).
• Criterion 3 (Sudden self-produced life direction change): PASS. They seem to have genuinely believed they actually received revelation. Their lives seem to have changed drastically afterwards. That said, they were all looking for it!
• Criterion 4 (Complete devotion): FAIL. The first prophet of Caodaism, Ngô Văn Chiêu who supposedly received a revelation in 1921, fails the complete devotion criterion. He didn’t like the religion becoming mainstream in his city, so he left the movement and established an independent and more restricted branch (3). If this is a God communicating, the whole point is for the message to reach as many people as possible! As for the remaining prophets, their devotion wasn’t really tested.
• Criterion 5 (Wide reach of message): FAIL. The four prophets of Caodaism failed to spread their message and created division themselves.

It’s extremely unlikely that Caodaism is a true communication from a judging and fair God.
Sources:
(1) From Wikipedia: He was born in 1878 and raised by his aunt. He developed an interest in Chinese folk religion during this period. Later he served in the colonial bureaucracy and developed a fascination with spiritism.
(2) From Wikipedia: In 1925, Phạm Công Tắc and two colleagues (Cao Quynh Cu and Cao Hoai Sang) tried to contact spiritual entities. Using table-tapping, they supposedly got messages: from their deceased relatives first, then from Saints, and then from God.
(3) From Wikipedia: Ngô Văn Chiêu, who had never intended Cao Đài to become a mass organization, left the movement and eventually established in 1932 an independent, esoteric branch known as Chiếu Minh, headquartered in Vĩnh Long, which still exists and only admits a limited number of committed adepts

Spiritism

• Criterion 0 (God reference): FAIL. Spiritism does reference a God, but it sees him as a supreme intelligence and a first cause of everything. He’s not necessarily an active actor in existence and who would communicate.
• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS.
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. Spiritism doesn’t warn of any upcoming judgment, so it is safe to dismiss. It was also considered a science by its founder, although the mainstream scientific community didn’t agree.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It is far from being universal. As a standalone religion, the number of its followers is rather small, and are mostly located in Brazil (1). As an “add-on” religion, for example to Catholicism, it has more sympathizers.
• Criterion 4 (Past reference): FAIL. It does reference other religions, but not as past instances of communications, no! Rather, since Spiritism is mostly a description of the world, it aligns itself with several figures, like Jesus, Paul the Apostle, Buddha and Ghandi, to whom it delegates its moral component. The problem is that it ends up referencing incompatible concepts. Jesus and Buddha might agree on many moral concepts, but they view the world in extremely different ways.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. Nothing really keeps Spiritism from being a possibility. However, delegating its moral components to various people, like Jesus and Buddha, who viewed existence in extremely different ways, makes it impossible to be a coherent worldview.

Let's analyze Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, the founder of Spiritism.

• Criterion 1 (Impeccable social reputation): PASS.
• Criterion 2 (Non-involvement rule): FAIL. Spiritism was founded by the French teacher, educator and translator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail in the 1850s. It is the result of a study of mediumistic phenomena. Needless to say that he violates the non-involvement rule on multiple accounts. The religion isn’t a result of some God communicating, it is the product of the founder’s own search. Also, before he started his study, Rivali became interested in séances (attempts to communicate with spirits), which were a popular entertainment at the time (2).
• Criterion 3 (Sudden self-produced life direction change): FAIL. His life didn’t take any sudden drastic turn. He did a study which had some results, he incorporated said results into what he called Spiritism, then published a book.
• Criterion 4 (Complete devotion): FAIL. He doesn’t show any particularly strong devotion towards his findings. He viewed them as science that he tried to have recognized, but it wasn’t. He didn’t have to face danger or death for his “cause”.
• Criterion 5 (Wide reach of message): FAIL. He failed to spread Spiritism.

Spiritism is extremely unlikely to represent a communication from a judging and fair God. It implicitly says so itself.
Sources:
(1) From Wikipedia: ...The movement has become widely accepted in Brazil due to Chico Xavier's works. There, the number of self-identified Spiritists accounts for 3.8 million, according to the 2010 national census...
(2) From Wikipedia: ...Rivail was in his early 50s when he became interested in séances, which were a popular entertainment at the time. Strange phenomena attributed to the action of spirits were considered a novelty, featuring objects that moved or "tapped", purportedly under the control of 'spirits'...

Cheondoism

• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS.
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. It doesn’t warn of any upcoming judgment (1), it is consequently safe to dismiss.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. It is far from being universal and is bound to South Korea.
• Criterion 4 (Past reference): FAIL. It doesn’t reference any past religions, which makes its God unfair towards all the people who died before it came along.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. It is syncretic religion that combines many different religions, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Korean shamanism, as well as Roman Catholicism, from which it borrows its monotheistic view (2). Again, like other Asian religions, it is combining incompatible concepts and attempting to make a unique worldview out of them.

Let's analyze the founder of Cheondoism.

• Criterion 1 (Impeccable social reputation): FAIL. There isn’t enough information on the social reputation of Ch’oe Che-u. Even less than Guru Nanak!
• Criterion 2 (Non-involvement rule): FAIL. He violates the non-involvement rule on many accounts. Before he made his claim to be contacted by the Lord of Heaven in 1860, he was involved in Buddhism quite extensively (3). He also felt motivated to counter Christianity that was gaining adoption quickly (4). The motive was already there, and he was working towards it long before the claim occurred.
• Criterion 3 (Sudden self-produced life direction change): FAIL. His life doesn’t show any abrupt change in direction that might be caused by the contact from a God. Rather, he was motivated in countering Christianity with a local religion that will supposedly make Korea stronger, and that’s what he sought to do.
• Criterion 4 (Complete devotion): PASS. He was arrested and executed in 1864. There is no better test of devotion than dying for one’s cause.
• Criterion 5 (Wide reach of message): FAIL. He failed to spread his message. He claims to have been sent by the Lord of Heaven to spread Cheodoism. He clearly stated that he was countering Christianity, which from his point of view, couldn’t be a true religion, and yet Christianity stands strong in Korea today, while Cheodoism doesn’t. What does this say about Cheodoism and its Lord of Heaven?

It’s extremely unlikely that Cheondoism is a true communication from a judging and fair God.
Sources:
(1) From Britannica: There is no concept of eternal reward in Ch’ŏndogyo, because its vision is limited to bringing righteousness and peace to the world.
(2) From Britannica: ...Korean religion that combines elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, and Roman Catholicism...
(3) From Wikipedia: ...Although educated in Confucianism, he partook of Buddhist practices, rituals, and beliefs, including interacting with monks, visiting temples, and abstaining from meat. In 1856, he began a 49-day retreat in the Buddhist monastery of Naewon-sa, but had to leave on the 47th day to attend the funeral of his uncle. The next year he managed to complete the 49 days at Cheok-myeol Caves, but did not find the experience spiritually fulfilling.
(4) From Wikipedia: According to his own account, he was greatly concerned by the public disorder in Korea, the encroachments of Christianity, and the domination of East Asia by Western powers...

Tenrikyo

• Criterion 1 (Living religion): PASS.
• Criterion 2 (Warning of judgement): FAIL. Tenrikyo states that God isn’t here to judge humans, only to help them live a joyous life. This makes it safe to dismiss.
• Criterion 3 (Universality): FAIL. Why isn’t Tenrikyo universal? Why is it bound to Japan and Japanese people? Why couldn’t it spread outside of Japan since the concepts it preaches are universal?
• Criterion 4 (Past reference): FAIL. It doesn’t reference any past religions. Why hasn’t the God of Tenrikyo communicated before? Why wait until the 1860s to help humans lead joyous lives? Nakayama, the founder of Tenrikyo, doesn’t seem to explain why. What about all the people who died before Nakayama was even born? Didn’t they deserve to also know how to lead a joyous life? This questions the fairness of the God of Tenrikyo.
• Criterion 5 (Alignment with reality): FAIL. If the God of Tenrikyo wanted all humans to have a joyous life here on Earth, there are many things he could have done to make that happen: First, he would have made sure to constantly communicate with humans to show them the way. Instead, he waited until 1860 to do that. Why?!! Second, he let false messengers and prophets achieve a far wider reach of message than Nakayama, and let them spread different worldviews that sometimes caused conflict and wars. Three, he could have removed the elements that make our lives here less joyous, like illness, pain and aging, maybe even death.

Now, let's analyze Nakayama herself.

• Criterion 1 (Impeccable social reputation): PASS.
• Criterion 2 (Non-involvement rule): FAIL. She violates the rule of non-involvement on multiple accounts. First, she was heavily involved with Buddhism and even wanted to be a nun (1). She also received revelation while practicing a ritual of another religion (2), even though it was an event that clearly surprised and changed her. From her point of view, this really seemed like a real communication. However, that would mean that the God of Tenrikyo have chosen a ritual of an existing and supposedly false religion to reveal the true one?! The mere act of sending a messenger with a new religion while they were heavily involved with an existing and supposedly false one is suspicious, let alone do it while they were practicing a ritual of said false religion!!!
• Criterion 3 (Sudden self-produced life direction change): PASS. After the first revelation, Nakayama’s behavior changed. She locked herself in a storehouse for three years, gradually gave away all her possessions, then asked her husband to dismantle the house (3). This life direction change is self-produced. It wasn’t dictated by her environment.
• Criterion 4 (Complete devotion): PASS. Her devotion wasn’t tested to the maximum, which only happens under the threat to personal safety and death. However, the life of poverty she chose to lead after supposedly receiving the first revelation, shows that she was devoted to her mission. A pass is fair!
• Criterion 5 (Wide reach of message): FAIL. She failed to spread Tenrikyo to the world, even though it is supposedly destined for all humans, making it unlikely to be a communication from some God.

There is no doubt that Nakayama Miki was deeply changed by her experience, as her life considerably changed after. However, Tenrikyo cannot be a communication from a judging and fair God. It misses the mark on critical criteria, and it says it itself that God’s purpose isn’t to judge humans.
Sources:
(1) From Wikipedia: ...In her childhood, Miki became familiar enough with Buddhist prayer so that by the age of twelve or thirteen, she was able to recite from memory various sutras as well the hymns from the Jōdo Wasan... At that time, she expressed an interest in becoming a nun... but eventually she consented, on the condition that even when married she would be allowed to continue her Buddhist prayer...
(2) From Wikipedia: ...However, as the woman who regularly served as his medium, Soyo, was not available, he asked Miki to serve as medium instead. In the middle of the incantation, Tenrikyo's doctrine asserts that Miki had her first divine revelation...
(3) From Wikipedia: ...For the three years or so following the revelation, Miki secluded herself in a storehouse. In the 1840s, Miki gradually gave away her personal belongings and the possessions of the Nakayama family. Then Miki requested that her husband Zenbei dismantle the main house, starting with the roof tiles at the southeast corner followed by the tiles on the northeast corner and the gable walls...
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It has been a long post! However, we have evaluated a bunch of religions and all that remains for analysis are the Abrahamic religions, specifically:

• Christianity (2.4B)
• Islam (2.0B)
• Mormonism (16M)
• Judaism (14.5M)
• Baha'i Faith (5 to 7.3M)
• Druze (1M)

Let's do that in the next post!
Note: What the hell happened in the 1800s? A lot of religions appeared near that time! If someone has an answer or a theory, please share in the comments. Thank you!

I am a single mom with a 19yo child who is living with me while going to college full time. A year and a half ago I bought her a car, which she totaled last week. Fortunately the value was higher than the payoff so I’m good there. The thing is, even without the $475 a month payment I’m still underwater. There is no way I can get her another car. Even without her car payment, I’m literally only months from not being able to make even the minimum payments on my credit cards.
I applied for a debt consolidation loan but was declined. I tried to get a zero interest balance transfer card but was approved with a limit that’s half the balance of my lowest debt…so it would just add a payment and I’d end up paying interest at a higher rate when the introductory period ends. These attempts just dropped my credit score more making me even less able to get any kind of consolidation loan.
I spoke to a mortgage broker about a cash out refinance. She said I’m eligible for a HELOC but it’s unlikely to be for enough to cover the debt. I researched using a HELOC and velocity banking and it looks like a trap that could end up with me losing my house.
I’ve been reading this subreddit and some other articles about filing chapter 13. Not CH7 because I make too much and should be able to pay the debt off (once it isn’t accumulating interest and growing exponentially).
My details:
State - Alabama Salary - $100k Mortgage - $264k / 3.25% / $1554.05 pmt (House is worth about $325k - $360k and I’m eligible to request they drop PMI in December).
One car loan (now) $9646 balance/ 4.99% / $320 pmt. Value is about what I owe.
401k loan $20k balance / $520/mo pmt CC Debt - $49k / pmts equal $1559
This means: Monthly net income - $4888 Monthly expenses- $4297
Nothing is behind …..yet.
My questions are:

• am I eligible for ch 13?
• even when I have enough equity in my home to sell and pay off the debt? -even though nothing is behind yet?

-how long did the process take from the day you walked into a lawyers office to the day you started making payments?

• within the next few years I am expecting two changes… payoff of a 401k loan in Nov 2026 that’s over $500/month and about a $20k stock option bonus I should get in July 2025. Will I get to keep these windfalls if I’m on a payment plan?
  
• will I be able to get an Auto loan to replace my daughters car or will my credit be frozen until the debt is fully discharged?
  
• I filed chapter 7 in 1997 with my ex husband. Will that cause a problem?
  

-I have a cc with a zero balance I use for reimbursable expenses when I travel for work. Would I be able to keep it?
-is there anything I could/should do before I go see a lawyer?
Thank you to anyone who read this far and for any advice you can offer!

FIA Formula 3 Monaco Grand Prix - Feature Race

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Session Times

Thursday-Sunday times are in CEST (UTC+2:00)

• Practice: Thu 25 May 2023, 13:30 (UTC+2)
• Qualifying (Group A): Fri 26 May 2023, 11:10 (UTC+2)
• Qualifying (Group B): Fri 26 May 2023, 11:34 (UTC+2)
• Sprint Race: Sat 27 May 2023, 11:00 (UTC+2)
• Feature Race: Sun 28 May 2023, 08:00 (UTC+2)

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Circuit de Monaco

La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco
Circuit Diagram
Length: 3.337 km (2.074 miles)
Turns: 19
Distance:

• Sprint Race: 23 Laps - 76.751 km
• Feature Race: 27 Laps - 90.099 km

2012

The series last ran at Monaco back in 2012 under the GP3 Series name some years before the merger.
2012 Pole Time: 1:28.008 ( Aaro Vainio, Lotus GP)
2012 Fastest Lap:

• Feature Race: 1:28.857 ( Kevin Ceccon, Ocean Racing Technology)
• Sprint Race: 1:28.747 ( Marlon Stockinger, Status Grand Prix)

2012 Winner:

• Feature Race: Aaro Vainio, Lotus GP
• Sprint Race: Marlon Stockinger, Status Grand Prix

2023

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Top 5

Drivers' Championship

Pos.	Change	Driver	Points
1	-	Gabriel Bortoleto	58
2	+3	Gregoire Saucy	38
3	-1	Dino Beganovic	28
4	+3	Gabriele Mini	28
5	-1	Josep María Martí	25

Teams' Championship

Pos.	Change	Team	Points
1	-	Trident	100
2	-	PREMA Racing	70
3	-	Hitech Pulse-Eight	54
4	-	ART Grand Prix	45
5	-	Campos Racing	29

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