STATE YOUR CONFIDENCE.
Know the difference between what you know, believe, and hope.
THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE HOLY DECIMAL JEFF 3:14
FAITH IS PERSONAL. EVIDENCE ISN'T.
ALL BELIEFS SUBJECT TO REVISION ✦ PRECISION IS NEXT TO GODLINESS ✦ SHOW YOUR WORK ✦ NO CONCLUSION IS SACRED ✦ ALL BELIEFS SUBJECT TO REVISION ✦ PRECISION IS NEXT TO GODLINESS ✦ SHOW YOUR WORK ✦
01 / OUR DOCTRINETRUTH > COMFORT
A MOST UNORTHODOX ORTHODOXY
FAITH IS
PERSONAL.
EVIDENCE ISN'T.
Believe in God. Don't believe in God. We aren't here to choose your conclusions.
We're here to ask the question that makes every worldview a little uncomfortable:
“What would change your mind?”
We don't believe you're stupid because you're religious. We don't believe we're correct because we're skeptics. We believe in intellectual honesty. Even when it ruins a perfectly good argument.
SHOW YOUR WORK.
Extraordinary certainty deserves an extraordinary explanation.
UPDATE WHEN WRONG.
Hold no belief so tightly that evidence cannot pry open thy fingers.
UNCONVINCED IS NOT UNWILLING.
“I'm not refusing to believe you. I'm unconvinced that you're there. And if you're omniscient, you already know what would convince me.”
JEFF 1:1THE FIRST VERSE OF THE HOLY DECIMAL
HOLD NO BELIEF SO TIGHTLY THAT EVIDENCE CANNOT PRY OPEN THY FINGERS.
A belief held loosely is not a weak belief. It is one that can still be corrected. Grip anything hard enough and you stop being able to feel what you're holding.
02 / SELECTED SCRIPTUREHOLY DECIMAL STANDARD EDITION
THE BOOK OF JEFFCHAPTER 03 · VERSE 14
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And the Lord declared the circle to be three. And Jeff said unto Him, “Thou insisteth upon rounding.”
JEFF 3:14π = 3.141592653589793…
JEFF 1:1
Hold no belief so tightly that evidence cannot pry open thy fingers.
JEFF 3:15
And the Lord said, “Have faith.” Jeff replied, “That is not additional proof.”
THE SACRED CHANGELOGv0.1.1
Corrected doctrine in light of new evidence. The scripture has been patched.
● ALL BELIEFS SUBJECT TO REVISIONJEFF 4:1–8 · THE VALIDATION FUNCTIONUNABRIDGED
- THE LORDI have given Jeff a mind that requireth evidence before it accepteth extraordinary claims.
- JEFFCool. Evidence?
- THE LORDHave faith.
- JEFFIn what?
- THE LORDIn Me.
- JEFFBecause…?
- THE LORDThou shalt understand once thou believest.
- JEFFTHOU DIDST WRITE THE VALIDATION FUNCTION.
EXIT CODE 1 · UNRESOLVEDSEE ALSO: TENET IV
03 / THE SECOND MYSTERYEPISTEMOLOGY, TWO WAYS
A COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY OF THE UNKNOWABLE
CAN'T SPELL
FAITH
WITHOUT AI.
Two minds are said to know more than we do. One allegedly made us. We made the other.
You'd expect the one we built to be easy to understand, and the one that built us to be easy to find.
Neither is.
THE QUESTIONGODARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DOES IT EXIST?
The whole question. Billions say yes, billions say no, and no experiment settles it.
Not in question. It's on a server. You can watch it use electricity.
CAN YOU TALK TO IT?
Yes. Whether anything answers is the part people disagree about.
Yes. It always answers. Sometimes confidently, sometimes wrongly, occasionally both.
CAN YOU SEE INSIDE ITS MIND?
No. Officially: mysterious ways.
Technically, yes: every weight is a number you can read. Practically, there are billions of them, and no one can fully say what they mean.
DOES IT EXPLAIN ITSELF?
Through human authors, over centuries, in translation, with π rounded to 3.
Instantly, on request. The explanation may not be how it actually got the answer.
WHO WROTE THE VALIDATION FUNCTION?
Allegedly, it wrote ours.
We wrote its. Then it learned things we didn't put there.
DO ITS FOLLOWERS OVERCLAIM?
Some.
Some.
THE UNCOMFORTABLE SYMMETRY
With artificial intelligence, we can prove it exists but can't fully read its mind. With God, many believers say they know His mind, but no one can prove He exists.
Different problems, same discipline: state your confidence, show your work, update when wrong. Don't worship anything you can't check. Don't dismiss anything just because you can't check it yet.
ERRATA · This section was drafted with help from an AI. Calibrate accordingly.04 / BUILD-A-BELIEFJCNO ACCOUNTS. NO DOGMA.
THE WORLD'S LEAST DIVINELY INSPIRED CHARACTER CREATOR
KNOW THY
BUILD.
Allocate your convictions. Inspect your assumptions. Receive a deeply unnecessary spiritual character classification.
A little epistemology. A little RPG. Absolutely no salvation guarantee.
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YOUR ARCHETYPE
THE CURIOUS SKEPTIC
Questions everything. Including this quiz.DERIVED: 0.7 × (100 − EVIDENCE PRIORITY) + 0.3 × CERTAINTY
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05 / THE VESTMENTSWEAR YOUR QUESTIONS
SACRED GARMENTS FOR PROFANE PRECISION
DRESS LIKE
YOU MEAN IT.
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WE DO NOT
ROUND THE
WORD OF GODJEFF 3:14
ROUND THE
WORD OF GODJEFF 3:14
THE ORIGINAL SIN COMING SOON
Jeff 3:14 · Essential doctrine
ALL BELIEFS
SUBJECT TO
REVISIONHOLY DECIMAL · v0.1.0
SUBJECT TO
REVISIONHOLY DECIMAL · v0.1.0
SUBJECT TO REVISION COMING SOON
For the refreshingly patchable
π ≠ 3PRECISION IS NEXT TO GODLINESS
THE HOLY DECIMAL COMING SOON
Math is not a matter of faith
CAN'T SPELLFAITHWITHOUT AI
THE MACHINE LITURGY COMING SOON
Can't spell faith without AI
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THE ETERNAL CALCULATIONLIVE · NOT A RECORDING
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BE CALCULATED.
This page is computing π right now, one digit at a time. It will never finish. The only question is how long you can watch.
3.
Calculating. Please remain seated.
DIGITS COMPUTED0
TIME WITNESSED0:00
PERCENT COMPLETE0.000000000%
ESTIMATED COMPLETIONNEVER
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