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One of the subjects that always comes out flat is that I practice a sort of religion. We’re a congregation of one person (me) and not that interested in converts.

Whenever I try to explain it, it comes out sounding like either a joke or some very dry philosophy. Honestly it started out that way. But this matters to me, at quite a personal level, even if I don’t know how to show it.

The joke version goes thus: I believe in a supreme being, in that I think beinghood is closed under union, thus the set of all beings has a superema (a maximal element).

I didn’t say it was a funny joke.

(Technical nitpick: Beings are actually closed under interaction, not union. As a result this gets tricky when you bring relativity into the picture. Don’t worry about this.)