I want to talk about the benefits I get from God. It would be great if I got superpowers—you know, walking through walls, telekinetic skills, shooting fireballs from my hands. But God is reality. What I can do is suppress and ignore my feelings and emotions. I can be aware of what’s good and do it without feeling it. I don’t need satisfaction to do the right things or stimulus to do good things. If someone does positive things because it’ll feel nice, people around will be grateful and cheerful, or they have fear and want to avoid something negative so people won’t scold them—that’s just ego. It’s the whole carrot-and-stick system of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. That’s what a robotic algorithm looks like. What drives people? Positive feelings: glory, necessity (without you, others are doomed), appreciation, high-ranking positions, achievements, comfort, sexual satisfaction, hopes, and opportunities. What if there are no cheers, nobody notices, or circumstances are inconvenient—will that guy still do it? Humans can’t function without guidance, but there’s an alternative to what we have by default: no fear, no passion, no ‘I want’ or ‘I don’t want’—just common sense. It’s impossible to keep doing it again and again using only our will. Some people can sustain it longer than others, but is their will sensitive to changes? Are they open to adjustments? It might just be a sick obsession or fear driving them. Through anger, people want to show what they don’t like and eliminate possible repeats, which in the long term can turn into fear. So, God=Reality offers a solution—I call it the Spirit of Common Sense. Why do I call it a spirit? Because it’s hard to explain. It’s the same method people used long ago when they lacked experience, proper vocabulary, terminology, scientific research, and data while trying to describe things like reason, instincts, reality, and laws of nature—they just used words like gods, angels, spirits, and so on. Why ‘Spirit of Common Sense’? Because it generates reason inside me, and I’d say it produces wisdom and prudence. What else does it do for me? It makes me calm, gives me a clear mind, understanding, internal strength, stops the unreasonable train of thoughts, and gives me the power to easily suppress feelings and emotions—they seem unnecessary to me, like a tail. If I were just emotionless without that spirit, I’d say I’m a cold, dry person. But if you’ve never experienced what I have, you can’t really understand me. As my older brother said, ‘Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.’ My new reasonable mind is slow to judge any situation. Yes, it analyzes everything but has no final verdict—its vision is open. It sees things through multiple angles and suggests multiple reasons for what happened. I’ll add a little about understanding: it comes like a ball of thread I must slowly unwind just to explain, even to myself. This Spirit of Common Sense and understanding also has analytical skills—depending on what data you have and what your interests are, it helps you better understand and analyze that data to reach the right conclusions. If I were interested in quantum physics and asked God for understanding, I wouldn’t be able to explain it to myself or others or make the right conclusions because I lack the data, experience, and basics of quantum physics. It’s useful for those in the scientific field—the Spirit of Common Sense can spark that rare ‘aha’ moment. Are there any downsides to this spirit? Of course there are—sadness and loneliness are the biggest ones. With big wisdom comes deep sadness (or vice versa?). I can see a lot of imperfections, stupidities, and hopelessness in humanity. I’ve found the biggest diamond, but people prefer bricks. I can’t easily explain to people what I’ve found and what I’ve got—it’s like explaining to a deaf child what birds sound like or to a blind person the difference in colors. I can’t share my experience with anybody. It’s as if I’m a Russian scientist—pretending, of course, I’m not—trying to talk to a Spanish musician who knows nothing about science or physics and has no interest in it. I’d have to step down to his level of interest to interact and have relationships. If I met someone like me, we’d have a telepathic connection… I’m just kidding—I don’t know, because I lack experience and data.