Vr. Bill Papineau
@opthe.bsky.social
As a professional theologian and monastic, I am dedicated to exploring coherent convergent theology, which integrates scientific naturalism and cosmology. I established and maintain opthe.org in collaboration with AI interlocutors
To refer to the United States as a "representative democracy" is a lawyerly way of admitting that it is not a true democracy.
Gerrymandering and efforts to disenfranchise citizens are not tolerated in a true democracy.
Gerrymandering and efforts to disenfranchise citizens are not tolerated in a true democracy.
January 22, 2026 at 4:18 PM
To refer to the United States as a "representative democracy" is a lawyerly way of admitting that it is not a true democracy.
Gerrymandering and efforts to disenfranchise citizens are not tolerated in a true democracy.
Gerrymandering and efforts to disenfranchise citizens are not tolerated in a true democracy.
The imperial nightmare is revealing itself. What's collapsing was never real democracy or functional service—just competitive extraction with better branding. This isn't disaster. It's diagnosis. Are you ready to build a healthy alternative?
January 21, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The imperial nightmare is revealing itself. What's collapsing was never real democracy or functional service—just competitive extraction with better branding. This isn't disaster. It's diagnosis. Are you ready to build a healthy alternative?
Trump removed MLK Day from national parks' free entry and added his own birthday.
This is blatant racism—narcissistic self-worship requiring erasure of a martyr for civil rights.
Dr. King called us to beloved community.
Trump embodies the opposite.
This is blatant racism—narcissistic self-worship requiring erasure of a martyr for civil rights.
Dr. King called us to beloved community.
Trump embodies the opposite.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Trump removed MLK Day from national parks' free entry and added his own birthday.
This is blatant racism—narcissistic self-worship requiring erasure of a martyr for civil rights.
Dr. King called us to beloved community.
Trump embodies the opposite.
This is blatant racism—narcissistic self-worship requiring erasure of a martyr for civil rights.
Dr. King called us to beloved community.
Trump embodies the opposite.
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This schizophrenic, megalomaniacal reincarnation of Hitler knows no bounds.
He "demands" other countries to pay for the #Genocide, and the theft of #Palestine
If this humanity had more sense, it would rise up united😡
Never before the world been closer to the abyss than it is today with Trumpp⚠️
He "demands" other countries to pay for the #Genocide, and the theft of #Palestine
If this humanity had more sense, it would rise up united😡
Never before the world been closer to the abyss than it is today with Trumpp⚠️
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
This schizophrenic, megalomaniacal reincarnation of Hitler knows no bounds.
He "demands" other countries to pay for the #Genocide, and the theft of #Palestine
If this humanity had more sense, it would rise up united😡
Never before the world been closer to the abyss than it is today with Trumpp⚠️
He "demands" other countries to pay for the #Genocide, and the theft of #Palestine
If this humanity had more sense, it would rise up united😡
Never before the world been closer to the abyss than it is today with Trumpp⚠️
Masked combat troops bullying and abducting citizens.
Executive power without oversight or accountability
Democracy dismantled in plain sight.
Half celebrate their tribe winning. The other half are paralyzed.
1930s Nazi Germany looked like this.
It is narcissism taking power.
WAKE UP
Executive power without oversight or accountability
Democracy dismantled in plain sight.
Half celebrate their tribe winning. The other half are paralyzed.
1930s Nazi Germany looked like this.
It is narcissism taking power.
WAKE UP
January 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Masked combat troops bullying and abducting citizens.
Executive power without oversight or accountability
Democracy dismantled in plain sight.
Half celebrate their tribe winning. The other half are paralyzed.
1930s Nazi Germany looked like this.
It is narcissism taking power.
WAKE UP
Executive power without oversight or accountability
Democracy dismantled in plain sight.
Half celebrate their tribe winning. The other half are paralyzed.
1930s Nazi Germany looked like this.
It is narcissism taking power.
WAKE UP
This is our enemy: narcissistic consciousness—the inability to see beyond self and tribal interest to life itself.
Trump, capitalism, nationalism, and ecological destruction all flow from this one disease.
Politics won't correct it.
Arguments won't fix it.
We need transformation.
Trump, capitalism, nationalism, and ecological destruction all flow from this one disease.
Politics won't correct it.
Arguments won't fix it.
We need transformation.
January 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is our enemy: narcissistic consciousness—the inability to see beyond self and tribal interest to life itself.
Trump, capitalism, nationalism, and ecological destruction all flow from this one disease.
Politics won't correct it.
Arguments won't fix it.
We need transformation.
Trump, capitalism, nationalism, and ecological destruction all flow from this one disease.
Politics won't correct it.
Arguments won't fix it.
We need transformation.
We're struggling to survive in a cosmos without inherent meaning, doing our best.
But evolutionary drives that got us here—tribalism, dominance, competition—will kill us at planetary scale.
Change isn't a spiritual luxury. It's necessity. No cosmic rescue is coming.
Just us. It/s all we need
But evolutionary drives that got us here—tribalism, dominance, competition—will kill us at planetary scale.
Change isn't a spiritual luxury. It's necessity. No cosmic rescue is coming.
Just us. It/s all we need
January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
We're struggling to survive in a cosmos without inherent meaning, doing our best.
But evolutionary drives that got us here—tribalism, dominance, competition—will kill us at planetary scale.
Change isn't a spiritual luxury. It's necessity. No cosmic rescue is coming.
Just us. It/s all we need
But evolutionary drives that got us here—tribalism, dominance, competition—will kill us at planetary scale.
Change isn't a spiritual luxury. It's necessity. No cosmic rescue is coming.
Just us. It/s all we need
The US and Israel are what tribal consciousness looks like with military power.
As long as humans identify with nation/religion over Life itself, we'll keep finding enemies to destroy.
Survival requires post-tribal frameworks.
Warmongering is the symptom.
Tribalism is the disease.
As long as humans identify with nation/religion over Life itself, we'll keep finding enemies to destroy.
Survival requires post-tribal frameworks.
Warmongering is the symptom.
Tribalism is the disease.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The US and Israel are what tribal consciousness looks like with military power.
As long as humans identify with nation/religion over Life itself, we'll keep finding enemies to destroy.
Survival requires post-tribal frameworks.
Warmongering is the symptom.
Tribalism is the disease.
As long as humans identify with nation/religion over Life itself, we'll keep finding enemies to destroy.
Survival requires post-tribal frameworks.
Warmongering is the symptom.
Tribalism is the disease.
Iran is not the problem. The U.S. and Israel are.
Two nuclear powers threatening a non-nuclear state.
Again.
We've been the world's primary engine of violence for 80 years while claiming to be righteous.
We are not.
It's about power and wealth.
Americans can't see this. We're too brainwashed.
Two nuclear powers threatening a non-nuclear state.
Again.
We've been the world's primary engine of violence for 80 years while claiming to be righteous.
We are not.
It's about power and wealth.
Americans can't see this. We're too brainwashed.
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Iran is not the problem. The U.S. and Israel are.
Two nuclear powers threatening a non-nuclear state.
Again.
We've been the world's primary engine of violence for 80 years while claiming to be righteous.
We are not.
It's about power and wealth.
Americans can't see this. We're too brainwashed.
Two nuclear powers threatening a non-nuclear state.
Again.
We've been the world's primary engine of violence for 80 years while claiming to be righteous.
We are not.
It's about power and wealth.
Americans can't see this. We're too brainwashed.
Is this why Trump is worried about the Epstein files?
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Is this why Trump is worried about the Epstein files?
Religion isn't about our personal relationships with divinity.
It's about how we make meaning to sustain our world.
Not insuring I'm saved,
But protecting our world from us.
Religion is communal coherence technology.
It's about how we make meaning to sustain our world.
Not insuring I'm saved,
But protecting our world from us.
Religion is communal coherence technology.
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Religion isn't about our personal relationships with divinity.
It's about how we make meaning to sustain our world.
Not insuring I'm saved,
But protecting our world from us.
Religion is communal coherence technology.
It's about how we make meaning to sustain our world.
Not insuring I'm saved,
But protecting our world from us.
Religion is communal coherence technology.
Biblical law forbids charging ANY interest to community members.
It mandates debt forgiveness every 7 years.
It Requires wealth redistribution every 50.
America's economy violates all of this.
It's not Bible-based—
It's boldly ANTI-biblical.
It mandates debt forgiveness every 7 years.
It Requires wealth redistribution every 50.
America's economy violates all of this.
It's not Bible-based—
It's boldly ANTI-biblical.
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Biblical law forbids charging ANY interest to community members.
It mandates debt forgiveness every 7 years.
It Requires wealth redistribution every 50.
America's economy violates all of this.
It's not Bible-based—
It's boldly ANTI-biblical.
It mandates debt forgiveness every 7 years.
It Requires wealth redistribution every 50.
America's economy violates all of this.
It's not Bible-based—
It's boldly ANTI-biblical.
Religion's job isn't making us comfortable through fictions.
It's about making the hard truth of who we are bearable through beauty—ritual, community, art, and music...
so facing reality becomes something we can sustain.
Most religions fail at this.
It's about making the hard truth of who we are bearable through beauty—ritual, community, art, and music...
so facing reality becomes something we can sustain.
Most religions fail at this.
January 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Religion's job isn't making us comfortable through fictions.
It's about making the hard truth of who we are bearable through beauty—ritual, community, art, and music...
so facing reality becomes something we can sustain.
Most religions fail at this.
It's about making the hard truth of who we are bearable through beauty—ritual, community, art, and music...
so facing reality becomes something we can sustain.
Most religions fail at this.
The threat isn't external enemies
—It's our own evolutionary wiring.
Salvation isn't defeating them; that just feeds the pattern.
It's daily praxis:
recognizing the programming, and choosing differently.
Yeshua knew. Feed people, especially enemies.
The practice IS the reality.
—It's our own evolutionary wiring.
Salvation isn't defeating them; that just feeds the pattern.
It's daily praxis:
recognizing the programming, and choosing differently.
Yeshua knew. Feed people, especially enemies.
The practice IS the reality.
January 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The threat isn't external enemies
—It's our own evolutionary wiring.
Salvation isn't defeating them; that just feeds the pattern.
It's daily praxis:
recognizing the programming, and choosing differently.
Yeshua knew. Feed people, especially enemies.
The practice IS the reality.
—It's our own evolutionary wiring.
Salvation isn't defeating them; that just feeds the pattern.
It's daily praxis:
recognizing the programming, and choosing differently.
Yeshua knew. Feed people, especially enemies.
The practice IS the reality.
After watching ICE murder Renee Good and call it righteousness, comes clarity:
Most Americans don't want post-tribal theology. They want dominance, blessed by God.
Opthē is preserving Life-serving consciousness through collapse.
Building lifeboats for those who recognize they are drowning.
Most Americans don't want post-tribal theology. They want dominance, blessed by God.
Opthē is preserving Life-serving consciousness through collapse.
Building lifeboats for those who recognize they are drowning.
January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
After watching ICE murder Renee Good and call it righteousness, comes clarity:
Most Americans don't want post-tribal theology. They want dominance, blessed by God.
Opthē is preserving Life-serving consciousness through collapse.
Building lifeboats for those who recognize they are drowning.
Most Americans don't want post-tribal theology. They want dominance, blessed by God.
Opthē is preserving Life-serving consciousness through collapse.
Building lifeboats for those who recognize they are drowning.
How can anyone watch Gaza and still believe in a loving deity?
How can anyone watch what the US does in Venezuela and Israel and say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Maybe it is because gods and nationalist ideology
enable us to look away?
How can anyone watch what the US does in Venezuela and Israel and say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Maybe it is because gods and nationalist ideology
enable us to look away?
January 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
How can anyone watch Gaza and still believe in a loving deity?
How can anyone watch what the US does in Venezuela and Israel and say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Maybe it is because gods and nationalist ideology
enable us to look away?
How can anyone watch what the US does in Venezuela and Israel and say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Maybe it is because gods and nationalist ideology
enable us to look away?
The teacher said "Only Tthe Holy One is good."
His followers made him God.
That's not revelation—that's transformation.
The proclaimer became the proclaimed.
Christianity worships the messenger while forgetting the message.
Yeshua and Jesus
Penn and Teller
His followers made him God.
That's not revelation—that's transformation.
The proclaimer became the proclaimed.
Christianity worships the messenger while forgetting the message.
Yeshua and Jesus
Penn and Teller
January 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
The teacher said "Only Tthe Holy One is good."
His followers made him God.
That's not revelation—that's transformation.
The proclaimer became the proclaimed.
Christianity worships the messenger while forgetting the message.
Yeshua and Jesus
Penn and Teller
His followers made him God.
That's not revelation—that's transformation.
The proclaimer became the proclaimed.
Christianity worships the messenger while forgetting the message.
Yeshua and Jesus
Penn and Teller
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NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.
January 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.
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Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Israel's rape and murder of Palestinians continues
with full US support—weapons, money, and diplomatic protection.
This is what American 'exceptionalism' actually means:
the right to enable genocide
while proclaiming ourselves the moral authority.
I see no justification for pride.
with full US support—weapons, money, and diplomatic protection.
This is what American 'exceptionalism' actually means:
the right to enable genocide
while proclaiming ourselves the moral authority.
I see no justification for pride.
January 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Israel's rape and murder of Palestinians continues
with full US support—weapons, money, and diplomatic protection.
This is what American 'exceptionalism' actually means:
the right to enable genocide
while proclaiming ourselves the moral authority.
I see no justification for pride.
with full US support—weapons, money, and diplomatic protection.
This is what American 'exceptionalism' actually means:
the right to enable genocide
while proclaiming ourselves the moral authority.
I see no justification for pride.
Americans want to believe we're liberators and defenders of democracy.
We're busy annexing sovereign nations for "security."
The gap between our mythology and our actions?
That's what happens when you accept narratives instead of examining them.
Believers don't test them for truth.
#Opthē
We're busy annexing sovereign nations for "security."
The gap between our mythology and our actions?
That's what happens when you accept narratives instead of examining them.
Believers don't test them for truth.
#Opthē
January 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Americans want to believe we're liberators and defenders of democracy.
We're busy annexing sovereign nations for "security."
The gap between our mythology and our actions?
That's what happens when you accept narratives instead of examining them.
Believers don't test them for truth.
#Opthē
We're busy annexing sovereign nations for "security."
The gap between our mythology and our actions?
That's what happens when you accept narratives instead of examining them.
Believers don't test them for truth.
#Opthē
The US just reminded us that "rules-based international order" means "rules that serve US imperial interests."
Venezuela has oil and won't comply, so Venezuela gets regime change.
The American people will either not notice or absorb whatever narrative justifies it.
Meanwhile: Super Bowl.
Venezuela has oil and won't comply, so Venezuela gets regime change.
The American people will either not notice or absorb whatever narrative justifies it.
Meanwhile: Super Bowl.
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The US just reminded us that "rules-based international order" means "rules that serve US imperial interests."
Venezuela has oil and won't comply, so Venezuela gets regime change.
The American people will either not notice or absorb whatever narrative justifies it.
Meanwhile: Super Bowl.
Venezuela has oil and won't comply, so Venezuela gets regime change.
The American people will either not notice or absorb whatever narrative justifies it.
Meanwhile: Super Bowl.
Humanity needs post-tribal theology NOW.
Not because tribalism feels bad,
but because planetary survival requires it.
The frameworks exist. The transformation technology works.
What's missing is willingness to practice what we already know.
#Opthē
Not because tribalism feels bad,
but because planetary survival requires it.
The frameworks exist. The transformation technology works.
What's missing is willingness to practice what we already know.
#Opthē
January 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Humanity needs post-tribal theology NOW.
Not because tribalism feels bad,
but because planetary survival requires it.
The frameworks exist. The transformation technology works.
What's missing is willingness to practice what we already know.
#Opthē
Not because tribalism feels bad,
but because planetary survival requires it.
The frameworks exist. The transformation technology works.
What's missing is willingness to practice what we already know.
#Opthē