The story of Adam and Eve is about curiosity.
Being curious is never wrong in this universe. You’re allowed to think about everything—good and bad things.
They were even warned: don’t eat the forbidden apple. So what do you do? You take exactly that apple. I would too.
If even that isn’t allowed in this universe, then everyone can just go climb a tree. Forget it.
That’s what the story is about.

In other words: Eve is actually the smart one of the two. And God and the serpent are the same thing.

How do I know this? Your Adam’s apple is only visible in men, not in women. The story of Adam’s Apple is really a story about something that separates men and women.
But it also shows that men and women are secretly very much the same because women also have an Adam’s apple. You just have to look a little closer. Beyond the surface.

Layered, right? Reality has a lot of depth, like a painting where you keep discovering new things. We think we see all of reality. But we don’t.

Thousands of years from now, we will know things we don’t know today. By then, it will feel like we live in a different world. Simply because we look at reality through a different lens. We always see it through the knowledge we have at the moment.

An example: we use numbers. Numbers don’t really exist. Or do they? It depends on how you look at it. But they won’t exist forever.
Another example: days. We use days (Monday, Tuesday). But in reality, there is always just one new day starting.

Schaam je niet voor wat je leuk vindt

Iedereen kent dit punt: je schaamt je voor wat je interessant vindt. Heel raar is dat: je bent bijvoorbeeld niet-religieus, maar je vindt religie interessant (en nuttig). Dan ga je je daarvoor schamen. Voor wat je leuk vindt.

Als kind vind je misschien postzegels leuk, en later schaam je je daarvoor omdat het zo’n knullige hobby lijkt. Maar dat is onzin.

Don't Be Ashamed of What You Like

Everyone knows this feeling: you feel ashamed of what interests you. It's strange, really—you might be non-religious, yet you find religion fascinating (and even useful). And then you feel ashamed of that. Ashamed of what you like.

As a child, you might enjoy collecting stamps, but later, you feel embarrassed because it seems like such a nerdy hobby. But that's nonsense.

In een wereld die alles kan zijn

Je probeert orde te scheppen in een wereld die alles is: chaotisch, ongestructureerd, lawaaierig, geweldig.

Daarom gebruik je haakjes.
Een haakje zoals de dagen: maandag, dinsdag, woensdag, donderdag, vrijdag.

Maar dagen bestaan helemaal niet.

Je kunt nu ook in een wereld zonder dagen leven. Eigenlijk zit je nu al in een klein gevangenisje dat ‘dagen’ heet. Een gevangenisje waar je bijna niet uit kunt komen.

Rustpunten, zoals in religie, zijn zoals dagen. Het zijn haakjes die je kunt gebruiken om door de golven van de dag heen te komen.
Of iets wel of niet bestaat, is niet altijd relevant. Het hoort zo. Het werkt (of het werkt niet, en dan doe je het niet).

In a World That Can Be Everything

You try to create order in a world that is everything: chaotic, unstructured, noisy, amazing.

That’s why you use brackets.
A bracket, like the days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

But days don’t exist at all.

You can now live in a world without days. In fact, you are already in a small prison called ‘days.’ A tiny prison that is almost impossible to escape.

Rest points, like in religion, are like days. They are brackets you can use to get through the waves of the day.
Whether something exists or not is not always relevant. It is the way it is. It works (or it doesn’t, and then you don’t do it).

Weet je hoe je zeker weet dat je niet gek bent?

Je twijfelt.

Ik ben ooit gek geweest. Toen twijfelde ik helemaal niet meer.

Dus hoe meer je twijfelt, hoe minder gek je bent.

Do you know how to be sure that you're not crazy?
You doubt.
I was once crazy. Back then, I didn’t doubt at all.
So the more you doubt, the less crazy you are.

Energy is always between two things.
Between two objects.
Between two people.