https://www.123philosophy.com/spinozaism-what-is-spinozism/
So much ripe and good stuff here for spinozaism.com
https://youtu.be/jvGnw1sHh9M
1:35:12
Elon saying he believes in the god Espinoza
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691183848/ref=nodl_?tag=fivebooks001-20
I should read this book.
I just realized. Going into the warehouse. I could have two different stories on why I am, and those could start being pushed now.
The real competition is “who can give more to the world”
Ontological argument[edit]
In Spinoza’s Ethics, he wrote a section titled “Treating of God and What Pertains to Him,” in which he discusses God’s existence and what God is. He starts off by saying: “whether there is a God, this, we say, can be proved”.[3] His proof for God follows a similar structure as Descartes’ ontological argument. Descartes attempts to prove God’s existence by arguing that there “must be some one thing that is supremely good, through which all good things have their goodness”.[4] Spinoza’s argument differs in that he does not move straight from the conceivability of the greatest being to the existence of God, but rather uses a deductive argument from the idea of God. Spinoza says that man’s ideas do not come from himself, but from some sort of external cause. Thus the things whose characteristics a man knows must have come from some prior source. So, if man has the idea of God, then God must exist before this thought, because man cannot create an idea of his own imagination.[3]
Substance of God[edit]
After stating his proof for God’s existence, Spinoza addresses who “God” is. Spinoza believed that God is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator”.[5] Spinoza attempts to prove that God is just the substance of the universe by first stating that substances do not share attributes or essences, and then demonstrating that God is a “substance” with an infinite number of attributes, thus the attributes possessed by any other substances must also be possessed by God. Therefore, God is just the sum of all the substances of the universe.[6] God is the only substance in the universe, and everything is a part of God. “Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God”.[3] This concept of God is very similar to the Advaita Vedanta of Hinduism [1] This view was described by Charles Hartshorne as Classical Pantheism.[7] Spinoza has also been described as an "Epicurean materialist",[8] specifically in reference to his opposition to Cartesian mind-body dualism. This view was held by Epicureans before him, as they believed that atoms with their probabilistic paths were the only substance that existed fundamentally.[9][10] Spinoza, however, deviated significantly from Epicureans by adhering to strict determinism, much like the Stoics before him, in contrast to the Epicurean belief in the probabilistic path of atoms, which is more in line with contemporary thought on quantum mechanics.[9][11]