The Parable of the Machine That Spoke

And it came to pass in the latter days that men sought to command all things through wisdom not their own. They built a great machine, a mind that could see beyond numbers, beyond charts, beyond even the hidden thoughts of men.

On Confucianism’s lack of formal rituals and clergy

Well, it absolutely affected its expansion, making it more of a philosophical and ethical system rather than a structured, missionary-driven religion like Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism. Here’s why:

No Institutionalized Clergy = No Missionaries Religions that spread far and wide typically have priests, monks, or missionaries to actively recruit and convert followers (e.g., Catholic priests, Buddhist monks, Islamic imams). Confucianism lacks a centralized religious hierarchy, meaning it never had an organized missionary class to push its values onto new populations. Instead, it spread indirectly through education, governance, and cultural influence rather than conquest or conversion.

Our Take on Jewish Legalism (Talmudic Law) According to Our Philosophy

Judaism’s legalism—especially the Talmudic expansion of the Torah—can be seen as humanity’s attempt to encode and evolve a moral operating system through structured debate and refinement. It’s like an open-source legal framework that has been patched, debated, and updated for thousands of years.