> [**Hi Ray! It might seem like a random question but I'm genuinely curious about this because I know you don't consider yourself an atheist; do you ever pray? Hope you are well**] Sometimes I try to get beyond ordinary viewpoints to consider Universe as context and purpose. > [I often wonder what your views on cinema and TV shows are. Are they harmful to our bodies? Do you have any favorite movies or TV shows?] They can be good, but there’s so much junk, it takes some effort to find the good ones. [Source](https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/ray-peat-email-advice-depository.1035/post-236630) > [You criticize the authoritarian structure and political interests of U.S. medical institutions. Do you think there's a particular medical school that preserves the analogical process of intelligence in its students, or what avenue would you recommend for an aspiring physician?] I suppose there is some variation in the personalities at the different institutions in the US, but I think an essential part of medical authoritarianism is the curriculum. If a person can stay aware, year after year, that the curriculum is an ideology with many facts embedded in it, then it should be possible to get through it without seriously impaired intelligence. [Source](https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/ray-peat-email-advice-depository.1035/post-267285) > [When asked if he believes in god] David Ray Griffin's Process Theology would be similar to my view. [Source](https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/ray-peat-email-advice-depository.1035/post-282510) > [When asking Ray about the nature of our Earth, reality, and disinfo] I’ve never known a literal flat earther, but I’ve known several physicists and mathematicians who passionately believe that number is the basis of existence. Their timeless and colorless world is worse than a simply flat world. Our culture is swamped with highly authoritative disinformation; maybe the flat-earthers can be persuaded to be skeptical about other elements of the predominant world view. In Generative Energy I wrote about the expanding earth theory, and I’ve commented favorably on Halton Arp’s work on galaxies, and Kozyrev’s theory of stellar energy, Hannes Alfvén’s plasma cosmology—nothing that’s easy to interpret as flatness. [Source](https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/ray-peat-email-advice-depository.1035/post-255441)