THE STRUCTURE OF ‘GOOD’ and ‘TRUE’ RELIGION. As far as I know, the optimum relig

THE STRUCTURE OF ‘GOOD’ and ‘TRUE’ RELIGION.

As far as I know, the optimum religion (teaching) we currently can know of consists of:

1) Myths-Fables-Fairy Tales, Biographies, History.

2) Literary Analysis: Transcendence, thru Virtues

3) Disciplines that teach the virtues (and provide comforts)

4) Reward for learning with the joy of submission to the pack (safety)

5) Rewarding submission to the pack with Holidays and Festivals.

(The problem is falsifying consumer-status and virtue signaling which is terribly addictive and makes us crazy.)

This treatment allows the use of and analysis of all of our vast literature across the “Matters Of” Greece, Rome, Germania, Scandinavia, the Isles, and The Slavic Lands. And to rely on muth, biography and history for lessons.

And to discourse on the virtues. Since man is constant and his struggles identical in each era, this provides an enormous set of choices for us.

The difference is, (a) love one another, (b) love your people, (c) work as a community, (d) accept reality as inescapable and (e) adapt yourself to succeed in reality.

What dogmas (favored messages, favored teachings) will emerge from such an order? I have no idea. The market will solve that problem. But as long as they are not false. As long as they are True, Good, And Desirable, then they are in fact ‘good’.

HIERARCHY OF INSTITUTIONS

3) Roman Paganism (archetypes) (categories and measures)

2) Roman Stoicism (virtues) (via positiva) (subcategories and measures)

1) Roman Law (limits) (via negativa) (further subcategories and measures)

0) The Laws of Nature (science) further subcategories and measures)

THE SYNTHESIS OF LITERATURE AND TRUTH

(read it and weep) (stoicism) (truthful literature)

1) THE MONOMYTH – Transcendence (Transformation)

2) THE ARCHETYPES – Characters (Categories)

3) THE VIRTUES – Comparison Operators (Values)

4) THE ORDERS – Axioms (Relations: sets of conditions)

5) THE NARRATIVES – Operations (Methods of change in state)

6) THE DISCIPLINES – Mindfulness/Stoicism ( Noise Reduction)

7) THE SCIENCES – Measurement (reduction of ignorance, error, bias, deception reduction)

8) THE TRUTH – Parsimony (Most Parsimonious Operational Name of a Recipe of Transformation.)

THE LIMITS

There exists only one objective – transcendence.

There exists only one narrative – transcendence

There exist only a few sub-narratives – methods of transcendence

There exist only so many non-false virtues – variables of transcendence

There exist only so many portfolios of virtues – transcendent characters.

There exist only so many methods of non-false noise reduction – transcendent mind.

There exist only so many methods of non-false elimination of falsehoods – transcendent reason.

There exists only so many sets of primary operations – transcendent truths.

Via-Positiva:

A myth can employ anthropomorphism in an act of transcendence.

A myth can employ hyperbole (super-normalism) in an act of transcendence.

A myth can employ any technique to create an immoral condition against which one employs virtues to transcend.

A myth can employ virtues in an act of transcendence.

Via Negativa:

A myth cannot contradict the virtue of transcendence.

A myth cannot contradict of a virtue of transcendence in an act of transcendence.

A myth cannot employ a falsehood in an act of transcendence

A myth cannot employ luck or miracles in an act of transcendence.

A myth cannot employ fictionalism (idealism, supernaturalism, pseudoscience/pseudo-rationalism) in an act of transcendence.

CONCLUSION

If a myth can survive these tests then it is true, and good.

If a myth cannot survives these tests then it is false, and evil.