photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/49948394_10156916627572264_5888674864629284864_n_10156916627567264.jpg Steve PenderAppeal to truth seekers to empower priests who pose as intermediates for the source of truth.Jan 14, 2019, 12:07 PMCurt DoolittleTruth or utility?Jan 14, 2019, 12:13 PMSteven JacksonReligion offers truth in the same way snake oil salesmen offers a cure.
The customer is still looking for a cure but the snake oil salesman doesn’t deliver the cure but a hope of one.
I stand by thisJan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMCurt DoolittletrueJan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMCurt Doolittleheroin dealer offers heroin.Jan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMLisa OuthwaiteSome pretty broad strokes being applied here. I’m assuming you don’t mean that there are no universal truths embedded within religion?Jan 14, 2019, 1:15 PMLisa OuthwaiteWho doesn’t love a double negative? 🤪Jan 14, 2019, 1:16 PMSteven JacksonCurt Doolittle rat experiments show that drug addiction correlates with social ostracism.
The hormones stimulated by social acceptance can also be stimulated through the use of narcotics.
Marx was literally correct when he described religion as being the opiate of the masses.
The difference between the drug peddler and the priest is that the unifying narrative of religion can be put to use to build trust and social cohesion. The priest builds social capital by writing a common hymn book so everyone sings the same song.
The drug dealer creates a demand for drugs and nothing else. He preys on low trust societies with low social cohesion and makes it worse, he is a parasite because he drains the society of social capital.
Religion falls apart when it’s lies are exposed, but many are willing to overlook the lies because of the benefit provided by living among those singing off the same sheet.Jan 14, 2019, 1:17 PMNick HeywoodNo! It ain’t!
Religion is observed, but un-scientifically explained, framework of behavioral decidability.
And usually reduces to group evolutionary reciprocity strategy.
“If you want to be a member of this group”?… “you’ll behave thus” “and decide crap according to these rules”!
“We know these principles, that govern limits, of behaviour and decisions work”! “We’ve seen ‘them’ work” “and our ancestors were successful because they adhered to them”.
Another question becomes… “what’s the goal, aim, proposed outcome”? That’s a different question, though. 🙂
Nothing at all wrong with religion. It’s natural!
As long as ya don’t wanna colonise the universe or f around with capital development, resource distribution, engineering, biology, chemistry, maths, physics’n’quantum shit etc.😁
Once you’ve developed that capability?
Religion’s no good to ya! You’ll just hurt ya’self and melt shit. 🙂Jan 14, 2019, 1:44 PMNick HeywoodUtility for the hierarchy! 🙂😉😎Jan 14, 2019, 2:00 PMSteven JacksonNick Heywood religion has always been a factor in every advanced society. The industrial revolution occurred under puritanical Protestantism and Presbyterianism. The medieval Christian monks preserved literature and science (albeit after destroying it in the early years of Christianity.) The Greek philosophers flourished under their pagan ancestor worship etc etc.
When we have dispensed with religion (a unifying narrative) we have ended up with relativism and pseudoscience. The USSR is a prime example of this, the communist narrative was destructive and couldn’t capture a second generation. The initial cohesion, gained through genocide, produced the space race and Kalashnikov. A generation later it produced only civil war, Mafia and rusting public utilities.
Similar forces destroyed the narrative in the west and we have trannys and feminism.
Religion as a means of social cohesion seems to be necessary, as knowledge has progressed, religion has evolved. We just need to evolve it to agree with what we now understand to be true. The modernists threw the baby out with the bath water when they misunderstood “God is dead”Jan 14, 2019, 2:27 PMSteven J. WoronLike the new profile pic btw…Jan 14, 2019, 3:02 PMNick HeywoodThe unifying narrative became a tyranny in and of itself. Which really f’d things up.Jan 14, 2019, 6:10 PMDylan KnowlesModern religion is not worshipping a faith, it is the worship of mammon. Reject the modern world, reject degeneracy.Jan 14, 2019, 9:27 PM
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-14 11:52:00 UTC
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