Oct 24, 2019, 10:33 AM
—“All religions are made up bullshit to control people”—Joanna
Hmmm… Let’s look at this: PERSONAL DEMAND . Demand for personal mindfulness . . Demand for interpersonal mindfulness . . . Demand for social mindfulness . . . . Demand for political mindfulness POLITICAL DEMAND .. organization (control, conflict suppression) .. .. vs educate (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. vs create a polity (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. .. vs create a justification for conquest (not so helpful) TECHNOLOGICAL DEMAND …Religion (oral parable) is the optimum means of education prior to writing. … … Organized religion (written parable) is dependent upon writing and argument, but not literacy … … … Natural Law is dependent upon literacy, logic and science. CURRENT CONDITION So yeah, but they were the only technology available. We have … Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Repair) … … Self Authoring Virtues (Stoic Method) (improve) … … … Self Choice (epicureanism – living well within means) … … … … Natural law of Reciprocity, Independent Judiciary … … … … … History, Reason, science, technology, prosperity. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY And we can use: … Heroic History of Western (or man’s) Ascent … … Stoic Ritual, Hero/Saint ‘worship’ (thanks, counsel) … … … Religion: Lesson (history), Play (ritual), Thanks (worship, prayer), Oath(promise), Feast (communal reward), Festival (communal celebration), Sport (community bonding). … … … … Civic Participation: Family, Jury, Commons Production, emergency service production; Hospitaliers Production, and Defense (war) production. … … … … … The Natural Law of Reciprocity, an independent judiciary, and a jury of our peers. REASON … Because we have ancestors worthy of our debt to them, and because we can create (easily) our debt to one another. STRATEGY “Embrace, conquer, and domesticate reality – together – do not cower from it.”
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