YES, I UNDERSTAND THE DESIRE TO PRESERVE WHAT WE UNDERSTAND: SUPERSTITION. BUT T

YES, I UNDERSTAND THE DESIRE TO PRESERVE WHAT WE UNDERSTAND: SUPERSTITION. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THE ALTERNATIVES AREN’T BETTER

—“As far as I understand it, Joel (and others) [are] very concerned – and rightfully so – that the cultural/social/religious software (myths, traditions, rituals, institutions) remains able to correct the legal/martial/political hardware, similar to making sure that the spirit of the law remains superordinate to the letter of the law. Do you catch my drift?”—Moritz Bierling

Yeah. Completely. The thing is I want to eradicate fictionalism and even The METHOD of fictionalist arguments. In particular the omnipotence and MANDATORY subservience to gods, vs the immortality and OPTIONAL favor of gods. And the use of conflation. The only way I have seen this done is Myths, legends, heroes, history, literature WITHOUT supernatural (abrahamic) literature. And then many pagan festivals OF THE EARTH AND MAN, and then stoic (action) discipline (self-authoring is peterson’s term). And personal ritual (work or task) for personal things. IN other words, I want to prevent the addiction behavior we call ‘spirituality’ or ‘ecstasy’ and the zealotry and un-reason that results from it. I mean…. that’s why spiritualism/occultism works: it produces an addiction respose to unreason whereas rituals produce addiction response to action and reason. It’s not a theory. It is what it is.

So that means throwing out abrahamism and all forms of occultism that produce regressive addiction responses.

The german method(rational philosophy conflating reason and experience) is clearly better than the anglo (law and science ignoring experience), both of which are better than Abrahamic deceptions (religion). The question is, can we avoid the destructive consequences of german conflationism? The only way I have seen (and mankind has tested a lot of options), is to deflate everything, and teach them separately. Because it is the conflation that produces the opportunity for abuse in all forms of fictionalism.