Mar 9, 2020, 2:15 PM

I think I am simply failing at demarcation between the abrahamic method and the christian method.

Gods are good, religion is good, a church is a good thing, jesus said good things, but the bible is evil as hell compared to our founding literatures: the matter of greece and rome, the matter of france, the matter of germany, the matter of england, and the matter of america. These are heroic. But they are for the aristocracy (those with agency). There is no caretaker, no submission, no femininity to the western aristocratic religion. There is just TRAGEDY. Christians attempted to appropriate the western method of tragedy of achilles(upper class, masculine, hero) with jesus (underclass feminine victim) The process worked. It’s compatible. What’s not compatible is abrahamic method of ‘selling’ it.

Why is it hard to say ‘jesus was right’. Instead of all the nonsense surrounding it?

  1. Stories of Gods (Parents) are the most-native(lowest cost, biologically available) language (grammar and logic ) usable by the intuition (pre-conscious), for assistance in decision making (choice) within the group strategy (method of organizing), such that frictions (threats, violations) are minimized, and retaliations are minimized, and opportunities for cooperation are maximized.
  2. There are no gods other than as narrative information, serving as a system of measurement, in our minds. There are hundreds of dead gods and dozens of living gods currently in the minds of men.
  3. There is no life after death other than as information in our minds, and the information we leave behind as conscious and preconscious effects on those around us, and the artifacts in the world around us – but these things do persist after death, and do continue to influence others – and in some cases for thousands of years.
  4. There is no heaven other than as in formation in our minds, it is merely the means by which we release the frustration of bearing the psychological costs of compromise and loss in competition, cooperation, and cohabitation, with others.
  5. The western tradition of ethnocentrism and heroism, sovereignty and reciprocity, truth and duty is the optimum adaptive order for human beings.(The optimum evolutionary strategy)
  6. Christian exhaustion of extension of kinship love to kith with forgiveness before retaliation, dispossession, or extermination, is the optimum means of increasing that adaptive velocity (the optimum prisoner’s dilemma strategy)
  7. Aristotelian realism, naturalism, operationalism, empiricism, logicism, and anglo-cooperativism-and-economicism is the optimum conceptual framework for rapid adaptation (optimum knowledge evolutionary strategy).
  8. The universe works by predictable rules we will continue to discover as the only possible organization of energy that will produce the three dimensions of mass and massless, gravity and pressure, space and time.
  9. But to tolerate all this adaptation, all of which requires stress on our thoughts, emotions, and bodies, we need mindfulness at the psychological (personal), sociological(interpersonal), and political (organizational) levels.
  10. Mindfulness can be provided through ritual which provides a calming effect on our computation, by a continuous positive feedback loop (tea ceremony, sacrifice); it can be provided by social construction of a narrative whether a truth or falsehood (mythology); it can be provided through harmonious group activity (oath, prayer, ritual, dance, sport, festival, feast).It can be provided through discipline ( the rituals of yoga, or of buddhist meditation, and withdrawal)….

… Or mindfulness can be provided through deliberate training (the ritual of the stoic method of continuous self improvement or what we call ‘cognitive behavioral therapy’); it can be provided through epicurean knowledge and living, and aristotelian knowledge of the universe, and aristotelian history of man – a story more heroic than any envisioned in our myths. A story that Includes heroes such as Jesus and Achilles(Alexander). 11. The reason for prohibiting a monotheistic religion is to prevent the use of retaliation by religious fundamentalists against the group – thereby undermining the civilization from within. Likewise the reason for a pagan religion – a pantheon of heroes, scientists, artists, and saints, is to prevent undermining a civilization from within.

The truth is always simple.

It’s the lies that make the world complicated.

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