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.”