So yes ‘religon’ evolved from what we think of as hunt, feast and burial traditions. Mostly burial. These religions were spiritual and animistic. they were not theological. The theological religions are responses to the need to re-organize populations.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-25 17:07:14 UTC
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In the literature, the “Axial Age” after the bronze age collapse, caused the foundation of identitarian religions – all our organized religions developed in response to the recovery from the bronze age collapse – just as we are about to go through a similar ‘religious change’.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-25 17:05:22 UTC
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@StridVarge@RadioFreeNorthwest
RESPONSE ON THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
“Spiritual” just means that you can’t put it into words, because either you lack them, or you are simply more comfortable with the experiential vocabulary than the physical. That doesn’t mean the sense of spirituality doesn’t exist, or isn’t important, it just means that it’s explicable in tediously boring scientific terms. But like many tediously boring scientific explanations there is a difference between causality and experience (Qualia). So whether you sense perceieve, and articulate the world in supernatural (imaginary), experiential (phenomenal) or scientific (causal) terms. It’s not true that what we see is false. Just the opposite. It’s that we prioritize value and predict from the combination of our internal memories intuitions and instincts. So yes, it is a spiritual war. No we can’t run from it. (we were at war with islam for 1500 years). Yes it’s an opportunity. Yes we can tackle and run with it. Yes the only way out is through. But we must unite on a solution because we cannot unite on superntural, experiential, or scientific means – unless we understand what we share in common is the same whether we imagine, experience, or physically describe our priorities and values. In other words our desire for sovereignty ( what you call freedom ) is shared regardless of whether we grasp the world with imagination, experience, or techical knowledge.
Will civil disobedience work? Hard to know. The enemy specializes in picking us off one at a time using the system. If instead you mean popularize the illegitimacy of the state. Every single day.
I’m sorry but ‘separate’ parallel society violates your ‘running away’ claim – it’s running away.
There is only one solution. And it’s confrontation. But it has to be confrontation over a solution that is moral and possible. It has to consist of a set of demands. And it has to be presented by overwhelming numbers.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-24 05:32:45 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107330402075309715
@HuntressOnGab@h4K32M4N There is no tide turning. Christianity will be all but dead except for the fundamentalists by the end of the generation.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-23 22:08:15 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107328654252838029
Like I said – the purpose of religion is to manufacture irresponsibility and ignorance of everything outside your sphere of sense-perception in order to alleviate the stress of the neurotic, empathic – and usually less inteligent mind, from low status, low responsibility, low self regulation, low control over life and environment, and general inability to comprehend the word by systematizing, and the knowledge and cognitive demands of systematizing.
there are people who lack the genetic, developmental, cognitive, emotional, and familial means of tolerating the pervasive undertainty of the kaleidic universe, becuase they cannot find a place of competency, responsibility, and control that provides competitive value to the community – so they seek it through the female means of submission and empathizing, and fictionalizing (fantasizing the supernatural).
Not all of us have the genetics to evolve into fully adult humans. that’s ok. Just don’t bring the supernatural and fatih to science, logic, law, economics, politics, or war – without expecting the adults in the room to treat you like a ‘silly woman’ or an ignorant child.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-23 21:12:36 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107328435420563430
@h4K32M4N@HuntressOnGab Like I said – the purpose of religion is to manufacture irresponsibility and ignorance of everything outside your sphere of sense-perception in order to alleviate the stress of the neurotic, empathic – and usually less inteligent mind, from low status, low responsibility, low self regulation, low control over life and environment, and general inability to comprehend the word by systematizing, and the knowledge and cognitive demands of systematizing.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-23 21:09:28 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107328423090509708
THE BASIS OF THE NEED FOR FAITH AND WHY IT WORKS (AND WHY IT ONLY WORKS FOR SOME)
All religious myths are desirable, intuitionistic, sell and distribute becasue they appeal to animal instincts we can’t rationally inspect. They are just stories. Those stories are useful if you suspend disbelief to further prevent your reason from falsifying them. By suspending disbelief about obvious falsehoods, to sate your primitive animal intutions, you do in fact suppress neuroticism caused by those primitive intuitions given your lack of meaningful responsibility causeal control over your life, social and political anonymitiy irrelevance – all of whch frustrate your brain stem, and limbic system, and cause you stress (lack of mindfulness). Some of us can do only one (belief or reason) some of us can do both belief and reason) and many are in between. If faith works for you it’s not necessarily something you should admit to, but then if it does work for you that’s better than neither faith nor reason working for you. The only thing that matters is knowing what to deliver unto god (faith and obedience), and what to deliver under caesar (truth and reason). In other words, never claim statements of faith are in fact true, only that they are good. Likewise never claim scientific statements are good, only that they are true – and taht ‘good’ is determined only when we voluntarily exchange. This is all there is to know about faith and supernatural vs reason and evidence.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-23 20:57:48 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107328377231794790
@HuntressOnGab@h4K32M4N All religious myths are desirable, intuitionistic, sell and distribute becasue they appeal to animal instincts we can’t rationally inspect. They are just stories. Those stories are useful if you suspend disbelief to further prevent your reason from falsifying them. By suspending disbelief about obvious falsehoods, to sate your primitive animal intutions, you do in fact suppress neuroticism caused by those primitive intuitions given your lack of meaningful responsibility causeal control over your life, social and political anonymitiy irrelevance – all of whch frustrate your brain stem, and limbic system, and cause you stress (lack of mindfulness). Some of us can do only one (belief or reason) some of us can do both belief and reason) and many are in between. If faith works for you it’s not necessarily something you should admit to, but then if it does work for you that’s better than neither faith nor reason working for you. The only thing that matters is knowing what to deliver unto god (faith and obedience), and what to deliver under caesar (truth and reason). In other words, never claim statements of faith are in fact true, only that they are good. Likewise never claim scientific statements are good, only that they are true – and taht ‘good’ is determined only when we voluntarily exchange. This is all there is to know about faith and supernatural vs reason and evidence.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-23 20:57:11 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107328374789388406
@Bobbmarly We cannot testify to the existence of god. We can only testify to the human want of one. And the utility of such a thing.
Much of humanity does not believe in god or practice an equivalent solution.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-22 16:53:43 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107321755113628705
@h4K32M4N I would say instead that we failed to reform our church and without one we see the worst of everything emergent.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-22 16:52:33 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107321750569240301