“[T]he Smith and the Devil” may be one of the oldest European folk tales, with the basic plot stable throughout the Indo-European speaking world from India to Scandinavia, possibly being first told in Indo-European 6,000 years ago in the Bronze Age. A blacksmith strikes a deal with a malevolent supernatural being, such as the Devil, Death or a genie. The blacksmith exchanges his soul for the power to weld any materials together. He then uses this power to stick the devil to an immovable object, such as a tree, to renege on his side of the bargain. In Faust, the protagonist is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust is irrevocably damned One may not have mindfulness by making a bargain with a devil in god’s dress. This basic plot is stable throughout the Indo-European speaking world, from India to Scandinavia, according to the research. The study said this tale could be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European society when metallurgy likely existed and there was archaeological and genetic evidence of massive territorial expansions by nomadic tribes from the Pontic steppe (the northern shores of the Black Sea) between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago.
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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European and East Asian Gods vs Desert Gods
European and East Asian Gods vs Desert Gods https://propertarianism.com/2020/02/25/european-and-east-asian-gods-vs-desert-gods/
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-25 14:02:26 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1232304852367237121
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European and East Asian Gods vs Desert Gods
[E]uropean titans or giants ( the distant unknown past), gods(immortals with powers) demigods(mortal with powers) and heroes(mortal with exceptional talents) are unlike semitic and iranic gods (omniscient and omnipotent) they are more akin to ancestor spirits. To declare one’s self a god was to personify the state, and demand loyalty to the people, the state, and the emperor, as one did the gods. Sacrifice was a demonstration of loyalty just as immaterial prayer, belief in a falsehood, ritual, is a cost as a demonstration of loyalty)
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European and East Asian Gods vs Desert Gods
[E]uropean titans or giants ( the distant unknown past), gods(immortals with powers) demigods(mortal with powers) and heroes(mortal with exceptional talents) are unlike semitic and iranic gods (omniscient and omnipotent) they are more akin to ancestor spirits. To declare one’s self a god was to personify the state, and demand loyalty to the people, the state, and the emperor, as one did the gods. Sacrifice was a demonstration of loyalty just as immaterial prayer, belief in a falsehood, ritual, is a cost as a demonstration of loyalty)
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Abrahamism as Lying to Distract from Evolutionary Denialism
Abrahamism as Lying to Distract from Evolutionary Denialism https://propertarianism.com/2020/02/25/abrahamism-as-lying-to-distract-from-evolutionary-denialism/
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-25 14:01:03 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1232304502679752704
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Abrahamism as Lying to Distract from Evolutionary Denialism
by Martin Štěpán and Curt Doolittle [S]tephen J Gould was posing as an evolutionary biologist where in reality, he was an evolutionary denialist. Liars all: Gould, Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida, Cantor-Bohr. These people are all evolutionary denialists. Every single one of them. That’s what separates them from the european intellectual tradition, and why they were wrong about everything. Why do you think they evolved at the same time as Darwin, Spencer, and Nietzsche? Why do you think you have control over the lies your telling now, or that any of these people had control over the lies they were telling? In order to prevent falsehood, we categorize lying as not trying to lie, but as not performing due diligence against lying. If you try to justify a prior – you’re lying. What science did these people do: Gould, Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida, Cantor-Bohr. The scientific method exists to stop you from a justifying a prior, a cognitive bias – or a group’s mythology. They didn’t do any science. They made it up. Abrahamism = Evolutionary Denialism. Why?
Curt Doolittle Martin Štěpán this segue of yours sort of completes the picture as the female strategy against evolutionary reality. I mean in the end that’s what it’s all reducible to – evolutionary denialism.
Bill Joslin the incentive towit, raising children that may or may not be evolutionarily viable i.e. compensate for thoughts of infanticide and or, protect malinvestment
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Abrahamism as Lying to Distract from Evolutionary Denialism
by Martin Štěpán and Curt Doolittle [S]tephen J Gould was posing as an evolutionary biologist where in reality, he was an evolutionary denialist. Liars all: Gould, Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida, Cantor-Bohr. These people are all evolutionary denialists. Every single one of them. That’s what separates them from the european intellectual tradition, and why they were wrong about everything. Why do you think they evolved at the same time as Darwin, Spencer, and Nietzsche? Why do you think you have control over the lies your telling now, or that any of these people had control over the lies they were telling? In order to prevent falsehood, we categorize lying as not trying to lie, but as not performing due diligence against lying. If you try to justify a prior – you’re lying. What science did these people do: Gould, Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida, Cantor-Bohr. The scientific method exists to stop you from a justifying a prior, a cognitive bias – or a group’s mythology. They didn’t do any science. They made it up. Abrahamism = Evolutionary Denialism. Why?
Curt Doolittle Martin Štěpán this segue of yours sort of completes the picture as the female strategy against evolutionary reality. I mean in the end that’s what it’s all reducible to – evolutionary denialism.
Bill Joslin the incentive towit, raising children that may or may not be evolutionarily viable i.e. compensate for thoughts of infanticide and or, protect malinvestment
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Religion Without Lies Is Possible
Religion Without Lies Is Possible: https://propertarianism.com/2020/02/25/religion-without-lies-is-possible/
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-25 13:58:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1232303981868855297
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Religion Without Lies Is Possible:
[T]he alternative to religion of lies, is european, history, stoicism (mindfulness), epicureanism (living within your means), ancestor worship (recognition of debts of intergenerational transfer), the play (tragedy), sport(hunt) and festival (feast). No more lies. My exploration of paganism is reducible to the ethnocentric advantage of ancestor worship, the raising of ancestors to archetypes, and the market adaptability of the pantheon of archetypes without the need for altering the group strategy or narrative. In other words, it facilitates the natural hierarchy of abilities, and it eliminates the need for lying that produces anchoring. Like many things our greco roman ancestors had most of the institutions correct – they overextended into civilizational diversity and encountered anceitn primitive people bent on lying.
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Religion Without Lies Is Possible:
[T]he alternative to religion of lies, is european, history, stoicism (mindfulness), epicureanism (living within your means), ancestor worship (recognition of debts of intergenerational transfer), the play (tragedy), sport(hunt) and festival (feast). No more lies. My exploration of paganism is reducible to the ethnocentric advantage of ancestor worship, the raising of ancestors to archetypes, and the market adaptability of the pantheon of archetypes without the need for altering the group strategy or narrative. In other words, it facilitates the natural hierarchy of abilities, and it eliminates the need for lying that produces anchoring. Like many things our greco roman ancestors had most of the institutions correct – they overextended into civilizational diversity and encountered anceitn primitive people bent on lying.