Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • WHAT DO PAGAN(ANCESTOR) AND HEATHEN (NATURE) RELIGIONS ASK OF US? The only thing

    WHAT DO PAGAN(ANCESTOR) AND HEATHEN (NATURE) RELIGIONS ASK OF US?

    The only thing heathen (nature) and pagan(archetype) religions ask of us is to acknowledge debts of our inheritance so that we pass that inheritance ‘unspent’ on to others.

    The rest is an excuse to find relaxation, comfort, entertainment and and joy with others in some activity other than running, hunting, or eating.

    What you call spiritual is the result of two biological processes.

    The first is just auto association that is constantly going on in your brain. The human part of our brain never stops, we merely regulate attention or wakefulness to increase or decrease its activity – but it’s always working even in sleep. If It is always engaged in transforming perception into a world model, predicting from that world model, focusing our attention to narrow on some prediction or other, or when not doing so, it’s in continuous rehearsal of short term memory to convert it to long term, and auto association of stimuli to find opportunities.

    Auto association is like daydreaming. It’s cheap. It’s relaxing. While thinking, reasoning, calculating, and computing with reason is expensive and hard.

    The second is the old brain constantly worrying about (calculating) social status, advantage, safety.

    So the experience we call spiritual is the ritual act of sedating the auto-association function of the brain (which is very deep in the bottom center, so that it can fucking relax, and we can feel the safety we feel resting or sleeping with the well fed pack of males (herd of females).

    Meditation can do this, ritual can do it, prayer can do it exercise can do it, dancing, singing, any group activity that doesn’t force you to calculate status and hierarchy can do it.

    That’s all it is.

    A purely mechanical process by which we manage the primitive parts of our brain that evolved prior to reason, and that we gracefully fall back upon when we don’t want to think very hard, or cannot solve a problem, or must act rapidly by instinct.

    Now how does abrahamic religion work? It creates a false debt to a false god, for false crimes, and asks for us to submit and surrender our reason aspiration and transcendence and instead to ‘stay in place’.

    So if you wish to worship your evil semitic gods, whose sole purpose is to prevent you from transcendence of man, rather than just to use Jesus as another philosopher that is fine. But for the rest of us Jesus is just another philosophy, and gods are archetypes of our ancestors, and all those archetypes serve as proxies that we can through prayer (conversation), communicate with and obtain wisdom from.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 14:51:00 UTC

  • (Pissing me off again.) Religion is the means by which we educate the intution i

    (Pissing me off again.)

    Religion is the means by which we educate the intution in the group’s social strategy, through storytelling, and ritual, in groups, where we are most open to trust and subject to suspension of disbelief. This technique works just as do feasting, singing, dancing, games, sports, marches, drills, concerts, juries, senates, fireside storytelling, and bedtime stories, and pillow talk. It trains us to feel safe with one another despite our relative anonymity, alienation, and irrelevance to the herd.

    Never, ever bring faith to court. Never ever bring faith to science. Never ever bring faith to war. Faith is for the shared hallucination produced by sharing a ritual, in which we abandon reason and experience the safety and mindfulness of running with, feasting with, celebrating with, and resting with – the pack.

    It works. It works because it does not require reason. Instead we try to develop excuses for what it is rational. These are all lies. Faith works because training us in mindfulness in a civilization so alienating by sheer numbers anonymity, and division of labor and power distance we must find some way of liberating the mind from trying to calculate a relaxed, comfortable, safe, secure, successful, method of cooperating with others by means of IMITATION (training). Just like we teach a dog to walk with us peacefully. It’s no different. We are just another mammal. And the more ‘sensitive you are’ and the more ‘threatened you are’ the more you require this mindfulness.

    Never ever ever confuse faith(wisdom) with truth(testimony). We have at least three competing priesthoods: the scientific(material-physical) and legal(social and political-intellectual), and the spiritual(personal-emotional). There can be no right to falsehood in the material or rational. And It is right to criticize christians who invade the material or political with the spiritual. It is right to criticize the law for invading the spiritual.

    Christianity was semitic religion of semitic people for a very long time before it was forced upon Rome, and the christians destroyed by intent, and by design, all knowledge, all temples, all civic life, all education, as a means of preventing the restoration of aristocracy, reason, and agency, for the same reason the french, germans, and jews have resisted the British restoration of aristocracy, reason, and agency.

    Christians imposed submission(ignorance) upon the Cult of Non Submission (agency).

    There is no difference between judaism christianity and islam, in the destruction of the ancient world, and judaism marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and denialism in the present world. It is the same technique of undermining masculine aristocratic, meritocratic, heroic, military civilization by undermining with false promise using the addiction of mindfuless and false status.

    We domesticated christianity from a sick twisted deceitful corrupt semitic attempt to destroy western civlization and keep it in subjective ignorant semitic poverty. To domesticate it took a more than thousand years, and four great wars, and millions of dead. and we have still not escaped judaism and islam.

    That there is some good in christianity is true – because there is some good in all escapist religions.

    To say that it was not the worst plague against western civlization is simply false.

    So, you want to ‘socially construct a supernatural fantasy world over which you believe you have comprehension and control’ Just like the marxists, and postmodernists want to construct a pseudoscientific fantasy world over which they believe they have comprehension and control.’

    The concept of postmodern ‘social construction’ is just the abrahamic technique stated in descriptive terms. There is no difference between stating women are equal to men, poverty is escapable in equality, and there is an omniscient and omnipotent supercreature. These are just stories for teaching children, that you have not grown out of.

    Never ever come before the court with faith. And we will not come before the faith with court.

    You have chosen childhood.

    We have chosen parenthood.

    You must be ruled.

    Do you understand yet?

    Don’t waste my time.

    Go fundamentalist if you must submit, go catholic for natural law and the pretense of reason, orthodoxy is best because it is apolitical, and strong – or join the rest of us in restoring our natural religion of aryanism, paganism, heathenism – with a nod to the nazarene’s request for love of the weak – in the love of nature, of our ancestors, of our heroes, and take on the challenge of transcending man into gods, through the continuous production of agency, through continuous competition, by continuous trial and error, in the face of ignorance and uncertainty.

    You may follow our transcendence.

    But you may not interfere with it.

    That is the purpose of the enemy.

    The gods of the european peoples ask us to join them.

    The god of abraham is the devil to keep us from it.

    That is the evidence.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 12:58:00 UTC

  • Hookers for Jesus is a Safe House program for rehabilitating sex trafficking vic

    Hookers for Jesus is a Safe House program for rehabilitating sex trafficking victims (forced prostitutes) using religious volunteers – and it works. Sorry. Religious context works better than psychological or medical.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 02:43:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227060577492750336

    Reply addressees: @juliaioffe

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227007863744323591


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    @juliaioffe

    When Hookers for Jesus isn’t even the worst one on the list. “The Lincoln Tubman Foundation, awarded $549,345 over three years, was launched by the daughter of a prominent local Republican who supported President Donald Trump.” #DrainTheSwamp https://t.co/ITFDZxC6wS

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227007863744323591

  • Let me help you: Religious context works for rehabilitation for three reasons (a

    Let me help you: Religious context works for rehabilitation for three reasons (a) the self selecting volunteers, (b), the collective ritual (the content doesn’t much matter). (c) christian love forgiveness of guilt simply works – even if you don’t believe. Data is data. It works.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 02:42:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227060267261009926

    Reply addressees: @C_Stroop

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226943920539459585


    IN REPLY TO:

    @C_Stroop

    “Hookers for Jesus operates a safe house for female adult trafficking victims that, in 2010 and in 2018, maintained a policy of requiring guests to participate in religious activities.”

    Your tax dollars at work supporting born again coercion

    #EvangelicalsForTrump #EmptyThePews https://t.co/P6Y2ndEgjV

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226943920539459585

  • 7) In the ancient world the Enemy used the monopolies of judaism to undermine, c

    7) In the ancient world the Enemy used the monopolies of judaism to undermine, christianity to weaken, and islam to invade and destroy by supernaturalism. In the modern world the Enemy used the monopolies of Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Feminism, Postmodernism,by pseudoscience.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-10 13:50:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226866014849323008

    Reply addressees: @NickJFuentes

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226865386811019264


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    @NickJFuentes 6) The enemy uses False Promise of Freedom from the consequences of Nature’s Laws (genetics), to Bait those lacking agency into Hazard (harm), to generate conflict, that undermines our means of cooperation by markets, limited markets, and non-market cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1226865386811019264


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    @curtdoolittle

    @NickJFuentes 6) The enemy uses False Promise of Freedom from the consequences of Nature’s Laws (genetics), to Bait those lacking agency into Hazard (harm), to generate conflict, that undermines our means of cooperation by markets, limited markets, and non-market cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1226865386811019264

  • God, if there is a god, evidence of his hand, and his language, has been decoded

    God, if there is a god, evidence of his hand, and his language, has been decoded by scientists. He writes in the language of the physical laws of the natural universe, and the natural law of man, in a very small set of equations(sentences) that like all languages consists of nouns (states) verbs (changes), in a grammar of the subatomic, atomic, chemical, biochemical, biological, cognitive, behavioral economic, political, and military sciences. It’s only our failure to interpret all the sciences physical, biological, and cognitive as a language with only a few elements (sounds), combined into an increasingly rich vocabulary(words), according to rules (grammar) of sensibility (semantics) that remain consistent across all scales. And while mathematics at present gives us most of the language of the very small and the very large, as ridiculous as it seems, P gives us that language at human scale, in human time frames, for human purposes, of achieving godhood ourselves.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-08 13:15:00 UTC

  • It’s because science has made anything other than deism impossible for rational

    It’s because science has made anything other than deism impossible for rational people, the bible and church dogma unbelievable, and the narratives that attempt to teach lessons irrelevant, absurd, or quaint – precisely because there is only one lesson. That’s before we get to the clergy being unworthy of respect, and the catholic clergy forever tainted by child abuse.

    People behave well because of the experience of safety in the burial, church, temple, military, marriage, feast sport,, festival experiences. This forms an addiction, just as safety in mother forms an addiction, just as friendship forms an addiction, just as sex forms an addiction – the reason we are open to addiction is because evolution’s way of keeping us invested in one another.

    We vary in the masculinity and femininity of brain structure which translates to a more empathic, social, and emotional or a more analytic, political, and action-oriented need. And the value of church (organized religion) dependent upon demand for inclusion. So thee church is evolving into satisfying only those people with the emotional and social needs that cannot be fulfilled by other means. Hence the uneducated, female, homosexual, dysfunctional, laboring class lower middle class shift in church demographics – and with it the economic collapse of church finances. So as usual, I go with the data. And the data isn’t pretty.

    Our religion like most, arose in concert with the agrarian age, and it has failed to transform for the industrial age. It satisfied demand for harmony in that age. And so given that people need a binding mythos and the rituals to reinforce it for social and political reasons, and at least half the population needs mindfulness for psychological reasons, how do we restore the utility of our old religion’s market for heroic figures under the same ethical and moral strategy, while preserving the christian moral and ethical strategy? The church hadn’t suppressed the saints, the path would be easier, since we could rotate archetypes as civilization changed, just as they did before monopoly (authoritarian) monotheistic abrahamic religions. So, we can’t do it and I think that is what is killing christianity as other than the religion of the world’s underclasses (Africa, South America).

    Religion teaches strategy for harmony and argument to persist it, but morality is something we know scientifically as reciprocity. But reciprocity tells us only to do no harm – to pay the cost of doing no harm.. Jesus teaches us to ignore our internal instincts and pay the cost of exhaustive forgiveness of ourselves and others. This tells us that we must pay the cost of harmony by bearing costs. And charity tells us that we must pay the cost of doing good.

    So while Aryanism, our ancient (market) religion, tells us to pay costs of excellence in all things and to be leaders in all things. Christianity, our medieval (monopoly) religion, tells us to pay costs of bringing people along with us. And our oldest religion of the hearth (nature, green man, elves, etc), tells us that nature is animal, childlike, and mischievous not evil, and we must be diligent against her mischief.

    These three religions were and remain in competition with another.

    Then the jews brought about marxism, socialism, feminism, and postmodernism, to destroy us as they brought christianity to destroy our reason, stoicism, epicureanism, and excellences in the ancient world.

    How do I, or we, help our people from not having another semitic dark age – even if our people, like addicts, desire it?


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-08 09:05:00 UTC

  • WHY ENGAGE IN RELIGIOUS COMMENTARY? —“I’ve been following John Mark for some t

    WHY ENGAGE IN RELIGIOUS COMMENTARY?

    —“I’ve been following John Mark for some time now and generally agree with your observations on politics, the media and the way our country is headed and what conservatives need to do about it. However I find you venturing into religious commentary analysis disconcerting especially when it is viewed more as a way of controlling the masses and devoid of any spiritual truth or meaning. This reminds a great deal of the way Karl Marx viewed religion bad “an opiate for the masses.” It worried me also in that you are ignoring the fact this country which you want to save was founded in Christianity, put “In God We Trust” on our money and whose great founders and leaders prayed often and diligently for guidance and wisdom for the course of our country. If you try to turn our country around without a true belief in God you will have not saved this country but perhaps create a different sort of democracy devoid of God and all the foundations that have made this the greatest nation in the world and it will fail miserably. I would hope you will stay out of the theology business that most of the true Patriots of this country believe in and stick to the more obvious analysis of politics and trends in general. Otherwise you can count me and perhaps many others out of your “Winning Right.”—Joel Rhodes

    Going to answer two points you’ve made:

    1) —“I find you venturing into religious commentary analysis disconcerting especially when it is viewed more as a way of controlling the masses and devoid of any spiritual truth or meaning.”—

    My objective is to end the undermining of western civilization by the use of the abrahamic method of deceit, upon which were built the first system of anti-religious-market lies of judaism, christianity, and islam, and the second anti-political-market lies: marxism, postmodernism, feminism – and the continued durability of judaism, christianity, and islam as monopolistic totalitarian religions. So I struggle with reforming christianity so that the teachings of Jesus are retained, but the abrahamic method of deceit by which christianity is justified is removed. At present we must make excuses in the constitution for the preservation of a single method of lying using the abrahamic method of deceit to preserve the good in christianity and the tolerance of the christian center.

    In other words, the only problem we face today is that christians use the jewish means of lying to justify christian religion, instead of reforming the church so that it is – as we see in some protestant churches – a continuous lesson in psychology(mindfulness) – where jesus’ teaching is the most primitive and effective method of using group therapy to program individuals into mindfuless. the stoic method is not as effective for common people because it is requires intellectual exercise. So it is of its nature a middle and upper class means of mindfuless. Yet evidence says that we can like our ancestors or japan combine multiple traditions to achieve our ends. And that is part of my work

    To produce a social order free of the abrahamic method of deceit, so that we are no longer vulnerable to the abrahamic method of deceit.

    2) —“you are ignoring the fact this country which you want to save was founded in Christianity”—

    This country was founded by men who were members of the enlightenment, for who god varied – just as today – between (a) a euphemism for the laws of the universe and god the anthropomorphic character we attribute to it, (b) the uninvolved abstract god of deism while maintains that there may be some abstract force we anthropomorphize as god, (c) jesus as a philosopher of speaking in religious prose under one of those gods, (d) jesus as a prophet, and god as existential. (e) full dogmatic fundamentalists who believe everything is determined by god and the bible is the literal word of god. And that, just as I go to church recite words, and just as Jefferson did, that does not mean that those of us who are secular and philosophical are merely performing a ritual for the benefit of all of us across that spectrum, and whose of us who are theological are doing it for the god and prophet for which we hope to benefit ourselves and the polity.

    So, I’ll give you the opposing theory: that for aristocracy, christianity was an excuse for Aryanism (superiority), and religion is a means of controlling the vast ignorant underclasses. For the priesthood that came from the nobility or middle classes it was a means of earning income from administering a vast illiterate ignorant underclass by false promise and pacifying them. And that by and large – just as postmodernism is practiced by the academy and urbanites and traditionalism by the rurals, through almost all of the dark ages, the church was as corrupt as we know perceive our state, only the city dwellers gave it lip service, and the people were christian only at church, and the rest of the time maintained their traditional germanic paganism.

    So if you mean ‘the people were ignorant and illiterate farmers and laborers who were administered into christian pacifism and tolerance for one another, and that the aristocracy was always practiced war and law and property just as those of us today with agency and recourses practice property, economic warfare, political warfare, and organize the laboring classes to conduct war” then yes. But do not for a moment confuse the fact that in western civilization, we practice Tripartism intellectually and trifunctionalism institutionally, and that the military, judicial, and theological priesthoods were all present at all times, and we allied with the most important to us at any given moment – just like today.

    The warning I am giving you is one that only a few thinkers give in each era, with sun tzu and machiavelli the most well known. That is: (a) do not confuse that your primary framework for understanding the organization of western civilization isn’t just a class framework (b) that all three frameworks are always and everywhere present, (c) that what binds them together isn’t any one of the three, but sovereignty, and the three possible methods of coercion force trifunctionalism, which forces tripartism. We are all european if and only if we are the people of who use markets in everything – and this is why the church failed here and only succeeded in the (underclass) middle east – almost everyone was at the bottom, and so religion brought them there. In the west we have classes and we move between them as needed.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-07 09:44:00 UTC

  • UTILITY OF RELIGION By Bill Joslin I think religious utility is easy (He says wi

    UTILITY OF RELIGION

    By Bill Joslin

    I think religious utility is easy (He says with 20-20 hindsight after over a year of participation in king of the hill games hahahah.)

    Its function is to provide graceful failure.

    1. High agency/autonomy: rational/reason, consequentialism, calculation

    2. Mid agency/limited autonomy: rational, emulation, virtue (qualities to emulate)

    3. Low agency/highly limited autonomy : emotion(intuition-impulse), rules (deontic ethics),

    The church (or religions) serve to bridge the bottom two rungs whereby some religions emphasize rules (deontic) and other emphasize emulation (virtues) and have been constructed through a means of ad-hoc post-hoc collection of rules and qualities to emulate that further the particular group’s survivability.

    (A god(s) exists as behaviour-modifying belief that insures survivability)


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-06 18:10:00 UTC

  • An exception doesn’t invalidate the general rule. Islam is the source of the dar

    An exception doesn’t invalidate the general rule. Islam is the source of the dark ages of ignorance and the loss of every great civilization, its arts, letters, culture, technology, of the ancient world and the equal to judaism in the worst crime against humanity every committed.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-06 12:05:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1225390102010040320

    Reply addressees: @YasMohammedxx

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1225150990812270592


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    @YasMohammedxx

    This is an #LGBT friendly mosque w a rainbow flag up on the wall

    A woman is leading the prayer

    Men and women are standing shoulder to shoulder

    Some women are wearing hijab, others aren’t

    I see nothing scary here. I see only equality, freedom, and progress. https://t.co/HkbSph4k7I

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1225150990812270592