Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • THE ABRAHMIC RELIGIONS, FREE WILL, AGENCY, AND RESPONSIBILITY. –“Outside of the

    THE ABRAHMIC RELIGIONS, FREE WILL, AGENCY, AND RESPONSIBILITY.
    –“Outside of the magical thinking of philosophers, the term free will corresponds to and consists of agency and responsibility. Free will means you, as an individual, must decide what is moral and immoral – and you will be held accountable as an in individual if you choose wrongly. You do not get to appeal to any authority, whether of man of god, to say you were just doing what he told you and aren’t responsible.

    Thus, our european free will is a total anathema to Abrahamism – all versions of abrahamic religion being seductive by enabling evasion of responsibility, far more than any false promise of freedom from laws of nature.

    I’d suggest you can read the Torah and Koran+Hadith as Jews and Muslims selling their free will to the devil Yahweh/Allah and fully submit to his commandments in exchange for his promise wealth (jews), power(muslims) and submission of all the other nations in the world. And it’s working.”– Martin Stepan

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 21:32:57 UTC

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  • That would say that god had a simple mind rather than that he made us as a conse

    That would say that god had a simple mind rather than that he made us as a consequence of those laws and had a complex mind.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 12:57:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745429789438095520

    Reply addressees: @BlauGloriole

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  • “…it becomes critical to remind ourselves that the Catholic position on aborti

    –“…it becomes critical to remind ourselves that the Catholic position on abortion does not appeal to faith or revelation. Rather, it draws upon the facts of embryology woven with reasoning from moral principles. Catholics argue that there are no principled reasons for removing the child in the womb from the circle of human beings that would not apply equally to many people walking around outside the womb. It is the moral reasoning of the Natural Law.”– “Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.” by Hadley Arkes.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 02:37:17 UTC

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  • If that was true then christianity would not have created a dark age of ignoranc

    If that was true then christianity would not have created a dark age of ignorance, that only restoration of greek thought, combined with the restoration of atlantic-north-baltic sea trade made necessary.

    Abrahamic religion requires lying, it teaches lying, and social construction of lying, and the irresponsibility of the individual for the polis.

    That it is easier for simple minds does not mean the greeg ‘religion’ of philsophy like the chinese ‘religion’ of confucianism was not superior in every way.

    THe difference is that difficult religions require expensive education and ‘dimwitted’ religions do not.

    Reply addressees: @artus9010

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 20:07:31 UTC

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  • Zero chance. The christian supernatural faith cannot survive with western demogr

    Zero chance. The christian supernatural faith cannot survive with western demographic (IQ) composition except at the margins (less that twenty percent) and even then that will require familial indoctrination and social isolation more so than today.

    We are, some of us anyway, working to discover a reformation that will allow the moral lessons without necessity of the supernatural. This cannot result in the folly of secular humanism which is simply soft marxism. So the problem is rather difficult without a formal regimen for training in mindfulness. The church almost had the answer but in the time of darwin they failed to claim victory in that the natural law aws proven correct.

    Reply addressees: @artus9010

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 18:47:31 UTC

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  • No. That is quite foolish. However, I will not seek to deprive you of your faith

    No. That is quite foolish.

    However, I will not seek to deprive you of your faith if you will not seek to claim your supernatural faith is equal to rational belief, or scientific confidence. It is only faith. Not reason. Not evidence. And as such not testifiable. And as such impossible to claim is true. Even if you may claim it is wise and good. But it is not true. Because to claim a thing is true, you must be able to testify to it.

    If you do not agree then you are a threat to mankind, and the rest of us must seek to punish you for your irreciprocity.

    Reply addressees: @ArmoryOC

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 17:12:07 UTC

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  • The persians tried three times to escape the mandatory ignorance of Islam. They

    The persians tried three times to escape the mandatory ignorance of Islam. They were defeated all three times.

    This is the fundamental problem. Islam is a religion of irresponsibility as a means of limiting conflict – not a means of resonsibility and resolution of conflict.

    So this is why it is and has always been a cancer. Becuase there are always more humans seeking irresponsibility than those seeking responsibility.

    Reply addressees: @DaArmChairRebel

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 17:07:47 UTC

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  • I don’t know what record of miracles you claim has been proven but we are not ev

    I don’t know what record of miracles you claim has been proven but we are not even certain that the man Jesus existed – as far as we know it’s about forty percent, and the rest is Paul’s manufacture (though I am in the camp he existed).

    And while I have little doubt that did Moses exist, and when he brought those tablets to the people, he believed god had spoken to him at least in spirit(intuition) or dream, that does not mean it was more than his mind at work in the matter. We must understand the semitic mind is not of european mind and they live life in a partial dream state compared to the european empirical mind. So there is a greater relationship between ‘spirit’ (intuition) and emotion than in european peoples. (Or at least european men).

    But my point is, we don’t need these things to be true if there is consistency between the laws of the universe we discover by science, and the reason of european philosophy, and the occult wisdom of the primitive semites, then at least the underlying meaning we can take from those lessons is true (or at least not false).

    It is the consistency between those three points, not the exclusivity of any, that is the only proof we have discovered something that may be in fact the mind, word, and deed of god.

    Reply addressees: @ArmoryOC

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 16:52:43 UTC

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  • “Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) completed the demolition of reason which his maste

    –“Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) completed the demolition of reason which his master began by claiming that “nothing in nature can act spontaneously and apart from God.” After abolishing secondary causality and a universe saturated in Logos [laws of nature ascertainable by reason], al-Ghazali put will in their place, claiming that will precedes knowledge.”–

    And thereby depriving muslims of responsibility for anything other than obedience in ignorance.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 22:30:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744849032688672768

  • Why Islam vs Christianity? This series of passages is reducible to the incapacit

    Why Islam vs Christianity?
    This series of passages is reducible to the incapacity of the south eurasian peoples to grasp abstractions – whether egyptian stagnation, mesopotamian, levantine, arab, or the eventual muslim. Even the minds of the persians could not defeat the incapacity of the minds of their neighbors.

    –“Like the dogs Heraclitus mentioned in one of his aphorisms, the Arabs barked at what they did not understand.”–

    Now, if we grasp that (a) a population’s strategy, metaphysics, myths, rituals, grammars (logics), traditions, values, norms, and habits must satisfy the median of the distribution given that two thirds of the population is only capable of such limits, and far more are capable of nothing but imitation at the bottom. And (b) logical facility degrades rapidly under 105, especially in a population where the IQ is 83, combined with tribalism and illiteracy. Of course they are not able to grasp and institutionalize abstractions without high investment parenting and high investment education – and even then, the percentage of the population capable of such reasoning is limted in relation to the rest.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 22:05:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744842889463574528