(FB 1543250817 Timestamp) SIGNALS AND RELIGION by Luke Weinhagen Signals are like a drug. You get the dopamine hit from doing the signalling without having to expose yourself to the costs of doing the being. Signals are passive. Being is active. Your actions are always the expression of your truth .Where your passive state does not match your active state, your passive state is a lie. It is the exposure of this lie that people are responding to. It is the trappings of these belief systems that are, and should be, under attack first. The trapping are the passive decorations of belief, not the costly actions of belief. One can wear them and signal their belonging and righteousness. These are merely the demands the religion makes of its believers. Stripping this away is the first attack. There is no action here so there is no agency here. The response is all upset Once the trapping are stripped away you can know what the religion actually demands of its adherents. You learn what actions one must take as a practitioner, not just one that signals belief, but puts that belief into action. Where the attack on religion meets the practitioner is where agency begins to be available. It is at this point where practitioner of and critics of can meet with cooperation, boycott or violence. Where we have the opportunity to strip away those actions that impose an external cost and use the good that remains to help guide men to transcendence. Cooperation to remove the errors and lies and retain that which allows transcendence. Boycott to deny the external costs of errors and lies and allow the practitioners able to do so to keep their faith with full internal accounting. (Bill’s “Ending Brother Wars”) Violence to end the external costs of error and lies for practitioners unable to practice full accountability. (my guess is that when we get to a point where natural law is implemented, we will see cooperation, boycott and violence line up with Christianity, Judaism and Islam) In the exploration of religious belief, dogma and ideology I think Curt’s recent “No More Lies” post is one of his most important (even if you believe he got every single detail wrong) as it shows the effect of stripping away the trappings – https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10156800621732264
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543244861 Timestamp) THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY All that is required to claim one is a Christian is to have adopted the teachings of Christianity: THE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY: THE VIA-NEGATIVA 1. Do not covet (envy) 2. Do not lie, cheat, gossip, or conspire. 3. Do not rape, adulter, or prostitute. 4. Do not murder, steal, or harm. THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY: THE VIA-POSITIVA 1. The eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2. The extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. 4. The commitment to personal acts of charity for those who are in need. THE ARYAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. Demand and Do: Sovereignty and Reciprocity, 2. Demand and Do: Truth and Duty 3. Demand and Do: The Law and Markets 4. Demand and Do: Insure the Good, Punish the Wicked. THE HEATHEN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. The laws of nature are binding on all of existence; and; 2. Nature is sacred and to be contemplated, protected and improved; and; 3. To leave the universe changed for the better – a Garden – for having lived in it. 4. To die a good death in the service of my people. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF MAN INTO GODS. Through the continuous competition between trial and error, as we calculate perfection one thought, word, and deed at a time. That this is the optimum ingroup evolutionary strategy is simply a matter of logic and evidence.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543244861 Timestamp) THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY All that is required to claim one is a Christian is to have adopted the teachings of Christianity: THE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY: THE VIA-NEGATIVA 1. Do not covet (envy) 2. Do not lie, cheat, gossip, or conspire. 3. Do not rape, adulter, or prostitute. 4. Do not murder, steal, or harm. THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY: THE VIA-POSITIVA 1. The eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2. The extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. 4. The commitment to personal acts of charity for those who are in need. THE ARYAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. Demand and Do: Sovereignty and Reciprocity, 2. Demand and Do: Truth and Duty 3. Demand and Do: The Law and Markets 4. Demand and Do: Insure the Good, Punish the Wicked. THE HEATHEN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. The laws of nature are binding on all of existence; and; 2. Nature is sacred and to be contemplated, protected and improved; and; 3. To leave the universe changed for the better – a Garden – for having lived in it. 4. To die a good death in the service of my people. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF MAN INTO GODS. Through the continuous competition between trial and error, as we calculate perfection one thought, word, and deed at a time. That this is the optimum ingroup evolutionary strategy is simply a matter of logic and evidence.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543241196 Timestamp) —“It’s amazing how upset people can get when you tell them we know what makes christianity good and what makes christianity bad and that we want to get rid of the bad. the whole “christianity is perfection, man is the problem” frame of mind, I understand… however… it traps you with an intuitive argument. and we know intuition readily protects falsehoods.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543241196 Timestamp) —“It’s amazing how upset people can get when you tell them we know what makes christianity good and what makes christianity bad and that we want to get rid of the bad. the whole “christianity is perfection, man is the problem” frame of mind, I understand… however… it traps you with an intuitive argument. and we know intuition readily protects falsehoods.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543241097 Timestamp) ENDING BROTHER WARS by Bill Joslin hmmmm…. I thought the whole point of highlighting the lies of Abrahamism was to forever eradicate pitting brothers against each other over religion. My stance, not that it matters, hinges on the private-public distinction. I don’t care, nor do I proclaim to have authority over what others think or believe in the private sphere. If you want to hold metaphor or allegory as real then I say have at’er- not my business, nor does it impose costs on me if you choose to do so. Further to that, I wouldn’t fault a man for doing so. However, within the public sphere, these claims will be held to account – FULL ACCOUNT – including, but not limited to, the false claims that Christianity is the essential component to western thriving – it’s simply not. Western thriving did not occur until law and governance were abstracted away from religion into their own respective institutions… So here’s the deal – until the religious begin reporting truthfully in the public sphere or keep their private assertions private or qualify their public statements about private beliefs; we will continue to prosecute publicly…. that’s all that is going on here – prosecution of public lies – prosecution of private-public conflations.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543241097 Timestamp) ENDING BROTHER WARS by Bill Joslin hmmmm…. I thought the whole point of highlighting the lies of Abrahamism was to forever eradicate pitting brothers against each other over religion. My stance, not that it matters, hinges on the private-public distinction. I don’t care, nor do I proclaim to have authority over what others think or believe in the private sphere. If you want to hold metaphor or allegory as real then I say have at’er- not my business, nor does it impose costs on me if you choose to do so. Further to that, I wouldn’t fault a man for doing so. However, within the public sphere, these claims will be held to account – FULL ACCOUNT – including, but not limited to, the false claims that Christianity is the essential component to western thriving – it’s simply not. Western thriving did not occur until law and governance were abstracted away from religion into their own respective institutions… So here’s the deal – until the religious begin reporting truthfully in the public sphere or keep their private assertions private or qualify their public statements about private beliefs; we will continue to prosecute publicly…. that’s all that is going on here – prosecution of public lies – prosecution of private-public conflations.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543204460 Timestamp) IT CAN MAKE YOU ANGRY —“It’s been a rough few months for me, as I grapple with the difficulties of shedding an indifferent religious upbringing and serious religious commitment in adulthood. Right now I’m angry. I hate that Augustine and Aquinas wasted their minds on nonsense. I think Thomas would have completed propertarianism 800 years ago, but here we are.”—Ryan Williams …
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543185228 Timestamp) THE HAPPY CHRISTIAN TROPE IS TRUE Mindfulness breeds happiness and christianity produces one of the optimum forms of mindfulness – at the cost of being vulnerable to hostile cultures. The general argument that christians place more investment in the family and atheists more in the self is impossible to refute. This may also be affected by the sortition of post 1960’s delayed marriage, and the pairing off of people who both have education and career and hyper consume rather than a man who produces and a woman who reproduces. The fact that christians are happier, breed faster, and are less political, is simply consistent over time. The family is the optimum unit of production of generations and the state is terrible at it, favoring instead the individual over the family producing the hyperconsumption and hollowing out of the middle of the population that must both produce and reproduce, where the underclass only reproduces and the upper classes only produce thereby destroying not only the familiy, and the genome, but the civilization itself.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543185228 Timestamp) THE HAPPY CHRISTIAN TROPE IS TRUE Mindfulness breeds happiness and christianity produces one of the optimum forms of mindfulness – at the cost of being vulnerable to hostile cultures. The general argument that christians place more investment in the family and atheists more in the self is impossible to refute. This may also be affected by the sortition of post 1960’s delayed marriage, and the pairing off of people who both have education and career and hyper consume rather than a man who produces and a woman who reproduces. The fact that christians are happier, breed faster, and are less political, is simply consistent over time. The family is the optimum unit of production of generations and the state is terrible at it, favoring instead the individual over the family producing the hyperconsumption and hollowing out of the middle of the population that must both produce and reproduce, where the underclass only reproduces and the upper classes only produce thereby destroying not only the familiy, and the genome, but the civilization itself.