(FB 1545320274 Timestamp) Sure, gods exist in the minds of men, but so do numbers, math, chemistry, biology, history, socrates, and gandalf – and with the same consequences: our display word and deeds are influence heavily if not entirely determined by them.
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545320274 Timestamp) Sure, gods exist in the minds of men, but so do numbers, math, chemistry, biology, history, socrates, and gandalf – and with the same consequences: our display word and deeds are influence heavily if not entirely determined by them.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545522537 Timestamp) THE OLDEST RELIGION? —“Which is the world’s oldest religion? What is the evidence of it?”— Quora The correct question is âWhat is the oldest political religion?â, because that is the function of all surviving religions from the Axial period. Sumerians first wrote down their religions in 3500 BCE and most political religions evolved evolved from competition with theirs. We see evidence if organized religion in Anatolia from 8â9,000 bc, predating stonehenge by 6000 years. It appears we developed religious practices (what we call sacred, but is more correctly, suppression of all self interest, status signal, and dominance expression ) no less than 40k years ago. There was our first and longest dark age around 20â21k bc. Then practices resumed, around 13k bc. it wasnât that long – about 8000 bc – until farming, and farming creates folk religions in an and around anatolia -still burial focused. Around 5500 bc the indo europeans developed sacrificial religion, and spread it – man now bargaining with the gods. And again, by 3300 we see the rapid development of political religion in every region of eurasia. |Religion|: Burial > Sacrificial > Political > [Theraputic]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545522537 Timestamp) THE OLDEST RELIGION? —“Which is the world’s oldest religion? What is the evidence of it?”— Quora The correct question is âWhat is the oldest political religion?â, because that is the function of all surviving religions from the Axial period. Sumerians first wrote down their religions in 3500 BCE and most political religions evolved evolved from competition with theirs. We see evidence if organized religion in Anatolia from 8â9,000 bc, predating stonehenge by 6000 years. It appears we developed religious practices (what we call sacred, but is more correctly, suppression of all self interest, status signal, and dominance expression ) no less than 40k years ago. There was our first and longest dark age around 20â21k bc. Then practices resumed, around 13k bc. it wasnât that long – about 8000 bc – until farming, and farming creates folk religions in an and around anatolia -still burial focused. Around 5500 bc the indo europeans developed sacrificial religion, and spread it – man now bargaining with the gods. And again, by 3300 we see the rapid development of political religion in every region of eurasia. |Religion|: Burial > Sacrificial > Political > [Theraputic]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545788481 Timestamp) There is no war between science and religion – only between science the natural law, and false religion.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545788481 Timestamp) There is no war between science and religion – only between science the natural law, and false religion.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545666396 Timestamp) SANTA – GIFTS WITHOUT DEBT by Eli Harman Santa’s a metaperson. The only way he can keep tabs on all those people, judge all those people, place all those gifts, and eat all those cookies is through division of labor. The reason we use a meta person to give gifts instead of just giving them to each other is to give gifts without giving a corresponding debt. Your debt to santa is already paid by the time you receive his gifts. You just have to keep being good if you want any more next year.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545666396 Timestamp) SANTA – GIFTS WITHOUT DEBT by Eli Harman Santa’s a metaperson. The only way he can keep tabs on all those people, judge all those people, place all those gifts, and eat all those cookies is through division of labor. The reason we use a meta person to give gifts instead of just giving them to each other is to give gifts without giving a corresponding debt. Your debt to santa is already paid by the time you receive his gifts. You just have to keep being good if you want any more next year.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546011953 Timestamp) Truth is the most intolerant religion. This is the oath of that religion: A HEATHEN, A CHRISTIAN, AN ARYAN, A WARRIOR, A MAN TRANSCENDENT I am a Heathen if 1) I accept the laws of nature as binding on all of existence; and 2) if I treat nature as sacred and to be contemplated, protected and improved; and 3) I treat the world as something to transform closer to a Garden in whatever ways I can before I die; and 4) if I deny the existence of supreme beings with dominion over the physical laws; and I treat all gods, demigods, heroes, saints, figures of history, and ancestors as characters with whom I may speak to in private contemplation in the hope of gaining wisdom and synchronicity from having done so. And 5) if I participate with others of my society in repetition of oaths, repetition of myths, repetition of festivals, repetition of holidays, and the perpetuation of all of the above to my offspring. And 6) if I leave open that synchronicity appears to exist now and then, and that it may be possible that there is a scientific explanation for it, other than just humans subject to similar stimuli producing similar intuitions and therefore similar ends. As far as I know this is all that is required of me to be a Heathen: the Worship(Appreciation) of Kin, Hearth and Home. I am a christian if I have adopted the teaching of christianity: 1) the eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2) the extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3) the demand for personal acts of charity, 4) the extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. As far as I know, this is all that is required of me to be a Christian. I am an Aryan if 1) I proudly display my excellences so that others seek to achieve or exceed them; 2) I seek competition to constantly test and improve myself so I do not weaken; 3) I swear to speak no insult and demand it; 4) I speak the truth and demand it; 5) I take nothing not paid for and demand it; 6) I grant sovereignty to my kin and demand it; 7) I insure my people regardless of condition, and demand it; and in doing so leave nothing but voluntary markets of cooperation between sovereign men; and to discipline, enserf, enslave, ostracize or kill those who do otherwise; 8) to not show fear or cowardice, abandon my brothers, or retreat, and 9) to die a good death in the service of my kin, my clan, my tribe and my people. As far as I know, this is all that is required of me to be an Aryan. I am a warrior in that 1) we will prepare for war so perfectly that none dare enter it against us. 2) Once we go to war, we do so with joy, with eagerness, and with passion, and without mercy, without constraint, and without remorse; And 3) before ending war, we shall defeat an enemy completely such that no other dares a condition of our enemy, and the memory of the slaughter lives a hundred generations. As far as I know, this is all that is required of me to be a Warrior. As far as I know, if I succeed as a Heathen, as a Christian, as an Aryan, as a Warrior, then I have transcended the animal man, and earned my place among the saints, heroes, demigods, gods, in the memories, histories, and legends of man. And that is the objective of heroes. We leave the rest for ordinary men who are still animals, and not man transcendent.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546010391 Timestamp) HOW OUR RELIGION WAS ABRAHAMISED: by Yiannis Kontinopoulos Poet Homer -> Saul of Tarsus Prophet Aristotle -> Abraham Hero Achilles -> Muhammad Superhero Mithras -> Moses Deity Sol Invictus -> Jesus God Dyeus Pater -> Yahweh/Allah Mindfulness Stoicism -> Faith Ritual/Feast Mithraic Mysteries -> Mass