God is a name for a hero a people never had.
Those who invent gods do so because they have no ancestors worthy of appealing to for wisdom, or imitating as heroes.
The weak.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-16 04:04:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1041176010547515392
God is a name for a hero a people never had.
Those who invent gods do so because they have no ancestors worthy of appealing to for wisdom, or imitating as heroes, or for submitting to the leader of the tribe for the kin’s pursuit of the common good.
The weak.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-16 00:04:00 UTC
September 16th, 2018 10:57 AM
—“I understood it to mean “we invented the concept of God’s as our highest ideals”.—Carl Onni
[Y]ou mean authoritarianism and monopoly, rather than as in history, an extended family of various traits relying on various archetypes. It is very easy to convince people that what they do is good. It is very hard to show them that what they deem good is bad. Principally because their intuitions have been trained by deception and ritual, because there was no means of training them by reason and practice. No cult survives falsification by science, and no good of cults cannot be produced by training. There are only two religions that are not evil: stoicism and shintoism, with original buddhism simply a pre-scientific attempt (as in philosophy vs science) to produce an insular stoicism; where stoicism sought to produce a civic discipline.
September 16th, 2018 10:40 AM NO, SUPERNATURAL AUTHORITARIAN RELIGION IS NOT BEST – AND THE EXTERNALITIES ARE HORRID. [T]he cognitive bias of cherrypicking is everywhere. That is why we must always seek falsification not justification. Our biological need is to create regularity in order to limit demands on our individual and group neural (cognitive) economy. The most scientific method of doing so is self authoring. we can self author by the disciplined construction of virtues, by imitation of archetypes, or by submission to the pack and authority. We do not comprehend this as ‘self authoring’ – discipline of the intuition just as we discipline our bodies and reason through training – but it is as necessary if not the most necessary of the three. In practice only ‘repetitive rituals’ matter. The question is only how we perform those rituals, and what we program ourselves to do by performing those rituals, and the externalities caused by that programming (self authoring). We can program ourselves (virtues), or we can insulate our selves (buddhism, ritualism), or we can take programming from our kin (familialism) or we can take programming from authoritarian submission (prayer and community prayer). We can produce training to defeat nature (west), to live in harmony with nature (east), to an ideal (india), and to abandon reality (semitic). When augmented by festival (feast), sport, and civic ritual, we build training in trust of one another – the ritual of running with the pack is still in our genes. Piety and all synonyms are just submission to the pack. The more competitive the rituals the more militial. The more submissive the rituals the more slaves. China is the most durable civilization, our only substantial competitor, and not in any way like the semitic. Heterogeneity creates demand for authority. Homogeneity not. It was semitic heterogeneity, and east asian and western homogeneity that prevented demand. Just as today, the religion of postmodernism is a result of demand due to heterogeneity. In fact, they have and continue to ridicule us over our superstitions. We have a fairly good understanding of the evolution of authoritarian religion in response to demand for cooperation among peoples with demographically disadvantaged populations. Just as we have a fairly good understanding of the creation of familialism (emperor, king, ancestor) ‘worship’ (thanks, respect) in homogeneous societies. The dumber your people the greater your heterogeneity (number of signal competitors) the greater demand for authority. That authority will come in the form of propaganda (religion) and violence (the state), and not civil society and rule of traditional common law of property (tort). Choose: Kin (homogenous high), corporation (expansionary middle ), authoritarian religion (exhausted low). Human capital determines everything.
September 16th, 2018 12:04 AM
[G]od is a name for a hero a people never had.
Those who invent gods do so because they have no ancestors worthy of appealing to for wisdom, or imitating as heroes, or for submitting to the leader of the tribe for the kin’s pursuit of the common good.
The weak.
September 16th, 2018 10:40 AM NO, SUPERNATURAL AUTHORITARIAN RELIGION IS NOT BEST – AND THE EXTERNALITIES ARE HORRID. [T]he cognitive bias of cherrypicking is everywhere. That is why we must always seek falsification not justification. Our biological need is to create regularity in order to limit demands on our individual and group neural (cognitive) economy. The most scientific method of doing so is self authoring. we can self author by the disciplined construction of virtues, by imitation of archetypes, or by submission to the pack and authority. We do not comprehend this as ‘self authoring’ – discipline of the intuition just as we discipline our bodies and reason through training – but it is as necessary if not the most necessary of the three. In practice only ‘repetitive rituals’ matter. The question is only how we perform those rituals, and what we program ourselves to do by performing those rituals, and the externalities caused by that programming (self authoring). We can program ourselves (virtues), or we can insulate our selves (buddhism, ritualism), or we can take programming from our kin (familialism) or we can take programming from authoritarian submission (prayer and community prayer). We can produce training to defeat nature (west), to live in harmony with nature (east), to an ideal (india), and to abandon reality (semitic). When augmented by festival (feast), sport, and civic ritual, we build training in trust of one another – the ritual of running with the pack is still in our genes. Piety and all synonyms are just submission to the pack. The more competitive the rituals the more militial. The more submissive the rituals the more slaves. China is the most durable civilization, our only substantial competitor, and not in any way like the semitic. Heterogeneity creates demand for authority. Homogeneity not. It was semitic heterogeneity, and east asian and western homogeneity that prevented demand. Just as today, the religion of postmodernism is a result of demand due to heterogeneity. In fact, they have and continue to ridicule us over our superstitions. We have a fairly good understanding of the evolution of authoritarian religion in response to demand for cooperation among peoples with demographically disadvantaged populations. Just as we have a fairly good understanding of the creation of familialism (emperor, king, ancestor) ‘worship’ (thanks, respect) in homogeneous societies. The dumber your people the greater your heterogeneity (number of signal competitors) the greater demand for authority. That authority will come in the form of propaganda (religion) and violence (the state), and not civil society and rule of traditional common law of property (tort). Choose: Kin (homogenous high), corporation (expansionary middle ), authoritarian religion (exhausted low). Human capital determines everything.
September 16th, 2018 12:04 AM
[G]od is a name for a hero a people never had.
Those who invent gods do so because they have no ancestors worthy of appealing to for wisdom, or imitating as heroes, or for submitting to the leader of the tribe for the kin’s pursuit of the common good.
The weak.
The cognitive bias of cherrypicking is everywhere. That is why we must always seek falsification not justification. Our biological need is to create regularity in order to limit demands on our individual and group neural (cognitive) economy. The most scientific method of doing so is self authoring. we can self author by the disciplined construction of virtues, by imitation of archetypes, or by submission to the pack and authority. We do not comprehend this as ‘self authoring’ – discipline of the intuition just as we discipline our bodies and reason through training – but it is as necessary if not the most necessary of the three. In practice only ‘repetitive rituals’ matter. The question is only how we perform those rituals, and what we program ourselves to do by performing those rituals, and the externalities caused by that programming (self authoring). We can program ourselves (virtues), or we can insulate our selves (buddhism, ritualism), or we can take programming from our kin (familialism) or we can take programming from authoritarian submission (prayer and community prayer). We can produce training to defeat nature (west), to live in harmony with nature (east), to an ideal (india), and to abandon reality (semitic). When augmented by festival (feast), sport, and civic ritual, we build training in trust of one another – the ritual of running with the pack is still in our genes. Piety and all synonyms are just submission to the pack. The more competitive the rituals the more militial. The more submissive the rituals the more slaves. China is the most durable civilization, our only substantial competitor, and not in any way like the semitic. Heterogeneity creates demand for authority. Homogeneity not. It was semitic heterogeneity, and east asian and western homogeneity that prevented demand. Just as today, the religion of postmodernism is a result of demand due to heterogeneity. In fact, they have and continue to ridicule us over our superstitions. We have a fairly good understanding of the evolution of authoritarian religion in response to demand for cooperation among peoples with demographically disadvantaged populations. Just as we have a fairly good understanding of the creation of familialism (emperor, king, ancestor) ‘worship’ (thanks, respect) in homogeneous societies. The dumber your people the greater your heterogeneity (number of signal competitors) the greater demand for authority. That authority will come in the form of propaganda (religion) and violence (the state), and not civil society and rule of traditional common law of property (tort). Choose: Kin (homogenous high), corporation (expansionary middle ), authoritarian religion (exhausted low). Human capital determines everything
The cognitive bias of cherrypicking is everywhere. That is why we must always seek falsification not justification. Our biological need is to create regularity in order to limit demands on our individual and group neural (cognitive) economy. The most scientific method of doing so is self authoring. we can self author by the disciplined construction of virtues, by imitation of archetypes, or by submission to the pack and authority. We do not comprehend this as ‘self authoring’ – discipline of the intuition just as we discipline our bodies and reason through training – but it is as necessary if not the most necessary of the three. In practice only ‘repetitive rituals’ matter. The question is only how we perform those rituals, and what we program ourselves to do by performing those rituals, and the externalities caused by that programming (self authoring). We can program ourselves (virtues), or we can insulate our selves (buddhism, ritualism), or we can take programming from our kin (familialism) or we can take programming from authoritarian submission (prayer and community prayer). We can produce training to defeat nature (west), to live in harmony with nature (east), to an ideal (india), and to abandon reality (semitic). When augmented by festival (feast), sport, and civic ritual, we build training in trust of one another – the ritual of running with the pack is still in our genes. Piety and all synonyms are just submission to the pack. The more competitive the rituals the more militial. The more submissive the rituals the more slaves. China is the most durable civilization, our only substantial competitor, and not in any way like the semitic. Heterogeneity creates demand for authority. Homogeneity not. It was semitic heterogeneity, and east asian and western homogeneity that prevented demand. Just as today, the religion of postmodernism is a result of demand due to heterogeneity. In fact, they have and continue to ridicule us over our superstitions. We have a fairly good understanding of the evolution of authoritarian religion in response to demand for cooperation among peoples with demographically disadvantaged populations. Just as we have a fairly good understanding of the creation of familialism (emperor, king, ancestor) ‘worship’ (thanks, respect) in homogeneous societies. The dumber your people the greater your heterogeneity (number of signal competitors) the greater demand for authority. That authority will come in the form of propaganda (religion) and violence (the state), and not civil society and rule of traditional common law of property (tort). Choose: Kin (homogenous high), corporation (expansionary middle ), authoritarian religion (exhausted low). Human capital determines everything
We worship our ancestors because we have ancestors worthy of worship. Alexander began as a real person. Aristotle began as a real person. Charlemagne began as a real person. Sigurd began as a real person. Arthur began as a real person. Washington began as a real person. We have hundreds more like them. AFAIK, There is no consensus on Odin other than he was indigenous to the western indo europeans, but it is increasingly likely that a real person (prophet, teacher, leader) was somehow integrated with the sky father (thor) and eventually succeeded him. So there is some clash or integration of the split between the east vedics, and the integration of at least the two traditions of the sky father and the leader. The romans could not understand except by analogy and have tainted the record it seems.