Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • Christianity is Not ‘false’, just figurative. Not literal. John Warner Mathisen

    —Christianity is Not ‘false’, just figurative. Not literal. John Warner Mathisen has shown that the stories of the worlds religions are figurative stories(myths) describing the constellations of the night sky. This understanding is called Astro-Theology.”— A Friend

    Correct in their origin, but two problems with that presumption:

    1) A statement is figurative if used figuratively (meaning) and false if used argumentatively (truth). How are the jewish, christian, and islamic statements used? Figuratively (analogically) or argumentatively (persuasively)? In other words, how something is used determines its constitution. There is very little evidence it was used figuratively. Especially given the doubling down by fundamentalists after the empirical, scientific, and technological revolutions.

    2) The content of those statements is true if the means produce the promised or even beneficial ends. The statments are false if the means do not produce promised or beneficial ends. Judaism contributed nothing to humanity despite the most educated population in caucasia. Christianity destroyed the aristocracy of the roman world just as it was designed to do. Islam destroyed the great civilizations of the ancient world. And together these three religions ushered in 1B deaths, and a thousand year dark age we have spent the last five hundred years trying to escape – with christianity dying off, but judaism and islam still working diligently to destroy western civilization, with only the chinese, japanese, and koreans holding out.

    So The statements were and are not acted upon as figurative (analogies, myths) but wisdom, law, and civilizational objective. The outcome is not paradise in the afterlife, or under the pseudoscientific version of judaism (Marxism), christianity (libertarianism), Islam (neo-conservatism), prosperity and peace in this world. These three religions – all variations on abrahamism whether ancient semitic judaism, christianity, and islam, or modern marxism, feminism, and postmodernism – designed by intent to destroy “critique” the great civilizations by weaponizing the female competitive strategy of undermining and reputation destruction by disapproval, shaming, ridicule, gossip, and rallying, and doing so by taking advantage of the means of communication and immigration and publication created in the ancient world and the modern.

    The are not just false in statement, false in promise, but malicious in intent.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-02 09:53:00 UTC

  • what you call spirituality I’ll call intuitionistic responses – and my understan

    what you call spirituality I’ll call intuitionistic responses – and my understanding of spirituality is that the intuition must be trained just as the body and mind. It is possible to do so by multiple means and abrahamic lies are the worst possible means.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 21:27:48 UTC

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  • THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging

    THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE

    Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289303508333213&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 11:55:18 UTC

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  • THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging

    THE REASON FOR JESUS’ ACTION AT THE TEMPLE

    Joseph, don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 07:55:00 UTC

  • Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why

    Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-31 23:52:16 UTC

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  • The Reason for Jesus’ Action at The Temple

    Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why. Don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood. https://www.ancient.eu/article/974/banking-in-the-roman-world/

  • The Reason for Jesus’ Action at The Temple

    Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why. Don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood. https://www.ancient.eu/article/974/banking-in-the-roman-world/

  • “Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s

    —“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s rebellion in trying to stop Christianity’s worst excesses…actually cemented Christian predominance for a few more centuries as the Catholic Counter-Reformation to Luther’s Reformation strangled the revival of Classicism that was beginning in Renaissance Italy”—Nick Dahlheim

  • “Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s

    —“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s rebellion in trying to stop Christianity’s worst excesses…actually cemented Christian predominance for a few more centuries as the Catholic Counter-Reformation to Luther’s Reformation strangled the revival of Classicism that was beginning in Renaissance Italy”—Nick Dahlheim

  • Collective Rituals Invoke the Pack Response

    If I teach you to stand at attention, put your hand over your heart, and speak the pledge of allegiance to our flag, or teach you to speak the lords prayer (a pledge of allegiance) while kneeling, hands clasped, and both actions, once habituated, fill us with ‘a sense of peace’ when performed as a group, what is the difference? The central issue is this: we need those collective rituals to invoke the pack response which generates intuitionistic trust among superpredators who do not necessarily trust one another, and who compete in all other walks of life OTHER than the ritual. Those oaths to a proxy of each other are useful to associate with that response.