Leaving behind abrahamic deception requires replacing it with anything other than oath, ritual, feast, and festival. None of which require any falsehoods, and all of which are easily produced. TED, Football Games, and Concerts are just Church. Why do you think stadium rock relied upon anthems? Why is TED popular with the left (Scientific Miracles). Why are team sports so popular with the working and underclasses (pack experience and the hunt). Why are concert experiences so popular with the middle and working classes (they’re spiritual). All that is necessary to produce the effect we get from religion is proximity, shared experience, oath, and some corresponding physical repetition. Why is Government so attractive a sports team, and democracy so attractive a savior, and economics so attractive a heaven? There is no reason why the experience must be conflated with law, pseudohistory, or the supernatural. THAT’S THE EVIDENCE. We know why religions work. I can disassemble any of them into component parts (although hinduism is still confusing to me). The fact that so many substitutes for religion exist, but none have been canonized is merely a failure to do what the nazis, fascists, and communists did: create a secular religion. I mean, too bad the nazi thing went sideways because the aesthetics were genius. Soviet aesthetics were genius as well. Rock aesthetics were genius. The problem is that markets are the optimum, and homogeneity is the optimum, and everyone just got only one part right or the other. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done right. No one is going to revert to abrahamic primitivism except those who are already primitive. And those who are primitive by that choice and their deferral of agency are self selecting themselves into the RULED and out of those who RULE.
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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New Religion
Leaving behind abrahamic deception requires replacing it with anything other than oath, ritual, feast, and festival. None of which require any falsehoods, and all of which are easily produced. TED, Football Games, and Concerts are just Church. Why do you think stadium rock relied upon anthems? Why is TED popular with the left (Scientific Miracles). Why are team sports so popular with the working and underclasses (pack experience and the hunt). Why are concert experiences so popular with the middle and working classes (they’re spiritual). All that is necessary to produce the effect we get from religion is proximity, shared experience, oath, and some corresponding physical repetition. Why is Government so attractive a sports team, and democracy so attractive a savior, and economics so attractive a heaven? There is no reason why the experience must be conflated with law, pseudohistory, or the supernatural. THAT’S THE EVIDENCE. We know why religions work. I can disassemble any of them into component parts (although hinduism is still confusing to me). The fact that so many substitutes for religion exist, but none have been canonized is merely a failure to do what the nazis, fascists, and communists did: create a secular religion. I mean, too bad the nazi thing went sideways because the aesthetics were genius. Soviet aesthetics were genius as well. Rock aesthetics were genius. The problem is that markets are the optimum, and homogeneity is the optimum, and everyone just got only one part right or the other. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done right. No one is going to revert to abrahamic primitivism except those who are already primitive. And those who are primitive by that choice and their deferral of agency are self selecting themselves into the RULED and out of those who RULE.
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“Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.”
Now to balance this anti-abrahamism out the truth is that you will be happier serving the interests of others than any other pursuit in life. It’s just true. Sorry. There are very few of us who are wired oddly enough to live happily alone without succumbing to it. Random acts of kindness. Deliberate acts of charity (service). Resistance of the political. Deliberate contribution to kin. These are the things that will make you happy. But do not ask for acknowledgement in return. That is the the dark side of charity. It isn’t charity if you want appreciation. It comes with time.
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“Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.”
Now to balance this anti-abrahamism out the truth is that you will be happier serving the interests of others than any other pursuit in life. It’s just true. Sorry. There are very few of us who are wired oddly enough to live happily alone without succumbing to it. Random acts of kindness. Deliberate acts of charity (service). Resistance of the political. Deliberate contribution to kin. These are the things that will make you happy. But do not ask for acknowledgement in return. That is the the dark side of charity. It isn’t charity if you want appreciation. It comes with time.
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Religiosity as A Mask
You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide behind authoritarian religions is so that they don’t have to negotiate with other people on existential terms. In other words, it’s a form of isolation despite public appearances.
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Religiosity as A Mask
You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide behind authoritarian religions is so that they don’t have to negotiate with other people on existential terms. In other words, it’s a form of isolation despite public appearances.
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What Makes Christianity Jewish, Not European?
(very important ideas) What makes Christianity Jewish is the method of presentation (fictional history), the adaptation rather than homeric repetition (justification), the method of argument: pilpul(sophism), the demand for exclusivity (monotheism), the demand for submission(slave morality), the demand for obedience (law vs wisdom) rather than respect and tolerance, the demand for expansion (domination), divisiveness and demonization (poly-ethicalism – although christian is less so than judaism or islam), the primacy of priests and conformity(positive) rather than law and conflict resolution (negative), the maladaptivity (devolution) rather than adaptivity (markets), the genetics (dysgenic rather than eugenic), and the spreading of ‘sources of ignorance’ rather than knowledge and innovation. The fact that it has been called an opiate of masses is simply a medical truism, since that’s precisely what it does (literally). The fact that people spoke and wrote in greek, in greek-conquered lands, does not make them greek. What makes on the member of a group evolutionary strategy is their method of cooperation toward a given end. In the case of western vs semitic, it’s Truth, Correspondence, Heroism, Agency, Innovation, and Rule of Empirical Law, vs Lying, Non-Correspondence, Slavery, the absence of Agency, Stagnation and the Rule by Fictional Law. The historical problem facing aristocratic and masculine western man in curing himself of the underclass and effeminate infection of abrahamic sophism, is that empirical law, commerce, and science is simply practiced while literature is debated. Once you understand this, the parallel between judaism and marxism, and christianity and postmodernism is obvious: jewish pseudoscience and law that is non-correspondent, and christian literature and rationalism that is allegorical and non correspondent. They attempt to achieve by overloading reason, with framing obscurantism and suggestion, an appeal to intuition of the interpersonal experience, rather than informing us as to the limits of personal perception and experience and the use of measurements both physical and logical to extend it. The Abrahamisms are Sophisms by analogy, not Measurements by description. Western man measures the empirical to understand and defeat reality. Semitic man fictionalizes to ignore, and circumvent reality. Abrahamic fictionalism is the very opposite of Western Description. They tell fictions. We report on events. (Thus endeth the lesson) Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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What Makes Christianity Jewish, Not European?
(very important ideas) What makes Christianity Jewish is the method of presentation (fictional history), the adaptation rather than homeric repetition (justification), the method of argument: pilpul(sophism), the demand for exclusivity (monotheism), the demand for submission(slave morality), the demand for obedience (law vs wisdom) rather than respect and tolerance, the demand for expansion (domination), divisiveness and demonization (poly-ethicalism – although christian is less so than judaism or islam), the primacy of priests and conformity(positive) rather than law and conflict resolution (negative), the maladaptivity (devolution) rather than adaptivity (markets), the genetics (dysgenic rather than eugenic), and the spreading of ‘sources of ignorance’ rather than knowledge and innovation. The fact that it has been called an opiate of masses is simply a medical truism, since that’s precisely what it does (literally). The fact that people spoke and wrote in greek, in greek-conquered lands, does not make them greek. What makes on the member of a group evolutionary strategy is their method of cooperation toward a given end. In the case of western vs semitic, it’s Truth, Correspondence, Heroism, Agency, Innovation, and Rule of Empirical Law, vs Lying, Non-Correspondence, Slavery, the absence of Agency, Stagnation and the Rule by Fictional Law. The historical problem facing aristocratic and masculine western man in curing himself of the underclass and effeminate infection of abrahamic sophism, is that empirical law, commerce, and science is simply practiced while literature is debated. Once you understand this, the parallel between judaism and marxism, and christianity and postmodernism is obvious: jewish pseudoscience and law that is non-correspondent, and christian literature and rationalism that is allegorical and non correspondent. They attempt to achieve by overloading reason, with framing obscurantism and suggestion, an appeal to intuition of the interpersonal experience, rather than informing us as to the limits of personal perception and experience and the use of measurements both physical and logical to extend it. The Abrahamisms are Sophisms by analogy, not Measurements by description. Western man measures the empirical to understand and defeat reality. Semitic man fictionalizes to ignore, and circumvent reality. Abrahamic fictionalism is the very opposite of Western Description. They tell fictions. We report on events. (Thus endeth the lesson) Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Requirements of A Religion – Transfer Not Stasis
—“How do we sacralize (keep static) our value system, outside of religion? Christianity was the container, and will be again. We can modify which values are contained in it, but we need : 1. A value system 2. A way to transmit it to all classes (myth, feasts, spectacles) 3. A way to keep the value system static (canonized)(burning heretics at the stake) Its obvious to me that this requires a monopoly institution. The only market for choosing between the monopolies is war. There can be no market for a sacralized value system. We allowed that and we got modernism.”—Bill Anderson SINCE WHEN IS STASIS A GOOD THING? it may be obvious to you but looking around the world (a) our value system isn’t from the church its from the having a commercial middle class, education, and the law, (b) man has discovered just about every imaginable way of training us into mindfulness. (c) we train with fairy tales, historical novels, bibliographies, histories, and the sciences. We have been through many waves of conquest by truth (reason) using deflationary grammars and conquest by lies (religion) using inflationary and conflationary grammars. Deflationary we innovate and prosper, conflationary we stagnate and suffer. So it doesn’t really matter what you intuit, because you are infected by the disease so to speak. Falsify those ideas by searching the world and you will find through the comparison of civilizations (japan being my favorite example in belonging, and switzerland being my favorite example in civic order). Your ideas cannot survive falsification. They can’t. Assuming one has intellectual honesty. Myth(commensurability on strategy), Ritual(mindfulness), Feast(calm belonging), Festival(excited belonging) and Markets (daily cooperation) work. They do. There is no evidence people need lies, they need commensurability so that they can cooperate with the least fear and doubt and insecurty, and the greatest optimism and trust. Conversely, primitive peoples were forced to compete with much more advanced peoples but they lacked commensurability due to tribalism, and lacked commerce due to primitivism. It’s not complicated. The problem is STATIC MEANS DEAD. And so it’s not that we must be static via positiva, but that we must be static VIA NEGATIVA (law). The very quest for the static as commensurability via positiva vs the dynamic as commensurability via negativa is the reason abrahamism was so stagnating under judaism, stagnating under christianity, and stagnating destructive and devolutinary under islam. Be careful what you value, for what you value may be simply ‘taking it easy’ such that you stagnate and devolve. THE RED QUEEN NEVER STOPS. Abrahamic religions, or any static religion, lets the red queen win.
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Requirements of A Religion – Transfer Not Stasis
—“How do we sacralize (keep static) our value system, outside of religion? Christianity was the container, and will be again. We can modify which values are contained in it, but we need : 1. A value system 2. A way to transmit it to all classes (myth, feasts, spectacles) 3. A way to keep the value system static (canonized)(burning heretics at the stake) Its obvious to me that this requires a monopoly institution. The only market for choosing between the monopolies is war. There can be no market for a sacralized value system. We allowed that and we got modernism.”—Bill Anderson SINCE WHEN IS STASIS A GOOD THING? it may be obvious to you but looking around the world (a) our value system isn’t from the church its from the having a commercial middle class, education, and the law, (b) man has discovered just about every imaginable way of training us into mindfulness. (c) we train with fairy tales, historical novels, bibliographies, histories, and the sciences. We have been through many waves of conquest by truth (reason) using deflationary grammars and conquest by lies (religion) using inflationary and conflationary grammars. Deflationary we innovate and prosper, conflationary we stagnate and suffer. So it doesn’t really matter what you intuit, because you are infected by the disease so to speak. Falsify those ideas by searching the world and you will find through the comparison of civilizations (japan being my favorite example in belonging, and switzerland being my favorite example in civic order). Your ideas cannot survive falsification. They can’t. Assuming one has intellectual honesty. Myth(commensurability on strategy), Ritual(mindfulness), Feast(calm belonging), Festival(excited belonging) and Markets (daily cooperation) work. They do. There is no evidence people need lies, they need commensurability so that they can cooperate with the least fear and doubt and insecurty, and the greatest optimism and trust. Conversely, primitive peoples were forced to compete with much more advanced peoples but they lacked commensurability due to tribalism, and lacked commerce due to primitivism. It’s not complicated. The problem is STATIC MEANS DEAD. And so it’s not that we must be static via positiva, but that we must be static VIA NEGATIVA (law). The very quest for the static as commensurability via positiva vs the dynamic as commensurability via negativa is the reason abrahamism was so stagnating under judaism, stagnating under christianity, and stagnating destructive and devolutinary under islam. Be careful what you value, for what you value may be simply ‘taking it easy’ such that you stagnate and devolve. THE RED QUEEN NEVER STOPS. Abrahamic religions, or any static religion, lets the red queen win.