—“Everything bad in Christianity was invented by Plato and Saul of Tarsus, whereas everything good by Aristotle and the Stoics.”—Yiannis Kontinopoulos
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 08:19:00 UTC
—“Everything bad in Christianity was invented by Plato and Saul of Tarsus, whereas everything good by Aristotle and the Stoics.”—Yiannis Kontinopoulos
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 08:19:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle:
Jehovah is a demon and the abrahamic religions his design for hell on earth.
James Fox Higgins:
Says a beneficiary of Christendom.
Curt Doolittle:
Says a survivor of the Abrahamic Dark Ages – saved only by the remilitarization of europe under the vikings, the reintroduction of greek and roman thought, the development of printing that broke the church’s monopoly on propaganda, and the revolution in british law and steel.
There was nothing good in christianity that was not extant in europe as far back as 1500bc, and everything bad in christianity (and all abrahamic religions) was invented by christians.
Lies are lies are lies.
Truth is enough.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 07:59:00 UTC
THE HISTORY OF PILPUL
Pilpul is the Talmudic term used to describe a rhetorical process that the Sages used to formulate their legal decisions. The word is used as a verb: one engages in the process of pilpul in order to formulate a legal point. It marks the process of understanding legal ideas, texts, and interpretations. It is a catch-all term that in English is translated as “Casuistry.”
(CD: Casuistry means “Sophistry” or more specifically “clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions”.)
In order to maintain the distinction between the Written Torah — the Hebrew Bible — and the Oral Law, the Talmudic Sages conceived of the idea of pilpul as a means to join each Law to its Biblical prooftext.
The Ashkenazi rabbis saw pilpul as a substantive debate over the content of the Law rather than as a simple rhetorical matter. Their understanding of Talmudic pilpul took the form of a radical reinterpretation of the Law.
(CD: let’s repeat that: —“radical reinterpretation of the Law.”—)
“Reinterpretation” is actually a misleading term. More accurately one should ask what led them to read the Talmud, to perceive the Talmud, in a fashion which could be construed as a justification of the status quo.
(CD: let’s repeat that: —“..justification of the status quo.”—
The Ashkenazi rabbis were less concerned with promulgating the Law transmitted in the Talmud than they were with molding it to suit their own needs.
Pilpul was a means to justify practices already fixed in the behaviors of the community by re-reading the Talmud to justify those practices.
As if this was not enough, the Tosafists instituted one more pilpul principle into Talmudic discourse. This was called the Lav Davqa method. In English we might call it the “Not Quite” way of reading a text. When a text appeared to be saying one thing, the Tosafot — in order to conform to the already-existing custom — would re-interpret it by saying that what it seemed to mean is not what it really meant!
The Tosafist reading based on the Lav Davqa method completely transformed Judaism; the Ashkenazi tradition was the one that ultimately triumphed.
Pilpul occurs any time the speaker is committed to “prove” his point regardless of the evidence in front of him. The casuistic aspect of this hair-splitting leads to a labyrinthine form of argument where the speaker blows enough rhetorical smoke to make his interlocutor submit.
Reason is not an issue when pilpul takes over: what counts is the establishment of a fixed, immutable point that can never truly be disputed.
What is thought to be the Jewish “genius” is often a mark of how pilpul is deployed. The rhetorical tricks of pilpul make true rational discussion impossible; any “discussion” is about trying to “prove” a point that has already been established. There is little use trying to argue in this context, because any points being made will be twisted and turned to validate the already-fixed position.
Pilpul is the rhetorical means to mark as “true” that which cannot ever be disputed by rational means.
by David Shasha
Director, Center for Sephardic Heritage
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-28 14:13:00 UTC
—“Paganism is the monarchy and aristocracy of the gods. The intertemporal model we seek to both emulate and avoid the hubris of.”– Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-28 12:50:00 UTC
ON THE CHURCH
I think that people are easily confused between the the biblical stories and our relation to god as absolutely horrific, and the church as a governing institution that developed and eventually implemented natural law.
The Aryan version of “church” is the military (militia) and the law. But with massive invasion, over extension, and the loss of military discipline, that church (cult) fell to an underclass cult of superstition, and the sequestering of literacy to obscure the pretense of knowledge.
Upon invasion by the vikings restoring militarism, and upon subsequent restoration of greek knowledge, and the development of printing, we escaped our dark ages, with the prussian state under frederick the most successful example of that restoration. And it resulted in the great intellectual leap of germans, the second industrial and scientific revolution in germany, and if not for the defeat of germany by the anti aryans (catholic france, all but catholic england, and orthodox russia, followed by Jewish (Soviet) Russia, Germany might have restored our ancient order to its full scientific and romantic pagan origins.
I view Chesterson, Evola, Kirk and the others, like Kant as catastrophic failures trying to restore and preserve the invasion rather than continue our rescue from semitic deceit and barbarism. The fact that they stumbled upon vague half truths now and then doesn’t really impress me. Instead, look at the artists of the late 19th, the thought of the late 19th, and the science and technology and german academy of the 19th.
Once you understand what makes the west is the militia and the oath and the feast, and that western man prohibited priests for very good reasons, requiring the aristocracy to perform the rituals instead, you understand how sick a disease is the church, and how it made us weak, and vulnerable, and remains our enemy.
The church rediscovered natural law via aristotle via the scholastics. The church had the opportunity to reform. It has failed us. It has abandoned us, and now it works aggressively against us. And the mental diseases that the church gave us are why we are vulnerable to the ambitions of marxism and the lies of postmodernism.
So, while we may need *A* church, in the sense that we need a sacred place – and the churches were intentionally located in our sacred groves – and while we may need history, advice, oath, and feast (the mass), we do not need lies, pilpul, and anything other than worship and appreciation of nature and our ancestors, from whom we can select hundreds of heroes to learn from, rather than a false god whose behavior is that of a demon, and whose consequences were our destruction and enslavement.
WE BEGIN AND END WITH THE MILITIA.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-28 11:21:00 UTC
Mindfulness has been abused, but religiosity provides “Agency”.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-27 19:37:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/989951792267046914
Reply addressees: @DegenRolf
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/989844637710925824
IN REPLY TO:
@DegenRolf
Bored like Hell: Religiosity cushions believers against boredom. https://t.co/J5IOczFWUX https://t.co/5FxsEeLazz
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/989844637710925824
THEY INVENTED PILPUL BY WHICH TO INVERT THE INNOVATION OF GREEK REASON (TRUTH) INTO ANTI-REASON (LYING) (very important concept) You mean the people who gave us the undermining of the empire, and constant intentional insurrection, judaism, christianity, and islam and the resulting Abrahamic dark age and 750M dead, and who specialized in slaving, tax predation, and usury, did nothing at all for humanity despite being the most literate group in europe, when freed from ostracization gave us communism, the soviet secret police, the gulag, and 100M dead, the pseudosciences of marx, boas, freud, cantor, mises; gave us the distraction of rothbardian libertarianism, and the tragedy of trotsky-neoconservatism in america; and who invaded american academic institutions using the Frankfurt School out of Columbia; and who were instrumental in systematically undermining the constitution by financing specific cases that would force judicial activism, and who were the advocates and sponsors of the immigration act that accomplished through third world migration what their ideas could not: the second conquest of european civilization – this time through pseudoscientific propaganda, instead of supernatural propaganda; and today are the vastly disproportionate propagandists in globalism by which the multicultural low trust tribalism of the levant is spread to the homogenous high trust peoples of the west? Make no mistake about it. We are all responsible for bad things, but they are responsible for more deaths, dark ages, and destruction than all peoples and all natural events except for the great plagues and diseases. And the reason is simple: they invented Pilpul (abrahamism): the counter-to reason. In other words, they took the innovation of the greeks (idealism) and created it’s opposite (pilpul) by which to overload, load, frame, suggest, and obscure human reason. So no. No people has done more harm to humanity in all of human history.
THEY INVENTED PILPUL BY WHICH TO INVERT THE INNOVATION OF GREEK REASON (TRUTH) INTO ANTI-REASON (LYING) (very important concept) You mean the people who gave us the undermining of the empire, and constant intentional insurrection, judaism, christianity, and islam and the resulting Abrahamic dark age and 750M dead, and who specialized in slaving, tax predation, and usury, did nothing at all for humanity despite being the most literate group in europe, when freed from ostracization gave us communism, the soviet secret police, the gulag, and 100M dead, the pseudosciences of marx, boas, freud, cantor, mises; gave us the distraction of rothbardian libertarianism, and the tragedy of trotsky-neoconservatism in america; and who invaded american academic institutions using the Frankfurt School out of Columbia; and who were instrumental in systematically undermining the constitution by financing specific cases that would force judicial activism, and who were the advocates and sponsors of the immigration act that accomplished through third world migration what their ideas could not: the second conquest of european civilization – this time through pseudoscientific propaganda, instead of supernatural propaganda; and today are the vastly disproportionate propagandists in globalism by which the multicultural low trust tribalism of the levant is spread to the homogenous high trust peoples of the west? Make no mistake about it. We are all responsible for bad things, but they are responsible for more deaths, dark ages, and destruction than all peoples and all natural events except for the great plagues and diseases. And the reason is simple: they invented Pilpul (abrahamism): the counter-to reason. In other words, they took the innovation of the greeks (idealism) and created it’s opposite (pilpul) by which to overload, load, frame, suggest, and obscure human reason. So no. No people has done more harm to humanity in all of human history.
THE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS >>1) Will Jesus be successful in saving everyone he intends to save? The individual we refer to as jesus might have existed, however almost everything other than his disruption of the temple, and his crucifiction is fiction created by Paul. Paul created Christianity, not Jesus. The reason we know that is that all the ‘jesus stories’ were originally babylonian or a derivative thereof. Just as the old testament is merely plagiarism from the babylonian record. >>2) Has anyone, or WILL anyone, actually go to hell? There is no heaven or hell, they are just babylonian fictions that metaphorically assist us in judging one another’s characters, and by character we mean contribution to, or harm to, the polity. At best we can consider heaven and hell the memories of those whose lives you affected, and the record of their actions in response to your display word and deed. >>3) Therefore THE OATH OF TRANSCENDENT MAN; A PAGAN, A CHRISTIAN, AN ARYAN, A WARRIOR, A MAN TRANSCENDENT I am a pagan 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 an Eden in whatever ways I can before I die; and 4) if I deny the existence of a supreme being with dominion over the physical laws, and 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 Pagan. 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 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 Pagan, 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.
THE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS >>1) Will Jesus be successful in saving everyone he intends to save? The individual we refer to as jesus might have existed, however almost everything other than his disruption of the temple, and his crucifiction is fiction created by Paul. Paul created Christianity, not Jesus. The reason we know that is that all the ‘jesus stories’ were originally babylonian or a derivative thereof. Just as the old testament is merely plagiarism from the babylonian record. >>2) Has anyone, or WILL anyone, actually go to hell? There is no heaven or hell, they are just babylonian fictions that metaphorically assist us in judging one another’s characters, and by character we mean contribution to, or harm to, the polity. At best we can consider heaven and hell the memories of those whose lives you affected, and the record of their actions in response to your display word and deed. >>3) Therefore THE OATH OF TRANSCENDENT MAN; A PAGAN, A CHRISTIAN, AN ARYAN, A WARRIOR, A MAN TRANSCENDENT I am a pagan 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 an Eden in whatever ways I can before I die; and 4) if I deny the existence of a supreme being with dominion over the physical laws, and 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 Pagan. 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 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 Pagan, 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.