A market for cults is one thing (those who need them). A requirement for cults is another (forcing those who do not). A monopoly cult is yet another (forcing a monopoly upon those who would choose differently, and those who would choose to do without).
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 09:20:00 UTC
DEFINING RELIGION
I define religion in terms of techniques of learning mindfulness(confidence) and the consequent externalities good and bad.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 04:24:00 UTC
(a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conversely as ability increases demand for rationally decidable criteria increases. Meaning those of lesser ability require we appeal to intuitions, and those of greater ability require we appeal to reason. This is because those of lower ability have not been sufficiently domesticated (produced agency) by those of greater ability. (b) literary analogy using archetypes and archetypal story lines (we can list both archetypes and story lines) can be decomposed into rational terms and tested. Literary analogy allows loading and framing so that individuals can learn by intuition rather than reason (ie: by suggestion). But if we cannot decompose these analogies to scientific statements we do not know if they are false, or harmful or ‘evil’ as abrahamism has been. (d) people require a means of calculating (reasoning, thinking) in the broadest sense, and the most simple units of measure are anthropological. In the absence of tribal feedback they need what we call mindfulness but is better thought of a means of selecting and ignoring impulses (some of us call this agency). and in the absence of tribal community and dependence we need festivals and feasts. And to establish the limits we need an oath. All civilizations address this spectrum of mindfulness to oath, to feast, to festival to compensate for the competition produced by production, and the hierarchy that evolves form that division of knowledge, labor, and advocacy involved in the production of private, commercial, and public goods. This is because too few of us are evolved enough to survive without institutions that provide help to our remaining animal intuitions. We teach certain skills but what we do not teach is ‘sacredness of the commons’ that churches did, and we do not teach mindfulness or norms in a rational fashion. Religion is dying everywhere. ANd it is being replaced with things that are almost as bad. The question is how we provide the necessary services of religions in a manner not constituted by lies that do not decompose in to scientifically testable, and therefore indisputable prose.
(a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conversely as ability increases demand for rationally decidable criteria increases. Meaning those of lesser ability require we appeal to intuitions, and those of greater ability require we appeal to reason. This is because those of lower ability have not been sufficiently domesticated (produced agency) by those of greater ability. (b) literary analogy using archetypes and archetypal story lines (we can list both archetypes and story lines) can be decomposed into rational terms and tested. Literary analogy allows loading and framing so that individuals can learn by intuition rather than reason (ie: by suggestion). But if we cannot decompose these analogies to scientific statements we do not know if they are false, or harmful or ‘evil’ as abrahamism has been. (d) people require a means of calculating (reasoning, thinking) in the broadest sense, and the most simple units of measure are anthropological. In the absence of tribal feedback they need what we call mindfulness but is better thought of a means of selecting and ignoring impulses (some of us call this agency). and in the absence of tribal community and dependence we need festivals and feasts. And to establish the limits we need an oath. All civilizations address this spectrum of mindfulness to oath, to feast, to festival to compensate for the competition produced by production, and the hierarchy that evolves form that division of knowledge, labor, and advocacy involved in the production of private, commercial, and public goods. This is because too few of us are evolved enough to survive without institutions that provide help to our remaining animal intuitions. We teach certain skills but what we do not teach is ‘sacredness of the commons’ that churches did, and we do not teach mindfulness or norms in a rational fashion. Religion is dying everywhere. ANd it is being replaced with things that are almost as bad. The question is how we provide the necessary services of religions in a manner not constituted by lies that do not decompose in to scientifically testable, and therefore indisputable prose.
UNDERSTANDING OUR VARIED MYTHOS
Our myths split north of the black sea.
The western (eventually odin), and eastern (eventually vedic).
Then crossed over (shared) again south of the black sea (greek,anatolian, semitic, persian).
But the differences remain the same. Authoritarian semitic, I don’t know how to cast persian except ‘like chinese’ as wisdom literature, the indic/vedic, and then the ‘rational’ germanic, roman, greek. So the spectrum of empirical to authoritarian to supernatural works eastward. I don’t know why other than to assume it’s a demographic necessity since we know the anatolians were working on religion as we understand it 8000bc. Even before the british isles were … 3000bc. So it s likely that the henge culture was informed of the anatolian culture. at least by story if not by experience.
I assume that the semitic (fertile crescent) peoples had longer to work with the anatolian religion, and so that the persians (east) and the anatolians (west) and the greeks (far west), and the romans (farthest west), were all less affected given the distance.
Unfortunately the fertile crescent meant food and that meant underclasses, and that mean authoritarianism.
Hunters don’t need that stuff. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-15 17:24:00 UTC
by Bill Joslin The optimum number of wolves for hunting is two. However, when factoring in meat lost to scavenging crows and ravens, plus the time and effort in chasing these corvids off the kill, the optimum rises to six. On the other hand, crows and ravens form bonds with wolves and wolves follow crow calls to find game. They have a symbiotic, cooperative relationship. The corvids help the wolves find game and in turn the corvids gain carcasses to scanvenge. This relationship deepens to the point that crows and wolves form play bonds. And the population of wolves per square mile depends on the corvid population. Crows created the wolf pack. There exists a strong theory that wolves domesticated themselves. They did so by following human hunting parties and lingering on the edge of human settlements. The wolves who were less proximity sensitive (a proto-domestication trait) remained around humans for an easy meal, and those who were higher in proximity sensitivity returned to the crows. Over time wolves which stayed near humans and shared the low proximity sensitivity trait mated and thus began the biological domestication of wolves. Wolves demonstrating domestication traits (smaller teeth, floppy ears, shorter snouts, curly tails) dates back nearly 20,000 years prior to human and dogs living together. With out the domestication of dogs, man most likely would not have domesticated other animals (all domestic animals : cows, goats etc are not likely candidates for domestication compared to other available choices). Without domestication of animals and then plants, man may not have evolved advanced social systems. Wolves created man. Crows, wolves, man – Odin with his crow and wolf companions. It might seem like mythological nonsense but it is not based in metaphysical lies institutionalized as law like other religions
by Bill Joslin The optimum number of wolves for hunting is two. However, when factoring in meat lost to scavenging crows and ravens, plus the time and effort in chasing these corvids off the kill, the optimum rises to six. On the other hand, crows and ravens form bonds with wolves and wolves follow crow calls to find game. They have a symbiotic, cooperative relationship. The corvids help the wolves find game and in turn the corvids gain carcasses to scanvenge. This relationship deepens to the point that crows and wolves form play bonds. And the population of wolves per square mile depends on the corvid population. Crows created the wolf pack. There exists a strong theory that wolves domesticated themselves. They did so by following human hunting parties and lingering on the edge of human settlements. The wolves who were less proximity sensitive (a proto-domestication trait) remained around humans for an easy meal, and those who were higher in proximity sensitivity returned to the crows. Over time wolves which stayed near humans and shared the low proximity sensitivity trait mated and thus began the biological domestication of wolves. Wolves demonstrating domestication traits (smaller teeth, floppy ears, shorter snouts, curly tails) dates back nearly 20,000 years prior to human and dogs living together. With out the domestication of dogs, man most likely would not have domesticated other animals (all domestic animals : cows, goats etc are not likely candidates for domestication compared to other available choices). Without domestication of animals and then plants, man may not have evolved advanced social systems. Wolves created man. Crows, wolves, man – Odin with his crow and wolf companions. It might seem like mythological nonsense but it is not based in metaphysical lies institutionalized as law like other religions
Conor Loy
—“Christianity and the other semitic religions lack the most important thing in the world- curiosity. The indo european pagan religions were explorers, conquerors, inventors, and brave.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-12 12:20:00 UTC
The church empirically captured and ‘made dead’ capital. They ended the practice of roman literacy. Our escape from abrahamic ignorance, the church’s suppression of literacy, the church’s nearly monopoly on territory and rents, is just an empirical fact. You can’t get out of it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 15:37:17 UTC
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Sorry. I have spent extraordinary effort in testing our most cherished beliefs: and Abrahamism created the dark ages. Jews did nothing. We did very little. And muslims destroyed the four great civilizations of the ancient world – dragging them backward into inescapable ignorance.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 15:19:43 UTC
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@TheAustrian_ No. Our common-law tradition and the militia built the west. We escaped Abrahamic religion, and immediately restored our ancient trajectory. The reason for degeneracy is the reintroduction of Abrahamic Religion in pseudoscientific (marxist) and peudorational (postmodernist) prose
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@TheAustrian_ No. Our common-law tradition and the militia built the west. We escaped Abrahamic religion, and immediately restored our ancient trajectory. The reason for degeneracy is the reintroduction of Abrahamic Religion in pseudoscientific (marxist) and peudorational (postmodernist) prose
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