Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • THE HUMILITY OF REFERENCES TO THE GODS When we say “the gods only know” we mean

    THE HUMILITY OF REFERENCES TO THE GODS

    When we say “the gods only know” we mean that we don’t know.

    When we say, “the gods work in mysterious ways” we mean that there is much about life, the universe, and everything that is unfathomable; and always will be, to limited minds.

    When we say “the gods sit in judgement of the righteous and unrighteous” we mean that consequences cannot be evaded; even if, at times, they may perhaps be shifted or deferred.

    When we say “the gods command it” we mean that the divine commandments have withstood the test of time; unlike those who foolishly neglected, altered, or abridged them.

    These are all useful heuristics for humility.

    In contrast, the arrogance, hubris, and recklessness of the so-called “skeptic” can be nearly without limit.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 14:09:00 UTC

  • WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT CHRISTIANS IN CHINA? CHINESE police destroyed a church after

    WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT CHRISTIANS IN CHINA?

    CHINESE police destroyed a church after dragging worshippers out of the building and beating them in the street.

    By Katie Mansfield

    Violence broke out in Shanggiu in Henan province after 300 police officers and officials demolished the Shuangmiao Christian Church—which was under construction.

    Officers dragged out around 40 Christians with one worshipper comparing the brutal scenes to the Japanese invasion of China during the Second World War, according to charity China Aid.

    Eight Christians remain in custody following the incident amid a crackdown on churches by the communist regime.

    During the demolition, officials beat dozens of church members, pushing them to the ground and twisting their hands

    China Aid said: “During the demolition, officials beat dozens of church members, pushing them to the ground and twisting their hands.

    “The church was completely razed, and a church member likened the scene to the Japanese invasion of China during World War II.

    “Of the 40 Christians seized, eight are still in custody, and the cases of Shuangmiao Christian Church pastor Zhang Di and the church’s vice director, Lü Yuexia, were recently transferred to the Procuratorate, which will decide whether or not to formalise their arrest.”

    The Chinese Communist Party has launched a major crackdown on religion

    Eight Christians remain in custody

    The Supreme People’s Procuratorate is the highest agency in China responsible for prosecutions.

    According to churchgoers Xi Jinping’s Communist Party ordered the church to be destroyed after branding the building an “illegal structure”.

    Party officials were sent to the church to search the building and belongings of people on site.

    China Aid said the party confiscated phones and other personal property, damaged closets, smashed offering boxes, and stole laptops, money, and jewellery.

    The demolition came as row between the church and government escalated over allegations the church refused to pay a £450 arbitrary road usage fee.

    Pastor Zhang Di was summoned for questioning last month and accused of assaulting police officers and attacking a village official.

    Church leaders are urging the government to release the pastor and churchgoers. They are also calling for police linked to the investigation to be punished.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 14:07:00 UTC

  • THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE by Daniel Gurpide The origina

    THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE

    by Daniel Gurpide

    The original meaning of the Latin word religio—from religare, to tie fast—was never used until Constantinian times to describe the ‘superstitio nova ac malefica’ represented by Christianity and has nothing to do with the metaphysical or fideistic concepts introduced by monotheism.

    It is simply what binds together the members of a political and ethno-cultural community.

    As such, religion has two aspects: the myth—the representation that we choose to have of our own past, and more generally of the universe, in relation to the future, the destiny that we want to create; and the rite—the evocation and celebration of our being together with the intention of provoking a general mobilisation of spirits:

    A Nationalisation of The Masses that is a necessary condition for the new European Nation to have a destiny worthy of its own past, and worthy of what we once were – and could be again.

    This is the real religious question.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 10:41:00 UTC

  • THE WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ORTHODOX PEOPLES? —“Curt: What are your thoughts

    THE WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ORTHODOX PEOPLES?

    —“Curt: What are your thoughts on the Orthodox church?”—

    Well, I have good and bad to say about the churches themselves, but that does not say much about the orthodox peoples. The catholic and orthodox churches differ trivially. Far less so than the protestant and catholic churches.

    THE ORTHODOX PEOPLES

    The orthodox peoples compensate for low trust, with strong family, friendship, high ritual, sacredness, and smaller organizations, lower experimentation, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

    The orthodox people never formed a militia,and never developed a middle class, never developed contractualism, and never went through the enlightenment, and are descendent almost entirely from farmers and serfs. Hence strong family, strong friends, weak commerce, and low trust.

    THE ORTHODOX LATE ADOPTER BENEFITS

    That said, the late adopter of a technology may filter the observed undesirable effects, retain the desirable effects, and not abandon the more desirable effects of the prior order.

    So, once modernity has spread through the rest of the world (islam, india, china, and africa), and the excesses of the west are no longer possible due to extreme differences in wealth, it would be logical, and appears to evolve, that the orthodox may have benefitted from her delay.

    If you can have all the benefits of the west, and not destroy your civlization in the process is not that the best alternative?

    I think so.

    THE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

    So I would prefer to live amongst the Traditional Orthodox and Catholic peoples over that of the Cosmopolitan Protestant/Jewish peoples, if I cannot save my own protestant peoples from Cosmopolitanism by the forcible elimination of the lies and deceptions that make Protestant Suicide possible.

    All I need to is convince enough of my extended kin to eliminate fraud from the public discourse, and defund the production of the industrialization of lying, and I can save my people.

    To do that I need only produce a reformed constitution, a set of demands to implement it, a reason for the majority of my kin to demand it as well over the interests of their cosmopolitan elites, and destroy the fragile economy long enough that the state cannot survive the combination of demands, disorder, destruction, and loss of support of the people.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 10:24:00 UTC

  • 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. Curt Doolittle The Cult of Sovereignty The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Reciprocity The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • 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. Curt Doolittle The Cult of Sovereignty The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Reciprocity The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • THE PROPERTIES OF RELIGIONS SATISFY A SET OF NECESSARY DEMANDS Most people don’t

    THE PROPERTIES OF RELIGIONS SATISFY A SET OF NECESSARY DEMANDS

    Most people don’t understand the term religion because they define religion as monotheism and supernaturalism rather than the demands of the human psyche once outside of tribal life, that are satisfied by religion – rituals and regularities that provide the kind of saturation that tribal life provides the always-uncertain-mind.

    The tribal mind is constantly receiving feedback from other members in the group. But as scale and division of labor increase this turns into ‘noise’. Because it is noise it is incalculable (impossible to order and rationalize). Because it is incalculable it creates uncertainty and frustration. Uncertainty and frustration that for a time can be satisfied by increased consumption provided by increases in the division of knowledge and labor. But eventually ends on confusion and loneliness (or what marx called ‘alienation’).

    Gods, demigods, saints, and heroes provide a unit of measure by which complex sets of phenomenon can be judged across family, clan, tribe, and cultural lines. They provide decidability and therefore the reduction of conflict, a standard of norms, and the production of trust and certainty through repetition, and the elimination of effort of game-theoriizing which failed the human mind by the second or third order.

    Sports, Festivals, Holidays, Feasts and Rituals provide trust by evoking the pack response which is one of the most pleasant feelings humans can experience. Repetition eliminates differences. Costly rituals eliminate defection (loss avoidance).

    Private rituals and prayers and recitation and meditation provide mindfulness.

    So at every level, political, social, and personal, that which we call ‘religion’ creates the equivalent of the pack at increasingly large scales.

    And humans like all pack and herd animals, are gregarious toward the pack.

    And that is the purpose of religion.

    To create gregariousness toward the pack.

    And therefore a forgiving and tolerant and gregarious pack despite our ever increasing differences in a division of knowledge and labor.

    In propertarian terms: to decrease opportunity and transaction costs including the physical, emotional, and intellectual.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-09 17:27:00 UTC

  • Buddhism is a made up religion. Judaism is a made up religion. Christianity is a

    Buddhism is a made up religion.

    Judaism is a made up religion.

    Christianity is a made up religion.

    Islam is a made up religion.

    Protestantism is a made up religion.

    The church of england is a made up religion.

    Quakerism is a made up religion.

    Amish is a made up religion

    Mormonism is a made up religion.

    Scientology is a made up religion.

    Current evangelical protestantism is a made up religion.

    Postmodernism (democratic socialist secular humanist femnism, and the charter for human rights) is a made up religion.

    Arguably the Church of Ted is a made up religion.

    Every religion is made up. The problem isn’t making it up.

    ITS FULFILLING A MARKET DEMAND

    WHAT DOES THE MARKET DEMONSTRATE DEMAND FOR?

    And how do you fund it?


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-09 16:21:00 UTC

  • THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS DEAD – AND A COLLABORATOR The catholic church is dead. S

    THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS DEAD – AND A COLLABORATOR

    The catholic church is dead. She abandoned us. Our people have abandoned her.

    The protestant church has reverted to jewish sect. The puritans have become but jews.

    There has been no Augustine to save the church this time. There is no Enlightenment romantic attachment to defend her failures.

    She is now but a wing of the Abrahamists, Marxists, Socialists, Postmodernists, and Feminists.

    For the conquest by Byzantines against the West alone we should end her.

    For the destruction of Stoicism, Philosophy, and science alone we should end her.

    For the indoctrination of our people into Abrahamic lies alone we should end her.

    For the desecration of our sacred groves, holidays, festivals, alone we should end her.

    For the preservation of the ignorance of our people in illiteracy alone we should end her.

    For the destruction of the templars alone we should end her.

    For the failure to reform in response to the enlightenment we should end her.

    For the collaboration with the marxists, socialists, postmodernists and feminists, we should end her.

    For her collaboration with the islamists we should end her.

    We need no lies. We have become the gods of old. We need only contemplate and celebrate their and our achievements.

    The solution is a new religion from the old, free of abrahamism, and free of lies.

    And the financing and incentives to make it happen.

    And to retain the rituals with different parables, different readings, different histories, and a different oath.

    And thankfully, that is something that can be done….


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-09 14:55:00 UTC

  • A PAGAN, A CHRISTIAN, AN ARYAN, A WARRIOR, A MAN TRANSCENDENT I am a pagan if 1)

    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.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Cult of Sovereignty

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Natural Law of Reciprocity

    The Propertarian Institute,

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-09 14:03:00 UTC