WHY DO WE NEED RELIGION: ALONENESS: MINDFULNESS. As far as I know, aloneness, or what marx called disenfranchisement, or what I call distance from the pack, is where religion fills the hole in us. that’s level one: eliminating aloneness thru mindfulness. level two is a common mythos (strategy). level three is festival, holiday, ritual. (equality) reinforcing strategy. level four is norm and law. (limits.) We need these things. But of them the one thing that defeats aloneness is what we loosely categorize as religion, but is better described as mindfulness. Mindfulness is necessary because of consciousness.
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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Why Do We Need Religion: Alone-ness, and therefore Mindfulness
WHY DO WE NEED RELIGION: ALONENESS: MINDFULNESS. As far as I know, aloneness, or what marx called disenfranchisement, or what I call distance from the pack, is where religion fills the hole in us. that’s level one: eliminating aloneness thru mindfulness. level two is a common mythos (strategy). level three is festival, holiday, ritual. (equality) reinforcing strategy. level four is norm and law. (limits.) We need these things. But of them the one thing that defeats aloneness is what we loosely categorize as religion, but is better described as mindfulness. Mindfulness is necessary because of consciousness.
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Why Cant We Speak Religion In The Language of Truth?
If you cannot speak in the language of truth how do we know you do not lie, and how do we know you are capable of making a truth claim? To rationalize is to make excuses. To tell children’s stories is to rationalize by imitation rather than reason. To analogize in history is to offer evidence. To argue in physical and natural law is to offer proof. The truth is forever unknown to us even if we speak it. The best we can do is offer proof that we have performed due diligence against all known alternatives. So we see the simple truth: that simpletons talk in Children’s stories, semi-simpletons in rational excuses, those that argue using wisdom stated historical references, and those that have obtained that wisdom in the laws of nature that cause that history to occur without our comprehension of it at the time. To be christian is to be european, is to follow the law of nature and natural law, in correspondence with reality. To argue in Christan verse is to argue in children’s stories. To argue in rationalism is to argue in excuses. To argue in law and history is to argue basted on the evidence of our actions. To argue in science is to argue in the laws of nature, and in natural law, drawn from that evidence, corresponding to that history, in spite of excuses, and children’s stories. A MAN DOES NOT DEBAT A CHILD, HE RULES CHILDREN FOR THEY ARE NOT READY – THEY LACK AGENCY Have we not transcended? Are we still ignorant, illiterate, poor, lacking knonwledge, technology and institutions? Do we still require morality by children’s story, rather than by literature, history, law, science, and mathematics? Are we admitting we are children and that we are not able to speak and think in the language that the gods have written the universe with? if you speak the truth then why must you lie? The judeo christian of the church constitutes a framing: a lie. Why must you have that lie? Can’t you look at history as a greater story than the children’s story of the myths and superstitions? the chidren’s stories for the dim, the ignorant, and the impoverished? Why aren’t your own histories superior to those? They are. I can speak the words of natural law in the words of jesus(myths), of augustine(wisdom), of plato(ideals), and of aristotle(description). WE can obtain meaning from myth, wisdom and ideals, But I will only argue them in the language of truth: Aristotle. To deny Natural Law is to destroy mankind. Islam and Judaism deny natural law. Natural Law of the West > Laws of Men, Sharia of Islam, Talmud of Jews. Natural Law results in man’s transcendence into gods. Abrahamism, Paul, and Muhammed results in landlessness and parasitism (jews) or mindlessness and parasitism (islam). The god of Abraham is the devil. in order to prevent the poverty of every other civilization, we must develop trust. In order to prevent the stagnation of every other civlization we must develop markets. In order to prevent the fall of our markets and trust we must develop market institutions. In order to prevent the failure of our institutions we must develop methods of measurement. A civilization fails when it can no longer measure success and failure. What must we measure? The treasury? In part. Because it is the first capital to expire. But in sum, all capital. What have we done in the 21st century to our measurements and to our capital?
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Why Cant We Speak Religion In The Language of Truth?
If you cannot speak in the language of truth how do we know you do not lie, and how do we know you are capable of making a truth claim? To rationalize is to make excuses. To tell children’s stories is to rationalize by imitation rather than reason. To analogize in history is to offer evidence. To argue in physical and natural law is to offer proof. The truth is forever unknown to us even if we speak it. The best we can do is offer proof that we have performed due diligence against all known alternatives. So we see the simple truth: that simpletons talk in Children’s stories, semi-simpletons in rational excuses, those that argue using wisdom stated historical references, and those that have obtained that wisdom in the laws of nature that cause that history to occur without our comprehension of it at the time. To be christian is to be european, is to follow the law of nature and natural law, in correspondence with reality. To argue in Christan verse is to argue in children’s stories. To argue in rationalism is to argue in excuses. To argue in law and history is to argue basted on the evidence of our actions. To argue in science is to argue in the laws of nature, and in natural law, drawn from that evidence, corresponding to that history, in spite of excuses, and children’s stories. A MAN DOES NOT DEBAT A CHILD, HE RULES CHILDREN FOR THEY ARE NOT READY – THEY LACK AGENCY Have we not transcended? Are we still ignorant, illiterate, poor, lacking knonwledge, technology and institutions? Do we still require morality by children’s story, rather than by literature, history, law, science, and mathematics? Are we admitting we are children and that we are not able to speak and think in the language that the gods have written the universe with? if you speak the truth then why must you lie? The judeo christian of the church constitutes a framing: a lie. Why must you have that lie? Can’t you look at history as a greater story than the children’s story of the myths and superstitions? the chidren’s stories for the dim, the ignorant, and the impoverished? Why aren’t your own histories superior to those? They are. I can speak the words of natural law in the words of jesus(myths), of augustine(wisdom), of plato(ideals), and of aristotle(description). WE can obtain meaning from myth, wisdom and ideals, But I will only argue them in the language of truth: Aristotle. To deny Natural Law is to destroy mankind. Islam and Judaism deny natural law. Natural Law of the West > Laws of Men, Sharia of Islam, Talmud of Jews. Natural Law results in man’s transcendence into gods. Abrahamism, Paul, and Muhammed results in landlessness and parasitism (jews) or mindlessness and parasitism (islam). The god of Abraham is the devil. in order to prevent the poverty of every other civilization, we must develop trust. In order to prevent the stagnation of every other civlization we must develop markets. In order to prevent the fall of our markets and trust we must develop market institutions. In order to prevent the failure of our institutions we must develop methods of measurement. A civilization fails when it can no longer measure success and failure. What must we measure? The treasury? In part. Because it is the first capital to expire. But in sum, all capital. What have we done in the 21st century to our measurements and to our capital?
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The Content of Religion – and the Failure of the Church
Apr 13, 2017 1:53pm THE CONTENT OF RELIGION, AND THE FAILURE OF THE CHURCH Why did the church fail to reform? – anti-intellectualism. – superstition rather than myth. – peasant rather than middle class – agrarian rather than industrialism – suffering rather than heroism and possibility. – Semitic rather than European. Why did the church fail to produce a reformer? – why no Augustine, or Luther? – why was Smith/Hume/Jefferson insufficient? – why no accommodation for Darwin, Menger, Maxwell, Durkheim, Nietzsche? The answer: Too much of a change. The academy took possession away from the church. The academy took funding away from the church. The state took all lands from the church. My response: Then it might have been possible if not for the world wars and communism. However, the germans were very close. The british traditionalists were very close. The church could have seized the opportunity, or it could have defeated the opposition: marxism. But it did neither. It was LAZY AND INTELLECTUALLY INCOMPETENT. As far as I know, all that matters in a religion is: (a) a community setting where individual expression prohibited. (signal free environment) (b) a very simple set of comprehensible laws (strategy) (c) a method of achieving mindfulness, and excuse for it. (d) recitation of myths, legends, history, heroes (e) application of past wisdom to current issues. (f) participatory rituals (praying, singing, moving). (g) participatory holidays ( relief – vacation days ) (h) participatory feasts (special holidays – family) (i) participatory festivals (sports, plays, games) (j) an institutional means of transference of all of the above between generations. (profession) The acts matter much more than the words. The acts produce the experience. The words JUSTIFY it. THE CHURCH WAS SO HEAVILY ANTI INTELLECTUAL IT ABANDONED THE PEOPLE TO THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE ACADEMY, THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE STATE, THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, AND HID AMONG THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S POOR.
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The Content of Religion – and the Failure of the Church
Apr 13, 2017 1:53pm THE CONTENT OF RELIGION, AND THE FAILURE OF THE CHURCH Why did the church fail to reform? – anti-intellectualism. – superstition rather than myth. – peasant rather than middle class – agrarian rather than industrialism – suffering rather than heroism and possibility. – Semitic rather than European. Why did the church fail to produce a reformer? – why no Augustine, or Luther? – why was Smith/Hume/Jefferson insufficient? – why no accommodation for Darwin, Menger, Maxwell, Durkheim, Nietzsche? The answer: Too much of a change. The academy took possession away from the church. The academy took funding away from the church. The state took all lands from the church. My response: Then it might have been possible if not for the world wars and communism. However, the germans were very close. The british traditionalists were very close. The church could have seized the opportunity, or it could have defeated the opposition: marxism. But it did neither. It was LAZY AND INTELLECTUALLY INCOMPETENT. As far as I know, all that matters in a religion is: (a) a community setting where individual expression prohibited. (signal free environment) (b) a very simple set of comprehensible laws (strategy) (c) a method of achieving mindfulness, and excuse for it. (d) recitation of myths, legends, history, heroes (e) application of past wisdom to current issues. (f) participatory rituals (praying, singing, moving). (g) participatory holidays ( relief – vacation days ) (h) participatory feasts (special holidays – family) (i) participatory festivals (sports, plays, games) (j) an institutional means of transference of all of the above between generations. (profession) The acts matter much more than the words. The acts produce the experience. The words JUSTIFY it. THE CHURCH WAS SO HEAVILY ANTI INTELLECTUAL IT ABANDONED THE PEOPLE TO THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE ACADEMY, THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE STATE, THE PROFIT SEEKING OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, AND HID AMONG THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S POOR.
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Paganism Is, Like Natural Law, Simple
PAGANISM There is very little to understand about nature worship. There is very little to understand about ancestor worship. There is very little to understand about hero worship. These are exercises in sacredness: non consumption and ritual demonstration of reciprocity (gifts, observances) Evil religions emerged when we adopted corporatism instead of kinship and nationalism. And we did that in only because of war, conquest, and empire. Yet all our advancements seem to occur in the periods BETWEEN empires. The corporate empire is evil, the kinship nation sacred. Empires violate natural law unless all they impose is natural law: nationhood.
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Paganism Is, Like Natural Law, Simple
PAGANISM There is very little to understand about nature worship. There is very little to understand about ancestor worship. There is very little to understand about hero worship. These are exercises in sacredness: non consumption and ritual demonstration of reciprocity (gifts, observances) Evil religions emerged when we adopted corporatism instead of kinship and nationalism. And we did that in only because of war, conquest, and empire. Yet all our advancements seem to occur in the periods BETWEEN empires. The corporate empire is evil, the kinship nation sacred. Empires violate natural law unless all they impose is natural law: nationhood.
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The Origins of Easter (Eastra’s Day)
Apr 16, 2017 9:15am THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!! (and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit) The word Easter is of Saxon origin, “Eastra”, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered each year. Easter was a ‘movable feast’ which was celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox.” Eostre, goddess of Spring, (also known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre.) One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal. Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow. As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season. According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.” The 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ [ee-oh’-ster-mohnth’] (Old English: ‘Month of Ēostre’, translated in Bede’s time as “Paschal month”) was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says “was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month”. The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday include the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. The rabbit was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime. Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts. (I love taking the babylon, jerusalem, and memphis propaganda out of our traditions and myths so that we can remember ourselves as we were before our defeat under constantine ); Curt Doolittle
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The Origins of Easter (Eastra’s Day)
Apr 16, 2017 9:15am THE ORIGINS OF EASTER!! (and yes, the bunny and the eggs are legit) The word Easter is of Saxon origin, “Eastra”, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered each year. Easter was a ‘movable feast’ which was celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox.” Eostre, goddess of Spring, (also known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre.) One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal. Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow. As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season. According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.” The 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ [ee-oh’-ster-mohnth’] (Old English: ‘Month of Ēostre’, translated in Bede’s time as “Paschal month”) was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says “was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month”. The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday include the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. The rabbit was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime. Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts. (I love taking the babylon, jerusalem, and memphis propaganda out of our traditions and myths so that we can remember ourselves as we were before our defeat under constantine ); Curt Doolittle