OUR CHURCH FAILED.
abrahamism > judaism > islamism > marxism > democratic socialist secular humanism.
WHY DID OUR CHURCH FAIL TO COMPETE?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 17:22:00 UTC
OUR CHURCH FAILED.
abrahamism > judaism > islamism > marxism > democratic socialist secular humanism.
WHY DID OUR CHURCH FAIL TO COMPETE?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 17:22:00 UTC
THE LIMITS OF MYTH: THE MYTHS AND DEFLATION
The series:
1) …Myth, (wisdom – traditional ethics)
2) … … Super-normalism, (Imitation ethics)
3) … … … Super-naturalism, (idealism, appeals to authority)
4) … … … … Monotheism, and (absolute claims of authority
5) … … … … … Authoritarian monotheism (demand for submission)
– describes a spectrum from advice to claims to authority, to demand for submission to authority.
The Demands that produce them are:
1) … The development of cooperation in numbers requires myth
2) … … The development of a division of labor requires heroes.
3) … … … The development of polities requires decidability across them.
4) … … … … The development of parasitism requires claims to authority
5) … … … … … The development of tyranny requires submission.
The “Good” fictions:
1) … Myth is required for identification of cooperative candidates.
2) … … Super-normalism (Hyperbole) is required for education given our vast differences in ability
3) … … … Super-naturalism (idealism) is necessary for modeling hyperbolic goods (exaggerating goals)
The “Bad” Fictions remain.
Advanced societes require a founding narrative (strategy), polytheism(multiple applied narratives), but one law (decidability) to resolve disputes across them.
Western man was trained by deflationary truth – the separation of narratives and institutions.
it is this training – the dissonance of competition – that created the unique virtues of western man.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 16:33:00 UTC
It’s not like we need to work hard at killing the church. She committed suicide through selfishness. The question is only whether we can reform her by cleansing her of semitic deceits as the germans have tried to repeatedly. Why is it that we cannot just include jesus as another philosopher – albeit one bound by primitive language and ideas? WHy can’t we explain the church as an institution in a time of poverty. Why can’t we correctly blame the church for failing to modernize? Why can’t we modernize the church and restore the saints and add the heroes? Why can’t we teach western civilization rather than the poverty of the middle east?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 16:03:00 UTC
JESUS?
Jesus was an itinerant preacher despondent over the conquest of his people, and their ready willingness to conspire against their own – who tried to rally people by advocating the extension of kinship love to non kin, as a means of resisting the empire. He was the first ‘Ghandi’.
He was wise and insightful, but he had only silly language of middle eastern superstition to work with despite the fact that in his era reason and science were widely practiced. So as a poor, ignorant, intinerant, superstitious man, he spoke to poor, ignorant, illiterate, superstitious men, in the only language he was able to use.
This technique would not work against anyone other than europeans. Aristocratic Europeans who have more sensitive moral intuitions. But against europeans it is profoundly successful.
That is all that there is to be said.
Peter and Paul successfully weaponized the religion, just as the Islamists have successfully weaponized their religion. They invaded then destroyed from within, largely through women, slaves, and the underclass.
THey weakend rome, the plagues weakened her further, and the muslims then weaponized not only the great lie but raiding against the weakened west.
Contantine turned on the west, defeated, and enslaved it by semitic means.
The west saved itself through common law and restoration of the greek texts that were preserved under (conquered) islamic scholars.
That is all there is to know.
The rest is just propaganda.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:57:00 UTC
JEFFERSON MADE JESUS A PHILOSOPHER
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:41:00 UTC
Jesus was a pretty good philosopher. Even if he was wrong to oppose rome.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:34:00 UTC
WE DIDN’T EVOLVE THE NEED FOR RELIGION, WE HAVEN’T EVOLVED BEYOND IT. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE MODERN VERSION OF THAT WHICH WE ACHIEVED THROUGH RELIGION?
—“It appears that humans have evolved a hardwired tendency to be religious. No doubt because it unified groups & helped them conquer less religious competitors. A wise society will control & channel that tendency to benefit itself.”—Steve Schneider
The other way around. We evolved from animals that hunted by running in packs. individuals surrender to the pack. We receive endorphins for doing so and lighten the burden of cognition through distribution. We retain that. We feel ’empty’ or ‘lost’ without that. Yet the division of knowledge labor and advocacy forces us into increasingly isolated roles where we are increasingly dependent upon reason.
All social festivals, feasts, myths, and rituals assist us in preserving that experience across large numbers of us.
and fills us with elation.
EVOLUTION:
1. HUNTING-GATHERING (BAND)
2. RITUALS AND MYTHS (AND FIRE) (TRIBE)
3. FESTIVALS, RITUALS AND MYTHS
4. LAWS, FESTIVALS, RITUALS AND MYTHS
5. INSTITUTIONS, LAWS, FESTIVALS, RITUALS, AND MYTHS
RELIGION IS OUR METHOD OF REGAINING THE FREEDOM FROM REASON, THE ELATION OF SAFETY, IN SUBMISSION TO THE THRONG WHILE RUNNING WITH THE PACK. – THE ABANDONMENT OF COSTLY REASON THAT INCREASINGLY OCCUPIES OUR LIVES.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:13:00 UTC
NO. A SINGLE LAW, MANY GODS, AND THE PROHIBITION ON LIES
—A single god means a single law, which is not generally a bad good thing. God is no lie, god is a symbol.—Daniel Seis
Nope. A single law and many gods appears to be a better solution if we look at history, because men differ in wants and abilities but natural law allows all to obtain them through cooperation.
Slaves requires a single god. They are equal in their lack of everything.
A division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy requires gods for each of the divisions, subdivisions, and so on.
There is only one law of the universe.
The rest is just education in its application to niches.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:04:00 UTC
To kill Islamism will require killing christianity and judaism.
Sorry. The era of the great lies is over.
We can replace the church of europe.
But it will not be with semitic lies.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 10:51:00 UTC
I would say that for many people, the supernatural is the maximum degree of rationalism possible, because it is the maximum criticism they are able to perform, with the maximum trust they are able to invest.
morality remains constant across the spectrum of intelligence, but religiosity (abandonment of reason and calculation) increases as intelligence declines, and ethics (reliance on reason and calculation) increases as intelligence increases.
The problem for christianity is the same problem with government. Instead of adding literatures (already extant), meaning history, and natural law, the church doubled down on mysticism.
Natural law is enough. The teachings of Jesus (as few as they are) are reducible to natural law. There is no reason that the church does not teach the truth as a competitor to the lies of the state and the burghers.
But the CHURCH CHOSE LIES. And that is why it dies.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 09:38:00 UTC