Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

“Stoicism: Via-Negativa spirituality.”

–Moritz Bierling

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

(from elsewhere)

JERUSALEM

Jesus gave us the strategy of disciplined love where the buddha have us the strategy of disciplined withdrawal, and the stoics gave us the strategy of disciplined action. Yet jerusalem gave us the great lie to tell it with, stoics, virtue to tell it with, and buddha, mysticism to tell it with. Of them the stoic is the least false – even if ALL THREE STRATEGIES WORK, and all three produce unintended consequences. There is an argument to be made that political christian love for the forgivable, interpersonal buddhist withdrawal from the unchangable, and personal stoic action for the actionabe, can be PRACTICED TOGETHER for optimum benefit depending upon the circumstances.

ATHENS

Athens gave us reason, deflationary truth, most of the categories of knowledge, the beginnings of science, the stoic law that made use of it. But they gave us the myth of democracy, platonism as a refinement of superstition, and while solving the problem of politics and law, failed to solve the problems of ethics and cooperation (using virtue), and distracted us forever because of it.

ROME

The romans, eternally frustrated by the deceitful arguments of the greeks (the kind we attribute to Jews today, and that I attribute to philosophers and pseudoscientists in general), adopted practical stoic law, and in doing so largely completed the greek project of the science of rule.

LONDON

London gave us further deflation of truth via empiricism, civic contractualism, and ‘perfect government’ in houses for classes, and an almost entirely judicial monarchy. Philadelphia, while still an outpost of London, further refined contractualism by reducing for the first time, a single document by which sovereignty, natural law, and multiple houses of government, could be conducted by a people. But americans destroyed that document within a century out of territorial greed, competed to evolve into an empire just like all other european states, and at the hight of the battle of empires, chose the wrong partner (Britain) instead of Germany, and destroyed western civilization. Then in the postwar period gave protection to the marxists who then spent the rest of the twentieth century completing the job of undermining science, deflationary truth, contractualism, rule of law, perfect, government, and the heroic aesthetic.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, the greater Germany, the second scientific and cultural revolution was in process, that would have brought the 3500 year old european project to fruition, and it was cut short by conspiracy between Britain, France and Russia, all of whom carried their own deceits to market.

THE STORY

This story also is imperfect, but in a few paragraphs we can capture most of history and reduce it to the search for truth, goodness, and beauty, and the limits to truth, goodness, and beauty that are achievable in any civilization, when we permit other than truth, goodness(reciprocity), and beauty, to serve as our final terms of decidability.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine.

—“Rabbinical Judaism is essentially a religion based on trying to out-lawyer God.”— Felicity J. Chernukhin

Where, at least in my opinion, “God” refers to the god of the jews in relation to the gods of the Iranian-Aryans in the East (Mesopotamia), or the European Aryans in the West (The Agean/Mediterranean).

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