Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • will take them back

    http://online.wsj.com/articles/europes-empty-churches-go-on-sale-1420245359?mod=europe_homeWe will take them back.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-03 09:01:00 UTC

  • There is an ancient myth that has more than a grain of truth to it: if you can n

    There is an ancient myth that has more than a grain of truth to it: if you can name a demon you can control it. We all have true names. Meaning if we are fully understood we lose the power of deception.

    I am hot on the trail of a conceptual demon.

    I think it may take me another year or more to discover it’s true name.

    But when I do, I will kill it.

    Or at least arm others who will kill it.

    I made it pretty far with truth.

    Now I must understand how lies are constructed.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-31 16:29:00 UTC

  • Religion is still the most effective resistance movement ever created. It sets t

    Religion is still the most effective resistance movement ever created. It sets the terms by which the population will agree to be governed. No way around it. Now, we could just as easily create truth and rule of law as a religious movement. But that would take some doing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-23 03:55:00 UTC

  • I mean, moving up the Maslowian pyramid of needs just means that today’s priests

    I mean, moving up the Maslowian pyramid of needs just means that today’s priests don’t hand-wave over illness and despair, but hand-wave over your ‘potential’ and ‘career’, and sell you democratic socialist security and rational and technological saviors.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-11 12:35:00 UTC

  • OPPOSING VIEW – THE FORCED CHRISTIANIZATION of Rome was the GREATEST CRIME AGAIN

    http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/12/what-made-christians-different-in-roman.html?m=1AN OPPOSING VIEW – THE FORCED CHRISTIANIZATION of Rome was the GREATEST CRIME AGAINST MAN IN HISTORY.

    Christianity was practiced by perhaps five percent of the population until Justinian determined that by closing are stoic schools and imposing eastern tyrannical mysticism via the state he could exert eastern dominance levels of dominance over the empire.

    The forced christianization of Rome is perhaps the greatest crime in human history. It is hardly something to be respected, appreciated or cherished, any more than stuffing people into ovens is to be cherished.

    We only now understand by contrasting stoicism with Buddhism that we had invented not only science, reason, logic, mathematics and with Archimedes made possible an industrial revolution, but also we had invented the most important religion ever constructed by man.

    There is nothing to celebrate other than our the miracle of our achievements in spite of this terrible crime against the west and perhaps all mankind – and our eventual escape from this horror.

    As Hayek said, the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be remembered as a new age of mysticism conducted in pseudoscientific rather than mythological terms.

    Democratic secular humanism justified by Keynesian Forcible redistribution, American Anglo neo Puritanism, and cosmopolitan pseudoscience are little more than a restatement of Christian authoritarianism – for the same purpose: to conquer and control.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 09:41:00 UTC

  • WHY WE NEED RELIGIONS Humans will and must develop a ‘religion’ because without

    WHY WE NEED RELIGIONS

    Humans will and must develop a ‘religion’ because without some set of narratives most questions on a daily basis from the most mundane to the most complex are undecidable. Pedagogical requirements force us to resort to narratives during youth in order to construct relations from experiential rather than abstract lessons – we cannot wait to teach morality until reason forms, and not enough ofus are capable of reason: which is why we must have character, rule, and outcome ethics. Because each is more demanding than the prior method. The only question is the externalities produced by that religion and whether that religion is closer to a reflection of heroic history or farther from heroic history. The monotheisms are pretty awful, but democratic statist secular humanism is far worse.

    SO

    1) Many decisions are undecidable without some means of decision making: breaking ties.

    2) Even if they are decidable it is often necessary to force tie-breaking decisions such that they produce positive externalities. In fact, almost all social benefits are obtained by the choice between otherwise indifferent actions.

    3) We must train the young to intuit such tie-breaking decisions, not reason them.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 00:23:00 UTC

  • Video: A Century Of Mysticism

  • Video: A Century Of Mysticism

  • RELIGION AND THE NEED FOR DECIDABILITY Mankind faces the problem of Buridan’s As

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_assMYTHOS RELIGION AND THE NEED FOR DECIDABILITY

    Mankind faces the problem of Buridan’s Ass (which in itself is an elegant myth).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

    FORGETTING

    we cannot forget that most propositions in life are undecidable. They are too complex for the information before us. And that we make propositions decidable using myths. These myths are narrative, metaphysical, justifications of certain reproductive, social, and productive strategies. And it is pedagogically IMPOSSIBLE to teach those things late in life by reason instead of early in life by narrative analogy. PERIOD.

    SO RELIGIONS ARE NECESSARY AND UNAVOIDABLE FOR COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.

    The only question is, which religion produces the fewest negative externalities.

    We already know that answer: pagan mythos. Hyperbolic emphasis on life lessons. Fairy tales, myths, legends the arthurian, roman and greek myths are merely children preparations for the study of great individuals in history. And it is the ‘remembrance’ of great people of history through organized ritual that produce little but positive externalities.

    POSITIVE RELIGIONS HAVE POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES

    But in pursuit of tyranny, the tyrannical purposefully exterminated our positive religions: paganism, hero worship, and history.

    It was the socialists, Christians , marxists who did this.

    IF YOU KILL HISTORY YOU KILL A PEOPLE

    And to concentrate capital necessary for war and exploitation they killed our paganism and history.

    And gave us a dark age of a thousand years.

    Only by restoring our history did we develop the enlightenment and escape ignorance.

    THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAS THE SECOND ATTEMPT AT MYSTIFICATION.

    By the same people who gave us Christianity, using alternative history, pseudoscience, postmodernism, and organized systemic gossip attacks in media, and then in both media, academy, and state.

    The second mysticism of the west was accomplished by pseudoscience, pseudo rationalism, pseudo-mathematics, eradication of history, grammar, rhetoric and truth.

    THANKFULLY IT IS REVERSABLE.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 01:58:00 UTC

  • They are not atheists nor new but anti theists. Worse they have replaced theolog

    http://www.salon.com/2014/11/21/reza_aslan_sam_harris_and_new_atheists_arent_new_arent_even_atheists/Agreed. They are not atheists nor new but anti theists.

    Worse they have replaced theology with social pseudoscience that differs little from anthropological Puritanism on one end, and numerological pseudoscientific economics on the other end.

    Faith in the state, democracy, man and technology to save us from ourselves, and selection bias in science is no different from prior versions of Christianity.

    What does suffer is that the academy prospers not the church.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 07:08:00 UTC