Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • Gods Exist.

    “[G]ods exist as numbers exist and formulae exist and narratives exist.”

    Adam Voight 

    Just to clarify: I think the original post is making the claim that ontologically, God falls into Popper’s category of “Thirdness” or the “Third World”. Religion is extremely adaptive; even the greatest critics of religion can see that and have said it in many ways. I even think that fictional literature falls into the same category, although it is nowhere near as adaptive as religion. I’m also critical of the “meme virus” theory of religion for reasons I won’t go into here, but even in this theory, religion fall into the same category of beings. The objects of faith are on my view not viruses, but they and numbers are memes. It would require a long detour through the philosophy of science and metaphysics to justify and clarify the ancient reverence for the exact sciences and to demarcate them from theology and mythology. I won’t do it here due to constrains on my time, but it’s not that hard for a philosophically literate person to see how this can all be true. 

    You could make a case that religion and money are the “cause” of much evil, and this case would also be seen by the reader of the late Heidegger to cast a negative light on mathematical science. While this perspective is a interesting one to ponder, it’s not sufficient to justify practical Luddism or radical mislogy. 

    This sort of issue is where a little Aristotle goes a long way.

  • Gods Exist.

    “[G]ods exist as numbers exist and formulae exist and narratives exist.”

    Adam Voight 

    Just to clarify: I think the original post is making the claim that ontologically, God falls into Popper’s category of “Thirdness” or the “Third World”. Religion is extremely adaptive; even the greatest critics of religion can see that and have said it in many ways. I even think that fictional literature falls into the same category, although it is nowhere near as adaptive as religion. I’m also critical of the “meme virus” theory of religion for reasons I won’t go into here, but even in this theory, religion fall into the same category of beings. The objects of faith are on my view not viruses, but they and numbers are memes. It would require a long detour through the philosophy of science and metaphysics to justify and clarify the ancient reverence for the exact sciences and to demarcate them from theology and mythology. I won’t do it here due to constrains on my time, but it’s not that hard for a philosophically literate person to see how this can all be true. 

    You could make a case that religion and money are the “cause” of much evil, and this case would also be seen by the reader of the late Heidegger to cast a negative light on mathematical science. While this perspective is a interesting one to ponder, it’s not sufficient to justify practical Luddism or radical mislogy. 

    This sort of issue is where a little Aristotle goes a long way.

  • Gods exist as numbers exist and formulae exist and narratives exist

    Gods exist as numbers exist and formulae exist and narratives exist.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 15:05:00 UTC

  • “Can’t We All Get Along? Sunni-Shi’a Commonalities”— Just read this. You know,

    —“Can’t We All Get Along? Sunni-Shi’a Commonalities”—

    Just read this. You know, getting along as far as I can tell, is just a matter of not fighting until you have an opportunity to win without fighting.

    Polities don’t ‘get along’ because if they did they’d lose the genetic battle. Polities merely cooperate until they can conquer one another.

    Yeah, well sorry, but I can’t look at history and conclude anything else.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-10 10:16:00 UTC

  • THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN HUMAN HISTORY ? (revised- updated – expanded – reposted)

    THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN HUMAN HISTORY ?

    (revised- updated – expanded – reposted) (worth reading: replacing the evil religion with what?)

    RE: Lawrence Krauss says Religion Could Be Gone In a Generation.

    WHICH RELIGION?

    That presupposes that Democratic Secular Pseudoscientific Humanism isn’t also a religion. Which is what he presupposes. And what all of the members of the Cathedral presuppose.

    But, all things considered, there is no comparison between Christianity’s unification of Europe, or even the Stoic Schools, and:

    1) The death and destruction of Marxism led by the Academy, and the battle against it – resisted by the Academy,

    2) Keynesianism (reformed marxism) – led by the academy, and fought by religious groups;

    3) The cognitive, social, and normative damage done by postmodernism – led by the academy, fought by traditionalist groups;

    4) Anthropological, biological, and social pseudoscience and psychologism – led by the academy and fought by religious and traditional groups;

    5) The destruction of the law of property and the common law – led by the academy and fought by religious and traditional groups.

    6) The current pseudoscientific justification of democracy – led by the academy, and fought by traditional groups.

    7) The destruction of the family – led by the academy and resisted by religious groups.

    So if we critically, empirically, rationally, and scientifically analyze the comparative differences, then all that we would find, is that eliminating mysticism and replacing it with general rules, has made more effective workers. But in every other respect, religion and tradition have been superior to rational and pseudoscientific and immoral advocacy by the academy.

    THE ACADEMY AS IMMORAL PRIESTHOOD

    The academy functions as a religion because its central propositions – other than the nearly accidental success at disassembling the physical universe into general rules – are ALL FALSE.

    In fact, physical science used to justify all the other falsehoods of the Pseudoscientific democratic secular socialist humanitarian religion, despite the contrary evidence.

    THE ACADEMY PROFITS FROM SELLING IMMORALITY BECAUSE THE FILTERING OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION PROVIDES ACCESS TO JOBS.

    We don’t learn much in the university, other than how to cooperate with one another, and to work hard on complex tasks in the service of professors. This turns out to be fairly good training for white collar jobs, since these behavioral disciplines are what are necessary for survival in white collar work forces. However, that does not mean that subject matter we are taught is valuable – just the opposite. IN the work force, students use almost nothing that they learn from the subjects that they study in college, and they remember nothing of college afterwards.

    What they are taught does not serve society or industry – and arguable is in the disservice of the students. Because what they are taught does little but preserve the mythos of the Cathedral, the Academy and the State. It is an exceptional racket: to filter people by natural ability and teach them to work together, but teach them how to work together on immoral objectives.

    If instead of paying upfront for this defective product – a product consisting of a behavioral half truth, and a mythological suite of pseudoscientific lies – we instead paid for our educations from a percentage of our lifetime earned incomes. You would see the subject matter in the Academy change rapidly to suit the needs of the customer, rather than the fraud of the Academy and State.

    We have perhaps created the most perverse incentives in the world by sacrificing our parent’s retirements for an education that is harmful to our society, in every possible way, and has rendered our people incompetent to compete on the world stage, by the myth that a college education is the secret to wealth and prosperity, when in fact, your capability is the secret to your prosperity, the academy teaches you nothing, and is little more than a behavioral boot camp that tests your social, physical, and mental endurance at a very high price.

    How this state of affairs, where the academy sells parchments claiming you have knowledge, to pay for new buildings and more administrative personnel, is materially any different from the priesthood selling Indulgences claiming you are forgiven of sins, to pay for the construction of St Peters and an increase in the number of members of the priesthood hard to determine – primary because there is precisely no difference whatsoever. All that has happened by the rapid expansion of the costs of university education, is that teaching professors are both paid less, are less secure in their jobs, are deprived of tenure, and they have nearly disappeared from the academy, while bureaucrats have multiplied, endowments have multiplied, and the physical plant – the buildings – owned by the academy has expanded dramatically.

    Humans follow incentives no matter how perverse, and the academy, particularly once it could educate women, has done nothing but follow its perverse incentives. And it is impossible (I know) to argue otherwise.

    So the Cathedral: the academy and state religion, funded by the sale of modern indulgences in the form of a parchment – and constituting an organizational which persists by profiting both materially and in social status, from the sale of dysgenic reproduction, via the generation of hyper-consumption, and the consequential destruction of the family, is a religion.

    A religion wherein millions of horrid crimes against not only humanity, but western civilization, are justified by but one success – the success of physical science – over which the academy’s fallacies have no jurisdiction.

    The irony is suffocating.

    So. Yes. It would be wonderful if we could stamp out religion in one generation. Especially the religion of pseudoscientific democratic secular, socialist humanism. Which has finally succeeded in overcoming the christianization of Europe as the greatest tragedy in human history.

    ALTERNATIVES

    I have a wonderful suggestion. Why don’t we return to worshiping, as in, holding celebrations of remembrance for, our heroes in:

    1) Our Military generals and our statesmen.

    2) Our Philosophers, scientists and engineers.

    3) Our Saints, Caretakers, Healers, nurses, and mothers.

    4) Our Entrepreneurs, Capitalists, businessmen and laborers who struggle to raise us from poverty to prosperity.

    5) Our tribes and families which as kingdoms bear each other no offense, and every possible opportunity to learn.

    6) The planet that birthed, raised, loves and nurturers us, and upon which we depend.

    BUT WAIT!!!!

    Oh. Wait!!! That would mean returning us to our original european religion before the state imposed Christianity upon us by forcing closed the stoic schools and imposing the church upon us, in the same way that the academy and state have incrementally destroyed our churches, and imposed pseudoscientific, democratic secular socialist humanism upon us!!!!

    HISTORY

    History is the only thing worth celebrating. Our heroes the gods to speak to – meaning pray to. Because if we understand the lives of those heroes well enough, we will find that the answers to our prayers to them are already within us waiting to be heard.

    SCIENCE IS THE PRESTIGE – A DISTRACTING GESTURE BY WHICH THE LIARS JUSTIFY THEIR LIES

    Science is a ruse to distract us from history. The false dichotomy the liars have created is between the church and science, when it is between history, pseudoscience, and mysticism.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-05 07:15:00 UTC

  • OF OUR GODS

    http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/2014/10/oaks.htmlONE OF OUR GODS


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 14:22:00 UTC

  • Eli on Spartan religion

    Eli on Spartan religion


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-24 16:15:00 UTC

  • MARXISM AND CATHOLIC IDEALISM – INFORM PROPERTARIANISM —“How did the Communist

    MARXISM AND CATHOLIC IDEALISM – INFORM PROPERTARIANISM

    —“How did the Communists capture one-third of the world’s population by 1950, given the fact that Lenin had only a handful of followers in 1900?”– Gary North from Douglas Hyde

    —“Few people join [movements] because their founders developed philosophically persuasive systems of historical cause-and-effect. They join because the movements promise moral uplift personally and even moral reform culturally”—Gary North from Douglas Hyde

    Note: But motive is different from content, is different from long term result. Just because people join movements for moral reasons, does not mean that movements predicated upon philosophically persuasive systems, or even systems of scientific laws, which can persist over the long term, by surviving as formal institutions, cannot easily be present in equal parts in any movement. It is only that the latter is harder than the former to construct.

    –“…a statistically abnormal number of communists he had met on several continents had this in common: They were lapsed Catholics. Why? Because of their idealism. The Church failed to appeal to this idealism, especially among youth. So, they departed into the camp of the enemy.”— Gary North from Douglas Hyde

    NOTE: He doesn’t have this quite right. Why do they have such idealism? … Heroism, and Chivalry as means of demonstrating heroism. Catholics. Idealists. ( Don Finnegan this is why we haven’t figured it out: it’s “idealism as an act of chivalry”. )

    —” when organizations make minimal demands on their members, they get minimal commitment. When they make big demands, they get big commitment.”— Gary North from Douglas Hyde

    (This is also born out by all research that I have been able to find. Aristocratic Egalitarianism places great demands upon the individual to secure freedom for himself and for others. Because he must both fight for those who offer to enter into the aristocratic contract, and demand truth, truthfully stated, or punish liars for pollution of the commons (theft from the commons).

    (Propertarianism places additional intellectual burdens on members, who must master non trivial forms of argument, and employ that non-trivial form of argument whenever and wherever they encounter arguments not stated truthfully, and they must educate anyone who desires to conduct those same arguments. Operationalism and Testimonial truth are merely difficult arguments to master, and the number of those who can master them is limited.)

    –“…successful long-term leadership requires systematic training. The Communist Party was careful to provide such training at all levels. Everyone was trained to

    exercise leadership in his appropriate field.”–

    Obvious. In all organizations. Everywhere. Throughout all time. Until you can institute nomocracy under property rights that prohibit all parasitism, and therefore eliminate demand for the state by all but the most immoral of men. Monopolies must create institutional order, before polyopolies can maintain an institutional order.

    —fin—


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 20:46:00 UTC

  • Q: “What is your concept of god?” A: “I am happy to rest my head on a pillow of

    Q: “What is your concept of god?”

    A: “I am happy to rest my head on a pillow of ignorance.”


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-14 09:22:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.salon.com/2014/10/04/atheisms_white_male_problem_a_movement_needs_a_moral_cause_beyond_glamorizing_disbelief/


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-05 15:08:00 UTC