Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • ARISTOCRACY, GODS AND PRAYER : A CURE FOR THE GOD THAT FAILED (meaningful) Arist

    ARISTOCRACY, GODS AND PRAYER : A CURE FOR THE GOD THAT FAILED

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    Aristocracy prays, if it does, to its ancestors. And you pray to your ancestors only if they are worth praying to. Moreover, you pray to some other god only because your ancestors are not worth praying to.

    All gods exist – at least as much as ideas exist. The question is the relative merit of each. The merit of any god, any religion, is the status of the people who worship it. If a people prosper and endure then they chose the right gods. If they suffer in ignorance and poverty, then they chose the wrong gods.

    Clearly the corporate State, the “God That Failed” was a bad god to pray to. Our old gods must mourn. And the other gods must laugh at them. Because all evidence indicates, that the State is the god of Genocide.

    In that sense, the god of the State, the god of Genocide, is not a failure. The god of Genocide succeeds so more every day. The “God That Failed” is then, a mistake. It is not the god that failed: it is we who failed in choosing our god.

    No man will pray to ancestors that are not his. No man will pray to ancestors that are not worthy. And men who pray to unworthy gods will pay for it. And men who pray to genocidal gods, will pay with their genes – forever. A never-ending price.

    There are many gods. That is just an irrefutable scientific fact. The question is who we choose as our gods. One always chooses a god. Even if one chooses not to. Choosing not to, is a choice too. And at least empirically speaking, it appears to be a very bad one. Because it is a lie. Without choosing other gods, we of necessity choose the state. And the state is a genocidal god.

    Curt Doolittle

    Kiev


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-23 15:03:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING WESTERN POLICY AS RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE (reposted)(expanded) You gott

    UNDERSTANDING WESTERN POLICY AS RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE

    (reposted)(expanded)

    You gotta understand this. And this is hard for some people to grasp:

    The entire IDENTITY of the west is predicated on their superiority in human rights. Their claim of legitimacy is predicated upon it. Their identity, self worth, system of status signals, political mythology, and moral authority is based upon it. The US’s argument in favor of its use of POWER is predicated upon it.

    So, when you take a bunch of peaceful white folk, and shoot them, this is not so much a question of Ukraine. It’s a question of ‘religious devotion’ on the part of westerners.

    I have spent a long time trying to demonstrate the connection between economics and morality – that they’re the same. But that while humans are universally acquisitive, they are MORE universally MORAL than acquisitive. And that is an evolutionary necessity.

    Just as Coase worked to add the theory of the firm to macro Economics. I want to add morality into macro economics. And the logic of cooperation into Philosophy. (I don’t know if I can at this point, because i’m in my 50’s already. But i’m going to keep at it.) But if I succeed, then at that point, economics will be, THE social science. Both internally consistent (logic of cooperation) and eternally correspondent (macro economics).

    So, for the RELIGION of the secular christian west, shooting protesters is the far more serious an offense to the secular christianity that we call democratic socialism, than drawing comics of Muhammed as a goat-f_cker.

    I am not a ‘christian’ in this sense. I am an aristocratic egalitarian. Christianity as we practice it incorporates some aristocratic egalitarian values and virtues. That we worship one particular philosopher (Jesus/Peter/Paul) rather than all philosophers, generals, and statesmen and is a catastrophe of the christianization of Europe.

    My religion, if I have one, is “sovereignty”. Which translates to property rights in libertarian language. However, the difference in aristocratic egalitarianism, is that you EARN those property rights by paying for them with your constant diligence. You are’t born with them. And logically – you just can’t be anyway.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 06:04:00 UTC

  • RESISTANCE ISN’T FUTILE Christianity is a competitor to the state as the arbiter

    RESISTANCE ISN’T FUTILE

    Christianity is a competitor to the state as the arbiter of moral and lawful action. The state must eliminate this competitor because religion is the only successfully demonstrated means of resisting the state on moral grounds.

    Religion is the most effective means of resisting the state.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-06 13:52:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/28/whos-godless-now-russia-says-its-us/#.Uukp351b6nY.facebook


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-29 11:19:00 UTC

  • PRIESTS AS BEGGARS I’ve run into this particular Orthodox Deacon here in Kiev a

    PRIESTS AS BEGGARS

    I’ve run into this particular Orthodox Deacon here in Kiev a few times. He is very generous with his blessings. In our previous meetings I got the impression that he understood english. But what I discovered is that his english is limited to asking about your family members so that he can give them blessings too.

    After which he asks you to help him. By giving him money.

    (sigh). Another happy place, crushed. 🙁


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-10 14:49:00 UTC

  • WHY ISN’T ARISTOTLE OUR PROPHET? (sketch) Or is he the god of science and reason

    WHY ISN’T ARISTOTLE OUR PROPHET?

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    Or is he the god of science and reason? Are we a polytheistic people after all?

    “WE DO”: The people in the upper 20% want to know how to think and act

    “WE CAN”: The people in the middle 30% want to imitate the upper 20%.

    “WE CAN’T”: The people in the lower 50% want to know how to endure.

    Who are the prophets?

    ARISTOCRACY

    Alexander or Ceasar or Aurelius. (force)

    Aristotle. (knowing, science) (words)

    Da Vinci. (creating, art and craft) (actions)

    MIDDLE CLASSES

    [State] Jefferson?

    [Trade] Smith?

    LOWER CLASSES

    Jesus and Marx? (rejection, resistance)

    Will Durant was pretty much wrong about his heroes. He picked all warm fuzzy middle class consensus builders. I have to go with Murray’s analysis instead.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-04 05:04:00 UTC

  • Just Read: The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized by Owen Flanagan. Excel

    Just Read: The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized by Owen Flanagan. Excellent read. It’s personal and psychological, not civic and political. So from that perspective I can understand it. Not my area or area of interest, but I get it. Thanks Adam.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 18:11:00 UTC

  • “Do not sleep on high, luxurious beds” Ok. Is this a sort of asceticism? ‘Cause

    “Do not sleep on high, luxurious beds”

    Ok. Is this a sort of asceticism? ‘Cause I think it’s a really weak rule as its written….. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 17:30:00 UTC

  • ON MUHAMMED The media can glorify anyone with nonsense words. But Muhammed was a

    ON MUHAMMED

    The media can glorify anyone with nonsense words. But Muhammed was a warrior who took a bunch of ignorant criminals experienced in constant warfare and used them to raid two civilizations exhausted from long term war, and guarantee that they never returned to prior successes.

    Would the world be a better place with the Sassanid Iranians and the Eastern Roman Byzantines unconquered? It’s pretty hard to argue otherwise. All of Islamic ‘thought’ was the product of conquered people from Greek, Byzantine and Sassanid empires, writing in Arabic to please their masters.

    Very much like the same tactic, used by the mongols to conquer and rape the Indians and the slavs. Their is nothing to respect here. You can respect the Chinese at least for using their capacity for war to create a vast and wealthy civilization. But you cannot respect teh mongols, nor the arabs, because in both cases, they used cavalry tactics to destroy capital and trade. Their destruction of Mediterranean trade deprived Europe of gold, and trade from the wealthier east, and brought about the dark ages.

    Sort of crediting the antique dealers for the design and production of their wares. Or the plague bearers for surviving. I mean, we aren’t all impressed with ourselves for wiping out the native americans.

    If the christianization of Europe was not the greatest human tragedy in history, then the conquest of the Byzantines and the islamification of the Balkans, and the destruction of the Iranian indo-european civilization by the arab, certainly was. The most recent human tragedy was wold communism. Thankfully the Anglosphere was not sufficiently exhausted to resist it. And the economic program was such a failure that it wasn’t sustainable.

    however, we must understand, that EUROPE **IS** exhausted, genetically and is dying under the weight of immigration without assimilation.

    Only one people has invented science, reason, and industrialization, and done it twice. Everyone else is an also ran, except the Chinese, who probably would have done the same, if not prisoners of ideographic language, under the control of philosophers who failed to solve the problem of politics and therefore, the problem of economics.

    Inbred, ignorant, mystical, low trust, anti-rational, anti-scientific, overbreeding, low intelligence, highly impulsive, incapable of intellectual or artistic innovation people are not impressive to me. I can make nearly the same criticism of rats and dogs.

    Is that insulting enough. lol ?


    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 14:48:00 UTC

  • Divided land, divided church Protests in Ukraine have highlighted the division b

    http://www.dw.de/ukraine-divided-land-divided-church/a-17296538Ukraine: Divided land, divided church

    http://www.dw.de/ukraine-divided-land-divided-church/a-17296538

    Protests in Ukraine have highlighted the division between the country’s two main Orthodox churches. One has an independent streak and is protecting demonstrators from police. The other is subordinate to Moscow. …

    In the early hours of November 30, dramatic scenes played out before the monastery gates. A few hundred meters downhill, on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), special police forces violently cleared a camp set up by opponents of the government. Hundreds of students were brutally beaten and chased into the surrounding streets. They found refuge at the monastery. Priests blocked the path of the baton-wielding police officers and did not let them through. …

    The monastery’s opposition role does not appear to be a coincidence. It was destroyed during the Soviet era and rebuilt in the 1990s. It belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate. That church was founded after the independence of Ukraine and considers itself independent. But the Russian Orthodox Church has blocked it from gaining recognition as a part of the global Orthodoxy. The move was political, said Kyiv Patriarchate spokesman Archbishop Yevstratiy. “Russia wants to use the church to retain its influence over Ukraine.”

    Moscow’s schism

    Most believers in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. It has its headquarters in the famous Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery on the steep right bank of the Dniper River. This church is subordinate to the Russian Patriarch. …

    The two-decade-long division in Ukrainian Orthodoxy is reflected in the attitude toward the current events. Where the Kyiv Patriarchate granted demonstrators protection from the police, its priests praying alongside hundreds of thousands of protesters on the Maidan, the Moscow-oriented Patriarchate is behaving differently.

    “Our priests may indeed go to the demonstrations, but only as citizens, and not as churchmen,” spokesman Grigori Kovalenko told DW. He denied, however, that this was due to instructions from Russia. “There is no influence on us from Moscow,” he said.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 07:21:00 UTC