(FB 1543163260 Timestamp) We Had No Religion only Law, Oath, Festival and Myth (Repost) ââIt is perhaps misleading even to say that there was such a religion as paganism at the beginning of [the Common Era] ⦠It might be less confusing to say that the pagans, before their competition with Christianity, had no religion at all in the sense in which that word is normally used today. They had no tradition of discourse about ritual or religious matters (apart from philosophical debate or antiquarian treatise), no organized system of beliefs to which they were asked to commit themselves, no authority-structure peculiar to the religious area, above all no commitment to a particular group of people or set of ideas other than their family and political context. If this is the right view of pagan life, it follows that we should look on paganism quite simply as a religion invented in the course of the second to third centuries AD, in competition and interaction with Christians, Jews and others. â North 1992, 187â88, [34]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543163011 Timestamp) —“I think the Christian set don’t understand that being a Christian (in the sense I’m here using: an apologist for Abrahamism, not Christians per se; or indeed, an apologist in general) is a disqualifier from being a Propertarian, and as such Curt does not want to appeal to you. If you cannot overcome that justificationary way of thinking, you have failed the test. It’s another example of the way in which those who are – I’m not sure what word to use to describe them but further towards the solipsistic end – refuse to let Curt’s work take its proper place as a specific function within a greater whole, instead demanding conflation of different areas. There’s no need. Let the science of the law be the science of the law. Benefit from it. Do not attempt to have Curt or his work be something it is not and need not be.”—Tim Kay
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543163011 Timestamp) —“I think the Christian set don’t understand that being a Christian (in the sense I’m here using: an apologist for Abrahamism, not Christians per se; or indeed, an apologist in general) is a disqualifier from being a Propertarian, and as such Curt does not want to appeal to you. If you cannot overcome that justificationary way of thinking, you have failed the test. It’s another example of the way in which those who are – I’m not sure what word to use to describe them but further towards the solipsistic end – refuse to let Curt’s work take its proper place as a specific function within a greater whole, instead demanding conflation of different areas. There’s no need. Let the science of the law be the science of the law. Benefit from it. Do not attempt to have Curt or his work be something it is not and need not be.”—Tim Kay
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1543103417 Timestamp) FOR MY FELLOW INTERMARIUM ADVOCATES Poland as the critical player in the future of europe. “Russia and Germany are subject to post traumatic stress syndromes… they are both in slow spirals of decline.” “Germany is unsustainable, economically and demographically” “The consequences of 1945 are still playing out.” “The level of civilizational energy that is left, is in the borderland: poland, ukraine, baltics” “The transatlantic alliance doesn’t exist any longer because europeans don’t have militaries to contribute” “There is a pre-war going on with both sides Baltics+Poland+Romania+USA+Finland and Scandinavia vs Russia. … But note that Germany and france no longer matter.” “Russians have to have ukraine….(it’s just time).” “Americans are developing the Intermarium…. And what you see emerging is the intermarium, using Poland and Romania.” “Germany exports more than 50% of it’s GDP. They are afraid of that consequent unemployment, and the social consequences of that level of unemployment. Germany is in a fix where it is in an economically unsustainable position and a political situation that they can’t endure. The periphery of europe isn’t benefiting from the trade zone because of germany.” “Who will die for the european union? No one. It’s nothing but a treaty organization.” “There is a class of politicians that built their careers around the EU but their ability to survive the near future ( is zero )…. there is a europe that sees the EU as a massive social breakdown.” “They can’t face that it’s over.” “We have been in a devolutionary period since the Habsburg collapse. ….. This process has been going on for a century.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543253029 Timestamp) —“The bigger, systemic problem isn’t separating a church from state, but keeping the state from becoming the “church” … The State has, in the vacuum that the absence of a godded religion has generated, deified its social and environmental markets. The State wants religion.”—Anne Summers
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543253029 Timestamp) —“The bigger, systemic problem isn’t separating a church from state, but keeping the state from becoming the “church” … The State has, in the vacuum that the absence of a godded religion has generated, deified its social and environmental markets. The State wants religion.”—Anne Summers
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Curt Doolittle shared a post.
(FB 1543250817 Timestamp) SIGNALS AND RELIGION by Luke Weinhagen Signals are like a drug. You get the dopamine hit from doing the signalling without having to expose yourself to the costs of doing the being. Signals are passive. Being is active. Your actions are always the expression of your truth .Where your passive state does not match your active state, your passive state is a lie. It is the exposure of this lie that people are responding to. It is the trappings of these belief systems that are, and should be, under attack first. The trapping are the passive decorations of belief, not the costly actions of belief. One can wear them and signal their belonging and righteousness. These are merely the demands the religion makes of its believers. Stripping this away is the first attack. There is no action here so there is no agency here. The response is all upset Once the trapping are stripped away you can know what the religion actually demands of its adherents. You learn what actions one must take as a practitioner, not just one that signals belief, but puts that belief into action. Where the attack on religion meets the practitioner is where agency begins to be available. It is at this point where practitioner of and critics of can meet with cooperation, boycott or violence. Where we have the opportunity to strip away those actions that impose an external cost and use the good that remains to help guide men to transcendence. Cooperation to remove the errors and lies and retain that which allows transcendence. Boycott to deny the external costs of errors and lies and allow the practitioners able to do so to keep their faith with full internal accounting. (Bill’s “Ending Brother Wars”) Violence to end the external costs of error and lies for practitioners unable to practice full accountability. (my guess is that when we get to a point where natural law is implemented, we will see cooperation, boycott and violence line up with Christianity, Judaism and Islam) In the exploration of religious belief, dogma and ideology I think Curt’s recent “No More Lies” post is one of his most important (even if you believe he got every single detail wrong) as it shows the effect of stripping away the trappings – https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10156800621732264
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Curt Doolittle shared a post.
(FB 1543250817 Timestamp) SIGNALS AND RELIGION by Luke Weinhagen Signals are like a drug. You get the dopamine hit from doing the signalling without having to expose yourself to the costs of doing the being. Signals are passive. Being is active. Your actions are always the expression of your truth .Where your passive state does not match your active state, your passive state is a lie. It is the exposure of this lie that people are responding to. It is the trappings of these belief systems that are, and should be, under attack first. The trapping are the passive decorations of belief, not the costly actions of belief. One can wear them and signal their belonging and righteousness. These are merely the demands the religion makes of its believers. Stripping this away is the first attack. There is no action here so there is no agency here. The response is all upset Once the trapping are stripped away you can know what the religion actually demands of its adherents. You learn what actions one must take as a practitioner, not just one that signals belief, but puts that belief into action. Where the attack on religion meets the practitioner is where agency begins to be available. It is at this point where practitioner of and critics of can meet with cooperation, boycott or violence. Where we have the opportunity to strip away those actions that impose an external cost and use the good that remains to help guide men to transcendence. Cooperation to remove the errors and lies and retain that which allows transcendence. Boycott to deny the external costs of errors and lies and allow the practitioners able to do so to keep their faith with full internal accounting. (Bill’s “Ending Brother Wars”) Violence to end the external costs of error and lies for practitioners unable to practice full accountability. (my guess is that when we get to a point where natural law is implemented, we will see cooperation, boycott and violence line up with Christianity, Judaism and Islam) In the exploration of religious belief, dogma and ideology I think Curt’s recent “No More Lies” post is one of his most important (even if you believe he got every single detail wrong) as it shows the effect of stripping away the trappings – https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10156800621732264
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543241196 Timestamp) —“It’s amazing how upset people can get when you tell them we know what makes christianity good and what makes christianity bad and that we want to get rid of the bad. the whole “christianity is perfection, man is the problem” frame of mind, I understand… however… it traps you with an intuitive argument. and we know intuition readily protects falsehoods.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1543196225 Timestamp) TURNING SEX WORKERS INTO THE IRS? You know I first heard about this yesterday when someone sent me a photo of one of the report forms. I”m not quite sure how I feel about it. I mean, abstractly, its funny as hell as a creative prank. Whether the IRS would act on it, is something else. Given that I think the IRS is the most criminal of institutions I have a problem with licensing them against anyone. Depriving low income bimbos of hard currency is not something I feel good about. Whether the consequence would mean de-funding those sites that stream crime, gore, accident, and fail videos is all I really care about. I’m perfectly happy if the sexually desperate pay cam girls in order to provide me with free streaming of crime around the world. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/rightwing-trolls-report-online-sex-workers-to-tax-authorities-in-thotaudit/news-story/16cff3e5f5f4303b78d1dc23c80af4db?