THE GOOD MYTHS AND THE EVIL MYTHS
Myths, Legends, Parables, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes.
They claim no pretense of truth, only evidence of wisdom by the fact of their survival for centuries, and in some cases millennia (the flood, the green man).
The west relies upon MARKETS and DEFLATION.
The evil myths rely on monopoly and conflation.
The abrahamists rely on monopoly and conflation.
In addition they rely on outright lying.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 16:21:00 UTC
MONTHEISM (MONOPOLY) VS MONOLATRISM (IDENTITY)
Akhenaten implemented MONOLATRISM – the worship of only one god, without the denial of the other gods. His purpose was to create a new capital, based it on the sun god, and eliminate the power of the priesthood (and the exorbitant costs of the priesthood.)
MONOLATRISM differs from MONOTHEISM in that monotheism denies the existence of other gods, and ABRAHAMISM additionally claims scriptural dictation by man, thereby creating law, and additionally, conflates history with myth, claiming that events are historical in fact, rather than mere myths.
Fundamentalism arises only in the counter-enlightenment, when science evolves to the point where science attempts to defeat myths, and devotees double-down on their myths, creating fundamentalism.
Prior to the fundamentalist era, especially in the west, myth and reality were not necessarily the same, nor were they in conflict.
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What happens when we are no longer functioning in the context of the fantasies of literature and history, and are face-front with the science that says: “Yes, the source of evil in the ancient and modern worlds, and the causes of our dark ages, is the invention of lying by suggestion and it has caused more death, suffering, poverty, ignorance, and degeneracy than all the plaques of history combined.?”
What happens when we can no longer deny the fact that Abrahamism evolved to be worse with each generation, and islam – the third generation – was worse than all other ills of mankind combined?
We can’t deny it any longer.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 15:44:00 UTC
THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CURRENT WORLD CRISIS? ISLAM.
The same root cause as it has been for 1400 years. Islam.
The ‘Root Cause’ of the current crisis, as that in antiquity, is the Jewish and Christian Heresy we call Islam that has been used to justify the raiding, exhaustion, defeat, degeneration, and extermination of the great civilizations of antiquity, and the impoverishment and ruination of four great civilizations.
We have been fighting islamic raiding, pillaging, enslavement, murder, for 1400 years, and only in the 1800’s did we turn back the tide of degeneracy.
If it were not for western virtue-signaling, that prevents the russians and the chinese and the indians from conquering and submitting islamic civilization, there would be no difficulty for the more advanced civilizations in this world.
Islam has been more deadly to mankind than the black plague. And it is informational-cancer. Those that have not been killed, have been incrementally reduced to ignorance, illiteracy, barbarism, and madness.
Islam is the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity. And that is simply an empirical fact. There is no comparison. Nothing even comes close. Not even the mongols.
THE MATTER IS SIMPLY SCIENCE.
THE WEST DEFENDS ISLAM OR IT WOULD BE GONE.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 15:37:00 UTC
test of parsimony: E8. purely geometric universe. boringly so. Superposition and entanglement obvious effects. possibility that we cannot conduct experiments of sufficient energy to answer the non-EMR relations for millennia. forward progress in physics limited until then
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(watching. i’m struck. these people. they look like prey.)
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 14:17:00 UTC
JORDAN PETERSON, LET ME PLAYFULLY TAUNT YOU A BIT AND ASK A PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT QUESTION
What is the difference between (a)deflationary truth, (b)pragmatic truth, and the (c) social construction of truth?
I mean. You rely on pragmatic conflationary ‘truth’ and therefore diminish all deflationary truth claims by equating the possible, useful, and good, with the true, right?
I mean. That’s postmodern. That’s not modern, or western for that matter.
Westerners invented deflationary truth.
Our martial epistemology, its deflationary truth, and our intolerance for fictionalism in militia, thang, court, jury, and senate are what separates the west from the rest.
So why do you need to act contrary to our western tradition, and contrary to the single reason for the success of the west, and contrary to the sciences, and contrary to law, by stating a falsehood? That the possible, personally preferable, and reciprocally good equate to ‘true’?
How is that any different from the arbitrary truth of the Postmodernists?
(It’s not).
You are enraptured by the diagnostic utility of literature: literary psychology, literature of analogy, literature of myth (hyperbole), literature of idealism (platonism), and literature of religion (supernaturalism), and from what it appears, literature of the ‘occult’ or ‘spiritual’ (post-rational).
But at what point does literature of myth relying for pedagogy on some spectrum from focus to hyperbole free of externality (falsehood), demarcate from the literature of the ideal, supernatural, and occult, loaded with externality (falsehood)? At what point does the utility of therapy produce externalities more damaging than the cure?
Why, if east and west, who avoided idealism, supernaturalism, and the occult, advanced, and those who embraced abrahamism declined in one way or another (judaism, christianity, islam), is there any ‘good’ in the myths of the iranians, zoroastrians, abrahamists and others that could not constrain themselves to the truth?
Thanks
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 13:40:00 UTC
COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY: ACTUALLY ITS EASY
(from elsewhere)
ALL HUMAN PHENOMENON IS COMMENSURABLE, and ALL HUMAN DIFFERENCES ARE DECIDABLE.
METHODOLOGICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL
Chinese: create ‘woo’ with humbling riddles about the world.(inaction) Westerners: create ‘woo’ with power over the world (action)
–“Daoism and Confucianism, at least after a certain stage in the development of these schools, exemplify the way that a set of interests intertwine with beliefs about the world. Both schools exemplify in different ways a conception of understanding the world that is inseparable from the interest in coming into “attunement” with it, to use a felicitous word from Charles Taylor (1982). To become attuned to the world is to see its goodness and to know one’s place in the order of the world. “—
The west: transform the world for the better for having lived in it (evolve). The east: live in harmony with it (stagnate). Or worse, islam there is no new knowledge (devolve).
Extremely poor civilizations adopt a mono-philosophy. The east and west adopted class philosophies. The west even developed methods and languages for those philosophies. We tolerate nearly infinite challenges to the dominance hierarchy and lionize creativity that increases group competition.
IMO: the present problem remains monopoly: that people are not only unequal but vastly unequal. People are not only not equal in worth to one another, but a large number force others to pay a painful cost for their existence. Not only are capitalism and socialism both failures, but so is the median: social democracy. Why? Because just as we need different philosophies we need different economies. And so far, we have tried ‘all aristocracy’ in the west and failed, ‘all middle class’ in europe and failed, ‘all family in china and failed’, all commoners under the communists, and failed. When the more obvious solution is military (slavery), ‘WPA’, (serfdom/labor), guilds(unions/craftsmen), managers(small business/inventors), professionals(calculators/investors), and jurists (deciders).
So far, the attempt to create monopolies instead of the church, state, burgher, laborer, serf/slave/prisoner system has been a temporary luxury good made possible by a rare technological leap primarily the result of the harnessing of fossil fuels.
EPISTEMIC
chinese language is quite primitive, relying on high context, and low precision. their wisdom literature is likewise, high context, low precision. they insert ‘woo’ into their wisdom literature through contradiction. the monotheists inserts ‘woo’ through supernaturalism. The west inserts ‘woo’ through extension of perception – power over nature. Explanatory power.
The difference in our virtues is limited. however the difference in truthfulness, disruption of the dominance hierarchy, and dominating the universe couldn’t be any more opposite. In other words, ‘all high trust cultures are the same, all other cultures are different. All happy families are the same, all dysfunctional families are different. All domesticable animals are the same, all un-domesticable animals are different. All intelligent people are similar, all unintelligent people are different. All desirable people are the same, all undesirable people are different. The reason being that any number of criteria must coincide to produce excellence, but if any one fails, not so. The chinese insularism was smart in retrospect. the western threat to the dominance hierarchy was smart in retrospect. had each of us chosen that one property from the other we would both have been safer. the west from conquest, the east from stagnation.
IS COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY HARD?
Not at all. You just have to stop denying (a) costs, (b) darwinian consequences over time (c) vast inequality of people, and (d) the fact that every person at the bottom is six times as costly as your most productive person. (e) we cannot create social economic and political orders for people we wish we had, but those for whom we do have.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 13:03:00 UTC
I love my people. But ya know? Carbohydrates and my people just don’t have a healthy relationship with one another.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 11:50:00 UTC
How much of women’s stress is that they don’t have enough kids to cause them to surrender to reality? Isn’t that why women have such feelings?
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-16 11:48:00 UTC