https://propertarianism.com/2015/07/27/a-hierarchy-of-argumentative-structures/REMINDER: I DELETE NON-ARGUMENTS
1 – pre-rational expressive
2 – pre-rational sentimental
3 – pre-rational normative
And I humiliate Pseudo-rationalism
4 – Rationalism in place of ratio-empiricism.
And especially:
Using Mems and Music as substitutes for reason.
SEE ATTACHED HIERARCHY OF ARGUMENTS
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The Stoics were so far beyond the Abrahamists, it was only the murder by Justinian and the conquest by Cosntantine that brought semitic lies to war upon european truths.
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JEFFERSON MADE JESUS A PHILOSOPHER
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—“CTHULHU SWIMS LEFT”—
Natural Law Breaks The Curse
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Jesus was a pretty good philosopher. Even if he was wrong to oppose rome.
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I know. I know. You feel morally righteous. You love your rules. You love your fictions. You feel your convictions. You find great confidence in your convictions, rules, and fictions.
I’ll tell you a secret socrates whispered, and one that all of us who are vastly smarter than you are all follow: we never feel confident, righteous, that we love or rules, or are full of conviction. All we know is that we have surveyed all the accumulated wisdom, knowledge, technology, and science of mankind and we know all the things that are false, lies, dangers.
It is not that we know we are right. it is that we know the many ways of being wrong. And that is how we know you are wrong.
Because so many people like you have been wrong for the same reasons for so many centuries.
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FOLLOWERS: STEP IN.
(For long time followers: Actually, it is extremely important to me that you (and others) take over arguments. (a) it makes us a stronger brand, (b) it builds your skills, and (c) it distributes the cost of our communication campaign. So don’t feel timid about stepping in. And don’t feel timid if I supply additional info. Most of the time you will basically help filter and educate, and if you get a real thinker like you are (it’s rare) that’s a better use of my time. only advice is: rely on propertarianism, not some bastardization of it. 😉 )
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WE DIDN’T EVOLVE THE NEED FOR RELIGION, WE HAVEN’T EVOLVED BEYOND IT. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE MODERN VERSION OF THAT WHICH WE ACHIEVED THROUGH RELIGION?
—“It appears that humans have evolved a hardwired tendency to be religious. No doubt because it unified groups & helped them conquer less religious competitors. A wise society will control & channel that tendency to benefit itself.”—Steve Schneider
The other way around. We evolved from animals that hunted by running in packs. individuals surrender to the pack. We receive endorphins for doing so and lighten the burden of cognition through distribution. We retain that. We feel ’empty’ or ‘lost’ without that. Yet the division of knowledge labor and advocacy forces us into increasingly isolated roles where we are increasingly dependent upon reason.
All social festivals, feasts, myths, and rituals assist us in preserving that experience across large numbers of us.
and fills us with elation.
EVOLUTION:
1. HUNTING-GATHERING (BAND)
2. RITUALS AND MYTHS (AND FIRE) (TRIBE)
3. FESTIVALS, RITUALS AND MYTHS
4. LAWS, FESTIVALS, RITUALS AND MYTHS
5. INSTITUTIONS, LAWS, FESTIVALS, RITUALS, AND MYTHS
RELIGION IS OUR METHOD OF REGAINING THE FREEDOM FROM REASON, THE ELATION OF SAFETY, IN SUBMISSION TO THE THRONG WHILE RUNNING WITH THE PACK. – THE ABANDONMENT OF COSTLY REASON THAT INCREASINGLY OCCUPIES OUR LIVES.
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NO. A SINGLE LAW, MANY GODS, AND THE PROHIBITION ON LIES
—A single god means a single law, which is not generally a bad good thing. God is no lie, god is a symbol.—Daniel Seis
Nope. A single law and many gods appears to be a better solution if we look at history, because men differ in wants and abilities but natural law allows all to obtain them through cooperation.
Slaves requires a single god. They are equal in their lack of everything.
A division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy requires gods for each of the divisions, subdivisions, and so on.
There is only one law of the universe.
The rest is just education in its application to niches.
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As far as I know, the order is:
Islam / black plague / the mongols / world communism / the chinese empire’s colonization and rule / western colonialism of the americas / democracy (democratic secular socialist humanism) in all its forms / christianity in its forms.
The problem with these deaths is that both the mongols (black death), and western colonialism (a host of diseases), caused vast deaths, and were heinous, but (a) the diseases were worse than the warriors, (b) colonialism was progressive, the mongols regressive, and islam regressive and destructive, and communism regressive and destructive.
So comparing violence, diseases, institutions, and capital, and we end up with a full accounting.
A population can recover from War. It can recover from Plague. It can recover from the Mongols. But it cannot recover from islam.
why?
numbers, dysgenia, impulsivity, ignorance, impossible-institutions, low-trust.
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