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  • AND DIFFERENCES HOMERIC AND SEMITIC By Don Miguel (Must read) You are correct ab

    https://adamvoight.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/common-themes-in-the-bible-and-homer/?fbclid=IwAR23jM6z3cmnvBIEhpr_nsLv6DpIJvAoAyc_dp74bB-O_wG5DCK-gMvs6mIPARALLELS AND DIFFERENCES HOMERIC AND SEMITIC

    By Don Miguel (Must read)

    You are correct about how fundamental Homer’s work was to the classical worldview. If you read the Platonic dialogue “Ion”, it is clear that the Greeks say Homer as a conduit of divine scripture.

    My only criticism is that in my view the parallels between the Biblical and Homeric metanarratives are many, strong, adn far more important than the differences. Some of these similarities are discussed in my below-linked blog post.

    The main difference is that in the Bible, God promises to give the protagonists possession over the land of the antagonists 500 years earlier for no apparent reason and the antagonists are not characters in the drama other than as “the bad guys”.

    In the Illiad, both sides are seen as good and heroic in their own way and the war is just a by-product of an ultimately meaningless conflict among the gods.

    In my view, this is the main difference between them. Which of these two are more relevant to our current situation? I think it’s the former, since our enemies have no real claim to equality with us; our conflict with them is not just a misunderstanding or bad luck as it is in the Illiad. Most the Norse myths also lack a villian who is wholly “other”- for example Loki cannot even tell a lie when he is trapped by Thyrm. The giants are just the impersonal forces of nature or chaos. In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas and the Kauravas are both relatives and both end up meeting in heaven.

    The Canaanites, Philistines, Judas and the Synagogue of Satan are not noble like Priam and Hector. That is the main difference between them in my view. Our struggle at this late point in history is for higher stakes. We are no longer at the level of “may the best man win”.

    https://adamvoight.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/common-themes-in-the-bible-and-homer/Updated Jan 24, 2020, 6:08 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 18:08:00 UTC

  • THE WAR IS COMPLETE: YALE HAS FALLEN It’s going to be required for our people.Up

    https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/24/art-history-department-to-scrap-survey-course/EVIDENCE THE WAR IS COMPLETE: YALE HAS FALLEN

    https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/24/art-history-department-to-scrap-survey-course/

    It’s going to be required for our people.Updated Jan 24, 2020, 5:26 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 17:26:00 UTC

  • CHRISTIAN COMPATIBILITY Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the my

    CHRISTIAN COMPATIBILITY

    Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the mythos is true because men said so. We, the rational, only need to understand that Christian love, natural law of reciprocity and the physical laws are written in the structure of the universe regardless of what men said. The difference is between a personal god that they desire, and the impersonal god or nature that we observe. What we can say is that whether you are a supernatural and theological Christian first and Aristotelian second, or an Aristotelian first and scientific Christian second, that the only difference is their need to preserve the social construction of a personal deity and a life after death. Like the empathic female (christians-first), and the analytic male (aristotelians-first), women and men are also compatible – we are just not identical. I don’t know why that’s intolerable other than it leaves them on the defense in creating the social construction of a mythical reality in which they have a greater sense of control than they in fact do. But it is simply true that people who lack agency need more rigid less dynamic rules to live by. Whereas we have greater agency and are comfortable with scientific christian love, scientific natural law, and scientific physical law, because we have ourselves and others of equal agency to trust – and they don’t. So it’s understandable that they want their faith to produce the outcomes. It’s understandable that we don’t need faith in order to produce the same outcome. And it’s rather obvious that these two positions are as compatible as are the male and female.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 13:38:00 UTC

  • THE RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION IS THE RIGHT TO PERSISTENCE All people have both

    THE RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION IS THE RIGHT TO PERSISTENCE

    All people have both the right to self determination, if only because no others have the right to deprive them of it. The only restitution available to those whose self determination is thwarted, is a return in kind. Therefore the only solutions to conflicts of self determination are either separation or war. And in war it is possible for either side to lose, and in losing, lose the possibility of self determination.

    (To have a ‘right’ means ‘to be in the right’ under the natural law of reciprocity. Or it can mean that one has the right of demand of the court or state for the resolution of differences. One cannot ‘have’ a right.)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 12:56:00 UTC

  • “Nature is the mother of reciprocity. Cold, brutal and uncompromising. Pay its p

    —“Nature is the mother of reciprocity. Cold, brutal and uncompromising. Pay its price or cease existing.”—Eric Bumpus

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 11:52:00 UTC

  • There are values to be learned from both Achilles(a King who is not yet noble) a

    There are values to be learned from both Achilles(a King who is not yet noble) and Hector (a warrior who is noble). However, what does it say about rage, power, and forgiveness to men who would be kings?

    Iliad and Odyssey are two books in what is called the Epic Cycle. The “Bible” of the ancient world. There were six others that told the other parts. The other books were much shorter And one amendment to them: the Aeneid.

    THE EPIC CYCLE:

    ACT I

    1. Cypria – preamble and first nine years of the war.

    2. Illiad – The rage of achilles

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    ACT II

    3. Aetheiopis – death of achilles

    4. Little Illiad – building the trojan horse

    5. Iliou Persis – sack of troy

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    ACT III

    6. Nostoi – Everyone but odysseus returns home

    7. Odyssey – Odysseus’ journey home

    8. Telogony – Odysseus gets killed

    —

    POSTSCRIPT

    9. Aneid – The last trojan goes west. (added later).

    The others are largely lost. But most of the dramas (plays) take place during these stories. And there is a lot of written commentary. So we can reconstruct them.

    The Iliad is “A Story of Achilles Rage” or “The Rage of Achilles”. But Priam comes to Achilles and they settle the rage. He learns to forgive his enemies and abandon his rage.

    It is a story of aristocracy becoming through respect and forgiveness. It is a lesson of how a warrior is to to become a king: Through Nobility.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 11:43:00 UTC

  • Q:”THE TRIALS OF ACHILLES?” —“You keep mentioning trials of Achilles but I hav

    Q:”THE TRIALS OF ACHILLES?”

    —“You keep mentioning trials of Achilles but I have no idea what that’s intended to refer and I wonder if you’re not thinking of labors of Heracles?”—Martin Štěpán

    The greeks invented the tragedy (nietzsche), and it was a novel technology of social order that justified sacrifice as heroism, and unity in that sacrifice and heroism. it made tragedy a positive social theme of shared debt (cost) experience.

    The Iliad is a tragedy, the tragedy of achilles, as he goes through multiple trials.

    The trials of achilles refer to each of the episodes where he prevails – only to ask, but at what cost?

    “Trial: a person, thing, or situation that tests a person’s endurance or forbearance.”

    It is easy to see why the jews tried to create an underclass Achilles. Because the tragedy had already been saturated across the greek world: “undermine from within.”

    The same is true for the Odyssey. if we take achilles , alexander, and odyssey we have the entire arc of tragedy. The ‘weak’ (defensive) version is Arthur and Jesus.

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  • YES WE WILL START A POLITICAL PARTY The only purpose of a political party is pro

    YES WE WILL START A POLITICAL PARTY

    The only purpose of a political party is promotion and legitimacy the same way the IRA had a political party (Sinn Fein). It’s not because a political party can win elections. It’s because it’s a vehicle for recruiting within a non-military framework, and promoting policy. Via positiva politics, via negativa war.

    (Tom Kawczynski)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 10:50:00 UTC

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_kg5QueHwVw/83360708_190016389063189_8640468803542581248_o_190016385729856.jpg HOW THE IRISH DESTROYED NEW ENGLAND

    by Scott De Warren

    “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.

    https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf

    (The Irish started it. The Italians just made it far worse. the eastern european Jews far far worse. And from then on it’s been a rapid decline. And new England is a wasteland other than Boston’s(Cambridge’s) top universities, and NY’s financial sector. )

    [ Image is just for promotion. link above is to article ]HOW THE IRISH DESTROYED NEW ENGLAND

    by Scott De Warren

    “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.

    https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf

    (The Irish started it. The Italians just made it far worse. the eastern european Jews far far worse. And from then on it’s been a rapid decline. And new England is a wasteland other than Boston’s(Cambridge’s) top universities, and NY’s financial sector. )

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    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 10:41:00 UTC

  • “A WELL REGULATED MILITIA” Well regulated meant ‘trained where that training is

    “A WELL REGULATED MILITIA”

    Well regulated meant ‘trained where that training is paid for by the state’. The discussion at the time was that given the vastness of the territory, the sparsity of the population, and the limited funds, that they could not at the time afford to pay for it, and that men might not show up given the cost of travel to staging areas, and that they would need to wait until such training was affordable, and therefore they must trust that the men will do it themselves (which they largely did).

    The english did this with the longbow in that every sunday after church boys were required (and did) spend three hours shooting the bow. This what (like the Russians are doing) we need to restore again – schools or churches or town halls where men practice regularly at the local level. By the regimental period the regiments were paid for and self sustaining in England. And this is my suggestion going forward – restoration of the regiments and the fraternal order that comes from them.

    (My suspicion is that we can reform religion and civil society by working through the regiments as much as through school systems.)

    The purpose of a trained militia is to (a) prevent the need of a standing army because (b) standing armies had been used to oppress the people. So, in keeping with european tradition a small number of professional warriors (the aristocracy) would command a large number of unprofessional riflemen (soldiers, footsoldiers). Which would balance the power between the people and the state ensuring that the state didn’t get out of hand, and insuring that the men were invested in the sense of control of their government.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 10:32:00 UTC