Curt Doolittle

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  • GERMANIZATION OF EARLY MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY: 12 POINT SUMMARY James C Russell’s

    GERMANIZATION OF EARLY MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY: 12 POINT SUMMARY

    James C Russell’s ‘Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation’ (GOEMC) is an excellent study on the evolution of Christianity from a predominantly Mediterranean religion to a northern European one. [1] The book has recently gained popularity on the internet right, and it’s now regarded as a “must read” in some circles.

    Russell is a conservative historian and theologian who authored another book condemning the role of organized Christianity in the facilitation of mass immigration into the United States and other Western countries. [2] Russell published GOEMC through the Oxford University Press in 1994.

    SUMMARY

    In GOEMC’s concluding chapter, Russell summarized his work’s twelve main points. [3]

    (1) Early Christianity emerged from an urban, heterogeneous, and low social capital society. German society at the time of first contact with Christianity was rural, homogeneous, and high social capital.

    (2) Early Christianity was “world rejecting” and “salvation” focused. In contrast, the pre-Christian German worldview was world accepting and socio-biological (ethnic and immediate).

    (3) The first Christian missionaries to Germany accommodated Christianity to the religopolitical and magicoreligous elements of the German worldview. [4]

    (4) Early efforts to convert Germans to Christ resulted in the reinterpretation of Christianity through the Germanic worldview.

    (5) Catholic Christianity’s political reliance on Germanic nations, like the Franks, led to the increased influence of their interpretation of Christianity over the Western Church.

    (6) Some Germanic nations attempted to preserve their unique ethnic identity and independence by adhering to Arianism rather than subjecting themselves to the outside power of Church hierarchy.

    (7) The “Christianization” of the Germans was very shallow until at least the reign of Charlemagne (768 – 814) because there was no catechumanate system or qualified teachers to finish instruction. The Church prioritized baptism over teaching because they thought the apocalypse was near. The German worldview was too strong to allow full Christianization.

    (8) Early missionaries to the Germans were as successful as they could have been. If they had not accommodated Christianity to the German worldview they probably would not have found any success.

    (9) The initial accommodation of Christianity to the German worldview laid the foundation for later indoctrination of Christian worldview and ethics.

    (10) Christian missionaries misrepresented the extent of disparity between the Germanic and Christian worldview when initially accommodating Christianity to a fresh German audience.

    (11) Early Christian accommodation left Germans with the impression that Jesus was one among many magicoreligous gods to include in their pantheon. New German converts did not possess doctrinal or ethical concerns.

    (12) Contributing factors to Christianity’s German spread included: the association of Christianity with Frankish political aims, an imagined causal association of Christianity with Roman grandeur, and a coincidental similarity between German myths and Christian beliefs, rituals, and symbols.

    This book is in the P reading list.

    Source: https://cocmillennial.blogspot.com/2016/11/germanization-of-early-medieval-christianity-review.html

    (Apologies. I don’t know who sent me this link to me)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 13:45:00 UTC

  • (Humor) little old ladies. in their 80’s. dining room. card party. snacks. chips

    (Humor)

    little old ladies. in their 80’s.

    dining room. card party. snacks. chips.

    me working in the living room.

    one. walks in. something in hand.

    her: “Curt will you open this jar of dip for me?”

    me: “Hmm… the one purpose women appreciate men for.”

    her: “No. You’re good for killing bugs and spiders too.”

    me: “You came up with that too quickly”

    her: “married a long time”. pivots. leaves.

    (laughter)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 13:10:00 UTC

  • <-Aurelius <- Caesar -> Alexander-> … Aurelius: (Stoic) the virtuous ruler and

    <-Aurelius <- Caesar -> Alexander->

    … Aurelius: (Stoic) the virtuous ruler and general

    … … Caesar: (Epicurean) the political and pragmatic ruler and general

    … … … Alexander: (Aristotelian) the pure, unapologetic, ruthless, excellence, expression of Aryan ego of militaristic expansionary dominance.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 12:34:00 UTC

  • GRAMMARS: THEOLOGY, IDEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, LAW THEOLOGY: a system (parad

    GRAMMARS: THEOLOGY, IDEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, LAW

    THEOLOGY: a system (paradigm) of organizing populations for the purpose of obtaining their obedience.

    IDEOLOGY: a system (paradigm) of organizing populations for the purpose of influencing political policy.

    PHILOSOPHY: a system (paradigm) of organization and decidability for the purpose of satisfying particular preferences.

    SCIENCE: a system (paradigm) of organization and decidability for the purpose of producing universally coherent descriptions

    LAW: a system (paradigm) of organization and decidability for the purpose of universally resolving disputes

    Grammar: Paradigm, Vocabulary, Logic of internal consistency with that vocabulary in that paradigm. For producing references (nouns), states (phrases), transactions (sentences), stories (ledgers) of changes in state (operations), by continuous recursive disambiguation. Langauge = measurement = accounting, and coherence = balancing the scale.

    All civilizations produce a group strategy, a mythos (archetypes, narratives), rituals (religion) to perpetuate it, a means (grammar) of arguing in favor of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 12:18:00 UTC

  • THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE Cognitive Process: Sensation(Senses) -> … Model-Forma

    THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

    Cognitive Process:

    Sensation(Senses) ->

    … Model-Formation(perception) ->

    … … auto association(memory) ->

    … … … auto prediction (imagination) ->

    … … … … auto-response (emotion) ->

    … … … … … TRUST, SUBMISSION, PACK RESPONSE:

    … … … … … … 1. TO DOMINANCE (High)

    … … … … … … … 2. TO COOPERATION

    … … … … … … … … 3. TO CARE

    … … … … … … … … … 4. TO PACK, BE WITH PACK (Low)

    … … (continuous feedback loop to auto-association(memory).)

    Moreover, language requires suggestion. Langauge consists of storytelling. Storytellingproduces model formation.

    So… mix language, storytelling, model formation and … boom.

    So you can train yourself to habituate this submission response and to revel in the calm of it just as surely as you can train yourself to habituate the dominance response in business, sport, or war.

    All religions are designed to train you into this submission response.

    Stoicism-Epicureanism is not.

    It teaches you insulation from signal pressures.

    It is the only non-submissive, non-avoidance religion.

    With buddhism ‘avoidance’ rather than submission.

    But stoicism-epicureanism lack political aspect.

    They requires paganism (a portfolio of heroes to imitate depending upon one’s talents and preferences)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 12:02:00 UTC

  • THE MILITIA IS FIRST BEFORE ARMS —“I admire Poland for many things they are do

    THE MILITIA IS FIRST BEFORE ARMS

    —“I admire Poland for many things they are doing now.”—Stewart Colley

    —“Let’s hope they repeal their gun laws”—Josh Burda

    Ooh.. gotta answer that one.

    Lesson from Russia: you don’t convert to consumer capitalism without first establishing rule of law.

    Lesson for the world: you don’t convert to an armed populace without first establishing military service and a militial tradition.

    If anything, the past month has made me understand that the cognitive class-tribes of men can only be united by military training where words do not matter, only empirical evidence, truthful testimony, and duty to one another before all else.

    Men > Military Service (at last boot camp and two years of continuous operations – even just training – ‘in the field’, three years is optimum because that’s the length of the human forgetting curve necessary to truly transform. > Quarterly militia practice for military, disaster, medical, or riot control.

    This is our most profound secret to success.

    Military > Empiricism+Testimony > duty > invsetment in the commons > Status regardless of rank > ‘insurance’ regardless of rank.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 11:29:00 UTC

  • AUTO-ASSOCIATION AND THE BRIDGE TO RELIGION —“Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and

    AUTO-ASSOCIATION AND THE BRIDGE TO RELIGION

    —“Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are a kind of break away Indo-European Gothar. In the same light of Zoroaster and Buddha. But I don’t believe you can have “science” as religion as pure logic.”—Bjorn Asbrandsson

    You can, you just choose different heroes of history, and understand how the brain makes auto-associations.

    God: tiwaz/tyr, spiritual leadesr: odin-mind/thor-body, lawgiver: aristotle, statesman: aurelius, general: caesar, hero: alexander, warrior: Achilles; and debts to ancestors (spirits), nature (spirits), the universe(spirits) itself.

    That’s my pantheon.

    And my religion is painfully scientific (realism, naturalism, operationalism, auto-association) Its the auto-association that bridges science with what we call religion or faith.

    Took me a lot of work to figure that out.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 11:22:00 UTC

  • NON-FALSE UNDERSTANDING OF WEST AFRICA (the late, but growing empires of west Af

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUT6LhBBYsIMPORTANT, NON-FALSE UNDERSTANDING OF WEST AFRICA

    (the late, but growing empires of west Africa)

    While Africa was late to development – for geographic reasons, there were three proto-empires in west Africa prior to the colonial period.

    This is the non-false ‘we was kangs’ argument of west Africans. No it was not an advanced empire. But nor were any most early empires outside of the fertile crescent.

    And yes, colonialism interrupted their growth and left the region as it did the middle east, a chaos of artificial borders.

    Germany had 350 states. The middle east should have dozens. Africa should have a thousand.

    A thousand nations must bloom.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUT6LhBBYsUpdated Jul 22, 2020, 11:06 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 11:06:00 UTC

  • PARALLEL BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA China is practicing fascist, racist, national

    PARALLEL BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA

    China is practicing fascist, racist, national socialism (state capitalism). Naziism won the battle of the 20th century. It just won in china. and it’s winning.

    CHINA

    China was genetically, culturally, institutionally, and technologically superior and had ethnically spread cross near countries and evolved them,

    China had a long educational history.

    China had a profound bureaucracy.

    China had a more than competent military

    China had a more than competent workforce

    China had an industrial advantage over the eastern continent.

    China had been wronged by the British empire,

    China had had a failed ‘new government’ with terrible consequences.

    GERMANY

    Germany was genetically, culturally, institutionally, and technologically superior and had spread across nearby countries and evolved them.

    Germany was the intellectual and academic core of europe.

    Germany had the best bureaucracy in the advanced world.

    Germany had a better more advanced industry and polity that was a quality advantage over the western continent.

    Germany had a martial aristocracy – the best in the world.

    Germany had been wronged by napoleon (destroying the core of Europe – the holy roman empire)

    Germany had been wronged in ww1 (attempting to restore herself and her people)

    Germany would be wronged in ww2 (attempting to restore her self and her people)

    THE MODEL FOR BOTH

    Ethnonationalism, State Capitalism, State Secular Religion of Nationalism, State Intolerance for competition, State education and indoctrination, full employment, amazing benefits. The unparalleled devotion and unity not seen before. An army of society.

    PERFECTION … BUT

    It was perfect for both countries.

    But …

    … AH overreached and practiced ideology over empiricism.

    … Just as Xi Jinping has overreached and is practicing ideology over empiricism.

    THIS IS THE BEST MODEL FOR MAN:

    Ethnonationalism, State Capitalism, State Secular Religion of Nationalism, State Intolerance for competition, State education and indoctrination, full employment, amazing benefits. The unparalleled devotion and unity not seen before.

    BUT THIS IS THE REASON FOR ALL FAILURE OF MAN:

    Ideology (or faith) over Evidence.

    Overreach.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 10:43:00 UTC

  • RELIGION IS A TECHNOLOGY. WE DONT NEED TO PROVE IT”S TRUE. JUST JUDGE ITS EFFECT

    RELIGION IS A TECHNOLOGY. WE DONT NEED TO PROVE IT”S TRUE. JUST JUDGE ITS EFFECTS (GOOD AND BAD)

    by Frey Harman (edited for clarity)

    What we need to do is disprove this idea of needing to prove things. [CD: Or claim religion is ‘true’ rather than effective and quite possibly necessary.]

    Religion is a technology. Technology either works or it doesn’t. Science can’t do anything to technology except explain it. If we demarcate science from technology, science seeks general rules of the universe – to understand. Technology is usually developed by trial and error to serve a purpose – to act. And, [psychlogial and social] technology isn’t even based on science, nor informed by science. Often, technology outpaces science. I’m not sure why philosophy would have any more to say about the matter of religion as a technology than science does: regardless of whether it’s true or what general rules religions follow, the technology works or doesn’t, and works beneficially or harmfully.

    Nassim Taleb was somewhat influential in snapping me out of the false dichotomy between atheism and monotheistic fundamentalism – making me realize they’re two sides of the same coin; two interpretations derived ultimately from the same error. The error of taking things too literally.

    —“When someone discusses religious beliefs, he does not necessarily mean belief in the epistemic sense, and the relevance of the epistemic sense of the term decreases the further back ones goes in the fixation of the creed. Rather, such notions are rather closer to the root of “belief”: beloved, a sense of commitment, something related to the notion of trust. It is not coincidental that “credere” is related to letter of credit or financial transactions that entail trust (see Armstrong 1994; Boyer 2001). …. Accordingly it is an extremely naive interpretation to think that religious ‘beliefs’ map to the ‘justified true belief’ standards of modern epistemology (see Ichikawa and Steup 2014); it is naive to examine the supernatural aspect of religion as anything but epiphenomenal. One needs to think of religious ‘belief’ as closer to a form of trusting, as a form of action, or a willingness to take action, and, most crucially of all, as a set of interdicts upon action. Further, religion establishes a categorical demarcation between sacred and profane, and one that cannot be violated (see Eliade 1959). The sacred is not open to ‘rationalization’ what we don’t understand is not necessarily irrational, and it might have reasons that can be probed only across generations of experience and experimentation.”— Taleb

    —-

    By CurtD

    Great quote.

    This is correct.

    I state the same thing in economic language: by Belief (love, trust, respect, submission of self), religion (debt performance, oath), and anthropomorphisms (systems of measurement, choice, in payment of debt, in exchange for love and respect) provide the most intuitive system of behavior manageable by man.

    So as usual, Taleb is less ‘scientific’ and more ‘literary’ than I am. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2020-07-22 10:19:00 UTC