Theme: Agency

Joyce Meier’s christianity – which is continuous training in positive psychological reinforcement of developing emotional agency despite living among classes of people who lack emotional and perhaps executive agency.

The church experience is the reason religion ‘works’ on us – not the content. The content is retained and put to use because of the church experience. the question is then what content we wish retained.

We middle and upper classes forget that forget that the lower middle, working, and laboring classes spend a disproportionate time surrounded by frustrated anxious people lacking emotional and often executive agency.

The more agency you have (the lower your emotional impulse) and the more ability you have( the lower the cost of your learning, problem solving, and self adapting) the easier it is for you to achieve what you want in the world – which (think about this) includes largely avoiding those people that lack emotional and executive agency but entering fields, organizations, and institutions that filter OUT those people that lack emotional and executive agency.

So for colosseum-christianity that uses PRESENT psychology rather than past mythology is what I mean by converting christianity into a folk religion lacking the institutional dogma.

So, if we look at this kind of educational christianity, and the stoic method – a more disciplined means of self authoring and both of which produce mindfulness – and once we have achieved that mindfulness, we seek the epicurean rather than hedonistic life for most; and then if we add the heroic narrative for those of us who have all the agency we can possibly use, then we have everything except debts to nature, our heroes, and ancestors such that we persist the gains of their burdens to provide for us.