YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster. In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.”–humanprogressorg Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation …. … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it. Thank you Western Civilization, The Evil White Male, The Oppressor, The Colonialist, the Bringer of ending human suffering and the privilege of ridiculing those to whom your entire station is but a debt.
Theme: Civilization
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Thankful for our gifts
(the demand for national mythos) Um. when the atheists attack mythology – abrahamic or otherwise – they do not specify the means of graceful failure of decidability that mythos provide. That’s why one needs a founding mythos. Because there must exists some means of decision making in the absence of knowledge. Hence why I argue for Self Authoring in the Virtues, and for the western historical ‘mythology’ of transcendence (progress into godhood). But what do we teach as decidability? One needs an aspiration or it is impossible to construct a complete set of decidability. (really. It is. Sorry). However, with that aspiration, the law is enough. The law brings us transcendence into gods, and into mystery of the universe. The law is enough because it will produce transcendence. transcendence likewise will produce the law. So whether bottom up or top down we produce the combination of the law, ascendence, transcendence. The Natural Law. The White Law. Reciprocity, and a canon of precompiled arguments for nearly every category of human decision making.
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Seeing the Ditchotomy
lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. You do not do it like you did to greece and judea.
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The Coming Civil War
THE GREEK CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY NOT PERSONAL RELIGION
In his book on the subject, Did the Greeks Believe Their Myths?, Paul Veyne writes: —“Myth is truthful, but figuratively so. It is not historical truth mixed with lies; it is a high philosophical teaching that is entirely true, on the condition that, instead of taking it literally, one sees in it an allegory.”— -
Constantine the Destroyer of The Empre
CONSTANTINE THE DESTROYER OF THE EMPRE Emperor Constantine moved the legions from the frontiers to one consolidated roving army as a way to save money and to protect wealthier citizens within the cities. However, this grand strategy would have costly effects of the Roman empire by weakening its frontier defenses and allowing it to be susceptible to outside armies coming in. Also, people who lived near the Roman frontiers would begin to look to the barbarians for protection after the Roman armies departed. “Constantine abolished this frontier security by removing the greater part of the soldiery from the frontiers to cities that needed no auxiliary forces. He thus deprived of help the people who were harassed by the barbarians and burdened tranquil cities with the pest of the military, so that several straightway were deserted. Moreover, he softened the soldiers who treated themselves to shows and luxuries. Indeed, to speak plainly, he personally planted the first seeds of our present devastated state of affairs รขยย Zosimus, 5th-century CE historian[citation needed]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
THE GREEK UNDERSTANDING OF GODS —“Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods
all sorts of things which are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery and mutual deceit.
But if horses or oxen or lions had hands or could draw with their hands and accomplish such works as men,
horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and the oxen as similar to oxen,
and they would make the bodies
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
THE GODS GAVE US FIRE, BUT WE MAD OURSELVES GODS WITH METAL. As far as I know (and I may be wrong) gods gave us fire via Prometheus, but man invented metal. And while Hephaestus is a god of Smiths (and I am not sure how many civilizations have such a thing other than Thor and Hephaestus) the gods did not give man metal. We made our solves gods by discovering it, and bending it to our will. ๐
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster. In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.”–humanprogressorg Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation …. … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it. Thank you Western Civilization, The Evil White Male, The Oppressor, The Colonialist, the Bringer of ending human suffering and the privilege of ridiculing those to whom your entire station is but a debt.
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Seeing the Ditchotomy
lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. You do not do it like you did to greece and judea.
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Constantine the Destroyer of The Empre
CONSTANTINE THE DESTROYER OF THE EMPRE Emperor Constantine moved the legions from the frontiers to one consolidated roving army as a way to save money and to protect wealthier citizens within the cities. However, this grand strategy would have costly effects of the Roman empire by weakening its frontier defenses and allowing it to be susceptible to outside armies coming in. Also, people who lived near the Roman frontiers would begin to look to the barbarians for protection after the Roman armies departed. “Constantine abolished this frontier security by removing the greater part of the soldiery from the frontiers to cities that needed no auxiliary forces. He thus deprived of help the people who were harassed by the barbarians and burdened tranquil cities with the pest of the military, so that several straightway were deserted. Moreover, he softened the soldiers who treated themselves to shows and luxuries. Indeed, to speak plainly, he personally planted the first seeds of our present devastated state of affairs รขยย Zosimus, 5th-century CE historian[citation needed]