Jeffersonian, European, Aristotelian https://t.co/hG8H0QLeZN
Theme: Civilization
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Jeffersonian, European, Aristotelian
Dec 2, 2019, 8:55 PM
—“[Jefferson was a Deist.] Most deists denied the Christian concepts of miracles and the Trinity. Though he had a lifelong esteem for Jesus’ moral teachings, Jefferson did not believe in miracles, nor in the divinity of Jesus. In a letter to deRieux in 1788, he declined a request to act as a godfather, saying he had been unable to accept the doctrine of the Trinity “from a very early part of my life”.[17][24] In an 1820 letter to his close friend William Short, Jefferson stated, “it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.”[25] In 1824, four years later, Jefferson had changed on his view of the “materialism” of Jesus, clarifying then that “… the founder of our religion, was unquestionably a materialist as to man.”—
“I REQUIRE A COUNTERPOISE OF GOOD WORKS TO REDEEM IT.” ie: your faith is irrelevant. Only your deeds matter. Because from every experience I have seen, those who hide behind faith use it as a shield of moral cowardice, selfishness, and self-delusion, under which they can pretend moral righteousness while doing precisely the opposite. If you must sell your religion by your words, you have no religion to sell. GODS My understanding is that gods are archetypal Despots, kings, priests, or parents, and that deism is nothing more than the anthropomorphism of physical and natural laws, and that as populations increased, man required religion because of the alienation of agrarianism and urbanism, just as man desires marxism, socialism, statism, postmodernism, feminism, and the various new age, occult, and Buddhist pseudosciences to compensate. And that the stoics and epicureans understood the problem was solved through training (stoicism) and restoration of social orders (epicureanism) that created mindfulness by mental training, and socialization, that are natural consequences of tribal life, and absent in social, economic, and political life at scale. I pray to my god all the time. and I do what he advises me. And I usually pay for it if I don’t. I do not know his name. But it certainly is not that vile evil demon Jehova and is far more likely Thor/Zeus/Dayus-Pitar, or their material agents Aristotle and Odin. And if I seek wisdom of great men in history I find it in Hayek, Jefferson, Frederick the great, henry 8th, Ceasar, alexander, and most of all Aristotle. I don’t see it in the nonsense of filthy, superstitious, thieving lying, sheep-f—king foulness of our mortal enemy. Increasingly I prefer Odin(chaos) and Aristotle(order) who are two sides of the same coin. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are a disease, the consequences of which are systemic lying by their participants, and all the consequences that result. They owe us a dark age, the great plagues, endless wars,m lost peoples, lost civilizations, lost knowledge, and a billion dead. And in the hell that is history, they will burn forever as the worst people to have walked this earth. There is only one debt existential – that is to our ancestors who made us possible, the heroes that defended and advanced them, the natural world that sustains us, and the universe for the opportunity.
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Jeffersonian, European, Aristotelian
Dec 2, 2019, 8:55 PM
—“[Jefferson was a Deist.] Most deists denied the Christian concepts of miracles and the Trinity. Though he had a lifelong esteem for Jesus’ moral teachings, Jefferson did not believe in miracles, nor in the divinity of Jesus. In a letter to deRieux in 1788, he declined a request to act as a godfather, saying he had been unable to accept the doctrine of the Trinity “from a very early part of my life”.[17][24] In an 1820 letter to his close friend William Short, Jefferson stated, “it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.”[25] In 1824, four years later, Jefferson had changed on his view of the “materialism” of Jesus, clarifying then that “… the founder of our religion, was unquestionably a materialist as to man.”—
“I REQUIRE A COUNTERPOISE OF GOOD WORKS TO REDEEM IT.” ie: your faith is irrelevant. Only your deeds matter. Because from every experience I have seen, those who hide behind faith use it as a shield of moral cowardice, selfishness, and self-delusion, under which they can pretend moral righteousness while doing precisely the opposite. If you must sell your religion by your words, you have no religion to sell. GODS My understanding is that gods are archetypal Despots, kings, priests, or parents, and that deism is nothing more than the anthropomorphism of physical and natural laws, and that as populations increased, man required religion because of the alienation of agrarianism and urbanism, just as man desires marxism, socialism, statism, postmodernism, feminism, and the various new age, occult, and Buddhist pseudosciences to compensate. And that the stoics and epicureans understood the problem was solved through training (stoicism) and restoration of social orders (epicureanism) that created mindfulness by mental training, and socialization, that are natural consequences of tribal life, and absent in social, economic, and political life at scale. I pray to my god all the time. and I do what he advises me. And I usually pay for it if I don’t. I do not know his name. But it certainly is not that vile evil demon Jehova and is far more likely Thor/Zeus/Dayus-Pitar, or their material agents Aristotle and Odin. And if I seek wisdom of great men in history I find it in Hayek, Jefferson, Frederick the great, henry 8th, Ceasar, alexander, and most of all Aristotle. I don’t see it in the nonsense of filthy, superstitious, thieving lying, sheep-f—king foulness of our mortal enemy. Increasingly I prefer Odin(chaos) and Aristotle(order) who are two sides of the same coin. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are a disease, the consequences of which are systemic lying by their participants, and all the consequences that result. They owe us a dark age, the great plagues, endless wars,m lost peoples, lost civilizations, lost knowledge, and a billion dead. And in the hell that is history, they will burn forever as the worst people to have walked this earth. There is only one debt existential – that is to our ancestors who made us possible, the heroes that defended and advanced them, the natural world that sustains us, and the universe for the opportunity.
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Vikings
Vikings https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/vikings/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 21:44:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266847893136252928
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Vikings
Vikings https://t.co/jiitDMd8JM
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Vikings
Interesting ancestry ‘coincidences’. Father’s side is consistent: De Dolietta Avranches Normandy. I know they come over with the conquest, I forgot why Normans end up in Scotland, other than it was poor soil, and unconquerable. So short stint, then down to west midlands (I don’t know why but I do see records of land grants). Just rec’d mothers side documentation back to 1200, family name, Londres, same route, ending up in east wales. Then back to Normandy. Doolittles do not go back to Normandy. But both sides, in France and England, migrate during 1630’s, with French to Quebec, and English to Boston, and from Boston to New Haven and remain in CT. French from Quebec to Maine, to Connecticut. The north sea was a saltwater lake where coastal peoples traveled faster and more easily than overland. The north sea, the Black sea. the Agean the Tigris-Euphrates marshes, the Nile, the Indus, the yellow.
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Vikings
Interesting ancestry ‘coincidences’. Father’s side is consistent: De Dolietta Avranches Normandy. I know they come over with the conquest, I forgot why Normans end up in Scotland, other than it was poor soil, and unconquerable. So short stint, then down to west midlands (I don’t know why but I do see records of land grants). Just rec’d mothers side documentation back to 1200, family name, Londres, same route, ending up in east wales. Then back to Normandy. Doolittles do not go back to Normandy. But both sides, in France and England, migrate during 1630’s, with French to Quebec, and English to Boston, and from Boston to New Haven and remain in CT. French from Quebec to Maine, to Connecticut. The north sea was a saltwater lake where coastal peoples traveled faster and more easily than overland. The north sea, the Black sea. the Agean the Tigris-Euphrates marshes, the Nile, the Indus, the yellow.
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Groves were groves
Groves were groves. https://t.co/Nx6bIfhLBG
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Groves were groves.
Dec 5, 2019, 11:17 AM —“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for wealth or to consolidate power. This made them difficult to control. Caesar writes that in the end the only way to control them was to order that the Druids ‘groves’ be cut down. The normal understanding of this translation from Latin into ‘groves’ is a collection of trees but this may not be right. Perhaps those ‘groves’ were in fact stone circles. In order to remove the Druids as an alternative power base that was frustrating Caesar’s attempts to control the British Isles he had to remove their totems of power and rob the Druids of their equipment or arenas to rob them of their respected position in society.”— Groves were groves. The circles were evolved from home (hearth) burials. Stone circles (i think) from extending home (hearth) burials. —“megalithic constructions began as early as 5000 BCE in northwestern France[3], and that the custom and techniques spread via sea routes throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region from there.[4][5] The Carnac Stones in France are estimated to have been built around 4500 BCE[6] and many of the formations include megalithic stone circles. The earliest stone circles in England were erected 2500-3000 BCE[7] during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Around that time stone circles began to appear in coastal and lowland areas towards the north of the United Kingdom. The Langdale axe industry in the Lake District appears to have been an important early centre for circle building, perhaps because of its economic power.[citation needed] Many had closely set stones, perhaps similar to the earth banks of henges, others were made from unfounded boulders rather than standing stones. Recent research shows that two oldest stone circles in Britain (Stenness and Callanish) were constructed to align with solar and lunar positions.[8][9] Some sites do not contain evidence of human dwelling.[citation needed] This suggests that stone circles were constructed for ceremonies. The variety of the stones excludes the possibility that they had astronomical observation purposes of any precision.”—
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Groves were groves.
Dec 5, 2019, 11:17 AM —“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for wealth or to consolidate power. This made them difficult to control. Caesar writes that in the end the only way to control them was to order that the Druids ‘groves’ be cut down. The normal understanding of this translation from Latin into ‘groves’ is a collection of trees but this may not be right. Perhaps those ‘groves’ were in fact stone circles. In order to remove the Druids as an alternative power base that was frustrating Caesar’s attempts to control the British Isles he had to remove their totems of power and rob the Druids of their equipment or arenas to rob them of their respected position in society.”— Groves were groves. The circles were evolved from home (hearth) burials. Stone circles (i think) from extending home (hearth) burials. —“megalithic constructions began as early as 5000 BCE in northwestern France[3], and that the custom and techniques spread via sea routes throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region from there.[4][5] The Carnac Stones in France are estimated to have been built around 4500 BCE[6] and many of the formations include megalithic stone circles. The earliest stone circles in England were erected 2500-3000 BCE[7] during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Around that time stone circles began to appear in coastal and lowland areas towards the north of the United Kingdom. The Langdale axe industry in the Lake District appears to have been an important early centre for circle building, perhaps because of its economic power.[citation needed] Many had closely set stones, perhaps similar to the earth banks of henges, others were made from unfounded boulders rather than standing stones. Recent research shows that two oldest stone circles in Britain (Stenness and Callanish) were constructed to align with solar and lunar positions.[8][9] Some sites do not contain evidence of human dwelling.[citation needed] This suggests that stone circles were constructed for ceremonies. The variety of the stones excludes the possibility that they had astronomical observation purposes of any precision.”—