Theme: Institution

  • What Is It that Christianity – or Any Religion – Provides?

    (it’s really simple)

    —“Christianity doesn’t provide comfort. It, like Buddhism and some other religions, is existentially terrifying. You need to grapple with a good Christian scholar like Edward Feser.”— Rik Storey

    That is counter to the evidence. The monster under the bed is terrifying if you are a child. Most of us grow out of it. Not all of us. But, most. The only thing most of us are terrified by is our irrelevance, inadequacy and smallness in the face of a universe we appear to be the only seed so far to plant in it. Stoicism provides insulation from signaling. Buddhism provides insulation from signaling. Christianity provides insulation from signaling. Judaism provides insulation from signaling. Islam provides insulation from signaling. Hindu castes provide insulation from signaling. The reason all organized religions emerged at the same time was the increase in trade, division of labor, power distance, and the emergence of classes, and the all-too-human need, exponentially exacerbated by the feminine mind, for ‘not being left behind’. Each of these techniques provides psychological insulation from status signals of inferiority which cause humans emotional anxiety or panic, that interferes with thought, reason, and action, and instead trains the practitioner to develop varying degrees of mindfulness at the risk of addiction to the euphoria from manufacturing a mental state (the opposite of rage), that prevents him or her from productive participation with others in the division of labor that makes his religion necessary but provides his existence. The christian religion begins with a false debt, a false threat of not repaying it with debt servitude, and a feminine figure of love to encourage you to keep paying, in exchange for insulation from status signals, and the continuous stress of continuous adaptation to those opportunities and threats. Unfortunately just as lying and crime are cheaper means of discounting than truth and productivity, the cheap equivalent of status deception is materialism, alienation, undermining, gossiping, rallying, shaming, moralizing, psychologizing, and the rest of the feminine techniques. The Jewish and Islamic are far worse versions – if I had the energy I’d equally enumerate them here. The Buddhist, and Hindu are far less worse, and the stoic and Epicurean entirely truthful and good, with the family cult of hearth, and the burgher cult of law, and the aristocratic cult (the one I internalize) of ancestral pagans (war, heroism, achievement), available to those fearless of status competition, material or otherwise – playing th greatest status gam of all: the power to change the world, leave a mark upon it, and to be remembered. As for idle threats of debating ‘scholars’. The only people that try to debate me are people too stupid not to. I would crush any theological scholar. And it would be trivial because my argument always comes down to true, operational, and empirical, whereas the faithful are stuck with the sophomoric supernatural and presumed good. And stuck with agreement on consequence. I’m certain that they would avoid debating me at all costs. There is nothing good in our religions that cannot be explained in adult terms. But again, the difference between truth and experience exists. the temperature and frequency of red is not the same as the experience of red. There is a consequential experience from the perception of red. There is a consequential experience from the understanding of spectrum, frequency, and temperature. It is our knowledge via competition between experience and cause that prevents errors in either. All knowledge is gained by adversarial means. It must be. But, even such, there is little value in crushing others. My goal, which is visible in the most recent podcast (#0003) is unification via-negativa. And this requires continuous research. This is not to consent to religious attempts at dominating others by social construction of mysticism. It is by explaining why Jesus was correct and an innovator on one hand; why christianity was not his invention but others;. That those others had political intentions; that this ‘churchianity’ was for the purpose of destruction; and why the abrahamic dogmas compete by denial of one of gods laws – laws that explain the failure of these religions to achieve their false promises. Truths: 1. The evidence of the hand of god: The Laws of nature, the natural law of sovereignty and reciprocity, the christian law of love and charity(seduction by forgiveness), and the evolutionary law of transcendence.

    1. The Group strategy of the european peoples
      (explanation of adaptive, innovative, maneuver, in time.)
    2. The political Strategy of the European Peoples
      (explanation of Trifunctionalism: military, law, faith)

    3. The social strategy of the european peoples
      (explanation of self determination: sovereignty, reciprocity, … … markets in everything)

    4. The Personal Strategy of the european peoples:
      (heroism, excellence, beauty, truth, duty, productivity, and leaving the world transformed for the better for having lived in it – seek to be remembered.)

    5. The price of the european peoples strategy.
      (explanation of the prevention of the reproduction of the unproductive so that resources can be devoted to the production of commons)

    6. The industry of the european people
      (profiting from the continuous domestication then transcendence (evolution) of man from animal to semi domesticated animal, to fully human, to the gods we imagine.)

    This is the law of the masculine european aristocracy, whether military or legal. The church is for women, children, the old, and the weak. Frederik was right.

    —“”Christianity … is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it”.”—Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738).

    That said, it does WORK as a source of mindfulness, and the faithful make an exceptional citizenry for the aristocracy, and work force for the burghers, and are extremely honest in their participation in the law; and can be called to war with fervor without caution. And are the least-vulnerable to the second semitic destruction of western civilization by marxism, neo-marxism (cultural marxism), postmodernism, feminism and denialism. The question is – how to save it in an era where with each passing generation only the fundamentalists survive, and those who are not fundamentalists abandon both the faith, the institutions, the traditions, and loyalty and defense of the faithful.

  • What Is It that Christianity – or Any Religion – Provides?

    (it’s really simple)

    —“Christianity doesn’t provide comfort. It, like Buddhism and some other religions, is existentially terrifying. You need to grapple with a good Christian scholar like Edward Feser.”— Rik Storey

    That is counter to the evidence. The monster under the bed is terrifying if you are a child. Most of us grow out of it. Not all of us. But, most. The only thing most of us are terrified by is our irrelevance, inadequacy and smallness in the face of a universe we appear to be the only seed so far to plant in it. Stoicism provides insulation from signaling. Buddhism provides insulation from signaling. Christianity provides insulation from signaling. Judaism provides insulation from signaling. Islam provides insulation from signaling. Hindu castes provide insulation from signaling. The reason all organized religions emerged at the same time was the increase in trade, division of labor, power distance, and the emergence of classes, and the all-too-human need, exponentially exacerbated by the feminine mind, for ‘not being left behind’. Each of these techniques provides psychological insulation from status signals of inferiority which cause humans emotional anxiety or panic, that interferes with thought, reason, and action, and instead trains the practitioner to develop varying degrees of mindfulness at the risk of addiction to the euphoria from manufacturing a mental state (the opposite of rage), that prevents him or her from productive participation with others in the division of labor that makes his religion necessary but provides his existence. The christian religion begins with a false debt, a false threat of not repaying it with debt servitude, and a feminine figure of love to encourage you to keep paying, in exchange for insulation from status signals, and the continuous stress of continuous adaptation to those opportunities and threats. Unfortunately just as lying and crime are cheaper means of discounting than truth and productivity, the cheap equivalent of status deception is materialism, alienation, undermining, gossiping, rallying, shaming, moralizing, psychologizing, and the rest of the feminine techniques. The Jewish and Islamic are far worse versions – if I had the energy I’d equally enumerate them here. The Buddhist, and Hindu are far less worse, and the stoic and Epicurean entirely truthful and good, with the family cult of hearth, and the burgher cult of law, and the aristocratic cult (the one I internalize) of ancestral pagans (war, heroism, achievement), available to those fearless of status competition, material or otherwise – playing th greatest status gam of all: the power to change the world, leave a mark upon it, and to be remembered. As for idle threats of debating ‘scholars’. The only people that try to debate me are people too stupid not to. I would crush any theological scholar. And it would be trivial because my argument always comes down to true, operational, and empirical, whereas the faithful are stuck with the sophomoric supernatural and presumed good. And stuck with agreement on consequence. I’m certain that they would avoid debating me at all costs. There is nothing good in our religions that cannot be explained in adult terms. But again, the difference between truth and experience exists. the temperature and frequency of red is not the same as the experience of red. There is a consequential experience from the perception of red. There is a consequential experience from the understanding of spectrum, frequency, and temperature. It is our knowledge via competition between experience and cause that prevents errors in either. All knowledge is gained by adversarial means. It must be. But, even such, there is little value in crushing others. My goal, which is visible in the most recent podcast (#0003) is unification via-negativa. And this requires continuous research. This is not to consent to religious attempts at dominating others by social construction of mysticism. It is by explaining why Jesus was correct and an innovator on one hand; why christianity was not his invention but others;. That those others had political intentions; that this ‘churchianity’ was for the purpose of destruction; and why the abrahamic dogmas compete by denial of one of gods laws – laws that explain the failure of these religions to achieve their false promises. Truths: 1. The evidence of the hand of god: The Laws of nature, the natural law of sovereignty and reciprocity, the christian law of love and charity(seduction by forgiveness), and the evolutionary law of transcendence.

    1. The Group strategy of the european peoples
      (explanation of adaptive, innovative, maneuver, in time.)
    2. The political Strategy of the European Peoples
      (explanation of Trifunctionalism: military, law, faith)

    3. The social strategy of the european peoples
      (explanation of self determination: sovereignty, reciprocity, … … markets in everything)

    4. The Personal Strategy of the european peoples:
      (heroism, excellence, beauty, truth, duty, productivity, and leaving the world transformed for the better for having lived in it – seek to be remembered.)

    5. The price of the european peoples strategy.
      (explanation of the prevention of the reproduction of the unproductive so that resources can be devoted to the production of commons)

    6. The industry of the european people
      (profiting from the continuous domestication then transcendence (evolution) of man from animal to semi domesticated animal, to fully human, to the gods we imagine.)

    This is the law of the masculine european aristocracy, whether military or legal. The church is for women, children, the old, and the weak. Frederik was right.

    —“”Christianity … is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it”.”—Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738).

    That said, it does WORK as a source of mindfulness, and the faithful make an exceptional citizenry for the aristocracy, and work force for the burghers, and are extremely honest in their participation in the law; and can be called to war with fervor without caution. And are the least-vulnerable to the second semitic destruction of western civilization by marxism, neo-marxism (cultural marxism), postmodernism, feminism and denialism. The question is – how to save it in an era where with each passing generation only the fundamentalists survive, and those who are not fundamentalists abandon both the faith, the institutions, the traditions, and loyalty and defense of the faithful.

  • The Undermining of The Masculine by Magical Thinking

    (important summary) [T]he military was shut out of politics. Then men’s organizations shut off and out of civil society. Then the family undermined to shut men out of the family. Then manliness shut out of education. Then men and manliness shut out of discourse. And only once that was accomplished could the enemy fully remove european sense making: realism, naturalism, operationalism and our heroism and duty, Excellence and Beauty, Truth and reciprocity, Law and Jury, and markets and eugenics – How, persistent, relentless undermining – the warfare strategy of the human female. It was all by design. The design to restore the pre-civilizational strategy of the female and the herd. A design driven by instinct not rason. However, there are no female civilizations for reason – they cannot survive. Yet they try over and over again to fail. Why? “Predisposition to magical thinking.” The predisposition to magical thinking is as relentless as the predisposition to undermine. Neither Eve nor Pandora received the punishment they deserved. … Until now.

  • The Undermining of The Masculine by Magical Thinking

    (important summary) [T]he military was shut out of politics. Then men’s organizations shut off and out of civil society. Then the family undermined to shut men out of the family. Then manliness shut out of education. Then men and manliness shut out of discourse. And only once that was accomplished could the enemy fully remove european sense making: realism, naturalism, operationalism and our heroism and duty, Excellence and Beauty, Truth and reciprocity, Law and Jury, and markets and eugenics – How, persistent, relentless undermining – the warfare strategy of the human female. It was all by design. The design to restore the pre-civilizational strategy of the female and the herd. A design driven by instinct not rason. However, there are no female civilizations for reason – they cannot survive. Yet they try over and over again to fail. Why? “Predisposition to magical thinking.” The predisposition to magical thinking is as relentless as the predisposition to undermine. Neither Eve nor Pandora received the punishment they deserved. … Until now.

  • The Economists Loss of Confidence

    [E]conomists talked in bold, confident, nonsense up until 2008. They don’t any longer. For good reason. You can produce and economy as an extension of producing rule of law of reciprocity but you cannot produce an economy directly. You can insure some of an economy by partnership between state and strategic industry. But an economy is an endless competition – war – at slow speed, and there is no way to outwit chaos.

  • The Economists Loss of Confidence

    [E]conomists talked in bold, confident, nonsense up until 2008. They don’t any longer. For good reason. You can produce and economy as an extension of producing rule of law of reciprocity but you cannot produce an economy directly. You can insure some of an economy by partnership between state and strategic industry. But an economy is an endless competition – war – at slow speed, and there is no way to outwit chaos.

  • DISAMBIGUATION OF GOVERNMENT (BANKRUPTCY) 1. Military > State > Government > Com

    DISAMBIGUATION OF GOVERNMENT (BANKRUPTCY)

    1. Military > State > Government > Commons > institutions-organization

    2. Rule of Law > Law > Courts > Contracts > Biz-trade

    3. Strategy+Tradition > Religion+Education+Academy+Media > Families/Consumers > People-consumption

    State (corporation holding assets)

    1. Federal State -> Federal Government

    2. … Regional State -> Regional Government

    3. … … Territorial: County Corporation -> County Government

    4. … … Market: Local Corporation -> Local Government

    If a state declares bankruptcy the creditors get screwed all or partly. The state has demonstrated incompetence in the management of state affairs, and then the creditors will seek higher interest rates in the future, and after a cycle or two governments ‘learn’ partly because they have evidence of the consequences after bankruptcy and no evidence prior to bankruptcy – just as we now have evidence of immigration, diversity, monetary policy, and democracy – evidence of failure seems to be necessary to prevent repetition of human hubris.

    The state as a monopoly on violence is evidently false because it was a construct of the westphalian peace. At present it’s falsified, just as it was prior to the westphalian peace. In other words it was always false.

    The state is a corporation. The institutions organize the use of assets. The owners of that corporation consist of a small number of people willing to use sufficient violence to prevent alternative organizations of institutions and assets. The people who govern may or may not constitute sufficient violence to do so.

    Usually they don’t. In china they do. In russia they do. Because the fear of chaos in those countries is the opposite of the love of opportunity in NE European civilizations. – something the rest of the world cannot comprehend – because they never developed trust or commons … as we did.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 12:07:00 UTC

  • The problem arose during the industrial revolution when our right to defend the

    The problem arose during the industrial revolution when our right to defend the commons in court(our ‘standing’) was revoked by the state – we were disintermediated from defense of the commons.This created opportunity for political corruption in our otherwise adaptive common law.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 20:57:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253065501489672193

    Reply addressees: @judicialist

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253065089776787459


    IN REPLY TO:

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    @judicialist Well, innovation in the division of knowledge labor, production and distribution creates opportunity for innovation in free riding, fraud, rent seeking, and corruption – so we have to produce a market and incentives to suppress these ir-reciprocities. Endless Competition via +/-.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1253065089776787459

  • if you give rats a rat-utopia this is what they’ll do. Women and underclasses do

    if you give rats a rat-utopia this is what they’ll do. Women and underclasses do not have centuries of vocabulary, bodies of thought, norms, traditions, institutions, to domesticate their impulses once freed from household labor, any more than men did freed from hunter-gathering.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 20:45:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253062279656017921

    Reply addressees: @Fight4TheWest

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253061658978615296

  • A CENTRAL BANK IS THE ECONOMIC EQUIVALENT OF AN ARMY – NECESSARY (just necessari

    A CENTRAL BANK IS THE ECONOMIC EQUIVALENT OF AN ARMY – NECESSARY
    (just necessarily national rather than private) https://t.co/Qxm1DZ7mhA


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 14:35:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1252969234965114880