mysticism requires faith in the supernatural. reliance upon reason requires nothing other than that a rational preference for the logical necessity that over the long term, fewer falsehoods must eventually produce greater parsimony of correspondence (truth).
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 14:12:00 UTC
if you submit to mysticism you have abandoned reason. if you abandon reason you are no longer capable of rational cooperation. if you are no longer capable of rational cooperation then you are not longer human.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 13:24:00 UTC
ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW?
If you went to the same church, and had similar rituals, but they drew from all of our history, not just Biblical, and tried to apply the lessons of history to (apolitical) current life and family affairs would that make you more interested in it?
If you went to the same church and the people who performed the rituals were married, and had the best educations possible from the best universities possible, in both the sciences and the arts, would that make you more likely to go?
If you went to the same church and every week you had a guest speaker on a ‘meaningful’ subject. would that make you more likely to go?
If you went to the same church, and they offered education by professionals with lifetime experience in ‘real life, household management, craftsmanship, business, industry, finance, and science, would that make you more interested?
If you want to that same church and they provided credit union and banking, legal, tax, services – not by employees but by devotees – what would you think of it?
If you went to that same church and they organized emergency and disaster services, what would you think of it?
What does this sequence of ideas make you think and feel?
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 13:18:00 UTC
MINDFULNESS IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
shinto achieves mindfulness through precise repetition of ritual in a respectful manner.
stoicism achieves mindfulness through small daily task completion in a virtuous manner.
buddhism achieves mindfulness through meditation and escape from reality.
Islam achieves mindfulness by many memorizations and ritual prayers during every single day.
christianity achieves mindfulness by personal and collective prayer (and song).
Order those by the least false to most false.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 12:25:00 UTC
THINK OF THE CHURCH AS THE MONSANTO OF FARM LABOR AND THAT’S THE BEST ANALOGY
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 12:19:00 UTC
FYI: ORIGINS OF “CROM”
Crom Cruach (“Crom”)
Irish Paganism.
“Head of all the gods”
Gold figure surrounded by twelve others (fertility / sun god).
Human sacrifice in exchange for promise of fertility (probably crops).
Myth has it that his worship was ended by st patrick who smashed his ceremonial ‘altar’ (or whatever).
(I have not researched this deeply, but there is some historical justification for the origins of this ‘god’ as a ‘hero’ from the past.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 10:31:00 UTC
As far as i know, gods, like the rest of the universe, consist entirely of information. They hold, and transfer information. And by information, we mean, influences upon individual decidability. The question is, what is the quality of the information that they transfer? And how do we measure the consequences of the information that they transfer? These various gods exist, since humans act as though they exist, even if they only exist, like all of the universe, as information. And some of these gods are ideal, some helpful, some unhelpful, and some nothing more than the embodiment of evil. The way we know, is the truth or falsehood of their information, the productivity or parasitism of their people, and the genetic, economic, informational, and aesthetic achievement of their people. Gods are measurable and decidable. We can JUDGE THE GODS WORTHY OR NOT.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 10:23:00 UTC
MY GOD IS THE GOD OF MY ANCESTORS
My god is very simple. He wants the truth. Because truth gives us power over nature, to bend it to our will. And the power of truth over nature is the source of the ascent of our people by transcendence from beast, to man, to human – and eventually, if successful, to gods. Just as our Aryan(european) ancestors, the aristocratic egalitarians, opened the brotherhood of sovereign men to any who can transcend from beast, to man, to human, by his warrant of sovereignty to other men, my god seeks to create a brotherhood of gods by seeking transcendent humans to join him, and to increase his numbers, by those equally able to wield truth and sovereignty successfully. My god does not seek subjects. He seeks peers: the brotherhood of sovereign men.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 07:56:00 UTC
I talk to my god every day. My work is the result of a promise to my god. But like I fight against false statements, false arguments, false promises, and false stories, I also fight against false gods, and the false words of men who create and preserve the false gods. For if god is not identical to, and known by truth then how may he be a god?
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 06:07:00 UTC
Ill give you the objective model instead:
1-utopians(plato),
2-truth tellers (aristotle),
3-truth avoiders (sun tsu),
4-liars (abraham),
5-lying+ignorance(muhammed)
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-22 22:21:00 UTC