Theme: Religion

  • Q: “DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” I choose to believe in god. I talk to god all the ti

    Q: “DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?”
    I choose to believe in god. I talk to god all the time. I do not adhere to any given concept of god. I do not claim to understand anything about that god or make any claims about god. I do not need to.
    If you have faith in god, then you need not defend or justify that faith – if you must defend or justify that faith, it means you don’t have faith. But instead, you need the validation of others that you’re right and not wrong because you feel weak and incompetent and uncertain otherwise. Or you need god and religion as a crutch for the inability to understand yourself, life, and the universe.
    I don’t feel weak and incompetent. And I can understand the universe. I do not need to frame the universe as god or construction of god, as it would require I hold the pretense of understanding I cannot and do not have, or was weak, incompetent, insecure, and unable to understand the universe as it is.
    As such my concept of god is more of an advisor with knowledge and designs I lack, as a voice of wisdom and counsel within the universe, and possibly an artifact of the collective minds of man, and nothing more.

    Reply addressees: @wolflwise @whatifalthist


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-14 16:51:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1669024770082447382

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1669020612709294087

  • There are plenty of Denunciations of Galileo, Darwin, Spencer, and Marx, and pre

    There are plenty of Denunciations of Galileo, Darwin, Spencer, and Marx, and present denunciations of all three Abrahamic religions. Denunciation is just an expression of the instinct for altruistic punishment whenever someone’s morals are offended.

    That doesn’t mean it’s false. It only means she’s making a case, and that they are, as most invested historians are, and certainly as most invested Christians are, in apologetics.

    You cannot compensate for, excuse, or justify the fact that Christian ideology, illiteracy, mandated ignorance, genetic decline, and institutional corruption prevented the restoration of the aristocracy, and the martial tradition that required empirical truth and demonstrated excellence, and as a consequence that the religion produced a dark age of ignorance and superstition, corruption, and oppression and held back the industrial revolution for over a thousand years, and is responsible for the suffering of mankind for that thousand years, and the near destruction of Europe as the semitic cults of death had destroyed the seven great civilizations of the ancient world, leaving largely northern Europe alone to drag mankind out of Abrahamic fraud and deception and into modernity by remote chance.

    Islam, which is but a reformation of Christianity to make it militaristic and expansionist, as an expression of the hatred of the south eurasians against the newer and superior north eurasian indo eurpeans, declined after 1000, with serial collapses despite being the center of food production and central axis of trade, and the total inability of the region to produce either a legal government like europe or a moral government like china, or even a peaceful one like India.

    Reply addressees: @CrastoMervin @DwightExMachina


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-12 17:12:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668305182369755154

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668268574874431492

  • Man, obviously, created all gods, demigods, spirits, and folk creatures

    Man, obviously, created all gods, demigods, spirits, and folk creatures.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-11 06:36:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667782901889486848

    Reply addressees: @KonfituraL @PolitiStoned @VivekGRamaswamy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667782000265113601

  • Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical W

    Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
    https://www.amazon.com/Darkening-Age-Christian-Destruction-Classical-ebook/dp/B073XBS8S5/
    (Of course, libgen is your friend for academic works.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-10 15:26:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667553880396136449

    Reply addressees: @DwightExMachina

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667547432723283970

  • Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical W

    Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
    https://t.co/rygWW7ttzz
    (Of course, libgen is your friend for academic works.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-10 15:26:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667553880324857856

  • THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF “RELIGION” IS NOT SUPERNATURAL – BUT EXPLANATORY AN

    THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF “RELIGION” IS NOT SUPERNATURAL – BUT EXPLANATORY AND ADVISORY.
    The correct interpretation is that all civilizations require a narrative that explains non-aggression, distributes rules of non-aggression, provides personal and public rituals to reinforce non-aggression (not equality), and as such, provides a means of mindfulness.

    The evidence is rather obvious that given the spectrum of present and historical religions(Abrahamic, Hindu, Buddhist), natural religions (Shinto) and pseudoreligions (Confucianism), and replacements for religion (European stoicism), secular humanism, nationalism, and communism, that there is no need for supernatural religion.

    There is instead, just a need for an intuitionistic means of achieving mindfulness despite the alienation that first arose in the agrarian age over ten thousand years ago. But we are past the agrarian age. And our Christian religion,d despite coming to terms with natural law failed to reform, producing an equivalent without the superstition.

    Reply addressees: @junkodama10 @MrAtheistPants @MsMelChen @michaelshermer


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 19:41:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667255617440960516

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667253417943748611

  • Correct. The laws-of-nature needed an ‘allegory’ in order to be followed by the

    Correct. The laws-of-nature needed an ‘allegory’ in order to be followed by the simple minded masses: Christianity did that best … by permitting Christians to be virtuous without being smart, strong, educated, wealthy, traveled, powerful.

    Hierarchy of Understanding:
    Generation 1
    Embodiment: sense+perception+prediction
    .. Anthropomorphism: Projection
    .. .. Generation 2
    .. .. Mythology; Fictionalization
    .. .. .. Theology: Generalization+Rules
    .. .. .. .. Generation 3
    .. .. .. .. Philosophy: Reason+Syllogism
    .. .. .. .. .. Natural Philosophy: Empiricism+Mathematics
    .. .. .. .. .. .. Generation 4
    .. .. .. .. .. .. Science: Empiricism+Calculus
    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. First Principles: Causality+Computatio+

    Reply addressees: @Paulp6363 @ConceptualJames


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 14:47:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667181581952249860

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667143519440363526

  • THE FOUNDERS WERE ENLIGHTENED (NOT SUPERSTITIOUS) This is correct. The aristocra

    THE FOUNDERS WERE ENLIGHTENED (NOT SUPERSTITIOUS)
    This is correct. The aristocratic founders understood the need for Christianity among the commoners. And. used Deism as a form of diplomacy. (I use the term loyalty instead of diplomacy.) Although Agnosticism rather than paganism had been a norm in the aristocracy for a very long gtime. So, it’s more likely to say that they were enlightened, meaning that they were no longer bound by superstition, rather than ‘pagan’. That is, unless you interpret Pagan as ‘philosophical’ rather than theological, or practicing ‘hero worship’ and meaning ‘worship’ in the most abstract sense of ‘imitation’.

    Reply addressees: @Paulp6363 @auny_marie @ConceptualJames


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 14:19:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667174464780488714

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667170646021865472

  • Ian McGilchrist has created a narrative to defend his spiritual woo-woo. Like mo

    Ian McGilchrist has created a narrative to defend his spiritual woo-woo. Like most pseudoscientists he combines scientific half truth with projection, wishful thinking, and mysticism. It’s not seditious like say, Yuval Harari’s continuation of jewish pseudoscience, continuing the tradition of pseusocience of Lewontin, Lysenko, and Gould, Freud, Boaz, and Marx, Horkhimer, Fromm, Marcuse and Adorno,


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 10:56:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667123490971959297

  • Why Communism is a Failed Religion

    Why Communism is a Failed Religion https://youtu.be/75KqMzmuLw4


    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 00:04:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666959420062941184