Theme: Religion

  • A good man, a great christian, a bad statesman, and a terrible president. Faith

    A good man, a great christian, a bad statesman, and a terrible president. Faith is for people you can interact with then judge the worth of your faith. But faith is a terrible tool for polities. The chinense learned this too. It’s why they stagnated. Rule is purely empirical.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 19:47:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181657495057645568

    Reply addressees: @QuintusCurtius

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181591020359880704


    IN REPLY TO:

    @QuintusCurtius

    Fourteen stitches.
    A black eye.
    95 years old.

    And Jimmy Carter is right back out there, building homes for the poor.

    And living modestly, without lavish expenditures or arrogance.

    Jimmy Carter is a great man. I don’t care what anybody says.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181591020359880704

  • While Science (Masculine), Epicuriean (neutral) and Buddhist (feminine), Chinese

    While Science (Masculine), Epicuriean (neutral) and Buddhist (feminine), Chinese and Japanese and Pre-Christian Ritual and Ancestor Worship, are all constructive.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:30:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638082375950338

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638081516101632


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion – that while cheap to indoctrinate, produces the horrors upon the world of judaism, christianity and islam – the enemies of mankind.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638081516101632


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion – that while cheap to indoctrinate, produces the horrors upon the world of judaism, christianity and islam – the enemies of mankind.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638081516101632

  • There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion

    There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion – that while cheap to indoctrinate, produces the horrors upon the world of judaism, christianity and islam – the enemies of mankind.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:30:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638081516101632

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638080547217408


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    So whether High Agency Truth, Limited Agency Self Improvement, Lower Agency Self Discipline, or lowest Agency Self Sedation with falsehood, we seek the means of mindfulness that suits our agency – ability and resources in the soft competition between superpredators: cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638080547217408


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    So whether High Agency Truth, Limited Agency Self Improvement, Lower Agency Self Discipline, or lowest Agency Self Sedation with falsehood, we seek the means of mindfulness that suits our agency – ability and resources in the soft competition between superpredators: cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638080547217408

  • Most supernatural philosophies – those we rightly call religion – seek to achiev

    Most supernatural philosophies – those we rightly call religion – seek to achieve mindfulness by denying status competition, producing an imaginary equality instead of an existential status competition, pretense of oppression rather than incompetence, or promising a future world.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:30:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638079683149824

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638078835941377


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Some pseudoscientific philosophies like Buddhism seek to achieve mindfulness by forgoing agency in the world, and instead developing it in yourself – to tolerate the status competition and all other difficulties in the world.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638078835941377


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    Some pseudoscientific philosophies like Buddhism seek to achieve mindfulness by forgoing agency in the world, and instead developing it in yourself – to tolerate the status competition and all other difficulties in the world.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181638078835941377

  • Every religion attempts to achieve mindfulness – escape from signal competition

    Every religion attempts to achieve mindfulness – escape from signal competition differently, and all do so destructively. Some philosophies seek to provide mindfulness with Agency: Truth in the form of math, science, economics, and rule of law. …


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:30:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181638077061705728

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181634176048652288


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Never fight the war of all-against-all we call status competition unless you have little chance of failure. It generates few winners and everyone else loses. The same for rule of law vs the false dichotomy of capitalism and socialism both of which create wars of all against all.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181634176048652288


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    Never fight the war of all-against-all we call status competition unless you have little chance of failure. It generates few winners and everyone else loses. The same for rule of law vs the false dichotomy of capitalism and socialism both of which create wars of all against all.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1181634176048652288

  • This advice is helpful but obscures the underlying strategy of every single reli

    This advice is helpful but obscures the underlying strategy of every single religion: do not fight for status signals unless you have the mental, emotional, physical ability, allies, and resources to obtain victory in the fight for upper middle, or upper class status. https://twitter.com/StanGalerius/status/1181630026669854720

  • 3. هل الإسلام محب للمرأة؟ بمعنى أننا نحتاج إلى نساء في المنزل مع أطفال أكثر من ا

    3. هل الإسلام محب للمرأة؟

    بمعنى أننا نحتاج إلى نساء في المنزل مع أطفال أكثر من القوى العاملة ، ثم نعم. بمعنى أن المرأة في السياسة تشكل خطرا على الناس ، ثم نعم. بمعنى أنه في العالم القديم كانت النساء غير متعلمات و “صغيرات” (لا أعرف هذه الكلمة بلغتك ، فهذا يعني أن الأطفال يتفاعلون مع الإهانات الصغيرة أو الأذى) ، ثم نعم. بمعنى أنها غير متكافئة مع الرجل ، فإن هذا غير صحيح: فالرجال والنساء متخصصون في وظائف مختلفة ، والنساء أفضل من الرجل في البعض ، والرجال أفضل من النساء في البعض. بمعنى أن الرجال لا يستطيعون تعلم الانضباط العاطفي ، واستخدام العنف ، ومعاملة النساء كممتلكات ، ثم لا. الرجال لا ينجبون أطفالًا أو يربونهم ، والنساء لا يحكمن أو يشنون الحرب. نحن نفشل عندما نحاول. هذه “التجارة” أفضل من هذه “التقديم” عندما ينتهك الرجال أو النساء عقد هذه التجارة عندما يكون لدينا صراع يحتاج كل منا إلى الانضباط.

    الحضارة الغربية لا “تقدم” ، إنها “تعاقدية” (عدم الخضوع ، السيادة). هذا يخلق المنافسة. المنافسة تخلق الابتكار. الابتكار يخلق الرخاء. وعدم المساواة يوفر الحافز على المنافسة.

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    3. Is Islam right about women?

    In the sense that we need women in the home with children more than the workforce, then yes. In the sense that women in politics are dangerous to a people, then yes. In the sense that in the old world women were uneducated and “petty” (I don’t know this word in your language, it means like children react to small insults or harms ), then yes. In the sense that they are unequal to men this is half-true: men and women are specialized for different functions, and women are better than man at some, and men are better than women at some. In the sense that men can not learn emotional discipline, use violence, treat women as property, then no. Men do not bear children or raise them, and women do not govern or war. We fail when we try. This ‘trade’ is better than this ‘submission’ When men or women violate the contract of this trade is when we have the conflict that each other needs discipline.

    Western civilization does not ‘submit’, it is ‘contractual’ (non-submission, sovereignty). This creates competition. Competition creates innovation. Innovation creates prosperity. And inequality provides incentive to compete.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:13:00 UTC

  • 2. هل كانت الحضارات الأربع التي دمرها العرب أكثر تطوراً وحضارةً من الخلافة العبا

    2. هل كانت الحضارات الأربع التي دمرها العرب أكثر تطوراً وحضارةً من الخلافة العباسية ، التي بناها العرب بعد ذلك؟

    نشر الإسلام المساواة النسبية للناس في العديد من إمبراطوريات التسلسل الهرمي. هذا هو الابتكار المسيحي ، والابتكار مسلم كذلك.

    لكن المساواة والتماثل هما أمران سيئان – يحدان من المنافسة المنافسة = التطور. لم تكن أوروبا قادرة أبدًا على أن تكون “واحدة” ، لذا لم تتوقف عن المنافسة. عندما يتوقف الناس عن المنافسة ، فإنهم في حالة ركود. عند الركود يفشلون ببطء مع مرور الوقت.

    لا توجد مقارنة لمصر في تاريخ البشرية بخلاف الصين. لا توجد مقارنة بالفكر اليوناني أو الحكم الروماني الذي حافظ على المنافسة بين الناس.

    لذلك يجب علينا أن نفحص الماضي الذي عشنا فيه ، وأن نقارنه بالماضي الذي كان يمكن أن نعيش فيه. بالنسبة لأوروبا ، أنتجت القرصنة العربية والغارات والادخار والغزو ، الانهيار الاقتصادي. أنتجت المسيحية عصرًا مظلمًا من الجهل. وكان اليهود سيئين للغاية لشعبنا. تم طرد الهنود من وطنهم في نهر السند. فقط الصين وأوروبا والهند نجا من الانخفاض الناجم عن الإسلام.

    الشرق الأوسط هو مركز القارات الأربع مع الحياة البشرية كلها تقريبا. كل التجارة يجب أن تمر. وتصنع الأنهار الزراعة الرخيصة التي يمكنها إطعام الكثير من الناس. لذلك كانت ثرية لأن التجارة تخلق الثروة ومن السهل فرض الضرائب على التجارة والزراعة على الأنهار.

    القتال حول فرض الضرائب على التجارة هو تاريخ هذه المنطقة.

    كانت الحضارة العربية قد استنفدت في وقت المغول ، ثم الأتراك. قام المغول والأتراك بالعرب ، وما فعله العرب بالمصريين ، وشمال إفريقيا ، والفرس ، والهنود ، والأوروبيين.

    عندما صنع الأوروبيون “عصر الإبحار” ، انتهت هذه الإيرادات الضريبية من مركز التجارة إلى الأبد. ولم تتمكن الحضارة الإسلامية من التكيف بسرعة مع التغيير المؤسسي أو التكنولوجي أو العسكري أو الفكري الأوروبي.

    تألف العصر الذهبي من ترجمة جميع أعمال المعرفة “المطابقة” من جميع أنحاء العالم إلى العربية ، ومن ثم تدمير الأعمال غير المطابقة في جميع أنحاء الإمبراطورية. يبدو أن الفكر الجديد خلال الفترة كان فارسيًا وليس عربيًا.

    لذلك بدلاً من العديد من الحضارات المتنافسة التي تنتج الابتكار ، كان لدينا حضارة احتكار واحدة تحظر الابتكار. التي تحولت بحلول عام 1200 إلى عقيدة ، والتي لم يستطع العالم الإسلامي التعافي منها. نفس السياسات التي تنتج المساواة تنتج خلل الأداء. خلل التوتر الناتج عن الجهل والعقيدة. لذلك كان الابتكار أقل عدم المساواة ، ورمزًا بسيطًا ومتسقًا ومتماسكًا وأخلاقيًا وطقوسًا بسيطة للجميع.

    المساواة تحرق الوراثة والثقافة والفنون والأدب والعلوم. لأن المساواة هي محاولة لإنهاء التطور.

    هذا هو “درس التاريخ المؤلم”. المساواة سيئة مع مرور الوقت. وهذا هو وعد الإسلام: الاحترام بين الرجال بغض النظر عن الرتبة.

    وهذه هي مشكلة الرجال المسلمين في أوروبا. نحن لا نحترم الرجال حتى يكسبوا الاحترام ، وما نحترمه مختلف تمامًا: الحقيقة بغض النظر عن الوجه ، وعدم المساواة في الوضع ، ولكن إعادة التوزيع للحد من المعاناة. ثقافاتنا غير متوافقة لأن أساس المساواة عن طريق الخارق والوجه أمام الحقيقة لا يتوافق مع الحقيقة قبل الوجه والعلوم قبل الإيمان.

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    2. Were the four civilizations destroyed by the Arabs more sophisticated and civilized than the Abbasid Caliphate, which the Arabs then They constructed?

    Islam spread relative equality to people in many empires of ancestral hierarchy. This a the christian innovation, and a muslim innovation as well.

    But equality and sameness are a bad thing – they limit competition. Competition = Evolution. Europe was never able to be “one” so it could never stop competing. When people stop competing they stagnate. When they stagnate they fail slowly over time.

    There is no comparison to Egypt in human history other than China. There is no comparison to greek thought or roman rule that preserved competition between people.

    So we must examine the past we lived in, and compare it to the past we could have lived in. For Europe, Arab piracy, raiding, saving, and conquest, produced economic collapse. Christianity produced a dark age of ignorance. And Jews were very bad for our people. Indians were driven from their homeland in the Indus river. Only china, europe, and india survived the decline caused by islam.

    The middle-east is the center of four continents with almost all human life. All trade must go through it. And the rivers make cheap farming that can feed many people. So it was wealthy because trade creates wealth. And trade and farming on rivers is easy to tax.

    Fighting over taxing of trade is the history of this region.

    The Arab civilization was exhausted by the time of the mongols, and then the turks. The mongols and the turks did to the arabs, what the arabs did to egyptians, north africans, persians, indians, and europeans.

    When the ‘age of sail’ was made by Europeans, this tax revenues from the center of trade ended forever. And muslim civilization was not able to rapidly adapt to european institutional or technological or military, or intellectual change.

    The Golden Age consisted of translating all the ‘conforming’ works of knowledge from around the world into arabic, and then destroying non-conforming works around the empire. The novel thought during the period appears to have been Persian not Arab.

    So instead of many competing civilizations producing innovation, we had one monopoly civilization prohibiting innovation. Which by 1200 turned to dogma, from which the islamic world could never recover. The same policies that produce equality produced dysgenia. Dysgenia produced want of ignorance and dogma. So the innovation was less inequality, and a simple, consistent, coherent, moral code, and simple rituals for all.

    Equality burns down genetics, culture, arts, literature, science. Because equality is an attempt to end evolution.

    This is a ‘painful lesson of history’. Equality is bad over time. And this is the promise of islam: respect among men regardless of rank.

    And this is the problem for muslim men in europe. We disrespect men until they earn respect, and what we respect is very different: truth regardless of face, inequality of status, but redistribution to limit suffering. Our cultures are incompatible because the foundation of equality by supernatural and face before truth is not compatible with truth before face, and science before faith.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 18:08:00 UTC

  • YES YOU ARE UNFIT FOR TRUTH REGARDLESS OF COST. (reply to a hostile christian) G

    YES YOU ARE UNFIT FOR TRUTH REGARDLESS OF COST.

    (reply to a hostile christian)

    Gunther;

    We are working on the development of a value free language of the human sciences, psychological, social, economic, political and strategic; articulating the western group evolutionary strategy in those terms; and producing a constitution in those terms, imposing that strategy, against the second abrahamic attack on civilization – the cause of the dark ages of ignorance in the past, and the cause of the coming dark ages in the present.

    You are an Abrahamist, trained by Abrahamists, to avoid the truth, by employing the female system of competition by undermining demanding that others agree with you, demonstrating disapproval rather than truth or falsehood, using disapproval, ridicule, moralizing; threatening to gossip and rally others, in defense of a superstition. You are cognitively feminine in a masculine body and addicted to the sedation provided by falsehood.

    You lack agency, and truth regardless of cost, and respect for our sovereignty, and are not a european male – and are rather unfit for this level of discourse for the same reason all but a few women are unfit for truthful masculine discourse.

    You need someone to confirm your comforting lies.

    To preserve your feeling of safety in the herd.

    You need to find that person.

    Others will provide you with that sedation.

    There are psychological drug dealers everywhere.

    You will eventually find some psychological drug dealer that proposes a possible solution for reformation of the country on terms you can tolerate because they don’t threaten the supply of sedation your addiction demands.

    When you are a man, if it is still possible, then join the conversation of men.

    Until then you are unfit.

    Addicts have no place in the world because it exists to prevent reality. Fictional Religion, alcohol, drugs are all forms of escape and sedation.

    We are men. We solve problems.

    You can’t. Reality does not exist for you.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 15:04:00 UTC

  • SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – THE PRODUCTION OF MINDFULNESS GIVEN OUR AGENCY

    SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – THE PRODUCTION OF MINDFULNESS GIVEN OUR AGENCY

    (core), (uncomfortable truth)

    —“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. “—Epictetus.

    This advice is helpful but obscures the underlying strategy of every single religion: do not fight for status signals unless you have the mental, emotional, physical ability, allies, and resources to obtain victory in the fight for upper middle, or upper class status.

    Never fight the war of all-against-all we call status competition unless you have little chance of failure. It generates few winners and everyone else loses. The same for rule of law vs the false dichotomy of capitalism and socialism both of which create wars of all against all.

    Every religion attempts to achieve mindfulness – escape from signal competition differently, and all do so destructively. Some philosophies seek to provide mindfulness with Agency: Truth in the form of math, science, economics, and rule of law.

    But Agency again is for those with mental, emotional, physical, familial, social, economic, political or military ability and resources. Some Philosophies seek to achieve mindfulness by limiting agency to one’s abilities: The stoic method of self authoring, and epicurean thought.

    Some pseudoscientific philosophies like Buddhism seek to achieve mindfulness by forgoing agency in the world, and instead developing it in yourself – to tolerate the status competition and all other difficulties in the world.

    Most supernatural philosophies – those we rightly call religion – seek to achieve mindfulness by denying status competition, producing an imaginary equality instead of an existential status competition, pretense of oppression rather than incompetence, or promising a future world.

    So whether High Agency Truth, Limited Agency Self Improvement, Lower Agency Self Discipline, or lowest Agency Self Sedation with falsehood, we seek the means of mindfulness that suits our agency – ability and resources in the soft competition between superpredators: cooperation.

    There is only one ‘bad’ method of mindfulness, and that is supernatural religion – that while cheap to indoctrinate, produces the horrors upon the world of judaism, christianity and islam – the enemies of mankind.

    While Science (Masculine), Epicuriean (neutral) and Buddhist (feminine), Chinese and Japanese and Pre-Christian Ritual and Ancestor Worship, are all constructive.

    While only europeans could invent truth, and arguably only the the pre-communist Chinese produced wisdom, the indians have produced harmony by means I have barely come to understand – largely because their massive continent, like australia or england is effectively an island.

    We can teach mindfulness in the stoic method, with epicurean goals as the majority means of training the human mind to focus on the actionable.

    We can teach science in the european (english) method, with transcendence of man by the production of agency as a goal, and leave open the possibility for all to use it as they see fit.

    We can teach intertemporal debt transfer between the generations by ancestor worship, nature worship, and hero worship, and we can celebrate nature, ancestors, and heroes together as polities, tribes, nations, races (Species) and Mankind.

    But we must end the semitic dark age of sedation by ignorance and deceit, that has not only brought us the current conflict, but the semitic dark ages, and the 1B premodern deaths, and the 100M current deaths.

    This cannot be achieved without institutional means of gradually reforming christianity as we have gradually reformed it for over a thousand years, and by outlawing all other supernatural religions, and confining semitic religion to Semitia until it has exhausted itself because of lack of prey to consume by deceit, ignorance, dysgenia and destruction.

    This is antithetical to the christians who are still under the addiction of the falsehoods of semitic abrahamic deceit.

    My job is law. And truth under the law. And these are statement so truth. And truth s only necessary because we desire what is false, despite the vast returns on truth. The truth like perfection cannot always be achieved.

    But the truth can reverse harms and prevent further harms.

    I am a man of agency. I seek mindfulness in Truth. Truth regardless of cost to me.

    And that is the secret to western civilization – and our dragging mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, suffering, disease, heat, cold, and the chaos of a nature void of gods, and all but hostile to life.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-08 14:43:00 UTC