Theme: Religion

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    (FB 1544393014 Timestamp) THE GERMANIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation —“While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly interdisciplinary approach, applying to the early medieval period a sociohistorical method similar to that which has already proven fruitful in explicating the history of Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. The encounter of the Germanic peoples with Christianity is studied from within the larger context of the encounter of a predominantly “world-accepting” Indo-European folk-religiosity with predominantly “world-rejecting” religious movements. While the first part of the book develops a general model of religious transformation for such encounters, the second part applies this model to the Germano-Christian scenario. Russell shows how a Christian missionary policy of temporary accommodation inadvertently contributed to a reciprocal Germanization of Christianity.”— https://www.amazon.com/Germanization-Early-Medieval-Christianity-Sociohistorical/dp/0195104668/

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    (FB 1544392586 Timestamp) WHAT MEANEST THOU? 😉 —I need no faith. I need only the necessity of action. Faith is for those so poor in assets, character,agency,and will that they seek excuses for action, inaction, success and failure. That cowardice is for The Herd. Men satisfy the need for action & consequence and learn from it.— Deflation: Decidability > Confidence > Trust > Belief > Faith

    • belief: Meaning “conviction of the truth of a proposition or alleged fact without knowledge” is by 1530s; it is also “sometimes used to include the absolute conviction or certainty which accompanies knowledge”
    • faith: From early 14c. as “assent of the mind to the truth of a statement for which there is incomplete evidence,” especially “belief in religious matters” (matched with hope and charity). Since mid-14c. in reference to the Christian church or religion; from late 14c. in reference to any religious persuasion.

    • trust: from Old Norse traust “help, confidence, protection, support,” from Proto-Germanic abstract noun *traustam (source also of Old Frisian trast, Dutch troost “comfort, consolation,” Old High German trost “trust, fidelity,” German Trost “comfort, co…See More

    • confidence: From mid-15c. as “reliance on one’s own powers, resources, or circumstances, self-assurance.” Meaning “certainty of a proposition or assertion, sureness with regard to a fact” is from 1550s.

    Deconflation into series allows us to see the insane precision ofthe huge vocabulary in the english language Decidability > Confidence(self) > Trust(other) > Belief(possibility) > Faith(religion-higher power, beyond ken)

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    (FB 1544380410 Timestamp) STUFF I’M WORKING ON – Religion’s Debt Economy – Making the Genetic and Intuitive explicit. – Finishing the “Everything you need to know about religion” section. (Hard) – Finished first two classes in ART: Art Theory and History.(Easy). Editing it. – Working on Script for first classes in LAW: The Grammars (Hard) – Working on research for the first classes in WAR (Yes, really, and you will love it). – Removing Ads from the web site thanks to Patron. – Installing and Configuring the institute’s Site and Courses. – Updating the Constitution but need to break it into another two pieces. – Haven’t been able to write much in the Book for a few weeks now because I’m stuck on how to communicate something technical. Writing the course ware helps me distill it down. So should get back to it shortly after. Courses are much easier, and there is greater demand, so that’s what I’m putting time into. – A few hours here and there on our product since there are things I have to do there also. – Normal human things like … life….. lol
    – And working with you folks. 😉

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    (FB 1544393109 Timestamp) READING LIST – THE FALL AND RISE OF OUR RELIGIONS Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited. Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

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    (FB 1544459500 Timestamp) —Diversity not only generates demand for an authoritarian state, but for a supernatural religion. Why? To find an alternative to KINSHIP RULE, AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP.— (worth repeating)

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    (FB 1544449115 Timestamp) THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIANITY – HOMOGENEITY —“A strong sense of social unity and collective security also prevailed among the Germanic peoples in the early Middle Ages. Although they may have been less culturally sophisticated than the contemporary Japanese, like them, the Germanic peoples did not have immediate social or spiritual needs which Christianity might fulfill. Also, the homogeneity of early medieval Germanic society, like that of contemporary Japan, did not predispose it to the Christian message. Christianity tends to flourish in heterogeneous societies in which there exist high levels of anomie, or social destabilization. Since the relationship of social structure to ideological structure and religious expression will play a significant role in this inquiry,a brief discussion of fundamental concepts is presented here.”— —“”essentially, there is a heightened consciousness of their [japanese] identity as a distinct people, of their membership in a group whose purposes they are willing to serve at the expense of their own.””— Diversity not only generates demand for an authoritarian state, but for a supernatural religion. Why? To find an alternative to KINSHIP RULE, AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP. [] Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity (GEMC)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544393109 Timestamp) READING LIST – THE FALL AND RISE OF OUR RELIGIONS Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited. Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544459500 Timestamp) —Diversity not only generates demand for an authoritarian state, but for a supernatural religion. Why? To find an alternative to KINSHIP RULE, AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP.— (worth repeating)

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    (FB 1544455375 Timestamp) —“Curt, it is a very popular opinion among many people of all kind of political ideologies, including classical liberals and conservatives, to say Israel and Judaism are part of the West. I have even heard people say they are even inseparable. I very strongly disagree that Judaism/Israel belong to the West and I’m guessing you would agree with me. What do you think about this and what are the strongest arguments to prove this desert people with a totally different cosmovision are NOT part of the West? PS: I can consider them as much part of the West as Japan: just part of the same trade/economic bubble (and a few cultural bonds, but totally different cultural, ethnic and religious origins).”— Tomás Rodriguez Villegas Well, I get these questions from all over the world, and I’m not really sure why they are difficult, because they are fairly easy to answer based upon the economic occupations, marriage patterns, nepotistic hiring practices, voting records, political action groups, publication records, media and press records, of different groups. So it’s not a matter of opinion. It’s simply an artifact of the data. That said, to put your question in the three major contexts: 1) Israel was created to (a) export jews out of eurasia given that the ‘problem’ of jewish culture was well understood, (b) provide the west with a new colonial power to oppose the rise of the islamists again without having to occupy territory in the levant, and (c) prevent the spread of communism into muslim lands, and the alliance with Russia and China against the west. So this alliance is largely social, political, military and strategic. If it had not been for the way the germans were tried postwar it is more than likely jews would have been relocated en mass to israel, and that the problem of jewish rule over the levant would have been solved, and jews would have had the population and institutional means of creating a triangular balance of power between Jews, Iranians, and Saudis, with the possibility of Egyptian north africa providing yet another counter-balance. 2) Europeans, upon the growth of the empires, and then the industrial revolution, increasingly gave the jews more rights and partly converted them to Aristotelianism. In the States there was very little difference between the jews and the upper class protestants of new england until after the first world war. In the south Jews were almost fully integrated, even had christmas trees with six sided stars on top and were being admitted to upper class institutions. It was the eastern european and especially russian jews that had had freedom to excessively parasitize the populations of poland, ukraine, and Russia in particular that came in waves and maintained their behaviors. And it was the combination of postwar guilt by the west (virtue signaling) and the aggressive use of jewish immigrant propaganda in concert with the marxist, communist, socialist, feminist, and counter-western movements that – in very organized fashion still present – prohibited our indoctrination of jews into western traditions and aristotelianism. 3) Genetically, Ethnically, Culturally, Strategically, Politically, Economically they are, everywhere, and always, (a) separatists,(b) underminers, and (b) a harm to, preying upon, their hosts – primarily through undermining, usury, and allying with the state against the people. And it is in harming their hosts that they are united, just as europeans are more united when expansionary, and less united when not expanding or ‘engaged in some great venture’. The jews now have three foundation myths: the roman, the persecution, and the holocaust. (My work is partly to counter their foundation myths by posing an eternal struggle between their female destructive strategy and our male evolutionary and constructive strategy.) The jewish strategy, like the muslim, is to export males, find weak or marginal females, and to inbreed with them, forming a local kin group in opposition to the host. Then engage in moral, ethical, political conversion (Jewish), religious (muslim), through evangelism(muslim) and propagandism (jews). So in this sense the female branch is actually european, persian, syrian, egyptian, or whatever other group they infiltrate a host. This is why (famously) the jews have been evicted from 109 countries so far. It hasn’t been because they are ‘different’ it’s because they are harmful. CLOSING So no. It is an easy question to answer: in any matter of conflict do you choose the european, christian, aristotelian duty-hierarchy, or do you choose the semitic, jewish-muslim, abrahamic divisive-equality? The jewish identity remains the issue primarily because it comes with the jewish group evolutionary strategy of undermining the kin group conformity of the west. Jews remain, for thousands of years, levantines, not europeans. You can bring a horse to water but you can’t make it drink so to speak. Cheers Curt

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    (FB 1544449115 Timestamp) THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIANITY – HOMOGENEITY —“A strong sense of social unity and collective security also prevailed among the Germanic peoples in the early Middle Ages. Although they may have been less culturally sophisticated than the contemporary Japanese, like them, the Germanic peoples did not have immediate social or spiritual needs which Christianity might fulfill. Also, the homogeneity of early medieval Germanic society, like that of contemporary Japan, did not predispose it to the Christian message. Christianity tends to flourish in heterogeneous societies in which there exist high levels of anomie, or social destabilization. Since the relationship of social structure to ideological structure and religious expression will play a significant role in this inquiry,a brief discussion of fundamental concepts is presented here.”— —“”essentially, there is a heightened consciousness of their [japanese] identity as a distinct people, of their membership in a group whose purposes they are willing to serve at the expense of their own.””— Diversity not only generates demand for an authoritarian state, but for a supernatural religion. Why? To find an alternative to KINSHIP RULE, AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP. [] Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity (GEMC)