Gods need no gods.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-14 12:32:00 UTC
Theme: Religion
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photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/49948394_10156916627572264_5888674864629284864_n_10156916627567264.jpg Steve PenderAppeal to truth seekers to empower priests who pose as intermediates for the source of truth.Jan 14, 2019, 12:07 PMCurt DoolittleTruth or utility?Jan 14, 2019, 12:13 PMSteven JacksonReligion offers truth in the same way snake oil salesmen offers a cure.
The customer is still looking for a cure but the snake oil salesman doesn’t deliver the cure but a hope of one.
I stand by thisJan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMCurt DoolittletrueJan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMCurt Doolittleheroin dealer offers heroin.Jan 14, 2019, 12:47 PMLisa OuthwaiteSome pretty broad strokes being applied here. I’m assuming you don’t mean that there are no universal truths embedded within religion?Jan 14, 2019, 1:15 PMLisa OuthwaiteWho doesn’t love a double negative? 🤪Jan 14, 2019, 1:16 PMSteven JacksonCurt Doolittle rat experiments show that drug addiction correlates with social ostracism.
The hormones stimulated by social acceptance can also be stimulated through the use of narcotics.
Marx was literally correct when he described religion as being the opiate of the masses.
The difference between the drug peddler and the priest is that the unifying narrative of religion can be put to use to build trust and social cohesion. The priest builds social capital by writing a common hymn book so everyone sings the same song.
The drug dealer creates a demand for drugs and nothing else. He preys on low trust societies with low social cohesion and makes it worse, he is a parasite because he drains the society of social capital.
Religion falls apart when it’s lies are exposed, but many are willing to overlook the lies because of the benefit provided by living among those singing off the same sheet.Jan 14, 2019, 1:17 PMNick HeywoodNo! It ain’t!
Religion is observed, but un-scientifically explained, framework of behavioral decidability.
And usually reduces to group evolutionary reciprocity strategy.
“If you want to be a member of this group”?… “you’ll behave thus” “and decide crap according to these rules”!
“We know these principles, that govern limits, of behaviour and decisions work”! “We’ve seen ‘them’ work” “and our ancestors were successful because they adhered to them”.
Another question becomes… “what’s the goal, aim, proposed outcome”? That’s a different question, though. 🙂
Nothing at all wrong with religion. It’s natural!
As long as ya don’t wanna colonise the universe or f around with capital development, resource distribution, engineering, biology, chemistry, maths, physics’n’quantum shit etc.😁
Once you’ve developed that capability?
Religion’s no good to ya! You’ll just hurt ya’self and melt shit. 🙂Jan 14, 2019, 1:44 PMNick HeywoodUtility for the hierarchy! 🙂😉😎Jan 14, 2019, 2:00 PMSteven JacksonNick Heywood religion has always been a factor in every advanced society. The industrial revolution occurred under puritanical Protestantism and Presbyterianism. The medieval Christian monks preserved literature and science (albeit after destroying it in the early years of Christianity.) The Greek philosophers flourished under their pagan ancestor worship etc etc.
When we have dispensed with religion (a unifying narrative) we have ended up with relativism and pseudoscience. The USSR is a prime example of this, the communist narrative was destructive and couldn’t capture a second generation. The initial cohesion, gained through genocide, produced the space race and Kalashnikov. A generation later it produced only civil war, Mafia and rusting public utilities.
Similar forces destroyed the narrative in the west and we have trannys and feminism.
Religion as a means of social cohesion seems to be necessary, as knowledge has progressed, religion has evolved. We just need to evolve it to agree with what we now understand to be true. The modernists threw the baby out with the bath water when they misunderstood “God is dead”Jan 14, 2019, 2:27 PMSteven J. WoronLike the new profile pic btw…Jan 14, 2019, 3:02 PMNick HeywoodThe unifying narrative became a tyranny in and of itself. Which really f’d things up.Jan 14, 2019, 6:10 PMDylan KnowlesModern religion is not worshipping a faith, it is the worship of mammon. Reject the modern world, reject degeneracy.Jan 14, 2019, 9:27 PM
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-14 11:52:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2019-01-14 09:36:00 UTC
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I don’t make mistakes. Once I understood the method of argument under which abra
I don’t make mistakes. Once I understood the method of argument under which abrahamic law and theology, the platonisms, fictionalisms, and Marxism, Neoconservatism, Libertarianism, Postmodernism, and Feminism were constructed his feminine frauds became obvious.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-13 16:17:09 UTC
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@MurraySuggests @curtdoolittle Rothbard was true to his principles building it on absolutism, not relativism. Your criticism of him like in your recent fb posts is unwarranted. @TrueDilTom
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I had to do the catholic school thing. Saturday morning catechism. All that stuf
I had to do the catholic school thing. Saturday morning catechism. All that stuff.
The problem was i read encyclopedias. That’s wisdom. There is very little wisdom that cannot be found by reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and the OED. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-12 18:00:41 UTC
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@curtdoolittle My first glimpse of wisdom was from my catechism Bible, I remember reading Proverbs and talking notes, rewriting them for a 10 year in the 80’s.
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THE BIOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR RELIGIOSITY? NOPE. by Bill Joslin The biological arg
THE BIOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR RELIGIOSITY? NOPE.
by Bill Joslin
The biological argument for religiosity I find is flawed. Aaron Hill presented this to me a week or two ago. The mutual exclusion of reason and commitment which is often presented as the result of selection pressures due to religion.
I’d offer an alternative hypothesis. we’ve evolved to err on the side of false positives and projected intention because this affords better risk management in regards to predation pressure. Whereas reason/investigation to ferret out a false positive would increase risk of predation.
example to illuminate what I mean. An ape in the savanah hears a rustling in the grass beside them. Assuming the rustling is a predator (projected intention) opposed to the wind and fleeing would offer, on the aggregate, a better chance of surviving than investigating to verify the initial assumption wasn’t a false positive.
This provides a selection pressure toward “faith” over reason and why reason does not come easily to us. (in other words the biology behind faith is not due to religion but rather predation pressure)
Now, to take the biological responses we’ve inherited toward projected intention and false positives as justification for religiousity et al is to jump the is-ought gap. Just because we have these predilections (the “is”) doesn’t mean we “ought” to embrace them.
The evidence is in – the incremental extrapolation of social and formal functions away from the church, religiosity and intuition allowed humans to break out of the Malthusian trap, move out from under discretionary rule and begin cultivating markets for agency across scale (individual – organizational, middle class).
In short, the placebo effect and predilection for faith doesn’t warrant embracing obfuscation of causal relations when human progress has resulted from disambiguation across multiple domains.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-12 13:07:00 UTC
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“…Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, And could sculpt
—-“…Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods, Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape. Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.” — Xenophanes
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Source date (UTC): 2019-01-12 00:52:00 UTC
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People lacking knowledge, power, achievement, and capital like the priests of th
People lacking knowledge, power, achievement, and capital like the priests of the middle east attempting to destroy the empire with christianity judaism and islam. Lies are a competitive strategy. The entire abrahamic artifice is based upon the competitive utility of lying.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-11 22:41:31 UTC
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@MatthausAnsatz @Imperius__13 @DataDistribute @torinmccabe @JohnMarkSays @MahmoudZaini @TrueDilTom @Dick71224996 All I see is a series of publications using hand waving as an attempt to provide a pseudoscientific defense of Derrida, in that ‘well’ everything evolved from language therefore we can evolve anything with language. In other words, postmodernism.
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@MatthausAnsatz @Imperius__13 @DataDistribute @torinmccabe @JohnMarkSays @MahmoudZaini @TrueDilTom @Dick71224996 All I see is a series of publications using hand waving as an attempt to provide a pseudoscientific defense of Derrida, in that ‘well’ everything evolved from language therefore we can evolve anything with language. In other words, postmodernism.
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ARISTOTLE AS OUR LAWGIVER, vs THE PROPHETS AND THEIR LIES. The first reason to r
ARISTOTLE AS OUR LAWGIVER, vs
THE PROPHETS AND THEIR LIES.
The first reason to reform Aristotle by translation of his works into operational language is to lionize him and make him the founder of western thought – the via negativa, to the Nihilism of Socrates and the Idealism of Plato, and the lies of the Abrahamists whether Abraham, Saul, or Mohammed.
This form of heroic Idolization anthropomorphizes the character (and his military peer alexander) such that we can engage in hero-competition with competing civilizations and their advocates, and our own sophists within, (b) and anchor western civilization as a continuous tradition from our origins in European customary law of sovereignty and tort, to the present anglo common law of tort.
The second reason is to falsify all the pseudo-philosophy and theology that exists between aristotle and the present.
Now re-writing Aristotle in operational prose would be the equivalent of the work undertaken to produce the king james bible, and the basis of a western education – particularly the Ethics.
When combined with the foundational myth of the Trial of Achilles (taught to children by dividing up the work and memorizing it by chanting – given that vast parts are repeated over and over again – and presented by classes as a holiday play). We would have the Hellenic tradition restored.
Doing the same for each series of festivals for the old germanic and celtic in fall and winter, and preserving Easter for the christian and mayday would be relatively simple.
We can re-ritualize our civilization as historical play. Because, as Nietzsche taught us, it is the participation of the chorus, whether in games, play, ritual, church, or prayer that provides the mindfulness of associating the sacred and collective with the mythos that binds them.
If we have an education system (church limited by the natural law) that teaches mindfulness, history, the tools of calculation (reading, writing, numbers, economics, physics), reduce education to part time as soon as children are able to engage in part time work, and put as great an emphasis on apprenticeship as we do higher education, and limit ‘higher education’ to that which requires advanced calculation (stem+l) we can restore the civic society and eliminate the alienation and signal warfare endemic to consumer modernity.
If this church, which provides education, also serves the function of consumer banking, savings, and investment, with near-zero interest on durable goods, then we will have restored the ancient order and destroyed the entire network of parasites and rent seekers in academy, finance, and state.
We do not need to establish this church. We merely need to provide the economic incentives to do so, and the regulatory law that binds them to the construction of that common good.
The most notable exception would be the use of successful retired people in the administration and teaching of these things rather than those who have been insulated from market forces, market competition, and demonstrated market achievement.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-10 12:46:00 UTC
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10) with the right legal, constitutional, and economic incentives, a church can
10) with the right legal, constitutional, and economic incentives, a church can be restored that will evolve away from current addictions and to future health out of institutional self interest, and return to its position as a competitor to the state and the market.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-10 00:35:12 UTC
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