RT @bierlingm: @curtdoolittle Or in other words, a grown-up’s relationship to God.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-23 13:05:39 UTC
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RT @bierlingm: @curtdoolittle Or in other words, a grown-up’s relationship to God.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-23 13:05:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1716440750437568591
–“Q: Curt: You posted that arguments favoring a typical God are quite possible..Interested to know more..”—
There are four surviving arguments across the spectrum that posit the possibility of a god. They are not all satisfactory to the devoted. But just as we have learned more about the universe changing our perception of it’s simplicity, we have also learned more about what possibilities exist for a god to ‘exist’ in one way or another. The most obvious is that the universe and god are one (God of the universe), the other three require explaining: god in the universe, god of man, god by man.
My personal issue with this discusion is the human arrogance that we can or must know how a god exists so that we can justify our mythologies and scriptures. Rather than observe the universe god gave us and ‘read his words written in its laws’. For example, while it’s difficult to separate what jesus said from what others said about him, what he said, was both quite simple, and the solution to the hard problem of cooperation at scale (the prisoner’s dilemma problem of social science.).
I don’t have any problem with “I don’t know”. And that’s because I undersetand that the natural law is what not to do, and the example of jesus of nazareth is what to do. As far as I know this is the science – the truth we can testify to – of the laws of the universe applied to human cooperation. And so I have a problem with human religious arrogance in presuming that there are any answers to the will of god other than the natural law and christian love.
That’s my theological mode so to speak. People often presume that I am an atheist (false) or that I cannot discuss theology (false) as well as I can an other subject that requires a test of truth.
I just am not arrogant enough to pretend I know more than I can testify to – and I an testify to the natural law and christian love, and know I testify to the science, which, without reservation, I testify is the will, the hand, and the word of any god that exists.
Even more so if no god exists, other than in the mind of man, then these are the laws of the universe anyway.
The end result is we know the laws of what not to do and what to do. And we need not claim god exists, or we know his will by some other measure than the evidence we have before us that is not the work of man – and man’s tendency to ‘make it up’.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-23 12:48:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1716436492858372097
I want to note that I do not like this book or anything else that tries to conflate two things that are different.
In my work we explain the origins of religion and that like natural selection it does assist in the organization of groups.
But that’s true of philosophy, sciencde, accounting, or literacy. It’ also true of group evolutionary strategies. Which is what I tend to work on.
Reply addressees: @f_quiver
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-22 21:41:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1716208166545805312
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all that changed was giving the ‘little people’ a means of achieving virtue by doing no wrong and caring for one another, despite having no ability, skill, land, wealth, military prowess, or political power – as a ‘slave revolt’ against the manipulative, the wealthy, and the aristocracy. In other words, Jesus taught them to rebel against the powerful by effectiely behaving in away that the wealthy wanted, and not allowing the wealthy and powerful to divide them.
Reply addressees: @taiwtaiwb8 @VinnytheCrow
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-21 17:03:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1715775870214832129
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—“a camel would sooner fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man make it to heaven/kingdom of god.”–
(a) moneychangers
(b) wealthy merchants
(c) nobility
Why? they (really) believed the common people were just another form of domesticated animal. And if you knew much about their behavior, you’d understand their position.
Jesus was trying to change the behavior of the common people so that it was compatible with european aristocratic civilization and the wealth that civilization brought with it through peace, order, and law.
Jesus’ teachings are as good as those of buddha or socrates. Churchianity is every bit as ridicuoous as the other abrahamic religions. But if that’s what it takes to get the message across to the peasants women and slaves, (and children) then that’s what it takes.
Reply addressees: @taiwtaiwb8 @VinnytheCrow
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-21 14:45:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1715740986809159680
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There has been a more than 1500 year attempt to pretend our origins are in the middle east rather than germany-poland-ukraine. I understand the desire for a slave religino and a serf government. I do. I just also understand the consequences of a soverign, martial, responsibile…
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-20 15:42:36 UTC
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Northern european, germanic, scandinavian, post religious, homogeneous, small populations, egalitarian, majority of time indoors, and many other incentives too. Just no conflict-pressure they need to resist.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-18 19:19:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1714722942473347142
RT @curtdoolittle: @AlMuwahid_1 @Will_of_Europa @RashidaTlaib @POTUS CHRISTIAN NEW WORLD VS MUSLIM OLD WORLD
Byzantium, Constantinople: A l…
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-18 18:36:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1714712181592219660
CHRISTIAN NEW WORLD VS MUSLIM OLD WORLD
Byzantium, Constantinople: A less advanced people (turks) conquered a more advanced people (greco byzantines), because the more advanced people controlled the trade routes between europe and asia. And then used that base to invade the superior people and lands of the Balkans. Even today most turks are not turks but either Greeks or Iranics (Kurds). And the Muslim Ottomans conducted a genocide against the ancient people the Armenians. Today the Balkans are backwards thanks to Ottoman and Islam occupation. And the political strife in the region is due to the backwardness of the muslims vs the christians, and the civil wars in the region because of it. Oddlyl enough, the Russians would have ‘solved’ the issue but the west intervened and protected the muslim populations, ending the wars and demanding political solutions. Which is what we always do.
North America: A much more advanced people (anglo, french, dutch) encounter a stone age people, with an extraordinary propensity for violence (somewhat like africa and the middle east). Most of these people actually died from diseases (the blanket story is a myth), and most died before anglo, french, dutch started settlement. The rest died in wars, as a superior people replaced an inferior people who could not modernize fast enough (low IQ too) to adapt to the superior people. (Same problem with muslims vs jews).
Islam
Historian Koenraad Elst has suggested that the total death toll runs into the millions when factoring in multiple campaigns and periods. We have no measure of the deaths from the african slave trade. We have only vague estimates of european slaves, but it’s at least 1.2 millon. The Arab slave trade in africa and eurasian, over 1300 years, captured arount 10M people alone. In africa we have no idea as the men were castrated or killed, and the majority of slaves retained were black women, with no regard to the survival rate as they traveled from capture to market. Women with whom inbreeding further reduced arab demographic measurements.
Christians Thriving?
I dunno what Christian people you think are thriving where, but look what y’all did to the other superior country, christian lebanon. Look what muslims are doing to better educated and more peaceful africans in the sahel. And look what muslims are doing to the superiority of the Jews. And look what muslims are doing to the superiority of Europe. India is preparing for a purge. This is why Modi is restoring the emphasis on hindu religion. China is as intolerant as ever and expanding by forcing msulims into re-education camps. Africa is having a problem with muslim terrorists as are peoples of the rest of the world, but they are going to switch from the tolerance of France to the power of russia and china in order to stop muslim terrorism and aggression.
Cheers
Reply addressees: @AlMuwahid_1 @Will_of_Europa @RashidaTlaib @POTUS
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-18 18:24:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1714709102079750144
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I understand you in Islam are your dark ages, enduring the change now that we did in the middle ages. And we had time to do it slowly and for you it is a pressure you are forced to do quickly, causing greater strife.
However, once muslims (the Turks) closed the ports of byzantium and forced us to invent the age of sail, we destroyed the only reason for your wealth, which was overland trade between the continents. We could have asily conquered all of islam in the Crusades, In the past century, and today. But we do not. In part becuase the population has no market value.
Our natural religion is nature worship, ancestor worship, stoicism-epicureanism(the hellenic greek way) the civil society, and the military, because we are an aristocratic military civilization. Christianity like islam is the religion of a slave(underclass) revolt. It is dying because it must die. It had a chance in the 1800s to reform and claim ‘victory’ by continued transformation to Aristotle-Aquinans Natural Law (what I work on). But they failed. Not enough of western people can believe superstitious nonsense.
Islam spreads by violence (africa, india), emigration (europe), fertility, and taxation of non-muslims in low IQ populations. It allows the individual to abandon competitiveness.
Christian Africa is resisting islam. China is purging it already. Inda will this century. It’s very likely that the west will do so AGAIN this century as it has in the past. And current events are telling our people islam is incompatible with civilization. Islam must reform or be walled in on all sides.
Reply addressees: @AlMuwahid_1 @Will_of_Europa @RashidaTlaib @POTUS
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-18 11:16:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1714601407238561792
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