Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why. Don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood. https://www.ancient.eu/article/974/banking-in-the-roman-world/
Theme: Religion
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The Reason for Jesus’ Action at The Temple
Again. Let me help you. A TEMPLE was a BANK. That’s why. Don’t be daft. Moneychanging (converting between currencies, storing money, lending money at interest), was a terribly important function given the diversity of monies used – today that function is provided by central banks and larger commercial banks, and travel currency exchanges. In the ancient world the roman treasury used ‘agents’ the way we use these banks. (I prefer the agents model and want to eliminate consumer banks as they are known today.) The problem was that the people at some temples took abusive advantage of the poor. When Romans invaded Judea they established their temples and their money changers. This competition prevented the Jewish priests from charging high rates at their temples. And so they sought marginal cases to charge usurious rates. This is what jesus was rebelling against: the abuse of the poor. The complete story is never stated. The fact that Jews specialize in usurious lending to those who cannot afford, or lend into moral hazard, predates their introduction to europe – it is the original occupation of their priesthood. https://www.ancient.eu/article/974/banking-in-the-roman-world/
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The abrahamic, marxist-feminist-postmodernist struggle against white man . Versu
The abrahamic, marxist-feminist-postmodernist struggle against white man. Versus the classical and modern struggle against nature. It’s no wonder they created ignorance and stagnation wherever they went.
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The abrahamic, marxist-feminist-postmodernist struggle against white man . Versu
The abrahamic, marxist-feminist-postmodernist struggle against white man. Versus the classical and modern struggle against nature. It’s no wonder they created ignorance and stagnation wherever they went.
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“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s
—“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s rebellion in trying to stop Christianity’s worst excesses…actually cemented Christian predominance for a few more centuries as the Catholic Counter-Reformation to Luther’s Reformation strangled the revival of Classicism that was beginning in Renaissance Italy”—Nick Dahlheim
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“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s
—“Christianity is so subversive that, according to Nietzsche, that even Luther’s rebellion in trying to stop Christianity’s worst excesses…actually cemented Christian predominance for a few more centuries as the Catholic Counter-Reformation to Luther’s Reformation strangled the revival of Classicism that was beginning in Renaissance Italy”—Nick Dahlheim
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Collective Rituals Invoke the Pack Response
If I teach you to stand at attention, put your hand over your heart, and speak the pledge of allegiance to our flag, or teach you to speak the lords prayer (a pledge of allegiance) while kneeling, hands clasped, and both actions, once habituated, fill us with ‘a sense of peace’ when performed as a group, what is the difference? The central issue is this: we need those collective rituals to invoke the pack response which generates intuitionistic trust among superpredators who do not necessarily trust one another, and who compete in all other walks of life OTHER than the ritual. Those oaths to a proxy of each other are useful to associate with that response.
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Collective Rituals Invoke the Pack Response
If I teach you to stand at attention, put your hand over your heart, and speak the pledge of allegiance to our flag, or teach you to speak the lords prayer (a pledge of allegiance) while kneeling, hands clasped, and both actions, once habituated, fill us with ‘a sense of peace’ when performed as a group, what is the difference? The central issue is this: we need those collective rituals to invoke the pack response which generates intuitionistic trust among superpredators who do not necessarily trust one another, and who compete in all other walks of life OTHER than the ritual. Those oaths to a proxy of each other are useful to associate with that response.
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Religion just means ‘education’.
Religion just means ‘education’. The problem is we understand physical ed, intellectual ed, and vocational ed, but only the stoics understood education of intuition in a disciplined fashion. The only ‘evil’ method of educating intuition that was invented was abrahamism. Religion is just education in intuition. The question is what is the method of educating our intuitions such that we demonstrate positive rather than negative externalities?
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Religion just means ‘education’.
Religion just means ‘education’. The problem is we understand physical ed, intellectual ed, and vocational ed, but only the stoics understood education of intuition in a disciplined fashion. The only ‘evil’ method of educating intuition that was invented was abrahamism. Religion is just education in intuition. The question is what is the method of educating our intuitions such that we demonstrate positive rather than negative externalities?