My modest opinion is that religion was a powerful force mainly due to its helping to explain natural phenomena as the result of supernatural causes (spirits and deities).
From the end of the XVII century onwards - mainly with the advent of the scientific method, but also with that of capitalism allowing multiplication of riches that before could come only from owning land or taking it from others - it was found that natural phenomena could be more easily explained recurring to the laws of mechanics, chemistry, etc.
Once an easier explanation is discovered, the far-fetched ones can be discarded, i.e. Occam's razor. It's like: in order to determine the calendar, it was found easier to determine the motion of planets by having the Earth revolving around the Sun than the other way around. In case the Earth were supposed fixed at the centre, then there would be the need of a lot of complicated, ad-hoc modifications to the equations of motions for the singular planets. Similarly, when Nature can be predicted by Physics, there is no need to resort to the Supernatural any more.
Thus people were free to release the wild spirits of Capitalism so they could fully pursue their own personal gain. The inner need of man for an ethic framework to believe in was now provided by the newly concocted secular religion of Liberalism, Freedom, Equality, Democracy, etc.
What is religion useful for right now? To quench the existential dread of death through offering the hope of an afterlife. Also, fear of hell instilled in childhood is effective in imprinting good moral habits, i.e. stops sociopathic tendencies stemming from the relentless pursue of self-interest. Plus, from experience I can say that only Christians can be trusted: other people will stab you in the back if convenient to them.
All the above to say that fostering some new religion or refreshing the old one, in my humble view, misses the point. Tendencies currently in vogue should be ridden, e.g. countering immigration by formulating what in the Liberal framework amounts to a more moral position: for example, stating that immigrants themselves would prefer to stay at their own places if given the possibility, etc. Now this was a silly example, but I hope the message is clear: subverting progressive liberalism in a more based direction. I guess I am a TuckerCarlsonist after all.
No. The answer lies in the origin of the universe and of living things. When the novelty wears off, Dunbar's speculations will be as relevant in the future as phrenology is today. Likewise the fantasy that God is man's invention will in the future engender disbelief that people could be so easily misled in the light of general revelation.
He addresses the roots of the problem. Everything from identifying and counteracting the Meme Pathogens the Antiwhites have installed in Westernkind, to developing a lexicon wherein We are the heroes in Our story, to a mythos in which the creator God embodies OUR high moral, spiritual and inventive qualities (in sharp contrast to the evil god of our victimizers).
"In a world of collectivism, individualism is suicide." - J.K.
I’ve never been very religious, though I’m not atheist, but I really don’t claim to know if there is a God or not. I’m very doubtful, and the Bible seems pretty imperfect and bewildering. I think it’s very interesting though when u look at the traditional interpretations of Revelation with all their endtime prophecies and compare those with real events in view of the presumed masterplan of treachery of the jews. Of course, the prediction of a universal money system by an evil central authority that would utterly control all commerce is astounding. But it’s also startling to me to realize that jews have gotten away with their subterfuge for centuries because people just keep forgetting who the jews are. By the time a given generation figures out who they are and what they’re up to, 100 years have gone by and they’ve already wrecked your society. By then they’ve already left town, kind of like a classic con artist. Well, exactly like a classic con artist, now that I think about it. But now for the first time we have the internet, which never forgets, presumably, and young people today don’t have to rely on oral history or impenetrable academic texts to learn who the jews are, they can see it right away in memes. Which today is preventing the jews from retreating to their hiding places, which is itself coinciding with the rise of an universal jew-controlled dystopia. Maybe these mf’ers ARE the spawn of satan and they know their time is short now.
I am sympathetic with those who connect anti(counter)-Semitism with what happened in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. I personally don't know how well the two actually connect. I do know that I have known many Jews who basically, like most people do, embrace their religion as their cultural legacy but otherwise act and think like most other Americans. I see no particular reason to target "Jews." I think we have bigger fish to fry.
To continue in the vein of my last comment, Courtney has done projects on figures in Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, and Christian history. Specifically: Hathor, Zeus, Moses and Jesus. In all cases he found some degree of ET involvement with these beings or these stories. This basic finding has been corroborated by other sources I study (Hubbard in particular).
This gives the subject of religion on Earth a whole different aspect.
There are SO MANY who think God is a very special being and that the Bible (or their own scripture) is such an important book. Well, OK. But all that stuff was put there either by our prison guards or others who were trying to undermine the power of the prison guards. In this context, a strong devotion to the "truth" of the Bible becomes almost laughable to me. Though these various "ancient" scriptures seem worth studying to some extent, I personally have better things to do.
I can believe that there are various power groups on Earth who identify themselves by their religion. But there are also - it appears to me - other groups that are basically secular. I'm not ready to blame any of them for all the various situations we face today. But I imagine that many of them played a part. I see the bigger problem is our overall state of ignorance.
The bible and Talmud say that YHWH is the same God as the Persians, Ahura Mazda. Ahura Mazda is in the Sanskrit Vedas. The Zoroastrians even call Ahura Mazda "YHWH." The Persians paid for sacrifices at the Temple. Persia was the most powerful empire of the day. Judah was a tiny province where Jews worshipped the official God of the empire.
The distinction is not by alleged race, because there is mankind and we can all interbreed, but by God's election. There are Christians and there are all the rest and all are sinners in need of salvation. God's elect - Christians - are spared the eternal wrath of God and those God has not elected to spare from his eternal wrath are not spared the eternal wrath of God. People who delight in killing and arranging wars are demon possessed.
My modest opinion is that religion was a powerful force mainly due to its helping to explain natural phenomena as the result of supernatural causes (spirits and deities).
From the end of the XVII century onwards - mainly with the advent of the scientific method, but also with that of capitalism allowing multiplication of riches that before could come only from owning land or taking it from others - it was found that natural phenomena could be more easily explained recurring to the laws of mechanics, chemistry, etc.
Once an easier explanation is discovered, the far-fetched ones can be discarded, i.e. Occam's razor. It's like: in order to determine the calendar, it was found easier to determine the motion of planets by having the Earth revolving around the Sun than the other way around. In case the Earth were supposed fixed at the centre, then there would be the need of a lot of complicated, ad-hoc modifications to the equations of motions for the singular planets. Similarly, when Nature can be predicted by Physics, there is no need to resort to the Supernatural any more.
Thus people were free to release the wild spirits of Capitalism so they could fully pursue their own personal gain. The inner need of man for an ethic framework to believe in was now provided by the newly concocted secular religion of Liberalism, Freedom, Equality, Democracy, etc.
What is religion useful for right now? To quench the existential dread of death through offering the hope of an afterlife. Also, fear of hell instilled in childhood is effective in imprinting good moral habits, i.e. stops sociopathic tendencies stemming from the relentless pursue of self-interest. Plus, from experience I can say that only Christians can be trusted: other people will stab you in the back if convenient to them.
All the above to say that fostering some new religion or refreshing the old one, in my humble view, misses the point. Tendencies currently in vogue should be ridden, e.g. countering immigration by formulating what in the Liberal framework amounts to a more moral position: for example, stating that immigrants themselves would prefer to stay at their own places if given the possibility, etc. Now this was a silly example, but I hope the message is clear: subverting progressive liberalism in a more based direction. I guess I am a TuckerCarlsonist after all.
Disagree. Think you need to search Dunbar's Number & read The Price of Monotheism.
Religious is a socio-political tool to organize manpower.
Liberalism is a religion - you believe blacks are equal.
The Aryan Gods demand blood - this is not cruel. The Sword demands blood,
ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ
No. The answer lies in the origin of the universe and of living things. When the novelty wears off, Dunbar's speculations will be as relevant in the future as phrenology is today. Likewise the fantasy that God is man's invention will in the future engender disbelief that people could be so easily misled in the light of general revelation.
https://twitter.com/JDKnox4/status/1481447398878625792
ok...
We are too divided and too conquered nowadays.
Based on at least today's understanding of physics:
1. Atheists and Christians agree that the universe began, i.e., it was not and now it is.
2. Atheists and Christians agree once there were no living things with physical bodies and now there are.
3. Atheists and Christians agree that the isolation of cause and effect relationships constitute science.
What caused the universe?
What caused living creatures and mankind?
"I recently did a translation of Igor Shafarevich’s “Postscript to ‘The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Enigma’”.
You translated Igor Shafarevich’s “Postscript to ‘The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Enigma’" "Translate" is a verb.
"The how or the actual practice of closing ranks and promoting cooperation among our own is what we should be developing and debating now."
The best work I've found on this has been done by Jason Köhne: https://nowhiteguilt.org
He addresses the roots of the problem. Everything from identifying and counteracting the Meme Pathogens the Antiwhites have installed in Westernkind, to developing a lexicon wherein We are the heroes in Our story, to a mythos in which the creator God embodies OUR high moral, spiritual and inventive qualities (in sharp contrast to the evil god of our victimizers).
"In a world of collectivism, individualism is suicide." - J.K.
I’ve never been very religious, though I’m not atheist, but I really don’t claim to know if there is a God or not. I’m very doubtful, and the Bible seems pretty imperfect and bewildering. I think it’s very interesting though when u look at the traditional interpretations of Revelation with all their endtime prophecies and compare those with real events in view of the presumed masterplan of treachery of the jews. Of course, the prediction of a universal money system by an evil central authority that would utterly control all commerce is astounding. But it’s also startling to me to realize that jews have gotten away with their subterfuge for centuries because people just keep forgetting who the jews are. By the time a given generation figures out who they are and what they’re up to, 100 years have gone by and they’ve already wrecked your society. By then they’ve already left town, kind of like a classic con artist. Well, exactly like a classic con artist, now that I think about it. But now for the first time we have the internet, which never forgets, presumably, and young people today don’t have to rely on oral history or impenetrable academic texts to learn who the jews are, they can see it right away in memes. Which today is preventing the jews from retreating to their hiding places, which is itself coinciding with the rise of an universal jew-controlled dystopia. Maybe these mf’ers ARE the spawn of satan and they know their time is short now.
End ignorance:
https://bit.ly/3BhixjU
I am sympathetic with those who connect anti(counter)-Semitism with what happened in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. I personally don't know how well the two actually connect. I do know that I have known many Jews who basically, like most people do, embrace their religion as their cultural legacy but otherwise act and think like most other Americans. I see no particular reason to target "Jews." I think we have bigger fish to fry.
To continue in the vein of my last comment, Courtney has done projects on figures in Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, and Christian history. Specifically: Hathor, Zeus, Moses and Jesus. In all cases he found some degree of ET involvement with these beings or these stories. This basic finding has been corroborated by other sources I study (Hubbard in particular).
This gives the subject of religion on Earth a whole different aspect.
There are SO MANY who think God is a very special being and that the Bible (or their own scripture) is such an important book. Well, OK. But all that stuff was put there either by our prison guards or others who were trying to undermine the power of the prison guards. In this context, a strong devotion to the "truth" of the Bible becomes almost laughable to me. Though these various "ancient" scriptures seem worth studying to some extent, I personally have better things to do.
I can believe that there are various power groups on Earth who identify themselves by their religion. But there are also - it appears to me - other groups that are basically secular. I'm not ready to blame any of them for all the various situations we face today. But I imagine that many of them played a part. I see the bigger problem is our overall state of ignorance.
The bible and Talmud say that YHWH is the same God as the Persians, Ahura Mazda. Ahura Mazda is in the Sanskrit Vedas. The Zoroastrians even call Ahura Mazda "YHWH." The Persians paid for sacrifices at the Temple. Persia was the most powerful empire of the day. Judah was a tiny province where Jews worshipped the official God of the empire.
https://bit.ly/3BhixjU
The distinction is not by alleged race, because there is mankind and we can all interbreed, but by God's election. There are Christians and there are all the rest and all are sinners in need of salvation. God's elect - Christians - are spared the eternal wrath of God and those God has not elected to spare from his eternal wrath are not spared the eternal wrath of God. People who delight in killing and arranging wars are demon possessed.
Pretty eye-opening, thanks.