Gods are just artifacts of value judgment. They aren't necessary, even if they did exist. All religion is best dismissed as a generated defense of slavery.
You're right. What have I been thinking all these years?
Looked at from that perspective all this makes perfect sense!
We live in an ultra-Darwinian world of Eat or be Eaten! Survival of the fittest!
We are nothing but animals ourselves without a soul with nothing to look forward to.
We don't expect ethics or morals from a Wildebeest? Do we? Of course not! Why should we expect them from ourselves or each other?
All of that craziness I've believed all these years about Telepathy and Mind over Matter and about stepping off from this world into another kind of reality where whatever we Intend comes into being instantaneously and we are no longer bound by the limits of Time/Space and the Laws of Physics? Madness!
Religion is just the opiate of the masses! A means of trying to force them into being something they can never be - Human Beings.
Oh my God! Where do I sign up to be one of the Global Elite? They've had the right idea all along. It's a dog eat dog world where you are either the boot or the face that it's grinding into the pavement.
I've been on the wrong side all along.
Thanks Societies Stinky Parts. You have opened my eyes for me!
Oh you sweet summer child. The heroic impulse generates elitism and aristocracy. If you want to flatten that down you have to reject the *love of* narrative.
But what about the real thing?
How are we supposed to deal with that!
Gods are just artifacts of value judgment. They aren't necessary, even if they did exist. All religion is best dismissed as a generated defense of slavery.
You're right. What have I been thinking all these years?
Looked at from that perspective all this makes perfect sense!
We live in an ultra-Darwinian world of Eat or be Eaten! Survival of the fittest!
We are nothing but animals ourselves without a soul with nothing to look forward to.
We don't expect ethics or morals from a Wildebeest? Do we? Of course not! Why should we expect them from ourselves or each other?
All of that craziness I've believed all these years about Telepathy and Mind over Matter and about stepping off from this world into another kind of reality where whatever we Intend comes into being instantaneously and we are no longer bound by the limits of Time/Space and the Laws of Physics? Madness!
Religion is just the opiate of the masses! A means of trying to force them into being something they can never be - Human Beings.
Oh my God! Where do I sign up to be one of the Global Elite? They've had the right idea all along. It's a dog eat dog world where you are either the boot or the face that it's grinding into the pavement.
I've been on the wrong side all along.
Thanks Societies Stinky Parts. You have opened my eyes for me!
Oh you sweet summer child. The heroic impulse generates elitism and aristocracy. If you want to flatten that down you have to reject the *love of* narrative.
https://libcom.org/article/toward-anthropological-theory-value-false-coin-our-own-dreams-david-graeber
Most relevant is chapter 3, "Value as the importance of actions", broken out here:
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/value-as-the-importance-of-actions/
Ultimately, what you and other henologists are doing is projecting perfect values onto a perfect judge and trying to approach him.
(... wipes a tear from his eye...) That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!
a "metaphysics of radical transcendence"
Gee, I love that kind of talk!