RE: The Caliphate (Kalifat)
December 20, 2023 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2023 at 1:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm guessing that guy is more shaman than anthropologist. The big three are foundational legends for their respective regimes. That's what they started out as. Their purpose is to stop the clock and codify some then-current or then-desired state of affairs as the fabric of the cosmos by insisting that it is the right and proper state of affairs as mandated by a god, their god, which is The God. In mere reality, gods will approve of whatever their masters say they will. This is why no argument for or against anything via "god says" is ever a solid foundation for or against anything.
Abrahamism had thousands of years to get it's shit together and each new incarnation seems deadset on outdoing the last in pure fuckery. None of them qualify as a way forward - they are, by design, a way backwards. They're a growth alright, but not a spiritual one.
A few questions and observations.
-What the hell is "basic religion"? Is it possible, do you think, that you're dipping into your specific and very superstitious religion to make these claims, and just calling whatever you happen to believe "basic religion"?
-Are you entirely certain that idol worship and a species environmental impact are the same sort of thing...like, even remotely? That...further, authoritarianism is the next stop along this train of very like things?
-Wouldn't it be better if hamas and idf weren't fighting at all? Man, I've gotta tell ya, I'm not sure that I'd pick dying of sepsis from a fucked up arrowhead over the boloney mist option of a 500lb laser guided bomb.
-Were you aware that things like aa were not at all "non theistic"...but....honestly, how the fuck do we go from any of these things to the other? I'm gonna come to any of that stuff you said..by going to aa? Not likely.
-In the spirit of not needing things anymore and moving forward, why does this not apply to spirits and deceivers and other worlds (and whatever else magic books ever told anyone) to compensate for how this one is not enough, particularly in ways to move forward with respect for earth and life? There's a popular phrase in environmentalism. There is no planet B. At least, not for me; but what existential motivation does a person have not to trash this rock if they do, in fact...and very strongly...believe that there is such a Planet B. In some other world. The higher reality. With gods and shit in it.
Abrahamism had thousands of years to get it's shit together and each new incarnation seems deadset on outdoing the last in pure fuckery. None of them qualify as a way forward - they are, by design, a way backwards. They're a growth alright, but not a spiritual one.
A few questions and observations.
-What the hell is "basic religion"? Is it possible, do you think, that you're dipping into your specific and very superstitious religion to make these claims, and just calling whatever you happen to believe "basic religion"?
-Are you entirely certain that idol worship and a species environmental impact are the same sort of thing...like, even remotely? That...further, authoritarianism is the next stop along this train of very like things?
-Wouldn't it be better if hamas and idf weren't fighting at all? Man, I've gotta tell ya, I'm not sure that I'd pick dying of sepsis from a fucked up arrowhead over the boloney mist option of a 500lb laser guided bomb.
-Were you aware that things like aa were not at all "non theistic"...but....honestly, how the fuck do we go from any of these things to the other? I'm gonna come to any of that stuff you said..by going to aa? Not likely.
-In the spirit of not needing things anymore and moving forward, why does this not apply to spirits and deceivers and other worlds (and whatever else magic books ever told anyone) to compensate for how this one is not enough, particularly in ways to move forward with respect for earth and life? There's a popular phrase in environmentalism. There is no planet B. At least, not for me; but what existential motivation does a person have not to trash this rock if they do, in fact...and very strongly...believe that there is such a Planet B. In some other world. The higher reality. With gods and shit in it.
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