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Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:34 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
Lacewing wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:31 pm I've told you very clearly. It's because you are a pompous fool, drunk on your self-righteous delusion. You, like I.C., cannot drop it and come down to Earth with the rest of ALL that is divine. You have to pretend that you sit above us, on some imaginary platform. Meanwhile, your delusion continually grows in order to save your ego despite all to the contrary, and you'll do and say just about anything to serve that highest purpose. (That's the same kind of evil parasitic worm you accused I.C. of having.)
::: gulp! :::

Gawd, I am really fucked up! I thought it was like a 3 day cold or something.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:35 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:29 pm
Nah, that ain't news: that's just par for the course.
You and your banter, henry, you old rogue. :wink:

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:39 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
Ascending Master Alexis intoned: I believe in knowledge and 'solidities' which I describe as having a metaphysical existence.
Lacewing wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:31 pmKnowledge and 'solidities' vary from era to era, culture to culture, and person to person. Why do you imagine that you can possess such a thing to any certain degree beyond how it serves you?
Then they aren't Platonic certainties nor the 'Forms'. I assert that there ARE absolute forms and absolute solidities and I define them in relation to man, to human being. I notice that you do not but you do refer to "knowledge and 'solidities' vary from era to era, culture to culture, and person to person". A classic postmodern perspective. From a postmodern exemplar.
Why do you imagine that you can possess such a thing to any certain degree beyond how it serves you?
Can you define any certain thing? I am aware that you can fracture yourself away from seeing, understanding or believing that such exist. On what and in what do you ground yourself?

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:45 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
Lacewing wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:31 pm And yet, you're captivated by us. :) Perhaps our free-spirited and confidently feisty natures intrigue you. We're not sheep. We're not entrenched. We're self-sufficient, reasonably intelligent, and we're having fun. You try to distort this to fit into some bullshit model in your own head... and again, this is all to serve your ego.
Wait, now hold on here. You are having fun? You are having more fun than I am?! I am having oodles of fun! I'm rolling in fun! I am having the most fun of anyone here. Fun fun fun do you hear me?
Fuck your ego, A.J. It stunts your ability to see anything beyond it.
Meh. It gets me from place to place. My A to B as it were . . .

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:00 pm
by henry quirk
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:30 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:53 pm That I am my own (my life, liberty, property are mine). That you are your own (your life, liberty, property are yours), That I am a free will. That you are a free will. That God is real. That morality is real.
Question: is that true in Nature, in the world? Or is it true in the world of men exclusively?
Morality, being free wills, natural rights, these are exclusively for man and God (*persons and the Person). Penguins, pigs, protozoa are not persons (they're, as far as I know, only bio-automata) and have no moral dimension. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and leprosy are events in a causal chain and aren't responsible.

*which raises the question: what is a person? With man it means to be a composite of spirit and substance, to be ensouled. With **God it means He is the Spirit from which all spirit and substance comes.

**And on that subject: there was some nonsense, up-thread, about deism.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Deism

And if that's too much: ask a deist what he believes...I'll entertain serious questions
if anyone just wants to poke fun: get bent

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:08 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:00 pm
Morality, being free wills, natural rights, these are exclusively for man and God (*persons and the Person). Penguins, pigs, protozoa are not persons (they're, as far as I know, only bio-automata) and have no moral dimension.
So, for example, a penguine's life, liberty and property are not its own? By what authority do you claim something for yourself that you would deny the penguine, henry?

Have you had a bad experience with a penguine, henry?

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:29 pm
by henry quirk
Harbal wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:08 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:00 pm
Morality, being free wills, natural rights, these are exclusively for man and God (*persons and the Person). Penguins, pigs, protozoa are not persons (they're, as far as I know, only bio-automata) and have no moral dimension.
So, for example, a penguine's life, liberty and property are not its own? By what authority do you claim something for yourself that you would deny the penguine, henry?

Have you had a bad experience with a penguine, henry?
If you wanna treat penguins, pigs, protozoa, hurricanes, earthquakes, leprosy, apples, and your kitchen table as persons, morally self-responsible free wills with exclusive claims to themselves, knock yourself out.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:34 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:29 pm If you wanna treat penguins, pigs, protozoa, hurricanes, earthquakes, leprosy, apples, and your kitchen table as persons, morally self-responsible free wills with exclusive claims to themselves, knock yourself out.
Don't be silly, henry, I didn't refer to anything other than penguins, and you know it.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:43 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
iambiguous wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:55 pm....again, what specifically do you think should be done about it? What should the policies of the American government be to stem this demographic crisis? How far would you go? Not as far as Hitler perhaps but more in that direction?

I'm just trying to pin down how existentially you became a racist [re dasein] and how far you would go to create a community, a nation where the intellectually superior "Northern European" white race prevailed?
I notice an increasingly fraught tone in what you write. I also notice that you repeat, like a litany, a set of assertions that derive from Progressive ideology. You will have to understand that I reject Progressivism and Egalitarianism to the degree that they become tools of a Marxian subversion. Yet my general philosophy is 'personalist' and this has to do with respecting persons. All persons.

You have asked many leading questions because you want to embroil me in moral issues within which you are certain you have leverage. I simply side-step this. You can (i.e. you are free to) phrase and paraphrase what you believe I am saying into whatever form you seem to wish me to say and then argue with full vehemence against that -- if that serves your purposes.

I talk in general terms about what different people think about race, about multiculturalism, about the American project, and really a very wide gamut of different types of concerns within areas of tremendous contention. I am aware of the full scope of these issues and questions and I have read, and do read, very widely. But what I am not doing is recommending a political praxis. I approach these topics *as a philosopher* -- and by that I only mean as one open to discussing things, thinking about things, free from coercion. I start from the premise that we live in and are subject to ideological coercion. To understand what I mean you will only need to step back from your own argument style and terms and see how you, yourself, are deeply involved in this. I wish to be on the outside of it, not embroiled and enmeshed in it. And I also want to be able to recover, since I regard it as being under assault, the capability of thinking and reasoning freely, without being subject to ideological coercion.

So the statement that I make, and really it is the only solid plank or platform that I have, is that I reject completely the machinations of anti-whiteness. I see the trend or the ideology or the psychological pathology of anti-whiteness as being a specific and a real thing. And to turn against that, and to define an alternative to it, but one that is sane, healthy, self-affirming but not harmful or destructive to other people's identity -- that is what I am after.

So what I suggest that you do is to review what I have written so far and see, if you can, that I have not made any 'immoral' statements and nothing like what you seem to wish for me to say. You are both baiting me and leading me. I am aware of this and as I say I simply side-step it.

You seem to be very concerned about superiority and inferiority. I have transcended preoccupations of that sort. I do not think in those terms. But I do think in terms of shared values, shared history, shared *trajectory*, shared concepts of destiny and attainment. And I am certainly open to and capable of talking about any of these things.

Turning back to your (baiting and leading) question:
"....again, what specifically do you think should be done about it? What should the policies of the American government be to stem this demographic crisis? How far would you go? Not as far as Hitler perhaps but more in that direction?"
I have already made my position clear. You simply need to read it and assimilate it. I regard the *right* of a Japanese, or a Nigerian, or a Frenchman, to define themselves at a somatic level in the same way that they may define all other categories of concern. If they see *themselves* as a specific thing (or outcome as in heritage) they are completely within their rights to define and also control their demographics. It is easier for us to see this *right* when we apply it to a generally homogenous (and island) nation like Japan. One that is distinct. Also, Japanese culture is so distinctive that it also makes it earier to see and identify it.

In a nation like America, and especially the America that has been engineered in the last 50-60 years, the European-descended super-majority has been altered or is being altered. I am simply aware of this fact. And I am also aware of what I understand to be an attack on 'White identity'. What is the origin of this attack? That is a complex question but it can be answered or an attempt begun to answer it. Is that something you want to explore? I have already made allusions: I regard Progressivism and Egalitarianism as Marxist tools. These are ideas that function with ideological, social and cultural wars. We are in a cultural war. Loosely we can refer to this as the Culture Wars.

Now I have said two essential things. 1) I have said that I do not think it a good idea if those of European descent lose super-majority status. And 2) that I adamantly oppose all ideology that expresses anti-Whiteness.

What you want me to do is to define some Hitleresque social cleansing program -- I mean look at what you have written!

I start only from the platform that I have defined here.

Now what I would appreciate if you were to do is to explain to me what is wrong -- morally wrong if you wish -- in what I have said. Teach me. Show me. Make it plain.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:44 pm
by henry quirk
Harbal wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:34 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:29 pm If you wanna treat penguins, pigs, protozoa, hurricanes, earthquakes, leprosy, apples, and your kitchen table as persons, morally self-responsible free wills with exclusive claims to themselves, knock yourself out.
Don't be silly, henry, I didn't refer to anything other than penguins, and you know it.
🐶 - you sayin' I'm not a person too? Speciesist!

- and me? I'm not a person? Biologist!

🍎 - Hey, screw you! I'm a person too!

Nope, I'm not gettin' between them and you, H.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:54 pm
by promethean75
but henry....

"Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned. Their idea of freedom, therefore, is simply their ignorance of any cause for their actions. As for their saying that human actions depend on the will, this is a mere phrase without any idea to correspond thereto. What the will is, and how it moves the body, they none of them know; those who boast of such knowledge, and feign dwellings and habitations for the soul, are wont to provoke either laughter or disgust." - Spinoza

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:55 pm
by henry quirk

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:10 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
henry quirk wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:55 pm AJ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations

You familiar with it?
I am familiar with previous iterations of the idea. But not that specific title. I may order it. It looks interesting. And it certainly fits into the 'break-downs' that are going on.

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:16 pm
by Harbal
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:10 pm I am familiar with previous iterations of the idea. But not that specific title. I may order it.
Yes, it does look like an excellent volume, doesn't it?

Re: Christianity

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:33 pm
by Alexis Jacobi
iambiguous wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:55 pmOkay, how fuzzy was it for Germans after Hitler came to power there? How fuzzy was it for those in any community down through the ages in which race and ethnicity and nationality were championed by those in power?
Can you elaborate on what you are proposing here? Is your issue against National Socialist ideas about "Germanism'? Is your core issue against any identitarian definitions? Are you proposing no structure of identity? Are you proposing -- for example in America -- the surrender to of identity to the Liberal State?

Can you talk more about what you mean?