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When a theist asks "where do you get your morality from?" to a liberal, they generally never concede that whatever ethic they subscribe to is cladistically derived from Western Christianity. They believe they derived it themselves, uninfluenced, except by "pure logic."
I point this out to Liberals all the time, at which point they generally admit that this is necessarily the case, but that they have "evolved" past Christianity (or, are "more Christian" than Christianity). This is when customized meme-Jesuses appear in discourse.
When they're upset by ppo calling America / The West a "Christian nation/civilization" they are upset because they don't say "MORE than a Christian nation." Christianity has been surpassed they say, God is dead, God is but the dream of good governance which we can now fulfill etc
The Enlightenment is merely a renegade form of Christian thinking- in which the Logos becomes, not a revelatory miracle, but a routine faculty of the mind. It corresponds to the era of Western Literary "realism" - in which "real life" ostensibly unmediated by the divine, is art.
This is of course nonsense, as every work of literary "realism" is shaped by the imagination (not by "pure reason") & is structured mythologically. Anna Karenina is a "realist" novel, but it is molded by Christian symbolism.
Reporting "just the facts" is never a complete possibility, as it assumes that we can enter a discourse immune from the "superstitious logic" of the human imagination- that this faculty can be silenced, letting "pure reason" sing in its absence. Nonsense.
Christians "sound dumb" to liberals, as they "talk like children" by deploying a symbolic discourse as opposed to one based on abstract "realist" philisophotheologies in which cosmogonies of "reason," "utility," "the public," etc- are deployed in a "realist" narrative/mythology.
Whenever they are caught in the web of their enlightenment kabbalah, they gesture toward the supremacy of the "complexity" of their rhetoric, as if their admission of being lost is synonymous with being found.
I remember what it was like to be on the opposite side, as an edgelord teenage atheist. I considered the realms of "mythology" & the realms of "real thinking" to be separate. When I no longer believed that to be the case, I began to realize how wrong I had been.
It actually genuinely amazes me how profound some of the "dumbest sounding" Christian points are in this light- their simplicity seems "too simple" until one recognizes how much there is to unpack hermenuticallly before the point can be properly understood.
William Blake went after the Deists as hard as he did (as Hamann & Jacobi did Spinozists, who are proto-deists really)- because they were encroaching on more fundamental grounds, on Imagination itself, by denying the conditions of metaphorical discourse in favor of "pure reason."
To say "Jesus is Man & God" is to speak in poetic, metaphorical/analogical terms- just as the "3=1" of the Trinity is beyond rational accounting (shoo thomists). Deism & Unitarian "rational monotheism" are the real roots of liberal theology.
Their short sightedness is based on the very grounds of their discussion- language, which is nothing BUT layers of analogy. This is why Wittgenstein & the linguistic turn marks the exhaustion of enlightenment thinking (he read his hamann...)
Even the psychological turn of Western thinking is a return to mythology & symbolism, informed by studies like Frazer's Golden Bough. Freudianism, Jungianism, Lacannianism et al- are based upon intepretations of mythology, not from "pure reason."
I think we are actually in a potentially good position looking forward when it comes to this issue. The problem is the lack of education in these fields (though people hunger for it! So many pop-culture mythological hermeneutical essays are youtube hits).
The Human Imagination is not an endlessly complex unknowable phenomenon which must be considered always as "subconscious" or "hiding." There is such a thing as Revelation. We knew this once & we'll know it again.

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Jun 6
I. Man’s perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception; he percieves more than sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover.
II. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
[III lacking]
IV. The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.
V. If the many become the same as the few when possess’d, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. Less than All cannot satisfy Man.
VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.
VII. The desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.
Application. He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.
Conclusion. If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character the Philosophic & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things, & stand still unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.
Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.

-William Blake
In 1788 he wrote this, & you can still just repeat this verbatim to the Rationalists & they will turn to stone.
What struck me this time was this:
"V. If the many become the same as the few when possess’d, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. Less than All cannot satisfy Man."

If the many become the same as the few (ie: bourgeois class consciousness) -- for wanting simply "more"-- this would be a mistake-- less than all cannot satisfy man, man in his totality, or in his species-being as Marx/Engels might put it. This is very simply the communist manifesto-- the following possession being infinite, desire being infinite, man himself infinite, then Man is becoming-God-- communism is, herein, the same thing as theosis.

Athanasius of Alexandria wrote, "He was incarnate that we might be made god" (Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐνηνθρώπησεν, ἵνα ἡμεῖς θεοποιηθῶμεν

William Blake wrote: God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.
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Jun 6
I think drinking makes you enter your preconscious mode of cognition which is often the exact opposite / an inversion of conscious metacognition. My basic metacognitive mood is Anger, so I am a Jolly drunk. I know many who are the opposite, metacognitively jolly, deep down pre-consciously angry,
It is like “what mood am I in when I am asleep”— for me, this is the best mood, & the moment I wake up my first instinct is to be pissed off about the fact that I’m not sleeping anymore. I think some people are “angry sleepers” & thus angry drunks.
To frame another way— someone who is constantly annoyed at small things, they get drunk, now they are forgiving of all the same things— someone who is constantly forgiving of every small thing, they get drunk, they finally voice their deepest resentments.
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May 26
Jordan Peterson is explicitly not a Christian— he has even described himself in the lineage of Nietzsche as a *critic* of Christianity on a fundamental level— what he says here is the Nietzschean description of “truth”— there is only “truth” in the pursuit & use of power, “truth” is what you *kill* for. He basically tells the atheists here that Christianity is *esoterically* a poetic description of attaining “single mindedness” in the recognition of oneself as God. This is the Jungian “psychological Christ” (what I would describe as a form of Antichrist). It’s mostly neoconservatism dressed up as Christ— this is “we must defend the zionist state” christianity. He says what is true is what you are willing to kill for. He said “Give them hell Netanyahu.” That’s what he believes— it has nothing to do with the noble proletarian carpenter of Roman occupied Judaea.
He wouldn’t “die for his belief in the bodily resurrection of all men & their subsequent trial & judgment by Jesus Christ”— he’d ask the would be executioner “well what do you mean by believe? It’s really an event of the mind, you see, in the pursuit of single mindedness…”
QED: He’s not a Christian— he definitely had no idea he’d be presented as one— as he is very explicitly *not* a Christian. Not anymore than someone like Richard Dawkins who like Peterson mourns the loss of a “cultural christianity” but has no use for it in terms of what you might call “real life” matters.
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May 23
Zoomers & beyond will be far more revolutionary than Millennials because Millennials are (presently) inheriting the windfall of the Great Boomer Die Off. While the generations after Millennials will never get the opportunity of, for instance, pre-covid mortgage rates.
As Engels wrote a long time ago— Communism in America doesn’t catch on because so much money can still be made in land speculation (& other sorts of speculative investment). Why be a communist if DOGEcoin is mooning & so on?
It is only when a generation is born that *can no longer profit in speculation* — that is, a generation that can’t “professionalize” into something like “shitcoin rug puller” or “overleveraged airbnb slumlord.”
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May 23
Parapolitics loses a lot of its “cosmic horror” punch when you realize the satirical insight that the most absurd retarded & evil things are necessary features of the prevailing superstructure & not incidental divergences from some posited innate goodness of mankind.
Was the Israeli ambassador or whatever shooting a false flag by the deep state? Was the shooter “programmed to kill”? Does it even matter? This is what America necessarily produces in the year 2025. It’s all grist of the mill— the mill is unipolar dollar hegemony buttressed by the international black market.
Parapolitics is in this sense adolescent, like the genre of horror & pornography— the kick being “life is not so nice as a naive child believes huh”— & that means something deep to a mental teenager— but to me it’s all just funny.
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May 22
This is just the natural consequences of the cueing system of literacy pedagogy in which people are trained to “guess” what something says piece by piece rather than grasping the gestalt through repeated exposure. Nobody “talks like Dickens writes” nowadays— so they have no knowledge base from which to “guess”— the only way to learn how to read a Victorian novel’s figurative language is to read many things that are similar to a victorian novel. No matter how much Steven’s Universe you watch, none of it will equip you with the skills to read the Pickwick Papers et al
Eventually this lack of exposure (ie: illiteracy) compounds & you’re in college & you have to pretend to understand a book that you literally cannot read because you should have started reading books like that when you were ten years old.
Within the cueing system is the assumption that people do not need “exposure” to anything outside their day to day life— if you haven’t engaged with idk neuroscience at all & the word dyspraxia pops up you might guess it says “dyslexia” because that word is more common in every day speech.
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