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First of all, there's no need to worry about criticizing Christianity or offending us. Remember, not only did I start out doing that, but throughout all of this ARM has at various points been about as insulting as one can be. If I recall correctly, the only time that PS said he'd had enough was when ARM began blaspheming the Holy Mother in really, really profane ways that had nothing to do with the discourse. I know that you're expressing something different, which is that you don't want to be offensive. What I'm saying is that so long as you are making the point because it is based on your beliefs, as opposed to the plain intent to insult someone, you're fine to be as critical as it's necessary for you to say what you think is true.

Both PS and King, who have a longer history with Christianity at stake than me, have heard probably 95% of the possible criticisms ever levied against Christianity. You articulate yours in a unique and intelligent way, but that doesn't change the fact that the argument from Christianity expressing an elaborate Jewish subversion tactic is something they've fielded before. In fact, my first full-fledged day at Poal saw myself and PS dealing with a similar objection from Doglegwarrior. Note, that doesn't mean I'm putting that argument, in itself, into a single camp. Any argument can be made at different levels of sophistication. His was primarily a reactive sort of "Pagans unite!" position. Yours is smarter.

You pointed out that they know what they are doing because they think god punishes them for being bad, but I considered this, and I think they really do lack self awareness, like the cuckoo. When they say God punishes them, its because they didn’t follow some niggling little rule like eating meat off the dairy plate.

This topic has had me pinning myself to the wall, and I'm beginning to understand better why Jordan Peterson simply said, 'I can't', when asked to explain the Jews in a Q&A. I'm not sure if you have seen that segment. He is asked to deal with 200 Years Together, and he struggles for a moment in silence before finally declining to answer. A lot of people, myself included, wanted to chalk this up to a mask-off situation, exposing Jordan as a subversive. I don't think you can spend years at Voat without that being your immediate impulse. But I realize now that it really is just a massively profound and stifling subject. There are points I want to make, here and there, but I can't connect them into a coherent, unified answer. That's the trouble, because doing that would be the same as having an answer to history, religion, and philosophy all wrapped up in a single explanation: of what The Jew is.

I think that E. Michael Jones and PS are both correct when they say that what it is to be a Jew is to be that which rejects Christ. But that's coming from inside of a deep, deep hermeneutic structure with many levels. It's like by the time you get to that point where you understand the claim in a deep, internal sense, you may not be aware of how many levels you've passed through which would themselves be potential stopping points. Like, getting to Christ, and to what rejection of Christ is, is profoundly complex. I'm not just saying that like charlatans do, where they allude to secrets and complexity just to obfuscate truth and profit from never having to be clear.

I truly believe the Jews are a mystery in the deepest sense. If Christ is the Christian mystery, complete with an earthly cognate in the mysteries of His Church, then we must acknowledge that the Jew is also a mystery. In other words, if Christ is a mystery, then so to the rejection of Christ must also represent a mystery with multi-tiered interpretations and correspondences in visible reality.

I think if you dropped your own beliefs and personal identity for a moment, and truly stepped back from the picture by about 30,000 ft, forgetting what you think about Jews, you could look at how perplexing the Jew is and appreciate that it is larger than life - a legitimate mystery. The Jew goes beyond merely confounding us. Islam confounds us, but they do not represent a mystery, right? The fact that we have broken so much bread on this issue, and that we could construe history as one way or another moving according to the Jewish and Christian dialectic, then if you've stepped back far enough, you can acknowledge that what was meant by the 'chosen people' is potentially more profound than a self-deluded group of people. Now, none of that is meant to suggest that history begins or ends with the Jews - rather, it's pointing to something more abstract. I, for one, am fairly certain that even the history of human civilization goes backward further than the current archaeological consensus. There is no real way to think that the Jews, in name, go back 40 or 60,000 years into the past as an explicit historical object.

But that's the point, because what the Jew is does, as rejection of Christ. It's that allegorical figure of Cain, it's the spiritual reality embodied by that symbol, and it has to do with an orientation to physical nature and the Logos.

Whatever the Jew is has gained an expression in various ways across time, but which seems to always find its way, like the attraction of some law of nature, into the most 'ready vessels' for it. The Jews as historical object are not the same before or after the Babylonian captivity. Nor were they the same after the diaspora. For example, and I will try to lay this out more explicitly in a different post, the modern Jewry that we think of as the 'Universal Reformers' trying to purify the world are mostly Ashkenazim emanating from eastern Europe. So then you begin talking about the Khazar influence, and you start looking at the medieval and pre-modern area of Germany and Poland, where there was a massive massive element of mysticism and magic inside their culture. This is where Hassidism originated.

So complicating things even further is that the Jews today are not just a single vector. Some of them are the mystical reformers of the world. Others don't see themselves as the messiah, but currently await the messiah.

I mean, just think about trying to describe the Jew in terms of a natural kind. Try it physically. Impossible. Try it religiously. Impossible.

The only level of reality where it seems appropriate to be able to do so, in a way that actually means something, is to do it at a spiritual level, at a level where we are describing how these people approach the world, as ultimate reality.

Even if you were to find one gene that was common to all ethnic Jews, and never present in non-Jews, do you think this would give you an answer? In the click-whirr sense where human beings are a black box that says: protein-coding sequence goes IN, and this behavioral tendency comes OUT, perhaps you'd be satisfied. But both Christians and Jews would recognize that any reality at the level of the physical has a correspondence in immaterial reality. Genes are not merely genes, but something like a language or a Word in three dimensions. There is a higher order to reality, and these physical correspondences can hardly explain things at the level of detail that's relevant. At best, they could lead somebody to some exterminative conclusion. The final solution.

And certainly many people have come to that conclusion, but have been confounded that, like a hydra, when we cut a head off, we get two, so on and so forth. No amount of persecution has ever killed that hydra, but only pushed history toward elevating the Jew.

On the genetic level, truly step back and think about the assumptions. I freely admit that genetic arguments sound convincing from inside of a given paradigm, but can be laid bare if you articulate what it actually is you're saying. If an alien showed up without any concept of genes and asked you to explain reality, you'd say something like: "All of this? There are just packets of little nucleotide phosphates that are battling each other. Yeah, certain groups of those molecules get together and make a certain thing, like a physical person to go out and do survival things to fight on their behalf, and the best packet of molecules is winning. Winning, what, you ask? Survival. Existence. Yeah, if you insert just one different molecule-word into the overall genetic language it totally alters how their person-armor fights for them. It's like adding software to the program. But, why, you ask? I already told you, to be, to keep making more of themselves. Yeah, basically, lifeless packs of molecules. No they don't want to live, per se, it just happens that they do. But at the same time, they want to live, but the wanting happens only at the level of the person."

The point is when you really get to the abstract level of philosphizing about what we really think is going on in the genetic view of things, it gets just as out there as appealing to another paradigm that suggests a term like 'spiritual', but the latter is just so loaded that people reject it. What they don't realize is they are appealing to something immaterial too, even when they think they're being good physicalists and only talking about physical stuff like genes. They just bury their appeal to abstract, immaterial properties using scientific lingo.

So you have to think about the spiritual correspondence. What does it mean at a level that is invisible? What are these people or the Spirit that moves them?

I have to go. I have been fasting for two days and I am going to spend a day eating sushi haha. I rambled a bit here, but I'd like to do something a bit clearer on this topic soon. So don't consider this as a comprehensive reply to your comment.

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I have been fasting for two days

Lent is a good time for that! And Sunday is a good time to break fast, since all Sundays are feast days and it's unlawful to fast on a feast day.

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Great point. I have been doing this for about 4 weeks now, eating every other day except staggering it so that things don't alternate by eating both days of the weekend. That way I'm really only having a total fasting day M, W, and Fr. Tuesday and Thursday and Saturday I'll eat one meal late in the day. It winds up being close to 3 forty-eight hour fasts back to back with one meal separating them for a total of three meals for the days Monday - Saturday. Then Sunday I'll eat however. This week I wanted to push it to a 72 hour on the third one and see how I did.

Fasting does crazy things to you, in a positive way. With time, I'd like to experiment with pushing it further and further. If I could do a full week long fast at some point I'd be pumped. But I totally grasp why it figured so heavily in religion and in the Bible. There is an acute kind of mental clarity that comes along with not having food in you. I can only imagine what it grows into with really extended fasting.

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Absolutely, fasting is very powerful. That's why Christ said that some demons can only be cast out by prayer and fasting.

Which is also a good Scripture to reference when people start treating fasting as something strictly dietary - which of course it can be, but then it loses any religious significance. Fasting must be accompanied with prayer to accomplish its religious purposes - remembering of course all the different types of prayer that there are.

What I love about fasting is how it contextualizes things - provides clarity, as you say. By voluntarily denying yourself things that the flesh desires, you force yourself to remember what your nature desires, namely, God. As the Scriptures say, if a man lives to be 100, that is a long life - but like a drop of water in the ocean compared to eternity. The Church, in her wisdom, built penitential seasons like Lent into her liturgical calendar so that all the faithful would be encouraged - even commanded, insofar as the "minimum requirements" are concerned - to practice mortification, and thereby, accompanied with prayer, come closer to God. There are things I have given up this Lent that I hope to not pick up again at all; I see how much more fulfilling my life is without those distractions, and how much easier it is to pray about and work toward God's will without these things in my way. Obviously when it comes to not eating three meals a day, that's not something I would adopt year round - although I do certain minor weekly fasting throughout the year - since nutrition and bodily strength do have to be attended to. But other things can be given up permanently, and Lent is a good time to try to purge ourselves of the kinds of impurities we would have to be purified of in Purgatory, if we don't get around to it in this life.

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Poor ARM, he really did not deserve to get banned. Too many bans around here. Did he ever come back in a new incarnation?

The Odin crowd— I don’t object to their rejection of Christianity but I wish they wouldn’t be so rude about it. They act like being a Christian is the same as being a jewish handmaiden and I just totally disagree. WNs cant afford to exclude christians, they make up the bulk of decent non communist white people. I also question their sincerity about the pagan shit. It seems to be a cosmetic thing and not something they have faith in. These guys do not believe in Valhalla. They are just larping as vikings.

Jordan Peterson is not stupid. I dont know really how JQ’ed he is but he’s noticed as much as the rest of us had typically noticed before voat or pol. They are not the same. He also knows his career is toast if he even tries to tackle that enigma. Jordan is deeply indoctrinated in a religion created by jews, psychology. So he might have trouble seeing some things that are more obvious to us. Sometimes he has said things in passing about jews which makes me think he knows whats up. Who knows. I also happen to think he is a bit of a shill for his own brand which annoys me.

I dont define jews by their rejection of Jesus, which I think is situational. They are programmed to be subversive toward whatever the dominant religion/culture is in their vicinity. The pharissees hated christian jews because they were ideologically schismatic and they were converting goyim into what was basically a break off version of judaism from their perspective. This is dangerous to an endogamous religion. They probably lost a lot of jews to the christians initially and were loathe to loose more of their population to it, since those jews do go on to assimilate into the goyim.

They have claimed in the talmud that Mary was a prostitute and Jesus was conceived when she had her period. Which is a big deal with them lol. But I think these stories are told so that young jews will not convert. Maybe that is why they are so subversive. If they had a more ambiguous attitude toward the dominant culture, they would have been completely assimilated long ago.

Yes they are a mystery that does seem beyond explanation at times. Spooky. But many other phenomena that seemed beyond explanation a century or two ago are now well understood. I have faith in natural explanations. I believe there is a rational explanation for jews and many other phenomena that may not be available to us now but will be in the future. Hopefully. And to me, the only plausible hypothesis is genetics/evolution.

I see cultural memes as part of the evolution of human populations—culture and genes are the two mediums of human data influencing each other in the context of the evolution of a society like jews or muslims. Of course its harder to nail down a cultural meme as raw data. It cant be sequenced as a set of values like DNA. The spookier, more “mysterious” aspects of jewish behavior are those cultural memes that fit them well because of their genetics. Cultural memes seem like spooky supernatural things, but they are just information that lives in people’s brains.

both Christians and Jews would recognize that any reality at the level of the physical has a correspondence in immaterial reality.

I would explain this as memes.

I actually think Islam can be kinda mysterious itself. It used to baffle me why they are so violent, and love to blow stuff up and chop off people’s heads. I thought how does this religion work? It seems to make people instantly violent. Hindus are not terribly violent. But muslim Pakis are. Philipino Christians never blow up shit. Philipino mulisms do. Does Islam magically make people violent? Just from reading the quran? I was dubious that a book could change the behavior of entire countries so profoundly.

Then I thought about polygamy and how it creates a large disparity between males in terms of reproductive access to females, and how very violent males can be reproductively successful in that environment and how this disparity also incentivizes conquest of non muslim neighbors with pools of available females, killing two birds with one stone. So this is a reasonable explanation for me, a working theory anyway, of why muzzies are so violent. A phenomenon that seems mysterious but perhaps has an explanation rooted in darwinian selection.

Likewise monogamy seems like a plausible explanation for why white guys are just a little bit nicer on average and non rapey and non violent. Mostly. Except when they collectively agree to kill the shit out of the guys in the next village.

But back to the topic. No, jews are not exactly the same as they were 3000 years ago in Exodus. Theyve picked up a few genes since then. Obviously the sephardics and the ashkenazis, the mizrahi etc are distinguishible genetically. But they are at least 50% the same.

They had traits for reading/writing profieciency back then as it seems other canaanites like the phoenecians did. Bronze age. And they had already adopted a parasitic itinerant strategy by then. Once you adopt an itinerant lifestyle you are going to just keep picking up additional traits that lend themselves to itineracy. Like the gypsies and the irish travelers. Deception, parasitism. And they continued to select for high iq because of the requirements for talmudic scholarship. Following the religion has caused these genetic traits in this group. If you took swedish people and had them follow judaism for 3000 years you would get a lot of the same traits. I think there are genetic studies that show that jews took over the khazar nation but not mix much with it.

I mean, just think about trying to describe the Jew in terms of a natural kind. Try it physically. Impossible.

An initial founding population that has diverged in to sub-populations in terms of genetics and behavior.

No amount of persecution has ever killed that hydra, but only pushed history toward elevating the Jew.

It seems like this. That is becuase they are smarter than us and they whine more than us. They are programmed by their genes to live off of us while professionally whining about their victimhood 24/7. They seem almost supernaturally whiney. But there is a natural explanation imo. And they die just like everyone else. There is more of other people than them. If all other groups learn how they work they are in trouble. They always need another sympathetic nation to support them.

I really understand what you are saying about the difficulty of resolving cultural phenomena like spiritual concepts to genetics and brains. It is very abstract and weird. But I tend to think of this paradox as similar to the hardware of a computer upon which an operating system runs. Genes (largely) determine the architecture of a computer like the memory system or the cpu. An operating system runs on top of that. You can run different operating systems on the same hardware. You can run the same operating system on different computer architectures. You will get different results with all of these scenarios. When you turn on the computer, it just looks like Windows. But it doesnt run the same way.

Sometimes when you see software running, it seems like magic. But when you look at the code you can see how it all works. We just need to see the code. Lets reverse engineer these bitches.

I dont know what the solution is. But if we can lay bare exactly where these behaviors are coming from we can screen for them. Maybe we will find that some jews do not have so many “bad” genes. We might be able to accept a lot of half and quarter ones as well.