"There are seven countries in which no religious group makes up a majority of the population: the United Kingdom, Mauritius, South Korea, Australia, France, Ivory Coast and Singapore. [...] Among the world’s 10 most populous countries, the United States emerges as the most religiously diverse."

Given the events going on in the US, and silly notions of vanguard states, I thought that I’d bring this non-statist perspective up for those who haven’t heard of #DemocraticConfederalism.

Anarcho-Stalinist over here doesn’t seem to know what he actually believes. Champions Stalinist Stagism and Leninist vanguard states, simultaneously refusing to acknowledge that the state is the subset of the population with judicial authority that the fasces symbol refers to.

Hiatus time. Three new areas of interest to delve into.

Start differentiating between the government and the state. They’re not synonymous.

The vetos are a problem, but notice how use delegates in the UN rather than representatives? If our houses of parliament/congress at home were closer to delegate systems, then the formal position itself would be dependent on the de facto consent of those being governed. Liquid democracy, maybe?

I saw this on Twitter about two years ago. I never confirmed if it was real. What do you think? Plausible?

Some have argued similarities. Many of the founders openly tried to integrate the notion of race. I’m sure you’ll agree that no ideology should classify humans by master races, nature’s selected race, or anything race related, as the very concept is nonsensical, non-empirical, and unscientific.

I don’t want to hijack your thread, so I brought it over here. I like animism. I think there’s a lot of overlap in our perspectives. You’d probably like some of my threads, especially the Atenism stuff and the eastern philosophy. I see that you dabble in geomancy. I bet that you’d enjoy this book.

That thread is more about the Samaritan/Jewish differences in the Torah. Let’s move this over here. 👇🏼

#Samaritanism is an Israelite cousin to Judaism, as it were. The Samaritan Torah is older, shorter, and tends to conserve more original traits of the common progenitor religion. One crucial difference is the importance of Mount Gerizim, which plays the same theological anchor role as Mount Zion.

Phaistos Disc. Topologically, a disc and an interval have the same Euler number (ie. 1). The superset between an interval and a disc is a spiral helix. A sort of projected space, like when you look up or down at a spiral, and it looks like an infinite circular regression.

Aenesidemus’ teacher was Heraclides from the Empiric school, which he used to help revitalize Pyrrhonian skepticism. According to Sextus Empiricus, Aenesidemus published 10 modes of epistemology, which Agrippa further chipped down into 5. These are functionally equivalent to the Dharmic pramanas.

A cognitive worldview built around the objectified self is inherently circular because it’s timeless and self-referential. The future, like the empty set is, an abstract hypothetical. It is absolutist because its essence is defined as something that can never be realized. Unreal. Non-relativistic.

One trait of narcissists is that they place their own time and place at the center because their first principle is themselves. Not truth, not others. Just morbid self-absorption. A condition born of the reflexive self. As such, they often struggle with concepts embedded in time and relativity.

I wanted to create a thread about a phenomenon called Semantic Drift, which describes when the meaning of a word or morpheme (the smallest unit of significance in a linguistic expression) changes its definition, referents, contexts, etc. In a “post-truth” world, this becomes weaponized by fascists.

Fundamental Questions in Behavioural Ecology. Tinbergen’s framework looks at complementary perspectives in Proximate vs. Distal and Diachronic vs. Synchronic views.

The english word for schadenfreude is epicaricacy. And etymologically, it means taking joy in the misfortunes of evil, not just others in general.

If one looks a little more closely at Christian churches, their conception of the divine is reflected in the layout of the building. A Catholic church is a throne room because they view god as a divine monarch, while Protestant churches are courtrooms, reflecting the view of god as the divine judge.

Leaf Cutter Ants are very interesting, and can teach us a lot about the evolution of pro-social behaviour. The Order Hymenopteran first appeared during the Triassic, and probably evolved into an evolutionary stable pattern of social relationships early on. 🧵

Everything arises due to causes and conditions. Nothing exists independently. Understanding dependent origination reveals the interconnection of all things and the root of suffering. 🌱 #Buddhism #DependentOrigination

In Indo-European languages, the alpha privative represents the negation of the word that it attaches to, and is where the particle “not” comes from. It takes the form of a-, un-, in-, im-, etc. Theism-Atheism Visible-Invisible Natural-Unnatural Possible-Impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_p...

You might find this interesting! Here is the close up of that passage. Notice the bird. It’s usually treated as G1, which is associated with the /a/ sound, and the origin of alpha. Wiki also says that others have suggested G4, which is the suffix -tjw. Doesn’t really look clearcut either way.

The future, as a concept, is necessarily untenable because it is unrealized; nothing in it has actualized existence, and it can’t be touched, held, or seen in the present. Its “essence” is pure potential, reflexive, and untouchable. Absolutist and out of reach, which is why it is structurally empty.

That’s not a “left caricature”, but does predate the left-right spectrum as liberal archetypes going back to Greco-Rome. Liber/Dionysus and Libera/Persephone were both religious metaphors used by the Pythagoreans and the Orphics. Hence the drinking, promiscuity, and mental illness associations.

Out of curiosity, what is it that you think that the LPC has done to redistribute wealth to the workers and communities explicitly at the expense of wealthy corporations and individuals?

Hey, @egyptianwitchh.bsky.social, I value your input as a modern Egyptian. I think being a descendant of an Ancient Culture can give someone unique insights that are largely unavailable to outsiders. When you see this, what’s your take? Have you seen it before? Do you recognize these deities?

Of the Canadian brand. Very likely a LPC partisan. I recognize the name too. May have interacted with her on Twitter years ago, or saw someone arguing with her, but I don’t recall exactly.

Endogamy and exogamy both necessarily presuppose the existence of in-groups and out-groups. Endogamy is about self-selection via group selection.

Updated chronology. Better visual. Given that the Exodus out of Egypt is a founding myth, the probability that it corresponds to a different series of events is extremely low. Especially in conjunction with all the other evidence presented.

These are all metrics, so I’m using the same root (ie. -metry) to lower cognitive load in organizing the information. Astrometrics just refers to astronomy or spherics. Harmonics or Music becomes Chronometrics, and Arithmetic becomes Arithmetrics. Natural tetralemma filter. Unary connectives.

The electoral system is constructed around state capitalism. A vote is an act of consent. By affirming and voting in a federal election, you are adding your name to the list of people who consent and legitimize the social hierarchy as it currently stands. Consent of the Governed.

I think many do, yep. It’s problematic with the eastern stuff too, because much of the pre-Hindu traditions are oral. Identifying etymological cognates in different languages shines a bit of light on it, though. Re: Amarna. Chronologically, the “Exodus” likely corresponds to the Atenist expulsion.

A cognitive worldview built around the objectified self is inherently circular because it’s timeless and self-referential. The future, like the empty set is, an abstract hypothetical. It is absolutist because its essence is defined as something that can never be realized. Unreal. Non-relativistic.

Many go further. The fasces is a symbol of judicial authority, and the state is the subset of the population with the judicial monopoly on violence. So, an ideology or principle born of the fasces is an ideology of state class supremacy.

Hmm, this is interesting. What is this from?

Learning a new language is a difficult challenge. Instead of learning concepts in isolation, which requires forming new neural circuits at the cost of time, repetition, calories, etc., try to use the etymology to identify related words and concepts that you already know in your native language.

He’s rejecting both centrist and right-wing parties. Centrism is defined by its “bothsides-ism”. It doesn’t exist without situating itself between the left (egalitarianism) and the right (despotism). The one thing that the center and the right have in common is a non-egalitarian foundation.

He explicitly said that he holds them in contempt for different reasons, meaning that he does see them differently. Perhaps he’s referring to the fact that they’re all variations of state capitalism.

Self-identification with an in-group means simultaneously identifying and defining everyone else into an out-group, cousin.

Why don’t we look through an empirical lens? Together. It’s always good that we look at multiple sides before we judge. If you’re moderate left, then it means that you do have a functional definition of left and right. To be clear, your baseline definitions are not arbitrary, right?

Adding the alpha privative (ie. the an-) to the first three negates them, creating the concepts of Anattan, Anatman, and Anautón. Like how Atheism is the negation of Theism. Ancient Egyptian doesn’t have an alpha privative, but uses nn or nj to mean not or non. So, Jtn becomes Nj-jtn or Nn-jtn.

I accept your concession. You are dismissed.

What was my answer when you asked that before?

You asserted that I hadn’t spoken to anyone, which my profile demonstrates otherwise. I called you out for it, and now you’re moving the goalposts. It’s almost as if your worldview is arbitrary, and detached from relativity.

It’s the morning, and I’ve already spoken to multiple people. It’s like everything that you say starts from contradiction. Do you have a theory of mind?

The Contrarians are getting upset.

You’re alluding to the institution of the state itself. Authoritarianism requires a judicial monopoly on violence to enforce class hierarchy, which is why the state is inherently a right-wing institution. That’s also what the fasces symbol represents. The judicial supremacy of the state.

When you self-identify with a racial in-group, you’ve necessarily created a racial out-group. That very act of unilateral self-identification (ie. self-reference) means that you’ve simultaneously racialized others against their consent. Problematic given that race itself is ideological nonsense.