smittyoneeach's Journal: One for fustakrakitch

Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth

A major missed point here is Nemrut Dag, which affords a general answer to POCM: possibly the cart is before the horse here?

The arrival of a Messiah occurred in a singular place and time. The Nativity (and Gospel in general) is counter-intuitive to all standard political thought.

That didn't mean the advertising was limited to the Israelites, though.

The arrival of a Messiah is a matter of faith

[fustakrakich]

What you practice physically reveals your true faith

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[smittyoneeach]

Yes, indeed, and quite.

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[fustakrakich]

Ok then, have you made your choice?

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[smittyoneeach]

I chose Christ 40+ years ago. The Gospel is the meaning of life. Politics are peripheral at best.

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[fustakrakich]

Sorry that was me.. didn't mean to go AC

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[smittyoneeach]

I guess that I am supposed to be affected by your insistence that I do this or that?

You know how it is when some degenerate, brainwashed college creep who has never run a business, much less, done more than whine, tries to criticize capitalism?

Thanks for the effort to say something about Christianity, though.

Trump rhymes with "speed bump" because that's about how important he is likely to be in the broader sweep of history. After all the hue and cry, the entrenched bureaucracy would resist him (again)

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[fustakrakich]

You send mixed messages, just 'fess up to whom you actually follow, that's all I ask.

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[smittyoneeach]

I'll look at the nominees. I'm genuinely uncertain that it matters.

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[fustakrakich]

:-) Just remember, there's more than two...

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[smittyoneeach]

We can write in anyone, but that act of defiance is a passing gesture. Follow your conscience, say I.

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[fustakrakich]

Follow your conscience, say I.

while following the crowd... pull the other one

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[smittyoneeach]

Help me understand why rejecting "the crowd" (whatever that is) would be a requirement for following one's conscience. What if "the crowd" is morally correct? Do I really have to be a sociopath?

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[fustakrakich]

"what if..." it isn't?

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[smittyoneeach]

How would you know one way or another regarding the moral correctness of the crowd?

And why would it matter, given your solipsistic devotion to a radical individualism?

(This is usually the part in the conversation where your thought does its Möbius strip thing.)

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[fustakrakich]

"Moral correctness" is silly. I call it the madness of the crowd, which only amplifies that of the individual. You try to separate one from the other. Can't do that. Like the mind is what the brain does, the crowd is what the individuals do.

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[smittyoneeach]

Like the mind is what the brain does, the crowd is what the individuals do.

But can we not sort choices according to output productivity? Or does human history just summarize as "some people did some things"?

For all your clamor that

"Moral correctness" is silly

I would reply that moral cowardice is the doormat of evil.

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[fustakrakich]

Recognition is not cowardice. You still define "evil" by who, not by what

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[smittyoneeach]

One judges the tree by the fruit. One judges those conflating the word "fruit" with tangible fruit as utter fools.

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[fustakrakich]

One judges the tree by the fruit.

Can always be the soil. Anyway, unlike a tree, a human can choose the fruit they produce, regardless the surroundings

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[smittyoneeach]

Can always be the soil.

Oh, there you go, contextualizing again...

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[fustakrakich]

Just adding a variable

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[smittyoneeach]

JAAV. Almost a programming language there.