The point of believing anything is to become a psychopathic fanatic for it. It is to gain the will, ruthlessness, and commitment that comes with true belief. It is to erect a rock which you can stand on and trust your life to.
You know how a great motorcyclist can ride so fast and perform stunts that seem so dangerous? He understands and has 100% faith in how the bike works so he can gamble his life on it. He is a psychopathic fanatic for the mechanics of his bike.
You know how great surgeons historically have performed highly invasive life threatening surgeries ON THEMSELVES without anaesthetic when in dire straits? They knew their craft that well and had 100% faith in their ability. They were psychopathic fanatics for medical knowledge.
There are people who live on the 100th floor of skyscrapers, who spend days on end and every hour or their sleep suspended at the deadly height of 200 or 300meters above the ground. They are Psychopathic fanatics for the solidity of Concrete rebar construction. If you showed up panicking at the danger they were in and tried to drag them out of their apartment that no one should sleep suspended 300 meters in the air… they’d fight you in the doorway.
Yet somehow people who believe they have The Word of God himself on their side are consistently preening, cowardly, and morally unwilling to commit to anything.
Somehow people who “believe in the constitution” and have sworn to die to defend it, start sputtering and get mad at you if you ask whether they’re committed to what George Washington believed, or what Martin Luther King believed about the proper relationship between the races and whether those constitutional rights apply to blacks and recent immigrants.
People who know everything about world war 2 and take the greatest pride in defending their grandfather’s legacy get incandescently mad if you point out that their grandfather in fact did not fight for gay interracial marriage in France… he was a WW2 war hero and he subsequently voted for George McGovern, and considered himself to have been fighting for the greatness of the white American race.
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Yet these contradictions are not thought to be contradictions… rather Americans and everyone in their empire equates the sincerity of their faith and the quality of their moral character with precisely HOW hypocritical and unbelieving they can be. Just how loyal to the white lies and euphemisms they can show themselves.
Morality itself is equated with lies, hypocrisies, and polite euphamisms.
You are a BAD PERSON to insist on that passage in Leviticus when your church tries to hold a gay marriage.
You are a BAD PERSON to point out that George Washington would be disgusted and demand immediate racial armed conflict over something like the Civil Rights Act.
You are a bad person to point out that the ACTUAL WW2 generation had LOTS of things to say about the idea that they fought an antiracist crusade for gay marriage and in fact 100% despised the boomer hippies. That’s why gay marriage was passed in the 2010s they had to wait for the WW2 veterans to DIE.
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All Americans left and right, (and now basically everyone in a country of their alliance network) all play the “pretending not to understand you” game… they equate their moral status with their ability to NOT believe in things, with their ability to hold completely contradictory ideas at the same time and not get caught out in the contradiction. They are a nation of frauds and charlatans in which status, esteem, and moral authority accumulates to the person who lies the most brazenly and shamelessly, as litterally anyone outside America who has heard tell of a Megachurch can tell you…
Is it any wonder their presidents are Actors, Southern pedophiles, fake Texans, DEI hires, Senile old men, and Donald Trump?
And it is EVERYONE in the American alliance network. To passionately insist on the most obvious truths which everyone knows is to lose your job in America. To do it in an American colony is to be jailed, as indeed many have been.
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Part of me sometimes wonders if I am mistaken when I critique “Belief in Christianity”, or the Constitution, or even Globohomo… That the problem is less the specifics of the beliefs and more that the very act of believing is an inverted abomination in the minds of seemingly everyone who is not a violent psychopathic sperg.
That the point of having faith in, or believing anything at any strength is to ultimately get as close as possible to 100% certainly or 100% rejection as quickly as possibly.
In the same manner that the motorcyclist does not inspect his brake-pads to feel warm fuzzy feelings about the holy trinity of arrested momentum (front brake, rear brake, engine brake)… But to determine ruthlessly and efficiently whether his brakes are decisively in working order or not… and then to get on with betting his short life, and hopefully get chicks, in sexy violent high-speed action on the solidity of that judgement.
The point of inquiring into a faith, or creed, or civic religious idea, is to quickly and reliably as can safely be done… Come to a definite and convicted judgement approaching 100% certainty or 0% total rejection.
And then gamble your life on it.
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Say what you will about them, this is what the Puritans actually did when they founded America.
This what the American founders did when they swore their loyalty to each other and vowed to disembowel with a bayonet any patriotic British volunteer who tried to stop them.
This is what the Communist revolutionaries did to seize Russia.
This is what the German and Central European Friekorp did to stop the communist advance.
This is what until very recently marriage was, when two people swore their undying love for each other and accepted each other for the rest of their lives, come what may.
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Life is a short, dangerous, unequal, ruthless, high-speed, violent endeavor.
Whether one “lives fast and dies young” in some war or wreckage… Or whether one plays it safe and lives to 90… We are really only discussing whether one has 10-20 youthful sexually active years in which to become reproductively successful, of maybe 20-40 on the highest end (if you are a man and think you’ll be able to have kids in your 50s, and even then you probably won’t get a healthy young girl to go along with that)…
The years 65-95 are really not going to matter to whether your life was a success unless you become a US president.
So 10-20 years, or 20-40 years… All the preening, worrying, anxiety, hand-wringing, and insistences that one “give peace a chance”… Is at best buying you double the time. Its not much, and the second time allotment is worse is every possible way to the first (you’re uglier, fatter, more tired, less intelligent, put on muscle worse)…
And instead of COMMITTING and BELIEVING and making the ruthless judgements necessary to get on that bike, get your head in the game, and WIN.
Every. Single. Moral and religious institution exists to create doubt, undermine you, subvert your resolve, and tell you you’re a bad person if you can read a sentence and act consistently with what is written there.
Are your brakepads good to ride? Yes or No?
Is that girl good marriage material? Yes or No?
Should you fight for your country over this matter? Yes or No?
Is this a principle you should live your life according to even if it has high costs? Yes or No?
Should you kill that man? Yes or No?
Every moral, educational, religious, and civic institution exists to LIE to about these things. To insist that you should simultaneously believe both YES and NO in a state of weak resolve, closer to 50/50 or maybe 75/25… not because it is genuinely uncertain, or that you are served by holding it in a state of uncertainty… but because then they have power to grant or withhold encouragement, argument, social sanction, and incentives such that they can manipulate your decision ON THEIR TIMELINE.
Is it Christian to tolerate other religions and accept and love people regardless of their faith? Pray for them to find the light in their own time?
Or is it Christian to Convert via force and the sword? Such as was done to European pagan countries or South America?
Is it a matter of personal Faith… Like how Vatican II, and really even Vatican I, going back to Constantine, says you should NEVER pressure or attempt to force Jews to convert against their will…
Or Is it a matter that “Every Knee Will Bow” and you should use all institutional force including straight force to make it happen such as was done to people with European Religions, like some heckin based crusader meme?
Which is it?
American Christians are encouraged to believe BOTH and be in an eternally uncertain superposition state between liberal freedom of conscious toleration on the one hand and Crusader “Masculine Christianity” on the other… So that way they will reliably not do anything, until such a time as Netanyahu and the Israel lobby decides for them, pays all the preachers and media to start pushing Crusader memes at the pulpit, and wields their newly granted militant faith against Iran.
If American Christians fully embraced a principled commitment to Pascifism and Toleration such as one sees in the Amish… Then they’d never ever fight for Netanyahu.
Whereas If American Christians fully embraced a principled commitment to Crusader Christian violence, such that in all times and places to Crusade against the unbeliever is ALWAYS the surest path to salvation… Then they’d be uncontrollable, and probably do something actually based like travel to Syria on their own authority, form some Assad or Lebanese Christian allied militant faction like some White Crusader ISIS… And then wage Crusade irrespective of US or Israeli foreign policy. They might even decide to retake Jerusalem… from the Jews.
When people have their own Convictions they act on their own timelines, not those of institutions… The same way Jihadists largely seem to behave according to the opportunities in their personal lives, not whether or not some Saudi institution has announced a war.
However when people have weak or contradictory convictions and are ENCOURAGED to think of that contradiction as the essence of their morality, then some megachurch pastor can accept a check from whichever NGO and the poor confused person can have all their commitments entirely changed because they are not following any commitment, but simply the balance of social pressure between their contradictory convictions.
Do you see why churches, schools, media, films, and the government encourage these contradictory and unprincipled moral convictions? Do you see why they equate moral confusion or squeamishness or lilly-livered wincing with Morality?
Do you see why the villain in every Hollywood story is almost universally the person with the firmer moral resolve and the willingness to sacrifice, accept costs and inflict negative externalities in the service of their principled commitments?
Why the hero must stop them whilst shouting “I agree with your ideas, but I can’t accept your methods”… “Yes, but not like this”.
Its because if you can be scared out of or poisoned out of strong inner convictions that might give you the resolve and will to act on your own principles and on your own timeframe, then you will wait around confused and wringing your hands, until something external happens and some institution decides to switch the balance of social pressure and provide you with a socially acceptable ready made path… To act according to someone else’s principles.
You will wring your hands and be the tolerant liberal… Right until Netanyahu needs a Crusader in Iran…
You will be a social liberal who approves of every welfare institution, social security, Medicare, assistance to refugees… Right until your television tells you that YOUR KIDS are entitled and have been given too many handouts, and something needs to be done about that.
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The point of belief is to be a Psychopathic Fanatic… Just as the Motorcyclist is a Psychopathic fanatic for his front brake… It is either 100% working and there or it is 100% NOT… And if you try to reason him out of that conviction he has observed and/or tested for himself via your moral language, he will fight you.
Why would you never accept a 50% conviction for your motor-vehicle that you’d drive through a Combat-Zone… But your moral convictions which would lead you there or not lead you there, that you go “Eh, well… Everyone has their opinion, I don’t want to appear unreasonable…”
Even a truly negligent motorcyclist has a 99.9% conviction in his brakes… He’ll use it hundreds of times, and it will work hundreds of times before the negligence catches up with him. His reckless negligence being he accepted a 99.9% certainty, when he should have had a 99.9999% certainty.
If you would ever, under any circumstance, Fight for a spiritual or moral principle… You owe it to yourself to be as ruthlessly exacting and fanatical with it as you would be with the safety of your rifle, or the brakes of you bike, or the construction of your house.
And if you would never fight for a spiritual or moral principle… Why are you here?
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In extreme sports the jumpers who survive are not the ones who are unafraid. Not the ones 100% psychopathically confident in their motorcycles. It's the ones friendly with their fear. The ones who say "oh I got the fear shits give me a second I'll be back and then we'll go."
The appeal of certainty is the certainty, but it's a fantasy. You aren't 100% certain your breaks will work, and the only way you can be certain of that is if you lie to yourself.
Mostly the reason people don't act is the same reason they close their eyes and run towards the problem flailing their arms. They don't know how to be afraid. They're playing roles, not being in their body in the situation facing them.
Your choices are not between not acting and forming a militia in Syria. That's a lie your brain made up because you are afraid.
Does anyone sincerely believe in Odin or Valhalla or is it just a cool aesthetic? Have there been any neo-pagans willing to take risks for their beliefs? Because it just looks like nihilism with extra steps.