Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Interpretations of History.
History is seen as a vast panorama in which world events play out their course. From ancient times, one particular view of history regarded the world as in a state of decline from a past golden age. In a prehistoric Eden, mankind had vast powers (including psychical powers) and unlimited freedom. However, something occurred which caused mankind to fall from grace and to be passed off into a never ending historical cycle. This cycle was to culminate through successive stages in the destruction of the human race in an apocalypse. In the late 1980s with the advent of chaos theory, various methods were used to try to understand historical development through cyclical history. History ebbed and flowed according to chaos theory which explained its underpinnings. According to chaos theory small perturbations in initial conditions could give rise to large perturbations in final conditions. Thus, small events in local historical time could lead to large macro-events in later times. Examples of this were seen from history in which small determinations led to large scale wars or intellectual developments. These furthered the course of history. In the book _Hamlet's Mill_ it was explained how the ancients understood the precession of the equinoxes which played a large role in the development of their myth. These precessions allowed them to understand history in terms of cycle. In modern times, this view has been largely forgotten. However, it should be noted that even in ancient times it was well know that the earth was round and not flat. The modern myth of the flat earth was incorporated later in the nineteenth century when "science" came to be seen as an all-encompassing worldview over the dark ages of superstition and medieval mysticism.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The Changes That Have Taken Place in Society and Education.
Jim Marrs notes several interesting alterations that have taken place in American society since 100 years ago and explains how he sees these as creeping trends towards socialism. To begin with, he explains that 100 years ago an individual was born as a person. Today an individual is a person but carries with him a set of numbers which must be presented to authorities. This reduction of a human person to a set of numbers which follow him throughout life marks the incursion of socialism. In the socialist and totalitarian societies of the past, individuals were deprived of their individuality by the state. The individual became subordinate to the state and all individual activity was controlled by the state and elite controllers (those who occupied positions within the state). Thus the entire form of human existence became subordinate to the state and all human activity was initiated by the state. This collectivist hell (ironically termed collectivist paradise by its expounders such as Marx) gave rise to a grey world syndrome in which creativity, diversity, and inviduality was stifled by the state, so that the individual existed solely for the purpose of maintaining the state.
Marrs also considers the role of state education and the continuing mediocratization of society through education. Marrs notes that 100 years ago, education involved much more difficult exams that relied on heavy usage of memory. Students learned difficult languages like Latin and Greek and exams consisted of difficult mathematics problems. This type of education had existed since the Middle Ages when the schoolmen were required to commit large biblical passages and passages from other text to memory. (With the internet, reliance on memory has become even more outmoded than it was just 20 years ago before the advent of sites like Wikipedia). This reliance on memory and difficult feats of mental calculation kept the mind sharp. Further, the language spoken by persons of years ago was much more refined and sophisticated. Today's language is choppy and written in short paragraphs. But the language of back then was long winded and relied on excessively abstruse philosophical terminology even for everyday conversations. Language continues to decline in polite conversation and individuals resort more frequently to slang and even foul language (which is increasingly becoming just a familiar norm in our society). Further, computers continue to erode language even further in which individuals have reached a point where they cannot even think and express thoughts by means of texting and superficial code terms which differ from original hackerspeak in that original hackerspeak involved clever usage. Marrs explains how education today is designed to produce effective employees (usually for large corporations) and workers not thinkers. Thinkers pose a problem for society so must be shunned and corporations offer a standardized form of political correctness that exceeds that imposed by the government.
Marrs notes the stifling effects of education and the continued development of a new dark age. In a recent broadcast on a French quiz show a contestant could not even explain that the moon revolved around the earth. To add further irony to this, he asked the audience who did not know this either. In honesty though, while educated people do know this fact, very few even educated people would be able to tell you how this fact has been derived. In other words, they just accept this fact as knowledge based on teachers and textbooks (or more likely a quick look towards wikipedia) without ever considering how this fact came about. Examples such as this illustrate our continued decline into further idiocracy and irrationalism.
Marrs further sites examples in which quakery has now become accepted practise. If one watches television one quickly notes the many quack cures peddled on there, including ads for medicines promoted by pharmaceutical companies. These types of ads illustrate the lack of standards in medicine and the decline in medical power, to be replaced by pharmaceutical corporations that appeal to mob psychology.
Marrs discusses the role of psychology noting its origin in ancient philosophies, but its more modern development in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth century through psychoanalysis. Marrs explains how psychiatry was incorporated along with the field of eugenics and the role it played in Nazi and Communist tyrannies. Marrs notes that in today's world psychiatry is commonplace and a given, though just 20 years ago it was first being popularized when it reached mainstream tv in the form of talk shows and self help books. Former generations would have seen such open confessions as shameful. These types of shows also illustrate our increasing loss of privacy in which all concerns are aired before the public. In the Victorian era, sex could not even be discussed, soon perhaps pornography will be shown on mainstream television. Pornography has become mainstream through the internet and pornographers now are even beginning to play a role in politics disturbingly.
Marrs also notes the role of a surveillance state, in which cameras occupy every corner of society. The corporate media has become omnipotent and it now reveals our inner flaws for all to see, including the military secrets we once guarded so closely during the Cold War.
Marrs also considers the role of state education and the continuing mediocratization of society through education. Marrs notes that 100 years ago, education involved much more difficult exams that relied on heavy usage of memory. Students learned difficult languages like Latin and Greek and exams consisted of difficult mathematics problems. This type of education had existed since the Middle Ages when the schoolmen were required to commit large biblical passages and passages from other text to memory. (With the internet, reliance on memory has become even more outmoded than it was just 20 years ago before the advent of sites like Wikipedia). This reliance on memory and difficult feats of mental calculation kept the mind sharp. Further, the language spoken by persons of years ago was much more refined and sophisticated. Today's language is choppy and written in short paragraphs. But the language of back then was long winded and relied on excessively abstruse philosophical terminology even for everyday conversations. Language continues to decline in polite conversation and individuals resort more frequently to slang and even foul language (which is increasingly becoming just a familiar norm in our society). Further, computers continue to erode language even further in which individuals have reached a point where they cannot even think and express thoughts by means of texting and superficial code terms which differ from original hackerspeak in that original hackerspeak involved clever usage. Marrs explains how education today is designed to produce effective employees (usually for large corporations) and workers not thinkers. Thinkers pose a problem for society so must be shunned and corporations offer a standardized form of political correctness that exceeds that imposed by the government.
Marrs notes the stifling effects of education and the continued development of a new dark age. In a recent broadcast on a French quiz show a contestant could not even explain that the moon revolved around the earth. To add further irony to this, he asked the audience who did not know this either. In honesty though, while educated people do know this fact, very few even educated people would be able to tell you how this fact has been derived. In other words, they just accept this fact as knowledge based on teachers and textbooks (or more likely a quick look towards wikipedia) without ever considering how this fact came about. Examples such as this illustrate our continued decline into further idiocracy and irrationalism.
Marrs further sites examples in which quakery has now become accepted practise. If one watches television one quickly notes the many quack cures peddled on there, including ads for medicines promoted by pharmaceutical companies. These types of ads illustrate the lack of standards in medicine and the decline in medical power, to be replaced by pharmaceutical corporations that appeal to mob psychology.
Marrs discusses the role of psychology noting its origin in ancient philosophies, but its more modern development in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth century through psychoanalysis. Marrs explains how psychiatry was incorporated along with the field of eugenics and the role it played in Nazi and Communist tyrannies. Marrs notes that in today's world psychiatry is commonplace and a given, though just 20 years ago it was first being popularized when it reached mainstream tv in the form of talk shows and self help books. Former generations would have seen such open confessions as shameful. These types of shows also illustrate our increasing loss of privacy in which all concerns are aired before the public. In the Victorian era, sex could not even be discussed, soon perhaps pornography will be shown on mainstream television. Pornography has become mainstream through the internet and pornographers now are even beginning to play a role in politics disturbingly.
Marrs also notes the role of a surveillance state, in which cameras occupy every corner of society. The corporate media has become omnipotent and it now reveals our inner flaws for all to see, including the military secrets we once guarded so closely during the Cold War.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Death of the World.
The spiritual utopia as dreamed of by the mystics is at the furthest point from present reality. Sacred Scripture teaches that because of the Fall from Grace the lot of mankind is to toil and suffer in this life so as to be rewarded in the next. However, with the rise of the brave new world and the elimination of religion this has been replaced by a hedonistic imperative in which all references to past human suffering have been eliminated. Sacred Scripture and the history of mankind reveal man's inner pathos and suffering. Christ himself was to suffer and die upon the Cross. But this is deemed politically incorrect and thus must be purged from all recorded history in the brave new world era. Thus, what is left is a cold dead world of superficiality and meaningless made obsolete by the technological explosion. This world is most anathema to the survival of man's immortal soul, as explained in all religious accounts of humankind.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Religion and Tradition.
An essential understanding of religion is that it arose from a primordial tradition that has been passed down through the generations since the beginning of the world. The Roman Catholic traditionalists maintained such a notion and argued that both faith and tradition played substantial roles in the formation of Christianity.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
The World's Highest IQs.
One possible way to measure genius is in terms of raw intelligence. This raw intelligence can be measured by an IQ test. The following is a list of the world's highest IQs. You will note that some of the highest IQs had few accomplishments while others included some of the greatest geniuses ever known to man.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Several Notes and Trends.
First, the masses are coming. 1 billion people have used the internet now and the masses are taking over at an unprecedented rate. The internet is no longer safe and a new form of social Darwinism has taken over. Atheism is also spreading and your thoughts are now crimes.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Three Possible Universes.
There are three possible universes. The first is the Christian (or theist) universe which was spoken into existence at t =0 through a Big Bang explosion and has since been expanding outward. Such a universe will become self aware when human life is created within it. And such a universe will expand outwards until it reaches a situation of maximum e ntropy and die in a heat death apocalypse. The second possibility is that there is no deity and that the universe is eternal. The third possibility is a diabolical universe created by a Demiurge at t = 0. Such a Demiurge would not be the Christian deity but a blind creator as maintained by the gnostic heretics.
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