Saturday, June 13, 2020
Sounds familiar again
Michelet in 1904 again, here discussing the early days of the Christian racket.
Victorious Christianity, on the contrary, was fain to slaughter the enemy outright, and thought to do so. She abolished the Schools of Philosophy by her proscription of Logic and the physical extermination of the philosophers, who were massacred under the Emperor Valens. She destroyed or stripped the temples, and broke up the sacred images. Thus Christianity deliberately entered on the lonely road of celibacy. And Monasticism helped it on the downward slope. Men fled to the desert; but they were not alone. The Devil went with them, ready with every form of temptation. They must needs revolutionise society, found cities of solitaries. It was of no avail. Everyone has heard of the gloomy cities of anchorites that grew up in the Thebaid, of the turbulent, savage spirit that animated them, and of their murderous descents upon Alexandria. They declared they were possessed of the Devil, impelled by demons, and they told only the truth. There was an enormous void arisen in Nature's plan. Who or what should fill it? The Christian Church is ready with an answer: The Demon, everywhere the Demon. Greece no doubt, like all other countries, had had its energumens, men tormented, possessed by spirits. But the similarity is purely external and accidental, the resemblance more apparent than real. In the Thebaid it is no case of spirits either good or bad, but of the gloomy children of the pit, wilfully perverse and malignant. Everywhere, for years to come, these unhappy hypochondriacs are to be seen roaming the desert, full of self-loathing and self-horror. I am not surprised at such a society turning mad and savage. Furious to feel itself so weak against the demons, it pursues them everywhere, in the temples and altars of the old faith to begin with, later in the heathen martyrs. Festivals are abolished; for may they not be assemblages for idolatrous worship? Even the family is suspect; for might not the force of habit draw the household together round the old classic Lares? And why a family at all? The empire is an empire of monks. Yet the individual man, isolated and struck silent as he is, still gazes at the skies, and in the heavenly host finds once more the old gods of his adoration.
" This is what causes the famines," the Emperor Theodosius declares, " and all the other scourges of the Empire," a terrible dictum that lets loose the blind rage of the fanatic populace on the heads of their inoffensive Pagan fellow-citizens. The Law blindly unchains all the savagery of mob-law.= = = = = Now compare with previous item. Am I an unhappy hypochondriac, trying to avoid inputs from the demons in charge of everything? Yes. I'm an anxious introvert, born and bred. But there's a difference in purpose. Aggression vs defense. The demons in charge are making war on the pagans, placing us in prison and proscribing our logic and science. The pagans are not trying to force the believers to change, not trying to tear down anything. We're only trying to survive and defend our own souls from the aggressive warlike believers. If we listen to the war propaganda, if we watch the false beacons, we will either join the war or crash on the rocks. We know what the propaganda says because it's impossible to avoid all of it. We have to be careful, have to focus on the permanent beacons of real Nature and prewar human nature.
Labels: 2000=1000, Carbon Cult, Equipoise, Jackboot stomping forever, Metrology
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