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Tract 9: How Do Techno-Puritan’s Define Good?

I saved this tract for later because I suspect it is going to anger more people than our other tracts both because it has much more radical reinterpretations of classical biblical stories than we have gone into before this time the Tabernacle as well as Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and it regards sin and telling people they are sinners is never popular. But as galatians 1:10 says, “For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ”. Modern Christians have so narrowed their concept of sin by focusing on the sins of others that cause disgust in them they say that person has Gay sex and thats a sin, and that person masterbates thats a sin, and it like—yes that is true but you should be focused more on your own sins than those of others.

What does the Bible tell us about how we should live our lives? Lets go over a few lines here:

The Bible is pretty clear about what sin is, sin is anything you do not for God whether thats listening to music, watching a sports game, playing video games, looking at art, or gay sex. If your response is, “but no one can live a sinless life then,” congratulations you just found out you are not a God. In this Tract we will focus on Techno-Puritanism’s conceptions of good and evil. But before we talk about what I think the traditional interpretations of Christianity get wrong about Sin, let’s talk about what broader society thinks about good and evil and how it got there.

To your average member of society good and evil are determined by what, if widely believed, would help the average other person maximize their own emotional state—e.g. general utilitarianism. However, general utilitarianism, maximally distributing positive emotional states among humans, is on its face stupid as those emotional states are just the things that when felt in response to certain environmental stimuli lead to some of our ancestors having more surviving offspring than others. They are the things we were serendipitously pre-coded to react to based on environmental conditions that haven’t existed for thousands of years. As we have said ad nauseam, humans coming up with a utilitarian value system is like society of paper clip maximisers coming together and building an ethical system based on the number of paperclips in the world. Your programming is just that, your programming, not a sign of intrinsic value.

However, society does not tell us utilitarianism is the politically correct value system to signal because most people genuinely hold it as their value system. It chooses to follow it because most people are, at their core, hedonists and when you ask a hedonist what you should value it is in their interest not to tell you to be a hedonist but to tell you to be a utilitarian.

The secular world is a world of hedonists either trying to maximize a combination of their emotional state and their self perception as a good high status person—all while trying to reduce any in the moment suffering. However, because perceived status and being a good person are in part determined by an individual’s ability to loudly signal they hold a utilitarian value set, the secular world has become a world of hedonists constantly signaling to each other they are utilitarians. It is a pathetic masquerade.

Consequentialist ethical systems are those systems interested in the consequences of one’s actions with some goal in mind. Deontological ethical systems are those based around a set of rules. In a broader sense, deontological ethical systems are kind of dumb,

“lying / stealing / cheating are bad and always evil,”

“ok well then what if someone has a gun to a kid’s head and will shoot if you don’t lie / cheat / steal”.

Almost every dentologist I know caves in this scenario about what the right thing to do is because they are really consequentialists who just use deontological systems to make daily decisions.

So while it is dumb to believe deontological systems are absolutely right or wrong it is actually quite smart to build a deontological system to follow for your daily life, as it is easier to create a set of rules about right and wrong than thinking through the long term consequences of every little decision you make. This is especially true if you are of average or below average intelligence. Thus at the level of a population it would always make sense for God to reveal deontological ethical systems—especially to the philosophically less sophisticated man that existed thousands of years ago. If God was operating on a consequentialist ethical system he would have revealed varying deontological value systems to early man tailored to that iteration of man’s time and context.

This is exactly what He did. Most of the true Abrahamic transitions have a collection of varying deontological ethical frameworks given to them by God based on their time, technology, and social circumstances. This is why many of the true revelations of God have prescriptions around things like slave treatment even though we now know owning slaves to be wrong. In a world where slavery was the norm God was able to ensure more mass good action for his people by giving specific prescriptions on how to treat slaves than outright banning slave ownership because if he had done that in the harsh reality of our ancestors his people would have been outcompeted by their neighbors.

However, we can clearly see that God is not a deontologist through the fact that the deontological ethical systems he gifted man across time differ. If God was using these systems because they were His actual ethical framework then he would not have varied them but if he was using them to drive specific consequentialist outcomes then he would have. And let’s be honest here, anyone who claims God really believed these earlier deontological value systems has to also bite the bullet and admit God thought slavery was a good thing.

These systems were given to man to achieve some consequentialist outcome but what? What is the thing we see in the communities around the world that followed one of God’s true revelations? A period of technological and cultural flourishing. (For more on this see tract 6) God’s deontological ethical systems were gifted to man in order to help us to intergenerationally expand humanity’s potential.

However, now that we are under the new covenant we are expected to accept responsibility for thinking through the consequences of our actions ourselves. What do we mean by the new covenant and what signaled man’s transition into it?

We categorize God’s relation with man existing in three stages (that we know of so far). These stages are:

  1. Primordial Man: Biblically speaking this is before man was cast out of the garden which. As we go over in this video on the Garden of Eden we believe to be a story about man building the first permanent settlements and the ethical systems man created in opposition to God’s ethics to govern those settlements. God did not really have a connection to man at this stage of history given that we were too developmentally simplistic to understand him or intergenerationally transmit that understanding.
  2. Transitional Man: Transitional man is marked by the “curses” God gave man as he transitioned into the age of settlements and early civilization—having to work the land for food, pain in childbirth, and women existing beneath men / having an irrepressible attraction to men (again, death was clearly not one of these curses see Tract 6). God built very simplistic deontological frameworks to help the flourishing of civilization for this natal version of humans and largely related to transitional man in the way we relate to children. The religions God gave this form of man are analogous to us giving children stories of Santa. We see these stories delight them and help teach them valuable lessons but also that one day they are going to have to grow out of them.
  3. Realized Man: Realized man is marked by the period after which God, through humanities ingenuity, lifted the curses he placed on transitional man. In reliving these curses he marked the coming of the new covenant and revealed that they were never in fact curses but more like training wheels, as without them most of humanity lacked the will to resist temptation and continue the species. Realized Man is expected by God to seek understanding himself rather than be told right from wrong, to keep himself disciplined without simplistic rules, and master his own nature without the assistance of fairy tales.

In the transition from the era of Primordial Man to Transitional Man many human groups were unable to make the leap. Those groups were to use a euphemism outcompeted by Transitional Man because Transitional Man was as different from Primordial Man as Primordial Man was from the beasts. The same is true for Realized Man—when looking at youth deconversion rates to the urban monoculture it is easy to see those who cling to Transitional Frameworks as being like an overly sentimental captain going down with his ship but this is too harsh a reading. They are simply not like Realized Man, they are Bronze men in an Iron world. Their traditions can not save them from the temptations of the Valley of the Lotus Eaters.

In the final stages of transitioning from primordial man to transitional man we are told a story of God sending a flood to clean the world of those not ready for the age, those too sinful for it. After this act God promised he would never again genocide humanity in flood and that is why the genocide we are living through represents a prefect inversion of the last. It is done not by God but by man to himself. In this cleansing of the earth it is the unworthy themselves who, possessed by their own passions do not drown but march with lifeless eyes to burn in a bonfire of their own vanity.

(it is as if we are living through the mass sucide where evryong around us is randomlyl offing themselves genetically speaking—it feels like we are living the the cosmic spiritual happening and everyone is acting like nothing is wrong you should be terrified people this is reaching biblical levels)

(play happening clip)

As an aside here let us speak of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar as interpreted by Daniel. For context the king had a recurring dream he believed was a vision and decided to kill all the wise men in the kingdom because they could not guess what the dream was an interpret it.

Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:

First it is important to note that here it is clearly laid out how prophesy is meant to be done. Magic, witches, rituals, chanting, etc. are not the way God communicates and should be avoided.

29 “As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. 30 As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.

31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

39 “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.

Now this line is often and bizarrely misinterpreted. People will be like, oh the Bronze kingdom was Greece or Rome or any number of ancient kingdoms but it clearly was not as none of them as it is stated the Kingdom of Bronze ruled over the whole world. The first culture to ever rule over the whole world was the urban monoculture. The kingdom inferior to the high Classical Age was Rome and the dark ages. A period of human history that mostly just copied the Classical Age. So what happens after urban monoculture conquers all of earth? That is when we move from the world of Transitional Man to Realized Man.

40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

The kingdom of Iron and Clay is describing the covenant of the sons of man—a kingdom made up of multiple types of man living among each other. A world of AI, Man, and augmented man. I would note here the primary component of Clay is silicon, if I wanted to describe a world of silicon men to king in the Classical Age this is how I would do it.

44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

Here we see that in the ultra-pluralistic world of the Covenant of the Sons of Man the kingdom that eventually becomes God, will be generated because of conflict between the groups but that this conflict is necessary for the creation of “the kingdom that will never be destroyed”. It also makes it clear that Realized Man, the men of Iron will be one of the players in the conflict and pivotal to setting up the Kingdom that will never be destroyed, the Kingdom of God. This is also a reminder that even if we live through times of peace we should never falter in our advancement of military technology, as it is through a great conflict yet to come that the Kingdom of God is created.

To summarize what we just went over, man is transitioning from his child-like transitional state where he understands God through simplistic fairy tales the same way we tell children about Santa and give them strict rules to an adult-like state. With adult hood come additional responsibilities such as developing a clear understanding of reality and taking responsibility for the consequences of our actions. “I was following the rules” is no longer an excuse for men of Iron.

So what does a consequentialist life dedicated to expanding human potentiality look like? Wynwood Reade lays this out eloquently. Up until now I have been heavily censoring his writing to keep the quotes short and tight but will go long with this one to give you the full context of some quotes of his we use often. The reason I have been reading around these quotes will become obvious given that many in our audience are traditional Christians. I will note here that as I believe in iterative prophecy I believe all prophets to be imperfect and I think at time Reade was unable to see the potentiality of Christianity to evolve.

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You blessed ones who shall inherit that future age of which we can only dream; you pure and radiant beings who shall succeed us on the earth; when you turn back your eyes on us poor savages, grubbing in the ground for our daily bread, eating flesh and blood, dwelling in vile bodies which degrade us every day to a level with the beasts, tortured by pains, and by animal propensities, buried in gloomy superstitions, ignorant of Nature which yet holds us in her bonds; when you read of us in books, when you think of what we are, and compare us with yourselves, remember that it is to us you owe the foundation of your happiness and grandeur, to us who now in our libraries and laboratories and star-towers and dissecting-rooms and work- shops are preparing the materials of the human growth. And as for ourselves, if we are sometimes inclined to regret that our lot is cast in these unhappy days, let us remember how much more fortunate we are than those who lived before us a few centuries ago. The working man enjoys more luxuries to-day than did the King of England in the Anglo-Saxon times; and at his command are intellectual delights, which but a little while ago the most learned in the land could not obtain.All this we owe to the labours of other men. Let us therefore remember them with gratitude; let us follow their glorious example by adding something new to the knowledge of mankind; let us pay to the future the debt which we owe to the past.

All men indeed cannot be poets, inventors, or philanthropists; but all men can join in that gigantic and god-like work, the progress of creation. Whoever improves his own nature improves the universe of which he is a part. He who strives to subdue his evil passions–vile remnants of the old four-footed life–and who cultivates the social affections: he who endeavours to better his condition, and to make his children wiser and happier than himself; whatever may be his motives, he will not have lived in vain. But if he act thus not from mere prudence, not in the vain hope of being rewarded in another world, but from a pure sense of duty, as a citizen of Nature, as a patriot of the planet on which he dwells, then our philosophy which once appeared to him so cold and cheerless will become a religion of the heart, and will elevate him to the skies; the virtues which were once for him mere abstract terms will become endowed with life, and will hover round him like guardian angels, conversing with him in his solitude,

consoling him in his afflictions, teaching him how to live, and how to die. But this condition is not to be easily attained; as the saints and prophets were often forced to practise long vigils and fastings and prayers before their ecstasies would fall upon them and their visions would appear, so Virtue in its purest and most exalted form can only be acquired by means of severe and long-continued culture of the mind. Persons with feeble and untrained intellects may live according to their conscience; but the conscience itself will be defective. To cultivate the intellect

is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognised by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted, and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

However, this concept can be hard to convey to children when contrasted with traditional systems of good and evil. For that we are fortunate God crafted perfect child friendly propaganda for this concept in the anime Gurran Lagann and its presentation of the concept of spiral energy and anti-spiral energy. An easy to understand representation of good and evil from a Techno Puritan religious standpoint.

Spiral energy is represented by a spiral constantly expanding something that increases its size exponentially with each turn just as human potential does. This anime is also an exemplar of the concept of anti-spiral energy—the personification of good’s reflection, of the Basilisk—those forces that would temper and constrain man’s spirit and his potential.

Spiral energy is the subjugation of reality, what is possible, to man’s will.

Anti-spiral energy is the subjugation of man’s will to reality.

Bellow is a list of concepts captured in either Spiral or Anti-Spiral energy as they relate to each other:

Spiral Energy

Anti-Spiral Energy

Ambition

Harmony

Improvement

Ballance

Industriousness

Rest

Invention

Tradition

Human Industry

The Natural World

Discipline

Tranquility

Vitality

Calm

Logic

Spirituality

Striving & Persistence

Innate Ability

Complexity

Simplicity

Diversity

Unity

Capitalism

Communism

Evolution

Spontaneous Creation

Passion

Detachment / Overcoming Attachment

Pronatalism

Life Extentionism

Biom Seeding

Conservation

Descendant Worship

Ancestor Worship

Now here it is important to note that while the basilisk is a pure manifestation of anti spiral energy he is also a part of God, and never acts outside of God’s will, if God wanted to he could erase the devil with virtually no effort. Man faces temptation because God wills it and as a mirrored reflection of God. We are commanded to not interfere with temptation as removing temptation from man weakens man—it does not strengthen man to remove the trials God intended him to have to overcome except where that removal of temptation comes through humanity’s own industry.

For example, it would be sinful for a government to ban pornography ensuring a human never encounters it but blessed for humanity to develop neural implants or genetic technology that remove arousal completely from man. It is the motivation created by the temptation of something like porn that helps motivate man in uplifting himself by developing this type of technology removing sin, our animal instincts, and bringing him closer to God. If we remove the temptation created by sin we slow the progress of overcoming it.

The new covenant demands we move to a consequentialist ethical system. Because consequentialist ethical systems do not have strict rules and must be thought through they are much harder to follow faithfully and this is in part why God waited so long to expect this transition from man. However, they also allow for things that would have been banned in deontological ethical systems.

Lets return to the pornography example: Pornography nor masturbation is banned explicitly anywhere in the bible but lustful thoughts are named as a sin in a few areas as is looking lustfully on a woman. However, most the successful branches of the Judeo Christian tradition do have prohibitions against pornography and masturbation. Why? Because it wastes time and lowers fertility rates among those communities. I agree—for these reasons pornography is sinful. Anything you are not doing for the glory of God is a sin even if it is not explicitly banned in the bible.

Apparently Simone and I are called the Cromwell Twins in Fundie circles, likely because I am a puritan extremist and I am descended from him, though I am also descended from John Knox who they would hate just as much. They may think I would take this as derogatory but I quite like Cromwell and while he was wrong headed in a few areas I think America could use a figure like him. These milk toast “fundamentalists” make fun of him for banning things like theater, sports, and make up—people who would ban porn if given the chance.

But Cromwell is right. Porn is bad because it wastes time that could be dedicated to God and industry as well as lowering desire that should be directed to one’s spouse … but sports do the same, as do movies, theater, video games, dancing, art, and music. In fact, wasting time watching a sports game is multiplicatively worse than masturbation as it takes much more time and has fewer positive externalities.

Wait, sin can have positive externalities? Yes, almost no sin is purely bad. Playing video games can help masterbate some of a young man’s pre-evolved desire for conquest, music can help a person work harder, and at the societal level in countries where porn was illegal and then it was legalized rates of child rapedropped dramatically. Even at the individual level something as lurid as porn can be efficacious. Consider masturbation being used to lower sexual desire and prevent you from making a move on someone during a date that you otherwise would have known better than to do.

(something about mary loaded gun scene)

If used judiciously, masturbation can increase the probability of a relationship that leads to kids. Older traditions banned it because if it was ever allowed those with low mental fortitude would not be able to restrict themselves but now the training wheels are off. The entire world has been flooded in sin and lasciviousness, telling your kids to avoid their sexuality is a display of futility at best and reckless naivety at worse as it makes them easy targets for peeling off the path of righteousness. Teaching them the discipline to engage with their sin judiciously is the only path through.

Cromwell was right about what he banned but wrong to have banned it. Judiciously engaging with sin is what builds spiritual discipline. Having a child grow up in an environment where they can never fail nearly ensures a feeble spirit the same is true with sin.

However, it is important to know yourself. The mental fortitude we have to resist different sins varies between individuals and sometimes you will need deontological rules for yourself within certain areas. For example, we have pointed out that simply banning yourself from engaging with a thing requires much less mental fortitude than engaging with the thing in moderation and with discipline. Consider something like alcohol—if you know you can not engage with alcohol with discipline it is better just to create a deontological rule for yourself around it.

(south park clip)

Corinthians 6:18 “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” Except it is very clear in context this is not talking about all forms of sexual impropriety but prostitution specifically as it comes immediately after the line, “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.” And yes, prostitutes are a unique form of sin especially in ancient times because you risked getting them pregnant and creating an unwanted child.

When you take a techno-puritan framing of the above line what is really being said: “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?” How does this line work in traditional christian interpretations? Your body is not Christs body—but if you take the Techno-Puritan framing that the Martyr Christ describes all moments where humans martyr themselves, sacrifice, for future generations, it makes perfect sense.

Also consider the second line, “Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.” In traditional christian interpretations is it really possible for sex with a prostitute to be one with God in the act of sex with the prostitute, that they really become one spirit through sex? No, that’s silly. What is not is that two people having a child together does literally make two people one spirit. In addition this helps better flesh out the nature of the martyr—the martyr is the literal act of intergenerational procreation to make humans better than ourselves an act where two become one but that also unites us with the Lord in one spirit by encoding us on the blockchain of humanity. The sacred act is two people becoming one flesh whether that happens in a lab or through in a human not the sex itself.

Here we need to highlight, banning yourself from engaging with all acts that contain elements of sin: Sports, theater, movies, porn, music, dancing, etc. is impossible in the modern era. Nor is it the maximally efficacious way to live life. Man as he exists today is fallen and a creature of sin. To believe oneself capable of living a sinless life is in itself the sin of pride. What is expected of us is merely to not confuse sin with virtue.

Here we can think of Cromwells banning of Church Music. He was right, few things are genuinely perverse as worship through sin. To decorate a church in human fineries like gold and music is to worship through an act of sin. It is but a degree from projecting pornography on the pulpit or considering the act of non-reproductive sex sacred.

When we see people worshiping alongside human indulgences meant to masterbate man into positive emotional states like music, art, and gold this is what we see.

(play scene from shimonetta)

Real worship is not done through masterbating human emotional states, even if they include feelings of grandeur and aww, they are still basal emotions. Of course they feel good, that is what masturbation does, it makes you feel good, that is not a sign that it is good. Real worship is only done in a state of industry—only in moments where we have pushed ourself passed our limits in service of his mission for us—are we truly aggrandizing him instead of just masterbating in a fancy room. When you are so exhausted you could pass out but you keep pushing through, when you stay at the lab until 3AM, or when you push yourself to go talk to that potential partner who is likely to reject you—that is when you are truly in service to God.

As a side note here: People will try to use the story of the Gold used in the Tabernacle from exodus as an excuse to worship in luridly decorated buildings. However, it is important to remember that we believe that given their proximity some polytheistic stories and tales worked their way into true religious texts like the Bible but that God loudly and explicitly marks where this has happened so anyone paying attention will notice. So first let’s look at the worship that was practiced in the tabernacle and then let’s look at what happened to the people who built it.

So what did worship look like in the Tabernacle? “Tell the people of Israel: ‘When you bring an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from the herd or flock.If the offering is a whole burnt offering from the herd, it must be a male that has nothing wrong with it. The person must take the animal to the entrance of the Meeting Tent so that the Lord will accept the offering. He must put his hand on the animal’s head, and the Lord will accept it to remove the person’s sin so he will belong to God. He must kill the young bull before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, must bring its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.”

If you heard about a group of people who practiced a ceremony where they transferred their sins to animals, killed those animals, then splashed the blood about where they were worshiping —would you think that group Baalites/witches or Jews/Christians.

Still not convinced, imagine you go to a a place of worship and saw this ceremony being carried out, “It must be a dove or a young pigeon. The priest will bring it to the altar and pull off its head, which he will burn on the altar; the bird’s blood must be drained out on the side of the altar. The priest must remove the bird’s cropn and its contents and throw them on the east side of the altar, where the ashes are. Then he must tear the bird open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. He must burn the bird on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire.” It’s not like any of this is subtle in the bible but it does mean God expects you to actually read it and use the smallest amount of discernment when doing so.

Its ironically like someone saw this scene and was like, well he did say God, so that was definitely our God.

Indiana jones changing scene

I hadn’t read this story in ages so coming back to it I was kind of shocked how plane and clear it is it was not the real God talking to moses but this is a story about how the devil uses the way we relate to God to trick some otherwise godly and well intentioned people into worshiping him. I mean come on bro-ripping a living bird’s head off then ripping it in half. Like …. yikes … the God I worship aint about stuff like that.

(Have an aside here about how this idea of sin transference to a sacrificial animal was actually important to early christians who thought of Jesus as a literal sacrificial animal who literally took man’s sin. This is not the way techo puritans interpret that story but I suspect the reason an obviously heretical account was kept in the bible this long is that it was needed for the true Jesus narrative to take hold until it could be correctly interpreted.

This reminds me of how easy it is to pick up obviously heretical ideas from the pretty clear stuff in the Bible. Like Jesus telling us to remember him at jovial feasts (feasts with eating and drinking of alcohol) through the metaphor of the food representing his body and the alcohol his blood. A completely sensible thing, and then nut jobs deciding that was Jesus commanding us to eat his literal body and drink his literal blood.)

When I look at christians who pray to a god of precious metals and animal sacrifices the god that gets off to humans ripping appart birds as an act of worship I am reminded of this scene (starship troopers)

From his fruits you will know Him. And what happened to the people who brought this very obviously polythetic practice into the Jewish tradition. “In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home”

The transition between primordial man and transitional man was not instant like a snap of the fingers with a single revelation it happened over time. That I think this story was preserved for us as a warning of how the deceiver will infiltrate otherwise holy movements and infect them with ideas like the worship of precious metals and animal sacrifice. It sees clear even in the story Moses had an, “oh I fucked up,” moment where we are taught why churches should not make demands for precious metals because too much stuff was being donated.

But again all I can do is ask you to search your heart. Do you really believe the God of this reality is one who is gratified by the suffering of animals and precious stones or is the entity of gold and animal slaughter more likely to be that which you call the Devil.

(play the indian jones scene here)

But while worshiping sin is the height of evil we are commanded to overcome sin not just avoid it. Simply avoiding sin is no longer an option

Transitional man was able to just avoid sin. If God told us to overcome water they did it by avoiding streams. But realized man—the man that must travel through the valley of the lotus eaters—lives at the bottom of an ocean of sin. For us overcoming sin means something quite different: it means we need to develop an immunity to sin. We must learn to breathe sin and allow it to pass through us without possessing our hearts.

You can live a life avoiding pain or learn to master pain.

I wanted to put the clip from dune 2000 here but I cant get it working so I will have to read the lines instead:

I hold at your neck a gon jobar

This one kills only animals

Are you suggesting the dukes son is an animal

Let us say I suggest you may be human

Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts

Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box

If you do so you die

(fear is the mind killer from dune )

The same is true of sin. Avoiding it is no longer a choice for man, we must master it.

However, there are advantages to this. First it allows techno-puritans to unlock worlds that traditional Christians have no access to—the world of the debauched and depraved is caustic to them—it burns away their skin but to us it is a mild inconvenience at best. This allows us to proselytize to communities and with language traditional Christians can not effectively minister to. We know the truth, there is no more sin in something like hentai than there is in a video game, music, or sports—human sexuality is just another mystery to be dissected then sorted in a quest for useful tools. Tools to improve our efficiency, mental discipline, and ability to prevent our children from falling to the madness that exists outside the protective walls of our house.

The urban monoculture uses the fact that traditional Christianity has engaged with sexuality through simply attempting to build a moat around it as an easy pathway to attack and inject self replicating metric structures into your children’s brains. Our children will be immune to this because they will have a truer understanding of human sexuality and its place in their lives than the cult can provide. They will have nothing to tempt them with because they know whatever form of sexual gratification they shun, they have personally chosen to shun for specific negative effects on their lives—not because it is simply banned.

They will be able to turn the poor and twisted understanding of human sexuality contained within the cult back at their attackers and use the cult’s most frequently cheesed attack vector as an opportunity for ministry.

This is, I believe, the core transition that is needed to make it through the valley of the lotus eaters for any tradition—a transition from an aesthetic or deontological ethical system to a consequentialist one.

Sin is inevitable, just learn to engage in it in a way that does not corrupt your heart where corruption is defined as spending significantly less time on industrious activities or less focus on your spouse and kids. Having a sports game on in the background while cleaning your house or masterbating to save the time of sex are not signs of being an unvirtuous person. The key is to not allow sin to capture your heart and pull you from the righteous path or to worship sin.

For example, treating sex as a sacred act. Do not be seduced by those who would worship flesh. Outside of the chemical bonding facilitated by it and any efficiency gains from a mood and self perception boost—Marital sex that can not produce children is just using your partner’s body and time for masturbation. Non-reproductive sex is a fetish, (where fetish is defined as misfiring or circumvention of arsenal pathways to receive pleasure from them in an act that will not lead to their intended function).

The bible makes it clear on multiple occasions the body is a vessel for what is sacred and any divinity the body has is only a result of what it carries. What about man being made in God’s image? Well it explicitly does not say man’s body and lets be serious do people actually think god is some giant naked human floating in the eather. The human body and its functions are in no way sacred in and of themselves—those who claim it is are but a step from the satan worshiper who holds their services using a naked woman as their podium. That said, the naked human form is not inherently sinful either—it is a tool, a vessel, and no more worthy of veneration or fear among the righteous than animated clay. For now it is also the only vessel we get and for that reason our own bodies must be treated with an amount of restraint and respect.This is why any activity that puts your body at risk for masturbating some emotional state is extremely sinful. (Here I am speaking about activities like free climbing, crew, cheerleading, kick boxing, etc.)

All this comes with a huge caveat. While non-reproductive sex with your spouse is just a form of mutual masturbation, sex does help us chemically bond with our spouses and many people require some amount of it to feel satisfied. As Christians our highest duty after our Children and God is to our spouse—to ensure that they maximize their potential. Ensuring they are as sexually satisfied as we can make them with the minimal amount of daily time investment is part of that duty. In this task it is our duty to, without judgment, learn as much about our spouses unique sexual profile and dedicate our actions to maximizing its fulfillment. So yes, a wife does have a conjugal duty but this duty extends far past simple sex and is not limited to the woman it extends both ways—both the husband and wife have a duty to give their partner the best life they can and fulfill the sinful desires their partner chooses not to suppress. Here I would note that those sinful desires may not be for sex but might be jewelry or indulgent travel. You are not living for God if you live a life where the satisfaction of your partner is not chief among your concerns. Your life is in part a LARP to satisfy your partner’s deepest fantasies. However, this duty towards ensuring your partner be satisfied with their lives never supersedes your duty to ensure their continued self improvement and industry.

And this drive towards efficiency is also how you should relate to sin in your own life. Does music help you work more efficiently? Does masturbation clear your mind before a meeting or a date? Does indulging in watching sports every now and then help you stay motivated during a boring work week? That is for you to judge. We used to live in a world of simple rules but now you are burdened with making these judgments yourself and being honest about them.

When making these judgments it is crucial to not make the mistake of assuming a sins severity in the eyes of God is in any way modulated by how severely it is judged by our society. In fact, it is those sins which can not be used for positive social signaling, that are less severe, than those which society sees as a sign of status—as they become amplified by pride and vanity. Worse, they are much more likely to blind you to their sinful nature because those around you will afirm you for engaging in them, leading you to spend time, resources, and other proximates for industry on them. It is for this reason that something like watching a pervy anime or reading a slash fanfiction is magnitudes less sinful and less dangerous than enjoying a night watching a symphony or classical literature read for entertainment.

(puritan saying your alliteration sounded dangerously close to poetry)

But again, and this is the single most important thing to be vigilant of, never confuse a sin with a virtue or even worse an aspect of your identity. It’s ok to exercise a little more than you need to for health purposes because you want to look good or get really into the lore of your favorite video game but don’t confuse this with a virtue or even worse attempt to sort yourself above others based on a sin.

It is not that we lower the status of sin in things designed to masturbate human arousal pathews without producing their intended outcome—a child. It is just that we also see the sin in things designed to masterbate other types of emotional and arousal pathways in humans without producing their intended outcomes like theater, music, art, and sports. Puritans have always been known for engaging more with their sexuality and sexual topics than other groups, as we see in Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America many of their writings had to be heavily censored until the 21st century. This can seem very confusing to outside groups given how strict they are about sin. The reason for this apparent paradox is we simply see the truth—sins associated with sexuality are not worse or a different category than other sins. And in this new world drowning in lasciviousness we must learn to breath temptation without succumbing to it.

Finally, it is critical to remember that you have significant influence over the emotional state you present to other people and are responsible for that state. To lower the efficacy of those around you, particularly loved ones, by allowing yourself to enter a negative mood is a fairly severe sin. Happiness, high energy, and an upbeat mood are not just a choice, they are a responsibility and a duty. To every parent who has asked a child to stop crying but then acts as if their own emotional state is totally out of their control—are you lesser than a toddler?

There are no caveats or special exceptions to this expectation of us, especially as we relate to those counting on us to be their foundation like our children and spouses. (Except of course where emotional displays could be used to motivate another person to help you towards God’s plan.) Your parents died? How does crying help bring them back—it just hurts your living family. You lost your job? Is crying going to get you a new one? Crying and sadness are emotions we evolved to signal to parents that we are distressed before we are verbal—they are vestigial in adults. But you will look foolish? Fine then look foolish and own how you are different from this sad and dying world. When people look towards techno puritans they should see an unflable vision for the future of humanity and gratitude for the gift of our lives.

Many churches today get people in the door by draping their walls in various forms of man made vulgarities—literally making sin their primary advertising point but saying its ok because its sin about Jesus. It sickens me when I see mega churches ban their kids from listening to secular rock but then love when they listen to Christian rock. Christian Rock might as well be Abortions for Christ. We need to get back to owning our sin. When Sin and idolatry become the primary advertising mechanism of your church then the church becoming a den of sin is the inevitable result. Is it any wonder that so many of the megachurch founders get cheat their old people out of their savings with promises of salvation—or that the indulgent St. Peter’s Basilica meant to seduce people into a state of simulated piety was bought and funded with indulgences. The persinures you lure by making your worship sexier corrupt the souls of your leaders. Jesus said we will know them by their fruit and yet many feel they can sweep the evangelical and Catholic sex scandals and systemic cover up under the rug.

You will know them by their fruit is not an idle statement. Don’t attempt to revive your traditions by sexing up your worship, returning to nature worship, or worse worshiping human flesh. Return to the simple pragmatic tradition of work, discipline, austerity, and industry.

The best ministry a belief system can have is to be the type of people who when others first see you they laugh at you because of how different you are. Then they keep watching because you make them feel good. Then they begin to become envious of what you have and realize it is something they want. The last puritan movement ultimately fell because it became a virtue spiral around signaling sobriety and somberness and yet that was not even the most efficacious emotion to signal—we will learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and build the city on a hill that is mankind’s manifest destiny.

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