Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma

The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?"

Intrinsic value of self is self-evident by my moral outrage when my value is denigrated or tread upon.  Everyone believes that they matter and wish to be important.  The worth of self is self-evident, but the respect for others isn’t.   

The graves open and 20 great kings of the past rise and see each other and immediately start fighting. But they rach stop and bend the knee when Christ appears.  We need a unified embodiment of the ideal.  The greatness of each king was in their reflection of Christ. The value of the human soul is that each of us hs the spark of divinity within us.  We will be unable to coexist unless we can be unified in recognition of the ultimate transcendent good.

Instinct of coming into contact with someone greater than yourself induces aww.  A real response when you come into contact with truth.  Evolution has given humans the ability to reason, self-reflection, and to imagine the view point of another.  God brings order to chaos when He speaks truth.  We create islands of chaos each time we lie to ourselves or others.

Being involves limitation, suffering and pain. Meaning involves moving beyond our limitations.  There is pain and suffering to alleviate, there is evil to constrain.

Memes are ideas that get copied and passed down or reappear generationally.   But certain memes are achetypes that are reglections of genetics/evolutionary biology (eg dominance).  Other memes can appear and have genetic and epigenetic affects, conveying social and reproductive benefits that become encoded in our genome.  We may be writing or rewriting our own genetic code to some degree. 

Our ability to imagine how others feel or are thinking doesn't necessarily lead to morality.  That skill can also be used to detect the success of deception. 

The Bible conveys archetypes in the form of stories that have no bottom. You can ponder and realities of these stories and their application (creation, cain/abel, etc) and never fully appreciate all their significance.

Nietzsche declared “God is dead” and mournfully predicted the the replacement of religious society by nihilism and Marxism and predicted that people in the absence of religion would look to dictators to take its place which would wage war.  Philosophers also talk about delay because society is living on thr corpse of our ancestors and its nourishing  for a time until it putrifies.

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

Atheists ask, why are 3rd-world countries prediminately Catholic while atheist/ socialist Europe prospers? 1. Catholisism does not represent true Christianity 2. global economic conspiracy 3. Europe is living on the corpse of dead ancestors but will fall eventually. 

I may regard you as a soverign individual.  If that an opinion, rational claim, enlightened claim, postmodern quandary,  a meme, or an archetype whose violation produces severe consequences where transgression is fatal.   Without religion, we are left with nihilism or totalitarianism. There is mo usch thing as secular ethics.

In the hierarchy of needs, Dawkins talks about genes as biology and memes as culture.  But Peterson says many memes are also biologically derived. 

Dostoevsky, if God is dead than anything is permitted. Atheists act religious but criticize it.   Dostoevsky committed the perfect murder but couldnt escape his conscience.

Atheist, “This body is made to write”, “I’m just acting out a meme”.  Peterson says hogwash, the act of writing is an archtype with an ancient and divine reality. 

Search for Meaning: Jordan Peterson

https://youtu.be/iRPDGEgaATU

People have an innate drive to search for meaning and purpose in life which produces  happiness. Meaning is the highest human instinct.  Your brain signals meaning when you occupy the optimal position in the dynamic territory you inhabit.  Meaning is revealed and discovered and not made up.  Moral relativism flattens everything out the consequence of which is there is no up. And if there is no up, then there is no hope, no courage, no heroism.   But we know there is a down, and if there is a down then there is also an up to stive for.  Our society consists of a hierarchy of competencies.  If we can’t talk about ideas we are left to fight for dominance. Finding purpose requires: communal (group) identity, communal capacity from which springs individual identity, individual capacity.  Religion is not delusional because people who have religious experience are healthier, happier and more productive. Therefore religion is not pathologic. Religious belief evolved and improved. The atheists can defend their crusade to destroy religion when they demonstrate good evidence that atheism is healthier.  Find something that you like to do, your good at, and is useful.

https://youtu.be/UZMIbo_DxJk

Meaning is derived from the orienting reflex.  A person experiences meaning when their left brain (concrete, expected) and right brain (abstract, new) are working together.  You need to have one foot in order and the other in chaos. 

Human hierarchy exists.  It is not arbitrary but biologically derived. The human hierarchy (social latter) is not necessarily inherently patriarchal but effectively patriarchial because men tend to be more task focused, assertive, disagreeable, and aggressive at the extremes. Men and women are more the same than different except at the extremes.  The differences at the extremes of the bell curve account for the 10:1 males vs. females disparity in prisons. 

Hierarchy tends toward corruption.  Degenerate hierarchy is dominated by power and oppression.  But a wise society will base its hierarchy on virtue and competency. But trying to reject hierarchy itself rejects  biology.  If we don’t prepare men to be men and ascend the social hierarchy, or repress their biology through feminization, they can become discouraged, experience despair and may act out through crime, suicide, terrorism (become an obscurus).  Men and women can both ascend the social latter by setting goals and developing their competencies. 

Men are overrepresented at the top of the hierarchy but they are also overrepresented at the bottom doing some of the dirtiest and dangerous jobs. Most women in the legal profession work 80-hrs-week into their 30’s, become partner, and then drop out to have a family. This isn’t a value statement, this is just the reality of what happens. Women are finding meaning in family ahead of their career. 

You don’t need to suffer to find meaning, but meaning helps people survive suffering. Rights are not as important to finding meaning as responsibilities.   We find meaning by embracing and fulfilling our responsibilities.   You want to get out of bed every day thinking that what you are going to do that day is necessary and important.

Groups don’t have rights because they don’t have responsibilities.  You can’t gave rights without responsibility.

Justice vs. Freedom

Reason and emotion.  People make up their mind with a combination of both.  Progressives believe they have a monopoly on the issue of justice (social justice).  In response, conservatives run into the trap of contering with the call for freedom. But a violation of justice always produces outrage, the biolation of freedom only produces puzzlement.  We routinely deny people certain freedoms, but there is no such thing as okay injustice. 

If someone calls someone else a racist, the charge is uninformed and dishonest. A true racist would be proud of their racism. It would be like pointing out that the sky is blue.  The comment is dishonest because it is acknowledging that the accused person at least recognizes that racism is bad. 

https://youtu.be/enA34Z7ls7E

Explaination of identity politics.

https://youtu.be/rzPQ8Dn4aNY

You either worship God, the body, or the State.  Religion, hedonism, or socialism.  Only religion has built modern civilization where there is value for each human life. Modern atheism denies the religious ground its standing on.  Townhall meetings: you can’t make public policy based on individual sympathies.  How can I help you individually is a religious problem and then lets get back to discissing politics which deal with policies that help the maximim amount of people.

Brookings Institute:

Do 3 Things to Combat Proverty

1. Graduate High School.

2. No children out of wedlock.

3.  Get a job.

(4). No substance abuse.

(LDS Missionaries combat poverty, social therapists, defend liberty)

Identity politics: here is a policy that benefits this particular group, if you oppose it, then your a racist.  Democrats buy off minority  groups until they get 51%.  Chuck shummer commemted to D’Souza, you asians folks come to America, get jobs, work hard and don’t ask for anything. Politics = you ask, and we deliver. What do your people want. Concervatism opposes group-specific policies. Fair = no special treatment.   Everyone under the same rules.  Conservatism treats people as individuals and not as a race or group identity.

Truth for Peace

9-11 was an Irgun false flag operation. 

This Q&A video contains multiple news clips of multiple Israeli officials on multiple US media outlets driving the war on terror message. 

The presenter has a Q&A session containing the reaction of several Jewish people to his presentation.  Obviously, they didn’t like it and called him a “conspiracy theorist” that wove together a few unrelated data points and half-truths into a fairytale.  One of the Jewish attendees got very upset and mentioned the 1920 conspiracy in Russia and 1940 conspiracy in Germany and said:

“I’m not going to engage in it [conspiracy theory] because my people get killed for it”.  

Sadly, this is true because there were a few Jews in Russia and then in Germany who acted against the State; and innocent Jewish people were scapegoated for the actions of a few.  Now a group once known as Irgun are acting in the name of the US and Israel.  Consequently, both the US and Israel may be scapegoated for what we are allowing a few to do in our names.   The US/Israeli actions in the Middle East may bring a nuclear holocaust on the West by Russia and China.   

The truth of conspiracy and our denunciation of it is seeking to stop the conspiracy and prevent another holocaust and not meaning to create one.   

We want to stop our own people from participating in it.   Because, whether you think this conspiracy stuff is true or not, the problem here is Putin absolutely does claim to believe it. (I’ve heard Putin recount this Jewish conspiracy history in speeches to his people)  Also, because it is in fact not a US/conspiracy, but a globalist/satanic  conspiracy.  Sadly, innocents may be scapegoated yet again.

We want to reverse Roe v. Wade and stop the murder of the unborn in our nation (for example), but we will never solve this or other problems (drugs, porn, economic, poverty) if we don’t root out this cancer.  Every effort, every argument for good gets opposed. 

When you realize the reach and scope of the conspiracy, which accomplished 9-11, you can see why they have been so successful in so many other areas.  We are being systematically being torn apart.   I hope Putin doesn't become our radiation oncologist. 

https://youtu.be/CGzeixUAzHc

Again, like Russia in 1920’s and Germany in the 1940’s, this is ultimately NOT a jewish conspiracy, but a globalist/satanic one.  However, the US together with Israel will likely bear the consequences for blindly allowing our leaders and elites to tread ruthlessly over the rest of the world. I think Christopher Bollyn is allowed to say what he is saying.  Making this into an US/Israeli conspiracy and not a globalist conspiracy provides a layer of separation.  But these kind of revelations may be what ultimately bring the nations against Israel. 

Origins of Fascism

Mussolini was a Marxist.

Mussolini combined socialism with nationalism.

Hitler followed the example of Mussolini.

Democrats were the part of manifest destiny.

Democrats were the party of slavery.

Democrats were the party of segregation and  white supremacy.

Democrats are now the party of ANTIFA.

Dinesh makes some great points about the agenda and attacks of atheists on our children and society.  However, I think he missed the point on Christianity and Islam coexisting.  In addition to being strong, the West needs to be moral and virtuous.  Dinesh has made the case that our immoral pop culture is a major recruitment tool for extremists.  (I have buddies that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and gave told me exactly the same thing) Being strong is important vs. an evil minority.  But being good will win over the decent majority.  If we are good, then good people will  not need to look elsewhere for institutions that uphold goodness. We need to be the shinning city on the hill.