Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Law Without Government

We will explore the possibilities of law without government

How could societies and communities create an atmosphere of civility and justice without the initiation of force? While that sounds like a redundant statement the answer lies within, that society or community's people must reject the initiation of force. All services that are currently monopolized by force can be provided by firms that are contractually authorized to use a persons funds for a stated purpose.

How could certain services be provided in a free society? Learn the principles first.

Principles

Why would we want a free society?

The Philosophy of Liberty

How would defense work in a free society?

Conflict Resolution in a Free Society

How would trade work in a free society?

The Bargaining Mechanism

Morals Without God?

The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch

"His famous triptych with naked figures frolicking around — “The Garden of Earthly Delights” — seems a tribute to paradisaical innocence. The tableau is far too happy and relaxed to fit the interpretation of depravity and sin advanced by puritan experts. It represents humanity free from guilt and shame either before the Fall or without any Fall at all. For a primatologist, like myself, the nudity, references to sex and fertility, the plentiful birds and fruits and the moving about in groups are thoroughly familiar and hardly require a religious or moral interpretation. Bosch seems to have depicted humanity in its natural state, while reserving his moralistic outlook for the right-hand panel of the triptych in which he punishes — not the frolickers from the middle panel — but monks, nuns, gluttons, gamblers, warriors, and drunkards. Five centuries later, we remain embroiled in debates about the role of religion in society. As in Bosch’s days, the central theme is morality. Can we envision a world without God? Would this world be good? "

Thus begins Frans de Waal's essay "Morals without God?", a 2010 New York Times opinion piece which provides a foundation to understand that morality is not dependent on God or religion. Morality evolved along with humanity, our actions responding to a desire for nurture and care for those around us. Religion claims to be able to provide a solid basis for determining morality and many would claim that if not for religion, who or what is to stop a person from committing any horrendous action of their choosing? But when this question is studied, results find time and again that individuals who claim to be atheist or agnostic respond similarly to those who claim a religion. Why would a person without God respond similarly to a person with God, because your belief in right vs wrong and your decision to act according to what you believe to be right or wrong, lies in an ability to assert self control over your behavior. A person with God and a person without God have the same ability to decide what they believe is right or what they believe is wrong. One person decides to allow an external concept derived from a book dictate that moral code and the other chooses for themselves how to live. But each person can agree that if someone is drowning and you have the ability to save them, that you would.
Further, the article details how morality may developed as a result of our social instincts present since our primate ancestors. "Similarly, the latest experiments in primatology reveal that our close relatives will do each other favors even if there’s nothing in it for themselves. Chimpanzees and bonobos will voluntarily open a door to offer a companion access to food, even if they lose part of it in the process. And capuchin monkeys are prepared to seek rewards for others, such as when we place two of them side by side, while one of them barters with us with differently colored tokens. One token is “selfish,” and the other “prosocial.” If the bartering monkey selects the selfish token, it receives a small piece of apple for returning it, but its partner gets nothing. The prosocial token, on the other hand, rewards both monkeys. Most monkeys develop an overwhelming preference for the prosocial token, which preference is not due to fear of repercussions, because dominant monkeys (who have least to fear) are the most generous." Mammals and humans both derive pleasure by doing good, being social animals we desire providing for others as well as ourselves and empathize with other's pain.
Morality is not dependent upon God, it has only been strongly influenced by the concept. It is an evolutionary, human instinct to behave with respect to others, it is our choice to live that way.

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Theists can be Agnostic

I am going to convince you that even the most devout believer is, in fact, an agnostic. Let's start with definitions.

The terms Theist & Atheist pertain to one's believe or absence of belief, respectively.

The terms Gnostic & Agnostic pertain to one's claim of knowledge of God's existence or the absence of a claim of knowledge of God's existence, respectively.

In other words, a theist is someone who believes in God and a Gnostic is someone who claims they can know (and do know) that God exists. An Atheist is someone who does not believe in God and an Agnostic is someone who does not claim they can know God exists.

Most believers, or Theists, tend to follow that they cannot prove that God exists, but they simply use the evidence around them to deduce that God does exist, albeit a minority of fundamentalists and theologians. This uncertainty is Agnosticism. People who are Theist Agnostics believe that God exists and do not claim they know God exists. If a person claims to know God exists, you can deduce that they are also Theist, or Gnostic Theist.
If a person does not believe in God and and claims they cannot know God does not exist they are an Agnostic Atheist. If a person does not believe in God and claims they know God does not exist they are a Gnostic Atheist. Because it can be assumed that if you don't believe in God they you wouldn't claim tho know God exists, as this would be logically inconsistent, Gnostic Atheist means the polar of Gnostic Theist.

I hope you enjoyed this fresh take on (A)Gnosticism and (A)Theism. I've noticed that politics is kind skewed in the same manner where it presents beliefs on a line rather than an axis, to hide the unwanted variable. I will provide a link here for that post when it is created. Stay tuned!

Steve Moss

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sam Harris- Fallacies of the Bible (Video)

Sam Harris discusses the fallacies of the Bible in this video. Why does the Bible tell you to stone to death so many people? This and other questions answered. See below.

Sam Harris- The Bible's Fallacies

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Nationwide Federal Reserve Rallies 11/22/2013

Rally at the Federal Reserve Banks

November 22, 2013

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We must educate every single person on this planet of the manipulative nature of central banking and the logical solutions to this massive ponzi scheme.

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On November 22nd (The day in 1910 that the world's elite bankers convened in secret at Jekyll Island to draft the Federal Reserve Act), we will gather at and surround the 12 Branch Banks and the Board of Governors in Washington D.C. and expose their crimes and manipulation of our economic and political systems and offer and demonstrate the solutions!

Awareness Revolution

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