The Philosophers

My job description.

Keep it up then.
My latest video on the Tree of Life is on this subject.
The outcome is favourable for Germany, the most sober and realistic country of the west. Meaning: the most ruthless, firstly vs itself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTaALDSezY[/youtube]

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=193267

These arent my choices, mind you. But having lived in the German speaking world, and having extensively experienced the rest of Western Europe, I am not mournful. Nothing will be lost that hasn’t already been squandered to the American exultation of the downtrodden, cultural Marxism.

I think that it was also Hitlers, Mussolini’s, Stalin’s, ad continuum.
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Whose reality?

No, theirs was the exact opposite.
It is surprising that you would think of nazis and Stalinists as enemies of stupidity, fear and weakness. They are the archetypical herd-species, idiots, too scared to look at their own shadow.

Their own.


Fixed
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I can think of three to begin with.

Kierkegaard… I guess Kant… St Augustine of course.
Who did you have in mind?

Descartes and Hegel?

Kierkegaard is the obvious one, more interestingly are the modern philosophers and namely a Jewish one Hilary Putnam.

"Putnam, demonstrated that even for a philosopher, life’s spiritual and existential dimensions must be given their place. It was through Judaism, that he found a way to make sense of the soul searching and questioning many Westerners have and of the inner tensions most feel.

Putnam’s return to Judaism, especially given the bounds of his academic discipline, is a testament of his intellectual probity, and given the demands of the every-day, of a reflective human being".

Lol.

Lol.

Deal with it.

HA…you are getting sillier and sillier.

Hegel… yea I suppose he claimed that he thought of himself as a kristjun. I don’t find it back in his writings at all. Decartes, yeah he said it was important to uphold religion, but he didn’t actually state that he believes.

As for the third, which you find most important: you seem to propose that Judaism is a form of Christianity. In fact Judaism rejects every single tenet of Christianity.

Jakob wrote

There are quite a few bygone philosophers who have been theists and there are a few living ones, including Putnam (now deceased 2016) who was a practicing Jew, although it’s not always easy to tell if Jews are religious or not. I should have made the distinction between Christian and Jew in my previous post, it did occur to me to do so, but I got lazy I guess and sure enough I am pulled up for it. One of the FEW similarities in being both Christian and Jew is that they believe in the same God, Jehovah and they see the hand of God in the origins of the world, but correct me if I am wrong. Theology is a large branch in philosophy where God is a very serious topic and one of the big questions that philosophy concerns itself with, cast your eyes down the topics of this Forum alone. It is a big question and it seems that more philosophers believe in God today than yesteryear, perhaps because in the past an analytical philosopher would tend to believe that religious language is meaningless, or primarily emotive, but that is not the case today, or perhaps the statements of evolution have been examined more closely and they are finding that they are simply assertions.

Unresolved, utterly complex issue. The trinity relates to the Hebrew Godhead.

In the end, there are two aspects of the Jewish God to which the Christians also respond in the same literal fashion: the Father above the Abyss and the Father below the Abyss. But that is a minority of aspects.

If these questions puzzle you half as powerfully as they have puzzled me since a bizarre end of a life of a family member, I think you might enjoy these videos. All this is merely the beginning of shedding some light on the Jewish God, and the way that Christ emerges in that light.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZfESt3Bpk[/youtube]

God as the Void: Zen, Existentialism.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOxRSYGWFo[/youtube]

God as the Prime Mover and Source: Monotheism.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em-hmbYgJeo[/youtube]

God as the Father: Will to Power.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKK5hlXTrc[/youtube]

God as the Mother: The World, Spinoza, Pantheism.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzC1rJjZ3_c[/youtube]

The Devil

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdnMEShz5N0[/youtube]

God as God: Realm-security, Communism, Islam, Humanism, Ideologies of Conquest.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTaALDSezY[/youtube]

idem.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4z5PESmRo8[/youtube]

Man as the tension between God-forms.

Here is a direct link to one instance where I discuss this issue.
youtu.be/H4z5PESmRo8?t=17m30s

All exact scientists have acknowledged “God”, because it simply refers to the cause of such things as gravity, which has no rationally attributable cause -
if you do not count my own work, that is.

Podcast 5
vocaroo.com/i/s0LQ9OO1KTe7

the subject of becoming or remaining true to the Earth
what does it even mean now that we are destroying the planet?

Thanks Fixed for taking the time to respond.

I will watch the vids.

You’re very welcome, Shieldmaiden. I hope that the visual association sequences have the power to captivate your deep-mind and reveal some of the true associative quality of the tree - and thus of God.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGU-ov34WQg[/youtube]

Having listened to the Rabbi Wolf’s comments and watching your vids another element of the religious question began to form in my head. There are real psychological differences between Christianity and Judaism.

Jung said the difference between Freud’s approach and his own had much to do with Freud’s Jewish background and his own Christian up bring. There is truth in this.

Jung writes

"I suggested years ago that every psychological theory should be criticised in the first instance as a subjective confession…this subjective premise is identical with our psychic idiosyncrasy. Idiosyncrasy is conditioned (1) by the individual, and (2) by the family, (3) by the nation, race, climate, locality and history…I am proud of my subjective premises, I love the Swiss earth in them, I am grateful to my theological forebears for having passed on to me the Christian premise…

and Freud’s Jewish psychology is similarly conditioned by the history of the Jewish people

"May it not be asked wherein lie the peculiar differences between an essentially Jewish and essentially Christian outlook…? Are we really to believe that a tribe which has wandered through history for several thousand years as “God’s chosen people” was not put up to such an idea by some quite special psychological peculiarity? If no differences exist, how do we recognise Jews at all?

This deserves more research.