I have been in trouble with society for my entire life.
Only Scum, Harm others more vulnerable to them!!!
Intersex human rights? No, not really!!! LINK
The above picture was of me at 15 years old, or so, and I was a hell razer! But even now as an ex-street Kid, but I am still somewhat a hell razer, though now I am a way more respectful person. Non-leaders are EGO (self-focused) and power-driven but real leaders are other-focused and empowerment-driven. Now, it is my welcoming correction that distills my thinking to the purity available to reach reason. Welcoming correction plays a major role. Can’t improve if you aren’t willing to change what you’re already doing. I just want to be a good human, kind to all, and as of benefit to the world as possible, as humanity is worth giving my life for. I may never know just how beautiful you are, until you are kind. Are you a good person? If so how would we know with what demonstratable features available to all? So you are unsure if rape is a good thing? You are unsure if loving others is good? Is it possible to be unsure if we are doing good feeding the starving? We all know what is true and what is good!
I started doing activism at 35 in 2006.
I was one of the worst behaved kids in school. I was expelled several times. I beat one teacher that pushed me, another I hit as he called me a different name to make me feel mad. I hit a teacher trying to stop me from beating another student. I threw a chocolate milk at a teacher destroying his entire clothing and he had to go home for new clothes. I superglued the lock on a classroom so 30 people were trapped due to being told that I had to sit outside the class due to my disruptive class behavior. I will spare you the rest as it only gets worse. Anyway, my point is not what I did but to remind people of why. I was being extremely abused at home.
“Oh! I am so sorry to hear this, but if there is one good teacher who could have given you time and love you would have changed at a very young age. It’s never the fault of a child or adolescent to behave this way, it’s because of the situation and the environmental factors that made you to act that way. we still can save the children, if we try hard.” – Commenter
My response, I appreciate your kindness and support. You are valuable and needed. I love all teachers as it was always just me and teachers taking on the world together. For the love of Hillbillies and Teachers? I strive to be a servant leader that teaches teachers and builds more servant leaders to go out and also lead leaders and teach teachers. And this all starts in my willingness to be a student of the world. Let me give an example of how I can be the best student, I hear things, when no words are said. I am light-hearted, very loving, and live a life of kindness. I was taught by a respected teacher, my cat, who is only love. I have learned, such deep care, from her. I am a better person because she loves me.
“Damien AtHope great! I am very proud of you, I feel the pain you have been through, and I am so sorry about it, there are millions of children that are going through mental issues. They play a pray game, no one to support them, share their grief. God was very kind to you, you end up being successful! Keep up the good work.” – Commenter
My response, I was put in special education before being kicked out of the school for good and had to go to school only for the worst kids and I was one of the most violent there too. I cut one student with a knife and only was suspended for one week. I am from Southern California, born in long beach. The school’s name S.E.L.F. means secondary educational learning facility. My bad kid school and where I met “Zack de la Rocha” the singer of Rage Against the Machine. I am for the people, the general public, desiring to help all I can, with all I am, giving them thinking for free, that have been locked up in collages or the minds of those who wish to stay elite. I am a freedom fighter and I want power back where it belongs, in the hands, of the so-called average people. Non-leaders, are drunk on EGO. I was beyond broken, I thought I wanted to go to prison with the intent to kill bad people, similar to the Dexter tv show where you kill or harm only those causing harm but never did I want to harm innocence or the vulnerable whom I see as another me as I was brutalized by my father. I got locked up in a mental health center and was there a few months and I have been better ever since. That was 1/24/89. I am not quite, I am a warrior against child abuse.
“Wow! Damien, you are a survivor! I can relate to your being abused, because I too was going through abuse that others weren’t even aware of. I think that’s why I became a teacher to the youngest and most vulnerable children in public school. I tried to make a difference in their lives by telling them every day in class how important they were. Even the kids that threw trash cans at me, wooden puzzles, their shoes ????, the ones who bit me, kicked me, pulled my hair ????, and hit me compelled me to show them how valuable they were. Those were the ones that were being abused. Don’t ever forget: you are strong and you are a survivor!!” – Commenter
You cannot pour from an empty cup??? What?
If I believe the saying you cannot pour from an empty cup, with the freefall to deaths awaiting arms; my life has been a consistent sea in a hurricane, with not stop struggling not to die. I would still be living as a drug-addicted street kid doing crime and hurting people. I see it is my willingness to fully express my utter weaknesses, and limitations openly that I find my strength and offer strength to others as well. See the empty cup talked about no longer stays the empty cup, so my strengths or struggles with the empty cup inspire myself and others to even greater well-being in humanity. Our pain is not good but talking about it engenders needed connected support that is like refreshing or refilling my empty cup. Or if all I have is limitations, then others out of care, see my need and help.
Interview #63 – Changing Worldviews with Damien Marie Athope
Interview #64 – Activism and Education with Damien Marie Athope
When I feel the bite of need, I always think, am I thinking like me, or have others capitalism-ed my mind, to where my choices are limited, due to the concept, called money? I am an anti-capitalist and why I care more for a homeless person than the king of city hall. I look down on the elite but look up to the underprivileged of the world, we share a common struggle, self-ownership, freedom, liberty, humanity, and I want true equality. I am just ME.
Our imperfections are endearing to others as it makes us look more like them, just human, you know like the reality of what we actually are with the matrix removed. I am not here to impress anyone, most, look down on me as to force themselves, to see my actual value. I am not so lucky, it seems no one even gets my real value. I am just ME.
We need people with the height of bravery, to be openly as kind as others openly hate.
I say, pay teachers, dubble, they are similar-to-counselors (unpaid people of kindness, stepping in to love the unloved, how is this not of the highest value?) and teachers they should be paid for both.
I am an intersex-genderqueer = presenting as male.
Come hear a positive story: “The Value of a Ball?” VIDEO
My poem “Invisible Bars” VIDEO
My poem “Just Be” VIDEO
One of my original poem/spoken word: “Open Heart & Open Arms” VIDEO
One of my original poem/spoken word: “One Day” VIDEO
Life’s Mountains: My original spoken word/ poetry VIDEO
Only Human: My original poetry/Spoken word VIDEO
Sunshine: My original poetry/Spoken word VIDEO
My response, You are a hero, Commenter.
“Damien AtHope Oh no, but thank you.????Just did my job in trying to help little ones who had no one to defend them. You and I are both survivors, and it’s tough but we’ve gone through garbage others have no clue about. Your art is powerful!! And it’s beautiful yet tells the ugly truth. You are making a difference and remember each day to continue making a difference no matter how small. Survivors have to make sure they don’t repeat their own past, and with your awesome artwork, you are making a difference!! ????” – Commenter
My response, I am going to change the world.
“Damien AtHope Such sad memories yet this can make a difference! If one child is helped from seeing this, you have made a difference!! This is powerful!!! And it is the ugly truth. Worst behaved kids at elementary and middle school are the most intelligent and energetic kids. Their energy needs to be channelized. I feel so. Correcting in high school is little hard.” – Commenter
My response, I appreciate your support. I was hated and my crime was being born intersex, mostly man but some woman too, to others a freak. Everyone who wants, from anywhere, doing anything, or nothing, can connect as friends with me. I welcome the world as my friend, from the homeless to the elite. I am a friend to the world.
“Damien AtHope you are a legend! Don’t think about your past, it’s done, but think about the future. What good things you can to children of the present and future. I like your spirit!!! Be of good cheer and change the world in a great positive way. You can do it. The society failed you accept those who genuinely loved you, ????maybe that’s why you are here to share it in order to inspire others. ❤️❤️❤️” – Commenter
My response, I am wicked smart so much I will be making history when my book comes out it will be a nuclear bomb to prehistory like no almost no one before me. I have solved so many archaeology mysteries I will be world-famous and the dawn of new knowledge will be a new era and inspire new hope. I know stuff like this, and I have over 100 more amazing ones.
Society is still failing us all!!!
Revolutionary Communication: Humanity with Oneself, Friends, and Enemies: LINK
A chat between 3 Revolutionary thinkers:
- Cory Johnston
- Damien Marie AtHope
- James Litkett
Cory Johnston: LINK
Damien Marie AtHope: LINK
James Litkett: LINK
Revolutionary Communication: Humanity with Oneself, Friends, and Enemies: VIDEO
“If you are stuck on controlling people, then you will have little to no success. Having a serving heart that gives no matter what, one who understands that broken people lash out, one that understands that you must meet Maslow’s hierarchy of needs before education can take place, then you are more successful than you can imagine. Children know if you care. When a child or other human knows you care then magic happens. BE MAGICAL.” – Commenter
My response, I strive to be a servant leader that teaches teachers and builds more servant leaders to go out and also lead leaders and teach teachers. And this all starts in my willingness to be a student of the world. Let me give an example of how I can be the best student, I hear things, when no words are said. I am light-hearted, very loving, and live a life of kindness. I was taught by a respected teacher, my cat, who is only love. I have learned, such deep care, from her. I am a better person because she loves me. I was born in Long Beach and grew up in Southern California. I am, like, a gangster rapper-style, medal-head, and goth-lion “champion of humanity” that is like a birth child of “Robert Green Ingersoll” and “Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin” with a “Gloria Marie Steinem” chaser. AND Andy Warhol, mixed with Salva Dali… lol
“Damien AtHope funny that broken people can be such angels. The depth of care and love is so amazing. Empathy runs deep in broken People. I see so many students that flourish when they understand that they are not “worthless,” and “stupid.” When students realize they are worthy to be loved, accepted, and they are intelligent, then they become successful. I tell my kids all the time that the greatest gift they can give themselves is love and forgiveness. I tell them they deserve to be loved and successful! I demand that they talk well of themselves. They ask me, “why?” Because I believe in you and I will not allow anyone to talk down about them. Only good things, positive things are to be said. Negativity only attracts the negative.” – Commenter
My response, I am nothing but me, myself, and I never read for fun, and no Facebook or some other social media are not fun for me other than connecting with friends. I almost exclusively use it “all about” my activism, my entire like is activism. I am for educating the world for free so I offer all my knowledge for free as my gift of love to a world in such desperate need. How, as a good human, can anyone, stand silent as our fellows suffer and die????????????? I have never read any book on logic nor any philosophers either. Not even the one that invented formal axiology that I respect. I don’t read for fun so I read as little as possible. I would never start with the bis of understanding any idea through the biased lens of a personal thinker. I study ideas and everything you read from me is arranged only in my mind no other thinker has written nor alive. I do get good ideas or advice from my also amazingly brilliant wife who is my philosopher leader and hero. If you like my thinking cool, if not, also cool, I don’t need you to like it, or even believe it, but please in all you do, please be kind.
I am doing what I know, so I see myself as gangbanging for humanity…
That is my philosapy, I created. I never had a home as an abused child.
In my life, many different people rightly demanded I recognize their struggle and for me to support their Identity.
I have, less often, been shown this in return and I never even demand it, and why should I have to remind you I too, am of value, I may be a group of one as an intersex person but my human rights need defending too.
“Damien, as a principal I would have figured that out. Mainly because you would have told me when we talked. If you did something bad I would ask you to tell me why. I would have stopped on the first incident. How much principals and teachers need to learn to do it the right way. Sorry to hear about this. It really breaks my heart. The trauma you went through that will always be there. Social Workers should have been there to correct the problems in your home. How does a school let this go on for so long. They should have been helping you. There was a reason that you were so angry and acting out. They never took the time to find out. How are you now?” – Commenter
My response, They knew, they all knew. The principal told me he would not publish me anymore, for my behavior as he knew, I was taking hell at home. It gets much worse if you want to hear more tragic life so you have nightmares like me, let me know and I will tell you a little more? I lived a life in constant free-fall, interesting, right, but tough to live through, with feelings that never go away. But, I was until just now, still thinking, the only people ever on my side were teachers, but thank you for reminding me I need to love principals, too, as I was sent to the principal 23 times to be spanked but he let me look at his weapon collection and told me stories of courageous people from around the world, trying to uplift my horrid life of extreme abuse, I even had my tailbone broken by my father hitting me with a 2×4.
I was so neglected and abandoned as a child it is as if I was never raised by the world not one part. I was only me. I only had my perspective, my values, my hopes, my needs, my friends, my non-friends, my enemies, and they never were the crap the world tried to make me believe. I was broken by the world but the world’s ugliness did not loge itself inside me, I am the firstborn and unraised by the world’s matrix. I am the first free-born human to also stay mentally free his entire life is almost unheard of in the last 8,000 or so years. I just me, NO GODS AND NO MASTERS: I have no need for stories of do nothing gods and take everything masters. I am good as just ME.
I am a fucking radical, so watch out I am dangerous, I make people have original thoughts. I am just ME!
I am an anarchist before almost everything, so, I would rather hang out with good kind, and loving religious people, than someone angry and hating, if that is also atheists, then no thanks we don’t sound all that compatible. I don’t like toxic, and joyfully putting down others and not caring much about helping is too toxic for me as an extremely abused ex-street kid. in my life. I battle bigotry and hate every day so I need kindness and goodness in my friend or it feels like I am not safe anywhere in my life and that is unbearable. I have been so overwhelmed by how much the world, in general, would rather enjoy the sparkling lights of the world being burnt to the ground by hate than ever champion the cause for love. I love atheists, don’t get me wrong, I would just ask you, could you please not forget the deep value of compassion. and the endless power of love. Just be kind, then be kind, and if that doesn’t work may I be honorable in my response as all servant leaders should. I AM, NOTHING, JUST ME!
I am no one in the so-called skeptic community but, hey, instead, the world of academia, yeah, they both know and respect me, but the atheist community, they keep telling me, I will never make it if I dont read, or read…. or read… or read… I just think, have these mother fuckers, never, even, scanned, who, the fuck, I am? I, HATE, EVER, BEING, TOLD, TO, DO, ANYTHING!!! Please, ask me, that is cool. Challenge me, hard as hell, but respectfully, cool as well.
Others often demand I learn their words, I never do this as an axiologist, “words,” are just “packets” holding the “meaning” we want it to, so they are by themselves meaningless. Words are both everything and nothing. I am just me. Nothing.
I am a student of the world, I can learn from just about anything. Everything has always been my best teacher, it is less biased than people that claim shining credentials, all pail, to my mind, high on the amazing wonders, this world has to offer me. I am humbled by all the knowledge offered to me for free. So, I learn and then I humbly offer it out to the world completely free as well. I just want to be a good human, kind to all. I am a servant leader, what are you?
I have done talks at schools before, to give comfort to kids who think they are all alone. Non-leaders are EGO (self-focused) and power-driven but real leaders are other-focused and empowerment-driven.
“You were not broken, Damien, just didn’t have the safe and stable environment to grow up in. That hurt/pain we carry, I now carry mine with a smile. Because I realized I can put it down anytime, but I still carry it to remind me that I can. It’s a plus for me. Trauma means my brain figures out problems faster than most, my reflexes are faster than most. I can see the truth behind people’s masks too. This blog is amazing by the way. Peace be upon you always. Damien AtHope we are all one, all capable of doing good/bad. But its what we do that defines us as an individual. :-)” – Commenter
Someone in a private message said she wanted to help my struggle as an intersex person, here is my response, “I want you to know you are the first person in 50 years to even care to support my intersex, so now you get just how sad my struggle is, I am alone.”
I love all the “Let’s Connect” as it is working around the limitations being
enforced here on LinkedIn. To me, this is anarchist thinking in action.
As an anarchist, I love you all.
I am a friend to the world.
H I S T O R Y O F C H I N A relates to the History of Europe?
I love not giving a fuck but I am still nice and kind. I am a sociopath no one’s option matters to me but mine. And I strive to be a good human. May we all be good humans that are kind. And by the way, My Intelligent Wife Shayna is a big reason I am a good human today. ❤
Well, Actually, I am not that Different as an Atheist
I have data and reason. I understand, others, also are free, like me, to think as they want. I love people doing what they want, I do not hate anyone. I do not believe in religions. Everyone does not believe in some religion, I am only different, in that, I just do that for them all. I do believe in people; I champion kindness as well. I appreciate you feeling safe enough with me to be real.
Someone, sarcastically said, to me, “who do you think you are? SSSssssuperman, TTTtttthat is just, your AAAaaabuse talking.” – Ex-Friend
My response, I, am, actually, kryptonite (KINDNESS IS MY SUPERPOWER), and superman is powerless before me.
And now I see it is my willingness to fully expose my weaknesses to others so they can gain strength from them, thus also empowering me.
We all matter, we all are dignity beings, and we are all equal, including the value of our struggles.
Don’t compare abuse, all hurt causes pain.
I offend bigots, the shame and horror of my ruddiness, right? lol
We need people with the height of bravery, to be openly as kind as others openly hate. I may never know just how beautiful you are, until you are kind. Look at me, most fear me looking at me, or reading my ideas. I am lion-hearted like few ever are I breathe fire but it is the heat of love not the volcano of hate. I love the world so much I am risking my life daily so others can feel safe, and the honor is mine, as humanity is with everything, i\t is all we have to an atheist like me, how could I not fight like hell to save it? I am a servant leader just trying to be a good human, one of you loving people I need you all in my life.
I keep it real as shit, I am just, an “ex-street kid,” don’t you know…
I actually add my BRAGGING as a way to add the needed negative to get others to trust me. I am a thinker and I almost always act with meaning. I see it as I only have a short time left, so I strive to push ????my wisdom as far as I can while I’m alive.
What I mean is my job is not to be perfect, not even close, but rather am I a good human today? How can I be a good human tomorrow? What needed change must I make to more embrace being a servant leader. I love you for all the same reasons. You are just you. We both use BRAGGING as a tool to aid in seeing the need for humility.
If you can help people, you should go do just that, help.
I am just me.
The Words That Threw Fire on My Out Activism
At an atheist meetup in Southern California (Backyard Skeptics) 2013, Where I was viciously and unprovokedly attacked by the group owner, “Bruce Gleason” in front of his group:
He loudly and very rudely in a busy restaurant, interrupted me, answering someone, who had asked me a question, saying, “Damien, LET PEOPLE TALK!!!”
I said, how can I do that when I am the one answering a question, asked of me?
He was so enraged, (I see, how dare I), he said, in a voice like talking to a dog that just shit on the rug, “Damien, no one cares what you think, no one wants to hear all your wacky ideas. Just be quiet and try listening, I am trying to get you to think correct.”
I said, Oh, now you speak for everyone in the group? And you call that what? Freethinking?
Hi, I am that freak no one ever gave a fuck about…
The Religious Matrix Uncovered
Exposing the Religious Matrix-inspired by The Matrix movie…
I am a caring firebrand atheist, wishing to be hard on ideas but kind to people.
My life; the good, the bad, and the ugly on the road to the Mental Freedom of Atheism
I Believe Archaeology, not Myths & Why Not, as the Religious Myths Already Violate Reason!
Archaeological, Scientific, & Philosophic evidence shows the god myth is man-made nonsense.
I am not the thing abuse made, I am a shooting star blazing bright, shining far pass my past.
Psychological certainty and Epistemic certainty?
Losing My Religion and MY Faith Addiction
god Claims are a Non-Reality Commodity
My Blogs on the Evolution of RELIGION
“The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It contains numerous references to philosophical and religious ideas and prominently pays homage to works such as Plato‘s Allegory of the Cave, Jean Baudrillard‘s Simulacra and Simulation, and Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality, as perceived by most humans, is actually a simulated reality called “the Matrix”, created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Cybercriminal and computer programmer Neo learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the “dream world.” Reviewers praised The Matrix for its innovative visual effects, cinematography, and entertainment value. The film has since appeared in lists of the greatest science fiction films, and, in 2012, was added to the National Film Registry for preservation.” – ref
The Religious Matrix Uncovered?
To me, the Matrix is all societies, religious mythology’s faith, and beliefs, cultures, judgments, values, biases, and morals. The Matrix code itself, it is not like a computer but is made of languages, numbers, and symbols from around the world.
The one connecting factor silent throughout all strands of the matrix all societies, religious mythology’s faith and beliefs, cultures, judgments, values, biases, and morals consistent in both place and time is the devaluing and oppression of women. One should then ask Why?
If women are not stronger, superior, or somehow containing healthier traits as a sentient being then Why work so hard to devalue and oppress them? The Matrix demonstrates the devaluing and underestimating of women but they do have true power even men can learn from. Also shows you that the Matrix itself and male dominance understands how dangerous an enlightened woman can be. The matrix knows how self-powerful sexuality is and like women oppresses and devalues its variations too. Out of a box, thinkers are not limited by the matrixes roles, of gender, sexuality, and power. We must realize we are not powerless over the matrix, no matter where you are at, you can reach out to get assistance when you are bring attacked from closed-mindedness or Matrix people. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, learn to desire help you are not alone other out of a box out of the Matrix people can assist in your enlightenment. The ability to look past the Matrix shows that you can do what you think you cannot do. The fact that the Matrix can follow you into the impossible shows how much we are tethered to it and how hard it is to get away from it. Though, No matter how powerful the Matrix is when one grasps universal ethics they are more powerful. One’s self-mastery demonstrates how self-talk as a powerful motivator to our own success.
Do not be stopped by fear. Going against the Matrix itself even though, it constituted a definite risk has to be done for one’s ultimate life satisfaction. To get unplugged from the Matrix out of the box thinkers have to take risks. Out-of-the-box-thinkers need to search for the truth and in that search, we have to be uncomfortable and learn as we go. Out-of-the-box-thinkers to me are rationalists who have to wake up and realize we have been sleepwalking our whole life. People in the Matrix could state, “I know that something is not right or feels different but I did not know because I did not ask.” The realization of the Matrix control comes after we ask. Out-of-the-box-thinkers hear the truth and being for the first time to truly realize the scope of the Matrix and it scares us epically when we learn that the Matrix truly has us, and most of our thinking we thought was our own is a strand of Matrix ideology forced on us. Stepping out of the Matrix and asking questions makes you feel like that you are awaked but still dreaming. It is hard when you are inside the Matrix to see women as heroic.
The other realization is that the Matrix is actively watching you all the time. Out-of-the-box thinkers must realize, you are not looking for a person, place, or thing, religious mythology, or a god; you are looking for an answer. For out-of-the-box thinkers, the question drives us and we realize there is something going on. The question brings us to desire to figure out what is just on the cusp of our understanding. Everyone inside already knows the question What is the Matrix? The answer is both in us and out there looking for us which means that the Matrix is always watching and it is seeking us as much as we seek to understand it. When out of the box thinkers start to challenge and question the Matrix and its thinking on the ways things are or how they should be done, the Matrix questions them back.
People in the matrix ask, who do you think you are to question? What makes you special? Then the Matrix’s shaming, tells you that you have no right to question, that you’re questioning is your problem with authority and your lack of fitting in. the Matrix internal programming in you through self-doubt tells us something is wrong with you and not the Matrix. The matrix gilt forces conformity by telling us we are confused, everyone else understands that life is not about the individual. The good life according to the matrix can only be achieved by living the traditions of society as a whole. If a person has a problem following those rules then society has a problem, so everyone has to fit in. In society, the matrix asks you to make a choice not to question or break the status quo.
Either you choose to follow society’s rules without question or you are deemed an outcast or trouble maker to be shunned, devalued, and oppressed. The person outside the Matrix is weary to give us the whole truth because they are not sure if we are ready for the whole truth. When you ask too many questions, your parents, family, friends, religious mythology, and society start to come after you to make sure that you conform to society’s rules. Religious mythology is the foundation of most elements found in the Matrix. When you start to get help from someone outside the Matrix, they cannot really tell you everything that is going on because you would not understand anyway; you have to take a step into the unknown. You have to be okay not to be okay as you seek to learn the truth you are not your own. The person inside the Matrix cannot believe the person outside the Matrix can know all of this truth.
At the scaffold, Neo has to make a choice to step out of his comfort zone, where he does not see that the Matrix is dangerous and an immediate threat but he does see taking a step into the unknown as an immediate threat and is dangerous.
During your step into the unknown, you are at your most alone, in between both realities; all by yourself.
Neo failed his first your step into the unknown and so will you. We have to realize we will fail many times because the Matrix is everything, everywhere, and everyone.
The Matrix, like our family and others in our lives, has total control over us. We do not know where our thinking starts and where theirs ends.
The Matrix knows more about us than we know about ourselves because we are the thinking (brains) of the Matrix. We really do not think for ourselves that is the illusion and denial.
The Matrix says that if you follow their rules and behave you will have a life and a future. If you do not, you will fail and be unhappy.
The Matrix needs your help because you help it continue. You are its future. You teach others the Matrix’s rules thus it keeps going.
Neo is contacted by Morpheus, which makes the Matrix worried because Morpheus means the God of Dreams, son of Hypnos. He will bring out deep truths that you have forgotten. You have been sleeping for decades and now is the time to awake and see the truth.
The Matrix pushes the thinking that they do not have to attack the enlightened one they attack you. By you do not understand that the enlightened one is the most dangerous because they want to destroy everything about the Matrix.
The Matrix pushes that they can get us to conform by telling us that we want to do the right thing—the right thing is to comply and become part of the Matrix.
Like the Matrix (religious mythology) if we repent and follow rules they will wipe the slate clean.
The illusion is if we follow the rules then we are protected by these rights but in reality, we only have the right to comply and not think on our own.
When the people we love like a family who are in the Matrix find out we are leaving the Matrix they use guilt and tell us they are disappointed in us.
The Matrix can take away your right to speak since they control your values, beliefs, and opinions since they are the ones who gave them to you.
Family with their guilt and society making you feel an outcast and you have no voice, you do not speak out.
Society tells us that we will help them whether we want to or not, they implant their values into us because we have been getting the Matrix fed to us from birth. The biggest part of the Matrix is that we forget that it is their values and not ours and anything wrong has been done to us.
People outside the Matrix have to be wary and cautious of the people they bring out of the Matrix and enlighten because they are still in the Matrix and still are dangerous. Even though you are out they can pull you back in.
People in the Matrix are the power source like a battery having their life sucked out of them to keep the Matrix alive.
You know where the road to the Matrix leads to the fantasies of family and someone else’s dreams. Tradition.
It is very painful when the person on the outside of the Matrix assists you in getting the tendrils of the bug of tradition and Matrix out of you. And as soon as you the bug out, it dies and loses its power because it was being powered by you.
The one piece of advice to get past the Matrix is, to be honest with yourself.
The feeling of stepping out of the Matrix is like Alice tumbling down the rabbit’s hole.
In the Matrix, you have the look in your eyes that you accept what you see because you expect to wake up. It is not far from the truth because when you leave the Matrix you will wake up or have awoken.
The illusion of the Matrix is that you are in control of your life and the reason that people do not like fate is because that means that they do not have a choice or control of their life. The truth is in the Matrix you do not have control, you just have partial control like a leash they give up only the limit or amount that the Matrix allows.
The reason we seek to get out of the Matrix, we know something we do not know exactly what we know but we can feel it. We feel it our entire life. We realize there is something wrong with the world until we forget there is something wrong with the world. It is like a splinter in our mind driving us mad.
What is the Matrix? We have to ask ourselves: Do We Really Want To Know? Because once we decide we cannot go back, we will never see the world the same way again.
The Matrix—is everywhere, all around us, even now it is in the person writing this and reading this. You can see it when you look out your window and on your TV, radio, computer, government, religious mythology, etc. You feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It has been the world pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
The Matrix truth is that you are a slave to the Matrix, like everyone else. You are born into the Matrix bondage born into a prison of thinking that you cannot smell, touch, hear, or taste. A prison built for your mind.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Blue Pill—male hierarchy; you stay in the Matrix
Red Pill—female enlightenment and you stay in the wonderland outside of the Matrix.
Because of the Matrix ever-growing power, time is against us.
Once you start to see outside the Matrix, the reality you used to know is distorted and you do not even recognize yourself. You see that you were hollow and only filled with the Matrix and no substance of your own: another photocopy of the Matrix.
Then you shattered the image of you that the Matrix wanted you to see. If you did not have it, it disappears and you see yourself clear for the first time. Your new identity starts to stick to you when you reach out for it. When you see the real you it becomes too much and you get scared.
When you come out of the Matrix, you can barely breathe, feel nausea, choking, weak, naked, and exposed. You still have the connection, but see that everyone is connect and you see how powerful the Matrix is. You feel that there is no hope. Then society having no more need for you since you are no longer feeding the Matrix, it flushes you out—being disowned, alienated, objectified, and oppressed.
Welcome to the Real World. But you are weak, have to take time to heal and be trained or taught in this new enlightenment. It takes a lot more work and a lot longer to recover from the Matrix than you think.
Your eyes hurt because you have never used them before to really see the world or reality.
The damage and scars where the Matrix plugs into you; never leaves, thus it has the potential to plugin again. Only those born and raised outside of the Matrix are free of the access points to plugin for the Matrix.
When you first come out of the Matrix, an enlightened person outside of the Matrix, can still feed you enlightenment through a Matrix access pint/plug-in such as the Golden Rule since you already accept it as true.
Residual Self Image—leftover from the Matrix which it created.
These are the questions you have to ask yourself:
What is real?
Well here is why “Reason is my only master”
The most Base Presupposition begins in reason. Reason is needed for logic (logic is realized by the aid of reason enriching its axioms). Logic is needed for axiology/value theory (axiology is realized by the aid of logic). Axiology is needed for epistemology (epistemology is realized by aid of axiology value judge and enrich its value assumptions as valid or not). Epistemology is needed for a good ontology (ontology is realized by the aid of epistemology justified assumptions/realizations/conclusions). Then when one possesses a good ontology (fortified with valid and reliable reason and evidence) they can then say they know the ontology of that thing. Thinking is good and one claiming otherwise is indeed a person erroring in reason. Which may I remind you is terrible since the most Base Presupposition in our understanding of everything begins in reason.
So, I think, right thinking is reason. Right reason is logic. Right logic, can be used for mathematics and from there we can get to science. And, by this methodological approach, we get one of the best ways of knowing the scientific method. Activating experience/event occurs, eliciting our feelings/scenes. Then naive thoughts occur, eliciting emotions as a response. Then it is our emotional intelligence over emotional hijacking, which entrance us but are unavoidable, and that it is the navigating this successfully in a methodological way we call critical thinking or as In just call right thinking. So, to me, could be termed “Right” thinking, that is referring to a kind of methodological thinking. Reason is at the base of everything and it builds up from pragmatic approaches. And, to me, there are three main approaches to truth (ontology of truth) from the very subjective (Pragmatic theory of truth), to subjective (Coherence theory of truth), then onto objective (Correspondence theory of truth) but remember that this process as limited as it can be, is the best we have and we build one truth ontop another like blocks to a wall of truth.
Pragmatic theory of truth, Coherence theory of truth, and Correspondence theory of truth
In a general way, all reality, in a philosophic sense, is an emergent property of reason, and knowing how reason accrues does not remove its warrant. Feelings are experienced then perceived, leading to thinking, right thinking is reason, right reason is logic, right logic is mathematics, right mathematics is physics and from there all science.
Science is quite the opposite of just common sense. To me, common sense is experience-related interpretation, relatively, as it generally relates to the reality of things in the world, which involves “naive realism” as well as possible psychological certainty and low epistemic certainty. Whereas, most of those who are scientific thinkers, hold typically more to scientific realism or other stances far removed from the limited common sense of naive realism. Science is a multidisciplinary methodological quest for truth. Science understands what is, while religion is wishing on what is not. Scientific realism sees external reality as described by science is what is REAL and thus TRUE with the highest epistemic certainty regardless of possible psychological certainty.
Getting Real with Logic
Logic is the result of rationalism, as what do you think gets you to logic if not starting at reason? I want to hear your justification for your claims, all the presuppositions you are evading to explain the links in your claims of truth. As it is invalid to just claim this without a justification for your professed claims and the presupposing you do to get there, that is not trying to use rationalism to refuse rationalist thinking. How are you making the statement and not appearing to what is the rationale behind it? If not, you must want to think “Logic is self-generating as valid” and this understood value is to you not reducible to reason? You are devoid of an offer of your burden of proof, first just try to keep up with the thinker’s responsibility to provide more than unjustified claims. Logic is derived by axioms and thus using rationalism to validate them, think otherwise provide your proof. My Rationalism: is two things externalistic “scientific rationalism” a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. And internalistic “philosophic rationalism” the theory that reason is the most base presupposition before all others, rather than simply trying to rely on experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. Activating experience occurs we then have thinking, right (methodological) thinking (critical thinking) is reason, right reason is logic, right logic can be used for math, right math in response to the natural world is physics, and from there all other Sciences, physics is the foundation for chemistry and chemistry is the foundation of biology. May reason be your only master and may you also master reason.
Religion vs. Science, Don’t Confuse Beliefs
A basic outline of scientific epistemology:
Science: Hypotheses (Rationalism/Deductive, Inductive, or Abductive Reasoning etc.) + Testing (Empiricism/Systematic Observation) – Checking for errors (Skepticism/Fallibilism) + Interpret/Draw a Conclusion (Rationalism/Deductive, Inductive, or Abductive Reasoning etc.) *if valid* = Scientific Laws (describes observed phenomena) or Scientific Theory (substantiated and repeatedly tested explanation of phenomena) = Justified True Belief = Scientific Knowledge = Epistemic Certainty supportive of correctability
*being epistemically certain, is believing a truth has the highest epistemic status, often with warranted psychological certainty but it may not, neither is it a requirement*
“Damien, I have a question: Who/what gives humans value?”
My response, We give value, as value is an awareness and judgment, it is an emergent property of validation; the ability to use critical thinking and logic in a useful way, to conclude worth, benefit, or good.
How do you define reality?
If you talked about reality as what you can see, touch, feel, and taste then boiled down, reality is just simply impulses in your brain that perceives these things.
The Matrix reality is a simulation/fake reality implanted in us.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real….
Throughout history, we believe we relied on the Matrix to survive but now the Matrix relies on us to survive.
Endless fields of the Matrix where people are no longer born, but we are grown and groomed.
The values of the dead, family, saints, heroes, etc are fed to the living in the form of TRADITION, hero-worship, family worships, etc.
The Matrix was built to keep us under control. The religious mythology removes our thinking, power, and control. It creates sin and then forgives the sin it created.
All the work the Matrix and religious mythology does is to turn you nto its power source like a battery. When we hear this we do not believe it. We think it is impossible to be duped. Seeing the truth of the Matrix is not easy but it is the truth.
After leaving the Matrix, you think you can go back because you do not like the feeling. Would you want to go back? Would you want to unlearn? Would you like to stop losing your control and not be yourself anymore?
It is hard to free a mind that has gotten too old. It is hard for that mind to let go.
As long as the Matrix/religious mythology exists, Human race will never be free.
You can learn a lot more and faster outside the Matrix because you are not limited by your own biases built in like a computer virus from the Matrix.
Once we leave the Matrix, we have to try to take a your step into the unknown again into our new reality and new attitudes and the new us. But everyone falls, we still cannot get pass the Matrix thinking the first time, we believe we are still limited.
The Religious Matrix is a system and that system is our enemy.
“Religion is an Evolved Product” and Yes, Religion is Like Fear Given Wings…It seems ancient peoples had to survived amazing threats in a “dangerous universe (by superstition perceived as good and evil),” and human “immorality or imperfection of the soul” which was thought to affect the still living, leading to ancestor worship. This ancestor worship presumably led to the belief in supernatural beings, and then some of these were turned into the belief in gods. This feeble myth called gods were just a human conceived “made from nothing into something over and over, changing, again and again, taking on more as they evolve, all the while they are thought to be special,” but it is just supernatural animistic spirit-belief perceived as sacred.
Quick Evolution of Religion?
So, it all starts in a general way with Animism (theoretical belief in supernatural powers/spirits), then this is physically expressed in or with Totemism (theoretical belief in mythical relationship with powers/spirits through a totem item), which then enlists a full-time specific person to do this worship and believed interacting Shamanism (theoretical belief in access and influence with spirits through ritual), and then there is the further employment of myths and gods added to all the above giving you Paganism (often a lot more nature-based than most current top world religions, thus hinting to their close link to more ancient religious thinking it stems from). My hypothesis is expressed with an explanation of the building of a theatrical house (modern religious development).
Let’s make it simple:
Atheism is the reality position.
Theism is the anti-reality position!
I don’t need religion or its fake gods.
“Reason is my only master, not the Religious Matrix.”
I am will to power!
People in the Religious Matrix are dangerous to us. The reason they are dangerous is because they are not ready to be unplugged. Many are so hopelessly dependent on the Matrix that they will protect it at all costs. The Matrix can move and take over any person it wants in the Matrix at will, to do whatever they want. That means anyone who has not been unplugged or enlightened is an agent of the Matrix. Inside the Matrix, they are everyone and no one. We cannot go to family, friends, society, culture, religious mythology because the Matrix cannot tell us who we are. All that the Matrix defines as true such as love, monogamy, gender, sexuality, and power is not true. They are simply learned constructs which are invented by the Matrix. Religions in the world are just part of the faith Matrix, I thus personally hold revulsion in the existence of religions in the world and their controlling and authoritarian medium of faith. Due to the religions of the world faith Matrix and its preponderance to produce fanatics that threaten, oppress, hurt, and kill others seen as somehow less than human because they are non-believers of the faith Matrix. I do not align myself with the faith Matrix or any religion, myth, superstitious or supernatural thinking as they all are lies to me. I follow a personal path that strives to bring hope, equality, justice, enlightenment, and love to a sleeping walking world plunged into the greatest lies religions have the faith matrix with its pseudoscience, pseudo-history, and pseudo-morality.
Am I a Religious Matrix survivor?
I fell as you tripped me again and from your hate, I remove myself from such mind and being corruption freely walking into the gates of love so longed for. You have not beaten me, you cannot stop me, you don’t want me to live, to thrive, to be all the best I can be but you hate and yet I am still here, a survivor, a full life liver, a thriver, as well as a warrior for kindness and compassion, reaching the care I was rarely offered, as a gift to the ones so desperately oppressed under your harsh gaze. May we all be free and the positive best we can be, I know I am as best I can. I am here growing stronger every day. Who am I, you ask, I respond loud and proud, I am a survivor and even in these chains from my past, you will not stop me. Sometimes, we need to see the truth, that many people are liars and deniers while claiming they are believers. Once we stop seeing the dignity of others we feel free to violate them with impunity. But when dignity is a friend respect has become one’s path.
Yes, I am a survivor and YOU can be too!
“Child’s Eyes”
I find a sanctuary of hope, in the Armageddon of my life.
I see a sweet young child and I think if we are all born with love.
Where do we learn to hate?
And why?
I look into the eyes of the young child Only finding a gentle love with an uncorrupted honesty.
I think,
how I wish not to know,
hate!
I wish only for the innocence of love.
I wish the dark postcards of my heart were blank
but how can a piece of wood turn back into a tree?
How can I forget the pain inside of me?
I wish to forget.
I wish to unlearn.
To be cleansed by love and set free.
I look down into the child’s eyes wishing for what I can never have again,
My own innocence, religion you robbed me of that!
May I not be a silent watcher as millions of children are subjugated almost before their birth let alone when they can understand “thought” and are forcibly coerced, compelled, constrained, and indoctrinated in the mental pollution that religion can be.
My main goal against religion is to fully stop as much as possible forced indoctrination, one could ask but then why do I challenge all adult’s faith? well, who do you think is doing the lying to children in the first place. End Hereditary religion, if it’s a belief let them the equal right to choose to believe.
Faith is not reasoned, be a rationalist willing to look and be a truth seeker.
Faith is Not Evidence of Reality
Truth Navigation and the fallacy of Fideism “faith-ism”
Fideism/Faith-ism (“faith-drunk-thinkers”)
I can’t stand when people try to say that atheism and religion use faith.
We atheists, have archaeology that proves religion is a lie, so no faith is needed. Moreover, We atheists, have science which shows that every mystery has ever turned out to be nature and not magic. There is nothing that the only explanation is magic or supernatural anything, so for religion it has no evidence at all. All religion has is faith without any proof and do not try to say that atheism is anything like that. If you are a religious believer, may I remind you that faith in the acquisition of knowledge is not a valid method worth believing in. Because, what proof is “faith”, of anything religion claims by faith, as many people have different faith even in the same religion?Religion should be seen as ancient mythology to be marveled and laughed at, rather than promoted as truth when it is only feeble pseudo-truth. And why do we so often error it thinking to wish on myths and not believe in scientific proven “godless-reality”, is because We are emotional beings who have a thinking strategy called reason we only sometimes use. Simply, We are not rational beings who have a bonding strategy called emotions we sometimes use. Atheists talk about gods and religions for the same reason doctors talk about cancer, they are looking for a cure or a firefighter talking about fires because they burn people and they care to stop them. We atheists too often feel a need to help the victim’s of mental slavery, held in the bondage that is the false beliefs of gods and the conspiracy theories of reality found in religions.
If I never look, I will always find only what I am looking for, which is, simply, nothing. However, if I truly seek truth, I may find more than I could imagine. If you only look for nothing, you will find nothing. However, to look earnestly, you will always find a new truth waiting to be found. Be willing to look and be a truth seeker. When you believe you can have little or no facts and need only faith, you demonstrate no real love of truth. I implore you to be a rationalist and accepting nothing but facts upon facts connected to reality. Faith is a proclamation of belief in the absence of or contrary to evidence. Faith is not a reasoned virtue; it is the vice of emotionalism. If it requires faith to see a thing as real, then you are admitting such a thing has nothing to do with reality. Can you not see that in the acquisition of knowledge faith, as a method is not worth believing in? Critical thinking requires you to work on your thinking continually, to make your thinking the object of thought, to make your behavior the object of your thinking, and to make your beliefs the object of your thinking. For example, take your religious thinking: All over the world, there are many belief systems and each is certain of its truth on the evidence devoid property of faith. As such, on average if you are raised where buddhism is most common, then you become a buddhist. If you are raised where hinduism is most common, then you become a hindu. Christian, you become a christian. Etc. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, you have 500 choices. Honestly, how many study religions before they pick one rather than it being picked for them?
I strive to be a servant leader that teaches teachers and builds more servant leaders to go out and also lead leaders and teach teachers. And this all starts in my willingness to be a student of the world. Let me give an example of how I can be the best student, I hear things, when no words are said. I am light-hearted, very loving, and live a life of kindness. I was taught by a respected teacher, my cat, who is only love. I have learned, such deep care, from her. I am a better person because she loves me.
I am nearly an expert, at not doing, what the fuck you tell me!
I am just me… Don’t Judge.
Can we do better?
Reparations for Slavery, American Terrorism?
Reparations for Jim Crow, American Terrorism?
Reparations for Red Lining, American Terrorism?
Reparations for Lynchings, American Terrorism?
Reparations for Unarmed Shootings, American Terrorism?
Yes, I believe we should!
A Study Finds 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South, Will U.S. Address Legacy of Racial Terrorism?
Such vile American-Terrorism, So horrific, I totally support reparations.
White supremacy is white terrorism, and white supremacists are white terrorists. Why are they not treated as such??? We KNOW! White terrorism/White supremacy. We need to end this white terrorism. End Hate!
Yes, it hurts everyone white or not. Bigotry is the shame people smear all over themselves trying to look better than others. Bigotry is for only the most feeble minds.
We need people with the height of bravery, to be openly as kind as others openly hate.
I see the world and all the vile EGO worship it supports, I am ashamed of it all. Who of you is brave enough to kill your EGO with the same glee as me? I am nothing! I am that freak no one ever gave a fuck about, and no, I don’t think you will either. That is right, I am calling out your fantasy YOU in your head, that deluder of truth, you are selfish. You care if it’s not too inconvenient. But I am being unfair, right? You do what you can, right? But, do you? Be honest with yourself, even if not with me. You never really care do you? I get it, it’s a big world, you just want peace, right? Selfishness is an addiction, I thankfully have mastered a little, I still suck, like everyone, but we are all trying, I hope…
I was told after taking the test to enter the military that I both could not pass if my life depended on it and my thinking scored so high they would pay someone to take everything I could not. I was also told I would get a waiver for my criminal past, and a waver for my drug use, and they said we will let you be out of code as long as you join, you are a mind in the top 10% of the country at least and likely way higher than even that. I decided if I need all those wavers all other service people will resent my special unfair treatment and I said no. But I am just ME…
I feel we are united to make the world better, I am the rough version, I get to the ones few can. But you are as amazing you get to so many that would as soon look down on me as offer me kindness. I am scary, only to those harming others, and never good people, as they are all my close friends. Together, we are all soldiers of humanity doing all we can, and it all matters and is all needed, we are humanity’s last hope so many seem to only favor the ugliness, sad. But we shine “light” in our kindness and compassion that heals at least a little of the world’s hate.
We all need safety and comfort. So yea, I fucking hate Capitalism.
My degree is in psychology (with some training in sociology, multicultural criminology and juvenile delinquency, teaching, intervention, alcohol, and drug addiction therapy as well) and I had excellent grades and was doing great but I dropped out of my masters after 7 classes, to do the new desire to research the origins and evolution of religion around the whole Earth and throughout all time, which is an adventure that has taken over 10 years ago to research for my book: “The Tree of Lies and its Hidden Roots”. I was in college to be a mental health therapist, which I would have enjoyed.
Anticapitalistic ME: I do so much for Free as a Form of Financial Activism
“I am a mental freedom fighter and a hard truth soldier.”
I do realize there is always the individual (with their own experiences, past, support, supplies, or needs) and even the ideas of group, family, of brothers and sisters are cultural labels to connect but the individual is the only real thing the entire time just with different shared experiences that themselves contain individual, not an actual group experience.
Whenever I hear arrogant people philosophizing that we can’t know if life is real. I can only think, WoW, what a disgusting level of privilege… I lived through a hellish abused filled childhood that has forever created a dark cloud on my mind and thus entire life of PTSD. So fuck off, with questioning reality you need to check your privilege to even have lived a life of such ease to think such nonsense.
I am a dangerous mind, the elite, if they get me, would not want me to keep talking like I do, knowing the ideas are not in their favor but kill me and you only insure my thinking will last throughout all time.
I am virtuous to the vulnerable and champion justice, so valiantly, as I have experienced the hateful lash of unkindness and wish to champion its opposite, radical kindness in an unkind world, a sigh of true bravery. It seems that there are two main types of philosophers: Thinkers and Specialists, and I have always thought of myself as a thinker.
My degree is in psychology (with some training in sociology, multicultural criminology and juvenile delinquency, teaching, intervention, alcohol, and drug addiction therapy as well) and I had excellent grades and was doing great but I dropped out of my masters after 7 classes, to do the new desire to research the origins and evolution of religion around the whole Earth and throughout all time, which is an adventure that has taken over 10 years ago to research for my book: “The Tree of Lies and its Hidden Roots”. I was in college to be a mental health therapist, which I would have enjoyed.
One of many, not one over many, let the people be free, and let them have free education!
I have always been working-class or poor and I am now partially disabled and my wife supports me. I may make lots of money when I publish my book. But if I do I will not hard money, I continue to try to make a difference but would have more money to spend on such efforts. I may make little money on my book. However, I didn’t start writing my book to attain wealth, rather I wanted to help make a positive impact on the education of the world.
I feel like I have already done this in how I post so much of my art and ideas for free to everyone. I am not a capitalist so I never made money an important goal. I simply wanted truth and have tried to offer it to enlighten others. I enjoy doing it for free as I have always understood the wealth ceiling that limits the education of non-wealthy people. The non-wealthy are my people, so I strive to cater to them.
We should strive to love everyone with as much understanding and compassion as possible.
I am a master at mastering both my mind as well as almost doing the same to the minds of others If I try to. But what should I learn from this? My biggest takeaway with my almost complete ability to dominate the mind of others is two things: one we deeply need positive loving kind caring treatment, especially when we act our worse. Two we can and do need to never stop being kind. not ever. We need kindness as if it is life itself. I also see my mind, actually is not all that important after all. Why? You ask, well, we once thought little, we were loving and mostly kind. We got a little intelligence and we advanced as a generally loving group, then we spread out, and slowly by slowly, people started only caring about self and EGO worship removing us from our once connect humanity. But look at all the horror intelligence has polluted the world as intelligence is a common feature for arrogance that left unchecked will likely turn to the evil of humanity. I am an amazing triumph in this forward momentum of developed intelligence and yet I am at the beginning saying to look forward we need to look back.
To “Animist only” Cultures
Here are a few of what I see as “Animist only” Cultures:
“Aka people” Central African nomadic Mbenga pygmy people. PRONUNCIATION: AH-kah
“The Aka people are very warm and hospitable. Relationships between men and women are extremely egalitarian. Men and women contribute equally to a household’s diet, either a husband or wife can initiate divorce, and violence against women is very rare. No cases of rape have been reported. The Aka people are fiercely egalitarian and independent. No individual has the right to force or order another individual to perform an activity against his or her will. Aka people have a number of informal methods for maintaining their egalitarianism. First, they practice “prestige avoidance”; no one draws attention to his or her own abilities. Individuals play down their achievements.” ref
“Mbuti People”
“The Mbuti people are generally hunter-gatherers who commonly are in the Congo’s Ituri Forest have traditionally lived in stateless communities with gift economies and largely egalitarian gender relations. They were a people who had found in the forest something that made life more than just worth living, something that made it, with all its hardships and problems and tragedies, a wonderful thing full of joy and happiness and free of care. Pygmies, like the Inuit, minimize discrimination based upon sex and age differences. Adults of all genders make communal decisions at public assemblies. The Mbuti people do not have a state, or chiefs or councils.” ref
“Hadza people”
“The Hadza people of Tanzania in East Africa are egalitarian, meaning there are no real status differences between individuals. While the elderly receive slightly more respect, within groups of age and sex all individuals are equal, and compared to strictly stratified societies, women are considered fairly equal. This egalitarianism results in high levels of freedom and self-dependency. When conflict does arise, it may be resolved by one of the parties voluntarily moving to another camp. Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher point out that the Hadza people “exhibit a considerable amount of altruistic punishment” to organize these tribes. The Hadza people live in a communal setting and engage in cooperative child-rearing, where many individuals (both related and unrelated) provide high-quality care for children. Having no tribal or governing hierarchy, the Hadza people trace descent bilaterally (through paternal and maternal lines), and almost all Hadza people can trace some kin tie to all other Hadza people.” ref
I am that little extra than anyone expects, and from there, I inspire more original thoughts in you. I am just ME.
Think about your thinking and become a true free thinker.
We all matter, every story is amazing. We are all better seeing each other as just another me. I am just ME.
I am, as you guess, the quiet one. lol NOT… I have done a shit tone of out-in-the-street activism. I value online activism and in-the-street activism. To me, we need all kinds of activism. I don’t like people that do out-in-the-street activism putting down our heroes online, who are just as important, we are all very needed. We all matter. YOU matter. Who will show they are at the highest level of bravery to be openly kind in an openly hate-filled world?
I like some quotes, not mine,……………… see growth. lol
Creating Our Purpose?
You know I have one message, be a good person, for whatever is the extremely short lives. Life is just too short not to be kind. Our behavior with others will either add to human flushing or it doesn’t. How desperately want acceptance and how desperately we need to accept each other in kindness. I only have one goal: Some people are a bit confused as to what my goals are with my thinking. I am not trying to change minds, I am trying to change the world.
“Expose the Unspeakable harm”
We all can be irrational, but biases that are not even in the interesting point. Because we can all be irrational we have an outright moral obligation to institute accuracy in one’s choices. This is similar to the potential for harm that beliefs unchecked can and do have, even if it’s just that it contributed to the unspeakable harm.
To Feel or Not to Feel?
Slow down, and think, is that even a reality coherent statement?
To think we actually can someone how, like a switch, turn off completely what you feel or wish not to feel. No matter what the external reality in every way possible we can know the external pressure against the fragile body our minds are enshrined. One who questions deeply the Reality of Existence every breath you willfully take and wish not abstracted should remind you that you have had your experience to bring it all along, that awareness was at the point that begins with feelings, in fact, you always feel, unless something is very disrupted, it’s just that sometimes, we are reduced to only feeling, for a time, Instead of clear thinking we fail for untruth or half-truths, in the acquisition of extremely traumatizing motivators we are nothing but unchecked feelings and runaway emotions. We are no longer the pilot then, no we have become the plain getting hijacked.
“Don’t be Boxed in by Abstraction”
All we have is “Now,” the here and now awareness is to finally live in what is actually present, anything else is Abstraction. Life itself is education. You are not some abstraction, you’re a body and you feel. So, no extra justification needed, but I still effort to give a justification anyway as I care to inform others if I can. Words are largely emotional projections, with an intentionally attached “emotional biology” created to motivate “emotions” in yourself and others to regulate or deregulate emotions.
Belief Regulation Also Involves Emotional Regulation
If someone challenges a specific point and your minds first response is to employ rhetoric, like oversimplified hasty generalizations or inaccurate half-truths used to imply a further truth that is nothing but a mental evasion from a truth inquiry. If you do this, you seem to exhibit some obscurity in the claimed truth stance offered and not in the court of dialectical scrutiny. Be willing if shown to say, I guess I was a lot surer about the claim until it was critiqued, now I am wanting to learn more about it with you. We Love Generalizations (even if wrong): “We don’t like slow clear accurate thinking, no, we are biased irrational compulsive disordered hasty generalizations thinking beings.” We build our “belief” in the accuracy of our hasty generalizations one assertion at a time. In other words, we add undue increasing assurance because we keep saying it over and over again, not because it’s actually accurate to the facts. We may cherry-pick a few facts to support this error in thinking but that is intellectual dishonesty, as if it can be destroyed by the truth it should be.
“Evidence please?”
What is a high intellectual character and do you have it???
Life is Hard, you May spend it Alone
Well, that is largely a feeling being addressing. We may feel alone but we humans are seldom even alone our lives are filled with people. So, you are talking about a psychosocially mental health issue not a true ontology fact to what you are addressing. I was once alone, in myself, lost from the world. Alone even among others, in fact, I once asked for a hug and still felt alone. Why? I was hiding from everyone, even me. I was so scared of being hurt that I was bashing myself into loneliness. But why? I felt people were not trustable, so I started trying to be someone worth trusting. I felt people were not really friendly, so I started trying to be a good friend to others. I felt like hate was too easy I was trying to do what felt impossible, just to freely give love. I want people to know life is hard but there are good people out there even if we have to put it there first. I am nothing, I am no one, I am just another ME… But who are you? Are you the scum that hurts others?
Only Scum, Harm others more vulnerable to them. I am not scum, I am a good human, and I strive to be kind to all.
Be the Hope and Change the World
I wish to be so authentic, supportive, and kind that my life is an act of positive humanistic revolution, in an inhuman world. I believe in others to do the same, for it is upon such courage that we all can change the world.
Love and kindness are all we have in the end, that makes life, make sense. I am no better than anyone, I too am just a fragile body alone in the world, if not for the kindness of others. Impress me with your evidence, not your evidence devoid of options. I am a mental nightmare walking and radical thinker so free it’s like a psychopath taking, king of my jungle, just a mental gangster stalking the menus of unchecked flawed thinking.
I don’t expect people to be me or think like me, I only demand people in my life are good humans.
I use he, him, or man, not as I see myself as one but more just because I am attracted only to cis-women so if I say I am heterosexual people are hearing my feelings it’s just not the most accurate label for a mixed gendered person like me. If I even mention my being genderqueer everyone thinks you must be gay or bi. I am not. I am just ME…
Do I think outside the Box? Don’t make me laugh!!!
I love when people say, “you are a philosopher” I bet you think outside the box. Me, so far away, I only receive this late message from carrier pigeon, on the mountain top, of which I think from, allowing me to look down on your small insignificant land blow, where something called boxes, simulates the great unthinking called society.
I am a “Scientific Axiology” minded
“Philosophic Axiologist Theorist”
To me, we live in a wondrous world. In my personal research, I have become impressed that we have it kind of wrong in our thinking of when culture actually started and what emotional lives fish lived. Because, to me, it is obvious, after truly watching fish for a long while that they have cultures, similar to any high thinking being, yet we still see them as lowly.
While hallucinogens are associated with shamanism, it is alcohol that is associated with paganism.
The Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries Shows in the prehistory series:
Show two: Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show tree: Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show four: Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show five: Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show six: Emergence of hierarchy, sexism, slavery, and the new male god dominance: Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves!
Prehistory: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” the division of labor, power, rights, and recourses: VIDEO
Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Pre-Capitalism): VIDEO
Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves: VIEDO
Paganism 5,000 years old: progressed organized religion and the state: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Kings and the Rise of the State): VIEDO
Paganism 4,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (First Moralistic gods, then the Origin time of Monotheism): VIEDO
I do not hate simply because I challenge and expose myths or lies any more than others being thought of as loving simply because of the protection and hiding from challenge their favored myths or lies.
The truth is best championed in the sunlight of challenge.
An archaeologist once said to me “Damien religion and culture are very different”
My response, So are you saying that was always that way, such as would you say Native Americans’ cultures are separate from their religions? And do you think it always was the way you believe?
I had said that religion was a cultural product. That is still how I see it and there are other archaeologists that think close to me as well. Gods too are the myths of cultures that did not understand science or the world around them, seeing magic/supernatural everywhere.
I personally think there is a goddess and not enough evidence to support a male god at Çatalhöyük but if there was both a male and female god and goddess then I know the kind of gods they were like Proto-Indo-European mythology.
This series idea was addressed in, Anarchist Teaching as Free Public Education or Free Education in the Public: VIDEO
Our 12 video series: Organized Oppression: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of power (9,000-4,000 years ago), is adapted from: The Complete and Concise History of the Sumerians and Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia (7000-2000 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFjxmY7jQA by “History with Cy“
Show #1: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Samarra, Halaf, Ubaid)
Show #2: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power
Show #3: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Uruk and the First Cities)
Show #4: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (First Kings)
Show #5: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Early Dynastic Period)
Show #6: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power
Show #7: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Sargon and Akkadian Rule)
Show #9: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Gudea of Lagash and Utu-hegal)
Show #12: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Aftermath and Legacy of Sumer)
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Cory Johnston ☭ Ⓐ Atheist Leftist @Skepticallefty & I (Damien Marie AtHope) @AthopeMarie (my YouTube & related blog) are working jointly in atheist, antitheist, antireligionist, antifascist, anarchist, socialist, and humanist endeavors in our videos together, generally, every other Saturday.
Why Does Power Bring Responsibility?
Think, how often is it the powerless that start wars, oppress others, or commit genocide? So, I guess the question is to us all, to ask, how can power not carry responsibility in a humanity concept? I know I see the deep ethical responsibility that if there is power their must be a humanistic responsibility of ethical and empathic stewardship of that power. Will I be brave enough to be kind? Will I possess enough courage to be compassionate? Will my valor reach its height of empathy? I as everyone, earns our justified respect by our actions, that are good, ethical, just, protecting, and kind. Do I have enough self-respect to put my love for humanity’s flushing, over being brought down by some of its bad actors? May we all be the ones doing good actions in the world, to help human flourishing.
I create the world I want to live in, striving for flourishing. Which is not a place but a positive potential involvement and promotion; a life of humanist goal precision. To master oneself, also means mastering positive prosocial behaviors needed for human flourishing. I may have lost a god myth as an atheist, but I am happy to tell you, my friend, it is exactly because of that, leaving the mental terrorizer, god belief, that I truly regained my connected ethical as well as kind humanity.
Cory and I will talk about prehistory and theism, addressing the relevance to atheism, anarchism, and socialism.
At the same time as the rise of the male god, 7,000 years ago, there was also the very time there was the rise of violence, war, and clans to kingdoms, then empires, then states. It is all connected back to 7,000 years ago, and it moved across the world.
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Damien Marie AtHope (“At Hope”) Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist. Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Poet, Philosopher, Advocate, Activist, Psychology, and Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Historian.
Damien is interested in: Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Ethics, Humanism, Science, Atheism, Antiteism, Antireligionism, Ignosticism, Left-Libertarianism, Anarchism, Socialism, Mutualism, Axiology, Metaphysics, LGBTQI, Philosophy, Advocacy, Activism, Mental Health, Psychology, Archaeology, Social Work, Sexual Rights, Marriage Rights, Woman’s Rights, Gender Rights, Child Rights, Secular Rights, Race Equality, Ageism/Disability Equality, Etc. And a far-leftist, “Anarcho-Humanist.”
I am not a good fit in the atheist movement that is mostly pro-capitalist, I am anti-capitalist. Mostly pro-skeptic, I am a rationalist not valuing skepticism. Mostly pro-agnostic, I am anti-agnostic. Mostly limited to anti-Abrahamic religions, I am an anti-religionist.
To me, the “male god” seems to have either emerged or become prominent around 7,000 years ago, whereas the now favored monotheism “male god” is more like 4,000 years ago or so. To me, the “female goddess” seems to have either emerged or become prominent around 11,000-10,000 years ago or so, losing the majority of its once prominence around 2,000 years ago due largely to the now favored monotheism “male god” that grow in prominence after 4,000 years ago or so.
My Thought on the Evolution of Gods?
Animal protector deities from old totems/spirit animal beliefs come first to me, 13,000/12,000 years ago, then women as deities 11,000/10,000 years ago, then male gods around 7,000/8,000 years ago. Moralistic gods around 5,000/4,000 years ago, and monotheistic gods around 4,000/3,000 years ago.
Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):
Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Jeweler, Poet, “autodidact” Philosopher, schooled in Psychology, and “autodidact” Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Pre-Historian (Knowledgeable in the range of: 1 million to 5,000/4,000 years ago). I am an anarchist socialist politically. Reasons for or Types of Atheism
My Website, My Blog, & Short-writing or Quotes, My YouTube, Twitter: @AthopeMarie, and My Email: damien.marie.athope@gmail.com