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Vitalist/BAP/Nietzsche Metaphysics Question
BAP - drawing from Nietzsche et al., but perhaps more explicitly - discusses an “innate intelligence” in nature. Some kind of conscious (or at least intentional) entity with its own ends and purposes.... posted 4d ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

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As one of the harder "materialists" around here, the vitalists are right there is an innate intelligence in nature. Start with Darwin: the results of the mutation-selection organism-design process that we call evolution look pretty intelligent. We can deny... 2d ago received

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What form of life does nature consider highest?
Empirically, literal yeast life wins the contest of sheer biomass. The untouchable prokaryotic bacterial masses that recycle the world's biological waste out-masses everything else. On that theme we're also soundly beaten by hive insects like ants and such... posted 2w ago with 7 replies received eugenics gnon nietzsche

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More pointedly, i dont think higher man or homeric man or anything like that is about absolute competence or anything like that. Its an interesting lens to think through but the reality is more about types, and types are about niche. Homeric man is dead be... 5d ago received

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Yes, saying one thing and doing the opposite is a yeast attack against the truthful and moral. So is the usage of intonation in the voice to suggest things.... 5d ago received

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The Future of Paganism and Christianity / Lost Gods
I want to try a new book club. We begin with this documentary featuring Tom Rowsell that pairs nicely with our recent "true religion of the coming civilization" thread: https://sofiechan.com/p/3110... (www.youtube.com) posted 1w ago with 7 replies received bookclub nietzsche

The Future of Pagani received

This is a cool provocation. I actually like festivals and stuff, but I find the whole concept of reconstructive heathenry to be stupid. Really the answer to post-Christian moral insanity is to revert to pre-philosophic superstition? I'll admit though there... 1w ago received

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Rowsell is a reconstructionist and I believe leans Platonist in his theology, for what it's worth. Reconstructionism, at least in a British context, inevitably feels at least somewhat like LARPing because ancient Anglo-Saxon culture does not have much in c... 7d ago received

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BAP: The Right of the Stronger and the Better
BAP is sometimes obscurantist. In this essay, which only appeared in print prior, he is not obscuring anything. If one had any questions about the power core of his program, here it is on a silver platter. I personally tend to think the formation of new st... (www.bronzeagepervert.yoga) posted 3w ago with 22 replies received politics nietzsche

BAP: The Right of th received

Lee Kuan Yew Thought overlaps with BAP Thought but is more effective in key ways. First, the above--he is not an online edgelord posting about Tibetan supremacy but rather a pragmatic statesman.... 3w ago received

Lee Kuan Yew Thought received

We know what BAP means by "the right of the stronger and better" just like we know what Sam Hyde means by "real Americans", but that doesn't make it coherent. I'll apply that same distinction I used in >>3385 between the truth and the political formulas he... 3w ago received

We know what BAP mea received

“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 1w ago received

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When does a people become "historical"? Can we achieve a Greek-like stance as Nietzsche believed late 19th C. Germans could?
Inspired by the final section of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditation titled "On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life".... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received history bookclub nietzsche

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In the context of Nietzsche's essay, "historicality" refers precisely to when a civilization/people emerges from acting freely, or, uninhibited by a variety of historical phenomena—ancestral worship, rigid moral tradition, and so forth. Perhaps in other ... 2mo ago received

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Bryan Johnson vs Ray Peat. Synthesis of their disagreements by Mike Johnson
https://x.com/johnsonmxe/status/1879362451067859300 posted 3mo ago with no replies received nietzsche

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How are you promoting real culture?
From "Schopenhauer as educator"... posted 4mo ago with 1 reply received nietzsche

How are you promotin received

what a great quote. I've been very struck by the idea of the philosopher, not always under that name, for a long time. The philosopher is the being that strives to comprehend his own nature, the law of nature, and his role in the cosmic story, and achieves... 4mo ago received

what a great quote. received

Against 'State of Nature'
Something BAP mentioned recently and that I see a lot of these days is a tendency to puzzle over what man was like in a 'state of nature'. It is weak thinking and should be discarded. Two prominent examples of this I see invoked are evopsych's "on the ance... posted 7mo ago with 8 replies received gnon nietzsche

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Correcting this mistake is nontrivial. To simply cease the war on faith and superstition outright is to cease a major part of higher thought, and to give up our faith in the power of thought which has served us so well so far. It doesn't pass basic scrutin... 6mo ago received

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The “savage” is not an archetype of innocence but a primitive codebase—feral algorithms of survival that replicate themselves endlessly, unburdened by the illusions of transcendence. 6mo ago received

The “savage” is not received

Physicalism and Questions of Identity
Suppose your consciousness was transferred into someone else's body, the rationalist asked me. I asked what does that even mean? I am an entirely physical being. What exactly is being swapped over? I'm not going to evaluate a "but what if you were haitian"... posted 8mo ago with 35 replies received rationality nietzsche

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Yes, this is what I meant.... 7mo ago received

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The crux seems to be this “bucket” you want to put different things in together or not. If the cpu architecture is different but the emulated program and behavior are the same (modulo timing, power use, etc), why does there need to be any canonical sen... 7mo ago received

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Physicalism vs "Existence"
Many people seem to think there's something to the idea of the "existence" of the world, but I have come to question this. To be clear this is connected to classic questions like "why is there something rather than nothing", simulation argument, Boltzmann ... posted 8mo ago with 3 replies received nietzsche

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Simulation hypothesis and multiverse theories do not assert that the universe doesn't exist, but rather that it has a particular structure, even if one different from more typical intuitions. They do not bear on the question of "whether the world exists." 8mo ago received

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The Structure of Exoteric Ideology
Zero HP Lovecraft wrote a series of post called "Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion" that culminated in a proposal for a "Christian-Nietzschean" synthesis. I'm not much interested in the latter. However, in the first post in the series, he sk... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received nietzsche

The Structure of Exo received

I like this reframing. It's very much in the spirit of what I was thinking when I (re)posted the reference. 1y ago received

I like this reframin received

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
Some of you may have already seen this piece; I think it’s worth revisiting following the book club. In it Nietzsche offers more details on the relation between tyrant/warrior and philosopher/artist in the ancient Greek polis. It’s another of his early... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

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Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 1y ago received

Yeah there's a phase received