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Wordism: Pastors and Masters
Only the spirit, said St. Paul, gives life. The letter kills. And why, asks Eckhart, why do you prate of God? Whatever you say of God is untrue. A lie can be extended, propounded and repeated, but not truth. And when you repeat truth, it ceases to be truth, and therefore sacred books are unimportant. It is through self-knowledge, not through belief in somebody else's symbols, that a man comes to the eternal reality, in which his being is grounded.
An education that teaches us not how but what to think is an education that calls for a governing class of pastors and masters. But the very idea of leading somebody is anti-social and anti-spiritual. To the man who exercises it, leadership brings gratification of the craving for power. To those who are led, it brings the gratification of the desire for certainty and security.
But, surely, it is not the voice of reality. For the voice of reality must come to you. It cannot be appealed to, you cannot pray to it. You cannot entice it into your little cage by placating it, by suppressing yourself or emulating others. That which you ask for you get. But it is not the truth. If you want, and if you petition, you will receive, but you will pay for it in the end.
Aldous Huxley
Observing and Then Explaining
No one can see the real world if he has to instantly explain what he observes. Science is based on observing and them explaining. Wordism insists that all things be explained within the "Great Book" before it can be observed.
Robert Whitaker
Science
Most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, but they will worship error when it affords them a subsistence.
Johann Goethe
Orthodoxy
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Syme in George Orwell’s 1984
Complexity
Complexity blurs the obvious.
Alan B
Argument
Refutation is no necessay part of argument.
Ezekiel Bulver
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Diversions
Did That Bad Toy Hurt You?
Does Anyboody Have a Reason to Want This to Be True?
Education and Reeducation
Understanding Modern Thinking
Using the Concept of Wordism
Nature's One Issue Politics
Anti-Racism is a Parasite
Afrikaners Forgot Who They Were
Objectivity Is A Crock
The Hook
Not My Table
Race Does Exist
The Totalitarian Mindset
Sea Change
Superficiality Goes Deep
The Propositional State
Name Magic
Simplism
Today Gnostism Is Wordism
Wordism vs Nationalism
Born Again, the Wheel of Life
Inside Every Black Man There is a White Man Struggling to Get Out
Joe and Ayn Rand
The US Southern Border Is Magic
This "Both Sides" Crap is a Major Industry
If You Are Professional, You Cannot Be Objective
Sociopaths
Al and Language
Everybody Who Is Not PC Is Called A Conservative
For the Party's Sake
Wordism Can Never Be Consistent
Eric Hoffer and Heresy
I See a World Divided Forever
God and Man at Yale
Abolish the Public Schools
You Cannot Beat Something with Nothing
The Academic Bureaucracy
Mommy Professor's LittleTalking Dolls
Social Evolution Versus Christ
CL and Ayn Rand
Intellecuals Are The Worst Kind Of Rubes
Toynbee and Spengler
Raise Your Eyes
Marcion and Raising Your Eyes
3-D
The Magic Line
Lost in Space
Whitaker Thinking
Glossocracy
A Wordist is a Volunteer Idiot
Experts Are Paid Guessers
Yes Virginia, There Used to be REAL Professors
In Wordist Societies, Everything is Justification
Wordist Pyramids
The Lesson is No Wordism
Igununce
Everyday Marxism
Mantra Thinking on the Propositional State
Social Messages
Bubble Thinking
Backbaygrouch on Buckley
Rights to the Human Mind
Every Animal Has Its Final Truth
Form and Function
A Good Wordist Never Lets Reality Slow Him Down
Outdated Ideas Can Only Be Enforced
The Twist
Wordists Do Not Want to Mention Their Assumptions
A New Generation Bonded in the Cult
How Academic Guild's Police Higher Education
M.I.T. Calls Academia's Bluff
Who's the Fanatic?
Nobody at the Wheel
What Words Can Do, Words Can Undo
Nothing Is More Dated Than The Inevitable Future
The Only Source of Truth
Singlethink
Wordism versus Reality
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