Billionaires and Cults

I recently watched some videos of Peter Thiel talking about transhumanism and the anti-christ and other "fringe" topics. It makes a ton of sense that rich people are into transhumanism, because death mocks the whole concept of wealth and privilege. It also makes sense that wealthy people are really into "the occult" and secret societies like skull and bones and other similar nonsense all of which is related to the "transhuman" projects because they're all about an "escape" from death.

Think about billionaires of yesteryear, like pharaohs of Egypt. They built elaborate tombs and were surrounded by a bunch of cults and priests that developed funerary rites and guide books of the afterlife basically "to live forever". Nobody today can really imagine some deadass mummy is "alive" or that there is a very particular egpytian spirit world filled with the phantasmagoria their priests came up with while smoking ancient egyptian crack and somehow a pyramid and a room full of their bling setup an apartment in hell. However, some billionaire will listen to a dude like Ray Kurzweil about transhumanism, whose just another version of the same shit and invest in elaborate scammy projects to help move crazy projects forward.

It makes me think the rapid construction of data centers and splooging gazillions into "AI" is more about their cultish beliefs than anything else. It seems entirely plausible that "the wealthy" or ruling class people support an ongoing R&D effort, maybe lasting centuries, that's 20% serious/80% scam. Then there are reactions to that R&D project in entities like the catholic church. They still have "exorcists" and demonologists (you can find videos of priests talking about these subjects at length on youtube).

The concept of "demons", demonic possession and various occult practices seem to all revolve around "the ego's" realization it's alien to the 3D physical reality world, the same way a computer program is alien or in another dimension from the physical computer hardware, really all information is in some separate dimension apart from physical reality though thoroughly attached to it.

Over the years people have come up with various faux operations on "the ego". One concept is a human being can "shed their ego", that is, drop their personal history and become "reborn". I think the overall phenomenon at work in that concept is the personal history is accidental and imposed by others, like parents, the culture, random life experience, etc... and the egomaniacal weirdo wants to be fully self made and "perfect". I think this is also related to the nature of death; the grim reaper is present in the accidental/random nature of experience and circumstances of birth. The egomaniac wants to be free of that.

There's another variation on that theme where the "ego is discarded" and then replaced with a so called "demon". Various secret societies seem to practice this concept. For example some occult jewish groups basically believe in some version of resurrection in this manner, that is, the demon of some dead jew takes up residence in some current day live jew. A prominent example of this is Sabbathi Zevi who beamed down into Leo Frank. Note that this concept is essentially the same idea as being "an officer" of some corporation, which is a faux being.

Unfortunately, the whole population of the west is suckered into these schemes, just like in ancient egypt many generations of average joes spent their life building tombs for dead retard psychos. It's gross. Fuck these people.

Sorry rich bros, you're going to die just like me, a bird, or a bum on the streets. In fact the natural and sometimes rapid death of animals, even when sometimes horrible, seems better in many ways than kicking the bucket in a nursing home or under hospice care or whatever.

Trump Sending in Marines?

There's a rumor that 5,000 US marines might "go into Iran"? I'm not exactly sure what that means. Maybe they are going to try to control the straight of Hormuz or something? It seems entirely implausible the US can perform some type of amphibious landing in Iran, so it's not clear what this rumor even means. Perhaps it is meant to pump oil prices. It is Friday the 13th, so maybe some cult/numerologist retard in the federal government took the auguries and decided it is time indeed to "invade".

Anyway, I guess we won't know until the Baal worshippers in DC and Israel decide to do it. I'm not sure how many marines it would take to wipe out the current Epstein government and reboot the US from the corporate oligarchy run by devil worshipers to something resembling Jeffersonian democracy. 

Failing Volkswagen Screws Workers, Execs Cash In

 This is a very typical story: Volkswagen plans 50,000 job cuts due to plunging profits while board members secure €1.75 million each in bonuses

Even though VW is swirling down the toilet, the executives structured their bonus schemes so they would almost certainly be paid while at the same time they shafted the workforce. This is a pattern that's very common, although once in a great while some CEO bucks the trend and sacrifices for their workers.

Even though blatant cheating and malfeasance is so common these days, it will eventually stir up a hornet's nest especially if times really get tough for the average joe or jane. They will realize the nominal "ruling class" is actually very easy to reach out and touch so to speak.

This is yet another reason why absurdism is the only philosophy that makes any sense. "The system" always runs amok. Eventually the average person realizes everything they were conditioned and trained to believe is a lie that keeps them docile and working for trash.

Mock Cults/Religions

While I was thinking about the question "do cult leaders believe their own bullshit?" the case of mock cults and mock religions came to mind. A couple of good examples of those are Dudeism, which is a faux religion/philosophy based on the movie The Big Lebowski which is maybe related to concepts from Robert Anton Wilson's "Discordianism".

Another related phony religion is "The Church of the Subgenius" which was a big thing when I was in high school and college--the mascot image of that religion was a 1950s looking man with a pipe named "J.R. Bob Dobbs". I'm not even sure how I knew that. It's possible some friends of mine had materials from the parody "religion" in high school. One of the guys who developed the "Church of the Subgenius" is Ivan Stang who was headquartered in Cleveland Heights, Ohio for some time, which is maybe why it was a big thing here. Stickers of J.R. Bob Dobbs were all over the place. I haven't seen one for ages though.

The mock religions are an interesting case because they are created, intentionally, as a parody of mainstream religions and cults. I think they mock the general concept of "belief" in what's often, ultimately a comic book. Or maybe more generally, they are a reiteration of the concept that the symbolic reasoning mind is really an alien to this earth and can actually "know nothing" of substance. This concept is emphasized most strongly, I think, by science, the ultimate rational mind project which basically demolished all "revealed" religions and then led to the bizarre concepts of the 19th century philosophers who gave birth to Nazi and Zionist ideologies which are really just another species of mock religions.

The "judaism" of a guy like Benjamin Netanyahoo or Ben Shapiro is as "serious" as Dudeism or the Church of Scientology. The core of their "belief" is from a Nazi philosopher who preached that "believing really really hard" was the ultimate/best human activity, which is obviously nonsensical.

Another related example of these fake churches is faux music groups like "the KLF" who had a number of huge hit songs in the early 1990s like "3AM Eternal" and that song that's played all the time at basketball games "Dr Who and the Tardis".

This whole subcategory of philosophy or overall approaches to life is really related to what I'd call "the way", and it pops up at the end of empires. A philosopher like Diogenes is a great example of one. I think the overall category could be labeled "absurdism". I'd even lump stoicism in with that category, and count myself as an absurdist. I think the gnostics are another related category; their claim to knowledge is radically subjective.

The absurdists realize that claims on knowledge are mostly false. Not much can be known. Virtually ever single person parading around on the public stage is an absolute fraud and scumbag. Nations and religions are corporations fleecing people and often mass murdering people for profit.

Will the Psycho Jew Mafia Launch a False Flag Attack on the US?

Unfortunately, it seems like a near certainty that the psycho jew mafia will launch a false flag attack on the US and blame it on Iran and the corrupt doofus government and many dumb fuck Americans will go along with it. However, at the same time lots of people in the US are skeptical of such claims by now. Even if it's 25% of the population that's a whole lot. The media is not as capable of bamboozling the masses as they once were. It's probably wishful thinking to imagine the public would say "no" to escalating the retarded war on Iran to a full scale ground invasion, but it could happen. 

Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Bullshit?

Back in the 1980s, a famous west-coast cult led by an Indian guy named "Bagwan Sri Rajneesh" broke up under pressure from governments for its nefarious activities. The cult was large and had lots of money and real estate all over the world. The cult leader had a collection of Rolls Royce cars. That aspect of the cult was featured on a 60 Minutes piece about it back in the early 80s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

One of the persistent questions about cults is do the leaders of a cult believe their own bullshit? In the 60 Minutes piece, Rajneesh came across as a very cynical scammer. Whatever words he said were betrayed by his mannerisms and owning a collection of expensive cars, at least that's what I thought when I was maybe 12 years old or so.

 

The Rajneesh cult was just starting to go down the full crazy trail just like Heaven's Gate, or Jonestown cult or Aum Shinrikyo did by the time the Rajneeshies came under legal pressure. For example, they poisoned the local townspeople near their Oregon cult HQ with salmonella in 1984.

The prevalence of cultish behavior and beliefs is lost on many people. For example, in the image above of Rajneesh in a Rolls includes a bunch of people in "asian" style garb and many people associate cult behavior with things "asiatic" or from "the east". However, there are plenty of jews in cults, or european descended people in western style cults. You can find scenes of mobs of jews worshipping various messiah type figures wearing their particular garb which is just some version of the robes warn by the Rajneeshies.

Here's a picture of Trump visiting the grave of Schneerson, the guy pictured above, who led a large cult that apparently is running the US government now.

One model of the cult leader is they are a cynical scammer who knows the ideas they sell to their believers are all imaginary. That is, if they were to have a discussion with an outsider about their cult's beliefs, they'd acknowledge the cult beliefs are just a bunch of nonsense and stories. Another model of the cult leader type is they are also "committed" to their stories. Often they invent a third party, aka "god" who gave them a "revelation".

I think the second type of cult leader is actually the most common and it's the current model in charge of Israel, or the model of the neocons in the United States, which actually seems based on Germanic romantic philosophy and the overall "anti-rationalist" theme of it.

Is the Trump Admin Dumb Enough to Send Troops into Iran?

Lots of pundits are pointing out an "Iran Invasion" is essentially a suicide mission, or is totally implausible to begin with due to the terrain in Iran: It's extremely rugged, even worse than Afghanistan. Also the Iranians had decades to prepare for such a war, so any attempt to invade would likely turn into a bloody failure regardless of air superiority and technological wonder tools like satellites, etc...

In spite of that, the Trump admin seems to be intimating an invasion is in the offing. This makes me wonder if the purpose of the whole Iran boondoggle is really to "destroy" the US to rush in the next level of jewing the population with crypto-currency and AI tracking of behavior.

Anyway, we'll see what happens. The war doesn't seem to be following the script the US and Israel had hoped for and it keeps getting more dangerous every day.