Stacker Detractors & Nazis
Looks at how thoughtcrime thugs have used their mainstream platforms and financial clout to force Substack to censor ... in the name of democracy, of course. I outline four principles to challenge ideologies of supremacy and violence. I end with Pepe Escobar on South Africa's lawsuit at the Hague.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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What is Reality?
To kick off a year of better arguments, I start with the Big Questions. I define the given proof of Reality as something perceived by more than one person. Then I expand the realm of possibility for how the world might not be real, using a logical theory that hits all the data points. I read from A Course in Miracles on What is Death? And I start with lyrics by Bill Callahan and end with Jose Gonzales.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Honesty, Earthquakes & Eye Drops
I start with an anecdote from my daughter on why honesty shouldn't be given freely. The Japan earthquake is examined and compared to Turkey, Haiti and Fukushima as natural or manufactured, citing Jim Stone on the latter. And I end with a rant on eye drops.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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How to Have a Better Argument
I outline ten steps for improving the quality of your arguments: 1) Frame an open-ended question 2) Like the person you're arguing with 3) Why does it matter? 4) Define all terms in the question 5) Expand the realm of possible answers 6) What evidence could change your mind? 7) How do you determine authority on the subject? 8) Own your dogma 9) Name the rules of engagement and 10) Agree to talk until you agree.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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What & Why & Who Am I? in 2024
A New Year's Eve retrospective and prospective for 2024. Looks at a year of socio-spiritual solutions and subversive Bible study. On the socio side, will continue looking at the Third Paradigm. Spirituality will develop A House for the Soul in the Land Beyond Faith. Solutions will apply the system of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire to How to Build a Commonwealth. And will post essays from A People's History of the Bible, Old Testament and New.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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The Dogma of Atheism
A conversation with Everything Voluntary Jack on whether A Course in Miracles is an authoritarian belief system. I counter with why atheism is a dogmatic belief in the separate self. I outline rhetorical devisives I call the Toxic Tilt, You've Been Framed, and Throwing the Book.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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I Mage a Nation
Conjuring your i-land in a mind without borders, this episode is how to mage our heartlands into existence. Uses Sane Francisco's 50 Shades of Beige, What's in a Name, Really? for the AI Extravaganza, Victory Palace on ImageNation: the Only Nation, Charles Upton on Can AI Write Poetry? and Gavin Mounsey on nature as the oldest scripture.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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YOU are the Christ
Happy Birthday! I look at the Christ as a movement, not a person, that's coming into being after 2000 years of dormancy. I read "How Will the World End?" from the teacher's manual of A Course in Miracle. And I end with a poem I wrote called The Holy Dark.
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Conspiracy Theorists
In response to James Corbett's analysis of the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory, I develop 16 levels of conspiracy theorists based on my own progression. I then name 9 rhetorical divisives that end the conversation rather than moving the question forward. I end with another Corbett where he takes the test on whether you're a conspiracy theorist.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Jesus: Rebel or Imperialist?
Questions whether Jesus was a rebel against the Roman Empire or in league with Rome against the Judean insurgency. Examines the Greek word translated as robber in the Gospels and rebel in Josephus' War of the Jews. Looks at the 'den of thieves,' 'good thief/ bad thief,' Good Samaritan and shepherd as for or against self-rule. Compares the zealot revolt of Judea to the simultaneous story of Jesus for where it stands on empire vs. sovereignty.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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My Hitler Journey
Was Hitler a hero to the Germans and a villain to the Jews or the reverse? I analyze the videos Hellstorm and Dresden: a Burnt Offering along with The Enigma of the Fuhrer. Nefahotep takes from Firestarter 16 Mistakes made by Hitler, and offers the premise that he was a British agent. Neo-Feudal Review gives a sophisticated analysis of the complicated relationship between the central bank owners and the Jewish people. I wonder if Israel is another sacrifice zone, like Ukraine, like Germany.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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The Land Beyond Faith
Introduction to A House for the Soul in the Land Beyond Faith. I talk about why the question is more important than the answer, how to develop your own theology of synthesis, what building materials welcome the terrain instead of fighting it, and how paradox differs from contradiction.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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A House for the Soul
Religion should be a forum to ask the Big Questions but instead, it's a cult of shared superiority. I define faith as making up your mind in advance of experience. The most important question is my true relationship to you, and my only dogma is that we're equal. Based on that, I explore the possibility that God is real and the world is not.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Kissinger & the Balfour Declaration
Looks at the grand vizier of global bloodsuckers and the world's bloodiest agreement. Quotes from Anthony Bourdain, Ron Unz and Benjamin Freedman's 1961 address.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Quantum Sex & Dragon Chakras
This video goes from the dramatic pole dancing of Anete Blaua to Love is Metaphysical Gravity of Buckminster Fuller. It then explores apocalyptic ecstasy from The Cormorant who explicitly describes the hero's journey to satisfy the dragon chakra, uniting the Divine Masculine with the Divine Feminine. How to bring about universal peace in the privacy of your own home! The synchronicities include octahedrons, global dandelions and spiritual/ sexual alchemy.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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To Love Me Is To Know Me
Looks at romance and religion as projecting the ego onto a person or a deity, and why a pedestal is a precarious place to be. Tells a story of a spiritual pick-up artist and how empty words of affirmation are just ways of shushing you because he didn’t understand a word of what you said.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Freedom's the Answer
What's the question? On James Corbett's Solutions Watch, he interviews Keith Knightly (author of The Voluntaryist Handbook) and Larkin Rose (Jones Plantation & The Most Dangerous Superstition). They respond to the feasibility of anarchy. I give my answers from my book, How to Dismantle an Empire. I compare the policies of Terezania to Corbettville, Knightopia and Roseopolis.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Hot & Cold Hatred
Hatred comes in the volatile form of violence and the stable ice blanket of the status quo. It’s only when the status quo becomes unstable that it becomes hot hatred. I examine this in Israel and Palestine, citing Ron Unz on Zionism and Racialism, and Max Igan on the Balfour Declaration. A 1914 text looks at Hebrew immigrants to the US and Netanyahu invokes Amalek, for whom God ordered destruction down to the last infant and suckling.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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The Power Dynamic of Laughter
Explains: why he who laughs first loses; why women find funny guys attractive but men like women who laugh; the difference between mean funny and meme funny; how ridicule and the clever put-down are coin of the internet realm; cultural appropriation and the virtue signaling vice squad joy police; and why being really funny often correlates with being a little bit broken.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Empire & Religion
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In this episode, I’ll ask if Judeo-Christian scriptures are a 2000 yr psyops by and for empire. I'll look at why that question matters and why religion vs. no religion is a false dichotomy. And I’ll end with a conversation with a Hasidic Rabbi regarding Hebrew scriptures.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Self Care in an Apocalypse
As world events spin out of control, I suggest we slow down. The faster we run, the further the goal moves away. I tell a story about nick-of-time miracles and permaculture spirituality. I look at empire vs. sovereignty and means vs. ends. I compare time to a hamster wheel. As things spin into control, I suggest we bide our time while spirit does the heavy lifting.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Talmud Tricks & Torah Curses
I start with Chris Hedges on Israel and examine stories from the Torah/ OT on younger sons usurping the inheritance through trickery and deceit, from Cain & Seth to Ishmael & Isaac to Esau & Jacob. Rabbinical Judaism in 70 CE sides with the Roman Empire against the anti-imperial rebels, and Josephus sees Africa and Egypt as the descendants of Ham, destined to be slaves. I cite a little-known documentary called The 13 Sugar Colonies and quote from the Talmud on what is permissible.
Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
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Rules for Sovereignty
How would you write the rules for who owns the land? Israel and Palestine bring up the thorny question of whether possession is ownership. To answer that, I describe the rules for sharing from my daycare provider. Everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten! I look at how indigenous rights are being weaponized and why reparations simply pass slavery on to a new generation.
All of these provided with links, text and comment threads on https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/.
My book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607.
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Envy & Russell Brand
Natalie Wynn of Contrapoints has a video called Envy looking at its relationship to lockdown virtue-signaling using examples from Squidward to Amadeus. I apply it to the cancelling of Russell Brand and embed an early video of mine responding to Russell's interviews of Jonathan Haidt and Darren Brown. I ask what's your go-to deadly sin and confess mine as envy. I use the hamsa, the eye in the hand, to show how we could ward off the evil eye by turning away negativity both within ourselves and against others--especially towards those on the other side of the political divide. I outline the "four dogma and one suspicion" that Russell and I share: 1) all people are equally good 2) when people behave badly, systems are to blame 3) systems can be changed 4) all communities are equally capable of self-governance and 5) entertaining the possibility that we are One Mind. I discuss a study that Darren quotes from Jonathan's book, The Righteous Mind. Jonathan quotes from William Gibson that the Matrix is our consensual hallucination and I express the hope that we can make it a good hallucination by seeing the best intentions in each other.
All of these provided with links, text and comment threads on https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/.
My book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607.
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