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The Senhores of the ma’amad [the congregation’s lay governing board] having long known of the evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza, have endeavored by various means and promises to turn him from his evil ways. However, having failed to make him mend his wicked ways, and, on the contrary, daily receiving more and more serious information about the abominable heresies which he practiced and taught and about his monstrous deeds, and having for this numerous trustworthy witnesses who have deposed and borne witness to this effect in the presence of the said Espinoza, they became convinced of the truth of this matter. After all of this has been investigated in the presence of the honorable hakhamim [“wise men,” or rabbis], they have decided, with the [rabbis’] consent, that the said Espinoza should be excommunicated and expelled from the people of Israel. By decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of the entire holy congregation, and in front of these holy scrolls with the 613 precepts which are written therein; cursing him with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho and with the curse which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the castigations which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. But you that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

When you live life long enough you begin to see certain immediate struggles as sort of a bigger picture of an insidious design.

What do I mean by that?

Well when you're young you're trying to make rent you're trying to make your utilities you're trying to make these things and you think of it all sort of as a temporary thing that you'll get through once you make more money etc etc.

In a while to some extent that's true you presumably begin to make more money and those things become less and less of a struggle on your margin for personal net gain usually improves what you realize as you get older is there are other things that step into fill those gaps and they always seem to have grown as an industry to levels that just seem to take every inch of your wealth as you make it.

And today even things like utilities are growing in proportion such that they make it hard to even make that margin if you're young.

But as you get older what you realize is all the medical plans all the insurance all the costs dental whatever all those costs grow to the level of mean and I mean that statistically mean outrageousness for the population. In other words those costs grow not because of their inherent costs of delivery of goods but they grow to the point of outrage of the majority of citizens so they complain so that those costs must be pulled back. So you realize that even if you have good retirement or you've saved a lot of money or whatever all these different forced aspects of your life like health insurance or the cost of Health procedures or the portion of Health procedures that are excluded from being covered by your insurance like deductibles Etc they all grow to absorb whatever extra wealth you have.

And while you're young you think of yourself as being on a path of enrichment delayed only by the passage of time you sort of really get a bigger picture as you're older and you realize our whole society is created to keep everyone in a state of perpetually using their time in life to work for someone else or something else. It is a form of velvet slavery and it's some occupations not really even coated in velvet.


And what I wonder is with all the mechanization we have and the automation that we have if we didn't have the system that we had or we had some actual checks and balances on it it just seems like people would have to work a whole lot fewer hours and give up so much less of their life and have a better standard of living. But our system which I now believe is designed either specifically or by default over time through lack of controls it's designed by Jews to really use us all as cattle and give us the minimum amount needed to Keep Us alive and keep us from rebellion if people would even rebel anymore but just to keep us working for them for whatever crazy insane purposes there genetically defective brains have hallucinated that they need.

Anyway it's just an observation of made. I'm luckier than most but even so you still look at things like the cost of the deductible of an operation that you're likely to need is you get older one of several that typically are hit older people or you look at the cost of long-term care or other things and you realize all these costs they just maximize themselves to the ability to take every last cent that someone has made their whole life from the average person and actually more than the average person because I believe huge numbers of people these days die in debt so the debt part of the equation has allowed the utility companies the medical companies the car companies Etc to raise their prices beyond what the average person would be able to pay but the average person slowly builds up debt over their life until they just die with debt so they are completely never free.

And one of the only ways to escape this is to be part of one of these systems such as working for the government or a utility company or the medical industry that because they are extorting and sucking the maximum amount of money from most people actually can't afford to pay more money to the participants in their field or you decide in life to shoe the many of the normal things that many people get such as you hold on to a car for 20 years instead of five or you decide not to get certain medical treatments that everybody else gets which it turns out and solarily may often benefit you but that's not the point.


And I think this is actually new I don't think it's always been this way. Utilities have never been as high of a proportion of people's income monthly as they are today. They've basically replaced or become a second house payment now. Cars used to last forever and it's interesting I've just had some exposure to this recently that even older cars there are parts in those cars that are no longer made and can't be remanufactured which means you can't keep a car forever anymore. There are Model t Fords that are still running on the road today but there are cars built from the 90s which because of the amount of computers and things in them that fail and are actually not even able to be remanufactured unless you can do it yourself or by law you aren't allowed to play with because of a mission rules and things that keeps you on a perpetual car buying spray your whole life. Suddenly you have to be ready to just have an a monthly car payment that is what you used to be a house payment because the car that you buy even if you do pay it off and you own it will have so many things that are not fixable after 5:00 or 10 years that you won't be able to escape having to get another car and yet have another 400 to $1,000 monthly car payment.

It just means our society has evolved into a perpetual state of slavery that has become so normalized that people don't even recognize it for what it is. And because of the technology that already exists they automated farming the automated so many things our lives should be improving we should have more free time not less. But because there are no checks and balances on these things that you can't avoid like utilities Etc they've raised the level of time that you must spend in your own life in the service of others. In other words a form of slavery.

I guess this can be seen most clearly in contrast to the way an aggregarian society member would have lived in the late 1700s. They would have gone out and acquired some land and they would have had to spend a certain amount of time growing food and prepping firewood but they wouldn't have had utility costs they wouldn't have had medical costs they wouldn't have had taxes their need for something that would have been The rustic equivalent of an automobile would be less it would most likely have been livestock which had some cost associated with them but in a way they were self feeding machines. So in other words once you got some land the amount of time you needed to spend in the service of others was virtually by your own choice.

It's just a thought that hit me

MOZI (Mo Tse) c. 470 – c. 391 BCE

400 years before Christ, he lays down his famous principle of universal charity. 'Let every country treat other countries as its own, other families as his own, other people as himself!'
On the role of traditional religion: 'When everyone believes in the power of spirits (the Chinese have no God) to reward the good and punish the bad, there will be no misfortune.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcaBgDavzmU

#"The Republic" by Plato | Read by Joshua Graham

Playlist where each Book is separate

Plato's 'The Republic' is a classic in philosophy. It explores the idea of a perfect society. The book uses dialogues, mainly with Socrates, to discuss justice and human nature. It also looks at a philosopher's role in leading the state.

This was narrated by Joshua Graham (TTS) From Fallout new vegas. Who was voiced by Keith Szarabajka.

Source https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497

It’s what the Bible teaches. All bibles teach it. The love and joy of 72 virgins is no different than the heaven promise in all religions, everywhere! Is there a religion I can believe, Christianity, Buddhist, Muslim (but not the Jews, they are evil.) one thing is true: just love one another, be kind. But watch out for Jews, they are the naughty people.

Max Stirner, pseudonym of Johann Caspar Schmidt (Bayreuth, October 25, 1806 - Berlin, June 26, 1856) was a German philosopher.

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a transcendence of the subjugation of consciousness to abstract ideas such as "the state" and "humanity". Stirner simply assumes that his state of consciousness can no longer be connected to abstract concepts such as "the state", "the people", "man" etc.

Since this "unique ego" is beyond the limits of the definable (it falls outside the dialectic) it is therefore also completely indefinable. The absolute is thus linked to pure subjectivity, and therefore escapes any subjectivation.

In other words, humanism is a curse rather than a blessing, as it imposes limits on the “human.”

Ich hab' mein' Sach' auf Nichts gestellt (Goethe). This phrase indicates what both Stirner and Hegel regard as the fundamental nature of pure subjectivity.

Stirner plainly stated that there is no difference between humanism and Christianity, but that "humanism", on the contrary, entails an intensification of the oppressive mechanism of Christianity.

He seriously problematizes the alleged evidence that man has simply become "freer" or has started to act more "morally" since the Enlightenment.

An interesting fact is that Stirner did not preach "revolution" at all, but what he called Empörung: the individual man had to come to the insight that he was faced with the choice to realize his own individuality on the basis of daily practice and not to let seduced by all kinds of sacred goals outside themselves. The resistance and oppression that the individual person may experience must be circumvented through a cunning strategy. According to him, striving to realize a new form of society inevitably leads to a new essentialism and is itself the product of this.

In fact, Stirner's relevance is limited to his own time. His alleged modern-day apostles sometimes lack irony. Stirner can be understood as a "tool" to disassemble contemporary developments, and in particular to formulate a critique of the communalism of the "alter-globalist movement".

Rudolf Steiner: "Like Nietzsche, Stirner often believes that the driving forces of human life can only be found in the separate, real individual. He rejects all forces that seek to shape and determine the individual personality from outside. The free human being determines his own goals. He possesses his own ideals and does not allow himself to be possessed by those ideals. The human being who is not master of his own ideals as a free individual is under the same influence as the mentally ill individual who It makes no difference to Stirner whether a human being imagines himself to be the “Emperor of China,” or whether an ordinary citizen imagines that his destiny is to be a good Christian, a faithful Protestant, a virtuous human orphans, etc., or that he is taken captive, and sits, in orthodoxy, virtue, etc.

You only have to read a few pages in Stirner's book, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, to see how closely his views are related to those of Nietzsche."

John Glassford (prof. present): "Could it be more than a coincidence that Stirner, like Nietzsche, abhorred the state, nationalism, liberalism, socialism and communism? Nietzsche called all those modern isms “fits of stupidity" and Stirner said quite remarkable about one of those ideologies, “that the communists see the man, the brother in you, is only the Sunday side of communism.” According to Stirner and Nietzsche, these ideas are all based on a latent, secularized version of Christian ethics.