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2020-12-28 - Jonathan Pageau on The Rooster's Crow Podcast

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Regarding big online companies - all they want is quantity of attention. they are ideologically possessed. They have been infiltrated by ideologically possessed people. we're just going to have a weird satanic religion.
What you do in secret will come out, not explicitly, but in how you manifest
What you care about kind of determines who you are. It will order your reality. If you worship the highest, your reality will order itself in line.
Christ goes down and abolishes death, unlike any other story of visiting the underworld and returning.
The societies that exist the best are where the children submit to the parents, but the parents exist to give themselves to their children.
In ancient Rome, the father was a tyrant. In Christendom the knight was strong, but he fought for the weak, not for himself.

I watched another of his videos on miracles, and followed some of it. Parts of it took some of the more outlier miracles - walking on water and virgin birth - as having happened as a starting place for considering them. One of Pageaus' arguments was that science believes in the big bang - something from nothing - which is more of a leap than Jesus' immaculate conception. Much of his work seems to be about dealing with mechanistic materialism as a totalitarian philosophy.

On the first bullet point above, I got interested in Go, the new computer language, having used the gemini browser "amfora" for a week or so and thinking very highly of it. I went to golang.org and downloaded the pre built package and worked through the beginner's tutorial. Still very impressive. And I think it has some of the early pioneers of modern programming central to its development. But an in your face "Black Lives Matter" banner is displayed on every golang.org page. It put me in mind that Google (Go's sponsor) dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto a few years ago. That was enough to warn me off the language itself. And for the same reason I couldn't get on board with ditching Python for Java as my then employer wanted to and is doing with the project I was lead on and had made my life's work. It is like philosophy grounds language and language grounded in evil philosophy is itself tainted. In Java's case I thought the evil was favoring management control over user and developer freedom to too great an extent. Java seemed much about keeping individuals from escaping its design space.