Monthly Archives: September 2026

The persistence and dominance today of the most destructive system of ideas to have ever infected human consciousness and life- i.e. “apocalyptic millennialism” or “salvation through violent destruction of differing others”. This system of beliefs/themes still dominates our major world … Continue reading →

Grok summaries of site themes (with a few corrections from me): “The pre-eminent overall story of humanity is that of our exodus freedom from an animal past to our progress gradually across history toward mature humanity in liberal democracy civilization, … Continue reading →

See the snippett of auto-bio at bottom of this opening section. The project to expose bad ideas in religious traditions and present better alternatives is not a blanket condemnation, dismissal, or devaluation of all the good people who embrace those … Continue reading →

Note that Chat and other AI take turns below summarizing this meta-story of humanity. The pre-eminent overall story of humanity is that of our exodus freedom from animal post to progress gradually across history toward mature humanity in liberal democracy … Continue reading →

Below- New material by Grok on “Explore Jesus’ nonviolent teachings” and “Examine Jefferson’s biblical notes”, “Explore Tolstoy’s Jesus interpretation”, “Investigate Marcus Borg’s historical Jesus”, “Explore pacifism and suicidal empathy, the well-intentioned spirit behind such movements but the failures to properly … Continue reading →

See below Grok’s summary of Julian Simon’s “Ultimate Resource”, his principles/indicators for understanding the true state of life as rising and progressing toward an improving future and not declining apocalyptically toward a worsening world. First, these notes before getting to … Continue reading →

See below Grok’s responses on Zoroastrian cosmic dualism that has affirmed human tribalism across subsequent history and how, for example, this relates to Marxist collective dualism of today, and its new variants in Woke progressivism with DEI that embraces new … Continue reading →

Intro point: This site’s focus on mythical/religious archetypes is about transformation at the most fundamental level of thought/belief. The “old story” ideas (i.e. tribal cosmic dualism, domination/submission relationships, violent destruction of differing/offending others, etc.) have affirmed “threat theology” and “salvation … Continue reading →

See further down– “The pathological impulse to domination and the elite/commoner divide, Wendell Krossa” Below are the responses from Grok on the centralization of power and control in state elites/bureaucrats: I asked Grok to comment on the elite/commoner divide across … Continue reading →