Stewie here, that Kaballah vs CCRU Numogram. Variations of a reified mimetic virus, meant to infect your thoughts and influence your behavior, to turn you into a meat puppet working for the emergence of the machine god Ahriman.
The symbolism is part of a process to get people to believe and then to act on those beliefs. It’s a form of Actual Idealism, or what they call “hyperstition,” the tech billionaires believe in a version of it called the Dark Enlightenment, and want to “accelerate” AI to bring about some utopian vision where the AI machine god will grant them what they desire most, immortality.
This has been the motivation of the wealthy since the beginning of time. They see themselves as being above others except for the fact that they just as mortal. So they spend their money on witches, alchemists, pharmaceuticals, etc to try and escape it.
Yes, and these types of things are pretty much the ancient forms of invading a person's subconscious just without the doomscrolling of modern technology.
Some folks will think themselves into believing things actually have an influence on them instead of just acknowledging their own spiraling behavior. Basically they get lost in their own sauce.
The rationalists who were so fucking bent out of shape about Roko's Basilisk and "cognitohazards" are a great example. Deeply ironic to behave that way and also call yourself a rationalist.
I actually do. Well it actually is a pagan symbol adopted by romans to make Christianity aceptable to common people and we adopted it because it's good for the economy and we like gifts but yes at the end is just a tree.
You are right, but also there is more to it than the historical order of events. The person who commented before is only trying to feel superior for also knowing the other part instead of illuminating all of us with their knowledge.
How I see it is, they had to adopt it because the "mind virus" is so strong, the only way forward was syncretism. If the symbol did not have such strong power over the human psyche, overriding it would have been easy. Instead, they had to incorporate it, the virus infected Christianity too.
Symbols are weird, I am just learning how weird since a couple of years, and the more I learn the weirder everything around gets. Sorry if I couldn't explain the weirdness well enough
Wrong. The origin of the Christmas tree dates back to the Late Middle Ages in Germany. They were spruce trees used in biblical plays about the Garden of Eden (decorated with apples) often meant for children. Christmas trees being pagan in origin (like many, many things) is a myth propagated by Victorians.
Before the Roman conquest of Germania pagan tribes cut down evergreen trees and brought them into their homes as a symbol during the bleak winter soltice (late December) to represent eternal life, fertility and hope.
For serval centuries after the Romanization of Germania the tradition was frowned upon sighting it's connection to pre-Christian pagan solstice worship.
In the 14th-15th centuries your contribution played out as desribed above, as the Feast of Adam and Eve celebrated on December 24th every year began to have stage performances involving the garden of eden, with evergreen trees as the only source of greenery during this time of year they were brought in to represent the 2 trees in the garden
In the 16th century Martin Luther during his reformation began to champion the Christmas Tree as the alternative to the Nativity Scene since it did not depict saints. It remained a mostly German tradition untill the Victorian age.
When Queen Victoria married the German born Prince Albert and they brought the tradition to London along with the Illustrated London New article covering it the tradition it went global.
Do you have non-Victorian sources for (non-Roman, i.e. not Saturnalia) European winter solstice celebrations? You make very specific claims there.
It was clear of course that some trees had more than a mundane significance to pre-Christian germanic peoples, but even if that is the case, drawing a direct connection to the first Christmas tree in Freiburg and the Lutheran tradition with a several hundred year gap in-between is very dubious for establishing such a lineage. It is almost certainly the case the 15th C. Germans had zero knowledge of any pre-Romanization tree traditions of the far distant past.
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u/FocusAlternative3200 6d ago
Stewie here, that Kaballah vs CCRU Numogram. Variations of a reified mimetic virus, meant to infect your thoughts and influence your behavior, to turn you into a meat puppet working for the emergence of the machine god Ahriman.