If harm must be inflicted upon an animal then it should at least serve a tangible purpose such as acquiring food or clothing. Ritual sacrifices kill animals needlessly. They serve a ritualistic, religious, and social purpose and, in older societies, were an essential aspect of public life. Often th...

Feudalism is not helpful to anyone except the elites who use it to stay in power. If one desires traditionalist systems of society, feudalism is one of the last places you should look. Feudalism certainly has its functional uses as a socioeconomic and political system, especially in the absence of ...

Conserative Morality wrote:[internal screaming]

Do you understand how long the list of differences is? Entire classes are taught on this shit.

You're giving me flashbacks to writing twenty pages essays, CM. Stop.

>> multiculturalism We're really going for critical mass of bad ideas, huh? A combination of a melting pot and multiculturalism work relatively well, so long as you retain a majority culture. In this case, the contrast is between the traditional values of a society and the secular ideas and standar...

Not really. It's just more argument by tradition nonsense. You have a tendency to dismiss traditions and cultures that aren't yours out-of-hand. The argument isn't exclusively one from tradition. It's just as much about our ability to maintain a multicultural society and live together harmoniously....

Tobleste wrote:The alternative is allowing major religions exceptions to the law while ignoring smaller ones which is a bigger violation of secularism.

Atheistic Caesaro-Papism is the worst option here. Allowing exceptions within reason is sensible.

Cut, though my preference would have been to respond to the post in full. You are, now as ever, visceral and articulate and, truthfully, I can feel a lump forming in my throat. I'm not good at saying good bye, au revoir, or shalom chaver. My cheeks always get too wet. My words always fail me. My he...

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Ok, so mischievous and petty. Either way I'm seeing this as people butting in places where they don't belong.

That's no less true of the Indian example given in the OP.

The government imposes its will on all of its charges at all times when the law is being obeyed. Am I to sit at the intersection and sob at the red light because the big mean goberment is imposing their will on me by force? A red light is quite distinct from an imposition which undermines a minorit...

We're these sources citing Saudi law or Islamic Law? If the latter, please show me. Saudi law is partially based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law. In this case, it's an extrapolation from the Quran, namely the verse you cited prohibiting polytheists/idolaters from approaching the Ka'aba. T...

Excellent. So like I said - no need for me to insist to them. The matter is settled. I give as much a shit about their opinions on my presence as I do as to the opinions of Wiccans on an essay about the death of paganism in pre-modern Europe. You're having the government impose your will on them by...

Actually yes you should (as long as you don't desecrate it lol). Monotheists aren't banned from visiting Makkah. Saudi is crazy, they do crazy stuff. The sources I've found state that non-Muslims aren't even allowed to visit Mecca, much less the sacred sites present in the city. This arguably exten...

Is it illegal? Do they own the land? If not, then yeah, I would insist. No, actually, I wouldn't insist - there would be no need to insist, since I wouldn't need their permission. They have had court cases and battles to resolve issues like this historically. That sounds a lot like insisting. Espec...

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Actually I take this back. What's the religious reason that these Arthos monks forbids women from coming to the monastery?

Should I be allowed to visit the Sacred Mosque in Mecca? What reason do the Saudis have to prevent me from strolling there?

I agree that it would be a shame. But ultimately it is an indulgence, as any such 'autonomous community' or like polity is. If the place bred opinions like "Women who dare to want to see things are assholes" as the previous poster seems to think, then its time as an indulgence would be ru...

United Muscovite Nations wrote:It's not necessarily a holy place, it's just become a pilgrimage spot because it's a very unique place where monks live in mostly isolation from the outside world.

And don't the monks deserve to have their faith and rules respected by visitors?

Absolutely not. In many instances, allowing government to impose secular standards of morality on religious institutions wholly undermines the purpose and function of the aforementioned religious institutions. It also directly contradicts the principle of separation of church and state because it in...

If capitalism will be deemed unsustainable as a result of the climate change and widespread inequality, what is going to fill the vacuum then? A Neo-Marxist revolution? A fascist corporatist state or a radical ecologist state? Capitalism, on the whole, isn't unsustainable due to climate change or i...

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Have you ever actually read anything by Evola? Because the books written by him makes plain his contempt for Gentile's philosophy and the Gentilians of Fascist Italy. He expressly indicts their (and mine) view of what the Fascist state should be in one of his autobiographies I was aware of the rift...

Zeitgeist doesn't have a single word equivalent in English, and nothing quite a strong as what Dasein is intended to mean. Volk, however, we have numerous words for - including a direct translation. It could be used to acknowledge the golden age of German philosophy - but all instances I've heard i...

Usage of the word volk, is just the German way of saying people , or more accurately, folk. The fact that we have English words for both it's intended use, and it's literal use, means that to use the German wording is pretty much just a nod to Nazism. I wouldn't say it's intrinsically a nod to Nazi...

Wunderstrafanstalt wrote:Peoples Land (PL)

CONSERVATIVE (CSV).

Joohan wrote:I really hate the usage of the word volk.

If you use the word volk, and you're not speaking in German, then you're larping.

It's used in philosophy a bit too much. We still use Latin in the same way.

There are so many different ways to attack that statement, because it's completely untrue about me or Evola, but for the sake of brevity, I'm just going to point to the obvious that Neo-Hegelian American nationalism which is inspired by Feurbach is the complete opposite of what Evola believed or wa...