Ductive

The thing about Jesus is that He is so great because He is so great.  When you bend over to Him to be filled by His Grace, you—oh.  Ists.  Right.  

Universalism.  The notion presented in both Jesusian and Bangist Christianity that “everything that is came to be because of a big explosion in outer space” is universalism—is Christianity.  When people talk about what was once called the beginning of the Book of Genesis but what is now called the Big Bang, they are reinforcing the notion of common origins.  Like the fictions of the paradise garden (Adam & Eve) and Noah's Ark, the same with what is what was once called the middle of the Book of Genesis, which is now called Out of Africa, they are "common origins" stories.  

These stories—the Big Bang; Out of Africa—are not theories.  Their adherents do not respond to contradictory evidence as they would if they were operating scientifically.  The current popular faithfad of the terms “science” and “theory” is narcissistic lying.  Such terms as “science” and “theory” can easily confuse.  Like Jesus appearing to represent the enthralled schism between reality and preference, though, such narcissistic delusions are incorrect.  

When evidence is found of galactic clusters that took much longer than the “Big Bang” story to form, or of settlements in Europe and eastern Asia tens of thousands of years predating when human predecessors supposedly left Africa, favored stories would be completely modified were they operating scientifically.  Such evidence has appeared, though, and favored stories are not modified.  The word “theory” is, like the word “science,” still used, because the word itself is liked.  

Like thinking that saying you like Jesus is the right way to behave because some bad people are often expressly against Jesus and you just know others are, that only one professional discipline is affected by the power of consensus-based thinking, etc., believing that such a goodness is out there makes you feel better.  Whenever a counter to a preferred “theory” appears, it is ignored or marginalized with an epicycle-type explanation.  The conjecture that cosmic strings, dark matter, or nanoaggressions exist is not a new thing or an unusual thing, but a quite regular human thing—making up nonsense to save a broken story.  

What humans have done for a very long time is engage in deductive rather than inductive thinking.  In deductive thinking, you deduce—begin with a grand principle that you say must be true—and evaluate situations in light of the principle you have already decided is true.  By contrast, inductive thinking involves induction—you observe things that are happening, and evaluate situations therefrom.  Inductive thinking is observation-based thinking; deductive thinking is authority-based thinking.  

Another word often seen in such situations is empirical.  Inductive thinking is empirical—observation-based—while deductive thinking is not.  Deductive thinking is authority-based.  This is why the 21^st century media relies on appeals to “experts.”  There never will be a possibility of observing any of the nonsense discussed, anymore than Jesus will ever be seen.  Yet, right now and for a while there are always lots of people who have spent a long time thinking in detail about what Jesus would want.  It is quite appropriate for the media in the Christian Era to have faith that experts will decree what should be believed.  

The brains of humans within such happenings have been changed to accept “proof from authority,” whereas evolution in nature has provided for only an acceptance of “proof from observation.”  Consider the reverence for “faith” as a good thing.  With more sad irony, this is often literally expressed about Santa Claus in Christmas movies (Saint Claus in movies set near the plagiarized and renamed Yuletide).  

A simple example is a galactic cluster which could only have formed if it had been affected by more than 20 billion years of gravitation.  The currently popular story of Genesis is that there was a Big Bang 10-20 billion years ago that started time.  The very many observed galactic clusters are, like the fossil record earlier, presenting proof that the currently popular Christian story is not true.  Presented with such evidence as something that could only have formed in much more time than that, you have to conclude that all space and the stuff in it is at least as old as that galactic cluster.  However, to preserve the very popular modern version of the story of Genesis, people have invented modern epicycles: cosmic strings.  Those cosmic strings do not actually exist, but if the people talking about them as if they do exist have certificates of being very smart, people by and large accept that.  This is exactly the type of behavior which maintained Jesusian Christianity: ad verecundiam, a.k.a. appeal to authority.  Because the people saying ridiculous things have been granted certificates of being very smart, the ridiculous things they say can get not just accepted, but heralded.  (An invisible man lives in the sky.  Everything was created from a big explosion in outer space.)  

Christianity still rules.  People are still people.  They try to claim that they are better and smarter than people before, but they still do the same things.  We are in one such time period now.  It is very foolish to believe the people in that time period that they have stopped being people and are instead things that are liberated/saved/whatever from matter.  If you doubt this, try to not have the matter contained in water for a month.  After your test, you will agree.  Every time.  You need to discriminate in preference for a certain kind of matter, and consume that matter to live.  Matter is still of integral, existential importance to humans.  You cannot be liberated/saved/whatever from matter, no matter how many nice inventions, how many amazing technological feats, the people of your time have achieved.  

Recurrently, people call people very smart for speculating about various ways that the types of environments to which humans are exposed have caused the differences seen in humans.  Such speculations are very limited; they neglect the fact that types of environments to which Earthlings were exposed varied greatly from one another.  However, those arguments are popular because those differences can be constantly seen, and are observed by everyone, but philosophies that everyone is the same are recurrent.  So, to maintain their treasured stupid philosophies (religions), people get stuck in a cycle where they claim that short-term environmental changes, not long-term environmental correspondence, are responsible for differences in humans.  Such claims, like claims about epicycles, are regular human behavior.  You can accurately predict that humans will—sometimes tragically—behave that way.  The ridiculous things that we see White human government doing now are quite predictable stuperific behavior, not uniquely stuperific.  They are parts of their environment decaying.  Like watching the wind blow some sand, it is a simple thing.  

Claims that social prejudice built up over millennia has caused women to be less strong than men were eventually discarded, but their attempt was not a surprising aberration.  Us living in a time where it is claimed that social prejudice built up over centuries has caused certain groups of people to have different test scores than other groups of people is this.  

Those types of preferred stories—currently, those of Bangist Christianity; just more universalism—say, biblically but no one is supposed to see that, that everything came from the same place.  Some differences are wholly ignored; some differences are dogmatically pronounced to be situational.  

(The source of such stories of sameness is, of course, Decay.  The link between old universalisms and new is an easy way to recognize the similarity between Jesusian and Bangist Christianity, but seeing the two as the same thing is extremely difficult for people who believe that claiming to love Jesus is rebellion against control, indicative of freedom.  It is extremely ironic when someone says, essentially, ”Resist tyranny and conquest by worshiping Tyrannador Q. Conquistus!”  That is what it is like when some useful idiot thinks that being a traditional Christian is rebellion.)  

The insistence on ridiculous untruths being true, the endless creation of modern-style epicycles (such as microaggressions) are recognized by some as illogical.  To shield themselves against the painful awareness that the mainstream, cultural enthrallment of such illogical things means, practitioners can conclude that the problem is solely with their field.  They do this thinking that the very basis of the field(s) they know is logic rather than illogic.  The problem is systematic, though; like the creeping aggression of a microscopic phage, the problem is not just an error occurring within any given field, but is a problem occurring across many fields.  

(Think of a cosmologist stupefied by the passion that other cosmologists show for a beginning-event that doesn't allow time for observed galactic clusters to form, i.e. the Big Bang v. Tully, or a mathematician seeing that other mathematicians consistently explain away gaps in groups' test results ridiculously.)  

The ascendance of faith-based reasoning over evidence-based reasoning is the continuing expression of Christianity; it is quite systematic.  Things around here (Earth) have been about resistance to reality—“salvation” or “liberation” from matter—for a long time.  Practitioners who remain true to the definitive dictates of their field—respond to evidence, not to majority opinion—are staggered by how educated, degreed people around them are hostile to evidence and responsive instead to majority opinion.  “Hey, I thought we were done with that!” the amazed practitioner can think of the desperate attempts to defend universalism.  

Sadly, though, the lofty principles of responding to evidence not to groupthink are flattery.  People respond to groupthink—human beings are made to correspond to other human beings—and when people behave instead under the theoretical auspices of their “disciplines” they receive pushback.  The evidence-based principles of those disciplines are not ways of thinking to which those disciplines truly adhere.  Astronomy, cosmology, biology, anthropology, history, epidemiology, etc. were really just nice illusions.  It has continued to be, the whole time, the C.E.—the Christian era.  Large groups of people hand out what they call meaningful degrees and educations, puffing themselves up with the pretense that they are now different, but they are not.  

Jesusian Christianity and Bangist Christianity both—like the latter’s popular expressions now: the part of the new story that is the “Big Bang” called a scientific theory and the “Out of Africa” part of the story called a scientific theory—are more of this.  The Bangist variety of Christianity is not about Jesus Savior personally, but it is about people being not affected by matter—being “free” (liberated) rather than “saved.”  In both cases, matter is the bugbear.  Today’s preferred variety of savior-ianity claims to be entirely different, but it is just more of the same.  Bangist Christians and Jesusian Christians both can cling to their preferred narratives of being entirely different than the other group, but such claims are not true.  

Bangist Christianity is the direct descendent of Jesusian Christianity, thus its claim that the different standardized test scores received by different groups of humans are caused by environment or some type of racism.  People must respond not to evidence, but to faith, in order to have their work seen; their intellectual product disseminated.  

Imagine a certain type of child—a young human who has seen only one caretaker of that child’s own race for its entire life, whose behavior is not at all possibly caused by racism—exhibit standardized test scores exactly commensurate to other children of that race.  Universalism has been, yet again, proven wrong.  When babies of another type consistently cry more when provided with different types of caretakers, but calm down when provided with a matching type of “race,” it is evidence similarly contradictory.  Such genetic rather than universal situations are like anthropological or astronomical observation showing that genetics, rather than Christian environmental explanations, explain things.