Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Introduction to Western Esotericism" video.

  1. It's just transparently bullshitting yourself and asking others not to question you. It makes no sense to think you understand the history of Nazism better by actually being a Nazi. Even if you don't have a horse in the race it can be super easy to deceive yourself. Your "phenomenological approach" begins and ends with self deception.
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  2. Perennialism is extremely frustrating to me. I have infinitely more respect for people, who actually believe they have magical powers or in Christianity or whatever, than for perennialists. At least the former are to some degree honest about history and the actual contents of historical doctrines and the beliefs of people. Perennialists just bulldoze all of history and superimpose their dumbass modern trivialities.
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  3.  @Guidus125  The kind of god described in the bible and lots of other claims therein are pretty much falsified. But modern believers simply move the goalpost to ever smaller and smaller claims. The same is true for modern "believers" in witchcraft, whose spells get less and less impressive. I think way more often there is a belief in belief, ie a belief that believing in certain kinds of bullshit is good, rather than an actual belief in the stuff people say they believe.
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