Alternative Open Collective

Community Sense-Making from First Principles

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

https://t.co/YzaR3bbXi9

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

Huh weird, wonder how that survives

[Θωμᾶς del Vasto @Thomasdelvasto_]

I’m afraid modern Christianity’s biggest problem is that there are legions of joyless scolds who call themselves Christians but really just want to use Christ’s teachings to judge others and make themselves feel superior

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

we have: zero effective, decentralized, publicly-joinable, powerfully legible brands in America that are not co-opted by extraction or cancellation

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@TinkeredThinker Yikes

[a lion @paleoludic]

You've gotta serve the god you'd go to hell for.

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@evalladen I love it when you talk dirty

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

"Seriously, but not literally."

Ignore the as-applied-to Orange Man origin of the phrase; it might be one of the most compressed, non-dual paradoxical statements to land in the West in a long time.

*SERIOUSLY, but not literally...*

It confounds academics, but it's True.

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

Updated: Reformation-Un-Splintering

Unlikely to be the last update

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

Join the generation-long project to Mend the Great Schism

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@loveofdoing No you're fine

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@JADM823 They're thinking how to best restrain the least accountable centralized power in the West. Maybe it's USG, maybe it's Anthropic. Just an odd theory

[oddargonaut @oddargonaut]

I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the Unaccountable Sybernetic organism America

We love our blind-drunk Father

He needs a loving wife to restrain him

Not an impatient Democratic Surgeon of Amputation that doesn't care if he survives the surgery

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@plasmarob We're a little different, we're new. 😉

Very curious to compare notes!

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

Structure, structure, structure.

[plasma ۞ @plasmarob]

I have decided to become an expert on all Christian religions.

I am unsure what fruit this will yield, but it can't hurt.

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@evalladen *ahhh!* you've understood it. 1 of 150. Make more messiahs. Don't scale, mitosis. Have the courage to find the Frontier near you, and homestead it like your forefathers.

Does this make sense?

[oddargonaut @oddargonaut]

@projectionheart You want hobbits. They're numerous, good-hearted, and show up consistently. Without a joinable structure for them, you're just reproducing the same coordination failure at smaller scale.

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@TinkeredThinker VERY COOL

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@projectionheart We need a new Garrison Keillor, this is a major theory regarding national ritual that imploded in 2016 amongst other things, obvi

somewhat-direct link to BLM, DSA, and Antisemitism

The prog-nicey matriarchs' pastor died, they went mimetic-cascade trauma-insane

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

@TinkeredThinker The "more" ought to include the State Sponsors of taxation on the poor

1st of the month is harvest time at the convenience store

[Alternative Open Collective @AO_Church]

Yes, this + hypercharge political incentives for stability and support.

Wacky experiment: maternal suffrage with stacked votes per kiddo. Mothers create the future, they ought to shape it.

Already the intergenerational relational reality. Just not formalized

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Starting to realize a possible core purpose of (some) religions is to keep families together thru things like menopause and pregnancy. Seems like most marriages fail during these situations. Interesting stuff

[RomeoStevens @RomeoStevens76]

We intellectuals reframe our existential refusal to engage with life as a series of puzzles and do it well enough that giving us funding to solve (but really to continue avoidance) seems like a good idea. We gain status for finding ever more labyrinthine excuses. These highly refined excuses become a hazardous waste externality, vectoring into populations with no immunity and wreaking havoc.

[a lion @paleoludic]

pretty much everyone is a christian except most of the people who call themselves christian