John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJan 31, 2022

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Culture is as essential to society as language and as arbitrary. A rose is a rose...

People want answers, not truths. That's why there are so many priests and politicians, while philosophers are intellectually neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia.

Ask yourself, is time the point of the present, moving past to future, or is it change, turning future to past?

If you answer the second, you've disputed one of the Holy Creeds of Science, as it means time is more like temperature, pressure, color and sound, than space.

Is money a social contract, enabling society, or a commodity to mine from it? If you even entertained the first, you've disputed the Holy Creed of Capitalism.

Would a spiritual absolute be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, or an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell? I probably don't need to point out which choice violates the Holy Creed of much of Western society.

Is good and bad some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, or the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental? The 1/0 of sentience.

Answer the second and you've violated the Holy Creed of just about every form of tribalism out there.

Can you see why logic is evil?

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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