rules are attempts to write down good ideas. nobody notices until it's not a good idea anymore. nobody will ever stop trying to act on good ideas. On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 4:57 PM \0xDynamite <[1]dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote: > "the Reformation meant not the elimination of the Church’s control over > everyday life, but rather the substitution of a new form of control for the > previous one. It meant the repudiation of a control which was very lax, at > that time scarcely perceptible in practice, and hardly more than formal, in > favor of a regulation, of the whole of conduct which, penetrating to all > departments of private and public life, was infinitely burdensome and > earnestly enforced. The rule of the Catholic Church, “punishing the heretic, > but indulgent to the sinner,” as it was in the past even more than today, is > now tolerated by peoples of thoroughly modern economic character, and was > borne by the richest and economically most advanced peoples on earth at > about the turn of the fifteenth century. The rule of Calvinism, on the other > hand, as it was enforced in the sixteenth century in Geneva and in Scotland, > at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in large parts of the > Netherlands, in the seventeenth in New England, and for a time in England > itself, would be for us the most absolutely unbearable form of > ecclesiastical control of the individual which could possibly exist." And therefore, by the elimination of the State itself, we will create a new system of freedom away from the State and ABOLISH ALL RULES -- even the ones that YOU make for your family or community. There shall be no rule. Because rules imply rulers. Period. *pause* The first rule of Fight Club is that there is no Fight Club. marcos References 1. mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com