The title of this thread is illogical in its intentions and a oxymoron to boot.
Freedom is a Dualism that supports a quality that is alien to its means of definition. It arouse out of the Platonic, and especially Stoic divide of the Virtues and Vices… as a formulaic calculas for defining good and bad, health and unhealth, and the etymological foundations of hierarchical being.
By insinuating a Hegelian and then Nietzschean base to your argument of a ideal state that leads to freedom and increased complexity (no, not mentioned yet but will of been mentioned as a tangent in a few more pages) you merely affirm the model that entraps you in a definitional dualism that obstructs actual freedom… freedom of experience independent of knowing limitations of historic restrictions.
No… heathenism cannot, nor ever, bring more freedom, just spite and hope, delusions and letdown after decades of busybody work. Word games, linguistic labyrinths, and 19th century german sociological concepts cant save you from youself.
Monotheism has nothing to do with heathenism, in terms of the expression of freedom. A heathen is free, because they just is/are. The monotheist is a excuse, and vice versa the same… a monotheist is free or enslaved of their own accord.
Hence… most Cynics were religious, they sought independence, but cared not for the definition. Many were pagan, many were christian… one even became a patriarch of Constantinople… but all were free, whereas all you are slaves of your words, and inferior to your own grasp of your situation around you. You find linguistics reasons to affirm, and therefore linguistic reasons to withdrawl.
Freedom exists independent of vice and virtue. It is not always wise, and sometimes fatal, usually moronic. Rarely as beautiful as we like to paint it… a beautiful system admits to a form of rationality in design or evolution of sorts. Freedom does not… it is raw and unencumbered IMPULSE.
From a Christian Cynic.
I recommend adopting a formulaic method of debate that strives for more than linguistic muddling around. There is more to the world that the linguistic aspects of our brain. Spells are meaningless, except to a fool entranced with its seeming potential. It has none, its part of a larger cognitive network, and words only matter in how they productively help achieve results in other aspects of the mind.
To find meaning in these kinds of arguments, you have to have either a low IQ, or a very embarrassing lack of education in philosophy. No proper pagan or monotheistic philosopher would have anything to do with these Prussian Circles Arminius is having you run about in. How many more linguistic loops will you jump through to appease him. Will doing it increase your heathen tribes morality? Will you become Overmen raging in health, will to power??? Ha ha ha ha. Hegel’s History and Arius Didymus “Stoic Ethics” and you already have Arminius in a nutshell… actually, you can see BEYOND him.
History has a long shadow, you all are born, and will die in it. In terms of the Monoamine Neurobalance, infact you are defaulted to NEVER have the sense of freedom even Nietzsche desired of a young child, overcomming the camel and lion… by proclaiming one thing over another. Merely look at the Lovheim Cube for verification of this… youve managed to biologically neuter your silly selfs by separating your ethos. You gotta coordinate them together in a youthful cascade, not limit in spite, surprise, anger, fear, etc… which are coincidentally stoic vices and virtues.
Enjoy your labyrinth, your self inflicted torture, your delusions, your sense of self opposed to the sense of the other. Deride the christian.
Booo… the boogeyman.
And knock the dollar crap off. Its a function of the left dorsal lateral, the left brain also does language, shitty feelings, anger, and idolizes ideals, seeks to link ideas together… and has that pissed off angry supermodel sense of self. We get it. Try to lateralize with your right hemisphere a bit, and quite mopping around all anti-social like on philosophy forums. Money is not the god of the masses, but your CAPACITY to denouncement clearly does worship it in a vile and twisted way. Knock it off, and move on. Poverty isnt the result of lacking money, but wishing you had more. Just drop the act, your denouncement makes it painfully obvious what you really are.
Enjoy your pagan gods, and your rituals. Nevermind Arminius’ rabbithole to the Noumenon of Freedom, and that of any other, and you will be free, whether you seek or desire it, or not. Freedom isnt a ends, but a means.