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"La bête tue pour manger

Repue, elle ne tue plus

Les hommes ne sont jamais repus

Ils tuent sans relâche

Ils inventent des machines à tuer

Ils raffinent

Le chien vaut mieux que l’homme…

Diogène avait raison."

Miche Onfray

"Le recours aux forêts"

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Contro tutte le teologie strampalate, preferisco fare appello alle correnti di pensiero alternative alla storiografia filosofica dominante: burloni, materialisti, radicali, cinici, edonisti, atei, sensisti, gaudenti. Essi sanno che esiste un solo mondo e che ogni offerta di un oltremondo ci fa perdere l'uso e il beneficio del solo mondo esistente. È questo il vero peccato mortale.

Michel Onfray - Trattato di ateologia

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Jean Meslier

(1664-1729)

"was a French Catholic priest (abbé) who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism. Described by the author as his "testament" to his parishioners, the text criticizes and denounces all religions." -wikipedia

How astonishing that the prevailing historiography finds no place for an atheist priest in the reign of Louis XIV. More than that, he was a revolutionary communist and internationalist, an avowed materialist, a convinced hedonist, an authentically passionate and vindictively, anti-Christian prophet, but also, and above all, a philosopher in every sense of the word, a philosopher proposing a vision of the world that is coherent, articulated, and defended step by step before the tribunal of the world, without any obligation to conventional Western reasoning. Jean Meslier under his cassock contained all the dynamite at the core of the 18th century. This priest with no reputation and without any memorial furnishes an ideological arsenal of the thought of the Enlightenment's radical faction, that of the ultras, all of whom, drinking from his fountain, innocently pretend to be ignorant of his very name. A number of his theses earn for his borrowers a reputation only won by usurping his work. Suppressed references prevent the reverence due to him. His work? Just a single book, but what a book! A monster of more than a thousand manuscript pages, written with a goose quill pen under the glimmer of the fireplace and candles in an Ardennes vicarage between the so-called Great Century and the one following, called the Enlightenment, which he endorsed, by frequent use of the word, the sealed fate of the 18th century. A handwritten book, never published during the lifetime of its author, probably read by no one other than by its conceiver. A book put out of shape, pillaged, travestied, mutilated after his death. A doomed book of a doomed author; a brilliant book by a brilliant thinker….

-Michel Onfray, "Jean Meslier and "The Gentle Inclination of Nature"", newpol.org/issue_post/jean-meslier-and-gentle-inclination-nature/

("Unite yourselves, therefore, O peoples! Completely shake off the yoke of those who oppress you!

Matter cannot have been created. It possesses its being and its movement inherently.")

Meslier's philosophy was that of an atheist.[11] He also denied the existence of the soul and dismissed the notion of free will. In Chapter V, the priest writes, "If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all". Meslier later describes God as "a chimera" and argues that the supposition of God is not prerequisite to morality. In fact, he concludes that "Whether there exists a God or not … men's moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature". In chapters XXXIII and XXXIV, Meslier challenged Jesus' mental health by implying that Jesus "was really a madman, a fanatic" (étoit véritablement un fou, un insensé, un fanatique). Meslier wrote that kings and religion were the root cause of the suffering of the common people.[5] In his most famous quote, Meslier refers to a man who "wished that all the great men in the world and all the nobility could be hanged, and strangled with the guts of the priests."[14] Meslier admits that the statement may seem crude and shocking, but comments that this is what the priests and nobility deserve, not for reasons of revenge or hatred, but for love of justice and truth.[15] Equally well-known is the version by Diderot: "And [with] the guts of the last priest let's strangle the neck of the last king."[16] During the political unrest of May 1968, the radical students of the Sorbonne Occupation Committee paraphrased Meslier's epigram, stating that "humanity won’t be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat." Meslier also vehemently attacked social injustice and sketched out a kind of rural proto-communism.[11] All the people in a region would belong to a commune in which wealth would be held in common, and everybody would work. Founded on love and brotherhood, the communes would ally to help each other and preserve peace.[18] An opponent of cruelty to animals, Meslier wrote that "it is an act of cruelty, of barbarism, to kill, to strike unconscious, and to cut the throat of animals, who do no harm to anyone, the way we do." He considered the lack of compassion and concern by Christians for animal suffering at the hands of man to be, according to Matthieu Ricard, further proof of "the nonexistence, or the malice, of their God." -wikipedia

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When Michel Onfray summarized the whole heteronormative procreational "be fruitful and multiply" ethos of Abrahamic religions as "demographic metaphysics".

What a powerful phrase indeed.

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El viajero necesita menos una capacidad teórica que una aptitud para la visión. El talento para racionalizar es menos útil que la gracia. Cuando la posee, el nómada-artista sabe y ve como visionario, comprende y capta sin explicaciones, por impulso natural. Practica lo que según las categorías spinozistas se podría llamar el tercer género de conocimiento, el que se nutre de intuiciones y de la penetración inmediata de la esencia de las cosas.

Michel Onfray, Teoría del viaje

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Hans Holbein the Younger, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb

"The effect of the open eyes and mouth has been described by the art critic Michel Onfray as giving the impression that "the viewer sees Christ seeing... even in death, Christ still looks and speaks.""

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