—“Basically, if the West didn’t re-develop the military capabilities of the Roman military until Napoleon, then please don’t tell me the Dark Ages didn’t happen. The Dark Age was real in the only way that matters.”—Daniel Roland Anderson
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-09 10:53:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 13:55:00 UTC
https://www.newnationalist.net/2018/07/08/russia-to-offer-refuge-to-15000-south-african-boers/https://www.newnationalist.net/2018/07/08/russia-to-offer-refuge-to-15000-south-african-boers/
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 13:55:00 UTC
All groups need the products of cults: strategy, decidability, mindfulness, and in-group trust. All groups can achieve these products with Literature, Argument, Oath, Ritual, and Festival.
But there is no evidence that such cults need falsehoods. And all evidence is that abrahamic monotheisms are nothing but the most destructive lies in history that we have struggled to overcome.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 13:40:00 UTC
I mean, we spent 150 years reversing 3500 years of eugenics. It’s not that the resulting problem isn’t solvable. It’s just a question of time, lead, smokeless power, and not running out of all the beer we’re drinking at the parties every night.
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Source date (UTC): 2018-07-07 19:59:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
—“There was no “library” as a separate institution or structure. It was always an inseparable part of the overall Museum. Secondly, the Museum was in no sense a secular institution. It was truly a temple to the Muses, and Holy Wisdom, with sacred functions. Even under Roman control it continued to be administered by a priest. Finally, it would seem that the Romans had nothing to do with the burning of the Museum, indeed there was no damage during the Roman conquest. The greatest damage is shown to have been done in late antiquity at the hands of Christian fanatics- like so many similar cases of the mindless destruction of our classical heritage.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 23:27:21 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC MONOPOLIES
—“The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.”—
Meritocracy is not Authoritarian.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 21:47:01 UTC
EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC MONOPOLIES
—“The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.”—
Meritocracy is not Authoritarian.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 17:47:00 UTC
“Thou shalt not exceed the carrying capacity of thy world.”
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 12:56:00 UTC
3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face). 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent. 6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily. 9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face. Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”