Curt Doolittle updated his status.
( Um. Ok. So 250MG of Magnesium seems to have a profound effect. So does GABA. So does Melatonin. So does red meat. So does any amount of physical exercise. But what does that mean? )
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 14:24:28 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Yes, Peterson has a self authoring course, but not the ‘framing’, and I think Massimo puts books out on the framing but not a course.
Effectively speaking stocism is a scientific religion. Or rather a religious and philosophical system that does not conflict with science.
In my understanding, we are trying to (by accident) recreate the stoic philosophy (religion).
It was quite a while before I understood that’s what I was doing. I think Massimo is doing it intentionally. I haven’t got to peterson yet to ask if he’s knowingly doing it.
I have reasons to prefer peterson’s method. My only question is whether or not he should use biblical stories or not. And my preference is ‘no’, because I want to kill abrahamism (sophism) while at the same time preserve literary analogy (wisdom literature)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 14:14:58 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods): Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear.
2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues….
3) … I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals).
4) … Mental discipline can be created by any number of methods: prayer, meditation, ritual, sport, but other than self-authoring, each has tragic consequences. The virtue of stoic discipline is that it asks us to act to obtain our goals, and to be free of manipulation by others, and manipulation by our animal impulses, such that we divert the least effort to that which is not relevant to achieving our goals.
5) … And stoic discipline is superior to others paritcularly because it provides us with defense against abrahamism in all its forms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 12:58:20 UTC
3) I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 12:39:07 UTC
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@curtdoolittle This sketches out your thoughts on it, and it’s good, but I was wondering if you could also give a concise definition of ‘mindfulness’, as you are using the term in posts such as this?
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2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues….
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 12:35:00 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013762967417098242
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013631331065122821
IN REPLY TO:
@NothingTheGreat
@curtdoolittle This sketches out your thoughts on it, and it’s good, but I was wondering if you could also give a concise definition of ‘mindfulness’, as you are using the term in posts such as this?
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013631331065122821
1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods). Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 12:31:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013762142712057858
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013631331065122821
IN REPLY TO:
@NothingTheGreat
@curtdoolittle This sketches out your thoughts on it, and it’s good, but I was wondering if you could also give a concise definition of ‘mindfulness’, as you are using the term in posts such as this?
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1013631331065122821
Yes, Peterson has a self authoring course, but not the ‘framing’, and I think Massimo puts books out on the framing but not a course.
Effectively speaking stocism is a scientific religion. Or rather a religious and philosophical system that does not conflict with science.
In my understanding, we are trying to (by accident) recreate the stoic philosophy (religion).
It was quite a while before I understood that’s what I was doing. I think Massimo is doing it intentionally. I haven’t got to peterson yet to ask if he’s knowingly doing it.
I have reasons to prefer peterson’s method. My only question is whether or not he should use biblical stories or not. And my preference is ‘no’, because I want to kill abrahamism (sophism) while at the same time preserve literary analogy (wisdom literature)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 10:14:00 UTC
1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods): Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear.
2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues….
3) … I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals).
4) … Mental discipline can be created by any number of methods: prayer, meditation, ritual, sport, but other than self-authoring, each has tragic consequences. The virtue of stoic discipline is that it asks us to act to obtain our goals, and to be free of manipulation by others, and manipulation by our animal impulses, such that we divert the least effort to that which is not relevant to achieving our goals.
5) … And stoic discipline is superior to others paritcularly because it provides us with defense against abrahamism in all its forms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 08:58:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Local chat at a coffee shop. Woman. Late 50’s. Divorced. Solipsistic, definitely borderline psychotic. Ex-husband. He’s professional, sports entertainment, low agreeableness, high dominance, very successful.
Talks about how bad a person he is. I am thinking, every time she talks “How the fuck did he put up with you for 27 years?” She must have been a choice piece when young, because that’s the only reason a man will tolerate your constant vocal stream of emotive opining. I mean, she says he had ‘rage’ in the car, when she would prattle. It never seems to occur to her that her narcissistic prattling is enough to make any lose it.
I mean, personally, I think the guy must be a saint for just not leaving her in hefty bags at the bottom of long island sound.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-01 00:52:46 UTC
I do my job. My job is to teach. If teaching requires ‘unpleasant adjustment’ of your cognition, then that is just doing my job. Because I teach men. Because only Men are worth teaching. There are many males. Few of them are men.