Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • THE PURPOSE OF RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIAN STRATEGY (from twitter) The purpose of re

    THE PURPOSE OF RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIAN STRATEGY
    (from twitter)

    The purpose of religions is to provide mindfulness (neural economy) by intergenerational transfer of group competitive strategy in non-rational terms that are resistant to attack by reason and sophism, truth and lie, science and pseudoscience, and criticism and competition.

    Christianity in 5 rules: the eradication of hatred from the human heart. The extension of familial love to all. The demand for personal acts of charity and personal cost. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment. Faith in doing so despite the risk and cost

    Those rules create both positive and negative consequences: high trust society that can build large productive commons and low corruption institutions – at the cost of pathological altruism for the world’s least kin selected people, making them vulnerable to non-violent enemies.

    I can disambiguate every sentence you speak into your group class and gender strategy – and every other major civilization. We all perpetuate our lies in the vocabulary and grammar we know how to use, in the paradigms we inherited, to produce, free ride, or prey upon competitors.

    Find me any group that doesn’t (a) find excuses to justify it’s group competitive strategy (b) use a specific paradigm, vocabulary and grammar to communicate it in, (c) use gossip, rallying, shaming, loading, framing, obscurantism sophism and straw manning against competitors.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-26 13:50:22 UTC

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  • ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FRAUD, IDEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY. —“I’m not su

    ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FRAUD, IDEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY.

    —“I’m not sure how pointing out that religions institutionalize echo chambers, in a conversation about echo chambers, means anything like whatever you just said. I’m concerned with ideological homogeneity in all forms. That’s why I criticize it”—

    Good point. So what about ideological competition vs simple truth and reciprocity in everything? In other words what is the purpose of ideology other than power under democracy, philosophy other than power under aristocracy, religion in opposition to aristocracy? Why any of them?

    As far as I know sophism, pseudoscience, fraud, ideology, philosophy, theology, are just means of avoiding engaging in private (economy) and public markets (politics), in order to obtain something by stealing it rather than trading for it. This problem is undermining democracy.

    So, we all create echo chambers and most of the literature, especially in behavioral economics, focuses on various forms of selection bias. The thing is that it’s NECESSARY because groups have different degrees of agency, and the commons is saturated with undecidable falsehoods.

    Those of us with the necessary talents are as ignorant of the demands of the common people given our market for falsehoods, as they are limited by dunning kruger in falsifying them. ie: networks of common paradigms are necessary. Our only universal is law of tort (reciprocity).

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-26 13:49:14 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102508065836578181

  • Christianity in 5 rules: the eradication of hatred from the human heart. The ext

    Christianity in 5 rules: the eradication of hatred from the human heart. The extension of familial love to all. The demand for personal acts of charity and personal cost. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment. Faith in doing so despite the risk and cost

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 23:53:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154540098375028736

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  • The purpose of religions is to provide mindfulness (neural economy) by intergene

    The purpose of religions is to provide mindfulness (neural economy) by intergenerational transfer of group competitive strategy in non-rational terms that are resistant to attack by reason and sophism, truth and lie, science and pseudoscience, and criticism and competition.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 23:50:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154539357996380163

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    @EPoe187 It is strange to me that if ideological homogeneity is intrinsically dangerous, religious institutions aren’t ground zero for concern. Universities are at least diverse in principle, if not practice. Religious institutions, by contrast, are echo chambers by design!

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  • Well, it’s being eliminated. Fast. With bifurcation between fundamentalist and s

    Well, it’s being eliminated. Fast.
    With bifurcation between fundamentalist and secular.
    The question is, what will replace it.
    What can retain the underlying strategy (exhaustive forgiveness, always produces optimum cooperation) but lose the woo woo?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 16:09:57 UTC

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  • Religion has been the hardest problem in social science, and it’s precisely the

    Religion has been the hardest problem in social science, and it’s precisely the invulnerability to rational argument that provides intergenerational transmission with minimum modification of the underlying strategy.

    (Thanks for letting me think out loud. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 16:06:06 UTC

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    @TOOEdit And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality of strategy, but have supernatural, moral-normative, and ratio-scientific means of education (indoctrination, training) that doesn’t make us vulnerable to semitism (submission, sophism) and “lying”?

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    @TOOEdit And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality of strategy, but have supernatural, moral-normative, and ratio-scientific means of education (indoctrination, training) that doesn’t make us vulnerable to semitism (submission, sophism) and “lying”?

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  • And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality

    And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality of strategy, but have supernatural, moral-normative, and ratio-scientific means of education (indoctrination, training) that doesn’t make us vulnerable to semitism (submission, sophism) and “lying”?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 16:04:17 UTC

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    @TOOEdit All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of decidability(morality), a means of ‘mindfulness’ for personal, interpersonal, and social, a means of status equalization (festivals), for what’s reducible to maintaining a neural economy. Why Xianity?

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    @TOOEdit All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of decidability(morality), a means of ‘mindfulness’ for personal, interpersonal, and social, a means of status equalization (festivals), for what’s reducible to maintaining a neural economy. Why Xianity?

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  • All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of

    All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of decidability(morality), a means of ‘mindfulness’ for personal, interpersonal, and social, a means of status equalization (festivals), for what’s reducible to maintaining a neural economy. Why Xianity?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 16:01:21 UTC

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    @TOOEdit Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it might be because of the radius of corruption that extends out from the Church – especially Italy. Studying Economics and Law produces a very different history from Theo, Phil, and and Literature.

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    @TOOEdit Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it might be because of the radius of corruption that extends out from the Church – especially Italy. Studying Economics and Law produces a very different history from Theo, Phil, and and Literature.

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  • Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it

    Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it might be because of the radius of corruption that extends out from the Church – especially Italy. Studying Economics and Law produces a very different history from Theo, Phil, and and Literature.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 15:56:46 UTC

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    @TOOEdit I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demonstrated value of the group strategy in Christianity, and the method of delivery (semitic parable) and the method of persuasion (False Promise, Baiting into Moral Hazard, Pilpul and Critique.)

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    @TOOEdit I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demonstrated value of the group strategy in Christianity, and the method of delivery (semitic parable) and the method of persuasion (False Promise, Baiting into Moral Hazard, Pilpul and Critique.)

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  • I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demon

    I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demonstrated value of the group strategy in Christianity, and the method of delivery (semitic parable) and the method of persuasion (False Promise, Baiting into Moral Hazard, Pilpul and Critique.)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 15:52:43 UTC

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