Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • If You Reformed Christianity

    If you took all the falsehood out of christianity then what would remain? – The mass (A lesson, an oath, a feast), festivals. – The extirpation of hatred from the human heart. – The exhaustion of interpersonal forgiveness as the optimum group cooperative strategy. – The demand for personal acts of charity. If you replace life after death with living a good life, persistence through actions, genetic persistence, and human transcendence of our descendents into the gods we imagine. If you replace lessons against the aristocracy in favor of diasporic pastoralists, and instead restored our original mythology os the trials of homer. If you restored the festivals with those of heroes, ancestors and the seasons (nature). If you add ethnocentrism (the optimum group strategy), government by rule of law and markets in everything (the optimum competitive strategy), and stoicism (the optimum mindfulness strategy). Then you have a religion free of lies. Church is a good thing. What one does there produces mindfulness. What one learns there can be truth or lie.

  • “Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it?”— Ni

    —“Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it?”— Nietzsche

    h/t via Ahren Tuathail

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 22:57:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017181156842917888

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Shall we not ourselves have to become God

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it?”— Nietzsche

    h/t via Ahren Tuathail

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 22:57:28 UTC

  • Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must become them

    Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must become them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 17:15:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017094930748100610

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must b

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must become them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 17:14:52 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. WISDOM VS TRUTH There is a reason the operati

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    WISDOM VS TRUTH
    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia.

    I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule).

    It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 14:10:56 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post. There is a reason the operational name of mytholog

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia.

    I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule).

    It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 14:06:39 UTC

  • Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must become them

    Gods? If there are to be gods, then we must become them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 13:14:00 UTC

  • Wisdom that Has Survived Market Competition

    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule). It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.

  • Wisdom that Has Survived Market Competition

    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule). It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.