Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • Religions Come In Many Forms

    [T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of perceptive and cognitive labor.

    Progressivism (Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism) is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. We are unequal. Diversity is bad. Redistribution to the point where it affects reproduction is bad. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible and therefore the rules cannot be possibly true). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology. I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and pseudo-scientific.

  • Religions Come In Many Forms

    [T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of perceptive and cognitive labor.

    Progressivism (Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism) is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. We are unequal. Diversity is bad. Redistribution to the point where it affects reproduction is bad. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible and therefore the rules cannot be possibly true). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology. I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and pseudo-scientific.

  • SO IS TRUTH ENOUGH TO BASE A MORE AGGRESSIVE ‘RELIGION’ UPON? I think it is. The

    SO IS TRUTH ENOUGH TO BASE A MORE AGGRESSIVE ‘RELIGION’ UPON?

    I think it is.

    The end of history is the truthful civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-16 08:50:00 UTC

  • RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict

    RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS

    To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we requre a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of cognitive labor.

    Progressivism: Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible cannot be possible). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology.

    I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and unscientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:59:00 UTC

  • Will We See A Post-Religious Future?

    [G]iven that we see a decline in religiosity. 1) ON ARATIONAL VS RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL ETHICS – Rationalism (rational ethics) increases as IQ increases – Religiosity (arational ethics) increases as IQ decreases. – Impulsivity and crime increase as IQ decreases. – There is a positive correlation between non-criminality and religion as IQ decreases. (The whole “love” thing works really) – All that differs in people’s behavior is the justification for their actions. – All people justify their intuitions, they do not rationally choose moral behaviors. – So whether we are indoctrinated into an arational, or a rational ethic is one of whether we are able to practice arational or rational justifications. – And conversely, we require both arational and rational ethics to provide for people capable of arational and rational justification. – Just as we require virtue (imitative), rational (rule based), and empirical (outcome based) ethics for children, adults, and elders.

    2) ON 20th CENTURY PSEUDOSCIENCE Marxism, Freudianism, Socialism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Keyensian economics, Cantorian sets, Misesian economics, libertine libertarianism, neo-conservatism, are all pseudoscientific nonsense. Much of religion is mythical and arational in content, but produces highly desirable results. The purpose of monotheism was the conduct of warfare by pre-state peoples. From iran/india (the same peoples at the time) forward that is the purpose of religion: power. Just as the purpose of the 19th and 20th century philosophies was to produce ideologies that assisted in the seizure of political power. So while I am happy we had a reformation. And I am happy that we had Darwin, I am unhappy that the intuitionistic and operationalist revolutions failed – and allowed pseudoscience (lies) to replace myths (allegories). I wouldn’t be too impressed with myself by thinking the era of religion had passed. Democratic secular socialist humanism is just as nonsensical (as stated) as is any of the main religions of the earth. Dressing the emperor in new clothes does nothing to change his identity. I have a vision. That vision is to create the truthful society just as we created the scientific society(the anglo enlightenment), and before it the rational society (the Hellenic enlightenment). And if we did that we would look at the pseudoscience, outright lies, and propaganda of the 20th century just as we look at the medieval period: an age of mysticism. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Will We See A Post-Religious Future?

    [G]iven that we see a decline in religiosity. 1) ON ARATIONAL VS RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL ETHICS – Rationalism (rational ethics) increases as IQ increases – Religiosity (arational ethics) increases as IQ decreases. – Impulsivity and crime increase as IQ decreases. – There is a positive correlation between non-criminality and religion as IQ decreases. (The whole “love” thing works really) – All that differs in people’s behavior is the justification for their actions. – All people justify their intuitions, they do not rationally choose moral behaviors. – So whether we are indoctrinated into an arational, or a rational ethic is one of whether we are able to practice arational or rational justifications. – And conversely, we require both arational and rational ethics to provide for people capable of arational and rational justification. – Just as we require virtue (imitative), rational (rule based), and empirical (outcome based) ethics for children, adults, and elders.

    2) ON 20th CENTURY PSEUDOSCIENCE Marxism, Freudianism, Socialism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Keyensian economics, Cantorian sets, Misesian economics, libertine libertarianism, neo-conservatism, are all pseudoscientific nonsense. Much of religion is mythical and arational in content, but produces highly desirable results. The purpose of monotheism was the conduct of warfare by pre-state peoples. From iran/india (the same peoples at the time) forward that is the purpose of religion: power. Just as the purpose of the 19th and 20th century philosophies was to produce ideologies that assisted in the seizure of political power. So while I am happy we had a reformation. And I am happy that we had Darwin, I am unhappy that the intuitionistic and operationalist revolutions failed – and allowed pseudoscience (lies) to replace myths (allegories). I wouldn’t be too impressed with myself by thinking the era of religion had passed. Democratic secular socialist humanism is just as nonsensical (as stated) as is any of the main religions of the earth. Dressing the emperor in new clothes does nothing to change his identity. I have a vision. That vision is to create the truthful society just as we created the scientific society(the anglo enlightenment), and before it the rational society (the Hellenic enlightenment). And if we did that we would look at the pseudoscience, outright lies, and propaganda of the 20th century just as we look at the medieval period: an age of mysticism. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Islam vs Protestant (Germanicized) Christianity

    [I]slam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It mereley means it is more competitive.

    1) hatred is proscribed / hatred is prohibited
    2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited
    3) lies are permissible / lies are not permissible
    4) dual ethics / universal ethics
    5) respect a given / respect earned by actions.
    6) knowledge is fixed / knowledge evolves
    7) intolerance is required / intolerance is prohibited
    8) inbreeding is promoted / inbreeding is prohibited
    9) produces low trust societies / produces high trust societies
    10) produces ignorance and poverty / produces knowledge and prosperity.
    (….this list goes on forever)

    But, I don’t think of it as most folks do because I don’t rely on introspection. 

    I just look at the epistemic properties of each body of thought and I Compare their abilities to produce a high trust society and it’s corresponding innovation and wealth.

  • Islam vs Protestant (Germanicized) Christianity

    [I]slam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It mereley means it is more competitive.

    1) hatred is proscribed / hatred is prohibited
    2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited
    3) lies are permissible / lies are not permissible
    4) dual ethics / universal ethics
    5) respect a given / respect earned by actions.
    6) knowledge is fixed / knowledge evolves
    7) intolerance is required / intolerance is prohibited
    8) inbreeding is promoted / inbreeding is prohibited
    9) produces low trust societies / produces high trust societies
    10) produces ignorance and poverty / produces knowledge and prosperity.
    (….this list goes on forever)

    But, I don’t think of it as most folks do because I don’t rely on introspection. 

    I just look at the epistemic properties of each body of thought and I Compare their abilities to produce a high trust society and it’s corresponding innovation and wealth.

  • ISLAM VS (PROTESTANT) CHRISTIANITY Islam is a more aggressive evolutionary strat

    ISLAM VS (PROTESTANT) CHRISTIANITY

    Islam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It merley means it is more competitive.

    1) hatred is prescribed / hatred is prohibited

    2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited

    3) lies are permissible / lies are not permissible

    4) dual ethics / universal ethics

    5) respect a given / respect earned by actions.

    6) knowledge is fixed / knowledge evolves

    7) intolerance is required / intolerance is prohibited

    8) inbreeding is promoted / inbreeding is prohibited

    9) produces low trust societies / produces high trust societies

    10) produces ignorance and poverty / produces knowledge and prosperity.

    11) God favours the pious / God favours the productive

    (….this list goes on forever)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-30 10:28:00 UTC

  • WILL WE SEE A POST-RELIGIOUS FUTURE? Given that we see a decline in religiosity.

    WILL WE SEE A POST-RELIGIOUS FUTURE?

    Given that we see a decline in religiosity.

    ON ARATIONAL VS RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL ETHICS

    – Rationalism (rational ethics) increases as IQ increases

    – Religiosity (arational ethics) increases as IQ decreases.

    – Impulsivity and crime increase as IQ decreases.

    – There is a positive correlation between non-criminality and religion as IQ decreases. (The whole “love” thing works really)

    – All that differs in people’s behavior is the justification for their actions.

    – All people justify their intuitions, they do not rationally choose moral behaviors.

    – So whether we are indoctrinated into an arational, or a rational ethic is one of whether we are able to practice arational or rational justifications.

    – And conversely, we require both arational and rational ethics to provide for people capable of arational and rational justification.

    – Just as we require virtue (imitative), rational (rule based), and empirical (outcome based) ethics for children, adults, and elders.

    ON 20th CENTURY PSEUDOSCIENCE

    Marxism, Freudianism, Socialism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Keyensian economics, Cantorian sets, Misesian economics, libertine libertarianism, neo-conservatism, are all pseudoscientific nonsense.

    Much of religion is mythical and arational in content, but produces highly desirable results. The purpose of monotheism was the conduct of warfare by pre-state peoples. From iran/india (the same peoples at the time) forward that is the purpose of religion: power.

    Just as the purpose of the 19th and 20th century philosophies was to produce ideologies that assisted in the seizure of political power.

    So while I am happy we had a reformation. And I am happy that we had Darwin, I am unhappy that the intuitionistic and operationalist revolutions failed – and allowed pseudoscience (lies) to replace myths (allegories).

    I wouldn’t be too impressed with myself by thinking the era of religion had passed. Democratic secular socialist humanism is just as nonsensical (as stated) as is any of the main religions of the earth.

    Dressing the emperor in new clothes does nothing to change his identity.

    I have a vision. That vision is to create the truthful society just as we created the scientific society(the anglo enlightenment), and before it the rational society (the hellenic enlightenment).

    And if we did that we would look at the pseudoscience, outright lies, and propaganda of the 20th century just as we look at the medieval period: an age of mysticism.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-30 09:51:00 UTC