Curt Doolittle

Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

  • CLOWN: EVIDENCE OF A STATE RELIGION? Now, we have a long history of ridiculing o

    CLOWN: EVIDENCE OF A STATE RELIGION?

    Now, we have a long history of ridiculing our officials. I have spent halloween dressed as both Reagan and Clinton – neither of them very charitable representations.

    So a clown gets up and plays the president. Or Hollywood puts out a discrediting film using prominent left wing actors about Reagan or the iron lady.

    We burn effigies of Bush, and copies of the flag.

    Funny enough that the progressive reaction to a clown wearing an Obama mask at a rodeo produces the same intensity of reaction that a cartoon of mohammed did from fundamentalist muslims.

    American libertarians and conservatives must understand that the philosophical framework we call postmodernism, is a FUNDAMENTALIST religion far more dangerous than islam. Far more dangerous than socialism or communism.

    Christianity had churches against the nobility. Communism had the state against the nobility and the capitalists. Socialism had universities and argued that it was a science – until it was demonstrated in theory and practice that it was not.

    But universities did not give up upon the failure of their new religion. They invented postmodernism.

    We see postmodernism as political correctness. As feminism that did not grant equal rights, but extraordinary privileged. As absurd liberal logic: Equality as a fact rather than a necessity of just law. Diversity as a good rather than a temporary tolerance until people assimilate . Merit as an obscurity for invisible inexplicable but assumed corruption. Support for the unfortunate as an obligation to subsidize poor judgement.

    That the separation of church and state must equally apply to universities and their religion of postmodernism, as it did to our cathedrals and christianity.

    Universities, like advertising agencies and consumer brands have the incentives to mislead people, whether customers or citizens. To sell them lies, dreams and fantasies. And since they are unaccountable there is

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 11:39:00 UTC

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from

  • What Is The Definition Of Religion?

    Starting with the minimal to the maximal:
    Level 1) Myth and Ritual
    Level 2) Myth, Ritual, and Promise
    Level 3) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood
    Level 4) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma
    Level 5) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution
    Level 6) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political Influence
    Level 7) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political Influence, Military Projection of Influence – conquest.

    POSTMODERN DEMOCRATIC SECULARISM IS IN FACT, A RELIGION.
    The fact that we WANT equality to be true, and diversity to be a good, and equality of outcome, is very different from whether it’s possible. Postmodernism has replaced the promise of eternal life with the promise of equality. Neither of which are any more possible than the other.

    We can also argue that scientism is a religion, but that’s too much for this forum. 🙂

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-religion

  • What Is The Definition Of Religion?

    Starting with the minimal to the maximal:
    Level 1) Myth and Ritual
    Level 2) Myth, Ritual, and Promise
    Level 3) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood
    Level 4) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma
    Level 5) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution
    Level 6) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political Influence
    Level 7) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political Influence, Military Projection of Influence – conquest.

    POSTMODERN DEMOCRATIC SECULARISM IS IN FACT, A RELIGION.
    The fact that we WANT equality to be true, and diversity to be a good, and equality of outcome, is very different from whether it’s possible. Postmodernism has replaced the promise of eternal life with the promise of equality. Neither of which are any more possible than the other.

    We can also argue that scientism is a religion, but that’s too much for this forum. 🙂

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-religion

  • PROPER PAGAN SOLSTICE RITUAL: Kupala I love this culture. Go to the forest. Get

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KupalaA PROPER PAGAN SOLSTICE RITUAL: Kupala

    I love this culture.

    Go to the forest. Get flowers from a fern. Make a wreath. Float it in the river. Men try to catch them. The river goddess assists the girls in choosing mates.

    Solstice bonfires.

    Ancient fertility rite. Same root word as Cupid.

    We were better then. :). Paganism celebrates our differences. Paganism is communal not political.

    Today it seems like its basically “girls night out”. 😉

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupala

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-03 07:23:00 UTC

  • GODS EXIST LIKE NUMBERS EXIST Good video on a topic that I try to popularize. Do

    GODS EXIST LIKE NUMBERS EXIST

    Good video on a topic that I try to popularize. Does math exist? Do numbers exist? If they exist, how? 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 07:40:00 UTC

  • Islamic Fundamentalism is a Totalitarian Political Movement, Not a Religion.

    (Following up on Salman Rushdie’s argument that Islam is a weaponized and militarized religion) Serious Stuff – The New Republic [T]he author reiterates the point that Islamic fundamentalism is a totalitarian political movement. I’ve been saying this for years. And it’s true. It may be structured as a religion, the way marxism was a religion structured as a science, but it’s a political movement. We had to defeat the east repeatedly in our history. The greeks held the east at bay, and the romans conquered it to keep it at bay. We arguably lost to christianity until the Germans freed us from it. We could have lost to marxism and communism, but we spent the west coming to a stalemate. We have lost our will to keep islam at bay. Partly because Heroic Aristocracy is alien to the majority. Totalitarianism is man’s preferred state. We should observe the actions of those who say otherwise. Because man demonstrates an interest in the fruits of the market. But he does everything possible to avoid participating in it. And women in particular seem to love it to their own detriment. For some reason, women seem to confused: their desire for collective opinion is in fact, a desire for totalitarianism. They are the same. It’s genetic. Women just havent been responsible members of the political universe long enough to incorporate that reality into their oral history. Women have taken the country left. Period. End of story. 🙂 (how much trouble will that get me in?)

  • NUCLEAR FAMILY, AND RELIGION Great book. Few hours worth of reading. The author

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CAK3XO8/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkTHE NUCLEAR FAMILY, AND RELIGION

    Great book. Few hours worth of reading.

    The author doesn’t understand, I think, the origins of our special society in Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Aristocracy), but she gets the other half right: that family and religion are not separate institutions, but inseparable and they will decline in tandem.

    Her hypothesis is that we will see a reawakening of religion in response to the failure of social democracy and its religion of Secular Postmodernism.

    But I”m not sure we don’t need a reformation – the same reformation that the germans have tried three times and failed at: reincorporating paganism and history into christianity.

    I’d hoped to live long enough to work on that problem but I’m having enough of a handfull working on fixing the problem of government now that he family and religion have collapsed.

    🙂

    Curt Doolittle Kiev,

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-22 10:20:00 UTC

  • Is Atheism A Threat To Humanity Due To Its Lower Birth Rates? Religion Often Requires Couples To Have Children, But As Religion Loses Its Grip On The People, They Tend To Have Fewer Children Than Required To Maintain The Population.

    THE ANSWER IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN OTHER POSTERS SUGGEST.

    I’ll try to do it justice.

    The answer is yes, that it’s correlative. Empirically, yes in the aggregate atheists have fewer children.  And yes, its partly causal.

    1) Reproduction is losing it’s economic utility as a guarantee of old age security.

    2) Consumer capitalism raises the cost of creating ‘middle class and working class children’ and so birth rates decline along with industrialization.

    3) Atheism is highly correlative with education, and education correlative with income, and income correlative with decreased reproduction. (Children are a net negative on career development because they are time consuming. Or conversely, careerism in two income household deprives both individuals of the time necessary for child rearing. )

    4) Prettier women have more children, married women have more children, women who stay at home have more children.  Less attractive women have fewer children. Unmarried women have fewer children. Women who work have fewer children.  This is all just data.  We have put women into the work force and decreased their rate of breeding RELATIVE to the rates of breeding in other civilizations. (This was most evident in russian and japan, both of whom are facing serious long term economic problems because of it.  You cannot easily have both the employment of women AND paid retirement and health care. At least, that’s what it looks like.)

    5) With the advent of redistribution, loss of male property rights, and child support and financial support, Women are “marrying the state”, or “marrying the state via child support”. Both of these do statistically decrease reproduction, as they also render the males economically not viable for other women. (That’s the data. Sorry if it’s unpleasant.)

    6) The lower classes are dramatically shifting out of monogamy into serial monogamy.  Humans are naturally serially monogamous in tribal life. Monogamy is economically competitive, but not natural to man – we evolved to manage relationships that last on the order of four years – long enough for a child to walk with a migrating tribe.  The moral prescription for monogamy, and therefor for higher reproduction rates associated with monogamy, was caused by (a) the agrarian mode of production and the family farming unit (b) the politically dangerous problem of single men unable to have access to sex – the source of most revolutions. Monogamy was imposed by religious leadership for these reasons – although we are still trying I think to link all that history together. It looks like it’s a natural evolution, not just the copying of an idea worldwide.

    CONCLUSION
    1) The strain on the rest of the planet’s biomass by our enormous population is pretty severe. It’s possible we’re more than twice the population that the planet can handle.  We do not need more people.  There are no pollution problems. There are few resource problems. There is a population problem.
    2) We have created an economic and political system of intergenerational redistribution that requires constant growth and constant new generations. 
    3) Consumer capitalism seems to put a cap on uncontrolled population expansion.

    So it isn’t clear that we need to increase population. In fact, just the opposite. And we could do so, but our current system of redistribution is a system of dependencies that we can’t likely get out of without a political crisis.

    So the glass is half full (declining population) and half empty (we are dependent upon population growth that the earth cannot sustain, and which causes political infighting.).

    In these cases Atheism is correlative with lower reproduction in the upper classes, and CAUSAL with reproduction in the lower classes.

    I hope this makes sense.

    Curt

    https://www.quora.com/Is-atheism-a-threat-to-humanity-due-to-its-lower-birth-rates-Religion-often-requires-couples-to-have-children-but-as-religion-loses-its-grip-on-the-people-they-tend-to-have-fewer-children-than-required-to-maintain-the-population