Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “The eradication of a stereotype only requires that it not be reinforced by freq

    —“The eradication of a stereotype only requires that it not be reinforced by frequent observation.”—@[11804727:2048:Steve Pender]

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-02 19:54:00 UTC

  • “Parasitism will persist as long as we don’t have territorial self determination

    —“Parasitism will persist as long as we don’t have territorial self determination to escape it.”— Andy Ujku

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-02 18:47:00 UTC

  • The Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope.

    —“Christianity, historically speaking, has been anything but a unified phenomenon; to get to the bottom of it as a faith in its own right, one must look to its source, to the Bible, which means – one must already accept the Protestant turn. And I strongly suspect that when one does so, one does not find the glory to which the Christian faith has at times lent itself. When many on the Right defend Christianity, I suspect they are actually defending the Church. But the Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope. The Church of Vatican II, of John and Paul, of a Ratzinger who resigns to make way for this Jesuit of a Bergoglio and his pandering to the Third World hordes – what can one expect from this Church, and how is one to seriously anticipate a spiritual shift within it?”—John Bruce Leonard

  • Yes, via Negativa Reasoning Is the Hardest Habit to Learn

    —“I would say via negative appears counter-intuitive to most. And that’s part of the problem: reliance on intuition (or counter intuition) for navigation and problem solving”— Micah Pezdirtz

    [Y]es, the via-negativa is the hardest habit to develop. In economic terms, via-negativa consists of just looking for the equilibrating force, and so it’s all just the application of economic (equilibration) and science (falsification) to what we traditionally treat as moral questions (justification). It’s so much part of our language, and culture, and literature… and history. It’s just like learning the earth isn’t the center but an irrelevant little bit of dust in the galactic suburbs – and that man isn’t designed just an accident of evolutionary experimentation.

  • The Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope.

    —“Christianity, historically speaking, has been anything but a unified phenomenon; to get to the bottom of it as a faith in its own right, one must look to its source, to the Bible, which means – one must already accept the Protestant turn. And I strongly suspect that when one does so, one does not find the glory to which the Christian faith has at times lent itself. When many on the Right defend Christianity, I suspect they are actually defending the Church. But the Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope. The Church of Vatican II, of John and Paul, of a Ratzinger who resigns to make way for this Jesuit of a Bergoglio and his pandering to the Third World hordes – what can one expect from this Church, and how is one to seriously anticipate a spiritual shift within it?”—John Bruce Leonard

  • Yes, via Negativa Reasoning Is the Hardest Habit to Learn

    —“I would say via negative appears counter-intuitive to most. And that’s part of the problem: reliance on intuition (or counter intuition) for navigation and problem solving”— Micah Pezdirtz

    [Y]es, the via-negativa is the hardest habit to develop. In economic terms, via-negativa consists of just looking for the equilibrating force, and so it’s all just the application of economic (equilibration) and science (falsification) to what we traditionally treat as moral questions (justification). It’s so much part of our language, and culture, and literature… and history. It’s just like learning the earth isn’t the center but an irrelevant little bit of dust in the galactic suburbs – and that man isn’t designed just an accident of evolutionary experimentation.

  • The Millennia of The Interior Crimes of The Church Mirror the External Crimes of Islam.

    —“[W]hen the Church needed to be enlightened and pull Europe together after the fall of the Roman Empire it did the opposite and was obscurantist, belligerent and divisive. When in the modern times it needed to be a guardian of tradition and a shepherd of our culture it became a guardian of sexual abuse and a spineless sheep led by the culture imposed by once despised outsiders. Burn Galileo and then open the city gates to barbarian hordes. Church in a nutshell.”—Andrey Sokoloff

  • The Church as A Means of Defense Against the Totalitarian State.

    —“For those on the Right defending the church, it seems to boil down to defending family, and the necessary semblance of tradition, against the barren NPC cultural landscape.”—Aidan Waring

    —“They are not defending THE church. They are defending THEIR church. Not the abstract theology, but the specific function of the church within their community that organizes them to resist against the encroaching NPC culture.”—Luke Weinhagen

    That is the purpose of the church (intertemporal) – to limit the state (temporal), which in turn limits commerce (present).

  • Golden Rule: The Limit of Christian Charity

    by John Mark [T]he Golden Rule works for individuals choosing to spend their own $/time/energy/investment to actively help others. As soon as you scale beyond the individual, it turns into communism – whoever is in political power forcing (by legislation) me to make investments in actively helping others that I myself have not chosen to make. That’s theft. It’s communism. The Golden Rule becomes communism as soon as it scales beyond individual choices.

  • “How Can I Learn to Communicate Like You Do?”

    There was a time, not so long ago, that this question would have been met with “Why?” lol

    —“How can I learn to communicate like you do? One cannot effectively communicate what is inside without the proper language or outlet to express those things.”— A Friend

    [I] would have to understand you a bit better to know how to answer that. But yes, Propertarianism makes it possible to speak what is in your mind in scientific terms. I think understanding what I teach requires a great deal of knowledge that unfortunately, we are INTENTIONALLY not taught. I suppose that when I offer my class this january, that you can join that and I can help teach it to you. There are a couple of problems learning. 1) learning to think ‘via-negativa’ (in what will make this false) is much harder than how we think today in the ‘via positiva’. 2) learning to describe everything in economic and commercial terms is also somewhat difficult Because doing both of those requires re-training our ‘intuition’ so that you leave behind the supernatural, and moral ages, and speak in scientific terms of the scientific age. Then learning WHY that is true, requires learning ‘the grammars of speech’ which i don’t think is TOO hard, and then learning testimonialism (the grammar of falsification). It’s basically like learning a law degree. But the difference is, that ‘once you see the world this way’ it will all fit together and much more of it will be clear to you. At that point you will be able to ‘speak what is in your mind’ because you will have the vocabulary for it.