RT @hbdchick: the matrilineal belt. “[A]n area in Africa south of the equator where matrilineality is predominant. The matrilineal belt run…
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-12 13:21:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050738208986816512
—“Democracy should be understood as an institutionalised collective crime and a massive spoliation of resources from the producers to the free riders: A vast pigouvian tax, but in a reverse sense.”—José Francisco Mayora
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-12 10:00:00 UTC
THE SCIENTIST IS “THE ONE WHO KNOCKS”
—-”As a philosopher or theologian, how do you feel when scientists boldly venture into your field, making dogmatic statements? Should what is good for the goose also be good for the gander?”—- Quora User
Well, I’m an anti-philosophy Philosopher. I use the framework of philosophy (Aristotle’s Categories) and some of the terminology to undermine the sophistry so common in nearly all of philosophy; and I argue fairly frequently that philosophy shares more with religion’s sophism, conflation, fictionalism, and lack of external correspondence.
In my understanding, I write Law (Testimony). Law requires tests of the logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal and complete (limits and full accounting). So law requires far more survival criteria than do logic, physical science, and the soft sciences of psychology and sociology.
As I understand it, what I do is in fact, Science – if science consists of ‘necessary due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit.’
I find plenty of folly in religion, literature, philosophy, economics, law, soft science, hard science, logic, and mathematics. So every field has it’s people who presume.
And the reason they tend to presume is that they understand the FRAMES of just one discipline rather than either Frames of ALL disciplines, or the ONE frame that remains constant across all disciplines: Hypothesis, Due Diligence, Testimony, and Warranty.
So while logic and mathematics can intrude on science, and science can intrude on philosophy, and philosophical rationalism can intrude on theology, the opposite cannot be true (ever). The reason being that what we can testify to decreases as we move from math, to logic, to science, to philosophy, to theology. And without testifiability we cannot make truth claims. Because that is what truth means: testimony that is consistent, correspondent, coherent, and complete.
The universe is not complicated. It’s the host of little comforting lies we tell ourselves that cloud our reason, intuition, and comprehension.
And so to borrow an edgy quote, I don’t fear a scientist knocking at my door. Because **“I am the one who knocks”.**
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-12 09:54:00 UTC
RT @StefanMolyneux: Conservatives want to have families.
Leftists just want to have sex.
Explains a lot.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-12 01:44:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050562741876940800
—“Modern dogs are part of the extended phenotype of indo europeans.”—Alba Rising
lolz;
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-11 23:42:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050532064255201280
—“Democracy: A circumvention of cooperation; under the guise of comprise.”—Brandon Hayes
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-11 20:35:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050485080760745984
—“Modern dogs are part of the extended phenotype of indo europeans.”—Alba Rising
lolz;
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-11 19:41:00 UTC
October 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
“For 2016, the latest year for which data are available, the top five most fiscally sound states were, in order: Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Florida and Oklahoma. The five worst states, starting at the bottom: Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Kentucky. Notice anything similar in these groupings? We did. All but one of the top five are solidly Republican states. All but one of the bottom five are solidly Democratic.” Investor’s Business Daily
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October 11th, 2018 6:43 AM
—“While I might understand what he says it makes me realize how under educated I am and how much more I need to learn.”— Vinny Vidivicci
[J]ust one note. (a) You were deprived of education purposefully, to make you ignorant, and pliable for the authoritarian ‘Self Anointed’ left. (b) We learned a great deal from the experiments of the 20th century and only now are synthesizing our understanding of it. (c) That understanding is contentious because between women and immigrants we are the minority trying to preserve empirical, nomocratic (rule of law), market, meritocratic civilization. (d) In a division of perception, cognition, memory, labor, negotiation, and advocacy, some of us can specialize in ‘synthesis’ so that others can ‘consume’ our intellectual product. I have a gift, and have been successful enough in business to devote the vast majority of my time to this effort – so you don’t have to. Just as whatever you do, means I don’t have to do it. And this is why ‘nomocratic, market, meritocratic’ civilization works to provide such disproportionate returns – as long as we are truthful, dutiful, and reciprocal with one another. -hugs brother.
October 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
“For 2016, the latest year for which data are available, the top five most fiscally sound states were, in order: Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Florida and Oklahoma. The five worst states, starting at the bottom: Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Kentucky. Notice anything similar in these groupings? We did. All but one of the top five are solidly Republican states. All but one of the bottom five are solidly Democratic.” Investor’s Business Daily
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