—“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 17:02:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“Without shared mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship …. without some local commonality in these, there is no commensurability or decidability possible between individuals, and no coincidence of interests, and therefore no cooperation, only conflict.”— Eli Harman
Eli hitting it out of the park on that one.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 16:39:07 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a link.
REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME IT COULN’T HAPPEN?
VIA RASUMSSEN
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
“That which appears inconceivable is merely a function of the determinacy of human behavior and the ignorance of the incentives”
—“Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters say itâs likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, with 11% who say itâs Very Likely. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% consider a second civil war unlikely, but that includes only 29% who say itâs Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Democrats (37%) are more fearful than Republicans (32%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (26%) that a second civil war is at hand.
But 59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trumpâs policies will resort to violence, with 33% who are Very Concerned. This compares to 53% and 28% respectively in the spring of Obamaâs second year in office. Thirty-seven percent (37%) donât share that concern, including 16% who are Not At All Concerned.
Fifty-three percent (53%) are concerned that those critical of the mediaâs coverage of Trump will resort to violence, with 24% who are Very Concerned. Forty-two percent (42%) are not concerned about violence from media opponents, including 17% who are Not At All Concerned.”—
“REVOLUTION IS ALWAYS SUSPECT IN PROSPECT BUT DETERMINISTIC IN RETROSPECT”
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:46:37 UTC
—“Those who don’t take the red pill willingly will have it shoved down their throat by reality any way.”—Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:37:23 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1011996924176674817
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“Those who don’t take the red pill willingly will have it shoved down their throat by reality any way.”—Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:37:10 UTC
—“Scarcity is imposed with effort.”—
That has to be the dumbest thing anyone has had the ignorance or shamelessness to say to me all year.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 14:43:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“With the animals we share the passions and the appetites.
But the human is distinguished by his volitional ability to override the animal passions and appetites with the dictates perceived through our sense of reason.
Will our volition be slave to the passions? Or can we override those passions and act according to reason when reason and passion conflict?
This is the measure of our internal sovereignty.
“—Zachary Miller
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 14:29:36 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
LACK OF DUE DILIGENCE = LYING
Aug 06, 2017 1:51pm
by Bill Joslin
—“Curt equates a lack of due diligence to vet ones ideas against error, bias, self deception, overloading etc as lying. Any primacy of consciousness or theism stands as arguing for a preference opposed to arguing a point in the commons.
Theism and primacy of-conciousness are not verifiable in the commons – to proceed with them you must accept these premises.
***When we verify via our best empirical methods, our arguments gain credibility from reality. When we assert based on a priorisms which can not be found in reality we use logic to “steal credibility from reality” – we assert it as reality without consulting reality- a transfer of credibility from existence in reality, to the interpretive framework.***
If an argument holds arbitrary assertions we can dismiss it off-hand. (If asserted without evidence it can be dismissed without evidence)”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 14:14:38 UTC
SINGLE MOTHERS DATA: I TRY, BUT SOMETIMES I DON”T SUCCEED.
—“Evidence seems to suggest that children with single mothers grow up to be a menace whereas children with single fathers grow up just fine.”—Alba Rising
Um… that’s not the case.
It’s that single mothers are at much higher risk of unstable environments and higher risk of insecure (guilty) mother’s psychology affecting children negatively than single fathers for the simple reason that single fathers are more likely to cohabitate and produce a healthier environment lacking guilt, instability, and insecurity.
Or conversely, that single mothers try too hard to control and influence their children at the expense of fathers who are high maintenance but produce healthier children even by dedicating far less attention to them.
The fact single mothers produce the majority of problem adults doesn’t equal that the majority of single mothers produce problem adults.
In other words, TWO PARENTS ARE BETTER THAN ONE.
I thought I got this across but apparently not…..
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 13:55:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“We should be aware that we are living in an interregnum (postmodernity), a period of waiting during which destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world (the end of history), or to promote a historical regeneration.”— Daniel Gurpide
(CD: Agreed)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 13:45:47 UTC