Curt Doolittle

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  • SOMEONE NEW WHO UNDERSTANDS! by Parker Salingers Curt Doolittle: I see. So anoth

    SOMEONE NEW WHO UNDERSTANDS!

    by Parker Salingers

    Curt Doolittle: I see. So another way to frame it could be: jesus was a great archetypal figure, but the bible is largely wrapped in lies, so you may as well praise the characters in Dostoyevskys novels, because they assume similar moral truths and are probably surrounded by less superstition/falsehood.

    And youre right, christianity may have been parsed in ways that were *beneficial* at certain times, and the west certainly had some high points with it as a foundation, but if you look at the history, or even more so the modern countries that have largely embraced xtianity you see this bullshit turn the other cheek universalism that is just cucking those countries into irrelevancy, especially against a system like islam that has no qualms with leeching off christians overzealous universalism, and slitting their throats when theyre done leeching.

    That was actually my next observation, but it seemed too long to burden you with. Sure some countries peaked under xtianity, but compared to what? And how have christian nations faired overall in history? And modern times. Not that great, really. All religious states, really. They become literalist and are oppressive and contradictory and suck ass.

    I think theres MAYBE an argument that christianity, for a time, inspired the search for absolute truth in the west- bacon, aquinas, et al. But does seem unnecessary today.

    Your solution seems to be a system of darwinian truth, and the character rattling around my head is jordan peterson, who i think is dancing with some ideas you are, and im curious how your system would address morality? I actually agree with what youve laid out and think it would produce a strong nation, the strongest. But wheres the moral backbone? I dont see this system relying on any of the half truth philosophers. Kants worthless imperatives. Or really any of the idealists at all.

    Thanks for the response. Ive seen you mocked a bit, and never actually looked into your beliefs, but this sounds totally reasonable and could do a lot of good. You’re in for a hell of a battle though. All of those institutions are equal parts evil and powerful.

    ( CURT: We found another intellectually honest man! )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 12:02:00 UTC

  • “This is why I love capitalism. It knows no race. It has no sacred cows. Jacob Z

    –“This is why I love capitalism. It knows no race. It has no sacred cows. Jacob Zuma and his Gupta Family goons hire a British PR firm to do a hit job in South Africa. The job involves stoking what critics call “racial tensions” to distract from Zuma’s PR problems. Naturally, the white moguls who support his enemies are furious. But as I have said elsewhere: the biggest threat to racism, racists and nationalists is pure capitalism.”— Ayelam

    It’s true. Although the biggest threat to evolution is universalism. Each of us must pay for our own demographic domestication. otherwise, I’m sorta in the “Yeah, I understand the racism thing”. I just prefer we all carried our own water so that we all got along. And as far as I know, capitalism says ‘carry your own water’. The problem is, universalism says the opposite. Ergo, nationalism = capitalism: carrying your own water. I fucking hate racism so my only solution is nationalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 11:53:00 UTC

  • “Post Modernism is a terminal illness spreading at institutional scale.”— Bren

    —“Post Modernism is a terminal illness spreading at institutional scale.”— Brendan Hegarty

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 23:18:00 UTC

  • by Eli Harman The two biggest lies of Christianity are monotheism (one God, one

    by Eli Harman

    The two biggest lies of Christianity are monotheism (one God, one truth, one law, one way, one life) and universalism (for EVERYONE.)

    This is a recipe for limitless mischief and most of it has actually come to pass.

    It’s a justification for centralization of power, authority, and everything else. And while it may have produced gains for a time from economies of scale, it’s long since passed the point where diseconomies come to the fore.

    Add to this the conflation of myth and superstition with ACTUAL history and science and you have an enfeebling, stultifying, regressive, backwards, mind-hobbling, faith rather than an ennobling, empowering, enlightening, one.

    It’s a retreat into fictionalism, NOT archetypes, metaphors, or analogies that serve as useful heuristics for navigating the real world (although it still has an aspect of that.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 16:36:00 UTC

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    https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/893880041909735424/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=jordanbpeterson&utm_content=894076843149721600

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 08:54:00 UTC

  • “The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully emplo

    —“The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people”— Gibbon

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 17:01:00 UTC

  • “I think this whole style of using social media as a sketch pad and bouncing ide

    —“I think this whole style of using social media as a sketch pad and bouncing ideas, and getting into constructive debate with others is an ingenious way to approach a work of the scope that you intend on putting out.”— John R. Abel

    (some experiments work. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 14:44:00 UTC

  • “Pythagoras was a mystic who took his cues from Egypt and Heraclitus was a dissa

    —“Pythagoras was a mystic who took his cues from Egypt and Heraclitus was a dissatisfied Aristocrat who worshiped fire, just like Zoroastrian priesthood. I guess we can consider them odd ducks in this development.”—Domagoj Vaci

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 14:11:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“When we verify through testing by our best empirical metho

    (worth repeating)

    —“When we verify through testing by 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 subjective untestable, invisible, personal opinion.”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 13:53:00 UTC

  • by Bill Joslin —“Curt equates a lack of due diligence to vet ones ideas agains

    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): 2017-08-06 13:51:00 UTC