Curt Doolittle

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  • THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE by Daniel Gurpide The origina

    THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE

    by Daniel Gurpide

    The original meaning of the Latin word religio—from religare, to tie fast—was never used until Constantinian times to describe the ‘superstitio nova ac malefica’ represented by Christianity and has nothing to do with the metaphysical or fideistic concepts introduced by monotheism.

    It is simply what binds together the members of a political and ethno-cultural community.

    As such, religion has two aspects: the myth—the representation that we choose to have of our own past, and more generally of the universe, in relation to the future, the destiny that we want to create; and the rite—the evocation and celebration of our being together with the intention of provoking a general mobilisation of spirits:

    A Nationalisation of The Masses that is a necessary condition for the new European Nation to have a destiny worthy of its own past, and worthy of what we once were – and could be again.

    This is the real religious question.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 10:41:00 UTC

  • ARE THERE ANY GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR WHITE SUPREMACY THAT AREN’T RACIST?”— (omfg..

    https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-good-arguments-for-white-supremacy-without-being-racist/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=66fd9a7a&srid=u4Qv–“CURT: ARE THERE ANY GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR WHITE SUPREMACY THAT AREN’T RACIST?”—

    (omfg… sigh)

    If somehow acknowledging racial differences is ‘racism’ then no because you can’t ask the question, and you cant answer it either

    If ‘racism’ refers to treating an individual by the average properties of his race then that is a legitimate criticism of an illogical behavior.

    If ‘racism’ refers to criticism of the reproductive, cultural, political strategies of a competing group, rather than criticism of one’s inability to defend against the harm caused you by that group, then that’s illogical also.

    If ‘racism’ refers to a preference for nationalism or separatism in order to reduce conflicts between groups and improve the conditions of either by creating norms and institutions more suitable for each group’s differing wants and needs, then criticizing that is not rational.

    White ‘supremacy’ in nearly every field is simply a fact – although the reason for white success (the high cost of truth even if it may disrupt the dominance hierarchy, and therefore resulting in reason, debate, argument, common law, science, medicine, engineering, technology etc.) is something we have only recently begun to understand.

    White genetic supremacy does not appear correct – at least regarding the Han/Korean/Japanese. All racial groups both evolved in different geographical conditions and in doing so produced different levels of neoteny. With east asians most, whites next, mixed colors next, and blacks last. The reason being that whites and asians have been in homogenous groups a long time, under agrarianism and have succeeded at selecting for neoteny. And secondly, because of the pressures of agrarianism and the winter seasons, the asians and western europeans have more successfully reduced the sizes of the ‘troublesome’ (underclass) population leaving almost the entire population descendent from the genetic middle class. Every other race and subrace has dominated warmer climates where the rate of maturity as a means of surviving a higher disease gradient requires earlier maturity and deeper maturity and therefore limited selection for neoteny.

    The superiority of europeans appears to be the result of a rather small set of noble families never exceeding a few hundred thousand in total population combined with a middle class majority population who expanded downward as the lower and underclasses were reduced through starvation, disease, plague, war, and aggressive use of hanging.

    So because europeans and asians lived in homogenous groups that were somewhat insulated from sun belt density of diverse and nomadic pastoral peoples, they were able to genetically select (not so much evolve) for superior populations.

    The differences between china and europe are largely that china started earlier. THe muslims were not able to cause a thousand year dark age in china like they were in Europe by collapsing the four major ancient civilizations and reducing them to sub 85IQ averages.

    But the west is faster than china in both the ancient and modern worlds because of its institutions of ‘truthfulness’ instead of ‘face-saving’, which allowed the west to advance more quickly in both ancient and modern eras.

    I hope this helps.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 06:12:00 UTC

  • “Compatibility, complementarity, and reciprocity are truths. Equality and equity

    —“Compatibility, complementarity, and reciprocity are truths. Equality and equity are falsehoods.”— Adam Walker

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-08 17:50:00 UTC

  • I wanted to write about this last year. Much better job than I would have done.

    I wanted to write about this last year. Much better job than I would have done. 😉

    Women want you to read their minds and approach them if they would be interested in you but not bear the cost of saying no if they’ aren’t interested in you, and especially if your interest in them contradicts their self- perceived value in the market.

    Personally, I just talk to women and then let them hit on me somehow or other. I’m too clueless to know otherwise. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-08 16:39:00 UTC

  • The official page of Massimo Pigliucci, the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy a

    The official page of Massimo Pigliucci, the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York

  • The official page of Massimo Pigliucci, the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy a

    The official page of Massimo Pigliucci, the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York

  • ( The irony of asking me of all people to simplify someone else’s work… lol )

    ( The irony of asking me of all people to simplify someone else’s work… lol ) He’s saying that Like Religion and Idealism, saturation by radio, television, and movies, absorption in Video Games and Social Media, Internet dating exists as a fantasy world insulated from tests of correspondence with reality. Whereas, yes, dating causes us to hyperfocus, and sexual attraction causes us to hyperfocus, romantic love causes us to hyperfocus, but that hyperfocusing is, at least when we’re apart, empirically validated or invalidated by our interactions with reality. And that cumulatively we are increasingly existing in a stream of information that itself is non-correspondent with reality, a social construction that is non correspondent with reality, and mental models that are non correspondent with reality, for the simple reason that our habits, norms, ideologies, philosophies, laws, and institutions have not adapted to the saturation of non-correspondent information. And therefore we have the choice as to regress to prior state (Luddism), fall victim to the current state (Abrahamism), or to develop technologies that assist us in evolving the contents of our minds, such that they still correspond to reality even if the information stream does not. In other words, (this is how I put it) we must move from the primary search for options for satisfaction that we might seize given the new information-rich environment, to reduction of error, bias, wishful thinking, obscurantism, fictionalism,and deceit, so that we can choose options correspondent with reality and therefore TRANSCEND, instead of Regress intentionally (as did the luddites by admitting failure to solve the problem), or falling into be defeated (as those who fall prey to Abrahamism have done, and regress unintentionally.) ( FYI? Thus the explanatory power of Propertarianism, Testimonialism, Acquisitionism, the use of series, and operational definitions is yet demonstrated once again as the means by which we deflate and articulate those patterns we intuit, but because of the archaic vocabulary and grammar of our language, appears difficult.) – Cheers.

  • ( The irony of asking me of all people to simplify someone else’s work… lol )

    ( The irony of asking me of all people to simplify someone else’s work… lol ) He’s saying that Like Religion and Idealism, saturation by radio, television, and movies, absorption in Video Games and Social Media, Internet dating exists as a fantasy world insulated from tests of correspondence with reality. Whereas, yes, dating causes us to hyperfocus, and sexual attraction causes us to hyperfocus, romantic love causes us to hyperfocus, but that hyperfocusing is, at least when we’re apart, empirically validated or invalidated by our interactions with reality. And that cumulatively we are increasingly existing in a stream of information that itself is non-correspondent with reality, a social construction that is non correspondent with reality, and mental models that are non correspondent with reality, for the simple reason that our habits, norms, ideologies, philosophies, laws, and institutions have not adapted to the saturation of non-correspondent information. And therefore we have the choice as to regress to prior state (Luddism), fall victim to the current state (Abrahamism), or to develop technologies that assist us in evolving the contents of our minds, such that they still correspond to reality even if the information stream does not. In other words, (this is how I put it) we must move from the primary search for options for satisfaction that we might seize given the new information-rich environment, to reduction of error, bias, wishful thinking, obscurantism, fictionalism,and deceit, so that we can choose options correspondent with reality and therefore TRANSCEND, instead of Regress intentionally (as did the luddites by admitting failure to solve the problem), or falling into be defeated (as those who fall prey to Abrahamism have done, and regress unintentionally.) ( FYI? Thus the explanatory power of Propertarianism, Testimonialism, Acquisitionism, the use of series, and operational definitions is yet demonstrated once again as the means by which we deflate and articulate those patterns we intuit, but because of the archaic vocabulary and grammar of our language, appears difficult.) – Cheers.

  • Tyler Cowen on Germany and Political Innovation

    Tyler Cowen on Germany and Political Innovation,

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-31 10:52:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://quoraconservatives.quora.com/Opposition-to-the-Affordable-Care-Act-ACA-often-breaks-down-into-one-or-many-of-the-following-concerns?share=570b6024&srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-30 20:57:00 UTC