COLONIZATION WAS A STRATEGY TO ESCAPE ISLAM
by Scott De Warren
Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire.
Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:38:00 UTC
MONOGAMY AS COMPETITIVE NORMATIVE COMMONS
by Alain Dwight
Sex transactions outside of monogamous, familial structures can constitute a damage against monogamy, stable families, and investment in children as social norms, which is the optimum strategy for some groups.
Arguably, it’s the best overall strategy since the groups who have done this, have become the dominant force on the planet – and to the degree that status is challenged, we are slipping into a dark age.
It’s still possible other strategies could work. In any case, imposing a cost on normative commons will be met with retaliation, our choice is if that retaliation is at a disorganized street level or in an organized institutional level. I suggest both, as I prefer to have people bear their own costs as opposed to free riding on commons that they choose to undermine.
These normative commons provide such a competitive advantage that it’s questionable if any groups that fail to offer sufficient defense/retaliation will even continue to exist or forward any of their values they claim to champion.
It might be worth it to allow some elite members to operate outside monogamy but without maintaining monogamy as a norm, competitive advantage is often or always compromised.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:35:00 UTC
—“Operational logic requires demonstrated knowledge and everyone relies on their own available vocabulary. Which reveals something about the speaker, but is why it’s so hard for people without a whole lot of REAL knowledge or the precise means measurements to use (their vocabulary). But once it clicks…you can do it. Just a matter of differing speeds of success. It’s really hard for me. Takes me a while to produce.”— Adam
It’s hard for everyone. But that’s why it’s such a good test.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:17:00 UTC
—“P’s Operationalism is a lot harder than math. Math is so clear because it’s trivial. P requires much more.”— Adam
Well you’re the first person to fully understand that. This is why I’m getting sort of awed lately – something is happening because people are progressive much faster now.
Well as for your observation, math can construct a degree of precision outside of human scales of perception at the very large and very small. But as we have seen in testimony, law, and economics, in human action, the operations available and the grammar to create fully formed, grammatically complete, fully disambiguated statements in P is a lot harder than it is in math.
So I see: first-order-logic (categorical logic) > math( positional logic)) > computable logic (programming) > operational logic( p-testimony), as the hierarchy of logics today. And in retrospect all the logics make so much more sense now.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:14:00 UTC
—“Abrahamism is unique in all the world for separating “perfect divinity” from “flawed humanity.” Christianity is uniquely pagan enough to re-humanize the divinity it worships.”—Anne Summers
oooh… that was smart. yes. I didn’t think of saying it that succinctly, but yes.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 08:40:00 UTC
RT @MartianHoplite: It’s REAL easy to argue that most of the historical evil we’re accused of is exaggerated or wholly made up; too easy; s…
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 00:19:08 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1231010496389795840
–“We can quibble over colors, but nobody’s walking through walls claiming they don’t exist. Ha.”—Adam Jacob Robert Walker
(regarding qualia)
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 17:27:00 UTC
TESTIMONY – P IS SCIENTIFIC(LOGICAL, OPERATIONAL, EMPIRICAL) ARTICULATION OF OUR ANCIENT TRADITIONS.
by Scott Strong
What’s brilliant about you Curt is your ability to articulate it all so methodically. The reality is these Western ideas weren’t really formed by one great philosopher but are rather an an hod, kit-bashed collection of mostly intuitive practices that our ancestors accumulated, not out of some great philosophy or moral conviction, so much as pure pragmatism in that they were the best practices that simply *worked* and because if people did things that *didn’t* work, the group would die in battle, or starve in the lean winter months.
Propertarianism is not your invention, but rather your codification and articulation of the mostly intuitive unconscious pragmatic wisdom of our ancestors.
===
(That’s right. I just wrote it down for the first time the way others have written their bibles of primitive thought in primitive language. It may not have been possible to our body of advanced thought until we had an advanced language to write it in. But we’ve been practicing it for thousands of years. And that’s why propertarianism is a product of our European civilization, not me – i’m not that important and our ancestors are. And that is why it has more legitimacy than some other nonsense some philosopher pulled out of his had. I’m just a scientists discovering and capturing the rules of western civilization.
I’m just doing natural science in the natural law of our people – writing down the formulae.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 13:37:00 UTC
TESTIMONY: “MANY IDEAS ARE SCARY AT FIRST”
by Brandon Potts
I have to say when I first learned of you and saw your words they worried and angered me. Then I put my arrogance aside and I analyzed and researched what you had said.
While many of your ideas are scary to those that are set in their ways to those willing to learn and listen they are freeing.
Even my wife agrees with much of what you say.
Don’t ever stop my friend and one day you may be the king we need.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 13:29:00 UTC
MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS SPECTRA
by Luke Weinhagen
I view freedom, liberty and sovereignty in general as concepts more accurately described as spectra than as binaries – (https://www.facebook.com/luke.weinhagen/posts/10218951102141226) – as every individual has varying access to each of these within any of the limitless interactions we can exercise them, but I agree with the conclusion.
We all have limits. these limits make cooperation valuable. We exceed our individual limits for freedom and liberty through cooperation with others. In doing so we insure each other’s sovereignty. Where we fail to do so we are at the mercy of, are slaves to, the forces imposing those limits.Updated Feb 21, 2020, 1:03 PM
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 13:03:00 UTC