Curt Doolittle

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  • “GETTING IT- IT’S MOSTLY THE GRAMMARS” by A Friend. Hey! I thought about what ma

    “GETTING IT- IT’S MOSTLY THE GRAMMARS”

    by A Friend.

    Hey! I thought about what made it ‘click’ for me.

    Here’s the result:

    “Let me try to identify things that would have made it faster:

    1) Vocabulary. That would have been the biggest barrier to entry for me. What is fictionalism? What is operationalism? Largely graspable. Once this is clear I don’t see anything blocking the understand of the grammars.

    2) I should have focused less on your facebook posts (until I got the grammars). I think I should have went straight to the website and find the Core of propertarianism. I avoided the core too much. I’m high on openness so the posts are pretty cool because there is so much to unpack and to learn from, and I could just dive inside. It’s nice to have something to grapple my mind with that can last longer that a few weeks.

    3) Writing about it and isolating the core earlier (I think going to the overview that Eli Harman put out helped). So I started to say “I need to identify the Core and write about the definitions of the concepts in the core to really appropriate them as my own”. To do that I isolated mainly testimonialism and the tests of consistency.

    4) I saw a post on the website about natural law and stating basically how you should talk and the vocabulary to use. That subject was didn’t take me very long by comparison.

    To summarize, it would have been way faster for me to say:

    *Here are the key concepts (fictionalism, operationalism, testimonialism, the tests of consistency). Here are the definitions of this terms. Here is what you can do with it. Here is how you can do it (the grammars).

    Go in the world and use it.*

    I couldn’t understand it when you said, “it is taking so long to look through everything again”. Now, I’m like “Ooooooh shit. Okay. I get it. I get how big this project is if you need to look at everything. Damn. Good job man.”

    Now I also understand that you use this Grammar and Vocabulary, and then you test what results they produce on facebook. You experiment with them on facebook.

    BIG LESSON

    ***I think if I would have understand how important are the grammars, I would have gone straight for it until I got it. Then it is a matter of investing the time to apply it.***”

    (CD: edited for clarity)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 10:58:00 UTC

  • “In as much the aristocrat is improved through leisure, the prole is impoverishe

    —“In as much the aristocrat is improved through leisure, the prole is impoverished.”—Connor Whittle

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 01:58:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1075933446739030016

  • “In as much the aristocrat is improved through leisure, the prole is impoverishe

    —“In as much the aristocrat is improved through leisure, the prole is impoverished.”—Connor Whittle

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-20 20:58:00 UTC

  • “Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good becau

    “Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.” – Nietzsche

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-20 15:43:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1075778756126625792

  • “Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good becau

    “Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.” – Nietzsche

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-20 10:43:00 UTC

  • “Western civilization is Greek philosophy, Roman law and statecraft, British sci

    —“Western civilization is Greek philosophy, Roman law and statecraft, British science,and German engineering”—AH

    edited a bit… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-20 00:45:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1075552840280461312

  • by Luke Weinhagen The herd “needs” you, there is safety in numbers. The pack “wa

    by Luke Weinhagen

    The herd “needs” you, there is safety in numbers.

    The pack “wants” you, your contributions are valuable.

    Both herd and pack do need and want but herd prioritizes members value by need where pack prioritizes members value by want.

    Passive versus active again.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-19 20:52:00 UTC

  • “Western civilization is Greek philosophy, Roman law and statecraft, British sci

    —“Western civilization is Greek philosophy, Roman law and statecraft, British science,and German engineering”—AH

    edited a bit… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-19 19:45:00 UTC

  • “Ancient wisdom refined and retold. Political Power comes from the barrel of the

    —“Ancient wisdom refined and retold. Political Power comes from the barrel of the gun, point of the spear or the edge of the sword and political power is Sovereignty. Only the Sovereign can be, or are, free.”—Stephen Thomas

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-19 17:58:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1075450238041800704

  • correct question is “What is the oldest **political** religion?”, because that i

    https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-worlds-oldest-religion-What-is-the-evidence-of-it/answer/Curt-Doolittle?ch=1&share=f5457b04&srid=u4QvThe correct question is “What is the oldest **political** religion?”, because that is the function of all surviving religions from the Axial period. Sumerians first wrote down their religions in 3500 BCE and most political religions evolved evolved from competition with theirs. We see evidence if organized religion in Anatolia from 8–9,000 bc, predating stonehenge by 6000 years.

    It appears we developed religious practices (what we call sacred, but is more correctly, suppression of all self interest, status signal, and dominance expression ) no less than 40k years ago. There was our first and longest dark age around 20–21k bc. Then practices resumed, around 13k bc.

    it wasn’t that long – about 8000bc – until farming and farming creates folk religions in an and around anatolia -still burial focused.

    Around 5500bc the indo europeans developed sacrificial religion, and spread it – man now bargaining with the gods.

    And again, by 3300 we see the rapid development of political religion in every region of eurasia.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-19 13:50:00 UTC