Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“They didn’t, as they like to believe, start from nothing and raise themselves up from the sweat of their brow. they inherited the greatest, wealthiest, and most powerful civilization ever created and ruined it in the blink of an eye, historically speaking.”— Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 13:33:11 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Heroism is our Group Strategy.
Reciprocity is our Native Law.
Stoicism is our Native Philosophy.
Thankfulness to Nature and Ancestors our Native Religion.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 13:14:45 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
According to Christopher Heumann, an 18th-century scholar, pseudo-philosophy has six characteristics:[23]
A preference for useless speculation
It appeals merely to human authority
It appeals to tradition instead of reason
It syncretises philosophy with superstition
It has a preference for obscure and enigmatic language and symbolism
It is immoral
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 13:06:33 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“Culture: Market (city), and life surrounding the marketplace (city): The Signals and Rules of conflict avoidance, cooperation, exchange, and the celebration and entertainment we engage in between the chores of participating in that market.”—Igor Rogov
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 13:01:15 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods): Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear.
2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues….
3) … I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals).
4) … Mental discipline can be created by any number of methods: prayer, meditation, ritual, sport, but other than self-authoring, each has tragic consequences. The virtue of stoic discipline is that it asks us to act to obtain our goals, and to be free of manipulation by others, and manipulation by our animal impulses, such that we divert the least effort to that which is not relevant to achieving our goals.
5) … And stoic discipline is superior to others paritcularly because it provides us with defense against abrahamism in all its forms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 12:58:20 UTC
( Um. Ok. So 250MG of Magnesium seems to have a profound effect. So does GABA. So does Melatonin. So does red meat. So does any amount of physical exercise. But what does that mean? )
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 10:24:00 UTC
Yes, Peterson has a self authoring course, but not the ‘framing’, and I think Massimo puts books out on the framing but not a course.
Effectively speaking stocism is a scientific religion. Or rather a religious and philosophical system that does not conflict with science.
In my understanding, we are trying to (by accident) recreate the stoic philosophy (religion).
It was quite a while before I understood that’s what I was doing. I think Massimo is doing it intentionally. I haven’t got to peterson yet to ask if he’s knowingly doing it.
I have reasons to prefer peterson’s method. My only question is whether or not he should use biblical stories or not. And my preference is ‘no’, because I want to kill abrahamism (sophism) while at the same time preserve literary analogy (wisdom literature)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 10:14:00 UTC
WHY DO YOU CONSTRAIN ARGUMENT TO THE MATERIAL AND COMPUTATIONAL?
The reason I stick so rigidly with the computational model and existential (material) model is to close the door completely to abrahamism(jewish), rationalization(french) and phenomenalism(german) as means of self deception.
The computational and material model explains the phenomenological. With it we can discuss the phenomenological without attributing CAUSATION TO IT.
Our experiential world is the result of the physical and computational.
Most philosophical and argumentative systems measure the experiential rather than merely observe that the experiential is a measurement (consequence) of the material and computational.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 10:12:00 UTC
The problem with teaching stoicism is that it’s expensive in teaching-time. Buddhism expensive in personal time. And by comparison religion allows mass production on the cheap.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 09:42:00 UTC
—“They didn’t, as they like to believe, start from nothing and raise themselves up from the sweat of their brow. they inherited the greatest, wealthiest, and most powerful civilization ever created and ruined it in the blink of an eye, historically speaking.”— Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 09:33:00 UTC