TRUTH AND ART ARE NOT MATTERS OF OPINION BUT OF KNOWLEDGE
—“Truth, like art, lies in the eye of the beholder.”–Ben Frayle
Nope. Truth is decidable. And so is Art. They are not matters of opinion but matters of knowledge and ignorance. Bad taste and bad judgement are both matters of ignorance and ability.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 08:24:00 UTC
PILPUL EVERYWHERE
by Bob Moran
The intellectual dishonesty is amazing.
1. “Why did you ban me?”
2. Gives Compliments to open a dialogue
3. Tries to insert himself/herself as relevant or an equal with empty credentials
4. Acts surprised (avoid guilt; “What I did was normal”)
5. Shames (your followers can’t handle being *moderately* uncomfortable)
6. Mis-categorizes (lying or being wrong as “dissenting views and novel ideas”)
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 08:20:00 UTC
STEREOTYPES ARE TRUE.
They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in the market. When a people develops a reputation, it’s because they have earned that reputation. If people hate your group what will you do to make your group not hated?
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 08:03:00 UTC
DON’T WASTE MY TIME WITH DEISM – IN COURT AS IN ALL ADULT CONVERSATION – CHILDREN SHOULD BE RARELY SEEN AND NEVER HEARD
Don’t waste my time. I am not a friend of theists. I consider such people well intentioned children. Instead, we are a product of the Universe, and heroes, demigods, and gods are a product of man. We need a church (meeting place) and we need myths(strategy), an Oath(promise), Rituals (payment of costs), and Festivals (Rewards for rituals). We need these things like we need manners, ethics, morals and laws. But the words of the prophets are wisdom literature – parables – advice. It is true that this wisdom literature contains wisdom in some cases. But that is not the same as truth. And there is no reason that truth is not our wisdom literature : unless it is our strategy to lie, cheat, and steal.
I specialize in truthful speech and in falsifying the fictionalisms (comforting lies). I do realize that given the limited abilities of the human mind, the members of the polity require The Magical(Supernatural), The theological, The ideal, The Pseudoscientific, because they lack the agency to tolerate the incompleteness(uncertainty) of The Operational(Scientific). It takes intellectual, emotional, and physical courage to say ‘i don’t know, YET’. And to simply accept that the universe is quite simple, and cognitively sterile.
If you need these things you merely say you lack the agency to participate in judgement and rule. You are not yet fully human. It may in fact be impossible for you to be fully human.
That is ok. Because we do not need everyone to be a judge and to rule. We simply need enough judges and rulers that we can create truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, markets in everything, and as a consequence sufficiently competitive society that we continue our evolution rather than become the victim once again of the natural devolution of the underclasses.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 07:50:00 UTC
REVERENCE
I don’t revere anything because that would mean I lacked the reason to judge it without reliance on emotion for decidability.
There is no difficulty (for me) between talking to a god (which I do daily) and understanding the composition of that god, for the simple reason that talking to a god works. Lots of us talking to gods works better. Just as fitness is a substitute for physical labor, talking to gods is a substitute for talking to our “headmen”, or “Grandparents”.
I understand that very few of us lack that degree of agency. Which is why I’m trying to find a way to produce the same results without the semitic nonsense.
Very few people can be entirely dependent upon reason. It’s possible that we can train the majority of the population to have a more rational kind of faith than the evil statist or evil supernatural kinds.
The problem is finding a narrative that makes it tolerable without making a lot of people ‘disappear’ first.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 06:59:00 UTC
THE WAR ON NOTICING THE TRUTH
—“Once you see it you can’t unsee it. Hence the ubiquitous war on noticing in general . The time and resources expended to keep people from seeing the obvious are truly astounding.”— Edgar Braintree
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 16:29:00 UTC
CAN A SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY EXIST?
(only if it is demarcated from therapy)
—“Do you think there can be any valid or empirical discipline called “psychology”?”—-Gearóid Walsh
Great Question.
At present I undrestand psychology (as a science) as the study of cognitive biases and limits, in the perception and cognition of information.
At present I understand it is possible to integrate what we call psychology into the rest of the sciences using Acquisitionism which removes the authoritarian, monopoly, conformist, and feminine bias of pseudoscientific psychology from the discipline, producing a value neutral language of self interest. (Just as I see Propertarianism replacing social science and therefore integrating it fully into the rest of the sciences.) Acquisitionism is far more explanatory and fruitful than ‘conformity’ to an arbitrary norm.
I do not see psychology holding only dominion over therapy (counseling, self help). I see that as the responsibility of stoicism (self authoring). And that such a field will make use of ‘reformed’ psychology.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 16:25:00 UTC
Pilpul and Critique vs Science and Law.
Semitic Grammar (Excuses), vs European Grammar (Warranty)
Once you see it you can’t unsee it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 16:18:00 UTC
PILPUL(Via Positiva) and CRITIQUE (Via Negativa)
Once you see it you can’t unsee it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 16:15:00 UTC
WHY IS (WAS) PSYCHOLOGY A PSEUDOSCIENCE
—“You said Psychology is not a science. Can you explain this argument as you have done with Marxism? Thanks”—Jamie Watson
PSEUDOSCIENCE (AND RELIGION – THE FEMININE)
(a) based entirely upon projection – with no empirical content (meaning ‘no system of measurement’),
(b) framed as authoritarian (monopoly) demand for homogeneity as its system of measurement
(c) framed as deviation from a non-existent but feminine norm:
(d) framed as guilt for deviation from the authoritarian, feminine, norm.
(e) The scary one: Freud (using oppression into baseline) was trying to reverse Nietzsche (using freedom to exit baseline). Freud was just creating a pseudoscientific counter-revolution for the female mind(collectivism) against the restoration of the male mind(individualism) by Nietzsche. (Just as Marx and Boaz were creating a counter-revolution against Darwin. Just as Rousseau and Kant a counter-revolution against Locke/Smith/Hume/Newton.)
SCIENCE (AND LAW – THE MASCULINE )
(a) all behavior is in pursuit of acquisitions (“man is acquisitive”) of every possible utility – “discounts on risk and calories”.
(b) all emotions are reactions to changes in state of past, present, and future acquisitions – nothing more. Rewards for training a brain that can learn to acquire.
(c) all emotions, personality traits, all cognition, and therefore all behavior are biased by the different reproductive strategies of males and females. (wolves(M-eugenic) vs deer(F-dysgenic))
(d) all acquisition-seeking is biased by class (familial, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value) to others – in other words, the classes demonstrate biases that reflect the needs of their classes in competition-and-cooperation with the other classes.
(e) We have a limited number of biological reward systems, and those reward systems appear to map to stages of the prey drive (our operational lifecycle) intersecting with our reproductive drives. We describe these variations in reward systems as personality factors and traits.
(f) ….. (more in an hour…. need to play chauffeur for my niece – my favorite munchkin.)….
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 16:01:00 UTC