Curt Doolittle

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  • IMPORTANT: INTEGRATION OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION As far as I know, “Religion” an

    IMPORTANT: INTEGRATION OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION

    As far as I know, “Religion” and “Education” constitute a false dichotomy. There is no difference between them.

    In other words, Religion for peoples who have not yet entered the market because they are subsistence farmers, and Education for people who have entered the market because they are no longer subsistence farmers.

    These are the properties of Religion(normative and personal skills) and Education (Commercial Skills).

    – Festival(feast) – Trust through celebration

    – Sport (competition) – Trust through teamwork

    – Ritual(sacredness) – Trust through self constraint

    – Virtues(ethics) – Universal and Normative Success

    – Mindfulness(self) – Psychological insulation from consequences of informational scarcity in a market/society)

    – Crafts(trade) – method of providing reciprocal value to the tribe so it is possible to survive in it.

    All of these rituals deprive us of selfishness and make it possible to succeed in all aspects of society.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-24 06:34:00 UTC

  • I don’t accept the *fallacy of special pleading* that ‘meaningfulness’ or ‘acces

    I don’t accept the *fallacy of special pleading* that ‘meaningfulness’ or ‘accessibility’ are any more important than the hard work of truth.

    I mean, we teach expensive literacy, mathematics, sciences, economics, and history. And we in the past taught expensive vocabulary, grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

    Why is it that we cannot also teach expensive testimonialism: natural law and the logic of cooperation?

    Why can’t we teach history as a series of biographical narratives of the people who made the great insights and transformations in each of those fields?

    Even if you want to preserve the Buddha and Jesus why cannot they be stated in historical terms and studied for their innovations, rather than continuing their justification by abrahamic deception?

    You know, there isn’t any reason. Because any other reason requires lying and teaching lying

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-24 06:31:00 UTC

  • My very simple reasoning: *I place a higher value on truth, reason, and the elim

    My very simple reasoning:

    *I place a higher value on truth, reason, and the elimination of error, despite the higher cost, than I place on meaningfulness, intuition, and the identification of opportunities despite the lower cost.*

    It’s that simple.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-24 06:29:00 UTC

  • Going through my archives, finding my draft from 11/2/07. The outline and introd

    Going through my archives, finding my draft from 11/2/07. The outline and introduction are awesome. It’s amazing how consistent it’s been for ten years. Found a few things to bring forward that I’d forgotten. Really cool to see that much progress.’

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 20:18:00 UTC

  • V – Aryan Lo there, do I see my father Lo there, do I see my mother and my broth

    V – Aryan

    Lo there, do I see my father

    Lo there, do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters

    Lo there, do I see the line of my people back to the beginning

    Lo there, they do make a feast

    Lo there, does their armor shine in the sun

    They sing joyously among the oak trees

    Where the grass is tall and green

    Lo, they do call to me

    They bid me take my place among them

    In the halls of Heaven

    Where the brave may live forever

    III – Unknown

    Lo there, do I see my father

    Lo there, do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters

    Lo there, do I see the line of my people back to the beginning

    Lo, they do call to me

    They bid me take my place among them

    In the halls of Valhalla

    Where the brave may live forever

    II – Crichton

    Lo, I see here my father and mother.

    Lo, now I see all my deceased relatives sitting.

    Lo, there is my master, who is sitting in Paradise.

    Paradise is so beautiful, so green.

    With him are his men and boys.

    He calls to me, so bring me to him.

    I – The Rus

    Behold, I see my father and mother.’

    I see all my dead relatives seated.’

    I see my master seated in Paradise

    and Paradise is beautiful and green;

    with him are men and boy servants.

    He calls me. Take me to him.’

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 20:16:00 UTC

  • ( Create demand and the market will respond. Sell and the market will resist you

    ( Create demand and the market will respond. Sell and the market will resist you. 😉 he he he…. You sell crap because you have to. You create demand because you can. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 19:46:00 UTC

  • Valerian a flop? let me help you. french humor isn’t funny, it’s stupid. french

    Valerian a flop? let me help you. french humor isn’t funny, it’s stupid. french drama isn’t dramatic it’s pathetic. french action isn’t tense, it’s boring. I had this arguments with a popular french art historian who was offended why we only sold remakes of french films in america. There is a deep effeminacy in french psychology that is simply impossible to see upon self reflection. one has to have the mind of a woman to find any interest in french cinema. If you study french plays (I have a bit) you understand where the tradition comes from. It’s like shakespeare and sherlock holmes in the english. And it has been a few decades since I studied this subject and understood the french arts, but I remember it well enough to say that french culture was too much affected by the farce, the plays, the operas and in particular the costumery, and all this nonsense lives on today in french like Henry V and MacBeth live on today in the english speaking world. Not because we watch them. But because everything we watch is an imitation of them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 19:42:00 UTC

  • Think I’m gonna decide the mist is a dead man walking. Walking Dead could pull o

    Think I’m gonna decide the mist is a dead man walking. Walking Dead could pull off the Soap Opera thing. Mist can’t. Darabont can’t burn that much screen time with these circumstances.

    Lost had possibilities because of the Crichton Novel it was based upon. Mist had possibilities. Why do game of thrones and Westworld work? Density per episode. The Mist is a 22 minute weekly serial in hour format just to fill air time with soap opera. Walking dead can pull off crazy plot issues for cheap. Mist can’t and still work. The mist without monsters is …. boring.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 19:24:00 UTC

  • “Reading Curt’s posts has probably kept me out of a certain amount of trouble –

    —“Reading Curt’s posts has probably kept me out of a certain amount of trouble – but sometimes my wife is annoyed when I read them to her.”— Diarmuid O’Donnegan

    (you aren’t supposed to talk about fight club with wives. lol)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 18:28:00 UTC

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