Curt Doolittle

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  • “CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”— My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So

    —“CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”—

    My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So I use heroism, duty and loyalty. I achieve mindfulness through working toward goals. I achieve security by trying to make or join an ‘army’.

    We all need philosophies that reflect our abilities. Not everyone finds joy in constant competition and the high cost of achievement and frequent failure. I find my philosophy difficult if not painful, but it is in that difficulty I find my power, conviction, and immunity from criticism. I do not consider it ‘suffering’ in the Nietzschean sense but Stress that makes you stronger in the sense Taleb means “anti-fragile”.

    But stoicism is a common person’s way of achieving the same thing. Stoicism is a self-directed philosophy of continuous improvement within the world, and aristocracy is a philosophy of continuous achievement through transformation of the world. However, in both models, you cannot be criticized, guilted, shamed, ridiculed by others. Both Martialism and Stoicism make you immune.

    To a lesser degree The Four Agreements Quotes by Miguel Ruiz are a far less sophisticated version that I have found overly sensitive women benefit from.

    And the meditation in buddhism is a less rationalistic way of achieving the same ends. I dont like it because it’s not action oriented.

    What really I don’t like is the prayer-and-rutual way of achieving it because you’ve actually abandoned reality at that point.

    But what you can see from that list is a hierarchy from the most empowered to the least empowered. And from what I can see buddhism is about as far as people should go in withdrawing from the world.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 11:19:00 UTC

  • (Why? Because in the end, the people who will fight ideas, fight arguments, figh

    (Why? Because in the end, the people who will fight ideas, fight arguments, fight people, and fight institutions are the people who matter. That which does not lead to action has no value.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:55:00 UTC

  • THE ABRAHAMIC “DARK” AGE I mean, isn’t the Abrahamic age just “The Dark Age of C

    THE ABRAHAMIC “DARK” AGE

    I mean, isn’t the Abrahamic age just “The Dark Age of Civilizations?” In other words, don’t we have the ancient and modern, with the abrahamic dark age separating them?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:47:00 UTC

  • TEACHING MASCULINITY (teaching)(humor) Me and two teachers. Talking. Telling me

    TEACHING MASCULINITY

    (teaching)(humor)

    Me and two teachers. Talking. Telling me about how they create a social contract for their classrooms, and paste it on the wall. And keep it there all year. And refer to it. “Are you taking care of the classroom?” “Are you taking care of each other?” Very socialist. Very ‘social harmony’. And brilliant in many ways.

    I walk over to the wall, and pretend i’m writing on it.

    “I am the teacher and you shall obey”. Generating the synchronous response that that is totalitarian.

    “The teacher is always right.” Synchronously generating the response “No, because even the teacher can learn.”

    “Might makes right”. Synchronously generating head-shaking.

    I tried. I really did. But they have this whole social contract thing down. And it’s a required skill for all teachers. lol

    We need “Rugby”, “King of the hill”, “Everything you got”, and “Finish him!!!” in the curriculum somewhere. ‘Cause this whole domestication thing is just too… It’s like brain damage for males. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:44:00 UTC

  • GOD: OUR ATTEMPT TO CHEAT NATURE by Bill Joslin The totality of nature; the flow

    GOD: OUR ATTEMPT TO CHEAT NATURE

    by Bill Joslin

    The totality of nature; the flow of time, the battle with entropy, the unrelenting obedience to the laws of nature- this totality viewed as one anthropomorphic object, made into our own image (a personal god) so that we can please bargain (cheat) by gaining it’s esteem (social coercion):

    God = human tendency to cheat via rally and shame.

    Let’s face it. Nature trump’s all authority, plays no favorites, and can be a terrifying bitch which we must obey or die. Best not to try and cheat her.

    (jeez bill. I think you just blew my mind)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:31:00 UTC

  • THE MANY KINDS OF FAITH I think there are many kinds of faith. – Confidence in r

    THE MANY KINDS OF FAITH

    I think there are many kinds of faith.

    – Confidence in reason-effort-trial-and-error – to transform.

    – Belief in comforting demonstrable falsehoods – to oppose.

    – Faith in comforting superstitions – to resist.

    – Submission to the occult – to abandon.

    And that each state in that spectrum corresponds to one’s agency or lack of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:25:00 UTC

  • THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM –“I cannot even begin to i

    THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM

    –“I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to live on this planet and not have faith.. Faith to me is my belief in something I can’t see, hear or touch.. Its my ” gray ” area and it gives my life meaning and purpose…”— Anon

    I think I could restate that as, “I feel a deep need for a narrative against which to measure my status, and to judge my self worth in life, because outside of the hunter-gatherer tribe of pre-history, where we had directly knowledge of one another, and direct understanding of our status and self worth, that in all other eras – modernity, medieval, and ancient – my judgement of my status and self worth is beyond my ability to intuit, guess, reason, or calculate.”

    I view this as a feminine or beta-male understanding of the world. But it is the most common understanding of the world that I know of.

    The question is, whether confident male, less confident male, or cautious female, we can learn to use the stories of history, reason, and in fact, science, to achieve the same.

    In fact, now that we understand stoicism scientifically, there appears to be no other ‘religion’ that compares to it.

    Where stoicism seeks to make you immune to ridicule, guilt and shame; and to hone your positive virtues, thereby assisting you in changing the world. Faith seeks to make you fear guilt, and punishment, if you offend the world.

    Hence why countries with much faith stagnate in poverty and those with reason leave the rest behind. (china, the west)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:17:00 UTC

  • Evidence is in. H1B Starts in afghanistan. Moves west to caspian-back sea. Black

    Evidence is in.

    H1B Starts in afghanistan.

    Moves west to caspian-back sea.

    Black sea deluge causes shock

    ‘whites’ develop (we even know eye color time change)

    Split into west-north european and south-east indo-iranian

    Spread back to afghanistan.

    Cross into india, separating indo and iranian.

    Fight, interbreed, outbreed, and disappear.

    Leaves Indo-iranian+Dravidian distribution.

    Small population of conquerors has profound demographic effects.

    Modern equivalent is south america spanish + amerindian.

    Consequence of such admixture is genetic castes

    India forms institutional caste system.

    Indian castes reflect racial origins with the brahmins equal to jews, and the remaining indians retaining sub-saharan IQs.

    Unlike china, which is ethnically homogenous, india cannot reduce size of underclass, so India carries a heavy burden as does south america.

    Bad, but not as bad as arab peoples. Not as bad as sub-saharan african peoples.

    General confusion is R1B genetic origin in afghanistan; advances in R1B due to pedomorphic selection in ukraine; cultural, and technological components all define ‘aryans’. In general, we use the term ‘caucasian’ for the race, european, iranian, and indian for the subraces, ’aryans’ for the cultural change to militaristic sky worshippers, and their use of technological innovation of Russo-ukrainian horse, european wheel, and anatolian/iranian bronze.

    Evidence is that europeans (more neotonically advanced) moved west into ukraine and poland, and indo-iranians defeated those that remained in the ukaine-russia region, then the europeans re-conquered the ukraine-russia region, and drove the iranians out, but the original cultures of the region had been destroyed.

    This left europeans to expand west, the iranians to branch into most of the caucasian peoples, and the indians outbred with the dravidians and largely gone through full integration.

    Let me close with the fact that the West, the Russians, the Chinese all consider India having a serious problem with pseudoscience in this matter. India and South America have demonstrated the consequences of collision between major racial groups with different levels of pedomorphic development.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 05:56:00 UTC

  • by Daniel Gurpide Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in

    by Daniel Gurpide

    Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in the existence of God. Already in the eighteenth century the idea of intellectually proving the existence of God was abandoned, and Rousseau and Kant may be found positing a belief in God based instead on emotions or values. In a culture in which God had died owing to the development of science, the values of Judeo-Christian slave morality were duly taken up by the causes of democracy, socialism, equal rights – and other movements of the weak and ‘oppressed’.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 05:38:00 UTC

  • Reading Kant from my current vantage point and seeing that his mental model is h

    Reading Kant from my current vantage point and seeing that his mental model is hermeneutic interpretation of scripture and he is trying to transition from the supernatural ideal, to the secular ideal, but either cannot or cannot imagine how to speak in the real. Which anglo law would have taught him. Hume on the other hand expressly tries the existential method and succeeds. Hume is a scientist – an aristotelian. Kant is a n idealist – a platonist. He reads childishly to me now, where he read obscurely in the past. And it is increasingly obvious why the marxists and postmodernists ran to him for cover.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 17:31:00 UTC