Tolerance? Do you mean Convenience or Conviction? Or Empirical(evidentiary) or Rational(ideal)? Or Limited or unlimited? Or paid for by you, by others, by past and future generations? Or as a means of cosmopolitanism: destroying our civilization, or as a means of escaping the costs of maintaining our civilization, or as a means of paying a cost of integration into our civilization?
I mean. Ask those questions.
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Reminds me of you Curt Doolittle
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NOVEL TAKE. MMA.
by Nicholas Arthur Catton
The power of a commons that demands (even culturally) you deflate your claims is in capitalising on masculine intuition to protect the tribe. It naturally filters hierarchically while maintaining incentivises for betterment.
All men are not equal in their ability to fight but taught the language of violence all men can tell a the difference between those who walk the walk and those simply talk, dance and posture. This is what you learn on Curt’s wall. The era of via-positiva conflation is over.
***MMA has deflated the debate of which martial art is the best in the common court of the cage and demonstrated in a matter of years that basically every martial arts ‘master’ was full of shit when it came to violence.***
The same applies here. Most masters are full of shit when it comes to truth. If your opponent won’t grapple with you on the mat of deflated terms they’re you’re inferior despite all their inflated positiva verbiage they’re throwing around (posturing).
Teach all men to grapple and the rest falls into place. Natural hierarchies are built according to the fundamentals and everyone who is playing honestly advances.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-13 17:51:00 UTC
SURE, BUT WERE THEY WRONG? (FALSE?)
by Daniel Gurpide
I would argue that German morality has historically led to catastrophic political decisions:
-Luther, the German Reformation and the subsequent European wars of religion.
-Kant, German Idealism, and Pan-Germanism (the wars for the unification of Germany, I & II World Wars).
-Modern secular German religion, i.e: National-Masochism (the refugee crisis of 2015, Brexit and the subsequent collapse of the EU maybe sometime in the near future if present trends continue?)
History is obviously not monocausal, but German hyper-morality was the necessary, if not sufficient, condition for the development of these historical events.
“Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus” (Let justice be done, though the world perishes) was Kant’s motto.
One cannot conduct politics with categorical imperatives. Germany ends up always irritating everyone: Brits, Americans, Scandinavians, Dutch, French, Italian, Poles, Russians, etc. It is no coincidence.
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Movies have been pretty bad for quite a while now with very few bright spots. This year has been horrible. And there is nothing on the calendar other than blade runner. And I can all but guarantee that its going to suck as bad as the past two alien films.
The culture that is hollywood.
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I knew elephants could swim. I didn’t know they could swim in the ocean. I didn’t know they commonly swam ten miles from shore. I didn’t know that they could cover long distances in the ocean.
(learn something new every day)
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—“You only own your attitude. All else is negotiation.”— Nicholas Arthur Catton
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You know, Stephen J. Gould was wrong about everything other than punctuated equilibrium. But we are stuck with a lot of popular sentiment because of his success at ‘wrongness’.
The one question I have yet to wrestle with, is whether intelligence is a deterministic outcome of life over long periods.
His position was that intelligence was so costly that it’s doubtful. That intelligence is a temporary and unsustainable strategy compared to it’s opposite: bacteria.
Mine is that it is hard to think of conditions that WOULDN”T generate it, just by watching crows, elephants, octopods and wolves.
Or it could be for example, that man evolved most by competing with other great apes, and will end up a dead end like the bear.
The most significant concern that I know of is not the determinism of the evolution of intelligence.
It’s that the universe is not a gentle place to ‘bake’ a life form in relative safety in the galactic suburbs for five billion years.
And worse, these periodic extinctions appear to accelerate the development of life toward greater complexity. What if we hadn’t had them? Would each era have ‘peaked’?
So it just seems to take a very long time to cook intelligence while still not ‘freezing’ it at an equilibrium.
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