Curt Doolittle

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  • RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict

    RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS

    To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we requre a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of cognitive labor.

    Progressivism: Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible cannot be possible). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology.

    I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and unscientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:59:00 UTC

  • A sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operatio

    A sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operations. An experience or an observation or an imagination of cause and effect is an analogy. Names may or may not convey meaning. THey may or may not convey loadings which we, as moral creatures, feel are terribly important. But operations are names and experiences are analogies.

    I have a pretty low opinion of meaning.

    It’s a vehicle for comprehension yes.

    But that comprehension is by definition loaded.

    And loading and framing are means of deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:58:00 UTC

  • SO IF WE CANNOT PARASITE UPON OTHERS AND CONTROL THEIR REPRODUCTION (SLAVERY) WH

    SO IF WE CANNOT PARASITE UPON OTHERS AND CONTROL THEIR REPRODUCTION (SLAVERY) WHY CAN OTHERS PARASITE ON US AND LIMIT OUR REPRODUCTION (REDISTRIBUTION)? If we cannot colonise others, then why can others colonise us?

    Forcible Redistribution Is Slavery. Forced immigration is colonisation. Statism is Slavery.

    Nationalism.

    Meritocracy immigration.

    If you are from a shitty family that is no reason to redistribute to you unless you produce a non-shitty family

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:08:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 10:05:00 UTC

  • ARE WE TOO PRIMITIVE A SPECIES TO COMPETE? Smaller brains, greater aggression an

    ARE WE TOO PRIMITIVE A SPECIES TO COMPETE?

    Smaller brains, greater aggression and greater reproduction defeat larger brains and lower aggression and lower reproduction?

    Is this a permanent equilibrium? Or is this one of those processes that is deterministic, and that eventually all the calm, smart people are outbred and conquered by the aggressive impulsive dumb people?

    You know, he was wrong about a lot of things, but Gould said that there was no material advantage to intelligence unless in increased reproduction.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 07:42:00 UTC

  • LYING AS A WAY OF LIFE —-“The decisive difference between Putinism and Nazism

    LYING AS A WAY OF LIFE

    —-“The decisive difference between Putinism and Nazism is that the fascists and national-socialists believed to a large extent in their lies. The Putinist only believes in one thing: lying as a way of life”–Francesco Principi

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 06:13:00 UTC

  • EXAMPLES OF CONTRADICTIONS IN RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA (Roman Skaskiw) 1) The lies tha

    http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-120-lies-about-ukraine?CID=examiner_alerts_articleI. EXAMPLES OF CONTRADICTIONS IN RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

    (Roman Skaskiw)

    1) The lies that westerners encounter are nothing compared to the lies Russia’s domestic population is subjected to. They publish photos from their own massacres in Chechnya & Georgia and claim it is Ukraine / from Syria / from the Balkan war / even from movies.

    http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-120-lies-about-ukraine?CID=examiner_alerts_article

    2) Two different stories about Crimea.

    Within months, Putin went from denying Russia invaded Crimea to bragging that he ordered the “operation”. There was no outcry at all in Russia media. This is normal for them — they see pride and strength in being able to deceive others.

    3) Many various (and contradictory) stories about MH-17.

    – Claim that the plane was diverted into separatist airspace to make them look bad. Invented a fake story about a Spanish air traffic controller working in Ukraine who claimed on Twitter that he witnessed the plane being diverted.

    – Claim (by separatist leader Igor “Strelkov” Girkin) that MH-17 was filled with dead bodies and crashed on purpose to make them look bad.

    – Claim that a Ukrainian BUK shot down MH-17 because they thought Putin was on it.

    – Claim that a Ukrainian jet shot down MH-17.

    (Dutch, German, Malaysian, and independent British investigation all reach the same conclusion about MH-17, though they state it with different degrees of diplomatic nicety.)

    Big collection of MH-17 links: http://romaninukraine.com/ma17-stories-links/

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:54:00 UTC

  • RUSSIA’S PROPAGANDA STRATEGY (Roman Skaskiw) 1) Affect the first impression. Fir

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/17/russia-words-to-destroy-meaning-writers-nobelII. RUSSIA’S PROPAGANDA STRATEGY

    (Roman Skaskiw)

    1) Affect the first impression. First impressions are known to be very sticky even after future, contradictory evidence. So with every story, they try to create a firestorm of competing narratives. (Ukraine’s protesters are CIA NAZI’s, Russia is NOT ivading, Boris Nemtsov was killed by Chechens – or by the CIA, MH-17)

    They have a rapid reaction force of liars and propagandists.

    2) Create confusion and hesitation. It doesn’t matter if they are proved wrong. There’s no shame in lying. They have a short sited strategy of getting enemies and other political forces to hesitate.

    3) Destroy the very idea of truth — by making it seem like the least interesting of many equally valid possibilities.

    This was first observed by Peruvian nobel-prize winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa. (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/17/russia-words-to-destroy-meaning-writers-nobel)

    4) Pollute the communication commons, especially the internet – because they fear their people.

    —” Also, by working every day to spread Kremlin propaganda, the paid trolls have made it impossible for the normal Internet user to separate truth from fiction.

    “The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it,” Volkov said, when we met in the office of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. “You have to remember the Internet population of Russia is just over 50 percent. The rest are yet to join, and when they join it’s very important what is their first impression.” The Internet still remains the one medium where the opposition can reliably get its message out. But their message is now surrounded by so much garbage from trolls that readers can become resistant before the message even gets to them.”— (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:54:00 UTC

  • WHY WESTERNERS ARE VULNERABLE (roman skaskiw) 1) Everyone accustomed to truth te

    http://romaninukraine.com/tex-fighting-for-world-communism-with-the-dnr/III. WHY WESTERNERS ARE VULNERABLE

    (roman skaskiw)

    1) Everyone accustomed to truth telling

    2) Journalists accustomed to relying on official sources

    3) Journalists accustomed to telling both sides

    4) Russians extremely good at penetrating and influencing dissenting political movements (they’ve been doing it for centuries — see Joseph Conrad’s “Secret Agent” for an albeit fictional pre-Soviet example).

    ^^ this is why you hear Russian propaganda coming from libertarians, nationalists and communists.

    Amazing that Russia is able to create an imaginary world for communists from Italy, Spain, and Texas who will fight for the separatists thinking the goal is world communism (or else they pretend to think it):

    http://romaninukraine.com/tex-fighting-for-world-communism-with-the-dnr/

    http://romaninukraine.com/spaniards-arrested-after-fighting-for-rebels-in-east-ukraine-say-half-of-foreign-fighters-were-communists-half-nazis/

    http://conservative-headlines.com/2015/02/violent-marxist-antifa-gangs-allegedly-fighting-in-ukrainian-civil-war/

    A Russian dissident recently wrote a book called “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible”. (http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Is-True-Everything-Possible/dp/1610394550)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:53:00 UTC

  • IV. EXAMPLES THAT LYING (AND PARANOIA) RUN DEEP IN THE RUSSIAN PSYCHE (Roman Ska

    IV. EXAMPLES THAT LYING (AND PARANOIA) RUN DEEP IN THE RUSSIAN PSYCHE

    (Roman Skaskiw)

    1) Patton – “The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.”

    2) Bismark – “A treaty with Russia is not worth the paper it is printed on.”

    3) observed in 1893 by theologian Vladimir Solovyov:

    “Let us imagine a person healthy in body and strong, talented and not unkind — for such is quite justly the general view of the Russian people. We know that this person (or people) is now in a very sorry state. If we want to help him, we have first to understand what is wrong with him. Thus we learn that he is not really mad; his mind is merely afflicted to a considerable extent by false ideas approaching folie de grandeur and a hostility towards everyone and everything. Indifferent to his real advantage, indifferent to damage likely to be caused, he imagines dangers that do not exist, and builds upon them the most absurd propositions. It seems to him that all his neighbours offend him, that they insufficiently bow to his greatness and in every way want to harm him. He accuses everyone in his family of damaging and deserting him, of crossing over to the enemy camp. He imagines that his neighbours want to undermine his house and even to launch an armed attack. Therefore he will spend enormous sums on the purchase of arms, revolvers and iron locks. If he has any time left, he will turn against his family. We shall not, of course, give him money, even though we are eager to help him, but will try to persuade him that his ideas are wrong and unjustified. If he will still not be convinced and if he perseveres in his mania, neither money nor drugs will help. “

    4) 19th Century French Traveler & Writer Marquis De Custine:

    – He describes a Russian civil servant bragging in 1839: “Russia lies, denies the facts, makes war on the evidence, and wins!”

    – “Russia is a nation of mutes; some magician has changed sixty million men into automatons.”

    – “I don’t reproach the Russians for being what they are; what I blame them for is their desire to appear to be what we [Europeans] are…. They are much less interested in being civilized than in making us believe them so… They would be quite content to be in effect more awful and barbaric than they actually are, if only others could thereby be made to believe them better and more civilized.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:53:00 UTC