Curt Doolittle

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  • (personal) (Weird intuitions department: If I want to be with my people, say, on

    (personal)

    (Weird intuitions department: If I want to be with my people, say, on a holiday or festival, I want to be in a protestant church, that uses as much historically narrative (secular) as possible. If I want to have a conversation with my concept of god, I want a catholic church and the priests – the sense of the sacred. And yeah. I talk to god all the time. It’s my concept of god have you. And in your mind, that might not qualify as God at all – probably wouldn’t. But I talk to my god all the time. It works for me. In practice my sentiment fits best with the CofE – the compromise church of my ancestors. And I might rather that I had a pantheon to choose from, so that I could ask the spirit of Alexander one thing, the deity Artemis another, and one of the ‘saints’ something else. But the one that I have to work with will usually do the trick.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-07 11:15:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: BANKING FRUSTRATIONS I spend months trying to find a plac

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: BANKING FRUSTRATIONS

    I spend months trying to find a place that can get me a new macbook pro but with an American keyboard instead of the (awful) european keyboard. And what happens? Their bank can’t seem to process my credit card. My bank never gets the request.

    Sh_t just doesn’t work here. Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-07 09:43:00 UTC

  • CAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SCIENCE HAVE A DANGEROUS GAP? (Ye

    CAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SCIENCE HAVE A DANGEROUS GAP? (Yes)

    If you had told me that western philosophy contained such a catastrophic hole that we could be nearly destroyed by ideas even worse than monotheism, I would have told you to write science fiction novellas.

    It turns out it’s true.

    We treat truth and universalism as normal. But when our knowledge exceeded human scale, we adopted platonic truth, and at the very same time, the continentals and cosmopolitans swamped us with pseudoscience.

    The european new right is wrong. We don’t need a religion. We don’t need to return to religion.

    We just need to speak the truth.

    And speaking the truth, it turns out, isn’t a philosophical proposition that is open to interpretation. You can either give an operational description or you can’t.

    The truth is, that we’ve been poisoned as seriously as we were when Justinian closed the greek schools, and imposed middle eastern mysticism upon us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-07 09:40:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : WEIRDNESS I thought it was just nonsense, but yes, they

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : WEIRDNESS

    I thought it was just nonsense, but yes, they run prostitutes out of one of the best coffee shops in town.

    It took me a long time to tell the difference between ordinary ukrainian fashion and prostitute-dress but you CAN tell the difference after a while. lol

    In Bellevue, the over 40 crowd is hounded by older and rather sophisticated working girls at one of the steak restaurants. (I got a lot of flack last time I said this in public) but it’s both common knowledge and really obvious. And there is something sort of ‘ok’ about servicing the over-40 crowed in bars in steak restaurants. It’s not like it’s a family thing.

    But at this rather elegant coffee shop, which is a decidedly family affair, with little blonde children all over the place, the whole working girl thing just seems both out of place and terribly ‘uncool’. Especially in a country where it’s not exactly an uncommon or disreputable profession.

    As usual, I was just sitting in this particular street side cafe/coffee shop, trying to figure out the business model, because they dont turn high enough checks, I just assumed that it was labor costs. Now I understand that they have multiple profit centers running out of that location. And the high profit business subsidizes the lower profit business.

    When Roman told me I though he was just kidding. But then over the course of the day, the ‘mismatch’ between ‘dates’ became obvious. And the inability of the men to dress themselves explains why they must pay for what is readily available for free.

    Just… weird.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-07 01:19:00 UTC

  • complain about conspiracy theories being harmful to liberty, but here is one tha

    http://eagnews.org/1000-member-secretive-progressive-journalist-group-uncovered/(I complain about conspiracy theories being harmful to liberty, but here is one that’s true.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 22:47:00 UTC

  • Hotel. Power outage. Darkness. 10% battery in phone. Soon without internet. Anti

    Hotel. Power outage. Darkness. 10% battery in phone. Soon without internet. Anticipating withdrawal.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 16:07:00 UTC

  • Hey. Can we get together? 😉

    Hey. Can we get together? 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 16:05:00 UTC

  • Dinner at Churasco. Piles of beef. Johannes Meixner across the table just called

    Dinner at Churasco.

    Piles of beef.

    Johannes Meixner across the table just called me a troll.

    Its true. I like to instigate a little mischief. But don’t we all? 😉

    Where I come from its called trash talkin’: tryin’ to start something.

    Man up. ;).

    Liberty is for alphas, not beggars, pleaders, justifiers and free riders.

    Pussy-tarians an’ all that.

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 15:11:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.quora.com/How-could-the-conflict-between-Israel-and-its-neighbors-be-solved-to-the-satisfaction-of-all-parties-involved/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 12:23:00 UTC

  • DON’T BENEFIT, BUT DEPEND, ON INTUITION Scientific investigation is not logical

    http://www.quora.com/How-do-scientists-and-inventors-benefit-from-subjectivity-and-intuition/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1SCIENTISTS DON’T BENEFIT, BUT DEPEND, ON INTUITION

    Scientific investigation is not logical but intuitive, because it is conducted by free association. Because formal logic has attracted unmerited attention in the 20th century, the importance of the scientist in the ‘decidability’ (which is the correct term, believe it or not) between possible avenues of exploration has been lost. There is no such possible logical means of deciding how to investigate – other than perhaps the relationship between cost and content falsified. But even this proposition is impossible to decide logically, since the domain of possible solutions is limited only by the general knowledge of the scientist and his or her capacity for free association (identification of possible patterns – which we tend to reduce to IQ.)

    In other words, it’s is not that they benefit from it, it is that they DEPEND UPON IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 12:21:00 UTC