Curt Doolittle

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  • Rights

    Jan 24, 2020, 6:34 PM

    —“Rights are an insurance, insurance is a service, some services can be commons, some commons are necessary, rights among them.”—Martin Štěpán

    (flawless)

  • Origins of Homosexuality

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:57 PM (for some reason jayman is countersigning and I haven’t figured out why yet) Again: This is because as far as I know, homosexuality is an in utero developmental failure that was insufficient to produce either male brain or miscarriage. The two most common theories attribute this to immune system responses to internal (genetic) or external (viral) stimulus.

    —“No that’s not what it is, nor does that make any sense whatsoever. That said male and female same-sex attraction likely do have different etiology”—JayMan @JayMan471 It makes perfect sense. AFAIK immune response, possibly to T. That doesn’t mean it’s true. If you have a better body of science to work from then I’d love to see it. But this is a subject I’ve followed for three decades, and the two theories are still out there working. —“[See] Greg Cochran’s “Gay Germ” Hypothesis – An Exercise in the Power of Germs”—JayMan @JayMan471 Agreed. That doesn’t nullify the (a) runs in families (b) second son, (c) testosterone and immune system theories. As for the viral is merely that I can’t falsify the hypothesis, so I’m not willing to take it off the shelf. And BTW: Nothing in that set of articles or any other, undermines the hypothesis that (like cervical cancer by viral transmission) that there isn’t some other immune trigger either heritable or environmental that produces the defect in development. BTW 2: So far in the two or three times you’ve disagreed with me it’s because you are rushing to judgment. I realize that the world is full of idiots you must defend your time and space against. But I’m not one of them. -hugs This paper is accessible, from 2016, and summarizes the findings from across the decades. It’s rather obvious that “The fraternal-birth-order effect” is currently the most convincing cause, and its heritability, a most convincing vulnerability.’  

  • Origins of Homosexuality

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:57 PM (for some reason jayman is countersigning and I haven’t figured out why yet) Again: This is because as far as I know, homosexuality is an in utero developmental failure that was insufficient to produce either male brain or miscarriage. The two most common theories attribute this to immune system responses to internal (genetic) or external (viral) stimulus.

    —“No that’s not what it is, nor does that make any sense whatsoever. That said male and female same-sex attraction likely do have different etiology”—JayMan @JayMan471 It makes perfect sense. AFAIK immune response, possibly to T. That doesn’t mean it’s true. If you have a better body of science to work from then I’d love to see it. But this is a subject I’ve followed for three decades, and the two theories are still out there working. —“[See] Greg Cochran’s “Gay Germ” Hypothesis – An Exercise in the Power of Germs”—JayMan @JayMan471 Agreed. That doesn’t nullify the (a) runs in families (b) second son, (c) testosterone and immune system theories. As for the viral is merely that I can’t falsify the hypothesis, so I’m not willing to take it off the shelf. And BTW: Nothing in that set of articles or any other, undermines the hypothesis that (like cervical cancer by viral transmission) that there isn’t some other immune trigger either heritable or environmental that produces the defect in development. BTW 2: So far in the two or three times you’ve disagreed with me it’s because you are rushing to judgment. I realize that the world is full of idiots you must defend your time and space against. But I’m not one of them. -hugs This paper is accessible, from 2016, and summarizes the findings from across the decades. It’s rather obvious that “The fraternal-birth-order effect” is currently the most convincing cause, and its heritability, a most convincing vulnerability.’  

  • Well, this is my problem.

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:58 PM

    —“Abrahamic absolutism and rejection of Greco-Roman religious syncretism are the largest stumbling block to a resurgent European or American “right-wing” movement.”—Rocco Ryan

    Well, this is my problem.

  • Well, this is my problem.

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:58 PM

    —“Abrahamic absolutism and rejection of Greco-Roman religious syncretism are the largest stumbling block to a resurgent European or American “right-wing” movement.”—Rocco Ryan

    Well, this is my problem.

  • Special Benefits and Statuses to Those Who Actually Boog?

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:59 PM

    —“Do you think there should be special benefits and statuses to those who actually boog? When I showed up to the Richmond rally I had no idea it was supposed to be peaceful. What stopped me was the radio news saying that, the rally was supposed peaceful and that was the intention, to show that a demonstration with weapons could happen without violence, blah blah blah peaceful discussion. I believe that at this point with the left doubling down with its oppressive measures, the objective now should be to instigate and reward action – or am I tripping.”—Tyler Granberry

    I have addressed this issue thoroughly and you will be blown away by it – and yes it is one of the reasons I say ‘produce the incentives and people will follow them”.

  • Special Benefits and Statuses to Those Who Actually Boog?

    Jan 24, 2020, 8:59 PM

    —“Do you think there should be special benefits and statuses to those who actually boog? When I showed up to the Richmond rally I had no idea it was supposed to be peaceful. What stopped me was the radio news saying that, the rally was supposed peaceful and that was the intention, to show that a demonstration with weapons could happen without violence, blah blah blah peaceful discussion. I believe that at this point with the left doubling down with its oppressive measures, the objective now should be to instigate and reward action – or am I tripping.”—Tyler Granberry

    I have addressed this issue thoroughly and you will be blown away by it – and yes it is one of the reasons I say ‘produce the incentives and people will follow them”.

  • Q: How Can a Person Become a Great Fictional Writer in Just a Short Time?

    Jan 24, 2020, 9:12 PM You can’t. Writing is a craft. Craft is a process of developing skills through trial and error. You can read say, Vonnegut on writing, Campbell on the monomyth, the basics of plot types, archetypes, points of view, how to research on locations, observe and write dialog by people from different social strata, and writing backgrounds for your characters. You can read (real) poetry (particularly Shakespeare) to learn the art of sentence building. But the start-middle-end of composing sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters, and stories and weaving them together while maintaining the reader’s interest in what is yet to be revealed by you is just something you have to practice. (Good writers tend to be quite smart, have worldly experience, and have something interesting to say that’s novel at least in some context unfamiliar to the reader.) I can write an argument like no other. An exceptional essay. An adequate screenplay. A less than adequate story. And a weak novel – but it is a matter of interests. To write a novel, or a story you need to have something to say that’s vaguely interesting, adequate interest in the subject, and adequate skill in the craft, and more than adequate art in retaining the reader’s attention.

  • Q: How Can a Person Become a Great Fictional Writer in Just a Short Time?

    Jan 24, 2020, 9:12 PM You can’t. Writing is a craft. Craft is a process of developing skills through trial and error. You can read say, Vonnegut on writing, Campbell on the monomyth, the basics of plot types, archetypes, points of view, how to research on locations, observe and write dialog by people from different social strata, and writing backgrounds for your characters. You can read (real) poetry (particularly Shakespeare) to learn the art of sentence building. But the start-middle-end of composing sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters, and stories and weaving them together while maintaining the reader’s interest in what is yet to be revealed by you is just something you have to practice. (Good writers tend to be quite smart, have worldly experience, and have something interesting to say that’s novel at least in some context unfamiliar to the reader.) I can write an argument like no other. An exceptional essay. An adequate screenplay. A less than adequate story. And a weak novel – but it is a matter of interests. To write a novel, or a story you need to have something to say that’s vaguely interesting, adequate interest in the subject, and adequate skill in the craft, and more than adequate art in retaining the reader’s attention.

  • Desert Cult

    Jan 25, 2020, 4:31 PM —“So, you would consider Christianity a desert cult?”—Dan Ver Woert I don’t do name-calling, but I would consider the advice of Jesus to be a philosophy that is, at least by present scientific standards, the optimum for man. I would say that as I’ve secularized it, it’s just a statement of social science. I would say that the supernatural elements are nonsense and that the pilpul and critique with which it was promoted, are human cancer, but if Jesus had been added to the pantheon rather than a monopoly we would have had contributed to the Janus-face of man. Instead, Christianity was used and is used to keep man ignorant by undermining the only ‘true’ religion “debt to ancestors nature in the continuous evolution(transcendence) of man”.