Jan 29, 2020, 6:12 PM by Martin Štěpán The “accident of birth” argument falls apart when you reject dualism. I mean that accident of birth implies that it’s an accident your consciousness (soul) got assigned to your body rather that consciousness being produced by the body. So when someone asks me something like: “What if it was you in that situation?”, I respond with: “I am a product of a specific time, place, genetics and experience. It wouldn’t be me in that situation, it would be someone else.”
Source: Original Site Post
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Peace Is Just War by Non-Military Means.
Jan 29, 2020, 8:17 PM We are always at war. Evolution is warfare. Politics and economics are simply productive means of warfare. Anglos domesticated economic warfare, but the chinese and europeans have broken it. Europeans domesticated military warfare but russians and iranians and muslims have broken it. And the Chinese are in the process of breaking it, so we are back to undomesticated warfare, of man against man huddling in subterranean tunnels trying to escape swarms of automated weaponry that will rapidly replace tanks and artillery. Peace is just war by non-military means.
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Peace Is Just War by Non-Military Means.
Jan 29, 2020, 8:17 PM We are always at war. Evolution is warfare. Politics and economics are simply productive means of warfare. Anglos domesticated economic warfare, but the chinese and europeans have broken it. Europeans domesticated military warfare but russians and iranians and muslims have broken it. And the Chinese are in the process of breaking it, so we are back to undomesticated warfare, of man against man huddling in subterranean tunnels trying to escape swarms of automated weaponry that will rapidly replace tanks and artillery. Peace is just war by non-military means.
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Our Pagan Ancestors Were Monogamous
Jan 29, 2020, 8:20 PM by Igor Rogov The only principal difference is that monogamy in “pagan” world included sexual relationships with concubines and slaves within the same household as a lawful sexual activity, with progeny either being accepted as slaves or officially adopted by household owner, or becoming “proletariat” through an official practice of abandonment. Jewish monogamy narrowed down what was allowed significantly, but not entirely – sexual relationships with slaves persisted in Jewish households under Ottoman empire. Christianity almost entirely got rid of concubines and slaves as acceptable sexual partners and out-of-wedlock progeny was reduced to historical minimum for centuries up until 20th century. Counting Islam as Abrahamism, it was a significant step backwards with a return of official practice of concubinage, slavery and multiple wives.
(CD: AFAIK: the root of the IE word for wife was ‘abducted’. lol )
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Our Pagan Ancestors Were Monogamous
Jan 29, 2020, 8:20 PM by Igor Rogov The only principal difference is that monogamy in “pagan” world included sexual relationships with concubines and slaves within the same household as a lawful sexual activity, with progeny either being accepted as slaves or officially adopted by household owner, or becoming “proletariat” through an official practice of abandonment. Jewish monogamy narrowed down what was allowed significantly, but not entirely – sexual relationships with slaves persisted in Jewish households under Ottoman empire. Christianity almost entirely got rid of concubines and slaves as acceptable sexual partners and out-of-wedlock progeny was reduced to historical minimum for centuries up until 20th century. Counting Islam as Abrahamism, it was a significant step backwards with a return of official practice of concubinage, slavery and multiple wives.
(CD: AFAIK: the root of the IE word for wife was ‘abducted’. lol )
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Criticisms are residue from king of the hill games and Curt’s research methods.
Jan 29, 2020, 9:03 PM (Selected Bill Joslin Notes on Curt’s Methods and His Critics) Many criticisms are residue from king of the hill games and Curt’s research methods. Curt will take a position and argue it, just to cause debate. Then through the subsequent “battles” the ideas that survive tend to be correct. He then goes away and refines them then comes back. His stance now is that christian ethics are scientific – the notion of P prosecuting Christians stems from their misunderstanding that testimonialism pertains to all and any speech acts – it applies to public speech acts (speaking to the public about matters public) not a private community or each other. Many jump off the train outraged if they don’t understand how P is developed: by public argument.
That fits Curts teaching style – the jargon stems from e-prime. To avoid God like proclamations often requires pulling in “just the right term”. Then what happens is an operational argument becomes a definition elsewhere (one word or phrase to reference the argument). Overtime a “terms of art” has evolved. The main hurdle to P is e-prime. From there definitions. Then, where I’m at, is general knowledge. Edit
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Criticisms are residue from king of the hill games and Curt’s research methods.
Jan 29, 2020, 9:03 PM (Selected Bill Joslin Notes on Curt’s Methods and His Critics) Many criticisms are residue from king of the hill games and Curt’s research methods. Curt will take a position and argue it, just to cause debate. Then through the subsequent “battles” the ideas that survive tend to be correct. He then goes away and refines them then comes back. His stance now is that christian ethics are scientific – the notion of P prosecuting Christians stems from their misunderstanding that testimonialism pertains to all and any speech acts – it applies to public speech acts (speaking to the public about matters public) not a private community or each other. Many jump off the train outraged if they don’t understand how P is developed: by public argument.
That fits Curts teaching style – the jargon stems from e-prime. To avoid God like proclamations often requires pulling in “just the right term”. Then what happens is an operational argument becomes a definition elsewhere (one word or phrase to reference the argument). Overtime a “terms of art” has evolved. The main hurdle to P is e-prime. From there definitions. Then, where I’m at, is general knowledge. Edit
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Prelude to Civil War – Via Washington Himself
Jan 30, 2020, 5:20 PM
“At a time, when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. Addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufacturers, remains to be tried.” ~ George Washington, Letter to George Mason (April 5, 1769)
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Prelude to Civil War – Via Washington Himself
Jan 30, 2020, 5:20 PM
“At a time, when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. Addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufacturers, remains to be tried.” ~ George Washington, Letter to George Mason (April 5, 1769)
