Curt Doolittle

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  • Big Families Are Not Really Difficult

    September 22nd, 2018 1:02 PM BIG FAMILIES ARE NOT REALLY DIFFICULT
    by Nick Bailey

    —“Big families actually aren’t as much of a pain as the (((news media))) portrays. I had a carseat/stroller combo that lasted through the first 5 kids. I had 5 sons in a row, so baby clothes just got saved and passed to the next kid for years. Eventually, the workload of dealing with the younger kids gets spread out among both parents and the older kids. Feeding them is cheap if you just make one-pot meals at home.
    The first kid is the most expensive. Each one after that is generally less expensive, especially once you realize you don’t need all the stuff the ‘experts’ say you need. Good medical insurance is an absolute must, though.”—

  • September 21st, 2018 1:55 PM —“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin a

    September 21st, 2018 1:55 PM

    —“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.” — Joe Sobran

    (h/t:Bill Kaplan )

  • September 21st, 2018 12:11 PM Ok. I woke up late. It’s noon. And now I have to w

    September 21st, 2018 12:11 PM Ok. I woke up late. It’s noon. And now I have to work on Tort Reform for the rest of the day. which means I’m going to get into another bad mood from contemplating how our people are abused.

  • September 21st, 2018 1:26 PM THE THIRD QUESTION OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY [T]he qu

    September 21st, 2018 1:26 PM THE THIRD QUESTION OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY [T]he question isn’t how we get along, it’s Genghis Khan’s question: “Why should the strong refrain from decimation, enslavement, enserfment, or rule for maximum profit?” The only incentive for the strong is whether cooperation is preferable to conquest. It is only preferable for conquest if it is sufficiently preferable to conquest to refrain from conquest. So, as the Great Khan said: “Given that cooperation is not preferable or possible, and serfdom and slavery are costly, that leaves decimation, or rule for the maximization of profit.” “We might prefer the former or the latter. However the enemy would undoubtedly prefer separation to decimation or rule under out maximization of profit. And this is the wise choice. Since we can still cooperate indirectly by trade while having no influence over one another within the same polity.” The problem the Khan faced is that he lacked the ability to produce institutions capable of sustained rule, just as expansionary aryans lacked the ability to produce institutions of sustained rule for maximum profit. The Indo-Aryans succeeded only under decimation and replacement in europe, not by any other means. So the Khan was wrong. Decimation was actually the right answer.

  • September 21st, 2018 12:08 PM —“I hope everyone who reads these posts on natur

    September 21st, 2018 12:08 PM

    —“I hope everyone who reads these posts on natural law realizes how precious this wisdom is.”— John Mark

    [T]he idea that natural law is discovered science the result of which produces a formal logic of decidability in all matters of sentience is very hard to grasp given our history of moral variation in relation to geography, demographics, and economy, and the multitude of falsehoods we have invented to justify one order or another given those same constraints.

  • September 21st, 2018 1:55 PM —“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin a

    September 21st, 2018 1:55 PM

    —“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.” — Joe Sobran

    (h/t:Bill Kaplan )

  • September 21st, 2018 11:46 AM AGAIN. USE OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE TO AVOID THE FALLA

    September 21st, 2018 11:46 AM AGAIN. USE OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE TO AVOID THE FALLACIES OF IDEALISM, CONFLATION, AND PRETENSE OF KNOWLEDGE [We] can speak truthfully, we can claim others speak truthfully, but it is our speech about existence, or experience, or the imaginary that ‘is true’ (coherent, consistent, correspondent, operational, and complete) or not. No such thing as ‘truth’ exists that is not a promise by someone that a statement is coherent, consistent, correspondent, operational, and complete ENOUGH to satisfy the demand for infallibility. Existence just exists. It’s state continuously changes (entropy). We can make statements about some state or change in state over some period of time (periodicity, frame), but only our promise to the coherence, consistency, correspondence, operational possibility, and completeness can be claimed as ‘true’ because that is the meaning of truth: testimony. As to logic, logical must and only can me, constant relations (consistency) between two or more properties (identity) or states (logic). (Because that is all that neurons do: test for differences or their absence as differences.) Therefore a statement is falsifiable. It is false (certain), true (possible), or undecidable (unknown). if a statement is undecidable, then deductions from it are undecidable, but in formal logic we state that the undecidable is to be treated as false.

  • September 21st, 2018 12:11 PM Ok. I woke up late. It’s noon. And now I have to w

    September 21st, 2018 12:11 PM Ok. I woke up late. It’s noon. And now I have to work on Tort Reform for the rest of the day. which means I’m going to get into another bad mood from contemplating how our people are abused.

  • September 21st, 2018 11:28 AM CODDLING AND CAUSE by John Mark [T]his coddling Ha

    September 21st, 2018 11:28 AM CODDLING AND CAUSE
    by John Mark [T]his coddling Haidt writes about is a result of the West, particularly American parents, taking for granted the results of our world-leading rule of law (yes, far from perfect, but still fantastic compared to most of the world) and incomparable power for granted, and trying to take it too far. The parents of today’s millennials lived an era where the US had no competition, and was a whiteopia. For their kids, they are trying to create a situation where there is no conflict, and if any arises, an authority figure is summoned to punish the “troublemaker” (any boy with testosterone, anyone who questions the status quo/PC, anyone who is not “nice”, etc). In a sense it is the inverse of having a militia. Softness. Feminism. Etc. And the naivete manifests in their politics too. The lefties say “Everything would be great if it wasn’t for these Trump voters being so mean to people of color and gays”. The civnats have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that the color invasion means America is f***ed. They can’t imagine that things could have gone so wrong so fast. They are living in a fantasy, wishful thinking, almost out of habit for having experienced so many years of prosperity without any real life or death conflict in this nation. They can’t grock that death is at the door. (Until the wise stop it.)

  • September 21st, 2018 12:08 PM —“I hope everyone who reads these posts on natur

    September 21st, 2018 12:08 PM

    —“I hope everyone who reads these posts on natural law realizes how precious this wisdom is.”— John Mark

    [T]he idea that natural law is discovered science the result of which produces a formal logic of decidability in all matters of sentience is very hard to grasp given our history of moral variation in relation to geography, demographics, and economy, and the multitude of falsehoods we have invented to justify one order or another given those same constraints.