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Cautious Outreach to Atheist Ex Muslims
CAUTIOUS OUTREACH I’m interested in input from atheist ex muslims who have STEM or economics/finance education, and whose profile pages I can feel confident approving as friends. I have a pretty good network in the spanish speaking world. I’m building a good network in africa of people I can count on for advice and insight. I hope to reach out to china this year but that’s going to be ‘bloody’ I think. I have recently lost a few people in the islamic world because while I have already worked through judaism and christianity, I am now working through islam – or rather, the arab conquest, and I”m losing people to my criticisms just as I lost christians and jews working through their ‘abrahamic nonsense’. The problem is that while jews and christians have passed through the enlightenment and while christians have completed their counter-revolution against it, and jews are just ending their counter-revolution against it, the muslims are deep in the midst of it, and do not have a clear vision of their future once that history has been historicized (converted to history and science). So while I do find people in Turkey fairly frequently, I seem to have trouble finding ethnic persians and arabs. It takes a great deal of moral courage and intellectual honesty to overcome the deceptions that began thousands of years ago, and to acknowledge the horrible consequences that each of our cultures have put upon the world because of these falsehoods, as well as because of the profitability of conquest and empire. So the number of people that I can work with is limited to the extremely intellectually brave and honest. So I’m going to remind people the very DISCIPLINED way in which I work. I work via-negativa. I make arguments to undermine every assumption we hold dear, so that I can find the few ideas that are ‘good’ underneath them, and the counter intuitive ideas that produce negative externalities, and the outright falsehoods that produce constant damage to every human generation. And again, it is not easy to do this in the first place, and it is not comfortable. And it takes a certain kind of person to follow me on this journey. In the end my opinion is this: the primary difference between groups of homo-sapiens-sapiens is in the sizes of our underclasses, and the achievements of the far ends of the west and the east are due to our ability to reduce the relative sizes of our underclasses, while this hasn’t been equally possible in other parts of the world. Or in very simple terms, If we all speak ‘aristotelian’ then anyone capable of speaking aristotelian ‘science’ is compatible. The problem is there is a threshold by which we can speak ‘aristotelian’. The underclass is a dead weight and always has been. In this sense, all of our peoples can transcend (evolve) in to the gods we once admired.Apr 09, 2018 7:11pm -
Lies Kill The European
—“People talk about the failure of democracy. I see no evidence that we have lived in this system for the past hundred years – only that we have been told we live in this system and that it is the best. All of the loud voices for the wonders of so called liberal democracy have been liars, and people who readily violate the concept they supposedly embrace. It is lies and liars, more than anything that has lead to our situation,more than any political beliefs or institutional structures. Other folks can survive and even thrive with a culture of deception. it clearly kills the european. we do not always have to know the truth, or be paragons of honesty to the last man. but we must be focused on approaching the truth, questing for it, and living it, in spite of any obstacles.”— Neil A. Bucklew
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Lies Kill The European
—“People talk about the failure of democracy. I see no evidence that we have lived in this system for the past hundred years – only that we have been told we live in this system and that it is the best. All of the loud voices for the wonders of so called liberal democracy have been liars, and people who readily violate the concept they supposedly embrace. It is lies and liars, more than anything that has lead to our situation,more than any political beliefs or institutional structures. Other folks can survive and even thrive with a culture of deception. it clearly kills the european. we do not always have to know the truth, or be paragons of honesty to the last man. but we must be focused on approaching the truth, questing for it, and living it, in spite of any obstacles.”— Neil A. Bucklew
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The Problem. One of The Roots of It. One Fifth Is Inbred.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419292/Consanguinity is a deeply rooted social trend among one-fifth of the world population mostly residing in the Middle East, West Asia and North Africa, as well as among emigrants from these communities now residing in North America, Europe and Australia. The mounting public awareness on prevention of congenital and genetic disorders in offspring is driving an increasing number of couples contemplating marriage and reproduction in highly consanguineous communities to seek counseling on consanguinity. Primary health care providers are faced with consanguineous couples demanding answers to their questions on the anticipated health risks to their offspring. Preconception and premarital counseling on consanguinity should be part of the training of health care providers particularly in highly consanguineous populations.
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The Problem. One of The Roots of It. One Fifth Is Inbred.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419292/Consanguinity is a deeply rooted social trend among one-fifth of the world population mostly residing in the Middle East, West Asia and North Africa, as well as among emigrants from these communities now residing in North America, Europe and Australia. The mounting public awareness on prevention of congenital and genetic disorders in offspring is driving an increasing number of couples contemplating marriage and reproduction in highly consanguineous communities to seek counseling on consanguinity. Primary health care providers are faced with consanguineous couples demanding answers to their questions on the anticipated health risks to their offspring. Preconception and premarital counseling on consanguinity should be part of the training of health care providers particularly in highly consanguineous populations.
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Understanding Trust.
So, when I say “low trust” I am speaking in terms of the institutional development of rule of law as a means of suppressing corruption, and therefore expanding truth telling. The reason russia is rated (and I rate it) as a low trust country is corruption. That said, I promise you, that you want russian friends more than friends from high trust countries. Just as much as you want government from high trust countries. When I say ‘chinese are a low trust society’, this does not mean that they don’t trust each other. It means that (a) they lie, (b) they cheat, (c) the government is corrupt. So high trust describes a RADIUS of trust, not how you trust the people you interact with. In other words, trust is a question of economics. Honestly, I prefer the company of conservative libertarian western europeans, and educated russians equally. I am a russophile just as much as I am a lover of ukraine. Read Fukuyama’s “Trust”.
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Understanding Trust.
So, when I say “low trust” I am speaking in terms of the institutional development of rule of law as a means of suppressing corruption, and therefore expanding truth telling. The reason russia is rated (and I rate it) as a low trust country is corruption. That said, I promise you, that you want russian friends more than friends from high trust countries. Just as much as you want government from high trust countries. When I say ‘chinese are a low trust society’, this does not mean that they don’t trust each other. It means that (a) they lie, (b) they cheat, (c) the government is corrupt. So high trust describes a RADIUS of trust, not how you trust the people you interact with. In other words, trust is a question of economics. Honestly, I prefer the company of conservative libertarian western europeans, and educated russians equally. I am a russophile just as much as I am a lover of ukraine. Read Fukuyama’s “Trust”.
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Salesmanship
People want a salesman that they think can understand them. The way you make people think you understand them is through listening, and paraphrasing, and preferably adding a touch of insight to the paraphrasing. So the principle issue with sales is getting the other person to talk, because when you’re talking, you’re not listening, and if you’re not listening, you aren’t paraphrasing. It’s only after we have negotiated this ‘protocol’ of shared understanding that we can begin to ‘inform’ and only once we have informed, we can persuade. The best classes I have taken and taught have been in personality traits and sales. I taught sales for quite a few years and built some very good sales teams, and it’s a very simple process. The only difficulty is in finding leads. Sales is easy. It’s just not efficient. And it’s the people who understand it’s inefficient and have high tolerance or interest in listening to and understanding potential customers that develop into good salesman. Extroversion (getting a charge from interactions) is extremely valuable. Apr 07, 2018 12:36pm
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Salesmanship
People want a salesman that they think can understand them. The way you make people think you understand them is through listening, and paraphrasing, and preferably adding a touch of insight to the paraphrasing. So the principle issue with sales is getting the other person to talk, because when you’re talking, you’re not listening, and if you’re not listening, you aren’t paraphrasing. It’s only after we have negotiated this ‘protocol’ of shared understanding that we can begin to ‘inform’ and only once we have informed, we can persuade. The best classes I have taken and taught have been in personality traits and sales. I taught sales for quite a few years and built some very good sales teams, and it’s a very simple process. The only difficulty is in finding leads. Sales is easy. It’s just not efficient. And it’s the people who understand it’s inefficient and have high tolerance or interest in listening to and understanding potential customers that develop into good salesman. Extroversion (getting a charge from interactions) is extremely valuable. Apr 07, 2018 12:36pm
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Good Books on Russian Art and History
Russian history was fairly heroic before the (((Soviet))) era. It’s the american west with worse weather against more advanced peoples with even more viscous traditions. I studied history first, but I studied art history second, and it was art history that helped me understand the different peoples of this world more so than any other. Economics explains why things happen but art gives you insight into the soul of the people and what inspires them. So this …. russian aesthetic … frames my understanding of them as ‘we few against the world’. So there are very good books on russian art history. And just skimming through them is probably important. This is the best ‘textbook’ I’ve seen: 1 – A History of Russia – by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg 2 – The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, by Peter Hopkirk 3 – The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture by James H. Billington 4 – Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales by Serge A. Zenkovsky 5 – While Shakespeare is undoubtably the best poet, the best Novels and Plays in Christendom are the Russian – bar none. The great works of the russian novelists are well known. So, I see russians as a small poor people, in a hostile territory, struggling to overcome the barbarians. My view of russians is fairly heroic. That they made a terrible mistake with (((stalin and trotsky))) is something I see them escaping – slowly. The problem is it probably can’t be done domestically better than putin is doing it. His mistakes have been largely international. And he’s right. Russia emerged from the (((bolshevik))) era by return to her origins. And the west is continuing to fall for the (((cosmopolitan lies))). Apr 07, 2018 12:56pm