Curt Doolittle

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  • “Guilt Pangs of Autistics” Pangs from those many times throughout your life wher

    “Guilt Pangs of Autistics”

    Pangs from those many times throughout your life where you correct teachers and professors with autistic frustration over some error they’re making, and they they interpret it as emotional investment on your part, or offense, or criticism of them.

    No. Um. We just can’t stand mistakes. You’re just an object like a desk or a pet. It isn’t personal. We don’t have the concept of ‘personal’ until later in life. Really. And we’re horrified when you ‘take it personally’. You just convince us that the world is full of crazy people.

    Those of us who succeed, learn to role play by imitating others. And we obtain through discipline and study that which you obtained at birth. I still may not always be able to read your facial expressions but I can read your body language just fine. The reason being that your face is subtle but your body is not. It states your understanding of our relationship every second, the way your face states your feelings.

    I have a lot of guilt pangs over those episodes. Not the least of which is in the knowledge that I couldn’t control my impulse to ‘correct’ the teachers and professors. By the time I was in my early twenties I learned to just leave the room. “There is nothing to be learned here”.

    And into my thirties I did the same with meetings (really). “There is nothing smart going on here”. I learned to vote with my feet. This had the consequence of producing respect (and fear). When it was just an attempt to control my frustration at ignorance, error, and stupidity, and to devote my time to more important issues. Walking away from stupidity is the greatest negative reinforcement you can provide.

    Now, my understanding is that along the spectrum – before we develop unrecoverable damage, we largely have higher neural density, and it simply takes longer to program that neural density with intuition than it does with practicing (repetition).

    If that is the case then we are the next step in evolution, and that next step in evolution. Why? it will take us longer to mature a human through learning than it does an animal through instinct.

    And that is an interesting evolutionary risk. Since at some point if you are so dependent upon learning over intuition, then it is a weakness for a genome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 09:27:00 UTC

  • Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand.

    Men divide cognitive labor more so than women. We have many tribes. Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand. This specialization as in all things reflects the class structure. That is what men have been doing for the past ten years: building tools. Not one – but many. Each ‘faction’ of the New (Scientific) Right is developing the tools that they know how to use. And when we are ready we will form an army with very special tools, for each tribe, and because of that variety of weapons we will win.

  • Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand.

    Men divide cognitive labor more so than women. We have many tribes. Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand. This specialization as in all things reflects the class structure. That is what men have been doing for the past ten years: building tools. Not one – but many. Each ‘faction’ of the New (Scientific) Right is developing the tools that they know how to use. And when we are ready we will form an army with very special tools, for each tribe, and because of that variety of weapons we will win.

  • All You Need to Know About Stoicism

    Stoicism consists of disciplined self authoring. The purpose of stoicism is to teach mindfulness. Not escapist mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not fantasy mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not victim mindfulness but actionable mindfulness. Enumerate a number of virtues (these are open to debate) Write a plan for your life that includes achievements and virtues. Every day plan your day. Every night review your progress. Repeat this process until you do it by nature. The purpose is to insulate you from opinions, influences, and manipulations of others, while gradually achieving your ends, without falling into manipulation, influence, and opining others. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. The rest is just a romance novel we wrap around that discipline. It’s the best method we know of so far, with buddhism a far distant, and escapist, second.

  • All You Need to Know About Stoicism

    Stoicism consists of disciplined self authoring. The purpose of stoicism is to teach mindfulness. Not escapist mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not fantasy mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not victim mindfulness but actionable mindfulness. Enumerate a number of virtues (these are open to debate) Write a plan for your life that includes achievements and virtues. Every day plan your day. Every night review your progress. Repeat this process until you do it by nature. The purpose is to insulate you from opinions, influences, and manipulations of others, while gradually achieving your ends, without falling into manipulation, influence, and opining others. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. The rest is just a romance novel we wrap around that discipline. It’s the best method we know of so far, with buddhism a far distant, and escapist, second.

  • Stoicism teaches Mindfulness: Training of the Intuition, just as twe train the mind and body.

    1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods): Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear. 2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues…. 3) … I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals). 4) … Mental discipline can be created by any number of methods: prayer, meditation, ritual, sport, but other than self-authoring, each has tragic consequences. The virtue of stoic discipline is that it asks us to act to obtain our goals, and to be free of manipulation by others, and manipulation by our animal impulses, such that we divert the least effort to that which is not relevant to achieving our goals. 5) … And stoic discipline is superior to others particularly because it provides us with defense against abrahamism in all its forms.

  • Stoicism teaches Mindfulness: Training of the Intuition, just as twe train the mind and body.

    1) Mindfulness as I use it, in the stoic tradition, refers to mental fitness: acquiring virtues (quality human goods) that improve us as social creatures, rather than impulsive goods, or things (cheap animal goods): Insulation from emotional bads: impulse, envy, fear. 2) We are subject to an ever increasing stream of opportunities. And unlike those of the past, where many conditions could cause us stress of deprivation, today’s opportunities cause us stress of choice. So we solve both problems past and present by self authoring virtues…. 3) … I can’t do much in tweets, but it’s just the process of mentally disciplining yourself so that animal impulses with which we were born are rationally reacted to rather than impulsively reacted to, and then actions and reactions taken and made according to our virtues (goals). 4) … Mental discipline can be created by any number of methods: prayer, meditation, ritual, sport, but other than self-authoring, each has tragic consequences. The virtue of stoic discipline is that it asks us to act to obtain our goals, and to be free of manipulation by others, and manipulation by our animal impulses, such that we divert the least effort to that which is not relevant to achieving our goals. 5) … And stoic discipline is superior to others particularly because it provides us with defense against abrahamism in all its forms.

  • Teach the way they can comprehend

    Some people need to be taught principles. Some people need to be taught rules. Some people need to be taught fear. Teach those who are worth teaching in the way they can comprehend. Its all a man can do. —Noah J Revoy

  • Teach the way they can comprehend

    Some people need to be taught principles. Some people need to be taught rules. Some people need to be taught fear. Teach those who are worth teaching in the way they can comprehend. Its all a man can do. —Noah J Revoy

  • Some people need to be taught principles. Some people need to be taught rules. S

    Some people need to be taught principles.
    Some people need to be taught rules.
    Some people need to be taught fear.
    Teach those who are worth teaching in the way they can comprehend. Its all a man can do.

    —Noah J Revoy

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-02 21:43:24 UTC

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