Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXA

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA

    —“There was no “library” as a separate institution or structure. It was always an inseparable part of the overall Museum. Secondly, the Museum was in no sense a secular institution. It was truly a temple to the Muses, and Holy Wisdom, with sacred functions. Even under Roman control it continued to be administered by a priest. Finally, it would seem that the Romans had nothing to do with the burning of the Museum, indeed there was no damage during the Roman conquest. The greatest damage is shown to have been done in late antiquity at the hands of Christian fanatics- like so many similar cases of the mindless destruction of our classical heritage.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 23:27:21 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC MONOPOLIES

    —“The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.”—

    Meritocracy is not Authoritarian.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 21:47:01 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“In Harran, the locals refused to convert.

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city’s greatest temple and razed it—smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandria’s Great Library.

    Today, we refer to Christianity’s conquest of the West as a “triumph.” But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesus’s followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. Just one percent of Latin literature would survive the purge; countless antiquities, artworks, and ancient traditions were lost forever.

    As Catherine Nixey reveals, evidence of early Christians’ campaign of terror has been hiding in plain sight: in the palimpsests and shattered statues proudly displayed in churches and museums the world over. In The Darkening Age, Nixey resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 20:36:10 UTC

  • CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA —“There was no “library” as

    CHRISTIAN DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA

    —“There was no “library” as a separate institution or structure. It was always an inseparable part of the overall Museum. Secondly, the Museum was in no sense a secular institution. It was truly a temple to the Muses, and Holy Wisdom, with sacred functions. Even under Roman control it continued to be administered by a priest. Finally, it would seem that the Romans had nothing to do with the burning of the Museum, indeed there was no damage during the Roman conquest. The greatest damage is shown to have been done in late antiquity at the hands of Christian fanatics- like so many similar cases of the mindless destruction of our classical heritage.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 19:27:00 UTC

  • EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC MONOPOLIES —“The Roman Empire had

    EUROPEAN EUGENIC MARKETS VS SEMITIC DYSGENIC MONOPOLIES

    —“The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.”—

    Meritocracy is not Authoritarian.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 17:47:00 UTC

  • “In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hu

    —“In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city’s greatest temple and razed it—smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandria’s Great Library.

    Today, we refer to Christianity’s conquest of the West as a “triumph.” But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesus’s followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. Just one percent of Latin literature would survive the purge; countless antiquities, artworks, and ancient traditions were lost forever.

    As Catherine Nixey reveals, evidence of early Christians’ campaign of terror has been hiding in plain sight: in the palimpsests and shattered statues proudly displayed in churches and museums the world over. In The Darkening Age, Nixey resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 16:36:00 UTC

  • “Thou shalt not exceed the carrying capacity of thy world.”

    “Thou shalt not exceed the carrying capacity of thy world.”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-06 12:56:00 UTC

  • Lessons from The Gulag

    3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face). 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent. 6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily. 9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face. Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”

  • Lessons from The Gulag

    3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face). 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent. 6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily. 9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face. Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”

  • Classes

    Aristocracy: War Upper Class: Law Upper Middle: Science (Econ) Middle Class: Philosophy Working Class: Religion Underclass: Intuition.