Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1544758945 Timestamp) CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A PRODUCT OF ITS ORIGINS, BUT OF ITS TRANSFORMATION INTO GERMANICIZED FOLK RELIGION – RE-INSTITUTIONALIZED UNDER COLONIALISM. —-…”a concept is not best understood in light of its origins, but rather in light of the direction in which the tradition is moving. To take Christianity as a notorious example: I do not believe that the truth of Christianity will best be elucidated by a search for its origins, but rather by an observation of its development in tradition. This approach is a reversal of the assumption that has dominated Christian and much other religious scholarship for a very long time, an assumption characterized by the genetic fallacy: that the true meaning of a word—or of an idea—lies in its pristine state.48″—-

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    (FB 1544919791 Timestamp) (I know the religion thing is painful but I am very close to finished with it. Most people want a new religion. I want to restore the church and family as the central institution of our society, and eliminate the state-finance-consumption sector as a means of preying upon our people. To make that work requires another reformation. Not to the exclusion of the protestant one. But to restore a religion for OUR people. And it doesn’t mean I have to invent it. I just have to put the box around it to protect whatever is there. So i’m sorry if it’s offensive but it’s got to be done. Even atheists have a religion, they just can’t articulate it as one. And the one we have is dying along with the next generation.)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544919791 Timestamp) (I know the religion thing is painful but I am very close to finished with it. Most people want a new religion. I want to restore the church and family as the central institution of our society, and eliminate the state-finance-consumption sector as a means of preying upon our people. To make that work requires another reformation. Not to the exclusion of the protestant one. But to restore a religion for OUR people. And it doesn’t mean I have to invent it. I just have to put the box around it to protect whatever is there. So i’m sorry if it’s offensive but it’s got to be done. Even atheists have a religion, they just can’t articulate it as one. And the one we have is dying along with the next generation.)

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    (FB 1546014034 Timestamp) IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”— Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses: –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series. …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—- To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

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    (FB 1546006955 Timestamp) EMMANUEL TODD AND FAMILY STRUCTURES https://morganwlfc.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/an-introduction-to-emmanuel-todd-in-english-part-one/

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    (FB 1546006702 Timestamp) THE HAJNAL LINE —“What is it called? Hansa line? Hanja line? I can’t find anything when searching for it”— Hajnal Line: Line where bipartite manorialism spread in northern europe, producing delayed marriage and higher investment parenting, and seems to have been the cause of low clannishness, the work ethic, and high trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line Just as Kevin Macdonald worked on the Jewish Question, Jayman/Steve Hsu and others on the genetic question, to a large degree HBD_Chick (who stays anonymous just as did Jayman) works on clannishness and she popularized (among the HBD movement) the work of both Emmanuel Todd (French historian), and John Hajnal (Hungarian-British Mathematician) in their work on the differences between populations in europe – particularly given their family structures. This work dovetails with Hannan’s “Albion’s Seed” argument about the retention of local british culture as waves of british immigrants spread across the states. -Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1546006702 Timestamp) THE HAJNAL LINE —“What is it called? Hansa line? Hanja line? I can’t find anything when searching for it”— Hajnal Line: Line where bipartite manorialism spread in northern europe, producing delayed marriage and higher investment parenting, and seems to have been the cause of low clannishness, the work ethic, and high trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line Just as Kevin Macdonald worked on the Jewish Question, Jayman/Steve Hsu and others on the genetic question, to a large degree HBD_Chick (who stays anonymous just as did Jayman) works on clannishness and she popularized (among the HBD movement) the work of both Emmanuel Todd (French historian), and John Hajnal (Hungarian-British Mathematician) in their work on the differences between populations in europe – particularly given their family structures. This work dovetails with Hannan’s “Albion’s Seed” argument about the retention of local british culture as waves of british immigrants spread across the states. -Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1546091832 Timestamp) INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”) Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset. ENSURE (“personal, warranty of due diligence, positive”) Ensure is very similar in that it means to make sure or guarantee something, though the specific emphasis on doing so via insurance is not there. If a contract stipulates that an individual must ensure something is taken care of there is no requirement to purchase insurance, rather the individual is to “do their best” to make sure something is taken care of.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546091832 Timestamp) INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”) Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset. ENSURE (“personal, warranty of due diligence, positive”) Ensure is very similar in that it means to make sure or guarantee something, though the specific emphasis on doing so via insurance is not there. If a contract stipulates that an individual must ensure something is taken care of there is no requirement to purchase insurance, rather the individual is to “do their best” to make sure something is taken care of.

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    (FB 1546102610 Timestamp) JOSLIN ON CONTINUING THE LONGEST RUNNING SYSTEM OF MODERN GOVERNMENT by Bill Joslin I have an admission, a confession… I still, after all these years, see classical liberalism and the anglo-enlightenment as a shining jewel in history; rare and valuable. But it was flawed. The flaw pertains to reifying critical concepts of its success into universal ideals. Namely equality (ideal) out of isonomy (realz), tolerance as an ideal versus tolerance of trivial and arbitrary differences (the real). Now I don’t see that these were critical flaws but rather a result of kinship and common sense being embedded in a long history of social norms of a homogeneous polity. They, at the time, didn’t need explicit statements on the limits to these concepts because they were “self-evident” and taken for granted within the normative domain. Overtime, what was taken for granted was forgotten, and Christian sentiment of universal love blew these operational necessities out of reality and into civic ideals. I would find much joy in holding this centrist stance, but in good faith cannot. I cannot because kin-selection backfilles for these flaws (homogeneity in the founding cultures) and paints a scene of future failure (universal franchise pushes kin-interests into the polictical sphere i.e. loss of unity in the polity). Civic values can provide that homogeneity but will always be vulnerable to lower resolution means (biology, ethnicity, race) We can correct CL, IMO. We can correct the errors. This line of development would put us toward the middle. Completing the enlightenment – which is really what we are doing. But we can’t do that without addressing identity and identity properties (kinship). Which right now puts us at the edge of the fringe. (The flaws currently poked at CL are not what CL was in its initial incarnations but rather what the romantics did to CL after they became the agenda setters in the 19th century)