Theme: Religion

  • A market for cults is one thing (those who need them). A requirement for cults i

    A market for cults is one thing (those who need them). A requirement for cults is another (forcing those who do not). A monopoly cult is yet another (forcing a monopoly upon those who would choose differently, and those who would choose to do without).


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 09:20:00 UTC

  • Nietzsche vs The Stoics

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint). So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.). When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’). Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation. Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.*** So we have three components to deal with. One is … (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is … (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is … (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training. Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak…… Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”.. 1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality. 2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy. 3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness. So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ). And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring. So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed. But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics). And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship). And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes. The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense. ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies. We are only equal in poverty. Otherwise we are unequal in markets. As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Nietzsche vs The Stoics

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint). So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.). When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’). Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation. Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.*** So we have three components to deal with. One is … (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is … (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is … (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training. Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak…… Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”.. 1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality. 2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy. 3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness. So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ). And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring. So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed. But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics). And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship). And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes. The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense. ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies. We are only equal in poverty. Otherwise we are unequal in markets. As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • DEFINING RELIGION I define religion in terms of techniques of learning mindfulne

    DEFINING RELIGION

    I define religion in terms of techniques of learning mindfulness(confidence) and the consequent externalities good and bad.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 04:24:00 UTC

  • The Cost of Running Civilizational Tests

    Ancient (primitive) peoples could not afford to perform experiments that tested the theories (promises, testimony) of the priesthoods. And some of those theories were untestable. We have run those tests today. Even though we could not afford them. And the result was the dark ages, and the continental enlightenment/marxist/postmodernist attempt to return to them. Apr 18, 2018 12:26pm

  • The Cost of Running Civilizational Tests

    Ancient (primitive) peoples could not afford to perform experiments that tested the theories (promises, testimony) of the priesthoods. And some of those theories were untestable. We have run those tests today. Even though we could not afford them. And the result was the dark ages, and the continental enlightenment/marxist/postmodernist attempt to return to them. Apr 18, 2018 12:26pm

  • NIETZSCHE VS THE STOICS —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly cr

    NIETZSCHE VS THE STOICS

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda

    Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint).

    So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.).

    When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’).

    Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to

    But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation.

    Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.***

    So we have three components to deal with.

    One is …

    (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is …

    (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is …

    (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training.

    Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class

    Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak……

    Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses

    Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”..

    1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality.

    2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy.

    3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness.

    So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ).

    And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring.

    So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed.

    But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics).

    And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship).

    And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes.

    The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense.

    ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies.

    We are only equal in poverty.

    Otherwise we are unequal in markets.

    As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 16:00:00 UTC

  • THE COST OF RUNNING CIVILIZATIONAL TESTS Ancient (primitive) peoples could not a

    THE COST OF RUNNING CIVILIZATIONAL TESTS

    Ancient (primitive) peoples could not afford to perform experiments that tested the theories (promises, testimony) of the priesthoods. And some of those theories were untestable. We have run those tests today. Even though we could not afford them. And the result was the dark ages, and the continental enlightenment/marxist/postmodernist attempt to return to them.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 12:26:00 UTC

  • Awed at the irony that @Starbucks, which is the most anti-white, anti-christian,

    Awed at the irony that @Starbucks, which is the most anti-white, anti-christian, anti-male, politically correct, publicly traded company in the business of selling overpriced diabetes-bait on the US Exchange is the target of black ire, for not giving away scarce space. ???


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 09:13:00 UTC

  • Provide the Necessary Services of Religions in A Manner Not Constituted by Lies

    (a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conversely as ability increases demand for rationally decidable criteria increases. Meaning those of lesser ability require we appeal to intuitions, and those of greater ability require we appeal to reason. This is because those of lower ability have not been sufficiently domesticated (produced agency) by those of greater ability. (b) literary analogy using archetypes and archetypal story lines (we can list both archetypes and story lines) can be decomposed into rational terms and tested. Literary analogy allows loading and framing so that individuals can learn by intuition rather than reason (ie: by suggestion). But if we cannot decompose these analogies to scientific statements we do not know if they are false, or harmful or ‘evil’ as abrahamism has been. (d) people require a means of calculating (reasoning, thinking) in the broadest sense, and the most simple units of measure are anthropological. In the absence of tribal feedback they need what we call mindfulness but is better thought of a means of selecting and ignoring impulses (some of us call this agency). and in the absence of tribal community and dependence we need festivals and feasts. And to establish the limits we need an oath. All civilizations address this spectrum of mindfulness to oath, to feast, to festival to compensate for the competition produced by production, and the hierarchy that evolves form that division of knowledge, labor, and advocacy involved in the production of private, commercial, and public goods. This is because too few of us are evolved enough to survive without institutions that provide help to our remaining animal intuitions. We teach certain skills but what we do not teach is ‘sacredness of the commons’ that churches did, and we do not teach mindfulness or norms in a rational fashion. Religion is dying everywhere. ANd it is being replaced with things that are almost as bad. The question is how we provide the necessary services of religions in a manner not constituted by lies that do not decompose in to scientifically testable, and therefore indisputable prose.