Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • The purpose of Pilpul, Abrahamism, Theology, and Philosophical Justificationism

    The purpose of Pilpul, Abrahamism, Theology, and Philosophical Justificationism is to avoid Empiricism by which we demonstrate our imaginings and our reason are not falsified by reality .)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-22 10:46:00 UTC

  • “We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically

    —“We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically ancestral worship in the western form. When we’re honest about the level of intensity and specificity our focus assumes on successful forerunners and historical high achievers, veneration obviates. Entrainment and laser sharp mental focus exclude irrelevant data (such as from non-exemplars) as noise.”— William L. Benge

  • “We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically

    —“We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically ancestral worship in the western form. When we’re honest about the level of intensity and specificity our focus assumes on successful forerunners and historical high achievers, veneration obviates. Entrainment and laser sharp mental focus exclude irrelevant data (such as from non-exemplars) as noise.”— William L. Benge

  • “We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically

    —“We ride on the shoulders of giants,” is an accolade to predecessors, basically ancestral worship in the western form. When we’re honest about the level of intensity and specificity our focus assumes on successful forerunners and historical high achievers, veneration obviates. Entrainment and laser sharp mental focus exclude irrelevant data (such as from non-exemplars) as noise.”— William L. Benge

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-22 10:28:00 UTC

  • Magic And God And Frames

    –“I wonder what brought “magic” and “god” in one topic? People either measure through high context (not magic) low precision, or construe low context to look like high context so as to pretend the first (magic). Those who can ‘measure’ through low context, high precision can explain what they are doing, but the audience mostly can’t grok it… so they try use the audience’s language: high context, low precision.”— Mea Culba 1 – You are correct, but the terminology is ‘high context low precision’ vs ‘high precision, low context’. (I’ve modified your prose to make use of those terms instead) 2 – technically speaking there are very few grammars available to man. And the grammar of ‘magic’ is used to ascribe cause or intent to that which is not understood. So combining fiction and magic, we get religion. Adding law gets us monotheism. 3 – people can be spoken to in the language of analogy, parable, and fiction, without engaging in lying (religion). We all defend our frames. The abrahamic lies have affected all but the far east. It took me a long time to understand the damage caused by abrahamism (lying). And it’s because people are so vulnerable to that form of lying, that it’s been so dangerous and destructive. Abrahamism combines lying and conflation into not only monotheism but a monopoly frame. This is terribly simple for the human mind. It is also, because it does NOT consist of competition, a PRISON for the human mind. (BTW: Mea Culba: You write very smart things on a regular basis despite jumping a language barrier.)

  • Magic And God And Frames

    –“I wonder what brought “magic” and “god” in one topic? People either measure through high context (not magic) low precision, or construe low context to look like high context so as to pretend the first (magic). Those who can ‘measure’ through low context, high precision can explain what they are doing, but the audience mostly can’t grok it… so they try use the audience’s language: high context, low precision.”— Mea Culba 1 – You are correct, but the terminology is ‘high context low precision’ vs ‘high precision, low context’. (I’ve modified your prose to make use of those terms instead) 2 – technically speaking there are very few grammars available to man. And the grammar of ‘magic’ is used to ascribe cause or intent to that which is not understood. So combining fiction and magic, we get religion. Adding law gets us monotheism. 3 – people can be spoken to in the language of analogy, parable, and fiction, without engaging in lying (religion). We all defend our frames. The abrahamic lies have affected all but the far east. It took me a long time to understand the damage caused by abrahamism (lying). And it’s because people are so vulnerable to that form of lying, that it’s been so dangerous and destructive. Abrahamism combines lying and conflation into not only monotheism but a monopoly frame. This is terribly simple for the human mind. It is also, because it does NOT consist of competition, a PRISON for the human mind. (BTW: Mea Culba: You write very smart things on a regular basis despite jumping a language barrier.)

  • MAGIC AND GOD AND FRAMES –“I wonder what brought “magic” and “god” in one topic

    MAGIC AND GOD AND FRAMES

    –“I wonder what brought “magic” and “god” in one topic? People either measure through high context (not magic) low precision, or construe low context to look like high context so as to pretend the first (magic). Those who can ‘measure’ through low context, high precision can explain what they are doing, but the audience mostly can’t grok it… so they try use the audience’s language: high context, low precision.”— Mea Culba

    1 – You are correct, but the terminology is ‘high context low precision’ vs ‘high precision, low context’. (I’ve modified your prose to make use of those terms instead)

    2 – technically speaking there are very few grammars available to man. And the grammar of ‘magic’ is used to ascribe cause or intent to that which is not understood. So combining fiction and magic, we get religion. Adding law gets us monotheism.

    3 – people can be spoken to in the language of analogy, parable, and fiction, without engaging in lying (religion).

    We all defend our frames. The abrahamic lies have affected all but the far east. It took me a long time to understand the damage caused by abrahamism (lying). And it’s because people are so vulnerable to that form of lying, that it’s been so dangerous and destructive.

    Abrahamism combines lying and conflation into not only monotheism but a monopoly frame. This is terribly simple for the human mind. It is also, because it does NOT consist of competition, a PRISON for the human mind.

    (BTW: Mea Culba: You write very smart things on a regular basis despite jumping a language barrier.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-22 08:16:00 UTC

  • What Would Happen If There Was An American Revolution Where Illegal Immigrants Overthrew The American Government?

    It’s happening isn’t it? What’s the difference between war, religious conversion, and immigration?

    THERE ISN’T ANY.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-there-was-an-American-Revolution-where-Illegal-Immigrants-overthrew-the-American-government

  • What Would Happen If There Was An American Revolution Where Illegal Immigrants Overthrew The American Government?

    It’s happening isn’t it? What’s the difference between war, religious conversion, and immigration?

    THERE ISN’T ANY.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-there-was-an-American-Revolution-where-Illegal-Immigrants-overthrew-the-American-government

  • Gods

    Any technology indistinguishable from magic will appear as magic. Any life form indistinguishable from a god, will appear as a god. As far as I know we are among the first possible life forms in this particular universe. And neither god nor magic exists except as appearance. And if we ever encounter magic or god it will mean we will soon be enslaved or dead. We ‘calculate’ anthropomorphically because our brains contain means of anthropomorphic representation necessary for our action in the universe at human scale. Gods provide us with units of measurement that provide decidability across differences in value on one hand, as does a strong father in a household, a headman in a tribe, a king in a territory, and a judge in a polity. Decidability provides us with mindfulness, since we are not able to form secure relations with the numbers of people who share our territorial space as super predators. Role playing with a fictional father, headman, king, judge two whom one cannot lie, provides us wth mindfulness. appealing to that fictional father, headman, king, judge that has unlimited abilities provides mindfulness in suffering and despair. Humans are very simple creatures. Nothing is very hard to understand. It is just tremendous work to sift through the layer cake of lies we build to provide us with false mindfulness in our ignorance, instead of truth mindfulness in our knowledge. )