Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • A priest lies to you by lying, fiction, inflation. A novelist tells you what you

    A priest lies to you by lying, fiction, inflation. A novelist tells you what you want to hear through fiction. A merchant, financier, or economist tells you what you want to hear by cherry picking a half-truth. A a scientist tells you uncomfortable truths. A judge tells you painful truths.

  • “I hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend) I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and

    –“I hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend) I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and a few chemicals that arranged in a particular order, we call ‘human’. (Although, that’s an opinion others have questioned. 😉 ) I practice a ‘complete’ version of science I call Testimonialism. That science tells me that stoicism provides the optimum personal mindfulness (mental training). And that Ritual, Feast, and Festival provide the optimum social mindfulness. And that commerce provides the optimum normative mindfulness. And that military service provides the optimum political mindfulness. And that history and heroic fiction we call myth provide the optimum general model of decidability. My ‘Belief System’ is here….

  • hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend) I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and a f

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/06/09/the-oath-of-transcendent-man/–“I hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend)

    I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and a few chemicals that arranged in a particular order, we call ‘human’. (Although, that’s an opinion others have questioned. 😉 )

    I practice a ‘complete’ version of science I call Testimonialism.

    That science tells me that stoicism provides the optimum personal mindfulness (mental training). And that Ritual, Feast, and Festival provide the optimum social mindfulness. And that commerce provides the optimum normative mindfulness. And that military service provides the optimum political mindfulness. And that history and heroic fiction we call myth provide the optimum general model of decidability.

    My ‘Belief System’ is here….Updated Oct 21, 2017, 9:56 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-21 09:56:00 UTC

  • “I hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend) I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and

    –“I hear you’re a stoic.”– (a friend) I am (exist as) a bag of mostly water and a few chemicals that arranged in a particular order, we call ‘human’. (Although, that’s an opinion others have questioned. 😉 ) I practice a ‘complete’ version of science I call Testimonialism. That science tells me that stoicism provides the optimum personal mindfulness (mental training). And that Ritual, Feast, and Festival provide the optimum social mindfulness. And that commerce provides the optimum normative mindfulness. And that military service provides the optimum political mindfulness. And that history and heroic fiction we call myth provide the optimum general model of decidability. My ‘Belief System’ is here….

  • THE MEANING OF “SACRED” Recent political events have brought to the fore, discou

    THE MEANING OF “SACRED” Recent political events have brought to the fore, discourse on the sacred. But what does the word ‘sacred’ mean? It means a total prohibition on privatization of the commons, or socialization of losses into the commons, in display, word, and deed. In other words, you have zero rights to those commons, zero rights in those commons, and you benefit from those commons precisely because you have no rights to them or in them – as does no one else. THE CHURCH Christianity teaches us one unique thing and teaches us one general thing. For christianity, it saturates us in narratives and rituals that ask us to extend kinship love to non kin – on an individual basis (not a political or military). It asks us to eliminate hatred from the human heart. This just happens to be the optimum cooperative strategy: exhausting investment in cooperation before engaging in retaliation, and when engaging in retaliation doing so out of necessity, and without emotion. The church, temple, or ritual experience teaches us sacredness: that there are conditions under which we have no rights of expression: in display, word, or deed. It teaches us Agency over ourselves. Those capable of agency can be taught. Those who lack agency over themselves demonstrate that they are a danger to the rest. And as most of us recall, as children, adhering to ritual in church for a single hour once a week is an exercise in self discipline that even the most well intentioned may struggle with. THE POLITY We have seen the total destruction of the sacred in pursuit avoiding the effort of developing agency over the self – such that we learn to fast, learn to constrain our actions, our minds, our words, and our displays. And this is because like the parable of the boiling frog, we cannot sense the intertemporal in the moment or even in our lives. Even if we can sense the consequences of our failure to pay the high cost (tax) of developing agency, and the sacred as one more kind of fitness. Physical Fitness (the body) Mental Fitness (mindfulness) Emotional Fitness (Sacredness) Social Fitness (Manners, ethics, morals, traditions, Rituals) Economic Fitness (the skills of measurement) Political Fitness (the natural law)

  • THE MEANING OF “SACRED” Recent political events have brought to the fore, discou

    THE MEANING OF “SACRED”

    Recent political events have brought to the fore, discourse on the sacred. But what does the word ‘sacred’ mean?

    It means a total prohibition on privatization of the commons, or socialization of losses into the commons, in display, word, and deed.

    In other words, you have zero rights to those commons, zero rights in those commons, and you benefit from those commons precisely because you have no rights to them or in them – as does no one else.

    THE CHURCH

    Christianity teaches us one unique thing and teaches us one general thing.

    For christianity, it saturates us in narratives and rituals that ask us to extend kinship love to non kin – on an individual basis (not a political or military). It asks us to eliminate hatred from the human heart. This just happens to be the optimum cooperative strategy: exhausting investment in cooperation before engaging in retaliation, and when engaging in retaliation doing so out of necessity, and without emotion.

    The church, temple, or ritual experience teaches us sacredness: that there are conditions under which we have no rights of expression: in display, word, or deed. It teaches us Agency over ourselves.

    Those capable of agency can be taught. Those who lack agency over themselves demonstrate that they are a danger to the rest. And as most of us recall, as children, adhering to ritual in church for a single hour once a week is an exercise in self discipline that even the most well intentioned may struggle with.

    THE POLITY

    We have seen the total destruction of the sacred in pursuit avoiding the effort of developing agency over the self – such that we learn to fast, learn to constrain our actions, our minds, our words, and our displays.

    And this is because like the parable of the boiling frog, we cannot sense the intertemporal in the moment or even in our lives. Even if we can sense the consequences of our failure to pay the high cost (tax) of developing agency, and the sacred as one more kind of fitness.

    Physical Fitness (the body)

    Mental Fitness (mindfulness)

    Emotional Fitness (Sacredness)

    Social Fitness (Manners, ethics, morals, traditions, Rituals)

    Economic Fitness (the skills of measurement)

    Political Fitness (the natural law)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-20 09:21:00 UTC

  • THE MEANING OF “SACRED” Recent political events have brought to the fore, discou

    THE MEANING OF “SACRED” Recent political events have brought to the fore, discourse on the sacred. But what does the word ‘sacred’ mean? It means a total prohibition on privatization of the commons, or socialization of losses into the commons, in display, word, and deed. In other words, you have zero rights to those commons, zero rights in those commons, and you benefit from those commons precisely because you have no rights to them or in them – as does no one else. THE CHURCH Christianity teaches us one unique thing and teaches us one general thing. For christianity, it saturates us in narratives and rituals that ask us to extend kinship love to non kin – on an individual basis (not a political or military). It asks us to eliminate hatred from the human heart. This just happens to be the optimum cooperative strategy: exhausting investment in cooperation before engaging in retaliation, and when engaging in retaliation doing so out of necessity, and without emotion. The church, temple, or ritual experience teaches us sacredness: that there are conditions under which we have no rights of expression: in display, word, or deed. It teaches us Agency over ourselves. Those capable of agency can be taught. Those who lack agency over themselves demonstrate that they are a danger to the rest. And as most of us recall, as children, adhering to ritual in church for a single hour once a week is an exercise in self discipline that even the most well intentioned may struggle with. THE POLITY We have seen the total destruction of the sacred in pursuit avoiding the effort of developing agency over the self – such that we learn to fast, learn to constrain our actions, our minds, our words, and our displays. And this is because like the parable of the boiling frog, we cannot sense the intertemporal in the moment or even in our lives. Even if we can sense the consequences of our failure to pay the high cost (tax) of developing agency, and the sacred as one more kind of fitness. Physical Fitness (the body) Mental Fitness (mindfulness) Emotional Fitness (Sacredness) Social Fitness (Manners, ethics, morals, traditions, Rituals) Economic Fitness (the skills of measurement) Political Fitness (the natural law)

  • If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to

    If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to the beginning of time, then you are simply weak. If you want a cross, moon, or star, or other icon then you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution. Those symbols were invented to erase the lines between peoples not create them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-20 08:08:00 UTC

  • If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to

    If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to the beginning of time, then you are simply weak. If you want a cross, moon, or star, or other icon then you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution. Those symbols were invented to erase the lines between peoples not create them.

  • If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to

    If you need a symbol to rally behind other than the line of your people, back to the beginning of time, then you are simply weak. If you want a cross, moon, or star, or other icon then you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution. Those symbols were invented to erase the lines between peoples not create them.