Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • GOD: OUR ATTEMPT TO CHEAT NATURE by Bill Joslin The totality of nature; the flow

    GOD: OUR ATTEMPT TO CHEAT NATURE

    by Bill Joslin

    The totality of nature; the flow of time, the battle with entropy, the unrelenting obedience to the laws of nature- this totality viewed as one anthropomorphic object, made into our own image (a personal god) so that we can please bargain (cheat) by gaining it’s esteem (social coercion):

    God = human tendency to cheat via rally and shame.

    Let’s face it. Nature trump’s all authority, plays no favorites, and can be a terrifying bitch which we must obey or die. Best not to try and cheat her.

    (jeez bill. I think you just blew my mind)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:31:00 UTC

  • THE MANY KINDS OF FAITH I think there are many kinds of faith. – Confidence in r

    THE MANY KINDS OF FAITH

    I think there are many kinds of faith.

    – Confidence in reason-effort-trial-and-error – to transform.

    – Belief in comforting demonstrable falsehoods – to oppose.

    – Faith in comforting superstitions – to resist.

    – Submission to the occult – to abandon.

    And that each state in that spectrum corresponds to one’s agency or lack of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:25:00 UTC

  • THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM –“I cannot even begin to i

    THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM

    –“I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to live on this planet and not have faith.. Faith to me is my belief in something I can’t see, hear or touch.. Its my ” gray ” area and it gives my life meaning and purpose…”— Anon

    I think I could restate that as, “I feel a deep need for a narrative against which to measure my status, and to judge my self worth in life, because outside of the hunter-gatherer tribe of pre-history, where we had directly knowledge of one another, and direct understanding of our status and self worth, that in all other eras – modernity, medieval, and ancient – my judgement of my status and self worth is beyond my ability to intuit, guess, reason, or calculate.”

    I view this as a feminine or beta-male understanding of the world. But it is the most common understanding of the world that I know of.

    The question is, whether confident male, less confident male, or cautious female, we can learn to use the stories of history, reason, and in fact, science, to achieve the same.

    In fact, now that we understand stoicism scientifically, there appears to be no other ‘religion’ that compares to it.

    Where stoicism seeks to make you immune to ridicule, guilt and shame; and to hone your positive virtues, thereby assisting you in changing the world. Faith seeks to make you fear guilt, and punishment, if you offend the world.

    Hence why countries with much faith stagnate in poverty and those with reason leave the rest behind. (china, the west)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:17:00 UTC

  • by Daniel Gurpide Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in

    by Daniel Gurpide

    Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in the existence of God. Already in the eighteenth century the idea of intellectually proving the existence of God was abandoned, and Rousseau and Kant may be found positing a belief in God based instead on emotions or values. In a culture in which God had died owing to the development of science, the values of Judeo-Christian slave morality were duly taken up by the causes of democracy, socialism, equal rights – and other movements of the weak and ‘oppressed’.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 05:38:00 UTC

  • Reading Kant from my current vantage point and seeing that his mental model is h

    Reading Kant from my current vantage point and seeing that his mental model is hermeneutic interpretation of scripture and he is trying to transition from the supernatural ideal, to the secular ideal, but either cannot or cannot imagine how to speak in the real. Which anglo law would have taught him. Hume on the other hand expressly tries the existential method and succeeds. Hume is a scientist – an aristotelian. Kant is a n idealist – a platonist. He reads childishly to me now, where he read obscurely in the past. And it is increasingly obvious why the marxists and postmodernists ran to him for cover.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 17:31:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFORMATION (NOTE: I’m going to point out the obvio

    https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/yuchtman/Noam_Yuchtman_files/rr_draft.pdfTHE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFORMATION

    (NOTE: I’m going to point out the obvious for you: that just judaism “tied up intellect in mysticism” such that jews contributed nothing to human civilization despite their literacy; and just as today, islam ‘tied up intellect’ in vast ignorance and superstition deception, destroying four great civilization to date; that the catholic church ‘tied up intellect, resources, and economies. And that just as Constantine’ and Justinian’s purpose was to undermine the western aristocracy in favor of the same persian tyranny that seduced alexander; the church incrementally attempted to undermine the aristocracy and replace it with Persian god-kings. And this is the reason that the church granted property rights to women, and forbid inbreeding: so that they could undermine the land holdings of the great families, and incrementally acquire through a host of schemes fifty percent of the european farmlands. I have come to see the church as the most insidious institution whose few claims of virtue were nothing more than taking credit for what would have occurred earlier had they continued the spread of roman literacy and law rather than church superstition and ignorance.)

    –“The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was both a shock to the market for religion and a first-order economic shock. We study its impact on the allocation of resources between the religious and secular sectors in Germany, collecting data on the allocation of human and physical capital. While Protestant reformers aimed to elevate the role of religion, we find that the Reformation produced rapid economic secularization. The interaction between religious competition and political economy explains the shift in investments in human and fixed capital away from the religious sector. Large numbers of monasteries were expropriated during the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions. This transfer of resources shifted the demand for labor between religious and secular sectors: graduates from Protestant universities increasingly entered secular occupations. Consistent with forward-looking behavior, students at Protestant universities shifted from the study of theology toward secular degrees. The appropriation of resources by secular rulers is also reflected in construction: during the Reformation, religious construction declined, particularly in Protestant regions, while secular construction increased,especially for administrative purposes. Reallocation was not driven by pre-existing economic or cultural differences.”– Via Tyler Cowen

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 16:30:00 UTC

  • Abrahamism was invented to resist the aristocracy (judaism), to undermine the ar

    Abrahamism was invented to resist the aristocracy (judaism), to undermine the aristocracy (christianity), and to attack the aristocracy (islam). It is the weaponization of lying by the underclasses using Falsehood, Fiction, Command, Reproduction, and Low investment education against the Aristocracy’s invention of Truth, Science, Law, Technology, and High investment education.

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 11:33:00 UTC

  • AUGUSTINE IS STILL EVIL —“Augustine took the view that, if a literal interpret

    AUGUSTINE IS STILL EVIL

    —“Augustine took the view that, if a literal interpretation contradicts science and our God-given reason, the Biblical text should be interpreted metaphorically. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this “literal sense” does not always mean that the Scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.”—

    Yes, but abrahamism is inherently evil, because one perfect god rather than a family of gods, because that god is claimed to be perfect not merely immortal, because of man’s relationship to a god as subservient slavery not voluntary and contractual, because we cannot defeat and transcend these gods through action and wit, because rituals practiced, and the oaths made, and the prayers said mandate our ignorance, and because the effect of these rituals produces an addiction response that no reason or earthly incentive can break. In other words, when we lose reason, we cease to be human. If we are no longer human we are merely beast. A good slave. A good slave that rebels against truth, merit, transcendence of man, and creates a dependent ignorant people devoid of reason.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 10:10:00 UTC

  • Everyone is a scientist now. Or else he is a mystic. The middle ground – the ide

    Everyone is a scientist now. Or else he is a mystic. The middle ground – the ideal – is gone. Plato is dead. Abraham is dead. Buddha limps along. Confucius survives. Aristotle thrives.

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 10:01:00 UTC

  • AN EXPLANATION OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE 20th CENTURY (we are all scientists now)

    AN EXPLANATION OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE 20th CENTURY

    (we are all scientists now)

    In retrospect, the first wave of the enlightenment failed by not articulating transcendence but merely ‘good’. Darwin, Spencer and Nietzsche provided existential transcendence: evolution. Maxwell and Poincare (and later Einstein) provided evidence of our possibility of physical transcendence. The social scientists (Menger, Weber, Pareto, Durkheim) and the legalists (Jefferson, Hayek) came very close to providing the rule of ethical, social and political transcendence: Reciprocity. And despite Popper’s stumbling upon falsification and Mises’, Brouwer/Poincare/Hilbert, Bridgman, and Turing stumbling upon Operationalism in all its forms, in all their fields, I think it was the failed pursuit of logic as a science in its own as a defense of philosophy against science that begins with Wittgenstein, Russell, and Whitehead that opened the door for the attack on western civilization through the masses, using Abrahamism (deception using suggestion through narrative conflation and overloading), just as Abrahamic Marxism had been used immediately prior, and just as Abrahamic religion had been used as a means of uniting the dysgenic underclasses through deception against the eugenic aristocracy and their use of Deflationary Truth in the ancient world.

    Their (typical) victorian vanity, as if philosophy was not the pursuit of law but a puzzle from a detective novel with which one could display one’s wit, produced a catastrophic failure for our civilization. Linguistic philosophy was a failed program largely because there is nothing in it that cannot be produced in mathematics alone. Mathematics, even if practiced deductively, is always reducible to operations, with the single exception of the law of the excluded middle – an exception which is only necessary for scale independence. And for language to function meaningfully requires action, sequence, and time – leaving linguistic philosophy the only non-operational and therefore ideal (if not magical) discipline.

    So the operational revolution that was needed in both linguistic philosophy, law, and economics, was produced in computer science under Turing. Unfortunately, this failure of the philosophers not only made room for, but assisted in the replacement of Marxist pseudoscience with Postmodern pseudo-rationalism in the 60’s – itself the most novel innovation in the art of lying since the invention of Abrahamism.

    So, my generation, raised with computer science, computability, algorithmic operations, object oriented analysis, the representation of existential reality using relational database design (vs set ideal set theory of language as a false bridge between mathematics and algorithms), has developed an intuitive antagonistic reaction to both linguistic idealism, postmodern pseudo-rationalism, marxist (boazian, freudian, cantorian) pseudoscience. Hence the libertarianism of the technology sector – at least until recent massive asian immigration.

    So for this reason, philosophy is being reformed by people like myself, who have been raised in the discipline of computability and algorithms, well outside of philosophy departments, and who solved the problem that 20th century philosophy failed to: the deflation of the logic of language into only mathematics (sets), and only algorithms(language). And by doing so, all the disciplines: the logic of identity, the logic of mathematics, the logic of sets, the logic of operations, the logic of rational choice, and the logic of reciprocity, each correspond to a single dimension of existential and actionable reality. Thereby removing all mystery behind the logics.

    Next, by overthrowing the ancient conflation of moral and legal justification, including Kant’s apriorism (all via-positiva), and replacing it with science’s criticism (all via-negativa), we are able to unite law, morality, philosophy, and science into a single discipline: the discipline of providing warranty of due diligence by tests of consistency in each dimension of actionable reality applicable to the testimony (speech) we publish (speak in the commons).

    Everyone is a scientist now. Or else he is a mystic. The middle ground – the ideal – is gone. Plato is dead. Abraham is dead. Buddha limps along. Confucius survives. And Aristotle thrives.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 08:09:00 UTC