Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • THE THREE CULTS (PILLARS) OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION by Simon Ström (brilliant) I l

    THE THREE CULTS (PILLARS) OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    by Simon Ström

    (brilliant)

    I like to conceive of the essential ideology of the West, from which myths, tales, rituals and institutions emanate, as consisting of three basic interdependent sacraments, “sub-cults” or “pillars”, fashioned almost like a constitution for our civilization.

    Dumezil noted that the Indo-European gods mainly represented three societal functions.

    Duchesne successfully argued that Western Civilization fundamentally derives from Indo-European cultural impulses, stressing the Faustian spirit of transcendence.

    Doolittle has shown that truth-telling emanates from martial epistemology and that natural law (reciprocity) is empirically discovered by a militia of sovereigns pursuing markets in everything.

    So I think that we may craft an “articles of association” of Western Civilization, similar perhaps to the one above, to serve as a positiva-and-negativa framework for stories, rituals, etc. and perhaps also polity and law.

    1) The cult of transcendence, represented by an archetypical Sky Father (‘Odin’), the supreme sovereign and the god of wisdom and law. (truth, of which natural law is a subset)

    2) The cult of non-submission, and the virtues of sovereign militiamen, represented by the archetypical striker/thunderer (‘Thor’) entangled in a heroic cosmogonic duel against a serpent (chaoskampf).

    3) The cult of family and kindred, the complementary obligations of monogamous marriage and the virtues of community and commons, represented by a plethora of gods, demigods and apical ancestors honored in ancestral cult, ensuring continuity of any extant kinship organization whether tribe, nation state, house, clan, etc.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 16:08:00 UTC

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: EASTERN MORAL CRITICISM VS ANGLO INTELLECTUAL CRITICISM

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: EASTERN MORAL CRITICISM VS ANGLO INTELLECTUAL CRITICISM

    (act in harmony with nature: eastern and western versions)

    I’m going to “anglicize” his statements because the buddhism is hard for me to wade through.

    (a) the movement is unnatural because they didn’t account for costs. if the algorithm accounted for a maximum watts of output in the human form: 400 for short periods, 100 for maybe an hour, and 60-75 for an 8 hour work day. or roughly 1200-1500 watts per day before exhaustion (or death). starting from a standing position, an algorithm ‘should’ eventually develop walking by trial and error, and hemispheric mirroring of successes. THe general problem with mathematical analysis, logical analysis, philosophical analysis, and all models that derive from them, is an insufficient allocation of costs which nature does not and cannot tolerate without immediate failure.

    So where Hayao Miyazaki speaks in eastern ethics of shame, an anglo like myself speaks in anglo ethics of stupidity.

    This in itself is an interesting observation of our cultural differences.

    Not that one or the other is better.

    Ours just provides more actionable results.

    Both of us are saying the same thing: “ACT IN HARMONY WITH NATURE” in different ways.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 14:20:00 UTC

  • “Paganism has a long tradition of trial and error in building practices, and a f

    —“Paganism has a long tradition of trial and error in building practices, and a focus on discovering information or testing the teachings in the furnaces of experience. Paganism produces the seed of empiricism.)”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 13:02:00 UTC

  • PAGANISM VS ABRAHAMISM (ADVICE VS COMMAND) PAGANISM = Myth (supernormalism) wher

    PAGANISM VS ABRAHAMISM (ADVICE VS COMMAND)

    PAGANISM = Myth (supernormalism) where in gods are but immortal men, bound by the laws of nature, and to whom we can appeal for assistance, but who herald our use of reason – and often fear our assent to superiority.

    ABRAHAMISM = Theism(supernaturalilsm) where gods bind nature and demand our submission by abandonment of our reason – and prohibit our assent to peerage.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 13:01:00 UTC

  • RAND As a literary philosopher she brought the moral code of middle class judais

    RAND

    As a literary philosopher she brought the moral code of middle class judaism to middle class americans resisting bolshevism in a form that the audience could digest.

    As an analytic philosopher, or a social scientist she was lacking in a full accounting, just as all three jewish class philosophies (marxism/libertarianism/neo-conservatism), lacked a full accounting. The jews had evolved to live off the commons of others rather than produce them themselves. They took the female strategy to the male strategy of the land holding peoples.

    And while western man’s traditions did not lack this full accounting, he developed it by competition in war, rule, polities, markets, and marriage, by tradition and habit and trial and error, not by articulated reason and deliberative law as did the jews.

    So while western man could defeat with physical science the supernatural fictionalism of the jews, he could not resist marxism, libertarianism, and neo-conservatism of the jews. And Rand supplied that articulation.

    Thankfully we westerners no longer have that problem: because marxism-postmodernism, libertarianism, and neoconservatism have all been proven false by the evidence.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 12:51:00 UTC

  • THE WINTER CANDLE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE SUMMER SUN OF PAGAN ACHIEVEMENT The ve

    THE WINTER CANDLE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE SUMMER SUN OF PAGAN ACHIEVEMENT

    The velocity of everything ‘good’ was almost zero under the church compared to under paganism. And any claim otherwise is demonstrably false. One does not say ‘we did this few things here’ and say it compares to ‘we did these ten thousand here’ and not yet say that western many merely managed to light a few dim candles under ideal, supernatural, christianity compared to the blinding sun he produced under real, mythical, paganism.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 12:42:00 UTC

  • THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD IN CHRISTIANITY THAT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE IT. —“Peterso

    THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD IN CHRISTIANITY THAT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE IT.

    —“Peterson’s point in theism, using Christianity as his usual example, is that we didn’t develop somehow without it and if we cut it off we shouldn’t assume we’ll retain the good we got from it as a society. This has happened and it never goes that way. In fact it goes.the other way. If your Utopia is with God than your on the right track. Are you criticizing having ideals in general as well? Also, what is the basis for people having ideals?”— Billy Duke

    (a) that does not survive scrutiny, because everything good in christianity was demonstrably there beforehand in the pagan versions and everything bad in christianity was not there but added to politicize those pagan versions against aristocracy and reason.

    (b) It is very hard to make the argument that abrahamic religions, including the licensing of christianity and the forcible imposition of christianity, were concocted as other than a rebellion against the commercial market meritocracy, military meritocracy, legislative meritocracy, political meritocracy, religious meritocracy, and use of reason by the aristocracy both persian and greco-roman. Judaism, christianity, and islam were just the separatist fundamentalism(judaism), socialism(christianity), and militant communism(islam) of the ancient world. And visa-versa.

    The eastern empire was able to ally the underclasses against the weakened aristocracy and take power over (defeat) the western empire, in the same way the Marxists/Postmodernists/Feminists have allied against the aristocracy weakened by the french revolution and the world wars.

    There are only two existentially possible group evolutionary strategies to man: the aristocratic meritocratic (k-selection, eugenic, or “packs”), and the communist equalitarian (r-selection, dysgenic, or “herds”). Any order not explicitly meritocratic and eugenic will evolve into unmeritocratic and dysgenic. Just as all human organizations eventually calcify. It’s not consistency that makes us strong but constant ‘testing’ (competition).

    The most important competition however, is that between masculine eugenic(“pack”), and feminine dysgenic(“herd”). And we achieve the optimum possible nash equilibrium through markets for association, reproduction(marriage), commercial markets, intellectual markets, markets for commons (govt), and political markets (nations), when polities are small and homogenous, and can produce commons necessary for them without coming at the expense of others. But the consequence of those markets is suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses. And that is a good thing. Because the condition of each individual in a polity is determined more by the reduction of the underclass than by any other action we can take.

    (c) The central difference between, the aristocratic method and the underclass method is in cost vs demographics. It is one thing to use expensive high investment education in the development of meritocracy, truth, and reason, among the middle and upper classes, and much cheaper to develop low investment education in the development of resistance, fictionalism, and obedience in the lower classes. And this is still what we see in religiosity today. While morality remains constant, religiosity vs rational action is merely one of intelligence. The central problem being a full standard deviation in median IQ between the lower, middle, and upper classes. (90, 105, 120, 135). Hence the vehement militant religiosity of muslims (87), the tepid ratio-religiosity of christians 100, and the legalism of the educated (115), the and the virtue-signaling atheism of the intergenerational commercial, financial, and intellectual classes (130).

    (d) The church exemplifies the adage that he who writes history authors it. The church has a long history of ‘appropriation’ and almost no history of innovation. A long history of taking credit rather than giving it. A long history of advocating faith(submission) rather than reason(autonomy). A long history of attribution to the divine intention rather than natural consequence. A long history of claiming education, but failing to use the high time devotion to the church to literacy. A long history of claiming charity, but forcible accumulation of private property(largest land holder in europe). A long history of criticizing the aristocracy, but the major collector of land rents. A long history of claiming good, but persistent evidence of doing evil – most notably the templars, indoctrination, persecution, and ‘indulgences’.

    (e) there is but one utopia, and that is that man should make an eden of this world and every other. And he cannot do so with lies. If there are any gods, they have written their language in the structure of the universe, and it is through uncomfortable truth reason knowledge and calculation that we transcend the animal through comfortable falsehood, faith, ignorance, and storytelling.

    (f) As far as I know, the philosophy of the west has been that of the truth of martial aristocracy and the philosophy the failed peoples has been the lies of priestly communism. And while the chinese succeeded at building a wall to keep the ‘people of lies’ out, they were not able to develop the trust of the aristocratic west, any more than the aristocratic west was able to complete the roman project of building a wall to protect the west from the people of desert, steppe, and tundra. And it is this failing – to learn isolation from the chinese – that has been our downfall. Just as much as it is their failing – to learn trust from europeans – that was theirs. The difference is, that they have learned from us now, but we have not yet learned from them.

    (g) “Christendom without Christianity.”

    1) Extend familial love to brothers in arms, first above all.

    2) Extend kinship love to the polity

    3) Extirpate hatred from the human heart.

    4) Show tolerance of honest error, intolerance of all else; and respect for those who earn it, and disrespect for those who don’t. Kneel to none.

    5) Speak the truth without exception.

    6) Master an art, a science, a craft, and a trade.

    7) Bear and raise children to be husbands and warriors and wives and mothers.

    8) Preserve, Maintain and Beautify the commons

    9) Safeguard the young, weak, and elderly.

    10) Take nothing not paid for, seek nothing not earned.

    11) Place no burden of notice, attention or impediment upon others.

    12) Perform and enforce restitution for all wrongs.

    13) Punish or kill the criminal, wicked, and lazy.

    14) Defeat and exterminate all enemies completely

    15) Leave life having transcended yourself, your line, your polity, man, and this land, closer to omniscience, omnipotence, sovereignty, and beauty.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 10:42:00 UTC

  • WE DON”T NEED EVERYONE —“We’ll be fine as long as a few men don’t fall prey to

    WE DON”T NEED EVERYONE

    —“We’ll be fine as long as a few men don’t fall prey to their stupidity. Or maybe God pits our stupidity against one another in order to concoct His masterpiece.”— Megan K. Usui

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-15 10:02:00 UTC

  • “New Testament is all about miserabilism. Old Testament (Judaism) is something e

    –“New Testament is all about miserabilism. Old Testament (Judaism) is something else.”– Daniel Gurpide

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-15 09:40:00 UTC

  • THE REAL POLITICAL INNOVATION OF CHRISTIANITY by Daniel Gurpide I think that the

    THE REAL POLITICAL INNOVATION OF CHRISTIANITY

    by Daniel Gurpide

    I think that the real political innovation of Christianity, as opposed to Judaism, was the invention of Communism (private property is theft and commerce, its instrument), unifying three groups of people -who had been dispersed till then- by promising that the last shall be the first- 1/the idiots (“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”)+ 2/ the poor (“blessed are those who hunger and thirst…”) + 3/the criminal (“blessed are those who are persecuted…”) and offering them a charismatic leadership (the Messiah who will bring the Kingdom of Heaven).

    This formula has been re-enacted since then whenever there has been prosperity to be coveted (Roman Empire, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution) and a powerful instrument to transmit the message has been literature: imagine the damage done by the novels of Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo. Les Misérables has been one of the biggest successes of popular culture, its author became rich by inventing a story based on falsehood, exaggeration, distortion, and sentimentalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-15 09:32:00 UTC