Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • There is a difference between a cost of entry into a religion and the content of

    There is a difference between a cost of entry into a religion and the content of the falsehoods in the religion. Many cults do not ask us to pay physical costs, but to deny reality as the cost of entry.

    In fact, is that not the entire premise of the monotheistic religions? The price of entry is faith in falsehood? A cost of non-correspondence with reality? The signal of trustworthiness to others is the likewise denial? The shared lie?

    There exist amazing cults (stoicism), questionable cults (Buddhism), ignorance creating cults (Christianity and Islam), immorality creating cults (Judaism), and even worse cults that teach even worse lies.

    There is no need for lies. History, myth, man, and nature are beauty enough and wonder enough without the need for lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 17:26:00 UTC

  • Intellectual History In A Nutshell

    0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law)

    2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?

  • Intellectual History In A Nutshell

    0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law)

    2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?

  • Why Is Religion – Meaning Myth And Ritual – Necessary?

    —“Why are mythology and ritual necessary?”—Doug Decidability, opportunity costs and transaction costs.

    —“??????”—Doug We coordinate our actions a little bit by clear deliberate choices. But mostly we cooperate by many thousands of tie-breakers that we default to loose theories of the ‘good’: narratives. In other words, religions provide means by which, in those many thousands of choices, where no choice is preferable to us, to prefer the choice that contributes to the advancement of the commons. Otherwise like Bouridan’s Ass we must find some method of choosing. This insight is profoundly important. Think of religions as a wishing well into which we toss the spare change of choice. But these choices reflect a group evolutionary strategy. And these strategies are not equal. THE MANY SMALL DEFEAT THE FEW GRAND.

  • Why Is Religion – Meaning Myth And Ritual – Necessary?

    —“Why are mythology and ritual necessary?”—Doug Decidability, opportunity costs and transaction costs.

    —“??????”—Doug We coordinate our actions a little bit by clear deliberate choices. But mostly we cooperate by many thousands of tie-breakers that we default to loose theories of the ‘good’: narratives. In other words, religions provide means by which, in those many thousands of choices, where no choice is preferable to us, to prefer the choice that contributes to the advancement of the commons. Otherwise like Bouridan’s Ass we must find some method of choosing. This insight is profoundly important. Think of religions as a wishing well into which we toss the spare change of choice. But these choices reflect a group evolutionary strategy. And these strategies are not equal. THE MANY SMALL DEFEAT THE FEW GRAND.

  • Religion = Infantilization, Truth=Transcendence

    ***MYTH, RITUAL, NATURAL LAW: MATURATIONVSRELIGION, RITUAL, SUPERNATURAL LAW: INFANTILIZATION
    ***THE PURPOSE OF MYTH AND RITUAL IS THE COORDINATION OF DECIDABILITY***
    ***THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION IS INFANTILIZATION***

  • Religion = Infantilization, Truth=Transcendence

    ***MYTH, RITUAL, NATURAL LAW: MATURATIONVSRELIGION, RITUAL, SUPERNATURAL LAW: INFANTILIZATION
    ***THE PURPOSE OF MYTH AND RITUAL IS THE COORDINATION OF DECIDABILITY***
    ***THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION IS INFANTILIZATION***

  • DECONFLATING RELIGION —“Are you using religion and monotheism synonymously now

    DECONFLATING RELIGION

    —“Are you using religion and monotheism synonymously now?”—William Butchman

    I”m trying to de-conflate:

    1) Narrative: historical, mythical, supernatural

    2) Metaphysical Judgments: (in many forms)

    3) Group Evolutionary Strategy: (in many forms)

    4) Rules: (in many forms)

    5) Ritual: (mindfulness in its forms)

    6) Festival:(in their many forms)

    In other words, conflation and truth from conflation and falsehood.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 14:06:00 UTC

  • There are many ways to sell yourself into slavery. Democracy, Marx, Keynes, and

    There are many ways to sell yourself into slavery. Democracy, Marx, Keynes, and Multiculturalism are just the best pitch since monotheism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 13:53:00 UTC

  • Religion is a NECESSARY institution for the provision of decidability by narrati

    Religion is a NECESSARY institution for the provision of decidability by narrative, which is the loosest theoretical structure we currently know how to construct.

    The question is whether we claim religious narratives are true(history), are myths(parables), or are supernatural(falsehoods).

    History and Myths are enough without resorting to lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 10:40:00 UTC