Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • “We dont need to understand causes. We need to understand incentives, costs and

    —“We dont need to understand causes. We need to understand incentives, costs and benefits.

    – it doesn’t matter WHY Muslims explode, not really

    – what is the cost of allowing them to explode?

    -What are the benefits of preventing them from exploding?

    -What are the costs of preventing them from exploding?

    – if there is something to be gained by paying the cost of preventing them from exploding (benefits outweigh costs) then there is a rational incentive in passing that cost.

    – exploding Muslims disrupt our system of production, our means of reproduction and survival.

    Therfore the causes that might be known from some sort of trial are immaterial.

    What is material and knowable is the Muslims are imposing costs which can be reduced through some sort of investment in defense.

    Thus what is left to do is to determine which defense mechanisms should be employed to protect our system of cooperation.”— William Butchman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-17 07:43:00 UTC

  • MORE ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS(lower class), NATURAL LAW(middle class), AND TRUTH,

    MORE ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS(lower class), NATURAL LAW(middle class), AND TRUTH, GOODNESS, AND BEAUTY(aristocracy): OUR POLYTHEISM, ISN”T.

    We could also state the prohibitions in the ten commandments and natural law, as demands: truth, goodness, beauty.

    Again we see that Athens speaks to middle and upper classes while Jerusalem/Memphis/Babylon speaks to women and slaves.

    But b/c men are unequal perhaps we need to know both sides of the coin: the negative prohibitions and the positive demands.

    This is not so much polytheism as reminding each class of its priorities. The poor may not make commons but cannot harm.

    And the wealthy need not so much avoid harm as fail to construct commons, rather than engage in hyperconsumption.

    (Thank you for the opportunity to go through this subject since it’s so terribly important for all of us.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-17 05:28:00 UTC

  • WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? @curtdoolittle —“We could live only

    WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

    @curtdoolittle —“We could live only by 10 commandments refined.”–

    The 10 commandments did not tell us how to speak the truth, only that we should not lie, steal, kill. That is its failing.

    That the commandments (truths) were delivered to us by lies, does not help us either. Natural law says the same truthfully.

    That said, we may state the ten commandments as natural law discovered by empirical research using common law.

    But we must tell men how to speak truthfully for it is unnatural to them. Language evolved to negotiate, not speak truth

    Western man needs no lies. Truth is our weapon, not deceit. Even deceit with good intent produces negative externalities.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-17 05:19:00 UTC

  • THE TRUTH: So now we pay for our lie, just as we pay for the vulnerability to th

    THE TRUTH: So now we pay for our lie, just as we pay for the vulnerability to the second great lies of Jerusalem/Babylon/Memphis.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-15 11:01:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/753907435606269954

  • THE TRUTH: So now we pay for our lie, just as we pay for the vulnerability to th

    THE TRUTH: So now we pay for our lie, just as we pay for the vulnerability to the second great lies of Jerusalem/Babylon/Memphis.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-15 07:01:00 UTC

  • ( from philpapers) This question is one of the reasons philosophy departments ar

    ( from philpapers)

    This question is one of the reasons philosophy departments are increasingly defunded and philosophy is demoted to the status of religious studies.

    Why? You can justify your actions to a jury of your peers by arguing that you acted within ethical, moral, legal, norms.

    Because you can justify ( sympathetically test ) contractual ( axiomatic or normative or contractual) rules.

    You may justify the costs (opportunity, material, risk) of action to yourself or to your peers, or to the nation or even humanity.

    But it is the COST that you justify, not the belief. We know this because people do not attempt to justify benefits ( gains ) or washes ( zero cost ) or cost entirely absorbed by the actor.

    No belief then is ever justified or justifiable. The greater the cost the more evidence of due diligence we require of ourselves and others.

    This is the difference between legal, scriptural, and normative justificationism, the persist of truth via criticism, wherein we require ourselves and others to do due diligence against harm (cost).

    This is why philosophy fails to complete the enlightenment transition and to leave its relation to mysticism, Platonism, scripturalism, and justificationism.

    There is only one epistemically method available to man: free association -> hypothesis -> theory —> law -> additional parsimony.

    And we move from imaginary to law by acts of criticism: survival.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 10:48:00 UTC

  • We have not modernized philosophy from a mere test of internal consistency deriv

    We have not modernized philosophy from a mere test of internal consistency derived from scriptural interpretation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 05:17:57 UTC

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  • The reason catholics make good (conservative) philosophers is clearly idealism.

    The reason catholics make good (conservative) philosophers is clearly idealism. I still can’t figure out where we get it from. But there is a very great difference between the protestant ethic (which I possess) and the catholic mind (which I also possess). I suspect it is the sense of wonder that is a byproduct of inquiring into the mind and will of god.

    This is very different from inquiring into the physical world and the political world.

    I also notice that the protestants tend to psychologize and ridicule where catholics think paternally and objectively.

    This is the mystery of religions. The externalities they produce. Or, perhaps, the externalities our ancestors ‘felt’ but could not ‘articulate’ and encouraged by analogy and indirection.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 02:50:00 UTC

  • Christian (caretaking) Universalism is merely a mask over Aryan (domesticating)

    Christian (caretaking) Universalism is merely a mask over Aryan (domesticating) Universalism. To the aristocracy, Chrstianity is an excuse and nothing more. To the common man it is insurance that the aristocracy continue to take care and evolve, rather than prey upon and merely exploit them.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-09 06:18:00 UTC

  • The Russian Needs (emotional)Orthodoxy the way the American Needs (analytic)Cons

    The Russian Needs (emotional)Orthodoxy the way the American Needs (analytic)Constitutionalism. But underneath those masks is the same face: Aryanism: saving mankind through domestication of the bararians.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-09 06:16:00 UTC