Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • YET ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCE OF ‘TOLERANCE’ “…the UK is facing its gra

    YET ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCE OF ‘TOLERANCE’

    “…the UK is facing its gravest terror threat, including from “several thousand” Islamist extremists who are living here and want to attack the country, Mr Parker said.”

    COMMENT

    If they had written policy and law to specifically address islamists, none of us would care.

    But with their politically correct foolishness they have let loose the bureaucratic interests of the state on citizens: the extended family.

    And by doing so done more to delegitimize the state than libertarians could have wished for.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 02:36:00 UTC

  • (COURT OF SILLY IDEAS) PROBLEMS WITH ANY NEW CIVIC ‘CHURCH’ One of the primary r

    (COURT OF SILLY IDEAS) PROBLEMS WITH ANY NEW CIVIC ‘CHURCH’

    One of the primary reasons we live in little isolated boxes is so that we can create our own illusion of status. We hate it when that status is challenged. But it is a status of our own construction. We are sold this fantasy by Government, Universities, Advertisers, and in some cases, lenders.

    We could ‘buy’ that status cheaply because the ‘Blue Period’ of american postwar prosperity made it possible to transfer people from farm and apartment, to industry and home. But there is no reason that this can continue. Those conditions no longer exist. We are just spending our heritage, and impoverishing the future thanks to baby boomers. (I am Jones, not Boomer, generation.)

    One of the things going to ‘church’ or whatever public ceremony you choose, does, is contextualize your status. And for some people that’s good. For some it’s unnecessary. And for others it’s downright unpleasant because its contradictory.

    If some civic gathering (feast ritual) on a regular basis is status producing, personally advantageous, or economically advantageous, then I assume people would go. But the problem is creating that environment in modernity. Right now it’s the false promise of academia. Academia just sorts. It doesn’t teach us anything.

    THE CIVIC SOCIETY

    What I think all of us want is the true commitment of community. And that institution CANNOT be the state. The state can only apply violence. That is all it can do. WIthout the extended family, we require the civic society and the state has stolen it from us.

    NEEDS

    1) Rituals (christening, maturity, education, wedding, death)

    2) Festivals (holidays)

    3) Education (technical, civil-ethical, historical, literary)

    4) Banking

    5) Personal Financial Management

    6) Insurance

    7) Elder advice and counsel.

    Most of this would be fairly easy to accomplish with the professionalization of teaching, banking and insurance.

    MORE LATER.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 08:39:00 UTC

  • I met an orthodox priest (Decon?) a few months ago, walking down the street. Eld

    I met an orthodox priest (Decon?) a few months ago, walking down the street. Elderly. One cataract covered eye. Perfect english. And he had that magic that wise old priests used to have when they were our educated class.

    I wish the church had allowed marriage, and adopted to modernity by teaching all european history as moral lessons. But they took poverty as an intrinsic good, rather than as a necessary means of ensuring individual commitment to society which was during most of its history, poor.

    We left our church sure. But our church abandoned us in favor of developing nations.

    Now we have Academia, Totalitarian Humanism, Marxism. And the church is no longer our institutional opposition to the state. We no longer have an independent moral institutional framework to separate us from the judicial and military institutions.

    We destroyed that balance of power. Then the Feminists allied with the marxists and destroyed the family.

    Sad.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 04:24:00 UTC

  • EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Coming as the extinction of se

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/09/the-silence-of-our-friends-the-extinction-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east/THE EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

    Coming as the extinction of secular democracy to a city near you!

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:35:00 UTC

  • “Для каждого человека на этой земле Смерть приходит рано или поздно. И как может

    “Для каждого человека на этой земле

    Смерть приходит рано или поздно.

    И как может человек умереть лучше

    Чем сталкивается многие враги

    Для прах отцов своих,

    И храмы своих богов “.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 07:03:00 UTC

  • Can Atheists Fall In Love? If An Atheist Does Not Believe In God Because They Need Proof, Can They Fall In Love (which Presumably Also Cannot Be Proven)? And If So, How Do They Know?

    THE QUESTION IS A PARLOR TRICK BUT I WILL TRY TO DO IT JUSTICE – MORE JUSTICE THAN IT DESERVES. 🙂

    OBSERVABLE TYPES OF LOVE
    As far as we know, humans demonstrate these kinds of love, from the most intense to the least intense.

    1) Erotic love ( sexual attraction with the potential of joining the family)
    2) Familial Love ( members of the family – decreasing with genetic distance)
    3) Friendship Love ( treat as family even though not )
    4) “Christian Love” ( Treat as family for social and economic purposes. More recently referred to as “unconditional love”.  But which, at least, biologically and scientifically, means the extension of ‘familial love’ outside of one’s children.)

    The success of the theistic religions has been to create conditions by which familial trust (love) is extended to non family members.  THis allows social and economic cooperation at scale. It is an interesting ‘trick’. A very useful device. It was very successful at uniting (poor) tribes into larger national and cultural units with similar ethical, moral, and legal codes.  WHile we may argue that the allegorical and magical nature of most religions is logically absurd, it is not necessarily illogical that religion has been demonstrated to be the most successful means by which to aggregate people into common ethical, moral and legal structures.

    THE HIGH TRUST SOCIETY
    The west achieved it’s High Trust Society status by forbidding cousin marriage out to six, eight or even ten generations, and extending property rights to women. By those two acts, over time, in fact, all people within a region were either near genetic relations, or had the possibility of becoming near genetic relations.

    THE FAILURE OF THE RELIGIONS
    This is why the west was more successful than any other culture at extending not just ‘love’ but property rights and economic cooperation to all members of the community.  Other societies may have succeeded in extending interpersonal treatment of others beyond family boundaries, but they were unsuccessful at extending property rights away from the paternal family or the totalitarian state.  Because of this, other ‘religious love’ actually was destructive to the economic, social, legal, and political development of those countries. It prohibited rather than encouraged a division of labor into specialization, and the concentration and coordination of capital into the production of consumer goods..

    THE FAILURE OF SECULAR HUMANISM
    Secular humanism, or Totalitarian Humanism, like it’s ancestors Postmodernism, Scientific Socialism, Socialism, Marxism, Christianity, and Judaism, attempts to regress western civilization’s emphasis on private property and public actions by returning us to totalitarian management of property as a commons, and forcible rather than voluntary charity.

    THE SHORTAGE OF USEFUL ‘RELIGIONS’ (Myths and Rituals)
    Religions can work if they support production and private property as did protestantism.  The problem is that only greek and german hero-worship and perhaps Shinto, other than protestantism, are compatible with the retention of property rights and individualism.  The American Constitution, the English Common Law,

    But then, this is one of the great problems of human history and we barely understand it.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-atheists-fall-in-love-If-an-atheist-does-not-believe-in-God-because-they-need-proof-can-they-fall-in-love-which-presumably-also-cannot-be-proven-And-if-so-how-do-they-know

  • Can Atheists Fall In Love? If An Atheist Does Not Believe In God Because They Need Proof, Can They Fall In Love (which Presumably Also Cannot Be Proven)? And If So, How Do They Know?

    THE QUESTION IS A PARLOR TRICK BUT I WILL TRY TO DO IT JUSTICE – MORE JUSTICE THAN IT DESERVES. 🙂

    OBSERVABLE TYPES OF LOVE
    As far as we know, humans demonstrate these kinds of love, from the most intense to the least intense.

    1) Erotic love ( sexual attraction with the potential of joining the family)
    2) Familial Love ( members of the family – decreasing with genetic distance)
    3) Friendship Love ( treat as family even though not )
    4) “Christian Love” ( Treat as family for social and economic purposes. More recently referred to as “unconditional love”.  But which, at least, biologically and scientifically, means the extension of ‘familial love’ outside of one’s children.)

    The success of the theistic religions has been to create conditions by which familial trust (love) is extended to non family members.  THis allows social and economic cooperation at scale. It is an interesting ‘trick’. A very useful device. It was very successful at uniting (poor) tribes into larger national and cultural units with similar ethical, moral, and legal codes.  WHile we may argue that the allegorical and magical nature of most religions is logically absurd, it is not necessarily illogical that religion has been demonstrated to be the most successful means by which to aggregate people into common ethical, moral and legal structures.

    THE HIGH TRUST SOCIETY
    The west achieved it’s High Trust Society status by forbidding cousin marriage out to six, eight or even ten generations, and extending property rights to women. By those two acts, over time, in fact, all people within a region were either near genetic relations, or had the possibility of becoming near genetic relations.

    THE FAILURE OF THE RELIGIONS
    This is why the west was more successful than any other culture at extending not just ‘love’ but property rights and economic cooperation to all members of the community.  Other societies may have succeeded in extending interpersonal treatment of others beyond family boundaries, but they were unsuccessful at extending property rights away from the paternal family or the totalitarian state.  Because of this, other ‘religious love’ actually was destructive to the economic, social, legal, and political development of those countries. It prohibited rather than encouraged a division of labor into specialization, and the concentration and coordination of capital into the production of consumer goods..

    THE FAILURE OF SECULAR HUMANISM
    Secular humanism, or Totalitarian Humanism, like it’s ancestors Postmodernism, Scientific Socialism, Socialism, Marxism, Christianity, and Judaism, attempts to regress western civilization’s emphasis on private property and public actions by returning us to totalitarian management of property as a commons, and forcible rather than voluntary charity.

    THE SHORTAGE OF USEFUL ‘RELIGIONS’ (Myths and Rituals)
    Religions can work if they support production and private property as did protestantism.  The problem is that only greek and german hero-worship and perhaps Shinto, other than protestantism, are compatible with the retention of property rights and individualism.  The American Constitution, the English Common Law,

    But then, this is one of the great problems of human history and we barely understand it.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-atheists-fall-in-love-If-an-atheist-does-not-believe-in-God-because-they-need-proof-can-they-fall-in-love-which-presumably-also-cannot-be-proven-And-if-so-how-do-they-know

  • We dont need another way of thinking. We cant convince anyone to adopt it. We do

    We dont need another way of thinking. We cant convince anyone to adopt it. We dont need a new religion or belief.

    What we need is to understand why our beliefs, ways of thinking, and institutions failed to survive the extension of the franchise, and what to do about it now that they have failed.

    We cannot turn back the clock. Nor is the absurdity of the progressive fantasy either possible or survivable.

    It appears possible to reform our institutions by impending systemic collapse, or by outright insurrection.

    But it is clear that the majority favors feudal equality over entrepreneurial freedom. Numbers tell us that they do.

    So if we are to have freedom and they equality without one side conquering the other then we must sever our relations into multiple states or develop an alternative to majority monopoly rule.

    Given the value of scale in an insurer of last resort, and the virtue of a multiplicity of city states. And given the economic opportunity and cultural freedom that secession creates for each state, it may be possible to design a compromise solution which serves the moral differences and financial commonalities if each given modern technology.

    It would take a few years to implement but that time would permit demographic adjustment as well as the dismantlement of the federal monopoly, and the possibility if the solution would give vent to what is now leading to civil war.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 14:47:00 UTC

  • “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die bet

    “To every man upon this earth

    Death cometh soon or late.

    And how can man die better

    Than facing fearful odds,

    For the ashes of his fathers,

    And the temples of his Gods.”

    HEROISM

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 10:22:00 UTC

  • More on Buddhism’s strange attraction to the mentally ill

    More on Buddhism’s strange attraction to the mentally ill.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shooters-interest-in-buddhism-prompts-debate-about-stereotype-of-peaceful-faith/2013/09/18/f0ecd938-1fcf-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-18 13:38:00 UTC