Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • Oct 24, 2019, 9:24 AM Aristotle was a Hero. Jesus was a Saint. But Jehovah and A

    Oct 24, 2019, 9:24 AM

    Aristotle was a Hero. Jesus was a Saint. But Jehovah and Allah are demons at best. Only a demon would claim a monopoly.

  • Witch Trials. Why?

    Witch Trials. Why? https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/witch-trials-why/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 16:15:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265678047870582786

  • Witch Trials. Why?

    Oct 24, 2019, 9:41 AM AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the inquisition, then the reformation, as a means of creating examples by suppressing newly enabled social dissent under the decline of the influence of the church and the personalization of the religious experience by disintermediation from the priesthood. There isn’t really a consensus on it, but my rough understanding is that as wealth increased and local agency increased we saw the the protestant reformation put more control in the local hands at all levels – including religious. About 80% of prosecutions were of women, and most in central europe (germanic) countries. And women were uneducated and … uneducated women (as we see in daily videos) .. and as evidenced by asylum populations (mostly women), and current mental health statistics, were as disruptive in the past with psychosis as they are today – just like males -although we control males aggressively and we don’t control anti-social behavior in females. In other words I interpret it as a puritan reaction to the transfer of power of catholic inquisition to protestant hands, and the ‘fashion’ of exercising that power, until it was rather obvious that it was out of hand, and (a) judges would no longer accept testimony obtained under torture, (b) it was increasingly outlawed.

  • Witch Trials. Why?

    Oct 24, 2019, 9:41 AM AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the inquisition, then the reformation, as a means of creating examples by suppressing newly enabled social dissent under the decline of the influence of the church and the personalization of the religious experience by disintermediation from the priesthood. There isn’t really a consensus on it, but my rough understanding is that as wealth increased and local agency increased we saw the the protestant reformation put more control in the local hands at all levels – including religious. About 80% of prosecutions were of women, and most in central europe (germanic) countries. And women were uneducated and … uneducated women (as we see in daily videos) .. and as evidenced by asylum populations (mostly women), and current mental health statistics, were as disruptive in the past with psychosis as they are today – just like males -although we control males aggressively and we don’t control anti-social behavior in females. In other words I interpret it as a puritan reaction to the transfer of power of catholic inquisition to protestant hands, and the ‘fashion’ of exercising that power, until it was rather obvious that it was out of hand, and (a) judges would no longer accept testimony obtained under torture, (b) it was increasingly outlawed.

  • It’s Because Bad Religions Lie and Lag, Good Religions Use Truth and Lead

    It’s Because Bad Religions Lie and Lag, Good Religions Use Truth and Lead https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/its-because-bad-religions-lie-and-lag-good-religions-use-truth-and-lead/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 16:15:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265677941549281281

  • It’s Because Bad Religions Lie and Lag, Good Religions Use Truth and Lead

    Oct 24, 2019, 10:33 AM

    —“All religions are made up bullshit to control people”—Joanna

    Hmmm… Let’s look at this: PERSONAL DEMAND . Demand for personal mindfulness . . Demand for interpersonal mindfulness . . . Demand for social mindfulness . . . . Demand for political mindfulness POLITICAL DEMAND .. organization (control, conflict suppression) .. .. vs educate (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. vs create a polity (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. .. vs create a justification for conquest (not so helpful) TECHNOLOGICAL DEMAND …Religion (oral parable) is the optimum means of education prior to writing. … … Organized religion (written parable) is dependent upon writing and argument, but not literacy … … … Natural Law is dependent upon literacy, logic and science. CURRENT CONDITION So yeah, but they were the only technology available. We have … Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Repair) … … Self Authoring Virtues (Stoic Method) (improve) … … … Self Choice (epicureanism – living well within means) … … … … Natural law of Reciprocity, Independent Judiciary … … … … … History, Reason, science, technology, prosperity. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY And we can use: … Heroic History of Western (or man’s) Ascent … … Stoic Ritual, Hero/Saint ‘worship’ (thanks, counsel) … … … Religion: Lesson (history), Play (ritual), Thanks (worship, prayer), Oath(promise), Feast (communal reward), Festival (communal celebration), Sport (community bonding). … … … … Civic Participation: Family, Jury, Commons Production, emergency service production; Hospitaliers Production, and Defense (war) production. … … … … … The Natural Law of Reciprocity, an independent judiciary, and a jury of our peers. REASON … Because we have ancestors worthy of our debt to them, and because we can create (easily) our debt to one another. STRATEGY “Embrace, conquer, and domesticate reality – together – do not cower from it.”

  • It’s Because Bad Religions Lie and Lag, Good Religions Use Truth and Lead

    Oct 24, 2019, 10:33 AM

    —“All religions are made up bullshit to control people”—Joanna

    Hmmm… Let’s look at this: PERSONAL DEMAND . Demand for personal mindfulness . . Demand for interpersonal mindfulness . . . Demand for social mindfulness . . . . Demand for political mindfulness POLITICAL DEMAND .. organization (control, conflict suppression) .. .. vs educate (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. vs create a polity (helpful system of measurement) .. .. .. .. vs create a justification for conquest (not so helpful) TECHNOLOGICAL DEMAND …Religion (oral parable) is the optimum means of education prior to writing. … … Organized religion (written parable) is dependent upon writing and argument, but not literacy … … … Natural Law is dependent upon literacy, logic and science. CURRENT CONDITION So yeah, but they were the only technology available. We have … Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Repair) … … Self Authoring Virtues (Stoic Method) (improve) … … … Self Choice (epicureanism – living well within means) … … … … Natural law of Reciprocity, Independent Judiciary … … … … … History, Reason, science, technology, prosperity. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY And we can use: … Heroic History of Western (or man’s) Ascent … … Stoic Ritual, Hero/Saint ‘worship’ (thanks, counsel) … … … Religion: Lesson (history), Play (ritual), Thanks (worship, prayer), Oath(promise), Feast (communal reward), Festival (communal celebration), Sport (community bonding). … … … … Civic Participation: Family, Jury, Commons Production, emergency service production; Hospitaliers Production, and Defense (war) production. … … … … … The Natural Law of Reciprocity, an independent judiciary, and a jury of our peers. REASON … Because we have ancestors worthy of our debt to them, and because we can create (easily) our debt to one another. STRATEGY “Embrace, conquer, and domesticate reality – together – do not cower from it.”

  • The Most Important Lesson from The Church Experience

    The Most Important Lesson from The Church Experience https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/the-most-important-lesson-from-the-church-experience/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 16:13:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265677433384165376

  • The Most Important Lesson from The Church Experience

    Oct 25, 2019, 10:02 AM The most important lesson I’ve observed, and perhaps the most important, is that sitting still in church, and the social pressure of sitting still in church, no matter how hard it is, teaches us the meaning of ‘sacred’ which is ‘we have no rights of self fulfillment’. I think it is underrated, how much the respect we demonstrate for one another in religious ceremony translates to how we ALWAYS act in the commons – and I think the loss of this ‘sacredness’ and this training in the ‘submission’ by develops ‘agency’ over impulses such that we do not impose so many costs of self expression (hyper-consumption) on the commons and therefore the polity. You do know what group did this right? What one group undermined it? I do.

  • The Most Important Lesson from The Church Experience

    Oct 25, 2019, 10:02 AM The most important lesson I’ve observed, and perhaps the most important, is that sitting still in church, and the social pressure of sitting still in church, no matter how hard it is, teaches us the meaning of ‘sacred’ which is ‘we have no rights of self fulfillment’. I think it is underrated, how much the respect we demonstrate for one another in religious ceremony translates to how we ALWAYS act in the commons – and I think the loss of this ‘sacredness’ and this training in the ‘submission’ by develops ‘agency’ over impulses such that we do not impose so many costs of self expression (hyper-consumption) on the commons and therefore the polity. You do know what group did this right? What one group undermined it? I do.