Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • IT’S BECAUSE BAD RELIGIONS LIE AND LAG, GOOD RELIGIONS USE TRUTH AND LEAD —“Al

    IT’S BECAUSE BAD RELIGIONS LIE AND LAG, GOOD RELIGIONS USE TRUTH AND LEAD

    —“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.”

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 10:33:00 UTC

  • WITCH TRIALS. WHY? AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the in

    WITCH TRIALS. WHY?

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 09:41:00 UTC

  • Aristotle was a Hero. Jesus was a Saint. But Jehovah and Allah are demons at bes

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

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 09:24:00 UTC

  • If your God has brought you here, then there are two obvious questions. First, w

    If your God has brought you here, then there are two obvious questions. First, what good is that god. Second, it seems unlikely it is more god than demon. Jehova was a demon, not a god.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 09:23:00 UTC

  • “GSRRM” RESPONSE —“f–cking madness…”—@meta_slayer It’s genius actually. I

    “GSRRM” RESPONSE

    —“f–cking madness…”—@meta_slayer

    It’s genius actually. It’s describing the female conflcit strategy of undermining truth plus the abrahamic sophism of false promise,… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=491528644777364&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 04:19:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187222032653672448

  • It’s genius actually. It’s describing the female conflcit strategy of underminin

    It’s genius actually. It’s describing the female conflcit strategy of undermining truth plus the abrahamic sophism of false promise, baiting in to hazard, profiting from that hazard, and defending it with pilpul, critique, & pretense of innocence under cover of voluntary choice.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 04:17:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187221527982460928

    Reply addressees: @meta_slayer @RenegadePlayboy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187127639443673088

    IN REPLY TO:

    @meta_slayer

    @RenegadePlayboy fucking madness…

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187127639443673088

  • “GSRRM” RESPONSE —“f–cking madness…”—@meta_slayer It’s genius actually. I

    “GSRRM” RESPONSE

    —“f–cking madness…”—@meta_slayer

    It’s genius actually. It’s describing the female conflcit strategy of undermining truth plus the abrahamic sophism of false promise, baiting in to hazard, profiting from that hazard, and defending it with pilpul, critique, & pretense of innocence under cover of voluntary choice.

    I don’t make errors. Ever. It’s my job not to.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 00:19:00 UTC

  • What Group, Nation, Civilization, Or Religion, has not done everything in its po

    What Group, Nation, Civilization, Or Religion, has not done everything in its power to resist the British Empirical and Scientific revolution in epistemic, psychological, social, economic,… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=491391741457721&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-23 23:54:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187155443392679936

  • Doesn’t really matter. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Chinese Nationalist, or

    Doesn’t really matter. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Chinese Nationalist, or african revisionist. It’s the same: every people resists testimonial truth or what we call science.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-23 23:46:00 UTC

  • MORE FUN WITH CHRISTIANS —“Darwin doesn’t even agree with macro evolution. DNA

    MORE FUN WITH CHRISTIANS

    —“Darwin doesn’t even agree with macro evolution. DNA, the eye, Cambrian explosion all disprove any macro evolution not to mention that species actually show just as much entropy as positive gains over time just look at how many useless dogs exist today. To pretend things get better and more organized over time is simply false.”—Charles Schiavo

    Did you just try to make sense? Because you didn’t. I’m perfectly able to narrate, almost without checking first, the history of the development of the eye, in at least the two times it evolved. I don’t know how many times blood evolved but I know of two. Darwin didn’t know about DNA, but we do, that’s no argument. DNA merely explains why Darwin was right (massive parallelization, niche exploitation, favoring nothing but increased complexity. The Cambrian explosion is the result of bottlenecking, creating opportunity, increase in oxygen levels increasing available energy – particularly by increasing surface area, and the cliff effect of a new generation of genetic grammars making possible more rapid evolution. So, Energy Density > Entropy > fundamental structure(Tetrahedron?) > fundamental forces > quantum fields > particles > atoms > chemistry > biochemistry > biology > neurons > memory > sentience > consciousness > language > calculation. The same applies for the complexity of biochemical constructions, especially proteins, which function as mechanical devices at the molecular level whose changes in state are powered by changing of charges produced by attachment and detachment of molecules. So there was a Cambrian explosion just as there was a bronze age, steel age, science age, and technological age, and now computational age revolution. Just as the first generations of stars contained little, but made the higher elements, and distributed them through explosion, and laying the seeds for the development of future permutations upon those elements. In evolutionary biology this is called ‘punctuated equilibrium’ where there are periods of explosive growth due to some particular innovation. For example the Indo europeans conquered much of Eurasia in no small part because they developed the ability to drink milk, giving them 40% more calories for the same effort of production. The same for business, economic, state, and civilizational cycles. The entire universe follows the same simple rules from it’s most basic foundations through our most complex inventions.

    And what on earth would make you think you’re smart enough, knowledgeable enough, intellectually honest enough to make such an argument when the greatest minds of our age make the opposite.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-23 23:44:00 UTC