Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • “Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) completed the demolition of reason which his maste

    –“Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) completed the demolition of reason which his master began by claiming that “nothing in nature can act spontaneously and apart from God.” After abolishing secondary causality and a universe saturated in Logos [laws of nature ascertainable by reason], al-Ghazali put will in their place, claiming that will precedes knowledge.”–

    And thereby depriving muslims of responsibility for anything other than obedience in ignorance.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 22:30:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744849032688672768

  • Why Islam vs Christianity? This series of passages is reducible to the incapacit

    Why Islam vs Christianity?
    This series of passages is reducible to the incapacity of the south eurasian peoples to grasp abstractions – whether egyptian stagnation, mesopotamian, levantine, arab, or the eventual muslim. Even the minds of the persians could not defeat the incapacity of the minds of their neighbors.

    –“Like the dogs Heraclitus mentioned in one of his aphorisms, the Arabs barked at what they did not understand.”–

    Now, if we grasp that (a) a population’s strategy, metaphysics, myths, rituals, grammars (logics), traditions, values, norms, and habits must satisfy the median of the distribution given that two thirds of the population is only capable of such limits, and far more are capable of nothing but imitation at the bottom. And (b) logical facility degrades rapidly under 105, especially in a population where the IQ is 83, combined with tribalism and illiteracy. Of course they are not able to grasp and institutionalize abstractions without high investment parenting and high investment education – and even then, the percentage of the population capable of such reasoning is limted in relation to the rest.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 22:05:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744842889463574528

  • “Given the intellectual disparity between the largely illiterate [arab muslim] c

    —“Given the intellectual disparity between the largely illiterate [arab muslim] conquerors and the philosophically sophisticated centers of Hellenistic and Persian learning that they conquered, conflict between faith and reason was inevitable”—

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 21:52:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744839575116169216

  • “Given the intellectual disparity between the largely illiterate [arab muslim] c

    —“Given the intellectual disparity between the largely illiterate [arab muslim] conquerors and the philosophically sophisticated centers of Hellenistic and Persian learning that they conquered, conflict between faith and reason was inevitable”—

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 21:52:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744839575183224912

  • “Philosophers of the formative period of Arabic philosophy like al-Kindi, al-Fär

    —“Philosophers of the formative period of Arabic philosophy like al-Kindi, al-Färäbi, and Averroes were “interested primarily in coming to grips with the texts made available in the [Greek] translation movement, rather than with putting forward a properly ‘Islamic’ philosophy.”—

    The purpose of islam and especially the hadith was to suffer conquered people into obeience and irresponsibilty for government, that if needed to be changed would be changed by the will of god.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 21:50:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744839156566462464

  • “Arabic philosophy was not Islamic in inspiration. It was born out of a desire o

    —“Arabic philosophy was not Islamic in inspiration. It was born out of a desire on the part of people living under the subjugation of Islam to translate the classic texts of Greek philosophy. Most of its proponents were not Arabs. In fact: from about the eighth or ninth century A.D. till about the fifteenth some of the greatest Mohammedan theologians, historians, philosophers, grammarians, lexicographers, and philologists, who wrote in Arabic, were of Persian origin.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 21:48:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744838632412749824

  • THE TERM ‘LOGOS’ IS AMBIGUOUS FOR A REASON 😉 Of course, I understand the concep

    THE TERM ‘LOGOS’ IS AMBIGUOUS FOR A REASON 😉

    Of course, I understand the concept as originally intended, as the universal law by which all things follow. But…the term ‘logos’ has evolved over history from ancient Greek, to Christian, To later philosophical thought. (The same way the left ‘appropriated and abused other terms).

    In Greek philosophy:
    1) Heraclitus conceived of logos as the universal law which all things follow.
    2) More generally, Logos referred to the rational principle that governs the universe and as associated with divine wisdom or reason.
    3) The Stoics used logos to refer to the animating power of the cosmos.

    In Christianity:
    1) Logos (λόγος) is translated as “Word” in the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
    2) In that context, it Jesus as the divine Word/Wisdom of God through which all things were created. It connects Jewish conceptions of Wisdom with Greek notions of Logos. (cd: herein lies the problem)
    3) Early Christian theologians like Justin Martyr equated Jesus as the incarnation of the Logos or divine Reason that orders the universe.

    In philosophy:
    1) Logos refers to reasoned discourse or meaning-laden language.
    2) Platonic philosophy contrasts logos (reasoned speech) with mythos (myth/story).
    3) Logos later became associated with logic and the rational deductive mode of thinking.

    So in summary, logos has evolved from universal law,
    to rational order, to divine wisdom, to meaningful discourse, by the attempt to bridge rational philosophy and divine revelation (cd: ack!), to rational deductive thinking and logic.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 03:21:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744560062511607808

  • Mysticism generally refers to the experience, belief, or pursuit subjective emot

    Mysticism generally refers to the experience, belief, or pursuit subjective emotional states constructed from the combination of the disassociation, submission to the pack response and the abandonment of responsibility, and conscious thought, resulting in positive auto-associations and continous emotional feedback from them, producing a state of extraordinary calm. This process, if practiced regularly, can assist in the formation of mindfulness, the demand for which increases dramatically as populations and divisions of labor increase and therefore certainty and agency decrease. It is one of the easiest disciiplilnes for most humans to learn and can be achived by multiple personal, social, political, or even conceptual means.

    In simple scientific terms it assists in the transformation from socially regulated life in hunter gatherer tribes to complex agrarian life and modern technological life that are increasingly alienating, and because of neuroticism, particularly in women, and generate greater demand for mindfulness.

    Mindfulness is the primary reason religions succeed in providing incentive to adopt the various rituals that demands self regulation and non aggression and forgiveness of those who offend.

    Reply addressees: @SirSmokesAaLot

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-08 19:19:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744438760740147200

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744432723781951860

  • Women drive demand for religion and woo woo (astrology, tarot, fortune telling,

    Women drive demand for religion and woo woo (astrology, tarot, fortune telling, crystals, light therapy, whatever) because of higher neuroticism and empathizing that overrides systematizing.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-08 18:51:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744431554745528441

    Reply addressees: @SirSmokesAaLot

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744423739079499863

  • RT @Indian_Bronson: Islam is simply an ill-fitting bridle for Iranic peoples. In

    RT @Indian_Bronson: Islam is simply an ill-fitting bridle for Iranic peoples.
    In some uneducated regions and tougher times, it provided st…

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-07 12:54:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743979440659370015