Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • The Cult of The Marines > Ukrainian Method > Cult of Christendom

    (FB 1541534350 Timestamp) THE CULT OF THE MARINES > UKRAINIAN METHOD > CULT OF CHRISTENDOM
    by Charles H Brennan To borrow from Mr Taleb, the Marines use heuristics to form cult practices and rituals that make them dangerous because every last one is working for the exact same thing. Cult practice means the most violent and impulsive grunt gains from the higher intelligence efforts of others because all serve the same goal. The higher IQ support is judged by how well it serves the purpose and success of the warrior, which fights the iron law of beaureaucracy. The Corps also depends not only on the genetic stock of America and the guilt based culture in which its people were raised but also on thousands of years of history That shaped its organization and practices.

  • On the Eighth Day, God Made Marines.

    (FB 1541525654 Timestamp) —“On the Eighth Day, God Made Marines.”– (via Eric Vandal)

  • Deep Meaning

    DEEP MEANING —“Eating the fruit of the tree of “good and evil”, a dichotomy, resulted in the fall of man… Perhaps the fall of man isn’t so much due to acquisition of knowledge but rather shifting the foundation of knowledge from spectra to dichotomy.”— Bill Joslin “WOTAN IS TO HELP THE MATURING MAN ABOUT IDENTIFYING THE DETAILS AND NUANCE WITHIN THE MYRIAD OF DEGREES FOUND WITHIN THE SPECTRUM BETWEEN THOSE LIMITS.” —“One of the beauties of operational thought is to exhume oneself from arguments of dichotomies to identifying spectra (the range of possibilities within limits). Eating the fruit of the tree of “good and evil”, a dichotomy, resulted in the fall of man… Perhaps the fall of man isn’t so much due to acquisition of knowledge but rather shifting the foundation of knowledge from spectra to dichotomy. There isn’t a good Wotan and an evil Wotan – there is only Wotan whose range of action and experience occurs within a spectra…. Like the rest of us – able to be ultimate asses and wise old silver backs with in one life, body and personality…. And that’s kind of the point. Dichotomies of perfectly good and perfectly bad are only useful to teach children about the tails of a spectrum… To distinguish the tails. Wotan is to help the maturing man about identifying the details and nuance within the myriad of degrees found within those limits.” —- Bill Joslin (from the “stuff I wish I’d said” department)

  • The Cult of The Marines > Ukrainian Method > Cult of Christendom

    (FB 1541534350 Timestamp) THE CULT OF THE MARINES > UKRAINIAN METHOD > CULT OF CHRISTENDOM
    by Charles H Brennan To borrow from Mr Taleb, the Marines use heuristics to form cult practices and rituals that make them dangerous because every last one is working for the exact same thing. Cult practice means the most violent and impulsive grunt gains from the higher intelligence efforts of others because all serve the same goal. The higher IQ support is judged by how well it serves the purpose and success of the warrior, which fights the iron law of beaureaucracy. The Corps also depends not only on the genetic stock of America and the guilt based culture in which its people were raised but also on thousands of years of history That shaped its organization and practices.

  • The Scales of The Sacred.

    by Bill Joslin

    —“Our people are the most sacred thing we have left”—Adrienne Barbeau-Bot

    CONSTRUCTIONThe Immediate, The Temporal. : familial, family and kin. Kin is sacred. The intermediate: The Intertemporal. Tribal. Those families which share norms, traditions and culture. Culture, traditions and norms are sacred. Intergenerational: national. The accumulated social and common capital generated by kin and tribe. The commons en toto . The property we create together over generations via shared norms, traditions and culture intended for our future kin. The commons are sacred. Ancestor worship, hero (tribal archetypes) worship preserves the sacred across scale and time horizons. DESTRUCTION The dissolution of “tribe” resulting from universalism of enlightenment values (values reified out from within their natural limits), segregated commons from tribal and kin ownership, resulting in rampant consumption of commons. This paving the way for globalism where economics are sacred at the cost of kin, tribe, commons. Monotheism destroyed the operationally sacred in the name of universalism and the ideally sacred. This solidified the opportunity for parasitism of the commons, kin and tribe. RECONSTRUCTION Our people truly, operationally, and biologically are the most sacred upon which all other value depends. (CD: I can edit this for a little more analytic clarity but basically bill has done a great job of it, and I’m gonna run with the ‘my people are sacred’ as a religion message.)

  • The Scales of The Sacred.

    by Bill Joslin

    —“Our people are the most sacred thing we have left”—Adrienne Barbeau-Bot

    CONSTRUCTIONThe Immediate, The Temporal. : familial, family and kin. Kin is sacred. The intermediate: The Intertemporal. Tribal. Those families which share norms, traditions and culture. Culture, traditions and norms are sacred. Intergenerational: national. The accumulated social and common capital generated by kin and tribe. The commons en toto . The property we create together over generations via shared norms, traditions and culture intended for our future kin. The commons are sacred. Ancestor worship, hero (tribal archetypes) worship preserves the sacred across scale and time horizons. DESTRUCTION The dissolution of “tribe” resulting from universalism of enlightenment values (values reified out from within their natural limits), segregated commons from tribal and kin ownership, resulting in rampant consumption of commons. This paving the way for globalism where economics are sacred at the cost of kin, tribe, commons. Monotheism destroyed the operationally sacred in the name of universalism and the ideally sacred. This solidified the opportunity for parasitism of the commons, kin and tribe. RECONSTRUCTION Our people truly, operationally, and biologically are the most sacred upon which all other value depends. (CD: I can edit this for a little more analytic clarity but basically bill has done a great job of it, and I’m gonna run with the ‘my people are sacred’ as a religion message.)

  • I told ya. Religion was the hardest problem in social science. The rest was triv

    I told ya. Religion was the hardest problem in social science. The rest was trivial by comparison. But once you understand religion as a science, you are no longer bound by the limits of your experience.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-05 13:58:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1059444966831874048

  • SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRAYER AND A SPELL? (Don’t be misled. This i

    SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRAYER AND A SPELL?

    (Don’t be misled. This is a profoundly important topic.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-05 13:31:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1059438145601724416

  • ANSWERED 1) Merseburg Charm (what I was looking for) 2) Anglo-Saxon Metrical Cha

    ANSWERED
    1) Merseburg Charm (what I was looking for)
    2) Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms (the general category)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-05 13:30:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1059437750800314369

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1059424165529305088

    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    memory help: what is the name, begins with an ‘M’, of the format of magic spells in western verse. “… bone to bone, sinew to sinew…” Most ‘spells’ follow the same structure, much like a poem. These are effectively western man’s ‘prayers’. And I can’t remember the name ….

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1059424165529305088

    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    memory help: what is the name, begins with an ‘M’, of the format of magic spells in western verse. “… bone to bone, sinew to sinew…” Most ‘spells’ follow the same structure, much like a poem. These are effectively western man’s ‘prayers’. And I can’t remember the name ….

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1059424165529305088

  • by Adam Voight An example of why Religion is more moral than science, engineerin

    by Adam Voight

    An example of why Religion is more moral than science, engineering, philosophy or magic.

    “Saruman” – Old English for “engineer”.

    Of course, over the long run the difference between religion and magic is contested and variable.

    This is why Odin is the sketchiest Sky Father ever. He is both Gandalf and Sauron, whom Tolkien split up into Good and Evil facets. The clue is the Nine Rings of Power given to the Ringwraiths: Odin’s Ring produced nine rings every day, and the giving of rings is typical of the lord’s gifts to his men. The phrase “Lord of the Rings” is only used once in all of Germanic lit: it refers to Beowulf, but it is so used late in the story, just before the fatal dragon episode (I cannot find it now. it mentioned during some swimming episode, perhaps in recounting his expedition against Grendel’s mom or swimming to Finnmark.)

    It seems that Tolkein saw the modern era as a struggle within the soul of Europe, between the good Odin and the bad Odin. Notice that Gandalf officiates at a wedding, something that Odin would never do; the Vanir and Thor were best for this purpose.

    Wagner also made Odin the crux of the conflict in the Ring cycle, by making Odin’s one lie to the Giants the tragic flaw that brought about Ragnarok. Odin in this version is more of a villain than in the Eddas, but shares the villainy with Alberich. In the Eddas, he is a good guy, but still crazy. Praying to him before a battle could bring victory, or it could bring you death with induction into the Einherjar.

    (CD: Thank you. exactly.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-05 10:36:00 UTC