We couldn’t require truthful speech in the commons, because we didn’t know how to test for it. Now we do: Testimonialism. Ergo:No more lies.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 13:30:00 UTC
Theme: Truth
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Cultural Marxism, or more commonly “Political Correctness” only exists because w
Cultural Marxism, or more commonly “Political Correctness” only exists because we allow ALL rather than just TRUE speech. We don’t have to.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 13:29:00 UTC
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People don’t need to put skin-in-the-game voluntarily. We can require Testimonia
People don’t need to put skin-in-the-game voluntarily. We can require Testimonial Truth for all public speech: an involuntary warranty.#tcot
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 13:27:00 UTC
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One if the reasons you see people in our movement criticize moral mythologies –
One if the reasons you see people in our movement criticize moral mythologies – even those of our own people – is because truth leads to exchange : cooperation and trade. Whereas deceit simple provides cover for the perpetuation of immoral arrangements.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-03 11:05:00 UTC
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THERE IS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD. ITS JUST NOT PECULIAR TO SCIENCE. ITS THE UNIVERSA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/opinion/there-is-no-scientific-method.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-stone&_r=0ACTUALLY, THERE IS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD. ITS JUST NOT PECULIAR TO SCIENCE. ITS THE UNIVERSAL EPISTEMIC METHOD, BUT ONLY SCIENTISTS PRACTICE IT WITH ANY DILIGENCE.
Just as we can test axiomatic(declarative) systems for consistency dimension-by-dimension;
Say, like:
-> identity(pairing off) -> arithmetic(number), -> geometry(space), -> calculus (motion) -> equlibria (stocastics) ->
And like:
-> length,-> width,-> area,-> volume,-> change,-> motion ->
We can also test theoretic (descriptive) systems, like:
-> Reason, -> Rationalism, -> Logic, -> Empiricism
We can test also each dimension of the entirety of reality:
1 – categorical consistency (identity)
2 – internal consistency (logic)
3 – external consistency (empiricism)
4 – existential possibility (operationalism)
5 – rational possibility (morality)
6 – scope accountability (full accounting, limits, and parsimony)
So there is a scientific method, because scientists are the only ones who use it with any degree of discipline:
“My warranty that I have done due diligence in testing categorical internal and external consistency, existential and rational possibility, and scope accountability.”
If an individual has done due diligence against each dimension it is almost impossible for him to engage in:
1 – error
2 – bias
3 – wishful thinking
4 – suggestion
5 – overloading
6 – obscurantism
7 – pseudoscience
8 – deceit
Given that our information is never complete, and if it is complete we speak in tautology not truth, then we can never know we speak the truth even if we do so. What we can know is that we have done due diligence against speaking falsehood.
That is the best that we can do.
And this is what it means to “Testify”.
And that is what it means to be a member of western civilization: to learn to do such due diligence that whenever you speak, you give testimony. It may not be true but you warranty that you have done your duty not to state a falsehood.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-03 09:46:00 UTC
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(Nit: terminological advice in argumentation: Avoid “true” and “pure” and “real”
(Nit: terminological advice in argumentation: Avoid “true” and “pure” and “real” – all are “no true Scotsman” arguments that belie lack of understanding of causality. Some choices: “equalitarian democracy”, “majoritarian democracy”, “monpoly democracy”, or some other variation that describes the cause as the use of equal votes yet unequal distribution of interests and ability in the population. The original English model granted a house for each class monarchy, nobility, middle class, and the church as an agent for women and the poor. this allowed us to create a market for the construction of commons between the classes rather than democracy. the error in the classical liberal model was in emerging middle class concentrating power in the parliament rather than continuing the model and expanding the parliament rather than adding new houses. This culminated in the enfranchisement of labor, then women, which if in separate houses would have preserved the use of government as a market, rather than as a ruling body. – Cheers )
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-03 04:13:00 UTC
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WHAT BAD ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHERS DO…. Listened to a roundtable of Philosophers f
WHAT BAD ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHERS DO….
Listened to a roundtable of Philosophers from The New School discuss the questions “what is philosophy” and “is it relevant”, and was … exasperated.
There were four basic themes to their (Marxist) discourse:
1) the did not seem to grasp the spectrum of ‘comparative’ or perhaps ‘calculative’ methods, and simply referred to different disciplines instead of the properties that these methods include and test, and exclude and do not test.
2) They do not understand that most of what they are saying are mere word games: they start with a term and try to define it’s meaning, rather than start with a problem and solve it, or start with a term and see what it CAN ONLY mean.
3) As Marxists they are desperately trying to create a verbal religion wich will provide either the skepticism or authority of religion in order to avoid the obvious evidence of Darwinian necessity.
4) They were trapped into the fallacy of seeking the ‘truth’ while at the same time seeking to construct a lie, and of course this is the reason for their intellectual struggle.
There was only one philosopher (Cornell West) who I would find interesting to debate, because he seeks to avoid the truth in order to find peace in inferiority. I have compassion for this problem. But I solve it through trade which costs, but does not create conflict, not through denial and deceit which costs because it creates conflict. The Buddhists and Stoics’s solved this underclass problem of acceptance through behavioral modification. The stoics truthfully and the Buddhists … I guess pseudoscientifically or pre-scientifically if that’s possible. The Hindus created a history-mythology which is impenetrable to the rest of us. Everyone in the three ‘books’ religions just lied about it, so that they could pretend to solve it.
(Wrote something wonderful … and fb ate it. I swear I’m going to intentionally install my own keylogger so that there is always some record of my scribblings.)
PHILOSOPHY: (quick sketch) Transcendence.
PERSONAL(epistemology). Avoid false knowledge. Discover useful (~true) knowledge. By the use of reason. Using Methods of Reason: narrative(communication), rational(comparison), rationalism(non-contradiction), logic(internal consistency), cooperation(ethical consistency), physics (empirical and operational consistency), testimonialism (truth). This provides us with Personal Transcendence: The Hero’s Journey. Philosophy can be performed in fantasy narrative, in historical narrative, in rational and logical (set) argument, in empirical, and in testimonial terms. But throughout we are Loading, Unloading, Imagining, Comparing, Valuing, and Deciding. All that differs is our skill in each method, and whether we wish to influence (loading-empath), deceive (obscurantism, suggestion), or persuade (truth-objectivity).
POLITICAL (cooperation)
Avoid error and deception, discover utility and truth. Using the methods of reason, and the methods of argument:
Group Transcendence via persuasion.
PHYSICAL (physics)
Transformation via action:
AESTHETIC (biological)
The Goal of Transformation.
The Useful(actionable), True(Ethical), The Moral(Good), The Beautiful(Bounty/Fertility/Content/Perfection)
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-02 05:50:00 UTC
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JOURNALISM /www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-15
http://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-155957129.htmlDISHONEST JOURNALISM
/www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-155957129.html
How can you possibly misunderstand Trump in the context of this conversation unless you’re TRYING to be dishonest?
Trump’s media-friendly colloquialisms converted to complete sentences:
“Mark it down: Putin will not invade Ukraine on my watch”
“The people of Crimea have decided to stick with Russia and it’s hard to argue with that”
Apparently, the reporter doesn’t grasp that Trump is honest but careless because it always works in his favor: He is singlehandedly ending the media’s influence on the electoral process. And that is why his supporters admire him. They are hoping trump will end the century of pseudoscience and propaganda we call ‘political correctness’.
TRUTH
Crimea was a Russian possession and its inclusion with Ukraine a bureaucratic snafu under the late soviets.
Crimea is Russia’s only warm water port. Strategically there is no comparison for the united states. Only china’s dependence upon the south china sea compares to Russia’s dependence upon the warm water port.
The Donbas Basin bordering Russia is where the Soviets built many of their arms factories – and without those factories, the Russian army could not continue to modernize – their plans would have been set back as much as a decade.
Putin ‘panicked’ when Yakunovych (the corrupt ex president) arrived in Moscow and said that the Ukrainian revolution was a western coup (it was a local reaction by nearly everyone in Ukraine to the decision not to join the EU and save the Ukrainian economy, and her people, from constant poverty.) When the fires of revolution started in Moscow and St Petersburg He panicked further.
Instead of calling western leaders and saying “I am sorry that I must do this but it is a strategic necessity that Russia cannot do without and we will compensate the Ukrainians with discounted petroleum products for decades to pay for it”, he used reverse asymmetric warfare, and captured Crimea and started the fighting in the Donbas. Then he sent ‘little green men’ to capture Crimea, more to invade the Donbas, armed the local unions and gangsters to the teeth, and sent waves of 200 to 400 white trucks with so-called ’emergency supplies’ to dismantle the equipment at the arms factories and, ship it back to Russia where the plants could be reconstructed and the maintenance and repair of the Russian military could continue.
Russians are who they are for the simple reason that they cannot believe Americans are as naive as we have demonstrated that we are with our idealism. Putin was happy to join nato and the west. It is incomprehensible to Putin that he must conduct an HONEST educational campaign to win over the American people first. And incomprehensible to him that our state department is stupid enough to ask Russia to follow regular process for such things. This is not how ‘things are done’ in Russia. They do not beg.
This is something Trump understands.
That is why he doesn’t speak in platitudes.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 13:35:00 UTC
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(I owe someone a response on truth because FB keeps eating it. I owe someone a r
(I owe someone a response on truth because FB keeps eating it. I owe someone a response to the philosophical meaning of Aryanism. I owe Davin a response on infinity. I’ve forgotten everything else…)
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 02:33:00 UTC
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COSTS OF TRUTH (worth repeating)
http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/the-costs-of-truth/THE COSTS OF TRUTH
(worth repeating)
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 01:34:00 UTC