Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • “The reason we need a truth is because it’s undesirable.” — Curt Doolittle (qu

    —“The reason we need a truth is because it’s undesirable.” — Curt Doolittle

    (quote from yesterday’s show – suggested via Brandon Hayes)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-26 16:59:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1000421214098247680

  • “The reason we need a truth is because it’s undesirable.” — Curt Doolittle (qu

    —“The reason we need a truth is because it’s undesirable.” — Curt Doolittle

    (quote from yesterday’s show – suggested via Brandon Hayes)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-26 12:59:00 UTC

  • TRUE ENOUGH FOR ACTION —“At what point do you know you have enough data and ex

    TRUE ENOUGH FOR ACTION

    —“At what point do you know you have enough data and experience to act?”— Jeff Urizen

    When you (a) must act, (b) can pay for the full consequences of failure of your actions (c) can warranty your actions.

    In other words… when your knowledge is ‘true enough for the consequences’:

    TRUE ENOUGH

    A hierarchy of Truths:

    – True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship

    – True enough for me to feel good about myself.

    – True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.

    – True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.

    – True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.

    – True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.

    – True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.

    – Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal

    TRUE ENOUGH FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ERROR

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-26 12:51:00 UTC

  • Reverence

    I don’t revere anything because that would mean I lacked the reason to judge it without reliance on emotion for decidability. There is no difficulty (for me) between talking to a god (which I do daily) and understanding the composition of that god, for the simple reason that talking to a god works. Lots of us talking to gods works better. Just as fitness is a substitute for physical labor, talking to gods is a substitute for talking to our “headmen”, or “Grandparents”. I understand that very few of us lack that degree of agency. Which is why I’m trying to find a way to produce the same results without the semitic nonsense. Very few people can be entirely dependent upon reason. It’s possible that we can train the majority of the population to have a more rational kind of faith than the evil statist or evil supernatural kinds. The problem is finding a narrative that makes it tolerable without making a lot of people ‘disappear’ first.
    May 24, 2018 6:59am

  • Reverence

    I don’t revere anything because that would mean I lacked the reason to judge it without reliance on emotion for decidability. There is no difficulty (for me) between talking to a god (which I do daily) and understanding the composition of that god, for the simple reason that talking to a god works. Lots of us talking to gods works better. Just as fitness is a substitute for physical labor, talking to gods is a substitute for talking to our “headmen”, or “Grandparents”. I understand that very few of us lack that degree of agency. Which is why I’m trying to find a way to produce the same results without the semitic nonsense. Very few people can be entirely dependent upon reason. It’s possible that we can train the majority of the population to have a more rational kind of faith than the evil statist or evil supernatural kinds. The problem is finding a narrative that makes it tolerable without making a lot of people ‘disappear’ first.
    May 24, 2018 6:59am

  • Deism? Children Should Be Rarely Seen and Never Heard

    DON’T WASTE MY TIME WITH DEISM – IN COURT AS IN ALL ADULT CONVERSATION – CHILDREN SHOULD BE RARELY SEEN AND NEVER HEARD Don’t waste my time. I am not a friend of theists. I consider such people well intentioned children. Instead, we are a product of the Universe, and heroes, demigods, and gods are a product of man. We need a church (meeting place) and we need myths(strategy), an Oath(promise), Rituals (payment of costs), and Festivals (Rewards for rituals). We need these things like we need manners, ethics, morals and laws. But the words of the prophets are wisdom literature – parables – advice. It is true that this wisdom literature contains wisdom in some cases. But that is not the same as truth. And there is no reason that truth is not our wisdom literature : unless it is our strategy to lie, cheat, and steal. I specialize in truthful speech and in falsifying the fictionalisms (comforting lies). I do realize that given the limited abilities of the human mind, the members of the polity require The Magical(Supernatural), The theological, The ideal, The Pseudoscientific, because they lack the agency to tolerate the incompleteness(uncertainty) of The Operational(Scientific). It takes intellectual, emotional, and physical courage to say ‘i don’t know, YET’. And to simply accept that the universe is quite simple, and cognitively sterile. If you need these things you merely say you lack the agency to participate in judgement and rule. You are not yet fully human. It may in fact be impossible for you to be fully human. That is ok. Because we do not need everyone to be a judge and to rule. We simply need enough judges and rulers that we can create truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, markets in everything, and as a consequence sufficiently competitive society that we continue our evolution rather than become the victim once again of the natural devolution of the underclasses.
    May 24, 2018 7:50am

  • Truth and Art Are Not Matters of Opinion but Of Knowledge

    —“Truth, like art, lies in the eye of the beholder.”–Ben Frayle Nope. Truth is decidable. And so is Art. They are not matters of opinion but matters of knowledge and ignorance. Bad taste and bad judgement are both matters of ignorance and ability.

  • Truth and Art Are Not Matters of Opinion but Of Knowledge

    —“Truth, like art, lies in the eye of the beholder.”–Ben Frayle Nope. Truth is decidable. And so is Art. They are not matters of opinion but matters of knowledge and ignorance. Bad taste and bad judgement are both matters of ignorance and ability.

  • Religions Are Easily Constructible by Truthful Means.

    I don’t believe in equality (monopoly) of men, or monopoly religion, or monopoly government, or the strategy of the herd (monopoly). Just the opposite. We all need a ‘cult’ but that cult needn’t be one of semitic evil, and we certainly have our original cult (germanic-greco-roman) to retunr to as well as our real heroes. Myth, oath, ritual, festival, gathering place. That’s what makes a cult. That’s what provides the ‘programming’. THere are many ways of doing it. And there is no evidence our way is good. Just the opposite. It’s bad. and judaism and islam are worse, and so is hinduism and buddhism. We had it right. Why we keep fucking it up is something we can explain now. But hero-ancestor-nature worship(appreciation/thankfulness) and stoicism (self-authoring in the virtues that produces mindfulness), and celebration of the seasons and cycles of life appears to be better than ‘all the lies’ of abrahamism.

  • The Future Cult

    THE FUTURE CULT Restoration of Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything, ends Abrahamism (Pilpul, Justificationism, Platonism) and all the Abrahamic religions and eliminates the Abrahamic Dark Age. It also eliminates Marxism, Boasianism, Freudianism, Frankfurt school Fictionalism and Postmodernism – which together constitute the second attempt at an Abrahamic Dark Age. And with it the fantasy of the aristocracy of everyone (monopoly) – restoring Tripartism (markets between the classes). The question is only how to we replace the supernatural lies (Abrahamic Dark Age One), and the pseudoscientific and pseudo-rational lies (Abrahamic Dark Age Two) with Truths: Man, Nature, Transcendence, Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything. And the answer is pretty simple: the truth is enough. our history is itself so wondrous and our defeat of time, ignorance, and abrahamism(deceit) so profound, that there is nothing superior to be thankful for than nature and our ancestors and heroes. History as Mythology. The oath as oath. Remembrance as Ritual and Sacrifice, and Festival as Feast and celebration. We are the gods we once worshipped. And we have our ancestors, nature, and the universe to thank.
    May 24, 2018 10:51am