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I make marks, combine collage with paint and charcoal, make prints and art journals and write to delve deeper into the unconscious. See more at www.christopherstaplesartist.com to join me in one of my workshops posted on my website.
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The Church’s Murder Of Scientists
Lezinsky studied philosophy for eight years as a Jesuit, and then became a judge in legal cases against the Jesuits concerning estates. He wrote a treatise entitled “The non-existence of God” and was later executed on charges of atheism. His trial has been criticized and is seen as a case of legalized religious…
Definition: Culture
The set of Methods of Decidability Within a Formal or Informal Polity that provide a group with a competitive group evolutionary strategy. – Manners and Dress; – Roles, Status Hierarchies, and Signals – Cuisine, Norms and Traditions; – Formal Institutions, Processes, Property Rights – Myths, Legends, and Histories, – Rituals,…
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Jared Diamond’s thesis, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, is that regional differences in civilizational achievement are entirely caused by biogeographical factors, while regional differences in abi…
Defining Existence Versus Experience
Existence = Persistence Experience = Non-Persistence 1) We must construct experiences in real time from a combination of brain structure (Vitruvianism), Memory(prior Perception and Association), and Perception(senses), and Association (the measure of which we have no means yet other than IQ to determine). 2) Existence persists independent of experience. 3) Some patterns (categories, relations,…
How Real Are You?
Can you even speak without idealism, mysticism and conflation? You probably don’t know the extent of your infection by the language of deception. Why? Speaking existentially removes the illusion of ad therefore pretense of, knowledge. There isn’t a big difference between “feels” and “ideals”. The difference is between reals and *everything else*…
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Nein mehr Merkel: Für Deutschland, Für Europa, Für die westliche Zivilisation #Conservative #Libertarian #newright #Deutschland
A Civil Society: Gestures
No, I don’t find you attractive or interesting or even want to have a conversation. I’m just CIVIL person who was RAISED WELL, with the undrestanding that casual recognition, a smile, and “hello” in passing is the civic equivalent of a handshake – the entire purpose of which is to demonstrate goodwill and remove uncertainty,…
The Construction Of A Civil Order
by John Dow I would define a ‘Civil Order’ as the result of successfully negotiated, reciprocal social construction. In order to successfully negotiate a condition of interpersonal reciprocity we must have incentive to: 1) reciprocally participate (suppression of parasitism), 2) trust that exchange shall be honoured (insurance) and; 3) commensurable means of reference and calculation…
Aristocracy, Snobbery, Virtue
Does not require much money. In fact, if you can purchase time in exchange for decreasing ownership of property that’s better for you. It requires only that you are extremely judicious in your expenditures. It requires only that you ‘be a man’: in control of yourself. Be fit enough to fight no matter your…
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Ran into two of my distant kinfolk the other day. The Breton kin. Same height. Same coloring. Very similar features. We could easily be mistaken for brothers. But what was the difference? they had me by at least a hundred pounds. WTF is modernity doing to my people? We need two innovations…
Snobbery
I am not a snob in denial. I’m just a f-cking snob. Ok? I not only admit it – I’m proud of it. I studied fine art, history, science and philosophy, just so I could MASTER snobbery. The only difference is I prefer to use snobbery to ADVANCE my people rather than masturbate by virtue…
The Costs Of Knowledge Transfer
The transfer of knowledge is dependent upon at least ten “supply demand” curves. Such that the contract (exchange) of knowledge is a function of the costs involved in an exchange. In other words, some communication is low cost and some is worthwhile, and some is very costly, and some is prohibitively costly, and some is…
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Women’s minds, including emotions, evolved, and remain, attenuated for the purposes of bearing and raising generations of children: when young, when fertile, when mother, when grandmother. But what does this mean? It means that upon appeal to intuition in matters interpersonal, social, and political, that women’s intuition supplies a bias – and men’s does not…
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( We just got thrown out of Walmart. Apparently starting pillow fights with strangers is frowned upon. ). Lolz …. ( I went slumming. )
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I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They still cover it. They send it out and back in three days. I have a new case, new battery, new keyboard, new trackpad and new speakers. They already replaced the battery and the screen and the keyboard last spring.…
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Abstract Intelligence is highly heritable and a major determinant of human health and well-being. Recent genome-wide meta-analyses have identified 24 genomic loci linked to intelligence, but much about its genetic underpinnings remains to be discovered. Here, we present the largest genetic association study of intelligence to date (N=279,930), identifying 206 genomic loci (191 novel)…
New York Event Update!!!
Doolittle, Duchesne, Sunic, Jorjani We’re at room capacity with the current venue but several of you haven’t bought tickets yet who had planned to come. If we have more people, we will need to secure a larger venue. Please check with Megan if you still plan to attend asap. Snooze or lose…
Btw: Teaching Moment
Logic versus Science. There are three rules of the logic of internal consistency: 1) Identity, 2) Non Contradiction, and 3) Excluded Middle. Unfortunately, these rules refer to binary truth (identity) wherein all statements are true or false. But that presumption is false. All statements are true, false, or undecidable (null, meaningless, or unknown).…
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One year without television and the world would be a much better place.
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(from elsewhere) (response to a non-argumentative criticism) I’m your huckleberry pimple-dick. 😉 Seriously. It’s not like the room temperature IQ crowd you hang with is my target audience. And it’s not like I have any interest in dumbing down my work for the pubescent window-licker franchise. So either you can follow adult discourse in…
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by Simon Ström Happiness is redundant to grown men — conviction and love (a relational condition) are more important because those are instruments for us to continually invest our agency in the best way possible from a survival/reproduction perspective regardless if we’re happy or not.
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(DIARY: Health update. Seems that I’ve made incremental progress again over the last month. Blood pressure, heart rate, and levels are all pretty much back to normal. Although I need to start working on strength now. And while I’m up to 192 lbs, I feel good for the first time in a year or two.…
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(I don’t think I’ve ever been happy – it’s not my nature – but the time I have been least unhappy was the time I spent in Ukraine.)