The Scientific Explanation of The Spiritual
November 5th, 2018 10:32 AM THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF THE SPIRITUAL —“What do you tell people who have had very spiritual experiences that they attribute to their religion? Tell them they just imagined it? I donâ??t see how thatâ??s going to work.”— Mitchell Ryan They had the experience. They felt it. That it was produced…
Why Do Our Brains Construct Two Opposing Explanations?
November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM —“Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— Question: “Why have our marvelous brains formulated two diametrically opposite explanations?” Answer: Cognitive Division of Labor: Predator (action, dominance, science) — vs.– Prey (mindfulness, submission, religion). Problem: Demand for mindfulness increases with uncertainty. Post tribal life removes resource uncertainty at the…
The End Result
November 5th, 2018 9:20 AM THE END RESULT. [Y]ou see, I started at the very lowest possible level, and eliminated falsehood at every single incremental stage of complexity, and ended up with aesthetics religion and education last. It produces a single coherent, consistent, correspondent, existential, complete, system of thought from the subatomic world to the…
Memories. 😉
November 5th, 2018 10:25 AM ( I could get into one bar by the lake when I was 16, if I went with the older guys. But the f-king clowns were trying to sneak in beer all the time rather than just pay for draughts. Which made no sense to me. Unnecessary risk. So i’d…
The Vulnerability Created Within Our Civilization – Twice
THE VULNERABILITY CREATED WITHIN OUR CIVILIZATION – TWICE by Marra McKinney November 6th, 2018 2:55 PM [W]hen lower IQ people move to more feminised countries, they find an already existing parasitic environment (created by women) that is particularly well suited for people like them. Women there already complain that they are victims, that they are…
Taleb (Semitic) vs Harris (Semitic) Each Criticizing the Other Over His Use of Pilpul – Liars all.
(FB 1541532453 Timestamp) thread… Christianity is not *only* 2000 y old. It is a mutation of >4K y of Mediterranean-Anatolian creeds, mysteries, and mythologies.And its structure dates from the early Roman republic. Atheism has no #Lindy to build on, continue and progress from.https://t.co/QdxVUgKlLx — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 21, 2018
Not Just Separation of Church and State….
UM. NOT JUST SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE…. November 6th, 2018 1:36 PM One Tweak: Western Civilization has built in MARKETS in EVERYTHING, including family (morals), commerce (norms), state (law), academy(philosophy), and church (theology). Separation of CHURCH and STATE preceded christianity.
Reverse of Dimorphic Adaptation to Hide in Cover of The Herd
REVERSE OF DIMORPHIC ADAPTATION TO HIDE IN COVER OF THE HERD November 6th, 2018 1:21 PM [I] mean, if you’re the female of the species, with nesting urges, peacock (preening) urges, virtue signaling urges, solipsistic impulses to protect young, not ‘sticking out’ too far from the herd urges, but can ‘bait’ (moral hazard) males as…
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(FB 1541512910 Timestamp) THE INTELLECTUAL CATASTROPHE OF SPECIALIZATION (and the import of a universal language of testimony)
Literacy
November 6th, 2018 8:55 AM “Literacy: means ‘capable of reading and writing’. Being “Illiterate’ means incapable of reading and writing. Being “Literate” means ‘Well Read’ OR ‘he can read and write’. This is another one of those terms where we need a demarcation to prevent conflation. illiterate “can’t read” > literate – “can read” >…
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(FB 1541543743 Timestamp) You want deep? Well, this is deep. Check out bill’s OP and his comment on brandon’s share.
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(FB 1541542685 Timestamp) NATURAL RELIGION: THE AESIR-VANIR WAR by @[100016659043273:2048:Daniel Gurpide] (must read, core concepts) Manâ??s taming of the living world occurred in parallel to the taming of the massâ??by the elite. This historical phaseâ??initiated with the Neolithic Revolution and concluding today with the passage into the so-called â??Biopolitical Revolutionâ??â??is extremely important. It is not…
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(FB 1541541541 Timestamp) OPERATIONALIZE MEANS ANTI-IDEALIZE
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(FB 1541539548 Timestamp) NO. ANIMALS AND AI’S DON”T HAVE AND CAN’T HAVE RIGHTS. WE ENACT NEGATIVE RIGHTS TO PROTECT THEM.
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(FB 1541616989 Timestamp) READ THIS: THE COST OF ADOLESCENT LIBERTARIANS â??Ryan Williamsâ?? to Curt Doolittle Doctrinaire libertarians are hopeless adolescents. they speak in moral terms when the reality is that in a multicultural empire, will to power is all that’s left. libertarian defection cost governors seats 2 senate seats and multiple house seats.
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(FB 1541708210 Timestamp) —“If you’re nice and lose, you’ll be recorded in history as the worst form of evil. If you’re evil and win, you just write history and make yourself the good guy. Since human perception is the only method of recording reality over time: winning is good, losing is evil.”—Steve Pender
Evidence from Ukraine
(FB 1541697548 Timestamp) Roman trained groups in the woods in Ukraine on weekends and people paid, around $75 for it. He wrote the training plan for the ukrainian volunteers. It spread across the country in a few weeks. The State Dept asked him to stop. Men came out of the woodwork to fight. Especially from…
The Coming Civil War
(FB 1541681949 Timestamp) THE COMING CIVIL WAR The coming civil war will consist of increases in radom violence – just as we are seeing now. Clashes between urban protestors – just as we are seeing now. Stalking and Attacking the Media and Political Class – just as we are seeing now. Assaults on infrastructure including…
Do They Operate in Reciprocity
(FB 1541795636 Timestamp) by John Mark One of the things that has helped me the most about Curt’s work is simply thinking in terms of “do they (whatever group) steal or not”. In other words, do they operate in reciprocity (natural law) or not. E.g. as Curt says, it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s rule…
I am not trying to be scary
(FB 1541794132 Timestamp) I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to think that this coming revolution will be fought as the civil rights movements and the french-revolution through the 20th century movements have been fought. Those were fights of classes using gunpowder against people. The…
To Rally Males to Constrain Alphas
(FB 1541786158 Timestamp) once males had tools, and particularly spears it was possible for females to rally males to constrain alphas – and females could gain some control of reproduction, – and contractualism could improve among males. Her argument that females were abused is a moralism – meaningless. evolution doesn’t care. groups of males possess…
WHY THE MIDDLE MUST RULE
(FB 1541782649 Timestamp) WHY THE MIDDLE MUST RULE by John Mark The Middle is only population segment with natural incentives to succeed honestly. The top likes to steal (corruption) cuz they can (they have the power to do so unless the middle punishes them for it). The bottom wants/tries to steal because they are too…
not Quite Real until Codified in Law
(FB 1541782596 Timestamp) —“Social norms, group identity, customs, are ghosts – not quite real until codified in law and law doesn’t exist until there is force to make it real (consequential)…”– Bill Joslin (via Alain Dwight)
The Problem of Conservative Moralism
(FB 1541782388 Timestamp) THE PROBLEM OF CONSERVATIVE MORALISM by John Mark The comments on this post about nonwhite voters are a fantastic example of moralistic wishful thinking (by right wingers). https://www.facebook.com/218472611857878/posts/718933205145147/ “I am/know a Hispanic/black who votes Red!” (Anecdotal) “The non-whites are learning and abandoning the Left! Polls said Trump’s approval among blacks was up!”…
On the Military’s Ability to Control a Revolution
(FB 1541780322 Timestamp) ON THE MILITARY’S ABILITY TO CONTROL A REVOLUTION (from elsewhere) Of course I’ll disagree with him, and so will anyone who looks a the locations of the troops, their numbers the BIAS of those troops, the numbers of the police, and first responders, the size of the territory, the number of worldwide…