Author: CurtD59

Dec 2, 2019, 8:55 PM —“[Jefferson was a Deist.] Most deists denied the Christian concepts of miracles and the Trinity. Though he had a lifelong esteem for Jesus’ moral teachings, Jefferson did not believe in miracles, nor in the divinity of Jesus. In a letter to deRieux in 1788, he declined a request to act…

Dec 4, 2019, 9:41 AM by Chris Moyer When speaking to normies about costs of policies I tell them “We’ve lost entire cities we cannot even walk in while remaining safe” Really gets their noggin’ jogging. We’ve lost entire cities, pay the cost of increased security, and pay to have them housed and fed. What…

Interesting ancestry ‘coincidences’. Father’s side is consistent: De Dolietta Avranches Normandy. I know they come over with the conquest, I forgot why Normans end up in Scotland, other than it was poor soil, and unconquerable. So short stint, then down to west midlands (I don’t know why but I do see records of land grants).…

Dec 5, 2019, 11:17 AM —“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for wealth or to consolidate power. This made them difficult to control. Caesar writes that in…

Dec 5, 2019, 12:45 PM Feels good or seems good doesn’t tell you anything. Heroin feels really good. Consciousness gives us access to the entire temporal spectrum from the present moment to the long term, to the condition of our distant future descendants. Choosing that which is good across that spectrum means you’re human. Choosing…

Dec 5, 2019, 3:12 PM Computer science appears to have made it possible for us to imagine ourselves correctly: “why doesn’t it understand or “why doesn’t it know” was a common question in the first generation of computer users. Today, every generation knows it’s just a machine and needs explicit instructions on its own terms.…

Dec 5, 2019, 6:53 PM The Art of Attention-Wh_ring: Marxist, Postmodern, Feminist “Attention-Wh_ring by Complaining” serves one purpose: To undermine art, aesthetics, heroics, that create cohesion between very different genders and classes, by false-promise that we can be free of Darwinian-difference. Series: |Art|: Monument < Illustration < Decoration < Marking < Attention-whoring

Dec 5, 2019, 8:59 PM Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users Neuroscience News Summary: A new neuroimaging study reveals women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume compared to women who do not take the pill. Smaller hypothalamic volume was associated with increased negative emotions and depression risk. Source: RSNA Researchers…

Dec 5, 2019, 9:23 PM HYPOTHALAMUS (Regarding drastic difference in women taking ‘the pill’.) (Hypothesis: the female brain evolved to sustain moods in the care of children, and absent children the female brain does not mature, and in the absence of the reproductive cycle declines. Which is what we see in the data. So without…

Dec 5, 2019, 9:39 PM Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought — Quest kirkdurston.com “Unwin found that when strict prenuptial chastity was abandoned, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking disappeared within three generations of the change in sexual freedom.” – Look around, how much rational thought do you see?…

VIA NEGATIVA IN INTELLIGENCE: GENETIC LOAD CAUSES STUPIDITY A somewhat popular post from ’12 that made the rounds. It follows my understanding that the size of the brain largely determines its capacity for intelligence and that the accumulation of defects causes stupidity, rather than, intelligence being a specific modification. This would mirror the data in…

Dec 6, 2019, 8:53 AM There is some debate over whether it happened at all. However, presuming that it did: 1) Horses and Dogs were ‘valuable’ and the most common victims of sacrifice. 2) defective peoples (dwarves etc) were often killed and buried but no evidence of sacrifice. Same for most burials, where the victims…

Dec 6, 2019, 10:44 AM Curt: “Men evolved for politics and think in bell curves, women evolved for children and other mothers and think in flat lines. We call it NAXALT. Not All X Are Like That. Women can’t help saying it. Its a test of feminine cognition.” Woman: “You can’t make a generalization like…

Dec 8, 2019, 2:34 PM —”Q: WHY DO OUR BRAINS CONSTRUCT TWO OPPOSING EXPLANATIONS?”— (repost from fall 2018) 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…

Dec 9, 2019, 10:36 AM Men evolved for the physical, political and inter-temporal and women the emotional interpersonal and temporal, in a division of labor and specialization where differences are solved only by a coincidence of wants and opportunity and incentive for cooperation.

Just as the Byzantines and Turks of the middle east used higher trust European military mercenaries, European kings used lower trust Jews as tax and credit mercenaries. In most of Europe Jews were the property of the monarchy and under its protection. Ancestors of all People are criminal and immoral by our present standard, but…

Dec 10, 2019, 12:48 PM From Twitter —“A necessary prerequisite to any hot civil war is an economic collapse. As long as the average person can care for themselves and family, they have too much to lose to take up arms. Now if we have an economic collapse in your timeframe, then anything’s possible.”— It’s…

Dec 10, 2019, 10:01 PM THE NATURAL LAW ON PORNOGRAPHY (from twitter) —“Do you believe that banning all porn is ridiculous? If so, how come? What would the laws under the Propertarian constitution be regarding porn?”—@EnlightenedNPC This is a deeper question than it appears – a hard topic for twitter. I’ll try: a) we must…

Dec 11, 2019, 10:00 AM KARL POPPER’S DEMARCATION PROBLEM IS SOLVED, AND THE CRITICAL RATIONALIST PROGRAM OF FALSIFICATION IS COMPLETE: IT WAS LAW ALL ALONG. AND HAYEK WAS RIGHT. As far as I know, western success in science, technology, medicine, and economics was due to the transfer of our legal tradition (including traditional european law…

Dec 11, 2019, 12:11 PM —“Because they have genetically, culturally, theologically, and argumentatively institutionalized the art of LYING just as I’ve illustrated. False promise, baiting into hazard, pilpul (sophism, polymoralism, half-truths, cherry-picking) critique (undermining, straw-manning, GSRRM).”—

Dec 11, 2019, 12:13 PM Every Man A Sheriff Truth before face Duty before Self Excellence before Adequacy Production before Consumption Home before Reproduction Heroism, Paternalism, Sky Worshipping, Militaristic, Expansionist, Sovereign, Reciprocal, Contractual, Entrepreneurial, Markets in Everything. The rest of mankind is Demonstrably Unfit. Superiority is demonstrated by the evidence. Our one weakness is Christian…

Dec 12, 2019, 1:26 PM Everyone should – be taught public manners – begin working by age twelve at the latest. – work in a restaurant on tips or retail on commission. – have to perform maintenance of the commons – serve in the military (men), hospital (women), and local emergency services. Every one of…

Dec 12, 2019, 6:15 PM by Luke Weinhagen Manners are (were) a way to signal trust. We (responding to dysgenic social pressures) have shifted away from family derived forbearance (active) and into socially derived tolerance (passive). This has eliminated the familial incentive to practice manners so as not to lose the leeway and momentum one’s…

Dec 18, 2019, 10:59 AM Gods NOT Men Spatial NOT Visual Ought NOT Should Mastery NOT Novelty Nuance NOT Ambiguity Command NOT Demand Methodology NOT Ideology Judgment NOT Preference Forbearance NOT Tolerance Natural Law NOT Natural Life Production NOT Consumption Cooperation NOT Compromise Commonists NOT Communists Domestication NOT Oppression Reciprocity/Parasitism NOT Right/Left Your categories, stories,…