True Enough
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…
Um. No. Truthful vs True. Shadow or Object?
THIS ILLUSTRATION IS IMPRECISE (a) a “square” describes the shadow truthfully. (b) a “circle” describes the shadow truthfully. The question is whether one is testifying to the shadow or to the three dimensional object that casts it. One CANNOT testify to the shape of the three dimensional object that casts the shadow, one can only…
2005’s War of The Worlds as Non-Aryan Myth
By Eli Harman (Curt: “Ghetto Ethics, and Rat Heroism”) In the traditional hero’s journey of Aryan myth and legand, somebody relatable and unassuming faces great challenges and trials, sometimes setbacks and losses, before finally rising to the occasion and triumphing gloriously, and probably getting the girl. Then everyone lives happily ever after (until it’s time…
Eli on Female Coercion
—“This is what women do. They mostly can’t think. And they mostly can’t argue. So to get their way, and to get what they want, they deploy “the feminine means of coercion” (shaming, ridicule, mockery, rallying, scolding, nagging, gossip, psychoanalysis) to try and raise the social and emotional costs of disagreement WITHOUT addressing legitimate points…
—“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—
SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions. POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior,…
No, Ad Hom in Prosecution Is Not a Double Standard.
—“How can [we] complain about ridicule, but then habitually use terms like “white knight” and “shieldmaiden””— 1 – Reciprocity. Always (a) return the insult, (b) return to the central argument, (c) stay with the argument until the opponent is defeated or retreats. 2 – Prosecution vs Coercion: Ad hom used in prosecuting attempted theft by…
The Problem with The Category ‘psychology’.
I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science. When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to. In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences. Usually…
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…
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…
Stereotypes Are True.
They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in the market. When a people develops a reputation, it’s because they have earned that reputation. If people hate your group what will you do to make your group not hated? May 24, 2018 8:03am
Pilpul Everywhere
by Bob Moran The intellectual dishonesty is amazing. 1. “Why did you ban me?” 2. Gives Compliments to open a dialogue 3. Tries to insert himself/herself as relevant or an equal with empty credentials 4. Acts surprised (avoid guilt; “What I did was normal”) 5. Shames (your followers can’t handle being *moderately* uncomfortable) 6. Mis-categorizes…
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.
K(male-Pack) Constrains Damage of R(female-Herd).
PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHAT STEVE IS SAYING: K CONSTRAINS DAMAGE OF R. via Steve Pender Hmmm 99.9% of species have gone extinct. If you’ve seen that video about the impact of wolves on Yellowstone, it seems that predators are more important in keeping r selected species suppressed, than r selected species are at filling their little…
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.…
Why Our Religions Lost – It’s Obvious..
—Why did we lose?—Justus Bryce Because the left beat us to a pseudoscientific pseudorational religion faster than we reformed our existing religion. The church had more malincentives. It had built a bigger network of lies. It could not work its way out of those lies. Marxism/Feminism/Postmodernism is a secular religion that defeated supernatural religion. They…
–“Can We Unify the Sciences?”– Yes. And It Wasn’t That Difficult.
—“A lecturer at my university said that you cannot unify the sciences/integrate them because different disciplines require different tools to understand and apply them. There is no universally applicable set of tools, he argued. Do you have a response to that?”—Reece Edward Haynes Well, there are many devices necessary for measurement at the various scales,…
The A—hole Doctrine
( Most of the world is safe and enjoyable if you’re not an asshole. I’m not an asshole. Particularly in other countries. And I don’t associate with assholes in other countries. Nor do I engage in the activities that assholes engage in: drinking, drugs, large groups of people, making a lot of noise, generally trying…
Why Is Christianity Good?
Exhaustive Extension kinship love to near kin is the optimum cooperative strategy. Exhaustive investment in personal acts of charity demonstrates that optimum cooperative strategy. The church continued the stoic tradition of extirpation of hatred from the human heart. The church outlawed cousin marriage The church revived natural law under the scholastics. May 24, 2018 10:12am
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…
–“What Does True Mean?”–
Ok, so traditionally we say “a statement that is consistent, correspondent, and coherent.” But that’s not really clear enough. So, I’ll expand it fully: 1 – categorically consistent 2 – internally consistent (logical) 3 – externally correspondent (empirical) 4 – existentially possible (operationally stated) 5 – rational and reciprocal (voluntary, ethical and moral) 6 –…
The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All
It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the…
Stoicism Is Even More Important for Women than It Is for Men
—“Stoicism has cleared my thinking dramatically. Its so naturally easy for us women to get sucked into our emotions and feminism has made it so we can’t be held accountable. So women are in the mind set that they can’t control their emotions, where stoicism teaches you that you can. I heard that Stoicism was…
An Informational Approach to Stoicism.
by Moritz Bierling from December 2, 2016 (repost) An Informational Approach to Stoicism Stoicism is essentially a software fix to a hardware fact: humans tend to emphasize or experience negative thoughts more strongly by roughly a factor of 2. Daniel Kahneman’s research into what is now codified under the term “behavioral economics” has shown this…
Um, Underclass Reproduction Is Oppression of The Entire Polity.
—“The classes were not oppressed, but domesticated through the use of organized violence, manorialism, and religion to cull sufficient numbers from the population that only those not a drag on the rest of humanity remained.”—Curt Doolittle —“Um since when does this so-called “domestication” not count as oppression?”—Ian Heckman, PhD student in philosophy. I think most…
–“curt What Do You Make of High Iq White Male New Englanders Voting Blue?”–
—“Curt what do you make of high IQ white male New Englanders voting blue? I’ve heard you argue it’s signaling for status but is it reducible entirely to that?”—Tim Spillane It’s actually pretty simple: Connecticut: Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, Fairfield County (Essentially Long island in ct), dead-manufacturing( old GM, current United Technologies.) Irish, Italian, puerto rican.…