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For Newbies: My Workflow
FOR NEWBIES: WORKFLOW (worth repeating) (FB 1546005070 Timestamp) The way I work is by relating ideas across the spectrum in a series of shorter arguments – because I ‘whittle away’ at the stone so to speak, turning it to view it from different angles, working to gradually expose the figure (truth) below. I try…
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(FB 1545943056 Timestamp) RE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ON HIS IQ RANT I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve…
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(FB 1546099990 Timestamp) —“[Claire says she has never lost an argument.]”— omfg. claire. your argument is this: people are stupid and need something stupid, and claire is stupid, and claire can understand islam, so therefore all stupid people should follow islam. that’s your argument. That’s the TOTALITY of it. Stop wasting my time with your…
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(FB 1546099434 Timestamp) ADULT, CRUDE, POSSIBLY OFFENSIVE, CHRISTMAS HUMOR I have no idea why I find this stuff so ridiculous – it’s such a contradiction. But people keep creating more and more of them every year. The creativity of halloween and christmas never cease to amaze me. Apparently some “evil elf” movie has been made…
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(FB 1546099023 Timestamp) Listening to John Mark last night and realizing how thoroughly he understands the material and how quickly he can respond to questions. There are a lot of you who can do that now. Next year there will be many more. And we have our movement.
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(FB 1546096006 Timestamp) The oldest gods and priests (vanir-feminine) The invading gods and warriors ( aesir-masculine) The ascent of men into gods. (odin) The the survival of the invading gods (zeus pater) The expansion of the families (polities) (pantheons) The reassertion of zeus pater (sol invictus). The Holocaust Against Aristocracy by Jews, Christians, and Muslims…
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(FB 1546093264 Timestamp) Wisdom is not law, not command, just wisdom: advice, and choice. Darwin disapproves if we hinder one’s self-selection out of the gene pool.
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(FB 1546093032 Timestamp) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig….. (Robert Heinlein) … But with unlimited government funding, and the incentive to provide ‘a desirable education’, it is an endless job opportunity. (Igor Rogov) Marxism Postmodernism Feminism vs Science, Economics, Law, History, and Sovereignty in a…
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(FB 1546091832 Timestamp) INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”) Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset.…
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(FB 1546091221 Timestamp) SACRED INVERSION There have been things in the world properly made sacred by inversion; we’re doing our damnedest to reverse the sanctity of these things by making them “normal” once again. Jonathan Pageau gives a wonderful presentation on the perversion of “modern” art. He speaks to the world “turning upside down.” I…
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(FB 1546061288 Timestamp) JOHN MARK DOES THE USUAL EXCEPTIONAL JOB I had a sort of cringe reaction when someone forwarded this to me. But was pretty pleased overall. John is exactly the kind of front man we’ve been looking for.
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(FB 1546050117 Timestamp) You cannot possibly take the courses in natural law out of order. You can however take any set of classes in order.
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(FB 1546050047 Timestamp) COURSE PREREQUISITES? –“When you do get the coursework set up on the website, will there be prerequisites needed for the economics courses? I have a background in economics and mathematics but it’s been a few years since I’ve utilized things like Calculus regularly. Will there be a quantitative aspect to the program…
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(FB 1546047161 Timestamp) Um, I realize that in other cultures, initiating a conversation by saying hello, or waving, or something of that nature is good manners. but I”m an american and a rather anglo-saxon american, and I just prefer you directly ask me questions. Spammers and people with gentle manners are indistinguishable. So pls just…
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(FB 1546044530 Timestamp) —“What led you to replace Pagan with Heathen in this oath?”— A Friend Technically ‘pagan’ is the name of a christian criticism of heathens the way marxists used capitalism to criticize the middle class. Heathen means, as far as I can tell, ‘religion of the hearth’, or more correctly ‘folk religion’, or…
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(FB 1546043826 Timestamp) Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic…
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(FB 1546043524 Timestamp) I mean, we used to play garbage can bowling, egging, and toilet papering, throwing snowballs at cars, lighting gasoline in the road as cars approached, putting scotch tape across the road between signs, whistling at girls, prank phone calls – and pranks like stealing signs and putting them on flag poles. I…
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(FB 1546037448 Timestamp) —â??The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy,…
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(FB 1546037060 Timestamp) —â??Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and…