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America is now a cult with an army not a country.

I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public places; and I understand the importance of taking business calls even when it’s inconvenient. And yes, not only have I been unintentionally loud in restaurants, and yes, at least in the past, I’ve been overloaded, distracted, or clueless enough to be…

RE: (from previous post) “One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity.” —“Are my questions or experience less important because your education level and living standards are better than mine? Does that make me a lesser…

One’s experience is just a matter of ignorance vs knowledge. The truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition(of others) are all decidable whether you’re ignorant or knowledgeable. Using “principle, belief, or preference” is merely evidence of ignorance, and therefore irrelevance.

If emotional experiences are a problem – an impediment to excellence, competition, transcendence, – then it is an easy problem to solve: the dead don’t feel, now do they? ;) ( Emotions are not a test of anything. )

We had the Best System of Government (Perfect Government) and we blew it: 1) Nomocracy (Rule of Law by Natural Law of Torts: Reciprocity) 2) A Hereditary Monarchy as Judge of Last Resort, and custodian of territory, institutions, organizations, families, and individuals. …. A State(Foreign Relations) Organization, …. A Professional Military, …

—“Pushing the truth agenda discards the social one – even if it means the social isolation of the source of that truth: the truth-speaker. For the autistic male, this is no dilemma. We keep the crazies outside, sanity and peace inside.”— William L. Benge

by Daniel Gurpide The more I follow Curt’s posts, the more I realize German philosophy is not that ‘great’. The Greats of German philosophy (Kant-Fichte-Hegel-Marx-Heidegger, I’m leaving Nietzsche outside on purpose, I know) make up a Counter-Enlightenment tradition that ends up being suspicious of science and technology, anti-individualistic and anti-liberal. They…

Experiences = Feels Sets(Words) = Ideals. Operations = Reals.

by John Dow I think it’s more accurate to say that you’re an operational epistemologist, and you consider pretty much all divergent epistemological techniques to have failed to achieve functional coherence to the degree of operationalism – and therefore you define ‘science’ as applied operational epistemology. (genius. i wish i’d said that)

In other words, there are only two genders, sexual attraction can vary due to in utero disorders, and gender identity (sympathy) can vary due to developmental or mental disorders. Our brains begin with tendencies but our experiences can train them to our benefit or detriment. De-Socialization is the primary cause of mental illness, and socialization…

by John Dow Men threaten civic order primarily with predatory violence. Women threaten civic order primarily with parasitic demands. In both cases, they fail/refuse to negotiate interpersonal reciprocity, thereby reducing the net incentives of the people affected by their behaviour to interpersonally negotiate in good faith – threatening the stability of civic order.

READ THIS – THIS IS HOW

Joell Davis Our sacred rights as Englishmen descend from (the quasi-myth of) the Magna Carta, a contract between the Sovereign and his people, a promise to respect and protect their life, liberty and property in return for their loyalty and service. Anglo militias have time and again staged rebellions against sovereigns who…

(from elsewhere)(unrelated) Axe……..(Chop w/ Face) ….| ….|…….(many variations) ….| Knife……(Cut w/ Edge) —–> Cutting Sword –> Cutlass ….| ….|……. (many variations) ….| Dagger..(Stab w/ Point) —-> Stabbing Sword -> Rapier ….| ….| ….| Spear…..(point)

by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding by the rules. Optionally: by helping to enforce the rules. I don’t think this last part is optional, although your help can be indirect (pay your taxes) rather than direct (militia service.) Libertarians who say the rules…

Look. My work is reducible to a single thing: I completed the scientific method such that we can test statements and arguments in every field by a single grammatical system. The rest of it is just the application of the completion of that method to the entire spectrum of human knowledge, from metaphysics through aesthetics.

I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I read scientists. The principal purpose of reading philosophy is that once you’ve mastered the basics of the the major logics and sciences, you may want to know ‘how to do it wrong’ -so you can avoid it. Because that’s what philosophy means: how to do…

One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and…

“At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East “ Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts Wesleyan University Aside from three or four shots that showed insight into stereotypical russian working class archetypes – which I found insulting…