The Sortitionist

Managerialism Hates This One Bronze-Age Trick Sortition can be used for good or ill, @AuronMacintyre. Here is a piece I wrote months ago, rated by @OGRolandRat as above average in content and insight (based on lowest score from Video Essay Competition Winners). @GreeneMan6

@AcademicAgent_X Should review Shadow Empire. Detailed sci-fi post apoc regime systems.

Soon I will take a month off to play something. (This never actually happens, and I've been talking about doing it for literally 20 years)

@AcademicAgent_X This you, AA? 4:40 @Sargon_of_Akkad youtu.be/-IUHf_jbv-0?li…

The number of people defending scum saving, my gosh.

@ssc5531 @Tomoejp1236 And there is living interested in learning about the creator and living disinterested.

@sortitionist @Tomoejp1236 なぜ「精神的な無関心」に飛躍してしまうのか、 その理屈は分かりました。 ライプニッツの「AはBである」（BはAに内包されている）みたいな論理。 でも、宇宙が創造された目的が分からなくても生きてきたのが人類の歴史です。

すごいな、こいつも。 日本人に精神生活がないと断定しているぞ。

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 Except the only cause that is not itself determined would be personal, and the fine tuning of the universe show intelligence. That narrows down to theist religions.

@sortitionist @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 If the “first cause” is just a provisional model, then there is no significant difference between Christianity and other frameworks. In that case, people from other religions wouldn’t have a compelling reason to change their beliefs.

Thank you for your explanation. I understand how deep culture and religion are connected in Japan. From a Catholic perspective, some elements can absolutely be preserved. Discipline, gratitude, respect for places are all good and align well with Christian values. (1/3)

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 That is why I would argue that a maximally great being avoids being arbitrary, a brute fact, or random; and so avoids pitfalls of other explanations. I don't think worry that it might be incomplete robs it of being the current best. One can just hold it until something changes.

@sortitionist @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 An explanation that artificially stops the chain may feel complete, but it risks being dishonest. I think a description that remains incomplete but continues to improve is more intellectually honest.

@mizuno_miya3 Yes. Danger comes when your time in the future gets less and less. If one is lost in a desert and you pick a direction to get out, the encouragement to keep walking begins to weigh against the anxiety of having picked the wrong direction.

@sortitionist たぶん私含む日本人は矢がどうして外れたのかを考えます。それで、きちんと当たるまで自己研鑽をすると思います。失敗を恐れて法螺を吹くより、潔く失敗を受け入れて結果を得るための努力をします。潔くかっこよく生きていくのです！！そんな人間に私はなりたい。

日本人が精神的な事に無関心だとなぜ思えるんだろう……？？ みんな、めちゃくちゃ精神的なことしかしてないで？？ 初詣行ったり、厄除けしたり、お守り買ったり、ご飯食べる時と終わった時に挨拶するし(上げればきりがないからこの辺でやめとくけど) 日々の生活の中にめちゃくちゃ根付いてるで？

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 We know there must be an explanation because we see the effect that requires an explanation. The stopping point would be the explanation. An indefinitely deferred explanation is no explanation at all.

@sortitionist @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 An infinite regress may not provide a final explanation, but why must explanation necessary? Positing a “first cause” seems like introducing a stopping point rather than explaining why such a stopping point is necessary.

@Black_Pilled @Sherman04237147 If it just followed how you researched it, maybe that will teach people by example.

@Sherman04237147 I’ve toyed with the idea of a moon episode. It’s just never enough for most of these people. You forget 1 little talking point and they act like you didn’t debunk the other 50. But maybe I’ll do it anyway

And it was at this moment Stefan realized there was no depth too low for the depraved minds of the dysgenic tardmaxxers to sink to in order to cling to their identity as misunderstood geniuses that, through diligent YouTube video watching, had uncovered the satanic NASA plot.

@Tats_Gunso In the 18th and 19th centuries, West Virginia settlers practiced a free-range system of animal husbandry where pigs were allowed to roam in the forests. Farmers utilized a unique system of ear notches; registered with the county court to identify ownership.

これはね、日本に来たことない人はわからないと思うんですが、日本の山ってよほど高い所を除いてほぼ全て木で覆われている深い「森」なんですよね。 日本人にとって山≒森なので日常の日本語で「山に行く」とか「山に入る」とか言うときそれは90%くらいの確率で森を意味してます。 そして日本の山には熊とか猪とか鹿とか毒虫とかいるし入ったら迷子になるわけですね。日本人にとって基本的に山は恐いところであんま放牧とかする場所じゃないんです。もののけ姫とかみたらわかると思います。

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 That would paint the concept of cause and effect as illusion. That a bullet traveling is not explained by traveling the moment before.

@sortitionist @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 Your analogies assume that each element in the chain has no intrinsic causal power and only operates by borrowing it. But if one does not accept that assumption, the analogy itself doesn’t necessarily hold.

@Tats_Gunso Hybrid system: In the 18th and 19th centuries, West Virginia settlers practiced a free-range system of animal husbandry where pigs were allowed to roam in the forests. Farmers utilized a unique system of ear notches; registered with the county court to identify ownership.

良い質問ですね。これは一般的な日本人の世界観に牧畜や畜産の概念がほとんどないためです。なので動物の肉＝狩猟という発想になる。 日本は世界史でも珍しく農耕がはじまっても牧畜がそこまで根付かなかった国なんですよ。普通は農耕と牧畜はセットなので。 有名な話だと日本は古代に大変頑張って中華文明を輸入したのに、当時文明国ならエジプトから中華までやっていた宦官を導入しなかった。中世の侍も馬を去勢せず使っていた。去勢は牧畜文化の基礎なわけで、これだけでも日本にどれだけ牧畜文化が根付いてないかわかるでしょう。

@Black_Pilled @RealRedDrakon Yes. I can empathize with getting to distrust everything but if one lacks the internal self-critical feedback step (comparing own thoughts to logical standard); they should also distrust their own thoughts.

Let’s break down everything wrong with your statement, because it’s a commonly repeated sentiment: “It’s crazy you believe NASA out right” I don’t. I have studied this very closely. You think the guy who talks about conspiracies several hours a week and has to find new material every week is just going to not cover a massive conspiracy with a built in audience? I’ve looked into all of the claims and even briefly became skeptical myself until I was able to personally debunk those claims myself. The problem is, I’m actually resourceful enough to not have to rely on what a sassy black lady on YouTube says or what some schizo meme says, I do the work and research the claims myself, and the only deception I ever uncover is the repeated lies of the people pushing the moon landing conspiracies. Lies, not errors, lies that when exposed, still get repeated, indicating to me their objective is not truth. “when you know everything else has been a lie” Not EVERYTHING else has been a lie. Thats light switch, red team/blue team, binary thinking. This gets to the heart of the problem. People that lack discernment and the ability to research things effectively, must outsource their research and discernment to others. Until the trust was broken, maybe because of Covid, lies about Biden not being senile, or whatever straw broke the camel’s back, these people (and most people) typically outsourced their research and discernment to mainstream establishment outlets. When the trust in these establishment entities was broken, it sent them adrift, untethered to reality. They lacked the tools, experience, and in some instances the aptitude, to research and discern the truth for themselves so they did what they were used to doing, they outsourced it. Unfortunately many of them chose to outsource these things to people like Flat Earth Dave or Bart Sibrel, two people who are just as untrustworthy as any establishment outlets, if not worse. “Hubris” Consider the above, then take a look in the mirror.

@WintersGreen God choose this out of potential options (maybe a different one had 1 more melon in it). The options were limited by what is logically possible, and by free human choices. God could not create a world with a square-circle or a forced-free choice.

というより、全知全能でその気になれば全てを解決できる神様が「あなた自身の努力と忍耐で克服する姿を見たいのです。さあ魂の輝きを見せなさい」しているならとんだサディスティック野郎じゃねーか！て話なのだけど、聖書には神の与える試練に応えなさいと最初から明記してあるからな。

@circleback When I visited Japan I tried to visit local churches, many were disappointing (pushed giving / tithing) except for Mustard Seed network churches.

日本の教会に行くと、教会の役員ですらキリスト教のこと理解してない人が凄く多くて萎える ついで言うと牧師も福音に生きてないよな〜って行動を取る人が多くて萎える

@ssc5531 @Tomoejp1236 A man puts effort to make a tool with a purpose. If creation involved a designed purpose, it has everything to do with daily life.

@Tomoejp1236 「日本人は宇宙の創造などに関心がない」を「精神的な無関心」にしてしまう。 飛躍があるんだよね。 なぜそれをそうまとめるんだ？みたいな。 なぜ宇宙の創造に無関心なのか？と言えば、 「生活に関係しないから」が答えか？

@oooooc_o @kaaachaaan @jigendayon You can ask people if they would rather be in a world of no evil but had to follow commands from benevolent source or a world where they could do whatever they wanted. Many choose to do what they want regardless of effect.

@oooooc_o @kaaachaaan @jigendayon God choose this out of potential options (maybe a different one had 1 more melon in it). The options were limited by what is logically possible, and by free human choices. God could not create a world with a square-circle or a forced-free choice.

@ema_credo This is why exploring the term "maximally great being" helps to understand the difference.

真のキリスト教徒ならキリストを信じない人に向かって、キリスト以外の神はインチキですよ、そんなものを信じていると地獄に堕ちますよなんて絶対に言いませんよ。どの神が本当の神なのか有限な人間には絶対に分からないのだから。その上でわたしたちはキリストに賭けているというだけのことです。

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 A first cause is like money in the bank: with it you can produce a real causal effect but without it the proliferation of intermediate causes does nothing to effect a real change.

@wot_object @Tansanunu @Tomoejp1236 Suppose you have no money. But you write a check to someone on that empty account. Then to cover that check you write another to a different but still empty account. This could go on forever, and you would never discharge your debts because each check is intrinsically worthless.