Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Cursed weight, sacred weight, part 2 of 2
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 4 = = = = = Why has gold been a standard** for so many centuries? Partly because it’s a suitable standard in a metrology sense. It doesn’t mix easily with other elements, it doesn’t degrade with time, and it can be purified and verified. But metrology…
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One more inevitability
Previous item is a perfect example of why the RIGHT kind of price controls are needed. Enid hasn’t been affected by the real estate bubble. When I compare rental and sale prices there with what I remember from the 70s, the current numbers are in line with overall inflation. A $100 apartment then is $700…
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They’re mostly right
The wokies are correct when they complain that ‘Western Civ’ courses are irrelevant and false. Some of the wokies want to replace the falseness with a different brand of falseness, some don’t. Nevertheless the complaint itself is correct. Western Civ classes, including all the “history” and “civics” we memorized in high school, are blatant propaganda…
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Cursed weight vs sacred weight, 1 of 2
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 3 = = = = = Reading some medieval descriptions of weights and measures, noticed that one weight was prohibited by the king and cursed by the archbishop. It was called auncel or aunsell weight. The permitted or blessed balance was generally called the Roman balance. Why…
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This is why
Protos notes that the bettors in Polymarket are increasing the odds of Jesus returning this year. The odds are still extremely small. It turns out that they’re not really betting on Jesus, they’re working a supercomplex superweird linkage of strategic steps to gain a slight arbitrage advantage. The bet itself isn’t on Jesus: The “odds”…
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Why we were stupid
Back in the hippie 60s we often imagined that the world would be perfect if presidents and CEOs dropped acid. We’d have universal peace and freedom and justice if we could slip some mescaline into Nixon’s martini! We didn’t understand what would REALLY happen because we were infused with the lethal lies of the Endarkenment.…
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Tally sticks
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 2 = = = = = In the first part of Medieval Metrology I showed a medieval ruler for measuring length, as used by the ale tasters. It was notched in fractional parts but not numbered. The ruler bears a close resemblance to the medieval way of…
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Nulling the balance
After midnight last Thursday I was in the living room screwing around with courseware. Suddenly I heard a scary noise CLOSE to the window, something like sliding and squeaking. It lasted for two minutes. It couldn’t have been an animal, but it didn’t make sense. After daylight I went out to look, and found that…
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Metrology Day 2025
Today is Metrology Day, so I’ll maintain my long tradition. = = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 1 = = = = = This year I’m focusing on the medieval way of thinking as illuminated by Sherri Olson. Medieval villages embodied Natural Law. = = = = = REVIEWING: The Almighty has created this…
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Why do juries get it right?
I’ve discussed this before, but it has a deeper connection after reading Sherry Olson’s account of medieval life. Juries are the LAST leftover of Natural Law in governing. In 1300 most governance was Natural Law. The Endarkenment hadn’t filled us with “self-evident” vicious lies about equality and rationality. Written laws were almost entirely local, along…
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Trying a question, reprinted
Linked in previous about juries and Natural Law, worth a reprint since it explicitly refers to trials, and since I wrote it during the “virus” holocaust, at the same time when the Hildebrand fraudsters were breaking the balance that SBA was trying to restore. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Self-calibration is necessary…
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It’s all crime
I’ve said something like this before in connection with ‘corporate personhood’. For some reason the topic sharpened up this morning, helped by familiarity with the new research on brain networks. Natural Law is innate. It’s built into our brains. We have specific feature detectors for unfair practices or deceptive language. We don’t know the difference…
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The correct history
This article fills in the CORRECT history of the 1700s, when the NYC robber barons rebelled against British rule and asserted the theoretical “right” of robber barons to take everything. Canada remained with the crown and parliament, and retained the old experimentally determined EQUIPOISE between government and citizens. Our textbooks and media never told us…
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Storage is the heart of civilization
Previous item reminded me of this. Storage is not only the key to experimentation and learning, it’s the key to LIFE. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Noticed a badly done graph on corporate bankruptcies at ZH. The graph doesn’t adjust the assets for inflation, so it’s useless. There’s an even stupider description…
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Elon vs FDR
Elon is cutting vast amounts of federal bureaucracy, or at least attempting to do it. He has no official role, so courts would be fully justified in rejecting all of his cuts. SYLLOGISM. FIRST PREMISE: We know that Elon will never cut war or tyranny, the only federal FUNCTIONS that need to be eliminated. He…
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