the rise of Mad Scientist X11

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Red Dog

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Mar 15, 2013, 2:26:54 PM3/15/13
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Hi everyone.  This is going out (at least I hope it is, we'll see if the list is even still active) to everyone who is still subscribed to the google group huffington-post-free-speech from Red Dog. Just wanted to let you know I've got a new google email that I will be using more and more:  madscie...@gmail.com  The "mad scientist" reflects some work I've been doing that I hope to publish one day in the not too distant future on using First Order Logic and Game Theory to solve some problems in the philosophy of ethics. If you ever took a philosophy class and learned about David Hume and the Is/Ought problem that is the kind of thing I'm trying to address. Fyi, the name on the new email is Nicholas Dedless or Nick for short, an alias I use sometimes on the Internet.

But the main reason for the new email is that several years ago I published some videos on Youtube using the reddog email.   They were all obscure videos, foreign films, documentaries, etc. but they were copy righted (back then everyone was still publishing copy righted stuff on Youtube) and as a result my Youtube account got suspended for this email and I was never able to get it back.  For a long time I thought just as well, comments on Youtube tend to be even lamer than on Huffpo so not being able to comment will just stop me from wasting time arguing with people whose idea of an intelligent reply is "your a fag". But some of the people that I've been referencing (Noam Chomsky, Scott Atran) in my writing have some excellent videos on topics of interest and it helps to have a valid account to organize them and subscribe to their channels. Soooo, madscie...@gmail.com is born. I thought it was better to send this email from the old account because if you got the email from the new one your email systems might think its spam. If you want to contact me in the future please use the mad scientist email, although I will still be checking the reddog email fairly often, at least for a while. I also plan to more or less shut down the bannedfromhuffpo blog, eventually turn off comments because there are 10 spam comments now for every one legitimate one, although even if I do that I will make sure the blog stays up in case you have linked to any articles or want to look back at it for some reason. I think its run its course, we didn't change much at Huffpo but we did make people aware of their hypocrisy which I think was worth doing. 

Cheers,

Red Dog

InsideOutGraphics Rouslin

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Mar 15, 2013, 4:40:40 PM3/15/13
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Hey!! How are you???? Wonderful to hear from you and I like your new name mad scientist. Too cool. Oh so "your a fag" comments are still occurring? Neanderthal-speak never did impress me either. It's been so long since we've corresponded. Much has happened. I had cancer (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma), got cured and am still cured and just hanging out watching my hair grow back as well as signing every med green petition I can find;-)
Ethics, now that's something many people have no clue about.I suppose the rabid ones think they are ethical, which is further proof of how they highjack just about everything and distort it back to their underachieving supporters. Crazy times we live in.
I'm still on HP, still getting censored, still reading bs comments and well some things never change unfortunately. I just don't take it personally, though it does serve as a reminder of how we've failed as a species. Speaking of ethics, so what do you think of the new pope? Ethics anyone:-)
Best Regards, and thank you for contacting me and best of luck in all of your endeavors. Please keep in touch. I've saved your new email address.
Artist-53/insideoutgraphics/ Jude



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Red Dog

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Mar 15, 2013, 5:49:34 PM3/15/13
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Jude,

I'm glad you are cured. I know some of the treatments can be almost as difficult as the disease. Hang in there.

The Ethics issue is something I've always found interesting, is it even possible to apply the kinds of tools we use for science to ethics? I've always thought so but until recently most people didn't. Sam Harris's writings kind of got me interested in it again.  Even though I agree with him at a very high level, essentially that science can be used on ethics, I disagree on just about everything else he says but that is a good starting point!  

I would love to know the real reason behind why the last pope resigned. There are so many scandals going on in the Vatican its hard to know which was the  real impetus, or perhaps all together, my favorite is the gay sex club they seem to have.   The other thing I would really like to see more on is the new pope's connection to the death squads in Afghanistan. I have seen some troubling hints about that but nothing solid either way.  In general though I don't think it makes much of a difference who is pope. Its funny, I remember when I was a kid they actually tried to choose a fairly progressive pope but he died very soon after being chosen and from then on they always have gone with someone conservative.

Michael

InsideOutGraphics Rouslin

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Mar 15, 2013, 9:10:20 PM3/15/13
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Fascism in the Church: Ex-Priest on "The Pope’s War," Clergy Abuse and Quelling Liberation Theology
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/28/fascism_in_the_church_ex_priest

http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/3/14

Pope Francis: First Latin American, Jesuit Pope Picked to Head Church; Praised for Work with Poor

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/14/pope_francis_first_latin_american_jesuit

Pope Francis’ Junta Past: Argentine Journalist on New Pontiff’s Ties to Abduction of Jesuit Priests

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/14/pope_francis_junta_past_argentine_journalist

Matthew Fox , an ex Jesuit I think, was tossed out of the Vatican by Ratzinger  he's from the Liberation Theology camp. Liberal , social goals, humanity bound, etc etc...Whereas Pope Francis is from the more conservative "Communion Liberation". Even though he's also got traits from his Jesuit background. I just purchased Matthew Fox's book, The Popes War. I've not started is as yet, because my Mother wanted to read it. She actually studied theology at Providence College while studying Logic and Ethics at Brown Univ. Talk about a great up bringing that leveled the playing field of my Catholic School upbringing:-) I'm a reformed cath.But I tend towards Matthew Fox, and Liberation theology as a better camp to side with. Fox would have loved to have seen the Dali Lama as Pope, but knowing the Vatican and this time and place, it was more of a wish that he knew would not be attainable.

I used to know many catholic nuns, and priests that were instrumental in civil rights, organizing, I wasn't into the church dogma crap, and neither were they, but were great at social work,anti poverty programs, housing, healthcare, etc. I once met one of the Nuns from Selma, they were from the civil rights era. As opposed to the Sisters on the Bus of today that the last pope tried to screw with. Amazing we are still doing this. Every one fought so hard and now here we are back at square one. Hell of a rabid rabbit whole I would say.


Cancer: Yes chemo sucked,but it was a bitter sweet poison.I still glow at night:-)  I also  self medicated during treatment, and still do, however, I don't live in a legal state.  Though I'm done with chemo. I just need to grow my body back. Because I still  look like the banjo player in Deliverance;-) Scary little image....BTW, cancer does have a way of instantly changing one's priorities in a heartbeat. In a good way. I simply don't give a shit about some thing any more. Stupid crap we as a species seem to accumulate along the way.I'm  finally moving back towards painting, and as a social artist, there is still lots to document with pigment.

Ethics and Science. How interesting. I need to read up on the combo of the 2. It's fabulous that you are thinking. Many people don't.They simply swallow and regurgitate, and  the forced  messaging is causing people to suffer from a lack of critical thinking skills and are cerebrally malnourished at this point.but like their bodies, they brains too are over weight by crap.And the kicker is, many are so unaware of what they've become.Or failed to become.

I've rum my mouth long enough;-)

You take care and check out the video links when you get a chance. Something is happening in terms of power,and the controlling factions of this planet. Sort of like a power war and the Vatican is a part of the global financial political picture, for sure.As it has been for centuries.
Best to you,stay well

Jude






Red Dog

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Mar 25, 2013, 5:33:31 PM3/25/13
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Jude, 

The liberation theology thing is interesting. I forget if I told you this or not, one of my symptoms with MS is that my memory is mostly useless. It was never good but now I have to write down anything I want to remember to make sure I get it right. Anyway, I worked with CISPES for a while when I was younger. They were a leftist group for justice in El Salvador and lots of the people there were Catholics because of Romero and the others murdered by the death squads. For a while I tried commenting at the Richard Dawkins site because I'm an atheist and agree with a lot that Daawkins says. Whenever someone would say something I thought was ridiculous, like that all religious people were evil or stupid I would think of and comment on all the amazingly ethical and hard working people I worked with at CISPES, all people of faith and all put me to shame with how much harder they worked than I did. The main reason I stopped commenting at the Dawkins site was I got so tired of reading all the hateful comments about Christians and even worse Muslims. It wasn't all that much different from any other form of bigotry IMO.

I almost went to Brown. I was accepted into their PhD program for philosophy but I picked Stanford instead, mainly because Stanford was doing more comptuter and AI stuff that I was into. If you are interested in reading more on ethics and science here are a few books I would recommend: There is the Sam Harris book although I didn't really think it was that good. Essentially he is arguing that science should be able to make contributions to the analysis of ethics which I completely agree with so the arguments weren't all that interesting, they were things that more or less occurred to me. Instead I would recommend Moral Minds by Marc Hauser.  BTW, I don't like Hauser that much as a writer, he loves to use examples from Lost or reality TV I'm sure to be more accessible but I didn't know nor care to know who he was talking about. But what he is writing about, sort of an overview of recent cognitive science research on ethics, is fascinating. Another book I would recommend is The Price of Altruism by Oren Haarman. This one is a much easier read, its a combination biography and science history. Its about the various math models that biologists discovered that describe how altruism works with animals. He describes the lives of Hamilton and especially Price, the two who discovered the math. Price had a fascinating and tragic life, his search for understanding altruism in biology paralleled his greater search for meaning and religion. 

Michael
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