Index 
Aphorism 9 Aphorism 44 Epistemology Gender Idea of "Other" Law and Goverment Morality Senses
(ON) Over the past weeks I compiled analysis of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matthew: Chapters 5, 6, and 7). (J) Aphorism 44 "The hand, the sword, the gun, the tank, the jet fighter, the atomic bomb are all, 'Do as I say, or else' devices." Law: Our legal system is rapidly progressing into defining risk of harm rather than actual harm itself as punishable behavior, e.g. drunk driving, assault, weapons bans, speeding are all based on risk of harm. Idea of "Other": Is science just the flicker of the fire in Plato’s cave or the light outside the cave? ISTMRN that many fear the former, because as Laplace said, “Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis.” If not for the latter, they founder with purpose, not realizing they are now free to live unencumbered by fear; fear of failure of their “purpose”; fear of failure to “live up to their “potential”. To strive to fulfill “PURPOSE’s” intent, to sacrifice to ”purpose”, to die for “purpose” is to sin, ISTMRN. Idea of God: With the enlightenment and science we seem to believe we have opened a passage way into God’s heart, and perhaps they are; at least to the part of God’s heart that likes community control over both material and mental things, i.e. “more wealth=more comfort=less misery”, but not to the parts that want thanks for what God wrought rather the curse her for the same. Commerce: I like user taxes: sales tax on gasoline for roads, railroads, and airports, using money as a surrogate for “energy”. Then I thought a direct “energy tax” is the ultimate user fee. Then I thought “mental energy” = money, e.g. to make profits, “buy cheap, sell dear”, should be taxed too. So a tax on both physical and mental energy seems appropriate. So, using money as a surrogate for energy, we should not exempt real-estate transactions from sales tax (e.g. houses, stocks, bonds, “futures”, so the “rich” would pay according to their “transactions” not just their profits, such as us “poor” folks do with sales taxes. They would work in tax costs to prices. That would slow things down meeting conservationists’ goals. Senses: I marvel at the snow falling outside my window, my semi-permeable membrane, that protects me form the snow, killer of weak furry things now; nourisher of survivors next spring. Would we stop the snow to save the weak? Are we all weak in the snows of time? Government: Allegiance, loyalty is the way of Ceasar. I prefer truth, or at least the vain pursuit of it. Gender: In our zeal to deny the reality of death (the fundamental raison d'être of the “other world” beyond the senses), we deny the reality of life. Aphorism 9 In today’s coliseum we equate love of homosexuals with love and procreation by heterosexuals. The claim is that “love, commitment, and desire, are all human qualities, so homosexuals who love each other are human and deserve all the legal protections as other humans” or something like that. In the “other” world where: “all men (oops sorry, humans) are created equal, it is unfair to play favorites based on human DNA dictated characteristics, such as race, gender preference, sex at birth, etc. Thus the DNA based reliance on heterosexuality is a base figment of the “lower, material world of body” rather than the "higher "other world of the mind.” So “enlightened people” those freed from Plato’s cave’s shadows, see “love” as the glue of equality and child bearing as merely a “lower” physical function. After all, it take a community to raise a child, so parenting can be given by anyone who “loves children”. In fact, we are justified to remove children from “unloving” parents and placing them in “loving”, real families, including homosexual couples. So if you believe in love, caring, and, well …. common human decency, then you MUST agree that homosexuals are equal in legal rights to heterosexuals” I hope I got is sort of right. I totally disagree. As Cardinal George (Catholic cardinal in Chicago) says, “the sanctity of the man-woman union cannot be denied” just repeating Jesus (Mark 10:5-10). I think society, even civil society is justified expressing special respect for this biological union of procreations by man and woman, and less special treatment of “love” as a basis of union. (added 25 Jan 2020): I had yet to discover One Note database as an organizing tool that accommodates both subject and date and was attempting to write my own database in MS Access Basic which I became proficient with XTS.NET user, accounting, billing database. For this case I successfully merged two many-leveled hierarchies, with two comes three and infinte. Researching "how to" I discovered Microsoft One Note which came with Office 2013. One Note did all I wanted and much much more. | Epistemology Leading to One Note: Most of these journal entries are self-contained thoughts. They are not meant to be connected in single, coherent “proof.” I have nothing to prove other than what the thought was at the moment. I try as now to capture a thought and run it out a bit. The process of recording the thought interrupts the thought requiring rehearsal and memorization enough to record it. It is that instant that so rudely interrupts, but that’s the best there is. We must live with it. Words don’t capture thoughts and thought never stands still. However, I do have some desire to organize my “momentary observations”. By date is one way I’ve used forever. With the computer's help I am now attempting a subject organization. Boy, what a mess. So I might use themes in the Sermon on the Mount and other philosophic topics. Perhaps temporal is best after all, it’s sure the easiest. The “Other”: Music, melody, beat live in the other world, sound in this. Opinions are the measure in the other world, frequencies in this. I suggest a close look at Ananke and all the temples we have built to honor her many forms from “first cause” to God to “knowing” a pin prick can hurt, to “knowing” ripples will emerge where the stone I toss trying for many “skips” lands on a still pond, the ripples betraying the skips. Ten is the most I have counted; usually three, often zero and the stone sinks where it first lands, especially on choppy water). So Ananke plays in:
The asterisk raises the question in my mind about communication among “inner worlds”. Is there another “real” world? As “real” as my inner world is to me? that emerges from the merging of two, three, or seven billion “inner worlds”, merging thought communication? Or does everything occur is separate, isolated “inner worlds”. I lean toward the latter, recognizing the power of that part of the inner world called “imaginary” to conjure “common thought and feeling” as a possibility, therefore a “creatable reality” in my inner world. Can I deny it? No, of course not, nor any other imaginary thing, e.g. imagining the past to be other than it was, as all memory does, biased as it is; as all historians do as they abstract from “true” history their tale Aphorism 42. Truth also lives in the “other” world, not only whether this item or action is true or not, but also the “idea” that it is true or not. I wonder right now if all this crap I am telling myself that “It’s all up to me and my imagination” (Bishop Berkley) is really just a rationalization to cover my grief over pain while living and death?. The answer of course is, “No.” I just can’t think of a better one right now. Movies: I just finished watching the movie "The Adjustment Bureau". It was quite good about God, fate, free will, etc. But with all “human” stories, human “love” commands God’s will. So love between people trumps even God’s best laid plans. So there, God, take that! Life is like a drop of rain. From the “nothingness” of the air, somehow some molecules stick together (related to the velocity and angle of collision), then more, the drop falls, gets buffeted by the winds, adapt its shape to the forces it feels, tumbles as it is falling. As if falls it sees other drops moving this way and that, some toward some away, some even collide and merge, others split, always tumbling together, shimmering as waves a temperature and density mingling pass over their surfaces, until SPLASH and it reenters the ocean, (thanks Mark) dissolving into oblivion. Enjoy the fall; the ocean is nigh. A drop like life is within semi-permeable membranes (electrical tension forces and electron shells), similar to mitochondria and houses. |