Notes
[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]
[Sunday 24 September 2000 - Saturday 30 September 2000]
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Sunday 24 September 2000
Monday 25 September 2000
Tuesday 26 September 2000
Thursday 21 September 2000
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'If it would suit you, I can probably subject you to force majeure through the law, thus excusing you from any personal responsibility for exploration of non-Christian ideas.'
This project is the outcome of what I feel has been a dream run (so far). A very fortunate life (so far).
The formative experience.
and that condition is an accident of birth, of a particular time and place in the history of humanity, a period so men and animals become conscious of their own evolution and begin to leave permanent artifacts encoding their feelings.
The main issue on theology revolves around the nature and reality of matter and spirit. Different views on these questions are reflected from different cultures and ideologies, ranging from the assertion that all is matter, through
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various mixed states of matter and spirit to the opposite end of the spectrum pure spirits such as god and the angels and the human soul after we die.
Profoundly reductionist view: each of us has a religion which is none other than the sum of our experience of life so far. We may then say that our lives are constrained by two bodies of information, our genotype realized in our physical body, and the sum of the influences of our environment upon us, our religion, something learned after birth.
CORPORATION: System involving two or more people working for a common purpose.
Systems definition; Legal definition: Corporations Act.
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NATURAL-SPIRIT
Introduction: The twentieth century saw three attempts to bring the war to end all wars to a successful conclusion. The present state of the world attests that all three were failures. If the 21st century is not to be a mirror of the 20th . . .
War is essentially a conflict not of human individuals but of corporations which feel that the deaths of some of their members is a reasonable price to pay for some wartime goal. In their warring tendencies, corporations are enemies of humanity, even though their ability to fulfill human needs which cannot be achieved by individual effort recommends them to us.
All war is holy, whether it be a war to exterminate the inhabitants of desirable land (Joshua, c 1000 bce), a war to assist our colonial
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mother (England) or our neo-colonial powerful friend (USA)
Not for profit company - ie no dividends, only stability, (and share issues) - the most valuable but worthless organisation in the world.
How do we construct a human friendly planet? I believe I owe most of the good fortune in my life to being a citizen of a nation where democracy and science are the most important guides to national corporate action, to the attitude of the nation to its citizens.
Not all its citizens, however, for the Australian nation has yet to conclude a treaty with the erstwhile inhabitants of the land after a frontier war lasting nearly two centuries.
human spirit vs corrupt organizations of all sorts = human spirit vs error.
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Spirit: the power to overcome (remodel) adversities (systems necessary to achieve a certain goal).
The natural spirit, expressed uniquely in each organism, must be respected in its full variety and not restricted by some doctrinal = formal constraint - NO: inconsistent doctrinal traits.
Dividing by zero is outside the dynamic range of any machine. But when we go transfinite, we overcome the divide by zero barrier to open up a whole new world.
What are the demands of the natural-spirit?
Equilibrium spirit
Maximum entropy spirit
natural spirit = wild spirit. No restriction by corporation.
Of all resources the most important are people (slaves, employees), family, friends.
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More available and reliable common goods (such as the environment of wild humans) reduce the need for private gods.
Why do I act?
1. for love of activity - conscious
2. for increase of fitness - unconscious.
We get the best value when we align our consciousness with the unconscious realities that stem from our physical existence, the need to eat, to maintain a viable temperature, to avoid sudden death, to reproduce.
The physical incarnation of MEANING is BONDING. Our fundamental question of life is binding and loosing.
We live in time and any communication between two individuals involves a narrative (code, message) stretched out over time. I am here to criticize my own cultural inheritance. I work at a moment in time. We can define a moment by naming its beginning
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and end. For this site, the beginning of the moment was my birth into a small Roman Catholic community. The end of that moment will be my death. The public context of this moment is the transformation I have made in Christian meaning with the hope of expanding it not just to encompass all human meanings, but the meaning of the whole divine Universe. I want to give new meaning to old words, as all writers do.
The meanings I wish to explore are defined by mathematics and the first definition we make is
MEANING = MAPPING
MAPPING = BONDING
These ideas explored in naturalTheology.
Natural-Spirit
AUTHOR
I do this from exuberance of spirit tempered by fears that I will never reach my goal,
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never say something worth hearing. The challenge always is to develop new strength (new tools, new productivity) to carry the new and greater load of insight, so that one may yet have the energy to scamper about and play in the fields of the world.
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