Notes
[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]
[Sunday 25 February 2001 - Saturday 3 March 2001]
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Sunday 25 February 2001
Monday 26 February 2001
Tuesday 27 February 2001
Wednesday 28 February 2001
Thursday 1 March 2001
Moving into attack mode on the RCC. The corruption comes from above, with the Pope stacking the electoral college.
One can only go ahead on a feeling of certainty, whatever the evidence.
TNRP is starting to feel real, its reality brought into focus.
LOVE makes the world go round. By its FRUITS (EMANATIONS, EVENTS) you will know it.
The first emanation of love is religion, then culture, politics, economics, design, work and heaven -> LOVE REALIZED.
LOVE works in MINDSPACE/PHYSICAL SPACE
POSSIBILITY/REALITY
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Friday 2 March 2001
SYMMETRY
Cantor arrived at set theory while studying the real line. In the
light of his genius, this seemingly smooth and innocuous object
revealed the infinity of detailed structure represented by the
transfinite cardinal and ordinal numbers.
Open letter to the head of the School of Theology, Australian Catholic University.The term 'God' is shorthand for the whole, however it may be imagined or described.
Insofar as one can account intellectually for one's big changes in life, I left the Order of Preachers because of the insight I gained by repeated and intense reading of Bernard Lonergan's Insight. In those days of madness I would get up at 3 am to get a bit of reading in before meditation started in the
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choir at 5.30. Eventually I was busted (as I was for reading forbidden books, being too friendly with my friends and defending a scientific view of the world against one derived from the ancient tales of lust, murder, genocide and magic to be found in the books of the Bible.)
So I went, armed with a lifelong question. Is the Universe divine? and its equivalent, are we part of god, persons in a divine multiplicity?
Lonergan was my second love. The first was Thomas Aquinas. On reading Lonergan I felt that Insight was a faithful translation of Thomas' metaphysics. But the clarity brought by Lonergan's translation revealed a fatal flaw in the Thomistic approach to god.
I feel that I can now say that on the balance of probabilities, religion is influencing the conduct of theology in the ACU. This is an institutional problem and nothing personal, so that it is
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natural to deal with it in the public media. It is a matter of politics, the process by which we establish the rules of our communal existence.
The RCC is a very ancient and powerful organization that insists on a very specific description of reality inscribed in official dogma. At the height of the rage for infallibility, some 'fathers' of the first Vatican Council endorsed the following text: [Denzinger, Manning]
. . .
War and peace are interactions at the domain walls of a multiphasic Universe. We work it out a) in spacetime; b) in phase spaces which provide a finer resolution.
As in each building operation, one arranges the world with a view to achieving some result, or does something similar at all scales up to the lifetime.
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Potential is the guiding function of the actual, the actual provides constraints on the potential.
How do we manage the campaign?
academic
economic/administrative
political
Religion as technology == construction of human mindspace directed by the findings of theology.
There is a feeling of peace, relaxation and power resulting form this final break with the RCC. At last I have a well defined enemy as a terminus a quo for my endeavours. This is not personal in the human space, since human nature, with a half life in the order of perhaps 100 kyr if effectively eternal from the point of view of human corporations whose half
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lives are more in the vicinity of 100 years. It is clear that peace on earth requires corporations that accept the full bandwidth of human being, ie the full human mindspace. All corporations that rely for their existence on the suppression of human existence must be eradicated. For practical purposes this means dealing with the Judaeo-Christian corporation.
Religions as human corporations depend upon downloading infants with their own worldview in order to establish a community of thought and action. They also have mechanisms for destroying individuals who for one reason or another deviate from the official line.
