Notes
[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 20 February 2005 - Saturday 19 February 2005]
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Sunday 20 February 2005
A theology is a state of a human mind. The individual theologies communicate to form a topology (subsetting by community = communication protocol).
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Monday 21 February 2005
Tuesday 22 February 2005
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Natural religion contains all religion. However we may conceive them it assumes that all our thoughts and actions are part of nature, ie part of god. We see no need for a supernatural being. For us, nature includes the supernatural.
For many this is materialism, a position to be deprecated. This deprecation results from a misunderstanding of matter. Modern physics and quantum information reveal that our world is driven by a cosmic quantum computer whose communications to each of us are the world we experience. This is our model, and the purpose of this site is to explicate it by revealing the theological implications of quantum theory.
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Wednesday 23 February 2005
Social Darwinism: it works when we realize that cooperation is a strategy in the struggle for existence, and has the effect of lowering the temperature and error rate of the struggle.
We would like the analysts to write: 'The Theology Company is a quality resource company with good management' BUY!
Going into the religion business, which is an extension of my lie in the building business. My task has been to manifest human habitats in available materials. My early days were spent working with much wood and little steel, but the wood component is now mainly decorative and strength and durability are provided by steel, glass, aluminium, ceramics and cement products.
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Natural theology is one person's execution of his theology. There are potentially 6 billion natural theologies, six billion human sagas as we move through life taking big and small decisions; being moved by big and small forces. What we seek is the shell, the operating system of all this. It is a set of network protocols.
Building big systems from small. Turing invented not only the Turing machine, but the subroutine or function. We conquer big problems by breaking them down into manageable (ultimately digital) chinks.
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The overall entity is a project, the natural religion project. A project is basically a process of financing the realization of an idea. To do this, we have to market some good (resource) or service (resource). Ie we sell people the means to achieve something: peace and happiness. We cannot sell this specifically to individuals, but we can suggest a morality and an ethics which will maximize global peace and happiness.
The project slits into three parts:
a) personal motivation: why am I doing this - natural theology, a personal log. (naturaltheology.net)
b) the theory to be tested against my personal; experience (and yours) a theology. (atheology.net)
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I have survived a head on collision with the Roman Catholic Church and now want to understand how I did it. This stuff, recorded from moment to moment, is recorded in natural theology and modelled in a theology.
c) The legal person, the corporate entity, the eternal institution, TTC, the Theology Company, registered 20 August 2001. Historically the major religions have often spread as a consequence of military conquest and diplomacy. Thus Christianity benefited form the power of the Roman Empire and Islam from the Empire built by Muhammad and his followers. Christianity and Islam still place great weight on military conquest, but, we say, this is an obsolescent approach, and consumers of religion need to be offered the possibility of maximizing peace and happiness by minimizing military behaviour. The en, on other words, must once again prove mightier than the sword. The resource we are dealing with is roughly the size of the defence budged, which is roughly the size of the religious budget.
So one aspect of natural religion;'s conquest of the world will be business, through The Theology Company (TTC) TTC can then act as a cash cow for TNRP. NT and AT. TTC could do this either as a profit or not for profit. We opt for profit, which can be distributed to shareholders and so attract the capital necessary to realize the dream.
Is it blasphemy to make religion into a business. Are they not all businesses anyway, that have seduced
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governments into exempting them from may of the controls and taxes that apply to normal business marketing ideas either in abstract or concrete form. All are products. All that differs is the degree of abstraction : face cream, or computer game? or drug?
I was fully deluded by the ideals of poverty, chastity and obedience. Slowly, however, I am beginning to enjoy the pleasures of wealth, love and freedom and to marvel at the demands the system (Catholicism) placed on its servants, unnatural demands, a form of perverted slavery.
Just as some slave owners were astounded to discover that their slaves preferred freedom to slavery, so the slave has to make the decision to break free. Making that decision has taken me a long time. a long time to build a new theology to which to trust my life.
Freedom of relationship ; no relationship has its variety reduced by the existence of other relationships (save only the limitations of individual resources - I cannot be everywhere at once)
To imprison someone is to reduce their freedom, that is the variety of their relationships./
Thomas More: Care of the Soul. More
More page xi (Intro) '. . . within our history we do have remarkable sources of insight from people whop wrote explicitly
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about the nature and needs of the soul and so we can look to the past for guidance in restoring this wisdom.
More page xii Need for salvation implies a defect and so remedial behaviour. But there is no defect.
page xii: 'humbler approach . . . sees dignity and peace emerging more from acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition. Therefore, this book, my own imagination of what a self-help movement could be, is a guide offering a philosophy of soulful living and techniques for dealing with everyday problems without striving for perfection or salvation.'
page xii: 'Jung, one of our most recent doctors of the soul, said that every psychological problem is ultimately a matter of religion.' [ie of public states]
The Roman Catholic Church did not save my soul, it stole it.
page xv: 'care of the soul is a sacred art'
It is all a question of who is using who for what, if at all. Suspicion and gossip disguised as 'intelligence'. But it is all intelligence, ie information about what other parties are inclined to do.
Thursday 24 February 2005
The shortest route is the 'honest' one.
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The role of prophets is open to all. Prophets are differentiated by audience and message.
Can we trust lust? Is it more reliable than the Christian paradigm which deprecates lust in favour of whatever forces lead to a durable Christian marriage.
The world of Xianity is a world of delusion, a fairy tale. This becomes apparent if we take the Universe as we experience it (ie the world of science) as our benchmark.
This theology by definition contains all theologies, ie is a partition of a set equivalent to the set of all theologies: 'a theology is a state of a human mind.'
Natural religion contains al religions, for they are all played out in the theatre of nature. All information is represented physically.
Friday 25 February 2005
Saturday 26 February 2005
The world is moved by potentials. Potentials are changed by movement. Einstein - no immovable background, but plenty of symmetries
