VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 14 November 2010 - Saturday 20 November 2010]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
Sunday 14 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Wednesday 17 November 2010
[page 124]
Thursday 18 November 2010
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Richard McGregor: The Party McGregor
The Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party of China are similar organizations.
Pope - General Secretary etc.
Both fantasy / totalitrian organizations imposing top down order.
Politburo: ix: ' - Cardinals
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Committees - Bishops
Departments - Curia
Leading Groups - Universities, Seminaries etc.
Essay: from information to meaning and back.
naturaltheology.net is layered, the bottom layers being physics / work and the top layer theology / religion, all packaged between love / heaven.
McGregor ix: ' "You have your way. We have our way. And our way is right." '
natural theology opposes two evil empires, RCC and CPC.
Osservatore Romano - People's Daily Osservatore Romano, People's Daily - Wikipedia
McGregor page xii: 'What was once a revolutionary party has now become the establishment. The communists rode to power on popular revulsion against corruption but have become riddled with the same cancer themselves.'
Richard Baum: " 'Their ideology is an ideology of power, and therefore a defence of power." '
CPC and RCC both built around power and consequent corruption.
page xiii: 'For all the reforms of the last three decades, the Party has made sure it keeps a lock-hold on the state and three pillars of its survival strategy: control of personnel, propaganda and the People's Liberation Army.
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Robert Service,: like communism in its heyday elsewhere, the party has:
eradicated or emasculated political rivals;
eliminated the autonomy of the courts and the press;
restricted religion and civil society
denigrated rural versions of nationhood
centralized olitical power
established extensive networks of security police
deported dissidents to labour campsMcGregor page xiv: Old style communists claimed 'infallibility in doctrine while claimking themelves to be faultless scientists of human affairs.'
page 1: " 'The Party is like God. He is everywhere. You just can'r see him." '
page 3: Wan Yanhai ' 'They stil care very much abut controlling your thoughts." '
page 5: Hu Jintao, General Secretary, CPC = Pope.
page 8: 'the red machine'.
page 11: 'Party membership is a commitment, not a simple enrolment/" a priesthood.
'[The Vatican] is the only other organization of comparable dimensions to the Chinese Communist Party, albeit on a global scale and with a similar addiction to ritual and secrecy. The Party guards the command of its catechism as zealously and self-righteously as the Vatican defends its authority over the faith.'
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Eternity, The Root of All Evil (NY Times).
Parmenides —> {RCC, CPC, . . . }
What is my true passion, and how can I best contribute to this world? Roger Albertson, Science 5997 v329 p 1380 [10 September 2010] Oberst
Two and a half thousand years ago various writers came to the conclusion that true reality is static. This decision, I think is wrong, and it is easy to see that writing itself, because it once written is static, leads one to believe that all truth must be reducible to writing and must therefore be static.
LOVE ≡ DYNAMIC
The truth will make you free: only if the sentence changes as fast as the reality. We do well to replace faith with meaningfully decoded information.
Friday 19 November 2010
Saturday 20 November 2010
