Notes
[Sunday 24 April 2011 - Saturday 30 April 2011]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
Sunday 24 April 2011
[page 165]
Monday 25 April 2011
All three species of theologians are at fault on the Palestine question, Christian for setting up the anti-semitic situation, Jewish and [Muslim] for continuing to espouse their militaristic and violent Gods.
Back to Grossman: page 56: 'When we are able to read the text of reality through our enemies' eyes it becomes more complex, more realistic, allowing ius to recover the elements we suspended from our world picture. From that moment, reality is more than just a projection of our fears and desires and illusions: when we are capable of seeing the story of the Other through his eyes, we are in healthier and more valid contact with the facts. We then have a far greater chance to avoid critical mistakes and perceiving events in a self-centred, clenched and restricted way. And then sometimes we can also grasp -- in a way we never previously allowed ourselves
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to -- that this mythological, menacing and demonic enemy is no more than an amalgamation of people who are as frightened, tormented and disappointed as we are. This comprehension, to me, is the essential beginning of any process of sobriety and reconciliation.' Grossman
Stationary points determine the dynamics, as the motions of an engine are determined by the fixed parts, bearings, pistons, rings and, these days the software than control fuel and ignition. On the other hand, these fixed points are determined by the dynamics to give a system that works with minimum action to live its specific life.
Grossman Writing in the Dark page 67: 'Many times a day, as I sit at my writing desk, I touch sorrow and loss like someone touching electricity with bare hands, yet it does not kill me. I do not understand how this miracle has come to pass. Perhaps after I finish this novel I will try to understand. Not now. It is too soon.'
page 69: Individual Language and Mass Language.
page 73: 'I am the son of "Holocaust Survivors" because in my home too, as in many Israeli homes, a thread of deep anxiety was stretched out, and with almost every move you made you touched it. Even if you were very careful, even if you hardly made any unnecessary movements, you still felt that constat quiver of a profound lack of confidence in the possibility of existence. A suspicion toward man and what might erupt from him at any moment.'
page 77: 'I asked myself how an ordinary normal person -- as most
[page 167]
Nazis and their supporters were -- became part of a mass murder apparatus.'
Grossman page 79: 'It is convenient for us, where the burden of personal responsibility is concerned, to become part of a crowd, a faceless crowd, with no identity, seemingly free from responsibility and absolved of blame.'
The buck stops at the top -- God and its theologians.
page 87: Contemplations on Peace -- 119
page 88: 'First, I feel that the very ability and willingness to imagine a state of peace means primarily believing that we, the Israelites, have a future. I am not even thinking of a good future, or a bad future at this point, but of the mere possibility of there being a future. Of a solid faith in the idea that Israel will last for many years to come, a prospect that is by no means certain in the minds of many Israelis.'
page 95: 'Security means more than just a strong military force. In its broader sense, security also means a strong and stable economy; fewer social gaps and greater domestic unity; good education; a strong rule of law; the identification of disparate social groups with the state and its objectives; the recruitment of elites to remaining in Israel and contributing their skills for its benefit; and more.'
page 100: 'What is known as the "settlement enterprise" is the largest and most wasteful national project israel has undertaken since its inception.'
page 114: ' "The war with the Arabs saves us from civil war." '
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page 130: 'Why does the political leadership continue to reflect the positions of the extremists and not the majority?'
The job is to build the Universe out of the initial singularity using a mixture of quantum mechanics, special and general relativity and Trinitarian theology., gradually developing mathematics as we go as a textual expression of the stationary points in the Universe we are creating.
God, the imaginary friend. Taylor
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Old men, secrecy, the tree of knowledge and female circumcision.
Grossman: Someone ro Run With page 103: 'In every person's life, she remembered bitterly, there are situations in which he is solely responsible for saving his own soul.'
The world is full. If one thing does not happen, something else will. All the available memory is in some state or another. The message space is full. [but only an infinitesimal fraction of possible messages is represented on any spacelike slice]
Thursday 28 April 2011
Networks grow by copying themselves. Memory and content come into existence simultaneously.
The Middle East is trapped in an immature childish reliance on paternalistic nanny Gods who take care of
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everything and relieve people of all responsibility. Look at the dealings around the Dead Sea. (Haaretz, Shuki Sadeh) Shuki Sadeh
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It takes memory to remember a line, a sequence of notes = symbols.
Friday 29 April 2011
Saturday 30 April 2011
The reality of possibility - symmetry with no memory.
