vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77: Discretion]
[Sunday 8 December 2013 - Saturday 14 December 2013]
Sunday 8 December 2013
Monday 9 December 2013
[page 27]
Tuesday 10 December 2013
This project has run for about 50 years and has about 30 years to go in my lifetime. I hope at the end of that period to have communicated to enough people convincingly enough to go 'viral'.
No more mister nice guy. Two letters and no reply to a baptized member of the Church is not good management, so now we are forced to knock ore loudly on the door because we do think we are entitled to a hearing.
We have shocking history which includes large incidents of organized rape and murder (a.k.a. war).
The Church is a massive organization, but like the People's Republic of China, power is concentrated at the top, so that changes (for better or worse) can be instigated by administrative fiat, rather than democratic consent. This characteristic, although not ideal, can be used to propagate a scientific reappraisal of the human condition to replace the largely mythological Christian (specifically Catholic) tradition. McGregor
I am addressing the role of the Papacy. None of the hard words I have to say of the Papacy have [anything] to do with you as the person currently fulfilling [playing] that role.
Spiritual engineering.
[page 28]
Letters to the Supreme Pontiff. I accuse the Papacy of the sin of Pride, the sin of Lucifer, placing their own reputation and promotion above all this. This is sufficiently indicated by the massive cover ups of child sexual abuse. It may be that the rate of abuse among the employees of the Church is not significantly greater than the general run of populations. The real institutional crime is the cover up, the assumption that it (and consequently its employees) are above the law.
The Church believes is magic; seven sacraments, ex opere operato, are held to make real ontological changes in the state of a human being, eg indelible marks on the soul.
Let us say that the penetration of an idea is a function of both the quality of the idea and the extent to which it is promoted.
On recognizing religion [it is everywhere, sacred and secular].
The Catholic model of God translated into mathematical terms is logically inconsistent and therefore an impossible (false) (confused) God.
A commentary on Lonergan's Insight. The beauty of being exactly wrong is that you are only one uit flip away from being exactly right. [The empirical residue, the continuum, is not observable so there is no meaningless data].
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Perhaps the academic thing to do is to present an idea without pushing it, but when lives are at stake due to ancient misunderstandings, a state of war is brought
[page 29]
into existence between the ancient error and the modern truth.
A fundamental ancient error is that the Universe is defective. This assumption is used to prove the existence of God, the perfect being who creates and sustains this defective world. There is a belief that this deficiency is a consequence of Original Sin.
So we resolve to take the Church on very strongly by using its own words to illustrate its defective understanding of divine reality.
The child sexual abuse cover up has cost the Church most of its moral capital, and the blunder is a consequence of pride, the Church placing itself above the law.
The one event is the lifetime of the Universe subdivided into ℵ0 events of measure ℏ.
Thursday 12 December 2013
What would Jesus do about the RCC?
Both the 'canonical method' and the path integral method assume that it makes sense to divine the quantum of action into infinitesimals and then integrate to reconstitute the quantum. This process is based on the classical understading of calculus and continuity, but does not reveal anything to us that is not visible in the whole quantum. Continuity, we feel, contains no information, so these processes intended to cast light on what goes on inside the quantum can (most likely) tell us nothing.
Watching Bond Skyfall instead of reading and writing as usual —
[page 30]
a sign of confidence or laziness? Time for a rest? Time to stop thinking and go into action? Time to enjoy life? In a different way, to spend all the intellectual capital I have accumulated, my superannuation. Vaudeville time.
We are in the midst of a period of radical disillusion with organizations that were once held in high regard. The US has lost a huge amount of credibility through resort to war, torture, and systematic extrajudicial killing during the Cold War and particularly since 9/11. The RCC has suffered a similar loss of face and credibility through its child sexual abuse cover up. The development of modern media is making it more difficult for the elite to act with impunity, and the only defence is to act ethically and be transparent about it.
Friday 13 December 2013
Saturday 14 December 2013
What we continue to emphasize is that in the light of symmetry with respect to complexity the fundamentals of human life are very similar to the fundamentals of life for all other particles in the Universe, particularly the process of communication, that is coming to know, ie moving from uncertainty to certainty, modelled in quantum mechanics by the Born rule.The Papacy is the archetype of despotic regimes, which it has maintained since Roman times. Because it is not so murderous as many (ie China N Korea) it is safer and more valuable to attack in an effort to remove the elite axis of evil from human affairs.
[page 31]
Spending my time working (construction) and reading the news. The creative mind seems to have dried up. Does this mean I have subconsciously reached my destination? Hopefully something is going on in there and will bubble to the surface soon; or perhaps it is time to capitalize on my intellectual property an become an activist, a promoter. This hiatus is the apogee of an intellectual trajectory that must now come down to Earth. In particular we must revise the relationship between individuals and corporations, beginning as ever, with the Roman Catholic Church which imposes its corporate consciousness on a billion individuals with complete disregard for reality. This puts it in the same category as North Korea and the many other regimes in the world which maintain that people must be moulded to fit the regime rather than vice versa.
The evil inherent in the phrase Church Militant is fuelling the Jihad between Christian and Muslim. The Church believes in the Pax Romana, peace by violence., up until recently the dominant theme in the Christian US Imperialist foreign policy.
