Notes
[Sunday 10 July 2011 - Saturday 16 July 2011]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
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Sunday 10 July 2011
Most of the traditional religions are to some extent 'made up' by the authors of their sacred texts. In the Judaeo-Christian tradition we might begin with Moses, the theological and political genius who invented the divine right of kings.
Monday 11 July 2011
So the principal marketing angle for natural religion is that it is already here, if we could but see it, and it is what has made us what we are, and by understanding how we came to be we can be so much better just as by understanding thermodynamics we have gradually increased the efficiency of our engines.
Let us say that sex is frequently the potential that provides the action necessary to iron out all the difficulties in a relationship. Sex is a subset of love, and we take it as an axiom that (sufficient) love (eventually) conquers all. So one enters a relationship without a clue about how all the details are going to work themselves out but take each event as it
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comes with a will to solve all the problems it presents. As in my old mini, I never was able to undo the nut at the end of the crankshaft because overcoming the difficulty did not seem to be worth the cost.
On the one hand I feel that natural religion is ready for publication and promotion, but on the other hand I feel very lethargic about it, like the early stages of pregnancy, just happy and relaxed because the baby is on the way.
When the love goes, maintenance stops and the system slowly disintegrates to the point where it no longer functions.
The job is to make the world aware of natural theology and natural religion.
The purpose of regulators (controllers) is to detect and correct errors in the system. To do this they need a formal model of the system to compare to reality in order to see where the discrepancies are.
Tuesday 12 July 2011
LOVE ==> GOODWILL ==> GOOD SUCCESS
The purpose of science is to make ourselves aware of how things actually work so we can predict their behaviour.How the world works : it is a computer network whose stationary points are Cantor, Gödel, Turing and Shannon.
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Wednesday 13 July 2011
Growing into a role, either trained in a school or growing freely (Aristotle would say naturally as opposed to artificially). But every nature is an artifice of the divinity, ie the whole system acting at all distances from the immediately local to the ends of the Universe with ever decreasing probability.
PROBABILITY is a purely formal MEASURE. Kolmogorov
Blinded by the light; grounded by the reality.
Global Financial Crisis = freezing the dynamics of value.
Failure of the money circuit, money being the physical symbol for a large class of value.
Natural religion is the implementation of the principle pf conservation of value as measured by money [?]
Academic economists, like academic theologians, are totally on the wrong track with total faith in deregulation, ie destroying the stationary points in the systems.
The error in theology is the error at the root of the whole system from which the current evident global corruption has emanated. The problem in the financial system is unregulated, beyond feral, pursuit of wealth at any cost.
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Our basis of hope is that it took very pervasive criminal mismanagement to bring it [GFC] about, to that all we have to do is prevent such mismanagement and global financial crises will be avoided. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Financial engineers build dreams.
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