vol VII: Notes

2017

Notes

Sunday 29 January 2017 - Saturday 4 February 2017

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

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Sunday 29 January 2017

Stressed by the Trump Force: the fall back to simplicity and violence from complexity and peace. Its source lies in inadequate education imbued with false theology designed by monarchs and warlords.

On the other hand I am trying to simplify my message - the good news is false news.

Build or read? Let's have another cup of tea and think about green theology.

Conservatism = laziness and cowardice, lacking the energy and courage to face the issues in their full complexity.

Monday 30 January 2017

Conservation of energy implies a) rate of creation = rate of annihilation and b) deterministic process communicating through time error free, since otherwise conservation symmetry would be broken: Shannon —> error free communication = conservation.

Complexification and simplification are higher layer attributes built on creation and annihilation.

Conservation is maintained because every creation is an annihilation, both elements of the same quantum of action, ie completed process visible on the surface of God but happening inside.

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A practical tautology: you'll find it in the last place you look. The process is complete. At present the process is to locate a 3" paintbrush that I handled a few days ago and now cannot find.

The higher the odds against success, the greater the hope must be. False hope. The lottery effect. Shana Lebowitz: 3 psychological reasons why we buy lottery tickets when there's virtually no chance of winning

Find that brush. Hypnotize myself to penetrate the fog of distraction. I remember flicking it on my hand and thinking that it was good. Then? Revisit the scene. No luck. So new 100 mm brush.

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Lloyd and Pagels: What is complexity. Paper inherited from Gladney. Seth Lloyd and Henz Pagels: Complexity as Thermodynamic Depth

The perverted message of the crucifixion is that God would die for us because he loves us enough to kill one his selves [personalities] to please the other. Based on the human psychological truth that love makes objectively difficult tasks subjectively easy. [This makes little sense because God cannot die, by definition.]

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Restart. Football games are continually being stopped and restarted by the referee. Play is stopped when there is no way forward consistent with the rules, including the rule that when a rule is broken the play must be stopped and a penalty paid of the breach of the rules conferred an unfair advantage.

Each restart takes us down one or more layers by annihilating (quitting)

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the current process. This is what happens when I force quit applications that are not responding in my computer, returning control to a lower layer, the operating system. We see similar phenomena in national elections and revolutions. In the case of the revolution, the quit and restart process may be very expensive in terms of life, [social and industrial] capital and productivity.

Thursday 2 February

Some people will do anything to get rich, get attention, get whatever, and others a[re] controlled by certain behavioural constraints, like tell the truth, wait your turn and so on.

The establishment of a network carries a certain amount of overhead which must be paid for in some way by the existence of the network.

Is love real? In God, where we are, yes, first named as the Holy Spirit of the New Testament. Bible Study Tools: Holy Spirit

Friday 3 February 2017

Love = desire = potential makes the world go round once it overcomes whatever inhibitions may be in place.

Rebooting the world with a new operating system based on reality, ie scientific theology.

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Orthogonality of religion and politics = theology and imagination. From the infinite field of imaginable possibilities we have to select those that are completely consistent with reality otherwise they do not work, are a waste of resources and may cause harm, the scale invariant representation of bending a nail. A tradesperson who does not effectively approximate complete consistency with reality has failed if and when the resulting structure fails, eg we do not put enough cement in the concrete and it didn't really show until the earthquake.

American civil religion / secular religion = evidence based religion. American civil religion - Wikipedia

Comment on Mickens: The Roman Catholic Church is by far the most powerful source of false propaganda about the nature of reality. In the light of modern science, its 'History of Salvation" is so much rubbish. The creation of our Universe took fourteen billion years, not six days. There was no Fall. God did not destroy His perfect world by introducing sin, pain, work and death. At no time did God the Father consent to the murder of his Son to give Himself closure for the alleged insult in the Garden of Eden. No God promised eternal life in heaven. The root of all this evil is the sense of entitlement which has enabled egregious spin doctors [to] craft a tissue of lies over the last two thousand years to give them control of the hearts and minds of a billion people. All this spin is rooted in the idea that God is invisible and so we can say what we like about it [and not get caught]. It is time for truth to take over. Theology must become scientific. We must accept that the Universe plays all the roles from creator to judge that the Church

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attributes to its invisible false God. God is visible, every experience is experience of God. If we go on denying this reality, we are consigning ourselves to indefinite continuation of the pain and suffering loaded onto the human spirit by false theology. The so called Good News of Christianity is the fakest news there is, the output of uninhibited ruling class imagination.

Saturday 4 February 2017

It is the creative power of the divine Universe that has taken it from a mass of hydrogen and helium atoms to our present beautiful planet. We must see and exploit this creativity.

Fossil fuel is over. Carbon burning is by far the most widespread footprint which serves to squash the ecosystem services that give us life.

We are trying to move theology from symbolic representations of fictions (like the Christian history of salvation) to symbolic representations of realities, like evolution by variation and selection.

Joseph page 330 : 'The Sulbasutras were . . . primarily instruction manuals for geometric constructions: squares, rectangles, trapeziums and circles that had to conform to specific dimensions or areas. Any inaccuracy would make the consequent rituals and sacrifices ineffective.' Why? Arbitrary decisions by authorities rather like the way children make up games, with no clear connection to reality and, of course, no demonstrable effectiveness [except good games].

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Further reading

Books

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Caldwell, Taylor, Great Lion of God, Amazon customer review: 'This was my first Caldwell book and I loved it. Caldwell is poetic and elequent. She teaches the reader about The Greeks, Romans, Jews and Paul and how he was received by the early church and why. I recomend this book to anyone who is interested in the Roman Empire, the origin of the church or Christ.' Ben Hartlieb  Amazon   back

Suyin, Han, Till Morning Comes, Bantam Books 1982   Amazon   back

TEC, Independent Committee of Inquiry into the Nuclear Weapons and Other Consequences of Australian Uranium Mining, Australia and the Nuclear Choice, Total Environment Centre 1984 Jacket: 'This report of the Independent Inquiry into the consequences of our uranium mining is the first community inquiry of its kind in the world. It considers the nuclear dilemma; the effects of nuclear war; problems of the fuel cycle, including environmental, occupational and waste disposal hazards; the political economy of nuclear energy, and the problem of controlling the build-up of nuclear arsenals.'  Amazon   back

Links

Aaron Blake, Neil Gorsuch, Antonin Scalia and originalism explained, 'Columbia University law professor Jamal Greene wrote extensively about originalism's "race problem" in 2011: A racially sensitive constitutionalism must always, therefore, hold out the possibility of legitimate dissent from history. Originalism denies that possibility, and so for me, as I suspect for many African-Americans, it speaks in a foreign tongue.' back

Alice Gorman, Friday essay: trace fossils - the silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium, back

American civil religion - Wikipedia, American civil religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'American civil religion is a sociological theory that a nonsectarian quasi-religious faith exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from national history. Scholars have portrayed it as a cohesive force, a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration. The very heavy emphasis on nondenominational religious themes is quite distinctively American and the theory is designed to explain this. The concept goes back to the 19th century, but in current form, the theory was developed by sociologist Robert Bellah in 1967 in his article, "Civil Religion in America." ' back

Astrid Zweinert, Britain pardons thousands of gay men for convictions under abolished laws, 'The pardons, promised by the government last October, came into effect on Tuesday after being signed off by the queen. "Another important milestone of equality has been secured in law," said gay rights charity Stonewall. "The more equality is enshrined into our law books, the stronger our equality becomes, and the stronger we as a community become," it said.' back

Bible Study Tools, Holy Spirit Bible Verses, Acts 2:1-5: 1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.' back

Chloe Farand, The Brexit White Paper completely contradicts a key argument for Brexit, 'Parliament has “remained sovereign throughout our membership to the EU” despite people “not always feeling like that”, the Brexit White Paper says. The statement contradicts a key message from the campaign to leave the European Union, which argued ending the UK’s membership to the EU would "bring back sovereignty" to Parliament and end Brussels' control over national laws.' back

Christopher Knaus, Catholic church doesn't understand toll of child sexual abuse, says US priest, 'One of the first American priests to have broken ranks on child abuse said the Catholic church still fails to comprehend the depth of spiritual damage done to victims. Father Thomas Doyle, then a canonical lawyer at the Vatican’s Washington embassy, was tasked with investigating child abuse cases in the US in the mid-1980s, preparing a 40-page report for the nuncio, or papal ambassador, which he said was handed to the pope. Doyle’s warnings about the abuse went unheeded and he said he was pushed out of his position with the embassy in 1986.' . . . “One of the massive holes in the Roman Catholic church’s approach to this issue, still today, is a failure to completely comprehend the depth of the spiritual damage that is done to the victims, to their families, especially their parents, to their friends and to the community itself,” Doyle said.' back

Clare Blumer, Rebecca Armitage and Simon Elvery, Child sex abuse royal commission: Data reveal extent of Catholic allegrations, 'The Australian Catholic Church has released "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. The worst-offending institutions, by proportion of their religious staff, have been shown to be the orders of brothers, who often run schools and homes for the most vulnerable of children.' back

Daoud Kuttab, When America was great, 'My role model was ruined this week. For years I have believed, lived and taught people in the Middle East about some of the important virtues of life in the United States of America and what America stood for. Now the United States I am witnessing under President Trump is falling far short of that shining example.' back

Ercis, Turkey (AP), Turkish quake reveals shoddy building techniques, 'After the latest disaster — a magnitude-7.2 temblor that killed hundreds on Sunday — some residents in the worst-hit town of Ercis said some of the pancaked buildings lacked steel support rods and sufficient concrete, and accused builders of sacrificing safety for speed and economy. "Death comes from God. But what about poor construction?" asked Nevzat Altinkaynak. "Look at this building. It was new. It didn't even have paint on it yet!" ' back

George C. Herring, The Road to Tet, 'In popular memory, America’s war in Vietnam begins sometime in the Kennedy administration. But its roots go much deeper, to the end of World War II and the revolution of Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh against French colonial rule.' back

HM Government (UK. Cm 9417), The United Kingdom's exit from and new partnership with the European Union, 'Parliamentary sovereignty 2.1 The sovereignty of Parliament is a fundamental principle of the UK constitution. Whilst Parliament has remained sovereign throughout our membership of the EU, it has not always felt like that.' back

IEA, WEI 2016 - Fact Sheet, 'Electricity generation spending reached USD 420 billion, with renewables accounting for the about 70% of the total, or USD 288 billion. Gas generation investment plummeted by 40% to USD 31 billion, while coal investment rose by nearly a quarter to USD 78 billion, largely due to China. The vast majority of electricity investments occurred under business models of fully regulated revenues or mechanisms (e.g. power purchase agreements) to manage revenue risk . Only 5% of power generation investment was based solely on competitive wholesale market pricing.' . back

John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 'And here emerges more clearly what is in truth his central thesis throughout,—the profound conviction that the Economic Problem, as one may call it for short, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and an unnecessary muddle. For the Western World already has the resources and the technique, if we could create the organisation to use them, capable of reducing the Economic Problem, which now absorbs our moral and material energies, to a position of secondary importance. Thus the author of these essays, for all his croakings, still hopes and believes that the day is not far off when the Economic Problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and that the arena of the heart and head will be occupied, or re-occupied, by our real problems—the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. And it happens that there is a subtle reason drawn from economic analysis why, in this case, faith may work. For if we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.' back

Maxim Eristavi, The United States Abandons Ukraine, 'In any case, the United States’ refusal to take a decisive stance on the violence in eastern Ukraine sends a clear signal to Kiev: The friendship is over. And it doesn’t really matter whether the shift is the result of skillful Kremlin maneuvering or some sort of concessions offered by the Trump administration out of public view. The United States’ reaction to the latest carnage in eastern Ukraine offers a disturbing snapshot of the new geopolitical reality that is now taking shape.' back

Paul D. Wolfowitz, A Diplomat's Proper Channel of Dissent, 'Unfortunately there is still no confirmed secretary of state to listen to the dissent channel signers, nor is there any evidence that the executive order reflected the views of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly or Defense Secretary James Mattis. However the Trump administration decides to respond to these dissenting diplomats, I hope it does not do so in a way that stifles debate.' back

Richard Perez-Pena, Woman linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False, 'The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University professor — possibly the only interview she has given to a historian or journalist since shortly after the episode — who has written a book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” to be published next week. In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.” ' back

Rita Ferrone, Reform of the Reform: Rome Revisists 'Liturgiam Authenticam', 'The tightly controlled and highly centralized approach to the translation of liturgical texts that has reigned in the Roman Catholic Church over the past fifteen years is likely coming to an end. In a move that is widely expected to open the door to more pastoral guidelines and approaches, Pope Francis has inaugurated a review and re-evaluation of the 2001 document Liturgiam authenticam.' back

Robert Mickens, Letter from Rome: Inside Francis's Communications Office, 'Could it be that Pope Francis has discovered in these few years of living in Rome that the traditionalists—at the least those who are loudest and most zealous—make up only a very tiny minority of the Church? And that their most prominent members are clerics and middle- to upper-income lay people from the developed world? Or maybe it has to do with the nastiness that has become the identifying mark of the traditionalists’ unofficial spokespersons through their acerbic and self-righteous pontifications via social media.' back

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Welcome to the Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy, 'The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 12.5 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the new ADS "Bumblebee" interface as well as the traditional "Classic" search forms. A set of browsable interfaces are also available.' back

Seth Lloyd and Henz Pagels, Complexity as thermodynamic depth, 'Abstract A measure of complexity for the macroscopic states of physical systems is defined. Called depth, the measure is universal: it applies to all physical systems. The form of the measure is uniquely fixed by the requirement that it be a continuous, additive function of the processes that can result in a state. Applied to a Hamiltonian system, the measure is equal to the difference between the system's coarse- and fine-grained entropy, a quantity that we call thermodynamic depth. The measure satisfies the intuitive requirements that wholly ordered and wholly random systems are not thermodynamically deep and that a complex object together with a copy is not much deeper than the object alone. Applied to systems capable of computation, the measure yields a conventional computational measure of complexity as a special case. The relation of depth and thermodynamic depth to previously proposed definitions of complexity is discussed, and applications to physical, chemical, and mathematical problems are proposed.' back

Shana Lebowitz, 3 psychological reasons why we buy lottery tickets when there's virtually no chance of winning, '1. We fall prey to the “near miss” effect. 2. Our brains haven’t evolved to understand such low probabilities. 3. The lottery plays into our “availability bias.” The “availability bias” is the term for when we overestimate an event’s likelihood based on how strong our memories of that event are. So when we try to figure out our odds of winning the Powerball jackpot prize, Williams said we think about the few people we’ve heard about who won the lottery — instead of the millions of people who didn’t win.' back

Steven Hall, Explainer: What is modern monetary theory?, 'There are three core statements at the heart of modern monetary theory. 1) Monetary sovereign governments face no purely financial budget constraints. 2) All economies, and all governments, face real and ecological limits relating to what can be produced and consumed. 3) The government’s financial deficit is everybody else’s financial surplus. ' back