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Truth is not absolute, instead it applies only within a cognitive context.
The Gestalt for me was in the cognitive context of information physics,
a cognitive context is congruent with Shannon information channel with
a tuned sender and receiver having a shares cognitive context. It is
simply an information context that may be simple or complex.

The simple fact is that we have many reasons to expect gazillions of
information contexts each modeled by a straw frame of logical
consistency, and collections of such contexts forming a knowledge base
containing those cognitive contexts.

There are many emergent activities known to contribute to mind, neural
and chemical accounting for our ability to recognize patterns and
exhibit reflexive logical activity determined by the complete history
of memes as they are applied in every communicating information
context from the quantum to the epigenetical and beyond.

I like to send out a solstice/Christmas message but often fail as it
is confounding to be both religious and objective in a world of
Emersonian foolish consistencies.

Subjectively I feel more blessed than scrooge in that I have been
visited by a multitude of solstice spirits this year and my cup
runnith over.

Around 1986 a colleague remarked in a public address that for some the
cup is half empty, for some it is half full, but for jim it is flowing
over the top. The audience were the stakeholders and funders the
collaborative government system I architected for the state of New
Jersey. I immediately contracted Bell's Palsy as a delayed result of
having Lyme's disease the doc says, and could not speak above a
whisper for three months due to a paralyzed vocal cord. Needless to
say, I did not get the funding to complete the project.

I have come to accept that I live in the future, and have been
vindicated by the past and have come to peace with the idea that my
cup really does runnith over.

"Blessed are those who have seen and believe"

That's me, the doubting Thomas! I don't ever really believe anything
as there are always other possibilities to consider. But, being human
I have beliefs over which I have no control. These include that which
I can find no counter example or alternate cognitive context. I
question everything, or at least I should. One gift the desolation of
winter has brought me is the truth that I make absolute statements all
the time. I don't mean them to be absolute but that is how they are
received and I am responsible for that. I was interested in others
changing their thinking and not seeing the simply truth of my own sin.
It is my fault I have been considered hypocritical by some. I am
repentantly prostrate before Truth.

"But even more blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe"

Why should those who do not earn truth by minds labor be blessed with
it? We don't know. But people ARE logical in their perverted
cognitive context, and the Blakian "inner genius" we share may be our
provider without working for it at all. But it seems unlikely. The
spirit asks to posses the body without other demand such that it may
live through the body, toward a greater being.

Am I really blessed by questioning everything? All of my blessing is
seemingly by other means, mostly serendipity of coincident patterns.
Often I get "why do you have to be so logical?", or "you must have an
awful amount of spare time" in my obsession to explore every
possibility of all questions. Is a nerdy Spock character really that
blessed. Does everything really need to be analyzed to the nth
degree. Why not just enjoy life rather than picking it apart
constantly. Why should I delude myself that I am a knight of the
Truth Table and fight straw windmills rather than toeing the line and
practicing non interference just allowing things to unfold as they
will in ways I cannot possibly know or have any influence over.

"I am what I am." - Popeye the sailor.

On Dec 25, 2007 2:34 AM, Margarita wrote:
> Wise men say, you only have to resign yourself to what you cannot improve

"The only purpose served by prophecy is that it can be changed." Nostradamas.

I don't really think I am less blessed than true believers, I feel
doubly blessed. In meditation I learned noninterference, as we are
incompetent to make right choices without trusting in Providence. By
our own wits our fragile bodies could not persist on this dangerous
planet. Our blissful ignorance is a third blessing. The synthesis of
the truth is the whole is Greater than the some of the parts. To me,
providence is the only authority, Nature herself. Our hope of any
being or culture having a great destiny lies in holistic obedience to
her way. We can and do make a difference though we may not know how.

I am called Dr. doLittle cause I do little around the house on the
computer all the time and talk to the animals. Many consider my
relationship with animals uncanny which began when I was first aware
of being dominated by an animals. My dog Luke is a perfect gentleman.
All morning he has expressed his pure enjoyment of the bone I got him
for xmas. He pretends to show perfect obedience allowing me to be
lead dog on demand. But he subvertly gets everything he wants, as I
am compelled to do back to the dollar store to get more of those bones
and take Luke along for another great adventure with bones and
miraculous surprises on the menu. I am sometimes deluded into
thinking he delights in dominating me and laughs at my blissful
ignorance in his cognitive context within the Spirit of Dog
I had been thinking how stupid Luke was to not notice we had left
the gate open so it would not freeze in the ice storm but Luke waited
patently for me to come and usher him out to the driveway. This
morning the gate was open by mistake when I let Luke out to run. He
did not pass the gate but stood gloating by the gate the truth that he
was correct not to pass without my permission.

I have condemned myself willingly to a different blissful ignorance
absent of absolute truth. Truth always in a stupidposition of state
being undetermined yet. It's all straw frames, "Its only a pack of
cards."

rough life but "His burden is lite", easy life, mostly successful,
lucky. I was a Spock baby, undirected but always bailed out if I got
in trouble. Easy street.

Yes, I feel double blessed, though Luke may delight in demonstrating
that a dogs life is more blessed. Ignorance of gazillions of
cognitive contexts does not make Luke ineffective in controlling his
life of great adventures, sleeping, loving and being loved. Luke's
love is strong and its message to me is that we cannot grok everything
we must accept what we know and trust in Providence.

People may start saying I believe in Dog because of my lexdysia. But
it is all stories. The serendipity of life is only half truths, but a
glorious story and we are all blessed by it by the serendipity of
memes instantiating channels connecting independent cognitive contexts
synthesizing new being of thought at least and perhaps an incarnation
of action Herself.

"It is better to act and be wrong, than to not act." -- My dad.

Action stands in defiance of inaction. What will happen naturally
without being proactive might be wonderful, but we know the lowest
denominator groupthink tends to emerge without proactivity.

The root meme of the season is not the blessings we receive by
providence, thanksgiving has passed.

"There is nothing in the mind of the Son on Man [Spirit of Humanity
incarnate] that will not be manifest." - Jesus.

What better Christmas present could we receive? Whatever thoughts WE
dream of, and nurture memes of, by nonlinear effect, can become
reality in ways we can understand and even more ways we are sure to
find if we look.

Not all will survive winters ravages and xmas is about giving not
receiving. Old memes and other being are starved while those we
nourish blossom in spring. The seeds we plant in blissful ignorance
plus those we engineer serve toward survival of what we actively
value. I am having such a wonderful Christmas and my life is so rich.
But there are many alone.

Our alpha cat, tippy is old and declining, deferring rulership to
Luke. While Baby, our eldest bird who once dominated our house, cats
and the dog as well as ourselves, always getting what he wanted, being
a treat or a scratch on the head, now only sits in his cage saying
hello, shut up, and a poor conure imitation of the canaries and does
not come out of its cage though the door be opened. My wife runs a
rabbit rescue and we have 60 rabbits everywhere including 5 that run
around the house. She works night and day caring for them and we
worry that her health may fail and nobody will hake over her mission.

If the prophecies are correct, they suggest that the probable outcome
for humanity, that can happen the most ways, is the lowest common
denominator, Armageddon. War and starving children is the reality of
our would. Then, the bullies will be defeated and "the meek will
inherit the earth.'

Christmas is about birth and giving. What can we do and what can we
give that may put the probability of Armageddon behind us and allow
humanity to thrive in the new world 2.0?

On Dec 24, 2007 10:26 AM, <Jennynj> wrote:
>... Have a great Holiday season (in an agnostic fashion).

Jenny's email was the straw that inspired this holiday message. I
suddenly realized how can I might serve two masters, objective
philosophy and subjective religion. The agnostic 2.0 believes in both
and neither. Both are just stories because to do not know any
absolute truth, Science 2.0 ought deal with probabilities near one,
and all religion, all religion, not any elitist religion, deal with
that which is 50% or below as far as we can objectively determine.
Assimilation, passive resistance, and truth are the weapons of the
meek in the coming World 2.0 and that is what I am compelled to
proactively promote in the procreation of new human philosophy.

I wish I had more time to say this all better but this is already
belated. The stories of religion are not 100% true, they are only
parables or stories alluding to the truth. They are however, 50% true
by the spiritual uncertainty principle. Instead of attributing
uncertainty to the quantum, it should be place where is belongs, in
our minds in a new agnosticism in both science and religion.

While our animal nature may be one of blissful ignorance and composed
of half truths in myopic islands of consistency as such is the nature
of cognitive contexts generally. Half truth is a lot better than no
truth and the more half truths we know they more complete our
knowledge is and cumulatively we need not be half ass.

Merry Christmas and happy Solstice to all.

Jim

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