DearDiary.2007-12-25
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