Individuals are smart, brilliant even, but collectively we are pretty stupid.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Advantage of Theism in Maintaining a Civil System
If a system cannot legislate morality, that system is doomed to anarchy. Without right and wrong, there is no need for justice.
Morality distinguishes right from wrong in a specific context.
Morality requires a context. It itself is not one. As such, a system must define a context or succumb to systemic decay and end in anarchy.
Modernism attempts to define its context a posteriori, but morality requires a margin of a priori context. Without external intervention such as a command architecture (as in communism) or propaganda, such a system will decay toward anarchy.
Relativism attempts to employ all contexts. A system can employ manifold contexts, but conflicts must be resolved by a more general context. Relativism presumes that no general context exists to resolve conflicts. Therefore, without external intervention, such a system will decay toward anarchy.
Theism suggests a single ultimate context for morality. Such a context allows a system to avoid decay.
Morality distinguishes right from wrong in a specific context.
Morality requires a context. It itself is not one. As such, a system must define a context or succumb to systemic decay and end in anarchy.
Modernism attempts to define its context a posteriori, but morality requires a margin of a priori context. Without external intervention such as a command architecture (as in communism) or propaganda, such a system will decay toward anarchy.
Relativism attempts to employ all contexts. A system can employ manifold contexts, but conflicts must be resolved by a more general context. Relativism presumes that no general context exists to resolve conflicts. Therefore, without external intervention, such a system will decay toward anarchy.
Theism suggests a single ultimate context for morality. Such a context allows a system to avoid decay.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
A Spurious Corelation
There is a disturbing correlation in America today between wealth and skin color. The correlation is true by the numbers, but I believe it is completely phenomenological. I believe that we should not think of giving aid to minorities any more. The word minority is pejorative and I believe exceedingly racist (see more here). Instead, we should provide aid to poor people regardless of their skin color.
I wish I could get people to see that the left is NOT really for minorities, and the right is NOT really for the Christians. The right and the left are for one thing and one thing only: your vote. They could care less about you the voter. You are just a number to them reguardless of what they say.
I wish I could get people to see that the left is NOT really for minorities, and the right is NOT really for the Christians. The right and the left are for one thing and one thing only: your vote. They could care less about you the voter. You are just a number to them reguardless of what they say.
It is not a conspiracy, it is a mathematical reality. It works like this. In a system where people do not vote smart (see more here), the only candidates who get elected are those who model themselves after the collective. The inflamitory properties of the candidates are exagerated and the gap grows greater between the arbitrary sides. This is why we have two major political parties. The two party system is maintained by this polerization which is fueled by the "stupid voting" that has been going on for far too long. In reality there shouldn't be two political parties there should be a hundreds of millions of them.
Don't you see American. When it comes to your vote, You are not black, or Asian, or Hispanic. You are not a Depublican or Remocrat. You are an American! Act like one. Put away all of this hand wringing and childish devicivness. It is time for us to be one people. Only then can we seek to be one world.
Don't you see American. When it comes to your vote, You are not black, or Asian, or Hispanic. You are not a Depublican or Remocrat. You are an American! Act like one. Put away all of this hand wringing and childish devicivness. It is time for us to be one people. Only then can we seek to be one world.
Please, end the tyranical reign of political parties. Vote smart in 2010.
I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat. I am an American.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Prize of Old
The echoing canyons of time,
Neither being still nor moved,
Recall to mind a past as sure,
The Lord God yet has proved.
The light opens on vast expanse,
The story yet to be told,
Of love so great and powerful,
Repaid with incense and gold.
The land of Bethlehem did wait,
In shallow night they sleep,
When host of angles broke the sky,
O'er frightened man and sheep.
Three wise men road from far away,
And brought their gifts so rare,
But rarer still and wondrous is,
The cross Lord Jesus bared.
The prize of old, salvation's tale.
Was told by our saving king.
The gates of heavens splendor and,
The songs that saved ones sing.
Neither being still nor moved,
Recall to mind a past as sure,
The Lord God yet has proved.
The light opens on vast expanse,
The story yet to be told,
Of love so great and powerful,
Repaid with incense and gold.
The land of Bethlehem did wait,
In shallow night they sleep,
When host of angles broke the sky,
O'er frightened man and sheep.
Three wise men road from far away,
And brought their gifts so rare,
But rarer still and wondrous is,
The cross Lord Jesus bared.
The prize of old, salvation's tale.
Was told by our saving king.
The gates of heavens splendor and,
The songs that saved ones sing.
Of New Meditation
I have discovered a marvelous new form of meditation that calms even the mighty tempest of my sleepless mind. That of reading; and not reading alone but reading the great works of the near antiquity: Descartes, Poincare, and Leibniz. Even the great canon of Doyle raises my mediation to new heights will giving me a clarity of thought and the peace of relaxation and even-mindedness.
I sit and sip black gold and imbibe the very requiem of antiquity whereby the most puerile of prose rivals the most elegant contemporary poetry, and the most common-place of pre-modern thought portrayed far more of the beauty of creation than that of the most ascended post-modern thinker. Perhaps truth itself capitalized is lost to the annals of time, but thankfully the works of the great thinkers of old still frame the bastion of modern thought. The prodigal still has leave to return.
I sit and sip black gold and imbibe the very requiem of antiquity whereby the most puerile of prose rivals the most elegant contemporary poetry, and the most common-place of pre-modern thought portrayed far more of the beauty of creation than that of the most ascended post-modern thinker. Perhaps truth itself capitalized is lost to the annals of time, but thankfully the works of the great thinkers of old still frame the bastion of modern thought. The prodigal still has leave to return.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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