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The True Meaning Of Religion Lies In It's Structure Not Message

2007-11-22T19:30:00.000-08:00

Religions all have a basic template which they follow simply because in the world of ideas like the natural world there is survival of the fittest.Religion a two thousand year old meme passes the survival test brilliantly.First of course are the threats if you don't believe either here or in an afterlife although there is no proof anywhere of such a thing.The second complementary half is the promise of prosperity and possibly a paradise after one dies .Both sides are much embellished by horror stories for the disobedient and riches for the obedient.That is the template by which all ideologies grow and one can substitute any rules for any others and the result will be the same.The objective writings of religion are nonsense what with angels floating around which no one sees but the message is in the structure.Once you understand that all religions become a mind virus some just more virulent than others and their adherents carriers of the virus.

Prophets Are To Adults What Santa Clause Is To Children

2007-11-19T16:55:00.000-08:00

As with any information processing device either biological or mechanical there is a limit to the amount of information and it's complexity which can be assimilated and processed.Less developed minds naturally believe that which is more near to being false merely because of their lack of experience ie children's belief in Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.Their experience does not allow them to reason that such things are impossible based since their experience is so limited they cannot see the contradictions inherent in these beings.Later as a child grows up and gains experience he begins to question Santa's existence until finally as a teenager at the latest he realizes it is a fairy tale. However until he had developed the complexity within his mind to discern the truth he believed in such things.However the analogy does not stop there because there are more difficult things which are as beyond the understanding of the teenager as Santa is beyond the understanding of the child.Likewise with young adults as compared to older adults and simpler people compared with more intelligent people.Until as a limit there are things believed by many which although more sophisticated than the idea of Santa are just as wrong and adults can no more understand their falseness than a child can understand the falseness of Santa.It is as easy to believe a falsehood as it is difficult to understand a truth if both are beyond our information processing capabilityThe idea of the falseness of angels floating around and prophets is as far above the understanding of some adults as santa is above children.To say that adults cannot be fooled in this way is to say that adults understand everything.

Leave The Animals Alone

2006-12-14T10:44:00.001-08:00

Why would a loving God want anyone to gratuitously cut the throat of a harmless animal in some sort of expression of love.Cutting something's throat is not an expression of love or devotion but is a psychotic impulse of a twisted mind.A true God would want you to save an animal's life as an expression of thanks and awe at his creation.Leanardo Da Vinci would not want you to destroy the Mona Lisa as an expression of your awe at his work and only someone truly insane would associate destroying something with awe at it's creation.Of course it is infinitely easier to kill an animal than save it but there is not one religion which tells you to save an animal's life.Religion once again shows how twisted it is.A thinking believer in God will work to stop all animal sacrifice under any guise.

If You Live A Peaceful Life It Is Purely By Chance

2006-11-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

Much of humanity has lived in horrible violent invariably superstitious societies for most of history.Very few people anywhere have lived even a whole generation without some sort of war,strife or conflict either internally or externally generated. One cannot count on so called intellectuals to provide any direction because they will follow and rationalise any political or religious system no matter how ridiculous . From angels floating around and people talking to them to dialectical materialism to tearing the beating heart out of prisoners Aztec style intellectuals were and are ready to expound the fashionable theory of the day as to why this is imperative. Of course the intellectuals of those times and places are as intelligent as our intellectuals today and if they were interchanged they would be indistinguishible. People who live in democracies can count themselves lucky that things went that way because the people who devised that system of governance could have as easily gone another way as what happened in other societies. The fact that you live in a democracy is purely a chance event if one believes that all peoples are equally intelligent.

If There Is Only One Universe Then The Biblical Iron Age God Is Superflous

2006-11-05T04:09:00.000-08:00

In how many ways could a universe be created and with what physical constants and still function.In a universe where the inverse square law does'nt hold planets and electrons will be unstable in their respective orbits and therefore life will be impossible.Likewise in a universe of more or less than three dimensions there can be no linear propagation of waves.So in order for life to exist it must exist in our universe.So god had no choice but to make our world and if he had no choice then he is not God!A God without the power to create another functioning world must of necessity not exist.Occam's razor demands it.God himself must be governed by laws for to say otherwise is to talk in riddles and inject a layer of mystery where non is warranted. God must obey the same laws as the rest of the universe and as such can be no greater than the universe and by definition also be no less than the universe. If he cannot be greater than by science or less than the universe by his very definition he must be synonomous with the universe. Can there be any wonder as to why religions ban the inquiry into the nature and extent of God.

Gambling Has Evolutionary Origins

2006-10-27T04:08:00.000-07:00

Risk taking is an integral part of evolution without which we would not progress.People many thousands of years ago had to take risks to survive and flourish and had to be rewarded psychologically for doing so therefore the desire to do it again.For those risk takers who failed and died trying it does'nt matter if they got a rush but for those who succeeded and got a rush their genes were passed on to their progeny.So if people took a chance the result would be the same in total whether they won or lost.The losers and their need to gamble would die but the winners and their genes would survive.In either case at the end the gambling gene would carry on because some of the gamblers would be explorers who would find new lands and thrive.The need to gamble is a variation of the need to explore which of course is what we need to grow.Lotteries are a synthetic derivative of our primal need to explore and experience the unknown.Now however the odds have been calculated leaving us at the mercy of our once useful primal instincts.Gambling is the crack cocaine of exploration.

Stressed Devices And Societies Show Their True Workings

2006-10-16T19:12:00.000-07:00

If you stress an engine as in a car motor under heavy load using a standard transmission then you will begin to feel what is otherwise masked under normal conditions.The car will jerk which of course is the result of each individual explosion within the cylinders.Now you are feeling firsthand what is really going on in the engine because it is under stress and all the smoothing action of the flywheel is gone.Likewise within a society when under stress the hidden interactions begin to become manifest. Different groups who before lived together in relative or forced harmony now begin to act out what they have been thinking all along because they have nothing to lose or see an opportunity for gain or there will be no repercussions for what they do. A society without a police force or in extreme economic straits will show what it is really made of. Some societies under stress will fracture along ethnic or religious lines and other societies will come together with no thought of killing their neighbors.Societies which fall apart under stress are inherently evil only that evil was hidden or repressed before.Societies with large numbers of groups must of necessity be more unstable than a society with a smaller number of groups.

If P, Then If Not-P Then Q

2006-10-11T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is a theorem of sentential calculus which states that if a system of axioms is inconsistent then any statement can be derived. That is an inconsistent system will say anything one wants it to.Certainly a mathematical system which proves 2+2 =4 and 2+2=5 would be discarded.Likewise with all systems of religion any inconsistency is a sign of deep trouble and certainly indicative of the absence of God.Even one inconsistency demolishes the ediface.God is loving in yet will comdemn you to an eternal concentration camp called hell would be one glaring inconsistency right off the bat. Of course if a story is consistent does'nt necessarily make it true but if it is not consistent then it is demonstrably untrue.When you are dealing with a system which sells itself as consistent and true then it must be both. However all religious books have examples of contradictions which explains different sects within the same religion whereby two or more interpretations are deduced from the same book. If your religion has even one contradiction then it is of necessity the creation of a human mind and not God.Logic comes to the rescue and exposes ramblings disguised as the word of God. You will never again be able to read contradictory statements and think they came from God.

Social Engineers Are Far More Dangerous Than Nuclear Engineers

2006-10-06T19:10:00.000-07:00

Statesmen or so called statesmen are really just social engineers who think they have figured out how society should be run.They are willing to put whole societies at risk on a vague idea usually in the form of a slogan which has never been tried before or has failed on numerous occasions in different incarnations. Multiculturalism of course is a huge social experiment where the citizens of the west are the guinea pigs and it may or may not work.If it does work nothing will have been gained because things were good before but if it fails then it will be a disaster. Everything to lose and nothing to gain with no exit strategy if it falls apart. The engineers at chernobyl did the same thing whereby what was working was experimented on with no obvious benefit but huge potential disaster. If you play in the park whereby you have nothing to gain and everything to lose and you do it long enough disaster is certain.This is what our thinkers have bequeathed to our children.It turns out either they aren't as smart as believed ar are sociopaths.

Randomness Is The Only True Dispenser Of Fairness

2006-10-06T18:49:00.000-07:00

If you are confronted with a situation whereby a decision must be made impartially and there are a range of outcomes each with a certain possibility then the decision procedure must reflect the probabilities.This can only be done by randomizing the choices through the use of a random device.If you have to choose between two or more people for a task either bad or good and a decision cannot be made based on objective factors then the fair way is to let randomness decide which course of action to take.This way the decision and the decider are as one and cannot be improved upon.When a decision cannot be had by human deduction then don't make it.Nothing could be more fair than an honest coin toss.Societies which shun probabilities at once show thier ignorance and conceit and what could be more revolting than that.

Mennonite Customs Are As Much A Reflection Of Their Neighbors Beliefs As Their Own

2006-10-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

Mennonites are the sheep of humanity who will not take up arms against others.That can work fine if your neighbors are goats or cows or horses but quickly falls down if your neighbors are wolves. The fact that mennonites exist at all is totally a reflection of the peacefulness of their neighbors communities.Mennonites exist in very few places which not coincidentally are places where other people move to.The peaceable Mennonites would be stomped into oblivion in most countries and most times and would be an historical oddity like the Druids if not for a few oases of peace and tolerance in the world. When you see or think of Mennonites think not only of their peaceable nature but marvel at the fact that they even exist.

The Nutty Professor

2006-09-22T03:33:00.000-07:00

We have all heard of the nutty professor who is perhaps a little eccentric but basically harmless but what of the other kind who assumes the mantle of a great purveyor of truth but is actually full blown insane. What if a professor told you that there are trolls living under the bridge and he meant it! What if he thought the world is 6000 years old and had book to prove it and would kill you if you disagreed then he would be truly malevolent. What if he thought there are angels floating around but you just could'nt see them or had no proof of their existence only second hand accounts of them and would kill you if you did'nt believe that.Then he would be dangerous.Supposing he spent his entire life theorizing about the trolls under the bridge which no one ever sees and has the audacity to call himself a scholar of trolls.That person would be a joke and a laughingstock even among polite society. However substitute angels for trolls and you have a religious scholar the world's foremost oxymoron.Although someone has read and studied something and can recite it forwards and backwards that does'nt mean what they have studied has any validity.Aztec scholars no doubt knew the intricacies of tearing a beating heart from someone and Marxist scholars had an in detailed knowledge of the labour theory of value. Confusing an in depth knowledge of something however ridiculous with actual knowledge is a category mistake.The next time you see a religious scholar with their unique hat or headgear and each group invariably has their own hat because somehow you need a hat to be wise think past the decorations and ask just how absurd are their pronouncements.Give the religous scholars all the respect they deserve.

Virulent Concepts Produce Bifurcated Personalities

2006-09-22T03:08:00.000-07:00

The concepts we use to describe the world of course are rooted in our consciousness and control and are determined by what our minds are capable of processing.Our conscious feeling of ourself can be extended by a proper concept. The idea of an all seeing god who is watching us all the time if internalized will result in the feeling of being watched .However this feeling can only be the result of our own ego which has broken in two giving us the sense of our selves and of being observed at all times.What was our greatest gift that is our conscious feeling has been replaced by the watched and the watcher.However since the concept of god is so much larger than our own ego the watcher becomes dominant and we become slaves to our own ego which has been hijacked by the concept of god watching us all the time. Of course since our brain constantly produces our conscious state which is with us all the time and this has been infected by the concept of god now a person has become a prisoner to his own ego! This of course manifests itself as someone giving themselves up to god which is exactly what religious people say. Be careful of the concepts you internalize for there are many out there ready to take control of you. God leaves the realm of philosophy and enters the realm of psychiatry which is exactly where all ego dividing concepts belong.

God Is To Philosophy What Liouville's Number Is To Mathematics

2006-09-08T17:22:00.000-07:00

One thing the human mind excells at is making new mental objects to satisfy a preconcieved notion.Irrational numbers are non repeating numbers which may or may not be the root of an algebraic equation.The roots of primes are all irrational in yet algebraic.There is a more powerful type of irrational called transcendental which are not only irrational but also not the root of any algebraic formula.The first number proven to exhibit this property is Liouville's number which was tailor made to exhibit just this property.It exists nowhere in the physical universe but only in the mind and is constructed in such a way as to be a transcendental number.A purely mental construct designed to fulfill the properties needed to make it non-algebraic.The concept of god was constructed by iron age people to satisfy the properties they considered necessary to understand the world.However since they knew nothing of physics they constructed an anthropomorphic universe where god was supreme.That of course is the simplest solution since it absolves one of actually doing the difficult work of figuring out the physical laws.Notice no prophets or saints gave us even the most rudimentary physical laws.You won't find Newton's laws in any religious books. The properties of god is the intersection of all their musings, a simultaneous equation satisfying all their preconditions but not existing in reality only as a construct of an iron age mind.A loving god who runs his own concentration camp called hell was the result.That is the type of idiocy produced by charlatans who pass themselves off as thinkers.

Distributed Intelligence Produces It's Counterpart In The World

2006-09-08T00:06:00.000-07:00

A grouping of thoughts will strive to reproduce itself and manifest it's core ideas not just in the minds of it's adherents but also in the world at large.The same thoughts will of necessity produce the same actions wherever they are whether good or evil in response to perceived threats or opportunities.Actions will spontaneously erupt which are approximately the same or are at least the same in the larger sense of being constructive or destructive.Evil ideologies produce evil actions wherever they are and good ideologies produce good actions around the world.These spontaneous actions are a reflection of their propelling ideology and can be expected wherever the ideology is present and are a natural outcome of it's existence and as such are not just spread across space but time also .Wherever and whenever an ideology exists it will manifest itself in the same way.A bloodhound is a bloodhound wherever it exists. Ignorance of history allows evil ideologies to take root where they never were before.Of course the only way to conquer destructive spontaneous acts which are the natural manifestation of an ideology is to destroy the ideology.This can only be done by completly eradicating the virus which created the ideology in the first place..

All We Know Are Our Thoughts

2006-09-02T19:44:00.000-07:00

One of the simple truths which many people do not understand or even think about is the fact that all we know is represented within ourselves.When we see a tree we do not see the tree but only the representation of it in our minds and an alien with a totally different neurology would percieve something totally different. A tree is a concrete object but concepts also reside in our mind which may or may not exist in reality.Beauty exists in the mind of the beholder but is not objective any more than ugliness.God is a concept or grouping of thoughts which exist only within our mind and as such is a proper class or a set which cannot be collected into a whole.The concept of god however is a powerful one and as a thought is self reinforcing.Believers in god love the thought with no real proof of it's objective reality.One can fall in love with a thought of a class of properties just as easily as one can fall in love with the thought of a person who of course is represented in our consciousness as a grouping of properties. .In both cases the attractiveness of the categories which represent the person or concept is what makes us attracted to it.However beautiful and spreading ideas are not necessarily in accordance with reality but may may be just a powerful virus.What one sees is not the world as it is and as such we only follow what our mind can represent.

Freedom Is A Function Of The Morality Of The Population

2006-08-28T06:01:00.000-07:00

Laws are written in response to the real or potential threats posed by certain members of the community.Locks are a reaction to the efforts of those who would steal your property and likewise security laws are a reaction to those who would do you harm.In a society with no hijackers there is no need for airplane security.In a society with peaceful people there is no need for gun control because even if everyone has a gun no one gets shot.In an honest society there is no need for locked doors because your unlocked items will be respected.In a society with no terrorists or supporters there is no need for identity cards because no one is a threat to anyone else.All the freedoms we have are proportional to the morality of our countrymen and when society changes either internally or because of newcomers the laws must reflect this new reality.The diminution of freedom is proportional to the diminution of morality until as a limit every movement from taking a trip to making a purchase is controlled in the name of security.The solution is the destruction of immoral forces they are the root cause of our problems not writing laws taking freedom from moral people.That is what a farsighted leadership will do.

Fences Are A Discontinuity Which Make Life Possible

2006-08-25T02:56:00.000-07:00

In the world at large there are few natural barriers between areas and there can be a free flow of objects back and forth.A fence though is a discontinuity between areas which is made to keep things out and /or in.This discontinuity allows the special conditions needed within to survive against the forces outside which would destroy it.The glass of a light bulb is a fence which allows the special conditions inside to exist without which a light bulb would be impossible.Our skin is a fence which separates our internal organs from the outside world once again without which we ourselves could not exist. The fence in a yard keeps out the trespassers which allows one to live in peace and safety or will keep dogs or children in .In one case it protects the inside from what is without and in the other protects what is outside from what is within.Remove the fence and you are at he mercy of the outside world and and the special conditions needed for your well being have been compromised.Oceans like fences isolate societies and ecosystems and allow them to grow in safety which would be impossible otherwise.Gates of course break the discontinuity given by fences and are necessary for the periodic flow back and forth between two or more areas.The gatekeepers control this flow and as such control much of what happens in the world.A fence with an open gate or a gate controlled by your enemy is as bad or worse than no fence at all.Fences and barriers make the world and ourselves and society possible.Be careful to mind your fences and who controls them for they can be the cause of much joy or misery.

What If The Devil Created A Religion

2006-07-11T18:19:00.000-07:00

Suppose the devil were to create a religion what would it look like and what characteristics would it have based on what a devil is supposedly like.First of all it would represent itself as opposed to the devil because no one will follow the devil and the devil will of course lie.Secondly it will brook no opposition either externally or internally and of course anyone who dares to leave the fold even though they weren't asked if they wanted to join it will be killed.Dedication must be absolute with every aspect of ones life governed by "laws" and continual prayers to him.There will be much chopping off of heads and body parts for the most trivial of crimes and general mutilation of the population including children.Of course genitalia of both sexes must be cut in his name.Naturally this must extend to the animal kingdom where every so often large numbers of animals must be made to die for no reason.There will of course be no progress and societies which fall under his spell will create nothing and produce almost nothing.People of necessity will try to leave those societies but no one from the outside will ever try to move there.Lastly of course the neighbors of these societies will be under constant attack.That is what a religion conceived by the devil would behave like.

Occam's Razor Renders Religious Dietary Laws Redundant

2006-06-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

Occam's razor or the principle that all things must be explained in the simplest possible manner also implies that all things should be done with the minimum of complexity and effort.This economy of action is a universal principle governing all things and in order for us to succeed we must of necessity follow this axiom.Spending time preparing food and searching out and sometimes rejecting food because someone said you mus'nt eat it is a waste of time and food.Checking on packaging for ingredients based on religious dogma and not health considerations is a waste of time and mental energy and is only useful in terms of perpetuating the religious virus.God of necessity shuns people who waste resources on iron age superstition.Be mindful of the principle of least action when being told what to eat for religious reasons and know that the people perpetuating this myth are ignorant of greater truths.

When Your Greatest Strength Is Your Greatest Weakness

2006-06-25T18:04:00.000-07:00

What we see in our minds is only a representation of what is out there in the world.However there is a symmetry in that the world we create is a representation of what is in our minds.The physical world determines what we perceive and likewise what we think determines our social world.The safety or fear we feel in society is the sum total of all the interactions of all the people in that society.However the sum total of all interactions are determined by the beliefs of a society's inhabitants.Religion and philosophy determine all people's lives.Ugly religions and ideologies produce ugly high entropy societies that people naturally move from and self actualized ideologies produce low entropy societies that people move to.However the superior ideology does not necessarily have the advantage but rather the disadvantage in the contest between high and low entropy societies.That is because people from less desirable societies will naturally move to the more desirable ones but never the other way around.In this way the desirable societies will become infested with high entropy ideas or religions.What should be an advantage has become a disadvantage and the greater the disparity in results the greater the pressure on the more successful society.

Don't Use A Genius For Manual Labour Or Electricity To Heat Your Home

2006-05-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

There are different varieties of energy in different states of usefulness both physical and mental.The most valuable being those in the lowest state of entropy or that which the most useful work can be extracted.Naturally over time once this useful work is done the energy will naturally revert to a form which is unusable.Electricity can power a computer or a heater.If it powers a computer you get the computation then the heat however if it powers a heater directly then all it's free energy has gone directly into a state of maximum entropy-an enormous waste.Likewise if you use a genius for manual work then you have lost all the potential he or she has and turned it into the lowest common denominator of human labour.In both cases you have wasted a valuable resource or potential and it has gone directly into the lowest state possible.Use all resources at their highest function possible.

Store Your Knives Correctly

2006-05-29T06:04:00.000-07:00

Many people when storing their knives put them face down in the wooden storage block which ensures they are dulled slightly each time they are removed or replaced.What was meant to keep them safe has become their greatest enemy.Sharp knives are better than dull knives and it only takes a little thought to keep them sharp.The effort needed to keep knives sharp is infintesimal compared to repeated sharpening or using a dull knife.Likewise in our lives keeping our senses sharp pays off infinitely more than the effort needed to make up for missed opportunities and bad decisions.Store your knives with the sharp side not rubbing on the wood and store your faculties so they are likewise not dulled or even better sharpened with use.

Instant Gratification And Procrastination Have The Same Roots

2006-05-11T12:33:00.000-07:00

Self control or the ability to direct one's thoughts are at the root of a successful or unsuccessful life.Without the abilty to forestall gratification now for something better in the future poverty is assured.Spending one's money for consumer objects now is a sure way to destroy the seeds needed either monetary or psychic for the potential fruits of the future.What is wanted now takes precedence over the future.Likewise procrastination is where the difficult route now is moved into the future.In both cases the gratification is immediate in one case by something positive and in the other by the absence of anything negative.Putting off for tomorrow what should be done today and spending today what should be saved and grown for tomorrow are attributes of people who have no self control and are not much different from an animal who lives in the here and now.The world is such that taking the easy route today means failure in the future.Develop the ability to take the difficult route which also includes persistence and success is assured.

The Characteristics Of A Perfect Mind Virus

2006-04-24T06:45:00.000-07:00

A perfect mind virus which can capture many minds must possess a few attributes and where they intersect is the perfect spot for it to reside.It must be simple enough to understand and be believed in yet too complex to be perceived and classified as nonsense.A thought will expand in complexity until it becomes untenable just as a person will be promoted until the point that they become incompetent. Complexity theory tells us that there are an infinite number of things we cannot discern as being true or untrue so of course a virus will have to fall into this category which means it will be hidden from inquiring minds for the most part.Secondly it must sound plausable enough that it can be accepted as truth.Naturally it must have strong rewards for it's growth and punishments for those who oppose it..Like evolution in the biosphere thoughts evolve and grow and mutate until one is discovered which satisfies the above qualities.This one and it's progeny will grow and prosper in the fertile soil of human minds.Religion with it's angels and hell and merciful god who runs his own concentration camp fits the mold perfectly and has spread around the world just as theory says it would.

All progress Is Made At The Margins

2006-04-23T05:07:00.000-07:00

Scientific and societal progress is made exclusively by a small percentage of the population which is also the most vulnerable.Only under the most special circumstances can progress be made that is under local peace and relative prosperity to provide sustenance to those who advance society.Any strife and it's attendant poverty destroys any chance of advancement as a person's thoughts naturally go towards survival.That which is most beautiful and rare and valuable in society the vanguard of the future or what is possible is created at the margins.What is at the margin of society is of necessity a tiny minority and as such can easily be extinguished even inadvertently.There are many things which can destroy progress but very few which can enhance it.Knowing what can enhance it and supporting these conditions and opposing those ideas which destroy it is amongst our greatest knowledge.

Strong Reciprocity Is Inevitable In A Successful Ideology

2006-04-20T17:51:00.000-07:00

All successful ideologies or isms or religions must incorporate the most powerful of human emotions otherwise they will of necessity wither from disinterest.Of course strong reciprocity or the feeling of fairness inherent in people or monkeys even to the point of starvation will be critical or even the guiding principle in a successful ideology.This tendency toward fairness can manifest itself towards equality to a pathological degree.This is socialism or envy rationalised where the center responsible for fairness in the brain submerges all else.Marx of course was afflicted with this pathology so much so that it consumed almost his entire waking life.Likewise religions one and all preach some form of fairness and wealth redistribution but hardly ever production and the circumstances needed to stimulate and grow that production.It is so much easier to take than create.An ideology without or contradicting strong reciprocity must of necessity fail or at least has not succeeded yet.

The Biosphere Is Irreducible

2006-03-30T12:32:00.000-08:00

The biosphere has been notoriously difficult to model and predict with new interactions coming forth all the time .The interactions between all the millions of different species seems irreducible and that is because it is.Just as with a computer program where one cannot have an all encompasing proof whether it will halt because a fundamentally new program can be created by diagonalization so likewise a new lifeform can be created whose interaction with the rest of the biosphere cannot be predicted.This happens naturally by mutations which by definition are random.This means that there is no overriding plan to life and the result of new lifeforms introduced is as random as the group of terminating programs.The same principle applies to the economy and the introduction of a non halting value determiner.A free economy and the biosphere are both irreducible and as a result are continually searching the boundary of what is possible .No input- output matrix or group of equations can capture the complexity of the biosphere it must run in order to find the result.Life at it's core is constantly pushing the envelope into new phase spaces of possibility and how could it be any more beautiful?

Persistence is Redundancy Made Manifest

2006-03-25T12:06:00.000-08:00

In information theory one simple rule is that if you want a message to come through a noisy medium you must repeat it and the more times the greater the chance of it all getting through.This repeat of the message to overcome noise is analagous to repeating a physical or mental act to overcome obstacles.In both cases the message or the path to the goal is being degraded or opposed by extraneous influences either random or intentional.If a person is trying to attain a goal then there may be many obstacles or noise thrown in his path which will degrade the outcome or even nullify it.Only by trying again and again does he have any hope of succeeding.Failure is only the result of trying to transmit over a noisy channel where the noise overcame the message.Failure does not exist in the external world but is only shorthand for not enough attempts.This is the way the world is constructed filled with noise and obstacles and as a result persistence is a necessary quality of a successful person or ideology. A successful ideology incorporates this knowledge into itself and uses it and proclaims it uses it and becomes attractive because of it.

The Holocaust Is To Religion What The Berlin Wall Was To Communism

2006-03-04T20:38:00.000-08:00

Occasionally during the life of an ideology or grouping of ideas something happens which is so at odds with the predictions or spirit of that ideology that it's fundamental premises must be challenged and discarded.Now what has happened in the objective world is a manifistation of it's internal and perhaps unrecognized contradictions or incompleteness in the theoretical world.The Iron Curtain across Europe was a gross example for all to see of the internal incompleteness and incorrectness of Marxism.Never before in history had such a decrepit ideology been forced on a population by the so called intellectuals that a wall had to be built to keep the population in.However that never stopped "theoreticians" from expounding the socialist line.Nonetheless a thousand miles of barbed wire was there for all to see.This was a result totally at odds with theory and a moments thought should tell any thinking person that the whole edifice was built on sand .Likewise today sixty years on another event happened which is at least equally at odds with the religious viewpoint as the Iron Curtain was to economics and sociology.That event was the holocaust which was as far removed from religious prediction as the failure of central planning was to socialist economics. All the basis for religion for the last two thousand years will have to be swept away and here is why and paradoxically it depends on the brilliance of the many religious scholars.Religious texts have been studied for thousands of years by uncounted many brilliant people non of whom predicted the holocaust.It is fair to say with all those people studying religion someone should have predicted probably the most enormous moral calamity in history if it were possible to do so and if they could'nt predict that then what good are all their interpretations.That is what religion claims to be able to do that is give reasons for what happens and by implication predictions.Saying it is God's will is asinine and insulting in the extreme and an intellectual cop out which explains nothing.It would be as if no one had discovered the pythygorean theorem.Highly unlikely and if no one had discovered that theorem by now then the axioms of geometry would be useless.Likewise since no one predicted the holocaust then the axioms of religion are useless and the world is very different from what religion has taught.

A Robust Ideolgy Is Not Afraid Of Criticism

2006-03-04T15:36:00.000-08:00

Sometimes one can draw parallels between divergent fields of endeavor and come up with a general rule connecting these things.For instance if someone is selling you an investment or filling out a rental application and they won't let you inquire into the details of what they are saying without becoming beligerent or not answering your questions then you know you are probably dealing with a charlatan and you had better run.Likewise but especially in politics or religion when someone won't let you question their beliefs the same conclusion applies.Two of the great failed Ism's of the twentieth century naziism and communism both carried this principle to it's logical conclusion.Imprisonment and or death for anyone daring to question the orthodoxy.Of course this death sentence was extended to anyone who wished to even leave the group ie the berlin wall.If the ideology which is being espoused can easily be shown to be nonsense either by logical deduction or empirical evidence then it must of necessity take extraordinary measures to silence it's critics and deter defectors and how else could it be?A robust ideology welcomes analysis of it's principles because it will grow as the weaker ideas are weeded out.By extension any ideology which cannot stand criticism is of necessity afraid that what someone will say which disagrees with them may make sense and thereby undermine the whole edifice so is to be disallowed in the most violent way. The weaker the logical and or empirical arguments for an ideology of necessity the response must be the most violent.Of course the act of questioning will be described in the most emotive and legal terms as if a great crime has been committed. That is as it always has been and always will be.

Religion Is the Ultimate Chain Letter

2006-02-04T06:05:00.000-08:00

We have all received a chain letter telling us to copy it and pass it on to X number of friends.Of course what these letters have in common is that they contain a story both positive and negative.The positive side tells of a man/ woman who won/found money/love/goodfortune or something very positive right after passing on the letter with the implication that this is the reward for passing it on.Of course the alternative to a positive reward is a negative punishment for not passing it on .This invariably takes the form of loss of money/job/spouse and just general horrific luck.This twin combination of reward and horrific punishment is enough to make a normal person blanche.However it gets worse when it is carried to it's logical conclusion and that is heaven and hell.An eternal run of good luck if you pass on the message or an eternal run of bad luck spent burning in hell if you don't.By comparison what happened to our earthly friends who did not pass on the chain letter is zero.Can it be any wonder that religion with it's many stories repeated over and over both positive and negative should be so powerful.Imagine if instead of receiving a letter you and you ancestors were handed a book one thousand times bigger than a letter with rewards and punishments one thousand times greater.Is it any wonder that such a powerful shocking book which supposedly comes from God no less should be repeated for centuries.If one is going to carry on a grand hoax it must be taken to the limit and that is where God comes in.Of course God loves his children and is merciful but has a concentration camp called Hell ready for anyone who does'nt pass on the message but no one said God had to be consistent! When people grow up they are supposed to be able to see and recognize a chain letter for what it is but so called holy books are so powerful that grown people can go their entire lives and keep doing what it says. A perfect analogy between two manipulative stories. You will never think about the message in so called holy books the same ever again.

A Banged Up Brain Produces Religious Converts

2006-02-01T05:52:00.000-08:00

One thing which we have all noticed but never put together is the fact that boxers oftentime become deeply religious.There are various world famous boxers who have become religious but non who have become scientists.After years of having their brains bounced against their skulls feelings of religious rapture seem to follow.Of course what is absurd is that there are people who want to emulate brain damaged people which of course could only occur in someone who is somewhat deficient themselves.It is no coincidence that religious proselytizers instinctively target prisons and schools where young minds haven't developed the ability to discern nonsense from reality. Logically people who feel the same things as others must have similar processes happening in their brains otherwise there is no physical basis for consciousness. The neurology of similar experiences must be similar in different brains.So all feelings of religion are the outcome of partially destroyed brains that is if one believes that a brain which has been bounced around for years will have sustained some damage and that seems as obvious as anything one can imagine.Of course the damage can be self inflicted even if only by repitition of quotes but it must nonetheless be there.Using a little logic we have connected brain damage via boxing,the commonality of similar neurology producing similar effects and religious experience to prove that there must be some common brain malfunction among religious people whether boxers or not and how else could it be?Boxing and brain damage is conducive to religion but here is not one instance of it being conducive to mathematics.What else could explain the belief in angels and other schizophrenic and of course unproven ideas.Religious people with their grand pronouncements,obsessive compulsive behaviours,iron age beliefs and overiding desire to control others should be accorded all the respect and given all the authority that a brain damged person deserves.

The Origins Of Oil

2006-01-22T16:46:00.000-08:00

One thing which is noticed quite often is the close proximity of oil,gas and coal.Since they are all have the same building blocks ie: carbon it seems natural that large deposits of similar materials should have the same antecedents especially when they are near to each other and how else could it be? Since coal can be turned into oil or gas but not the other way around then coal should be the common denominator of all three .Certainly of itself and most importantly of the others as well.So what could turn coal into oil and gas.Probably not just heat and pressure which can wax and wane but something more complex and which exists at deep strata.That something is organisms which consume coal and leave as a byproduct oil and or gas just as organisms consuming terrestrial food transform that into methane and alcohol.The oilfields of the world are the refuse of organisms from eons ago.Nature in her perfect way has provided man with the energy and in a form needed to make the world of today possible.

The Constancy Of The Laws Of Nature Destroys One Of The Pillars Of Religion

2006-01-11T12:15:00.000-08:00

One of the axioms of science and indeed all rational thought is that the laws of nature are constant.One conclusion from this is that the world is pretty much constant from one epoch to the next with any changes based on purely physical causes.The waves splashing up on the beach are the same as when dinosaurs walked the earth and the sky and the clouds are the same too.What we see is what the dinosaurs saw and what beings will see hundreds of millions of years hence.Of course when the sun burns out everything will change but that is predictible within the laws of nature.What isn't predicted is that all the laws of nature will change with the second coming of whoever you think will be resurrected.Likewise with the future which will be the same as today today is the same as yesterday.Since we see no angels today and we should if they exist then there were no angels yesterday since time for them does not exist.Constancy in the laws of physics combined with the timelessness of angels means they did not exist nor will they ever since if they ever existed they must exist now but do not.Using a little logic we have upended an inconsistent belief and therefore destroyed one of the foundations of religion.

Urban Legends Rule The World

2006-01-09T10:05:00.000-08:00

We are all familiar with stories commonly known as urban legends which make the rounds as fact but which in reality are made up tales.Of course they all have a component of possibility which snares the gullible.That is they all sound plausible until they undergo the rigors of critical thinking then they fall apart.If the amount of information processing needed to correctly discern their truth or falsity is greater than what is available then they will be believed especially if that belief is reinforced by others or more specifically by those in authority. Some urban legends are harmless but others are self reinforcing which will assume the shape of a mental virus and so can grow to enormous scales in terms of numbers who believe and therefore have teeth which can bite a non believer.Religion of course with it's angels who talk to certain people but never really say anything useful falls into this category.Angels tell you what to wear which anyone can do but never tell us how to cure cancer which is difficult and would be a litmus test for something speaking to God.So since large parts of the world are governed by or influenced by different religions we are all effected by urban legends.Can it be any wonder that if there are extra-terrestrial beings they want nothing to do with us.

We Have Nothing To Fear From Beings From Another World

2006-01-02T17:03:00.000-08:00

In a world governed by action and reaction in other words karma where what is given out comes back on the perpetrators we need not fear any extra-terrestrial beings.The answer is obvious because in such a world it will be constructed so that interstellar travel will be only possible on the other side of a proper theory of karma.That is before anyone can travel to other worlds they must understand karma and as such will not be interested in conquering ,killing or possibly even contacting anyone else.The great distances present a problem for any would be travellers and as such necessitate a deep understanding of time and space to the point of understanding karma.This is our protection from marauding aliens and shows just how beautiful the universe is.

The Non Computability Of Consciousness Prevents The Axiomatization Of Law

2006-01-02T16:30:00.000-08:00

Given that someone commits a "crime" based on a widely held or even narrow definition of an illegal act what is to be the punishment?It should deter someone from doing it again in yet not be so harsh as to harden their resolve to do it or something anti social again.Of course since we are dealing with conscious beings now non computability of outcomes makes it's presence felt and complicates matters greatly even to the point of unsolvability.Any number of people when given the same punishment for the same crime will respond in different ways from very positive to very negative.That is the punishment will have effects ranging from the desired to something exactly the opposite depending on the individual.The only property which can solve most punishment problems is wisdom which takes consciousnes which is non computable.All ethical problems require consciousness for solutions since they spring from consciousness.The inability to recognize that has led people to endless and forever fruitless debates about what should be done about crime and bad behavior when there is no single answer.This of course negates any religious solutions since they try to axiomatize that which is non axiomatizable and as such negate their whole framework and expose their incompleteness and betray their iron age beginnings.A true theory of punishment will harness and amplify universal laws so what is natural and what is man made are complimentary and reinforcing but since a mathematical theory of karma will be non computable likewise so must man made laws be.

The Symmetry Between The Evolution Of Social Structures And Physical Attributes In Isolated Societies

2005-12-05T06:07:00.000-08:00

Recently with the discovery of the remains of little people who lived on Flores Island a new connection has been made between man and the animal kingdom.It had been known for a long time animals on isolated habitats mutated into large or minute and largely defenseless versions of their cousins who had to undergo the rigors of competition on the mainland.For example the enormous tortoises on the Galapagos Island or pony sized elephants on Flores Island who co-existed with the Hobbit people.Likewise man when subjected to the same forces or the same forces are absent responds physically in the same way as the animals. However there is another transition which happens in the social sphere of isolated and otherwise safe societies.That is the social structure sheds it's ability to defend itself even conceptually just as flightless island birds or the giant tortoises of the Galapagos have shed their defenses for the most part and what is left is only a vestige what their ancestors had.This mutated and defensless form of society which is a natural response to nature's desire for economy of thought and exertion is socialism and multiculturalism which of course is the beginning of the end for western civilization.Society in the West has been for the most part unassailable for hundreds of years so this seems a natural development.All great civilizations in the past have become soft and weak and eventually have been destroyed either from the outside or inside or a combination of the two.However the path taken in the West not only refuses to defend itself but even goes further in it's desire for non-conflict and actually invites others into their societies.What was preserved for hundreds of years in England by way of a natural moat which kept out numerous adversaries was destroyed in a single generation.The drawbridge was lowered for all to enter. Naturally it takes many thousands of generations for physical changes to happen but since thoughts are far more malleable than physical changes they can happen in a remarkably compressed timescale.In many ways western man is as defenseless from invading ideologies or religions as is the kiwi bird of New Zealand who evolved in a threatless world and is now totally at the mercy of foreign predators.Kiwis the humans are as endangered as kiwis the bird.A beautiful symmetry for those who care to see it and with an almost certain and tragic conclusion for both. So the natural world has become a proxy for the social world and now western societies are facing the threat of a self inflicted extinction and must adapt or disappear.

The False Logic Of Time And Numbers

2005-12-03T06:19:00.000-08:00

Occasionally one reads of someone extolling the virtues of his or her religion or ideology based on the number of believers or the time people have believed such things.If someone says their group has X number of followers therefore this ideology must be true because look at all the people who believe then they are talking nonsense.This is a totally circular argument since the implication is if all those people believe in it then it must be true so I will join.Of course if enough people join based on this argument then the spokesman can come back and say look now we have (n)X people who believe and use that as a basis to join although the argument is just as specious as before.Likewise with the time argument he can argue that look at all the time our people have believed such a thing and say that it must be correct so we should keep on believing this thing.Of course what is never mentioned is that people thousands of years ago were for the most part illiterate superstitous people and why anyone would want to use them as a role model seems a mystery unless ignorance is what is being perpetuated.The next time someone says how many people are in their religion as an excuse for it's validity remember this piece and question how deep their thoughts must be and by extension how valid is their message.

By Harnessing The Laws Of Nature You Can Have A Virtual Genie

2005-11-27T05:32:00.000-08:00

Suppose you could have a Genie or something as close to a Genie as possible within the boundaries of physical laws would it be worthwhile to strive for such a thing? Are there laws of nature which can get you almost everything you want?.Yes there are and one of the most powerful of course is the law of compound interest or the ability to put time on your side where time becomes your ally and with time as your partner how can you lose?Likewise however paying interest makes time your foe and it is like swimming upstream then defeat is certain.Of course since compound interest uses time it takes time for it to work and isn't immediate like a fictional Genie but if you wait it will buy you all the things that money can buy and that can make your life better.So using the flow of time you can become independent. So save 15 percent of your earnings and let nature and mathematics work for you and if you are in debt pay it off as quickly as possible.

The Only Sacred Place In The Universe Is Within Your Skull

2005-11-17T12:10:00.000-08:00

Sacred ground like holy times are a figment of someone's manipulative imagination meant only to awe and confuse people and perpetuate false beliefs and ultimately control them and steal their labour..The only true sacred place will not be some rocks or buildings but a place so amazing that it is the only place in the universe with it's characteristics and how else could it be.Of course the one place where everything changes and makes thinking itself possible is within our skulls in our brains.The most complicated piece of matter in the universe which even has the possibility of representing the universe within itself.No building or earthly spot can compare to our brain in complexity and to say a buiding is sacred and a brain is not is portrays a most profound misunderstanding of life.Protect your consciousness from harm and expand it so it may be more able to discern the truth and achieve it's potential no matter at what level.The one sacred place in the universe is your brain and the one sacred time is when you are expanding your knowledge.External objects are not sacred and time spent celebrating or feasting or fasting is not holy and to say that they are is buffoonery of the highest degree.

Leftism Is To Society What AIDS Is To A Body

2005-11-13T13:56:00.000-08:00

If we assume that any society is a form of organism where different occupations fulfill specific functions just like in a living being where different organs perform different tasks then we can draw some analogies between a society and a body.One thing which any living body needs and does not exist for long without is a protective mechanism to ward off germs and viruses.A body with the AIDS virus has lost the requisite defense mechanism and soon becomes ill and dies due to an invasion of germs and viruses.Likewise a society needs a defense mechanisn, a multilayered defense to keep out unwanted and or dangerous invaders which can enter either individually or en masse.Leftism destroys a societies defenses by proclaiming that all cultures are equal just different and thereby weakens a society's defenses against foreign invaders. Just as the aids virus destroys T cells which recognize and destroys invading organisms likewise leftism destroys a society's will to protect itself thereby exposing it's citizens to terrorism.All individuals who proclaim themselves to belong to the leftist camp are the societal equivalent to an AIDS virus.

How Much Should You Get Paid To Smoke?

2005-11-12T15:39:00.000-08:00

If someone asked you to sacrifice your health for money you could make a rational claim that under the correct payment regime coupled with a satisfactory health degradation that a deal could be struck.If someone offered you enough money to retire but you lose five years of your life and or your well being decreases somewhat some people may take that tradeoff.After all many people trade their health for money for example miners or people who work in hazardous industries.This happens all the time .So If someone paid you enough to smoke knowing the health hazards you could make the case that it is rational.However if someone offered you free cigarettes to destroy your health and would pay you nothing it would be irrational to accept that because you have your health to lose but nothing to gain.The third scenario which is the real world scenario has people paying money to destroy their health and getting no benefits in return.So you lose your health and pay for this privilege so you lose in every possible way.The worst of all worlds. Extremely non rational and of course the same goes for any sort of narcotic.When someone reads this it will either resonate with them and they will understand it by the time they have read this far or even anticipated the conclusion and if they haven't started smoking never will or if they do smoke will stop.For the others a life of confusion and toil is almost certain.This simple exercise in worldly wisdom will separate those who think and act rationally from those who don't.

A True Ideology Must Understand And Harness Counterfactuals

2005-11-10T11:50:00.000-08:00

Contrafactuals or the potentiality for action are an intergal part of quantum mechanics and determine what is so therefore our life.Taken as a limit everything that happens on a microscopic scale is dependent on contrafactuals so we are the total of all the contrafactuals in our surroundings.One of the factors in the world are our thoughts so as we grow intellectually and spiritually we become closer to the world in thought and tendency until we become as a monad.An infintesimal part of the universe in yet reflecting the entire world within.Our thoughts and what is thought become one and they are in a one to one correspondence with the universe.Nothing could be more perfect and if the goal of life is to become perfect then that is our goal.The first thing we must do is recognize this both intellectually and viscerally and once we recognize this fact with our intellect then the emotional recognition will follow.If our emotional intelligence has any validity it will verify our intellectual conclusions.If our emotional intelligence clashes with our logical thinking then we are flawed and doomed to imperfection either individually or as a race.By striving toward the goal of perfection we create contrafactuals which alter the world which in turn help us further which we use to create more complex contrafactuals which further help us in ways we cannot imagine.This cascade of increasingly complex contrafactuals is of necessity non computable which makes it appear mysterious and unpredictable to us.We however are the source of this and without our consciousness this class of interactions does not exist. Of course recognizing that this process works allows us to align the universe with our goals and we must expect it to happen.Finally faith and science approach one another under the umbrella of quantum mechanics.We have become a conscious associate of the universe and it repays us by becoming a willing partner to our goals.A universe without this innate characteristic would of necessity be lifeless and without purpose.

Gravitation Is The Medium Through Which Karma Is Computed

2005-11-02T02:29:00.000-08:00

Karma which must by definition be perfect and all encompassing be a common factor in all things.To be able to find a way around karma and shield oneself from it would render it contradictory and non existent.It will also be effortless and natural and therefore non-entropic.So it must at once have zero entropy and influence everything possible.Is it possible that a medium with those properties could exist and how perfect could it be and would it be anything less than perfect and fulfill the maximum number of parameters possible.Gravitation fulfills those requirements in that is it is non shieldable and interacts with and modifies all fields and particles without exception and has zero entropy.So gravitation processes information simultaneously and effortlessly and how else could karma work.Nature in her quest for economy will use one field for many purposes.A zero entropy form of Maxwell's demon categorizing matter and energy and connecting them to human affairs.

The Interaction Of Consciousness Creates God

2005-10-27T00:48:00.000-07:00

Karma depends on the existence of man or consciousness because without which there is only physics.A single human being in the entire universe could do no wrong or right in a larger sense since he would only be interacting with inanimate objects.The only wrong he could do is harm himself and then the result would be immediate.In order for karma or the idea of god to be manifest the interaction of consciousnesses is needed.Karma amongst rocks is meaningless.God in his desire for perfection which implies the principle of least action and economy would be asleep when he is not needed and how else could it be.Just as Mach's principle says that the rest of the universe is needed to create inertia likewise all of man is needed to bring forth karma because just as without the rest of the universe inertia is meaningless likewise without other humans good and evil is meangless.So only by the interaction of people does what we call karma exist.Karma is an emergent phenomenon.This karmic field exists in potentia and only comes into existence when needed to preserve least action so in this way it's existence depends on our existence.We have come into being to witness and be a part of this creation.Anything we do to enhance consciousness will be rewarded and anything we do to destroy it will be punished.This field of interaction is non-computable just as is our consciousness and as such must of necessity remain beyond our ability to properly describe it beyond knowing that it exists.

A True Religion Must Employ Social Mechanics

2005-10-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

During an investigation of a proper way of life both personally and socially all the many alternatives chosen by various people should be examined.If you want a lifestyle like a particular group then logically you should adopt their ideas.If you adopt the beliefs of backward superstitious societies then that will be the result for you and how else could it be. For to say otherwise would be to spurn the scientific method and say all societies are the same.Along with empirical evidence of a societies success beginning with do more people move into or out of it must come common sense and the ability to integrate scientific concepts.This leaves out out all angel based ideologies which govern most of the world on the precepts given earlier and the marxian ideologies based on empirical disasters and the fact that the set of true economic statements is non listable therefore incomplete.So large parts of the world are governed by either ridiculous concepts based on angels and all knowing prophets or equally ridiculous ones based on dialectical materialism and the hope that the economy can be represented by an input output matrix. The first is destroyed by godel's theorem and the second by turing's halting theorem.Social mechanics begins from where these two leave off since neither incorporates modern meta-mathematics or computer science although both of the older theories will have elements of truth which are just enough to entice some people many for their entire lives.

A Virulent Religion Will Expand To Fill All Available Time

2005-10-08T01:12:00.000-07:00

Just as the time taken to do a job will expand to fill in all the available time allocated or the amont of money expended in a bureaucracy will equal the amount budgeted likewise a religion will expand in one's life to take up all the time available. This will equal all the free time one has spent praying and being occupied with dietary rules and reading stories about angels and just generally wasting time.As a limit a society of such people will produce just enough to survive and will have zero surplus for trade and will be of necessity reliant on natural resources.If their natural resources are valuable enough then it will mask the basic unproductivity of their lifestyle but if they are honest they will notice that everything they have was produced by others plus all scientific knowledge and ask why.A virulent religion will expand itself to the detriment of all thinking and produce cycling societies where the people are locked in a never ending feedback loop.If someone is praying or thinking of angels then they are not thinking just fantasizing that they are.Being conscious is necessary for but not sufficient for thinking and there are only so many hours in a day.A brilliant mathematician spending his time interpreting religious texts may come up with brilliant summaries but not brilliant mathematics.A true religion will be minimized to not only allow but demand thinking and progress and displace entropic ideologies.A true religion will have no unscientific "holy days"and be self aware and always on the lookout for religions which enlist unobservable angels to justify their existence.

The Weighing Of Distributed Ignorance Equals Intelligence

2005-10-07T03:09:00.000-07:00

The average guess of a group of people who are asked to estimate the weight of a calf will fall very close to it's real value.This of course is the result of an approximate number of incorrect guesses above and below the true value.The result when averaging is that the corresponding numbers above and below the correct value cancel each other.This is based on an unskewed estimates .Just as the crowd gave a correct estimate based on various factors which lead to high and low guesses likewise the person or persons who guessed correctly must have weighed all the factors which contributed to the distribution of guesses.In effect the few people who did get the correct answer except for luck must have taken into account the reasoning for the high and low guesses and averaged them in their mind.What happened in their mind is what happened on the outside to the crowd since they got the same answer.Once this result is had then that new value can be used again along with others to make a new decision.So the weighing of ideas will progress building up more and more complex ones.Invariably the same people will be more correct than most members of the crowd and we see this in our ordinary life.They are more able to weigh the circumstances and come to the correct conclusion .The weighing of truth will be a result of logic and empirical evidence and self correcting.Any ideology which destroys empirical evidence and critical thinking will produce people with a skewed and invariably incorrect outlook.

How the Israelis Have Been Checkmated By The Muslims

2005-10-05T07:49:00.000-07:00

Currently there is much hand wringing in Israel over what to do with the burgeoning Muslim population and their demands for a homeland and the need to keep a Jewish majority in a Jewish democracy.On the one hand there is much pressure for a Palestinian country and if they don't accede to that they can expect much trouble and fighting. The other alternative is when if they do become concentrated with all the Jews forced from occupied territories then when a hostile Muslim country drops an atomic bomb on them they will be all in one place so easier to kill.So if they stay or go the Israelis lose.... checkmate.

There Are No "Holy" Days In The Universe

2005-09-29T15:33:00.000-07:00

A true religion that is one which attempts to mimic the laws of nature and continually grow will contain no "holy" days.There are no special days in the universe where the laws of nature change so all religious carnivals,feasts, fasts, ritual choppings etc are all the construct of the mind which is not in accordance with the truth.Birthdays and anniversaries being non religious exist for sentimental reasons and are exempt from this. Religion being a virus needs to continually reinforce it's existence in it's host by repetition and emotion and as such is constructed for the mind rather than the objective truth.False religions create their own truth which exists only in the minds of it's believers.All religions employ holy days just like the pagans before them although they do not exist in the objective universe so as a result are false and a construct of a manipulative mind.Since holy days are a common factor in all societies at all times that means they are psychological in nature and all current religions which practice rituals are really the stepchildren of earlier ones.All people who proclaim and join in holy times of all description are purveyors of ignorance rather than knowledge and thinking.Wipe the slate clean and be done with unscientific holy days.

Consistency Is Not Enough

2005-09-25T05:41:00.000-07:00

We have all heard people from various religions say that their's is consistent therefore true but that is not the case.Consistency is necessary but not sufficient because something can be consistent in yet not necessarily true.A story can be written of any length where all the parts combine to form a consistent tale in yet still be totally fictitious.Aunts, uncles,parents and siblings all interacting perhaps for generations but totally the result of someones imagination and one can find no inconsistency in the story in yet it is still a story and nothing more.If someone pitches their religion based on the fact that it is consistent then you are dealing with an ignorant person and if they are sincere then quite possibly a dangerous individual because they will spread their nonsense to more ignorant people. A simple result in logic states that if a statement and it's negation can be deduced that is A and Not -A then any statement can be deduced!So a religion can be consistent and still be untrue but if it is inconsistent then it is definitely untrue!For example God loves you but will put you into a concentration camp called Hell if you displease him would pass as a glaring inconsistency even to the point of insanity in yet those two diametrically opposite ideas are held in the minds of many religious people.If one of your "holy" books says one thing and it's exact opposite then you can deduce anything from it and people do and that is evident in the many interpretations of religion and therefore wars.God by definition must be perfect so will not hand down inconsistent messages so all so called holy books were written by men clearly gifted men like a great playwrite but men nonetheless.In science or math however a thing is correct or not and there is only one way to interpret it ie :pi is a trancendental number and cannot be interpreted otherwise.That is the language God would use in yet it is barely employed at all in religion.When religious people do try to use the language of logic they stumble right out of the gate and say that if something is consistent it is true and this is passed off as thinking.

Four Months Should Be All It Takes To Fall In Love Or Recognize The Truth

2005-09-19T06:59:00.000-07:00

One of the certainties in life is that if you are going to understand something you invariably understand it right away or not at all.A famous investor said that with regard to investing either someone understood his method as he was explaining it or they never did.Likewise with falling in love you either do within a few months say four or there is no spark there and never will be.A religious fixation is analogous to falling in love in that one thought or person intersects on many levels to produce an attraction.In a religion or ideology it is the thoughts of that religion you love although many would deny it whereas in personal relationships it is the thought of the person you love.Although it is still the thought of the person you love because you do not know the person only their representation in your mind.So since these two phenomena are so powerful as to completely possess some people it seems that they employ the same emotions for the most part.The problem is that religions are like parasites and utilize the emotions needed for the continuation of the species and direct them to all sorts of useless and destructive ends.Your emotions have been hijacked by a virus for it's own ends.A religion which does not utilize love and hate the two most powerful emotions will of necessity lack the animus to grow and so will die.

Rasters A New Term For Mindless Ideologues

2005-08-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

A Raster on a television is the picture you get when there is no signal only a random display of dots and a hissing sound. The television creates nothing and if left to it's own devices only amplifies random electromagnetic radiation.Likewise the brain of a Raster creates nothing and needs an input for it to be active.However like a television which will show whatever is broadcast to it a human raster needs someone to think for it .Whether it be hordes of cheering nazis or communists or people who think there are angels floating around they are all the same and if interchanged at birth would be championing another cause perhaps opposite to what they believe in now.A television will show a sports broadcast just as easily as a cartoon and it will be displayed just as clearly.Rasters create nothing and only repeat that which is told to them and they make up most of humanity.Rasters are invariably found in crowds chanting something or taking a solemn oath.

Metaticism A More Comprehensive Description Of An Economy

2005-08-27T15:54:00.000-07:00

One thing which is a source of amazement is the willingness of people who believe that any description of the economy is incomplete to embrace a pejorative term for it's description. It is as if someone called you a thief then you then start describing yourself as a thief ! If you have lost the high ground in the war of terminologies then the battle is a rearguard action before you even begin.It is no wonder that people who believed in robot societies held the upper hand in the battle of ideas.In this case I am talking about the term capitalism which of course was coined by Marx to name that which he could not describe or predict. That of course is the interaction of free people and the resultant emergent ordering and wealth creation. He tried but failed miserably to offer a description and an alternative and the proof is in the disastrous states which adopted his theory.Likewise his terminology should be relegated to the same place in history as the failed countries which he is responsible for ie to the dustbin of history.The word metaticism more nearly describes an economy made up of many players constantly interacting and producing new unpredictible products and therefore interactions.Meta from about and ticism from an abbreviated form of dialecticism.However instead of two opposing forces combing to form a synthesis there are an infinte number of players and sets of sets of players which form the "economy" or a metatic society. As was shown earlier this set of interactions and their description must be forever incomplete.The word Metaticism more clearly describes the true nature of the economy and it's infinite sublety rather than the crude and meaningless term capitalism .

A Society Can Exist For A Short Time In The Equivalent To A Supercooled State

2005-08-12T05:23:00.000-07:00

A supercooled state in a material is when the actual physical properties of a material are still in a preceding state even though the temperature has changed enough to warrant a new state.Sometimes a material can be below the freezing temperature although the substance is still liquid.All it takes is a shock then the substance will assume the form most appropriate to it's environment.Likewise a society can still maintain the laws of an earlier time based on the then current conditions.However as the society or beliefs change then the laws should change along with them but sometimes there can be a lag between the new popular reality and the old laws.At this point a revolution is at hand either violent or non violent.Western societies are approaching this supercooled condition as new people move there but the laws are still enforced as if the societal conditions are unchanged.Logically western societies will assume a legal and social structure reminiscent of the newcomers homeland.

Religion Without Personalities

2005-08-04T09:26:00.000-07:00

For each person born there was one sperm cell and egg which joined together to from the nucleus of a new life.However at the time of conception there are many sperm cells competing to fertilise the egg each of them with the potential to create a brother or sister of who was actually born.Now if one hundred generations ago instead of who was actually born it was instead their potential sibling then the world would be a very different place.You and I would not be here but the world would and presumably people too.If for each person in succeeding generations all their potential siblings was born there would be trillions of possibililities of various people and their attendent world lines.A many worlds interpretation of cell fertilisation!The world would be unrecognizable in may ways and history would be much different in each one. Non of the great historical leaders both famous and infamous would have been born or religious founders either.Some things would be the same and that is what we are interested in .The laws of nature would be unchanged and mathematics and no doubt some social laws and people would still plant in the spring and harvest in the fall.However any traditions which were ungrounded in universal truth would of necessity be peculiar to one particular universe and it's inhabitants.We are not interested in customs or practices which are the domain of one potential world only those truths which are common to them all irrespective of their inhabitants.A true religion's message will exist for all people and will of necessity be independent of any personalities.It will span all potential worlds and be instantly recognizable by all cultures at all times.Religious leaders will demand anonymity because the truth they speak is extra personal and exists in itself devoid of ego.So why do religions speak of their founders instead of this truth.All religions today are intimately woven with their leaders who of necessity are peculiar to this world and are therefore incomplete. A true religion must of necessity be concerned with universal truth and be devoid of personalities.Any true religion will know this and it will be central tenet of their beliefs in yet not one mentions anything of this.

A Superior Ideology Must Of Necessity Be Low Entropy

2005-08-03T03:46:00.000-07:00

A true way of life from the personal to the social must of necessity mirror the laws of nature which make the world possible .These of course will be the most economical in terms of action used and the most expansive in terms of starting out from the lowest possible entropy.Just as economic value has an entropy scale with the most valuable objects and processes having the lowest entropy likewise a perfect ideology will have the lowest entropy and continually expand not just itself but knowledge of the world.What it is and what it claims to be are identical which is the ultimate in economy. This makes it valuable and it can prove it's value and low entropy which of course iron age ideologies cannot since entropy for them was unknown.This proof will not only be in theory but in practice for all to see.The thing and it's description are identical. High entropy societies create almost nothing and what they produce is only copied from others.High entropy ideologies or religions produce high entropy societies where most of the people's time and energy is spent just trying to survive and cope with a plethora of rituals and petty superstitions. People move from poor high entropy trading societies to wealthy low entropy producing societies and how else could it be. Empiricism must be a central tenet of thinking not just stories and promises of rewards or punishments in the afterlife.This leaves angels and the devil as historical curiosities which were useful only in the context of illiterate uneducated people.The high entropy religions of the past created only cycling societies where the same rituals and technology were used over and over and have no place in the present.They are a danger to scientific progress and therefore untrue.A modern religion will harness the inherent superiority and desirability of a low entropy set of axioms and be obvious for the rational minded and be irresistable in the world.

Meta- Consciousness

2005-07-20T06:40:00.000-07:00

If one assumes that the earth's biosphere functions as an organism albeit a huge one then we can take that conclusion and expand it to the fact that the world will have a form of consciousness.The analogy between a self contained living entity with it's myriad of feedback and feedforward mechanisms and the whole earth with it's corresponding control mechanisms seems complete.Consciousness however seems to creep into living beings certainly animals because it facilitates existence.If consciousness can come into being in a mind which is made of unconscious cells then it will certainly come into existence in an entity made of conscious units.These monads of consciousness are not just human but all the animals and fish and insects who also are aware and interact with each other.The earth is a conscious being composed of conscious beings which makes it infinitely more complex than ourselves a type of meta-consciousness.This will explain synchronicity when events come together to aid or thwart our plans it is not coincidence but the work of a higher mind which we can barely perceive.Two examples would be when the German armies were stopped by the unusually cold Russian winter in WW2 just as Napoleons had been earlier or when the Mongol army was destroyed twice by typhoons whilst trying to invade Japan. The earth mind solves problems in the east as well as the west.So what of this idea itself will it be helped by the world to expand or will it wither and die.Once we understand that we are part of a larger whole we of necessity will try to nourish that one which is the earth which means we will be more friendly towards the earth mind and more environmentally predisposed.The earth would rather be healthy than sick so it will in it's mysterious way work to advance this idea.An idea whose time has come and if true will spread across the world at the speed of light and in ways to people and cause effects we cannot imagine.How else could it be.

The List Of True Economic Interactions Is Non-Denumerable

2005-07-18T06:19:00.000-07:00

The economy is made up of various interactions between people and things in order to satisfy human needs mostly physical but also psychic.Now if the relationships between production and consumption of the various components are listed according to complexity we will end up with a group of programs stating the correlations between input and output.The problem is just when we think we have listed all the relationships and gave a deterministic account of the economy we can enlarge upon it to show our theory is incomplete.This is done by the familiar process of diagonalization by creating a new product which is made up of parts of the existing.Now this new product will not be able to be assimilated into the existing structure since it is different from anything now existing and our system is only able to process what we have since one of our assumptions is that we have encompassed all the possible economic interactions. As such economics is of necessity incomplete and in order to find out what will happen the economy must be run and only occasionally will theories be born out in reality.It is an empirical fact that economists predictions are invariably wrong sometimes spectacularly so.Now you know why. Any ideology which purports to say it is possible to capture the economy in a theory is equivalent to a theory which says it can know the outcomes of all computer programs which of course is impossible.Good -bye socialism. So socialists take their place in history beside circle squarers and angle trisectors as people who wasted their time trying to accomplish that which is impossible.

The Truth Needs No Embellishment Or A Holy Introduction

2005-07-16T17:25:00.000-07:00

One thing which seems to be constant is that the more flowery the pitch the more suspect the message and that is whether someone is selling a high yield investment or snake oil or a religion.A religious book of course is never written on ordinary paper or left unembellished but is invariably written in beautiful script with pictures and designs just like the images at the circus.By contrast a physics paper is written in plain language but contains far more information than a religious tract.Religious books also mention that they are holy right on the cover just in case there is any doubt just like any charlatan proclaims he is the greatest showman on earth.A sort of book report right in the title.Contrariwise a truly honest and wise man or woman does not need special clothes to proclaim their wisdom.Religions are overcompensating for a known weakness therefore the elaborate garb and literature.

What Is Your Religion?

2005-07-16T12:24:00.000-07:00

If you answered any of the major religions then you have implicitly admitted that you believe that there are angels floating around and a devil and all the baggage that goes along with religion.Whether fundamentalist or moderate you nonetheless have bought into the story of each religion which invariably involves higher powers and their minions talking to people and giving them simple and useless information as opposed to difficult and useful information.Telling people what to wear is simple and useless as opposed to a cure for cancer which is difficult and useful.We all know into which category "angelic" messages fall. So in this way you have internalised the schizophrenia inherent in communicating with imaginary beings and made it part of your being although perhaps in an unconscious and perhaps unassuming way.Discard all references to unscientific iron age sophistry and challenge all others to prove their beliefs by tangible means not just words and circular arguments.You will find they cannot.

Celestial Auschwitz

2005-07-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

We have all heard of the Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulags which are the epitomy of horrible places and evil but is there a place that is even worse? According to "religious scholars" an oxymoron if there ever was one this place is called Hell.A place so horrific that it's victims would think a day at Dachau is a romp in the park but unlike it's earthly pretender there is no escape from Hell not even death.Some people did emerge from concentration camps or were even released but no mercy is shown to those who enter Hell.Furthermore the sentence in Hell will not be for a few years but will last forever even until the stars have burnt out and become cold.A truly psychotic vision if there ever was one.So who would sentence us to this monstrous fate Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot no it is non other than God the being who is merciful and loves us! George Orwell could'nt have come up with better example of doublethink in yet this line is believed by millions and in fact is a core belief. The crime which will get us there is not believing that God exists! So God created the universe but has the emotional developement of a twelve year old and wants our attention constantly. A non self actualized deity or a perfect proxy for those who proselytize his existence.According to religion God created the universe but like an insecure child needs our attention constantly and as shown earlier isn't very good with money either .A god which must be sustained by our constant attention and naturally the giving of money to religious authority in other words a bootstrap deity whose existence is proclaimed by mythical entities and this nonsense passes for thinking.

The Idea Of A Devil Puts All Of Religion At Risk

2005-07-11T06:30:00.000-07:00

Amongst monotheistic religions the struggle between good and evil is a central tenet of their existence although these concepts cannot be defined in a precise way.As a limit all of evil becomes embodied in a thing called a devil who of course is evil personified.However being evil and having the ability to shapeshift just like in a cartoon makes the existence of most religions highly suspect.No doubt the devil would lie and even pretend he is God and issue orders to people and who could tell if it was him or God talking?Certainly no person could distinguish between the two because otherwise the devil is'nt very powerful.So in order to believe in the devil we must either believe he is moral and would'nt try to fool various people or isn't very smart and could'nt succeed either of which negates his properties! So the idea of a powerful devil is it's own antithought and as soon as it comes into existence should annhilate itself and of course any ideology which depends on it.

It Is As Easy To Not RecognizeA Falsehood As It Is To Not Understand A Truth

2005-07-06T11:19:00.000-07:00

The mind has only a finite capacity to understand ideas and those ideas which contain too much information for a particular mind cannot be discerned to be true or false.First the most obvious case is of a difficult mathematical problem which is true but cannot be understood to be such by a certain person or persons because of it's complexity.This is a well know phenomenon which has been experienced by us all at one time or another and is accepted as a part of life.It is true but we cannot understand that it is true.However there is another side and that is of a falsehood which is believed but cannot be understood to be a falsehood.If someone tells you something and it is too complex to understand then it may be true or false and unless there is some experimental way to tell you will never know based on your deductive abilty.Some religious and political doctrines are obviously false in yet are believed by people sometimes for their entire lives and how else could it be.If a person's mind does'nt allow him to discern whether a concept is true or false then no amount of time will allow him to grasp the truth.He will go on believing a falsehood or disbelieving a truth for his entire life.Of course the more complex the theory the smaller the number of people who will understand it until as a limit virtually an entire society can be duped by a flawed theory especially if the theory has a defense mechanism to destroy non believers .Now if a false theory has defense mechanism then the false theory can persist for centuries or perhaps for as long as man exists.That would be tragic end for humanity to constantly relive customs and repeat obsessive compulsive behavior for millenia.It is almost as if these people are possessed by the human equivalent of a programming virus.So man's mind inhabits a narrow range between truths which he cannot understand and falsehoods which he believes but likewise cannot understand as such.History is almost completely made up of economic and social theories and religions which translated into national movements which were later shown to be false but which were almost universally believed at the time.When a theory is too complex to be understood as false but is embraced by the crowd then there is no safety in numbers only danger.

The Discovery Of Dark Energy Destroys Many Religions

2005-07-06T10:39:00.000-07:00

Many religions preach the gospel that the universe is eternally recurring albeit over on enormous stretch of time.Just as pieces moving around according to set rules on a chessboard will eventually return to a configuration only to repeat the cycle again or become locked so the religions preach the same line only on an enlarged scale.This is an uncomplicated theory however nature is more subtle than anyone from the iron age could have imagined or anyone else for that matter.If there is even one error in a theory then the whole edifice falls down and must be rebuilt.Well here is one thing that is wrong among others with religions as preached today and that is that eternal recurrence is impossible based on observational evidence.This will be of interest for people who value reality over dogma and for the others it does'nt matter.The universe is expanding and not slowing down as everyone thought until recently and certainly no religion predicted that although one would think that during conversations with people God might have mentioned it.It would certainly help from a credibility standpoint and if the word from God was eternal recurrence then either god does'nt know what is going on or else nobody was talking to God. So with an accelerating expansion the atoms which were together at the big bang and are now at a large enough separation will never be together again . Hence no eternal recurrence and hence all religions which hold the doctrine of eternal recurrence are null and void.

Was Abraham A Schizophrenic

2005-07-03T20:13:00.000-07:00

Suppose in the newspaper today you read of a man who had his child tied up on an altar and was about to kill him what would be your reaction?For most people it would be that the man in question was insane in the extreme.If anyone was caught with their child tied up ready for sacrifice they would be instantly put into a mental institution with the cry going up that they should never be released again which is exactly what should happen.So if someone is insane today why would'nt they be insane thousands of years ago doing the same thing.There is no reason and someone who heard voices thousands of years ago or today is equally at risk. So if this is true and it seems logical then that means that all monotheistic middle eastern religions are the fruits of a schizophrenic mind.That does'nt mean that they are incorrect but it does cast doubt on their validity.So if all the people who talk to god are schizophrenic and we internalize their message then we are all a little insane and it permeates our society and most societies.If you have ever talked to a religious zealot you know that with their angels and obsessive compulsive behavior in all aspects of their lives that they have partially taken leave of their senses.In yet these are the people who many look up to for guidance when really they have nothing going for them but the strength of their convictions and potential threats either here or in the netherworld..So is it surprising that a large percentage of the population is so pathetic that they carry around some dementia and believe it or judging by all the nonsense going on in the world is that inevitable. This is where denial comes to the rescue of the hoaxers because how could so many people be so fooled for so long.This of course is a self fulfilling prophecy because now they can say look at all the people who believe like we do and the naive will go along with them and add to their numbers which reinforces their argument even more.So their argument boils down to look at all the people who believe like we do but the reason why there are those people is because of people who believed before them .A perfect circular argument which if analyzed correctly falls apart but which is employed with much success by hoaxers.

Have You Ever Seen An Angel?

2005-07-03T19:53:00.000-07:00

Have you ever sen an angel?Do you know anyone who has or know anyone who knows anyone who has?The answer will be invariably no.So where all the angels and why do those that supposedly appear only do so in the middle of nowhere?Why not in times square where we can all see them?The same goes for flying saucers why are they all in Outer Mongolia or some other out of the way place but never seen hovering over the white house.When these angels do supposedly appear why don't they tell us something useful and difficult like how to cure cancer not what people should wear and eat which any good playwrite could come up with.Angels if they do exist will know how to cure cancer because after all they are sent by god and he by definition would know how to do that.So why did'nt the angels tell us something simple like there are nine planets or perhaps the periodic table or some relativistic transformations.They would know these things so why did we have to wait for Mendelev or Einstein.There are many things that angels could do to prove their existence but don't and why.The answer is simple and that is they don't exist!It strains credibility in the extreme to believe in them and the proof should be on the people who tell us they exist to actually produce one and not give rationalizations as to why they don't appear or even tell us something verifiable about the world. If someone is going to make a preposterous claim they should prove it.

Fractal Sociology

2005-06-27T11:50:00.000-07:00

Self similarity which fractals represent is everywhere from a coastline to a mountain range where the large is a magnification of the small but self similarity or the tendency of nature to use the same laws in the large or small is not restricted to the physical world.Self similarity also functions in the society where large groups are made up of smaller groups which in turn are made up of smaller groups yet.We see this fractal nature reflected in countries which are collections of people based on racial,linguistic and or religious similarities.The largest group we have at the present time is the whole earth made up of distinct societies each interacting with each other in various degrees of trade or conflict.Now according to this theory a county made up of the same groups as the world at large should approximately mirror the larger world with different groups interacting in the microcosm as they do in the macrocosm and how else could it be.So multicultural societies must of necessity feel the strains of the larger world only internally with each group advancing it's own agenda just like in the real world. Any country with a number of large groups some of which seem to be incompatible with each other will of necessity organise into self similar groups based on the criteria mentioned once again like in the greater world.These areas are called enclaves and this self organizing effect is quite manifest already in countries with many newcomers. As a limit these different groups will not want to be ruled by others but wish to have their territory once again like in the greater world.Taken to it's logical conclusion there will be fighting just like in the greater world.

When Sociopaths And The Naive Meet

2005-06-27T11:17:00.000-07:00

Have you ever met a sociopath that is someone who truly hates other people and their success or even existence and will do anything to destroy everything they can.If you turn your back on them they will slip some of your silverware into their sock or try to steal your money or cause dissention in your family or environment.We have all met the child at school who tries to get you to do something which you know is wrong either under threat or most likely by pretending to be your friend.If you agree to his wishes then he will have something for you to destroy and if you are caught so much the better because now he has two satisfactions.Something is ruined and you are in trouble so he can laugh either way.There are three kinds of sociopath the "honest" kind who does the dirty work him or herself and if caught will take the punishment .The second kind is more dangerous as he gets you to do his bidding but it is still fairly obvious what he is up to.The third kind is by far the most dangerous and evil because he works you over and you think he is doing you a favour and you thank him and maybe even put him on a pedestal as a great man. This invariably involves giving you rights and others too with the end result that your rights have diminished in yet you can't explain why.Of course he can't ruin a society on his own and he has turned to ruining societies since this is the ultimate thrill.He needs help and this is where the naive come in because they are always ready to pitch in to something ridiculous and help the leader or cause.By using the silly and the young a sociopath can leverage himself a million fold and be honored too.Quite satisfying!Was there anybody in your country who gave you rights and strangers too and now the wheels seem to be coming off your society in yet you can't explain why.Then you are in a zone where a sociopath was at work and very few will ever articulate let alone understand what happened and will probably disagree perhaps vehemently with you.If you see people who fight against their own interests sometimes fanatically then you have seen the handiwork of a brilliant sociopath.

Why Religions Ban Gambling

2005-06-16T17:02:00.000-07:00

There seems to be some confusion as to why religions ban gambling among their people.The trite answer is because it just is or perhaps because it leads to addiction and the almost certain loss of one's money and perhaps family.This no doubt happens but there is another reason which of course is unmentioned and a little deeper but nonetheless true.It is the synthesis of our experience both in the real world and in the world of human psychology.One thing which is known almost to a certainty is that if you gamble long enough you will lose and the greater the losses the greater the chances that prayers to God will follow.The problem is religious "leaders" know your prayers will go unanswered and the tumbling dice will fall where they will your prayers notwithstanding.This has surely happened many times through the centuries in yet there is not one case of a single person winning consistently because of prayer.So what is the use in believing in a God who can't even change the roll of dice or the turn of a card or where a roulette wheel stops? So better to ban gambling outright and say that message comes from God and call it a sin before anyone asks any embarrasing questions.A pre-emptive strike on any thorny inquiries from the more thoughtful in the flock. If this is the real reason to ban gambling and it seems logical then religious people are the most hypocritical people on the face of the earth. If religious people really believed in God they would ask him to let them win and they would give all the money to charity instead of laying a guilt trip on everyone to hand over some loot.This should be an easy job for God and a satisfying way to get money from evil gambling houses to give to his favorite charity since he does'nt seem to be very good with money anyway.

Godel's Theorem Proves There Will Never Be A Last "Prophet"

2005-06-15T10:22:00.000-07:00

It is asserted by some that there was a last "prophet" but is this true or is it even possible that such a person could exist? Well if God is infinite in qualities and depth and knowledge then one can only aspire to him but never reach him.One must have less knowledge than God no matter how wise that person is.Likewise in mathematics Godel's theorem says that mathematical knowledge is infinite and that there are true and unprovable sentences always beyond our ability to understand their truthfulness.So there will never be a final mathematician who knows everything about the natural numbers!Likewise by analogy there can be no final word about god since by definition he must be at least as complex as the natural numbers and hence no final prophet.God like the set of arithmetical truths is infinite so the number of things which can be said about him are infinite so of necessity there must be an infinite number of prophets each more knowledgeable than the previous.So finally logic and thinking make their presence felt in religion and destroy a long held erroneous belief.The problem is in an axiomatic system which religion purports to be if there is even one error or inconsistency then anything can be proven and the whole system falls apart.Anyone who tells you there is a last prophet or it's equivalent even the possibility of such a person is of necessity ignorant and everything they say should be suspect.So now that logic has torn a hole in religion or perhaps expanded it when will religion rise to the new reality?

A Modern Religion Demands A Modern Symbol

2005-06-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

All religions of course have a symbol with which they represent themselves notwithstanding the fact that there are no images which their adherents are to pray to.Crosses, stars, astronomical images and all sorts of simplistic imagery are the common denominator of religions today and that is because they are artifacts from the age they were created that is the iron age .These symbols are a representaion of the consciousness of their founders and early converts and should actually be a source of embarrasment to any thinking person.Surely God and his infinite subtlety should be represented by something a little more thoughtful than a simple object that a child can draw and that is not a difficult concept in yet that seems to have escaped the so called religious scholars.A true representaion of God will be a representaion of the universe and it's creation since as shown earlier by the principle of least action God's mind and the universe are synonymous.Now if the universe is a form of Henkin sentence which derives it's own existence then a true symbol of God would be the geometric form of such a sentence.A true symbol of God will be so compelling that it will be unstoppable and will be found in the mind of a mathematician since god is the ultimate mathematician not in a seminarian.The idea of God must move past the iron age to the modern times and beyond since if he is infinite we can never know him completely and there can never be a final prophet only the latest.

Who Are The Real Molesters?

2005-06-02T18:51:00.000-07:00

Lately we have been hearing of a famous celebrity who is on trial for molesting young men but compared to others his crime is almost nonexistent.I am talking of religious types who have a fixation on young people's genitalia and their desire to mutilate children's private parts.We are not talking about touching these children's genitals but actually taking a knife to them because supposedly God wants these parts lopped off.Of course this is circumcision and is done to babies without anesthetic because they are the most helpless members of society and except for some crying cannot complain.A real proof of faith would be for grown men to be circumcised perhaps when they turn 21 then we would see how much faith normal people have and that ritual will go away real fast.Leave the baby mutilation in the past.Of course one has to ask what sort of mindset would want to take a knife to a baby's penis and how it ties into the religious mindset in general and just how legitimate in general is an ideology which commands one to do such a thing.Not very pretty and certainly controlling and does God care if you have been circumcised and what kind of God would care. He must have bigger fish to fry than that and why is God so un-selfactualized that he would want your penis mutilated or is the un-selfactualization just a manifestation of religious dogma.

Multiplexing Karma

2005-05-21T18:52:00.000-07:00

Karma or the theory of action and reaction in a system of conscious beings is not as straightforward as when there is an equal and opposite reaction when matter interacts.In the social world an action provokes an equal and identical reaction instead of opposite reaction.That is acts are mirrored back by the universe in whatever category they have been played out.The number of categories are endless on a continuum and overlap so as to process the maximum number of categories or it's equivalent information at all times.At any time we in conjunction with others and the physical world are simultaneously a part of many classes each interacting and transforming each other.In other words a fourier transform of dynamic sets.Now sometimes the equal and identical reaction cannot be immediatly fulfilled so it will submerge within the larger set or waveform and reappear at a later date perhaps so much later and so far away as to have no apparent relationship with it's first mover.This way nature multiplexes actions so as to fulfill karma in yet to us what is happening seems random.If what is happening today is inevitable and the past and the future are one at least for certain processes then the present influences the past to make itself possible.Time has many streams emerging and submerging even to the point of flowing backward to make possible the conditions we have today.

Differential Of Tendency

2005-05-10T05:27:00.000-07:00

Tolstoy said if you want to see what the future will be take the differential of tendency then attain to integration.They say if you want to boil a frog do it slowly and under no circumstances am saying to try this.If you put a frog in hot water he will immediatly jump out but if set into tepid water then the temperature is raised SLOWLY then he will continue sitting there until he is dead.Likewise with humans if freedoms are eroded slowly or taxes raised gently then people become desensitized to the gradual changes and don't notice them.It is only when they step back and view the larger spans of their lives or history do they notice a pattern emerging.The differential is the slow inexorable change in a certain direction and the intergral is the sum of the changes and it is also the direction of the changes.Take a look at your country and it's people and laws perhaps 30 or 40 years ago and ask what has been the differential of change and what will the future bring. Will your children be stranded in the future and strangers in their own land.

The Universe Is A Henkin Sentence

2005-05-05T13:34:00.000-07:00

In order for the universe to exist it will have many qualities the foremost of which is that it can exist or it has a proof of it's own existence.A Henkin sentence is a self referential expression which asserts it's own provability and under the right circumstances existence.If from the world of virtual particles a self referential sentence is constructed using these particles which says of itself the universe will exist beginning with this sentence and it is correctly stated then the universe will of necessity come into being.Properly stated Henkin sentences always tell the truth.Once the particles are arranged to state that the universe is the solution to the statement it will be solved in the shortest possible time and will give rise to explosive growth which will be inflation.When the requisite number of particles and energy is formed then the process will stop and the universe will continue on containing the created matter and energy.The Henkin sentence used as a starting point for the world will be of the implicit kind only asserting it's existence and not giving an explicit derivation for it's solution.This is because it is the most economical to write out compared to an explicit sentence and nature always follows the shortest path.This also means that if it was written by a higher being then he did'nt know the solution and in order to see what would happen the program had to be run.This of course means he cannot be omniscient himself.

The Principle Of Least Action And God Implies That The Universe Is A Mind

2005-05-04T08:06:00.000-07:00

The least action principle is one of the foundations of physics and states that nature does things in the most economical way possible.From light reflecting off a surface or refracting through water to a ball rolling down a hill they all take the shortest path in the dimensions of energy multiplied by time or it's equivalent momentum times distance.Occam's razor is the analogue in information whereby the simplest explanation of a phenomena is the most desirable.So in this way information and the physical world have a parallel.This article itself is an example of that principle whereby I show the validity of my argument using the minimum amount of concepts and still be able to make my point. If this principle did not exist there could be no laws of nature because without some constraints the same experiment would produce different results each time.God of course would be aware of this idea and make full use of it and be bound by it too.So when he created the universe he would arrange it so not only is the universe economical in it's use of resources but will function with the least amount of supervision by him that is zero thereby taking the principle of least action to the limit.Now in order for it to act as if he were directing it at all times it would have to behave as his mind would to make the same decisions as him.So the principle of least action and God implies that the universe perfectly mirrors Gods mind.God and the universe are one and that is a mind.

Economics Is Incomplete

2005-05-02T11:59:00.000-07:00

Since value is the basis of all economic production just as truth is the basis of all mathematical research one would expect in a complete theory of the economy to be able to assign a value to all objects and processes.This of course boils down to constructing a value machine either real or theoretical which can determine the value of everything including itself.However value has an analagous place in economics to that of truth in mathematics it is undefinable.Just as Godel's theorem says that the sentence itself is true and underivable because it is tailor made to be just that likewise we can construct an actual product which cannot derive it's own value.This product is the value proving machine itself since it is constructed to be non halting since there is no way to tell if fed a program whether it will halt.Finding a universal value machine which is the basis of socialism is equivalent to constructing a computer which can tell whether it will halt which is impossible.As such economics must remain forever incomplete.An advanced civilization will realize this so there will be no interstellar Marxists.The "economy" is an abstraction and does not exist as a one.