Need to Connect to First Principles

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Too often, we invent false formulas for confusing ourselves into severing our connections with common sense. These false bases can never adequately inspire or fulfill us, and, when followed to their absurd conclusions, always lead to bitter fruit. If we are not to lose assimilating common sense, there needs to be a spiritual connection built on intuition and empathy, of a kind which cannot be entirely justified in mere empiricism. To appreciate moral issues always necessitates that they be connected back to first principles, not via pure empiricism, but via intuition and empathy that is receptive to the holistic field that defines us and avails us our parameters of freedom and dignity.  The knowitall mindset that ignores that lesson of history is what is dissolving America.
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I would be surprised if the good influence of sacred spiritual authority could be proven empirically. After all, it's spiritual. What I mean is that faithless deceivers can abuse believers, and have done so throughout the ages. IOW, I suspect the indulgence selling Popes, Marjoes, and Jim Jones of the world., i.e., the agents of evil, render empirical efforts too inherently simplistic to help. Indeed, even death and anguish are part of the tool kit for how social evolution is guided. We have common sense qualitative tools of good faith. We can judge intentions by intuitively and empathetically appreciating acts of feedback. Acts are significations, logos. They have meaning in context, not in simplistic, single dimensional analysis. Common sense suggests social assimilation of humble respect for a Reconciler who leads us more by example than by force is needed to lead us to a more decent society. I doubt the issue can be resolved empirically. There are too many factors, many of them being qualitative. No doubt, statisticans can pick facts and variables to serve whatever interests may hire them. In the end, however, it will come down to the common sense of each good faith observer. One crosses the bridge of San Luis Rey with faith in a higher principle of reconciliation, or one does not.

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I doubt cultures, nations, or tribes can be ranked objectively by any mortal in terms of which is best and which is worst. They can be ranked by which averages to express the highest versus lowest number of episodes of violence per 100,000. And they can be ranked along various other single or even multi dimensional scales. However, we have no logical way to objectively quantify the entire flux of all dimensions in order to say which kind of society is best or worst, especially since the very definition of each identifiable society is itself in perpetual flux. (You never step into the same society twice.) Along the way, some will be eating and some will be being eaten. There is no stable, perpetual, objective set of moral laws that applies perpetually to each and all.

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Even so, within the unfolding context, there abides expression and communication of meaningfulness and worthwhile pursuit of fulfillment. Such contextual communication of meaningfulness abides with the measurable aspects of changing significations, i.e., Logos. By (appreciating the flow of) their acts (within a context of changing feedback) shall ye know them.  And that is the connection by which I would intuit and believe, not prove, a test for evaluating social "progress." This is the test: What is needed to establish, sustain, and avail the meaningful COLLECTIVE assimilation of a system of mores that will facilitate the unfolding expression of decent human freedom and dignity among INDIVIDUALS? Fortunately or unfortunately, that is a test that is largely subjective to each person, whether of good will or bad will. Even so, it is a test for which we Pilgrims have a Reconciling Guide.

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A BORGDOM, while pretending to be sufficient in itself, would learn little about the external environment that supports its definition. To learn about that, it would need to send out relatively independent, competent feelers and scouts, able to defend, compete, cooperate, participate, and sense opportunity in relation to the cosmos that unfolds around, as opposed merely to within. It would need to facilitate empathetic appreciation for, and intuitive understanding of, the encompassing, wider, defining environment that is both cooperatively enticing and competitively hostile. A Collective that tried to become its own independent set of particulars, independent of God and the cosmos, that thus tried to substitute itself for God, would make itself irrelevant to God and merely transient to the cosmos.

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In that sense, I use the word "EMPATHY" to relate to feelings that connect the interior and exterior, to experience the exterior as if it were interior, and to experience the interior as if if were exterior, to appreciate the connection between the seemingly unconnected. I use the word "INTUITION" to relate to how empathies are understood and rationalized with Logos. Intuitive appreciation of empathies relates to how a conscious point of view reconciles itself with its contextual field of consciousness, i.e., how it reconciles quantitative significations and signs with qualitatively unfolding mores and purposes, i.e., how it under-stands subjective "ought" from objective "is," i.e., how it receives feedback to guide its service towards the unfolding direction of the Reconciling Field, i.e., how the SINGULARITY may transcend the collectivity and individuality.

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Money as Logos for Communicating Social Debt Forward

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Before people can feel safe to gather in communities, they need means to dignify personal space and property, and they need logos to signify mutual honesty, good will, reason for trust, and inter personal contracts. Thereafter, people in any given community compete and cooperate to set up claims among themselves to allow them to live together — socially and decently. They often monetize inter personal claims and exchanges, so that each person is availed means and logos for assessing his relative standing. Relative claims to monetized wealth avail people with quick means for communicating social priorities and for communicating who has earned legitimate standing to set such priorities. Thus, it is important that money be kept a secure form for storing authority to bid and place values within any given marketplace of fluxing production and changing fads and interests. The legitimacy of this gets complicated when oligarchies accumulate position and means for manipulating entire markets and relative values of currencies (which, at bottom, are nothing more than significations of agreed extensions of relative trust, credit, and authority for directing and demanding production). At bottom, the legitimacy of trust and money depends on respect for traditions. Without respect for marketplace traditions for determining values, there is no basis for representing values in money. Once collectivizers take over setting the value of currencies by fiat, they are soon tempted to set the value of all social relations by fiat. Soon, they are tempted to replace the authority of the family with the authority of those who control the collective. Thus, the setting of values by a marketplace of exchanges of goods and ideas among individually dignified buyers and sellers is replaced by a cohort of crony controllers of the collective. This cohort takes over the setting of values for currencies, goods, fads, and even fundamental mores — all to the purpose of consolidating cynical crony control, to the godless annihilation of the freedom and dignity of each individual and family. God is replaced by “utopia” (and you had best like it, if you know what’s good for you/sarc). Since a crony cohort cannot possibly make the myriad of decisions that are involved in exchanges of goods and ideas in any complex community, it soon abandons the attempt and turns instead to manipulating ways to preserve its power and position, such as by inducing public obeisance with hired thugs (get on your marching shoes and revenge the vote!), thereby inducing feelings of fear and hopelessness. Thus are God and human dignity sold out to secular material wants and faux utopia. Get your freak on.
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Wittgenstein Passing Over in Silence

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Wittgenstein's Notion: "what can be said [known?] at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence"

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I would amend to say: what can be said measurably can be said mathematically, and what we cannot measure, we must pass over quantitatively (but not qualitatively ... and not "in silence)."

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After all, a great deal can reasonably and self-evidently be experienced, feared, praised, and appreciated without its being reducible to measurable, quantitative clarity. That is the realm of the subjective, qualitative, analogical, metaphorical, intuitive, empathetic, fluxing, observer-affected feedback. Indeed, if we did not try to communicate concerning our subjectively immeasurable experiences, interests, and fluxing apprehensions, we would deny ourselves opportunity for communicating about much of anything.

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As to "clarity," excepting trivialities, there is no thing-in-itself that we do know. Yes, we know mathematical equations concerning relational translations, but they are set true by trivial definition. We know geometric properties, which, again, are true by definition. That is, each unfoldment of the cosmos obeys self-defining, self-conserving equations, even though the set of possible or potential unfoldments seems to be unbounded. In the "physics of math," we experience vibrations of vibrations of an empty set. But what do we "know" of any vibration-in-itself, or even whether any such a thing exists? We "know" very little, yet neither we nor the cosmos "passes over" such lack of knowledge in silence. Of measureables, we empirically ascertain relationships that are conserved in obedience to equations that can be ascertained.   However, not even the Higgs Boson is a thing in itself.  It is a relationship that marks the enforcement of mathematical limits for the unfolding experience of possibilities determined within such vectoring fields of math with which we happen to share, for bonding and communicating such interests as are appreciated in respect of our iterative expressions of a reconciling Identity that is, in itself, not measurable.  Thus, we learn ways that work within a given context for measuring measurements of measureables. Apart from that, there is no thing-in-itself that we know in terms of being able to measure. Only a fool expects he should be able to confine and measure God.

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Our subjective brain's interpretation of our sensory experiences helps us represent, conceptualize, rationalize, and analogize. We don't sense or "know" any measureable truth-in-itself. We only measure conservational relationships and aspects of vibrations of vibrations, given to us as being true by such context as happens to define us. In a way, our senses are aspects of the cosmos, trivially and self-evidently sensing measurable aspects and unfolding relations and perspectives of itself. But how do we interpret, analogize, model, and qualitatively appreciate such aspects as the cosmos relates to us? We don't objectively measure gradations of art or subjective appreciation. We intuit, empathize about, analogize, and qualitatively appreciate subjective experiences, holistically. But even though we cannot "know" such experiences in the sense of objectively measuring them, there is no reason to expect that we must or should "pass over them" in silence.
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Empathy, Love, and Sex

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LOVE V. PURPOSEFUL EMPATHY:  It makes little sense to say God is love.  Not in the sense of tolerating everything.  If God tolerated everything, then spiritual guidance would be nonsensical.  If evolution is guided, it is via spiritual feedback from the holistic field to its variously expressed particulars.  If that Field is morally relevant, then it is qualitatively discriminatory in its unfolding, reconciling appreciation.  For purposes of spiritual guidance, it makes moral sense to conceptualize God as purposeful empathetic feedback, not as omni-tolerance.  Omnitolerance makes no moral sense when it advocates that the good and competent should allow themselves to be swept away by the unprincipled and incompetent.  Technology temporarily allows much of the world, out of locales of overabundant compassion, to carry the hormonally prisoned and morally handicapped to such an extent that they have "unionized."  As useful stooges, they now control voting majorities, as well as every institution of social significance --- including most churches.  After all, a majority of Catholics voted for the Chief of the Incompetents, Obama.  And the Unitarian Church seems to have filled a niche to become spiritual headquarters for inculcating moral zombies with some absurd notion that the world is morally obliged not only to accomodate, but to entitle enrich and service the most blinkered, who give no thought beyond basest hormonal urges with regard to the family values it takes to establish and preserve a society of decent human freedom and dignity.  It's not God who is marginalized.  Rather, this millenium is a highly transitional one.  The unprincipled and incompetent are allowed to rise only as catalysts for transition to more mature appreciation of the spirituality of the Cosmos.  The unfolding pursuit of fulfilling moral competence continues.  God is guiding empathy, not omnitolerant love.
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WHY SEX?   Sex entails contemporaneous feedback communication of an intimate aspect. As such, it is not uncommon as a means for propagating genes beyond the death of the parent organism.  However, why does sexual reproduction seem to be more prevalent than asexual reproduction? Why are selective mating rituals more common than indiscriminate snake ballings? Such questions tend to baffle those who believe evolution is unguided. Why would nature favor sexual versus asexual reproduction? I suspect The answer is less in non-purposeful evolution than in purposeful spiritual evolution. The reason nature seems to favor sexual reproduction may not be found in purely purposeless evolution. It may be that sex serves as a logos, a way to communicate significance in reconciliations. Reproduction via sexual bondings often depends on communication of cooperative appreciation. It avails partners who are incomplete or deficient with respect to their niches to seek partners who may complement and complete their genetic deficiencies. It promotes social understanding by facilitating intimate communications. Over time, it may help separate honesty from flattery. May there abide a kind of meta guidance, that wants marriage to consist in a sexual relationship between one man and one woman? Such a social strategy would seem to promote a best possible distribution of happy communication within a population. It would promote a most compensatory assortment of genetic complementation. Individualy discriminatory sex tends to discourage reproduction of genes and traits that are situationally undesireable or incompetent to their niches. Non-discriminatory sex tends to produce ghettos filled with fatherless children. That is a strategy for substituting the State for the family as the prime institution for inculcating the values of the next generation.

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PROBLEM: Absent social re-weighting (tax credits?), would marriage credits not tend to overfavor the competent elderly at the expense of the un-established youth?
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BORGDOM, while pretending to be sufficient in itself, would learn little about the external environment that supports its definition. To learn about that, it would need to send out relatively independent, competent feelers and scouts, able to defend, compete, cooperate, participate, and sense opportunity in relation to the cosmos that unfolds around, as opposed merely to within. It would need to facilitate empathetic appreciation for, and intuitive understanding of, the encompassing, wider, defining environment that is both cooperatively enticing and competitively hostile. A Collective that tried to become its own independent set of particulars, independent of God and the cosmos, that thus tried to substitute itself for God, would make itself irrelevant to God and merely transient to the cosmos.

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In that sense, I use the word "EMPATHY" to relate to feelings that connect the interior and exterior, to experience the exterior as if it were interior, and to experience the interior as if if were exterior, to appreciate the connection between the seemingly unconnected. I use the word "INTUITION" to relate to how empathies are understood and rationalized with Logos (words, signs, and measured significations). Intuitive appreciation of empathies relates to how a conscious point of view reconciles itself with its contextual field of consciousness, i.e., how it reconciles quantitative significations and signs with qualitatively unfolding mores and purposes, i.e., how it under-stands subjective "ought" from objective "is," i.e., how it receives and interprets feedback to guide its service towards the unfolding direction of the Reconciling Field, i.e., how the SINGULARITY may transcend the collectivity and the individuality. In factoring Empathy, I would ask: how may the Reconciler be changing; when may hard knocks be more empathetic than smoothing the way; when will training to be tough be better than seeing to comfort; what is the desired ideal or end or Singularity; what would the Reconciler want; is it a system that facilitates decent communication, cooperation, and competition among relatively INDEPENDENT human beings, superior to other beings; or is it a system that facilitates decent communication, cooperation, and competition among relatively CO-DEPENDENT human beings within a collective republic that is based on sustainable checks and balances; or is it some SINGULARITY that transcends individuality and collectivity? I am more concerned with empathy for Truth, God, Country, and Family, more so than empathy for fellow gang members.

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The object of empathy is understanding. The object of sympathy is the other person’s well being. Sympathy relates to pity, while empathy relates to understanding and connection. Empathy relates to apprehending how every seemingly independent particular perspective of consciousness is a perspectivistic iteration of the same quality or holism of consciousness. Empathy seeks to appreciate what it may be like to be another person, not to justify him, but to judge how he should best be incented, perhaps either to sustain a republic of independents or a republic of co-dependents. Empathy is not concerned with judging the immortal souls of persons, but with judging behaviors sponsored by persons. It factors judgment, rather than hidebound and inflexible rules that are inappropriate to situations that call for judgmental flexibility. To me, empathy should relate to what it takes to preserve a republic (a collective of relatively independent citizens under law) that accords decent human (individual) freedom and dignity (self responsibility for grown ups). Empathy entails receptive responsiveness to reconciling, responsible, adult feedback. It entails complex reconciliation of, and identification and bonding with, competing facts and cooperating aspirations

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Old Nick

Mankind's destiny seems to be to take the measure of all that is measurable. Mankind's delusion seems to be to reduce the obviously Immeasurable to the merely measurable. Mankind's faith will eventually become to appreciate the Immeasurable ... intuitively, empathetically, metaphorically, and morally, without needing to try to reduce it. Mankind has evolved through societies of spirit-medicine men, gatherers, hunters, livestock keepers, farmers, technologists, traders, bankers, and corporatists. Leaders have ruled through clergy, raiders, land-based aristocrats with personal armies, banker-based despots with national armies, and now ... international corporation-based NWO elitists with access to computer-age, internet-monitoring dossiers and WMD information. Each step along the unfolding sequence has entailed much questioning of the previous step. The duration of each step has been cut short by each succeeding step by at least half.

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Along the way, human ingenuity has been pent up by authoritative stages of clergymen, noblemen, slavers, and repressers. As it became safer to question such repressers, enlightenment sprang forth. Out sprang the renaissance, reformation, industrial age, and now the information age. The pace of enlightenment and dissemination of information and technology has become breath-taking. Unmonitored individuals have become able to be threats to states. This danger is not welcomed by those who have become invested in the establishment, who have consolidated wealth and influence. Now, they stage Rino-Dino circuses to ally political operatives bent on erasing national borders and moral boundaries, while inviting the masses with cheap bribes in order to put them safely away in stocks.

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Thus, enlightenment became confused with habits of questioning, even ridiculing, of previous moral authorities. Now, even foundations for republics are ridiculed and reviled. As stated by Kyle Becker, in today's article at A,erican Thinker, The Triumph of the State, "Men do not seek out punishment for achievement, but they will take the road of least resistance to failure if subsidized by the state -- and particularly if cheered on the entire way by the anti-competitive elites who cynically and gleefully wield a monopoly of coercion."

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Now, every infantile ridiculer feels invited to believe he's some kind of renaissance man, while having all the enlightenment of a jealous cow. Thus is paved the way for New Doperspeak, where it's thought to be moral to be amoral, virtuous to be selfish, progressive to acculturate entitlement-mindedness, good to be covetous, and bad to respect the reconciling spirit of The Immeasurable beyond the confining gates of churches. For newly enlightened infants of the Left, what is immeasurable must not exist. However, their axiom proves too much and ends up devouring itself. We are finally beginning to apprehend that all that is manifest, empirical, measurable existence may be nothing more than a burp out of an empty set, a bubble from a "nothing-something" that is simply Immeasurable, yet exists. Because IT exists, IT only seems irrelevant to qualitative concerns when IT is ignored. When IT comes to concerns of morality that cannot be derived simply from the measurable, IT becomes infinitely and perpetually relevant. IT is heard in the still quiet voice of intuitive good faith and empathetic good will.

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Yet, there remains great accultured momentum behind the now habituated and hubristic pretense of being enlightened merely by questioning, and especially by reviling, the very existence of an Immeasurable reconciler for moral guidance, and most especially by substituting oneself for God. It was right that mankind should question the authority of mere mortals pretending to speak authoritatively for God or the Immeasurable aspects of Reality.   Of God, mortals should speak in terms of belief, intuitive good faith, empathetic good will, and receptive appreciation.  However, there obviously abides an active and Immeasurable Source, of which it is hubristically ignorant and absurd to claim to be morally irrelevant or measurably disproved. Rather, IT is the spiritual foundation for guiding feedback in the unfolding of human decency and discourse. To ignore IT, to revile IT, to drive IT from the public square, is to harness oneself as livestock for the use and abuse of the most cynical and depraved. Indeed, that depravity has now sunk the American Republic.

Who Lost America

The Tea Party did not lose the election.  The election was lost by a Rino Dino Axis. What the world has once again come face to face with is a very Old Nemesis:  Godless, spiritless, faithless, crony corruption, i.e., Evil prancing and masquerading as good, promoting (irresponsible-cynical-hormonal-collective) Security over (responsible-charitable-purposeful-individual) Liberty.  That is, promoting lies purely for personal comfort (pot), pleasure (porn), and promotion (plunder).  These lies are promoted to the most gullible and incompetent, whose numbers are transformed into power by harvesting the votes of the most stupid and corrupt.  The biggest and most sinister of lies this Evil has promoted include the following:
- GAIA MUST BE WORSHIPPED: that Gaia is dying because of the sin of an excess of middle class liberty;
- AMERICA IS EVIL: that America is a nemesis of Gaia, so its territorial borders and moral boundaries must be erased;
- TRADITIONAL SACRED METAPHORS CAUSE SUFFERING: that a wall for separating traditional religious-based morality from the public square is not an establishment of false secular religion, with elites of Marxism and Islam substituted for spirit-guided respect for human individuals;
- SOCIAL JUSTICE ELITISTS SERVE GAIA:  that the proper office of crony elitists is to protect all plants and animals of Gaia from human beings, all of whom, save elitists, are rogues when they act as individuals;
- HISTORY IS SCIENTIFICALLY PROGRESSIVE: that Marxist and Islamic based humanities are morally-progressive, social "sciences";
- COWS ARE ENTITLED TO A LIVING: that the middle class must be collectivized so that wealth can be extracted and distributed, so that all who serve (Elitists of) the State will receive their fair share, to which they are entitled;
- ELITISTS CAN BE TRUSTED TO BE FAIR: that "fairness" requires that power and wealth be consolideted into benevolent elites (aka elitists), who should be entrusted to effect redistributions to those cultures that most cheaply produce cows that can be recruited and harvested;
- THE AMERICAN FAMILY IS ARCHAIC AND STIFLING: that the traditional family must be destroyed, because middle-class families can no longer be trusted to raise their own children;
- ELDERS (NOT SERVING SOROS) ARE WORTHLESS: that old people who disagree with collectivization-for-security under elites are old dogs who cannot be taught needed new tricks, and they therefore should be ridiculed, reviled, and revenged from the public square;
- DIVERSITY IS NOT A FRONT FOR DIVIDE AND RULE: that elite-guided respect for hyphenated, cultural diversity is not a front for dissolving middle-class respect for human liberty;
- WALL STREETERS HAVE SOCIAL CONSCIENCES: that joining with Chicoms in order to manipulate markets and ship entire industries abroad is the kind of free trade that will lift all boats.
These are the ideas of corrupt, spirit-dead, cronies.  They are not the ideas of youth.  They are the ideas of a very old Evil, injected into sociopathic, political fashion-leaders among youth, for the purpose of recruiting clueless and insecure youth in order to corrupt common decency and divide and rule humanity.  These are the ideas of an unholy axis of Rinos and Dinos.  That axis has now sunk America.  These are the spirit-dead ideas that a new party of Conservers of Liberty must confront, if human freedom and dignity are ever to be revived.  If confronting these ideas is what caused Romney to lose the election, then America was already lost.  In that case, the most important thing to preserve is the possibility of a new beginning, which cannot be preserved under the sponsorship of the unholy Rino Dino alliance of spirit dead cronies and political zombies.

Conservation in the Spiritual

What is The Possible? For each instant of digital exchange for a perspective of consciousness, the realm of the expressible possible consists in all of infinity and eternity that does not then and there violate mathematical rules that conserve such perspective and with which the identity of such perspective bonds to an unfolding dance.

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The role of math is to require that every measurable exchange must obey the rule of equational conservation. Measurables are always balanced to conservation. What often becomes out of spiritual balance is the sustainability of apprehensions and purposes among varying perspectives of consciousness, leading to a local expiration of some perspectives and expansion of others. For those who purpose to preserve a decent civilization for availing human freedom and dignity, things are locally spiraling out of whack.