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Putting Respectability Back Into The Metaphysics Of Deriving Ought From Is:
Putting Respectability Back Into The Metaphysics Of Deriving Ought From Is:
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USING MATH TO RATIONALIZE A MORAL WORLDVIEW: Intuitive to any conceptionalizing by consciousness, it seems that some relationship, aspect, thing, or essence must avail the means or building blocks in respect of which all that manifests to measurability transpires. Might that aboriginal consist in an inseparable relationship between (1) space—time, (2) field of gravity—sum of gravitons, and/or (3) holistic field of consciousness—sum of perspectives of consciousness? Might that fluxing trinity of conservational relationships (Intangible INFORMATION, Measurable Logos of SUBSTANCE, Quality of CONSCIOUSNESS) all abide as masks for one common, reconciling Holism? Might the conservational aspect of each be preserved for every attempted measure because of an innate dependency, such that no perspective could otherwise be conserved to take a measure?
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Whatever the nature, character, or relationship of the Aboriginal-Potential, mixture, or constituency, it could not itself be measured directly, precisely, and locally, because the Aboriginal partakes of the absolute and eternal, while all terms and patterns by which relative measures of the Aboriginal's direction, precision, and locus could be taken are partaken by its temporal inferiors and derived in circular respect of the Aboriginal. No part, by summing all parts within its class, can measure the potential of the entire class — especially where the class may be one of a kind, meaning that: the class is not inferior to any higher class; its parts cannot be reduced to a static calculation of non-fluxing parts that are mutually exclusive yet exhaustive of their class; and the attempt from any particular perspective of the class to take such measure would necessarily entail such perspective’s taking a point of view, which would necessarily entail a focus that, by infinite regress, could never fully account for its own act of taking a measure. In other words, a particular thing cannot take or record a non-trivial or meaningful measure in terms only of itself, nor can it measure its encompassing cosmos, without having capacity to include a measure of itself.
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Assume the Aboriginal-Fluxing-Potential cannot in itself be measured directly, precisely, and locally because, in its relationship with us, it abides as a "Fluxing Holism," not limited to any transposing particular. If so, QUESTION:
Assume the Aboriginal-Fluxing-Potential cannot in itself be measured directly, precisely, and locally because, in its relationship with us, it abides as a "Fluxing Holism," not limited to any transposing particular. If so, QUESTION:
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Even if the Aboriginal-Fluxing-Potential cannot in itself be measured directly, precisely, and locally, may aspects of its fundamental flux, dance, or relationship yet be measured — by temporal, transposing, intelligent, particular perspectives like us — non-locally and practically, in respect of large scale statistics, and in respect of large scale purposes? I think yes --- provided the measurer declines to imagine an infinity of unknowable parallel universes and pagan fairies. Otherwise, the “derivation of ought from is” would always remain impracticably metaphysical --- both for spiritualists and for scientists.
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RESPONSIBILITY UNTO GOD: East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. The malleability of probability-based, multi-verse, fairy-logic that is accessible to moralists of all stripes — spiritual, secular, and scientific --- avails easy rationalization for dividing and ruling cultures among the most absurd range of idealizations, varying from eternal choirs of angels, to let me get mine and let the devil take the hindmost, to live free or die, to the only moderates are the dead armadillos in the middle of the road with a yellow stripe painted over them, to solipsistic justifications for reducing everyone else to slavery, to submit or lose your head, to save Earth by wiping out most of humanity, to hell-jihadis for a vengeful Allah. Humanity’s imagination is our glory as well as our curse. What tends to be lost is regard for the moral responsibility that is inseparable from each human potential. A yin and yang abides: (1) the quality of one’s regard, or lack thereof, for a higher Reconciler versus (2) the respect one intuits, or fails to intuit, that such higher Reconciler accords in feedback to each person’s sense of purposefulness. In other words, the power of positive thinking is accompanied by a flip side: Tremendous moral responsibility for participating in feedback with the Holism in the unfolding design for our beingness. The-evil-in-that-which-is-only-the-possible is not the-shadow-of-that-which-is-inevitable. Working together, believers and non-believers have (1) potential to produce civilization that accords decent freedom and dignity (City on a Hill) versus (2) potential to produce collectively-blessed, scientifically-rationalized hell for most everyone on Earth (Big Brother). The teeming, Wretched Refuse who are collectivizing and drowning America tend to be the sociopaths, regime-paid-scientists, moral-socialists, multiverse-rationalists, fairy-jinn-pagans, non-responsible-entitlementarians, charity-forcing Obama-devotees, free-trading-with-despots-libertarians, and faux-Progressives who are “objectively indifferent” to the tremendous moral responsibility that correlates with each thinking individual. By that I mean that the individual means nothing to the regimes and marketplaces of such Wretched Refuse. So, there is no one these Refuse need think twice about before sacrificing to the new, blood-thirsty, pagan-Gods and Isms of our Age. Indeed, the Regime’s prettiest song is the Islamic call to prayer, the man most admired is none other than the champion death dealer of all time, Mao Zedong, and the biggest trading partnership is with the Princelings who run the new despotic China. This unspeakable atrocity need not continue as America’s destiny, but Americans are well down this path. Read Bowing to Beijiing.
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CIVILIZATION IS IN A DIFFICULT ADOLESCENCE: Our problem is not that God grants too few of our prayers. Our problem is that God, perhaps out of a spiritual co-dependence with us, grants more of our prayers than we, in our spiritual adolescence, have yet learned to take sane responsibility for. Examples: Iran prays for nukes, and is prepared to take the consequences only because Iran's state religion is insane. For 3 years, Obama prayed for: (1) spending increases, (2) Obamacare, (3) the humbling of America, (4) greater respect for Islamic and Communist regimes, (5) general amnesty for border jumpers by executive malfeasance, (6) downgrading of State's rights, (7) power to wage war by executive fiat, (8) shadow government by Czarlings in love with Mao, (9) the organizing of entitlement minded communities, and (10) a juggernaut of elitist enabling institutions. Those 10 prayers were granted him. Yet now he blames everyone but himself for the collateral damage, which easily should have been foreseeable to any responsible-minded adult. This is naked, spiritual hollowness dressed up in personal hubris, and this hollowing, unconscionable, infantilism is now epidemic in America. Until children develop a mature conscience, they must go through a phase where they believe much more in themselves than in God or their parents. The longer adolescents are apologized for, while their immediate welfare is sheltered from the consequences, the longer many remain in spiritual adolescence (like Muslims, Collectivists, and Black Liberation Theologists). All the power in the world cannot lead an adolescent to spiritual maturity until he becomes prepared to take personal responsibility for his fondest prayers. God allows the world to endure the consequences of its bad choices. America will recover when the Republic learns to stop sheltering adolescents from the consequences of praying for more than they are prepared to take responsibility for. Maybe a day of Thanksgiving will help us learn to be thankful for the opportunity to learn from our mistakes.
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2 comments:
What is needed is not America's stand-down, nor less representative democracy, but a more faith-and-value-enlightened electorate. Too many libertarians, populists, and elitists think godless-pure-calculations-and-reason can prove what is in the best interest of all. As if math can measure the-greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number ... or some other silly shibboleth. As if moral consciousness were nothing but inferior-derivative of substance-ruled, objectively-indifferent, random-unfoldings-of-natural-selection ... so that the only problem is to pre-determine, mathematically-and-empirically, who's most fit to survive or flourish. As if conscious beings should have no innate, spiritual, empathetic, emotive responsibility superior to the mathematically indifferent empiricism of reigning architects.
Pause to consider what empirical-minded rulers and elites have given humanity. Flip the question: What atrocities have historical-progressives not rationalized in numbers? What millions have true-believing moral-empiricists murdered to usher us towards objective-based superior economies? In cold math, what means cannot be morally justified by the end of a superior economy or a green Gaia? Isn't it unsound to surrender rule to objective-based (or even context-blind-holy-book-based) "moral-experts," without being availed contextual reference by which to evaluate the ends they would pursue with all means?
Look above empirical substance and misleading-economic-numbers, or at least across, to the essence of conscious moral empathy: meaningful feedback with higher reconciling purpose. Look beyond choosing which collectives-of-appetites and which markets-of-stomachs to entertain, entitle, or eliminate. Competition for mass markets and appetites is what Marxist, Muslim, and Money collectivists are infesting Earth with --- even as America stands in default, rendered impotent by diversely-amoral, collectivist-calculations (such as numbers of jobs saved or created, amounts of production of junk, dollars of fiat money printed, numbers of collectivists educated, and popularity of regimes among collectivists and elitists). More than mere numbers and empiricism, if governance, trade, and defense are to be smart to moral purpose, a test guide is needed: What is now called for to sustain civilization that accords decent respect for individual liberty? For Paul to lose sight of that guide would be to offer America to winds of despots posing as number crunchers.
Re: "If goods don't cross borders, armies will"
Well, armies will cross borders whether goods cross or not. Among nations of disproportionate strength, there are reasons goods crossing might defer armies crossing. It may be well to evaluate those reasons. The stronger or more callous might be milking all they want through intimidation. Or each might be becoming more like an adjunct of the other. Or one might be biding its time, stealing technologies and intelligence, waiting to strike until a crisis of opportunity presents. If the U.S. intends to defer hostilities by trade, as opposed to overwhelming military technological prowess, some concerns present: Are we comfortable establishing a pattern of being easily intimidated? Are we becoming more like our trading partners by replacing liberty with despotic ruled collectivism? Are we opening the store to gangs of thieves? Let's be frank. The shibboleth first referenced above would focus one's attention more clearly were it to say: If tribute isn't paid, bad guys will have to be faced up to. The question you have to ask yourself is this: Are you better off facing down the bad guys before you have enriched them with tribute and allowed their wise guys to buy and rot out your quislings from within?
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