OF HUBRIS AND HUMILITY:
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Why is it that testing for God (Holistic Consciousness) or for God's responsiveness seems to be appropriate for consideration only in respect of empathetic intuition, and not in respect of empirical or statistical analysis? Well, Consciousness carries capacity to appreciate the present and to apprehend potentials. So, it can evaluate the present as good or bad or neutral, and it can set precedents in responsive feedback. It can follow along and make modificatons as deemed appropriate. Thus, Conscious Will tunes some precedents to harden into rules, some into randomized associations, and some into contemporaneous changings. Consciousness determines that some relations will be guided or determined contemporaneously, some will be pre-determined, and some will be left to algorithmic randomization.
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That which unfolds and evolves is of a mix, but every aspect of the mix that feeds back to our particular, experiential perspectives has first --- either in contemporaneous sequence or previous sequence --- been affected by the Holism, as the singularly synchronizing re-normalizing reconciling and unifying agent of conservation. The more skilled we become in associating with that part of the mix that entails pre-determinants and randomized determinants, the more we may tend to assume there is no contemporaneous guidance from the Holism. The less we look for such guidance, the less we seem to intuit it. The more we demand empirically quantitative proof of that which is beyond proof in quantification or statistics, the more morally arbitrary, alone and apart we seem to become. Conversely, the more hubristically we assume that the interests of God are entirely consonant with our own particularly developed interests, the more dogmatically despotic we become. Moral guidance seems to be non-quantitative: Temper humility with moral receptivity.
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Consciousness implicates a Character of conservation, under whose limits degrees of freedom of expression are made possible.
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Consciousness implicates a Character of conservation, under whose limits degrees of freedom of expression are made possible.
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RELIGION that appeals to one's free thinking and free will pertains to respect for metaphors for how to sanely moderate one's will as one seeks to communicate and reconcile one's self with the cosmos. UNSANITY that overpowers one's free thinking and free will pertains to confusion of metaphors with the moral truth behind them. Unsanity tends to immoderate, unbalance, subjugate, and annihilate one's capacity to seek to reconcile anyone with the cosmos. INSANITY pertains to the loss of control and complete submission of one's self in order to deny the cosmos and disintegrate and diminish those who affirm and retain will to reconcile with the cosmos, as their minds perceive the cosmos to be. Insanity seeks the "peace" of annihilation of self and all others.
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From A.T. --- Re: "What needs to sink into the Western people's minds is the realization that, to the Muslims, the idea of freedom and free thinking is largely an alien concept."
Well, it's hard to see how one could hope to live a moral life while not taking responsibility for one's own thinking! Yet, modern Islam continues to make that its project. Having accepted a mortal as a perfect messenger of God, Islam has made the worst of a mix of humility and moral receptivity: Its practitioners tend to be so humble that they do not think beyond what they are told they must believe, yet they are so receptive to what they are told they must believe that they become easily recruited as crazed agents of despotism. Consciousness implicates a Character of conservation, under whose limits are made possible degrees of freedom of expression. When freedom of expression and enterprise are suffocated, we may as well embrace becoming rocks.
The more we demand empirically quantitative proof of that which is beyond proof in quantification or statistics, the more morally arbitrary, alone and apart we seem to become. Conversely, the more hubristically we assume that the interests of God are entirely consonant with our own particularly developed interests or with those of our elite masters, the more dogmatically despotic we become. Moral guidance seems to be non-quantitative: Temper yourself with humility and moral receptivity --- not from man, but from your own subjective intuition, empathy, experience, insight, and thinking. The Character that underlies the cosmos is the only perfect holy logos, not Any bookish collection of often poorly interpreted metaphors, fables, and (when taken literally) bad science.
Sleep and meditation reinforce the capacity for the minde (field-particle feedback) to experience representations upon representations, abstractions upon abstractions ... to intuit the nature of all models as being derivative of consciousness, secondary to experience or communication of feedback between a fluxing holism and its iteratively fleeting representations and avatars.
When a criminal corporation or collective gets big or wealthy enough, it can buy influence that will empower it to run roughshod over mere law. It is nonsense to expect decent individuals to compete in an "open market" against such collectives. It is nonsense to expect to preserve an open market without undertaking to reduce corporations to the rule of law, as opposed to the buying of law. It is nonsense to expect international law to control corporations that are sponsored by criminal nations. It is nonsense to expect to rehabilitate criminal nations by destroying the culture of our own nation, in order to render foreign depredations no longer criminal.
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