The Economics Of Pleasure and Pain

All living organisms, from the most primitive virus to the most sophisticated of mankind, demonstrate intelligent realization of five primal motivations, these being:

1. The Creation of Valuable Manifestations, the first of these being the creation and reproduction of self. We are all motivated to express ourselves and realize the fullness of our nature over time. The more primitive the life form, the more reproduction is chemical duplication and the more sophisticated the life form, the more valuable manifestations are of a mental and abstract nature such as in Art or Politics, as well as physical reproduction with far more genetic variables as happens when male and female entities reproduce, in plants and sundry kinds of animals among them  mammals like us. Every living creature of every kind survives by turning something  into something else. This is as true for viruses which turn microbes and human cells into virus factories as well as shoemakers, who turn cows into shoes. All living things manifest some kind of self creation through nutrition and nutrition itself is self creation by breaking something down into elements and then building one self up with the elements thus attained, manifesting this way self creation, which is a valuable manifestation, is it not?

2. The Maintenance and Preservation of Valuable Manifestations, this being the continued acquirement of the means of mechanization of self reproduction and the acquirement of nutrients to enable the perpetuation of self creation. This also means the removal of toxic waste from within the areas of self creation (self manifestation) and the constant removal of materiel detrimental to self creation from the environment, such as dirt and dust and germs and dirty laundry. Cleaning one's self and one's  blood relatives from invasive elements on a routine basis is an act of maintenance seen in higher life forms like cats and monkeys of all kinds.

3. The Multiplication and Expansion of Valuable Manifestations is the logical consequence of creation, preservation and maintenance. As long as these activities are maintained over time, the quantity of organisms will grow exponentially and occupy an ever growing space in the biosphere, as well as maintain self identity for an ever growing duration. One might liken this to an ever growing, self sustaining bubble of reproducing life entities, that share nearly identical or very similar DNA.  Each one of these biological bubbles competes for living space and assets on the level of the individual organisms such as in sibling rivalry as well as on  far vaster scales where each species spreads out throughout the biosphere, enveloping ever more space, changing the nature of the environment by turning everything it can into an extension of its self or into an asset for survival. Everything alive from the level of any kind of living cell is a composite of living entities cooperating in a symbiotic relationship of self perpetuation, suggesting that conflict and the annihilation of other life forms isn't always necessary for increasing self duration. 

4. Multiplication and Expansion inevitably lead to barriers that prevent the increase of living space or the multiplication of the number of organisms. Therefor Attacking Barriers to Expansion and Overcoming Inhibitions to Multiplication is The Fourth Valuable Manifestation. This is less an issue for more "primitive" microscopic organisms that live in the sea, not an issue for the vast majority of viral life forms and becomes an increasing issue for more sophisticated  land based organisms for whom living space is more a survival issue than creatures of the sea. Microbes and viruses overcome barriers to expansion through mutation. Land animals through migration. The development  of means to overcome barriers to expansion is mostly expressed in the affairs of human beings and was most pronounced in the history of past empires up to modern times as warfare and the development of weapons intended to defeat and remove barriers to the expansion of national entities and their political, cultural and economic interests.  Whatever the kind of organism, if it is unable to increase its living space or fails to remove and dispose of its waste products, it will eventually poison itself with its own toxic secretions. This was a means of waging war against walled cities, as in a siege the population was prevented the acquirement of sustenance as well as prevented from removing waste products, causing the widespread of disease. The germs and sundry disease causing microbes were happy about this, I am sure. Today more than ever, overcoming barriers to the expansion of political, military, economic, ideological, technology, surveillance, etc., Valuable Manifestations  into the minds of ever more individuals, is a prime focus for the application of  human intelligence as such expresses itself in social media on the internet. It has all become an activity of the mind. Perhaps it always was?

5. The Fifth  Valuable Manifestation is The Demonstration of the Ability to Defend One's Self and One's Assets from the encroachment of foreign influences intent on turning one's self  into "nutrients" by breaking one's self down into more basic ingredients for a foreign entity's consumption, thus corrupting and destroying one's identity. One can defend one's self through retreat if there is living space available elsewhere, but by the nature of life itself, this can only be a temporary solution.   One can also defend one's self by waging war against the invading foreign influence, first within one's own living space, by using antibiotics for example, when germs encroach or through preventive measures such as vaccines against pathogenic microbes and viruses. On a larger scale one can resort to building ghettos and then deporting and exterminating Jews, if one sees their being as a threat against one's own identity, for example. Manifesting Self Defense is definitely a  necessity, life behaving as it does, endlessly seeking to self propagate and expand at the expense of other life forms when it can't cultivate them and enter into a symbiotic exchange of  mutual Valuable Manifestation as exists between humans and chickens, for example, though some might argue that chickens are being abused as regards the quality of their life when compared to human beings.

We can sum these motivations up by summarizing them as , Create, Preserve, Expand, Attack and Defend.

Now I wish to postulate that these five intents are all it takes to understand the behavior of all living things, but of  particular interest, human behavior.

First it is demonstrable that human procreation produces groups of competing entities on an organic level, as said before in sibling rivalry, as well as on a far more complex, sophisticated and abstract level, as in the rivalry between great business corporations. Whatever be the nature of the asset, once it is deemed an asset, every one is trying to create valuable self serving manifestations of attainment, preservation and expansion of the quantity and  quality of the self serving valuable asset. This is glaringly obvious in relationship to something as abstract as money. If one makes money by producing shoes and exchanging them for money, leather becomes a valuable asset. One strives to acquire leather, preserve that so acquired, expand one's inventory so as to meet the needs of a hopefully growing market and ever improve the quality of leather attained so as to increase the value of one's shoes and finally the sum of money received in exchange for them. One does the same thing with the money received. One strives to ever increase sales locations and volume so as to increase revenue. The greater the interest received for money accumulated and growing in bank accounts, the higher its value. And so and so on.

Once value is assigned to something, whatever it be, however strange its nature, a human being will begin to manifest these behaviors regarding it. On a materiel  level, food, clothing and shelter are examples of things people want more of. But what about something far more abstract, like an education? One values the attainment of knowledge itself for different possible reasons, the foremost and most common being financial. One learns a profession or a trade so as to attain the finances needed to acquire food, clothing and expansive living space, as well as the valuable manifestation of sex and the attainment of a mate and the production of similar versions of one's self, offspring.  Obviously, everything is somehow connected. Values compete in one's mind for attention and energy.

If one likens the mind to the biosphere, one could say different values compete for valuable self manifestation in the mind and to do so, compete with other values, often causing internal strife and conflict. The most vital asset for manifestation in the mind, is attention. Everything we give value to, for whatever reason, biological to cultural, competes for attention in the mind and attention is allocated or inhibited based on the valuable manifestation of different kinds of pleasures or the alleviation of pains, making everything far easier to comprehend, for here we have the most essential values there are, all the kinds of joy and pleasure one can know and experience, , and the prevention of every kind of distress, discomfort and pain imaginable.

No matter what we would like to think about our selves, it all boils down to the economics of pleasure and pain, however abstract these might be. Some people place so much value on spiritual pleasures that they are willing to endure and suffer great physical deprivation to the scorn and amazement of those whose hierarchy of values is opposite. If one values the pleasure of eating above the pleasure of sex, one is likely to grow to proportions that make sex impossible. If one values the pleasures of being respected for one's affluence more than one's moral integrity, one will cheat to get rich.

The complexity of mental activity is do to the allocation of value to substances and abstractions and the consequent manifestation of these primal intents accordingly in the space of one's mind.

Let's say one highly values social contribution but has low self esteem and one harbors the idea that one is detrimental to the well being of one's neighbors. Such an idea might have been acquired from a parent in their attempt to shape the mind of an offspring, by telling them how important it is to get along socially and how worthless and lazy they are when they spend all day watching television. A consequence to this is self destructive attitudes and behaviors as one's "goodness" tries to get rid of one's "badness" as a Valuable Manifestation. The mind is compartmentalized into  spheres of competing priorities and every single moment of mental activity is the allocation of value to that sphere of internal activity which is deemed most productive of the overall experience of pleasure,  based on the economics of pleasure attainment and the lessening and prevention of pain for the duration of life and in every location one finds one's self in.

Its all that simple.

Roosters, Eggs and Chickens Come Together

Everyone has heard the riddle, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
The way this question is posed exemplifies the problem of modern science.
Should one answer the question as asked, without identifying it's false premise,
one will encounter strange phenomena, like time going backwards.
Lets say that the chicken comes first, for whatever reason we do.
Probably because to be fully understood, things must have a beginning.
Well if we encounter then an egg that becomes a chicken,
either we recognize we were wrong about the chicken coming first
or we witness time flowing backwards, something we know it can't do.
If we say the egg comes first and then encounter first a chicken
either we recognize we were wrong, or again time flows the wrong way.
But even if we recognize were are wrong, we will encounter the same dilemma,
the first time we encounter a reversal of what we expect.
Now every complete egg laying chicken has a potential egg inside it
and every complete chicken egg, has a potential chicken inside it.
Whether one encounters this or that, makes no difference,
once one comprehends that chickens and eggs are one and the same
but only look different because we can't see them both at the same time.
Just as we can't see both sides of a coin at the same time,
the coin is always both heads and tails, one and the same coin,
but can only be seen in its entirety, in a sequence of observation
that can start on either side, it doesn't matter what comes first.
The chicken and the coin exist outside of time as an idea.
They have a narrative which is the same in both directions,
because they are both complete unto themselves
and immutable as abstract ideas that exist in the common mind.
1+2=3 is just as much true as  2+1=3  as 3=1+2 or 3=2+1
these are ideas that exist outside of time and space as a singularity.
An idea that can be perceived with the sequence being inconsequential,
but can only be perceived in a sequence to be fully understood.
Left to right or right to left is the same thing in an equation.
Top of the coin can be either heads or tails
as long as one looks at both sides
before making up one's mind about the picture on the coin.
Same with the chicken.
One can only understand chickens after seeing them emerge from eggs
and then see them have eggs themselves.
One can only understand eggs by seeing them emerge from chickens
and then see chickens emerge from eggs.
The world inside our minds is made of timeless ideas with no location
but in our minds. Ideas about objects of all kinds
and the symbols that represent them.
Things both real and imaginary. Real like the thought of a kiss,
and the tender feelings on one's lips, or imaginary= like a fairy,
one can see with one's own eyes. But no one else can.
Our minds are full of objects and ideas that can only be conceived
if we hear about them in the telling of a story.
If we hear about them in a sequence of impressions in our imaginations,
words that represent ideas that represent objects,
objects that come together and then become something else.
No chicken can have a chicken producing egg,
without a rooster to come together with! And roosters are chickens too,
but they don't have eggs. And some eggs  become roosters
and roosters are chickens that don't lay eggs.
A little bit here and a little bit there,
the greater the context, the more we understand.
We should never freeze our minds into graven images
of how things just have to be.
Doing so causes heartbreak and despair,
because we cling to our incomplete ideas,
and try to stop them from growing into chickens
because we make a living selling eggs.
Or we run out of chickens because we eat them all
before they have laid us sufficient eggs.
Now a narrative is always just a means
to understand a greater story.
And no story is complete without a lesson learned,
and a moral that stays true, long after the story is over.
An infinite number of stories can have the same lesson
and the same moral learned.
Morals are like equations, they are always true.
If you learn a lesson that says you know before you look,
you certainly haven't heard enough.
Scientists think they know how things should be,
but now they find that things just aren't what they know.
It's either this or that or both depending what you look for.
But they are really both, one and the same.
Timeless ideas that exist no place but in the mind
and  those  give shape and form and sequences of time,
events that happen in synchronized rhyme.
Its more than just music, its the story of your life.

Math and Reason Only Define The Common Mind

    Logic and mathematics describe the way we experience in our mind, a partial revelation of the universe around it. What we experience in our mind of the universe that surrounds it, can only be the basis for a premise about what is really out there,   a premise of experiential facts  upon which we extrapolate and theorize, using logic and math. But all we can be certain about, is that logic and math describe our experiences of manipulating symbols that represent further potentials of experience, potentials that always and by axiomatic truth, can only be realized in the confines of our own minds.
     We presume the existence of radio magnetic waves and sound waves based on mathematical calculations with which we can predict our own experiences in the realm of measurable heat and light and sound. When we do an experiment, we are initiating a chain of events that starts and ends in the realm of the measurable and visible and heard. Our theories and calculations deal with that which happens between the initiation of the experiment and the registration of the result. Theorems describe what we believe transpires in the invisible and unknowable chain of events that we presume takes place in the real universe, the universe we presume exists independently of our minds. All we know for certain is the result of our measurements because that is what we retrieve from what ever is going on, with our senses and in our minds.
    As our minds all share to some degree, the qualities of logic and coherence, the math we use to create formulas that describe the behavior of reality outside the realm of our experience  is common to all minds whether they know math or not. We share the common experiences predicted by math and logic. When experiments yield the same results when performed under the same conditions, the theories that allow the prediction of the results are given validity. This proves the similarity of our minds and how they are constructed, not the true nature of what transpires to information that is traveling between our minds and outside them.  The only information that matters is that which has been perceived, is being perceived and that which will be perceived. Around that string of sequenced knowledge we can weave a magic carpet of speculation that appears to fly from one vista to another. We might come to believe that without our carpet we are stranded, and then never learn that we can fly without it.
    We can only believe that the nature of  the world we hold in common exists independently from us. What is certain is that it binds us together, in that it enables us to share language. We can share our experiences and discover  that however it occurred that we came to be, our minds operate very much in a similar way and we can understand each other effectively and help each other, because we all want to experience integrity of self while sharing ourselves with others, we all want to experience the fullness of our own nature. 
    The belief that there is a universe out there like the one in our minds, a reality that persists in being governed by immutable laws like the reality in our minds, a substantial coherent consistent world  that exists whether or not we exist, is an assumption based on assumptions. An assumption such as the universe existed before our minds came to be and somehow caused our minds to come into being as a very partial and flawed reflection of it's comprehensive truth. We only perceive with our senses a very small fraction of the information there is out there to reprieve. The light we see with our eyes and that registers in our brains is an almost negligent fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum we calculate  is potentially infinite. The only reason the significance of the light we perceive as regards the nature of the universe isn't completely negligent, is that without it we couldn't make assumptions about all the light waves we can't see. The same could be said of sound. Or anything.
   Calculation and prediction became important particularly after man began to cultivate crops. Man then became acutely aware of the cycles of the seasons. His sense of time became more delineated. He began to measure time by observing the motions of the sun and the moon and the stars. He recognized recurrent  patterns and learned to predict seasons of rain. He observed the behavior of shadows and calculated the length of the day with units that represented the passage of time. He also saw other people with minds like his own,  be born and live and die, while the world continued to spin around him imperviously. It is very easy to understand why he would believe that man is transient and the universe is forever.
   Despite this, everything once believed about the nature of the world we exist in, has changed. For thousands of years it has been believed that matter can only be broken down into fundamental units that are of the same nature as their mass.  This was held true for a long time. For example, water could be boiled down to "atoms" of water which could no longer be divided. And so everything else. Recently it was discovered that much of nature is made of compounds that can be broken down into elements that are of a completely different nature than the compounds made from them. The qualities of the  compounds of elements held together in a uniform mass with the cohesive energy of the atoms of different elements are completely unpredictable. It is like this. 2A+1B  should somehow equal extrapolations of 2A1B, variations on a theme, so to speak. But they don't. 2A+1B equal completely unpredictable C.. There is nothing about the nature of C that can be inferred from As and Bs. Now when C is broken down, it always reverts to 2A+1B. This proves nothing but that man's experiences concerning elements and their combinations is logical and consistent even though he has no clue, "Why?"  that is so.
     In addition to this, it was further discovered that there are elements that can be broken down into other elements, that also have different qualities. The idea of a stable building block for all mass just keeps deteriorating like a radioactive isotope, but hasn't been abandoned even today, when it has been demonstrated  that the fundamental nature of mass is as much an infinite field of potentials as a particle we actually collide with. Not only that, the fundamental particles keep breaking up when we smash them together, producing a menagerie of circled and  patterned  motion, though we still have not a clue concerning what is really moving. It isn't and can't be  particles with mass as whatever it is, it doesn't behave the way mass should, according to the theories that are supposed to describe the true nature of mass and not just the way the mind thinks about mass. Science has come to the conclusion that the mass we perceive is actually an illusion of the mind. They draw their conclusions from the logic and math that describes the behavior of mass in their mind and then believe at the same time that the mass in the mind isn't really the same substance as keeps slipping between the ever growing holes in the sieves of their pet theories, the theories they try to catch particles of mass with, to find out what they really are.
   Laboratory experiments consistently demonstrate that the nature of any kind of fundamental particle  we wish to turn into information that we can think with and incorporate into a theorem of prediction is ever more elusive. Laboratory results demonstrate phenomena that exist outside the confines of logic and math, phenomena that completely demolish the idea that we  really know the nature of  the universe that exists within our own minds, let alone the nature of the universe that we presume exists out side our minds.  Scientists want fundamental particles that persist with a consistent definition no matter what you do to them. Without such particles, nothing can really make any sense. Wave functions are infinite and unpredictable. Energy alone can't explain why things behave like solid objects. The fact is, we can smash particles together and they collide and explode, even though that is a mathematical impossibility because nothing can really touch anything else mathematically. But logically things do touch and move each other. Suddenly the simplicity of the  logic of human experience trumps in its importance the theoretical consequences of experiential results that defy logic and experience. Scientists just can't let go of there being particles that exist in nature independently of our minds. Never the less, it becomes ever more evident that particles don't exist until someone sees them.
   Unlike the elusiveness of  the nature of substance itself, our minds are able to maintain the meaning of the symbols we think with and calculate with. This is so for no other reason than we decide it to be so. It is what works.
   In the same way, while our minds are mostly consistent in the way stimuli are perceived and translated into sensations, this is far from absolute. It is clearly evident  that a person can change in the way they interpret as a  sensory perception, a vibration that causes it. When a woman is touched by her husband intimately, she might moan with pleasure. If the same vibration causing motion were to be perpetrated by a stranger against her will, it might cause great emotional pain and distress. The significance of the sense causing vibration is determined by the context in which it is experienced. Just like the results of experiments in quantum mechanics.
    On the other hand, the mechanics of linguistic thought, perceptions in the nervous system, the brain's productions of sensations that represent hunger, thirst, sexual arousal, motion, emotions that represent states of well being or the lack thereof, all these  and more internal workings,  remain mostly consistent over time and are shared for the most part by all humanity. While we don't know why red is the sensation we experience when our eyes  are exposed to a certain wavelength of light, the relationship between the stimulus and the response of color in our eye is persistent over time, until the eye decays. There is commonality, consistence and persistence in the way our nervous system translates vibrations into sensory data. This is the foundation of language.
    In addition to this, sensory data is stored in our minds and used  as an ever greater,  more complex and sophisticated context, to evaluate new data. Our wisdom, if not our intelligence, grows as we age.
Logic and math  define much of the way we process and use information, but intuition and spontaneity determine ideas and decisions that are life enhancing and sometimes life saving, and very often it is impossible to explain logically or mathematically  how these qualities of mind come about.


What is certain is that A must continue to be A for things to make sense.


 Science reveals to us that the only place in the universe that A stays A long enough to use it in a calculation of the future, is in our mind, where it is certain that A exists. 

In the universe "out there", beyond the  relative commonality, persistence and consistence of our minds,

NOTHING STAYS THE SAME LONG ENOUGH TO BE COUNTED AND NOTHING CAN BE COUNTED ON.

False Premises and Logic- How Scientists Go Wrong

False Premises and Logic- How Scientists Go Wrong

Some self evident and axiomatic truths are surprisingly ignored by scientists, physicists in particular. The most flagrant and fundamental of these truths is this. Whatever actually surrounds our mind, whatever is beyond our minds on a time space continuum, before, beyond or after, we can only speculate. What came before our minds began to record memories, what happens after our minds cease to record memories, can only be assumed, no matter how likely  we believe the assumption to be.

What exists beyond the registration of our perceptions can only be speculation. What is obvious is that whatever is going on in our minds, it appears to be only a partial reflection, a fraction, of what is actually going on outside our minds. All of research and science is an attempt to know what happened before we began to have memories as individuals- and historical records as a society, what is presently going on beyond our present perceptions of the space and time we assume surrounds us, and what will happen to ourselves and the selves of future generations. We have developed magnificent instruments that appear to extend our senses to the far reaches of the cosmos. We have developed the means to record the behavior of what we deem to be the infinitesimal building blocks of all the matter we perceive, we have mapped the ocean floors and dug out the ruins of ancient civilizations all over the planet.

    Our desire to know the nature of the universe we presume surrounds us extends beyond the practicalities of controlling it to ensure our own survival. Long before we developed the modern technologies of research we have today, philosophers used the tools innate to their own humanity to speculate about the nature of the universe of which we are a part. This overwhelming curiosity of the intellect to know what is really happening around one's self as well as in one's self, is sometimes stronger an instinct than procreation and the pleasures of the senses, for men have been know to leave far behind all kinds of pleasure seeking and worldly affluence and self propagation so as to clear their minds and contemplate the truth of what it means to exist at all, what influences our existence and how can we ourselves influence our own experience towards the attainment of wisdom and peace of mind.

Having said all this, what remains is the indisputable fact that we know nothing for certain except our own assumptions. 

   Yes, I allow myself to say that I know for certain that I am seeing the color red, or listening to music, or feeling hunger or sad. I know the tenderness of holding a baby and I choose to believe with the same certainty that there is really a baby out there beyond my own skin, a baby with a mind that works very similarly to mine. These are the things I know, what my senses perceive without interpretation or assumption. I do recognize though, that I know these things because they exist in my mind and my mind is so constructed as to contain a dynamic and partial reflection of what surrounds my physical being.

       The fundamental truth ever remains that I truly only know the contents of my own mind and my mind is so constructed that I accept the reality of what I perceive around me as being there as much as I am. I also accept as fundamental knowledge that there is far more out there than I perceive with my senses. Curiosity is a primal instinct and it comes along with the primal knowing that there is more out there than meets the eyes, or can be heard or smelled or tasted or felt with the skin. The seeking after new sensations is what feeds our minds with new information about the world around us and is the process of learning itself.

      In the absence of pathology, the mind constructs itself with mathematical precision and is characterized for the most part, by an ever growing collection of coherent ideas. These ideas serve a tools in the acquirement of more ideas. The ideas one constructs about reading allow one to read new ideas. When we acquire a new idea, it comes together in our own mind as a duplication of an idea we might assume exists external to our own mind. It is as if there is knowledge out there which we assimilate in the process of learning. If what we experience in our own mind is an imperfect duplication of the idea "out there", we are unable to use it as a tool in the acquirement of more new ideas. Until our own mind duplicates exactly the knowledge deemed to be held in common, it is unlikely that we will be able to add to it, let alone make use of it for our own interests. We are all ignorant to some degree and helpless in some field of endeavor.

       One thing remains true, the laws of logic and language that dictate the construction of ideas, the rules of mathematics, determine to what degree ideas can be passed from one mind to another, because the laws of logic and mathematics are common to all minds. When there is a failure of logic in an idea, when an idea is incoherent, it is rejected by those who see in it faulty reasoning. Logic is as innate to the mind as the senses are to the body. It is logic that strings the perceptions of the body into strings of significance and weaves them together as experience, and then stores the experiences in the mind as memory.

      Logic allows us to extrapolate that when three dots appear in a sequence at the same intervals, it is logical to assume if a fourth dot appears, it will most likely do so at the same interval and the same angle of progression. This is fine as long as we don't insist on it's being true before it happens. When it does appear as we predict, we can be even more certain of the fifth dot doing the same. But when the sixth dot appears sooner than we expect and at a divergent angle, we must recognize our assumption about the pattern of the emerging dots is wrong.There was a fault in our logic and that fault is, one can never know the final nature of a pattern until it repeats itself and when it repeats itself as an exact duplicate, we can call it a pattern. How significant the pattern is can only be determined by the duration of its recurrence, its resonance with other patterns and its relevance to communication.

It is the enhancement of communication that determines the ultimate value of all pattern recognition.

     And so our minds share the same innate rules concerning their growth and resonance with other minds. Minds are constantly coming and going. Some resonate with many and some resonate with few. The less a mind is assumed to be logical and coherent in the fields of its endeavors, the less it will resonate with those in contact with it. Now it is completely possible and self evident that minds that congregate and communicate together as a group in what appears to the members of the group to be perfectly logical and coherent ideas, can be deemed by other groups to be illogical and incoherent. Groups don't always resonate with each other, and that is a significant understatement.

      Groups in which the members do resonate, through communication, become more homogeneous to the degree their communications with outsiders becomes limited. Differences dissipate and similarities spread. Cohesion strengthens and bonds are reinforced. This is particularly true for groups fighting for survival against outsiders who are trying to rid the world of such illogical, incoherent, and what is deemed to be of such- mentally pathological symptoms as those displayed by a group whose ideas are deemed illogical and unfounded on truthful experience and logical extrapolation from those experiences.

The Jews are a study for research of these phenomena.

    Their history and the development of their culture is founded on experiences that defy logic, on miracles. All of Judaism is based on the essential and fundamental premise that there were in the past, before our own memories came to be, men and women who were created by an intelligent deity that also created the universe that surrounds us all. The Jews believe that the world with the heavens around it was created by One God and that same God created man and endowed him with both logic and free choice. They believe that so started a narrative that continues till this day. They believe that it has been their duty to preserve that narrative as their highest calling, the reason for their existence. They believe that narrative to be a direct and faithful replication of what was communicated to their prophet Moses, by their Creator Deity.

    They have always admitted that they don't understand as a nation the full significance and implications of this sacred narrative and The Divine Laws they believe it contains. Their faith in the Divine value and ultimate historical importance of this narrative has weathered the trials and tribulations of 3500 years of its being challenged, in every torturous, sadistic, murderous, abusive, degrading, insulting way imaginable for individual Jews as an example before the nation and for vast amounts of members of the nation itself, Jews horrifically put to death, men, women and children across the ages.

      Yet with varying degrees of homogeneity, themselves split into sub groups with deep divisions between them selves in their interpretative doctrines of the Narratives significance, they are still here declaring an invisible God really spoke to their ancestors and told them something of absolute and extreme importance to humanity. Only problem is, they don't really know themselves any more how true the stories are, how to finally interpret them.

      The most orthodox of the Jews are the most homogeneous in outward appearances. They wear clothes that set them apart from the rest of humanity, clothes that are uniform and for the men and boys, lack any individual self expression. The most extreme of the orthodox believe that their only function in the world, is to learn how Moses's narrative as he recorded it from God, was interpreted by those who came after him. They readily profess that no one today can really comprehend the mysteries of Moses's revelation on Mount Sinai, they say its impossible to know the final truth of what Moses meant the Jews to do, other than wait for their Messiah to come, who will explain what it all means to them and the world. The most extreme of the Orthodox believe that nothing at all should be done by Jews except keep the Laws they believe in and study aforementioned interpretations. They deny the legitimacy of Zionism and ostracize any one who they believe tries to water down their fanatic adherence to practices that produce nothing of exchange value with the world around them. They believe themselves to be entitled to financial support from any source it comes from, including the Israeli government they deny the legitimacy of, though there is a minority among them that refuses government money and lives completely in poverty off charities.

     This hard core nucleus of self declared fatalist fanaticism grows exponentially because they marry very young in arranged marriages and have as many children as nature allows over the course of the woman's childbearing age. Around this fanatic nucleus of unwavering blind belief in events they have no personal memories of, these Jews are surrounded by a layer of similarly dressed ultra orthodox believers who are somewhat more open minded in their approach to the modern world. They see Israel as a means to the end of their financial support and would use The State of Israel in any way possible to further their own interests of expanding their influence over the nation as a whole. They are far more proactive and participate in politics as government Ministers. They are not Zionists but they are in active participation with Zionists in affairs of common interest to Jews as a nation. Like the most fanatic orthodox they don't interpret the rise of Israel after the holocaust as the realization of prophecies in The Hebrew Bible outwardly, but privately many of them seem to like the idea and even express a desire to see Israel flourish and prosper as the mostly secular state it is. And then there are the ultra religious Zionists who are few, and the less fanatic religious Jews who believe that the state of Israel is a sign of Israel's redemption and they are supposed to settle the lands God promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the narrative written by Moses and even rebuild the Temple on The Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In the story these Jews tell themselves, they aren't supposed to wait for the messiah who probably isn't really coming anyway because things like that no loner happen and God helps those who help themselves. These Jews, while religious, are very rational and don't really believe in miracles where God breaks the laws of nature he created the world with. Many of them are scientists and doctors and lawyers and Zionists. And then there are the traditional Jews who believe the Jews are special as a people because they are after all an historical anomaly and the creation of Israel after the holocaust seems like something the God of The Jews would do, perhaps....they aren't too sure about the truth of the Bible stories but they are proud to be Jews and Israelis and unique among the nations.

     There are many non believing Jews who are simply patriotic Zionists, they don't believe in the Narrative of Moses and believe the Hebrew Bible to be a work of national myths, they might take pride in it as a contribution to western civilization but they find it boring and difficult to read themselves. Satire programs on television in Israel openly ridicule and scorn the Bible stories and those who believe in them. These shows are applauded by the many secular Jews in Israel who don't believe in God or destiny at all. They believe in science and the survival of the fittest and see themselves as being very fit by reason of their survival as secular .Jews. I have by no means exhausted the different kinds of groups among Jews and in Judaism.

       What I believe holds them all together despite their vast differences in faith, beliefs and narratives, is that they all share a belief that the Jews are unique as as a people and a historical phenomenon, albeit for different reasons, and this idea that they all belong to a unique nation is such a harmonizing idea in their minds. gives them so much significance and self value, that the resonance of this idea between them is of far greater power to cause them to coalesce than the repulsive energy of their mutual accusations that the other parties are irrational and lack integrity of mind.

That is what logic produces, integrity of mind.

     No matter how unfounded are one's initial premises, no matter how anti intuitive or against common sense are the propositions upon which one builds a paradigm of beliefs and ideas one adheres to, if there is internal logic- then doctrines and dogma will be adhered to, to the degree doing so maintains and enhances one's existing social relationships.

     If I accept the belief that Jesus is the Son of God and He came and gave his life so as to free me from sin, well then I am freed and will experience the logical emotional consequence which is a great feeling of relief at my release from the burden of guilt and the consequences of my sins. It makes perfect sense that once I choose to believe in the foundation premise other people believe in and then experience the same emotional consequence of such a belief, we will resonate with each other and become a group that attracts any one else seeking such release and relief. In order to feel a release from pain or to prevent the pain of disillusion and the loss of social integration with a group with which one no longer shares beliefs, or have a chance of happiness, people will believe the most outrageous things imaginable.

        Those who credit themselves as being too objective and intelligent and scientific and rational and don't consider themselves capable of adhering to outlandish beliefs that have no logical foundation adhere to that very same belief despite glaring evidence that their theories and formulas and equations simply don't make sense in light of recent evidence gleaned in laboratories and from instrumental registrations of what is going on in deep space.

    The observations of the workings of the mind are the principles of logic and logic describes how the mind works, not the universe.


     For a long time, logic and math seemed to describe very efficiently that part of the universe which is reflected in our own minds. So much so that philosophers and scientists assumed that the workings of the mind and the universe are the same. Therefor it seemed to make sense that man's mind is potentially capable of understanding completely the workings of the universe. At the same time many scientists believed and believe today, that the universe exists in complete independence of the mind that perceives it and operates on the mind's logic without the mind being involved or party to the external reality that gave birth to the mind, because that independent external reality existed and came together countless eons before the mind did.

       Despite all the implicit fine tuned order in the universe it still doesn't obey the theorems of modern science in a way that makes consistent coherent sense. Every time they think they have figured out a formula to predict the recurrence of a pattern they have observed on one scale of matter, matter behaves differently, anyway. Despite their use of the intelligence of their own minds to figure out the universe that they believe gives birth to their minds, they won't concede that the universe's intelligence is greater than their own and might not be subject to the same logic and math that governs human minds.

      The thinking of secular scientists, of atheists who believe in science but not an intelligent universe, of those who believe that chaos gives birth to reason that can then encompass and comprehend the inconceivable chaos of a purposeless and innately meaningless universe, the thinking of these people is founded on irrational premises, the first being that logic and mathematics describes anything but the working of the human mind and how it processes information about whatever there is around it. Whatever it is that surrounds the human mind outside it, can't be known as it never makes full entrance into the mind without shedding it's substance and assuming symbols of sensation that can only superficially represent what is really going on out there.

        The color red represents a reality of a postulated wavelength "out there" like the word tree represents a reality out there. No matter what one does with the letters of the word tree, one knows nothing at all of the true nature of a tree outside one's mind. We only know the tree that enters our mind as a collection of symbolic perceptions and then we can stick the word tree on that package of perceptions and then only assume that that has anything to do with what is going on out there. No one has a clue what the wavelength of the color red is really like out there, as a reality that can be perceived as itself. The color red is neither particles or waves. It is a sensation that acts as a symbol for what we presume is a character of electromagnetic waves that don't exist as such in our minds, but represents these waves we presume exist outside our minds and even in our brains. Red doesn't exist in any way we can imagine it as such, except as a property of the mind we share with others as we share the mechanism of logic that hold our minds together.
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A Catastrophic Tragedy. Maybe Not!

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Putting God into Our Eqautions

 "What?" is the first question of an evolving mind.

Everything starts with the question, "What?". 

"What?" am I sensing. 

Until the question "What?" is asked, there can only be a stream of meaningless sensation. There can be no awareness of "I".  

Perhaps like music, the stream of what is as yet, meaningless sensation, causes ripples of pleasure, in the same way an electric wire with a flow of electrons, has a field around it of something that has apparently different qualities than the flowing electrons.

 Be this as it may be, sensation alone is without meaning until the question  "What is that?" is asked. By asking "What?", distance is created between the sensation and its observer. Any answer to the question must come in the form of symbols that represent the flow of sensations. 

This is the birth of language.

An answer to the question, "What?" can only be given after the recognition of a pattern in the flow of sensation. A pattern means something repeats itself over an extant of time in the mind. Even a two dimensional pattern can only be recognized as such over the interval of the time it takes to recognize the sameness and repetition of the pattern. 

Time is of the mind.

 An impulse of sensation must recur at individuated points in a line of linear time to be recognized as a pattern. Once recognized as a pattern, the sensation gains the significance of a "perception" because it gains the quality of identity as it is individuated in its nature from that which has not yet been recognized as a pattern, and it is  different from other patterns previously recognized and stored as memories.

Memory is of the mind.

Whatever the condition of memory, a mind exists whenever there is perception of one moment becoming another, creating the postulate of the future, the future being the postulated continuation of the patterns coexisting in the present. 

The present is created by the cross referencing of flows of related sensations stretched out in sequences, like the sounds of music and the resultant sensations of pleasure surrounding them. The time between a sensation and its recognition is filled with the question, "What?"

Questions are of the mind.

The fundamental building block of the mind is the recognition of patterns of motion. Motion is the condition of a sequence of change. The most fundamental building blocks of the universe are particles that have distinct patterns of motion, surrounded by fields of influence that have distinct identities defined as wave functions.

Both the universe and the mind are built from the same essentials.

Essentials are of the mind. 

Any answer to the question "What?" evokes the possibility of the question, "How?"
 "How?" is essentially the question, "What brought this about?" or "How did this come to be".

"How?" asks for the identity of a cause of an effect through the delineation and description of the affect that exists between  Cause and it's effect. No description of an affect can be complete before it is determined that the affect originated from a location that is it's cause. A field  of affect and effect without cause is an indeterminable confusion and chaos. Like string theory.

To say that the order and logic of the unfolding comprehension of the universe in the mind, is the effect of chaos, is like saying A=B=C but A doesn't equal C. 

This would be an insoluble paradox and undermine the reality of the most axiomatic and experiential truth, expressed as," I am here, wherever and whenever that is, no matter how or why this has come about."

If A=B=C but A doesn't equal C than I am not here even though I know I am because I perceive myself thinking about it. This undermines all of science, all of thought and is the essence of the paradox of nihilism for if the essential premise of nihilism is true, that nothing is real, one couldn't even think about it.

And it couldn't be true.

  Even a conclusion of  "extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence." needs A=B=C  to be true or it couldn't be made as a statement that uses linguistic symbols founded as a language, THE SYMBOLS OF THE STATEMENT COULDN'T REPRESENT A REALITY,  as all languages are based on the premise that if A=B=C than A=C.

The seductiveness of nihilistic thought is in the observation, that of course A doesn't equal B.

Look at them. 

In Nihilistic thought patterns, A doesn't equal A,  let alone B.  A never stays the same long enough to be itself for the duration of an observation.

There is a self annihilating truth to this. But just as waves don't define the totality of reality or the sun would disappear in an instant of self propagation, so the instantaneously unsustainable nature of all conceived static states is false and incomplete, because patterns of motion are the essence of endurance and we do observe the endurable. What we call a static state is itself the perpetuation of existence and is contained in the mind with delineations of identity and perpetuated characteristics.

Without the assignment of identity that is self perpetuating, without the creative self perpetuating nature of logic and mathematics, everything dissolves into chaos and a mind overwhelmed by confusion caused by chaos, stagnates, contracts, dissipates and dissolves, itself becoming like the chaos that has overwhelmed it.

Any awareness of existence is the consequence of self observation, the observation of sensations in the self. Time and space are stretched out by the act of observing something in motion which has an origin of location in both time and space, a place both in time and space of perceived origin, that being the first moment it is perceived in a sequence of moments, and the first location it is perceived at in a sequence of locations.

Of course this assignment of a point of origin in time and space, to a chain of events characterized by repetitions of patterns of motion, culminating in an event, is perhaps an arbitrary delineation created in a mind for purposes of self creation, harmony and integrated growth.

One can always confuse the issue by asking how did this point of origin come about, what caused it and still causes it, to be what we see it to be. One can also ask why is the effect defined and contained within what must be arbitrary borders as the the effect always is the point of origin of an affect that promulgates itself and sets of further chains of events, extended effects.

To maintain itself from corruption from ever encroaching chaos and the child of chaos, that being confusion, the mind must define and delineate, separate and differentiate. It must create relationships of difference and similarity and finally determine how to facilitate the survival and well being of the body the mind is apparently attached to. A mind doesn't exist in a vacuum and the first thing it perceives is the stream of sensations concerning the body it comes along with.  

To facilitate the well being and quality of it's own experience and the quality of existence of the body it comes along with, the mind must calculate it's body's motion through space and acquire the means of self sustenance. Doing so is the demonstration of intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to cause desired effects by calculating the efforts needed in the affect of a result that serves the needs of the mind and body these calculations take place in. Effects can be the consequence of  unknown and even unknowable causes because their cause can exist outside the realm of perceivable information. For this reason we differentiate between effects and results, results being the consequence of the demonstration of some degree of intelligent effort.

The contemplation of effects without knowable causes, creates a sense of discomfort and possibly the experience of anxiety and fear. The more effects occur and their cause unknown, the universe becomes unpredictable and dangerous to any system that depends on undisturbed repetitive motions- like a mind. 

Hence,  the mind needs arbitrary definitions and delineations, self imposed  limitations and result serving calculations that help maintain its sense of equilibrium and harmonic contemplation of what it perceives.   

A growing mind that strives to comprehend itself and the universe it exists in, must continually reexamine itself and adjust whatever formulas and explanations it has for effects it perceives, so as to  create more comprehensive contexts for conflicting data and by so doing, strive to resolve contradictions. This is an aspect of intelligence.

Intelligence is of the mind. 

The application of intelligence creates solutions that overcome conflicts of interest and contradicting solutions and difficulties in the attainment of valuable assets. If the activity of communication in social cooperation between individuals in mutual and common self interest is an asset, then so is language and the proficiency of its use.

Mathematics is a language that explains everything common to human experience. The creative use of mathematics produces the equations of physics that allow for the creation of  mechanisms that extend the borders of our sphere of influence over ever increasing realms of further and extended creativity. Mathematics enables the creation of logarithms in computer science and the availability of knowledge of every kind imaginable,  to one and all, is becoming an indisputable norm and entitlement.   The borders of the sphere of human knowledge and experience are expanding ever faster, like the universe itself.

We are, however, demonstrating signs of overload. 

Mathematics and scientific theory do not encompass the ever increasing perception of data that conflicts with  existing theories. On the cosmic front of expanding knowledge, the universe keeps proving that the existing formulas and equations upon which are based the most recent theorems and consequent predictions, are incapable of enabling successful forecasts.  The universe keeps surprising the scientists who strive to contain it in formulas, equations and theorems that prove the mind of man is up to the task of comprehending everything there is to perceive.

The expansion of the universe is accelerating at a speed far beyond what the theorems foresaw. Instead of doubting the validity of their human calculations as regards the behavior of the cosmos, they postulated something out of nothing called dark matter and dark energy and then fine tuned the quantity of  these mental creations so that their theories about the nature of matter and energy remain valid. Per theoretical scientists, dark energy and dark matter are no less than 95 per cent of the influencing factors in the universe, 95 percent of all the kinds of matter and energy that might be.
This is no less than a ludicrous solution that serves no other purpose than to save face. It is the product of rapidly expanding hubris to fill in the empty spaces of human knowledge.

The first truly comprehensive and valuable theorems about the mechanics of mass and motion in what was then the perceivable, conceivable and measurable universe, were those of Newton. These postulates explained everything we could perceive with the naked eye aided by what was a  primitive but efficient telescope. The universe then was calculated to be infinitesimal compared to what is thought of it today.

The discovery and definition of formula describing electromagnetic phenomena in general and the behavior of the electron in particular lead to the startling discovery that waves of energy and particles that carry energy are one and the same, depending on which you are looking for and how you are looking for it. Experiments exposed the minds of scientists to new data that contradicted everything they had previously thought about the nature of the fundamental elements of creation.

Suddenly the very smallest elements of existence behaved differently than the very largest and everything in between.

Things began to appear as if out of no where and then disappear without a trace. Any particular electron was suddenly all over the universe until it was needed to turn on a light bulb, when it would behave with perfect dinner manners and allow itself to be consumed for mass production. The greater the enigma of consistently predicting how matter and energy would behave in a laboratory or the cosmos, the more technology advanced. New theorems seemed to work in confined contexts, despite the lack of any comprehensive comprehension of the whole. Not that scientists didn't keep trying! 

Along came Einstein and he provided new equations, new calculations and again, in what turned out to be the confines of what is  futured to be recognized as  narrowly defined contexts, there was an integration of conflicting data with accepted theory. 

But he did not by any means close the gap between the mathematics and formulas of quantum mechanics and Newtonian physics. He knew this and was deeply frustrated in his attempts to bridge the gaps in scientific theory and observed phenomena. He even went so far as to invent an arbitrary universal constant that would balance his equations of gravity and the behavior of  galaxies but relinquished this idea himself, calling it his greatest blunder when he discovered how fast the universe is expanding. Some scientists today would salvage Einstein's constant as it seems to coincidentally resonate with the behavior of dark mass and energy. No one can explain how dark mass and energy is compatible with an event like The Big Bang.


The universe is obviously created as a fluctuating and ever growing  collection of cross referenced phenomenon in  our minds. New data makes our ideas of it dynamic. The context of our comprehension is ever expanding but the expansion of the universe is exponentially faster.  The reality of the universe growing in our minds constantly challenges our ideas about it. What is certain is that the universe exists in our minds in what we presume to be a symbolic representation and albeit partial reflection of some truthful reality that transcends our own existence.

 It is widely assumed that somehow the universe comes together in such a way that produces the mind in which we contemplate the universe that creates us. We have established a vast matrix of "What?"  is going on, an expanding sphere of what is at last count two trillion or more galaxies,  but the whole isn't held together by the gravity we thought we understand. The galaxies spin around their centers  against the laws of physics. 

   We still have no answer for why electrons behave how we need them to,  even when we can't say for sure where one is and what it is going to do, where it is going to go, at any particular time.  
   Everything should be completely uncertain and yet it isn't to such a degree, that we can send satellites into space that behave so predictably with electrons, that we are able to manage the motion of  what is ever approaching infinite amounts of information about our own activities and the motion of ever more mass in space. This while the mass itself is composed of  completely incomprehensible fields of  potential manifestation.

How is it that the sequence of manifestation unfolds in a narrative that makes so much sense? It all unfolds with implicit order and in a sequence of ever incomplete yet expanding knowledge.

If time is a duration of the perception of persistent sequence, why do we continue to presume that any time exists out side our minds, where perception takes place? How can we ever know that there is any space outside a mind that holds in place, points of reference as the context that enables the experience of space? How can we presume that quantum particles behave as if they have a memory outside a mind which has a memory to cross reference the behavior of particles?

It is far more certain that our minds exist than it is that anything exists outside them. We will never encounter any information except as such appears by whatever means in our minds.

This is the foundation of logic and math. We discover  how things behave  with logic and math because logic and math describe how our minds work and then how things behave in our minds. Even then, our logic and our math are constantly challenged by the behavior of  ever new information and its affect on our minds. No matter how hard we try to freeze ideas we find valuable in the development of new technologies and call these ideas axiomatic and universal truths, the universe in our minds destroys them with new evidence and new information. Everything that works as an equation in technology, only does so in a context confined  arbitrarily in our mind, to the accomplishment of an intelligent and intended result. While our ability to cause results grows exponentially in all the sciences and The Arts, it becomes ever more evident that all we know better is how our mind works and what its inherent limitations are, regarding the nature of what we presume exists as a  transcendental reality beyond our minds, in time and in space.

We witness effects in our mind coming in a sequence and creating a narrative for every thing we observe that has any significance at all. From the apparently incoherent narrative of a  quantum particle that affects what came before it in time, or the way one particle affects another which is an infinite distance away, faster than the speed of light and without the transference of any detectable information between the two, to a child run over by a car or someone winning a Nobel Prize, everything has  a narrative  and all things make sense in a certain context of explanation.

Obviously, the necessities of a significant narrative are of primal importance to the workings of our mind.

Is it possible that an unfolding narrative in someones mind determines how wave functions collapse as information? Is it possible that the unfolding realization of a metaphysical principle  determines the sequence of registration of photons on a retina and the flow of electricity in the brain?

What is causing the all encompassing potential significance of information that appears in the mind?
Is there a method to the madness in the fluctuations of self content? Is each of us being told a story about our selves and the management of our own minds?

What is being created inside of us? Inside of our minds? Mental  Paradigms of all kinds, in all fields of thought, are constructed like scaffolding, they elevate  us to greater vistas and new points of view, but then the extended context of our vision negates the very scaffolds that enabled us to broaden our horizons.

What is Going On?

Is it our hubris that prevents us from accepting that the nature and substance of our minds is itself the result of intelligent design? That by the very nature of logic, the smaller cannot contain what is greater than it? Can we not accept that our calculations can only measure what exists in the confines of our own nature and that our nature is less comprehensive  than the nature of  that which creates us?

It is far more evident that nature has intelligence than that it hasn't. Yes, the intelligence of nature transcends any idea we have of time and space. Are we jealous and unable to concede there is greater wisdom than our own?

It is time we brought God into our equations.

The Ever Right Decision's Reward

No matter what one believes about freedom of choice, in our conscious minds we experience moments that seem pivotal in regards to how things develop for us. Sometimes it seems as if we are situated at a crossroads, and we linger in indecision, concerning which path to walk down. To help ourselves decide, we might try imagining the consequences of either choice. We try to envision the future and calculate to what degree it will be the realization of what we want for ourselves or what we need, how much pleasure there might be in it for us or how much pain.
It is the experience of these pivotal moments of lingering indecision, where we are as if at rest and calculating how to move on, that gives us the concept of freedom of choice. This moment of lingering indecision is so much a part of the human experience, that despite mounting scientific evidence that the freedom of such a moment is virtual and just an illusion, people are prone to hang on to it and ignore the evidence that challenges their belief.
Such a belief is often fundamental to one's sense of value and self esteem. People pride themselves for their own intelligence and the wisdom and virtue of their choices. Our justice system is founded on the ethics of freedom of choice and punishment is widely deemed to be the proper consequence for whatever any particular society considers to be sinful decisions. Capitalism, which has become popular even in Communist China, and has become the foundation philosophy for global economics, is based on the idea of the economic rewards for intelligent self serving decision making.
On a Global level, freedom of will in the economic arena has become the norm. The free market is the modus operandi of world financial activity. Because of this, international trade in all dimensions of industry and creativity is bringing people together in cooperative efforts to make more money for those involved.
Ever increasing income and the accumulation of wealth as the result of wise business decisions, has become the world's determining factor in the adjudication of a person's real intrinsic value in society. This to such a degree that a relatively successful businessman with no political experience, no military experience, no outstanding intellectual accomplishments worthy of mention, no legal experience except that of one who has been frequently sued and filed for bankruptcy, such a business man has been elected The President of the world's most powerful military political entity, The President of the greatest world economy, elected to be the man with the greatest possible influence over the course of history, for better or for worse.
This is no small indicator of how capital the idea of the virtues of freedom of choice has become.
An examination of the execution of free will and decision making, indicates that one kind of choice seems to prevail and succeed in accomplishing the purpose of overall financial growth. On a personal level, it appears that this same kind of choice is more successful overtime in achieving for those who make it, a harmonious and integrated sense of peace of mind. It makes imminent sense that the same kind of personal choice that leads to personal success also leads to financial success when made as a business decision. It appears that nature prefers and rewards a certain character of choice in all spheres of existence over time.
Of course one would want to know what kind of choice is that, if it truly exists! And it does!
It is the continuing and unmitigated choice to expand, by incorporating into one's self, all one can of one's environment.
The phrase "all one can" needs delineation.
The environment contains various kinds of pathogens and hostile elements, in both economic and personal spheres of activity. Those prone to committing larceny of any kind are to be avoided. When discovered, they are to be removed from any position where they can continue their abuse of one's assets, emotional or financial. What one shouldn't do, after a negative experience with such an element, is allow one's self to remain diminished and close one's self down from continued expansion, out of the fear that one might have more such pain causing encounters. Perhaps it is possible to adopt security measures that identify such potential trouble causers before they do their damage and avoid such situations in the future. But by all means one must determine to continue expansion by incorporating into one's company or one's self, ever more diverse relationships with entities in the environment.
This entails a willingness for change and transformation as one grows. The maintenance of structural integrity and the harmony of one's mind should be the determining factor in whether one slows down or increases the rate of one's exploration and incorporation of what is out there. As long as one maintains the unequivocal decision to grow, on some plane of one's existence, one is guaranteed an ever improving overall sense of accomplishment and well being, as a financial entity or individual human being. The universe seems to quickly rid itself of that which has become stagnant, whether that be a civilization, a culture, a business entity or an individual.
All of nature seems to be driven by an impetus to create ever growing and more sophisticated conglomerates, based on symbiotic relationships between diverse entities.
Now lets go back to the beginning. The sphere in which one experiences what appears to be an option to expand or not, is of course one's conscious mind. A natural result of the passage of time is that a person's mind grows as it stores information and adopts operating procedures for the integration of environmental factors in the realization of its innate nature.
Those whose nature it is to enjoy the company of people will most likely acquire a growing number of diverse friends. Those who enjoy the feelings congruent with the exercise of authority over others, might pursue a military career and rise in the ranks of command. And of course those who seek the feelings experienced by those who command wealth, will seek out and expand business activities or or acquire lucrative professions. as the adage says, to each their own to manifest their own nature and preferences in the field of their activity.
So is this really a matter of free choice, or nature playing itself out as it always does, expanding and growing and adopting to new environments, while those who can't, those who become stagnant, decay and fall apart?
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A Catastrophic Tragedy. Maybe Not!

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Jonathan Michael Robbins

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What is God and What is The Purpose of Creation

 "What?" is the first question of an evolving mind.

Everything starts with the question, "What?". 

"What?" am I sensing. 

Until the question "What?" is asked, there can only be a stream of meaningless sensation. There can be no awareness of "I".  

Perhaps like music, the stream of what is as yet, meaningless sensation, causes ripples of pleasure, in the same way an electric wire with a flow of electrons, has a field around it of something that has apparently different qualities than the flowing electrons.

 Be this as it may be, sensation alone is without meaning until the question  "What is that?" is asked. By asking "What?", distance is created between the sensation and its observer. Any answer to the question must come in the form of symbols that represent the flow of sensations. 

This is the birth of language.

An answer to the question, "What?" can only be given after the recognition of a pattern in the flow of sensation. A pattern means something repeats itself over an extant of time in the mind. Even a two dimensional pattern can only be recognized as such over the interval of the time it takes to recognize the sameness and repetition of the pattern. 

Time is of the mind.

 An impulse of sensation must recur at individuated points in a line of linear time to be recognized as a pattern. Once recognized as a pattern, the sensation gains the significance of a "perception" because it gains the quality of identity as it is individuated in its nature from that which has not yet been recognized as a pattern, and it is  different from other patterns previously recognized and stored as memories.

Memory is of the mind.

Whatever the condition of memory, a mind exists whenever there is perception of one moment becoming another, creating the postulate of the future, the future being the postulated continuation of the patterns coexisting in the present. 

The present is created by the cross referencing of flows of related sensations stretched out in sequences, like the sounds of music and the resultant sensations of pleasure surrounding them. The time between a sensation and its recognition is filled with the question, "What?"

Questions are of the mind.

The fundamental building block of the mind is the recognition of patterns of motion. Motion is the condition of a sequence of change. The most fundamental building blocks of the universe are particles that have distinct patterns of motion, surrounded by fields of influence that have distinct identities defined as wave functions.

Both the universe and the mind are built from the same essentials.

Essentials are of the mind. 

Any answer to the question "What?" evokes the possibility of the question, "How?"
 "How?" is essentially the question, "What brought this about?" or "How did this come to be".

"How?" asks for the identity of a cause of an effect through the delineation and description of the affect that exists between  Cause and it's effect. No description of an affect can be complete before it is determined that the affect originated from a location that is it's cause. A field  of affect and effect without cause is an indeterminable confusion and chaos. Like string theory.

To say that the order and logic of the unfolding comprehension of the universe in the mind, is the effect of chaos, is like saying A=B=C but A doesn't equal C. 

This would be an insoluble paradox and undermine the reality of the most axiomatic and experiential truth, expressed as," I am here, wherever and whenever that is, no matter how or why this has come about."

If A=B=C but A doesn't equal C than I am not here even though I know I am because I perceive myself thinking about it. This undermines all of science, all of thought and is the essence of the paradox of nihilism for if the essential premise of nihilism is true, that nothing is real, one couldn't even think about it.

And it couldn't be true.

  Even a conclusion of  "extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence." needs A=B=C  to be true or it couldn't be made as a statement that uses linguistic symbols founded as a language, THE SYMBOLS OF THE STATEMENT COULDN'T REPRESENT A REALITY,  as all languages are based on the premise that if A=B=C than A=C.

The seductiveness of nihilistic thought is in the observation, that of course A doesn't equal B.

Look at them. 

In Nihilistic thought patterns, A doesn't equal A,  let alone B.  A never stays the same long enough to be itself for the duration of an observation.

There is a self annihilating truth to this. But just as waves don't define the totality of reality or the sun would disappear in an instant of self propagation, so the instantaneously unsustainable nature of all conceived static states is false and incomplete, because patterns of motion are the essence of endurance and we do observe the endurable. What we call a static state is itself the perpetuation of existence and is contained in the mind with delineations of identity and perpetuated characteristics.

Without the assignment of identity that is self perpetuating, without the creative self perpetuating nature of logic and mathematics, everything dissolves into chaos and a mind overwhelmed by confusion caused by chaos, stagnates, contracts, dissipates and dissolves, itself becoming like the chaos that has overwhelmed it.

Any awareness of existence is the consequence of self observation, the observation of sensations in the self. Time and space are stretched out by the act of observing something in motion which has an origin of location in both time and space, a place both in time and space of perceived origin, that being the first moment it is perceived in a sequence of moments, and the first location it is perceived at in a sequence of locations.

Of course this assignment of a point of origin in time and space, to a chain of events characterized by repetitions of patterns of motion, culminating in an event, is perhaps an arbitrary delineation created in a mind for purposes of self creation, harmony and integrated growth.

One can always confuse the issue by asking how did this point of origin come about, what caused it and still causes it, to be what we see it to be. One can also ask why is the effect defined and contained within what must be arbitrary borders as the the effect always is the point of origin of an affect that promulgates itself and sets of further chains of events, extended effects.

To maintain itself from corruption from ever encroaching chaos and the child of chaos, that being confusion, the mind must define and delineate, separate and differentiate. It must create relationships of difference and similarity and finally determine how to facilitate the survival and well being of the body the mind is apparently attached to. A mind doesn't exist in a vacuum and the first thing it perceives is the stream of sensations concerning the body it comes along with.  

To facilitate the well being and quality of it's own experience and the quality of existence of the body it comes along with, the mind must calculate it's body's motion through space and acquire the means of self sustenance. Doing so is the demonstration of intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to cause desired effects by calculating the efforts needed in the affect of a result that serves the needs of the mind and body these calculations take place in. Effects can be the consequence of  unknown and even unknowable causes because their cause can exist outside the realm of perceivable information. For this reason we differentiate between effects and results, results being the consequence of the demonstration of some degree of intelligent effort.

The contemplation of effects without knowable causes, creates a sense of discomfort and possibly the experience of anxiety and fear. The more effects occur and their cause unknown, the universe becomes unpredictable and dangerous to any system that depends on undisturbed repetitive motions- like a mind. 

Hence,  the mind needs arbitrary definitions and delineations, self imposed  limitations and result serving calculations that help maintain its sense of equilibrium and harmonic contemplation of what it perceives.   

A growing mind that strives to comprehend itself and the universe it exists in, must continually reexamine itself and adjust whatever formulas and explanations it has for effects it perceives, so as to  create more comprehensive contexts for conflicting data and by so doing, strive to resolve contradictions. This is an aspect of intelligence.

Intelligence is of the mind. 

The application of intelligence creates solutions that overcome conflicts of interest and contradicting solutions and difficulties in the attainment of valuable assets. If the activity of communication in social cooperation between individuals in mutual and common self interest is an asset, then so is language and the proficiency of its use.

Mathematics is a language that explains everything common to human experience. The creative use of mathematics produces the equations of physics that allow for the creation of  mechanisms that extend the borders of our sphere of influence over ever increasing realms of further and extended creativity. Mathematics enables the creation of logarithms in computer science and the availability of knowledge of every kind imaginable,  to one and all, is becoming an indisputable norm and entitlement.   The borders of the sphere of human knowledge and experience are expanding ever faster, like the universe itself.

We are, however, demonstrating signs of overload. 

Mathematics and scientific theory do not encompass the ever increasing perception of data that conflicts with  existing theories. On the cosmic front of expanding knowledge, the universe keeps proving that the existing formulas and equations upon which are based the most recent theorems and consequent predictions, are incapable of enabling successful forecasts.  The universe keeps surprising the scientists who strive to contain it in formulas, equations and theorems that prove the mind of man is up to the task of comprehending everything there is to perceive.

The expansion of the universe is accelerating at a speed far beyond what the theorems foresaw. Instead of doubting the validity of their human calculations as regards the behavior of the cosmos, they postulated something out of nothing called dark matter and dark energy and then fine tuned the quantity of  these mental creations so that their theories about the nature of matter and energy remain valid. Per theoretical scientists, dark energy and dark matter are no less than 95 per cent of the influencing factors in the universe, 95 percent of all the kinds of matter and energy that might be.
This is no less than a ludicrous solution that serves no other purpose than to save face. It is the product of rapidly expanding hubris to fill in the empty spaces of human knowledge.

The first truly comprehensive and valuable theorems about the mechanics of mass and motion in what was then the perceivable, conceivable and measurable universe, were those of Newton. These postulates explained everything we could perceive with the naked eye aided by what was a  primitive but efficient telescope. The universe then was calculated to be infinitesimal compared to what is thought of it today.

The discovery and definition of formula describing electromagnetic phenomena in general and the behavior of the electron in particular lead to the startling discovery that waves of energy and particles that carry energy are one and the same, depending on which you are looking for and how you are looking for it. Experiments exposed the minds of scientists to new data that contradicted everything they had previously thought about the nature of the fundamental elements of creation.

Suddenly the very smallest elements of existence behaved differently than the very largest and everything in between.

Things began to appear as if out of no where and then disappear without a trace. Any particular electron was suddenly all over the universe until it was needed to turn on a light bulb, when it would behave with perfect dinner manners and allow itself to be consumed for mass production. The greater the enigma of consistently predicting how matter and energy would behave in a laboratory or the cosmos, the more technology advanced. New theorems seemed to work in confined contexts, despite the lack of any comprehensive comprehension of the whole. Not that scientists didn't keep trying! 

Along came Einstein and he provided new equations, new calculations and again, in what turned out to be the confines of what is  futured to be recognized as  narrowly defined contexts, there was an integration of conflicting data with accepted theory. 

But he did not by any means close the gap between the mathematics and formulas of quantum mechanics and Newtonian physics. He knew this and was deeply frustrated in his attempts to bridge the gaps in scientific theory and observed phenomena. He even went so far as to invent an arbitrary universal constant that would balance his equations of gravity and the behavior of  galaxies but relinquished this idea himself, calling it his greatest blunder when he discovered how fast the universe is expanding. Some scientists today would salvage Einstein's constant as it seems to coincidentally resonate with the behavior of dark mass and energy. No one can explain how dark mass and energy is compatible with an event like The Big Bang.


The universe is obviously created as a fluctuating and ever growing  collection of cross referenced phenomenon in  our minds. New data makes our ideas of it dynamic. The context of our comprehension is ever expanding but the expansion of the universe is exponentially faster.  The reality of the universe growing in our minds constantly challenges our ideas about it. What is certain is that the universe exists in our minds in what we presume to be a symbolic representation and albeit partial reflection of some truthful reality that transcends our own existence.

 It is widely assumed that somehow the universe comes together in such a way that produces the mind in which we contemplate the universe that creates us. We have established a vast matrix of "What?"  is going on, an expanding sphere of what is at last count two trillion or more galaxies,  but the whole isn't held together by the gravity we thought we understand. The galaxies spin around their centers  against the laws of physics. 

   We still have no answer for why electrons behave how we need them to,  even when we can't say for sure where one is and what it is going to do, where it is going to go, at any particular time.  
   Everything should be completely uncertain and yet it isn't to such a degree, that we can send satellites into space that behave so predictably with electrons, that we are able to manage the motion of  what is ever approaching infinite amounts of information about our own activities and the motion of ever more mass in space. This while the mass itself is composed of  completely incomprehensible fields of  potential manifestation.

How is it that the sequence of manifestation unfolds in a narrative that makes so much sense? It all unfolds with implicit order and in a sequence of ever incomplete yet expanding knowledge.

If time is a duration of the perception of persistent sequence, why do we continue to presume that any time exists out side our minds, where perception takes place? How can we ever know that there is any space outside a mind that holds in place, points of reference as the context that enables the experience of space? How can we presume that quantum particles behave as if they have a memory outside a mind which has a memory to cross reference the behavior of particles?

It is far more certain that our minds exist than it is that anything exists outside them. We will never encounter any information except as such appears by whatever means in our minds.

This is the foundation of logic and math. We discover  how things behave  with logic and math because logic and math describe how our minds work and then how things behave in our minds. Even then, our logic and our math are constantly challenged by the behavior of  ever new information and its affect on our minds. No matter how hard we try to freeze ideas we find valuable in the development of new technologies and call these ideas axiomatic and universal truths, the universe in our minds destroys them with new evidence and new information. Everything that works as an equation in technology, only does so in a context confined  arbitrarily in our mind, to the accomplishment of an intelligent and intended result. While our ability to cause results grows exponentially in all the sciences and The Arts, it becomes ever more evident that all we know better is how our mind works and what its inherent limitations are, regarding the nature of what we presume exists as a  transcendental reality beyond our minds, in time and in space.

We witness effects in our mind coming in a sequence and creating a narrative for every thing we observe that has any significance at all. From the apparently incoherent narrative of a  quantum particle that affects what came before it in time, or the way one particle affects another which is an infinite distance away, faster than the speed of light and without the transference of any detectable information between the two, to a child run over by a car or someone winning a Nobel Prize, everything has  a narrative  and all things make sense in a certain context of explanation.

Obviously, the necessities of a significant narrative are of primal importance to the workings of our mind.

Is it possible that an unfolding narrative in someones mind determines how wave functions collapse as information? Is it possible that the unfolding realization of a metaphysical principle  determines the sequence of registration of photons on a retina and the flow of electricity in the brain?

What is causing the all encompassing potential significance of information that appears in the mind?
Is there a method to the madness in the fluctuations of self content? Is each of us being told a story about our selves and the management of our own minds?

What is being created inside of us? Inside of our minds? Mental  Paradigms of all kinds, in all fields of thought, are constructed like scaffolding, they elevate  us to greater vistas and new points of view, but then the extended context of our vision negates the very scaffolds that enabled us to broaden our horizons.

What is Going On?

Is it our hubris that prevents us from accepting that the nature and substance of our minds is itself the result of intelligent design? That by the very nature of logic, the smaller cannot contain what is greater than it? Can we not accept that our calculations can only measure what exists in the confines of our own nature and that our nature is less comprehensive  than the nature of  that which creates us?

It is far more evident that nature has intelligence than that it hasn't. Yes, the intelligence of nature transcends any idea we have of time and space. Are we jealous and unable to concede there is greater wisdom than our own?

It is time we brought God into our equations.

God is the answer to the question, "What ?"
The answer to "What?" creates any and all manifestations of creation and creativity.

God is not everything. God is The Creator of Everything and is forever superior to and cause over everything God creates. God's existence is independent of creation and God is the cause for all phenomena in the mind and exterior to the mind, that can be perceived and that cannot be perceived. God is The Creator of perception and the mind and all that transpires within the mind. God is the creator of all ideas and cannot be contained by ideas, for God is always infinitely greater than creation, even if creation is infinite.

God is never the answer to "Who" and when I refer to God as "He" that is as if I were to use a ladder to ascend to a height from which can been seen greater vistas of God's creativity, but once having reached a plateau of observation and contemplation, I discard the ladder as a tool no longer needed. God is called "He"as an instrument of ascent, but not "She"- as it is the male that determines the sex of the offspring and therefor the more comprehensive creative potential is in The He of human creation, making the female less suitable to metaphorically represent the all encompassing creativity of God.

God is never a "who" or an "it". He is not an object or a being, He is the creator of beings and objects alike and cannot be contained by the confines of time or space. God is not the universe. God is The Creator of the universe that contains all the universes within itself, and He exists exterior to and in supreme command over all phenomena in and all cross references between all the phenomena in all the  11 dimensions of the time space continuum, the stretching of which creates the mind.

God cannot be contained, by the mathematical formations, that describe the phenomena of creation in the mind.

God is not contained by the mind created by His own creativity. God exists exterior to and independently from any and all phenomena, the creation of which happens within the confines of any kind of mind- or computer extension, in a feedback loop with a mind.

God does not create Himself, as God is never a creation, he is always the Creator.

God  is never embodied by the limitations of mass or limited to the governs of laws, that dictate the behavior of any and all kinds of energies and mass. God is completely and always the master over all the laws of nature and these are all subject to His Will.

He can and does suspend the laws of nature and causes any kind of manifestation of energies and mass that serves His creative purpose.

God has as attributes, any as He assumes, when communicating with the minds of His Living Creatures, such as that of a man or a woman. There is no adjective that cannot describe His behavior with His creation. There is no attribute that comprehensively describes or defines him and all the adjectives and attributes there are, in all the different kinds of languages that exist, would be insufficient to contain as a description, the realizations of His creative will.

First, we might consider that God can create whole universes in which there is no evidence of his existence but existence itself, universes full of living beings like ourselves, whose minds are embedded in a universe that is subject to entropy, a universe that has no comprehensible beginning, yet has an end as everything returns to an equilibrium of non vibrating absence, sans even wave functions. A universe with rigid laws that dictate its unwinding like a clock with a ghost trapped inside it, a ghost that has nothing to do but watch the clock unwind with no one there to rewind it once it comes to its inevitable chronological demise. What is the ghost to do then? Perhaps we should ask Steven Hawking? He seems as if he is cruelly trapped in his own unwinding body. There is no wonder in me for his denial of intelligent design of the universe. Perhaps he asks how his own predicament could be the consequence of benevolent intelligent design? If the designer is so virtually malignant as to trap a mind like Stephan Hawking's in a body so crippled, better there be no designer at all and we each do the best we can, he might think. And who can blame him?

Secondly, let us consider that God can create a universe that has a beginning and despite the dictates of entropy, emerges and expands forever, growing ever more sophisticated and complex in the cross influences of all its ever increasing components. A universe of eternal transcendence and ascendance. Transcendence being the ability of the living entities within such a universe to move beyond the confines of their own minds by exercising a freedom of choice given to those of them who are willing to sacrifice everything they possess to attain it.

Ascendance being the attainment of ever higher vistas of observation and contemplation of God's Creation so as to experience the awe and gratitude and wonder of being one, with whom God shares Himself in Love and Mutual Respect. One thing can be said about God as an attribute that is forever true. God is Alive. His Life is unlimited and unconfined by space or time. This relationship between God and Man is represented in the Hebrew Narrative of creation, by the number 11. 
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Lets hope we live in the second option and not the first.

Certainly the second option is one of faith and belief that whatever be God's Ultimate and Unknowable Nature, as regards our own experience of His Nature, we choose to believe Him to be ultimately and completely benevolent as regards our own transcendence and ascendance. We choose to have Faith in His Creativity and Supremacy over The Laws of Nature, The Laws that our bodies are subject to, and our minds are confined by.

The research, examination and exploration of the universe in all its manifestations, as such is realized in our own minds, is done through the facility of our senses- and what we sense is going on in our consciousness. Not long ago at all, man had nothing but his eyes and their sight, his ears and his hearing, his nose and his sense of smell, his mouth and his sense of taste and his skin and its sensations of heat and cold, pressure and texture, to gain knowledge of what was going on outside himself. His perceptions of what he believed was going on outside his body were processed in his brain, along with information about the condition of his body and its hunger and thirst, his tiredness and curiosity, his imagination and his sexual desires and urges. He moved forward in time with the appearance of a spiritual inertia that propelled him from one moment to the next, as he moved about in an unceasing attempt to attain and maintain a harmony of well being.

In this we haven't changed at all.

What has changed very dramatically is that our senses are now extended through technology so that we can explore the farthest reaches of the ever expanding perceivable cosmos as well as the most infinitesimal demonstrations of the properties of the most exotic and fundamental particles. We can make measurements and we have the formulas to make accurate predictions. We can send out into space exploratory vehicles that increase exponentially our knowledge of the nature and behavior of celestial objects at vast distances. We can accurately predict what happens when subatomic particles collide at nearly the speed of light and disintegrate into the most fleeting and elemental manifestations of quantum theories concerning the nature of energy and mass.

In addition to this, we have the means to store and process information as an extension of our brain, increasing exponentially the ability of our minds to manifest their as yet immeasurable potential.

It is a natural quality of the imaginative and non defensive mind that it seeks to create equilibrium and harmony in a dynamic cross reference of all the data it contains. It is the nature of existence that an unending flow of data arrives into the mind and to maintain harmony and equilibrium, the mind must reassess and expand the context of all it contains when it appears to perceive that which is contradictory.

It is a flagrant fact that not only has the scientific community discovered and measured phenomena that conflict with its most recent and modern premises, the universe gets more and more complicated and sophisticated. Just decades more than a century ago, it appeared as if science had resolved all perceived phenomena with ever more simple theories. It was believed that the truth was represented by ever more simple and elegant equations and the ideal of Occam's razor cast doubt on any philosophy or theory that was deemed not to be based on the most elementary observations.

Now everything is as if we have gone through a reversing vortex, a fulcrum, and ever growing simplicity has become ever growing complexity as fewer and fewer minds are capable of postulating an all embracing hypothesis that isn't contradicted in short order with new observations.

The more we extend our senses and the quicker our processing of information, it seems the farther away we are from understanding what is really going on.

Our knowledge of the universe is becoming a conglomerate of paradoxes. Mathematics falls short of describing new observations in physics on both ends of the scales of magnitude.

Scientists insist that all must be reducible to mathematically conceivable formulas that will enable us to finally predict the future of the universe. Will it expand forever until all mass dissipates and disintegrates or will it reach some full enactment of the energy released at the hypothesized big bang and then contract back into itself as a victim of gravity instead of entropy?

I tell you all, none of the above. There is no purpose to an ever expanding and contracting universe, just as there is no purpose to breathing without the enjoyment of one's thoughts and a reason for one's experiences.

The purpose of creation is the possibility for experiences it provides the mind. God creates the mind and produces within its shifting confines, experiences that become narratives about the nature of the universe and He that creates it. God also creates the mind that perceives His creation. He is the author of the postulated narrative about His Creation and the mind acts as a multi dimensional mirror which contains an ever dissipating and emerging continuance that represents possibilities of what is ever going on in Truth. But the nature of any ultimate truth is evasive and beyond attainment for were it attained, the game would be over and any other game of equal interest is impossible for me to imagine.

All I say above is based on the narratives of The Hebrew Bible. In The Hebrew Bible we are told that God is One. Not The One, but One. The One suggests there are other ones, a one here and a one there, but that is not the case.

God is One and His Name One.

Now in Hebrew there are two words that most often are used to represent God. I will present these in the order of their appearance in The Hebrew Scriptures.

The First is Elohim, The Creator of The Heavens and The Earth. אלהים The word is composed of what could be read as "TO The Sea." The word for TO is also the word for "a" god and that is because the word, in its meaning of TO, indicates direction and a single direction is the opposite of chaos. God, any god, has a direction towards which he would manage his affairs. The word TO meaning direction necessitates the creation of what can only exist in a mind, this because TO must have something to move- between one position and another and a duration of time in which the the moving something moves, as well as space between the point of departure and the intended direction towards the point of arrival, as well as a memory to hold all the "something"s different positions in a context of cross reference. All this is contained in the word TO.

The word TO necessitates logic and Law for in order for whatever is moving to maintain its direction, we need Newton's first Law of Motion for the duration of the motion or the word TO no longer applies to the same extant.

The words "TO The Sea" have even deeper significance when considered that the Hebrew word for "water" מים can be read ""from a sea" and the Hebrew word for Heavens can be read "as water". Water moves in the direction of the earth from the heavens and to the seas, in rivers on the earth. Water manifests waves and can be likened to the fundamental property of space in which waves propagate.

So ELOHIM can be likened to GOD who contains all the laws that determine the motions of all things and there is just One Elohim and finally, just one direction, which we hope is UP.

In accordance with these Laws, The Lord, who is One God, manifests Creation through Law and Order by declaring "There Will Be Light!" and there is Light. Light's significance is that it carries information and information is nothing unless contained in a mind. So Elohim is The Lord God whose Will it is to manifest the promulgation of information through the space contained as an idea in a mind, according to Laws and Logic. Whether space exists outside a mind, only God Knows. I don't know why it should as God doesn't need any space to exist, nor a mind. But what do I know, after all?

All of creation in The Hebrew Bible is performed by Elohim, The Lord, in the appropriately called book of Genesis. Finally, according to His Laws and their manifestation, The Lord created Man with a mind that mirrors The Laws of creation. But the difference between the mind God created to create the world with, The Mind of Elohim, and the mind of man created by Him, is the difference between an object and its reflection in a mirror. That is why it says The Lord created man in His Image. The aspect of God that creates The Mind of The Lord of Law and Order and Logic is reflected as the mind of man which is governed by laws of order and strives for logic. It is a universe of straight lines from cause to effect and the motion of that which moves between two points is governed by Law.

All of this is fine in theory but we are now informed that it is all potential and hasn't manifested yet in action. And for the first time The God that actually makes things happen appears and causes things to actually start moving according to all these Laws of Order and Motion, with a new ingredient, and that is Narratives.

God is called now יהוה אלהים The Lord God and this is the verse.


"These are The Narratives of The Heavens and The Earth as They are Created (from nothing) on The Day The Lord God made Earth and Sky."

אֵלֶּה תוֹלְדוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ בְּהִבָּרְאָם בְּיוֹם עֲשׂוֹת יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶרֶץ וְשָׁמָיִם

It is the appearance of יהוה who's name means "will make the present into the future" or " Past, Present and Future" or "I Will Be What I Will Be" that makes things begin to unfold as a narrative in a Creative Divine Mind of Design. We are told that rain has not began to fall and that nothing yet grows because man himself has not yet been created and Man 's Mind is the purpose of creation. It is The God of Narratives, יהוה that actually realizes the Potentials of The Divine Mind by beginning to unfold the narratives that define God's relationships with various kinds of men and their offspring.

Now the use of the word Elohim actually means Lord in the sense that anyone who can cause another to have punishing experiences is a Lord over them. A Lord is a Master to be obeyed. It is The Master of The Household who is The Lord, The One who makes the rules that when not followed, elicit punishment.

God tells Moses that he is to be as Elohim to Pharaoh and Aaron is to be his prophet. 

This is why in the discussion between Eve and the snake, God is referred to as Elohim אלהים alone and the Name יהוה is not used. אלהים has given commands and warned of the consequences of disobedience, which is death. But the snake and Eve and her husband all rebel against these Laws and are unafraid of the consequences, believing they will acquire God like qualities themselves.

When they are all confronted, it is by their actual creator יהוה אלהים The Lord God and He doesn't carry out the punishment the woman Eve thought he would. There is a twist in the narrative away from relentless Law and Order, away from circumstance and predictable consequence, for The God of Narrative creates unexpected twists and turns in the Plot, that expose ever more of God's Nature as regards Mankind.

And we might understand that Eve has gratitude to יהוה despite the harshness of her punishment because after all, יהוה modified the punishment of אלהים in that He did not kill her and her husband as she feared He would if they transgressed against His Law. She calls her first born son, "Acquisition" as if to say, I have acquired through יהוה a man. Not only is she and her husband not dead, she has a son. She mentions only the name יהוה and not אלהים as if to say her gratitude is to He who kept her alive by commuting the sentence of The Lord of Consequence, and also gave her a son, allowing her so to acquire a man of her own, to raise as she sees fitת with a belief in יהוה. It is the name יהוה alone that appears in conversations with Eve's sons.

יהוה The God of Narrative determines the unfolding of events according to the ascetic principles of artful narrative rendition and not just the laws of nature. יהוה brings to the stories told the appearance of contradiction and paradox, a possibility to escape the dire deadly consequences of sin. We see this again after Cain murders his brother Abel and יהוה initially spares his life, allowing him to have many children before he finally comes to an untimely death himself, as The Laws of אלהים would have it. Justice did catch up with him and there was a finality of consequence for his actions, after a reprieve.

At the death of Abel, Adam finds the justice of The Lord, אלהים in the birth of his new son, whom he calls "Foundation", for by giving Adam a new son, The Foundation of Justice is set with mercy, too.

Never the less, the son of "Foundation" is born, his name is "Human", as if to say Humanity can survive on Justice tempered with Mercy, and then began the calling on The Name of יהוה.

Now why does everyone suddenly begin to call on the name of יהוה one might ask, keeping in mind that everyone born will have offspring that will also call on יהוה and they will all (but Noah, his wife, sons and wives) die in the flood, anyway?

Everyone is living out the self serving narrative in their own mind, calling on God יהוה to manifest their own narrative and to obstruct the narrative of their enemies. Suddenly it appears as if there are many Gods, because one man's fortune goes up and then down and another man the same thing, and no one can be sure why or what it takes to buy God's favor.

And as יהוה is also The God of Art, everything is surprising and confusing and flowing in all directions like a fickle wind, like a great tempest.

On the other hand, Hanoch, whose name means "Education" walks with The Lord אלהים and is mysteriously taken, and does not die like everyone else. Perhaps narratives of obedience to The Laws of The Lord God are meant as "Entertaining Artful Education" and the means to Transcendence and Ascendance?


When God sees what has become of man and how his mind is corrupted by confusions caused by things flowing in all directions as there is no belief in One God, the Name יהוהis used as He who first regrets having created man as He did, but it is The Lord אלהים who carries out the consequences. After all יהוה and אלהים are One and The Same, playing good cop, bad cop for the same purpose.


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