If the universe splits everytime a quantum wave collapses then there are an infinite amount of mes and yous across all the universes. But all the us-es have a limited time span. As each of us dies in our own particular world we return to heaven where we conglomerate with the us-s that have already died. When all of the mes die the soul is complete. When all of the yous die your soul is complete. This also explains why when we die we can no longer interact with the world. Since we are dead and removed from the quantum universe splitting we can not progress forward in time with the rest of the non dead universe.
Death is the end of the personal multiverse.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Speculative Metaphysics #1249783492749 & Conspiracy Theory #1089402840280000
Pentemychos
In this work, Pherecydes taught his philosophy through the medium of mythic representations. Although it is lost, the fragments that survive are enough to reconstruct a basic outline. Aristotle in Metaphysics (section 1091 b 8) thus characterized Pherecydes' work as a mixture of myth and philosophy.
The book "Pentemychos" is an elaborate version of cosmogenesis, describing how three eternal "things" or "beings" beget (or become, depending on how you read) a number of principles or forms before the ordered world, the cosmos, appears. The three eternal principles are Zas ("he who lives"), Chronos ("time"), and Chthonie ("underlying the earth").
So, uh... yeah, I had a lot of coffee today. Waaaaaay, too much. Anyway, while surfing about who OWNS our banks here in America - which is impossible to do! Really! Try it. I mean, get a list of the individuals and/or corporations with the largest number of shares (besides pension funds, etc.) I gave up, or rather got distracted because looking for banking information of course led me to rothschild conspiracy junk, and then I OF COURSE wanted to find a high rez picture of the rothschild coat of arms, which is also seemingly impossible to do and then I wound up reading some art criticism of edward rothschild's called "the meaning of unintelligibility in modern art" which sounds great but I couldn't find the original text and then I wound up on another conspiracy website even though at that point I wasn't even looking for conspiracy stuff and then of course that led me metatron's cube (not to be confused with megatron!) which led me to pentemychos. Don't ask me how. I think.
ANYWAY... Pentemychos was mentioned in Damascius' "De Principiis" and it is some sort of mystic ordering principle and also the place where, well, read for yourself:
The ancient Pythagorean pentagram was drawn with two points up and represented the doctrine of Pentemychos. Pentemychos means "five recesses" or "five chambers", also known as the pentagonas — the five-angle, and was the title of a work written by Pythagoras' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros (This is actually a lost book whose contents are preserved in Damascius de principiis, quoted in Kirk and Raven, The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1956, page 55.). It was also the "place" where the first pre-cosmic offspring had to be put in order for the ordered cosmos to appear. The pentemychos is in Tartaros.
So uh... Note the H.P.Lovecraftian connection with the Cthulhu-esqe original before-creation uggga ugggga incomprehensible old gods monsters yadda yadda etc. I won't bother with the whole Pentagram = sign of satan crap. If you believe that, then you are retarded because the pentagram was around long before our modern notion of Hell/Satan. I mean it does mean that NOW, but not back then... Anyway... if the pentemychos isn't the starting point for a Hellblazer comic book plot then I don't know what is. I think if memory serves me correct, Pente = 5 and Mychos was the god of darkness, of which the greeks didn't seem to say much even though he was one of the original gods. So yeah, here we are back at the Law of Fives again. Ugh.
I digress of course. But on coffeee that is the pooooooiiiinnnntttt. Anyway, to make this fit into the 2 themes of this blog: Artificial Conspiracy Theories & Pataphysical Speculative Metaphysics I will now get to the point:
Speculative Metaphysics #1249783492749 & Conspiracy Theory #1089402840280000
A conspiracy dates back to the pythagoreans which of course include Pherecydes and before him Heraclitus and any process philosophy is written by a secret member of the conspiracy which includes the illuminati and masons etc and alfred north whitehead and your mother and the whole point of the conspiracy is this:
The three eternal principles are Zas ("he who lives"), Chronos ("time"), and Chthonie ("underlying the earth").
Zas is CONSCIOUSNESS
Chronos is TIME
Chthonie is SPACE/MATTER
But there are 2 things missing. Duh! You need FIVE things to complete a pentemychos. The conspiracy is desperately looking for those 2 missing metaphysical entities outlined in Pherecydes' writings. Both gulf wars were to gain unlimited access to the MULTITUDES of cuneiform tablets located in Iraq.
What are these entities? Obviously, they will need to be completely seperate ontological categories which mankind up until recently could not concieve of.
They are:
1) "Infomorphs"
They are beings of pure information which access our monkey consciousness. Instead of us passing around information as memes or oral tradition, the reverse is the case, they literally pass us around which is how thought is created. Thought is a byproduct of being touched by an infomorph. Thinking about the number 5? That is an infomorph using you for amusement or some other incomprehensible function. Then 10 seconds later thinking about feeling happy? Well you just got handed from one informorph to the next. Sleep is when the infomorphs get bored with playing hot patato with your consciousness and you are put in some cosmic playbox a la that Star Trek episode that got lampooned on the Simpsons. Coffee, accellerates their ability to hand us from one infomorph to the next. Death is when they break us.
In this metaphysics, we are not made of matter. We are made of the causal succession of hot potato infomorph intersections that result in our full stream of consciousness. But our monkey body still exists. The intersections occur in a monkey body that falls into one of the causal streams of hot potato passes. This explains memories of past lives and reincarnation. Our current monkey body is just picking up where the last monkey body left off. Those poor monkeys... possessed by something that is just a by product of non-dimensional infomorph interactions.
Or something like that. I don't even know what the fuck I am saying anymore I am so caffinated.
On to:
2) Fucking. Yeah, I said fucking. Well it turns out that fucking, be it your partner or your hand, is really... crap, my phone is ringing. This is an important call. Gotta go.
Okay, I am back now. Turns out I was wrong and fucking has nothing to do with it.
A comparatively large number of sources say Pherecydes was the first to teach the eternality and transmigration of human souls.[12] That he was the first to teach such a thing is doubtful, but that he was among the first and that he did profess this teaching is certain. Professor Hermann S. Schibli, the most acclaimed scholar on Pherecydes, concludes that Pherecydes "included in his book ["Pentemychos"] at least a rudimentary treatment of the immortality of the soul, its wanderings in the underworld, and the reasons for the soul's incarnations".[13]
So 2) is obviously...
9/11 predicted by our money.
This is freakin' hilarious. Or downright scary. Depending on your take on the Law of Fives.
http://thebiggestsecretpict.online.fr/nwo/20$+911.htm
http://thebiggestsecretpict.online.fr/nwo/20$+911.htm
Conspiracy Theory #148923987349 - American Indians
In this post I will be taking the "Money Masters" conspiracy thoery (that international banking controls the world) and doing something common: juxtaposing it with the current U.S. financial meltdown; but I will be giving it a new twist: American Indians.
After being lied to repeatedly by white europeans, the American Indians (one or more tribes - doesn't matter which ones, use your imagination!) created a plan. That plan was a) learn and understand who and/or what controlled the white men & b) utilize this fulcrum of power to exact revenge for decades/centuries of haphazard genocide and exploitation.
Item a) was easy. Money controls white men. b) was harder and took a century or so of interbreeding and tightly hidden subterfuge to accomplish. Of course, by the time the American Indian Conspiracy had succeeded in getting the power it needed, most of the American Indian population was already dead and gone, which of course only fueled the revenge motivated conspiracy onward. That time, of course was 1913. The creation of the Fed.
Once the fed was created, they had a 100 year plan to destroy the anscestors of their oppressors. 2013. All the conspiracy nuts missed it by one year with all the 2012 blah blah blah stuff. And they got the wrong indians! Not the Mayans and their calendar! But the American Indians and their hidden control of the American banking system.
Anyway, once the American economic system is destroyed (which of course is happening currently!) there will be some sort of cataclysm that will wipe any white man lacking American Indian (or possibly also Inuit) mitochondiral DNA out. If they are into irony the method of delivery will probably be the modern analog of small pox filled blankets.
Of course the nice thing about the creation of the Fed in 1913 is that you can insert ANYONE you want into the picture provided they start early enough (I am guessing 1813 would be around the right year for the start of the conspiracy - everyone loves 100, right? Besides those wacky Mayans and their 22 based numeral system, of course.)
So, if you don't know the details about the fed, below is a bit I grabbed off some other site, I don't know if any of the facts are true but I am guessing they are, as it all jibes with what I currently know. Which frankly, even though I am joking around here, is actually quite frightening!
For extra fun, insert your favorite conspiratorial entity as the founder and controller of the Fed and banks (like I did randomly with the American Indians):
And one last addendum that I dug up which suggests that the conspiracy started or is run from the New York area:
After being lied to repeatedly by white europeans, the American Indians (one or more tribes - doesn't matter which ones, use your imagination!) created a plan. That plan was a) learn and understand who and/or what controlled the white men & b) utilize this fulcrum of power to exact revenge for decades/centuries of haphazard genocide and exploitation.
Item a) was easy. Money controls white men. b) was harder and took a century or so of interbreeding and tightly hidden subterfuge to accomplish. Of course, by the time the American Indian Conspiracy had succeeded in getting the power it needed, most of the American Indian population was already dead and gone, which of course only fueled the revenge motivated conspiracy onward. That time, of course was 1913. The creation of the Fed.
Once the fed was created, they had a 100 year plan to destroy the anscestors of their oppressors. 2013. All the conspiracy nuts missed it by one year with all the 2012 blah blah blah stuff. And they got the wrong indians! Not the Mayans and their calendar! But the American Indians and their hidden control of the American banking system.
Anyway, once the American economic system is destroyed (which of course is happening currently!) there will be some sort of cataclysm that will wipe any white man lacking American Indian (or possibly also Inuit) mitochondiral DNA out. If they are into irony the method of delivery will probably be the modern analog of small pox filled blankets.
Of course the nice thing about the creation of the Fed in 1913 is that you can insert ANYONE you want into the picture provided they start early enough (I am guessing 1813 would be around the right year for the start of the conspiracy - everyone loves 100, right? Besides those wacky Mayans and their 22 based numeral system, of course.)
So, if you don't know the details about the fed, below is a bit I grabbed off some other site, I don't know if any of the facts are true but I am guessing they are, as it all jibes with what I currently know. Which frankly, even though I am joking around here, is actually quite frightening!
For extra fun, insert your favorite conspiratorial entity as the founder and controller of the Fed and banks (like I did randomly with the American Indians):
Question: What caused the US Housing market collapse?
Answer: The Real Causes of the Housing Market Collapse, by Patrick Carmack,
The National Debt now exceeds $9.2 trillion dollars. In Fiscal Year 2006 the U.S. Government spent $406 billion on interest payments.to holders of that debt. Why do we have such a gigantic debt? Because Democrat and Republican officeholders spend far more than the Government receives in revenue.
In 2007 alone, the US government paid out roughly $430 billion in interest to pay for money borrowed to finance previous deficits. The interest total for just the last 20 years – back to 1988 - is well over $6.5 trillion. Interest payments in 2008 alone will again exceed $400 billion. Where on earth will all that money come from? If the government borrowed it all from the credit markets (i.e., sold US Treasury bills, bonds and notes – government IOUs) to raise the money it would dry up all available credit. Interest rates would skyrocket and the economy would collapse. So how does it do this year after year without such dire effects?
Here is the trick. Take, for example, a year like this year in which the government runs a $400 billion dollar deficit. The Treasury Department has to sell $400 billion in US Treasury bills, bonds and notes (government IOUs) to buyers at a rate of interest sufficient to attract their money (and beat the interest competition of other banks' CDs and other governments' bills, bonds and notes). To avoid a credit squeeze, the Federal Reserve System Open Market Committee in Washington directs the NY Federal Reserve Bank to purchase roughly 10% of that total (or $40 billion in our example) in existing US bills, bonds, and notes from the current holders. To pay for them it creates the $40 billion out of nothing, merely with keystrokes on a computer. Through more keystrokes, this new $40 billion is deposited into the banks of the various bill, bond, and note sellers, thereby increasing the reserves of those banks by $40 billion.
Pursuant to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 those banks must keep only 10% of those new deposits on "reserve." (Because these banks do not have to keep 100% on reserve, this banking system is called a "fractional reserve" system.). So of the $40 billion deposited, the banks must keep 10% on reserve ($4 billion) and may loan out $36 billion (90%), for business loans, mortgages, credit card loans, to purchase government bonds - for whatever borrowers want. Those loans (and payments) are in turn deposited in banks (very few folks put their money in mattresses). So of the $36 billion loaned out and then re-deposited, the banks receiving the new deposits can then loan out 90% or $32.4 billion, retaining 10% or $3.6 billion as reserves.
Banks repeat this redeposit-reloan process, reduced 10% each time, until the 10% reserves retained have reduced the funds available for loan to zero. This cunning process allows the banks to create out of nothing nine times the original $40 billion in new deposits received from the Federal Reserve (the "Fed"), or $360 billion dollars. This total is concealed from the public by the only partial expansion of the loan total at each repetitive step.
We can easily see that even by the second re-loan step mentioned above, the banks have loaned out $68.4 billion based on the original $40 billion deposited. The end result of the process is that the banks receiving the deposits and re-deposits collectively have loaned out $360 billion dollars, which they created out of nothing, and have retained $40 billion in reserve. The Fed created the first $40 billion, the banks $360 billion, equaling $400 billion dollars. Thus the credit markets are stabilized even though the US government has borrowed $400 billion.
But notice, the Fed only created the initial 10% ($40 billion). Privately owned banks created 90% ($360 billion) out of nothing, and loaned it out at interest. At even 6% that is $21.6 billion dollars per year in interest. Some of this profit goes to the private stockholders of the banks. However, the banks conceal much of this vast profit from the public as undistributed or retained earnings. Five banks hold over 50% of all deposits in the United States. This means that in a year with a $400 billion deficit (such as FY 2007-2008), those five banks will receive over 50% of approximately 6% interest on the newly created $360 billion: over $10 billion per year, from now on, for creating money out of nothing. This is profoundly unjust, and dangerous to any government, especially in a country that prides itself on being a democracy.
Note that the Fed, not the United States Treasury, created the initial $40 billion in our example. The 12 Federal Reserve banks are private corporations the stock of which is owned by private banks in their districts, not by the United States Government. The United States Treasury pays the Fed interest on the US bills, bonds, and notes the Fed buys with the money it creates out of nothing. The Fed routinely holds about 10% of the United States National Debt (US Treasury bills bonds, notes), which it has accumulated to provide the base for the rest, as explained above.
6% interest on the nearly trillion dollars in bonds it now owns provides the Fed with roughly $50 billion in revenue. With this money the Fed (1) pays some money to its private banks stockholders, (2) uses some to create giant unaudited slush funds to manipulate currency and stock markets (ostensibly to help avoid economic crises such as the one we are currently in), and (3) then takes out whatever it wishes - without any Congressional oversight or external audit - for expenses, salaries, perks, jets, lavish parties, etc.. The rest it returns to the US Treasury. In this manner the Federal Reserve operates independently of our elected Congress and external oversight.
A well-meaning, but later-disillusioned President Woodrow Wilson signed into law The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that authorized this profoundly unjust system. This law transferred money creation from our elected government to private banks. The vast economic wealth that contorted and deliberately complex law of 1913 concentrated in the hands of the privately-owned national banks is almost incalculable. It is concentrating the wealth of the nation in fewer and fewer hands as they create over 90% of our new money, year after year, and receive the interest tribute on it from the American people to whom they have loaned it.
Deficits fuel the fire of economic injustice by requiring borrowing which requires new money creation, by the private banks. Wars fuel deficits. Conflicts and fear fuel wars. The mass media fuels conflicts and fear. The bankers own and/or control the mass media. Full circle.
And one last addendum that I dug up which suggests that the conspiracy started or is run from the New York area:
". . . [E]ach commercial bank receives one vote regardless of its size, unlike most corporate voting structures in which the number of votes is tied to the number of shares a person holds. The New York Federal Reserve district contains over 1,000 member banks, so it is highly unlikely that even the largest and most powerful banks would be able to coerce so many smaller ones to vote in a particular manner. To control the vote of a majority of member banks would mean acquiring a controlling interest in about 500 member banks of the New York district." [Prof. Edward Flaherty, University of Charleston, "Who Owns and Controls the Federal Reserve?" (July 18, 1997); citations omitted.]
Monday, December 8, 2008
Conspiracy Theory #12408484894
The current economic meltdown is the result of a financial bubble (and monetary expansion) produced by the fed in conjunction with lax and predatory lending standards, etc...
The conspiracy is that the end goal was not the economic destruction of the U.S. or capitalism or a market implosion. The goal was simply to produce more houses faster. This could be because there will be an all out attack on the U.S. that will wipe out the entire population while leaving the housing and other infrastructure completely intact. Or maybe aliens just like the way houses look from space and wanted more of them. Did I mention the reptile people who control everything and to humans look completely human? No? That's because I am a reptile. Just kidding. I am normal. But if you are paranoid you will never know, huh?
The conspiracy is that the end goal was not the economic destruction of the U.S. or capitalism or a market implosion. The goal was simply to produce more houses faster. This could be because there will be an all out attack on the U.S. that will wipe out the entire population while leaving the housing and other infrastructure completely intact. Or maybe aliens just like the way houses look from space and wanted more of them. Did I mention the reptile people who control everything and to humans look completely human? No? That's because I am a reptile. Just kidding. I am normal. But if you are paranoid you will never know, huh?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Things to Ponder #1023981208
What are the metaphysical assumptions about causality inherent in a statistical analysis of DNA SNP's? Or more broadly in statistics in general?
Friday, November 14, 2008
Speculative Metaphysics #6245245555
From Wikipedia (about the cathars):
Perhaps, this is done by focusing the will on the object in question. Praying that god enters the object (a la PKD's Zebra - see earlier blog) and reclaims it. This transubstantiates the object permanently from base matter into god or some other sort of extension of god (something that is not matter but functions like matter yet is lacking the evil and baseness of matter).
Obviously, the most import matter to transform is the human flesh. I suppose spiritual contemplation alone (or saintly acts etc.) is all that is needed to accomplish this. But what does it mean for a lamppost to be removed from the power of Rex Mundi and placed into the arms of the True God of Love?
Perhaps, once the job of the cathars is completed by humanity (or whomever) and all has been spiritualized, the universe will cease to exist (like in Arthur C. Clark's Nine Billion Names of God).
Wishing upon a star now makes complete sense. The wish isn't for the wisher but for the star.
They did not believe in one all-encompassing god, but in two, both equal and comparable in status. They held that the physical world was evil and created by Rex Mundi (translated from Latin as "king of the world"), who encompassed all that was corporeal, chaotic and powerful; the second god, the one whom they worshipped, was entirely disincarnate: a being or principle of pure spirit and completely unsullied by the taint of matter. He was the god of love, order and peace.It is the last part that I find interesting. How does a human reclaim or redeem matter? Obviously by "spiritualizing it". But what does that mean?According to some Cathars, the purpose of man's life on Earth was to transcend matter, perpetually renouncing anything connected with the principle of power and thereby attained union with the principle of love. According to others, man's purpose was to reclaim or redeem matter, spiritualizing and transforming it.
Perhaps, this is done by focusing the will on the object in question. Praying that god enters the object (a la PKD's Zebra - see earlier blog) and reclaims it. This transubstantiates the object permanently from base matter into god or some other sort of extension of god (something that is not matter but functions like matter yet is lacking the evil and baseness of matter).
Obviously, the most import matter to transform is the human flesh. I suppose spiritual contemplation alone (or saintly acts etc.) is all that is needed to accomplish this. But what does it mean for a lamppost to be removed from the power of Rex Mundi and placed into the arms of the True God of Love?
Perhaps, once the job of the cathars is completed by humanity (or whomever) and all has been spiritualized, the universe will cease to exist (like in Arthur C. Clark's Nine Billion Names of God).
Wishing upon a star now makes complete sense. The wish isn't for the wisher but for the star.
Speculative Metaphysics #04853508921
Nothing is real. Everyone makes up a reality or buys into the reality of someone else. All realities are equally as good as any other.
For instance, some believe there are mind control weapons being used on them. And that they are being "gangstalked".
See for instance: http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
If that doesn't work try:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080121103228/http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
Hilariously, when I tried to visit it for the first time, I couldn't access it. If I believed I was being gangstalked, the fact that I couldn't reach the site would seem intentional and related to me as opposed to being causally unconnected to me. Perhaps you too will be unable to access it.
The point is that any sufficiently large group of people is all that is needed to validate a reality. It doesn't matter if anyone is actually being gangstalked. If enough people can find one another and share details, and the details match, then the reality becomes fact for those who believe it. This means they ARE being gangstalked.
Soon, the gangstalkees will form a collective plan. This plan will obviously seek to rectify the greivances of the gangstalkees - to stop the stalking.
The plan will probably go something like this:
Since the mind control and stalking cannot be falsified nor can it be detected, the only way to fight back is to attack the system. The system, is of course, to the gangstalkee, the symbol for all that cannot be controlled but is created by a group of sentient beings acting in concert, the source of all that is the causally desirable and undesirable (beyond the immediate social circle of the gangstalkee).
The system has many parts. Some parts are engaging in mind control and gangstalking. These parts are forever hidden. Sometimes they might be exposed and dealt with but one can never be sure. Perhaps the suspected perpatrator is truly innocent. Who can know?
But other parts support the hidden system. These parts can be attacked. The scoffers, especially the ones who seek to publicly undermine the efforts of the gangstalkees. The psychiatrists that fail to admit that there is too much cohesion to all the collective stories of the gangstalkees. Scientists and others who create technology or ideas that can be used for mind control and terrorization.
The gangstalkees and mind control victims will soon form a seperate society. Unlike anything mankind has ever seen. It will have its own manifesto. Its own constitution. And it will be its own system. It will do things. Terrible things in the name of survival and truth and justice.
And it will be justified. By common brain chemistry and the self-validation that comes with sheer numbers.
Unfalsifiable theories are and will increasingly be the bread and butter of belief.
For instance, some believe there are mind control weapons being used on them. And that they are being "gangstalked".
See for instance: http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
If that doesn't work try:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080121103228/http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
Hilariously, when I tried to visit it for the first time, I couldn't access it. If I believed I was being gangstalked, the fact that I couldn't reach the site would seem intentional and related to me as opposed to being causally unconnected to me. Perhaps you too will be unable to access it.
The point is that any sufficiently large group of people is all that is needed to validate a reality. It doesn't matter if anyone is actually being gangstalked. If enough people can find one another and share details, and the details match, then the reality becomes fact for those who believe it. This means they ARE being gangstalked.
Soon, the gangstalkees will form a collective plan. This plan will obviously seek to rectify the greivances of the gangstalkees - to stop the stalking.
The plan will probably go something like this:
Since the mind control and stalking cannot be falsified nor can it be detected, the only way to fight back is to attack the system. The system, is of course, to the gangstalkee, the symbol for all that cannot be controlled but is created by a group of sentient beings acting in concert, the source of all that is the causally desirable and undesirable (beyond the immediate social circle of the gangstalkee).
The system has many parts. Some parts are engaging in mind control and gangstalking. These parts are forever hidden. Sometimes they might be exposed and dealt with but one can never be sure. Perhaps the suspected perpatrator is truly innocent. Who can know?
But other parts support the hidden system. These parts can be attacked. The scoffers, especially the ones who seek to publicly undermine the efforts of the gangstalkees. The psychiatrists that fail to admit that there is too much cohesion to all the collective stories of the gangstalkees. Scientists and others who create technology or ideas that can be used for mind control and terrorization.
The gangstalkees and mind control victims will soon form a seperate society. Unlike anything mankind has ever seen. It will have its own manifesto. Its own constitution. And it will be its own system. It will do things. Terrible things in the name of survival and truth and justice.
And it will be justified. By common brain chemistry and the self-validation that comes with sheer numbers.
Unfalsifiable theories are and will increasingly be the bread and butter of belief.
Speculative Metaphysics #2503498273
There is space. There is time. There is matter. There are human monkeys. The human monkeys have skulls made of bone. Inside the skulls are brains. The brains give the monkeys consciousness. The brains are made of matter too. The brains think via the re-arrangement of matter and energy. The brains are constructed so they detect patterns. Detecting patterns is the main purpose of the brains, without pattern detection the monkeys cannot function and cannot create more monkeys.
Anything that is not a pattern cannot be seen by the brains - it is Aussersein. Because the brains see patterns they look for patterns related to the patterns they have previously detected (and believe to be true/existant-in-the-world-outside-the-brain). This is the law of fives.
Empirical verification is the only reasonable way to separate patterns that exist in the world from patterns merely imagined to exist. Unfortunately, no one person can engage in the empirical verification necessary to support a functioning in-the-world metaphysics. Therefore, others must be trusted to give testimony/witness to the patterns that the brain has detected. This testimony elevates the patterns to truth.
Who should a monkey trust? Expert monkeys who claim to have spent many years investigating a particular aspect of reality? The writing of long dead monkeys? What the majority of other monkeys believe?
If the monkey believes only what he can verify the monkey will be very busy verifying all the time. And some patterns cannot be falsified. Ever. What should a monkey think about those?
It is hard to be a monkey. So many choices to be made.
Anything that is not a pattern cannot be seen by the brains - it is Aussersein. Because the brains see patterns they look for patterns related to the patterns they have previously detected (and believe to be true/existant-in-the-world-outside-the-brain). This is the law of fives.
Empirical verification is the only reasonable way to separate patterns that exist in the world from patterns merely imagined to exist. Unfortunately, no one person can engage in the empirical verification necessary to support a functioning in-the-world metaphysics. Therefore, others must be trusted to give testimony/witness to the patterns that the brain has detected. This testimony elevates the patterns to truth.
Who should a monkey trust? Expert monkeys who claim to have spent many years investigating a particular aspect of reality? The writing of long dead monkeys? What the majority of other monkeys believe?
If the monkey believes only what he can verify the monkey will be very busy verifying all the time. And some patterns cannot be falsified. Ever. What should a monkey think about those?
It is hard to be a monkey. So many choices to be made.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Girlfriend Update 2008-10-27
Not sure how things are going right now.
She seems to be avoiding fighting right now.
I took my son to see my mom (his grandmother) down in virginia (because my mom was vacationing there with my crazy annoying niece). Girlfriend was pissed at first because I didn't tell her about all the events over this weekend (bandpractice sat, driving to see my mom, gone sunday with my mom, back to work monday, band show on monday night). I told her. But not that they would all be on the same weekend and I didn't remind her the week of.
Anyway... Drove car in middle of the night. Slept until 11:00 the next day (AWESOME!) while my mom took niece and my son to ride horses. Then we went to the mall and bought crap, and noticed the large number of hispanics out in the middle of mall in bumfuck virginia - wierd.
Came back and went out to dinner. Dinner was a disaster - crying niece and whining son and cold food. I realized I was that guy in the restaurant that everyone looks at and says "man I am GLAD I am not THAT guy". Fuck.
Drove home and girlfriend was thankfully asleep. She didn't give me crap that I didn't call her saturday night to let her know that I was okay. She didn't give me too much crap that I took my son out to eat too late for him to want to eat.
Her not giving me crap is a good sign. We'll see how it goes as winter progresses. I really should buy her a sunlamp but part of me wants to see how bad things will get natrually because I don't think she will really use a lamp over the long run if at all - I don't think she think she has SAD.
She seems to be avoiding fighting right now.
I took my son to see my mom (his grandmother) down in virginia (because my mom was vacationing there with my crazy annoying niece). Girlfriend was pissed at first because I didn't tell her about all the events over this weekend (bandpractice sat, driving to see my mom, gone sunday with my mom, back to work monday, band show on monday night). I told her. But not that they would all be on the same weekend and I didn't remind her the week of.
Anyway... Drove car in middle of the night. Slept until 11:00 the next day (AWESOME!) while my mom took niece and my son to ride horses. Then we went to the mall and bought crap, and noticed the large number of hispanics out in the middle of mall in bumfuck virginia - wierd.
Came back and went out to dinner. Dinner was a disaster - crying niece and whining son and cold food. I realized I was that guy in the restaurant that everyone looks at and says "man I am GLAD I am not THAT guy". Fuck.
Drove home and girlfriend was thankfully asleep. She didn't give me crap that I didn't call her saturday night to let her know that I was okay. She didn't give me too much crap that I took my son out to eat too late for him to want to eat.
Her not giving me crap is a good sign. We'll see how it goes as winter progresses. I really should buy her a sunlamp but part of me wants to see how bad things will get natrually because I don't think she will really use a lamp over the long run if at all - I don't think she think she has SAD.
Speculative Metaphysics #023420498
Metaphysical Theory #023420498:
Going with the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics... The wave form collapse can only be initiated when a "conscious" observer "observes" the particle(s)/energy that is superposition. This is usually done in science by taking a measurement. Some physicists further extend the idea to the macro level (Schrodinger's Cat etc...) and say that just looking at or sensing an object in superposition collapses the wave form.
Anyway... What makes something "Conscious"? In Metaphysical Theory #023420498 it is the act of being sensed/detected/experienced by another conscious entity that makes something sentient.
This means that children actually REQUIRE the attention of adults, not for emotional or developmental reasons, but for PHYSICAL reasons. The more attention they get, the more fully realized a sentient being they become - the more integrated and aware of reality they are.
This gives an alternative explanation to neglected (eastern block orphanage) children. They are damaged not from the neglect but from the deficit of wave form collapse that are necessary to become fully conscious. In the inbetween state they seem abnormal and aberrant or retarded or out of touch with reality. In actuality, the reverse is true. It is reality that is out of touch with them as they are not connected enough to it to respond consciously.
Going with the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics... The wave form collapse can only be initiated when a "conscious" observer "observes" the particle(s)/energy that is superposition. This is usually done in science by taking a measurement. Some physicists further extend the idea to the macro level (Schrodinger's Cat etc...) and say that just looking at or sensing an object in superposition collapses the wave form.
Anyway... What makes something "Conscious"? In Metaphysical Theory #023420498 it is the act of being sensed/detected/experienced by another conscious entity that makes something sentient.
This means that children actually REQUIRE the attention of adults, not for emotional or developmental reasons, but for PHYSICAL reasons. The more attention they get, the more fully realized a sentient being they become - the more integrated and aware of reality they are.
This gives an alternative explanation to neglected (eastern block orphanage) children. They are damaged not from the neglect but from the deficit of wave form collapse that are necessary to become fully conscious. In the inbetween state they seem abnormal and aberrant or retarded or out of touch with reality. In actuality, the reverse is true. It is reality that is out of touch with them as they are not connected enough to it to respond consciously.
PKD and Zebra
Read an interesting tidbit online in a page of a book I haven't actually read called "Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter" (page 60). My friend WA sent me the link. He is a PKDickhead.
Metaphysical Theory #013412341:
God is gradually replacing material items with his "body". This means that some objects in the world are made of "debased" matter (a reference I suppose to the gnostic idea of the false creator that actually made our world) and some are actually "real" in that they are composed of the perfection of god and are actually literally god. But I suppose god has to mimic the form of the actual material item until the metamorphoses/transubstantiation is fully complete - I suppose so that we humans are not totally freaked out by the literal presence of God in our lives - something we aren't prepared to deal with so God is just being a nice guy. Thanks God!
Metaphysical Theory #013412341:
God is gradually replacing material items with his "body". This means that some objects in the world are made of "debased" matter (a reference I suppose to the gnostic idea of the false creator that actually made our world) and some are actually "real" in that they are composed of the perfection of god and are actually literally god. But I suppose god has to mimic the form of the actual material item until the metamorphoses/transubstantiation is fully complete - I suppose so that we humans are not totally freaked out by the literal presence of God in our lives - something we aren't prepared to deal with so God is just being a nice guy. Thanks God!
Friday, October 24, 2008
My Bowels
So uh... yeah. I seem to have Celiac's disease. But I haven't had it diagnosed. Partially because I have already cut out grains (and seen a huge improvement in health) and everything I have read says that Celiac's is extremely hard to diagnose once wheat has been removed from the diet. But partially because I am too busy to make and go to a doctors appointment. The prospect of waiting 3 months to see a specialist doesn't help.
So no wheat for me. I cut out dairy a loooong time ago. But other foods give me troubles. I haven't noticed a pattern until today!
So I read about chickpeas... which lead me to this:
Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. The seeds are used for human and animal consumption or for the production of oils for industrial uses. Grain legumes include both herbaceous plants like beans, lentils, lupins, peas and peanuts.[4] and trees such as carob, mesquite and tamarind.
All of the above legumes seem to fuck up my digestion. I didn't know they were all in the same family. Weird. I wonder what the issue is. Maybe they all have the same molecule that messes up my intestines or sends my immune system into insane overreaction.
So no wheat for me. I cut out dairy a loooong time ago. But other foods give me troubles. I haven't noticed a pattern until today!
So I read about chickpeas... which lead me to this:
Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. The seeds are used for human and animal consumption or for the production of oils for industrial uses. Grain legumes include both herbaceous plants like beans, lentils, lupins, peas and peanuts.[4] and trees such as carob, mesquite and tamarind.
All of the above legumes seem to fuck up my digestion. I didn't know they were all in the same family. Weird. I wonder what the issue is. Maybe they all have the same molecule that messes up my intestines or sends my immune system into insane overreaction.
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