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Terrestrial Physics
Evil itself cannot be conclusive because the problem of evil only exists for those who believe in God. A similar consideration applies to the argument that rebirth allows the possibility of self-perfection. There are, in some beliefs that there are periodic destructions of the cosmos, and during these periods embodied souls continue to exist latently. The hypothesis of reincarnation presents interesting problems about personal identity. If personal identity is analyzed in terms of memory, there would seem to be only a vacuous distinction between saying that A is reborn as B and that A and B are separate persons. And that memory of any given life may be regained at some time or other in the series, and this would hold the series together. If bodily identity were held to be necessary to personal identity, rebirth could scarcely be meaningful, as it involves causal action at a distance in the transition from A’s death to B’s birth or conception. Everlastingness is something intermediate that is appropriate to the Heavens and to angles. This is conceived by some as having a beginning, but no end and by others as possessing earlier and later, but without innovation and aging. Anyone who speaks of eternity as the complete possession of eternal life all at once seems to be running together two incompatible notions, that of timelessness and that of life. For we can attach no meaning to the word “life” unless we are allowed to suppose that what has life acts. No doubt that the word “acts” may be taken in a wide sense. Most people have an issue understanding the concept of eternity because there could be no succession without aging. Aevum (everlastingness) does not necessarily include earlier and later, though these can be joined with it, as is the case with angels, who have changeless being as well as the capacity of change according to choice. Life is intelligent, and so it must also involve awareness of the passage of time. Purposeful action is action with thought of what will come about after its beginning.
There is a necessity of God’s existence. If it is correct, once we have admitted that we understand the meaning of the word “God” and that it involves no inconsistency, we cannot sensibly deny that God exists. Eternity describes the existence of their God or Absolute. Also, the notion of ether originated among the Greeks as a popular view that there is above the air surrounding Earth rarefied kin of air, thought to be alive and divine and having the nature of fire. This ether fills the outer part of the Universe, leaving no void anywhere. Although there is a void between material atoms, ether consisting of small atoms in the Heavenly spaces and there is motion of their ether that carries the stars and planets along their orbit. Ether is distinguished both from air and from fire, and becomes the fifth, or Heavenly, element. Unlike the other four elements—Earth, water, air, and fire—ether is incorruptible and unchanging and is only found in the region outside the sphere of the Moon; its natural motion is that which is nearest the perfection of rest, namely a uniform rotation about the center of the Earth. The planets, Sun, Moon, Stars, and the rotating spheres in which they are embedded are all composed of ether, and so are the intervening transparent spaces, for in the Universe there is no void. Just as no ethereal substance can exist below the Moon, so none of the Earthly elements can rise above it; and thus no change of any kind can occur in the Heavens, except the uniform circular motion of ethereal bodies. Such phenomena as shooting stars, which appear to imply change in the Heaves, and the shadows on the Moon, which appear to modify its Heavenly perfection, are to be explained as “meteorological” phenomena, occurring below the sphere of the moon. The cosmic scheme was almost universally adopted in Western Europe after the revival of learning in the twelfth century; but meanwhile, in the last centuries of the Classical period, the Sotics had already introduced a radical change in the conception of ether. They identified it with a quasi-material pneuma, or spirit, which not only occupies the Heavenly spaces, but also pervades all matter in the Earthly region and interacts with matter as a universal transmitter of force. Pneuma retains the ether’s traditional function of regulating the circular motion of the Heavenly bodies and also the ether’s traditional characteristics of near divinity. In addition, it provides a fundamental category of Stoic terrestrial physics and is appealed to in explanation of such phenomena as the cohesion and hardness of matter, and the transmission of light and of gravitational attraction.
The Winchester Mystery House
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Rewinding of the Cosmic Clock
The God which is God of nature doth ever teach unnaturalness. Time is the interval of the Universe. The length of this cosmic cycle, called the Great Year or Perfect Number, is variously estimated as 10,800 years, and according to another source 18,000 years, and yet another estimate is 36,000 years. That is amazing to think that these time intervals could be one year in God’s timeline. It is measured the period separating two successive conflagrations in which an antiquated World perishes and a new one is reborn. The period of the Great year is not associated with periodically recurring cataclysm, but with a return of all the celestial bodies to the same relative positions. There is an incorruptible celestial realm. The Celestial Sphere is an astronomical sphere of gigantic radius with the Earth located at its center. Many people believe that Earth is God’s favorite planet. The poles of the celestial sphere are aligned with the poles of Earth. The celestial equator is located along the celestial sphere in the same place that includes Earth’s equator. Just as the course of the firmament and each of the stars is a circle, why should not the coming into being and the decay of perishable things be of such a kind that the same things again come into being? The celestial sphere is a magical place, a large sphere surrounding the Earth and with it we can keep reference to where celestial bodies are located in the sky. Some say it is the house of God. To demand those who are coming into being should always be numerically identical, is foolish. The re-creation of numerically identical individuals would be contradictory, and as such was beyond even God’s power. God’s power makes motion and time of the same essence. Time is absolute, as intrinsically irreversible, irrespective of its content.
Even a complete restoration of the content of the past moment would not make this moment itself present. Implicitly, the question has been raised about the origin of any primordial nebula: Did it represent a truly initial stage preceded by an act of supernatural creation, or was it merely one of the countless stages in an unending cycle of successive worlds? The cosmic clashes by which two stellar masses that had lost their heat could be transformed into another nebula, which would then develop into another World ever the same in principle, but never the same in concrete results. Such a new World could be the same even in concrete details only if the cosmic mass did not contain an infinite number of units. The notion of everlasting existence is the complete possession of eternal life all at once—a notion that become clearer from comparison with things temporal. For whatever lies in time moves as something present from the past to the future, and there is nothing placed in time that can embrace the whole extent of its life at once. It does not yet grasp tomorrow, and it has already lost yesterday. And even in the life of today you do not live longer than in the transitory moment. That, then, which is subject to the condition of time, even if the World has no beginning or end and its life extends through endless time, is still not such as may be rightly judged eternal. For though its life be endless, it does not grasp and embrace the extent of it all at once [totum simul] but has some parts still to come. And so it follows, we wish to give things their right names, let us say that God is eternal, but the World is everlasting.
The hydrogen atom contains only one proton. However, hydrogen atoms may have in the past have contained or may in the future come to contain more than one proton. Here, however, our use of the timeless present is certainly not intended to suggest that hydrogen atoms exist out of time. What we wish to call timeless is simply the connection between being a hydrogen atom containing a single proton. Sometimes such connections have been called eternal verities, most commonly when it has been when it has been thought they could be known as priori, as in mathematics. Time is an afterthought of the Creator. Rather, we are to understand that tie is to the perceptual World of becoming what eternity is to the intelligible World of being. Time was created with the Heaven, and it seem to have held that it is identical with the movements of the Heavenly bodies, which are commonly said to measure its passage. Timeless eternity is sempiternity, and among sempiternal things there is no difference between possibility and actuality and also there is nothing merely accidental. In one place sempiternal things, insofar, are they are sempiternal, are not in time, because they are not bounded by time nor subject to aging and other conditions of time. Heavenly bodies, unlike perishable things, are not wearied by their motion. The Sun is active forever, and there is no danger that it will give out, as some philosophers feared. God is ever-present eternity and that all years stand at once for God (omnes simul stant). The possibility of a priori knowledge by a doctrine of reminiscence, which involves the hypothesis that before this life the human soul lived among timeless existent Forms and contemplated them directly as in this life it sees things belonging to the real of becoming. The soul is akin to something of a timeless form, it can pass part of its time in a timeless realm and then at a certain date enter the temporal realm. Perhaps immortality lies in adding another proton to the atoms.
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God is Just to Exercise his Might, and Mighty to Perform his Justice
Darkness is more eligible than light to those whose deeds are evil. Do you remember how magical it was when I used to wake up and start writing at 6am, and see you ever evening? Now everything is just a mess and the games someone is playing are so trite and annoying. Wickedness, like a flood, is like to drown our World. Though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. A godlike power is that of doing good. Some are drawn by lover, others are driven by terrors, to their Divine refuge. The World may be regarded as in some way an emanation from, or self-expression of, God. The One, or “first God,” is Nammu, Goddess of the primeval sea, the mother who gave birth to Heaven and Earth. Then Nammu gave birth to An (God of the Heavens) and Ki (Goddess of the Earth). Nonetheless, “first God” is beyond thought and being. However, these necessary truths about possibilities, and it is a contingent matter of God’s will being that it is that these particular essences have been actualized.
The One’s simplicity would be violated if the World were part of it. Its unchangeability would be dishonored if it were to create the World by an act of will. Therefore, it is propounded that the World is an emanation. Mind, Soul, and the material World flow from the One (as rays flow from the Sun) without impairing its self-sufficiency. When we are operating on the level of acceptance, enjoyment, warmth, gentleness, softness, trustiness, inner truth, and faith, the emotional purpose to which the radiates is love, enjoyment, pleasure, harmony, peacefulness, understanding, and sharing. This automatically creates a reciprocal feeling of love and brings about success in whatever the venture may be with a wonderful pay off. The World is God (the only substance) under his essence by a logical necessity. Things could not have been produced by God in any other manner or order than that in which they were produced. All things must have flowed of necessity from a given nature of God, and they were determined for existence or action in a certain way by the necessity of Divine nature.
However, on these premises it is very hard to account for, first, the individuality which human persons seem to have their apparent freedom, and the fact of evil, especially in its moral forms. The same type of relation between God and the World is God is regarded as the Absolute as in its essence a self-diversifying unity. When our inner feelings are of peacefulness, serenity, tranquility, stillness, openness, and simplicity, the effect is to increase awareness along with our own, and to give a greater sense of freedom, perfection, unity, and a holistic beauty. As a consequence, other energies will seek our presence, because in it they feel complete, recognized and contented. There is an experience of feeling higher in our presence or when they think of us. God’s self-expression is a dynamic process that is discoverable in historical events. Thought is not free from ambiguity. God is an independently existing entity, but his Absolute Spirit does not exist apart from the human spirits in which it is progressively evolved.
God moves the World in a sense that he educes from its material structure by inspiring it, through a series of subordinate movers or “intelligences,” to love him as its end goal. Yet, some speculate that the World is actually considered matter to be ungenerated and eternal. With God, essence and existence are identical. However, we cannot grasp the divine essence. The Universe is a system of essences on which God has chosen to confer existence. Knowledge of essence is expressed in propositions which are necessary truths. The essence which entails existence is that of single substance. The transmission from essence to existence is part of a logical play with concepts that is an essentially preliminary to the World becoming. Such a conception of creation produces the notion of God creating beings with fixed, already determinate natures who would therefore be unfree. The Universe, in all its details and its whole cosmic context, will recur an infinite number of times in exactly the same way that it has already occurred an infinite number of times in the past. The alternation of day (light) and night (darkness), of lunar phases and of the seasons of the year, and the rhythm of breathing and heartbeats were known to primitive man.
Even the idea that cosmic history repeats itself in its general features appeared in various forms in mythological thought. The existing Universe was regarded as a result of the differentiation of original chaos—watery, fiery, or qualitatively undetermined—into which it would eventually return and form which a similar Universe would emerge. The idea of the periodicity of Worlds soon became associated with the belief that not only the general features but as the specific details would recur in the same order that they had occurred countless times in the past. You always fly like a comet away and back in the golden Sunlight. The Sun sheds the golden light over the sea that mirrors the evening clouds, and the footprints on the beach record our difficult parting. A siren heralds your parting amidst the waves. How I wish you could rise as the Sun from the sea. Everything will eventually return in the self-same numerical order, and I shall converse with you staff in hand, and you will sit as you are sitting now, and so it will be in everything else, and it is reasonable to assume that time too will be the same.
The Winchester Mystery House
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Concern with Indivisibility of the Soul
It was sweetly warm and there was a numbing quiet in the vibration of the distant lights, a winking beauty in the passing darkness. Reincarnation is a doctrine variously called transmigration of souls, metempsychosis, palingenesis, rebirth, and reincarnation has been and continues to be widely believed. Although some of these terms imply belief in an immortal soul that transmigrates or reincarnates. Rebirth can take place not merely on Earth, but also in a multiplicity of Heavens and Purgatories. Thus, although the prevalent beliefs are that rebirth occurs immediately upon death, this does not entail immediate Earthly reincarnation, a feature that helps to make rebirth theory incapable of empirical disproof. In the Book of the Dead, however, a transitional period of 49 days between death and rebirth is postulated. During this state the individual is translated to a realm where one perceives the divine secrets; for the impure, these are so frightening that they flee back to Earth and are reborn.
Since an intelligent being is superior to an unintelligent one, and since intelligence cannot be present in anything that is devoid of soul, God put intelligence in soul, and soul in body, that he might be the creator of a work was natures best. A Blood Child only walked in the dark. Supposedly, a mammal evolved totally apart from Homo sapiens on a volcanic island in the North Sea thousands of years before us. We share perhaps forty-five percent of our genes in common. The creatures look like us except that they tend to be taller and more long limb. Their bones structure is almost entirely what we would call cartilage. When the pure creatures mate, the female ovulates on demand and the fetus develops within a matter of minutes or hours, it is not clear to me—but whatever the case, it puts tremendous stress upon the mother. There is a fairly large amount of speculation about the embryological mechanics of rebirth. The mental aspect of a person bears the impression of previous deeds and that it accordingly becomes associated with a particular fetus.
However, since during the period of fetal development the growing body is not capable of supporting the mental aspect, a “subtle” (unobservably refined) body is postulated. Thus the continuous element throughout rebirth and until liberation is the mental aspect associated with the subtle body. Birth is accompanied by severe pain, and the infant unfolds as a small adult and begins to grow to maturity immediately. Rebirth theory does imply that the genetic endowment of a person does not fully determine his early development but that a mental or spiritual factor associates itself with a suitable organism at conception. Thus, destiny or fate, following as effect from cause, is often taken to function through the homing of a soul upon a morally and physically appropriate fetus like a sort of chemical affinities. All statues have prior causes; some conscious states are not caused by bodily states; therefore, the first physically uncaused state of an individual mist have a prior nonphysical cause. However, the existence of God is not admitted; hence there must be an empirical conscious state prior to conception and birth.
Souls are eternal, but the normal condition for a soul in the past and future has a virtually everlasting succession of bodies. Thus, metaphysical arguments attempting to establish the eternity of the soul have been taken to imply pre-existence as well as postexistence. Children have instinctive capacities, which suggest that there must be learning prior to birth. Similarly, it is sometimes argued that child geniuses, such as Mozart, indicate prenatal training. Some people claim to remember past births, as in the case of Bridey Murphy, who is a purported 19th century Irishwoman whom United States of America housewife Virginia Tighe (27 April 1923 – 12 July 1995) claimed to be in a past life. The cause was investigated by researcher and discovered to be the result of cryptomnesia. Cryptonesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. It is a memory bias whereby a person may falsely recall generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke.
This claim of cryptomnesia is commonly made in the East for yogis and person of deep spiritual insight, such as saints. The déjà vu experience and claims to knowledge of people and places that are not based on previous experiences in this life have been cited as indicating rebirth. A counterargument is used against the objection that most people have no memories of such previous lives: death is a traumatic experience (and so is birth), likely to cause amnesia. The soul is indivisible and this cannot derive from the parents, since it would then have to be a combination of parts. All reason knows that is that God is the eternal, ever-present, and creative source of anything that does (or can) exist. Creation and preservation are identical. The Taltos craves its mother’s milk in order to grow. And without that milk it cannot develop properly. In the hour right after birth it runs the risk of being stunted forever. With that milk, and with its mother’s full telepathic nature, the baby reaches its full height within that hour. Six and a half feet is the usual. The males can grow seven feet tall.
The milk has curative properties. The milk can work a cure in humans. Nobody knows the lifespan of a pure Taltos. It could be thousands of years. Females clearly can become infertile in time. I have seen one who was past her prime. She was a simpleton. She was found in rural India. Males? I know of only one in existence. They may remain potent till they die. Taltos tend in their natural state to be extremely naïve. In ancient times, many died through clumsiness and accidents. The Taltos is telepathic, curious by nature, and hardwired with a tremendous amount of basic historical and intellectual knowledge. It is born ‘knowing,’ as they save, all about the species itself, the island continent from which they came, and the places in the British Isles to which they migrated after the island was destroyed by the same volcano that created it. The Taltos was pure before it knew about humankind or had any mixture with it. Although some people seem to remember past lives, the evidence is not unambiguous as to be conclusive; and if saintliness is a condition for remembering pervious births, it would be difficult to verify such a memory—it would be hard to conduct an “experiment” in becoming a saint.
The Winchester Mystery House
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Misleading Impressions of Sense Experience Not Properly Organized by Reason
Reformers, with help from Kindred souls, are able to treat insanity as a disease rather than as an act of God or Satan. Crime and insanity, no longer given theological explanations, could now be dealt with as mundane difficulties capable of empirical solutions. We are under moral obligation to prefect ourselves and to attain a “highest good” (summum bonum) that is manifestly unattainable in a life lived under the conditions we know here and now. From the time of Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) to the present day, a great many attempts have been made to base arguments for God’s existence not upon the mere fact that there is a World, nor on the general orderliness it manifests, but on a very special feature of the World—human moral experience. The popularity of moral arguments is not hard to understand. We might attempt to take a single real individual, and build from his life and work a man “typical” of the Enlightenment.
Even if the argument to God a First, the Universe had a beginning so something must have first caused it to exist, or “necessary being,” which is a being whose non-existence is a logical impossibility, and which therefore exists either timeless or eternally in all possible Worlds, and these were valid, these notions of deity can be more of an embarrassment than a help to the religious imagination. They present us with a divine object or superobject, whereas religion demands that God be primarily known as a person. A moral argument offers hope of overcoming that external and thinglike character: it insures that concepts of God will be, from the outset, personal concepts. We can, at best, make a start to a moral development that requires very different conditions for its completion. However, since that complete development is demanded of us as a duty, it must be attainable. God and immortality are this presupposed in our actual moral experience.
Enlightened denial of any kind of transcendence of the external World, of personal immortality is incompatible. When the addict’s withdrawals set in, and he is screaming, cursing, and begging, “Just one shot, man!” God’s people are right there talking junkie jargon to him. “Baby, know that money off your back! Kick that habit! Kick the dope off you back!” The addict, writhing in pain, his nose and eyes running, is pouring sweat from head to foot. He is trying to knock his head against the wall, flailing his arms, trying to fight his attendants, he is vomiting, suffering diarrhea. “Do not hold nothing back! Let that fairy dust go, baby! You are going to stand tall, man! I can see you now in the enlightenment of God!” When the awful ordeal is ended, when the grip of the dope is broken, Science was for them. Living, growing evidence that human beings, using their “natural” reasoning powers in a fairly obvious and teachable way, could not only understand what human beings are really like and by combining this knowledge of nature and human nature, learn how to live better and happier lives.
Back to School Plague in the Ghetto’s Dope Jungle
The reason to let go of selfishness is not because of guilt. Not because it is a “sin.” Not because it is “wrong.” All such motivation come from lower consciousness and self-judgment. Rather, the reason to let go of selfishness is simply because it is impractical. It does not work. It is too costly. It consumes too much energy. It delays the accomplishment of our goals and the realization of our wants. Because of its very nature, the small self is the creator of guilt and its self-perpetuator; that is, out of guilt we strove to accomplish and achieve success. Then, when we achieve success, we feel guilty because we have it. There is no winning of the guilt game. The only solution is to give up, to let it go. Our mind would like to make us think that guilt is laudatory, and the guilt-mongers of the World love to make an idol of it. Which is more important: to feel guilty or to change for the better? If somebody owes us money, would we rather they feel guilty about it or pay us the money? If we intend to feel guilty, we should at least consciously choose it instead of being unwittingly run by it. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
Everything that is true of a person is part of that person’s essence, and everything that happens to an individual follows from that individual’s nature. This is, in effect, to say that nothing simply happens to a person; there is no real contingency. Because of our finitude and consequent ignorance, we can know only that is a proposition is true, it is necessarily true; we cannot tell with certainty which propositions are true. Contingency is preserved by the fact that God has to choose, out of all possible Worlds, that World, that arrangement of essences, which is the best. The notion of an essence is a complete concepts or concepts of individuals. This metaphysical view fits very uneasily with the distinction between truths of reason and truths of fact, or the necessary and the contingent in more or less the contemporary sense. Instead of the motivation of selfishness and desire, we can much more effortlessly bring into our life that which we want by envisioning what we wish to have happen. We do this by declaration of our intention, by acceptance, by decision, and by the act of consciously choosing. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
I remember one time we talked about a newspaper clipping reporting a black baby had been bitten by a rat. Now, just think about that, think about that for a minute. Suppose it was your child! Where is that slum lord—on some beach in Miami! Behind the reporter, a male voice spoke up, “Kill the bastard, kill them all.” The young man, in his unease, smiled nervously. We looked at him laughing. However, he was not really laughing, he was just laughing with his teeth. An ugly tension curled the edges of the atmosphere. Grim soulless mortals do not know how to laugh. They just show their teeth and grin like the Cheshire Cat. Truths of reason are such that their denial involves a contradiction, which is not so of truths of fact. While truths of reason depend on the principle of contradiction, truths of fact depend on something less, the principle of sufficient reason. Truth of reason are reducible to identical propositions via chains of definition of the terms involved. If this is so, their basis can also be seen in another of the so called laws of thought: the principle of identity. RandolphHarris 3 of 5
Anger may vary all the way from rage to mild resentment. In personal relationships, anger can be utilized to inspire us to improve our communication skills, take a course on interpersonal relationships, or enroll in a self-improvement program. There are many sources of anger. Another source of anger is that of pride, and especially that aspect of pride called vanity. We have a certain secret vanity about what we are doing for others and our pride of achievement makes us vulnerable to anger when our sacrifice is not recognized. The way to offset this anger is to acknowledge and relinquish the pride, surrender our desire for the pleasure of self-pity and, instead, view our efforts on behalf of others as gifts. We can experience the joy of being generous with others as its own rewards. One of the great secrets of relationship is acknowledgement. The behavior of others toward us always includes a hidden gift. Even if that behavior appears negative, there something in it for us. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
Because of the picture of wrongness, the situation becomes intolerable, and we are forced to change it. How much easier it would have been had we just simply chosen to move on to a better situation. Nonetheless, because of our sense of obligation, guilt is very often the block to this simpler way. It can be scarcely maintained that by a necessary proposition is meant one whose denial results in a contradiction, for it is at the best theory that all necessary truths fit this description. Still, it is certainly not true of merely relatively necessary truths. Even it if it denied that there are any essential truths in this sense, like the alcoholic, the junkie can never start to cure himself or herself until he or she recognizes and accepts their true condition. They stick like a leech to their old ways, and it might take months before the addict some to grips with this. The theory is not psychologically simpler than competing systems. A moving Earth and a Sun and Stars that do not “rise” and “circle” us, seemed contrary to experience. The cure phase is the addict’s realization of why he or she takes dope. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
A Godlike Power is that of Doing Good
The basic dictum to comprehend is that the body obeys the mind; therefore, the body tends to manifest what the mind believes. God sees the deepest dissembled thoughts, nay sees the thoughts before they be thought. The belief may be held consciously or unconsciously. The law of consciousness states: We are only subject to what we hold in mind. The only power that anything has over us is the power of belie that we give it. By power, in this context, that is the energy and the will to believe. Governments are not, and cannot be expected to become, repositories of truth: any such claims are impostures. A government that actually governs, rather than imposing some dream or other upon its subjects, will be guided, not by vision of truth, nor by the attempt to impose one project upon its subjects, but by the evolution of the society it rules. Social life constantly generates new situations: some activities decline, and new ones arise, a process which requires an adaptation of the rules of governing the society. However, the changes in the rules of government should always grow out of, rather than be imposed upon, the life which they regulate.
Further changes, by the government, on society should be made economically or else they may lose their effectiveness. Rules (i.e., the laws and procedures of institutions, the habits of personal behavior) are most useful when they are most familiar. Frequent changes are deplorable in that they give rise to feverish hopes and disappointments which encourage further dreams of taking over the resources of government. For instance, several big names could be removed from San Francisco, California USA schools, including President George Washington, Francis Scott Key (the man who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” which is a national song of pride for all Americans), Jefferson Elementary is on the list because these are names of people who owned enslaved Africans. “Our school names communicate something to our kids about who we want them to be what we value, so it is important,” school board president Matt Haney says. However, I think it is a mistake to ignore the accomplishments these people made, and that it would also cost a lot of time and money to further erode American history, and where will it stop, are they going to chip away at Mount Rushmore? The push to change the names on the schools seems to be an inflated claim made for no reason. That is the type of evil that takes false nobility, by garbing itself in the royal magnificence of good.
Furthermore, the attempt to rationalize these radical activities is not only incomplete, but also brings with it the threat of decline in the tradition; for once these rationalized principles have elicited, they constitute an ideology that is likely to turn into a set of inflexible dogmas. Back in the 1960s, a similar backlash swept the United States of America, and people started knocking down Victorian houses and buildings because they were a representation of Europe, and this created a lot of resentment in some. However, some could not afford to knock down their Victorian houses or buildings, so they would remove the turrets (witches caps), apply stucco to the exterior to hide hand crafted fish scale shingles and ornate flower moldings, broke off spires, took sledge hammers to the antique ceramic and porcelain urns that would decorate the porch and roof tops, bashed in the faces of the gargoyles and monarch, and threw rocks through the Tiffany’s art glass and leaded glass windows in an orgy of violent destruction of America’s European heritage. And now, in the 2000s, many people see pictures of the elegant Victorians, with the steeply pitched roofs with ridge cresting, the towers, beveled glass, pediments, lap siding, gables, cornice, turrets, corbels, finials, witches’ caps, cartouches, and ceramic faces of monarchs that would adorn the buildings and they mourn the loss of these historical hand crafted houses. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6
Not only that, but on the interior of these Victorian houses are features many architects cannot afford to replicate in modern construction. Victorian craftsmanship is marvelous, baffling, and eerily eccentric to say the least. Many people these houses, many of which are over 100-year-old have soul and take you back in time once you cross the threshold. Some of them have windows that cost more than many Americans make in a year. They have usual features like mahogany that can take you to three different sections and different levels of the house because they are built in a “Y” shape. There are porcelain sinks and crystal chandeliers import from Europe. There are also many rooms, some of them are small, to make the house intimate and private and the kitchen was enclosed to keep the smell of food from seeping into the drawing room, or in the bedroom and stinking up your clothes. And there are walls made of the finest oak and mahogany, doors that are solid wood and heavy, which have detailed door hinges, and crystal doorknobs, there are building cabinets for fine China, dumb waiters which can transport food to different levels in the house, pie coolers built in the walls, and the expensive wall coverings, some which were rumored to have crushed diamonds in them.
It always breaks my heart when I see someone has gone into a Victorian and knocked down masonry walls, or replaces walls that were made from old wooden ships with plaster with sheetrock. Or removed the chandeliers and replaced them with pod lights and 1970s retro modern light fixtures made out of paper and plastic. Also, the claw foot oversized bath rubs were great and the showers with the exposed pipes, along with the wall mounted toilets that you had to pull a chain to flush. One woman, who always hated Victorians houses and thought they were reprehensible toured one with me that was authentic and fell in love with it and the fine details and said to me, “Now I see why you like Victorians so much!” When in the past she had tried to blame some of the hardships I was facing in life on Victorian architecture and swore up and down that the houses were evil. My point is, we should preserve our history and stripping it away and eroding things only hurts people and causes more harm, instead we should educate them about why certain actions are wrong and also talk about the benefits that came from some of these people who may not have known what they were doing at the time.
Not only that, but where does eroding our history stop? There are also several streets and buildings and schools named after Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, and he was arrested 30 times, and some of the arrested were allegedly unrelated to civil rights movements. Many historical monuments are also dedicated to Caesar Chavez, but his parents on both sizes of his family were undocumented citizens, which means that they were in the United States unlawfully, and his father Librado Chavez piddled away the family business and did not pay his taxes, which caused the house to be foreclosed on and the family moved to California. Librado Chavez was said to be “Lazy and the family scrapped by as farm hands.” And even Caesar Chavez studied Adolph Hilter, Machiavelli, and Gandhi. Therefore, it is important for us to not only look at the negative aspects of people, but to also learn from them, and not just demonize them. Conservatives regard tradition as the heritage of skill and attainment on which our present achievements must be founded. Many traditional was of acting are no doubt habitual and unthinking and thereby we economize our efforts. What is more important, however, is that traditions are fertile and adaptable. All human achievements and traditions have been made (and sustained) in the face of great difficulties: authorities exist to guard such achievements and traditions against the continual threat of human folly, laziness, blindness, and stupidity, and grandiose political projects promising the ultimate arrival of Heaven on Earth. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6
The Finest Perception May Err in its Estimates of the Inscrutable Work of the Almighty
Human accomplishments in life weigh more than human weaknesses, in most circumstances. Review the Holy Bible documentation of how David’s adultery with Bathsheba weighed less on history’s scales for instance, than the defense strategy David used against Goliath. It is always recommended that when an epidemic is about to outbreak somewhere, that community’s people are inoculated against exposure with some of the same germs that are anticipated—and this prepares them to resist the oncoming virus. Hating me has become the cause for people of shattered faith to rally around. I never dreamed that some in the media and community has tried to make it appear that instead of inoculating against an epidemic, I had started it. However, some of these people are really honest and sincere. I sat down with one female reporter, in her office, as I drank bottled water she provided, and we spent a considerable amount of time talking about areas of archaeology, history, religion, and future events. It was so pleasant. I almost forgot the heavy worries on my mind—for that brief respite. I remember we wound up agreeing that medical care is a great benefit of a civilized society. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5
In the Biblical account of David and Goliath, the Philistine army had gathered for war against Israel. The Philistine’s had a giant, by the name of Goliath, a growling giant over nine feet tall, who had this marvelous, expensive, and impenetrable armor on, so much larger than any mortal man and had madness lurking in his face. Goliath came out every day in a rabid state of animal savagery, his long hair wafted around him like black smoke, its tendrils curling and moving on its own volition, as he mocked and challenged the Israelites to fight. Saul, the King of Israel, and the entire army were terrified of Goliath. Back then they did not have modern weapons, like guns, so this giant Goliath was literally eating their men for breakfast, breaking them in half and squishing them with his ample feet, so King Saul felt that they would surely be defeated as they were scared for their lives and losing hundreds of men each day to the ferocious beast. However, David, the youngest son of Jesse, was sent to battle by his father to bring back new of what was happening to his brothers. David was an average mortal man, just under six feet tall, and a teenager at the time. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5
You could almost feel death gathering as the dark shadows of the twilight encroached upon the kingdom. David saw this giant, Goliath shouting his daily defiance and breaking the backs of men and snuffing their life out for fun, and he saw the great fear it created in the men of Israel. David demanded to know, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of God?” So young David was a brave man and decided that he wanted to fight Goliath. So after much pleading with King Saul, he let him. Dressed in a simple Greek tunic, carrying his shepherd’s staff, sling, and a pouch full of stones, David approached Goliath. The giant cursed at him, hurling threats and insults. David replied to the Philistine called Goliath, “You come against me with a sword and spear and javelin, and are much larger than me, but I come against you in the name of the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied today, and I will defeat you and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of their air and the whole World will know that there is a God in Israel. It is not by sword nor speaking that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5
As Goliath moved in for the kill, finding a vulnerability in the armor, David reached into his and slung one of his stones at Goliath’s head, the stone sank into the giant’s forehead, and he fell face down on the ground. David then took Goliath’s sword, and killed him and then cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. So the Israelites pursued, chasing and killing them and plundering their camp. Through his believe in God and steadfast determination and bravery, the spiritual son of Israel won the battle and saved the kingdom. This story of David and Goliath reminded me of my dad and how he was doing very well before he went to work, his own house in the hills and lots of car, but when the war was over, he was left healing from a serious mortal wound and living in a flat. Nonetheless, he kept gainful employment, always working an honest job, and protected and took great care of his family, his kids always came first. Also, this is a great story because it shows you that through perseverance and faith in the Lord, those who are oppressed can overcome any challenge by keeping their faith, which is an unquestioning believe, specifically, in God. God wounds but to heal. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5
I never dreamed that media critics and other officials were going to make it appear that I was throwing gasoline on the fire, making the situation worse than it is. However, the fact of the matter is that we live in America, and it is a great country where we have human rights and a free system for the descendant of a former enslaved African now lives in the Presidential White House and is one of the most influential people in the World. Doubting the existence of any universal human nature about which we can validly generalize, realistic skepticism limits itself to the disposition of humans as they are known in the modern World. One human expressed his frustration by saying, “I hate and detest that animal called Man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth,” who all happen to be saints. Each man is passionate about his own projects and primarily interested in cultivating them with the minimum outside interference. To some extent, modern humans are capable of governing themselves, but their individual resources are insufficient. In order to prevent constant collision and frustration, some agency is required which will supervise a set of rules that is designed simply to serve this limited purpose. The image of the ruler is therefore that of the umpire or referee who controls the game without physically participating in it. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5
The March of God in the World–The Hand of God is Everywhere
The tastes of men and women about beauty are rarely the same. However, beautiful object arouse pleasure. Let it be observed that beauty is taken for the idea raised in us, and the logic of beauty follows that any object whatever that does in fact excite this idea must be judged to be beautiful. However, this invites the possibility of diverse and conflicting judgments that, if subjective response is the sole and decisive test, must all be accepted as equally valid. Are there, however, any properties peculiar to beautiful objects, which can be pointed to, to legitimate certain judgments and whose absence will show others to be mistake? There is the classical property of uniformity in variety. Yet to be consistent with the definition of beauty with which we began, we have to guarantee that thing possessing this property would uniquely and universally arouse the appropriate idea. It can be said summarily that is we fail to do so, and this failure is instructive, it points to the tension between the old and the new ways of thinking, between taking beauty to be an inherent, nonrelational property and using beauty to refer to the capacity of things to evoke a certain experience. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6
As colors should be as good as nothing if there were no eyes to behold them, so is beauty nothing without the eyes of love behold it. A capacity is not, however an observable property in things like uniformity. It must be interpreted as either a very different sort of property or else it is not a property at all. British aestheticians did not take beautiful to denote a property. Necessarily, therefore, the logical status of the properties that they attribute to beautiful objects—proportion, utility, etc.—is correspondingly altered. Such properties are no longer either identical with, or the conditions of, a property of beauty Even so considered, however, the traditional formulas f beauty were brought under heavy criticism throughout the eighteenth century. Since the attribution of causes can be justifies only by the evidence of their effects in experience, the British, arguing from the things that people do in fact find beautiful, showed that none of these properties are shared by all these things. There was also the more subtle and damning criticism that the traditional formula of “unity in variety” is simply devoid of meaning, because it applies indiscriminately to any object whatever. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6
Even to the most vulgar souls, there is something attractive in beauty. They are souls to which bodies are to be given in due time. It is possible that any can be so in love with life as to wish to leave these tranquil seats for the Upper World? By the close of the century (1790), it was concluded that any attempt to fine properties common and peculiar to beautiful objects is “altogether impossible.” Finally, it was suggested that “beautiful” is just “a general term of approbation.” How, if the aesthetic judgment arises from subjective feeling and predicates nothing of the object, can it claim to be more than an autobiographical report and can, indeed, claim to be universally binding? Well, because things that are beautiful usually connotes a relatively high degree of value, in contrast to, for instance, the pretty, a fairly orthodox style or genre, pleasure unmixed with pain and the absence of bizarre or discordant relents. Two-thirds of human beauty were the illumination of matter by the intelligence, and but proportion and delicacy of line. Beauty maintains a glorious elasticity in its own ecstasies of hope, provided you do not crush it with a doubt of its own purity. Nothing can be either sweet nor beautiful that is not modest, that is not virtuous. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6
Could it really be so freakishly abnormal? You know, I told you I have a meeting…I went to brunch at the Winchester mansion. There was some secret, some dark hidden story present there the whole time. I could see it in Beth’s silence and in Beth’s drifting. However, I could not see it in Michael. And even now Kat will not tell us. Beth came clattering down the steps, two pages in her hand. She stood before us, looking like a waxen doll in the light from the upstairs windows, with one finger pointing, like that of a nun in school. It seems wise to accept, in deepest humility and with an aim towards a validating spiritual perfection at the onset, that I may never hope at any juncture of my wanderings, be they for untold centuries or for a few short years of ear unendurable ecstasy, to know whether I share in the Savior’s redemption, and that that very unknowing may be the price I pay for my extra-human sensibility and inherently thirst for life and triumph over the pain I once suffered, over the imminent death that once tyrannized me, over the ubiquitous threat of human time. Some, however, there still are, so thoroughly corrupted that they are not fit to be in trusted with human bodies, and these are made into brute animals, lions, tigers, cats, dogs, and monkeys. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6
This is what the ancients called metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls. Conservative accounts of this nature of man may emphasize either his enduring sinfulness of his frailty. The only position conservative cannot take without ceasing to be conservative is the belief that men are fundamentally good and perhaps ultimately perfectible. For in an answer to the question “What is the root cause of political and social problems? Conservatives will point immediately to the nature of man, while liberals and socialists will point to man’s environment. Within the field of social contract theory, social conflict is attributed to the essential nature of man, while others locate the cause in the accidental depredations of a few men who are tempted to violate the laws of nature. Disagreement about the cause of social and political problems has important consequences, for if we find the cause in man’s environment, we will be disposed to study that environment scientifically in an effort to discover the means of improvement. If, for instance, we come to believe that poverty and emotional maladjustment are the root cause of human evils, we will find possible cure in technology or in psychological therapy. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6
The conservative, however, is distinguished by the belief that the usefulness of such measures is strictly limited and that if improvement can occur at all, it will result from moral changes in the way men behave. Conservatives stress moral characteristics such as cruelty, greed, charity, and integrity as irreducible determinates of human life. The hand of God is everywhere, both in what survives and in what is destroyed. History is not a sequence of accident but the march of God in the World. What we inherit from the past is a trust to be used, replenished, and transmitted to our descendants. The ruler must be guided for his subjects. These subjects, however, include not only the living but those now dead and those yet to be born. This position is basically mystical; it arises from a profound love of the familiar, which mingles easily with practical maxims on wise government. The gifts of God are to be enjoyed, when the Giver is remembered. You might just discover you belong to an extremely rich clan of remarkably generous people. I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States of America. God, who is alone I able to protect you. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6
Love Moves that Sun and the Stars–Endless and Unfulfilled Search for the Blue Flower
The original stimulus to the love of God is knowledge, not sexual love. The love of God is reduced to worship, sacrifice, prayer, and reverence. The union with God, although assisted to ascetic practices, is nevertheless the climax of cognition. Since knowledge occurs only between similar being, to know God is to be like him; since God is unique, one become absorbed into his being in order to know him. It is essential that God love his creatures as they love him, and, as previously mentioned, love seems to have been thought of as subject to volition. Love arose involuntarily at the sight of a beautiful body. A man’s erotic education consisted in a denial, after an analysis of nature of beauty, of the acts that usually follow such a sight. Once that denial became a part of a man’s character, he could rise to allegedly nobler beauties until the final gal—the contemplation of absolute beauty completely detached from anything corporeal—was reached. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5
Where was she, the tower of ivory? The great ancestor. The one who now and then came to our assistance. I had no clue, because I had never bent my stiff neck to go in search of her. However, I knew that in her centuries of endurance she had acquired powers that surpassed all dreams and fears of mind and that she could hear me if she chose. Our guardian, our mother, listen to my plea. Sometimes I seem to be writing in the vein of courtly lover, sometimes in the mystical vein of St, Bernard, but in both cases love is represented as a force that attract man to a nobler life. I do not overlook the sufferings of a man in love; indeed, I emphasize them. However, to suffer because of love appears to be analogous to the suffering of the martyrs—an abnegation of the self for a value that transcends egoism. This thought is powerful because it has a high rate of vibration. A thought is a thing and actually has an energy pattern. The more energy we give it, the more power it has to manifest physically. Although I may feel an intense anger towards you and feel I am not yet where I want to be in life, I keep going because of the vibration produced by this work. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5
When I write, I am in a state of bliss, I feel like I am in a palace, surrounded by things I love and nothing, but harmony can reach me. This is by far better to spend hours sending out this vibration, instead of being angry. Ancient tradition of an omnipresent principle is more interested in the metaphysical status of this principle than in the details of human psychology. Can I be honest with you, remember all the nice things I used to say about you, I really meant them and I felt like if they did not draw you near that vibration would resonate with someone. One might lose oneself in order to find oneself, but in so doing, one finds what one really discovered is God. The impossibility of attaining complete satisfaction leads men of this tendency to idealize the perfectionist who seek a goal that he can never reach, for the ideal is precisely that which ought to be and never is. Love sometimes is an interpretation of an ever-sought and unrealizable ideal. A key to making Love unconditional is the willingness to forgive and relinquish our perception of a past event. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5
Do you love me? Even if I had to die with you, I will not deny you. Our natural individuality, or our natural self, boldly speaks out and declares its feelings. However, the true love within our inner spiritual self can be discovered only by experiencing the hurt of this question of Christ. The first form of love is divided into the celestial and terrestrial. The celestial inspires the love of idea and is the soul of the intelligible World. The terrestrial presides over marriage and is the soul of the sensible World. Love as a daemon is identified with the souls of the individual human beings. As a passion it is the love of beauty in temperate men and the love of sexual pleasure in those who dwell exclusively in the material World of ugliness. All love, however, is the love of some degree of beauty. An experience that is intimately associated with our bodily life is thought of as the one escape from it. The power of love to free the soul from its bodily prison. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5
The love of God holds the Universe together. Thus, it is asserted that love is a single principle permeating all things, from the material through the spiritual, and this principle is the dynamic factor in cosmic change. There is no difference in essence between the attraction the elements have for one another and the forms of love that exist in human beings. The appraisal of the kinds of love is based on the objects of love and that wisdom is inherently more valuable than pleasure. Throw heart onto the cloud and let missing kiss the passionate horizon. Then wind brings blue to you and that is the thing I am eager for. When you look up at the blue sky and step into memory with white clouds—my darling, how much sweetness. Give my lover every morning, every leaf with morning dew and every evening, every beach with golden glow in my lingering missing. When evening mist envelops the Earth quietly, my concern for you becomes stronger and stronger like the twilight at dusk. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5
