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2005
8 May
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[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 4 September 2005 - Saturday 10 September 2005]
[page 3]
Sunday 4 September 2005
I would naturally like my mind o be more like a digital computer, with vast memory and accurate and fast computational powers, but this may be a deluded desire, in that the fitness value of such a mind might be considerably less than the rather vague 'network' system with which I am actually equipped. The same question arises with quantum computation, where vast amounts of apparently inaccessible information are stored in superpositions of states which when 'observed' 'collapse' into a particular state with a certain probability determined by the superposition. Current research suggests that many individual neurons store information about specific features of the environment and respond hen that feature (ie a particular word, place or fact) is encountered. In this way we may consider our brain as a spatially distributed superposition of states, each state represented by a neuron. In the wider human context each of us is an element of a network and each of us represents one element in the superposition of the whole human race.
Does quantum theory say if you are invisible (do not emit photons) you cannot see (absorb photons)?
The successful foundation of societies on fictions which are inconsistent with reality is made possible by violence. A necessary condition for minimizing the violence in society is minimizing the inconsistency between societies and their environments. Because we are inside god everything is relative. So the problem with Christianity is the inherent violence built into it, crucifixion, world domination and so on.
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Errors (new section of website) devoted to pathological aspects of global religions.
A degenerate couple: oil producers and oil consumers. If you are going to make someone rich (or poor) you need to try to predict the consequences and guard against those which may be inconvenient for yourself.
Accurate diagnosis of the pathology is the foundation of s sure cure. Marx (and others) have tried to achieve such a diagnosis, using various models of an ideally functioning society. One class of such social models which removes power from local to central authority can be ruled out on network intelligence/entropy grounds, For maximum entropy every node must enter equally into the superposition (time divided) which is the whole network. Although an abstract network represents a vast superposition of possibilities, what we observe at any moment is the realization of just a few of these, the actual nodes that are in communication with one another. The network of atoms.
Denzinger, Syllabus Errorum. Denzinger
Monday 5 September 2005
Tuesday 6 September 2005
Pius X: Lamentabili Pope Pius X
Denzinger 3401
On unshackling exegesis from the Magisterium of the Church.
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3401 1. The Church law which prescribes that books concerning the divine Scriptures undergo censorship before publication does not apply to the practitioners of critical and scientific exegesis of the Books of the Old and New Testaments.
3402 2. Although the Church's interpretation of the holy Books is not to be discounted, it is nevertheless subject to more accurate judgment and correction by exegetes.
3403 3. It may be gathered from the judgments and censures that the Church has directed against free and cultural exegesis that the belief proposed by the Church contradicts history, so that the Catholic dogmas themselves are inconsistent with the true origins of the christian religion.
3404 4. The Magisterium of the Church is not capable of determining the genuine meaning he the holy scriptures by dogmatic definitions.
3405 5. While revealed truths may indeed be contained in the deposit of faith, it is in no way the business of the Church to judge the assertions of human disciplines ()science?).
2406 6. The collaboration between the Church teaching and the Church learning is such that the only course open to the teaching church is to sanction the common opinions of the learning Church.
Wednesday 7 September 2005
3407 7. The Church, when it proscribes errors, is not capable of demanding the internal assent by which its judgments are embraced.
3408 8. Those writers are to be considered free of every fault against whom reprobations promulgated by the
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Sacred Congregation of the Index or other Sacred Roman Congregations have come to nothing.
3409 9. On the inspiration and 'inerrance' of the holy Scripture
People who believe God to be the true author of holy Scripture exhibit extreme simplicity and ignorance.
10. The inspiration of the books of the Old Testament lies in the fact that the Israelite writers handed on religious doctrines to people taking a particular point of view both known and unknown.
3411 11. Divine inspiration does not apply to the whole of scripture in a way that protects each and every part of it from every error.
3412 If exegetes wish to usefully undertake biblical studies, they should first of all dismiss from their minds any preconceived opinion about the supernatural origin of holy Scripture, and treat it in the same way as any other merely human document.
The invention of writing i injected a new dimension into human existence, stasis in the midst of an essentially dynamic system. Writing here covers 'oral' as well as 'written' literature. The essential element of writing, literature, text etc is that it, per se, is not dynamic.
We are being required to weather a series of shocks, all connected to the invention of text.
The future depends on what happens.
Thursday 8 September 2005
Friday 9 September 2005
Saturday 10 September 2005
TEXT --> TIME. We have speeded up over the years, instant gratification, even preemptive gratification = three square meals per day.
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One may guess that at some past time our ancestors were not particularly aware of time as such, although their survival was keyed to responding to annual and other changes in their environment.
Denzinger 3413 The Evangelists ad Christians of the second and third generations artificially edited the Evangelical parables, thus giving a reason for the meagre fruit if Jesus preaching among the Jews.
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Further reading
Books
| Denzinger, Henricus, and Adolphus Schoenmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, Definitionum et Declarationum de Rebus Fidei et Morum, Herder 1963 Introduction: 'Dubium non est quin praeter s. Scripturam cuique theologo summe desiderandus sit etiam liber manualis quo contineantur edicta Magisterii ecclesiastici eaque saltem maioris momenti, et quo ope variorim indicum quaerenti aperiantur eorum materiae.' (3) 'There is no doubt that in addition to holy Scripture, every theologian also needs a handbook which contains at least the more important edicts of the Magisterium of the Church, indexed in a way which makes them easy to find.'back |
Links
| Pope Pius X Lamentabili Sane The Syllabus of Errors (Condemning the Errors of the Modernists) Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office July 3, 1907 'WITH TRULY LAMENTABLE RESULTS, our age, casting aside all restraint in its search for the ultimate causes of things, frequently pursues novelties so ardently that it rejects the legacy of the human race. Thus it falls into very serious errors, which are even more serious when they concern sacred authority, the interpretation of Sacred Scripture, and the principal mysteries of Faith. The fact that many Catholic writers also go beyond the limits determined by the Fathers and the Church herself is extremely regrettable. In the name of higher knowledge and historical research, (they say), they are looking for that progress of dogmas which is, in reality, nothing but the corruption of dogmas. ... ' back |
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