William wrote:
Physics, thermodynamics, grand conspiracy theories, grand speculative hegelian like narratives, spiritual garantours of values and political preferences (at least this is openly spiritual as opposed to jargon like evolution, science, progress, humanity, etc) "logical rigor" of the "one true way of freedom" and morality, hints of progressivism, historic, and economic determinism. What can't you fit in your mind? What other things do you not like that you can project and blame to the external environment (I don't like psychologizing - but clearly points to very classic symptoms of paranoia and narcissism)? And somehow this isn't typical socialism, or leftist American pragmatism I guess.
Even if this was the "true" nature of man and things, two famous quotes come to mind:
"even if it was true, it must be abolished" - Bakunin (a pale imitation of the much more interesting Nechevyev)
"Man Must Be Overcome" - Nietzsche
As for the Christain Anarchism link:
1) North and that whole movement is obviously very nutty - I hold that truth to be self evident - however, if they wish to break off in some little identaterian collectivist group and try out their little social experiment whatever (of course I am pretty sure the end results would be similar, to perhaps the horror of North and my amusment, to a type of bramhinism if one wishes to use a spiritual analogy)
2) There is an older and more "grounded" (historically speaking) version of Xtian anarchism which is essentially obnoxious Tolstoyian activism, and at the very least much more blatantly collectivist and leftist.
Either way same "spiritual" and buzz word signals (Jesus and Anarchism) - different interpretations, actions, value sets, etc - and two groups who would probably hate each other and call eachother all types of bad names (Pharasiees, heretics,or whatever) - and with the same "ultimate" foundations - funny stuff.
Hi, William.
Regarding paranoia: I am not proposing--let alone enacting--invading, bombing and mass-murdering innocent people in foreign lands, nor the diminishment of a scintilla of domestic liberty, based upon lies and fevered phantasms of the mind. Yet the erroneous and mendacious conspiracy theorists of the state have the blood of millions upon their hands. It is individuals who believe governments' false conspiracy theories who are the truly paranoid ones.
Concerning the Omega Point cosmology, it is now a mathematical theorem per the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, of which have been confirmed by every experiment to date. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)
The only way to avoid the Omega Point cosmology is to reject the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), and hence to reject empirical science: as these physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date. That is, there exists no rational reason for thinking that the Omega Point cosmology is incorrect, and indeed, one must engage in extreme irrationality in order to argue against the Omega Point cosmology.
We also now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) required by the known laws of physics and that correctly describes and unifies all the forces in physics: of which inherently produces the Omega Point cosmology. So here we have an additional high degree of assurance that the Omega Point cosmology is correct.
Further, as I mentioned in my aforecited alt.sci.astro post, due to Liouville's Theorem in complex analysis, it doesn't matter what form of physics one resorts to, as any physically-realistic cosmology (e.g., one capable of incorporating Quantum Mechanics, since the complex number field is intrinsic to the mathematical formulations of Quantum Mechanics) must begin at an initial singularity and end at a final singularity. (As Barrow and Tipler wrote, "Initial and final cosmological curvature singularities are required to avoid a universal action singularity." See John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, "Action principles in nature", Nature, Vol. 331, No. 6151 [Jan. 7, 1988], pp. 31-34; see also Frank J. Tipler, "The Structure of the Classical Cosmological Singularity", in Origin and Early History of the Universe: Proceedings of the 26th Liège International Astrophyscial Colloquium, July 1-4, 1986 [Cointe-Ougree, Belgium: Universite de Liege, Institut d'Astrophysique, 1987], pp. 339-359; "Discussion", pp. 360-361.)
For much more on this, see my following article and my above-said alt.sci.astro post (links to which are available in my originating post of this thread):
James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF, 1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb.
James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , 30 Jul 2013 00:51:55 -0400. The plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5: b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761.
By "North", I presume you mean Dr. Gary North. Gary North is a Pentateuchian, whereas I am not. For elucidation on this subject, see Sec. 7.4.2: "God’s Relation to the Old Testament", pp. 46-47 of my above "Physics of God" article.
My analysis of Jesus Christ and His apostles' teachings' logically-unavoidable anarchism (while examining their relation to the Tanakh) is my own, and is not influenced by any other writer on such matters, but rather comes from my own extensive readings of the Bible and from my readings of the leading libertarian and Austrian School intellectuals. I have read the entire Bible (both the Old and New Testaments) from front to back while taking copious notes, and have examined the original languages in critical passages.