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My following article demonstrates the logically unavoidable anarchism of Jesus Christ's teachings as recorded in the New Testament (in addition to analyzing their context in relation to his actions, to the Tanakh, and to his apostles). It is logically complete on this subject, in the sense of its apodixis. Below the aforesaid article is an article complementary to it.

James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761; PDF, 312715 bytes, MD5: ff45387b1b2ed9d6dec411d5328abdd6. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 , http://archive.org/download/JesusIsAnAn ... rchist.pdf , http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf , http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/10/redfo ... rchist.pdf

James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733; PDF, 118091 bytes, MD5: e6de8181ad84c9d96400bb9582311c79. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972733 , http://archive.org/download/Libertarian ... ianism.pdf , http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-A ... ianism.pdf , http://webcitation.org/63xyCLjLm , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/10/redfo ... ianism.pdf

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Very much related to the foregoing, see my following article on physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by said known physical laws. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.

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. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsO ... of-God.pdf , http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-P ... of-God.pdf , http://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress. ... of-god.pdf , http://sites.google.com/site/physicothe ... of-God.pdf

For anyone who has ever wondered about such questions as what the meaning of life is, what the purpose of their own life is, whether there is life after death, whether God exists, what the future holds for humanity, and why anything exists at all as opposed to nothingness, then this article answers all of those questions using the known laws of physics.

This article further provides an examination of the globalist political power-elite: history is given on their organizational structure and their methods of accumulating power; and analysis is given on where they're attempting to take the world, i.e., their self-termed New World Order world government and world religion.

The article furnishes documentation on what the globalist oligarchy's ultimate goal is. This ultimate goal of theirs most popularly goes by the name of transhumanism: immortality through technology. However, I explain in the article that the coming radical life-extension technologies create a fundamental dilemma for the oligarchs, which is why they must dominate world society before such technology becomes a reality. The details of that dilemma are explained in Sec. 8.2.2: "The Mark of the Beast" of the article.

Thus, this article explains to people what is to occur and why it is to occur, so that they will not be in ignorance as to the events that are to unfold.

Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

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@4ax.com , 30 Jul 2013 00:51:55 -0400. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... QWt4KcpMVo , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS The plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5: b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761. http://mirrorcreator.com/files/JCFTZSS8/ , http://ziddu.com/download/22782349/ , http://freakshare.com/files/i2ehznsj/Fr ... s.txt.html

O! This Libertarian Movement of Ours… ‘Toids, Layabouts, Freaks…

Poor Kinsella.

Wheylous, your forum has officially arrived.

+1

Clayton -

...lol. I'd add Hoppe-heads to the list of troublemakers.

huzzah

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.

thanks for the inflammatory nonsense

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.

Just to let people here know, below are some of my scholarly researcher profiles, via which one can access my works (with a number of them also hosting said works):

"James Redford", Figshare, http://figshare.com/authors/James_Redford/693488 .

"James Redford", ResearchGate, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Redford .

"James Redford', Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/james-redford/ .

"James Redford", PhilPapers, http://philpapers.org/profile/61919 .

"Redford, James", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), http://ssrn.com/author=1156571 .

"James Redford's Works", Zenodo, https://zenodo.org/collection/user-james-redford .

"James Redford", GitHub, https://github.com/JamesRedford . "Scholarly Works by James Redford, Including LaTeX Sources", https://jamesredford.github.io .

"James Redford", Academia.edu, https://independent.academia.edu/JamesRedford .

"Curriculum Vitæ of James Redford", Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/JamesRedford .

"James Redford", ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5033-7865 .

"James Redford", Google Scholar Citations, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IzEe4_0AAAAJ .

How timely that this thread should be brought back to life. I quickly skimmed your article "Jesus Is an Anarchist" and I must say that I disagree with very little of what you have written. I feel that it is important to emphasize a couple points that you briefly mention in the article:

1. Jesus's social ethic is the Golden Rule. On a purely material level, it is true that the Golden Rule is essentially the Non-Aggression Principle. However, in the wider context of existence - that is, taking into account that we are eternal souls made in the image of God and capable of participating in the Divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4) - the Golden Rule means much more than just "don't hurt others". It means be authentic. Weep with those who weep. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Authentically treat others the way you would want to be treated, in their shoes. For many people, the emotional cost of true service to others is even greater than the financial cost. If it's "no sweat" for you to drop a large check into a charity fund, then you're not doing it right. Jesus didn't make a "no sweat" contribution to humanity. He sweat so profusely that his capillaries broke and he began to sweat blood.

The Gospel calls us to an ethic that is much deeper than merely "don't hurt other people." It's about being a conduit rather than a reservoir of God's love and blessings. This is why Jesus gave the parable of the vine. "I am the True Vine." Jesus receives His Father's love and we, in turn, receive Jesus's love. Jesus sets the example of how we are to be. His commandment is that we are to love one another as He has loved us. This isn't about one-upmanship, either, as if Jesus is saying "crucify yourself for others". No, Jesus paid the penalty of death once for all. We do not need to attempt to upstage Him. Rather, we are to accept that gift in order to pass it along to others.

2. Jesus's teachings have only incidental application to politics. The Bible almost completely ignores politics. This is because the Bible's view of political leaders is that they are little more than puppets, however inflated their egos may be (which is precisely how they are spiritually blinded and bound).

No war, no revolution, no social movement has ever, ever been merely the result of people following the teachings of Jesus and living them out. The moment we begin to "organize for Jesus", we overthrow the very core of His teachings. God is in full control at all times. God does not need the slightest assistance from us. When God is ready to overthrow a political order, it will be overthrown.

The opposite extreme of perverting the political dimension of Jesus's teachings is to say he taught "just tread water until Jesus returns". Quite the opposite. Literally acting out the Golden Rule is the most subversive and revolutionary act that a human being can possibly do. When God is ready, He is going to crush the entire kingdom of Satan using this weapon. He is doing it this way to demonstrate that the "weakness" of yielding to others, the "softness" of caring for others, the "short-sightedness" of pouring out one's resources for the aid of others, the "unrealisticness" of loving others as selfishly as you love yourself - that these weak and paltry things are, in fact, the greatest power in the Universe and, by the wisdom and power of God, they smash all who seek to oppose them like pottery shattered with an iron rod.

Taxation is irrelevant. Of course Caesar has no right to steal. Those questioning Jesus on this point taught this very thing themselves (and were likely secretly plotting revolution!) The purpose of the question was legal entrapment so they could turn Jesus over to the Romans for insurrection. Those who read this passage as moral validation for taxation fall on a stumbling block. But, all the same, taxation is irrelevant to those who follow Christ. To fall into warfare against the material apparatuses of the power of Satan is to fall into a trap. In so doing, you take your eye off the ball, which is the spiritual war.

The question of taxation that is posed to Jesus by the Jews is ultimately a question about rebellion. Most Christians who read these passages are guilty of presentism - reading modern concepts back into history. At that time, taxation was quite arbitrary. There was almost no way to assess income. Certain kinds of income could be tracked and these were heavily controlled but the kind of financial tracking that exists in the modern world is nearly omniscient compared to what existed in the ancient world. The way we think of taxes today is as some kind of "ratio of income which inherently belongs to the State". This is not how taxes were thought of in the ancient world.

Taxes in the ancient world were naked protection racket dues. When you went to the tax-collector, he told you, "Pay this much silver by tomorrow or else I will report you to the Roman guard, who's going to seize all your property, throw your wife and children in the street, and drag you off to be beaten." The tax-collectors were mostly indigenous spies or informants who kept a watch on what everyone was doing. If you made garments, the tax-collector knew. If you sold produce in the market, the tax-collector knew. When it was time to pay your taxes, the tax-collector assessed your tax based on this kind of thing, not based on an exhaustive record of every financial transaction (logistically impossible at that time), as we have today. The tax-collectors were held responsible by the Romans to collect a certain fixed sum, and the Romans didn't care that much how or on what justification it got collected (there were rules, but they were widely deviated from). The tax-collectors, then, would seek to pad their pockets as much as possible. Being seen selling a basket of apples to your neighbor would make you a "merchant of produce" and you would owe X amount of silver. Naturally, tax-collectors were among the most hated of all people. This is why the Gospels record that Jesus sat among tax-collectors. He sat among the most hated and despised people of all.

We are to pay taxes. But "taxes" are just "whatever the government forces you to pay them." If it's going to come down to a fight - property seized, people jailed, etc. - then just pay the racketeer. Don't fight him. Don't "start a revolution". But that doesn't mean you have to go rat on yourself to the racketeer. If you trade in cash or through some other method and Caesar does not know about this exchange, then Caesar cannot demand you to "pay your taxes" on it. Just don't be a fool and go inform Caesar.

3. The rulers of this world do, indeed, worship Satan but most of them are completely unaware that they do. It is the nature of Satan's kingdom that it is a kingdom of deception and illusion. God has always been upfront about what He is doing in the world - He created man, man fell, God sent the Redeemer in history to rescue man from the consequences of the Fall, and now we await His final return which will usher in the New Heavens and New Earth.

To illustrate my meaning, consider a recent music video (NB language, etc). In the last few years, popular music videos have become increasingly saturated with occult symbolism. This is waved off by "serious" people as a "joke" or "artistic pranking of conspiracy theorists" or whatever. But the essential message of Satan's kingdom is blatantly stated in the words of the song, and merely reinforced with the occult imagery. If you swallow that pill, if you buy the lie that "you gotta work b*tch", then you implicitly worship Satan. And this shows just how true it is that Satan appears as an "angel of light" - he strives to appear reasonable, logical, even morally upright in a way. This is not to say that people owe you free stuff, merely that there is no a priori moral obligation to redeem one's existence by working, as if "having a job" makes you a real person.

Most people in positions of some kind of earthly authority imagine that they are wielding that authority for good and just purposes. The DMV clerk may snap at you after having a bad day, but he or she does not go back into the breakroom and transform into Mr. Burns, laughing at the little slave-people paying their DMV fees, bwahahaha. To the vast majority of people who hold some kind of earthly power, the raison d'etre for that power seems reasonable and logical, and the form and extent of the power seems morally justifiable for the purpose they imagine it serves.

But this is all irrelevant to the spiritual reality. The rule of man by man - that is, human slavery - is as anti-God as you can get. Satan has tried to paper it over a million different ways, but it's still just a steaming dung heap, a festering sore of wickedness and abuse. In the final analysis, there is no earthly solution. Humanity - each and every individual - needs to reconnect with the Creator so that the Divine order can finally be brought down to Earth. "Thy will be done on Earth, as it is being done in Heaven."

4. The concept of property, per se, is not actually strongly supported in the Bible, nor by the teachings of Jesus. This is, in fact, where we start to depart from the Non-Aggression Principle. "The Earth is the Lord's", Psalm 24:1. Whether we realize it or not, we actually live in a "communist" world, in the sense that it is all God's property and no one ever did anything with His property that He did not want them to.

But any attempt to construct a communist theocracy - where a human administers all resources in the place of God - is not only impossible (as Mises proved) but leads forthwith into the very same corrupt tyranny as what came before, just under a different guise and nomenclature. Property - like all forms of law, ritual and regulation - is given by God because of the hardness of our hearts. We need it, for now. When we are ready, God is going to moot it in one, fell swoop. We are not told exactly what will replace it, but whatever it is, it will be consistent with the law of God (to treat others as we want to be treated) and it will not attempt to overthrow economic law.

5. The economy of the Kingdom of Heaven is, just as you say, built upon voluntary, willing service. The capitalist economists have been very keen to point out that capitalism already induces service of man by man. But the Kingdom of Heaven is different because it is all about intent. Empty ritual is worthless in God's eyes. "To obey is better than sacrifice." To do what God means is the only thing that counts with Him - compliance with the letter of the law is useless. Empty love is no love at all. Treating someone the way you want to be treated for some ulterior motive - for example, to gain a heavenly reward or avoid eternal punishment - is to miss the point entirely.

When the Jews asked Jesus about divorce, Jesus responded that Moses gave the command concerning divorce because of the hardness of their hearts, but it was not so from the beginning. In other words, God provides laws and rules that "make the best of a bad situation", but these laws or rules do not reflect the epitome of God's order. In fact, they are pathetic band-aids.

The point of service in the KoH is that this is how man was created to properly exist. The deer is perfectly adapted to its environment. Its mouth and digestive system are perfectly tuned to the foods it naturally finds in the forest. Its feet and legs are perfectly suited for bounding over obstacles and racing through underbrush at incredible speed to outrun its predators. This is how the deer was created to exist. But man's present environment is not just "out of whack" with his own nature, it is almost diametrically opposed to the environment for which his nature is adapted. Man likely did spend time in an Ancestral Environment as modern evolutionary theory formulates. But this would be post-lapsarian human existence - human existence in separation from God. When the Earth and the Heavens are fully redeemed (freed from the curse), we will exist in a world order that is characterized by voluntary service and the free, unhindered expression of love.

I didn't realize how far Redford goes back... at least to 2000! Anyway, my last post is only in respect to the text of his article "Jesus Is an Anarchist", and not to anything else that Redford references or has written, whether articles, forum posts or emails.

/disclaimer

I appreciate you posting this, James Redford.

Speaking of mathematical proof of God's existence is enough reason to dismiss someone as having nothing to say worth hearing.

Hi, Caley McKibbin. Your foregoing statement is the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem. Further, it displays a shameful degree of willful ignorance and incuriosity. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and so it is unfortunate to see you currently wasting yours like that. Hopefully you will in time ameliorate the mental program of your brain in order to bring it into conformance with the truth.

Physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), of which have been confirmed by every experiment to date. Hence, the only way to avoid the Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. 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].) Further, the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics is also mathematically required by the aforesaid known physical laws, and the Omega Point cosmology is an inherent component of said quantum gravity TOE.

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals.[1] Even NASA itself has peer-reviewed his Omega Point Theorem and found it correct according to the known laws of physics (see below). No refutation of it exists within the peer-reviewed scientific literature, or anywhere else for that matter.

Below are some of the peer-reviewed papers in physics and science journals and proceedings wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology. (The below papers, in addition to many other articles by Tipler on the Omega Point cosmology, are also available in the following archive: Frank-J-Tipler-Omega-Point-Papers.zip , 26712158 bytes, MD5: 6e5d29b994bc2f9aa4210d72ef37ab68. http://webcitation.org/6GjhT6t52 , https://amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=b ... SrxJ26R7d8 , https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7k4r80 ... BOV00/edit )

* Frank J. Tipler, "Cosmological Limits on Computation", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 6 (June 1986), pp. 617-661, doi:10.1007/BF00670475, bibcode: 1986IJTP...25..617T. (First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.) http://webcitation.org/64KHgOccs , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... tation.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Sensorium of God: Newton and Absolute Space", bibcode: 1988nnds.conf..215T, in G[eorge]. V. Coyne, M[ichal]. Heller and J[ozef]. Zycinski (Eds.), "Message" by Franciszek Macharski, Newton and the New Direction in Science: Proceedings of the Cracow Conference, 25 to 28 May 1987 (Vatican City: Specola Vaticana, 1988), pp. 215-228, LCCN 88162460, bibcode: 1988nnds.conf.....C. http://webcitation.org/69Vb0JF1W , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... of-god.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point Theory: A Model of an Evolving God", in Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger and George V. Coyne (Eds.), message by John Paul II, Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 2nd ed., 2005; orig. pub. 1988), pp. 313-331, ISBN 0268015775, LCCN 89203331, bibcode: 1988pptc.book.....R. http://webcitation.org/69VaKG2nd , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... theory.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers", in Arthur Fine and Jarrett Leplin (Eds.), PSA 1988: Proceedings of the 1988 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (East Lansing, Mich.: Philosophy of Science Association, 1989), pp. 27-48, ISBN 091758628X. http://webcitation.org/69VarCM3I , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... nciple.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions for Scientists", Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 217-253, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x. Republished as Chapter 7: "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions to Scientists" in Carol Rausch Albright and Joel Haugen (Eds.), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114. http://webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... chaton.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The ultimate fate of life in universes which undergo inflation", Physics Letters B, Vol. 286, Nos. 1-2 (July 23, 1992), pp. 36-43, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286...36T. http://webcitation.org/64Uskd785 , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... lation.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation", bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B[ei]. L. Hu and T[ed]. A. Jacobson (Eds.), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf.....H. http://webcitation.org/5qbXJZiX5 , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... iation.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe", NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jan. 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. http://webcitation.org/5zPq69I0O , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... ockets.pdf Full proceedings volume: http://webcitation.org/69zAxm0sT , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/19990 ... 021520.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "There Are No Limits To The Open Society", Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Sept. 23, 1998). http://webcitation.org/5sFYkHgSS , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... ociety.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber, Matthew McGinley, Joshua Nichols-Barrer and Christopher Staecker, "Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem", arXiv:gr-qc/0003082, Mar. 20, 2000. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003082 Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, No. 2 (Aug. 2007), pp. 629-640, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T. http://webcitation.org/5vQ3M8uxB , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... rizons.pdf

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Ultimate Future of the Universe, Black Hole Event Horizon Topologies, Holography, and the Value of the Cosmological Constant", arXiv:astro-ph/0104011, Apr. 1, 2001. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... iverse.pdf Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (Eds.), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, Texas, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (Oct. 15, 2001), doi:10.1063/1.1419654, bibcode: 2001AIPC..586.....W.

* Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology", International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr. 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB...2..141T. http://webcitation.org/5o9QHKGuW , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... mology.pdf Also at arXiv:0704.0058, Mar. 31, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058

* F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers", Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Apr. 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh...68..897T. http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theo ... ything.pdf , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... umbers.pdf Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276, Apr. 24, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276

* Frank J. Tipler, "Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2 (2012), pp. 183-193. http://webcitation.org/69JEi5wHp , http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tiple ... larity.pdf

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in which the above August 2007 paper was published, is one of the world's leading peer-reviewed astrophysics journals.

Prof. Tipler's paper "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe" was an invited paper for a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, so NASA itself has peer-reviewed Tipler's Omega Point Theorem (peer-review is a standard process for published proceedings papers; and again, Tipler's said paper was an *invited* paper by NASA, as opposed to what are called "poster papers").

Zygon is the world's leading peer-reviewed academic journal on science and religion.

Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper--which presents the Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE)--was selected as one of 12 for the "Highlights of 2005" accolade as "the very best articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2005 [Vol. 68]. Articles were selected by the Editorial Board for their outstanding reviews of the field. They all received the highest praise from our international referees and a high number of downloads from the journal Website." (See Richard Palmer, Publisher, "Highlights of 2005", Reports on Progress in Physics website. http://webcitation.org/5o9VkK3eE , http://archive.is/pKD3y )

Reports on Progress in Physics is the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional body for physicists. Further, Reports on Progress in Physics has a higher impact factor (according to Journal Citation Reports) than Physical Review Letters, which is the most prestigious American physics journal (one, incidently, which Prof. Tipler has been published in more than once). A journal's impact factor reflects the importance the science community places in that journal in the sense of actually citing its papers in their own papers.

For much more on these matters, see my following article:

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. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/details/ThePhysicsOf ... Everything , http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-P ... of-God.pdf , http://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress. ... of-god.pdf , http://sites.google.com/site/physicothe ... of-God.pdf

See also my below website:

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist. http://theophysics.host56.com , http://theophysics.freevar.com

The only way to avoid the Omega Point cosmology is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., 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.

Additionally, we 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.

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Note:

1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and nonphysical (such as String Theory, which violates the known laws of physics and has no experimental support whatsoever), the reason such things are allowed to pass the peer-review process is because the paradigm of assumptions which such papers are speaking to has been made known, and within their operating paradigm none of the referees could find anything crucially wrong with said papers. That is, the paradigm itself may have nothing to do with reality, but the peer-reviewers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with such papers within the operating assumptions of that paradigm. Whereas, e.g., the operating paradigm of Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper and his other papers on the Omega Point Theorem is the known laws of physics, i.e., our actual physical reality which has been repeatedly confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. So the professional physicists charged with refereeing these papers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with them within their operating paradigm, i.e., the known laws of physics.

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Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. A number of these videos are not otherwise online. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

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@4ax.com , 30 Jul 2013 00:51:55 -0400, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... QWt4KcpMVo , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS . The plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5: b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761, http://ge.tt/3lOTVbp , http://webcitation.org/6WGd90MBa , http://archive.today/cVRmc .