Cy,
I'm still grappling with the possibility that our Rapture might be voluntary.
And I agree with you that our displacement from the Source is largely voluntary, to begin with.
Also, I believe that you, Jake and I agree that we are slated for an ultimate rendezvous with the Source. We disagree on the details of this Rendezvous.
But, no, I believe that Jake and I now agree on a timeline of about a thousand years between now and a rapture. This is due to my very recent re-estimation of our Thorium potential. From my previous estimate of a 200 yr Millennium, I am now back with the more conventional notion of a thousand year Millennium.
After this significant bit of new agreement, there remains a very significant gap between my BPWH, and the much more conventional cosmologies of you and Jake.
I point to the fact the we are the children of God, and that we are all one family. There are no other gods, and no other families. We are all in the same boat, which is also our 'spaceship' Earth.
Wrt the Endtimes, I adhere to the foundations of the prophetic tradition, whereas you and Jake have followed the Scientific cosmology into the notion of many worlds. I am the only person known to be such a contrarian wrt that convention. The burden of proof is entirely on me.
My 'proof', however, rests mainly upon my allegedly much more chummy relation with the Source, as if we were on a first name basis. Both you and Jake suppose the Source to be impersonal. This is also true of Islam, and somewhat less so of Judaism.
This more impersonal and less familial, familiar connection is based largely on the conventional, large-universe model that I quite emphatically reject.
Where I depart most strongly with my fellow Christians is on the notion of lost souls. On this important matter, I believe that there is significant gap between Cy and Jake. Although, on second thought, Cy seems more disposed than Jake to find fault with the PtB, who are deemed to be leading the rest of us into perdition.
Cy and I have not discussed the disparate fates of the various segments of humanity. Nor am I sure of Jake's view on this matter, but I suppose it hews closer to the traditional theistic view.
Louise, my departed sister, was quite adamant that the great bulk of humanity was not slated to graduate to the next level of existence. They had doomed themselves to repeat life's lessons, probably for many more times, and probably on a different planet, since the Earth was about to be recycled, in some strong sense.
But, yes, it now appears that the Rapture is going to be more voluntary than I had been supposing, up until my recent Thorium recalculation.
Now, instead of the Rapture driving the Revelation, it is the other way around. I have been putting very little emphasis on Heaven, and I truly don't wish to get sucked into that issue. I continue to suppose that heaven is just the vestibule for our At-one-ment with the Source. Forget the 72 virgins? Well, I would not bank on that. You are more likely to win the lottery or be struck by lightning.
This slight rearrangement happens to put more burden on our poor little Chicken, because the sky is less prone to falling, with thorium taking the role of Atlas. As long as we have Atlas, who needs Chicken Little?
3pm---------
What is CL to do......? I will need more help from Paul Z, for one thing. I need to get back to the physics end of the BPWH bargain, now that the Rapture has receeded.
But, first, there is tonight's dinner discussion group, usually related to peak energy......
From: Dan
Date: June 7, 2013, 3:22:48 PM EDT
To: Brendan
Cc: Sam, Gus and 8 others.....
Subject: Re: (1) Self-Introductions at DDG tonight
My news is a recent revelation concerning Thorium......
Well, it was a two years ago revelation, at a pervious DDG, that finally caught up with me. And I remain unsure as to how to handle this wrt the Peak Energy contingent. Keeping my mouth shut was an option, until we were urged to do otherwise.
I'll bet that if we were to take a poll, most of us would suppose that the Nuclear option is effectively dead. And it is, politically. But is it, scientifically? The answer seems to be a rather emphatic, 'no', unless I am still miscalculating.
There are two alleged reasons for this political misperception........
1.) Nukes are dirty and dangerous.
2.) Comparable with coal, nukes don't make that much of a dent in our peak-energy calculations.
It is thorium, however, that makes a big dent in both #1 and #2. This big dent turns out to be about two orders of magnitude, in each case.
Have I gone over to the dark side? Hmmm.......
From: Dan
Date: June 7, 2013, 3:52:41 PM EDT
To: Paul Z
Subject: Recap of Physics vs. the BPWH.....
The score remains 100 to 0, and we're in the bottom of the ninth......
I always try to focus on whatever seems closest to being the 'defeater' argument for the BPWH.
I am usually able to focus on the problem for a couple of hours, until the Necker cube in my mind decides to shift, usually spontaneously. How many faces of the cube are there........?
1.) Stars and, well, astrophysics/cosmology.
2.) Atoms and biological metabolism, in all its splendor.
3.) Fossils, geological strata, and all that good Old Earth stuff.
4.) Optics, of the geometrical sort......
Is that not enough to blow the BPWH right out of the water? It certainly ought to be, with just one small fly in the scientific ointment........ the soul......
Is the soul big enough to take down/shake down science?
Well, it surely is a rather large foot in the metaphysical door. No?
(cont.)
cc: OMF
From: Dan
Date: June 7, 2013, 4:20:32 PM EDT
To: Paul Z
Subject: Re: Recap of Physics vs. the BPWH.....
(cont.)
What does the soul bring to the BPWH vs Science? Just how big is this foot in the door?
The anthropic principle opens the door to deism. The soul opens it to theism, IMHO, and theism is a much bigger threat to science than is deism. Yes? Deism was the cradle of science, in point of historical fact.
If our only foe were scientific materialism, there would be no problem here, but......
We do also have Jack to contend with, and Jack strongly believes that he has already explained the Soul. Yes?
Jack believes that the consciousness aspect of the soul is explained by back-action and the non-linearities, non-unitarities thereby introduced into classical QM.
To me, this is a ridiculous argument, but Jack grips onto it, for dear life, which it may be, wrt scientific materialism/physicalism.
(cont......2)
From: Dan
Date: June 7, 2013, 5:04:00 PM EDT
To: Paul Z
Subject: Re: Recap of Physics vs. the BPWH.....
(cont........2)
But even just Jack's soul, which is, maybe, 1/3 of a real soul, is still a big foot in the door wrt the BPWH vs. Science.
Jack's soul is opening the door to a quantum Dualism of mind and matter. That was the first approximation to the BPWH, way back in 1977, and up until '81. That is when I finally had to bite the bullet and put dualism behind me. Dualism is, by definition, incoherent. So is materialism. That leaves monism, in all its metaphysical glory.
If one gives any benefit of the doubt to the mind, then the mind moves right in, and takes over the whole neighborhood. That has been its wont, time immemorial......
Optimistically, then, Jack's is the foot in the door for the foot in the door, something like billy-goat gruff.
But let us also look at the soul from a more socio-political perspective......
The soul, per se, barely distinguishes between deism, theism and pantheism. That is Jack's minimal foot in the door, nonetheless. It suffices for our next step. This mini-soul is missing two things, quality and memory, setting reason aside, for the nonce.
(cont........3)
(cont.)
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