Month, Day: Perfection, Speech (Independence)
Month, Day: Perfection, Questions (Glory)
Doesn't this seem to be the perfect combination to start to address things operational? Questions are essential, especially to the audacity theme; Independence is what we're to do in truth processing, even to the extent of being an autodidact, yet honoring teaming.
So, after the 8/1-19 congruence, we'll go with 9/1 into Names followed by Might, Will, Knowledge.
Remarks:
09/26/2009 -- An issue for the Operational view.
08/16/2009 -- One area of focus, as suggested by this post, will be mind-body studies. Somehow, insights from the Writings ought to have importance, teleological and operational.
08/15/2009 -- We start with ontological issues.
Modified: 09/26/2009
Showing posts with label Names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Names. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Words to Names
Month, Day: Words, Names (Grace)
Words transitions to Names through Perfection. This has always interested me. Why?
Well, Names coalesce out of Words. In the SAQ #47 (This is a false supposition, for the origin of this composition is from God; it is God Who makes the combination, and as it is done according to the natural system, from each composition one being is produced, and an existence is realized. A composition made by man produces nothing because man cannot create.), we see counsel on how we ought to do science. Too, Names imply an object that can have separate existence with interesting attributes including behavior.
Yes. Right now, we look at Creation, learn things, then have the gall to think that the mathematics and other insights that we've obtained are sufficient enough to then try to overlay Creation with our understanding. It's backwards (quasi-empiricism). One side-effect?
The infinite divisioning by materialism plus the idiocy of some pure mathematics plus mis-matches between reality and truth as we think that we know it plus the emphasis on the elite as being those who know (hah, any and all can know God (Iqan, 233), the real motivation for science and knowledge).
Our abstractions ought to found themselves on Creation. This may imply more use of analog techniques and biological computational frameworks. Do I know what these are? Somewhat. But, that really is going to unfold when audacity, as far as it is necessary, takes hold.
Brights would pay attention if they were truly scientifically motivated, as opposed to being in the game of scientism and egotism.
Remarks:
08/05/2009 -- We'll look at SAQ #37 more in the context of how the Teleological influences.
Modified: 01/17/2010
Words transitions to Names through Perfection. This has always interested me. Why?
Well, Names coalesce out of Words. In the SAQ #47 (This is a false supposition, for the origin of this composition is from God; it is God Who makes the combination, and as it is done according to the natural system, from each composition one being is produced, and an existence is realized. A composition made by man produces nothing because man cannot create.), we see counsel on how we ought to do science. Too, Names imply an object that can have separate existence with interesting attributes including behavior.
Yes. Right now, we look at Creation, learn things, then have the gall to think that the mathematics and other insights that we've obtained are sufficient enough to then try to overlay Creation with our understanding. It's backwards (quasi-empiricism). One side-effect?
The infinite divisioning by materialism plus the idiocy of some pure mathematics plus mis-matches between reality and truth as we think that we know it plus the emphasis on the elite as being those who know (hah, any and all can know God (Iqan, 233), the real motivation for science and knowledge).
Our abstractions ought to found themselves on Creation. This may imply more use of analog techniques and biological computational frameworks. Do I know what these are? Somewhat. But, that really is going to unfold when audacity, as far as it is necessary, takes hold.
Brights would pay attention if they were truly scientifically motivated, as opposed to being in the game of scientism and egotism.
Remarks:
08/05/2009 -- We'll look at SAQ #37 more in the context of how the Teleological influences.
Modified: 01/17/2010
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The autodidact
Month, Day: Beauty, Splendour (Grace)
Month, Day: Beauty, Names (Justice)
For whatever reason that might be the prime cause behind the phenomenon (whether natural, social, or purely accidental), the existence of the autodidact ought to be celebrated for its contributory potential. Ah, institutions do not want that.
Slogan 1: the tenured position is not equivalent (no way) to that established by the truly autodidactic.
Slogan 2: the existential reality for the autodidact can be abandonment.
In terms of principle, this whole thing has to do with Independent Investigation of the Truth (a basic Principle of the Baha'i Faith) which is a very hard subject. Actually very hard, look at the Brights (yes, Dawkins, et al) as peers beat one down (physical threats, psychological torture, social pressures, ...) in many, many ways.
Hah, they haven't the power or the number of troops required for this (Tablet of Ahmed), and the unlearned don't know better (therefore, not knowing is foregivable in some circumstances).
It will be a major theme to fill in the void. Wiki has a start.
As I was reminded recently by an expert, a PhD has to be autodidactic in anything outside his/her field if he/she does not want to just play patsy to those who are verbal (and abusive) about what they know and to those who think that everyone ought to follow them (neither a leader nor follower be, to misquote William S).
Example (4 horsemen).
Slogan 3: math does not talk to (or for) God, as is believed by the physicist, who speaks for the chemist, who establishes the framework for the materialism of the biologist who ...
Slogan 4: There are many autodidacts to whom we can point in a manner to set the proper tone for this type of inquiry (nope, use not motivated by Bush or the Jesuits).
Remarks:
04/14/2012 -- Thornton Chase.
05/17/2011 -- Stephen gets press.
05/09/2011 -- We need a constructive re-look.
04/04/2011 -- We'll be looking at things like foreknowledge. As well, autodidacticism for everyone.
12/05/2010 -- Is it not true that extreme positions on the axis of the mindful can lead to a god-like state-fulness?
11/16/2010 -- What can science know?
10/01/2010 -- Irritation.
04/30/2010 -- The autodidact cannot ascend to Transcendence.
12/06/2009 -- The Motivational implies goals and actions.
10/11/2009 -- Will and Questions. Gifts, both.
09/06/2009 -- Essentially, more is undecidable than we like to admit, basically due to our talent for success (ergodicity, essentially) keeps the hubris refreshed (generation by generation).
07/26/2009 -- The Operational times will be fun.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 04/14/2012
Month, Day: Beauty, Names (Justice)
For whatever reason that might be the prime cause behind the phenomenon (whether natural, social, or purely accidental), the existence of the autodidact ought to be celebrated for its contributory potential. Ah, institutions do not want that.
Slogan 1: the tenured position is not equivalent (no way) to that established by the truly autodidactic.
Slogan 2: the existential reality for the autodidact can be abandonment.
In terms of principle, this whole thing has to do with Independent Investigation of the Truth (a basic Principle of the Baha'i Faith) which is a very hard subject. Actually very hard, look at the Brights (yes, Dawkins, et al) as peers beat one down (physical threats, psychological torture, social pressures, ...) in many, many ways.
Hah, they haven't the power or the number of troops required for this (Tablet of Ahmed), and the unlearned don't know better (therefore, not knowing is foregivable in some circumstances).
It will be a major theme to fill in the void. Wiki has a start.
As I was reminded recently by an expert, a PhD has to be autodidactic in anything outside his/her field if he/she does not want to just play patsy to those who are verbal (and abusive) about what they know and to those who think that everyone ought to follow them (neither a leader nor follower be, to misquote William S).
Example (4 horsemen).
Slogan 3: math does not talk to (or for) God, as is believed by the physicist, who speaks for the chemist, who establishes the framework for the materialism of the biologist who ...
Slogan 4: There are many autodidacts to whom we can point in a manner to set the proper tone for this type of inquiry (nope, use not motivated by Bush or the Jesuits).
Remarks:
04/14/2012 -- Thornton Chase.
05/17/2011 -- Stephen gets press.
05/09/2011 -- We need a constructive re-look.
04/04/2011 -- We'll be looking at things like foreknowledge. As well, autodidacticism for everyone.
12/05/2010 -- Is it not true that extreme positions on the axis of the mindful can lead to a god-like state-fulness?
11/16/2010 -- What can science know?
10/01/2010 -- Irritation.
04/30/2010 -- The autodidact cannot ascend to Transcendence.
12/06/2009 -- The Motivational implies goals and actions.
10/11/2009 -- Will and Questions. Gifts, both.
09/06/2009 -- Essentially, more is undecidable than we like to admit, basically due to our talent for success (ergodicity, essentially) keeps the hubris refreshed (generation by generation).
07/26/2009 -- The Operational times will be fun.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 04/14/2012
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Names and Power
Month, Day: Power, Names (Justice)
For the Twin Days, we have Light of Knowledge (10/20) and Names of Power (11/12).
In terms of how we know, etc., some effort ought to go into understanding cognitive processes using insight from the Writings (SAQ #56); the Science/Religion Principle implies that such studies would be testable to enough extent for utility to those seeking sufficiency through Names
Remarks:
11/23/2009 -- The Great Festivals.
Modified: 11/23/2009
For the Twin Days, we have Light of Knowledge (10/20) and Names of Power (11/12).
In terms of how we know, etc., some effort ought to go into understanding cognitive processes using insight from the Writings (SAQ #56); the Science/Religion Principle implies that such studies would be testable to enough extent for utility to those seeking sufficiency through Names
Remarks:
11/23/2009 -- The Great Festivals.
Modified: 11/23/2009
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Ether by any other name
Month, Day: Might, Names (Grace)
In SAQ #48, we see a reference to ether: If we wish to deny everything that is not sensible, then we must deny the realities which unquestionably exist. For example, ethereal matter is not sensible, though it has an undoubted existence. The power of attraction is not sensible, though it certainly exists. From what do we affirm these existences? From their signs. Thus this light is the vibration of that ethereal matter, and from this vibration we infer the existence of ether.
Some apologize for this use of the word. Why? Well, using it nowadays opens one up to much derision.
But, consider that `Abdu'l-Bahá may have known about that which he was talking. SAQ #48 explains the differences between plants and animals, as well as those between animals and man. Earlier, in SAQ #16, concern was raised about how symbols are required "to convey intellectual conceptions" which 'ether' in a sense is, a symbol, that is.
Lately, the Economist used 'ether' in a review of Frank Wilczek's book; the Economist had this to say about what Wilczek calls a 'grid': "What is perceived as empty space turns out to be a new kind of ether, a patchwork of quantum fields teeming with spontaneous activity, and the fundamental building block of nature."
The wit of the Economist notwithstanding, there are many other expositions, based upon very respectable worldviews, that dance around this subject that was briefly covered in SAQ #48; actually, no apology is necessary.
Remarks:
08/01/2012 --Ether, in a manner that is unavoidably true. Our task? Show how to handle the matter from a scientific (the wise interpretation, okay?) framework. And, audacity is not necessary.
01/25/2012 -- Yes, still at it. Ready to be more audacious. What we're looking for has to do with mind; at some point, it will be allowed by science that we can observe effects (actually, predict, to boot - one step forward will be a more insightful mathematics).
08/23/2009 -- I'll make it a little stronger. `Abdu'l-Bahá knew what he was talking about (SAQ #48): For example, ethereal matter is not sensible, though it has an undoubted existence. This is fairly definite.
06/05/2009 -- Light very much is something to study in this context.
11/17/2008 -- Consider Light and other topics for an extended science.
Modified: 08/01/2012
In SAQ #48, we see a reference to ether: If we wish to deny everything that is not sensible, then we must deny the realities which unquestionably exist. For example, ethereal matter is not sensible, though it has an undoubted existence. The power of attraction is not sensible, though it certainly exists. From what do we affirm these existences? From their signs. Thus this light is the vibration of that ethereal matter, and from this vibration we infer the existence of ether.
Some apologize for this use of the word. Why? Well, using it nowadays opens one up to much derision.
But, consider that `Abdu'l-Bahá may have known about that which he was talking. SAQ #48 explains the differences between plants and animals, as well as those between animals and man. Earlier, in SAQ #16, concern was raised about how symbols are required "to convey intellectual conceptions" which 'ether' in a sense is, a symbol, that is.
Lately, the Economist used 'ether' in a review of Frank Wilczek's book; the Economist had this to say about what Wilczek calls a 'grid': "What is perceived as empty space turns out to be a new kind of ether, a patchwork of quantum fields teeming with spontaneous activity, and the fundamental building block of nature."
The wit of the Economist notwithstanding, there are many other expositions, based upon very respectable worldviews, that dance around this subject that was briefly covered in SAQ #48; actually, no apology is necessary.
Remarks:
08/01/2012 --Ether, in a manner that is unavoidably true. Our task? Show how to handle the matter from a scientific (the wise interpretation, okay?) framework. And, audacity is not necessary.
01/25/2012 -- Yes, still at it. Ready to be more audacious. What we're looking for has to do with mind; at some point, it will be allowed by science that we can observe effects (actually, predict, to boot - one step forward will be a more insightful mathematics).
08/23/2009 -- I'll make it a little stronger. `Abdu'l-Bahá knew what he was talking about (SAQ #48): For example, ethereal matter is not sensible, though it has an undoubted existence. This is fairly definite.
06/05/2009 -- Light very much is something to study in this context.
11/17/2008 -- Consider Light and other topics for an extended science.
Modified: 08/01/2012
Monday, September 1, 2008
Names are
Month, Day: Names, Power (Perfection)
We'll keep the sufficiency discussion going by taking a meandering path for awhile. The road to truth may be straight, yet some side-trips are allowed (that we're given science as a means to know necessitates such [ah, Independence, for us, free will]).
In the progression of months, there has to be some meaning embedded in the sequence. Why? Nothing is random, essentially, though there are quasi-random processes that keep us within our limits. Now, whether or not we can discern what the meaning might be is one issue.
Another support for this notion is the Valley of Contentment (they eat of the endless bounties of inner significances) using the knowledge that we are part of and do not encompass Creation.
So, we can use the myriad potential permutations as inspiration to contemplate the Oceans that have been opened to our exploration with the advent of the Baha'i Revelation.
So, that Words and Names are symmetric around Perfection is very interesting. Of course, the former leads to ponder LOGOS and much more. The latter, from one viewpoint, is very much related to that world view that arises out of mathematical and computational efforts. How to show this is very much on the plate, and the topic does relate to the notions about sufficiency.
In our trek toward abstraction, which we can see this type of thinking as growing from way back in the past and accelerating from the works of 17th century minds onward to now, we loft ourselves, essentially, into a growing maze of groundless speculation. Okay, perhaps that is too strong; yet, that the epitome of thinking pushes us toward the loose mindset (relativity, unstructured) has to be explained somehow.
And, criticism without some notion of alternatives is as worthless as the groundless speculation. That is where Names comes in; but, Names, as we see in it being part of a collective, is not alone, nor sufficient. Names brings structure in several ways; such is imperative to our foundations.
Even though Creation-oriented thinking leads to a change is foundations, use of this respects the notions raised by the arguments of the quasi-empiricists and is operationally sound. The aforementioned audacity would be necessary due to the current climate that mocks any but the most extreme materialistic viewpoints.
The main question to ask is, how is it necessary that abstractionistic thinking leads to materialistic outcomes? Would not the spaces and structures that are the most powerful rest better on something that was revealed?
Ad hominen attacks against those struggling to turn the divinely inspired into the understandable demonstrate more the weakness of those lofting the attacks than it undermines the source motivating the studies to found a better ontology.
By the way, the motivation of all this is not to found some spiritual-based science; rather, it is to put a firmer foundation under our tenuous structures which are shaky from several sides (that things are not as firm as they could be is arguable, however it cannot be refuted); and, it might be said that some of the shakiness is in the design (Perfection has been misconstrued which will be part of the sufficiency discussions).
Remarks:
08/14/2009 -- We're starting the Operational, soon.
Modified: 08/14/2009
We'll keep the sufficiency discussion going by taking a meandering path for awhile. The road to truth may be straight, yet some side-trips are allowed (that we're given science as a means to know necessitates such [ah, Independence, for us, free will]).
In the progression of months, there has to be some meaning embedded in the sequence. Why? Nothing is random, essentially, though there are quasi-random processes that keep us within our limits. Now, whether or not we can discern what the meaning might be is one issue.
Another support for this notion is the Valley of Contentment (they eat of the endless bounties of inner significances) using the knowledge that we are part of and do not encompass Creation.
So, we can use the myriad potential permutations as inspiration to contemplate the Oceans that have been opened to our exploration with the advent of the Baha'i Revelation.
So, that Words and Names are symmetric around Perfection is very interesting. Of course, the former leads to ponder LOGOS and much more. The latter, from one viewpoint, is very much related to that world view that arises out of mathematical and computational efforts. How to show this is very much on the plate, and the topic does relate to the notions about sufficiency.
In our trek toward abstraction, which we can see this type of thinking as growing from way back in the past and accelerating from the works of 17th century minds onward to now, we loft ourselves, essentially, into a growing maze of groundless speculation. Okay, perhaps that is too strong; yet, that the epitome of thinking pushes us toward the loose mindset (relativity, unstructured) has to be explained somehow.
And, criticism without some notion of alternatives is as worthless as the groundless speculation. That is where Names comes in; but, Names, as we see in it being part of a collective, is not alone, nor sufficient. Names brings structure in several ways; such is imperative to our foundations.
Even though Creation-oriented thinking leads to a change is foundations, use of this respects the notions raised by the arguments of the quasi-empiricists and is operationally sound. The aforementioned audacity would be necessary due to the current climate that mocks any but the most extreme materialistic viewpoints.
The main question to ask is, how is it necessary that abstractionistic thinking leads to materialistic outcomes? Would not the spaces and structures that are the most powerful rest better on something that was revealed?
Ad hominen attacks against those struggling to turn the divinely inspired into the understandable demonstrate more the weakness of those lofting the attacks than it undermines the source motivating the studies to found a better ontology.
By the way, the motivation of all this is not to found some spiritual-based science; rather, it is to put a firmer foundation under our tenuous structures which are shaky from several sides (that things are not as firm as they could be is arguable, however it cannot be refuted); and, it might be said that some of the shakiness is in the design (Perfection has been misconstrued which will be part of the sufficiency discussions).
Remarks:
08/14/2009 -- We're starting the Operational, soon.
Modified: 08/14/2009
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Names on
Month, Day: Names, Splendour (Justice)
The next post will deal with sufficiency, again, with a focus toward economics and more.
Meanwhile, lets continue with the Attribute theme. Light starts summer in the northern climes. And, as we know. summer differs by one's position going north. So, what is summer can be thought of ideally, yet each location and year brings us something new, as do the months.
So, after Light, we had the progression that led to Names which is the last full summer month.
Now, why might this be interesting? Well, we know that the Manifestation (SAQ #42) brings a spiritual springtime. And, from this type of metaphor we would expect that a summer would follow. We can look at prior cycles to talk about the transitions, yet we're counseled to not look back (SAQ #41) too much (as we cannot).
So, the coming analysis will limit itself to a small delta backward from 1844. What we'll see is a rush of new ideas and methods that started and grew (the Age of Enlightenment can correlate to pre-Bab era), such that marvels abound everywhere one looks, of both Creation and our creations.
How long will that progression continue at a high rate? Which leads to another question, where are we in the summer of Baha'i? Are we even in the summer yet? If so, is it late summer?
Of course, what follows summer is the fall and winter. Are there things that we could do to have a lingering fall, the proverbial 'indian' summer, so to speak?
Remarks:
10/04/2010 -- Friction can beget progress.
09/13/2009 -- Economics requires additional attention.
08/14/2009 -- We're starting the Operational, soon.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 10/04/2010
The next post will deal with sufficiency, again, with a focus toward economics and more.
Meanwhile, lets continue with the Attribute theme. Light starts summer in the northern climes. And, as we know. summer differs by one's position going north. So, what is summer can be thought of ideally, yet each location and year brings us something new, as do the months.
So, after Light, we had the progression that led to Names which is the last full summer month.
Now, why might this be interesting? Well, we know that the Manifestation (SAQ #42) brings a spiritual springtime. And, from this type of metaphor we would expect that a summer would follow. We can look at prior cycles to talk about the transitions, yet we're counseled to not look back (SAQ #41) too much (as we cannot).
So, the coming analysis will limit itself to a small delta backward from 1844. What we'll see is a rush of new ideas and methods that started and grew (the Age of Enlightenment can correlate to pre-Bab era), such that marvels abound everywhere one looks, of both Creation and our creations.
How long will that progression continue at a high rate? Which leads to another question, where are we in the summer of Baha'i? Are we even in the summer yet? If so, is it late summer?
Of course, what follows summer is the fall and winter. Are there things that we could do to have a lingering fall, the proverbial 'indian' summer, so to speak?
Remarks:
10/04/2010 -- Friction can beget progress.
09/13/2009 -- Economics requires additional attention.
08/14/2009 -- We're starting the Operational, soon.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 10/04/2010
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Toward Names
Month, Day: Perfection, Loftiness (Grace)
Names is up next which can lead to all sorts of operational thoughts, related to categories, abstract types, and the like.
A final Perfection entry for the year might be this topological notion.
SAQ #37: We affirm these names and attributes, not to prove the perfections of God, but to deny that He is capable of imperfections. ... If the attributes are not identical with the Essence, there must also be a multiplicity of preexistences, and differences between the attributes and the Essence must also exist; and as Preexistence is necessary, therefore, the sequence of preexistences would become infinite. This is an evident error.
Remarks:
12/07/2009 -- Motivational musings, especially topology.
08/05/2009 -- We'll look at SAQ #37 more in the context of how the Teleological influences.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 12/07/2009
Names is up next which can lead to all sorts of operational thoughts, related to categories, abstract types, and the like.
A final Perfection entry for the year might be this topological notion.
SAQ #37: We affirm these names and attributes, not to prove the perfections of God, but to deny that He is capable of imperfections. ... If the attributes are not identical with the Essence, there must also be a multiplicity of preexistences, and differences between the attributes and the Essence must also exist; and as Preexistence is necessary, therefore, the sequence of preexistences would become infinite. This is an evident error.
Remarks:
12/07/2009 -- Motivational musings, especially topology.
08/05/2009 -- We'll look at SAQ #37 more in the context of how the Teleological influences.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 12/07/2009
Friday, June 13, 2008
Attributes and Names
Month, Day: Light, Names (Independence)
Of course, these are more than the finite collection that we can cover with the months and days.
The Manifestations: "through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made manifest in the world…" (Aqdas, Note 160) and are how we know God.
The SAQ has a whole section titled "ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD" regarding this subject.
Remarks:
11/23/2009 -- Motivational thoughts.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 11/23/2009
Of course, these are more than the finite collection that we can cover with the months and days.
The Manifestations: "through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made manifest in the world…" (Aqdas, Note 160) and are how we know God.
The SAQ has a whole section titled "ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD" regarding this subject.
Remarks:
11/23/2009 -- Motivational thoughts.
05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.
Modified: 11/23/2009
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