Consider this a gripe post. I was reading something and it posed the following questions.
"Do you believe patriotism and belief in God are synonymous? If not, why not?
Do you believe the phrase “Under God” should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance?
Does the phrase “Under God” make it appear that the USA only welcomes people who believe in God?
I wish to answer the questions. Patriotism and God are not synonymous. When asked about a tax, Jesus held up a coin and asked whose picture was on the coin. They answered that it was of Caesar. Jesus replied, give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and give unto God that which is Gods. That does not sound synonymous. Jesus told us to be good slaves, he did not tell us to love the state.
Should the phrase "under God" be removed from the pledge of allegiance? No, the pledge should be abolished. We are told not to swear to anything or by anything. I will not take an oath to this or any other nation. My allegiance is to God.
The question of whether or not having a pledge that includes the phrase "under God" and to whether or not it makes non-religious people feel unwelcome is silly. Plenty of them come her who are not spiritual or are of non-Christian religions. Muslims, Hindus, atheists and just about anyone else coming to America already knows it is primarily a Christian believing nation. Still I wouldn't make anyone take a pledge.
I attended a church that once a year would honor our soldiers. I stopped attending. I did not care for them having military uniformed people parade inside the church. This may sound strange coming from someone in a military family. I honor all of our military that go into it with the belief that they are protecting their country; but, Christ was against war. He said he who lives by the sword will die by the sword. I am not for using the church to promote militarism.
I believe it is the state's place, if it so chooses, to give military parades, not the churches. God let Israel be overtaken in war and put into subjugation more than once. I do not respect the statement during war that "God is on our side", we need to not blame him when we do what we want. He is not to blame for our choices.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Not really picking on science
I may sound as if I am against science, I am not. I am against scientists being given credit for a truth they do not know. Whenever something unusual happens we turn to the experts and scientists to give us answers that will not force us to adjust our world view, we want it simple and satisfying. Life and truth are not simple and often not satisfying or comforting.
We are moving from a technological age into a new era. The internet creates a web of thoughts and beliefs. It is grandly expansive in its nature. A repository for all thought which is then organized into our shared awareness. This presents a fundamental change in the exchange of information and experience.
Today, a man walking in the Amazon forest, completely separated from other people can twitter about his experience. School children can participate in his experience, real time. In the next year of so that same man will be able to video his experience in real time 3D and you can be in a room where you have an identical 3D experience. That is something that could not be conceived of 50 years ago.
The internet explodes with ideas and thoughts and beliefs. Many are ill thought or simply wrong. Others are contrary; but, all have some truth even if only the truth of the writers. I am not saying they are correct, I am saying they have some truth, there is a difference.
I will use 9-11 as an example. 100 years ago if something happened in New York, it would be reported in the newspaper and people in the rest of the world would accept it as truth. Today, instead of having one source for the truth, we have millions of opinions and perspectives on the event. People then take sides and there is no limitation on the number of sides that can be taken.
The internet is creating a general unravelling of consensus. I think that is a good thing to a degree. The past generation or partial present if you prefer, is attempting to maintain control over "the truth". Scientists are being questioned and they do not like it. They seek to maintain their image of being the experts. The climategate documents showed that the scientists were hiding information that contradicted what they were saying about climate change. It showed that they did not have all the answers so they ignored the data they did not like. That is what scientists do with anomalies, ignore them.
The God Particle (I really recommend you check out this website) is a required anomaly. If they prove it does not exist then all of modern physics is proven wrong. If they prove it exists than all of modern physics is wrong. Either way, it proves science does not hold all the answers and cannot explain the most fundamental things.
Scientists are attempting to come to grips with realities that do not conform to any of the rules. Things that cannot be explained physically or mechanically. They had attempted to answer the universe with what is known as the string theory. In essence it was an attempt to reconcile the fact that the rules change on a subatomic level. There are two sets of mechanical rules and they contradict each other. The string theory ended up with physicists claiming their were an unlimited number of alternate realities. ROFL. It became a spiritual argument.
On a spiritual level it is a question of how can we all be different and all be connected. As these theories spread, they mutated into the non physics world. Millions of people read books on these theories and it spread into how they interpreted real life events and awareness. In fact, if you read new age or mystery religion writings you will find an attempt to use the explanations of physics to prove a single united consciousness.
Many years ago I saw William Peter Blatty on television. He was talking about a sequel he had written to "The Exorcist". He proposed that we were all one, that there was just one God. He said God had made himself schizophrenic, that he had split himself into multiple personalities and that we were all part of him. He then proposed that life was about reassembling ourselves into God. Trying to become one again united, the same, one consciousness.
Within physics is quite a lot of discussion regarding duality of theories. This is the same discussion had by mystery schools regarding consciousness. The problem for both is that free will cannot exist for their beliefs to be true. That is why sentience is such an annoyance to them and is disregarded as illusion; but, even illusion requires sentience. It is as if they want to tell us that the physical is real and we are not, we are merely mechanical reactions to various stimuli.
The study of psychology and it's misuse are an attempt to prove that we merely react to events and that those reactions can be predicted and will follow a set of rules. Forgiveness and grace go against those rules. The rules say that we will chase cookies and avoid pain. The guy who jumps on a hand grenade to save his friend goes against the predictability model.
We are moving from a technological age into a new era. The internet creates a web of thoughts and beliefs. It is grandly expansive in its nature. A repository for all thought which is then organized into our shared awareness. This presents a fundamental change in the exchange of information and experience.
Today, a man walking in the Amazon forest, completely separated from other people can twitter about his experience. School children can participate in his experience, real time. In the next year of so that same man will be able to video his experience in real time 3D and you can be in a room where you have an identical 3D experience. That is something that could not be conceived of 50 years ago.
The internet explodes with ideas and thoughts and beliefs. Many are ill thought or simply wrong. Others are contrary; but, all have some truth even if only the truth of the writers. I am not saying they are correct, I am saying they have some truth, there is a difference.
I will use 9-11 as an example. 100 years ago if something happened in New York, it would be reported in the newspaper and people in the rest of the world would accept it as truth. Today, instead of having one source for the truth, we have millions of opinions and perspectives on the event. People then take sides and there is no limitation on the number of sides that can be taken.
The internet is creating a general unravelling of consensus. I think that is a good thing to a degree. The past generation or partial present if you prefer, is attempting to maintain control over "the truth". Scientists are being questioned and they do not like it. They seek to maintain their image of being the experts. The climategate documents showed that the scientists were hiding information that contradicted what they were saying about climate change. It showed that they did not have all the answers so they ignored the data they did not like. That is what scientists do with anomalies, ignore them.
The God Particle (I really recommend you check out this website) is a required anomaly. If they prove it does not exist then all of modern physics is proven wrong. If they prove it exists than all of modern physics is wrong. Either way, it proves science does not hold all the answers and cannot explain the most fundamental things.
Scientists are attempting to come to grips with realities that do not conform to any of the rules. Things that cannot be explained physically or mechanically. They had attempted to answer the universe with what is known as the string theory. In essence it was an attempt to reconcile the fact that the rules change on a subatomic level. There are two sets of mechanical rules and they contradict each other. The string theory ended up with physicists claiming their were an unlimited number of alternate realities. ROFL. It became a spiritual argument.
On a spiritual level it is a question of how can we all be different and all be connected. As these theories spread, they mutated into the non physics world. Millions of people read books on these theories and it spread into how they interpreted real life events and awareness. In fact, if you read new age or mystery religion writings you will find an attempt to use the explanations of physics to prove a single united consciousness.
Many years ago I saw William Peter Blatty on television. He was talking about a sequel he had written to "The Exorcist". He proposed that we were all one, that there was just one God. He said God had made himself schizophrenic, that he had split himself into multiple personalities and that we were all part of him. He then proposed that life was about reassembling ourselves into God. Trying to become one again united, the same, one consciousness.
Within physics is quite a lot of discussion regarding duality of theories. This is the same discussion had by mystery schools regarding consciousness. The problem for both is that free will cannot exist for their beliefs to be true. That is why sentience is such an annoyance to them and is disregarded as illusion; but, even illusion requires sentience. It is as if they want to tell us that the physical is real and we are not, we are merely mechanical reactions to various stimuli.
The study of psychology and it's misuse are an attempt to prove that we merely react to events and that those reactions can be predicted and will follow a set of rules. Forgiveness and grace go against those rules. The rules say that we will chase cookies and avoid pain. The guy who jumps on a hand grenade to save his friend goes against the predictability model.
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