I actually relate to this. I was in Jail, I read To Kill a Mockingbird, War and Peace and the Bible. I read War and Peace twice. Loved every minute of it. To Kill a Mockingbird I read three times. The Bible I read along with a Radio Ministry called Through the Bible with Jay Vernon McGee.
But, even now, I'm the same. I just learn obsessively. Something I want cracked, I think about it--I'm a little slower than other people, but can focus like a laser--and I don't stop until I understand it. I listen to teachers--YouTube videos--read books, take notes in the form of poems and stories. And I have a very accurate metacognition that will scan my work for faults.
Author: B. K. Neifert
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
A Novel Idea
I had a similar idea to this, but it was much different. Kind of an alien invasion, where a super race of Extra Terrestrial Terrans--who are smarter, stronger, and more beautiful--come to Earth, and take it over. And I would have one of their families who shipwrecked on Earth, but they never told their children, and the child grew up among us, and was super beautiful. And she had to stop them. Kind of like a Superman sort of deal, you know? But, they're just smarter, better looking, and stronger. Like, they can grow muscle fast, they have a mean IQ of 150--that's the middle of their bell curve--and they're super beautiful, and also very coordinated as is what happens in upper echelons of intelligence. But, they hate our earth because our people aren't smart enough to understand the objectivity of mathematics, or understand the objectivity of ethics. It'd be a cleansing of them because they're too stupid to understand morality, science, aesthetics or law. And they sent sages to the Earth, to test them to see if we were advanced enough. And we failed. But, she has to prove to them that humanity has intrinsic value, even if they're too dumb to understand morality, aesthetics and truth. The whole conflict would be around habitable worlds, that it's a lot of resources to make a world habitable for humanity, and if we advance too far, we could destroy an entire planet, and that would be the Terran's reason for doing it. There'd be all the races in the Terran forces, as they advanced beyond racism, but they'd just be more beautiful, and the racism would be against ugly people as there'd be a way to determine intelligence based on facial features and muscle and bone density, which are metrics for beauty. And the protagonist is only 172IQ. About one standard deviation above the norm for her race, so equivalent to a 120 IQ.
“Mathematics Are Made Up”
That's not true. We didn't make up mathematics. Mathematics are a language, that describe the way the world works. Yes, the language is made up, but the things they describe aren't. Like any language, it requires context to fully understand, and through context we describe the real world. Math is also a form of logic, and like language, there's true and false statements and valid and invalid methods of reasoning to further principles. A math problem, that relates to no context, is like a novel, that it's fictitious, but still the logic works, and is proven to work.
Learning Machines
A basic, lightweight laptop, with 100 Gigabytes hard drive space, no internet connection, a USB drive that only exports documents, and 100mb ram, and 512MHz processor. Also very low graphics video card and no sound card. And built into the hardware is a Microsoft Office Equivalent, and licenses to an entire district's libraries, and all the district's textbooks. Also built into the hardware, are five encyclopedias, like Encarta, Britannica, etc. and five dictionaries, accessible from the Office Software in right click. And also a PDF reader and Printer, that reads the school's books, with the Encyclopedias and Dictionaries linked to the right click for highlighted words. Also, built into the hardware are programs like Starry Night Pro, Project Gutenberg, and MyMathLabs, and none of the materials are locked for the students. And also a library of basic animated and subtitled lectures, on things like how to simplify square roots, or identify direct and indirect objects. And the most advanced graphing calculators. They have access to all the licenses, as that's their privilege for going to school. So, a student could learn Calculus and practice it, on their own time, or do geometric proofs, or read Shakespeare, or read other class's textbooks. And they would only need one device for doing so.
The reason for this, is it wouldn't be susceptible to malware, and even if the students jailbroke it, there'd be no real reason to. It couldn't do a whole lot, in the way of running programs. It'd basically be a learning instrument, that couldn't be misused during class. And the computers couldn't download anything, which is a huge feature of it. It'd come preloaded with that year's materials, and the districts would buy a Learning Machine every year, and distribute them to the kids. Maybe the students would hand in their old one, and recycle it for a new one. And if they couldn't recycle it, the district would pay a fee. And if they graduated, they received it as a gift from the district.
This would limit distractions during class, and allow more room for class time, and less time for play. And it'd be so boring, there'd be no reason for anyone to steal it.
We Like to Believe that Talent Is Nurtured, but Really, Professionals Are Those Born with the Talent Already, and Matured Over Twenty Years.
Paul Knew Eyewitnesses, Ergo So Did Luke.
A Little Bit of Set Theory
So, if I have a pair of glasses, I have one frame, two lenses, two earplacers, four screws, and two nose rests, and two arms.
All together, that would be like this:
1(x)=1+2+2+4+2+2
If I'm talking about the the number of individual sets of components it's:
1(x)=1+1/2(2)+1/2(2)+1/4(4)+1/2(2)+1/2(2)
If I want to take the screws as two sets it's:
1(x)=1+1/2(2)+1/2(2)+1/2(4)+1/2(2)+1/2(2)
So forth. That's how set theory ought to work.
If multiplying it by two pairs of glasses, you just do this
2(x)=(1+2+2+4+2+2)2
If you want to combine sets it's just:
1(x)=1+1/2(2)+[(2+4)/(2+4)]+1/2(2)+1/2(2)
Christianity and Paul
{}"Do not sew onto an old garment a new cloth" and "Do not put new wine into old bottles," Lest "They tear and burst." I think Paul is right on track for what Christ was getting at.
Peter lived as a Gentile, that's why Paul reprimanded him for not eating with them when the judaizers tempted him. As Hebrews says, "With a change of priesthood comes a change of law."
No, because Romans is saying how yoking yourself to the Law, cannot save you. In fact, it causes you to act on the flesh, instead of the Spirit. We're to have no Judaism yoked to us, as is said by Ignatius. But, it's what Paul's epistles really mean, that covenant is over. We're not to follow it anymore, as it can't save us, and rather leads to us committing sin, because of its reliance on the flesh.
Ignatius Letter to the Magnesians Chapter 8. "Be not deceived with strange doctrines, nor with old fables, which are unprofitable. For if we still live according to the Jewish law, we acknowledge that we have not received grace."
The entire message of the Gospel, is you need to be grafted into the vine to be saved. If you're not, you'll be sheered off, and wither. You can't be righteous apart from Christ. He's the rootstock; we're the branches. By living by the letter, we'll be condemned, but by living by the Spirit we'll be free to do good, because the Spirit will cause us to do it. It will be like rest. Christ is the Sabbath, and we're to rest on Him for our righteousness, not our own works.
She Has the World
Maub, David, Ferguson,
And the ten kings,
You will have the world.
You fought hard,
You are the champion
Of the world.
Take it... take it all.
Your world is yours...
And these books are mine.
You took your world,
So have it for your hour.
You will have your world.
I will have the city of Zion.
For she is beautiful.
More beautiful than what you can have.
And I will have cities of Gold,
And fruit trees of life,
And grain in every blade of grass...
I will have living water in rivers
And a plateau of Gold
144,000 cubits in breadth, height, and width.
I will marry Hephzibah,
And the trees will clap,
And the animals and insects
Will make all manner of milk and honey.
You have fought, and I Scythian war.
They forced upon me, and raped me
With their designs... so you take it.
I never wanted it, except for a foolish
And proud babble as a child,
Which took me from a good world
And put me here. So you take it.
Moral Objectivity
That morals and ethics are concrete, and can be observed.
You might ask them, “Well why do you need God?” Well… that’s a good question.
Humans are exceptionally bad at forming moral systems. They fail in ever so many ways, and there’s the written ordinance, and what actually is, that makes things even more difficult.
So, I’d think at the establishment of man’s first laws—which are in the Bible, in the Torah, in books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy—we have a record of man trying to form a basis for morality. And we see in the Torah, a rigid morality that would kill every man, woman and child on the Earth. But, then we also have the Ten Commandments. Which were scribed by God’s fingers. So, Moses broke the first tablet, and the second were made out of Sapphire, or Lapis Lazule, out of God’s heavenly temple… and God gave these Laws, the only Laws we’ve received directly from God to that point. Maybe the other laws and commandments were created by Abraham in Mesopotamia, through committee, but the Clean and Unclean were given by God’s command to Adam and Eve, but then was abolished in Christ’s death and resurrection. So, then, God in the Flesh came to Earth, and lived a perfect example for us to follow. And He taught a perfect law.
So, why do we need this example? It’s so people are capable of understanding right from wrong. Without God’s living example, or without God’s finger scribing the Law in the Ten Commandments, we couldn’t know right from wrong.
Why? Because man is a very bad authority. We confuse the most basic things like Gender, and we turn rudimentary moral laws that should be like counting, into abstract algebra and Transcendental equations.
So, this fact remains… we need God to order and provide the world with a bedrock of truth. Without which, we cannot have truth, unless God established it. Which He did twice, with Moses and the Ten Commandments, and came in bodily form through His son Jesus Christ.
Maybe it’s because, like in Trigonometry, there’s no algebraic way to get Sine and Cosine without already having the measurements and angles. You just have to have the right measurements, to do the formulas. And Christ is that measurement. He's the standard. That without, we can’t do the rest of the math. And God had to set that measurement in place, for us to do all the other more complicated things. As God had to be the measurement, so we could do the more complicated logic. Without which, we’d have nothing to measure it with, and therefore, would be without knowledge on how to do the more complicated logic.