Category: Analysis

Faith A Dialogue

[T]here's a lot of proof. It's just not going to be understood without faith. 

Postmodernists are wrecking math and science right now, for that reason. 

[Faith] also allows you to connect the evidence, and see the patterns for what they really mean. 

The truth is, there's philosophers arguing over the validity of Addition. Saying it's a Western Concept. At some point, you need faith in the thing, to accept it. Because, truthfully, 1 + 1 = 2 takes 360+ pages to prove, and you're not going to understand that. So, faith is generally a way of understanding what is true, without having to go into the nitty gritty. And the fact is the Bible's Canon is established in real life witnesses of those things--we know this through Papias--so there's an established credibility within the canon, that also gets corroborated by LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of archeology.

[F]irst principles are [hard] to figure out[.] It's not easy. You have to be at least a 140IQ person, and most of knowledge has become democratized. There needs to be some faith on the established traditions, that we got it right, including the documents in the Church handed down by the Church Fathers and Apostles. Most of this confusion needs a lot of specialized knowledge to unravel, and when you do, you find out the scholars are lying.

Tiers of Intelligence

There’s tiers of intelligence. I’m just going to go over them.

1.Reactive. It just moves according to stimuli.
2.Interactive. It interacts with things in its environment.
3.Communitive. It understands how to socialize with other lifeforms.
4.Extra-communitive. It forms into social hierarchies and communities and forms social behaviors.
5.Existential. It has an awareness of self. And possibly a sense of humor.
6.Extra Existential. It not only has an awareness of self, but also has an ego—will look into a mirror is an example of this.
7.Creative. It has cathexis, and needs creative activity to keep it interested. Elephants and Dolphins are the only animals known to have this so far. Not even Chimpanzees. Maybe Rats.

Now above this, only humans have.

8. Reason. The ability to put things together, and build upon them to higher principles, and find things through putting things together in new ways.

9. Judgment. The ability to correctly identify right and wrong.

10. Logos. The ability to not only judge and reason, but correctly interpret patterns and understand them the right way.

11. Prophetic. The ability to construct patterns, and predict them. Which is what Calculus does, actually. You need a Prophetic Intelligence to understand it. (I don’t mean “Prophet” as in a Bible Prophet, but rather someone who can understand and predict behaviors and trends before they happen, by analyzing previous data. Or an ability to form conclusions with incomplete data.)

Some people have high IQs but lack certain kinds of intelligence, and some people have lower IQs but have the higher cognitions. It’s really not about IQ, but your capacity. And unfortunately, having a High IQ doesn’t always correlate with having higher forms of cognition. It really only measures Reason.

I’d also say, some people only come to tier 6. So, there are some animals that are more intelligent than humans. But, humanity has a moral worth the animals don’t. I don’t know how to quantify that, but it’s not necessarily intelligence that makes us human, but God’s image being borne in us. That’s the only thing I can say… and why humanity has a moral worth higher than all other life forms on Earth.

Reflection on a Dream

In my dreams---as after first taking risperidone I began having dreams---I have a mental symbol of having a dream machine. And in it, I have a dream of owing 100,000,000,000,000 something, and needing to pay 11,000 a day. And my friend was in the dream, looking at all the dreams---the wet dreams, the embarrassing violence,---on a series of televisions. Then, I had enormous pains of hell, dogs biting into my flesh. And I woke up, but was still dreaming, and there was pain in my hand, and I woke up again and was refreshed like I had just had a prophetic vision. When I have a prophetic dream, I wake up feeling loved. Soon I read the parable of the steward who owed his master a great debt, and it was forgiven. And then he went to his friend, and required his debts paid back for by him. And beat him, and threw him into prison. I understood at that moment, I had a great debt, too, of such debt our own Government couldn't afford to bail me out. And I purposed to forgive those who have wronged me--if anyone--and to understand my place in history is simply to enjoy my labors, and work on understanding. As learning is my joy. But for pursuing it, and pursuing my dreams, I had accumulated great debt, which cannot ever be repaid. Thus, I deserve damnation, and will appeal to my God for forgiveness.

Idiocracy: “Not Realistic?”

As a writer of sci-fi myself, people tend to think something's "Not Realistic" when in fact it follows the proverb, "A bit dog howls."

Unfortunately, this is happening in real time, and the internet is the cause of it. Too many simplistic conversations, and while I don't believe it's caused by ill breeding, what it is caused by is information overload, and moving people from topic to topic.

Just for reference, in the past 3 months, there was an assassination on a CEO which was forgotten instantly, then a Black Hawk Helicopter that crashed into an Air Liner, and then a near disastrous episode where the president of Ukraine and Trump had a violent disagreement on Live TV.

So, just for reference, I think the movie has some extremely prescient thoughts regarding reality, and at the time it was released, in 2005 these problems were nascent, and you have to see the issue through Mike Judge's eyes, that it was spurred on by two people fighting at Disney, with strollers nearby. You have to see the tyranny of the Corporations threatening it with lawsuits for criticizing them... Which should never happen in a free country, as if you can't criticize power--including corporations--you have a real problem on your hand.

The show and all the controversy surrounding it, shows the lead up to what is happening right now. In stark nakedness.

A Really Interesting Logic Puzzle to Show How Quadratic Functions Have Two Answers

There's like a really interesting logic puzzle that proves this. I see it on Quora all the time. But, it's +- because when you multiply the same number together, you can turn out different answers if it's either negative or positive, when you have sums involved. And that +- also comes from the two dimensions of a square. You get a 0 integer in cubes, which relates to the augmentation of i. So 0, +- are three separate dimensions.



Something like 



x - y = 6

y*y= 16

x + y = ?



The x can be different numbers. If y is -4 then x is 2, and if y is + 4 x is 10. That represents the quadratic expression. So the third equation can be either -2 or 14.



[Also] a cube will always retain its positive or negative signs. 8^3 can't be both -8 and +8, it'll always keep its negativity or positivity. But the two can cancel out in the quadratic function, and leave you with a quadratic and leave you also with a third dimension zero expression. That's how Cubic Equations work. That's why. [This is] something I learned in grade school.  [W]hat's infinite about a cubed number? And that's also why i doesn't exist in cubic numbers, but it does again in quartic. Omega shouldn't even be involved with it.

Why Does the Fisherman Mend Their Nets During the Storm?

Well, someone’s got to fish, right? So we have fish on plates. And those fishermen need nets, and they need tackle, and they need boats. So, when it’s stormy out, they can’t fish, but their nets, if in disrepair, won’t catch the fish even if it’s sunny. So, instead of being idle, and letting their property go into disrepair, they spend the time mending their nets, and boats and being prepared for when they can go fishing. As time is the most crucial part of economics, and how you use it is the catalyst to success or failure.

Mary Had a Little Lamb Analysis

While, it's not explicitly about Jesus, but certainly, Jesus probably inspired it. I don't think it's really about Jesus, though. It's kind of a bad literary criticism to intuit messages into a poem that aren't there, but I'd say the poem likely was inspired by Jesus. That's definitely a wholesome thought.

But don't be esoteric. One has to tone down esoteric readings, because then you probably do the same thing with the Bible. Surely, when Jesus was a child, He followed Mary around, and probably stuck by her. As it says "And everything the child did, brought joy to Mary's heart." But, you can't get too deep into it. When you do, and seek hidden symbols or messages, that's esotericism, and not generally something one wants to do in any form of interpretation.

Certainly though, that tension of the Biblical Imagery is there, as it was written in a time when Biblical Motifs were often alluded to. But, it's an allusion, because the lamb is literally a lamb. But, then it could be referring to Jesus in the sense that He's like the lamb, being so innocent. That we love Jesus, like Mary loves her lamb, yet the lamb was a sacrificial animal.

It's interesting, because I was thinking about this a while ago, too, as I was driving. This exact thought, the beautiful motifs of Jesus being Mary's lamb hit me, and elevated the poem. But, when one does analysis on anything, don't put meaning into it that doesn't follow. It'll thoroughly elevate one's reading experience.

I mean, we kind of carry our little lamb around, too, and it shocks people at our schools and our work and everywhere we go. But that's drawing an interpolation from the poem, which you're allowed to do. But that's personal, and not really what the poem means.

On Infinities

{}[A] line, or plane are infinite[: b]ecause a line represents an equation, that incorporates all numbers within it. So, X=Y is a line, that comprises all numbers in existence. Or x^2 is all the parabola that represents all the functions of x^2. So, a plane would be an infinite shape, taking up one infinitesimal part of a x/y/z graph, but incorporating all numbers within that two dimensional space, either in the i, negative or positive. So, it has to be bigger than a line. It must. Therefore, some infinities are larger than others. {}

157

Why does a 157IQ have to change the world? Couldn’t they just do their work, and be happy? Like, write poetry, or find easy ways to explain basic math concepts?

The world doesn’t need changed. And when we tried to change it, it didn’t get any better.