To Rousseau

An apology I make for my science
Of art and letter, called Poesy keen:
When I read the Eastern Sages
I see great discourse, and encouragement
To learn. When I see Pythagoras, 
I see also, a meeting of the minds.
When I see Christ, I see a premier philosopher.
When I read Keats talking of the billow
Of a foam on his beer, in Spencer's Dedication
I understand it to be light praise, not high.
Thus, I have light praise for you.

It is true, capricious scholars, with doubtful ability
Do glean from knowledge tares instead of wheat.
But, it is doubly so, that Arts and Sciences
Are what make our world good.
For, you said, "There can be no luxury without them."
Yes... indeed... I want luxury, but also work.
Man is more than sinew and flesh for working in a Potter's Field.
I want morality and art and sciences;---
Who could imagine such a thing?
Well I can, and that is why there ought to be poetry.
For the worker, coming home from the field
Then sits in his study, and reads a line or two
Or watches a program, or listens to a score
Or gazes upon a beautiful painting and muses on the artist's intent.
This is a good life, which only the vilest fool would be against.

Why Homosexuality is Unlawful

Well, you'd have to read a lot of history. It alters the psychological state of the social organism, and causes a lot of corruption. The 13th Century Collapse into the Dark Ages, was preceded and probably caused by it and infidelity. So was the Roman Hedonism and the culture developed there.

There's been lots of stable societies that accepted LGBT, but none of them were necessarily just societies. They didn't promote human flourishing, but rather just the opposite. Because, again, it is aberrant human behavior. Unlike the animals, people understand right from wrong. And usually, what causes a lot of social unrest, frustration--which is the cause of mass movements and war--is usually rooted in the first principles of the Libido, and it is caused by frustrating the libidinal output. That's just how human psychology works.

To simplify that, humans usually become Homosexual when there's increased frustration, usually due to unfulfilled desires and the society being unable to fulfill them for whatever reason. And that leads to more frustration, which catalyzes a culture into rampant corruption, and it also leads---kind of miraculously at that--to disease. And it also causes war.

That's just history. From Japan, to China, to the Americas---you can study the American tribes, and how awful they were---it's just not good for people. That's also why Christianity is so persuasive because it aligns with the human moral nature better than any other religion.

Also, in a very Confucian way of thinking, it leads to silly conversations, which proceed to bad governance, as it's doubtful whether humans are naturally disposed to do that, any more than they are cannibalism or incest. As animals do both of those things. So, generally, there is a moral absolute people naturally are disposed to, given that we're genetically hardwired to know right from wrong--that's been described by thousands of sages--that behavior being one of the things that causes a disturbance in the human social organism. It can last a long time, but typically the governments get so corrupt and horrible that they're literally legalizing every crime imaginable, and no one can have any peace.

A Definition of Purpose

Is it desire? Is desire what makes purpose?
Is it knowledge? Does the ability to know, make it?
Is it love, joy, peace, flourishing, health, wealth, friendship?
Is it to see and know God?
Is it to obtain eternal life in a world where suffering does not exist?
Is it a wife, kids, husband, and filial honor?
Is it survival?
Is it pleasure?
Is it faith?
Is it reason?

How Calculus Works

An eas[y] way [to calculate pi is] to use a Sine Function. I saw a person use them and got several digits quickly.  {,,,}[P]i is just a number that tells us a thing is a perfect circle. As everything, from area to circumference--even different pieces of it--ratio to pi if something's a circle. That's also how Sine functions intuit rates of change in calculus, is by telling you the difference off of pi a thing is from the slope on the curve. Which basically gets calculated from the curve of the parameter, but also works in Areas too. Which is neat, because when you have a piece of pie, it's actually equal to pi, but there's straight lines on the parameter, and actually the number pi is [completed] from the parameter of the circle. [Just like it would be in calculus, when you factor in a rate of change, and a slope, the area beneath it is shaped through the curve; and that area is useful in attaining real, physical measurements, such as distance in acceleration versus speed. And of course, one takes different sums of the series, and completes it through intuiting the logic by a formula.]

The Atheist and the Church Choir

I listened to the note, so holy and pure
And then I had the intrusive knowledge
Of what an Atheist feels when they hear it.
Deafly does the music rise, and all is empty.
Then, I felt my own feeling, so full and pure.
I realized why religion is good, and why more
Is needed. For if deafly do our prayers go up
The soul of man is burdened with nothing.
No hope, not in life, nor hereafter.
The emptiness I felt, was truly empty.
And feeling the melody with faith, it was truly full.

On Familiar Spirits

[A[ familiar spirit [is when you commune with the dead], and there is something wrong with that. But, sometimes it comes from faith, when it's an angel. But, you're not to communicate with the dead. That's a big no no. It's a form of idolatry. Most likely, because if the person is not in hell, you're communicating with an angel, and they can do nothing for you, save God will it. So, it's not something you should do. Though, angels do speak to the living---they call that a conscience. But that's holy guidance, and should be superseded by the Spirit. But so do demons; those are called intrusive thoughts or temptations. As Elijah had to be still, and hear the still small voice.

The Children of God

The children of God they say, are who inhabit the kingdom.
Remember the joys you had as a child, how life could be spent
Eternally, with that luster and beautiful affect?
You do a thing, and all celebrate it, no matter how austere.
You play, and live, and have joy at all time.
Do not commit infanticide, by telling your children
To grow old, and matured by the world's echoes.
For that is the beginning of hell, is growing
And losing youth's lusty sheen, and hope.
For as a child, every activity is grand, and sincere.
As a youth, your love is felt deep, and believed to be eternal.
Never lose that hope, or you'll be damned.
Never lose that childlike innocence,
For when rolled up in a ball, it will be an old man
Jaded, and spiteful... not a little child blessed
And though he throw the ball like a weak little child
God raises him up, and swings dawdles him on his knees
And celebrates. For Heaven we will all be children;
Like this, with youthful enthusiasm for all in the Kingdom.
Every youthful lust will be pure, every joy fully experienced,
Every activity fully new, and enthusiasm shall burn.
For, a man could live for eternity with a child's lust for life.
To experience all things new, and be wholly given to the moment
And not care about work, or the future, or the past.
Only the moment, with every moment fulfilling its full potential.

The Evolution of Faith

The Jews weren’t wrong, until they rejected Christ. They had the true religion, just like Abraham’s faith was true, before there were the Jews. And the Torah was not established until 1300BC, so before that, another religion—the religion of the Patriarchs—was correct. Just like when Christ shed His blood, the atonement switched from the Lamb to the Lamb of God Who is Christ.

The faith evolves, with more and more revelation of Who God is. In the time of Job, when Behemoth walked the Earth, there wasn’t much knowledge, but the faith was handed down by the Patriarchs. Then Abraham found God, and worshipped only Him, and established law in Mesopotamia. And His seed bore the Covenant, and the Jews were given the Law, so that only one people knew the God of all, but they transgressed, so Christ came and fulfilled it unto death and resurrected so the whole world could have true life.

Why Hell?

Well think about it this way, the only way you could have eternal life, is if you had Christ’s mind and righteousness. So, inherently, how are you going to receive that? Unless you choose to have it? Because human minds are fallible, and full of sin and doubt, and also nasty thoughts. Just think about all the nasty thoughts you have, and your anxieties on a daily basis. You don’t want that in heaven? So, you’re basically asking Christ to give you His body and His mind, with your Soul, and His Spirit, so you cannot sin, and therefore, will have everlasting peace.

Without it, even if you lived on Earth for eternity, it’d pretty much be hell. Because life without God’s peace is hell. So the more you drift away from Christ, the more like hell your life becomes. It’s not that “God doesn’t love sinners”, it’s that you have to choose God and His mercy, to avoid the wrath, by saying “I’m not good enough to be in heaven.” Because you’re not. You need Christ’s righteousness to live eternally, and be able to fully have pleasure and not sin. You also have to recognize you’re not perfect, and accept Christ’s Lordship in your life, as that’s the only way to receive mercy, is to accept God’s grace, and live with full understanding that you’re not worthy. As only that will produce the kinds of fruits necessary to gain access to the Kingdom.