So far just a reposting of some old journal entries... | |
Thursday, September 1st, 2011 | |
A brief mention of my religious belief (I only have one). Actually it's | |
theory but, presently, it's so highly speculative that it borders on | |
belief. In the jumble of multiverse theories the notion of infinity | |
seems to be a constant. Infinite universes cycling over infinite time, | |
whether sequentially, in parallel or multidimensionally in which anything | |
that is not strictly forbidden will not only happen, it will happen an | |
infinite number of times. And one thing I know with certainty that is | |
not forbidden is that a sentient, self-aware organism that calls itself | |
Jim is writing these lines and I am that organism... | |
Continued... | |
Friday, August 15th, 2011 | |
I'll be trying to accomplish two things with this post. First, to get in | |
writing something I have been churning and refining in my mind for quite | |
some time and, secondly, to see if I can describe in words what would | |
normally be illustrated with images. Sort of a little mental exercise on | |
my part. | |
Continued... | |
Thursday, August 8th, 2011 | |
After reading the post Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany I | |
decided, as an experiment, to construct an ethical food pyramid. It | |
descends from the most ethical to the least ethical ways to fill your | |
pie-hole. Once you throw out sentience as a qualifier you get some | |
interesting results: | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, June 19th, 2011 | |
The problem I gave myself was to design a religion. No small task. It had | |
to be completely reconciled with science, both existing and future, yet | |
not be in and of itself scientific. It had to incorporate symbolism and | |
ceremony yet not be an anachronism. Dogma or rigidity were best avoided. | |
Most of all it had to be something I wouldn't feel silly in professing or | |
practicing, if I was given to such things. Here is a sparse, incomplete | |
framework I devised: | |
Continued... | |