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{{Belief}} {{By|Johnny}} {{Tg|Belief|Reductionists who have eschewed faith and philosophy for science or money should reflect on whether or not you've just replaced a faith in god with a faith in the physical/material world. While I'm still not comfortable with it I believe everything cannot be explained by cause and effect in the physical world and there has been and always will be emergent realities that are beyond our capability to reduce to physical cause and affect, starting with the emergence of life or the physical world itself. I accept your beliefs as long as they do not infringe, impugn or attack mine. I expect the same from you. I too believe in science and want a comfortable but uncluttered life. {{Tg|Work and Value| to me says we're in a time of disruptive change to what we do and what we value. Science and capital (artificial intelligence and automation) are at the core of this but once we can not only produce more than we need but indeed more than we want with fewer people working we need a new philosophy for how we live. What is the philosophy we can common ground on?}} [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Phenomenon_of_Man.html Phenomenon of Man] , [https://books.google.com/books?id=CbCHoV3Un4YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Emergence+of+Everything&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZS8tVcv-FdOcyATuhIGgBA&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Emergence%20of%20Everything&f=false The Emergence of Everything] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=pOzNcdmhjIYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mind+and+Cosmos&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3TAtVfyWOsP-yQSqhYCYCg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mind%20and%20Cosmos&f=false Mind and Cosmos] are good books to start with. All of them agree that the reductionist scientific mindset is essential to our understanding but all also feel there's more to help us understand emergence from chaos. --Johnny 11:27, 14 April 2015 (EDT).}} {{Qts|Belief|Beliefs in the News}} ==Time== Of late I've been thinking a lot about how trees experience and perceive time? If your fixed in space but can live thousands of years what is important to you? ==Discernment== {{Tg|Belief|{{Tag|Belief|Voting Campaign}} describes how I feel some folks are forcing their world view on me. I have not been happy with the candidates we get to choose from since the televised debates started. I don't think we're getting leaders. I think we're electing photogenic fops who we're forced to elect but do not lead or govern effectively.}} ===The Secular=== {{Tag|Belief|Ayn Rand}} {{Tg|Belief|'''Secular belief systems''' separate ethics and morality from self-interest. It is basically morality level one. '''Don't do what hurts''' or in today's advertising speak ''Do what feels good.'' I maintain both dominant political philosophies in America have taken this to the extreme, realizing related but different amoral cultures. '''Liberalism''' has raised hedonism to an ideal where everyone should be able to pursue their deepest darkest desires as long as it does not impune on anyone elses deepest darkest desires. # Sex without consequences, either physical, emotional or societal. # Freedom without responsibility. # Identity determines life and values with all identies of equal worth and rights. If your idenity puts you at a disadvantage anywhere it is society's and not your responsibilty to overcome that disadvantage for you. # Beneficial government without accountability. This has led to a moral morass where nothing is right or wrong. Everything is justified if it feels good and little has to be earned. '''Conservatism''' has adopted '''Darwinian rugged individualism''' espoused by ''Ayn Rand''. The world is a hard place and hard working Atlas Americans can no longer shoulder the burden of the others who don't work. '''Wealth and power are the justified reward of Atlas Americans and poverty and despair are the just desserts of the rest.''' '''It is my belief that neither of these belief systems is right, sustainable or just.'''}}<ref>[[Morality Levels]]</ref> ===Church and State=== It is near impossible to separate Church and State when the States have become so invasive. They reach deep into out bedrooms, into our toil and indeed into our personal privacy and day-to-day freedom. The original intent of the Church and State separation was to protect persecuted religions from being oppressed by the State, particularly a State with a State sponsored religion. This has been turned on it's head to now mean no expression of religion can ever be accepted by the State. This secular thinking has had the effect of removing a critical moral component from our Governance and maybe more importantly a humility inherent in religious belief in a God that we don't know everything and cannot foresee all consequences. China's unforeseen problems with the [[China One Child|One Child]] policy<ref>{{#ask:[[Policy::China One Child]]|format=list}}</ref> and their current responses highlight this blind-spot in our more and more secular world. We think we '''know''' what to do and '''all''' the consequences. Quite a different picture than [[2021:Laudato Si']]. ====Infalliblity==== The merger of Church and State traces back to [[w:Constantine]] but I've been unable to understand the ramifications of that surrender a millennium and a half later. My latest readings have focused me much closer in on [[w:Pius IX]] and particularly his [[w:papal infallibility]] doctrine. ''The solemn declaration of papal infallibility by Vatican I took place on 18 July 1870.'' For a little context Pius IX had been Pope since 1846 enduring [[w:Garibaldi]]'s liberation of Italy from Church control ending the merger of Church and State begun in [[w:Constantine|334 A.D.] to a millennium and a half later, gone through the emancipation of the slaves in a bitter Civil War in '''The''' United States and seen his power shrink to Vatican City and those he could sway to follow him. What was Pius the IX position ''It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and modern civilization'' <ref>Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era loc 2355 </ref> ==References and Metadata== <references/> {{EpicSection |Section=3 |Chapter=1 |Part=0 }}
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