THE BIG BANG: ETHICS and IRRATIONALITY

ETHICS, GOD, and THE BIG BANG

[This piece continues the theme of earlier blogs, as promised earlier. Please refer to them as necessary.]

ethics

To preface what follows: It’s been my purpose for the past several years to try to justify the physical world with the metaphysical (science with the spiritual). Science being a child of philosophy, the two approaches to truth historically were one. I believe that they are on parallel tracks that will link again when we finally know the truth. It’s my goal to meld the two approaches insofar as possible while realizing that full spiritual understanding is out of my range. Metaphysics is yet (if ever) to be mastered, and I’m certainly not the one to master it. I’m now putting my personal views and beliefs, for what they’re worth, on the line. You may disagree. I

ETHICS of the MIND

ETHICS ISSUES: SCIENCE and the MIND

“Mind is the complex of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, feeling and judgment…” So says Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Notice that the term is mind, not the mind. Mind is not a physical thing, but instead a metaphysical ‘complex of faculties’ (abilities, capacities), a function of the brain and nervous system (things of substance). While mind is not material, it still is. Without it we would be not.

Your mind is yours alone, working within your individual self. It processes information that comes from without as well as what it itself generates, combining real and imagined data, random associations, unique experiences and every other input seen or unseen, heard or unheard, touched or untouched, smelled or unsmelled, tasted or not, to create an increasingly unique (metaphysical) structure. The process doesn’t follow a direct

ETHICS UNWRAPPED: THE BOOK

The following is excerpted from the book To Tell The Truth… Ethics Unwrapped. We will continue to provide excerpts from the book in future posts. In the meantime you may wish to read the entire book (?!)

TO TELL THE TRUTH… INTRODUCTION

You are the most important person in your life. But who are you, really? Well, who you are is what you do with what you are-–the gender, race, and distinctive physical makeup you were born with: male, female, black, white, tall, short, whatever, a totally unique human being in the same world with countless other totally unique human beings, each with a brain weighing in the neighborhood of three pounds and the same universal truths to work with. You breathe air and your heart pumps blood. Gravity works as well for you as for anyone else. Your

ETHICS = TRUTH

ALL ABOUT ETHICS, ALL ABOUT TRUTH

Some of you may wonder what philosophers do. I can’t speak for others, but I’ll tell you what I do: Mostly I try to solve the world’s problems by thinking about them in different ways.

…What it’s all about

And we have a problem so massive and overpowering that many of us don’t even see it. It affects so many people and institutions so deeply that untold millions of us think that it’s the way things are. We assume it as a necessary part of life, and live on a daily basis without even thinking about it. Perhaps it’s even the way it should be. But I don’t think so, and I think that you might agree.

Let me ask you something: How do you deal with someone you can’t trust? Oh, I suppose you can on

THE LIE of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

PC: A Progressive Pathology

PC didn’t just happen…IT’S GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN.

Political Correctness (PC) seemed to be merely an annoyance to those of us comfortable with the truth; we assumed that honesty would eventually prevail over its obvious fiction. Well, we were wrong. We failed to appreciate the virulence and potential impact of the Progressive movement—only 15% of the population. The ‘right’ to not be offended has become their trump card. PC has become the new norm, and we hardly notice it.

THE ORIGINS OF PC

PC may have been an issue in China 2500-years ago. Confucius observed that the first thing to do to restore a state to health was to call things by their right names rather than use understatement to distort the truth…

…but the foundations of modern Political Correctness are found in Critical Theory, an early-1900s product of Germany’s Institute for Social Research (The Frankfurt School). Based on Marxist conjecture and underlying thesis that “all history is about which groups have power over which other groups,” its goal was to combine social theory, philosophy, economics and cultural criticism to delegitimize reason in favor of emotion and eliminate the distinction between the individual and the group. It was a deliberate attempt to promote and spread Communism, nothing less.

ETHICS: YOUR FUTURE

BELIEVE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW and BECOME WHO YOU REALLY ARE

What follows is from Chapter Nine of To Tell The Truth…, Ethics Unwrapped, available from this website as well as Amazon. See also the BLOG of April 17, entitled Nothing Matters.

…What it’s all about

While the mind is how the brain relates individuals beyond themselves, its use necessarily is limited to terms that its owner can deal with. But while our minds require our brains, the ubiquitous potency of the universe does not. In other words, there remains a dimension that is the essence of our existence, a vital incorporeal part of life itself that pervades our being. It exists within us as well as in all of space without us, connecting each of us to not only every other one of us, but every corner of the universe, perhaps beyond.