Evil or Better, Evil Doings

 Why do people perform acts that injure others? Are they really at fault or,

1-There is an Omni-God and she has deemed such acts permissible.

2-There is no omni--God or other thinking cosmos controller so the process of natural selection has predisposed certain humans to perform acts that injure others.

3-Either way, man has generally decided on a moral code that one may or may not agree with or places below one's needs and desires.

4-The Devil made me do it!

The Philosophy of a Fool 3

 I continue to grapple with understanding the perspective of the many smart people who are attempting to understand consciousness, the universe, and our place in the universe. I even am having difficulty framing my doubts. Philosophers and scientists have come to grips with the how scientifically yet the why continues to escape them. I believe that the reason why is so difficult to grasp is because we humans consider ourselves if not the center of the universe at least the center of existence. We insist on knowing why we are and how and why we know that we want to know. Hubristic!  We and our Earth are so ridiculously infinitesimal within the universe/s that our existence is meaningless to any but ourselves. Most atheist arguments for there not being an Omni-God involve the absence of morality that would cause, even allow, all the pain and suffering humans endure. Why even allow individual life to end? The question remains, how could it? I was thinking that maybe it doesn't have the same definition of morality as we, the majority, do. Maybe its entire value system is different. It's possible that what I think of as a universally agreed-upon value system is a thought in error. For example, the Hamas terrorists that killed, raped, and tortured so many Israelis in October surely thought that those actions pleased their God. I think they are wrong and believe that they should be killed or executed should they have been in any way participants in that tragic event. So could a God have a value set that agreed with the terrorist? What God would allow such behavior unless it also believed the terrorists were doing a good? 

There are serious(?) theories that the universe is a computer simulation. Take for a moment that it is and ponder the following news article (https://thenextweb.com/news/why-virtual-rape-is-hard-prosecuted): "Britain’s first police investigation into a “virtual rape” has little chance of leading to a prosecution, according to legal experts. The victim of the alleged assault was a girl aged under 16. Accord)ing to a report this week in the Mail Online, the child was wearing a VR headset and playing a video game when a group of adult men “sexually attacked” her avatar.  Although there was no physical injury, officers said she suffered real physical and emotional trauma. They added that such attacks are rife on metaverse platforms — but none have resulted in prosecution in the UK."

Why would the universe need to be so big, infinitely big, and our planet so insignificantly small if its purpose is to house humans? And why bring us into the picture so late in the game? Thirteen-plus billion years (maybe much longer) is a long time to wait before beginning a complicated evolutionary process that would eventually end up being you and me. And why create us anyway? 

From Philip Goff again:

"...the universe as a whole is a kind of Aristotelian organism: it exists, in part, to fulfil a good purpose, despite the fact that nobody created it for that purpose. Perhaps the universe is like a plant that, in the fullness of time and with a bit of luck, will grow and blossom into something beautiful. Teleological laws are the most parsimonious accounts of cosmic purpose. They simply accept the brute existence of cosmic purpose without feeling the need to postulate any deeper explanation of it. On the other hand, the deeper explanation of cosmic purpose provided by non-standard designer hypotheses is an attractive feature. We arguably have a tie here, with one theory ahead in terms of parsimony, the other ahead in terms of explanatory depth. The ideal would be to find a way of securing the extra explanatory depth but with minimal cost in terms of postulating extra entities."

So, as I understand it, in Goff's teleological cosmo-panpsychism, the universe is of consciousness (or is it itself consciousness?) and is its own creator. He allows "teleological" and proposes the purpose to be value (and life?) to resolve the fine-tuning issue. To allow for all the bad things he proposes a limited universe far short of an omni-God. Intuitively I find it difficult to agree that ALL is consciousness but I do find the thought that the universe is the creator that always was and always will be. But the creator would ot

WHY DOES IT CARE? Is a limited universe merely a limited God.

Thoughts about the afterlife: Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays Therein is some argument for the goal of humanity is to be good and that might not be individually attainable with only one life.

COMMENT: If we are the only inhabitants of the univeerse, why create a whole universe just to create life on one super-small planet? Why would God have placed humanity on earth to endure an unsatisfactorily short life then kill him?

Why Do So Many Americans Hate Conservatism

 I have finally realized that I can find no logical reason for anyone to not believe in most of the same principles in which I believe.

Do they truly believe that a unborn baby in the uterus is not a life, or is it that they believe that the unborn are not true humans and can be readily eliminated, or is it that they condone killing if the end result justifies the death, or do they simply condone killing as long as they are not the ones being killed?

Do they truly believe that we should allow citizens from other countries to enter the United States in violation of law and remain at will? Why? Do they consider citizenship with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges, to be passé or not necessary? Or are they true humanitarians? Do they consider the laws and Constitution of the United States to be in error?

Do they truly believe that government should control all aspects of our lives? 

Free speach

Two (or more) Americas

 The woke, censorship, and cancel cultures now embedded in our education institutions, mainstream media, national and local governments, big tech, and other corporations/companies. By actioning Orwellian ideals they are forcing constitutional patriots to seek alternative education methods, create and access free speech media outlets, relocate to red states, access free speech/anti-cancel culture search engines and social media sites, and reorient their purchases and investments toward corporations and companies with more capitalistic than socialistic outlooks. Increasingly we are again becoming two peoples physically and ideologically opposed.

I believe the Democrats know this and want this to be. Surely they don't believe conservatives will accept social media banning, book burning, speech control, reeducation farms, reinventing history, destroying the Bill of Rights, communism, tyranny, brainwashing children, 

The Communist Aspects of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Position in American Institutions

Communism by its nature demands that individual citizens and institutions be spied upon continually. Citizens are encouraged to spy on each other and report any speech or activity contrary to communist dogma. Assigned to high level positions within all institutions is the political commissar or political officer responsible for ensuring the party’s orders are carried out, policing any suspected disaffirmation of communist ideology as well as handling propaganda and education.

Do you see where I'm going with this? Various blue-led municipalities are encouraging citizens to report other citizens who go about unmasked. "Unmasked" or "Unvaccinated" - hideous crimes, even though the scientific evidence that masking prevents the transmission of COVED is muddled at best. And many of the unvaccinated have natural immunity or will never be vaccinated for religious or medical. Never-the-less, restaurants refuse entry if the potential patron is unmasked or unvaccinated. Small children cannot attend school unmasked and soon, when unvaccinated. And, on and on. God help the restauranteur who is reported allowing an unmasked patron to enter the restaurant. 

The FBI, once a hearlded institution, is publically encouraging citizens to report hate crimes.

We encourage you to report it to the FBI by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or submitting a tip at tips.fbi.gov. You can remain anonymous.  https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes

And what exactly is a hate crime? This from the same website:

A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties. [my empasis]

Think back about a year to when the BLM and Antifa were attacking "white supremists'" police stations and government buildings. Where the hell was the FBI? Oh, it's not bias or racist to attack anyone with white skin.

Now to the subject of this post. Under the guise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (good-sounding terms), our children in state educational institutions and workers in woke, anti-racist organizations are subjected to a form of psychoeducational brainwashing.  

China mid-60s (Cultural Revolution). Red Guard cancels traditions & culture (distroy temples & palaces).  Closes schools & universities.

 

 Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) is the language of Critical Race Theory (CRT).  Diversity is the promotion of division based on identity quotas or targets.  Inclusion is code for exclusion of specific groups based on race, gender and sexual identity.  Equity is CRT’s ambiguous terminology, easily confused with equality. Equity is equality of outcomes (usually quotas), which is reformulated Marxism.

From:  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/how_social_justice_is_killing_the_military.html

 We live our lives in part through our memories of significant events, misremembered as they might be, even imaginatively created. Yet we try to be remembered and rehash them consistently, often (where the hell was I going with this?) to the discomfort of significant others. 

Biden's Suicidal Efforts

Destroying America's energy independence.

Destroying America's sovereignty by actionizing the "open boarders" ideal.

Managed the worst military/civilian exodus from a foreign country ever.

Engineered efforts to further restrict freedom of speech through the creation of a Ministry of Truth-like governance board.

Instigated plan to divert veteran health benefits to serve illegal immigrants.

War

 Covert operations that are unattributable and unacknowledged.

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, Tales from the Pentagon, Rosa Brooks, 2016.

The Philosophy of a Fool - 2

As I continue to read Philip Goff's book, Why? The Purpose of the Universe and as I dwell on the fine-tuning argument he makes. Does not "fine-tuning" imply intelligent design and consequently conscious thought?

Given an infinite universe at least 13+ years old as the Earth a finite speck, isn't it hubris to so consider it all for humanity? I question the primary importance of humans in an infinite universe.

See https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7507271072988730846/273965580282445020 and https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7507271072988730846/1951162158017969113 and the following:

If an Omni-God exists, who or which created or caused to be created the human species, then the obvious question is "why?" and not "how come?". Whatever reason you might give can be readily countered with asking why didn't he/she/it just use his/her/its powers to elimate the need? Was God bored, or lonely...?

From Why? Does the Univerxe Have a Purpose, Philip Goff. "But when it comes to a God defined and morally perfect, the Cosmic Sin Intuition does cast considerable doubt on Her existence. If it is Immoeral for an all-powerful being to create a universe like our own, then either our universe lacks a creator, or that creator is not all-powerful and perfectly good. Either way, the Omni-God does not exist."

In a separate paragraph he posits:

    "To my mind, the point at which these arguments fall apart is when they attempt to demonstrate that the timeless/necessary foundation of being must have the properties of the Omni-God: all-knowing, all-powerful, and perfectly good. If we are rationally compelled to accept the existence of a timeless, necessarily existent entity, why not suppose that that entity is the universe itself, rather than postulating something supernatural outside of the universe?" (my emphasis)

Roger Penrose in a 2023 interview made it very clear that AI are not conscious.

Consciousness: A dog knows when it is hungry, but does it know that it knows it is hungry?