Our Human Struggle, In Broad Evolutionary Perspective

            In broad evolutionary terms, our human Struggle might be conceived, simply, it has been to overcome and transcend animal instinct, our endeavor has been to become, by an incremental progress, intelligent beings. Put literally, our Human Struggle has been our endeavor to overcome and transcend, to, by an incremental progress, adopt more sophisticated motives than what our natural instincts are.

            Does not solid objective evidence indicate our own human ancestors showed no sign of intelligence beyond what the other animal species of earth do? Do we not discover, in solid and objective evidence, when our human ancestors first walked upright, when we fashioned our first tools, before which we did not? Is not the unmistakable implication, our own human ancestors were totally animal instinctive? Are we not now, even our own generation, in the very midst of this emergence? Is not our own generation engaged in this Struggle, endeavoring to complete this emergence, the overcoming and transcendence of animal instinct, the adoption of more sophisticated, more intelligent being?

            Is it maybe the supreme irony of our gradual acquisition of intelligence, indeed, this acquisition still ongoing, that it has not been until the last few generations we have only now begun to realize what the literal and objective nature of our own Human Struggle actually is? Quite literally, we only now acquire a sufficient level of intelligence to

            Is this, then, not “the” Issue? What is the actual and real nature of our objective reality? By what actual and real mechanisms and processes does it unfold? What conceptualization should enlighten and inform, thereby, guide our Human Struggle?

            Was it not but a few short centuries ago, we, the human species first conceived of and adopted the scientific method? Was this not the most momentous leap in our entire evolution? Was this, in fact, precisely the point where intelligence, for the first time, became a stronger influence in our human beings than instinct? Before this momentous leap, might it be said animal instinct exerted more influence over our human beings than did intelligence? Before conceiving of and adopting the scientific method to guide our intelligent discovery, was not our progress comparatively slow? Since the adoption of the scientific method, its form and standard guiding us, have we not made the astounding technological progress we have, it now gaining an exponential pace? Are we not living what our own recent ancestors could only imagine in their wildest dreams? Does not our awareness, on a daily basis, become more sophisticated?

            When our human ancestors assembled their cosmology, how did they? By what “knowledge” did they? Can we understand that cosmology, can we at all understand our own human beings, with lucidity and coherence, without this broader evolutionary perspective which is the apparent objective reality? Literally, we only now acquire intelligence, from total animal instinct. Our own generation is in the very midst of this acquisition.

            When our ancient ancestors assembled and embraced the cosmology, which are our traditional religions, which more influenced their conceptualization – instinct or intelligence? Can we remove the asking of this question from irrational emotion? Can we ask this question with sane and sober intelligent objectivity? Can we ask this question without presumption, clear headedly?

            Prior to conceiving and adopting the scientific method, to provide standard and form to guide our intelligent discovery, certain specific of our ancient ancestors entered into altered states of consciousness. In these altered states of consciousness, these certain specific individuals reported experiencing visions, voices, and visitations, they interpreted to be divine contacts and communications. In these contacts and communications, they interpreted to be divine, they claimed to receive revelations, “the” Truth. From these contacts and communications, they interpreted to be divine, they assembled the cosmology which are our traditional religious beliefs. There is a divine entity. This entity created our objective reality. This entity intervenes in the events of our objective reality, dependent upon our human behavior. These certain specific individuals, by their contacts and communications received, informed the rest of we the human species, the divine entity demands to be believed in and can only be known through them, the divine having chosen them and only them for contact and communication, that they might serve as the divine’s exclusive franchise proxies, to relay to the rest of we, the human species, “the” Truth. These exclusive franchise proxies relayed to us, the divine entity demands to be ritually worshipped and sacrificed to. Only the exclusive franchise proxies know how to conduct the rituals and sacrifices properly. As much as the divine is pleased by rituals and sacrifices conducted properly, it is displeased by rituals and sacrifices conducted improperly. The exclusive franchise proxies informed us, when the divine is pleased, it intervenes in the events of our objective reality to our favorable advantage. When the divine entity is displeased, it intervenes in events, purposefully, to punish us for our disobedience. Further, the exclusive franchise proxies relayed to us the divine’s commands the divine expected to be obeyed, or, it was warned, the divine would intervene in events to punish us. This cosmology or explanation for our universe presents our Human Struggle is to acknowledge and believe in this entity, to overcome and transcend the influences that would dissuade us from this belief and acknowledgement. This cosmology claims there will be a Day Of Judgment when the divine entity shall intervene once and for all. All those who have obeyed the exclusive franchise proxies, who have believed, ritually worshipped and sacrificed, as the exclusive franchise proxies have directed, will be rewarded with eternal Paradise. All who have refused to believe and obey will be punished with eternal Hell. This cosmology is a matter of faith because there are no objective realities to suggest much less validate what it asserts, except the exclusive franchise proxies’ declarations. Refusal to find this sufficient proof is condemned as a rebellion against Good, Evil’s endeavor to deceive and mislead us.

            Throughout our known human history, this cosmology has served as our human civilization’s foundation. This has been our human explanation for the mechanisms and processes of our objective reality, how they unfold, and what the future holds.

            It is only within the last few centuries we the human species have begun to make systematic observations of the objective realities which are the mechanisms and processes by which our objective reality actually unfolds. Though the ancient cosmology, which are our traditional religious beliefs, claimed divine and transcendent knowledge, it did not inform us of genes, or cells, atoms, or molecules. In fact, it seemed, though divinely transcendent, to be ignorant of such basic objective realities as the shape of our own planet, the configuration of our own solar system. It totally misunderstood what comets are, what climate is about. It had no inkling as to the actual geologic history of our own planet. In fact, does not that presented as divine and transcendent knowledge, at almost every turn, contradict what we now discover, through the application of the intelligence we only now acquire?

            Is this, then, not “the” Issue of all issues, “the” Debate of all debates? Might not the core of this Issue be stated simply, what is truly valid knowledge, what is actually transcendent revelation? Is the actual and real truth approached through altered states of consciousness, visions, voices, and visitations, or by the direct observations of our waking senses of objective realities, intelligent discovery? Does our engagement in this Debate of this Issue describe the very Threshold, one side is animal instinct, only crossing over to the other is intelligent being?

            Can we now address this Issue and enter into this Debate of all debates without irrational presumption, without hysterical histrionics, with sane and sober intelligent objectivity?

            These centuries of our known human history, we have indoctrinated our children from birth to believe the cosmology conceived by our ancient ancestors is “the” Truth. We do this because the same was done to us, from birth. It was and remains by this means our religions are conveyed from one generation to the next. With great drama, each generation has warned the next, not believing this supposed “Truth” is “the” Temptation to Evil. Thus legitimate doubts as to the validity of this cosmology have been violently suppressed. Debate has been violently forbidden. This is the fateful place we of this generation find ourselves in this, the 21st century.

            Can we ask this question sanely and soberly, calmly and objectively? Is the cosmology our ancient ancestors conceived valid? Is it correct as to the real and actual objective reality? Or is it utterly inaccurate as the real and actual mechanism? Is the strategy imposed by this cosmology, not merely proposed, but violently imposed, so irrationally flawed, so utterly ineffective, our persisting in it threatens the very survival of our human species?

            Can we ask this question, without irrational presumption, without indoctrinated bias, beyond programmed and conditioned impulsive reflex, sanely and soberly, calmly and objectively? What shall actually be our Salvation? Which cosmology actually finds its origin in self deception and delusion?

            Shall our Salvation be by belief in a divine entity, ritual worship and sacrifice, by obeying exclusive franchise proxies? Shall there be a divine intervention that totally alters our universe and human beings? Can we be too direct, too literal in asking this?

            Is, rather, the actual objective reality, our Salvation shall be by overcoming and transcending animal instinct, by adopting more sophisticated motives than what our animal instincts are? Is it anything but deceptive self delusion to believe our Salvation can be by any means except our own creative invention, the dignity and nobility of our own human accomplishment? Is it not only intelligence that enables this comprehension, but only intelligence that can serve as our guide? Is it only in this realization the Threshold is actually crossed, one side is instinctive animal, only crossing over to the other side is intelligent being? Are we only deluding, are we only deceiving ourselves, failing to arrive at this simple realization?

            Is this not where we, the human species, find ourselves here and now, in the 21st century? Through conceptualization, adoption, and employment of the scientific method, we have accomplished an astounding technological progress the unfolding of which now gains an exponential momentum. Though our intelligent awareness of the physical objective universe grows more sophisticated, on a daily basis, we still retain, as the foundation of our human civilization, a cosmology based upon beliefs. Rather than rethinking our cosmology and reformulating it upon our intelligent discoveries, we cling to our beliefs. Moreover, rather than coherently confronting our human imperfections, instead of engaging in an effective strategy to overcome and transcend them, our religious beliefs themselves dissuade this effort. Our religious beliefs themselves claim it is impossible to overcome these imperfections by our own human efforts. Our religious beliefs claim our Salvation shall be by belief in a divine entity, ritual worship and sacrifice, by obeying the divine entity, then there will be a divine intervention.

            This presentation does not question whether the intentions of the vast majority of those who accept these beliefs are good. This presentation suggests what was missing from these belief systems, at their origin, was not good intention, but objective and intelligent logic. That objective and intelligent logic was missing at their origin and acceptance should not be surprising. In fact this is entirely comprehensible when we view our human history from an intelligent and logical perspective, informed by the real and actual objective realities.

            What we know now, through intelligent discovery, what our rather recent ancestors could and did not, is that our own human ancestors were totally animal instinctive. Our own human ancestors manifested no indication of intelligence beyond any other species upon our earth. We are still, our own generation, in the 21st century, in the very midst of crossing the Threshold, one side is totally instinctive animal, only in crossing over to the other side is intelligent being.

            As long as we retain belief systems as our cosmology, the foundation of our human civilization, it is the assertion of this presentation, we shall remain on the instinctive animal side of the mysterious and wondrous Threshold, only crossing over to the other side is intelligent being.

            Is this not the nature of our religious beliefs? They do not originate in objective observations. They do not persuade by objective proofs. They do not validate themselves upon demonstrable logical progressions. They do not invite collaborative intelligent comprehension. Rather, conscious thought is essentially denied any role in the establishment of the belief and its acceptance. In fact, it is claimed, it is warned with a straight faced seriousness, our own human thoughts, intelligent or otherwise, can only serve to mislead and delude us. We are persuaded not to question, not to think, but obediently submit. Oddly, are not our religious beliefs an argument against intelligent logic? In a very literal sense, our religious beliefs dissuade individual intelligent thought process. They insist upon a submission to authority, that authority representing itself to be of divine origin. Our religious beliefs are “thinking” done without the conscious. When this curious oddity is viewed in the real and actual objective context it originated, only then does this form of “thinking” make sense. Beyond this context, outside of it, it makes no sense at all. At this stage of our evolution, we are still emerging from total animal instinct, we are only now, literally, acquiring intelligent thought processes. Our religious beliefs are a form of thought process in which intelligence is knocking on the door, seeking entrance, but it has not yet been permitted to enter through that door, which is the Threshold, one side is instinctive animal, only crossing over to the other side is intelligent being. In a very real and literal sense, the source of our religious beliefs and how we submit to them are more closely related to impulsive reflexive animal instinct than conscious and intelligent thought process. Is this not the profound even transcendent difference between reaching a conclusion by belief and reaching a conclusion by direct observation resulting in an intelligent comprehension?

            Has not this been presented the origin of our religious beliefs? In ancient times, as the tales recall, there were but a few specific individuals who were extraordinarily righteous. The rest of we, the human species are corrupted. Only these specific few refused to succumb to our general human corruption. The divine, acknowledging the righteousness of these specific few, chose to contact and communicate with these specific few, and no other human being. Every other human being’s corruption made them unworthy of divine contact and communication. Within this scenario, it is represented the divine designated these few to serve as its exclusive franchise proxies, to convey to the rest of the human species “the” Truth, “the” Truth was knowable by no other means than the pronouncements of these few, designated by the divine to serve as its exclusive franchise proxies. When these few declared these contacts and communications with the divine, this was the origin of our religious beliefs. History recalls there was some disputation as to the validity, the objective reality of these claims by these few. In fact, tyranny was not merely skeptical, originally, but acted to violently suppress the claims and general belief in their validity. However, when tyranny’s efforts to dissuade belief in these divine contacts and communications failed, reading the hand writing on the wall, tyranny claimed to as well embrace the beliefs. Tyranny then acted to shape the beliefs, that they would serve tyranny. Indeed, this historical social context as profoundly shaped our religious beliefs as the evolutionary context explains their actual origin.

            From the broader evolutionary perspective, the actual historical social context, the admonition “repent” makes literal and objective sense. The mystical conceptualization of our human imperfection, characterized as our human corruption, however, fails to grasp the actual objective reality. More appropriately, more lucidly and coherently, a more accurate admonition, one more correct as to the real and actual objective reality, would have been “evolve”. The characterization of our Human Struggle, that unseen mystical forces battle for control over our human souls, at best is an abstract poetry. The apparent real and actual objective reality is not that we are fallen, but that our Human Struggle has been to arise out of total animal instinct, to overcome and transcend the imperfect motives of impulsive and reflexive animal instinct, to become intelligent beings.

            “The” Battle between Good and Evil, when expressed in purely mystical poetries, wholly fails to grasp the apparent objective realities. At the core of our Human Struggle is the argument between they who rationalize, even glorify their animal instincts, and they who propose we adopt more intelligent motives. The former do not seek to overcome and transcend their animal instincts, but what intelligence they have thus far acquired, they use to serve their animal instincts.

            “The” Battle between Good and Evil, when expressed as an abstract mystical poetry, wholly lacks objective context, objective reality. Our Human Struggle, when put into the context of objective realities, can be understood and persuaded upon logical proofs. In fact, can anything be at all persuasively argued except by direct and objective observations? Can anything at all be persuaded without demonstrable logical progression, resulting in intelligent comprehension?

            From the broader evolutionary perspective, the Battle between Good and Evil is acknowledged. It is not only acknowledged, but given objective context. Not many generations ago, our own human ancestors were totally animal instinctive. The mysterious and wondrous emergence of intelligence in our human beings only now enables us to engage in thought processes beyond the impulsive reflexes of animal instinct. We only now gain the capability to judge the quality of our motives, to anticipate the outcomes our motives must inevitably result. Intelligent contemplation also discovers that the impulsive reflexive motives of our instincts are alterable. We are not permanently imprisoned within our instincts, but through conscious choice and effort, we can overcome and transcend them, we can adopt more productive and constructive motives. This discernment and judgment was impossible before the emergence of intelligence. This discernment and judgment is only possible by intelligence. Only intelligence can inform and guide this discernment and judgment. This is “the” Revelation. It is not received by divine contact and communication. It is not approached through belief. It is not embraced by belief, but through direct observation of objective realities understood through intelligent comprehension.

            Motives of a specific quality motivate behaviors of a specific quality and result in outcomes of a specific quality. Only upon the acquisition of intelligence could this objective fact be realized, this judgment arrived. Simple logical intelligence, beyond animal instinct deduces, by actively and consciously altering the specific quality of our motives, by overcoming and transcending our natural instincts, that in our instincts counterproductive, even tragically destructive, we can accomplish far better outcomes. Upon this intelligent comprehension, it is urged, let us embrace Good and do no more Evil. Let us make it our human goal to accomplish our social order shall be the Kingdom of Heaven, our earth Paradise. Let us pursue this goal with the same systematic creative inventive intelligence we have advanced our material technologies.

            This definition of Good is proposed. Good describes motives motivating behaviors and resulting in outcomes to our mutual and equal material and emotional advantage. Evil describes motives motivating behaviors and resulting in outcomes to an individual’s selfish and self centered advantage, counterproductive and destructive to others’. Let us directly and objectively judge the outcomes our motives result. Let us endeavor to discern, with logical objectivity, with intelligent integrity, which outcomes are truly Good, which are Evil. Let us no longer, like instinctive animals do, rationalize and justify what is only in our own selfish and self centered best interests. Let us actively and consciously, by an incremental progress, overcome and transcend our natural selfish and self centered animal instincts. Let us proceed, then, informed and guided by intelligence, inspired by the dignity and nobility only possible by intelligence overcoming and transcending animal instinct, to construct our human future that we shall accomplish far better outcomes than those we have tragically suffered hitherto. Is not this fully within our human capability to accomplish?

            This presentation now invites the sane and sober, the lucid and coherent, they with intelligent integrity, to ponder this Issue of all issues. What is the real and actual nature of our objective reality? How should Good and Evil be defined? By what strategy shall our human Salvation actually be accomplished? Is not our engaging this Issue, “the” Debate of all debates?

            This presentation does not deny the sublime poetry that is the core of our religious beliefs, but seeks to comprehend this poetry, its true origins and meaning, with objective and logical intelligence. This presentation does not engage in a childish rebellion against authority, but asks what valid authority is. This presentation does not dispute much less refute the goal “let us embrace Good and do no more Evil. Let us determinedly and passionately seek our Salvation. Let us make of our human social order the Kingdom of Heaven, our earth Paradise.” On the contrary, through demonstrable logical progressions, this presentation argues it was not a silly irrationality that conceived this hope and dream. This hope and dream is fully achievable in real and actual objective reality.

            What perception, what conceptualization is accurate as to the real and actual objective reality? By what means shall Good actually be embraced, Evil done no more? By what strategy shall our Salvation, in reality, actually be accomplished?

            This presentation, as boldly as it confronts our religious beliefs and their true origins, it does with awe and respect. But it does within the real and actual evolutionary, historical, and social context. Can we now examine our religious beliefs, each our own, without presumptive bias, beyond the tyrannical restraints of impulsive reflexive instinct? Do not all our human hopes and dreams, does not our very human fate hang in the balance, whether we shall decide this Issue of all issues and engage in this Debate of all debates with the integrity of intelligent beings, or we shall continue to squabble with no more dignity and nobility, no more intelligent sophistication than jungle apes manifest?

            It has been several billion years of evolution to arrive at this very point, our own generation, in the 21st century. We are come to this mysterious and wondrous Threshold, one side is instinctive animal, imprisoned in its impulsive reflexes, only in crossing over to the other side is the liberation, indeed, the Salvation of intelligent of being.

            This presentation challenges us to confront this Issue of all issues, to engage in this Debate of all debates, in this to complete our crossing the Threshold. Some centuries ago, we dared to dream a dream and hope a hope. We wandered in a wilderness, seeking our Promised Land. The voices we were led brought us here. May the scales now fall from our eyes, sense coalesce from the irrational confusion, and we, at long last, find our way. There, on the other side, over across the Threshold is Our Promised Land.

            What is valid knowledge? What is intelligent integrity? What is true Revelation? What is actual dignity and nobility? What is self deception? What is delusion?

            Can truly valid knowledge be arrived at except through the lucid and direct observations of our waking senses making intelligent discovery in coherent intelligent comprehension? Can actual revelation be arrived at except through this means, in this way? Does not simple humility require both this realization and admission? The observations we have made thus far could be mistaken, our interpretations incorrect. Is it not the essence of intelligent integrity, even its sine qua non, without this humility there can be no integrity?

            Are we, the human species, lacking this humility? Are we unable to admit our tragic self deceptions and delusions? Are we unwilling to cross over to the other side? And yet it is, that we do not is not because we are incapable, but because we choose to be deceived and deluded as to the real and actual objective reality. We prefer to pretend we accomplish what the crudest objectivity realizes we do not.

              Is this, sadly, our Human Struggle in evolutionary perspective? We would rather pretend than actually accomplish. Have we come all this way to have it end here, we squabbling like jungle apes? Forgive me my inability to more poetically lament this fateful moment. And should it not be lamented, it is within our human capability, yet we refuse, and pretend righteousness instead?

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So much of our world is now focusing on physics, astronomy, and cosmology, and rightfully so. They say there’s a black hole on the horizon!

In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the momentum of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the momentum of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain. In quantum mechanics, the position and momentum of particles do not have precise values, but have a probability distribution. There are no states in which a particle has both a definite position and a definite momentum. The narrower the probability distribution is in position, the wider it is in momentum.

In otehr words, as we’ve discovered the smaller and smaller yet again particles we’re discovering that they don’t operate in a neat and tidy universe as we once thought. It’s something akin to what you see is NOT what you get. But on the other hand we can alter a thing by thinking about it. Listen to the music!

Thought and matter alter one another, and that’s driving scientists batty!

We can change what

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From Anti-Method to Ideolinguistics |Zainurrahman

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Language Cosmology

From Anti-Method to Ideolinguistics

Zainurrahman

This short discourse will discuss the very basic principle of language and reality from the philosophy point of view. There are some discourses have discussed about the philosophy of language. In this chance, I will discuss it again but we should try to get the understanding from other point of view. Habitually, philosophy of language is started from how people receive and produce a meaningful language by basing on some philosophy sects such as logical positivism, atomism and so on. Here, I try to find out how language is seen from a pioneer of anti-method thought and relate it with my Ideolinguistics principles. The discourse will be “The Language Cosmology” that discusses about how language and reality fits each other.

Positivism assumes that language is the reflection of reality or picture theory. Feyerabend rejects this positivism assumption. Feyerabend believes that realities are actually depended on the theories. Reality is reflected by a theory. For the example, all things fall down; this reality is understood by theory of gravitation. In other words, there is theory that mediates the understanding of reality. Meanwhile, experience and understanding occur through language. In Ideolinguistics, experience and understanding in daily life will construct idea. It refers to the definition of idea as derivation from eidos (Greek) that mean what is seen or what is recognized (further reading: The Original of Ideolinguistics) and language and idea is an unbreakable couple. Meaning that in language the experience and understanding of reality is occurred.

However, Feyerabend states that language is always limited. Language cannot reflect the totality of experience. People never understand reality purely by utilizing language. Of course, Ideolinguistics believes that here mind plays important role to reconstruct the objective reality to be a subjective reality (imaginary reality). In connection with this, Feyerabend then stated that “No experience which is pure, all is interpreted.”

Feyerabend assumes that there is an absolute mutual relationship between language and human reaction poles. Further, language is not only tooled to recognize facts or reality, but language also sharpening facts, reality or events. In this case, Feyerabend agrees with Benyamin L. Worff that language has certain cosmology that is a comprehensible outlook of world, situation that affects human mind, behavior and perception. In line with this, both Feyerabend and Worff agree with Determinism that human even think through language, human interpret reality through language.

Understanding of reality is relatively affected by culture and theories that basing it. Meanwhile human also percept, interpret and understand reality through language. It is important to keep in mind that theories are constructed in a certain space and time and it can be accepted or rejected in other space and time. Simply, it is very relative and contextual-cultural bound.

A construction of concept (concept of a reality), according to Worff, is closely related to certain culture and world view. Therefore, reality cannot be understood without understanding the language cosmology. It can be said that culture and world view help human to understand reality, however it must be a contextual understanding, not a universal understanding; there are contextual elements that basically affect object interpretation or reality. However, as human language, it must be universal. Reality must be universal for all. Here we should understand first of what the cosmology is.

Cosmology is the philosophical thought of the nature of the universe. Cosmological principle is the uniformity of universe; in any point and any direction, observers should look universe is homogeneous. It means that reality should be seen similarly from one observer to another. In connection with language, as Ideolinguistics believes that human language is universal as their idea. What produced or received by human are words, language is in human idea.

Every people have same idea about fire. They also have same perception about ice. However, when fire and ice is reinterpreted or reconstructed, here the culture plays its role. Fire for some cultures is holy and even sacral. In Islamic paradigm, fire is symbol of hell, and so forth. When fire is reflected by language, it will be defined in words such as fire is hot, etc. Here, words deal with difficulty to give a comprehensive understanding of fire, because some people may have different understanding of fire. Not all reality can be spoken or written by using words. However, human experienced it purely and there is idea about fire in their mind and that is language in Ideolinguistics principle; and every people have the same idea of fire. There are some exceptions, if someone cannot feel or experience fire because he or she has certain disease of skin or something, his idea about fire must be different. However, in this line, we are talking about experienced reality that constructs idea. Thus, inexperienced thing cannot be an idea; and this is out of Ideolinguistics context. Ideolinguistics principle that the primary language is what is seen (picture or gesture) or what is recognizable. Human recognize fire in the same way; touching or seeing it. What is produced to reflect the idea or object interpretation is words and not language.

Language cosmology

Language cosmology is the nature of language movement in fitting with human idea to give meaning to reality. In very early time, human use picture and gesture to communicate or to transfer an interpretation each other. However, they realize reality and interpret it by seeing, observing, and involving the reality in their mind and soul. For example when Abraham saw sun and moon and then he thought that it was God, but then he rejected by said it was not God. It does not really matter how Abraham produced words or in what language Abraham spoke was. The matter is how did Abraham analyze and conclude his observation? Just come back to the background that underlain the history. Abraham was faced with some paganism beliefs that God was the fetish they created. Abraham’s idea about god was from natural and supernatural experience that inspired him to look for the God who creates him. Naturally, he did not see that the fetishes are doing universe or even a mosquito. Supernaturally he felt that there was a calling from his heart. All these are accumulation of experience and reality and these inspire Abraham to find out the truth. His curiosity to find out the truth (at least for himself) made him had to “re-collect” the information from the reality, experience and common sense. Here we can see that Abraham created a dialog between him and himself. He tried to correlate one idea to other, relate one reality to other and one experience to other. Finally he should to explain the correlation, in order to get a conclusion. In his great job he was done, of course, language in his mind would not stop working. He needed to utilize language to correlate all those mentioned above. This is the example how language fits into experience, reality and common sense. Ratio is directed by language, idea and language is a couple; that is the point. In other words, without language (inner language) human cannot correlate idea, experience and reality. Words (outer language or produced language) are also help human to develop and to manage idea beside it function to share or communicate idea. It is obviously seen that there are words in everything in the world, because the things are named by human.

Language Macro-Cosmos

Nowadays, language is associated with words, phrases, sentences, and so forth. Language is also divided into two kinds; spoken language and written language. Based on the function, language is divided into some functions such as imperative, expressive, directive, persuasive, preventive, impressive and so on. The point function that is focused in Ideolinguistics is language direct human to construct and to sharp idea. Ideolinguistics never ignore the absolute relationship between language and idea.

Language forms such as words, phrases, sentences are the macro-cosmos of the language itself. Here, language is associated with the reference. Every form of language has certain association, but language macro-cosmos is more appropriate to be associated with the outer language.

When Abraham saw moon and he said that “This is God”, the word “God” here was associated with “moon”, something out of Abraham self. The phrase or sentence uttered by Abraham above is directly referred to something shining in the sky. The meaning of the utterance is clearly understandable by syntactical analysis and without ignoring the semantics environment when the sentence was uttered. Physical context is also considered to gather the meaning of the sentence. Those are the macro-cosmos of the language.

Language Micro-Cosmos

When Abraham stated or uttered the utterance above, language was working in his mind to correlate one thing to another, his idea was “speaking” to direct him to gather a conclusion. That is what I call language micro-cosmos. If macro-cosmos is the objective universe or objective reality that has been named in words and can be represented by words, language micro-cosmos is the imaginary universe or imaginary reality that is explained by inner language. Someone who is thinking is actually speaking without producing words. Some other one is thinking by speaking to himself by producing words. However, it should be distinguished which one is the macro language and which one is the micro language?

Let us make it easier, look at the example:

Mr. John tells his son to move the table “Michael, please move that table” he points the table. The utterance has direct reference and the utterance is produced. The words “table” refers to the thing pointed by Mr. John. The table of course more exists as the objective reality than imaginary. In this case, Michael tries to analyze the utterance and as an adult he can easily understand it, because he is in the same room with his father. This condition causes the language become “macro” or in other words we can associated the term “macro” with “verbal”. Michael can understand the utterance easily, even without analyzing it. The utterance stated by his father is referred to certain things and it reflects what his father wants to do. I hope it is clear, now we come to the next example.

Mr. Franklin is reading a book, after that he thinks how possible it was flying without wings. He says to himself “I really do not understand how he can fly without wings”. Here, Mr. Franklin is thinking and trying to find out the answer by correlating one idea to another idea. However, the reference (inference) of each inner language in his mind does not have real object. It is more imaginary reality than objective. In this condition the micro-cosmos of language is taking place. From those examples, language can be divided into two cosmoses; they are macro-cosmos (macro-language) and micro-cosmos (micro-language). Micro-language is associated with these aspects: mental, psychological, and idea. Macro-language is associated with these aspects: social environment, real object and verbalism. Furthermore, meaning can be divided into two types; macro-language meaning which is determined by the utterances or outer language, and the micro-language meaning which is determined by idea. It is important to know that although every sign has meaning, but the meaning is never embedded with the sign. Macro-language meaning is conventional and the micro-language meaning is intentional. You can compare this with the theory of langue and parole.

Zainurrahman, was born on March, 5th 1983 in Ternate (An Island in North Maluku, Eastern Indonesia). He is an English Lecturer and a creative writer. He has written more than ten ebook titles that can be downloaded on http://zainurrahmans.wordpress.com and/or http://majelisaljabbar.wordpress.com

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By: Ernie Fitzpatrick
For those that have the fancy calculators or whatever measuring devices that they have, say that about four percent of the universe is capable of being directly probed by our “current scientific instruments”. Wo what’s that mean? It says that scientists now believe that 96% of the universe is amde up of dark energy (73%) and dark matter (23%). So let’s take a look at the implications of such theory or postulates. 

The discovery in 1998 that the universe is actually speeding up its expansion was a shock to traditional astronomers. But, the evidence has become convincing.

In physical cosmology, dark energy is an exotic form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. Dark energy is the most popular way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate. In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for 73% of the total mass-energy of the universe. What’s standard any more?  

Dark matter is hypothetical matter that does not interact with the electromagnetic force, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies, as well as Big Bang cosmology, dark matter accounts for the vast majority of mass in the observable universe.

Is there an English version of the above? 

Dark energy, a mysterious force that no one understands, is causing the universe to fly apart faster and faster. Only a few years ago, if you’d suggested something like that to astronomers, they would have told you not not change your day job, unless it was cosmology or physics. But dark energy is real or at least, a growing number of astronomers think it is. No one, however, can truly explain it. So, are we saying we beleive in something we don’t know?

Sorta!

Dark energy entered the astronomical scene in 1998, after two groups of astronomers made a survey of exploding stars, or supernovas, in a number of distant galaxies. These researchers found that the supernovas were dimmer than they should have been, and that meant they were farther away than they should have been. The only way for that to happen, the astronomers realized, was if the expansion of the universe had sped up at some time in the past.

“Frankly, we just dont understand it,” says Craig Hogan, an astronomer at the University of Washington at Seattle. “We know what its effects are,” Hogan says, but as to the details of dark energy, “Were completely clueless about that. And everybodys clueless about it.”

Maybe we’ll know something this coming week as they throw the switch on the Large Hadrom Collider (LHC). CLues to 2012 just might be found in CERN. Stay tuned and keep the tin foil on your head til then.  

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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The Water in Bible versus Quran (1)

The exact translation of the Hebrew verse, Proverbs 9:17, is:

“Stolen waters are sweet, and hidden bread is delicious”

Herein, you will see how different five Bible’s versions translate this simple statement.

As a matter of fact, I could not find any comment(s) about this verse that may encourage stealing of water.

In addition, I do not believe that the Lord God said that the “stolen waters are sweet”.

Does the Lord God encourage stealing that He forbids in His Ten Commandments?

On the other hand, Mike Scott*, the minister, says: in his article, “What is the symbolism of water in the bible?”

“The Koran states, “From water we have made all things.” Water seems to play an elemental part in Islam. I should remind you that the Koran was written some 600 years after the writing of the Old and New Testaments, and is largely an answer to Christianity; therefore, we would expect to see a lot of similarity in the teaching of the Koran with regard to water.”

N.B. Mike Scott*, the minister is:

1) The Pulpit minister in Texas, Colorado, California and Arizona

2) The Pulpit minister for the Mt. Vernon Church in Prescott, Arizona, and

3) The commentator on the Television Program “What Do the Scriptures Say?”

Now, let us see if Mike’ statement about the Quran is true and valid.

Verse 21:30 of the Quran, says:

Have not

Will they not then believe by affirming Allah’s Oneness and Muhammad Prophethood?

Now, you smart reader see the similarity in the teaching of the Koran with regard to water that is claimed by Mike Scott.

Nevertheless, we will talk later about the relation between the verse 21:30 of the Quran and 1) the water in Biological sciences and 2) the recent cosmological theory of Big Bang and the subsequent development of the Universe.

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The Bible, Proverbs 9:17 (five different versions)

New International Version: “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”

American Standard Version: Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

English Standard Version: “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

King James Version: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Young’s Literal Translation: Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.’

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The Quran, Verse 21:30 (four different translations)

QARIB: have the unbelievers not seen that the heavens and the earth were sewn up as one (solid) mass, then we unstitched them, and that we made every living thing of water? will they not believe!

SHAKIR: do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but we have opened them; and we have made of water everything living, will they not then believe?

PICKTHAL: have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then we parted them, and we made every living thing of water? will they not then believe?

YUSUFALI: do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? we made from water every living thing. will they not then believe?

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

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I am amazed at how little I know- how ignorant I am of life, spiritual matters, and the universe. Worse yet, I am surprised, maybe even shocked, at what I once believed, embraced, and felt were fundamental truths only to wake up and discover I was living in a dream world of sorts: truly a Matrix! This veil of ignornace gives power to the elite who are no further advanced in knowledge of truth, but greatly advanced in how to manipulate people.

Having awakened spiritually (but still groggy) has brought me closer to the Creator. Having awakened emotionally has allowed me to love everyone: yes, everyone! Having awakened intellectually has led me to expound on the 2012 theme and concept, but not so much as to an end date, but a oneness with cosmology.

Cosmology?

Cosmologists study of the large-scale structure of the universe and are concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology involves itself with studying the motions of the celestial bodies and the first cause. For most of human history, it has been a branch of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy (one of seven) that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science, traditionally, cosmology and ontology.

Here’s the point. Cosmologists claim that they know about ONE PERCENT of all there is to know about our universe. ONE! And religion tells us that we know it ALL and what doesn’t make sense to take it in FAITH? That’s a cover up for the fear of being proven wrong, losing control, and fall

The power of ignorance can be illustrated, among other times and places, with the reign of Peter the Great of Russia. He built monuments to himself and kept the peasants under his thumb due to their sense that they were powerless. Hundreds of thousands were killed or died under his oppressive regime. He treated the people likes cows- chattel, and they believed it.

Both the state and the church came into agreement with each other to deny people the “right to think”. The church and state are still in that business today. The government withholds all manner of information that would hinder their ability to rule. The church tries to keep people in “denominational boxes” and sells fear and intimidation to anyone who would even question the orthodoxy (if that’s the right word) of the institution.

Ronald Reagan said on September 21, 1987, before the United Nations, “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask is not an alien force already among us”.

Yes! And we will become seekers of truth instead of possessors of perceived truth.

That alien force is the power of the elite to keep the veil of ignorance over the general populace for their benefit wherein as Obama has said, “Some corporate executives make more money in ten minutes than does a person for a whole year”. But there’s coming an “outside alien force” that will force us to work together and that’s the benefit of what I see wrapped up in the December 21, 2012 discussions. Whatever bad may come (if it does), the good will far out weigh it. REAL CHANGE is truly in the air and it’s not just a political one.

We’re on the cusp of a transformed consciousness that will take us to new heights we never knew were possible!

ernie@lrchouston.com

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Cosmology, as a science, limits itself to the study of the universe as a whole; its contents, structure, and evolution. Cosmological beliefs are based on the conclusions drawn from astronomical observations and mathematical models, but they still substantially influence the media and raise public interest.

The study of cosmology has changed from a speculative enterprise into a data-driven science that is part of a modern standard physical theory and supported by a wealth of observations. Nevertheless some theoretical proposals are being made for the very early stages of the universe that have no observational support; and sometimes it may be impossible to ever obtain such. Thus in some respects it remains a principle driven enterprise, with observation subordinate to theory. Which means that the foundations of this science are inherently confined to some degree of speculation.

We hope that our effort will escape the possible accusations in agnosticism and we will distant ourselves from the famous saying of Socrates “I know that I know nothing” by trying to estimate the true limits of our knowledge while appreciating tremendous progress of science that took place since the days of this great Greek thinker.

The first difficulty that the philosophy of cosmology encounters is the uniqueness of the universe. The most fundamental issue is that there is only one universe. This essential uniqueness of its object of study sets cosmology apart from all other sciences. In particular, the unique initial conditions that led to the current state of the u

Although, so far there is no hard proof that ‘other universes” may exist and we have to stick to the statement that the universe we live in is unique at least from our point of view and we need to deal with philosophical implications of such approach. Unfortunately, like having only one pea, we have only one universe to study, and, moreover, that we can only partially observe. Because we cannot compare our universe with any other universes we are considerably limited in our ability to derive certain laws that would apply to the whole group of objects that we aren’t even sure exist.

In this book we are going to undertake a breathtaking journey into the very roots of the philosophy of cosmology in order to rigorously appraise this degree of possible speculation. This will allow us to make an attempt to define the ultimate limits of human knowledge in order to form a sober view of what, exactly, we can and cannot know.

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Thomas Aquinas was one of the theologists who created three ways to prove the existence of God. The first fraction of the dispute is based on the idea of motion. It begins with the assertion that it is obvious to our mind and certain that some things in the world are in state of motion. That motion leads the object from being able to go somewhere to getting there. Then, nothing is possible to reduce from potentiality to authenticity, except the fact that something is already authentic. As a result, the same thing can not be in the potentiality and in the authenticity at the same time. Hence it is impossible for the thing to be moved and to be mover at the same time that is it should be in motion itself. Thus, it is necessary to reach your destination at the first mover, and it everybody realizes to be God.

The second feature of the cosmological dispute of the existence of God begins with the realizing of the efficient cause. Aristotle gives the explanation of the efficient cause as the occurrence that brings something about. But if in the efficient cause it is impossible to go on to perpetuity, as in this case there will be no first efficient cause, there will be neither definitive effect nor the middle efficient cause; all of which is false. As the result it is important to disclose the first efficient cause, which is named God.

As for the third aspect of the cosmological dispute, it concerns the possibility and necessity. People try to find in nature something that is possible or impossible, when they are found to be generated and to be tainted, it is impo

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For those that have the fancy calculators or whatever measuring devices that they have, say that about four percent of the universe is capable of being directly probed by our “current scientific instruments”. Wo what’s that mean? It says that scientists now believe that 96% of the universe is amde up of dark energy (73%) and dark matter (23%). So let’s take a look at the implications of such theory or postulates. 

The discovery in 1998 that the universe is actually speeding up its expansion was a shock to traditional astronomers. But, the evidence has become convincing.

In physical cosmology, dark energy is an exotic form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. Dark energy is the most popular way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate. In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for 73% of the total mass-energy of the universe. What’s standard any more?  

Dark matter is hypothetical matter that does not interact with the electromagnetic force, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies, as well as Big Bang cosmology, dark matter accounts for the vast majority of mass in the observable universe.

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Dark energy, a mysterious force that no one understands, is causing the universe to fly apart faster and faster. Only a few years ago, if you’d suggested something like that to astronomers, they would have told you not not change your day job, unless it was cosmology or physics. But dark energy is real or at least, a growing number of astronomers think it is. No one, however, can truly explain it. So, are we saying we beleive in something we don’t know?

Sorta!

Dark energy entered the astronomical scene in 1998, after two groups of astronomers made a survey of exploding stars, or supernovas, in a number of distant galaxies. These researchers found that the supernovas were dimmer than they should have been, and that meant they were farther away than they should have been. The only way for that to happen, the astronomers realized, was if the expansion of the universe had sped up at some time in the past.

“Frankly, we just dont understand it,” says Craig Hogan, an astronomer at the University of Washington at Seattle. “We know what its effects are,” Hogan says, but as to the details of dark energy, “Were completely clueless about that. And everybodys clueless about it.”

Maybe we’ll know something this coming week as they throw the switch on the Large Hadrom Collider (LHC). CLues to 2012 just might be found in CERN. Stay tuned and keep the tin foil on your head til then.  

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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The ‘COSMIC SECRET’ of the Law of Attraction

(This article is available free as a beautiful PDF download. See details below)

PART 1 – INTRODUCTION

Two ‘secrets’ of galactic proportion have been exposed and decoded in recent history:

Starting with timeless little books like ‘As a Man Thinketh’ in the early 20th Century, and creschendoing with the recent movie, ‘The Secret’ a century later, the Law of Attraction has entered the public domain on a grand scale.

And having been consigned to oblivion by the sands of time, Mayan lord-priest-king Pacal Votan’s Tomb at Palenque was re-discovered in 1952. This, the Temple of the Inscriptions, is the holiest and most sacred of all Mayan temples, and the provider of key information on the Galactic Code.

And now for the first time ever, I am able to share with you something possibly of equal importance to these two discoveries:

The Mayan Calendar maps The Law of Attraction!

I say “possibly of equal importance” because a couple of critical aspects are missing from the movie, The Secret. Mayan Cosmology reveals those aspects.

Firstly, the Secret only describes three key steps to success when there are actually 4.

Secondly, ‘The Secret’ could be a lot more practical.

The Mayan Calendar literally gives you a PRACTICAL, specific process for CO-CREATION, empowering you to change your life and world, in sync with the cosmic flow.

The decoding of the Mayan Galactic Code

The Law of Attraction is a timeless law. Its recent presentation to humanity through the The Secret is also an idea that has come of age.

And what better format for presenting a law that has stood the test of time, than through a calendar for universal synchronicity – a cosmology for cosmic and conscious RIGHT-TIMING?

THE MAYAN CALENDAR AS THE SUPER-SYSTEM FOR THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

I’ve received a clear message over the last 13 years, which has three distinct parts:

Firstly, that the 13 phases of the Mayan Calendar, map the specific creative process that the Universe follows when it creates anything, be it plankton or a planet, a star fruit or a star, a gazelle or a galaxy.

Secondly, that we can personally and practically apply those 13 phases, to consciously co-create abundance and prosperity in our lives.

And thirdly, that we can fine-tune and optimise our conscious co-creation by synchronizing the focus for each of the 13 steps, with the day carrying that focus, as it is mapped in the Tzolkin – the Sacred Mayan Calendar.

The period it takes to achieve your creation or goal will take as long as it takes, and of course that will ultimately depend on you. However, you can sharpen your tools and ‘antennae’ through synchronised daily attunement.

If the above 3 precepts are true, then Mayan Cosmology is the blueprint or benchmark for super-efficient achievement. It would then follow that ALL systems for success or achievement should correlate and dove-tail with the cosmology.

So I put the movie The Secret to the test. The results were fascinating!

The Secret presenter Lisa Nichols states that the Law of Attraction is “a 3 step process”:

ASK; BELIEVE; RECEIVE

Presenter Joe Vitale later states that there are at least two very powerful things that bring about success: “Visualisation and Gratitude”. Yet these are presented as separate from the ’3-step process’. When I applied The Secret to the Cosmology, the following became clear:

The Law of Attraction is in fact a FOUR STEP PROCESS!!!

ASK • BELIEVE • RECEIVE • GIVE THANKS

And it’s encapsulated in that short prayer before food that we all know so well:

“For what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful”.

Anton Kornblum

So how do we practically apply this in order to manifest our goals and dreams?…

Find out in the second part to this article presented as a PDF with beautiful graphics. You can download this for free, today.

Anton Kornblum, Life Coach, Author
Click here to download this article complete with beautiful graphics free: http://tinyurl.com/muak2p
So how do we practically apply this in order to manifest our goals and dreams?…
Find out in Part 2 & 3. Click here, fill in your name and email, and it will be attached to your confirmation email from Galactic Prosperity:

http://www.yoursqueezepage.com/displayPage.php?id=14006

You will receive the 13 mayan phases as the primary and secondary codes for Attraction.
THIS IS A FIRST EVER PUBLICATION OF THIS INFORMATION
This publication provides a complete re-definition of the Mayan 13 Tones, according to The Law of Attraction!!! Have fun!
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