TRANSCENDING MIND SLOTH

TRANSCENDING MIND SLOTH:

Consider secular and religious advocates of surrendering moral mindfulness to simplistic mind sloth. Worst offenders are found in “religions” (such as among Islamofascists) that insist no one should dare to question what their leaders have been conditioned to believe was revealed by God to their founders. Theirs is not mere mind sloth, but mind death.

Closely following are zealots, religious and secular, such as (among Christian homilists) who twist homilies meant for general illustration into simplistically unenlightening moral absolutes, as if “turn the other cheek” should teach us not to defend our families and as if “feed my lambs” should teach us to enable addicts and welfare abusers.

Interspersed are found historicists (such as Marxists) who would substitute, bootstrap, and manipulate their own simplistically “revealed” interpretations and models of history, as soft science leading to their own narrow brand of “irrefutable” truth.

Marxists extol historical empiricism, yet, because they have Notsomething else, cling to absurd rationalizations of Marxist economics and comradeship, notwithstanding historical evidence of their own communistically imposed mass murders, gulags, walled in and unimaginative societies, mass alcoholism, and hostile satellites.

Riding with such mix are others (Zionists of Scientism) whose philosophy considers an ultimate spiritual truth to be revealed through pure physical empiricism --- that is, that there exists no Source of spirituality. Such a scientist may claim to "just happen" to be wound up to practice science. If so, what is his/her argument against nihilist-scientists (or programmers) who just happen to be wound up to practice anti-science (or viral anti-programming)? Theirs tends to be an uninspiring and confused mind sloth that, absurdly, attempts to justify only what is.

However, except as "is" and/or “exist” are meant as active verbs, it relates little meaning to say we are moral only in respect of what is, or what exists, or what “just happens.” Rather, we are moral in respect of how we assert will towards ideals, ever seeking to bring meaningful ideals to emerge towards manifest existence. Except in respect of will (as in will-to-math) towards ideals, it relates little meaning, perhaps even absurdity, to speak of morality. Indeed, but for implication of Will, why “should” I will (or do) anything?

Other Churches of Scientism or Liberation may “kidnap God,” to insult or subordinate the concept of God to narrow, minority, greedy, self serving interests, poverty pimps, and grievance stirrers.

It is easy to surrender mind from responsible thinking, to wrap one’s existence with dogma, to give up on trying to create and appreciate meaningful sense in respect of an existence that is based on a physics that is not in itself complete, but derivative of Something (or Notsomething) beyond. It is all the easier to surrender once one becomes conditioned to believe there exists no higher Something worth serving.

But, what if each of us is intuited to be an interconnecting perspective of a higher Will of Something? What if such Will becomes Notsomething only to the extent we come to will it so? What if, beyond physics, in pure Will-To-Math, we share in Its morally creative power and responsibility?

If so, should not each of us respect ourselves as perspectives of a “Body of God,” with moral responsibility to engage creatively in an ongoing story of learning, mathematical leveraging, experimentation, and empathetic inter-appreciation? In respect of the creative power availed to each of us, looking beyond mere logic, and beyond simplistic slogans, should we not simultaneously, ambiguously, and uneasily reverence, respect, fear, evaluate, judge, love, relish, appreciate, nurture, pursue, leverage, project, and transcend our moral responsibility? Should we not teach to pursue enlightened empathy?

Why do churches, Marxists, scientists, educators, and politicians so often lack vision to lead us towards civilization that can be responsibly stable, sustainable, and surpassable?

Every simplistic minded addict has his or her own easy “answer,” mantra, or slogan for everything. It is easy to be a simple minded liberal, with no responsibility for drawing or enforcing any needed hard lines against depredations that would corrupt the familial heart of civilization. It is just as easy to be a simple minded conservative, bound only to worship unregulated market “forces.”

Church folk, historicists, and scientists all need moral purposes, but their purposes fall to ashes when founded only on weak and simplistic grounds that are simply inadequate to support complex and creative challenges imposed by our mathematically interconnecting existential predicament.

An interconnected, interdependent Civilization necessitates that we inculcate and educate towards skill for exercising enlightened empathy and sometimes hard-nosed vision on behalf of an ideal of transcendence towards a civilization that is stable, sustainable, and surpassable. Yet, such ideal is open to all forms of sentience --- irrespective of race, color, genetics, robotics, family, tribe, culture, nationality, or previous psychological conditioning. Where there is Will, there is Way.

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A God superior to Nature could not very well be stuck with a body or form that could not be changed at Will.

Among such bodies and forms as compete for our holographic attention, Will need not favor the endurance of any, except as then intuited to be empathetically associated with expressing, reminding, advancing, or pursuing the survival, replication, or flourishing of truth and beauty.

While there is no aspect of any physical essence that cannot be represented in math, yet there is no mathematics-in-itself that can complete any representation of Will.

Whether or not there may exist any superior essence, super-body, or super-physicality in association with Will is irrelevant to the relation of our physics to Will-To-Math.

To our empathetic appreciation, what is relevant is: Will-To-Math; and derivative subordination of our mortal physics in respect of IT’s ever-pursuit of truth and beauty.