Pork and Puha

On July 5th or 6th, 2000, I ordered a Mac’s Gold at the Toot ‘n’ Whistle in Picton.

In New Zealand there is facility to put the goverment under interim administration.  When a hegemonic goverment is prorogued, unconstitutional, and self-serving there must be a mechanism to restore the interest of society.

In Fiji, the sweet sun-ripened vegetarians placed by a Victorian government began to violate the native rights of the settled inhabitants of those islands – a precursor to events in New Zealand where the problem is the police.  George Speight had a right to state his case.  Now there has been a military coup in Fiji.

Ask Ron Marks about the men who looked like the statue called Iwo Jima outside the Beehive and to whom he pointed them out.

Perhaps Fiji is being barred from contributing to the spread of peace in the world because Helen Clark, now at the United Nations in New York, is one of those minions of the germanic, vandalising Victorian adherents of Nietzche and Weishaupt.  They, like their arch-nemesis brothers, divide the world into black and white and expect all to conform to their pyramidic satrapy.

The anti-pope Benedict XVI, heretic and sinister wretch, attempts to perpetrate evil indications and divine intervention under the surface of words of love and life.  His order is corrupt and through action and inaction prevents the achievement of healthy and enjoyable life for a large proportion of the world.  His sick mentality extends to microwaving members of Clan Chattan.

Semiotics and Prerogative

Given signs and their denotations, a language represents relations between signs and also perhaps between signs and niches of the real world.

Gödel has proven that any fixed formal system is incomplete.  A successful formal system requires an organic nexus to assess and introduce new signs.

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Victoria University of Wellington has successfully proven the failure of the Victorian headless system.

Rugby

Given the nature of quantum mechanics, how does a puny geek seal a point?

How would one prevent the impossible?

Purely positive republics.      15 July 2009

Revolving-door merit

Membership of aristocracy is governed by non-negative elevation.

Committees and Interaction

Given a committee as a possible internal mechanism for analysis and resolution, that committee must still have a single organic interface to other entities.

For example, the President of the United States might have a cabinet meeting, but when the president speaks to China at the highest level, the dialogue between the President and China is an interpersonal interaction that becomes recorded as the official conversation between those two nations.

The President changes, but the historical record does not. The president is not the United States, but must still act with full responsibility for the previous conversations and actions of his country.

China should not and does not expect to have to speak to each cabinet member about the same topic or about different aspects of the same topic. Each cabinet member brings a different aspect to bear, and, just as with the kaumatua, the president takes all into consideration to act and phrase the president’s behaviour, statements, and responses.

Does the sun exist?: The Catholic Church and catholicism

There are tribes of Africans who have been visited by westerners with cameras, clothes, and rings and things.  They enjoy dancing and jumping up and down.  While I have not personally been to Africa, if I can believe the Discovery Channel, then I have to accept that these people wear tartan stuff.

Hunting lions and tigers is a fearsome undertaking, and the men of those tribes are testament to the silent nature of the hunt.  The meat having been eaten, a chieftain then wears the pelt as a sign of sovereignty and respect.

The pharoahs of Egypt have amply demonstrated that the illumination of a brainless corpse cannot bring that corpse to life.  While the dharma of the pharoah of the Kabbalah may be transmitted, life is fleeting.  Alexander, after passing control to his satrap, left Egypt.

While Jesus of Nazareth might have had a bad start with a lying mother and a push-over father, his woolly-woofty ‘I can heal you’ stint as Jesus Christ saw him crucified.  No one else ever needs to do that, he died for you.

An interesting election process saw the inclusion of a few gospels in the new testament.  In a time of tenuous physical control over the bubbling animus of a population lacking schools, ample shelter, clothing, and food, and a lack of proven knowledge of the natural world, there may have been a need for a somewhat authoritarian anchor of belief.

Councils at Trent and Nicea, with the overt goal of interpretation of scripture, determined certain courses for the Christian bishops.  Augustine had coined the pharaonic and platonic realm of the soul as a heaven ruled by an almighty deity.  While the aim of the Christian church may have been to admit as many as possible into the realm of everlasting ineffectuality, the mundane and temporal nature of man and the prince saw the Western Catholic orthodoxy involve itself in territorial expansion and the accumulation of gold.

During the Middle Ages, a number of christian crusades to reclaim the Holy Land saw the rise of a number of benevolent orders.  Hospitalars and Templars, those to care for and defend pilgrims, eased the passage to the Levant.  The templars, who had sworn to poverty and chastity with a ritual kiss on the ass and a secretly whispered ‘kundalini,’ were disbanded by the pope as a corrupt, rich, and deceitful order in the middle of the last christian millenium.

That millenium saw the graduation of schools from Plato’s gymnasia to universities for the older children.  Scholasticism and Neoplatonism began to lead to the liberation of foreign writings such as those of the greeks and arabs.

There is and was a tension between the need to prevent spontaneous civil discombobulation and the right of all individuals to live under their own direction with dignity and respect.  The Enlightenment and Reformation saw the liberation of the common man and a personal relationship with the divine.

The temporal aspirations of the Catholic Church have seen a binding to the literal and a division of the world into black and white.  The lot of the common man is not to provide energy and resource for a megalomaniacal animal, but to be able to enjoy his impermanence while he may.

The governing nature of the subordinates in the catholic church and the truly benevolent aim of most priests and laymen assists the parish in navigating the challenge of the true Kabbalah.

The church teaches and provides lessons on a variety of daily tasks.  For example, the relation between a husband and a wife is described.  There is a core and a truth, and there is a reality and pragmatic of technology.  For one husband and one wife to achieve connection and understanding may not always be achieved.

In the contemporary world, with improved education, less disguising and dissembling, and the accumulated habitus, especially of families both ancient and modern, some marriages may be open to more than two partners without violating catholicism.

There is no longer any need for the intimate pastoral care of a village priest just as there is no longer any need for signal towers.  The Catholic Church chose to have a pope as Vicar of Christ.  The schism with the iconoclastic patriarchy of the orthodox church left the map of advancement hidden from the Vatican and for the navigators of the orthodoxy to move their men to distant shores.

With access to a decent university (Not currently Harvard, Haifa, or in New Zealand), and the question “does the sun exist?” one can arrive at a premise-free conception and model of reality.  Faith no more.

We can explain the sun, the body, the mind, the animal, the man, the angel, the taiha, and the empires of the sun.

The Hexagon

A neomodern structure with a central courtyard, a number of concentric hubs and apparently random connecting hallways housing representatives of China, Japan, Fiji, Scotland, England, and Russia.

Surrounding the hexagon is a tent city and collection of food halls open only to employees from twelve other countries: Indonesia, Ireland, Sweden, Thailand, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Holland, and Denmark.

[too many friendly firing incidents to be interoperable with my friends the United States.]

English

All people are useless.

Parties may have contractual obligations.

Amorality, Society, and Ethics

Religion, or more recently, morality is nothing more than a set of norms enforced on inhabitants to limit behaviour. The social contract of Rousseau and Locke has the safety and security of person and property as the core and the benefits of specialisation and cooperation as the bonus.

I accept no unfounded morality. However, once we, in society, have agreed upon some social compact, then we have arrived at contingent morality. Not to say that I would allow rape or abuse. In the wild that wrong would not be repeated by the same person. In society, however, we develop sets of identifying and acceptable behavioural patterns. Do not tell me how to behave except in public or in a situation which grossly affects the public. Although I hold to the principle, the notion of preference frustration is a good guage of the effects of one’s actions.

A paper on the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences in 1997 with Dr. Nick Agar gave me the opportunity to write about the naturalistic fallacy and the ethics of gene therapy.

I have a great problem with the categorical imperative. While all individuals must be treated as being of equal worth, there are those individuals with greater ability who fill positions of greater responsibility and, so one would hope, privilege. There might be seven generals, one in a situation to make a decision. The environment of that situation requires attention and detail, more so than the bed and footlocker in the barracks. But when at home or at a restaurant, the general and the private are equal.

Whole Earth, the Environment, and Nations

While James Lovekock’s Gaia hypothesis might over-emphasise an anthopomorphic view of a closed ecosystem, almost three thousand years after the founding of Rome and the pax romana, we find ourselves in a situation which requires pax universalis and a whole earth policy to allay the effects of greedy optimisation and a lack of admirable foresight.

The environment is both fragile and robust. Moth species can mutate from one colour extreme to the other in short order, insecticide resistance can develop in multiple manners in under fifty years, and the albedo of the planet can dampen temperature fluctuations and the effects of solar anomalies.

The most prevalent form of government in the current era is the representative democracy. Ideally, the inhabitants and citizens of a nation should be able to select those people whom they trust to make decisions of state on their behalf. The school teacher and bank clerk should not be required to research the positions of foreign nations on pollution offset pricing, rather, they should have confidence that their elected representatives will act in a manner consistent with their interests and the interests of the future inhabitants and citizens of that country.

While most countries in the global economy are price-takers, each country maintains a prerogative to present a unique and worthwhile position and opinion. Throwing stones aside, perhaps David could have reasoned with Goliath.