God's Identity Crisis

My post on economics is turning out to be a rather cumbersome write, but I have something to hold you over:

Religion describes God as infinite and everything, yet unitary. This is a logical paradox, of course, since a self-contained individual cannot simultaneously contain everything. But does that mean that God does not exist at all? Perhaps, but I venture to say that paradoxes are a different kind of smoking gun.

Joseph Campbell once wrote, "Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall arrive at the center of our own existence," which not coincidentally reminds me of Helen Keller when she said "The only way out is through." See, it's not that God doesn't exist, it's that He has an identity crisis embodied in the corruption of language and linear thinking.

Obviously, it doesn't do you any good to try to sense with senses that not longer exist to you just because other people are trying to use them, but more importantly, your other senses have become sharper anyway. Helen Keller discovered that each of her senses were created equally when she embraced the ones that still functioned and realized that she could sense just as well or better than anyone around her. In the same way, religion and its use of speech to convey the speechless have failed where once they may have succeeded.

If I were to promote a new spiritual sense for the religious to explore, I would have to remind them that the present moment, when one meditates, is both infinite and infinitesimal in duration. Sound familiar?

The Great Trickle-Down Pyramid Scheme

"...when we look around, we can see that the Bush administration leaned on the middle class and expanded the poor while giving more money to the top tier. Predatory lending (among other things, including declining home prices and lower wages) caused working middle class families to be unable to pay their mortgages. Mortgages were foreclosed, etc. etc. A classic feedback loop.

So giving more money to the rich isn't working. You give money to the rich, sure they may create jobs, or they may just do something else with it. Send it overseas. Buy a boat. Take a rocket tour of space. Greed got them where they are, and they're not going to let a penny of that money "trickle down" unless they know they're getting a large return on their investment. Which means, yes, they may create jobs, but they will be exploitative, either not paying enough or lobbying for the 60 hour work week or some other greed-based thing."

- Mark Kuykendall on Change.gov

I hereby predict the near future...

I am currently convinced of the following from listening to the Transition policy makers:

Prevention sweeps away bloated health insurance schemes.

Renewable energy sweeps away bloated fossil fuel schemes, international loan schemes, and military-industrial schemes.

Net Neutrality sweeps away bloated media schemes.

The money saved goes to make education affordable for everyone.

I am currently convinced of the following from reading the news and weighing it with certain personal experiences:

Psychedelic therapy changes so many lives at such high success rates that a Cultural Singularity approaches.

I am preparing a post about how economics is inconsistent without observing environmental and psychological ecosystems.