Final Notice Free Will and Objective Uncertainty by Frank Hatch "...too long or too short you may present for a freewill offering; but it will not be accepted for a vow." Leviticus 22:23 (NRSV) Imperfect and Perfect: The Final Notice website has been criticized for being "too long" and "too short." Both criticisms are valid. Indeed, this imperfect website (per Leviticus 22:23) is "extended or contracted" (JPS); "superfluous or lacking" (KJV); "ill-proportioned or stunted" (NAB). The Final Notice website can only qualify as a "freewill offering." Only Jesus Christ (the High Priest) has the Blood to offer the perfect Vow: "...once for all..." (Hebrews 9:26). Perfect or Imperfect? How do you know? What is your standard? What is your empirical data? How do you trust your data? Where are your proofs in a math sequence of postulates? Axioms, but no proofs? These valid questions should be asked by any individual reading the Final Notice website. I have emphasized individual, because the designed incompleteness of this website addresses only functional individuals - not groups of individuals that have become non-functional. The function of an individual is to find the Truth. All groups find it convenient to short-circuit the thesis and antithesis of every synthesis (i.e., they restrict their analysis to the finite dimensions and variables of a Closed System). Thus, all groups avoid the paradoxes of Truth to bind their members to a limited analysis. The function of a group is only to maintain the group. Thus, only functional individuals can appreciate Truth. Only functional individuals have free will. Groups only exist because they bind their members. A member that breaks the group's binding becomes a functional individual with free will. (Note: A functional individual may choose to bind himself to a particular group as an act of free will. Such an act of free will may change the group.) Only functional individuals can use objective uncertainty. With a religious chant or a political slogan, groups restrict the objective uncertainty of their members. A member that resists restriction of objective uncertainty becomes a functional individual trying to think outside the group's perimeters. Only functional individuals can use tension and stress. Groups control the tension and stress of their members as part of the group's function of avoiding paradoxes. Members that resist the control of the group will experience an increase in tension and stress; they are becoming functional individuals. Thus, functional individuals have free will; and they can use objective uncertainty with the resultant tension and stress. Functional individuals are usually in the minority of any group that has rationalized the human situation. Since functional individuals are commonly attacked for political or religious heresy, such human individuals have found it prudent to seek anonymity. Therefore, the Final Notice website does not maintain an email list and discourages donations. If you send a donation, I won't thank you. Indeed, I will forget your name. A species that uses dialectical logic can only corrupt whatever information is given it. Thus, the Final Notice website will remain incomplete. You will not be given the beginning or the end; nor can this website provide your real name and unique purpose. [Your uniqueness can only be found on a white stone (Revelation 2:17).] However, the gaps in the Final Notice website will provide points of contemplation to a functional individual. Only a functional individual can begin exploring the empirical data from the Open System (i.e., infinite number of dimensions and variables). All groups (religious, philosophical, or political) are restricted to a Closed System (i.e., finite number of dimensions and variables). Christian: All Christian denominations of the world must be counted among the various Closed Systems (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islamism, Pantheism, Socialism, Communism, Environmentalism, Darwinism, Fascism, Secularism, Atheism, Caodaism, Humanism, etc.). Christian individuals, however, are functional individuals waiting for a promised development or growth. All Christian denominations are simply playpens holding children with unwashed feet (John 13:7-14). The stewards (Luke 16:1-8) of these playpens are frequently not Christian. Stewards tend to smile too much or scowl too much; they are interested in status, attire, clerical traditions, money, and power. The World's stewards are shrewder than children in playpens. The stewards look at us with amused contempt as we try to wash each other's feet. I've noticed that I'm frequently distracted counting dirty toes rather than washing feet. Also, I have more than once bumped my head on the slats of the playpen (a 3-dimensional space with a linear time sequence). The stewards of the various Christian denominations are well-versed in dialectical arguments; but it is only the Christian children that are capable of setting the arguments aside to try to wash each other's feet. Thus, Christians are able to repent their compromise with the World's wisdom. The "wise" argument is never more important than love. Indeed, the faith itself is empty without love. However, those churches that try use a rationalized love to defend a favorite argument will lose that argument with their truncated love; and they will probably lose their congregation. A congregation of functional individuals cannot be easily controlled. Such a congregation knows the difference between rationalized love and divine love. Many Christians can read their Bible to explore the Love of God; but, more important, Christians have empirical data. Since few stewards of any church are functional individuals, stewards tend to overestimate the value of their office as they have overestimated the value of the World's Wisdom. Stewards are clerks, lawyers, scholars, psychologists, and bureaucrats; but they call themselves pastors, teachers, priests, bishops, and fathers... Such stewards are more concerned with protecting the image of righteousness rather than righteousness. For Example: pedophile priests protected by so-called "good" priests - both covet the title of "father." As a real father of several children, I know what I would have done to a priest or anyone else that abused my children. It wouldn't have been pretty, civil, or courteous. I wouldn't care about my image of righteousness; I would satisfy my righteous rage. Any so-called "good" priest claiming the title of "father" should act like one; they shouldn't be looking in the mirror to see if they looked like one. Further Examples of World Wisdom: the rationalizing or justifying abnormal sexual behavior, such as homosexuality and pedophilia. Although love can forgive a repented sinner, love cannot justify a boastful sinner. Pride in sexual abnormality (e.g., Gay Pride) is one of the characteristics of Hell. Hell cannot make a new pleasure; Hell can only twist or corrupt a normal pleasure. Hell's tool for corruption is dialectical rationalization (Genesis 3:4). Thus, a superficial synthesis of male and female characteristics (i.e., homosexuality or Gay Pride); and a synthesis of adult lust and child fear (i.e., pedophilia or child rape), are syntheses that attack the normal reproductive function of the human species. Both the homosexual and the pedophile use their abnormal sexuality for recruitment not reproduction. A more direct attack on the human species is, of course, abortion. By murdering an unborn child, individuals try to avoid the stress and tension of parental responsibilities. Abortion is a successful business that attacks the human species; but Hell is greedy for more. Hell wants food: eternal souls locked into a finite analysis. Unborn and innocent children are useless to Hell, Hell needs a steady supply of individual souls locked into a rationalization of murder. Thus, Hell needs a good-neighbor euphemism. Hell needs a planned parenthood. An organization that will inure an individual's conscience over murdering a child. Hell feeds well on the human species. A conscience can be easily suppressed in a woman looking for an escape from tension and stress; such women are easily flattered with an illusion of independence: my body, my choice. Curiously, in a play for sympathy, these same women talk about their difficult choice. But if the choice is difficult, the unborn child is something more than a tumor or human physiochemical reaction. All murderers should find the choice to murder difficult. However, all abortionists want for their conscience is money - any sympathy is reserved for the women and their "difficult choice." Note: The Subjectivity of a "difficult choice" is not so far from Perfect and Imperfect judgments. To have a choice, you need to know the standard. If your "difficult choice" is made in chaos, your standard must be outside of chaos; or you won't be able to measure or trust your empirical data. Your empirical data are meaningless if your standard changes with your data. To verify the validity of your standard, you must be in constant contact with that standard. Indeed, your existence and your standard cannot be separated: I AM right, I AM wrong, I AM measuring, I AM choosing, I AM.... I AM, therefore I think* - using the Objective/Subjective thought paradox (i.e., perceiving from the outside in and perceiving from the inside out simultaneously). Subjectivity is not a problem unless your Objectivity has become an obsession. If you short-circuit or resolve the Objective/Subjective thought paradox, your Objectivity acquires a subjective modifier: obsessed. Such obsessed Objectivity is restricted to a finite number of dimensions and variables (i.e., Closed System). See Objective/Subjective Thought Paradox: Titius-Bode (Page 3); Galactic Mass (Page 4); Carpenter Tool; The Lost; California Mayor on the Lost; Advice from Frank Hatch; F.A.Q. * "I think, therefore I am," says Rene` Descartes in 1637 (Discourse on the Method, Part IV). The transposition of his famous quote to "I AM, therefore I think" could be improved with "I AM, therefore I think with Free Will." With Free Will I can think correctly or incorrectly. If I stumble over a rock, the rock might say, "I am, but I don't need to think." Frank Hatch 30 E. 33rd Ave. #50355 Eugene, Oregon 97405 U.S.A. |
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