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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu |
Submitter: îàéø áï ùìîä
Location: S. Korea
Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu ha-Tza•diqꞋ:
2003.08.01 1700 –
[Mei•irꞋ Bên-ShᵊlōmꞋōh 07.31 1716 Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim Time]
- Can the Super-Intelligent and Logical / Rational Creator we have demonstrated have created his creatures with cognition and understanding but left them with no confirming instructions concerning our purpose and His expectations of us?
- How would the Super-Intelligent and Logical / Rational Creator we have demonstrated have provided instructions without contradicting Himself?
I'm not sure about stating what the Creator can or can't do, but I think He would find a way to reveal his expectations and instructions if he had them.
But in answer to question number 1, why not? Why can't such a Creator not have left us with no confirming instructions, etc.?
[Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu 08.07 0745 Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim Time] Creation with no purpose would be capricious, which – as Einstein also noted – contradicts the demonstrated attribute of Super-Intelligence. To "leave it to chance" or "see what happens" is a contradiction of the Singularity’s Super-Intelligence that we have previously demonstrated. At the very least, purpose implies that the Singularity-Creator would have coupled sentience with the capacity for those of us concerned about the issue, beyond the ignorant oversimplification assumptions of superstition, to logically figure out our purpose in order to make an informed choice about it. Anything less necessarily integrates an element of capriciousness.
[Mei•irꞋ Bên-ShᵊlōmꞋōh 07.31 1716 Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim Time] [In answer to question #2,] I suppose the Super Intelligent Logical/Rational Creator would reveal instructions in a way that didn't contradict His own self-defined Logic/Rationality.
At this point, it would help if we had more people adding in their opinions in order to continue this as a discussion, because I'm going into student mode: you talk, and I listen and absorb.
Let the lecture begin.
[Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu 08.01 0745 Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim Time] I, too, wish there were more participating. However, many, including professors of philosophy, may find the discussion daunting. I was offered honors in logic as an undergraduate at the University of Florida. Though I had excellent philosophy professors at the University of Florida, who respected logic and gave me excellent grades, too many philosophers have ignored training in logic, focusing instead on a set of intuitions they labelled "classical logic." (Those who want to get a handle on logic should take a couple of semesters of logic – e.g. discrete logic, discrete mathematics or logic design – in a computer science college at a recognized university.) Consequently, physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians – professionals in the hard sciences – have entirely replaced philosophers as intelligent and informed debaters of philosophy, thereby rendering most of the latter irrelevant. As a consequence, discussing philosophy has begun (finally!) to converge with logic-mathematics, physics and the other hard sciences. (Logic and math are equivalent. Each maps, 1-1, to the other. They are merely alternate ways of abstracting the same thing.)
Since capriciousness is incompatible with the previously demonstrated Super-Intelligent Singularity, and leaving the experiment of the universe, including us, to "see what happens" is capricious, this implies a Super-Intelligent plan, a Super-Intelligent design, a Super-Intelligent purpose in the universe and, in turn, in each of our lives. The implications of a Super-Intelligent purpose in each of our lives are enormous.
Considering these implications leads to further insights. The most conspicuous issue that first looms before us is free will versus predestination. The Super-Intelligent Singularity, by definition, knows the outcome. How is that compatible with free will? The simple answer is that we, who have the free will, don’t know the outcome and are free to determine it for ourselves, constrained by such things as the laws of physics. Paramountly, discern that pre-knowledge isn’t pre-destination. This distinction is pivotal. I will illustrate. A football fan watching a game sees his favorite team in a huddle and exclaims "I know what he’s going to do! He’s going to fake a pass right and hand off to the halfback who’s going to follow the fullback blocking left under the tight end for the winning touchdown." And it happens. Though intuitive, somehow, inscrutably, he knew it. There was no doubt in his mind. And he was right. But did he in any way contravene the coach’s free will in calling that play? The defensive captain’s free will in setting the defensive line-up? Did he in any way control the outcome of the game? Pre-knowledge isn’t pre-destination.
So our findings imply that we have a Super-Intelligent purpose. By definition, a Super-Intelligent purpose is beyond ordinary capacity intelligence. This implies that there are aspects of our purpose that we cannot grasp. This implies that we cannot have all of the facts to reach an informed conclusion about our purpose. We’re necessarily limited and must, in the end, deal with some element of speculation. How greatly can what we cannot know affect our correctness in calculating our purpose? Yet, our purpose is the supreme factor underlying our design and creation. We need an assist from the Super-Intelligent Singularity: an Instruction Manual, to ensure our purpose is on the right track so that we can do what is expected of us. Alternatively, what we are capable of figuring out must be enough that we, though being inherently imperfect beings, nevertheless have the capability to come close enough to satisfy the Creator-Singularity Who, in turn, is willing to make up the slack for us. What is left in that case is our choice; free will.
We’ve earlier demonstrated that the Singularity is Perfect (as described in the Tor•âhꞋ, another factor that will become increasingly important in our discussion). A Perfect Singularity cannot produce imperfect laws, thereby contradicting His own Perfection. Supernatural intervention (occurrences) contradicts Perfect Laws. Therefore, supernatural occurrences contradict the Perfect Singularity and, therefore, cannot occur in the universe created and defined by the Perfect Singularity.
There can only occur phenomena that we, as lesser-capacity intelligent beings, do not at the time understand how to explain. However, it is arrogant for a mortal to assume that, because he or she doesn't understand, there is no rational and natural explanation. Clearly, at a later time, such natural phenomena often can be explained due to increased knowledge. We must, therefore, expect that much unexplained phenomena of the past is now understandable – not as supernatural events, but as natural and explainable occurrences. Further, we must become intelligent enough to recognize that phenomena that occur today that is beyond our understanding is no more supernatural or magic than unexplained events in the past that finally yielded to increased knowledge. This jibes with the Ta•na"khꞋ prohibition against belief in the supernatural (i.e. magic) to skirt intelligent – rational – explanation, which corroborates the Omniscient Creator-Singularity. This is another element of Tor•âhꞋ that jibes with intelligent expectations of the Super-Intelligent Singularity.
These elements of Tor•âhꞋ that jibe with intelligent expectations of the Super-Intelligent Singularity continue to accumulate until they become an overwhelming avalanche on one side of the scales. On the other side of the scales are the supposedly supernatural magic events in Tor•âhꞋ that contradict the Super-Intelligent Singularity, which, by contrast, continue to fall to scientific explanations – leaving the "supernatural" magic basket glaringly empty. Studied long enough, it becomes obvious that the Tor•âhꞋ is the only Instruction manual that is compatible with the Super-Intelligent Singularity. Neither God mating with a human woman to give birth to a man-God, nor a rider on a magic flying horse being supposedly flown overnight from Mecca to Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim, nor any form of polytheism are compatible with the Omniscient Creator-Singularlity. A priori, Tor•âhꞋ is, therefore, the sole Instruction manual of the Super-Intelligent Singularity. Further, Tor•âhꞋ literally means "Instruction," not "law" as many mistakenly (and maliciously) assert. Tor•âhꞋ wasn’t intended to be hard to find (vid. Dᵊvâr•imꞋ 30.11-14 (& 15-20), Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu 31.33), which also jibes with the non-capriciousness of the Super-Intelligent Singularity – while contradicting rabbinic claims that rabbis are necessary intermediaries to understand Tor•âhꞋ.
But that isn’t the only confirmation of Tor•âhꞋ as the sole Instruction manual of the Super-Intelligent Singularity. The instruction manual of the Super-Intelligent Singularity must be signed by the the Super-Intelligent Singularity. How could this occur given the previously demonstrated exclusion of supernatural events? The only viable answer is a chain of circumstances that seems unexplainable and to defy chance, that states unequivocally "Only I could have designed this chain of events this way." There is only one set of such statistically far-fetched chain of events, set out before the fact, that screams special Design under the Hand of the Omniscient Creator-Singularity – the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ and the restoration of Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ!!! And, wonder of wonders, the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ and restoration of Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ, along with the rest of the set that comprises Ta•na"khꞋ, consistently confirms the only Tor•âhꞋ ("Instruction Manual") in existence that is completely compatible with an Omniscient Creator-Singularity!!! (An undiscovered, or even esoteric, instruction manual fails the test of capriciousness, not to mention definitions concerning straightforwardness, genuineness as opposed to deception and concealment, etc.)
We have the sole existing match! And a wrap. A truly intelligent and rational intellect cannot avoid the realities of the the Omniscient Creator-Singularity, His Tor•âhꞋ, including the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ, ⅔ of Jews being cut-off in the Sho•âhꞋ (Zᵊkhar•yâhꞋ 13.6-9), the restoration of the remaining third as Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ and the indivisible whole of Tor•âhꞋ!!! Denying any of these is sheer ignorance.
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