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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/339 2003 m. liepos 11 d.]
Jenson wrote a letter that got me thinking all day. He wrote:
"I don't want think about the consequences if I were to respond to my
wife's "I love you" with, "and I care about you". "But, what about
our relationship?", she might respond. "I consider you", would
probably not be my best reply at this point."
So, after quite a lot of thought, I responded:
"I'm thinking, in practice, that there are three ways that love works:
for your sake, I care, believe, obey. So you have to know the
context. If the context is thinking, then I care - that is the
practice of love. If I think differently than my wife, and she argues
"I love you", and I respond "and I care about you", that may be
helpful because it may bring it to the right context. Likewise, in
the context of doing, to love is to obey, and in the context of being,
to love is to believe. I care for your sake, I believe for your sake,
I obey for your sake."
Moreover, now I note something most interesting, this "for your sake".
"I love X" means that "for X sake, I love". The "for X sake" may be
the scope that gives the context of my love. Love is only practical
when it has such a scope, which is to say, when we actually love
someone. In that case it seems that we get a trifurcation, a
concretization, which makes the love practical - either obeying, or
believing, or caring. This is a great idea because it explains how we
get from "love" to "love X". Where do we get room for the object of
love? We get it when love becomes practical. It is the sake for
which we love. And the practical love requires a context: thinking,
doing or being.
So this is a big help on relating loving and caring. I share the rest
of my letter.
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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/340| July 12, 2003]]
My thoughts from yesterday are helping me figure out how "loving" relates to "loving X".
to love:
* = to support life
* = to support the unity of the representations of anything
(because life = unity of the representations of anything)
* = to strengthen the will
(because will = unity of (the representations of anything))
* = to heighten willing
(because the representations of anything are the expressions of
the will, which is to say, wiling; and the will is the unity of this
willing; and the will is stronger if the willing is more pronounced;
and it is more pronounced if it is more diverse)
* = to heighten "choosing wishing"
(because the ways of willing are given by the ways of choosing to
wish, that is, given a scope of not-wishing, we select a scope of wishing)
* = to clarify the scopes of wishing and not-wishing
(because we heighten the choosing by making clear the distinction
between wishing and not-wishing, through their difference in scopes)
* = to wish and not-wish in every way
(because this makes evident all of the scopes of wishing and
not-wishing, which are: everything, anything, something, nothing)
* = to heighten the distinction between being-one-with and
not-being-one-with.
(see Note).
Note: I think wishing and not-wishing across these four scopes are
made evident by the eightfold way. So it is likely that this
structure helps flesh out the representations of everything, which are
given by the kinds of wishing. It seems that we heighten a unity by
making pronounced the representations that it unites. God is the
unity of representations of everything. I suppose that, if we look
for a unity of the not-wishing, then it would be not-being-one-with,
and the unity of wishing would be being-one-with (very closely related
to God). So to make evident the scopes of wishing and not-wishing, I
think would be to heighten the distinction between being-one-with and
not-being-one with.
So I think this is a rather nice conclusion:
To love is to strengthen the will, which is to distinguish between
being-one-with and not-being-one-with so that one might choose.
Yesterday was helpful in thinking, what does it mean to love X? Some
of this straightforward, some requires some thought, and I mark with
an asterisk (*).
to love X:
* = to support the life of X
* = *to support the unity by X of the representations of anything
* = to strengthen the will of X
* = to heighten willing by X
* = to heighten "choosing wishing" by X
* = to clarify the scopes of wishing and not-wishing for X
* = to wish and not-wish in every way for the sake of X
* = to heighten for X the distinction between being-one-with and not-being-one-with.
Life is the unity of the representations of anything, and it occurs at
that unity, so I think the life of X is given by the unity by X, which
I say is through their will, which likewise occurs through that unity.
It is interesting here that X inserts itself into the concept "unity
of representations" which is "coherence". Life is the coherence of
anything. If we speak of the life of X, then that coherence is broken
up by X, it is coherence I suppose with regard to X. The life of X is
the coherence by way of X of anything. It is as if X offers a scope
for life, a localization of that coherence.
Practically, our will is strengthened by God as a reciprocation to our
internalization: our obeying, believing or caring.
From yesterday, loving is, in practice, loving X.
loving X = for the sake of X,
* in matters of doing, to obey
* in matters of being, to believe
* in matters of thinking, to care
This should match:
for the sake of X, to heighten the distinction between being-one-with
and not-being-one-with.
And the latter is given in three different ways by the eightfold way.
(There are three different injections which yield frameworks for the
languages: argumentation for obeying, verbalization for believing,
narration for caring).
This suggests also that the static structures serve as follows:
* divisions give the context of doing
* criteria give the context of being
* topologies give the context of thinking.
Structurally this is all very promising. The eightfold way is a
keystone structure, and pretty much generated by this issue of
being-one-with and not-being-one-with across the four scopes. So it
is great that it might serve as the framework for making sense of love.
What it suggests about love is that is made practical by applying to a
scope X, that is, by channeling life through a scope X. In other
words, the coherence of anything is channeled through a scope X.
For the sake of X we care about everything, anything, something,
nothing. In this way we heighten the scopes that X may choose to wish.
The warmth of caring, and likewise believing and obeying, is in the "for the sake of X".
So the distinction between obeying, believing, caring is given by the
three injections of the eightfold way, so I will be able to study
that. And the structure of the eightfold way should also clarify the
logic of internalizing/will-strengthening with regard to
being-one-with/not-being-one-with.
I will be looking closely at the eightfold way, and that will be an opportunity to document it, and perhaps to consider how it relates to Buddha's eightfold way, and draw more from Buddhism. So I will write more what I mean.
As I do all of this I will be looking at the role of that "scope X" as
in "for the sake of X" because it lets us have an object for love, as
in "loving X". In other words, it opens up a lot of possibility in
structure.
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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/341|July 14, 2003]]
I hung out with God yesterday, I took a hike through a hill above a nearby spa. I asked him what he might like to investigate, and he pointed out a mistake that I had made, serves me right.
I had written that:
loving is, in practice, loving X.
loving X = for the sake of X,
* in matters of doing, to obey
* in matters of being, to believe
* in matters of thinking, to care
Well, if loving is strengthening the will, then obeying, believing,
caring are not loving. For they are simply the internalizations that
have God reciprocate by strengthening the will. Loving has to do with
God's side of the equation:
* resolving the issue of beauty vs. disgust into courage
* resolving the issue of love vs. hate into hope
* resolving the issue of intimacy vs. fear into honesty
I think the "for your sake" is crucial here, that is where the love
enters. God can live without resolution because God makes no
mistakes. But we wish for resolution because we make mistakes. God
can live on the edge of love vs. hate. But we wish for resolution on
behalf of love. This is that recursive stripping away of our
decision-making that I wrote about. We want to be brought to that
deeper level where we do not err. God likes to open things up, reach
out and keep things on the edge.
God strengthens our will by distinguishing for us being-one-with and
not-being-one-with. So he makes this distinction by making clear to
us which is which at that level where we do not err. This
clarification is the "strengthening" that roots, for example, love in
hope. We may then, I imagine, be able to love in the way that God
loves, reaching out back to heightening the choice.
So the "for your sake" is what roots the issue into your unerring virtue. I love you when I
* root your feelings of beauty in your courage
* root your feelings of love in your hope
* root your feelings of intimacy in your honesty
Here your scope defines your courage, hope, honesty. Your scope defines your unerring depth.
And here I imagine "your feelings" are the shared feelings, simply all feelings. So we can remove the "your". I love you when I
* root beauty in your courage
* root love in your hope
* root intimacy in your honesty.
I love you when you are my touchstone.
You are my touchstone if you are my scope. And if you are my scope, then I internalize with regard to you. So it must be that "for your sake" I obey, believe, care. Because that is what sets you as my scope. And then, as the scope, feelings are rooted in you. And so it is your will that is thereby strengthened. Because all feelings are resolved into your depth.
This is helpful. Thank you, God.
Love is the support of Life. What does this mean?
The activity of the Beginning is to Love. The activity of the End is to be loved. In this sense, the beginning is Love and the end is Life.
Love and Life thus present two completely different perspectives. They are two different RepresentationsOfSlack.
Love is related to Everything as its fullest manifestation.
Note that love and life are at different ends conceptually. They are presumably related by the InversionEffect.
* Love is the Unity of the Representations of the Structure of God.
* Will is the Unity of the Representations of the Structure of Life.
We might think of love as the weakest manifestation of God. Love is that distillation of God which no longer knows that it is God. And similarly, in the other direction, life is the weakest manifestation of God's will. And life no longer knows that it is God's will.
But also life is the manifestation of will. And perhaps the fullest? From the point of view of Anything (life) and Everything (love) the values may change.
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God is one with us by his love which is from beyond us and by which we love one another. We love through God's love and so we are one in God's love. We are one with God and one together and that is through Other by which we are one amongst ourselves as we are beyond ourselves, so that Other and God coincide and all coincide along with them, just as Life and EternalLife coincide.
We love ever deeper:
* LoveSelf - Self-understanding - support of Structure
* LoveOther - SharedUnderstanding - support of Representations
* LoveGod - GoodUnderstanding - support of Unity
God loves the heart. To love and to be loved is very closely related to GoingBeyondOneself. To love is to step forward to coincide with one who is going beyond themselves. Then the one who is loved, when they love, they may turn around so as to step forward - to love - oneself.
This is to allow for a coinciding of views - and a parallel view as with eternal life. Hence understanding is in the turning around, this returning to the beginning. And here that beginning is at the heart. So the movement seems to be: go beyond oneself, coincide with the one who steps forward to meet you, and then turn around to face the one you went beyond.
To love is to be together (to BeOneWith) the one who has separated from themselves, gone beyond themselves.
Going beyond oneself makes for two - the one who was, and the one who went beyond. These two maybe considered together or separate. If one returns back, then it is perhaps possible to consider them separate in a parallel sense. (This is reminiscent of the general relativity paradoxes where one accelerates away and then back).
This separation may be thought of as defining scopes:
* Unity: separated from oneself by Nothing
* Representation: separated from oneself by Something
* Structure: separated from oneself by Anything
* Spirit: separated from oneself by Everything
''How does this relate to BeingOneWith''?
WhatYouFindIsWhatYouLove - this is the fact that there is one love and so God's love for us (through what we find) and our love is the same love
===Thoughts===
''Relate love to Understanding.''
According to Plato's The Feast, love is the seeking of eternal good. And it's activity is the giving birth to beauty. I add that beauty is what fosters sensitivity, and thereby supports life. We love a person - that is the way of our love - as we know how to support ourselves, and so we are able to support a person. We are one with everybody, anybody, somebody, nobody - and there are related emotions of content, excitement, surprise and sadness - and in this way our love becomes more focused, more concentrated - first infantilic love of self as everything, then an empathy for others, then an idealization of the one (the somebody) who is most exalted and encompasses all, and then the disappointment that we have for this world, yet we are able to focus our love on nobody - and so disappointment is the highest form of love, in that it has us recognize a greater world as necessary - as Christ says, we must hate our life in this world. And the fact that disappointment is the highest form of love is very helpful because it lets us respect family troubles and tensions between husband and wife, or parents and children. Also, each level raises the question - who are we serving, ourselves or another? Are we loving ourselves or loving another? And love expresses the relation between Subject (Observer) and Object (Observed), that there can be something more than the Observer. And as we realize subjectively that there is something greater than us, then we can go out into the world ever more objectively and love from that basis, so that we finally find the contentment of eternal life.
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I am making a bit more progress, in particular, in understanding love.
In this sense, given that the representations of everything are:
* everything wishes for nothing
* everything wishes for something
* everything wishes for anything
* everything wishes for everything
we have that Love is the unity of these representations.
I suppose that we have that:
* Love is the unity of "the representations of everything"
* God is the unity of the representations of everything
* and in this sense God is Love.
Just as:
* Will is the unity of "the representations of anything"
* Life is the unity of the representations of anything.
* and in this sense Life is Will.
This way of looking at Love is nice because it makes clear that Love
is built-in through everything as the framework that supports life.
And that in this sense God is Love as that same unity, just more
completely transparent. It makes intimate the support of everything
for anything.
[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/312|2003.06.06]] Today I had a thought which I imagine is in the spirit of Unology.
I was reaching for the big picture, so I was thinking about the commands LoveGod and LoveYourNeighborAsYourself.
I thought how loving our neighbor is being one with them. And that I
think of loving our neighbor as "identity" and loving God
as "perfection" (and Jesus as being the bridge between these two very
different concepts). I remembered how Jesus, in his prayer in the
Gospel of John, spoke of "love" as "being one with", especially with
regard to God. (I include a quote below).
I also wondered, what does neighbor mean? And what does it mean for
God to love his neighbor as himself? I think of God as creating
everything by some how folding it all up so that it has a geometry
where things can happen. And, in this way, beings of his nature
arise who do not know they are such, but have to figure it out and go
beyond the struture they find themselves in and look beyond it for
that which they are one with. These beings are bounded, and start
out disconnected, but otherwise they are of God, open. And these are
the beings close to God, near to him, his neighbors.
So I asked God, how does he love his neighbor, and the answer I think
I got was that he resurrects him and gives him eternal life. I think
of God as creating us, but also that process broken down into parts,
placing us, awakening us, having us reach out to each other, to him.
(And ourselves participating in such a process.)
I looked for what "Love God" and "Love your neighbor as yourself"
have in common, and what they have different. In common I think they
have this Unity for Empathy, this BeingOneWith.
The difference is that one is global, and the other is local. "Love
God" is empathy for a global unity. "Love your neighbor as yourself"
is empathy for a local unity. This local unity is very practical.
It is perhaps ultimately the same. It may perhaps overcome all of
the barriers. It is a recognition of the geometry that we find
ourselves within, and an overcoming of it. I think it doesnt require
a concern for the global unity, either.
It also points to the role of Slack (and good is slack, that is, good
is the unity of the representations of slack). Slack is what allows
local unity, the overcoming of the local geometry.
And "who is our neighbor?" Jesus was asked this, and in reply, he
spoke of the Good Samaritan, the one who crossed the road to help the
victim in the ditch, and care for him, and bring him to safety, and
be responsible for him. It is a little strange that, at the end,
Jesus asks, Who was the neighbor to the victim? Not the passersby,
but the one who showed mercy, the one who drew closer, who gave
slack. It means that Samaritan is the neighbor to the victim! which,
taken literally, (and who takes Jesus literally!?) is that "Love your
neighbor" means "Love the Samaritan" (not the victim). In other
words, you know who your neighbor is - it is the one with slack to
reach you, the one who overcomes barriers. If anybody is able to
reach you with their slack, then likewise, you should be one with
them. That is local unity. (The kind that, as Jesus says, even the
pagans have, they know how to love those who love them.) Whereas, if
you want to love your enemy, then that is global unity. But local
unity, taken seriously, yields global unity.
This distinction between Loving locally and Loving globally is
helpful structurally. It points to the importance of geometry (space
and time) to God. (This comes up in the distinction between God and
humans, everything and anything, as unbounded and bounded.) So I
remembered the Operation [AddThree +3] (an addition of three levels of
reflection) which I think is Consciousness. Here are the issues
defined by the divisions of everything, and taken up by their
perspectives:
* nullsome => God
* onesome => order
* twosome => existence
* threesome => engagement (particpation)
* foursome => knowledge
* fivesome => decision (continuum, time/space)
* sixsome => morality (structure)
* sevensome => good (truth, anti-structure = freestanding opposite)
The eightsome collapses into the nullsome (just as "all are white &
all are black" collapses into an empty system"). I think there is
some kind of operation +3 on these divisions that relates to
consciousness so that:
* engagement is consciousness of God
* knowledge is consciousness of order
* decision (time/space) is consciousness of existence
* morality is consciousness of engagement
* good is consciousness of knowledge
* God is consciousness of decision (time/space)
* order is consciousness of morality
* existence is consciousness of good
I think that these operations happen by means of the unity of the
representations of the division that is operated on. For example, in
the "Critique of Pure Reason", Immanuel Kant writes about his
Transcendental Deduction. I think, in the end, he did not quite have
it all together, and he kind of fudged it, these things are so
murky. So here is my version. If you start with the division of
everything into two perspectives (opposites coexist, all things are
the same) and you take the "how" level representation (outside,
inside) then you have that outside leads to inside. (If I am outside
of a system, we are opposite, but if I get sucked into it, then it is
like being inside the universe, there is no outside, and there is no
way out.) So this is an algorithmic expression of the twosome.
Think of it as a machine. It can be on or off. The relationship of
these two machines is that of theory (machine off) and practice
(machine on). When the machine is off, then I am distinct from it,
opposite to it. But when the machine is on, then I am living through
it, like a carrot through a grinder, or water through a pipe, we are
one and the same process. As perspectives, theory gives way to
practice. Well, the machine relates (outside and inside) as cause
and effect. In theory, every effect has had its cause. But in
practice, not every cause has had its effect. And there is the
connection between the two machines, their inflection point. (The
present). I need to think more about this, but my point is that this
kind of argument shows the relationship between the twosome and the
fivesome, and here it is one of adding three levels of reflection,
but also one of consciousness, which means here that we are conscious
of existence in that we are thinking of existence as an algorithm
that we are able to turn on or off. Perhaps in space/time this means
that we can control the scope of existence, the boundary between
inside and outside, and in this way we are conceptually in control of
existence, and as such conscious of it.
Here consciousness is "conceptually in control" where I think
the "conceptually" is +1 levels of reflection and "in control" is +2
levels and we have x +3 = x +2 +1 This works for the lower
divisions because they have such representations (four of them:
whether +0, what +1, how +2, why +1) and it is simply a matter of
adding perspectives.
However, in the case of the larger divisions, we need to end up with
fewer perspectives! We need slack, anti-structure. These divisions
have only two representations. I think what happens is that we use
these two representations, and appeal to the fact that we are working
with ALL of the representations.
For example, time and space are the two representations of the
division of everything into five perspectives. Well, God (or me, or
everything) is very akin to the unity of time and space.
I will be thinking about the following connections:
* -1 = 4 + 3 truth - unity of perspective and situation
* 0 = 5 + 3 God - unity of time and space
* 1 = 6 + 3 order - unity of emotion (Gods perspective) and cognition (mans perspective)
* 2 = -1 + 3 existence - unity of increasing slack and decreasing slack
These equations seem intimately related to the primary structures
(for transcendence), namely
* 6 = 3 + 3 operating principles
* 7 = 4 + 3 counterquestions
* 8 = 5 + 3 emotional responses
* 9 = 6 + 3 internalization, eightfoldway
Most of this work on +3 I did during and after my trip to Lithuania
back in 1988-1989. I noticed that a similar "unity of
representations" has become very important concept in my work of the
last few years. It lets me distinguish between spirit and structure,
as in:
* God is the unity of representations of everything
* good is the unity of representations of slack
* life is the unity of representations of anything
So I will explore what this means in the above context, and try to
make more sense of this operation +3.
Note: Just as the mind can be known by running up against the limits of imagination and transcending them, so the heart can be fulfilled by loving more than one believes possible.
'''Mylėti Dievą'''
This is very much related to LoveYourEnemy. In order to both have an enemy and love them, we need to be able to have a split mind, as is the case when we love God. For this reason a good atheist is not able to have enemies (or acknowledge them as such).
Love God is also directly associated with being Perfect, with behaving the same towards all, both the good and the bad.
To love X is to support X so that it is alive, sensitive, responsive.
We love God by allowing God to live through us, by following the will of God.
There are three means by which we may follow the will of God (go on his way):
* We Obey - we go because we are told.
* We Believe - we follow the one who goes down the road.
* We Care - we care to get to the end of the road.
'''Mylėti artimą: šeši pavyzdžiai'''
This means to love those who are good to us (as was the Good Samaritan).
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With regard to the "big picture" of our laboratory, I am looking for a foundation for six of our objectives: thinking about our own thoughts, actions, stands, and other thoughts, actions, stands. My feeling is that they can be derived from the commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself". I think that they offer different aspects of what it can mean to be a neighbor. Here are some examples of the kind of logic that helps me think of others as my neighbors.
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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/339 2003 m. liepos 11 d.]
Jenson wrote a letter that got me thinking all day. He wrote:
"I don't want think about the consequences if I were to respond to my
wife's "I love you" with, "and I care about you". "But, what about
our relationship?", she might respond. "I consider you", would
probably not be my best reply at this point."
So, after quite a lot of thought, I responded:
"I'm thinking, in practice, that there are three ways that love works:
for your sake, I care, believe, obey. So you have to know the
context. If the context is thinking, then I care - that is the
practice of love. If I think differently than my wife, and she argues
"I love you", and I respond "and I care about you", that may be
helpful because it may bring it to the right context. Likewise, in
the context of doing, to love is to obey, and in the context of being,
to love is to believe. I care for your sake, I believe for your sake,
I obey for your sake."
Moreover, now I note something most interesting, this "for your sake".
"I love X" means that "for X sake, I love". The "for X sake" may be
the scope that gives the context of my love. Love is only practical
when it has such a scope, which is to say, when we actually love
someone. In that case it seems that we get a trifurcation, a
concretization, which makes the love practical - either obeying, or
believing, or caring. This is a great idea because it explains how we
get from "love" to "love X". Where do we get room for the object of
love? We get it when love becomes practical. It is the sake for
which we love. And the practical love requires a context: thinking,
doing or being.
So this is a big help on relating loving and caring. I share the rest
of my letter.
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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/340| July 12, 2003]]
My thoughts from yesterday are helping me figure out how "loving" relates to "loving X".
to love:
* = to support life
* = to support the unity of the representations of anything
(because life = unity of the representations of anything)
* = to strengthen the will
(because will = unity of (the representations of anything))
* = to heighten willing
(because the representations of anything are the expressions of
the will, which is to say, wiling; and the will is the unity of this
willing; and the will is stronger if the willing is more pronounced;
and it is more pronounced if it is more diverse)
* = to heighten "choosing wishing"
(because the ways of willing are given by the ways of choosing to
wish, that is, given a scope of not-wishing, we select a scope of wishing)
* = to clarify the scopes of wishing and not-wishing
(because we heighten the choosing by making clear the distinction
between wishing and not-wishing, through their difference in scopes)
* = to wish and not-wish in every way
(because this makes evident all of the scopes of wishing and
not-wishing, which are: everything, anything, something, nothing)
* = to heighten the distinction between being-one-with and
not-being-one-with.
(see Note).
Note: I think wishing and not-wishing across these four scopes are
made evident by the eightfold way. So it is likely that this
structure helps flesh out the representations of everything, which are
given by the kinds of wishing. It seems that we heighten a unity by
making pronounced the representations that it unites. God is the
unity of representations of everything. I suppose that, if we look
for a unity of the not-wishing, then it would be not-being-one-with,
and the unity of wishing would be being-one-with (very closely related
to God). So to make evident the scopes of wishing and not-wishing, I
think would be to heighten the distinction between being-one-with and
not-being-one with.
So I think this is a rather nice conclusion:
To love is to strengthen the will, which is to distinguish between
being-one-with and not-being-one-with so that one might choose.
Yesterday was helpful in thinking, what does it mean to love X? Some
of this straightforward, some requires some thought, and I mark with
an asterisk (*).
to love X:
* = to support the life of X
* = *to support the unity by X of the representations of anything
* = to strengthen the will of X
* = to heighten willing by X
* = to heighten "choosing wishing" by X
* = to clarify the scopes of wishing and not-wishing for X
* = to wish and not-wish in every way for the sake of X
* = to heighten for X the distinction between being-one-with and not-being-one-with.
Life is the unity of the representations of anything, and it occurs at
that unity, so I think the life of X is given by the unity by X, which
I say is through their will, which likewise occurs through that unity.
It is interesting here that X inserts itself into the concept "unity
of representations" which is "coherence". Life is the coherence of
anything. If we speak of the life of X, then that coherence is broken
up by X, it is coherence I suppose with regard to X. The life of X is
the coherence by way of X of anything. It is as if X offers a scope
for life, a localization of that coherence.
Practically, our will is strengthened by God as a reciprocation to our
internalization: our obeying, believing or caring.
From yesterday, loving is, in practice, loving X.
loving X = for the sake of X,
* in matters of doing, to obey
* in matters of being, to believe
* in matters of thinking, to care
This should match:
for the sake of X, to heighten the distinction between being-one-with
and not-being-one-with.
And the latter is given in three different ways by the eightfold way.
(There are three different injections which yield frameworks for the
languages: argumentation for obeying, verbalization for believing,
narration for caring).
This suggests also that the static structures serve as follows:
* divisions give the context of doing
* criteria give the context of being
* topologies give the context of thinking.
Structurally this is all very promising. The eightfold way is a
keystone structure, and pretty much generated by this issue of
being-one-with and not-being-one-with across the four scopes. So it
is great that it might serve as the framework for making sense of love.
What it suggests about love is that is made practical by applying to a
scope X, that is, by channeling life through a scope X. In other
words, the coherence of anything is channeled through a scope X.
For the sake of X we care about everything, anything, something,
nothing. In this way we heighten the scopes that X may choose to wish.
The warmth of caring, and likewise believing and obeying, is in the "for the sake of X".
So the distinction between obeying, believing, caring is given by the
three injections of the eightfold way, so I will be able to study
that. And the structure of the eightfold way should also clarify the
logic of internalizing/will-strengthening with regard to
being-one-with/not-being-one-with.
I will be looking closely at the eightfold way, and that will be an opportunity to document it, and perhaps to consider how it relates to Buddha's eightfold way, and draw more from Buddhism. So I will write more what I mean.
As I do all of this I will be looking at the role of that "scope X" as
in "for the sake of X" because it lets us have an object for love, as
in "loving X". In other words, it opens up a lot of possibility in
structure.
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[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/341|July 14, 2003]]
I hung out with God yesterday, I took a hike through a hill above a nearby spa. I asked him what he might like to investigate, and he pointed out a mistake that I had made, serves me right.
I had written that:
loving is, in practice, loving X.
loving X = for the sake of X,
* in matters of doing, to obey
* in matters of being, to believe
* in matters of thinking, to care
Well, if loving is strengthening the will, then obeying, believing,
caring are not loving. For they are simply the internalizations that
have God reciprocate by strengthening the will. Loving has to do with
God's side of the equation:
* resolving the issue of beauty vs. disgust into courage
* resolving the issue of love vs. hate into hope
* resolving the issue of intimacy vs. fear into honesty
I think the "for your sake" is crucial here, that is where the love
enters. God can live without resolution because God makes no
mistakes. But we wish for resolution because we make mistakes. God
can live on the edge of love vs. hate. But we wish for resolution on
behalf of love. This is that recursive stripping away of our
decision-making that I wrote about. We want to be brought to that
deeper level where we do not err. God likes to open things up, reach
out and keep things on the edge.
God strengthens our will by distinguishing for us being-one-with and
not-being-one-with. So he makes this distinction by making clear to
us which is which at that level where we do not err. This
clarification is the "strengthening" that roots, for example, love in
hope. We may then, I imagine, be able to love in the way that God
loves, reaching out back to heightening the choice.
So the "for your sake" is what roots the issue into your unerring virtue. I love you when I
* root your feelings of beauty in your courage
* root your feelings of love in your hope
* root your feelings of intimacy in your honesty
Here your scope defines your courage, hope, honesty. Your scope defines your unerring depth.
And here I imagine "your feelings" are the shared feelings, simply all feelings. So we can remove the "your". I love you when I
* root beauty in your courage
* root love in your hope
* root intimacy in your honesty.
I love you when you are my touchstone.
You are my touchstone if you are my scope. And if you are my scope, then I internalize with regard to you. So it must be that "for your sake" I obey, believe, care. Because that is what sets you as my scope. And then, as the scope, feelings are rooted in you. And so it is your will that is thereby strengthened. Because all feelings are resolved into your depth.
This is helpful. Thank you, God.
Love is the support of Life. What does this mean?
The activity of the Beginning is to Love. The activity of the End is to be loved. In this sense, the beginning is Love and the end is Life.
Love and Life thus present two completely different perspectives. They are two different RepresentationsOfSlack.
Love is related to Everything as its fullest manifestation.
Note that love and life are at different ends conceptually. They are presumably related by the InversionEffect.
* Love is the Unity of the Representations of the Structure of God.
* Will is the Unity of the Representations of the Structure of Life.
We might think of love as the weakest manifestation of God. Love is that distillation of God which no longer knows that it is God. And similarly, in the other direction, life is the weakest manifestation of God's will. And life no longer knows that it is God's will.
But also life is the manifestation of will. And perhaps the fullest? From the point of view of Anything (life) and Everything (love) the values may change.
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God is one with us by his love which is from beyond us and by which we love one another. We love through God's love and so we are one in God's love. We are one with God and one together and that is through Other by which we are one amongst ourselves as we are beyond ourselves, so that Other and God coincide and all coincide along with them, just as Life and EternalLife coincide.
We love ever deeper:
* LoveSelf - Self-understanding - support of Structure
* LoveOther - SharedUnderstanding - support of Representations
* LoveGod - GoodUnderstanding - support of Unity
God loves the heart. To love and to be loved is very closely related to GoingBeyondOneself. To love is to step forward to coincide with one who is going beyond themselves. Then the one who is loved, when they love, they may turn around so as to step forward - to love - oneself.
This is to allow for a coinciding of views - and a parallel view as with eternal life. Hence understanding is in the turning around, this returning to the beginning. And here that beginning is at the heart. So the movement seems to be: go beyond oneself, coincide with the one who steps forward to meet you, and then turn around to face the one you went beyond.
To love is to be together (to BeOneWith) the one who has separated from themselves, gone beyond themselves.
Going beyond oneself makes for two - the one who was, and the one who went beyond. These two maybe considered together or separate. If one returns back, then it is perhaps possible to consider them separate in a parallel sense. (This is reminiscent of the general relativity paradoxes where one accelerates away and then back).
This separation may be thought of as defining scopes:
* Unity: separated from oneself by Nothing
* Representation: separated from oneself by Something
* Structure: separated from oneself by Anything
* Spirit: separated from oneself by Everything
''How does this relate to BeingOneWith''?
WhatYouFindIsWhatYouLove - this is the fact that there is one love and so God's love for us (through what we find) and our love is the same love
===Thoughts===
''Relate love to Understanding.''
According to Plato's The Feast, love is the seeking of eternal good. And it's activity is the giving birth to beauty. I add that beauty is what fosters sensitivity, and thereby supports life. We love a person - that is the way of our love - as we know how to support ourselves, and so we are able to support a person. We are one with everybody, anybody, somebody, nobody - and there are related emotions of content, excitement, surprise and sadness - and in this way our love becomes more focused, more concentrated - first infantilic love of self as everything, then an empathy for others, then an idealization of the one (the somebody) who is most exalted and encompasses all, and then the disappointment that we have for this world, yet we are able to focus our love on nobody - and so disappointment is the highest form of love, in that it has us recognize a greater world as necessary - as Christ says, we must hate our life in this world. And the fact that disappointment is the highest form of love is very helpful because it lets us respect family troubles and tensions between husband and wife, or parents and children. Also, each level raises the question - who are we serving, ourselves or another? Are we loving ourselves or loving another? And love expresses the relation between Subject (Observer) and Object (Observed), that there can be something more than the Observer. And as we realize subjectively that there is something greater than us, then we can go out into the world ever more objectively and love from that basis, so that we finally find the contentment of eternal life.
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I am making a bit more progress, in particular, in understanding love.
In this sense, given that the representations of everything are:
* everything wishes for nothing
* everything wishes for something
* everything wishes for anything
* everything wishes for everything
we have that Love is the unity of these representations.
I suppose that we have that:
* Love is the unity of "the representations of everything"
* God is the unity of the representations of everything
* and in this sense God is Love.
Just as:
* Will is the unity of "the representations of anything"
* Life is the unity of the representations of anything.
* and in this sense Life is Will.
This way of looking at Love is nice because it makes clear that Love
is built-in through everything as the framework that supports life.
And that in this sense God is Love as that same unity, just more
completely transparent. It makes intimate the support of everything
for anything.
[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/message/312|2003.06.06]] Today I had a thought which I imagine is in the spirit of Unology.
I was reaching for the big picture, so I was thinking about the commands LoveGod and LoveYourNeighborAsYourself.
I thought how loving our neighbor is being one with them. And that I
think of loving our neighbor as "identity" and loving God
as "perfection" (and Jesus as being the bridge between these two very
different concepts). I remembered how Jesus, in his prayer in the
Gospel of John, spoke of "love" as "being one with", especially with
regard to God. (I include a quote below).
I also wondered, what does neighbor mean? And what does it mean for
God to love his neighbor as himself? I think of God as creating
everything by some how folding it all up so that it has a geometry
where things can happen. And, in this way, beings of his nature
arise who do not know they are such, but have to figure it out and go
beyond the struture they find themselves in and look beyond it for
that which they are one with. These beings are bounded, and start
out disconnected, but otherwise they are of God, open. And these are
the beings close to God, near to him, his neighbors.
So I asked God, how does he love his neighbor, and the answer I think
I got was that he resurrects him and gives him eternal life. I think
of God as creating us, but also that process broken down into parts,
placing us, awakening us, having us reach out to each other, to him.
(And ourselves participating in such a process.)
I looked for what "Love God" and "Love your neighbor as yourself"
have in common, and what they have different. In common I think they
have this Unity for Empathy, this BeingOneWith.
The difference is that one is global, and the other is local. "Love
God" is empathy for a global unity. "Love your neighbor as yourself"
is empathy for a local unity. This local unity is very practical.
It is perhaps ultimately the same. It may perhaps overcome all of
the barriers. It is a recognition of the geometry that we find
ourselves within, and an overcoming of it. I think it doesnt require
a concern for the global unity, either.
It also points to the role of Slack (and good is slack, that is, good
is the unity of the representations of slack). Slack is what allows
local unity, the overcoming of the local geometry.
And "who is our neighbor?" Jesus was asked this, and in reply, he
spoke of the Good Samaritan, the one who crossed the road to help the
victim in the ditch, and care for him, and bring him to safety, and
be responsible for him. It is a little strange that, at the end,
Jesus asks, Who was the neighbor to the victim? Not the passersby,
but the one who showed mercy, the one who drew closer, who gave
slack. It means that Samaritan is the neighbor to the victim! which,
taken literally, (and who takes Jesus literally!?) is that "Love your
neighbor" means "Love the Samaritan" (not the victim). In other
words, you know who your neighbor is - it is the one with slack to
reach you, the one who overcomes barriers. If anybody is able to
reach you with their slack, then likewise, you should be one with
them. That is local unity. (The kind that, as Jesus says, even the
pagans have, they know how to love those who love them.) Whereas, if
you want to love your enemy, then that is global unity. But local
unity, taken seriously, yields global unity.
This distinction between Loving locally and Loving globally is
helpful structurally. It points to the importance of geometry (space
and time) to God. (This comes up in the distinction between God and
humans, everything and anything, as unbounded and bounded.) So I
remembered the Operation [AddThree +3] (an addition of three levels of
reflection) which I think is Consciousness. Here are the issues
defined by the divisions of everything, and taken up by their
perspectives:
* nullsome => God
* onesome => order
* twosome => existence
* threesome => engagement (particpation)
* foursome => knowledge
* fivesome => decision (continuum, time/space)
* sixsome => morality (structure)
* sevensome => good (truth, anti-structure = freestanding opposite)
The eightsome collapses into the nullsome (just as "all are white &
all are black" collapses into an empty system"). I think there is
some kind of operation +3 on these divisions that relates to
consciousness so that:
* engagement is consciousness of God
* knowledge is consciousness of order
* decision (time/space) is consciousness of existence
* morality is consciousness of engagement
* good is consciousness of knowledge
* God is consciousness of decision (time/space)
* order is consciousness of morality
* existence is consciousness of good
I think that these operations happen by means of the unity of the
representations of the division that is operated on. For example, in
the "Critique of Pure Reason", Immanuel Kant writes about his
Transcendental Deduction. I think, in the end, he did not quite have
it all together, and he kind of fudged it, these things are so
murky. So here is my version. If you start with the division of
everything into two perspectives (opposites coexist, all things are
the same) and you take the "how" level representation (outside,
inside) then you have that outside leads to inside. (If I am outside
of a system, we are opposite, but if I get sucked into it, then it is
like being inside the universe, there is no outside, and there is no
way out.) So this is an algorithmic expression of the twosome.
Think of it as a machine. It can be on or off. The relationship of
these two machines is that of theory (machine off) and practice
(machine on). When the machine is off, then I am distinct from it,
opposite to it. But when the machine is on, then I am living through
it, like a carrot through a grinder, or water through a pipe, we are
one and the same process. As perspectives, theory gives way to
practice. Well, the machine relates (outside and inside) as cause
and effect. In theory, every effect has had its cause. But in
practice, not every cause has had its effect. And there is the
connection between the two machines, their inflection point. (The
present). I need to think more about this, but my point is that this
kind of argument shows the relationship between the twosome and the
fivesome, and here it is one of adding three levels of reflection,
but also one of consciousness, which means here that we are conscious
of existence in that we are thinking of existence as an algorithm
that we are able to turn on or off. Perhaps in space/time this means
that we can control the scope of existence, the boundary between
inside and outside, and in this way we are conceptually in control of
existence, and as such conscious of it.
Here consciousness is "conceptually in control" where I think
the "conceptually" is +1 levels of reflection and "in control" is +2
levels and we have x +3 = x +2 +1 This works for the lower
divisions because they have such representations (four of them:
whether +0, what +1, how +2, why +1) and it is simply a matter of
adding perspectives.
However, in the case of the larger divisions, we need to end up with
fewer perspectives! We need slack, anti-structure. These divisions
have only two representations. I think what happens is that we use
these two representations, and appeal to the fact that we are working
with ALL of the representations.
For example, time and space are the two representations of the
division of everything into five perspectives. Well, God (or me, or
everything) is very akin to the unity of time and space.
I will be thinking about the following connections:
* -1 = 4 + 3 truth - unity of perspective and situation
* 0 = 5 + 3 God - unity of time and space
* 1 = 6 + 3 order - unity of emotion (Gods perspective) and cognition (mans perspective)
* 2 = -1 + 3 existence - unity of increasing slack and decreasing slack
These equations seem intimately related to the primary structures
(for transcendence), namely
* 6 = 3 + 3 operating principles
* 7 = 4 + 3 counterquestions
* 8 = 5 + 3 emotional responses
* 9 = 6 + 3 internalization, eightfoldway
Most of this work on +3 I did during and after my trip to Lithuania
back in 1988-1989. I noticed that a similar "unity of
representations" has become very important concept in my work of the
last few years. It lets me distinguish between spirit and structure,
as in:
* God is the unity of representations of everything
* good is the unity of representations of slack
* life is the unity of representations of anything
So I will explore what this means in the above context, and try to
make more sense of this operation +3.
Note: Just as the mind can be known by running up against the limits of imagination and transcending them, so the heart can be fulfilled by loving more than one believes possible.
'''Mylėti Dievą'''
This is very much related to LoveYourEnemy. In order to both have an enemy and love them, we need to be able to have a split mind, as is the case when we love God. For this reason a good atheist is not able to have enemies (or acknowledge them as such).
Love God is also directly associated with being Perfect, with behaving the same towards all, both the good and the bad.
To love X is to support X so that it is alive, sensitive, responsive.
We love God by allowing God to live through us, by following the will of God.
There are three means by which we may follow the will of God (go on his way):
* We Obey - we go because we are told.
* We Believe - we follow the one who goes down the road.
* We Care - we care to get to the end of the road.
'''Mylėti artimą: šeši pavyzdžiai'''
This means to love those who are good to us (as was the Good Samaritan).
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With regard to the "big picture" of our laboratory, I am looking for a foundation for six of our objectives: thinking about our own thoughts, actions, stands, and other thoughts, actions, stands. My feeling is that they can be derived from the commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself". I think that they offer different aspects of what it can mean to be a neighbor. Here are some examples of the kind of logic that helps me think of others as my neighbors.
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