Concrescence: the becoming of prehensions toward satisfaction
Actual Entity: the monads out of which the universe is comprised. So materialism would have at its fundamental monad an atom while in process it is an acutal entity. The actual entity is constituted of feelings and propositions.
Nexus:the system of actual entities that comprise the universe or any concrescence
Prehension: physical components of actual entities
Feelings: primary feelings may be physical, conceptual, or transmuted
Friday, December 25, 2009
What does Christmas prehend?
What does the birth of a tiny baby in a stable prehend? Ir prehends an ultimate reality where all suffering becomes peace and light. The concrescence of the acutal occasion of Christ's birth is the end of the exploitation of people to serve other people because people freely give to each other in a better social organization that values life and love and selflessness. This is because power belongs to the innocent and pure not only the ccorrupt and worldly.
Evil is in part from not being able to allow the concrescence of actual occasions like Christ's birth to achieve satisfaction. Something as narrow as not getting out of bed quickly enough to play with a child so he is forced to watch Sesame Street on TV is an example of this evil. But perhaps this prehends the time when a mother does get out of bed, or a time when he begins to draw creatures at an art table.
Evil is in part from not being able to allow the concrescence of actual occasions like Christ's birth to achieve satisfaction. Something as narrow as not getting out of bed quickly enough to play with a child so he is forced to watch Sesame Street on TV is an example of this evil. But perhaps this prehends the time when a mother does get out of bed, or a time when he begins to draw creatures at an art table.
Christmas thoughts
If evil is control over others what then because civil society is based on a social contract. the agreement needs to be somehow related to human rights-
Jesus represented the power inherent in a person with no control. Born in a stable to very poor parents Jesus had no social status. Additionally he was born in Judea in the Roman Empire. Judea at that time was very very poor. SO he was a poor child in a poor family in a poor province. What control did he have over his world? None but the control God gave to him. And in some ways God gave him no control. His ministry on earth ended with his death on the cross. Despite the power he had to perform miracles he was clear duringhis ministry that his miracles were a distraction from his true teachings of grace, humility, the love of enemies, forgiveness, meekness, and submission to God.
What Jesus had was not control- but he had power. One of the main criticisms that people made of Jesus was that he had no control or real worldly power. How then could he be the Christ. He was the Messiah, proclaimed as a baby by the light of a single star. How could he be in control.
The goodness of Jesus was not his power or his control over the world. It was his message of forgiveness and meekness and grace in the face of God's love and mercy.
Jesus is often described as great because he was the light of God but he did not take the form of a power figure, a person of worldly influenece, He repeatedly served his disciples, washing their feet. He ate with lepers and tax collectors, people shunned by the majority of society.
There is a lot of serenity in accepting that the goodness in the world is not about power and control, or influence. It is a state of mind and of character. It is a way of being with other people.
Process theoloigy must see the prophetic tradition as a series of examples of actual events as people and actual occasions of people where the choice to follow God's will and to serve God concresces in the glory of God being made more clear to huamnity. The turht of God's will and God's message for what we should do as human beings becomes the new actual occasion where beauty can be experienced in the world.
Jesus represented the power inherent in a person with no control. Born in a stable to very poor parents Jesus had no social status. Additionally he was born in Judea in the Roman Empire. Judea at that time was very very poor. SO he was a poor child in a poor family in a poor province. What control did he have over his world? None but the control God gave to him. And in some ways God gave him no control. His ministry on earth ended with his death on the cross. Despite the power he had to perform miracles he was clear duringhis ministry that his miracles were a distraction from his true teachings of grace, humility, the love of enemies, forgiveness, meekness, and submission to God.
What Jesus had was not control- but he had power. One of the main criticisms that people made of Jesus was that he had no control or real worldly power. How then could he be the Christ. He was the Messiah, proclaimed as a baby by the light of a single star. How could he be in control.
The goodness of Jesus was not his power or his control over the world. It was his message of forgiveness and meekness and grace in the face of God's love and mercy.
Jesus is often described as great because he was the light of God but he did not take the form of a power figure, a person of worldly influenece, He repeatedly served his disciples, washing their feet. He ate with lepers and tax collectors, people shunned by the majority of society.
There is a lot of serenity in accepting that the goodness in the world is not about power and control, or influence. It is a state of mind and of character. It is a way of being with other people.
Process theoloigy must see the prophetic tradition as a series of examples of actual events as people and actual occasions of people where the choice to follow God's will and to serve God concresces in the glory of God being made more clear to huamnity. The turht of God's will and God's message for what we should do as human beings becomes the new actual occasion where beauty can be experienced in the world.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
human rights and ownership
what is the reality of sin and evil in the world? The concept of human society and order. Order is a process thought concept. Increasing order. But what if the order is ugly or too narrow- I keep coming back to the thought that process thought has not enough of a conceept of suffering. Evil is about control? God is good because God is emptying God self- Not controlling but allowing us free will.
So evil would be fascism in a political system, or compulsion in religion- la ikra fii diin. there should be no compulsion in religion.
control as inheritance and privatization. the problem of the state being too in control.
The siutation in Iran is getting out of control and that is a good thing. Leaving the situation in Iraq and Iran in homeostasis would be a set up for a much worse problem later on. So let them have the bomb and change the situation so they have more power. or overthrow the Iranian government and establish a US hegemony. But the control in the system at the moment is the momentum toward the plans of the neoconservatives. That needs to change. The current situation is goo dbecause it is change. It needs to be directed towards human rights.
If evil is control over others what then because civil society is based on a social contract. the agreement needs to be somehow related to human rights-
the current agreement is military control run by the weapons industry. Ok- weapons and military spending controls the global economy. money is the fundamental component of exchange. The fundamental exchange is military in its structure.
A transformed civil society would make the fundamental mode of exchange life not death.
LIFE- Lady Gaga makes you think about this. Her sound is ripped off from Shakira at all?
I see Shakira's music as more erotic and Lady Gaga's music as more pornographic.
The erotic vs the pornographic.
There is a connection between the violence in society, THANATOS and fascism.
OKAY.
CONTROL- what is the opposite of control FREEDOM=
GOOD= Freedom
BAD= CONTROL
So evil would be fascism in a political system, or compulsion in religion- la ikra fii diin. there should be no compulsion in religion.
control as inheritance and privatization. the problem of the state being too in control.
The siutation in Iran is getting out of control and that is a good thing. Leaving the situation in Iraq and Iran in homeostasis would be a set up for a much worse problem later on. So let them have the bomb and change the situation so they have more power. or overthrow the Iranian government and establish a US hegemony. But the control in the system at the moment is the momentum toward the plans of the neoconservatives. That needs to change. The current situation is goo dbecause it is change. It needs to be directed towards human rights.
If evil is control over others what then because civil society is based on a social contract. the agreement needs to be somehow related to human rights-
the current agreement is military control run by the weapons industry. Ok- weapons and military spending controls the global economy. money is the fundamental component of exchange. The fundamental exchange is military in its structure.
A transformed civil society would make the fundamental mode of exchange life not death.
LIFE- Lady Gaga makes you think about this. Her sound is ripped off from Shakira at all?
I see Shakira's music as more erotic and Lady Gaga's music as more pornographic.
The erotic vs the pornographic.
There is a connection between the violence in society, THANATOS and fascism.
OKAY.
CONTROL- what is the opposite of control FREEDOM=
GOOD= Freedom
BAD= CONTROL
Troops out of Iraq
What is the concept that we in the United States can kill people and no one else has that right. Why is it so bad for Iran to have a nuclear bomb? why don't they have the right to have a nuclear bomb? The United States has so many, Israel has the bomb as well. Why can't Iran have the bomb?
I keep thinking about the concept of jamming the machinery. I don't think the two thoughts are seperate. The machinery is grinding up the world for hundreds of years, ever since men owned their women in the Caucus Mountains, the Kurgan theory, the concept that people were property, the concept that one person can dominate and subjugate another person.
For the reorganization of the world there needs to be a paradigm shift away from control and we have to let go of the concept that we can own and dominate the power to kill.
I keep thinking about the concept of jamming the machinery. I don't think the two thoughts are seperate. The machinery is grinding up the world for hundreds of years, ever since men owned their women in the Caucus Mountains, the Kurgan theory, the concept that people were property, the concept that one person can dominate and subjugate another person.
For the reorganization of the world there needs to be a paradigm shift away from control and we have to let go of the concept that we can own and dominate the power to kill.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
The concept of jamming the machinery is a common theme conceptually for feminists. Something is wrong with the worldview we are in. Our paradigm needs to change. We need to make a qualitative change in our apprioach to life. I don't think Obama should havee received the Nobel Prize. But is he sending the troops to Afghanistan on a mission to prompt us to pull all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan? To get the US public to panic and unaminously work for the complete end to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is he trying to jam up the war machine? How do we help? He keeps calling fo rhte US public to be in school, volunteer etc. is this an attempt to get us to act?
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