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Nietzsche: I am still waiting for a philosophical physician [...] with the courage to push my suspicion to its limits and to risk the proposition: what was at stake in all philosophy hitherto was not at all 'truth' but something else. Howard Aitken: [Your intuitions might be brilliant, but] you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Henk Tuten (Zarah2nd): Overseeing 2500 ages is a blessing in disguise. Leading the way for western herds that have an horizon of half an age, realizing that since Aristotle in the Western World 'those in power +philosophy' only practiced 'exploiting earth and running in circles' and replaced 'truth' (some eternal structure in reality) with human 'ratio'.
Next Paradigm: Also Sprach Zarah2nd: First let me be clear, I respect ALL people. Only the next culture mixes all major cultures. Buddhism has a very fine common sense, Western christianity became refined in technical skill, and Islam preserved emotion. Said another way: Buddhism lacks wealth and individual leadership and Islam is in an ethical crisis. Western Christianity (Catholicism) started neglecting sense experience since Council of Chalcedon, became more and more egoist since Luther and became rational protestantism since Enlightenment.
How do paradigm shifts develop?:
You may be 'blessed' with fine legs, or twinkling eyes. I was blessed with a return of intuition at age 45, when, after a brain attack and getting disabled, the 'rational ghosts' in my head were 'busted' (my 'rationality' crashed). Afterward a survival fight of many years started in which I tried to behave intuitive in a society around me that consisted in majority of rational addicts.
Ancient Judean Mary (mother of Jesus) realized that Romans REALLY saw 'barbarians' everywhere (henk tuten: like 'rational protestantism' sees no humans, but 'terrorists), and predicted a hard time for her common sense view: 'barbarians are human, and Romans might be seen as barbarians'.
Prophetic knowledge can be very logical and at the same time not consistent with the at that time dominant logic. Mother Mary's logic was not consistent with Roman logic and pharisee logic. 21st Century rational logic (in very hidden way) presumes a 'mind' body split and considers 'reason by mind' superior to 'intuition of body'. Bodies don't 'reason', but sense by experience better or worse. That way brain reactions can become logical given experiences (so also historical). Even mass murderers act logical given their life story (see "Criminal Minds"), only not in a cultural (shared) way. Not because they are 'bad' (a cultural judgement).
Anyway I'm inspired by the symbolic spell of spreading skills like breaking bread (exponentially). I make sense behavior (given my 21st century experience and my 20th century experience, and my sense of history), I share my sense behavior with you, now there is a common sense of 2. And Nietzsche's notion 'ploughshare' expresses perfectly well that I'm not hindered by tabu's and take an original approach.
First I honestly couldn't imagine how (in my eyes) brilliant common sense quotes of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Kuhn could be totally ignored by rational philosophers. Until realizing that ghostbuster Thomas Kuhn compared science with a fundamentalist knowledge religion. Rational Thought differentiates (only the rational part of) reality in microscopic pictures. Then after rational filtering the remaining dot-like 'rational' pics of reality are made into a 'rational'-panorama puzzle 'Synthesis'. This subtile 'rational cut and rational paste' based on fantasy 'continuity' makes Western people IMAGINE the existence of 'understanding'. 'Common Sense' intuition makes more sense, by filtering only once (and not only on criterium 'rationality') and skipping 'cut and paste'.
Nietzsche cherished leaps of originality (Will to Power), Wittgenstein stressed that 'originality' takes 'relativism', and Kuhn invented paradigm shifts as LEAP out of 'frozen' cultures. My 3 mindbuster fathers taught me a lot. Friedrich Nietzsche that behavior leaps of a prophet easily offend. Ludwig Wittgenstein showed me that relative language is a way to be a 'seer' into other paradigms in local reality. Thomas Kuhn inherently taught me that a prophet needs guts to 'leap' out of a dominant paradigm into the next paradigm.
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I'll use the following steps:1. "What on earth ..."
2. Towards Acting as Herd
3. 2 quotes of Friedrich Nietzsche. A tribute.
4. Focus and Wide Angle
5. Zarah2nd: Different View
6. "I'm just a common guy"
7. Octopussies and Sherlock Holmes
8. Nishida
9. From assembling to Creating
10. Three Notions of Nishia
11. Two Own Notions
12. 21st-Century Paradigm
13. Energy 14. Game of Socker
You're right to ask: "what on earth IS a prophet?" What are the characteristics of a prophet?A prophet is a 'ghostbuster'. Age and gender are irrelevant. Locally common sense might end up in temporarily very succesful totally dominant variants. Prophets fight such variants that overgrow all other behavior. When by chance a prophet is born at the right moment then this might result in a paradigm shift To be fit for such a role prophets need AT LEAST to use same common sense but in a variant that is not 'degenerated'. That's why prophets/gostbusters for whatever reason can take new roads than the highway in the society that they try to 'awake'. Some events caused that a prophet still uses a sound 'generation of local common sense. Such events: being outside the country for several years; having lived isolated for several years; having lived far from 'the social center' for a long period; having experienced a shock of some kind; etcetera .. A fresh perception means that prophets still are in a 'sound' stimulus-response state. And still become VERY angry when meeting one-way road behavior (non-sense). One-way road behavior can get awfully complicated, and might even cause a myth like 'understanding'. |
You're right to ask: "what on earth IS a prophet?" What are the characteristics of Zarah2nd ?It is a someone who 'enlightens', but then you still have 'lightbulbs' like for instance Einstein, and 'lighttowers' like Jesus (the historical HUMAN). Einstein enlightened a small specialized area of knowledge that is only visited by the science population. Jesus aimed his lightbeam at the practice of slavery, influencing everyone in his enlightened world.
In my role as intermediate I have my talkshow on the tactical side, to guide everybody into a peaceful and especially more respectful world. I'm busy invisibly stimulating the positive change that I notice And in my role as natural force I attract attention of both dominant people in the present Western paradigm and third world inhabitants. I.e. I try to evade irritation amongst present politicians and top scientists by staying close to their language. Rational Philosophy is dominated by dinosaurs like Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Popper. I'm inspired by guys like Vico, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kuhn
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Without realizing I was looking for a 'lightbeam' of someone like Jesus. Not out of religious sentiments, but because of searching for wisdom that triggered my respect. And to end the rule of the frustratingly powerful Western World rationalism (but cherish its skill in technology achieved in quite murderous individualism.
'Bad' is undistinguishable from 'good', and individual and collective belong together. Common sense therefore only looks at the local balance between 'better' and 'worse', only considering individual values when supporting the survival of the collective:
Alexander the 'Great' annihilated Zoroastrian Persia, the birthplace of modern humanity. In the eyes of Alexander's arrogant tutor Aristotle all non-Greek were 'barbarian' human apes and should be treated as such. Aristotle after death of Alexander died in self-chosen exile before he could be punished to death.
But without the wise and forgiving Zoroastrian king Cyrus the Judean human apes would not have returned to Judah and have 'founded' Judean Jesus 'movement' as a Jewish variant of Persian Zoroastrianism. Judean Jesus worship was wiped out by Israelian kings, and through Roman myths the Israelian Orthodox Hebrew Jews who committed genocide in Judea in Europe were seen as TRUE Christians.
Aristotle can be seen as the godfather of western 'rationalism' and individualism. Both valueable sidesteps in evolution, but also dead alleys when out of the context of 'the herd'.
Friedrich Nietzsche inspired me with beautiful quotes, like much later Haile Selassie with equally attracting quotes.
Plowing in traditional way only reveals what already before had been in the open. That's why all other farmers
didn't really harvest anymore. Although they THINK to act in fruitful ways.
If you always eat the same type of apples, you experience a familiar and reassuring taste. But there are lots of unknown even better tasting apples, only you're not hungry.Friedrich Nietzsche had the bad luck of performing as great mind during an evolutional pause, but he was a smashing warming-up.
Nietzsche was like a table tennis player making one brilliant smash after another.
His boring opponent Catholicism (in Protestant variant) without any creativity
manages someway to return the balls and give the audience the impression to have things 'under control' (see below: the farmers of the spirit).Catholic leaders know that while smashing the genial player Nietzsche is slowly dying, and that when they survive they'll be the champions and with dull play will dictate table tennis. And then with some help after some time, everybody will think that smashing is 'terrorist' and dull defense (law and order) is beautiful (see below: and only what is old is good).
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit.
But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. (the 'smashers')
from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.4, Walter Kaufmann transl.
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a 'bad' man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed;
History treats almost exclusively of these 'bad' men who subsequently became 'good' men! (brilliant 'smashing' teamleaders like Zarathustra, Jesus and Buddha)
from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s.20, R.J. Hollingdale transl.
BUT that is without any doubt different from a needing more of what came to be known as 'management'.
It only means a growing necessity for active help in grasping 'the world, because a basic urge of 'humans' is to be left free.
| Now I understand that both Wittgenstein and Kuhn wrote using the wide angle logic 'common sense',
while their scientific surrounding thought in the focus logic 'rationality' (lead by formal philosophy). And that this seemingly partial 'blindness' was not a matter of intelligence or alertness, but of straightforward parallel thinking. Thomas Kuhn would have
spoken about 'incommensurability'. Like confronting English speaking people from 'modern' countries with an Arabic speaking quite original Islam culture, both languages inherently suppose an ethics. English generally supposes 'absolute' rational behavior and Arabic generally supposes a mix of 'absolute' Koran rules and relative common sense. Here trying to clone a minorly egoistic Muslim culture into a copy of the totally egoistic USA culture. The war in Iraq shows that trying with force to join these 2 essentially different ethics causes bloodshed similar to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. |
Human view had become narrowed to what I call 'computalism', and in philosophy and sociology that had resulted in 'tunnel view'. Formal philosophy is still awfully rational , but it's influence has sunk TREMENDOUSLY. Philosophy for instance failed to notice extremely dubious tendencies in Western politics.
| The ideology 'computalism' is a mix of communism and capitalism and is trying to express everything in (rational) numbers. But feelings can't be expressed in absolute numbers, they are relative. That's why not everybody loves the same person, and not all vote for the same leader |
Human behaviour in all 3 major Total Paradigm lines (Buddhism, Christianity and Islam) became addicted to this mixed drug based on the egocentrism and abstract thinking (spiritualism) of Aristotle. Both ideologies were a consequence of formalizing 'spiritualism' in rationalism as started by Descartes. And oh irony, the addiction is worst in the Calvinist centers of capitalism (US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia). Not only irony, but a severe hurdle. Because rational thinking seems to hinder looking at the world like Aboriginals, Red Indians etcetera. Forgetting individual profit, and aiming at a world that functions well as ONE organism.
After Rome and the Roman Empire now the whole egoistic toplayer of the Western Paradigm is 'trembling' (especially industrial US and UK). This really is an addiction caused by individualism (egoism), and results in individual satisfactory dreams without realizing happy collective moods.
It takes a Recession ending in a JUMP to a new subreality (not a 'rational' 'design') in the Western Paradigm to make Western people leave abstract 'spiritualism' to see reality in common sense way. And such SUPERVOLCANO-change in view just happens under the right circumstances and further only with the passive help of chance. The new Paradigm is triggered by the interreaction between a Recession and a Prophet with a lucky brainflash that connects two generally not connected areas of information in his brain.
By PURE CHANCE and following common sense I jumped into a fresh subreality (being an otherwise common individual).
Now my task is to lead all others into this paradise.
Jumping to visionary leadership (triggering and overseeing a social outburst) is like winning a 'prize' in the lottery of life.
But DON'T let this cryptic message make you worry about my sanity of mind though. Redirecting existent skill to the new paradigm (just hard work) nicely explains my otherwise at least stunning outburst in philosophical articles, and confirms my totally new insights of the workings of our brain.
Further ignore my remark, about having tumbled into a next paradigm. I just arrived in a totally neglected 'cave of thought', an open way to future. And as a ploughshare of 'evil' I start exploring (inherently overthrowing existing laws of custom)
Like the philosoper/physicist Thomas Kuhn in his life already said: I'm just a common guy. An almost paradigm shift must have happened mid 20th century in
the era of Kuhn, only he unfortunately stopped the process by lacking the 'willpower' that would made him the new 'saint' in science. All I did was recognizing the dominator view that rules people in the Western World paradigm (it took 6 years before I started to 'see' the 'social spasm' through the dense fog of 'rational' myths), and use my very strong willpower to steeer towards a more balanced world.Thomas Kuhn was a world famous professor, I'm just a 55 years old disabled Dutch mathematical engineer and self made philosopher. Don't underestimate me either, I remember being tested when 13 years old and scoring something like 160 on the measurement for abstract intelligence IQ. But they didn't cherish my 'ploughshare quality' but moulded me into a 'rational junkie'.
Don't get me wrong. Both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein mixed revolutionary thoughts with platitudes. Trying to inspire people to jump into a new SubReality is more a matter working like a horse and perfect intuition than of high IQ. In the 17th century the totally sound-minded scientist Galileo Galilei was seriously considered as being dangerously mad, because he followed his intuition in asking people to accept that the world was round. He that way risked being burned alive at the stakes. But Galilei was quite political, he only had bad luck that the pope at that realisation of history didn't keep his personal promise to ignore his latest findings if published. Galilei's death penalty though was changed in house arrest.
In 1744 the Italian professor Giambattista Vico died in obscurity, because he challenged 'rationality'.
Nietzsche remained in that stage of being controversial. Nobody liked his 'music', and in the 19th century that resulted in things like being called a devil (Zarah2nd: a representative of evil). Wittgenstein came closer but still his Closed Circle Theory remained item of heated discussion (amongst only philosophers). Kuhn did build on both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein but in formal science was much more acceptable. But even he only convinced a minority of scientists and didn't realize the by himself invented paradigm shift in the major body of society.
I try not to be 'ignored to death' (being seen as a mad mind-terrorist), even not to be a second nietzsche. And to be accepted.
First let's get rid of a general myth, and make a difference between IQ and intelligence. That's just what the new paradigm is all about.Intelligence for me is effective behavior. Something like an octopus(sy) performing Mozart perfectly on a piano, cooking delicious meals, making love in inventive way and showing loads of humor. That's quite different from the present robots, takes a huge amount of training but not necessarily a high IQ.
It doesn't imply modesty, that's only a concept from the religious side of belief (the dogmatic side), to keep creativity within acceptable levels of 'gray'. But an intelligent being will respect all others.
Some 3 years I intensively on Internet like a Sherlock Holmes studied persons and subjects like: Enlightenment, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, absolutism, relativism, the Popper-Kuhn debate, paradigm shifts, democracy, rationalism, capitalism, philosophy and sociology, Buddhism.
Now I started thinking almost as fast as a computer and I'm still optimistic, but I did see many negative tendencies. And in Western capitalist rational society I only saw serious scientific attempts to EXTEND existing knowledge to tackle the existing problems of life. Sorry, but that's not enough. One must mix this approach with taking a PARTIALLY completely new road.
The last by me found essential new view in rational philosophy was the notion
paradigm of Thomas Kuhn (based on the 'closed circle theory' of Wittgenstein, and discovered by him by chance or not). And though he was not considered a philosopher, I was enormously attracted to the 'deeper' than rational thoughts of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie (1892-1975). Before that, apart from each in their own way Darwin and Nietzsche, in the last 150 years only the famous Japanese Albert Einstein with the name Nishida made a really serious attempt to give an explanatory view on the total of life.
Nishida who had studied in 19th century Germany in fact already before WWI joined the views of Popper and Kuhn that were first formulated after WWII. His thoughts must have been buried under the dust caused by two atom bombs at the end of WWII on an already defeated Asian country. I found this Nishida Kitaro on a quest for original intelligent life. Someone had tipped me that the Buddhist Kyoto School in Japan had produced fine philosophers.
Reading 'rational' texts of 'rational' 'thinkers' judging Nishida is great cabaret, reading Nishida in 'rational' way and completely missing the point, followed by arrogantly 'burning down' deep not 'rational'-thoughts based on them not being 'rational'.
Finding original high quality philosophy on the web for sure is not easy. Its like searching meticulously for rare plants between masses of fire wood. Lots of sites only misguide serious detectives by producing nothing but easy burning fashionable stuff. If not fashionable, than it often appears to be equally enflamable commercial information. A lot of universities seem producers of mainly easy fuel.
| Nishida wrote:When we compare imagination and the will we discover that the goal of imagination is the imitation of nature and that the goal of the will is movement. On my search I learned: The imitation of nature often ends in just imitating what is best known.... That causes a lack of movement, because the will is tricked into halting. Otherwise that will would create original thoughts and describe them in common words. |
Assembling new views out of existent ones, did not give me enough satisfaction
(this ends in 'running in circles', inventing useless addictions like ipads or blackberries). I was dissatisfied with some pieces. The notion 'paradigm' though appealed to me. And I felt sure that by far its possibilities were still unused. I was unsatisfied with present ethics. This made me decide to produce an own view. To describe this view on life I'll use three notions of Nishida and add two notions that are inspired by Thomas Kuhn who was born far away from Nishida and when this Japanese fellow philosopher must have been close to 50.
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Action-intuition
: discovering the self as part of 'space' in creative activity and realize the place of
this personal creativity in the local collective in the local historical world. This was what the quest of Nietzsche
was about. Often he gave it the name Will to Power. Then
he didn't mean the political notion power, but the human power to show personal creativity.
He described it perfectly in his biblical satire "Also sprach Zarathustra" (my own 100 fold shorter interpretation,
rhethorics was hiding the message).
Nishida doesn't refer to
Nietzsche, but he conciously or not seems to be influenced.
2)
Eternal Now
: Objects only exist as part of 'space' in state 'play' in 'the present'.
From this the 'trial and error' game 'playing with truth' can start. This involves one's whole being and
also the being of all other things in the world. The infinitesimal brief presence
of the 'here-and-now' creates past, present, and future.
It creates also the ILLUSION of time, individuality and feeling of freedom.
According to Nishida, the present is a mapping of the Eternal=Space. The Eternal
each moment locally maps itself in some present (at every nothingness).
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The historical world
: The Creative Now in discrete jumps maps local 'space' in
local present and local history. In state 'play' and state 'pause'.
Space contains both history and present (so in space history can be researched from state the present; of course 'relatively'),
but just like the hallucination 'time', 'time-travel' is nonsense. Jumps are one-way, even though history often partly repeats itself.
Nishida although also practicing relativist Buddhist Ethics gave 3 absolute rational notions. I add two relative ones.4) Every nothingness is on a personal level equal to a personal paradigm shift. This shift (leap in behavior) triggers the direction toward the next present.
5) This results on a cultural level in a cultural paradigm shift. Unlike the personal ones this is much more discontinuous, because on a personal level everyone takes his own semi-continuous path. They are decisive because they react only on the very few successful shifts of mind on a personal level of persistent persons with sufficient social status. This concept was developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein in his Closed Circle Theory and made famous as 'paradigm' by Thomas Kuhn.
In two cases I decided to use a more intuitive name and then come to the following notions, that describe the unity of life on earth better than anything that I found. That is because they join the absolutism inherent in rationalism with relativism. That also is where the Western Paradigm can refind emotion as still left in Islam and Buddhism. Especially in the latter relativism is better preserved than in the Roman Christian Paradigm. And the Western World is an extension of the Roman Empire and Roman Catholic Empire.
1. Action-intuition (Will to Power Behavior)
2. The unpredictable position of the Present (a cloud of possibilities, temporary outcome of road to present)
3. The collection of past cultural paradigms (the road to the present in every seperate paradigm sequence)
4. Personal paradigm shifts (they decide the path to future on personal level)
5. Cultural paradigm shifts (decide the path to future on a cultural level, as meant by Kuhn)
The E=mc2
formula of Einstein always disturbed me. Probably only because of quite bad teachers |
Energy can be stored in limitless ways.
But let's only introduce mass energy c and brain-energy b, because change on earth has its own sequence practically independent of space change. Then on earth E=1/2mc2 + 1/2b2
A good explanation for chemical energy. Intelligent beings have more energy, and might experience change to go slower. In free space your brain energy might seem little. Against change at 'high' frequency you'll react like a not moving turtle, better take care with space travel. There might be intelligences, changing like lightnings. Mind that when experiencing MUCH change you don't practically notice not changing snales, or computers. Imagine trying to evade a spaceship that changes direction 100 times against you 1 time. Pinball with such a spaceship takes new talents.
Sure, mass doesn't explain all of energy. For instance the chemical dimension of hardness might be more than density, and also consume energy.
This seems difficult, but is not really. It means that only at times of major cultural paradigm shifts things get temporarily confusing.
See it as socker. Mostly the ball is just rolling (linear), but now and then it gets a kick (change). After a moment reorientation everybody starts chasing the ball in new direction.
Changes may inside a paradigm seem impressive, but can simply be regarded as growth spasms in evolution.
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I used referential internet articles only
to check my points of view, never to copy pieces of it.
Anyway I hate articles with miles of references.
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