What should we do with Knowledge?

Share it.Teach people what you know. Why?

The true source of all wealth comes from sharing knowledge. It is one of the few things that is never lost when you share it. So the exchange is always profitable.

Whether you want to enrich your enemies is up to you, being a Christian I do, because it often turns them into friends.

A word is defined as a symbol that is used to share meaning. The Word is the collective noun for all such symbols and their meanings,even the ones we do not recognise as words such as a bees pollen dance or a road sign. Sharing Knowledge is a part of loving God.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life and that life is the light of all mankind.

Saint John 1 : 1-4

Hello Princes and Princesses of God

Dear Christians,

A thought worth sharing:

God is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Through Jesus the begotten son of God we have become Jesus's adopted Brothers and Sisters. He has given us the duty to call the King of Kings: Dad!

That is you and I are either Princes or Princesses of God. We have been given the right to rule over the Earth! As Jesus taught us the best way to govern the Earth is through Service or Ministering to the Earth and everyone in it.

Look after your friends and neighbours and change their lives for the better. Look after the Earth for yourselves, our Children and most of all for The King of Kings our dad, who gave it to us in the first place.

Fair well your Highnesses.

Robin

The foregiveness of original sin.

We humans fell from grace because we ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil. We became aware of sin and so we let the accuser rule our lives.

Jesus repairs that by getting those that believe him to be foregiven by God the Father.
So the Father no longer sees the sin only the Faith in His Son.

Similarly, while it is perfectly possible to sin against a Christian, All good Christians should forgive you.

It is not that there was no sin but the foregiveness removes the sin and removes it from any tally book.  The Christian should let the sin go at the foot of the cross.

In both cases Christ's foregiveness is returning us to the sinless state.

In the first case God is no longer aware of our sin and in the second we are no longer aware of our own sin nor the sins of others.

These are ideal states and most Christians fail to foregive every sin and we do not rely on the righteousness of God nearly enough.

Prison Demographics are Changing.

Apparently Roman Catholics are now the predominate faith in prisons in England and Wales.

This has not been the case since the reformation.

The main cause is not due to those sinning Catholics being more sinful than anyone else as their own priests would have us believe, but because the Anglicans who have up until only a few decades ago had been well over 50% of the population of the united kingdon, inside or outside prison, have fallen drastically in number.

The Church of England is losing members to agnosticism with alarming speed.

Many have said the Church of England will need to die before it can have a rebirth. It has become a political tool of power to keep power within the priesthood when the power actually belongs to God.

The Church needs to remove all the people who are there as being the easiest place to be and replaced them with Christians:

• Who believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, Mary.
• Who believe in miracles.
• Who believe that Jesus was sinless and that he lived in the Holy Spirit.
• Who believe that Jesus died for our sins as prophesied in Isaiah 53 and elsewhere in the Old Testament; that he is the prophesied Messiah.
• Who believe in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Who believe in His ascension into heaven and that he seated at the right hand of God the Father.
• Who believe that Jesus forgave all sin for all time from the beginning to the end.
• The main thing you need is faith in His deed to be forgiven.
• Who believe that to be forgiven you must forgive.
• Who must keep short accounts of your sin, when you sin and being imperfect you will, tell God that you regret that sin and ask for forgiveness and then try not to repeat that sin again.
• Who Love the Lord God with all their being and love their neighbours equally, as they are a part of God.
• Who believe in the omnipresence of God that we are in Him and He is in us.
• Who must love themselves just as much, because we are temples to God.

The Church has no part in forgiving our sins as that was done once and for all by Jesus Christ for all time. There is nothing more that needs to be done, other than to repent our own sin and forgive our sin and other's sin. 

There seems to be a belief that the Church has some power as to who can be forgiven when that is totally in the hands of Jesus Christ. You have to have faith and you need to leave all sin you encounter at his feet and then it is His decision.  If you do not have faith then there is unlikely to be any hope.

The bread and wine were shared in the Bible at every meal in all Christian’s houses. There was no control as to who could or could not give people bread and wine.

These last two comments are demonstrations as to how organized Churches not necessarily C. of E. have taken power from Christians.

To the Indian Government: Jesus of Nazereth is not a Demon

The Gujarti state produced text books stating that Jesus was a demon.  The Indian government said this was a mistake but have done nothing to rectify it.
This is a link to sign a petition to get the Indian Government to do something about it.

To the Indian Government Jesus of Nazereth is not a Demon

Ariana Grande sings that she is a Satanist.

Firstly and most importantly I wish to share my sympathies with those who died or who were injured at Ariana's concert, their families and friends. Also to those who had to deal with clearing away the bodies and taking the wounded to hospital and those who have seen death and mayhem up close and personal for the first time, even if they were not physically injured themselves.  Mental scars can be just as hard to heal.

Everything here is an opinion and a generalization. Please do not take offence if you disagree with this comment.

Here is an example of Arianna's songs (WARNING to Christians, Muslims and religious folk in general: This does contain immodestly dressed people and a declaration of Satanism. Skip the link if any of this would offend you but then you have to take my next statement on faith.

Listen to the words. This Is one of Ariana's songs at one point and she sings: "I will make a deal with the devil."

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXiSVQZLje8

Is it surprising that Muslims take offence at her songs and think of her and her fans as Satanists?

Certainly she and her team do not dress modestly as a God fearing person should.

Unfortunately Muslims take these things very seriously and are down right violent about imposing their opinion. It may not be all Muslims but do this show in a Muslim Country and the performers would almost certainly be beheaded.

As a Christian I would advise everyone to pay attention to the words of songs you listen not only personally on the radio, but also in shops and the songs your children listen to. Making deals with the devil should not be taken lightly and I would hope they were not a part of main stream popular music.  I would certainly censor any such song in my house.  That is I do not approve either but I am not going to go arround killing people because of it.

Non-religious folk may not worry about these things but doing so you are running not only the wrath of Muslims but also the wrath of God assuming he does, contrary to your belief, exist.  Muslims are much more likely to attack amoral shows.

Taking the lives of young people, should also not be taken lightly. I am fairly certain that most of the people at the Ariana concert last night were not die hard Satanists. Just young people growing up in a hedonistic society.

I would ask our Muslim friends to be less literal.  I would also ask them to stop killing people because you cannot save a dead person. If a sinner is alive then there is a chance that they can become god fearing.

I would also hope that Muslims discover God as a Loving rather than an angry God and become Christians, but then being one I think that goes without saying.

O.M.G. is a very dangerous thing to say

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Exodus 20:3 N.K.J.V.

O.M.G. means "Oh My God" or "Oh My Gosh" a corruption of the same and if you are not using it in that meaning then you are in trouble with the Almighty. Unless you mean it.

Please be careful what you say.

If it is taken lightly It can be very damaging to your life. It can  lose you friends make enemies or break up marriages or relationships.  You may think I exaggerate, but let me explain.

If it  is said at the alter to your bride to tell God how beautiful she is. It can make marriages last in lives of mutual respect and love.

Whereas, saying "O.M.G." or "Oh My God!" during sex with someone you hardly know is almost certainly idolatry. You are worshipping the sex not God.  Worshipping anything other than God is idolatry. Idolatry, a separate sin, curses your children to third and fourth generation.

It is not only taking the Lord's name in vane and a form of Idolatry it is also fornication, which is also a sin but not one of the ten commandments.

The basis of any sound society is the family and families are based in marriage. Agreeing to love each other as long as you both shall live in front of God, friends and family the whole community.
 
Fornication is the antithesis of this. It is just sex for the pleasure of it. It leads to broken homes single mums who cannot be good mums and get food on the table and dads who do not care. A life where every one looks out for just number one and that is not God.

Be careful which side of the fence you are on.  On God's side with your friends and family supporting your relationship is so much easier than fighting for a life on your own.

Exodus 20:2

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

Some Christians hold that the Cross/Crucifix in churches is a graven image, which it often is or possibly a cast or molten image and so you should not bow down to them.

This implies the hall of worship should be empty of any and all graven images.

If you follow this logic it implies we should not have them. This is the Why and How some of us stopped having crosses or any other graven image in churches.

http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/why-doesnt-my-church-have-statues-and-a-crucifix-like-the-catholic-church

If you want revival PRAY!

Pray for your family,

Pray for your friends

Pray for your neighbours

Pray for you coleagues

Pray for you competitors

Pray for your enemies.

Pray for the world

Pray that God's Kingdom comes in you life your families, friends neighbours, competitors and enemies lives and for the well being of the whole world

Pray for understanding pray for clear vision of god's vision pray that his love can flow through you.

Pray for love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Pray for the holy spirit in your life and so you can be in his.

Thy will be done thy kingdom come in my heart, our hearts and the hearts of all.

Amen

Why the Universal set is a paradox and yet has to exist.

A paradox is something that is neither true nor false. e.g. This is false. If that statement were false then it must be true. If it were true then it must be false.  Both ways around it contradicts itself. It is neither true nor false it is in fact the simplest paradox.

Mathematicians know Russell's paradox means you cannot have a Universal set of everything in mathematics.  Otherwise it causes paradoxes.

According to naive set theory, any definable collection is a set.

Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

If R is not a member of itself, then its definition dictates that it must contain itself.

If it contains itself, then it contradicts its own definition and so cannot be contained in the set R.

This means the set R is invalid in mathematics, which as a search for consistent truth excludes paradoxes. This is why mathematicians use a more complicated definition of sets called ZFC set theory which includes the axiom of choice. This theory enforces the exclusion of paradoxes and in the process excludes the Universal set that is the naive set U that contains everything, even itself

Mathematics restricts itself to all the self consistent beliefs to provide some very useful tools such as counting and fractions and percentages that can be relied on to give consistent results every time.

So the Universal set is quite correctly excluded from mathematics because if mathematics allowed paradoxes it would not be at all useful in science or accounting or the running of our daily lives.

From a philosophical point of view it is hardly surprising that the Universal set includes paradoxes, because the naive set of everything that exists has to include paradoxes because paradoxes exist.  Paradoxes are just as real as numbers and as easily logically defined. 

However, both mathematics and philosophy are based in words. Words do include paradoxes and Russell's Paradox as a part of the naive philosphical Universal set which is a philosophical not mathematical concept.

The Universal set may not be useful in mathematics but it is useful in finding an abstract definition of God.

The Universal set Contains everything so it is omnipresent.

The Universal set Contains all knowledge so it is omniscient.

The Universal set contains all possible outcomes even the ones we might call fictional or paradoxical. So it is omnipotent.

The Universal set Contains the creation of time and the whole of time until beyond the end of the Universe.  So it is eternal.

The Universal set Contains the foundation of the Universe and can be called the foundation of everything if not the creator.

The Universal set contains all life and so it is alive in the same way a city is alive or a snail with hard lifeless shell and lively hiddden body. If you take extremes as Issac Asimov did it leads to Gaia, Galaxia and on a much bigger scale the whole of existent abstract and physical being alive.
The Universal set is a paradox.  Paradoxes are based in words not numbers.  Words are symbols used to share meaning.

Words are only useful if you have some knowledge and know some one to share it with.

Lying is abusing the symbols to not share meaning.  This effectively stops lies from being words.

The fact that the Universal set shares meanings implies that it is by and large benevelont. However be aware of the anger of God if you know of his word and do not respect it, the Bible repeats over and over the stories of various kings and cultures that have died and disappeared because they did not fear God.

Yet another paradox of the God of Love. If you love him and let him lead you in life you find love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control.  These can help you even through illness, imprisonment torture and death. It is inside you, mind and soul.


The Universal set is a paradox.  It shares the meaning that the Universal set cannot be contained by mathematics.

The Universal set also defines all the primordial features of God. It is omnipresent, omniscient, the creator, eternal, omnipotent, it is alive.

On the positive side of this This does have an effect on the laws on Thermodynamics.  As we can build sand castles so may God.  It may be that he just has not yet or we have not recognised them as his work. Although that is one of the promises of the second coming. We get to live in heaven or hell for all eternity.

An eternity without sex

There is only one reason for sex and that is to replace our perishable bodies.  If we lived for ever there would be no need nor I suspect desire for sex.

If your eternal soul living in Paradise lives for ever, why would you want children? To replace yourself and inherit the earth after your death? As your eternal soul will last for ever and creating children just leads to over crowding. There is no point in having sex or even sexual organs in Paradise.

God made our earthly bodies for a life followed by death. So our children can inherit the earth and their children after them.  This is the fallen creation where everything is corrupted and death was let in. Our sexual organs hormones and desires are created for life within the fallen Creation.  To replace us with new generations.

This is one reason, I believe, the Muslim idea of paradise with many virgins given to every man just does not add up.  In the first place there are not that many virgins in the second place in a perfect heaven there would be no need for sex.

We Christians imagine God The Father and the angels as mainly masculine figures, when in fact God the Father does not need a wife as he is everything there cannot be a wife outside him. He has to be a sexless God.

We as the Churh are described as the Bride of Christ.  That does not mean we are women. That refers to the love shared with him. He loves from the inside out and the outside in.  It is the intimacy of his love for us and our love for him that is being expressed.  The closest to which we can understand on Earth is the love of husband and wife.

Modesty and morality

The Bible and the Koran both tell us to dress modestly.  The material world advertises sex as love, which it is not.  Lust is a selfish desire to fulfil one's own desires.  Love is the desire to serve the needs of others.  In a loving marriage both can exist together.  The Materialist world quite literally advertises the opposite.  The fastest route to power for a young person is their sex appeal.

Looking at the gyrating hips of a pop star is looking at an Idol (Idolatry) and is lustful.  There is no desire to do the pop star any good, it is just a desire for sexual gratification with said pop star.

Immodest dress leads to immoral thoughts in undisciplined people.  Muslim's, to my mind wrongly, put the blame for the immoral thoughts on the person who is immodestly dressed.  I put the blame squarely on the lack of self-discipline.

Having said that self-discipline is something that takes time to learn, which is why being modestly dressed is important in both books.  Lying on a beach almost completely naked is being immodestly dressed.

It provokes in a lot of Muslim minds an implication of immorality, whether there is immorality there or not.  Given that 94% of Britain’s are not religious the immorality could be very real.

I write this not to excuse the attacks in Tunisia but to explain them.  If you want to stand out as a Christian; dress modestly, even on the beach.

Remember that Pop Idols and Fashion models and film stars are mostly Satanists, whether they know it or not.  They want people to worship them and not God.  Some say I feel possessed when on stage.  Quite probably they are.

Give trust a chance

Why do physicists think mathematical equations rule the world when politicians have proved that lies do a much better job?

Logical equations mean nothing to nations, unless you’re counting the economy or soldiers and have not miscounted.

Have you seen the lesser spotted gecko?  He may be hiding because neither did the cat.

Have you seen the lesser spotted God?  Does not mean he is not there. It just means that you have not spotted him yet.  May be he thinks you’re the cat?

An army is useless if you do not know where the enemy is, which is why terrorists are such an economical fighting force.

Knowledge is mightier than the gun but only when the woman with the gun does not know where you are and that you are an enemy.

Economists get it right 20% of the time.  Astrologers 50%.  Guessing is as good as numbers.

Sharing knowledge means sharing trust. Give trust a chance!

Practical use of the Word.

The Word is used for sharing knowledge.

The simplest way of sharing knowledge is currently the internet.

There are two ways of distributing knowledge one is called pulling that is going to Google or any other search engine and typing in what you want and it returns the information ususally in the top 2 or 3 items in your list this is very effective at getting the information you want.

The second way is pushing information.  This is usually used by advertisers and quite often is for information you do not want but get any how as the price you have to pay for using a free service.

The loving way to share information is to pull information and make all information pullable.

This means instead of plumbers advertising their services you advertise that you need a plumber and the plumbers pull the available work.  This does not just go for plumbers if you want any service you need to advertise that you need that service then people who provide that service can search for new work.

This not only restricted to individuals it could be companies requiring services or it could be scientists with scientific problems such as the extinction of bees needing unkown solutions.

These problems with unkown solutions need engineers or other scientist to search through these problems and think of a solution for them.  It could easily be the same scientist or engineer who comes up with a proiject to solve the problem.  This will create new projects which often need funding

So you advertise that you need funding so entrepreneurs can choose which projects they want to fund and a new business is born.  Those entrepreneurs can be corporations individuals or multiple individuals or whole communities.  It is a genuinely democratic way of choosing which project gets funded because anyone can choose what they want to invest in and invest in it assuming the projerct gets enough backers to actually take off.

I would like someone to set up a website based on this idea and I need a lawyer to work on the legal aspects and it will need financial backing to start it.

I would like it to be a non-profit co-operative organisation that is owned by the members and people who invest in it get back there money partly as a % of their investment and partly as a per capita basis.  This is to cover the cost of connecting poorer members.

Members can get money for advertising on their web-pages and from investing in ideas.

Any would be profit is reinvested in expanding the internet using sustainable power and Compressed Air storage to spread the gift of the Word to as many people as possible.

This may not seem the best way to feed the poor of the world but people in China are already displacing people in the west by taking them on in this virtual world and working for less money.  All it takes is a connection and some education which comes free on the internet and hey presto anyone in the world can do a lot of the computer jobs to day.

Yes it does mean there will be more competition but there will also be more opportunities too.

What is in a Word?

The English definition of a a word is a symbol used to share meaning.


Let us look at that cyclical definition.

A symbol is anything used to share meaning e.g. letters are used to translate between the written and spoken word; normal words used in every day use;  drawings such as hieroglyphs; gestures such as a kiss to betray Jesus; events such as a marriage used to start a rebellion; Pheromone trails used by ants to find food and dances used by bees to find nectar the list is endless.  This definition is slightly broader than the standard definition of a symbol, which restricts to human symbols.


The most important part of the word is the sharing of meaning without the sharing it stops being a word.  Some people say that you cannot use words in lies  because you are not sharing meaning. That is the lies make the words meaningless.

A meaning is expressed by any combination or permutation of words.  They can be nonsensical, lies paradoxes, temporary truth such as it is raining or permanent self-consistent truth.  One search for this self-consistent truth is called mathematics another is integrity in your life.

Given that without words we can have no thoughts, nor reason, nor philosophy, nor mathematics and that some physicists, such as Max Tegmark, believe "The Universe is nothing but pure mathematics"; this implies that without the word nothing exists with them with them everything exists.

Given this thesis that existence is based on words and using the naming convention that the set of all words and thus meanings is  known as The WORD.  Let us investigate this WORD.

There is nowhere and nothing whether abstract, fictitious in your imagination or physical that is not made up of words or controlled by words. So The WORD contains them.  So The WORD is everywhere that is it is omnipresent.

Given that the set of all words contains all knowledge and all intelligent beings The WORD knows everything that is it is omniscient.  It also contains all intelligence so in all probability very wise, tending to infinitely wise.

Given that The WORD contains all possible out comes including what we would normally call the fictitious ones, then The WORD is omnipotent because all outcomes are possible even if we do not know how to get from one point to the other; certainly it is not obvious from our mathematical understanding of Science.

Given that The WORD is a set of symbols used for sharing meanings these symbols are as eternal in meaning as 1 + 1 = 2, which was true before the Universe began and will be true after the Universe ends. That means The WORD has existed before the beginning of physical time and will exist well beyond the end of physical time.  IT JUST IS.  The WORD is eternal.

Lastly words are symbol used for sharing meaning.  You share things to cooperate to be a team.  Cooperation is a form of love.  Without knowledge we have nothing to share nor know anyone to share it with.  I would ask you which political blocks whether trade blocks, alliances or religious groups are succeeding best. I think you will find it is the ones that cooperate the most.

However, one does have a choice, camouflage for a Tiger deceiving its prey.  North Korea is grand standing and threatening its neighbours.  Are they doing well on the World scene? Unfortunately not.  I hope they learn to cooperate soon.

The normal use of words is for the benefit of the community and is normally benign.  So on the whole The WORD is benign, except where we use our free will to abuse words and mislead people by corrupting symbols from their proper use.

So The WORD is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, eternal benign and the foundation of existence.  The WORD has all the classic attributes of God the Great I AM.

The name God With Us, or Jesus, is just re-iterating this fact that God is with us.  There is not any single part of us that is not a part of God.  The Eternal God could very easily look at all the words that make us before time existed and see the whole of us from the inside and outside, from cradle to grave.

I believe there is no single part of God that is not available to us if we want it.  All we need to do is ask through prayer and our prayer will be answered.

In the beginning was The WORD and The WORD was with God and The WORD was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made. and without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life and that life was the light of all mankind, and the light shone in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:1-5


The emphasis on WORD is mine but otherwise this is verbatim from the Bible. The WORD is God and is with God because no word stands alone.


If now you understand these thoughts and think they are reasonable then may be you should consider bowing to the Great I AM because God is With us, inside and out.

Jesus or in the Hebrew Jeshua means "God With Us" also called Emmanuel.

At the name of Jesus "God With us" every knee will bow.

Just pray

Amen

Introduction to the rest of the site.

An introduction to Plato.  Without the Word we cannot exist:
The Word
Equating the Word to God as the foundation of all existence. St John1:1-5

A twelve Page  Look at the Word or God:
An introduction to the search for the love of God in abstract existence
A deeper look into these ideas following the logical argument as to why this is true.


The full thesis in word format can be obtained on request just post a comment.
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A slightly boring but very detailed study of how to drive economically:
The fine art of driving gently
It took over two years of studying my driving habits to write.

A radical look at the possibilities of applying love to business and sustainability Love is the answer to peak oil
Something I wrote a while ago and needs a lot more work to become a viable business plan. It needs God's blessing before it can happen.