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Zizek: “Try to formulate a racist/sexist notion in its pure logical structure, and its absurdity immediately becomes clear.”
Slavoj Zizek, « "Indiana Jones", "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer": Who can't stand the truth? », in Berliner Zeitung, 20.07.2023
Zizek’s conclusion: “not only do we take refuge in a fantasy to avoid confrontation with reality, we also take refuge in reality (of brutal deeds) in order to avoid the truth about the futility of our fantasies.”
Why are our contemporary societies so fascinated by money? Why do they make the possession of this money the supreme value? How can we explain that our civilization has sunk to such an extent into the religion of the god of money, at the risk of the worst inequalities and of the destruction of the planet? To understand this, we should probably start by recalling that money does indeed have something akin to a god... When we speak of the "god of money", it is not a simple expression, it is not, unfortunately, a simple image, but something that refers to the immense power of money, a power that fascinates us because it resembles, in a very disturbing way, the power that our imaginations have attributed to all the gods of all the religions: the power to do everything, to make everything possible, to create everything - in short, an absolute power that is that of omnipotence... This is why money exerts on us this fascination: like the all-powerful gods, it holds out to us the image of omnipotence! And it is even more formidable... because money seems to have an advantage over these gods of the different religions. Because the omnipotence that we lend to it seems much more concrete than that of the gods, it is an omnipotence that men can seize - the omnipotence that money designates seems accessible, whereas the omnipotence of the gods will always escape us... Thanks to money, men delude themselves into living the life of the gods... What the subjugated followers of the religion of the money god express by saying: "Everything has a price", "everything can be bought, it is enough to put the price there".
It is perhaps not inappropriate to point out that a French publisher has just published a bilingual version of "Genealogy of the Money-God" which presents itself as a radical destruction of this cult.
THE END OF HISTORY Magister colin leslie dean
The end of history because-EVERYTHING ends in nonsense rubbish
https://www.scribd.com/document/605875005/THE-END-OF-HISTORY
Hither to monkey man has been arrogant about its reason It believed reason was a tool to understand to create knowledge it created vast systems deep ideologies profound “truths” Monkey man believed its reason could unlock “truths” but now it has come to the end of its arrogance its all pervading belief in the abilities its reason
There is nowhere to go now it is the end point reason is bankrupt it is all over it is the end of history-for everything that comes from the mind of monkey man any system any ideology any science any mathematics etc from the past now and into the future will be seen to end in nonsense rubbish meaninglessness
All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc
The end of history because-EVERYTHING ends in nonsense rubbish
All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc
a theory of everything
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/455372682/A-Theory-of-Everything
All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc
All things are possible
With maths being inconsistent you can prove anything in maths ie you can prove Fermat’s last theorem and you can disprove Fermat’s last theorem
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/All-things-are-possible.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/324037705/All-Things-Are-Possible-philosophy
Mathematics ends in contradiction:6 proofs
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/MATHEMATICS.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/40697621/Mathematics-Ends-in-Meaninglessness-ie-self-contradiction
Scientific reality is textual
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Scientific-reality-is-textual.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/572639157/Scientific-Reality-is-Textual
The-Anthropology-of-science
(science is a mythology)
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Anthropology-of-science.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/512683685/Prolegomenon-to-The-Anthropology-of-Science
Prolegomenon to undermining the foundations/fundamentals of science
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/undermining-the-foundations-of-science.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/591616840/Prolegomenon-to-Undermining-the-Foundations-of-Science
The age of the enlightenment is at an end: reason is bankrupt
or
Godels theorems 1 & 2 to be invalid:end in meaninglessness
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/32970323/Godels-incompleteness-theorem-invalid-illegitimate
from
http://pricegems.com/articles/Dean-Godel.html
"Mr. Dean complains that Gödel "cannot tell us what makes a mathematical statement true", but Gödel's Incompleteness theorems make no attempt to do this"
Godels 1st theorem
“....., there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory (Kleene 1967, p. 250
Godel cant tell us what makes a mathematical statement true,
thus his theorem is meaningless
in the statement
"there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory"
godel cant tell us what the word "true" means
thus
the word "true" is meaningless
thus
the statement
"there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory"
is meaningless
thus
thus godels 1st theorem is meaningless
checkmate game over
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Mathematics
Gödel thought that the ability to perceive the truth of a mathematical or logical proposition is a matter of intuition, an ability he admitted could be ultimately beyond the scope of a formal theory of logic or mathematics[63][64] and perhaps best considered in the realm of human comprehension and communication, but commented: Ravitch, Harold (1998). "On Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics".,Solomon, Martin (1998). "On Kurt Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics"
thus by not telling us what makes a maths statement true Godels 1st theorem is meaningless
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/ or
https://www.scribd.com/document/35520015/List-of-FREE-Erotic-Poetry-Books-by-Gamahucher-Press
The Mars Effect presented by Michel Gauquelin back in 1955 demonstrated that there was a statistical signifiance of Mars showing up in key sectors in the charts of eminent sports champions. He divided the chart into 12 sectors and found that in eminent sports champions, Mars was showing up in what he called the rising sector and the culminating sector. The base rate for a planet showing up in 2 sectors of possible 12 sectors based on chance was 17%. In gauquelin's sample, Mars was showing up at a rate of 22%. More than chance, which aside from all other potential meanings, meant that Mars must have some sort of effect. This is a faith inducer.
After he tied Mars influence to a scientific potential, I took Mars and tied it to a religious signifiance. Using the English Sumerian Gematria, where the letters of the alphabet are numbered in multiples of 6....A=6, B=12, c=18, so on and so forth, I added up the letters of Mars and got 306. After simply adding 360 to 306, I got 666. Essentially Mars 360 is the revolution of Mars around the Sun and its influence humanity.
Then, I found that the position of Mars within 30 degrees of the lunar node was coinciding with the escalation of rocket fire from Gaza into Israel since 2007(actualy 2006). I discovered this in 2019. Then after discovering that, I demonstrated IN REAL TIME, that this was the case.
I went on youtube and predicted in advance 2019, 2020, and 2022 the rocket fire escalation time frames for all three years(2020, 2021 and 2022) consecutively by observing when Mars would be within 30 degrees of the lunar node. The 3rd year was a charm because before when this was unanimously considered a joke, now perhaps a handful of people are listening to this. Not alot but a long way from how this data was perceived in 2019. The fact that I demonstrated in real time had an effect.
I then tied Mars to economic significance by showing how stock market crashes occur when Mars is within 30 degrees of the lunar node. This is in volume III, only in the book version.
This is a theological development, The question is who will be the next prophet of Mars. Gauquelin sort of like an Abraham figure. I'm Elijah. And many more will come along and induce faith
I've been puzzling on this essay for over eight years.
It was mainly inspired by the French postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard, and contains quotes by many others.
The full text can be found on https://www.doolhoofd.com (linked from Blogger).
First paragraph (of thirty):
01) "How do our allegedly rational and programmed societies function? What moves the populations, what gets them going? Scientific progress, objective information, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of those truly guilty or the growth of collective happiness? Absolutely not, nobody cares about that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of appearances, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by appearances. That's an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of technology, of science, of politics - in any spectacle whatsoever. The veritable contemporary social bond is the concerted partaking in seduction. If a revolution wants to take place then it must first seduce us, and it can only do so with the signs. But while a revolution might alter the course of history, only its sight is truly sublime. And what do we choose? 'The people didn't actually desire a revolution, they merely desired its view,' said Rivarol. For such a simulation-effect, for such a seduction-effect we are willing to pay any price, far more than for the 'real' quality of our lives. The spectaclistic drive is stronger than the survival instinct, you can count on that." - Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies
Godels theorems to be invalid:end in meaninglessness
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/32970323/Godels-incompleteness-theorem-invalid-illegitimate
Penrose could not even see Godels theorems end in meaninglessness
Dean shows Godels 1st and 2nd theorems shown to end in meaninglessness
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf
Godels 1st theorem
“Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory (Kleene 1967, p. 250)
but
Godel cant tell us what makes a mathematical statement true,
thus his theorem is meaningless
even Cambridge expert on Godel Peter Smith admits "Gödel didn't rely on the notion of truth"
thus by not telling us what makes a maths statement true Godels 1st theorem is meaningless
so much for separating truth from proof
and for some relish
Godel uses his G statement to prove his theorem but Godels sentence G is outlawed by the very axiom of the system he uses to prove his theorem ie the axiom of reducibility -thus his proof is invalid,
Godels 2nd theorem
Godels second theorem ends in paradox– impredicative The theorem in a rephrasing reads
"The following rephrasing of the second theorem is even more unsettling to the foundations of mathematics: If an axiomatic system can be proven to be consistent and complete from within itself, then it is inconsistent.”
or again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GC3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
"The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency."
But here is a contradiction Godel must prove that a system c a n n o t b e proven to be consistent based upon the premise that the logic he uses must be consistent . If the logic he uses is not consistent then he cannot make a proof that is consistent. So he must assume thathis logic is consistent so he can make a proof of the impossibility of proving a system to be consistent. But if his proof is true then he has proved that the logic he uses to make the proof must be consistent, but his proof proves that this cannot be done
note if Godels system is inconsistent then it can demonstrate its consistency and inconsistency
but Godels theorem does not say that
it says "...the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency"
thus as said above
"But here is a contradiction Godel must prove that a system c a n n o t b e proven to be consistent based upon the premise that the logic he uses must be consistent"
But if his proof is true then he has proved that the logic he uses to make the proof must be consistent, but his proof proves that this cannot be done
Mathematics ends in contradiction:6 proofs
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/MATHEMATICS.pdf
or
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/40697621/Mathematics-Ends-in-Meaninglessness-ie-self-contradiction
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
Scientific reality is textual
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Scientific-reality-is-textual.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/572639157/Scientific-Reality-is-Textual
The-Anthropology-of-science
(science is a mythology)
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Anthropology-of-science.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/512683685/Prolegomenon-to-The-Anthropology-of-Science