Nexus of Thought: On this Blog Going Forward

Sunday, June 24, 2018

On this Blog Going Forward

I have some great plans for this blog that I will be working on for the next couple of months. These include

1. Continuation with the History of Western Civilization Plots (Plan to reach 300 sometime)

2. More specific history topic focus - largely on events in the 20th century

3. Science Topics largely targeted to Physics

4. A History of the Future Series

5. Personal Reflections

6. Some political commentary.

I will import writing from an earlier blog (quality material) and make a request for others to comment on the posts.

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My beliefs

I believe ….

1.That there is a God who transcends space and time. (I call it God for want of a name although I personally prefer the Kabbalistic term Ein Sof).

2. That it is impossible to know the nature of God. It cannot be truly defined.

3. That the universe operates according to the Laws of Physics. Life evolved through a combination of natural selection, genetic drift and other selection pressures acting on a genome whose variation arose as a consequence of mutation.

4. That God can intervene but such intervention is undetectable and does not contravene the laws of physics. God is a subtle actor who presents no evidence of understandable design.

5. That an agnostic position on a personal God makes sense.

6. That revealed religion are merely man made attempts at trying to understand God and although some carry the wisdom of earlier thought they are all inherently flawed.

7. That humans need to develop their own moral code based on reason, logic and the collective thinking of what has worked in the past.

8. That some religious customs may serve a purpose with respect to group cohesion but they need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

9. That God is a minimalist in action but not necessarily a disinterested party.

10. That the afterlife is unknowable.

11. That skepticism and the scientific method are the best tools we have in understanding the world.