Chaos, Religion and the New World Order.

I am writing still up my ideas about religion as viewed by chaos theory, for now this short piece from my blog will fill in while I work on the more detailed essay.

This is a a Koch snowflake, a simple fractal you can make yourself, if you have an infinite amount of spare time. You start with an equilateral triangle and then replace the middle third of every line segment with an equilateral "bump." Now do this with every new line segment you create, ad infinitum. With every iteration, the perimeter of this shape increases by one third of the previous length. At the end of time your snowflake's perimeter has an infinite length, while its area remains finite. Any similarity between this so-called "monster curve" and some occult symbols may or may not be purely coincidental.

While it was easy for me to point out the role of uncertainty and the danger of faith in science, it pains me to put into words what seems antithetical to religion: that there is no absolute truth to be had.

I may be a bit more sensitive to the feelings of the faithful than your average atheist, but I would still never recommend that anyone should actually adhere to someone else's religion. Make one up for yourself maybe, and never take it too seriously, but don't ever buy one of those off the shelf models. Here's one reason why:

One of the aesthetics suggested by chaos theory is the property of fractals to display self similarity at different scales, as demonstrated by zooming in on the mini-Mandelbrots in the Mandelbrot set.

Another is their fractional dimensionality. Unlike euclidean geometrical shapes fractals have borders of infinite complexity which interpenetrate their surroundings.

Applied to nature, these concepts are much more useful than linear measures for understanding phenomenon like clouds and turbulence. It is easy for casual observer to see the similarity of clouds or ripples of different sizes, or at various distances and magnifications. As well, anyone can see the lack of real borders between the clouds and the air, or between a whirlpool and the water.

If we look at human existence in this way, we will see that humans (and other living things) are also like this. Since we shed all our cellular material over a seven year period and new material is absorbed from our surroundings through the convoluted interfaces of our skin, lungs and digestive systems; we are more like a vortex moving through a medium than we are like a solid object. We dissipate through time; chances are you are occupying an entirely different physical body than the one you originally used to log onto the Internet that very first time, all those years ago, yet somehow there is a continuity of consciousness even though you think and feel different.

As such, we are similar to and yet different from each other, from our former "selves" and from our ancestors and evolutionary predecessors. The physical borders between our "selves" and the environment are indistinct, permeable and variable.

I have digressed, but my point is that I would like to apply these ways of looking at things to the subject of religion. The clip below demonstrates the property of self similarity in religion. We can see that figures such as Jesus and Moses are not unique occurrences in time but reiterations of a historical formula. And so truth in religion can not be absolute, but will tend to recur, self-similarly (like a self-fulfilling prophesy), in myths, social and family structures, and personal development - right down to WWJD (what would Jesus do) today.

I highly recommend you watch the whole movie. Zeitgeist is available in 13 parts on YouTube. I definitely want to write more about it in my blog, as the producers present some thought provoking ideas about the social structures used to control the masses and promote the New World Order.

On this page and in my blog I will explore other applications of non-linear dynamical aesthetics to religion such as mirror symmetries which allow some believers to interprete the Bible in the exact opposite way to which we are accustomed; where God is the bad guy and Lucifer is the hero.

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