Poking and Probing the Crack in the Cosmic Egg

To simplify matters, I suppose we could say that wideawake intelligence and cutandry reason are to the horizontal as intellection is to the vertical.

Verticality cannot be seen or even suspected without the intellect, although then again, so many anomalies pile up with a purely horizontal view, that one might begin to posit some hidden variable in order to account for them.

In a way, -- my way, to be exact -- we could say that this is Gödel’s whole point: that logic itself proves with total absurditude that logic isn’t enough. Most völks don’t know about Gödel, and even those who do take him to mean that since reason cannot know reality, reality cannot be known. 

Wrong.  

Problem is, beyond this point -- the point at which the rock of logic peters out -- Gödel is not our best guide, since he became frankly psychotic by the end of his life. Nevertheless, he got the biggest thing right, and he provides the basis -- or at least a permission slip -- for the slide upto a genuine metatheology of extreme reality:

the mind, being in fact “alive,” can always go one better than any formal, ossified, dead [“nonliving” is a better term] system can. Thanks to Gödel’s theorem[s], the mind always has the last word (Goldstein). 

I appreciate the point, but that’s not quite true, since this would equally confine us -- in this case, to our own minds. 

Rather, if we’re on the right track, the last word must be the Word. And fortunately, this Word has not only paid us a visit, but provides the very means for us to be grafted on to it and participate in its transcosmic Life. 

Is this logical? Please. It is logical & thensome, AKA mega- and metalogical. I would say this is the very logic that can be no logiker.

In terms of the positivist nest from which Gödel hatched, unknowability was regarded as but a symptom of disordered language -- the nonsensical answer to a nonsensical question. But Gödel flew that coop and came to realize that people like me would eventually come along: for it is 

to be expected that sooner or later my proof will be made useful for religion, since that is doubtless also justified in a certain sense.

A “certain sense,” because exoteric religiosity is vulnerable to the same Gödelian critique as any other system that would presume to constrain us.

Yes, but revelation comes from God, not man! And the Bible -- I saw an ad on TV using these very words -- is the #1 selling book in all of history, because it contains God’s word from cover to cover, and every single word of it is literally true!

Now, am I going to throw shade on this assertion? No I am not. Let’s just say with the Aphorist that The Bible is not the voice of God but that of the man who encounters Him, and move along.

That is far from the only commercial I saw during the Super Bowl that wasn't intended for us. Rather, it is aimed at a very different audience, and I am not going to pretend that that audience is my audience. 

Nor will I pretend that we are somehow superior to them, since we ought never conflate the “superiority,” so to speak, of the message, with a presumed superiority of the messenger. This is an easy trap to fall into, for which reason there exist so many vertical scoundrels (creepy perverticaloids) who get many things right but fail at some of the biggest, e.g., humility, charity, self-mastery, etc.

We alluded to one of these big ones in yesterday’s post, and won’t rehearse or exhumine it here. I'm not a mortician, rather, I only undertake living arguments, so let the dead post bury itself.

Did you hear that? That’s the sound of language dissolving before our very ears. 

Having shed insufficient obscurity on the subject, I do enjoy probing and poking at the edges to find out where the Line is. As mentioned a couple of posts back, there is extrinsic heresy and intrinsic heresy, or cosmic and religious, and someday we ought to explore the difference, but that day will be tomorrow. 

 

For me, this one will always be the soundtrack of a tomorrow that never arrived, provoking gnostalgia for a brighter future that isn't what it used to be: