Actual Realism

I've said this before here: there's a great old saying in professional racehorse gambling - 'there are the real odds, and the actual odds; and the two things are different.'

'Real odds' are the true chances every horse has to win their race. 'Actual odds' are the prices bookmakers actually put up for you to bet against.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the typical 'science realism' individual - his position is the same as all of them. What he does and what they all do, is give you this big litany of all the bad things that happen, that are there around the place, and then charge: 'Either God is not All-Powerful, or He is not All-Good.' (Or of course, He is not there at all; they must say).

'Don't you want to go -.
to where the Rainbows begin?'
My riff on that EWS scene.

That is on account that there are so many bad things that necessarily this means God is not there, or not All-Good, and/or not All-Powerful.

For a supposed scientist and a realist, he's an absolute idiot.

The material world, the Cosmos/the Universe if you will, as we see it and know it, contains one plain feature - it contains everything.

Things go up from the infinitesimally small, through to the extremely large - or in fact absolutely vast.

The dynamic interplay of living beings and things too, in the exact same way, go from the simplistic, through the mediocre, to the insanely exquisitely wonderful.

'God' is the thing that lies on the extreme upper end.

It is a necessary reality. It is a scientific and a logical absolute necessity and a reality. And no amount of fools such as deGrasse Tyson will ever alter that fact.

'All-Powerful?' Who cares.

The late, allegedly, Kaiser Karl.
Ah well, that is the body, captured
in a pic, of the mind of the man.

If the sentience considering the question does not have the relevant mindset, on what basis would you say the 'All-Powerful' - and 'All-Powerful' should necessarily exercise its agency over the sufferings of a mediocre transient if somewhat intelligent species?

What should possess your mind and your 'caring' should be that you can influence some All-Powerful, also Intelligent and Good, Being to do what it is that you want.

'Influence' is just another way of saying being friendly to or towards.

Usually your friends do for you what you want, if it is in their capacities at any given time.

Shortly I am going to post up something else to read somewhere, that will flesh out the material value, not so much the value exchange, but the actual receipt of value that you can attain via a pretty straightforward path.

In other words, what I am saying is that on the one hand it would be great if that blue light (that Karin Austin mentioned) came down into your room, and then you were stuck in a paralysis(!), and yet still totally with full consciousness saw, the insectoid (it's just a constructed biological automaton), and then you could ask it stuff and get 'downloads' and send 'uploads.' And all of this good stuff.

And on the other hand, if you suddenly, and I mean quite suddenly, had a lot of liquidity...

And if you were smart about it, you could acknowledge, despite that your mind's feeling about things had changed, that the hierarchy of complexity indeed exists - and that there are other people around you. 

This man is Pedro Arrupe.
He is a Buddhist monk, who came 
down from the hills near Hiroshima,
and physically lifted survivors out from beneath
 the rubble after the Bomb, manhandled them
back up to his hill, where he cared for them.
There is a big photograph of him
up on a wall at Sedona, where the
ET Alien 'remote viewers,'
meditaters, and Contactees
that I think Laurance Rockefeller,
in part funded, hang out today.  

And that you do not want to truncate either their, or even your own, pathway to the high end of Cosmic complexity. Sure you might want to 'test your coins' as the Germans say - meaning that encountering wildly amazing intelligent beings and species from somewhere else every now and then, is great but so too are there quite a few dumb humans back here that are also pretty great. Why would you want to leave them out of the whole picture?

Problem of course is that there is a threshold to 'dumbness;' many human beings are never going to get above the standard of thinking - and of actually being - of the Neil deGrasse Tyson's of the world.

Logically he cannot answer the challenge to what he said, that I made here. But he doesn't want to though, either.

The world, this world, has a rising and a descending, hierarchy of intelligent beings.

And that shouldn't be changed because it is an accurate reflection of actual reality!

Real reality might not necessarily include for you though, what happens to all other people.

The more that you go into this, properly, with the proper back-grounding and best most-accurate knowledge, the more you will stop worrying about where the miracles end.

They don't ever end.