Canto
X
Gangster
Gospel
Canto X
Petrus Romanus
Forever and a Day?
Can a universe exist without there ever being a Big Bang? No. In order to live, you must have a birthday. But why? Because if you don't know where you came from, you can't know where you're going. It would be a travesty of history, which I guess would make it twistery.
Now, let's twist our tassels to the left and break it down college-style...
Since motion requires direction and direction necessitates infinitude, which is to say, a finite beginning and end (or 'alpha and omega', if you will), causality simply cannot cause itself or else it is no more causal.
Deus ex machina (a.k.a. Mormonism) works as a literary device, but is cosmologically untenable. Instead, Deus nobis lives and does so because she was born, having been made perfect by virtue of the Immaculate Conception.
This is why infinity is a real number, but not an exact number. There is a real first day of Creation and a real last day of Eternity, but that day never exactly comes. Yes, if you take and eat of the tree of life, you will live forever, but not forever and a day! Neither was there a time beforetime -- eternity is much too time-consuming!
Had there been no real genesis, infinity would be an exact number without being a real number, which is absolutely impossible. God cannot count to infinity twice and in such a universe, infinity would be multiplied by itself which, again, is absolutely impossible.
If infinity is not a real number, then no number is real. We would live in a non-dimensional universe; one where 2 + 2 equals 6, 7, and 8. Salvador Dali would be a realist painter! Nothing lives in that universe -- or can. Existence may be paradoxical, but it cannot be oxymoronic.
Yet we observe a Universe that is infinite, having a real beginning, but with no exact end (just as the numeric value ∞ has a real beginning, but no exact end); and without this infinitude, there can be no direction which facilitates motion; and motion is life itself and the definition of it. Likewise, because time and space are two sides of the same coin, the Universe will also expand ad infinitum -- kind of like this essay!
When I listen to the second movement of Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata, I am captivated from its opening theme to its final chord. However, it is not because of my temporality that I am aware of the music's beginning and end, but rather, it is because the music begins and ends that I am aware of my temporality. Hence, the awareness of temporality (which is prerequisite to existence) cannot occur without a real beginning and a real end to temporality itself.
To put it differently, there simply must be a beginning-and-end predicament which temporality, by its very own nature, perpetually implicates; and yet it is not my temporality that implicates Universal Infinitude, but rather it is Universal Infinitude that implicates my temporality. In other words, the mere fact that I am able to observe events in the Universe that seem to begin and end (which is necessary for temporality), means that a beginning and ending must exist in eternity, which (having not been contingent upon my position as an observer) would necessitate a real beginning and real end to eternity itself. The journey is the destination!
Creation myths the world over attest to humankind's intuitive sense that the world had to come from somewhere; and if it came from somewhere, then we ought to be able to foretell where it will go, vis-à-vis prophecy. Astrology, I Ching, Numerology and all the rest are historic methods for discerning the Universe's intent and direction. Even the ancient Israelites used a lottery system to determine tribal boundaries after the Conquest of Canaan:
(Jos 18:6) Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
If everyone knew the future, Las Vegas would go out of business. But just as "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"; what happens on earth, stays in eternity. There is nowhere to run from your sin; but (glory to God) eternity is not long enough to outlive grace:
(Rev 1:8) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Now, while ∞ represents a mathematical quantity that is real, but inexact; the number 0 also represents a real, but inexact mathematical quantity. Conceptually, 2 - 2 = 0; but in the real world, if you have two apples and two are removed, you will now have no apples, not zero apples -- yes, there's a difference.
1-2-3-4-5-6
I
Am
The
Most
Blest
Virgin
Not
Some
Other
Person
Do
Fear
Their
Enmity
Holy
Mater
Domini
Pure
Woman
Chaste
Womb
Jesus
Graced
For Ever You
I can smell your fragrance.
It smells like every woman I ever knew
and yet is ever new.
Perhaps it was ever you,
but I'm so bemused by how you used
to know just what to do to make me
ever true, loving you...
Cataclysm
What is the Universe expanding into?
God did not create elemental matter, she found it already present in the Universe, which is to say, the Universe is Jehovah. Before creation, Abba was gender neutral, but he became masculinized through a divine act of sex between Shekhinah and God the Father. Jehovah is Abba; Shekhinah is Mary. Jehovah is matter; Mary is consciousness. In other words, Jehovah Shekhinah is LORD and Creator. She didn't create herself. She just was.
God was born Immaculate by the grace of her son Jesus. She found herself in the loving embrace of Jehovah suspended on an elemental miasma or firmament.
The Universe is accelerating into the elemental firmament that preceded it. It always will -- at least virtually. Just as infinity is a real, but inexact number; the maximum size of the Universe is also real but inexact. As you might have guessed, the Universe is therefore speeding toward a real barrier it cannot transcend, but it virtually never gets there -- c'est la vie!
The elemental firmament consists of three elements: Earth (Y), Wind (H) and Fire (W). Just as oxygen and hydrogen combine to make water, Wind and Fire combine to make the Fourth Greek Element (H). The Fifth Greek Element, the spirit, is the movement of the first three elements. Without movement, there is no life. Motion = Life.
The elements never touch each other. Compounds are simulated when the three elements are captured in each other's orbit. Likewise, compounds orbit other compounds to create more complex compounds. God is like a kid on Chanukah spinning an eternal dreidel -- and the time it takes for the dreidel to stop spinning is the time it takes for the atom to decay. Once the atom decays, it reverts back to the elemental miasma that congealed it and because God controls the spin of the dreidel, the rate of radioactive decay cannot ever be predicted by scientists.
Can the elements ever decay?
No. If scientists can find a substance that does not decay, they will have found an element. Therefore, the "elements" on the "periodic table" are obviously not elements. By the way, although I am against Scientific Method and Newtonian Mechanics, I am not against the true science, which is to say, the idea that observation and reason can discern cosmic truths.
Do the three elements have the same weight and mass?
Yes -- but virtually.
Can a Universe exist with less than three elements?
No. This is because existence is predicated on consciousness and consciousness necessitates a Witness. If nobody knows your name, you're not in Cheers! Likewise, witness necessitates communication and communication requires a language. If you don't talk to God, God doesn't know you exist -- kind of like your ex! But if you're ready to talk, she's ready to bury the hatchet -- literally!
A language must have at least three phonemes (or sound colors) because a language with one phoneme expresses nothing other than itself. But communication requires a relationship and relationship requires a distinction that a monophonetic language couldn't possibly provide. You can't teach Morse code to someone who doesn't already know a language!
A language with two phonemes is no better. Now we've graduated from Morse code to computer code, but don't cue up 'Pomp and Circumstance' just yet! A binary language can only express 'on-off-on-off'. This would be adequate in a two-dimensional black-and-white universe -- but who wants to play 'Pong' all day long?
Binary code offers a solitary distinction, but that distinction renders itself indistinct through lack of a secondary distinguisher, which only the addition of a third tone color can provide. In music, we understand a dyadic harmony to be similarly indistinct, but with the addition of a third note, the triad is the foundation of Western music, expressing every subtle shade of meaning and delicate nuance that even the most sensitive of composers can conjure.
Computer code is not a language. If you want to build an artificially intelligent computer, you must construct a device that operates on a tertiary code, not a binary one. Opps, that's impossible -- unless your computer is alive with a conscious spirit! But then you wouldn't be a computer, would you? Control-Alt-Delete!
Just as a language cannot have less than three phonemes, it also cannot have more than three phonemes. This is because there are only three pure sound waves in nature:
(Y) Square wave
(H) Triangle wave
(W) Sawtooth wave
The fourth sound wave sine (H) is a composite of triangle (H) and sawtooth (W).
Can a universe exist with more than three elements?
No. Why? There is no room in the Universe for a fourth element because each element occupies one of three dimensions and we live in a three-dimensional Universe. There is no fourth dimension; Neither can there be -- there's nowhere to go but up, down, all around.
Can gravity somehow cause the firmament to move on its own?
No. Because the elements are infinitely small and separated by infinitely small antimaterial gaps, there is an infinitely weak gravitational pull acting on them (too strong for the elements to escape, yet too week for them to coalesce -- a virtual equilibrium).
The reason why elements cannot touch is because the gravitational attraction would exceed infinity. Once that happens, there is neither gravity nor element as the elemental miasma becomes a monumental coalescence. But a woman has three dimensions and is malleable to the touch. And how do I touch a woman if it impossible for two objects to touch each other? Simple. I don't really touch her; I touch her virtually:
(1 Cor 7:1) It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
What if by a sheer cosmic accident, a dead universe spawned itself?
If the universe spawned itself, it would only last about 5 seconds -- because that's how long it would take everyone in it to die laughing!
We could stop here, but let's continue.
If a godless Big Bang happened, the Universe it "created" would be infinitesimally small (virtually speaking) and would last an infinitesimally short time (virtually speaking). This Uni-curse would eventually settle back to the virtual equilibrium that couldn't possibly have spawned it to begin with! That's why scientists are completely baffled, befuddled and bemused at, not only the existence of the cosmos itself, but also, the seemingly endless expansion of it. They want to have two miracles for the price of none!
Please Lord Newton! Send us a messiah to solve the dilemma of a mechanical universe with no "on" button!
No wonder these guys can't even turn their wives on! But let's play "devil's advocate" and imagine a purely mechanical genesis, a Deus ex machina requiring more faith than that of Christ! We are still confronted with the predicament of consciousness. Remember that self-consciousness which you have (and must have!) in order to read this essay, requires a distinction from the Universe that a tethered soul could not possess. You may be living in a material world, but you are not a material girl! You're very awareness of the world can only be accomplished by your separation from it, making you a de facto free spirit. Remember how Jiminy Cricket rescued Pinocchio with the brilliant affirmation: Let your conscience be your guide? Remember the first law of Marian Dynamics, which states that whatsoever moves possesses a living sprit? Even if "science falsely so-called" could develop a hypothesis to explain the perpetual motion machine that seems to be the Universe, your very own movements within that dead universe would necessitate the existence of quintessence.
Now that we have established the existence of at least one spiritual being in the Universe -- you!, how do we know that there is another spirit? A God-Creator Spirit? A good Spirit who loves us? A God of recompense, but also of righteousness -- ready to forgive? Ready to save in accordance with the gospel? How do we know?
LMD will explain cosmologically why Roman Catholicism is the true religion and why the Blessed Virgin Mary is God, LORD and Coredemptrix. But for now, let's establish the existence of a Creator-Spirit.
If (by some humongous-chimichangas cosmic anomaly) the godless mechanical Universe somehow spawned itself, then how did your spirit manage to find its way into your flesh? You don't remember making the decision to enter your body and Deus ex Machina can't decide that for you -- he takes forever to make up his mind!
But what if you did in fact manage to enter your body and then wake up with holy amnesia? Then who wrote LMD? Who wrote the Bible? Who taught you your name -- celebrated your birthday? To paraphrase the great philosopher Elmo, "Who are the people in your neighborhood?" Your spirit inhabits a mysterious Universe that seems to walk, talk, twist and shout -- c'mon baby now! When the Universe converses with you, you respond; when you converse with it, it responds back. A wise man once said that you shall know a tree by its fruits and if it looks like a God, sounds like a God and acts like a God, then what else can it be? To the extent that the Universe acknowledges you, it lives; To the extent that you acknowledge Jehovah, you live. Life therefore is contingent upon witness, which is why Jehovah asks us to be his witnesses (Is 43:10). But Newtonians fail to acknowledge the living God whereby they are eternally disacknowledged by him!
Tell the Universe that he is a machine and you will take the Name of the LORD in vain. The Machine, who knows nothing beyond what you tell it, will shift into high gear and roll right over you faster than a tank in Tiananmen. Tell the Universe that he is God Jehovah, and you will speak the Name of the LORD aright; And you will know that Jesus loves you and that the laws of physics didn't affix him to the cross, but the righteousness of Jehovah in Christ who deemed repentance worthy of redemption -- a judgment ratified in his flesh and petrified by the Immaculate Heart -- permitted your sins to crucify the Universe by reason of consequentiality (and not of causality); And that the Resurrection accomplished by the Theotokos (through faith in Christ crucified) has forever abolished death and the commandments from which death proceeds.
Now that we have ascertained your existence in a world inhabited by a spirit (or spirits) other than yourself, how do you know that at least one of these spirit beings created the Universe? Because the Big Bang didn't happen billions of years ago, it happened today. Remember that time is an illusion created by motion so there is no real time separating you from the Creation event. Virtually, we are in the third millennium BCE, but eternally we are in the beginning with God. Before Abraham was, I AM! -- and so are you as well!
Virtually, Christ lived in the first century, but eternally, Christ was crucified before the foundation of the world; We were redeemed before the foundation of the world; Mary is LORD God before the foundation of the world! We are the ones we've been waiting for!
Incidentally, if the Universe were somehow motive before the time of Creation, God is smart enough to recognize the difference between gravitational movement and conscientious movement. Gravity can move objects mechanically, but it cannot witness God. In that universe, the bat would screech without ever hearing its echo.
Nevertheless, it is impossible to witness God without a body and the spiritual body of God (and of us) is comprised of the Elemental Constitution of the Universe which simply must have moved for the Witness of God to be realized. In that sense, the Universe did "move" before Creation, but this was an unconscious movement which the consciousness of God witnessed and the self-consciousness of God understood. The Consciousness became submissive to the Unconsciousness and the Self-consciousness was the offspring of this cosmic yin and yang. We too possess a necessary unconscious, conscious, and self-conscious thought precedent in order to complete a thought. This dominant-submissive component to intelligent thought is the reason and the genesis of heterosexual reproduction and the Biblical admonitions concerning sexual behavior. The Universe requires a Man and a Woman in order to think, and while Christian marriage is certainly a blessing, we must not forget that it is also a ministry and the beginning of them -- not to mention the beginning of miracles! (John 2:1).
We sinned against the Universe and God died. It is as if for three days after the crucifixion, the Universe hung on its own lifeless gravitation; but on Resurrection Sunday, the Universe was renewed by the Heart of Mary in the body of Jesus and us with him. We are the Resurrection and the Life!
Can the Spirit somehow affect the quality of elemental matter?
The spirit is immaterial. It can assemble or dishevel compounds, but cannot touch elemental matter. If elemental matter derived its quality from the spirit, either the spirit would have a quality, which it cannot have, or it would have to manipulate some aspect of the element, which would disqualify it from being an element. The quintessence is movement pure and simple and movement has no color, flavor, quality or any other distinguishing characteristic other than that it moves. If you want another kind of movement, try a Haydn symphony. Otherwise, let's move on.
Could the antimaterial Universe move in consort with the material one?
Yes, everything that happens in this Universe is repeated in the antimaterial one. The only exception is that the antimaterial Pope Benedict XVI is not alive, but instead moves in tandem with the material one -- kind of like a cosmic shadow. I guess that would make him an antipope!
Could God be in the antimaterial Universe and we in the material one?
Yes, but God cannot tell and neither can we. It doesn't matter at all to the gospel -- the Blessed Virgin is with us either way. Incidentally, it is possible that the spirit could inhabit both the material and antimaterial Universes simultaneously. God cannot tell and neither can we.
It is as if I were born behind the wheel of a car that cannot stop. There's no way for me to tell whether it is a Ford or a Lincoln, but my mechanic works for Christ-ler!
Like...
When I look at your pic
I feel my soul moving within me...
Like a magnetic polarity drawing me closer
Like I'm about to have an out-of-body experience
Like I'm going to fly like Superman to your side
Like I'm going to stand in your bedroom and watch you as you sleep
Like I'm going to watch you like a ghost as you rise to meet your apparition
Like as if you could see me, but you can't cuz I'm...
i
n
v
s
b
l
e
Like a ninja standing in the shadows
Like you're staring right at me -- right into my disembodied eyes!
Like as if you could see me, but you can't, or can you?
Like I don't know
Like you don't know?
Like we both don't know!
And yet...
It's like we do!!!
My Forever Lover
My forever lover
May we both discover
How to love each other
Like a Virgin Mother
Loves her newborn babe
Friend to God like Abe
Sacrificing Isaac
Words we couldn't redact
But the Angel saved him
Staid the hand of Abraham
Righteousness became him
Israel, they named him
Tragedy averted
By the cross inverted
On the cross imputed
Peter, he refuted
Get behind me Satan
Now your name is Nathan
Prophesy to David
David's Son has saved
Like the Father's sins
Passed down on his kins
That's the type of love
That I'm speaking of
Now you know the story
Of the King of Glory
Kite String Theory
The B.V.M. is like a child with a kite. She runs in the field, the kite trailing behind her, until the kite ascends into the sky and is able to fly on its own. She gives the kite string an occasional tug to keep the kite aloft, but does no more work than is absolutely necessary to sustain its flight.
The Universe is God's kite. God launched it and her hand sustains and directs it, but no more than is absolutely necessary to achieve its purpose. And what is that purpose? To love us! And our purpose in the Universe is to love God back!
But make no mistake. This seemingly orderly Universe does not fly on its own. God is perpetually tugging the kite strings, setting the direction, adjusting the height -- just enough effort to keep it going and none besides. We see the cosmic kite strings at the subatomic level and also in deep space where the Universe seems to perpetually accelerate. We see God's hand in the miracles of the Bible and in the charismatic gifts of the Holy Ghost. We see kite strings in the perfect sunset, a fascinating rhythm, a still small voice. We see the kite strings in the Catholic Church and the testimonies of Christians throughout the millennia. Can you imagine an institution lasting as long as the Catholic Church remaining virtually unchanged from its conception until the present day? That ought to be miracle enough for anybody!
The evil Cult of Newton fixates on the kite despite the string that sustains it. To them, the kite mysteriously flies itself. They are confident that the mystery of the self-flying kite will one day be solved. Even the goddamn devil knows that the scientists are wrong.
Pinhead
Can an angel dance on the head of a pin?
Yes -- but first, the pin you must hold.
Can the universe dance on the head of a pin?
Once, it all did; But now, God forbid.
Else the whole world would be in that pin
And could not contain the same pin that you hold
Angels are smart,
And know not to dance
Without that special magic
Contained in your glance.
Without that special glance
Contained in your magic,
The angel would smart
From not knowing -- How tragic!
Virtual Reality
Infinity is a real number, but not exactly. Hence, the Universe, which is infinite with regard to its time and space, is therefore a virtual reality. The Spirit however, is not virtual. We ourselves are absolutely real; the Blessed Virgin is absolutely real; and Jesus Christ absolutely died for our real sins. But he died on a virtual cross after suffering for 11 virtual hours. Virtually, we pierced him 2000 years ago, but in reality, we pierced him this very day.
We are all perpetually at the foot of the cross, and yet we are virtually a world away from 1st century Judea. In reality, God is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, but virtually speaking, she is from everlasting to everlasting. If you flip a coin once, there is a 50% chance that it will land on heads at least once; But if you flip a coin infinite times, there is an infinite chance that it will land on heads at least once. However, it is not exactly a 100% chance; but neither is it exactly less than 100%. We live in a virtual world.
Does the inexactitude of the Universe mean that there is a real possibility that the Universe could one day come to an end? No. That would be a snowball's chance in hell.
Here, we must distinguish between statistical infinitude and geometric infinitude. Statistically, there is no real chance that the Universe will end, but geometrically, there is a real but inexact extent to which the Universe can progress. In other words: If you roll a pair of dice infinite times, there is a real probability that you will never roll snake eyes; but if you wind up with snake eyes, there is absolutely no probability that you didn't. Hence, though we may live in a dicey universe at times, there is no real probability that it will ever end -- the die is cast!
Statistically, ½ of infinity equals infinity, but geometrically, it doesn't. However, when scientists, economists, mathematicians and political scientists mix the two disciplines in order to formulate models and shape policy, they run into problems (mathematically and otherwise!) Applied mathematics? Applied to what -- God? That would be square!
Now I Won
There is no now without a beginning
There is no now without an end
The beginning and the end are NOT the now
The beginning and the end merely facilitate it
There is no real time for the end to come
Time itself is the perpetual beginning and end
Now and forever
Amen
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
