Bill Maher
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Mr Christopher Bek
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21 March 2022
Dear Bill Maher,
Subject—New Rule: Stand By Your Brand
Quotation—Modern man wants neither God nor Christ—for what he desires is simply the authority of the Church. He wants the physical security of bread, the spiritual security of dogma, and the so-called proof of the existence of miracles. To follow God irrespective of the consequences presents too great a risk. The Church offers up a lighter burden. It serves, selects and explains the truth, forgives sins and bestows upon man the happiness of children. Yet the price is high. Man must surrender his freedom of thought and, indeed, he willingly does so. He no
longer serves God as God demands of him, but only as the Church tells him so. God’s mysteries and miracles are henceforth monopolized and administered by the Church. —William Hubben
I would like to congratulate you on your segment: New Rule: Stand By Your Brand. According to Wikipedia: “Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.” To me, metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things or stand by your brand, as you said. I completely agree with you that things are different than advertised now a days. It seems that people want to put their own signature on everything rather than honour first principles.
The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 is prefaced as follows: “Whereas Canada is founded on principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.” Yet no where in the 2014 book, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms: 30+ Years of Decisions that Shape Canadian Life, does
it mention God. I know that technically you are an atheist, but I am sure that you believe we should honour the Canadian Constitution, combined with Albert Einstein’s claim that: “God is the sum total of the laws of nature” and Sir James Jeans claim that: “God is a Mathematician.” Jeans
was Einstein’s friend and Einstein was referring to Spinoza’s God (from his book Ethics) that is known as the God of the philosophers and of the atheists. Einstein also said: “I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.” Ultimately, I am sure that you would agree that we should study the laws of nature and mathematics as the first principles of things.
I would encourage you to write back to me confirming my argument for the existence of God, and to come to Calgary to meet with me and my friends. I very much wish to be your friend. Sincerely
Christopher Bek, The Philosopher King Christ, Sovereign of Earth, Christ 2.0
In the evolution of scientific thought, one fact has become impressively clear—that there is no mystery of the physical world which does not point to a mystery beyond itself. All highroads of the intellect, all byways of theory and conjecture lead ultimately to an abyss that human ingenuity can never span. For man is enchained by the very condition of his Being, his finiteness and his involvement in nature. The further he extends his horizons, the more vividly he recognizes the fact that, as the physicist Niels Bohr put it, we are both spectators and actors in the great drama of existence. Man is thus his own greatest mystery. He does not understand the vast veiled universe
into which he has been cast for the reason that he does not understand himself. He comprehends little of his organic process and even less of his unique capacity to perceive the world about him in his rationality and his dreams. Least of all does he understand his noblest and most mysterious faculty—the ability to transcend himself by perceiving himself in the act of perception. Man’s inescapable impasse is that he himself is part of the world that he seeks to explore—his body and proud brain are but mosaics of the same elemental particles that compose the dark, drifting clouds of interstellar space. Man is, in the final analysis, merely an ephemeral confirmation of the
primordial spacetime field. Standing midway between macrocosm and microcosm, he finds barriers on every side and can perhaps but marvel, as Saint Paul did nineteen hundred years ago in saying that the world was created by the word of God so that what is seen is composed of things which do not appear. —Concluding paragraph, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1948) by Lincoln Barnett All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth—in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world—have not any substance without the mind. So long as they are not
perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or in the mind of any spirit, they have no existence whatsoever. —Bishop George Berkeley
Let me be utterly skeptical. If someone asks me whether I believe the Moon is there even when no one is looking at it, I am obligated to say that the question makes no sense. If you want to verify that the Moon is there, then go ahead and look—but of course you are not answering the question. If you want an objective proof of the Moon’s existence, I will respond that I am a physicist—and not a divine—and therefore have no interest in unanswerable questions. —David Lindley
Be bold the mighty forces will come to your aid. —Johanne Goethe
Genius is the art of generalizing and choosing. —Eugène Delacroix
A soul weighs more than the whole universe. —Blaise Pascal
God is the sum total of the laws of nature. —Albert Einstein