Right Honourable Justin Trudeau
Office of the Prime Minister
Ottawa Canada K1A 0A2
Mr Christopher Bek
602, 1133 Eighth Avenue SW
Calgary AB Canada T2P 1J7
Christopher.Bek@gmail.com
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21 March 2022
Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Subject—Thank You
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 first want to say thank you for writing to me three times. I also wanted to thank you for legalizing marijuana. Both are great. I think you handled the freedom convoy well and I think that such occurrences can be avoided in the future by teaching young people to take the responsibility that comes with freedom. This is the main thesis of my book Existentialism Now: total freedom, total responsibility. I believe this should be the mantra of Canada: total freedom, total responsibility. That Canada should be a country of responsibility for the world. I proudly told my mother that you have written to me three times, and she said: “I am a Conservative, so I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.” That is the kind of ignorance I face with my family and people that live in my building. One person who is not ignorant and lives in my building is Dion Erico Viglione in 504. Dion has a philosophy degree, is half Eskimo and half Italian, and is a sweet and brilliant man. He watches Dog Day Afternoon when it gets hot out. I also told my mother that my friend Dion believes I am Christ, and she replied: “I don’t believe you’re Christ, and I go to church.” Perhaps you could write to Dion asking him to write you about me as Christ 2.0 and about himself as well. I also have the great honour of being friends with Kent Hehr, a former cabinet minister of yours. I have known Kent since he was my MLA. He has proofed my essays when I run into him on the street. He has helped me with legal and personal issues recently. I believe that Dion, Kent and yourself are all great men. And I believe that I am The Philosopher King Christ. Thank you again for writing to me and hopefully reading my books, essays and letters. I believe that under our leadership, Canada can become the greatest country in the world. Sincerely
Christopher Bek, The Philosopher King Christ, Christ 2.0
Copy—Dion Erico Viglione, Kent Joel Hehr
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