Metaphysic Storm

Pioneering Ignostic Jew, Rabbi Wine, died a short time ago. “In 1969 he helped establish the Society for Humanistic Judaism to serve as the national outreach vehicle for the humanistic movement. In 1986 he helped to create the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews” Although Ignostic Jew is an Oxymoron, I do find Rabbi Wine’s coinage of the term “Ignostic” to be quite a revelation in linguistics. Ignostic is a version of agnostic but unlike agnostic, which is the stance that god may exist, ignostism is the belief that the word “god” is noncognitive. I don’t have a cognition problem imagining a disembodied, all knowing, all powerful, and all loving consciousness. But I know it’s logically impossible. That’s the divine thing about logic, “it” doesn’t care what you think or say.

Madness and genius sometimes seem to parallel each other, especially in thoroughbreds. When a species consciously encourages inbreeding to create a “pure blood line” or more accurately, an artificially restricted genetic pool to bring out subjectively desired physical traits, it seems that the mental positive and negative aspects are intensified within the breed, subspecies, race or whatever other noncognitive word you want to give it. The Pantheist Jew Albert Einstein is an excellent example of this. He was brilliant enough to discover that time is variable, depending on mass and speed relative to light in a near void, but was unable to see that race identity is what fostered the hate of the Nazi’s. I don’t think it takes a genius to realize that a group claiming “we are a different type of human” creates their own enemies. The secular and Christian Germans of the early 20th century were feeling financially oppressed by the Jewish Klan. It’s a fact that there is no stronger unifying force than the common suffering and a common enemy, hence the war on whatever.

Intellectuals most beloved Jewish raised Ignostic, Noam Chomsky, has had some brilliant statements mixed in with his utter babble. I don’t know If I’m over steeping political correctness by giving someone a label such as “Ignostic” but this is my reason: In the ChomskyChat public discussion forum, Chomsky was asked if he believes in a God. He replied, “Do I believe in God? Can’t answer, I’m afraid. I’m not being flippant, but I don’t understand the question.” But along with that bullshit comes this clear and profound statement, “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” He goes on to claim that the media is self censoring themselves, a most vile form of willed oppression. It’s the free market, not oppression. No one forces the consumer to click their remote. I believe media selectiveness is not conspiracy but a natural avoidance tendency in humanity. Many times when we don’t like something about ourselves or our family, it’s easier to suppress those thoughts, pushing them deep into our subconscious, just hitting the kid upside the head or pressing the infamous delete button. Doing so can have a paralyzing consequence on growth. The mind or organization that prohibits self criticism is not free.

I have to admit, I’m for some forms of censorship. For instance, I would be against Jesus fish logos finding their way onto food packaging. “Contains nuts” is one thing, but gods blessing is bullshit. I’m actually surprised the pope hasn’t started organizing a blessed food/factory campaign. With all the priests going out of business because of their pedophilia interests, they’re going to need some other jobs. Gang tags on food would be a great way to help the Us. food market. I wasn’t that surprised to find that the Nazi’s had their own Food Production Association and a pin to boot. Call me crazy, but I’m thinking of starting a line of Atheist friendly food products.

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