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Contrapunctus XVI
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By David R. Graham
Theology and Technology:
On the Importance of Java
Section One A set of principles subsumes and causes all activities. Principles are uncaused and intrinsic. Activities are caused and extrinsic. Nature is a set of activities organized intrinsically by a set of principles. There are five principles. These combine and permutate to cause all activities:
Section Two The universe is produced, maintained and dissolved by each individual every moment. The engine is will. There is widespread but imperfect consensus about what to produce, maintain and dissolve and large but limited choice about what can be produced, maintained and dissolved. The process -- production, maintenance, dissolution -- occurs backwards and forwards, upwards and downwards, inwards and outwards simultaneously. 1 All time-fields are concurrent. Human communities at all times and climes organize through four activities, which are equally important and listed here in order of diminishing authority ergo responsibility ergo capacity:
Section Three The power of a technology is given by the degree to which it directly embodies one or more of the five principles. 2 The more power a technology embodies, the more the human community has a right ergo an obligation to ensure its employment conduces to the general welfare. 3 Electricity directly embodies the principles of Freedom (Air, related to Touch) and Sustainability (Fire, related to Sight). Ergo electronic technologies are highly accountable to the community's sense of its own welfare. 100% Pure Java is designed and implemented to embody the principles of Universality (Ether, related to Hearing), Adaptability (Water, related to Taste) and Character (Earth, related to Olfaction). Ergo it guarantees accountability of electronic technology to the general welfare. 100% Pure Java is Lingua Franca (Free Speech) for our Communications Era, a necessary technical articulation of our necessarily common welfare, a "dial tone" of our now and future prosperity in:
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Footnotes 1- Six cones defined by the Fibonacci Series (Divine Proportion, Spira Mirabilis) opposing and perpendicular to one another at their origins. Return 2- A railroad more directly embodies one or more of the five principles than a kitchen sponge does. Return 3- Private property remains private as long as its existence does not infringe the community's sense of its own welfare. The common weal must and will supercede any private interest. Return |
The pictures at the top of this page represent
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,
the Mellifluous Doctor.
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