Loss of Shame, Loss of Reason, and Loss of Meaning

What is destroying the moral and spiritual foundation of today’s society?

I believe a convergence of many factors has taken place. Much of education in the 1960s came unhinged from any moral absolutes and ethical values. There have been many voices alerting us to this. But more than just a philosophy took over; a mood took over.

First, secularization generally held that religious ideas, institutions, and interpretations have lost their social significance. People liked the idea of a secular society and a secular government. But in terms of moral values and ethics, they never checked into the internal assumptions of secularization that made it wide open to almost any view on any subject. Beginning in the 1960s, the moods of secularization ultimately led to society’s loss of shame.

Next is pluralization, which sounds like a practical and worthy idea; and in many ways, it is. In pluralism you have a competing number of worldviews that are available, and no worldview is dominant. But smuggled in with pluralization was the absolutization of relativism. The only thing we could be sure of was that all moral choices were relative and there was no point of reference to right and wrong. This resulted in the death of reason.

Last is privatization, which is an accommodation to the religiously minded. If secularization and pluralization were going to hold sway, what does society do with the large number of people who are spiritually minded?

Being spiritually minded was okay as long as people kept their spiritual beliefs private and did not bring them into the public arena. The irony of this was the fact secularization — which had its assumptions on absolutes and anything of the metaphysical nature — was allowed into the public place. In fact, its very trust was to bring it into the public place. But anyone who believed in a spiritual Essence, an Ultimate Reality, and the fact there were transcendent absolutes that needed to be adhered to was told to keep those beliefs private. That ultimately paved the way for the loss of meaning.

These three moods — secularization, pluralization, and privatization — brought about What has happened? How was this authoritatively pontificated in the social strain? This is when philosophy stepped in, the moralizers against morality came in, and political correctness came in. These gave society some parameters that allowed it to expel the moralizing from outside the secular realm.

As a result, everything became pragmatic. Philosophers and naturalists stepped in. In this new century, we have lost all definitions of what it means to be human, and what sexuality, life, and the home are all about. We are on the high seas, battling the storms of conflicting worldviews without a compass. When the mornings papers capture the headlines, "Bomb blast, Sniper kills twelves, Student gun down colleages in School, Man weds Man" Do not ask 'what went wrong?'

Wave Particle Duality And My Trinity.

The wave particle duality principle of quantum physics holds that matter and light exhibit the behaviours of both waves and particles, depending upon the circumstances of the experiment. It is a complex topic, but among the most intriguing in physics.

In the 1600s, Christian Huygens and Isaac Newton proposed competing theories for light's behaviour. Huygens proposed a wave theory of light while Newton's was a particle theory of light. Huygens' theory had some issues in matching observation. Newton's prestige helped lend support to his theory, so for over a century his theory was dominant.

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his paper to explain the photoelectric effect, which proposed that light travelled as discrete bundles of energy. The energy contained within a photo was related to the frequency of the light. This theory came to be known as the photon theory of light ( although the word photon wasn't coined until years later ).

With photons the ether was no longer essential as a means of propagation, although it still left the odd paradox of why wave behaviour was observed. Even more peculiar were the quantum variations of the double slit experiment and the Compton effect which seemed to confirm the particle interpretation.

As experiments were performed and evidence accumulated, the implications quickly became clear and alarming: Light functions as both a particle and a wave, depending on how the experiment is conducted and when observations are made. ( emphasis: depending on how the experiment is conducted )

In the realm of the physical Sciences, such an observation does not seem to conflict with logic. In fact, it is not an anomaly for an entity to behave in such irrational way. In one experiment the entity behaves as a particle and in an other a wave. Such a phenomena has not been questioned nor deemed an absurdity. If light can behave as two different things and still be light, then why does it perplex the minds of men to question God behaving as a father and a Son whiles maintaining his integral substance at the same time. Depending on the time and condition he acts as the Father and in another realm or situation as the Son or the Holy Ghost. ( Using in principle, the same underlining assumptions implicit in the Light experiment ).

The intriguing part of this whole Light Duality issue is the contradiction between the properties of Wave and a Particle. Waves, be as it may, has nothing in likeness to Particle. Yet Light displays both contradictions. I find it amusing that Light, as ordinary as it is, could exhibit in itself such irreconcilable contradiction, then why will we choose to deny God the same quality and even go further to label it an absurdity. In my view, such blatant display of intolerance towards transcendent interpretations, whiles views using the same underlining assumptions in Science is tolerated only amounts to nothing but self-serving double standards.

If one will not question the Wave-Particle Duality of Light, then I find it hypocritical on the part of anyone to ridicule the Father-Son-Holy Ghost Trinity of God. Light the Wave, Light the Particle. Just as God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.