Law & Rule and His Great Works

Well this was opvious! Dunno why it took so long.

> A Law cannot be broken, it describes Reality.
> A Rule exists because it can be broken (and we must remember not to break it).

The two are so fundamentally different I'm amazed that English is so naive as to still use the same word for both.

It must be a hangover from the days of the Divine right of kings, where they likened their power to that of God so that their Earthly decrees should have the same permanence and authority as Reality. Obviously Henry VIII forgot about King Knut (already discussed).

But since there is only Reality then what is the use of rules? And if rules have no use then what use is authority?

They argue that we'd fall into chaos and end up killing each other. Odd thing (as argued before) countless times more people have been forced to kill each other by authority on their own initiative.

Maybe the answer lies in game theory. Rules, that those that govern the game of chess, enable games to be played, and it is games that fuel the fantasies and fictions that dress up our lives. Are their games that we need to play?

Driving on the correct side of the road is a simple example. It is not the side that is important (right in US, left in UK) but that everyone does the same. Thing is what is the use of authority here? It is obvious to anyone which side to drive on, and if we didn't ... its a bit late for the authorities to do anything because... reality strikes! Reality takes care of this one straight away... crunch!

Authority is seems then is just a reminder to stupid people what is the obvious thing to do to avoid unwelcome realities. This fits the analysis of evil, that it is just ignorance. Evil people are stupid and don't see what a bad reality they make for themselves...

[brackets: (... and everyone else). Book I was reading was trying to argue that Buddha originally taught non-personal karma - that bad karma was just that it could not return to you since you didn't exist (non-self). Obviously wrong - but subtle. The opposite is that bad-karma comes down on everyone - which is also wrong because of non-self. Basically bad karma is just that - even to ask "who is it happening to?" we are already deluded.]

So it should be called The Rule where previously it was called The Law. And, what to make of the Rule of Law???, but isn't The Ruler a brilliant term since he is the one who "measures" people's deeds according to the Law (if he is wise and knows reality) or the Rules if he is legal professional - but why measure when Reality is going to happen anyway? more fortune telling then - the wise inform people the impact of their actions and what they might do to correct their mistaken actions - this is the true purpose of the Law - how unbelievable that people speak of such ignorant evils as revenge and Law in the same sentence!]

Easy to see here that really we have made no progress from ancient ideas. Any clarity we think we have with modern legal system is really a fiction designed to paste over the cracks and draw people away from the simple truth that mankind can't alter Reality! We are bound forever by the Laws, no number of clever people can ever change that. God has made the world and the people that lie within, and those people assume his authority at their peril. As Humans our best place is knowers of His great works.

Sophistic argument that I have used before, but want to clarify some time... "All Human Endeavour must be superfluous". Why? because if it was essential then no one could have existed to perform it.

Partly true, but not completely. It points to God again because while we may be able to describe how the universe came to work after the event, we didn't, and logically couldn't, have actually done it! It is like the detective who having examined a crime claims that now he knows how it was done, is the criminal... except that he only arrived on the scene after the crime had happened, and indeed being the detective because it had happened! Meanwhile the criminal is far away. Life is far away, and the detectives of the human race, need to catch up (me being one of them!) but certainly a good way to waste time is to dwell at the crime scene and pretend that I am God.