Don Cupitt on Wittgenstein's Mystic Concept of Religion

Maybe you could call it Mystical Realism.


3:49 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) contains a definition of number by functional isomorphism. It's something like "a number is the exponent of an operation" which, if it wasn't the actual inspiration for Church numerals, perhaps it should have been.

See my comments:

18:29 I don't know about it being truth, but it's a great story! It made me rethink something I recently wrote about studying someone's work rather than eulogizing their accidents*. A life lived like that identifies the two. What a brilliant video! See Isabel Allende - Tales of Passion.


* See Hilary Putnam on Philosophy And our Mental Life where I was referring to Robin Milner whose character and lifestyle seemed to have quite a lot in common with Wittgenstein's, except he was happily married. Robin and Lucy Milner invited me to dinner at their home once, not long before I left for Bolivia. At the time I did not understand what the pi Calculus was, and neither did I have anything more than the vaguest understanding of type inference. After I heard about Robin and Lucy's tragic deaths I wrote that as my tribute to them. Only later did it dawn on me what an amazing and incredibly beautiful solution pi Calculus was to just about every systems programming problem you could have. See The T.H.E. Multiprogramming System Mk II.

Don Cupitt seems to be a part of some weird Cambridge sun worshipping cult, ... The underground systems architecture collective that spawned Perihelion Software near Glastonbury. See Hermann Hauser - Cambridge UK vs. Silicon Valley:

In his writings Cupitt sometimes describes himself as Christian non-realist, by which he means that he follows certain spiritual practices and attempts to live by ethical standards  traditionally associated with Christianity [😂] but without believing in the actual existence of the underlying metaphysical entities (such as "Christ" and "God"). He calls this way of being a non-realist Christian "solar living". 


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