Jim Jones and the Something Wrong Here Principle-When Logic Donuts are Broken do not Ignore

 

  …….mmmmm donuts!

 The logic of any situation if valid should manifest itself as an unbroken toroidal donut of self consistant logic.  You must be able to to complete lap after lap and not encounter any contradictions or the entire donut of logic is faulty. 

In mathematics you can prove something by method of contradiction.  For example you assume something is true. Flowing from this assumption is a conclusion that can be proved given the assumption. 

One of the first proofs by contradiction is the following gem attributed to Euclid.

Theorem. There are infinitely many prime numbers.

Proof. Assume to the contrary that there are only finitely many prime numbers, and all of them are listed as follows: p₁, p₂ …, p_n. Consider the number q = p₁p₂… p_n + 1. This number is not divisible by any of the listed primes since if we divided p_i into q, there would result a remainder of 1 for each i = 1, 2, …, n. Well then, we must conclude that q is a prime number, not among the primes listed above, contradicting our assumption that all primes are in the list p₁, p₂ …, p_n.

Proof by contradiction is often used when you wish to prove the impossibility of something. You assume it is possible, and then reach a contradiction. In the examples below we use this idea to prove the impossibility of certain kinds of solutions to some equations.

Thus when you find 1 thing that is impossible on your donut of logic, the whole donut should be tossed as its broken.  Now you may be asking yourself “is this of any use in the real world?”  The answer is a great farkin big YES.

Let’s say you are going to church and your pastor always wears mirror sunglasses during the sermons. While all else in the situation may seem kosher this should be enough to bite a great big gap in your donut and tell you that something is wrong.  Imbalanced people show their hands in myriad ways and the inappropriate nature of mirror sunglasses on a preacher during a sermon is one of them.  Thus independent thinking based on cold cruel logic can save your life.  Had I ever been to one of Jim Jone’s sermons I would have never returned as every video clip on TV I have ever seen of him he had on mirror sunglasses.  Yet 909 people decided that critical thinking was not important and went to their deaths.  While this is a famous and noteworthy case this sort of thing happens everyday.  Millions of people die everyday from incareful analysis and bad decisions.  Decisions so banal that you never hear of them because the information factory that is the news media finds no angle to sell it to you with. Thus it goes unheard.

If you work hard you’ll find all human behavoir can be described by mathematics and logic to some degree of usefulness.  If you are sophisticated enough it can get you alot of dates and subsquently sex.  But then the mechanical nature will make it less enjoyable. However that’s just a pathway to great enlightenment as the paradox is the more mechanical your thought is the more you can know when to not behave mechanically.  Thus you appreciate and understand your fundamental nature, the miracle that is life and can make decisions that enhance.