Albert Einstein on Metaphysics

     It will now be clear what is meant if I make the following statement: by his clear critique Hume did not only advance philosophy in a decisive way but also – though through no fault of his – created a danger for philosophy in that, following his critique, a fateful “fear of metaphysics” arose which has come to be a malady of contemporary empiricistic philosophizing; this malady is the clouds, which thought it could neglect and dispense with what was given by the sense. – Alert Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions (Page 23, 24).

It is easy to say that Albert Einstein is correct about something. Today we are over reliant on our five senses. We live to satisfy materialistic impulses. If people cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell a thing – they will not believe in it. I often hear 300 pound people claim that they are starving when it is impossible for anyone carrying around that much body fat and be starving at the same time. I have had many conversations with college graduates that believe they are smart because they have a piece of paper which says the person completed a program of study, yet these graduates have little to no knowledge of what they studied. I watch people’s eyes glaze over when I tell them that a dollar is only worth 30 cents on a good day. Nine out of ten people have no understanding of the concepts behind our physical world.

5 Kemetic Concepts

There are five Kemetic concepts that constitute the Ma’atic response to injustice and disorder in the world. Those concepts must be seen in the light of general African cultural developments….Certainly there are differentials in response based upon environmental conditions and other factors but I believe that the general cultural project against chaos represented by Ma’at with an ankh in her hand is encompassed by my classification, using five Kemetic concepts: tep, pet, heb, sen, and meh.

Tep (Beginning)

Love of children

Late Weaning

Age-Grouping

Value Fertility

                      Kemet, Afrocentricity and  Knowledge. Molefi Asante

Children should be produced out of love. They should not be produced from acts of simple lust, revenge sex, simple passion, force, or any other unnatural means. We should keep our children with us for longer periods of time at the beginning of their lives. We should drop them off any place else for anyone to watch them. If we cannot afford to watch over our children then we should not have them. If you have a child already it would be better to reduce your lifestyle than to leave your child to bond with others. If you have no other choice, make sure that you spend at least three hours per 24 hour period with just your child without distractions. All children should develop with children their age or close to it. When children are over exposed to adults they see and hear things that they cannot fully understand. When children are forced to spend time with children younger than themselves it can slow their maturation. Some of us cannot have children while other have a lot of children. All children belong to the community. We should help those who have many children, especially when we have no children at all. We should offer what ever resource we have.

The Devil of the Bible

     In the same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said “The Lord rebuke you!” – Jude 1:8, 9

     We are told that the devil is bad and YHWH is good. If you are a child you accept that simple answer, but as adults we begin to dig deeper. The Bible does not support the idea that the devil is bad at all. We are taught that the devil lied to the couple of Eden and caused the fall of humankind out of the grace of YHWH. Yet, the only one who did not suffer any consequences for the fall of humankind is the devil. Adam and Eve get thrown out of paradise, the serpent loses its legs, but the devil goes home to the realm of YHWH. When we look at the story with open eyes we see that the devil did not lie about YHWH not wanting Adam and Eve to know what YHWH knew. YHWH did not want them to know because they were not mature enough to handle the information. Adam and Eve show their lack of maturity by never questioning God or the devil like a Moses or Job. They never spar or struggle like Yeshua or Jacob. So in the end they failed the test of the greatest tester of all time, the devil.