As an art
time structured itself
for natural quarks
with beauty marks
apples of the eye
give to death the lie
hope paints infinite breaths
giving time all the rest.
If I were to talk in my sleep
more eloquently than in life
conversation would flow like playing a fife
not like dull day when thoughts must needs leap
to reach phrase ends first and last
each night to start I could talk with the sheep
I count flying skyword to jump mountains steep
we could talk of politics or futures past
IVs, quarks and dark helicopters of night.
The cold, dark, longest night
follows weeks of frost and frozen wood
soaked from warm weathered rains, rotting
like time crystallizing blood in white fingers
The poverty of the deer
wandering snow trails in darkness
hunted by wolfie
sole survivor of the culled pack
World nauseated by the heat of summer sun
tilts its pole toward the galactic center
yet there lies a heart of darkness and crush of death
a super-massive black hole reels in matter for breadth
Senseless cold passes slow, interminable
ten degrees below Fahrenheit's frost freedom
liberating moment of meltwater
joke of a theory for deep snow lies ahead
Wind harassing thin walls
shuddering at 70 m.p.h.
challenging Venus to try to remain in place
when the spinning Earth has won the race.
Bloody sinners boiled the political poverty
melting the fat, passing svelte rats
to those that don’t know cold months
like the tracks of small mammals over the snow
After months of semi-dead torpor
with rotten snow
life will flow through plants again
and the longest night stop making sense.
Life is hard and then you die
withering flesh and roilsome skies
age is a trial one is convicted of
growing older waiting for heaven above
There is no normal wonder
except the power in the Lord
everything that is and some times blunders
cannot be taken ‘yond death like a horde
Temptations, cold and hunger
anger and emergent sores
blisters of temporal journeys
are set to beautiful sky scores
These leaders of mass confusion
leaving the ecosphere a wreck for dismay
bring wars and broadcast intrusions
and the electorate has not meaningful to say
One could hope for better
God has perfection now
yet not with Earth are Paul’s letters
written for world profits or plow
Thrown from the Temple
James also took the fall to the ground
an encouraging moral example
like Stephen he was beaten and cast down
Like a forest stand to be cut down
life of faith is endless
words from God profound
written on wood pulp public’s way pressed
When the time of night draws nigh
and the old enemy takes mortal life
one readies for travel beyond the sky
a call to resurrection overcoming strife.
So how is time meaningful
allowance forever nulled
Levers lifting each moment now
after presence’ fast plough
She found what seemed like ever
were nouns that change never
How one knows each day it will trade
Tao and light for dark shades
-Full Heaven can’t be Earth and ground
mulling world ocean sounds.
The rhyme scheme is;
1)xbxxxxxA
2)xbxxxxxA
3)xcxxxxxB
4)xcxxxB
5)xexxxxxC
6)xexxxC
7)bxxxxxxD
8)bxxxxD
9)axxxxxxE
10)axxxxE
So time is meaningful
while forever culled
Presenting the moment now
after searching how
The sky that was ever
would change never
One knows even so it will trade
sight and light for darkest shades
Heaven canst not be Earth and ground
nor a greying ocean’s sound.
Quantum spin fills the oblivion
Cantor’s infinite criteria numbering more or less
sets of Universes God blessed.
The distant call a reminder of light
this sailing omniety
is a pernoctation in quest of sleep
revealing stars and a cold summer night
an island wall without a place to anchor.
I had enisled vespertine reluctantly
there was no choice in the darkness
a boat slowly moving
over still water
silent depth beneath
sand and stone
if the wind would moan
the vessel would be free again
Daylight was cast off like exuvia
revealing stars and a cold summer night
an island wall without a place to anchor
nearer shoals lost from sight
The farthest calls a reminder of light
this sailing omniety
is a pernoctation in quest of sleep
tillar’d eggshell full of seaward piety
bowline echoes of hydrox mirrors deep
Through these facet images of time
a whale appeared with first light
moed while approaching engines whine
another sign the morning’s run true
sunlight burns away overnight dew.
Absent war
troubling was peace
prosperity building
no mass fields killing
few weapons sales any more
Ecosystems run down
distracting peace got rich frowns
though better than wars all around.
The F.T.L. train slid into the station
a universe with an infinite amount of energy
concentrated at an infinite speck of time
mass merged with masslessness
journeying inside out
shadows of no doubt
Subluminal travel was for the poor
solar energy gathered and focused
just a bit to joke us
waiting along the train tracks
electromagnetic shaped power charges
from Mercury to Saturn’d knack
Shaped charges imparting particles
field strengths casting ever classed things
two and a half months later
hopeful crowd of synchopaters
through the Oort Cloud’s rings
see the genuine articles
Training striations of onion time
pealed off in layers
from that warped energy shape’s descending rime
particular universals
shear a circular edge forever introverted
subluminal.
God isn’t embedded in the Higgs Field
like humans
though He sent his Son
caught like a ram in the bush
sacrificed like Isaac would have been
except for the substitute provided by God
God isn’t imperfect
like humans with temporal minds
constructing thoughts in sequenced
phrases, geometries and numbers
colors phasing in with photons
providence from an eternal designer
the Lord's work
Each day of eternity
is one for omniscience
with every possible Universe foreknown
and structure designed
forms from the formless
points never pointless
massless acquiring mass
future becomes the past
being forever becoming.
Morality is a description of the way people and society actually conduct themselves. Obviously that can vary or flux. Some patterns are recurrent, some behaviors are acceptable and others receive social reproof or approbation.
Some people have made formal systems of morality, in some cases moral behavior has historical precedent. If one has moral duties, believing one has been commanded by God to behave in a particular way, those divine commands may provide a moral system or structure.
Not only is behavior a source of moral description; qualitative and quantitative analysis, so is the way moral behavior is described and the situations in which it is applied subject to variability. In the ante-bellum south the excuse for slavery (or one excuse) was that Negroes were not human and therefore they could not be harmed by being enslaved.
Society may not be able to recognize select situations as occasions for moral decision. Pejorative values (majority values) are often use-truth values wherein white is called black when it is convenient for the power class interest to have that value.
I believe the history of philosophy is substantial and comparatively few have even read most of the primary works. That being said fields like the philosophy of logic and analytic philosophy are worthwhile yet even fewer read that. Philosophy is kind of like an accoutrement to the last supper really. Understanding the world a little better isn’t such a bad thing.
The New Testament does follow chronologically (appx 480 to 540 years after) the Old yet it isn’t a derivative. The N.T. are largely letters written by disciples of Jesus Christ, and apostles like Luke and Paul. The O.T. has a fascinating history going to the foundation of the Hebrew language probably invented by Moses circa 17th-16th century B.C. Moses had access to Hebrew oral traditions dating perhaps to Abraham circa 2000 BC. The material was passed on to David who brought all of scripture together and probably in the court of Solomon or Rehoboam a comprehensive work of it was assembled that has changed very little the past 3000 years. There were some well known redactions from the J and priestly writers of the OT.
The New Testament was written in Greek in the first century, yet that is not the Torah aka Pentateuch-the first five books of the Old Testament. That was originally written in Hebrew except for Daniel and Ezra in Aramaic . The New Testament is different from the Old. The New Testament was written in the first century A.D., while the last book of the Old Testament- Malachi- was written in 430 B.C. The Septuagint translation into Koine Greek occurred in the 3rd century B.C. Septuagint means ’70’ in Greek. There were 72 scholars with six from each Israeli tribe that made the translation.
It’s simply history and inertia. While metallurgy was developed first in the middle east, technological progress developed faster in colder, northwestern regions where working with hot water, steam and harnessing it’s power was stimulated by the climate. Africa being hot lacked certain challenges and opportunities that met with inventive responses and accumulative progress. Even flowing water to power mills was comparatively more plentiful in Europe than Africa.
Don't overlook Chinese inventions either…They developed a lot of tech even during the Han dynasty. It’s just that royalty tend to benefit exclusively from it, unlike the west where democracy and mass production accelerated tech inventions with a market ready to exploit every technology item produced for profit.
Democrat administrations selected hostility with Russia leading to war rather than historical competence and statesmanship to find a reasonable negotiated settlement that would have avoided the horrors of war. Fundamentally the President’s policy is retarded. Hammering a square peg into a round hole to make a policy of political avarice work, and repeat when it doesn’t ad nauseam isn’t intelligent and is harmful to U.S. national security in a variety of ways militarily, economically and environmentally.
There would be nothing easier, considering history of finding political settlements that worked, than ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict along present lines. Renegotiating the end of the cold war 1.0 theft of all of Ukraine from Russia is the sole stable political basis to establish lasting peace and normalized Russian-Ukraine-U.S. trilateral relations on a positive scale. The alternative is of course protracted war risking biological, chemical and nuclear escalation, a divided world economy and unnatural obstructions to getting the world t work cooperatively in the attempt to conserve and restore the planetary ecosphere.
Retarded political leadership is quite damaging to national and global interests. It reminds me of the decline of quality leadership in the Roman Empire after the age of the Antonines (five of seven emperors were beneficial to Roman interests). Only a few generations of retarded Presidential leadership are needed to make a national silk purse into a sow’s ear, and the U.S.A. is on the way. Yek the future is still not closed to peace and prosperity for those of faith and good leadership.
Should one fear the Other
respect for possibility and full ranging personality
the non-self creator of all being
infinity to know
In the light and dark
day and night
lightning flashes of insight
the natural moral order
shouldn’t one fear God
concerned with right
and the wisdom of the Lord of Hosts
with quanta arrayed
entangled in a Higgs Field
a ram caught in a burning bush
Avrm led somewhere beyond
a journey through space-time
an encounter with Mechilzedeck at Mt. Zion
the omniscient power makes Universes
in every possible form
like a dream-coat for contingent beings
whom are willful, uncertain
- thankful for the grace for the Lord.
Free will and determinism are not mutually exclusive. One would want to define what freedom means and obviously what determinism means.
The philosopher tightened a wrench
giving an extra twist on the nut at last
a wheel fixed firmly
he let the jack slack
and the electric car dropped a wheel down
Where rainfall is measured in metric terms
while kilometers will drop in turn
scientists collaborate to fondle the Earth and Universe
calibrating concise intervals with facts to learn
Measurements of the sky and falling stars arrived
to be or not to be comets
asteroids and pieces of broken planets
crowding imagination for what it’s worth
Maximum population density
structures that killed growing spaces
reshoveling dirt with androids, A.I. and hydraulic power
overcoming the world’ perspicacity
Packed in tighter than drum skins
beating the syncopation of cities
economic consumerism watering down
existence with chemical sprays too profound
The philosopher considered robust existentialism
and dialectical reason’s functionalist
structuralism phenomenalized in serial cues
everyone in line watched youtubian news
Building more buildings
wider than before
shaped like atrocious mountains
for everyone an open door
Artificial instruction light fireflies way
passing through darkness unto eternal light’s day
something other than nothing
it was forever to be
Something in motion; everything to see
electromagnetic accelerators a million miles long
gossamer wires in zero gravity spree
fields will hum capsules like generic song
Bootstrapping beyond silence
when nearly everyone is wrong
finding the brightest stars
when all life is nearly gone
What would become of you and I
if no one does plan ahead
would brilliance at last overcome
materialism that can lead to just dead.
