On the Mission of Jonah Bringing Prophesy to the Assyrians of Nineveh

It is easy to understand how the prophet Jonah would be recalcitrant about going to Nineveh to give the word of God to the Assyrians-people whose ancestors had destroyed Babylon and diverted the Euphrates River to flood the wreckage. A humble prophet might wish instead to be given a more secure post in the Torah-belt of Judah.

The symbolism of the book of Jonah seems to encapsulate the message that the prophet wandering off in recalcitrant digression from his mission to the Assyrian world was captured simultaneously by the immense alien political powers and the will of God journeying in the world before being transported to and regurgitated upon a beach and the road for Nineveh.

Jonah was affirmed as a prophet delivered by God to bring the word to surprisingly willing Ninevites enacting the orders pacifically. Though Jonah could not bring himself to directly let the Ninevite know that they had to change their ways, God could and did bring Jonah’s mission to fulfillment with on-time delivery of the prophet to convey the word.

Jonah completing his mission took rest outside town. A plant springs up providing shade; the word of God can produce quick growth evangelically when the time is right and shelter the prophet if necessary too.

We wonder if the way people of the ancient world used language was more developed toward illustrative analogies than discrete, impressionistic verb and noun morpheme pointillism or bureaucratese incomprehensible to many outside the loop.

In reading Jaroslav Pelikan’s book ‘Whose Bible is It’ that idea of Jonah’s symbolism develops naturally considering the insight that Jonah’s was one of the first missions of evangelization to the Non-Jewish world by a Jewish prophet. It has the plain sound of truth to it that ought not be troubling to those arguing about the capacity of a fish or whale to swallow a man That speculation, and the literal language meanings of the original Hebrew may miss the larger context in which the story is set of a lone prophet sent to bring the word of God to a warlike alien society in which he will be consumed by an unsympathetic crowd. God conserved Jonah’s life even through the inside of the socially immersive experience and the mission is concluded with what is to Jonah surprising ease. The most difficult part of Jonah’s mission was caused by his own lack of confidence or trust in himself and avoidance of potential risk in accomplishing the mission.

In avoiding walking directly with the Lord’s word into Nineveh Jonah ended up in the belly of the ‘great fish’ and was transported to the appointment at Nineveh to deliver the message.

Pelikan mentioned that the word ‘prophet’ is from a Greek compound of the word for ‘speaker’. A speaker bringing the authorized word of the Lord to a people ought not be reluctant to execute the work or lack faith and trust in God. That meaning may be the message we might take with us today reading the book of Jonah of the Tanakh’s Nevi’im.

Unenumerated Constitutional Rights and Gov. Retreat from Regulation of Perverse, Transformative Phenomenalities of Eudaemonism

Unenumerated Constitutional Rights and Gov. Retreat from Regulation of Perverse, Transformative Phenomenalities of Eudaemonism

“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.”-George Luis Borges

This isn’t an easy post to write up. In trying to enumerate several of the issues and conflicts raised by the corrupt choice of a few state’s courts and legislatures to create a new homosexual marriage or homo civil union status regulated by government…I have focused on developing the issues rather than selecting politically correct language-these issues are bizarre and implicitly corrupting of the social order and forced upon society by organized elites.

We know that when the constitution was written a vast frontier existed beyond the eastern cities. Eudaemonistic license was largely ungovernable beyond collective class actions such as the right to own slaves or not. Many protections of the law were not enumerated because it would have been in effect impossible for many of today’s intense urban culture issues to exist. One might thus argue in favor of virtually any unenumerated topic as a right one has because the founders were not creative futurists enough to ban it a priori.

The science fiction writer and U.S. Naval Academy alumni Robert Heinlein in his Lazurus Long character foresaw where all of these social sexual issues would lead over a few thousand years as genetics became the determining parameters for marriage. Incest was o.k. for Lazarus Long when genome screening could accurately build a model of the health of any progeny and/or genetically modify the zygote’s genetic components in optimal bio-design laboratories…Lazarus Long even has sexual relations with his twin, cloned, female selves as precocious youth.

Heinlein’s science fiction ideas did not consider many of the macro-social or evolutionary biological effects of avoidance of inbreeding through genetic modification through scientific intervention nor the moral and spiritual decay of the human spirit.

The M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow once wrote that radical changes were needed to transform the traditional and presently inefficient U.S. economic structures and social formations. I tend to regard the abolitionistion of marriage as a heterosexual establishment as advocates of a Boston biological new horizon vision of a world organically transformed more along the behaviorist lines of B.F. Skinner. Trimming down human society to fit on the finite yet unbounded Earth is something like using nitro-glycerin to remove the dandelions from your front lawn. It is better to educate and inform human society explicitly of the extreme empirical challenges brought by manifest limits to growth and expect their voluntary support in conforming to new temporal guidelines than to slip in a morphing and pervasive transformation of human biology existentially.

Anyone writing in advocacy of contentious political points traditionally has encountered the Mill-Industrial delete the opposition voice through financial sanctions phenomenon of course. Societies with true free expression have been and are few. The more exceptional or articulate a minority political opponents voice is to a powerful establishment the more readily may the lone voice in the wilderness be silenced. The Internet era is no exception wherein wealthy corporations may buy up webpages or bribe web page managers to control publication they host. The U.S. broadcast media was consolidated under a few corporate powers more than a decade ago-political opposition is still targeted when practical by the age old practice of silencing dissent.

It is easy enough for Americans today to be aware that a Pandora’s box of legal and economic changes will be added through the leavening of homosexual marriage adulteration of marriage tradition. It would have been far better if an unrelated tradition of a different sort unrelated to marriage were developed to guarantee equal protection of the laws to those seeking to appropriate the financial advantages of heterosexual marriages to non-heterosexuals in some sort of relationship.

The founders never imagined insane sexed homosexual marriage as a potential issue-neither did they foresee that any of the revolutionaries might want to marry a cougar, bear, buffalo or Waldo Emerson’s brothers.

While there are sane biological reasons why close relatives should not marry-those considerations do not apply beyond the heterosexual realm. Laws forbidding first cousins to marry were not created because familiarity breeds contempt and divorce rates would increase harming tax revenues to pay down the federal debt.

Those anti-inbreeding laws were made in recognition of the biological facts of life of increased risk of deformity in progeny. Obviously those restrictions do not exist for fags (means gaf backwards)-perhaps fag denotes a repulsive bonding rather than an attractive one as a statement of opinion about the practice.

Perhaps there will be legal challenges in the future to unequal protection of marriage laws that let homosexuals marry brothers, sisters and first cousins while heterosexual. In an intense social order with development of games theory political and financial power structures the advantage of closer legal social bonding formations may be significant throughout society inclusive of the corporate business environment.

Marriage is founded in a heterosexual paradigm that cannot be equally transferred directly with the same sort of symmetry to the anti-matter of homosexual marriage. The surplus of matter in the universe after the annihilation of matter and anti-matter at the start is thought a result of a slight advantage the different spin of matter has over anti-matter. The subtle differences matter.

The New York homosexual marriage law change may enable brothers to marry, for sisters and first cousins to marry-so long as they are not heterosexual there is no biological reason for the proscription. Annihilating the rational, biological criteria for marriage and transforming it into an existential foundation will support the unraveling of the human social order. The largest Moslem organization in Pakistan rightly described the Gay Pride festivities held in the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan recently as ‘cultural terrorism’. The consequences of that crass disregard for Pakistani culture will likely be remembered for 30 years-a choice a government without supreme global confidence in its military dominance would not make.

The Constitution never mentioned marriage as it wasn’t a controversial issue of the day, common law marriages were common enough and religious ceremonies were sufficient social processes to recognize marriage.

Our correspondent from the future-one of the few tourists to the past these days because of some sort of decrease in population ahead provided several ideas on changes marriage deregulation might bring…

With state regulation of marriage developing perhaps through the county seat needs for registration of land and property inheritance claims and other concerns about limiting the criteria of permissible marriages in order to prevent inbreeding and/or social imbecility (this failed with some politicians) civil marriages or civil unions evolved into fact. With the recent increasing corporate control of the broadcast media a perverse sect of homosexuals has sought with success to lever their way into recognition as married couples in order to get the financial and social benefits of sane sex heterosexual marriage with same sex homosexual marriage.

Rationally states would retire from the regulation of marriage rather than broaden marriage suffrage existentially, for an unenumerated rights parameters might be increased without finite limit when the financial and legal motivation to do so exists.

It is easy to understand that laws against corporate marriage, against polygamy, polygamy and misc group marriages and exotic other animate and inanimate marriages would exclude citizens from structuring their own unenumerated civil rights to their own satisfaction. If a man or women wants to marry the Brooklyn Bridge the state should give them equal rights to do so.

As deregulation of the nation’s financial industry has developed to increase the efficiency of concentrating the nation’s wealth and foreign control of mortgages and employment, deregulation of marriage will increase the securitization of marriage relationships, of time-sharing marriages, of leveraged marriage buy-outs and a range of socially innovative marriage relationships designed to increase the efficiency of marriage as a function of capitalism and free trade.

The Moslem world allows a prosperous man to have four wives, and of course rent-wives exist. It is not a great leap forward to envision the American Dream evolving deregulated rent-wife industries to reduce unemployment, compensate for the failure of chattel slavery to continue to exist in modern America therein depriving sadists the pleasure of subjects to torment, create a trickle-down effect lifting the poor to property-owning status and deregulate poverty from its capture compelled in the regulation of marriage as a heterosexual institution to raise families and protect women from arbitrary and capricious state exploitation, abuse by wandering minstrels and hordes of savage horny dudes on horses.

With the new leftist ideology of deregulation from oppression of state marriage laws, marriage commodities speculators may be able to provide best on-time deliver of sexual satisfaction service even aboard in-flight airlines collaterally reducing the cost of extra baggage and in-flight concessions.

Arranged marriages and short selling through divorce may free up marriage capital for investors to create new frontiers of bound social relationships that protect individuals with chains of obligation from the anarchy and totalitarian power of government claves.

Best of all, marriage deregulation will end financial apartheid preventing the rich from consummating unlimited acquisition of worldly wealth and let corporate marriage survivors pass on their hard-earned family property, stocks, and savings without taxation to surviving shareholders in sexless communal bonding and the next generation of nurturing, sharing and caring shareholders.

Is The DOW Jones Industrial Average Inefficient?

Many Americans are not investors in Wall Street stocks, yet news agencies report the daily numbers of the DOW as if it represented the health of the U.S. economy and of course it no longer does.

Stocks, may be inflated as over-valued bubbles, many of the corporations may do business in China, India, Nigeria or Brazil and the value of a corporate stock may be driven higher with news that it may be bought by another corporation; stock values may also be driven higher as corporate productivity increases by firing workers, outsourcing production and focusing on short term shareholder dividend profit and CEO bonuses instead-all actions such as cutting employee health and retirement packages that can lead to degradation of workers and worker standard of living.

News agencies should refine the Corporate reports with a new financial and insurance sector stock price report so the public can know daily of how the rest of the economy is being trimmed. The actual industrial corporations could be listed in foreign and domestic production facilities to better tie in their management profits and stock values to some relation to the U.S. economy.

Another Unscientific View of Quantum Entanglement & Speed of Light Limit

One might wonder if Einstein developed the speed of light as the maximum possible velocity because a photon is a basic massless particle in the field of the Universe. For anything with mass to travel through space-time it would pass through gravitational fields and others equivalent to riding a bicycle into the wind and receiving increasing resistance with increased speed. Mass effectively increases to infinity as it is accelerated to the speed of light, more energy is needed to move it through resisting quanta of space, or maybe inertia lets it travel through the one atom per cubic meter void of space at light speed as a black hole. Maybe the missing mass of the universe are several separate particles of mass accelerated to light speed with the accompanying apparent infinite mass weight gain as black holes that embed themselves in normal space-time.

Einstein won the Nobel for his work reconstituting light as a particle rather than just a wave.

Some of us non-physicists have a grasp of some of the facts about relativity and light as the maximum possible speed. Anything accelerating near light speed experiences an increase of the value of its mass right up to infinity at the high end. For some reason the things that make us matter when accelerated pass through space and acquire excess gravity and or their energy converts into mass.

Well, enough of that non-sense. The Delta V values of getting several thousand pounds of mass to move at light speed would evidently cost about as much as the federal debt to a higher power.

Things travelling in the Universe as mass may not be able to go faster than light, yet quantum particles seem to exchange information faster than light when entangled and so the non-physicist wonders why?

One obvious answer is that the waveform of any particle when observed collapses into a special spatial location from all possible spatial locations making a reduction ad absurdum occur exchanging information to the bound particles.

Because quantum particles are a little different than photons-a different class of particles, they may be able to travel through space-time without being subject to the sort of effects that add weight to mass accelerating near the speed of light. Maybe quantum waves are too small to be influenced by gravity. If so one wonders if gravity might not be redistributed by design if information can be exchanged to entangled particles in a one way fashion. Yet that raises the question of can information have weight, add mass to anything or drop into a gravitational field.

The nature of quantum particles as waves that become located particles only when observed-something perhaps like the contact of an infinite line with a sphere at some point along it raises other questions.

What boundaries would exist if any for quantum waves…do they go off into infinity spatially beyond even the mass-energy extent of the observable universe? What force would contain such infinite waves?

Would quantum waves be infinite in all directions or just a few?

The prospects for travelling faster than light have been said to be improbable given the difficulties in reducing a human being to quantum information and reassembling through entanglement somewhere else.

I believe those working on such issues theoretically require that some sort of conventional communication line exist to the entangled location as well as the quantum channel.

One might regard the quantum phenomenon in other, more theoretical parameters than those at present known to us non-physicists. It might be possible to contain quantum information in the quantum realm for itself-perhaps as an echo relocated to another universal location without entangling anything besides information.

The possibilities of interacting with a quantum realm of waveforms of infinite length and uncertain nature from this steady-state realm of larger aggregations of energy waves as mass/matter may be greater than that ordinarily regarded as likely in the realm of popular theoretical physics for non-physicists.

Waveforms of quantum should be thought of as very small-something like beyond the ultraviolet, yet even those would be very much too large for quantum signaling with entanglement. One might wonder if the speed is instantaneous in the quantum realm over any material universal scale because of the difference between the two fields.

Extra, smaller dimensions providing shortcuts through the larger, bulkier dimensions of this Universe (the 3d Universe) are an obvious hypothetical context solution; however that would leave unanswered the speed of light paradox incompletely accounted for.

If a photons is a basic fundamental particle that travels through an electro-magnetic field at a maximum, constant velocity then a basic particle or string travelling through extra-dimensions as an entangled analogue of real-world entangled quanta should be simply occupying a higher, smaller dimensional position from which it descends with observation by scientists into the correct or preferred state of spin. From the smaller, higher dimensions the distance to any location in this Universe of 3D may be trivial. That is basic particles may not travel faster through smaller dimensions; they may travel a much shorter distance.

At least that’s one way of considering the paradox of how quanta may be entangled an exchange information through an unobserved quantum state of uncertainty and be bound together at a distance precluding information exchange at subluminal velocity.

If waveforms of quanta actual exist in smaller dimensions then measuring them from larger dimensions may be challenging and appear to provide slower answers.

One may wonder if ordinary, unobserved quantum waves are finite such as a segment of a line, or if they are of infinite length? Even if there are not extra dimensions an explanations for quantum wave packet signaling faster than light, as well as of the entanglement of quanta remains to be explained.

Immigration's Devastation of American Biodiversity

Before the arrival of human beings to the Americas the land and sea was a rich, living, healthy biosphere. More than 100 different kinds of mammals weighing more than a hundred pounds existed here-now there are just 14. Pin-headed politicians offer drill leases on a million more acres of land and Arctic Ocean sea floor to help kill the health of the land and sea. World population approaches 7 billion and the U.S. Government encourages illegal immigration to the nation in order to enrich the odd billionaire mayor skimming the world’s remaining resources to afford tax cuts for rich lobbyists agitating for tax cuts for the rich on Wall Street.

If human beings had developed a rational ecospheric political policy against immigration to America 25,000 years ago the Americas could have remained a healthy park of the earth forever as mankind developed from its happy African and Eurasian homelands a sustainable biologically and ecologically rational economic policy within a caring, nurturing, reverent, inventive and bold utopian civilization. The ancient world needed its Einstinean Teddy Roosevelt-Ghandi politicians for sustainable local ecological economics- instead hunters safari’d to the Americas and a sportsman’s paradise and wiped out the Saber tooth tiger, Wooly Mammoth elephant, the American lion and numerous others. That was libertarianism at its worst devastating without regulation all available natural resources. The American possum is about the only native creature expanding its range because of a convenient interstate highway shoulder system, and it is a marsupial, I believe.

Plainly the political environment of Eurasia 30,000 years ago was against Environmental Protection. Noah was an environmentalist voice in the wilderness mankind choose to ignore as they pursued bad environmental policy right up to the day global warming sent a flood to destroy human life in some lost world; typical callous disregard for the ecosphere by the politically primitive.

Let us then appropriately deplore immigration to the U.S.A. and work for a sustainable and recovering American biosphere with the people we have in the U.S.A. - now more than 300 million of them. The Creator of the Universe knows how many billions are in the Americas altogether consuming the ecosphere like colonies of leaf cutter ants. At least the Vikings in reaching New Foundland Canada about 900 C.E. were responsibility to take an ecological survey and then return to Iceland leaving North America undisturbed and in pristine condition with sustainable respect for the ecosphere. It is no coincidence that descendents of those ancient ecospherists comprise the Nobel Prize Committee for ecological sustainability and biodiversity.

It would be pointless to suggest that the Indians move back to Asia, the Negroes to Africa, and the Europeans to Ireland and Australians to Tasmania. All these people devastating American ecology have relatives devastating the remainder of the world. There is no healthy place left without human ecospheric devastation. Early American immigrants running in relays could run down even the American cheetah and cruelly spear it for sport. The formidable American Bear Giganticus weighing two thousand pounds and running as fast as a racehorse was no match for the cunning killing skills of immigrants adapting to the American hunting preserve. We know how much people like the sport of killing wildlife. Even Queen Elizabeth frequently attended dog vs. bear to the death matches in ye merry old England.

Places without living things like the moon, the leaf cutter sort of human beings conveniently ignore. Like some kind of pre-human ancestor that died out modern humans have revulsion to creating life and healthy ecospheres on lifeless planets and moons. Like Adolph Hitler from his Austrian Alps afraid to travel over water or even invade England modern mankind seems afraid to green up Mars and the moon though a variety of affordable technologies exist for intelligent human beings to do so with intelligent political support. The minds of leaf cutter politicians run through iterations of collateralized debt obligations derivatives and hostile takeovers of banks, tax cuts and more tax cuts instead of cheap, efficient ways to start a sustainable ongoing moon base one piece at a time.

Modern mankind has too much of the Hitlerian nature in it seeking to makeover its global demographics into a politically conformable composition instead of taking the leap of faith to ecospherically green up the solar system and take the Earth’s ecosphere to a recovery condition from the millennia of human ecospheric abusers. While it may not yet be too late to stop immigration to the U.S.A. and create a sustainable environment and economy, and while the same could be said for Mexico, the riotous ecological drunkenness of Wall Street and the Mayor of Greed may continue to be the unsustainable economic mode of the day.

Possible Pragmatic Political Economy in the 3rd Millennium

As wealth concentrates and the gap between America’s rich and middle class/poor continues to increase developing nations may associate that process with democracy and choose better functioning, more egalitarian nations to emulate. Nations like China and Saudi Arabia without democracy seem to be efficient economically and on the rise.

Popular economic pragmatism in the years ahead may devalue political theory for economic structures and choose to regulate economies through pragmatic intervention that would keep the margin between the richest and the poor within an acceptable range of perhaps two orders of magnitude. Free enterprise rather than state socialism or corporatism would be encouraged. Taxation would be on an as needed basis to keep the government solvent and the financial spatial separation from rich and poor from increasing to unacceptable distances creating oppressive and politically corrupting anisotropy.

The new era of pragmatic political economy would be simultaneously populous and efficient in defending individual liberty, political egalitarianism, ecospheric conservation and recovery and a way of life lifting all the vessels in the harbor when the tide comes in. Some may believe that a society without government is an oxymoron, or a crime in progress cluster, that human beings can have a tax free and ungoverned society only if they are few in number and God's natural larder seemingly boundless proving natural resources.

The new economic pragmatism will experience numerous ideological political challenges in the world ahead if it develops that way as I would guess it will. Individuals require sufficient liberty to invent new productive potential, and society requires enough regulation to prevent political oppression, ecospheric decay and economic regions of dysfunction.

Objective economic analysis is better suited for quantification than political-economic. Like pro sports teams a quarterback or center no matter how good cannot play the game and win alone or while his teammates are wearing rags, starving or benched and observing from the sidelines. The good economic team may pay some of its star players better yet all the team must have pay of a reasonable and dignified scale without degradation compelling them to boo their own teammates with the golden compensation.

A Comment on 'Whose Bible Is It?'

Jaroslav Pelikan published this work of Bible scholarship in 2005. It is an erudite examination of a sublime theme one may discover from time to time returning to the perennially thoughtful intellectual scholarship a soul may view The Book and history with.

We encounter well researched treatments of the three sections of the Tanakh-the Jewish Bible; the Torah/Pentateuch, the Nevi’im/ Prophets and the Kethuvim. The origin of the little books (Greek Biblia) that became called in time the singular Bible is examined through its social history.

The journey of the Bible through nations and translations is charted with informative examinations of points of interest, meaningful changes and simultaneous continuity along the way from the letters that Paul wrote to Timothy in Greek because Timothy probably could not read Hebrew to Karl Barth’s 1918 ‘Epistle to the Romans’ commentary. The reader discovers through the 251 pages of this worthwhile read answers to the question; ‘Whose Bible Is It?’

Jaroslav Pelikan has several honorary PhDs in addition to the usual academic honors and they seem well deserved.