Predestination, Salvation of the Elect and Free Will

This essay is intended to consider that there may be Godly reasons why or what people can be for eternity in relation to the Lord and why there may be different courses necessary for people with and without the Lord as their Savior. I will consider that God may confer predestination through retro-causality upon some of the lost-to-sin human constituency and additional difficult-to-understand problems of the criterion of being while living within a temporal order. Predestination and determinism are not incompatible with human freedom of choice.

I suppose that the human condition of being having started in original sin means that all people still have some hardness of heart and moral failure. Without the direct grace of God none would be saved. The question is why God rescues anyone from the state of original sin? I guess that if God wants anyone to exist besides Himself and God is implicitly perfect the imperfect creatures will need to be saved through their relationship to the Son Jesus Christ. Jesus covers the sin with His perfection.

Maybe God likes having less than perfect sentient beings existing as some sort of pluralistic array within His monism yet can’t tolerate imperfection unless it is compartmentalized; limited like explosion in an internal combustion engine to a somewhat useful application.. Creatures exist as some sort of function of the Omnipotent God who actualizes all things in theory and fact even if some are within in a contingent and potential state of realized hypothesis. There may be value in having some human beings exist. More may be better.

For those that have some qualification for God’s use there seems to be a good working-retirement plan for eternity with better prospects than social security.

In some respects the problem of why some people are saved and others chose to chase after pleasure mirages instead of moral perfection is comparable to why some just things can be eternal and not everything. Why don’t temporal things like stars or polar ice caps exist forever-why does anything decay or change? As the joke goes, death and temporality make way for more and new things. Seriously though, temporal being is a form of making things exist with more degrees of freedom than if they existed forever. Imagine if God made real and permanent everything he ever thought of in some concrete form-it would be the worst hoarding collection of stuff ever invented. There would be Universe after Universe to an infinite extent full of junk piled in. A lot of eternity would be spent arranging the stuff in nice neat rows or thrown in like junk with no hope of a garage sale to clear out a few thousand Universes of the stuff occasionally. Temporality may be some nice neat way of ordering concepts that are real yet don’t stay around past their expiration date. Expiration dates allow more products to exist than if every product created had to exist eternally. Imagine a container of milk that existed forever, or maybe a loaf of bread without refrigeration? How would one have bacteria exist without meat that rots and vice versa?

Jesus said that in heaven people neither marry nor are given in marriage (not only because of their relationship to God I would think or because of that especially). It is also a part of their eternal nature transformed into a body without temporal characteristics-and I find that hard to imagine. A temporal body’s form is that adapted specifically to a given physical niche. Trees grow tall for instance, yet are limited in height for one reason because the water transport ‘veins’ going up break down under the force of gravity at a certain height. People have grown with similar constraints or definitions that in eternity would not be required or useful maybe. A human spirit might be adapted to a different spiritual presentation. 

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Computer Chess and Football Analysis

If innumerable comparisons have been made between chess and politics, chess and war, chess and strategies for mano y mano (or womano) gaming the development of computer analysis of football plays reduced to x and o graphics as simple as those of chess might have developed too. Chess pieces haven't any variation in performance capability from other similar pieces though while football players' abilities vary considerably. Even so the sort of statistical analysis that computer chess engine make of chess games perhaps has been used for pro football teams as well.

The world's highest rated chess player Magnus Carlsen has a F.I.D.E. chess rating of about 2877. One ordinary chess engine that players can play against has a chess rating of 3350 probably. Carlsen and other highly rated players like Aronian, Caruna, Grischuck, Nakamura, Anand, Ivanchuck, Kramnik and Topolov probably play against their own chess engines now and then. I would guess they can program a chess engine to play like a particular top rated opponent in order to hone their own tactics playing against them. Even beginning players have a number of chess computer chess games and , such as Py-chess available free on-line to play against There are pro-analytical engines such as Houdini and Stockfish, some with open source software. Are some football coaches using football computer programs to statistically analyze or even to call game plays? Will jobs for programmers and chess wizards be created in pro football soon. Can the Denver Broncos use a GM chess player-coach?

Scrimmages of X's and O's given abstract analysis might determine what plays work effectively against others, what offenses and defenses are best suited for particular situations and series, and even take into account weight and skill characteristics of individual players in order to find more statistics for strengths and weaknesses in play selection. Computer play engines might have data about opposition force team cadre and determine where the best places to attack are-such as a 40 dive if one has Adrian Peterson in the backfield and the average weight of the defensive front four of the opposition is only 230 pounds.

Troubles of Being the Chosen People an the Intersection of History

I think Christians need to use very careful, nuanced language regarding Jews because it has been used so badly traditionally-by anti-Semites that have perpetrated pogroms, purges, and holocausts. One considers the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia, the persecutions in Russia sent by the Tsar for a distraction from domestic troubles, and the expulsion of the Jews beyond the Pale of Poland and that something fewer than 30% of German Christian ministers dissented adequately from the Reich's State Church hostile takeover. 

So are Jews God's chosen people-the leavening sent into the world to bring the word of God and ideas of God to the focus of the world's attention? It would be hard to say that they aren't in light of their history and Bible prophecy. God hasn't divorced his chosen people. They are still in his plan and always were. Realized eschatology brought Christians too into the tribe of Israel with the new covenant-we are a branch grafted onto the tree as the parable goes. Jesus brought the new covenant and the Mosaic Law was fulfilled and surpassed, yet the Jews are more than just the lost world, Jesus writing the laws of God on the hearts and minds allowed Israel to move beyond the boundaries of national Israel and the Mosaic law paradigm when it was ripe historically. 

It is probably not a good idea for Christians to overly evaluate the Jews as no more the chosen people and claim that we Christians will sit on the right hand of the Lord. We are saved by the grace of the Lord yet the Jews have their own worldly destiny that they can't seem circumstantially to avoid-being in the center of things at the crossroads of the world and drawing the wrath of the forces loyal to a false prophet from Mecca too influenced by Essene determinism I think. Jews are only 13 million or so on Earth and if they have an attitude it is because they need it for self-defense. Americans have a large, powerful military and the Christian community benefited from being far away from Barbary pirates, Muslim fanatics and kow-towers to emperors for a long time. 

We can't expect Israels to be sweet, gentle and exterminated by head choppers right away. One must ask if Christians would be happier living in Israel or the Caliphate, and be aware that there are many kinds of persecution both religious and non-religious, and that Americans are said not to have a theology of suffering living in a dream as it were. I hope that continues-yet with decadence it tends to be lost.

Limbaugh's Radical Subjectivism Split the Republican Parrty

Traditionally neo-conservative talk radio guys put on the hat of naïve realism. Yek they can alternatively wear a cynic hat with less audience share. Generally though, naïve realism is the paradigm. Trying to understand Rush Limbaugh, worthwhile since he has 20 or 30 million occasional followers, and consider why he can be so completely daft on some points and accurate on others provides insight into the power of broadcast media to mess up American democracy.

Mr. Limbaugh’s erratic analytical method tends to divide up the Republican Party into separate wings comprising the aloof upper-class globalist blue-bloods and the scientifically dumb conservative followers of Rush transforming the Republicans into the intellectual constiuency of traditional Democrat donkeys leaving the important stuff to the brains of the outfit in talk radio. In times past Republicans were regarded as the more intellectually astute party leading the way with sharp business ideas with some fat cat industrialists that surged ahead. In those times there wasn’t such a vast gap between the very rich and the very poor. Rush Limbaugh tends to take the New Republican Dumb constituency on that long, black train leading to nowhere as a generality waiting for Godot.

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Surprisingly Rush made a conservative ingression into radical subjectivism standing with John Lennon in the Strawberry Fields nothing is real psychology of the Beatles classic. That is the intellectually limp leader has a right-wing version of popular subjectivism started perhaps by John Dewey with a topping of moral and epistemological relativism that droops down ecospheric reform and responsibility.

Radical epistemological subjectivism entered academia, politics, business and religion and even in to talk radio. Radical subjectivism allows the buck to be passed infinitely in theory.

Jesus Christ in saying that the king of God is within you was not establishing a purely subjective epistemology. Obviously Jesus was in the Kingdom of God for-himself yet existed in the world for-others. There are many ways to interpret the meaning of what Jesus said about the kingdom of God and of what the kingdom of God is, and where it is, yet it wasn’t a purely subjective epistemology. The kingdom of God may be experienced subjectively yet it is also founded or grounded in God. God is the objective-other as Sartre might have said, yet that pure objectivity is transcended through receiving Jesus Christ as one’s personal Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ is the sole way to God. Some find a sense of realized eschatology in the concept of the kingdom of God being within Christians as an initial entry of the developing kingdom of God that will fully emerge objectively at the end of temporal history. Well, to return to Rush Limbaugh and the left’s radical subjectivism…

The left notably took a turn in the 20^th century toward subjectivism and subjective psychology. A book named The Age of Fracture described some of the American political developments of that intellectual-theoretical trend. One didn’t expect Rush Limbaugh and naïve conservative realists to take a turn toward radical epistemological subjectivism too. Yet sharing that realm of radical subjectivism with the left was possible for those that wandered through the moral relativism and ethical subjectivism required for the moral immunity to Wall Street corruption leading to the 2008 crash. Where one has a kind of epistemological-intellectual libertarianism one can apply Derrida’s objective treatment of literature to the real world regarding it as subjective and amusing.

Whereas Karl Marx applied G.W.F. Hegel’s metaphysical induction to analysis of political evolution without the theoretical-teleogical paradigm, Rush Limbaugh seems to use a Sartrian phenomenalism with a topping of Marxist dialect to produce a weltanshauuung where everything is regarded as political with politics perhaps meaning a social process of adjudicative transaction.

In Limbaugh’s weltanshauung science is subject

tive and hence scientists produce political theories. Instead of studying the world and Universe objectively they study it subjectively within a social-political context and generate political points of affirmation or denial of an evolving socialist vs. capitalist dialectic. Limbaugh views vegetarianism and global warming theorists as political dupes or willing apparatchiks of the dark side of the dialectical force in the perennial battle of good vs. evil. Limbaugh is something of a Manichean or Zoroastrian existentialist soaked in the sauce of cold war era dialectical materialism morphed to a form where it is a dialectical evolution to nowhere besides entropy and the heat death of the Universe I suppose, after yielding maximal prophets-and its al a dream.

Limbaugh’s weltanshaung shared with subjectivists of the radical left that fled there perhaps when Marxist-Stalinism lost its glint and Sartre provided the existentialist Critique of Dialectical Reason as a refuge for the philosophically challenged is reliant on the ultimate subjective nature of mass and energy and of its phenomenal nature. Science though is dedicated to the study of mass, energy and forms as well as a human being can do. Scientific results tend to approach the validity at least of that language has in publicly verifiable use. Science has produced some of the greater advances in the human condition. Applied science has relieved objective human suffering from disease. Good science can be applied with bad politics to do harm. Adolph Eichman used scientific fruit of technology and I.B.M. card readers to process Jews for extermination in the holocaust. Too many car making fossil fuels emissions generate greenhouse gasses contributing significantly to global warming causality. Science and technology produced automotive technology, bad politics want to continue to misapply it, deny any bad effects and deny any scientific capacity for objectivity. Science it is said by the politically maladroit produces just politics.

That point calls for some humor of course. I haven’t the time for that here. One can imagine Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton producing political material instead of science and technology. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon were political merry pranksters and the Hiroshima bomb was just a political invention of no substance used to put Marxists in power and increase the size of government to super-enhanced. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.

Human thinking and sentience is what distinguishes human beings from animals and even inanimate mass and energy. Human beings are organism too and simply being a happy organism isn’t really human. Human beings are sentient beings that need to think critically, rationally and objectively as possible. Man does not live by bread alone. So can science measure the atmospheric and sea surface temperature of the planet or what the atmosphere is made of-of course. Can science compare the present state of the thermal condition of the world to ages past-yes.

Human affairs of a social nature often are political.  Political-social responses to objective environmental challenges may have partisans of several sides on innumerable issues with various combinations of issues packaged occasionally so large as to comprise political party platforms. It would be just stupid though to claim that the potential for making anything a political issue negates the reality and potential for objective existence of the issue. In a sense the radical subjective epistemological theory of the left and of Rush Limbaugh too apparently denies the possibility of a democracy having any real issues to fix or respond to. Instead issues such as global warming when applied with the Limbaugh weltanshaung filter can be regarded as political illusion to support the dark side of the dialectical force and the demi-urge of doom egging on anti-Canutian political force.

Rush Limbaugh is not entirely wrong about particular political issues yet his theoretical competence is deficient to the point where he seems to be Talking Under the Influence –T.U.I. with an irrational, perhaps CO2 influenced giddiness(joking about this last point). He believes Vegetarianism or Veganism is political and doesn’t seem to be able to separate or distinguish what  the political is regarding issues and the issues for themselves. Vegetarians sometimes just don’t want to eat Bambi.

Some reincarnationists thought meat eating would consume some kindred spirit perhaps. There were religious and personal reasons for not eating animals, or eve health concerns in kosher proscriptions. Mad cow disease was caused with prions brought by feeding cattle dead cattle pieces. It required scientific objectivity to understand how the infection mechanisms worked. Even Rush Limbaugh’s artifical hearinh cochlear implants were developed with work by individuals with more than a radical subjective epistemology believing nothing is real.

It is fairly easy to misunderstand the philosophical points about epistemology that have developed since the pre-Socratics along to modern Super-String theory. Christians may have a different point of view about the nature of mass-energy in relation to spirit too, and spirit in relation to mass-energy can be regarded in different ways. Madonna the pop singer sang The Material Girl yet evolved interest in the neo-Gnostic Kabalah. Philo of Alexandria was defiantly not a naïve materialist. Even if all of thought, mind and body is made of matter (material), matter-mass-energy is itself perhaps a practico-inert substance of God presented for-others in Higgs field entanglement. For us matter is a potential practico-inert substance for reforming and manufacture that can be neither created or destroyed (generally). In the beginning there was brought into being a finite quantity of matter-energy brought or issued-spoken into the darkness when it was without form and void.

The way the Universe is today and its method of physical change in an ordered, logical paradigm within consistent characteristics of conduct including some room for uncertainty that permits a wide range of freedom of motion lets human minds experience the phenomenon of being and the objective characteristics of the Universe. Subjective and objective characteristics cohere within the phenomenon of being for humans to discover. The Universe is not just an experience of purely subjective epistemology presenting no moral or ethical concern to the rich or leftist totalitarians.

Low Information Voter /Global Warming Video

            This is a video of my recent post (humor).

Napalm Security Area Around Stranded Yazidis of Iraq?

The tragic fact that Bush II and Obama I policies have led to the creation of a Caliphate that has treed 15,000 stranded on a mountaintop without food or water supply calls for a regular Noah's Ark relief mission napalming the paradise around their perimeter to keep the dogs of death at bay as well as air drops and relocation of the most vulnerable Yazis first. Perhaps a few special forces teams could be the calvary arriving to help defend against the evil mufsidoon until everyone can be relocated. Its only 15,000. Maybe they could go to one of resident Obama's illegal alien concentration camps too until a safe place in Iraq can be carved out for them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-considers-air-drops-to-15000-iraq-refugees-fleeing-isis/

Low-Information Losas Liberated by Piltdown-Mann

Quickbling Piltdown-Mann the successful low-information top-radio hose has been to the top of the mountain of bureaucratic trash reading high-information facts on global heating and concluded it weren’t happening; Never twas and neva, neva dwill he said. Piltdown has a special mission to rescue 2-foot tall droopin midgets in that vast left-wink government plunked into the Democrankern Potty; Piltdown said; Wise-up!

Thus spake Piltdown-Mann; N.A.S.A. looked down through its elitist space periscopes from satellite dollah-soakas upon the planetary iced pack and found that them ice crystals aren’t shrunk at all. They are ‘bout the same size they ever was and so’s the glaciers of Alaska. No one need blather all hot and bothered about anything meltin or sea levels risin. I ain't takin no T.U.I. rap for talking under the influence of CO2.

Ice is ice and frozen water and cold all over Iceland is cold-ice that hasn’t warmed up at all and it can’t; its frozen. Everyone no’s there neva was icepack in Miami except in my biah crueller. Sponsas of top radio pay good money to sell fossil fuels and the world needs more. More coal burnin plants, more deforestation, more gas guzzling SUVs, fewa wild animals to faht in the air and more jobs fo low information votas.

In Alaska coastal areas that are flooded now that never were before coverin up ancient archeological sites before they can be excavated and the stuff catalogued from what early legal immigrants to America had for technology and lifestyle is just rhoomas sewn like tares to undermine Tea Potty Patriots throwin tea and old growth forests that are really weeds into the ocean where they belong chopped up like salad by vast industrial propellas sendin ships of commerce to the tables of subdivisions in China for the top 1%. The storms bling storm surges as storm surges do and properly always has. Fossil fuel electrification is happinen in Nigeria beatin out that next generation solar panel and fuel cell infrastructure that don’t rely on fine old heriarchical corporatist social infrastructure needed to cut down the dam jungles and wild animals, concentrate wealth and power and so forced.

The perfect-tense meltin of glaciers, sea level increase, reduction of the cryosphere area and measuring of the sea surface temperature, carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere and other stuff like that are N.A.S.A.’s problem and they agree with me. Other scientists shove that contradiction and disputes exist in science too and low-information scientists get very bad outcomes with 99.8% probability of being leftist, commie anti-wealth propaganda. The bad actors need to go back to the drawin boards to reconfigure pseudo-scientific conclusions with logical premises verified and confirmed with adult supervision and super-bondo anti-low information, high-information fixin agent.

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