Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently, action.
Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently action.
Thought occurs in more than a simple linear fashion, not necessarily as if it were a machine or computer with one or two states and courses for transitions. There may be innumerable paths to select destinations, as well as quantum jumps or downloads with eigenvalues incrementally changing or reverting to state as it was before.
One might consider the legend of Voltaire in a lightning storm suddenly flipped to faith from unbelief. His thought was not necessarily flowing lalong deliberation of theological speculation before the instantaneous electrical discharge at close range. Then afterword, after fear or inspiration from an external source to his own thought occurred and faded into the past., he might have a recurrence of doubt (or not, perhaps developing more faith). He would consider the experience of fear and trembling as subjective- even overly so, and move a little toward rationalism and a review of Descartes’ Meditations and wonder if he could trust his own way of thinking about certain matters rather than others, such as the certainty of his own existence because he is self-aware.
If a Democrat President were to be elected in 2024, U.S. foreign policy would be likely to follow the crazy, counter-productive course of hostility to Russia four more years. Instead of peace and a robust, satisfying reconstruction of a borderland tax free, ecological economics free trade zone that could arise along the Deeper River the US party of slavery wants to enslave taxpayers to buying HIMARS rockets to kill Eurasians and enrich defense contractors, dark pool arms dealers and politician’s pockets.
President Trump in January 2025 could use US troops to quell riotous American cities like Portland Oregon legally. The insurrection act allows US military forces to face down insurrections.
It makes me wonder though, as I look to the east, if any of the main Republican presidential candidates can jump from an aircraft at 7000 feet or more like Pres Bush 41? That candidate would deserve a 2nd look.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-hints-expanded-role-military-us-legacy-law-105172859
A spaghetti like that Scriabin song
fate oodles it's way along
solitary chords placed à plate
with a single note scored
Called in to curly fries
potato wedges laced in Tabasco
sauces slathered like the letters
left in stanzas of betters
Mountains of mayhemic pasta
what it would finally cost
compiled politics diet of worms
such that no menu was lost
Supper was served at seven
when rockets flared overheated
each role is made with the leven
from chefs that cook for the dead.
The raven spins
and having spun
time moves on
Laughing cackling brook
the raven spins
time moves on
The raven flies
and having flown
time moves on
On the wire
raven world is hungry song
time moves on
Woman on the wire
parasol’d one spun day
time moves on.
Jacob was injured wrestling with God
an all night contest he couldn't win
chosen by the most Holy
an eponymous nation to begin
The struggle is edifying
the people wayward
sin is the normal deflection
the people will slide toward
Founding land somewhere
humans wandering through
a temporal hasteland
homesites are a hopeful clue
Where the kingdom of God is
more than fertile land
home is where the heart is
with God not possessions of man
Hosea showed what's wrong
he married a whore
Israel became worldly
everything an open door
Israel became a faith with a new covenant accord
peace became bonded in the crucifixion and the Lord
wickedness and evil forever overcome
a place for faith in God not a sword
Israel forever symbolizes all of us
a people of faith
with the Redeemer
in whom we trust.
Deadly gas
of geologic melting
sudden surge brinks
jökulhlaup floods
sci-fi ice worm blinks.
Attaching several small ion engines to slow push the ISS out of Earth orbit and toward the outer solar system might be cheaper in the long run, than spending a billion dollars to have it crash into the Earth's ocean. If it is technically possibly it might t be useful to create a kind of outpost that would provide a place that could be rehabbed to provide a temporary shelter or storage facility for missions to Europa. The disposable items approach characteristic of modern culture is kinda disgusting.
Nations set their standards
for immigration policy
to reinforce national will
so time will pass hurdles easily
cultural divisions de frapped
Preferring the same stoic values
history should flow like syrup
smooth employment, frictionless lives
antipathetic migrants flail
when new giving just won't arrive
Wilder's hopes for progress won’t wait
rational order can’t be late
nor include I‘slam conquest goals
that atheists, queers, dopers go
to capitalism's social traps.
One needs to define what truth theory one is using and determine if propositions made within it correspond in some way to a verificationist paradigm. Generally comparing unrelated propositions without a logical structure creates inaccuracy obviously. One sometimes need use dead reckoning blind trust in one’s own judgements or those of God.
It is possible to use inductive logic and create presently unverified theory. On some occasions it is possible to have faith that a theory drawn from inducted parameters is true without being able to prove it objectively or empirically in the present.
Another topic slightly related.
Heart decides a lot of things, for instance if it near maximum sustainable heart rate riding a bike in hot weather one need get off and rest a few minutes to let it slow down before getting on and resuming riding. The heart’s condition informs the brain and the smart rider rests a bit. One’s heart can skip a beat simply because of an emotion.
The heartless it is said have no heart and are callous or on different about others in certain circumstances, yet no one believes they lack one because it was removed and auction for a transplant. Losing one”s heart doesn’t literally mean that very often though captives of Aztecs sometimes did etc. Emotion can be reflected in the heart as well, yet rigorous formal logic is a skill like chess playing. So one may love logic and know ever abstract form while simultaneously have a heart and give a valentine to some sweet thing Feb 14.
Maybe there is a key insight into each (space and time) within the parameters of the special theory of relativity. Namely, why is time 100% at rest and less so while in motion?
Massless particles have no time, yet they are field phenomena; part of an existential continua that had an origin in time so that isn’t of great value. Shouldn’t all massless particles such as neutrinos occur within a field beside the Higgs.
On AI: AI will put most people out of work eventually except perhaps for laborers (until robots replace laborers). Nothing to fear. Politicians will create national basic income so Americans will finally be free to learn finger painting.
Maybe it would be useful to invent a complete automatic bed making device that is voice activated. If one doesn’t already exist the tool could save time.
Trouble is that patents cost too much for the poor to afford. The US Government never did lower the cost or reduce the period of patent exclusivity to give years with 10% royalties going to inventor for a century when the invention goes public domain. The economy could be stimulated if the system were brought from the 19th to the 21st century.
Hair that needed combing
leaves embedded in complicated entanglements
she was a wild woman
from beyond the snow line
She was a call for-herself unto-others
wolves in the yard loved her too
fate barely keeping them at bay
where they chased after deer along the shore
Like the fog on the horizon
a Marilyn Monroe archetype
her assets drew followers
though caller ID said she was from Nigeria
The legend of scam was a hearty pudding
drawing emotion like a troop surge
so onward rode the six-hundred
into the jaws of financial transfers.
Hair that needed combing
leaves embedded in complicated entanglements
she was a wild woman
from beyond the snow line
She was a call for-herself unto-others
wolves in the yard loved her too
fate barely keeping them at bay
where they chased after deer along the shore
Like the fog on the horizon
a Marilyn Monroe archetype
her assets drew followers
though caller ID said she was from Nigeria
The legend of scam was a hearty pudding
drawing emotion like a troop surge
so onward rode the six-hundred
into the jaws of financial transfers.
Marx had to write lot. Writers write and some of the rich, maybe the vulgar ones, try to prevent that. Philosophical writers ask questions about social justice and scribble thousands of words about it; discomforting the upper classes.
Plainly Marx and socialists maladroitly sought to oppose Christian faith in their efforts toward political revolution. Europeans had a lot of church/state wealth leadership packed together. Churches owned a lot of land before the Protestant insurrection against catholicism's monopoly upon legal meetings of faith. The socialist revolutionaries were idiots in that onerous divide and conquers agenda though. God is actually amused by the follies of mankind at all levels. The socialists could make no subtle religious distinctions on faith or biblical content being ham fisted.
God isn't mankind whom slog about in the morass of original sin that is reinforced and contained in thermodynamics. Jesus was what God was like when he became man. What rich person or government does what the Lord said to do? Socialists may as well have been in the mob demanding crucifixion of the Son of God. Idiots.
Marx may have known that opium was a trendy dope of the rich and that the poor couldn't afford it. The poor, who are blessed from a certain perspective in that they have a better chance than the rich to enter the kingdom of God. The rich cannot just buy their way to heaven. The poor did have the consolation of faith in God. Some people have notable happiness and positive brain chemistry changes in prayer.
Marx was influenced by the notable atheist Feuerbach and also may have had an intellectual elitist's contempt for the masses lacking 'class consciousness'. That is they weren't 'woke' and didn't know that various socialists believed the masses should have an insurrection against the rich and royalty at least to be respectable of they incapable of honest revolution.
As a sophisticated career librarian Marx had all of the books he could ever want after his philosophy career ended. Marx was a great economist and social analyst obviously, yet really less on the gospel of salvation and that it promoted equal rights and even democracy. Jesus had high regard for the poor.
My poem ‘Configurations’ does refer to scripture and things Jesus said on a couple of lines. Philosophically there are two concepts named monism and pluralism. Pluralism does exist within monism and I believe that is the way modern quantum cosmology needs to look at things...and it occurs temporally. As far as human society goes it would function much better if everyone made the right moral decisions, and of course they don't.
'Configurations'
Numbering the stones
each piece of metamorphosed rock
broken into fragments with time and stress
is like the hair on a head
or feathers of a sparrow
articles counted to the last follicle
each jot and iota of meaning
quantified and calculated
appearances emerged, existed and disappeared
Consider the lilies
grown living structures upon structures
minerals glistening in sunshine and rain
even in moonlight
with gluons and quarks snug in nuclei
atoms forming molecules
everything accounted for
in the pluralistic division of a solitary field
being is becoming.
Space is nothing more than the way sentient humans perceive the structures of mass and energy. It is on a macro level equivalent to the gaps between quantum particles within an atom; and it's known those 'particles' are actually waves. People are locked into perceptions of mass/energy/space because of their own composition existing within known and unknown fields.
Plainly the United States has run amuck with support for the western position in Ukraine. It has taken a wrong branch that it won't easily be able to recover from. Ukraine was Russian for hundreds of years before the communists took in over and naturally they expect to regain control of it, as they have often had to fight the west to keep control of their land. Bad Democrat Party politics since the end of the cold war obdurately overturned peace and laid the foundation for war. The Democrat Party has continued to double down on building up and sustaining the war as if one day their version of modern history would be broadly accepted and few remaining people literate in history of Eurasia will remain to contest their wrong and veritably evil viewpoint.
Plainly the conflict has been continuously avoidable for more than 30 years if the United States would have supported recognition of Russian claims on Ukraine. Even now the war should stop at present military held locations in the conflict rather than continue. If only reason would prevail instead of great political lies bought into by the U.S. administration and N.A.T.O. Fomenting nuclear war and dividing the world in two economic camps was idiotic and a betrayal of what N.A.T.O. was supposed to be in the first place of keeping the peace as a guarantor.
Yet Democrats reason 'Who cares' when 'bullshit walks and money talks' for international relations, truth is what is most useful to land annexers and all they need to is propagandize the public to build up knee-jerk patriotic fervor for and evil, superfluous war.
Hamas' use of the main hospital in Gaza City for a military HQ and weapons cache reminded me of the classic movie 'Hard Boiled'.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-has-clear-information-linking-shifa-hospital-to-hamas-held-hostages/
Some support theocracy and theocratic influence and others hate it. Christian morals could be said to be pro-human these days as few advocate asceticism while formerly humanism partisans tend toward support for a broad range of inhuman powers that subvert human and family interests.
Some hate church cosmology concerning origin of the Universe while some Christians believe that evolution is a sub-set of God's way of developing the universe so it's suitable for containing fallen mankind (modern hermeneutics).
Some Democrats support socialism rather than democracy and a few socialists prefer communism. It tends to balance out.
A nation with lots of people that value aretaic ethics, education and economic and environmental pragmatism is bound to do well if it has classic Christian values too. It might be pointed out that some nations could have strong moral values that are wicked and religion that is pagan. Those nations would lack the balance in politics required for sustainable democracy too.
I think no one besides atheists and the devil would oppose direct government by God. That isn't a human political system though. There is no human representative government of God that wouldn't be implicitly corrupt as humans are. A theocracy wouldn't be democracy. It would effectively disenfranchise most voters. It would work something like a communist or fascist government for the elites would be the same kind of people that appear in any form of government besides democracy with the ideology being a flag of convenience.
Luther's 95 thesis were posted in 1517. In that day expressing public support for democracy just didn't work. In Europe all of the governments were royal with zero tolerance for the ancient Greek demos being revived. The first short-lived modern Republic was created in Holland in the 17th century about 150 years after the 95 thesis. The protestant reformation stimulated political pluralism leading to the US democracy about 260 years after the 95 thesis. Even Luther had to publish in an environment with royals all around. German princes did support him because they had faith yet also were glad to be independent from the Catholic Habsburg empire. The Smalcauldian War followed. The Dewitt brothers that founded the Dutch Republic were torn apart by a mob and reputedly eaten.
Just another guess at why the expansion of the Universe seems to be accelerating; the Higgs field isn't flat, has curvature and it expands space with scalar increases of force with increasing curvature. One seems to travel faster or at least cover more space at the edge of a merry-go-round than toward the center. It might also act with different force angles at different locations in time forcing the expansion of space-time.
Maybe it's a bit of evidence for the universe existing on the event horizon of a black hole.
https://news.yahoo.com/universe-expanding-faster-theory-predicts-132133980.html
Alternatively dark energy might be called 'The broadcast media effect'. It could be the Higgs field is warped and its angle makes spacetime appear to expand as time increases. Or as has been said the universe is located on the surface of a vast black hole of higher dimensions, and from the inflation, as spacetime increases the curvature increase the rate of change. Who knows what it is- a ploy by five dimensional rich ets to doge income tax.
Numbering the stones
each piece of metamorphosed rock
broken into fragments with time and stress
is like the hair on a head
or feathers of a sparrow
articles counted to the last follicle
each jot and iota of meaning
quantified and calculated
appearances emerged, existed and disappeared
Consider the lilies
grown living structures upon structures
minerals glistening in sunshine and rain
even in moonlight
with gluons and quarks snug in nuclei
atoms forming molecules
everything accounted for
in the pluralistic division of a solitary field
being is becoming.
In this era where the human species has realized that being too judgmental may be an unnecessary prelude to fomenting conflict (and that superfluous conflict may be counterproductive and present steep opportunity costs) it might be noted that social media and science have found the field of epistemology-theory of knowledge, to be ripe for disputations. Perhaps those actually interested in philosophy might be concerned with de-conflicting the points of view that might be 180 degrees apart (I would say at loggerheads except the term is somewhat anachronistic and logging is unpopular vs popular itself with partisans tending toward extremes). Epistemological conflict has even entered the field of religion where some seek to make epistemological questions and test a necessary element of soteriological concern.
One epistemological issue of note is that of subjectivism vs objectivism including ontology. A theory of being and a theory of knowledge concurring simultaneously; the observer and knower in-the-field yet not of it, or in-the-field and aware, or in-the-field (the field comprising the Universe) and not aware of what the field really is for-itself.
Some people believe (actually a majority perhaps of philosophers) that naive empiricism is obsolete. It bears the same relation to perception of reality that Newton’s theory of gravity had; conditionally and temporarily the best truth available yet surpassed by Einstein’s General Theory of Gravity that is waiting to be surpassed by a newer better theory that could be very strange or arise from myriad directions. Others believe that science is obsolete and that ontological mathematics is reality for-itself. Inexpert in the field myself, I would guess it is something like the criterion described by Max Tegmark in his decade old book named ‘The Mathematical Universe’. Tegmark described a Multiverse constructed solely of math. Math descriptions of quanta and how they are-in what state they are in, would not only be a representative portrayal of the Universe, it would actually be what the Universe is made of.
I believe the point of various subtle mathematical descriptions of primary quanta is to make the representation the Universe-for-itself. Obviously it is also a construct by sentient human knowers perceiving sensations, learning about the quanta comprising the sensations and formulating a math theory to explain it all even including their own mind. Plainly though the theory is artificial and not a necessary component of every human mind today.
Religious mystics describe their own encounter with God in an experience transcending reality. Reality opens up to experience. I had an experience something like that driving a Honda Civic downhill on a freeway through Utah that lasted a few moments. It is so unusual and life transforming (to a limited extent) that it is memorable.
Religious mysticism though is traditional regarded as heretical by the Catholic Church as well it might be. I think the experience though paranormal shouldn’t necessarily be regarded as an encounter with God. Instead it is an encounter with a subjective-objective experience briefly transcending the mundane world of experience. May there are a few who would describe an experience like that as an encounter with God, and perhaps theirs was, I cannot say, yet it is not in any way requisite for salvation nor even a good idea. Scripture provides the strait and simple path through the narrow gate to eternal life with God; and that is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I mention religious mysticism here because some people have attacked Abrahamic faith as a kind of mysticism in their effort to attack science, Kantianism and sundry forms of ways of thinking about the Universe’s mechanics. The end of the subject-object distinction developed by philosophers like W.V.O. Quine, P.F. Strawson and others joined with the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and other quantum mechanical concepts has prompted a new generation of intellectual cosmological mysticism with believers regarding themselves as not mystics.
The idea of pure math comprising the Universe things leads one to reflect upon Plato’s realm of forms where real forms exist of which everything in the observed world is a copy. That idea is an example of intellectual mysticism even if it provided baskets of differential equations and eigenvalues to all that ask freely. It is an interesting era.
The subject- object distinction in philosophy became more important to science with the rise of investigation of forces, particles and quanta. It was mostly a philosophical concern before, as most people accepted the naïve realism that held that observers could discovery the mechanics of objects. Logical Positivism most notably formalized by A.J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) was a kind of radical empiricism that destroyed metaphysics as a valid concern of philosophy. W.V.O. Quine in his Two Dogmas of Empiricism demolished the epistemology of empiricism and logical positivism. He showed that the reef of solipsism in effect, cannot be overcome; individuals as subjects perceive and exist without being able to separate themselves from their own perceptions and thoughts, or intensions as Heidegger might have termed cognitive mind. Quantum mechanics reinforced the concept of observers affecting quanta simply by measuring them. An observation collapses the wave function because a wave is everyplace and a point position is a particular place and has no speed (plainly and artificial construct in some respects as far as particles are concerned).
Schrodinger’s wave equation; “The Schrodinger wave equation is a mathematical expression describing the energy and position of the electron in space and time, taking into account the matter wave nature of the electron inside an atom” https://byjus.com/jee/schrodinger-wave-equation/#:~:text=The%20Schrodinger%20wave%20equation%20is,the%20electron%20inside%20an%20atom.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zoVhVpqcxL0
Naïve reality is complex. One knows that math and words are products of the human mind and neither exists in nature. Sure animals have some language, yet if the words animals used represented meaningful objects and concerns the words would still simply exist in the animal’s mind. Nature is without language. Language belongs to sentient beings. Ideas about how words apply to objects may be incorrect, yet exist within a lexicon of humans rather than in nature. Nature would be indifferent if oranges were named footballs; it is humans that would care.
All of the mass of the Universe potentially could be described as an object and given a name. The Higgs field or some greater hosting field that includes the Higgs hosts the energy slowed down such that it appears to have mass. Energy is convertible to mass and vice versa as Einstein proved. The subject object distinction being effaced philosophically as brought many changes to the way people think about reality. Some go so far as to claim nothing exists including themselves, or that others create all of common realty with their mind, or that the individual mind creates all of realty.
There are practical consequences for ending the subject-object distinction for science. It will allow more discoveries of the realm of being that does manifest itself as a Universe to human observers as observers realize they are part of the Universe being observed as well as the problem that arises because they are limited to what Immanuel Kant realized was a limit for human knowledge. Kant thought the phenomena was what people could be aware of and that noumenona was the unknown existing beyond the reef of solipsism as Sartre termed it.
Bishop Berkeley of course invented ideaism popularly called idealism. In his Three Dialogues he described perception and existence that could be created by God or a demi-urge tricking the individual to believe that reality is empirical and objective when it is just senses being stimulated to make it seem that way. Berkeley was a couple hundred years ahead of the Matrix in speculating how a mind could be made to believe reality is real when it is just a product of a Superior Being. A human mind could exist in a jar or as computer code in a greatly advanced system and made to believe it is experiencing objective reality.
Complex and interesting topics... Some have faith in the Lord and yet enjoy scientific method and logical investigations. Others detach from reality, or rather, the common realm of human experience and focus on pleasure, yet others believe nothing is real. I believe there may be three or four kinds of modern human outlook. One is to have faith, two is to believe just in science and observation, the third is to believe in nothing and the fourth is to focus on please or work and avoid thinking about it.
Ukraine's President Zelenskky has ruled out a Presidential election in 2024 because of the ongoing war with Russia. He may inadvertently shown a winning path for President Joe Biden to stay in office after 2024- cancel the election.
https://garycgibson.com/2023/11/08/will-zelenskkys-sidekick-joe-biden-rule-out-2024-presidential-election/
Usually a substantial crisis is required to cancel an election; rain, snow, sleet, flood or extreme darkness of night because of emp blasts or whatever. In 2024 though it may be easier to foment a crisis; after all Democrats upgraded a bum-rushing the capitol mob of unruly protestors an insurrection, so something else might receive the hyperbole treatment and become a crisis of such stature that 'Honest' Joe Biden must remain in office as Dictator Perpetuo like Dictator Zelenskkyy who has found a good way to silence anti-war dissidents.
Desiccated weeds and tall dry grasses exist
shaking agitated in the wind
inconstant element with the sun
mild this time of year
While cars and trucks roll over edges of interstate grooves
rivaling the sound of engines
racing through nowhere to be somewhere
green things grow in the distance
Things more alive than the pale green sagebrush
set by the trillions in these places
that know barbed wire and goats
yet was made to serve coyotes and rabbits
Pale yellows, browns and green suggest possibilities
of something near that never does appear
for green blades of grass and special storefronts
concrete curbs and sports bars are more real
What of the stars that are so clear and alone
set far across empty space
when humans know gravity’s conforming love
the cold empty void can’t be home
Stones are strewn amid driest dirt
knighted with a crust of rain long ago-
a patina that is vigilant against dust storms
that too easily rise
A sinusoidal wave trough from eternity
lingers with temporal clinched drives
each life is a momentary beingness
of relationships too readily benched.
Western science did exist historically yet now it's world science. Toynbee noted in his last book... "Mankind and Mother Earth", that Western civilization has morphed into world civilization...there is just one civilization and it has many streams flowing into it.
Energy is a description of relationships or events; yet what is it for-itself? Less than a string, more basic than a two dimensional point, is it comparable to quanta detached from a field or observed at a point of exchange? Does energy make up the stuff of all quanta including strings or quarks?
One may have an endless supply of definitions of energy that provide examples. It could be a characteristic of quanta. Even massless particles may have it. Yet it may all be borrowed from a field with a total quantity of potential energy? Perhaps some believe that field comprises the Universe and that it is eternal.
Time and configurations of space would be contingent and relative in each denouement of a Universe existing of course. The energy field should be bound in some way before a singularity. Yet what dynamic tension holds it together...gravity or simply the will of God.? Is the field unique or is there an infinite supply of fields that can be a Universe in mothballs as it were.
On Euthenasia
Euthanasia seems like a reference to state sanctioned murder popularly. It reminds me of the hit man smothering some old guy with a pillow.
Self-murder may be sought to relieve suffering of course. I think of the couple in The Alien that blew themselves up with a grenade instead of being captured.
Sartre invented a term; the coefficient of adversity, to describe the relationship of the individual to external challenges. When it becomes too much the thought of people can turn toward suicide. After all, few people kill themselves thinking that "I am too happy and life is too wonderful, therefore I must kill myself!".
I wonder if the oxy-fentanyl death epidemic is driven in part by those seeking an easy way to check out of reality. Assuredly good medical care and a righteous economic system would cut down the numbers of self-death makers.
On contemporary thought challenges/conflicts regarding abiogenesis and the Biblical story of Genesis
The truth can be difficult to know and people may rely on authorities rather than themselves for opinions. People don't spend their lives as philosophers generally. Some dabble with partial truths part-time and ossify and promote that insight.
Interpreting scripture can be philosophical challenging for-itself. Moderns can err on their assumptions. Specialists in science and Christianity may wear blinders though not necessarily. Here is a link to a free book I wrote on the matter...
Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes
https://www.lulu.com/.../chr.../ebook/product-wnddgd.html...
On 'The Pragmatic Fallacy'
It derives from William James- the Harvard philosopher associated with the foundation of pragmatism (it actually was C.S. Pierce) who explained belief in Christ is comparable to a bet. If one has faith one is a winner, and if wrong loses nothing. Alternatively if one hasn't faith one is a guaranteed eternal loser if Christ is the true way, and would be no better off than the Christian if right.
Sorry...I provided an incorrect reference. James did apply a pragmatic argument to the question of faith yet the pragmatic fallacy is something else. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4320221....
A generative AI explained the pragmatic fallacy thusly; "someone assumes that something will help everyone because it helped someone else".
On the Question; Are People Part of Nature and the Natural World?
Yes; people are like giant thinking ants that affect nature in a world where they are the top dog, the biggest cheeses, the ultima ratio for good or bad under God they challenge the existence of.
Second growth of nature upon derilect ant colonies is nature too; as well as primary virgin land unworked by worker ants. The giant ants ignore their ant-thropocene caused changed to the natural world they live in sometimes, and consider themselves to be not part of nature while also sometimes believing they too are part of nature and so they cannot possibly harm it. That is something like saying they are criminals and everyone else is too so they cannot possibly commit crimes that could harm society. The problem with that way of thinking is that the natural criminals are petty criminals avoiding paying parking tickets etc while the Giant Ants are destroying the environmental viability of not only ants to live in, on every other criminal too as they blink and fade into extinction.
David Hume did not believe in cause and effect. In retrospect I tend to agree. Instead there is a continuum or field with apparent plurality within it's monism
The universal field is thought by physics to have been unified at some early stage. The entire field is itself contingent and emergent from eternity. The temporal order is a phenomenon that could be compared to the trough of a sinusoidal wave plunging from eternal timelessness briefly into time.
Proximal causes are never unary or monopolar even if they could be reduced to a singularity...they would always be part of a complex of compresent events in spacetime. God can provide an ostensible order in Genesis yet for the eternal and omniscient can there even really be more than subjective arrow-of-time-for-others as might be said to present to sentient beings within his temporal creation.
The Kingdom of God is within you
a transcendent realm of spirit
living for the souls
taken with the Lord
beyond time
And space with worlds reigned
where wickedness has clout
wraiths of destruction compile reason
to kill the pursuit of peace and doubts
that material concerns are absolute in season
Life inexorably does slip away
thermodynamics rise for original sin
corrected those errors that did start
de-calibrating peace from mankind’s origin
requiring the Lord to provide new hearts
Just anything; the temporal is pushed forward
civilization is not a well-oiled machine
Utopian hopes drive a few toward time
where matter configured rightly is a personal dream
those conflicts and clashes are someone else’s crime.
I.M.O Time is a relationship among mass events. In the quantum realm when an event disappears time disappears with it. Quantum super-position of a wave at all possible locations of a massless particle without time raises some interesting question like; do places exist at all in the quantum realm, or differently at least, than when they become embedded in the Higgs Field, are 'observed' and waveforms collapsed? John Wheeler speculated that there may be just one quantum wave form crisscrossing itself from timelessness in to time to create the appearance of mass of a universe.
Time resumes when a new event occurs. In this paradigm time is discrete, local and relativistic. Time would seem to have more substance to conscious beings embedded within the continuum of a field like the Higgs.
The Los Angeles Lakers have several players out with injuries; i.e. Prince, Vanderbilt, Hachimura, Vincent, Hood-Schafino) and that is something of a blessing. It provides an opportunity for playing minutes for new and young players that otherwise wouldn’t arise.
Coach Hamm knows that Russell and Reeves can play. So he could start Cam Reddish and Max Christie a few games to see what they can do. He also has a double and triple big lineup that would be interesting to use now and then. Wood and Hayes improve with more minutes. Give them a playing card and see what they call. The possibilities and combinations are endless and are all good.
The Republican primary race for the Presidency so far seems to have boiled down to three candidates. Ron DeSantis is not the best campaigner yet might be the best and most effective President if elected, while Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are the most acerbic reality TV quality candidates. If Gov. DeSantis were like his opponents in demeanor he would seem mean.
It is questionable if Nikki Haley could be elected. She is an Indian (from India) Sikh and former Hindu who converted to the Apostate Christian sect of Methodism after marrying and running for political office. It s possible that evangelical voters would be cool on that Clemson graduate accountant.
Donald Trump is the candidate with a thousand criminal charges usually instigated by Democrats that Republicans are reluctant to move past. President Trump was abused by Democrats while in office and was a foreign policy wiz of a sort. The public knows Mr. Trump is an environmental Luddite though with a bad enough senselessness of the peril humanity faces such as could endanger human survival on this planet.
There is a remarkable and strange irony and humor in the Republican party’s inability to get behind a viable candidate and elect one to the White House when the Democrat candidate is the worst in several generations that could be knocked off by a janitor with a degree in cosmetology.
In ancient Israel Jews becoming organized wanted a king to rule them. God wanted them to be a democracy with Himself as their spiritual. Working with the Prophet Samuel select Jews were sent to find their missing asses (donkeys). When the asses were at last found the Jews also found their new king; Saul. That is like unto how the Republicans will have their 2024 Presidential candidate selected.
From 1st Samuel 10 KJV
“Samuel Anoints Saul
1Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? 2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? 3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 4And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. 5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: 6And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. 7And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee. 8And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
Samuel's Signs Fulfilled
9And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. 10And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. 11And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? 12And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? 13And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
14And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel. 15And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. 16And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
Saul Proclaimed King
17And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh; 18And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you: 19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
