Jehovah's Witness Seem Close to Perping the Unpardonable Sin

 Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in the Holy Spirit as a person and member of the Trinity. Instead they regard the Holy Spirit as an ‘active’ force of God. The unpardonable sin is “grieving the Holy Spirit”. So not believing the Holy Spirit is a real individual might grieve the Spirit, no?

That difficult paradigm is meaningful for Christians who definitely want to avoid grieving the Holy Spirit. It isn’t a technical or trick question sort of grievance some ‘experts’ have opined. It is intentional blasphemy. So if JWs don’t know that not believing in the reality of the Holy Spirit is comparable to not believing in the reality of Jesus, except perhaps as an active force of God, maybe they aren’t committing the big one. Jesus did say; “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Matthew and Mark contain passages where Jesus  talks about the unpardonable sin (Matthew 12:31-32 and Mark 3:28-30). I asked google search to summarize what Jesus had to say about the Holy Spirit; this is what it wrote;

“Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as a distinct person within the Trinity, not just an impersonal power or force, emphasizing his role as a teacher, counselor, and comforter. He describes the Holy Spirit as “another Helper,” distinct from himself, and the Father, who will be sent in his name. Jesus also highlights the Holy Spirit’s intimate connection with believers, emphasizing his presence and dwelling within them. 

Here’s a more detailed look at how Jesus describes the Holy Spirit: 

Dwelling within Believers:Jesus also says that the Holy Spirit dwells with believers and will be in them. This signifies a personal and intimate relationship between the Spirit and those who believe in Jesus.

Distinct Person:Jesus consistently speaks of the Holy Spirit as a “person,” using pronouns like “he” and “him”. This contrasts with the idea of the Holy Spirit being merely an impersonal force or power.

Sent by the Father:Jesus states that the Holy Spirit will be sent by the Father in his name. This indicates a distinct relationship and delegation of authority within the Trinity.

Connected to Jesus:Jesus emphasizes that the Holy Spirit will glorify him, taking what is Jesus’ and declaring it to the believers. This highlights the Holy Spirit’s role in making Jesus’ teachings and message known.

Comforter and Counselor:Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will be a comforter and counselor to his disciples, guiding them into all truth.”

Ukraine is Source of Evil and Division for the West

 Western Europe hasn’t any vital interests in Ukraine. Their false belief they have a security need to stop Russia at the 1991 boundary or Russia will invade all the way to the English Channel is entirely delusional. Fundamentally European leaders are convincing themselves Russia is a threat to the west in order to sublimate their attempt to bully Russia into relinquishing its historical right to some if not all of Ukraine. European leaders want to swell the European Union and to make N.A.T.O. into their personal military tool.

European leaders probably believe that tactically they can defeat Russia in a war of attrition. They also know that Russia won’t attack N.A.T.O. countries supplying Ukraine with military support because that would obligate the U.S.A. as a N.A.T.O. member to get involved to defend them and that is the short route to nuclear war. the duplicity is another reason why Western Europe is not actually facing a Russian invasion threat- who wants nuclear war even in Russia?

Europe is the primary power block protracting the Ukraine War presently. That wrong choice will damage the European economy as it has that of the United States; the conflict is one more problem exacerbating global trade issues and warping the obsolete criterion of neo-liberalism Europe flourished with.

Someone in Ukraine was exchanging emails with the last attempted assassin of President Trump at a golf course in Florida. The suspect asked for a rocket propelled grenade and to have it delivered to the U.S.A. Ukraine is a nexus of problems for the world- a wrench in the economic works of the United States, Europe and even China and Japan. Ending the war directly and making permanent new boundaries more or less, approximately with East Ukraine beyond the Dnpro Russian and West Ukraine a state without N.A.T.O. membership, although individual European states could still sign treaties with West Ukraine is in the economic and existential interests of Europe and the United States.

American Democrats have chosen a bizarre allegiance to Ukraine in recent years that is not well founded. Europeans should not take that fact blow smoke in their eyes through which they see a vast left-wing diamond of wealth in Ukraine within their grasp. It would profitable to all and save many live if the war were wrapped up and filed in history as a waste of life and good sense directly.

U.S. Public Debt Would Soon Be Half of the World's If Neo-Liberalism Continued Uncorrected

 Obviously something has to change in the way the U.S.A. does business. The present model being dysfunctional in regard to sustainability is undergoing change from the White House. With neo-liberal economic policy left uncorrected within a few brief years the nation would have more than half of the planet’s public debt. Japan incidentally, needs to make a deal swiftly since it also has vast public debt- nearly 10 trillion dollars. If the U.S. and Japanese economies tanked that would be a blow to the west.

I asked Gemini about the distribution of public debt…

“Global Public Debt: As of 2023, global public debt reached a record high of $97 trillion. 

US National Debt: The US national debt is currently around $36.22 trillion. 

Debt to GDP ratio: The US government debt accounted for 124.0 % of the country’s Nominal GDP in Dec 2024. 

Top countries holding US debt: As of November 2024, the top 5 countries holding the most US debt are Japan, China, the U.K., Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands. 

Japan’s debt to GDP ratio: Japan’s public debt as of 2023 is $9.2 trillion which is 263% of GDP. “

Tariffs on China Imports at 104 Per Cent During- First Wave of MAGA

 Tariffs on China were upgraded 50% today by President Trump for a total of 104% on Chinese imports to the United States. It seems harsh yet it is a logical response to the Chinese policy of matching U.S. tariffs in order to continue its vast trade surplus with the U.S.A.

Chinese is a growing economic tiger flexing its muscles internationally. With a little foresight one can understand that in 5 or 10 years if the neo-liberal economic policies of the United States continued China would likely dominate the globes' manufacturing, vastly increase its military power and downgrade the United States in the international service sector that is the next area for the Chinese economy to take over. Since it was American policy that brought China in to the world market economy beginning with the open door policy of President Nixon and Kissinger the change in U.S. policy to make an adjustment in the relationship may create some friction. Yet like raising a pet alligator or guerrilla at home, China as a young padawan learning the ways of the free market economic force was one thing, yet as a mature player it presents some dangers.

The United States needs to be great again in the sense of enriching all of its citizens, constructing bold new infrastructure using every modern concept including ecological economic and design that can be found, building a great safety net economically that will be able to meet the challenges ongoing presented by Artificial Intelligence and robots with AI in their skull brain housing units, in mass transportation that travels coast to coast in an hour on land and so forth. It need be able to manufacture whatever it needs with print on demand structure, make all of its waste disposal waterless and leave zero carbon emissions in the atmosphere because not only is it harmful to global surface temperature, it wastes a resource.

 The United States needs to be able to have an armed neutrality with advanced military infrastructure and renew its manufacturing infrastructure. Inventors should be able to get patents for virtually nothing and swiftly bring products to locally be manufactured without delay. Reducing the period of patent exclusivity in order to expedite the dissemination of new articles for manufacture at lower costs, while compensating the inventor after patent exclusivity expires in five from after it being granted with a 5% royalty from anyone manufacturing it is a needed step for making the U.S.A. great in a planetary atmosphere with strong Chinese competition economically and socially. China is likely to exploit its manufacturing dominance to bring global socialism forward with a mixed market economy. 

China is now a successful economic rival in the free market. Its economy has grown because it was catching up swiftly and had domestic state and foreign investment. Yet as a mature economy its growth rate will eventually slow down to reach parity with the west; that’s just the way those matters go historically. Waiting for that natural balance to be reached without reforming the American economy would assure the downward standard of living for poorer and middle class Americans they should not have to go through; poverty is hard to escape once it is socially oppressively structured to perpetuate it. Many Americans do not believe the nation needs economic reform, yet it does. It actually needs comparatively radical economic reform, and spiritual renewal. Mr. Trump’s MAGA term is just the first of what should be a succession of reformist administrations bringing in the newest, ecologically kosher infrastructure and development possible to the nation.

The United States will need to compete for the allegiance of the masses globally by showing that a non-socialist economy does work better to improve the lives of even the most poor citizens of a nation- that no one is left to wither away in a backwater current of poverty. With vast economic power China may be able to entirely end its domestic poverty and lend its expertise in economics and government to the masses of Eurasia, Africa and Latin America. The U.S.A. will need to restore its domestic economic circumstance, end the war in Ukraine, eliminate public debt and go about rebuilding a nation with no physical infrastructure from coast to coast leaving in its wake vast channels for a healthy ecosphere and for wildlife include reintroduced engineered species rescued from extinction like the Dire wolf.

The United States needs to be able to walk and chew gum politically though it has been challenged to in recent decades. Democrats simply hate Republicans and an America that doesn't give away its wealth through disadvantages left by uncorrected neo-liberalism economic policy. Democrats may have foreign allegiance to a Europe that thrives in paranoia and refuses to make happy days including Russia. Democrat politicians seek primarily to enrich themselves while Republican leadership drops the ball on ecological economics and a robust economic safety net for all citizens as if it were a porcupine. Failing to act comprehensively to make America great will reduce the MAGA legacy more to something like Make America Mediocre Again.

Holographic Universe May Be Unreal/'T Hooft Interview with Scientific American

Gerard ‘T Hooft has made many contributions to quantum physics yet said many controversial or novel insights into the state of quantum mechanics research and theory today. He believes quantum superpositions don’t really exist except as statistical conveniences and that means that quantum computing may be inaccurate down the road. His comments in an interview with Scientific American are rather remarkable and weighty.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/breakthrough-prize-winner-gerard-t-hooft-says-quantum-mechanics-is-nonsense/

The remark I found most intriguing was the one about black holes and the information of three dimensional space being encoded on a two-dimensional surface outside it. That original insight of ‘T Hooft paved the way for the cascade of holographic universe ideas and movies that followed. Yet ‘T Hooft says the criterion is simply a mathematical method rather than actual. There are other paradigms he could have employed.

If all of the quantum phenomena of space time are entanglements that seems consistent with the other new idea floating about recently that time is a contingent, emergent property of local quantum entanglement.. Quantum entanglements in three dimensional space give rise to the appearance of three dimension space plus time while the host is two-dimensional and massless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvJwZKQ9QA

As I understand it the extra dimensions are contingent, emergent properties of the quantum fluctuation and entanglement of lower dimensions. That too, obviously, could be nonsense. There is a new quantum theory of gravity based on quantum entropy--- quantum information theory. Its rather clever. I wonder though if 'T Hooft's idea that quantum mechanics as statistical generality rather than specific and exact wouldn't affect the new quantum entropy theory a little. The proposed G field would also cohere within the contingent, emergent 4 dimensional criterion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuzRpE6erY

China sent 150,000 Men to Help Allies in World War One

 There is a little known historical fact about the First World War; China sent 150,000 men to the west to help win the war against Germany and Turkey etc. Their contribution delivering ammunition and with logistics and combat engineering skill like building trenches was not an unimportant contribution to victory. They are probably helping Russia with a very small percent of that number in order to shore up Russia's attempt to defend itself against N.A.T.O. member infiltration eastward. It would not be surprising if China sent as many soldiers to Russia to support its historically correct assertion of a right to rule half of Ukraine as it did to help France and Belgium defend themselves in the First World War. China lost between 2000 to 20,000 men in that conflict and were largely neglected by the allies later when Japan began its invasion of China.

Non-combatant support forces  relieve combatants from the necessary support tasks and let them fight instead of digging in. The fact that history may be repeating itself against underscores the point that people or at least political leaders do not learn from history; human nature and original sin prevail to drive lemming leadership to battle in senseless, needless, costly conflicts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-china-citizens-captured-zelenskyy-beijing-kremlin-rcna200174

Rectification of Neo-Liberal Economics

 Rectifying deficiencies from Reagan era neo-liberalism transitions from Bretton Woods is challenging. One can't go on adding trillions of public debt annually. Some believe economics is voodoo and the tooth fairy of free trade will make the world a more peaceful.verdant, fair and balanced place in a faithless social mileau. President Trump has the nerve to at least try to fix the damage. No one else had a meaningful plan. if it works it might be possible to adapt ecological economics onto it eventually and export that to the world. It may be assured that Democrats are looking backward rather than ahead.