New technology has enabled the implantation of location and data transmission electronic technology in very small size within an animal or human being. Obviously such technological progress as has made very powerful and small computer logic units possible presents innumerable good and bad potentials for use. Receiving a data transmission or tracking chip is a real possibility today--so this is a consideration of a few of the political and social implications of receiving such a chip-insert.
The fundamental human liberty from adverse political control of others is the irreducibly vital existential criterion. In God we trust rather than our fellow man is the basic parameter. We may learn from spiritual sources of right intersocial conduct. Our fellow citizen and illegal alien resident may not be on the same ethics and moral pages as yourself. The legal system has developed to standardize and make uniform certain conduct boundaries that cannot be supported well enough through an honor system of ethics. The chip insert is a basic violation of human individual freedom from the control of others. Such a primary violation of personal being transcends the paradigm in which all other human moral and legal systems of equal justice have been based upon. Although there are good as well as bad possibilities for negating the basic boundary of human individual physical integrity by others, the potentials of the bad far outweigh the potentials for good for either an individual or for social cohesion.
With the ability of others to track the location of an individual globally throughout life a deterministic social structure is created that nullifies a vast range of potential free relationships that are undetermined. It permits collective actions of an unprecedented scale to negate individual liberty. The quantification of freedom for individuals may be reduced as the quantification of collective actions increase. If corporations and collectives might be treated as individuals by the law, the number of individuals is reduced phenomenally within such criteria as individuals give up their individual freedom from electronic tracking to join collective or corporate individual organizations.
I believe that social interest lies in the area of individual development and individual rights increases while collective actions that reduce human freedom are fundamentally inimical to human existence as sentient beings. The preservation of human freedom from chip inserts and impersonal tracking may be a narrow path through complex technical issues, yet it is a path through a minefield of temptations that phenomenally have increased in density through the profusion of technical products invented in recent decades. Virtually any good that could be brought to individuals through chip planting could be accomplished equally well through non-invasive means.
Though society is quite crowded today, it is an error to assume that the given phenomenal socio-economic circumstances are either the best of all possible worlds or sufficient reason to jettison the fundamental concern with safeguarded individual liberty from collective, impersonal surveillance, violation of personal privacy and prioritization in the legal structure of our prevailing political philosophy.
12/21/09
Individualism vs. Collectivism
A criterion for individualism and collectivism for purposes of comparison ought to be cognizant that the natural demographic facts are implicit variables against which criticism or constructions of either might be made. Some geographical environments are naturally better suited for individualism, and the concept of collectivism would be naturally alien. In other, perhaps more populous geographic regions collectivism may be a natural fact of life although how it is structured may vary quite markedly.
In the history of the west of Europe and of the United States individualism would mean different things in different historical eras. If we define collectivism by simply examining the instant contents of mind of individuals as sharing information and acting upon it consistently as members of a social set then collectives might be found in E.S.P.N.'s 'The Herd' of radio listeners, in the St. Petersburg Soviet of 1905 and in the members of the New York Stock exchange equally well. Collectives would be considered as exclusive social organizations that reinforce the interests of members or that program members toward effective social support of particular phenomena such as the sports entertainment business and the organization of much of American youth activity toward developing the best talent for the sports entertainment business instead of for individual or intellectual creative and productive activities.
Individualism within the paradigm of populous nations requires a necessary degree of coordination within several socially collective organizations simultaneously from that of responsible citizen supporter of laws, to licensed automobile driver, participant in elected politics or union members and so forth. Without a vast number of collective organizations with the goal of advancing the collective interests and values of members even when not directly for material compensation, the progress of most advanced societies would deteriorate sharply. Yet as in many things moderation and intelligence largely determine how much and in what form collective, organizational efforts are effect.
Collective actions may preclude individual activities and in some cases that may be harmful to the society generally. A society can only be as happy as the individuals of which it is comprised, so individual pursuit of happiness and properties of rights generally are pre-eminent over those of collective concerns except in times of war, or when proscribed activities for any individual have placed boundaries on individual freedom to own, for instance, nuclear artillery shells and launching platforms for hunting missions.
What about Africa with a population of a billion and about half of the continent largely desertified? How can individualism supported by foreign anti-disease pharmaceuticals and better farming technology be allowed to just double the population to two billion without creating various conflicts and over-use of resources? In that criterion we find that individualism naturally merges into collective action upon environmental resources, and it requires collectivism of a pre-emptory and governing kind to control the negative, disorganized, de facto collective action.
Africa today is challenged by the 'iron law of wages' phenomena of Ricardo to curtail its population increase that would have boundary margins of famine, war and government terrorism besides disease. Because education for individuals requires a good early start and a generation to accomplish, and since that is quite expensive, it will be difficult for poor African nations to accomplish education enough, and a high enough standard of living within a generation or two (maybe 30 years) to provide the criteria where women naturally reduce child birth rate as has been researched in second world transitions to prosperity.
African society, if it is to eliminate much of the kind f pervasive social horrors that probably lay ahead, will need to transition into a high tech ecologically economic foundation such that an increased quality of life for individuals collectively does not tax the environment and a proportionate increased rate. I would recommend Daly and Farley's 'Ecological Economics' introductory textbook for those unaware of the discipline.
Individualism in the modern world of more than six billion souls does have a collective effect on the global environment obviously at the national level. Today four of the remaining eight white rhinos were released into the wild of Africa with the hope that they will reproduce after not in twenty years of captivity. Probably they will end up as Bush meat in a stew pot. Humanity is degrading the environment and bio-diversity in a plethora of purposefully wasteful business and social economic actions.
Individuals can make the difference with their freedom. Collective government puppets in Washington D.C. , Alaska and elsewhere may discourage ecological economic accountability and investment in perpetuation of fossil fuel economics and exclusivity of those that haven't sold their souls to the Devil of Corporatism and fossil fuel economics. Global warming is to be considered and opportunity for profit by those within a corrupted for of capitalism that regards scarcity as a beneficial opportunity for a controlling product supplier's profit potential. Individual corporate or collective organizations pursuing their own self-interests to the detriment of disorganized individuals are the fact of corporate repression of national interests to benefit individuals as members of the class of basic citizenship.
If individualism is the number of dimensions of freedom individuals have to run their own lives free of collective actions and effects, that freedom is reduced by the rise of dominating corporations of global stature that interfere in a variety of ways with individuals economic potential as the environment if totalized and pre-determined by ossifications of corporate economic infrastructure.
In the history of the west of Europe and of the United States individualism would mean different things in different historical eras. If we define collectivism by simply examining the instant contents of mind of individuals as sharing information and acting upon it consistently as members of a social set then collectives might be found in E.S.P.N.'s 'The Herd' of radio listeners, in the St. Petersburg Soviet of 1905 and in the members of the New York Stock exchange equally well. Collectives would be considered as exclusive social organizations that reinforce the interests of members or that program members toward effective social support of particular phenomena such as the sports entertainment business and the organization of much of American youth activity toward developing the best talent for the sports entertainment business instead of for individual or intellectual creative and productive activities.
Individualism within the paradigm of populous nations requires a necessary degree of coordination within several socially collective organizations simultaneously from that of responsible citizen supporter of laws, to licensed automobile driver, participant in elected politics or union members and so forth. Without a vast number of collective organizations with the goal of advancing the collective interests and values of members even when not directly for material compensation, the progress of most advanced societies would deteriorate sharply. Yet as in many things moderation and intelligence largely determine how much and in what form collective, organizational efforts are effect.
Collective actions may preclude individual activities and in some cases that may be harmful to the society generally. A society can only be as happy as the individuals of which it is comprised, so individual pursuit of happiness and properties of rights generally are pre-eminent over those of collective concerns except in times of war, or when proscribed activities for any individual have placed boundaries on individual freedom to own, for instance, nuclear artillery shells and launching platforms for hunting missions.
What about Africa with a population of a billion and about half of the continent largely desertified? How can individualism supported by foreign anti-disease pharmaceuticals and better farming technology be allowed to just double the population to two billion without creating various conflicts and over-use of resources? In that criterion we find that individualism naturally merges into collective action upon environmental resources, and it requires collectivism of a pre-emptory and governing kind to control the negative, disorganized, de facto collective action.
Africa today is challenged by the 'iron law of wages' phenomena of Ricardo to curtail its population increase that would have boundary margins of famine, war and government terrorism besides disease. Because education for individuals requires a good early start and a generation to accomplish, and since that is quite expensive, it will be difficult for poor African nations to accomplish education enough, and a high enough standard of living within a generation or two (maybe 30 years) to provide the criteria where women naturally reduce child birth rate as has been researched in second world transitions to prosperity.
African society, if it is to eliminate much of the kind f pervasive social horrors that probably lay ahead, will need to transition into a high tech ecologically economic foundation such that an increased quality of life for individuals collectively does not tax the environment and a proportionate increased rate. I would recommend Daly and Farley's 'Ecological Economics' introductory textbook for those unaware of the discipline.
Individualism in the modern world of more than six billion souls does have a collective effect on the global environment obviously at the national level. Today four of the remaining eight white rhinos were released into the wild of Africa with the hope that they will reproduce after not in twenty years of captivity. Probably they will end up as Bush meat in a stew pot. Humanity is degrading the environment and bio-diversity in a plethora of purposefully wasteful business and social economic actions.
Individuals can make the difference with their freedom. Collective government puppets in Washington D.C. , Alaska and elsewhere may discourage ecological economic accountability and investment in perpetuation of fossil fuel economics and exclusivity of those that haven't sold their souls to the Devil of Corporatism and fossil fuel economics. Global warming is to be considered and opportunity for profit by those within a corrupted for of capitalism that regards scarcity as a beneficial opportunity for a controlling product supplier's profit potential. Individual corporate or collective organizations pursuing their own self-interests to the detriment of disorganized individuals are the fact of corporate repression of national interests to benefit individuals as members of the class of basic citizenship.
If individualism is the number of dimensions of freedom individuals have to run their own lives free of collective actions and effects, that freedom is reduced by the rise of dominating corporations of global stature that interfere in a variety of ways with individuals economic potential as the environment if totalized and pre-determined by ossifications of corporate economic infrastructure.
12/17/09
President Obama's Loyal Corporatist Record in 2009 Rates C- for Job Performance
Writing in December 2009 I can at least review President Obama's first year in the office and grade his job performance at a C-. If he had not been so eloquent at making nice speeches about general things that sound good I would have given him a D+ for 2009.
On the U.S. economy the President's budget was to nearly double the national debt over the next decade in order to stimulate the economy. On the foreign war issues in Iraq and Afghanistan the first is scheduled for a troop draw-down as the civil conflict has not ended the terrorism. The future of the need of the U.S.A. to defend the oil contracts given to Exxon, Shell and other trans-national oil corporations will continue for decades.
Iraq of course may be the target of Iranian nuclear weapons on new and improved long range missiles that can also hit Israel and Southern Europe. Sect. of State Hillary Clinton has experience in negotiating to prevent axis of evil states from developing nuclear weapons from her days in the Bill Clinton administration. The Bill Clinton track record in North Korea is plain and we can expect equal success with Iran containment policy.
In escalating the troop levels in Afghanistan by more than 50,000 scheduled since taking office and writing a blank check on costs to contain the native Taliban for a year or two more the administration showed an aloof, non-transparent approach to awarding more military work and equipment production to the military industrial complex. The President also expressed an interest in expanding the conflict into Pakistan. Available alternative military containment of terrorism policies were not utilized. At least we are assured that the predator drone aircraft broadcast unencrypted signals that terrorists captured were not actually controlled by terrorist hackers to attack U.S. military targets.
The Obama administration fundamentally is a shill for the Harvard global corporatist movement seeking to ad trillions of public debt while making of the world a commune without the hindrance of national interests obstructing their profit and political power to repress environmental actions. The President do9es a good job at not offending white people--he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 by the Norwegians, and also not doing much for American black people. Hopefully he will appear on the Oprah show again after El Tigre.
The President health policy is a snair by corporatism to force all Americans to buy insurance from global corporations who will also have tracking data on them. Defeated was the good idea to just add the age 55 to 65 uninsured to medicare so the public could pay for their medical needs directly instead of laundering it through the unneeded and expensive global insurance corporations that the public will need to pay anyway.
The Presidents energy policy reflects another corporatist continuity policy to concentrate wealth and peonize the nation. Coil, gas and nuclear--the triple threat of all that is evil about energy are the main course in a Congress dominated by millionaire sycophants of a corporate establishment that doesn't give a rat's as about the anything besides short term profits and the power to keep making increasing short term profits. What is needed is real political leadership not existent in a Summer-Obama-Harvard corporatism continua with the Bush administration in another form. The Bush administration rated an F+ of course, son the Obama administration is comparably brilliant.
A good energy policy would become a global investment in super-conductor infrastructure with lines located inside liquid hydrogen filled pipes fed electricity from wind, solar and fuel cell sources. Its that simple. Make electrical power cheaply as if they were ion engines accelerating in space, store it with zero resistance and use it very effectively.Increase the amount of surface capture of photons with thin film coatings on building structures,increase insulation efficiency and use electric vehicles. Heavy long distance continental cargo should be launched through electro-magnetic accelerators. The Obama administration and the disagreeable politicians at Copenhagen this third week of December rate an additional D- for their efforts to reduce global warming.
I hope the Obama administration does better in 2010 and n2011 or a rich, extra-terrestrial alien worshipping fossil fuel fanatic may take office. I believe the homosexuals of then elite corporatist persuasion migrate between both parties fairly readily as they represent no natural constituency seeking to improve interests but are instead a disposable behavior oriented worming element that occupies roles for short-term profit. They are a apparently substantial factor in the Harvard-Obama-Corporatist political axis presently.
12/16/09
A Spiritual Quantum Mechanics?
The Universe Before the Big Bang' published in 2008 by a leading string theory physicist, concludes with the scientist's belief that God created everything. A basic spiritual quantum phenomena could be what everything is built upon. A theistic evolution of this Universe from spiritual quantum foundations consistent with frequencies issued by the spoken Word of God is my own interpretation of things. Yet is a little more detailed than that. Maurizio Gasperini did not elaborate upon any kind of spiritual 'physics' in his book-he merely mentioned his personal belief. I have philosophically considered some of the cosmological implications here and elsewhere.
Instead of four dimensions M-Theorists and mathematicians have conjectured about 11 or even 256 dimensions. mathematical group theory developments permit algebra groups with extra dimensions that can be meaningful for constructing hypothetical Universes with various quanta schemes in density, intensity and relations within any of those dimensions. In practice such mathematically consistent models are compared to real observable values of the Universe to see if they match.
Imagine a right angle and its area as a two-dimensional X-Y graph, then add more 'dimension's by adding a realm of negative numbers to the left side, and add more dimensions by adding depth and breadth such as exist in our four dimensions to the graph. With the logic of algebra group theories following Abel, Lie and kIlling, more dimensions may be added even though we cannot make visualizable models of them. Out space time may have 11 dimensions or more, and pre-big bang theory has models of the Universe that makes the big bang just one end of a bottleneck of space-time, albeit a small bottleneck, that was preceded by the collapse of a black hole that fed off virtual particles from a 'perturbative' vacuum before the big bang.
That primordial vacuum may have had virtual particles that appeared consistent with quantum uncertainty principles. These virtual particles that pop in an out of existence in the minimal amount of time are preceded by no satisfactory conjecture about where they arise except for stipulated initial criteria such as any math theory must have as unprovable but necessarily accepted axioms.
Minimal, nominal philosophically efficient in relation to Occam's razor zero-dimensional windowless monads, strings, loops or membranes just arise-maybe they are spiritual quanta created by cancelling out 99% to the 99th degree of the intention of God to have his omnipresence known. Omnipresence reduced to an artificial minimal state would be a single tiny quanta of no dimension, duration or mass. That spiritual quantum particle is a section of an infinite in all directions omnipresent wave that itself requires no extension in any space-time continuum.
As virtual particles are emanations of the One, they are grounded outside even one dimension. As they appear in existence evidently they have some way of joining together compounding their structure with complexity and extra dimensions. These larger particles in some way affect space-time creating a temporal order. The logic of the construction of the assembly comprises universal physical forces of the mass-energy phenomenon.
With the remaining non-dimensional basic particles smaller than quarks grounded outside any dimensions the possibility of quantum entanglement and faster than light travel exists for information exchanges of entangled particles. Yet there are other higher dimensional possible conduits for 'universal' waves forms and class-symmetry breaking exchanges off individually entangled particles besides those of the fundamental zero-dimensional fundamental quanta. In fact (I use that word jokingly) it may not be possible to observe any basic particle from within this Universe because they may all rest within a higher or lower dimensional metaverse that allows shortcuts of information between symmetry breaking entangled individual particle pairs and clumps faster than light. Light is of course a kind of basic particle-wave quanta of this Universe's quantization and dimensionality conditions.
Space-time and mass-energy are explained equally as well by a theistic or non-theistic pre big bang conjecture. Neither a Big Bang or a Big Man created this Universe or humanity. A perfect and pure Spirit issued or emanated this Universe perhaps as a way of actualizing all possible Universes and all things that might ever exist. The scale of time and space from small to large and vice versa is entirely relative and within the purposes of God. In the perturbative vacuum of which can know little, there may have arisen one hundred zillion to the zillionth power Universes within the infinitely smallest region of the eternal and infinite space of God that requires no space at all.
The mysteries of God and His Universe are miraculous, we find that His purpose in creating intelligent, somewhat independent beings with limited powers of knowledge to be a marvelous thing, and appreciate the effort. If the Universe was evolved in six beautifully orchestrated movements before God rested to let it thermodynamically proceed-that was a brilliant design. With a spiritual foundation for all material things of appearance it is not surprising that sentience tends to evolve-some sort of spiritual gravity may make of it a likely situation.
I have worked some of the bizarre nature of transcending extra dimensions and theistic criteria into a fiction context for illustrative purposes...
The star Bezah-alpha rotates opposite our rechristened hollow star with a minus four dimensional shaped black hole Dyson sphere oppositely charged supporting a quark woven artificial superfluous surface fusion.
Outwardly Al Murredin seems to be a completely functioning star with the appropriate gravity and mass, energy transitions and so forth. Incidentally I am Tsemech 4 of Sky-view."
Fascinating information Tsemech 4. What more have you got that I might readily understand ?
Yes. The design for ontological field strengths inside the star's sky are anisotropic and coordinated. Tie-ins to quark extrusion from the non-local Universal field are gauge selected and arranged in a scalar geometry such that the requirements for humans and potential others living in the Sky-view have an appropriate mass density for interaction with particular, relevant structures."
Does that mean that...
"Of course it does Patrick Voevoda. Presently you have a specific density less than that of the clouds of sky-view, yet everything existing here has it's density adjusted in relation to its position in the local explication of the existential field."
Do you mind, Tsemech 4, if I ask just one more question? "No, of course not. What is it?"
Einstein said that the laws of physics are constant. Because of what I've seen here, I would like your opinion about that context.
"The gradients of force and power suggested by Sky-view do raise questions about isotropy in universal physical laws. Consider that all of us in Sky-view are in some way or another from the Virgo Cluster and have adapted as formations of the new conditions we have created. The total energy of all possible universes may never be increased or decreased except God wills, yet its forms may be reshaped within epistemologically relevant ontologies. Given that there is initial substance or idea to work with, that quantity of quantum self-standing virtual loop existing as a primordial donation may be used by us contingent beings so far as we are able. The slope of infinity and complexity may occasionally outpace our ability to comprehend or exploit stipulated or donated initial Genesis resource mass-energy."
Those parameters I readily agree with Tsemech 4. What about your epistemological considerations? And what kind of recombinatory ontological criteria does Sky-view maintain abstractable for material applications? "Patrick the epistemological criteria between mind and object reference becomes more challenging to explain when words and ideas increase themselves originating from a natural organic basis to a level where significant amounts and quality of a priori thought comes into being. In fact the origin of language and of most ideas that suggest mathematical and logical relationships seems to be in reflecting about the natural universe, so what happens when the natural universe and it's constructions become significantly malleable and subject to reconstruction in compliance to human analytic thought? At some point the relationship between natural and artificial constructions becomes severed. Then all of the material world or all of it that extrudes through into the four dimensional universe is entirely coincident with the prevailing will of design of the ruling a priori mind or collective mind-will. We believe that such a mind must be absolutely good if any hope of order is to exist such that human and other sentient existence would be viable. It is simultaneously our opinion that no human mind or collective will could be capable of being absolutely good or omniscient and therefore none would be capable of creating or sustaining a self-standing viable, artificial Universe"
Well, all Universes are temporally doomed anyway are they not? From the quantum foam or as virtual downloads from a perturbative vacuum the potential duration of a given new Universe is pre-determined by the initial endowment of boundary conditions?
"Basically that is true. Our opinion at Sky-view is that the potential duration of a given Universe energy-endowment is limited by the artificial sentient reconstruction of the natural materials rather than increased, given the condition that the natural universe was capable of sustaining high quality life environments without remediation. Our opinion is that human thought content of a synthetic nature is a product of originating spiritual momentum developed reciprocally with the experience of a Universe1 environment. So far as the Universe1 environment is transformed into a synthetic environment to a degree that the Universe1 itself becomes mostly artificial the human knowledge of the a priori will itself become limited.
A priori thought extended to it's own empirical actualization that at some point dominates the empirical realm of experience and perhaps in time the body and mind of the knower of experience becomes self-negating.
The potential infinite number of ontology sets that could comprise any a priori mind set library would render a selection of a best or coherent choice nearly impossible. The waveform interference of a priori mind group possibilities with itself has no limit. Neither would any criteria exist empirically for natural selection of a best idea of construction group from an infinite potential data base of plans for empirical actualization to an empirical world that has fallen into meaningless malleability to designed reconfiguration. To answer your questions Patrick, our opinion about epistemology and ontological criteria for experience of this Universe for purposes potentially of changing it beyond natural recognition or of making a priori analytic ideas become empirical synthetic actualizations is very, very conservative. If we can roll back Corporate hostile takeovers we will try to restore what natural ecosystems and macro-galactic temporal progressions as are possible. Perhaps you know that Corporate has already gone quite far in their effort to create synthetic quantum cosmological constructions with transformations of the natural space-time material given in the historical evolution of the Universe from the will of The One."
A Science Fiction Short Story
A Derivative of the St. Novilistricka Plan
©2009 Gary C. Gibson
It is the year 2310. Cyrene Slick and I have won the trial by whirl around. Bugwhump Gulph became the casualty of a triad media of desert operations when his role of three-play trisected on the whirl was stoned by the audience . The United States transformed into the Lovelock Desert ages ago. Global warming attrition of hopes and scale-down dreams drove us north in quest of a grail of the Canadian rivers. I picked up the pace.
'I feel that way about you Cyrene. When we find the rivers I'll toss you in first as the peace offering to the river spirit.'
'And I shall pull you in with me Patrick'
Walking across the shadow lands a myriad craters filled with pools of sand seemed to shimmer under the perceptible sunshine of daylight. This was a land without surface water. AIr floppy shoes with out-sized hollow polymer soles kept the scorching heat of the ground from making contact with the soles of our feet.
'Do you know what's above the Canadian rivers Pat'?
'The atmosphere?'
'Sure you royal farce.'
'Let me try again. They say it's the Baffin Land where the sun never shines and it's always cold.'
'That sound like Alaska plague land don't it? What Bugwhhump said was the last place the Merigos went before fade-out.
'Just keep focused on that volcano glass ahead. You are goin to have to walk cross that today before it gets really hot tomorrow. See the clouds high up moving away east?
I enjoyed Cyrene's company. Appearing toward the close of the 23rd century on Earth from the interregnum in the second general Martian war, I sought my lost girl friend Lush. She had disappeared of a sudden entanglement with an alien life form.
We walked for several hours without speaking much to conserve moisture. Finally I said;
'Cyrene, if we become separated you must continue on to Baffin Land to tell the people of the liquid hydrogen cooling project for the subsurface desert of the United States. It can be made to make the desert bloom green again. The plans are hidden in the year 2036."
'That be solar daft talk Patrick. You think there is water ahead?'
I have been in this Idaho before Cyrene. The door of eternal recurrence is located in that canyon.'
There is an underground pool on the other side about 100 feet north of where we wlll cross that natural bridge."
Stopping at the edge of a cleft in the volcano flow field, Cyrene looked at the narrow chasm's depths and said, 'This canyon?'
We walked along its edge for several paces upslope and found a natural stone bridge left by ancient builders of replicas. Quickly like chastised bunnies we crossed over and came to an obsidian door that opened before us of its own. In the complete darkness there was an audible wind without any significant flow towards us.
'I should step in Cyrene. I can't say where I'll exit. You must press on. I shall try to return on your way ahead one day.'
I stepped inside.
My immediate first impression was a rude surprise. It was the evil Lund Lud Sud; one of the most powerful of the Corporatist Universal ins-keep. His regal appearance was little touched by the florid red of single malt scotch used in excess. He is a very dangerous foe I would waste few words upon. The other gentlemen with him were of unclear etiologies. There presence here was proof enough of guilt by association for me.
Sud, you odoriferous parasite, what is your purpose at this aloof spot? I see no immediate harem for your amusement.
"My my my impertinent philosopher-such language! Patience my twit. Let me explain my present beneficence for humankind including you.
This is your first visit to one of the more exclusive locations in the Universe-our Galaxy factory plant operations Deep Field Office, and you have presented with such a bad attitude. Come over here and take a better look."
So I walked over to Lud and stood next to him looking outward into the Deep Field view of a significant portion of the Universe1. There were unexpected and significant operations out there below the sky box.
I can see some unanticipated Changes between several thousand galaxies. You are up to some substantial activity. What is it?
Sud replied in a moment; "Patrick, the red lines between galaxies are allocation of resources trans-dimensional corridors to redistribute superfluous galactic mass to better locations in the universe for construction materials. We have given a lot of thought into our p lan to better shape this Universe and not waste all the mass tied up in so many trillions of useless stars in putting out light without supporting rent paying activities. Corporate is about bring every living thing into submission to paying the ruling class rent for everything possible after all, including the rent to exist eventually.
Reallocating the nonworking mass of a hundred million galaxies is our first macro-cosmic step toward making a Universe of main sequence stars only with a perfectly planned, gated community of Dyson spheres in maximum density surrounding at an optimally planned distance each main sequence star.
Through careful economic planning for reallocation of wasted cosmic mass into new stellar synthesis of main sequence stars we have increase output of rent paying and population density of the Universe a million times."
I could see that some galaxies given a close scrutiny were in some way more orderly than the common wild spiral and elliptical galaxies. The planned community galaxies were made of stars in neat rows and all of the same size with equidistant spacing. Mini black holes were placed at appropriate intervals I would think to keep warping forms of space time active in order to offset natural gravitational clustering of main sequence stars burning brightly and evenly. These planned galaxies were not so easy to see because most of the light fell upon the sea of Dyson spheres surrounding each star.
You can't do that to the entire Universe Sud. Don't you realize what effect upon space-time your redistribution of matter will have? It will expand exponentially in some places and collapse in others. You must halt the planned galaxy development right directly Sud.Of course I realized that Sud would reject the comment.
"Our best economists have assured me that the five year planning for profit guarantees the viability of the development potential. We have no need for voodoo physics theories from you Mr. Voevoda."
Plainly there was no point in reasoning with Sud. Some prayer of mine from some prior time must have been answered right at this moment.
I was re-dimensionally reset by a panel of power and directed a supernova to coalesce at this location in three seconds before the multi dimension reset values depleted my remaining time in the Deep Field Sky box. It is a lovely view without the galaxy development work and the red lines reallocating mass resources between them. Last sight I had was the convergence of thousands of the red mass lines toward the sky box at faster than light speed making for a soon to actualize super-super nova, irreversibly.
My time upon the Deep Field Sky box fortunately was brief. With the Super-super Nova clustering in progress and the inevitable hyper-space dimensional explosion dimensional connections would be interrupted in the profound rumble through adjoining quark tips in the six dimensions beyond those of the standard for on the floor of Universe1 normal space-time. Three seconds was sufficient for me to loop through a cascading hall of dimensional mirrors to actualize in surprise once again at the command and control loci of Zerah. The Rabshakka was seated at a large round table with a rich lunch set upon it in front of the fifty mile wide curved view space.
"Welcome once again to Zerah, Patrick. I apologize for your quick expulsion from the City of Sacred Cows. We have repaired the damages caused by the treason of Senator Stilleto who let the battlestorm in to the barn in a manner of speaking. Tifft is unfortunately gone permanently, and there is not a blessed thing that I can do about that. She was a good woman.
Have a seat here and take your lunch. I hope your time on the short lived dimensional loop out of the City of Sacred Cows was productive. Did you accomplish anything?"
Actually Rabshakka my friend, it wasn't too eventful, except for the Super-super nova I set to explode at the Corporate Deep Field Sky box. The location was someplace in a void of low mass beyond Hydra-Centaurus with a view of thousands of galaxies.
"Yes, we know of the locations of many of the Corporate Plant management Sky Boxes. Let's bring up a few and see if anything is developing."
The view space was filled with fifteen separate views of sky boxes from extra-dimensional perspectives. Momentarily on became transformed into the tremendous white light of a Super-super nova sending the vaporized mass of a million star systems that had reached and fueled it to surviving galaxies in the sectors beyond. With a slower accretion of mass it might have become a black hole instead of a Super-super nova promulgated by the order of arrival and fast quantum fusing a nominal horizon of eventation. The empty space within enabled a shaped reflecting wave-pattern of sono-fusion in four dimensions.
"That's your work Patrick? Really quite a catalytic action I would guess. Obliterating a Corporate sky box and the associated multi-galactic development should be a bit of a stir for Corporate management.
Let's get you some more coffee. You take it with two tablespoons of sugar, black? Try the coho salmon slow cooked in foil under hot rocks with lemon juice and tartar sauce with a bowl of Country Joe's potato salad with mustard."
Sitting at the table with the Rabshakka eating the delicious food and watching the Super-supernova expand across space I might have felt some kind of elation at the turn of events that brought what might seem to be success to the moment. Yet I had cause to reflect upon the loss of a recent friend and the abduction of Lush, and of the brevity of life in general. Even while it existed it continued as a kind of disconformed anomie in which too many people entered and exited the universal stage1 without much meaning staying because of their absence.
What would life be if all we humans lived forever in the Universe as simple players without concern for any underlying reality? Would we be more than characters in a holovision production designed to amuse some non-human spectators as kinds of thinking phenomenalities?
Far too quickly the opposite fact was the reality. People lived and died with the meaning of their existence taken along with them to the silence of the grave. As I grew older the world has become more silent with the departure of family and friends, while the wicked ones seems to persist longer than life itself. That would be my own life of course, the yardstick by which each individual must measure the meaning of existence or experience of all others.
I said to the Rabshakka, who was giving instructions to some members of his staff who approached and left without much down time interval; Have we much hope of finding a closer approach to Lush from the Virgo Core?
"Yes Patrick, I am arranging that now. If we are to defend the Virgo Cluster free space it will be helpful to contradict the Corporate Control Cluster for a while. Lush must be in some way affiliated geophysically with them perhaps in a museum of role models. As soon you are ready to go, in an hour or so after some cleaning up-you look like you could use it, and with a few new items of information and supply you will be set on your way."
That Corporate Sky box was an abortion clinic of the natural universe1. I thought of the Idaho and Cyrene making her way through that dangerous moonscape northward in quest of the Baffin culture. How I would return to provide the marginalized survivors of the heart of the global warming crisis era detailed instructions for the Unites States thermal reclamation project was beyond my knowledge being so many hundreds of thousands of light years away apparently. At least I had the time to contemplate the several threads of the quest that were Josephson junctioning me around these free galaxies.
©2009 Gary C. Gibson
It is the year 2310. Cyrene Slick and I have won the trial by whirl around. Bugwhump Gulph became the casualty of a triad media of desert operations when his role of three-play trisected on the whirl was stoned by the audience . The United States transformed into the Lovelock Desert ages ago. Global warming attrition of hopes and scale-down dreams drove us north in quest of a grail of the Canadian rivers. I picked up the pace.
'I feel that way about you Cyrene. When we find the rivers I'll toss you in first as the peace offering to the river spirit.'
'And I shall pull you in with me Patrick'
Walking across the shadow lands a myriad craters filled with pools of sand seemed to shimmer under the perceptible sunshine of daylight. This was a land without surface water. AIr floppy shoes with out-sized hollow polymer soles kept the scorching heat of the ground from making contact with the soles of our feet.
'Do you know what's above the Canadian rivers Pat'?
'The atmosphere?'
'Sure you royal farce.'
'Let me try again. They say it's the Baffin Land where the sun never shines and it's always cold.'
'That sound like Alaska plague land don't it? What Bugwhhump said was the last place the Merigos went before fade-out.
'Just keep focused on that volcano glass ahead. You are goin to have to walk cross that today before it gets really hot tomorrow. See the clouds high up moving away east?
I enjoyed Cyrene's company. Appearing toward the close of the 23rd century on Earth from the interregnum in the second general Martian war, I sought my lost girl friend Lush. She had disappeared of a sudden entanglement with an alien life form.
We walked for several hours without speaking much to conserve moisture. Finally I said;
'Cyrene, if we become separated you must continue on to Baffin Land to tell the people of the liquid hydrogen cooling project for the subsurface desert of the United States. It can be made to make the desert bloom green again. The plans are hidden in the year 2036."
'That be solar daft talk Patrick. You think there is water ahead?'
I have been in this Idaho before Cyrene. The door of eternal recurrence is located in that canyon.'
There is an underground pool on the other side about 100 feet north of where we wlll cross that natural bridge."
Stopping at the edge of a cleft in the volcano flow field, Cyrene looked at the narrow chasm's depths and said, 'This canyon?'
We walked along its edge for several paces upslope and found a natural stone bridge left by ancient builders of replicas. Quickly like chastised bunnies we crossed over and came to an obsidian door that opened before us of its own. In the complete darkness there was an audible wind without any significant flow towards us.
'I should step in Cyrene. I can't say where I'll exit. You must press on. I shall try to return on your way ahead one day.'
I stepped inside.
My immediate first impression was a rude surprise. It was the evil Lund Lud Sud; one of the most powerful of the Corporatist Universal ins-keep. His regal appearance was little touched by the florid red of single malt scotch used in excess. He is a very dangerous foe I would waste few words upon. The other gentlemen with him were of unclear etiologies. There presence here was proof enough of guilt by association for me.
Sud, you odoriferous parasite, what is your purpose at this aloof spot? I see no immediate harem for your amusement.
"My my my impertinent philosopher-such language! Patience my twit. Let me explain my present beneficence for humankind including you.
This is your first visit to one of the more exclusive locations in the Universe-our Galaxy factory plant operations Deep Field Office, and you have presented with such a bad attitude. Come over here and take a better look."
So I walked over to Lud and stood next to him looking outward into the Deep Field view of a significant portion of the Universe1. There were unexpected and significant operations out there below the sky box.
I can see some unanticipated Changes between several thousand galaxies. You are up to some substantial activity. What is it?
Sud replied in a moment; "Patrick, the red lines between galaxies are allocation of resources trans-dimensional corridors to redistribute superfluous galactic mass to better locations in the universe for construction materials. We have given a lot of thought into our p lan to better shape this Universe and not waste all the mass tied up in so many trillions of useless stars in putting out light without supporting rent paying activities. Corporate is about bring every living thing into submission to paying the ruling class rent for everything possible after all, including the rent to exist eventually.
Reallocating the nonworking mass of a hundred million galaxies is our first macro-cosmic step toward making a Universe of main sequence stars only with a perfectly planned, gated community of Dyson spheres in maximum density surrounding at an optimally planned distance each main sequence star.
Through careful economic planning for reallocation of wasted cosmic mass into new stellar synthesis of main sequence stars we have increase output of rent paying and population density of the Universe a million times."
I could see that some galaxies given a close scrutiny were in some way more orderly than the common wild spiral and elliptical galaxies. The planned community galaxies were made of stars in neat rows and all of the same size with equidistant spacing. Mini black holes were placed at appropriate intervals I would think to keep warping forms of space time active in order to offset natural gravitational clustering of main sequence stars burning brightly and evenly. These planned galaxies were not so easy to see because most of the light fell upon the sea of Dyson spheres surrounding each star.
You can't do that to the entire Universe Sud. Don't you realize what effect upon space-time your redistribution of matter will have? It will expand exponentially in some places and collapse in others. You must halt the planned galaxy development right directly Sud.Of course I realized that Sud would reject the comment.
"Our best economists have assured me that the five year planning for profit guarantees the viability of the development potential. We have no need for voodoo physics theories from you Mr. Voevoda."
Plainly there was no point in reasoning with Sud. Some prayer of mine from some prior time must have been answered right at this moment.
I was re-dimensionally reset by a panel of power and directed a supernova to coalesce at this location in three seconds before the multi dimension reset values depleted my remaining time in the Deep Field Sky box. It is a lovely view without the galaxy development work and the red lines reallocating mass resources between them. Last sight I had was the convergence of thousands of the red mass lines toward the sky box at faster than light speed making for a soon to actualize super-super nova, irreversibly.
My time upon the Deep Field Sky box fortunately was brief. With the Super-super Nova clustering in progress and the inevitable hyper-space dimensional explosion dimensional connections would be interrupted in the profound rumble through adjoining quark tips in the six dimensions beyond those of the standard for on the floor of Universe1 normal space-time. Three seconds was sufficient for me to loop through a cascading hall of dimensional mirrors to actualize in surprise once again at the command and control loci of Zerah. The Rabshakka was seated at a large round table with a rich lunch set upon it in front of the fifty mile wide curved view space.
"Welcome once again to Zerah, Patrick. I apologize for your quick expulsion from the City of Sacred Cows. We have repaired the damages caused by the treason of Senator Stilleto who let the battlestorm in to the barn in a manner of speaking. Tifft is unfortunately gone permanently, and there is not a blessed thing that I can do about that. She was a good woman.
Have a seat here and take your lunch. I hope your time on the short lived dimensional loop out of the City of Sacred Cows was productive. Did you accomplish anything?"
Actually Rabshakka my friend, it wasn't too eventful, except for the Super-super nova I set to explode at the Corporate Deep Field Sky box. The location was someplace in a void of low mass beyond Hydra-Centaurus with a view of thousands of galaxies.
"Yes, we know of the locations of many of the Corporate Plant management Sky Boxes. Let's bring up a few and see if anything is developing."
The view space was filled with fifteen separate views of sky boxes from extra-dimensional perspectives. Momentarily on became transformed into the tremendous white light of a Super-super nova sending the vaporized mass of a million star systems that had reached and fueled it to surviving galaxies in the sectors beyond. With a slower accretion of mass it might have become a black hole instead of a Super-super nova promulgated by the order of arrival and fast quantum fusing a nominal horizon of eventation. The empty space within enabled a shaped reflecting wave-pattern of sono-fusion in four dimensions.
"That's your work Patrick? Really quite a catalytic action I would guess. Obliterating a Corporate sky box and the associated multi-galactic development should be a bit of a stir for Corporate management.
Let's get you some more coffee. You take it with two tablespoons of sugar, black? Try the coho salmon slow cooked in foil under hot rocks with lemon juice and tartar sauce with a bowl of Country Joe's potato salad with mustard."
Sitting at the table with the Rabshakka eating the delicious food and watching the Super-supernova expand across space I might have felt some kind of elation at the turn of events that brought what might seem to be success to the moment. Yet I had cause to reflect upon the loss of a recent friend and the abduction of Lush, and of the brevity of life in general. Even while it existed it continued as a kind of disconformed anomie in which too many people entered and exited the universal stage1 without much meaning staying because of their absence.
What would life be if all we humans lived forever in the Universe as simple players without concern for any underlying reality? Would we be more than characters in a holovision production designed to amuse some non-human spectators as kinds of thinking phenomenalities?
Far too quickly the opposite fact was the reality. People lived and died with the meaning of their existence taken along with them to the silence of the grave. As I grew older the world has become more silent with the departure of family and friends, while the wicked ones seems to persist longer than life itself. That would be my own life of course, the yardstick by which each individual must measure the meaning of existence or experience of all others.
I said to the Rabshakka, who was giving instructions to some members of his staff who approached and left without much down time interval; Have we much hope of finding a closer approach to Lush from the Virgo Core?
"Yes Patrick, I am arranging that now. If we are to defend the Virgo Cluster free space it will be helpful to contradict the Corporate Control Cluster for a while. Lush must be in some way affiliated geophysically with them perhaps in a museum of role models. As soon you are ready to go, in an hour or so after some cleaning up-you look like you could use it, and with a few new items of information and supply you will be set on your way."
That Corporate Sky box was an abortion clinic of the natural universe1. I thought of the Idaho and Cyrene making her way through that dangerous moonscape northward in quest of the Baffin culture. How I would return to provide the marginalized survivors of the heart of the global warming crisis era detailed instructions for the Unites States thermal reclamation project was beyond my knowledge being so many hundreds of thousands of light years away apparently. At least I had the time to contemplate the several threads of the quest that were Josephson junctioning me around these free galaxies.
God is Spirit
God surpasses classification as a concept or physical form. God is neither a concept or a physical form. Physical forms are defined by human concepts. It is possible to naively assume that physical forms exists exactly as we might believe they do--the unexamined life does not necessarily offer the deepest or even superficial truth for-itself to the observer however.
Concepts are themselves a concept of a concept. With biochemistry in neurological researches it seems that ideas may be associated with particular neurons and synaptic transmissions of proteins, R.N.A. and chemical molecules that comprise data or information as they meet sympathetic receptors. It is fortunate that it isn't necessary to perform all of the chemical data processing consciously. God is probably not a phenomenal chemical process in anyone's brain.
It might be tempting to try to define the Spirit with terms of contingent materiality. Defining a whole by a few of the parts is an effort at reasoning from the particular to the Universal--a logical fallacy. When we say 'God is Spirit', we mean something different than anything that can be referenced in human experience of the Universe. Spirit is better than this temporal arrangement of appearances.
Our ideas about what God is simply don't capture the essence of The One who is Three. It would be possible to ask if God is an intelligent stone or a Platonic form of all forms of physical forms as against a concept of our imagination or a concept that contains all concepts including those humanity hasn't got. Such metaphysical structuring tend to be verifiable neither synthetically or analytically. Categorical errors are one of the erroneous construction issues of post-empiricist philosophical thought.
What is a physical form and what is a concept? In some ways they are each created with the same quarks and subatomic particles though concepts arise within human minds they yet do have forms that are real. Scientists have measured a single image firing a single neuron in the brain as it recognizes the image. Concepts have a molecular basis that appears for the mind as thought. When we turn our thoughts around to describe something as existing just as a concept we cannot mean that literally of course-not if we are referring to God.
Imagine if God where actually a concept living in the mind of some actor in Hollywood. What silliness we then have considered how and why that circumstance was brought into being. It is far better to consider God as some other form of form, although a form for us humans with our categorizing of 'concepts' about structure in brain synapse chemical virtual memory automatically classify everything as a form. In the beginning, the Bible book of John relates, the Universe/world was with form. With that helpful hint it is still not possible to make an inference that God was either a concept or a form, yet from later reading we learn that God is a Spirit.
Thankfully there is revealed knowledge about God- God is Jesus Christ. His appearance was grace and spirit. Not within human language may we classify God as this or that contingent, pluralist element. Before the big bang inn empty Universe cosmologists have speculated their existed virtual particles that could draw together to forma clump of mass to expand under a repulsive bounce into this universe. God presumably designed the entire temporal apparitious-like atomic reality that is real relative to everything else created and engineered human life in to it. Yet it is God we want to know about, so we can be sure that he wasn't made of categories of concepts or forms that were evolved into the cosmos.
It might be easier to speculate that the omnipotent being beyond space or time, mass or energy and all other created things simply cancelled out parts of His omnipotent presence to allow the creation of Universes emanated with simply non-dimensional windowless monads or strings of spiritual foundation that compiled with all sorts of protocol barriers to appear for sentient beings as larger mass structures.
Time is a phenomenal thermodynamically integrated process that occurs within eternity that is without time. That paradox is fundamental in a consideration of the nature of God who needs neither physical size nor temporal existence. Space-time mass and being are apparent existences such as the true speed of wind measured from a sailboat. Once the entire created Universe is set into being their is value added to the apparent constructions of reality.
What we can say about God is that He is One. The Universe is part of that infinite One that has actualized all possible things, yet never required that he do so. He surpasses all that might be said about His nature.
Concepts are themselves a concept of a concept. With biochemistry in neurological researches it seems that ideas may be associated with particular neurons and synaptic transmissions of proteins, R.N.A. and chemical molecules that comprise data or information as they meet sympathetic receptors. It is fortunate that it isn't necessary to perform all of the chemical data processing consciously. God is probably not a phenomenal chemical process in anyone's brain.
It might be tempting to try to define the Spirit with terms of contingent materiality. Defining a whole by a few of the parts is an effort at reasoning from the particular to the Universal--a logical fallacy. When we say 'God is Spirit', we mean something different than anything that can be referenced in human experience of the Universe. Spirit is better than this temporal arrangement of appearances.
Our ideas about what God is simply don't capture the essence of The One who is Three. It would be possible to ask if God is an intelligent stone or a Platonic form of all forms of physical forms as against a concept of our imagination or a concept that contains all concepts including those humanity hasn't got. Such metaphysical structuring tend to be verifiable neither synthetically or analytically. Categorical errors are one of the erroneous construction issues of post-empiricist philosophical thought.
What is a physical form and what is a concept? In some ways they are each created with the same quarks and subatomic particles though concepts arise within human minds they yet do have forms that are real. Scientists have measured a single image firing a single neuron in the brain as it recognizes the image. Concepts have a molecular basis that appears for the mind as thought. When we turn our thoughts around to describe something as existing just as a concept we cannot mean that literally of course-not if we are referring to God.
Imagine if God where actually a concept living in the mind of some actor in Hollywood. What silliness we then have considered how and why that circumstance was brought into being. It is far better to consider God as some other form of form, although a form for us humans with our categorizing of 'concepts' about structure in brain synapse chemical virtual memory automatically classify everything as a form. In the beginning, the Bible book of John relates, the Universe/world was with form. With that helpful hint it is still not possible to make an inference that God was either a concept or a form, yet from later reading we learn that God is a Spirit.
Thankfully there is revealed knowledge about God- God is Jesus Christ. His appearance was grace and spirit. Not within human language may we classify God as this or that contingent, pluralist element. Before the big bang inn empty Universe cosmologists have speculated their existed virtual particles that could draw together to forma clump of mass to expand under a repulsive bounce into this universe. God presumably designed the entire temporal apparitious-like atomic reality that is real relative to everything else created and engineered human life in to it. Yet it is God we want to know about, so we can be sure that he wasn't made of categories of concepts or forms that were evolved into the cosmos.
It might be easier to speculate that the omnipotent being beyond space or time, mass or energy and all other created things simply cancelled out parts of His omnipotent presence to allow the creation of Universes emanated with simply non-dimensional windowless monads or strings of spiritual foundation that compiled with all sorts of protocol barriers to appear for sentient beings as larger mass structures.
Time is a phenomenal thermodynamically integrated process that occurs within eternity that is without time. That paradox is fundamental in a consideration of the nature of God who needs neither physical size nor temporal existence. Space-time mass and being are apparent existences such as the true speed of wind measured from a sailboat. Once the entire created Universe is set into being their is value added to the apparent constructions of reality.
What we can say about God is that He is One. The Universe is part of that infinite One that has actualized all possible things, yet never required that he do so. He surpasses all that might be said about His nature.
12/9/09
The Daft Obama-Petraeus-McChrystal Escalation of Afghanistan Expense
Political correctness is most effective when people work against their own interests. President Obama as a Harvard team player is accomplishing the bailing out of the rich version Republican 1.0 presently so they can have another round of profits after 2012. President Obama ran as an anti-war candidate; now he has become another Bush II protracted war administration leader. He placed a win-win bet in Afghanistan for assuring re-election. He swells the ranks 30,000 troops for a year and a half, gets some peacefulness and declares victory in time to run a re-election campaign. Then he can withdraw the troops to present levels and maybe in the next term deal with the return of Mohammedan issues that have been around a thousand years for another four.
The United States allowed a U.S. citizen--Hedley of Chicago, to scout the Mumbai attacks, and of course provided the pilot training for the Al Qaeda terrorists of 9-11. The United States supplied the weapons for Bin Ladin and other guerrillas in the Afghan war against the Soviet military, and probably will leave mountains of military equipment for terrorists of the future as well. A more sober approach to foreign policy and domestic security would be more effective and less costly.
The training of Afghanis to have a large standing Army and police force will provide the basis for expert new terrorists of the future with state of the art military skills. When the U.S.A. withdraws its support for a puppet government the natural order of disorder will probably resume, while American military planners of today will have retired to collect 150,000 dollars annually with full px privileges and free global air travel and health care besides. Creating a long lasting deficit spending policy for the United States in Afghanistan in order to keep the 100 known Al Qaeda terrorist their from attacking the United States is an idiotic policy.The reason for such a daft military policy is simply that the U.S. military doesn't have top drawer political theorists, and their chief anti-guerrilla tactician General Petraeus is using classic counter guerilla tactics in a political arena where they are not capable of being effective.
The problem is political as well as military, and the Petraeus approach must necessarily be short of political competence. Counter-terrorism of an international, mobile scale with complete capability for local cellular upgrade cannot be adequately countered by expensive conventional military approaches within one nation. If Afghanistan can be denied as a competent terrorist training center by stand-off air assaults and the constellation of ground based U.S. forces for far less cost, the U.S. deficit situation, and international environmental and counter terror police forces could be funded. It is vital to U.S. security that the U.S. economy by nationally focused on egalitarian and economic adequacy for all in order that the U.S. might be a a good example admired by foreign nations. Buying temporary allegiance in Afghanistan will not create a sustainable U.S. economy or security.
The General's ability to displace ongoing guerrilla activities with enough forces is real enough, and because of the political history of the world Mohammedan fundamentalist revolutionary status of the present, and of that of Afghanistan, the U.S. creation of an artificial Afghan government will exist phenomenally only so long as we do. When the expense from our nation of 300 million souls with 12 trillion of deficit is stopped the Afghan Government will collapse because of the inability to raise taxes enough to support a central warlord of Government. Tribal dissociation from the central warlord will ensue and regional tribal semi-autonomy proceed. While the myriad foreign terrorist are creating significant damage to U.S. interests aboard and close to home, they have little need to attack economic targets in America.
The right policy would be a safe harbor constellation of defensible fortresses in Afghanistan for the next century, whereat friendly elements in Afghanistan could =retreat to the safety of our own neo-Feudal military safety net in case of a local Jacobean reaction. The military fortresses would also coordinate distribution of humanitarian aid and non-military economic training for Afghan civilians, and provide security for occasional international large civilian construction projects. Such forces with a heavy component of special forces and engineers would as well be available to attack concentrations of adverse forces plotting terrorist capable missions against European, American and Patagonian targets. As many as 20,000 troops might be permanently stationed in Afghanistan, yet the excess and expenses should be immediately reduced. American political and military strategy for the region is as daft and expensive as it was in Vietnam basically, and the Presidents months long decision making was closed to the public. Maybe the majority in congress is really daft as well.Political correctness is a right way of thinking for our time. In the U.S.A. it means ignoring the idiocy of taking on trillions of dollars of debt as a way to stimulate the economy-all the money gets spent in paying interest to foreigners in the future on the money they loaned.
Political correctness is most effective when people work against their own interests. President Obama as a Harvard team player is accomplishing the bailing out of the rich version Republican 1.0 presently so they can have another round of profits after 2012. President Obama ran as an anti-war candidate; now he has become another Bush II protracted war administration leader will democrats say so? He placed a win-win bet in Afghanistan for assuring re-election. He swells the ranks 30,000 troops for a year and a half, gets some peacefulness and declares victory in time to run a re-election campaign. Then he can withdraw the troops to present levels and maybe in the next term deal with the return of Mohammedan issues that have been around a thousand years for another four.
The training of Afghanis to have a large standing Army and police force will provide the basis for expert new terrorists of the future with state of the art military skills. When the U.S.A. withdraws its support for a puppet government the natural order of disorder will probably resume, while American military planners of today will have retired to collect 150,000 dollars annually with full px privileges and free global air travel and health care besides. Creating a long lasting deficit spending policy for the United States in Afghanistan in order to keep the 100 known Al Qaeda terrorist their from attacking the United States is an idiotic policy.
The reason for such a daft military policy is simply that the U.S. military doesn't have top drawer political theorists, and their chief anti-guerrilla tactician General Petraeus is using classic counter guerilla tactics in a political arena where they are not capable of being effective. The problem is political as well as military, and the Petraeus approach must necessarily be short of political competence.
The General's ability to displace ongoing guerrilla activities with enough forces is real enough, and because of the political history of the world Mohammedan fundamentalist revolutionary status of the present, and of that of Afghanistan, the U.S. creation of an artificial Afghan government will exist phenomenally only so long as we do. When the expense from our nation of 300 million souls with 12 trillion of deficit is stopped the Afghan Government will collapse because of the inability to raise taxes enough to support a central warlord of Government. Tribal dissociation from the central warlord will ensue and regional tribal semi-autonomy proceed. While the myriad foreign terrorist are creating significant damage to U.S. interests aboard and close to home, they have little need to attack economic targets in America.
The right policy would be a safe harbor constellation of defensible fortresses in Afghanistan for the next century, whereat friendly elements in Afghanistan could =retreat to the safety of our own neo-Feudal military safety net in case of a local Jacobean reaction. The military fortresses would also coordinate distribution of humanitarian aid and non-military economic training for Afghan civilians, and provide security for occasional international large civilian construction projects. Such forces with a heavy component of special forces and engineers would as well be available to attack concentrations of adverse forces plotting terrorist capable missions against European, American and Patagonian targets. As many as 20,000 troops might be permanently stationed in Afghanistan, yet the excess and expenses should be immediately reduced. American political and military strategy for the region is as daft and expensive as it was in Vietnam basically, and the Presidents months long decision making was closed to the public. Maybe the majority in congress is really daft as well.
Political correctness is a right way of thinking for our time. In the U.S.A. it means ignoring the idiocy of taking on trillions of dollars of debt as a way to stimulate the economy-all the money gets spent in paying interest to foreigners in the future on the money they loaned. Economists are often a bunch of sycophants for the corporate rich that try to figure out how to optimalize the production of heat and allocation of meat in the communal cave. They don't have an innovative or inventive character to simply change the criterion of the economy entirely.
Repairing the U.S. economy is easy-take back democracy from control by the rich. Let the majority decide to change the fundamental infrastructure of the nation that needs to be replaced. Jobs that can't be outsourced should not be filled by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are a kind of governor that reduce wages and create surplus labor as they migrate in when the employment situation is good. They swell cheap corporate expansion by freeing up workers to take corporate jobs that will be eliminated when a cheaper way to produce overseas is found. The profits of corporate deflate a little with the collapse of the soufflé boundaries of expansion. The government borrows trillions to induce corporations to invest some in America and create a few jobs.
To restructure the U.S. economy a million jobs could be created building a quality solar power Mexican border patrol highway and control barrier berm infrastructure. The all the U.S. interstate and most asphalt highways could be torn up creating millions of jobs. An in ground vacuum tube electro-magnetic accelerator could be constructed to move electric tube and hovercraft inter-modal compatible vehicles around the nation at 900 m.p.h., and over the tubes, where the highways were a national gardening program to produce food locally could be planted creating a million jobs.
All zoning laws prohibiting gardening in suburban lawn areas should be banned. A super-conducting grid of liquid hydrogen should be built w underground where the highways were as well to collect power from national wind, solar and hydrogen from electrolysis plants. Homes should be limited in size per square feet per individual, and monolithic domes should be built on round lots in order to create more green space. With more and smaller dome homes a better population density with more green space per person along with privacy could be constructed nationally.
Democracy must exert its majority and poor number power over the elite concentrated wealth rich or fail. Democracy can limit the maximum extremes of wealth and poverty, and also limit the maximum size of corporations too perhaps 3000 employees in order to assure competition and prevent the foundation of oligarchy, plutocracy and corporation. Yet the economics and political facts are too difficult for the majority to comprehend and so they let themselves be reduced to corporate vassals with a fairly good yet inefficient and wasteful standard of living. Political correctness does not allow the actualization of democracy in the united States presently, and will not for some decades as the people are trained seals to serve the rich minority against their own self-interest, and that's a neat trick.
One may agree with a majority and be right or disagree and be wrong. That makes a difference too. If one is politically correct in Soviet Russia and says some politically incorrect thing such that Stalin has an ugly mustache then N.K.V.D. Chief Beria has you arrested, taken to his office basement, and shoots you in the head if you are lucky-otherwise perhaps torture and off to the gulag. In the United States political incorrectness may just make you want to move to France-if you could find the work in the U.S.A. to afford to retire there.
Political incorrectness is the kitsch- a German root word-it is saying what the majority don't want to hear. It can also keep those importunate wretches complaining in the cargo hold about the foot and a half of living space down where they belong. It is a plain truth to the comfortable and powerful that the down and enchained are a bunch of knickers of ingratitude that need to know their place. Oil flows to the blessed and deserving and bullship walks- everyone knows. So darn the political incorrectness and full spigots ahead!When they are happy believing lies and illusions it must continue forever for their class is not too bright and wants never to risk changing supremacy into poverty. Because Oprah is politically correct right now she can give away 276 cars to audience members regardless of global warming. If the Federal Government did it then Oprah can do it to! hooray for Oprah then and her market analysts and do not say she could have picked a more green cash for clunkers give away.
Political incorrectness isn't invariably good or bad. If a majority of free people band together to accomplish some honorable purpose and some dissenter keeps running them down it can really be a drag. A volunteer military is a case in point. Should some sergeant try to get volunteers to go awol and desert saying the nation is really crooked (even if it was)? These are volunteers after all.
Alternatively political incorrectness can let the majority know that they are a lot of kow towing sycophants of evil without a good thought ever darkening the door of their minds. Dissent can be helpful if its good, constructive criticism. People should mind becoming a bunch of goose stepping homos of fashion corrupting the meaning of marriage to mean anything other than the sane thing. They may make it a hate crime to express a dissenting opinion or censor it with an ultimatum about self repression of expression. One may reply they are anarchists yet with a private ownership by collective corporations the will of the Satanic Prince of this world has the high card.
We are sure that Hillary Clinton isn't the best recruiter for the Taliban when she visits Afghanistan, and that it is our job not to vaporize Iranian nuclear facilities before that can make any, because we are reactionary rather than initiators of security. Political correctness let people of the era of the Inquisition know to be cautious and not overly defend those accused of blatant familiarity with the devil. It is better to lose a few neighbors to witchcraft burnings than to be a dissident and join the auto de fe oneself.Political correctness is just the way the majority goes in a mass society. The United States was founded as a society of individuals rather than of mass collective corporate organizations, and the fitting today isn't good. The Congress makes laws like a home builder adding on in a million directions without a plan simply because he has the money and power. No longer are laws planned philosophically to support democracy and individualism. Instead, laws are made to support corporate collectivism, the rich and the middle class in that order and we call that patriotic and free enterprise. Everyone supporting the well being of all Americans is called a fascist nor a communist. Sophists say the well being of Americans is in fealty to trans-national corporatism.
The United States pays a million dollars per soldier to be in Afghanistan per year while the Taliban pays about $4.95 and has a lot of patience. They hire guys from outside the country to vacation and blow themselves up a few times a year perhaps-hard to defend. Yet the U.S. Government is a source of trillions of dollars that will be paid to defense contractors and oil services corporations to do just that-where else is a loose trillion or two to be had except from gullible U.S. taxpayers?
Since the government borrows the money from China anyway maybe it isn't so bad? The Kow-towing of politicians may have only just begun. The Chinese are a cheaper and larger source of labor for those greedy trans-nationalists anyway...its not politically correct to say down the middle class and poor chumps-yet we know they mean it anyway.At least there are no geniuses of military, economic and political capability in the States Dept. or Pentagon. One would be a good value asset in finding cheaper, more effective ways to adroitly scale down the costs of the Afghan and Iraqi actions. Caesar would have spent money and formed alliances rightly to win in an efficient way the true interests of Rome. Our guys are using Pakistan as an excuse to lose a few more dozen billion. Political correctness though has either the retreat and withdraw or dump more hundreds of billions like its play money. Not enough demand that the administration doesn't act like idiots. Obama isn't G.W. Bush yet, I hope he can find some military-political-economic genius? Any spare young Henry Kissingers out there?
The United States allowed a U.S. citizen--Hedley of Chicago, to scout the Mumbai attacks, and of course provided the pilot training for the Al Qaeda terrorists of 9-11. The United States supplied the weapons for Bin Ladin and other guerrillas in the Afghan war against the Soviet military, and probably will leave mountains of military equipment for terrorists of the future as well. A more sober approach to foreign policy and domestic security would be more effective and less costly.
The training of Afghanis to have a large standing Army and police force will provide the basis for expert new terrorists of the future with state of the art military skills. When the U.S.A. withdraws its support for a puppet government the natural order of disorder will probably resume, while American military planners of today will have retired to collect 150,000 dollars annually with full px privileges and free global air travel and health care besides. Creating a long lasting deficit spending policy for the United States in Afghanistan in order to keep the 100 known Al Qaeda terrorist their from attacking the United States is an idiotic policy.The reason for such a daft military policy is simply that the U.S. military doesn't have top drawer political theorists, and their chief anti-guerrilla tactician General Petraeus is using classic counter guerilla tactics in a political arena where they are not capable of being effective.
The problem is political as well as military, and the Petraeus approach must necessarily be short of political competence. Counter-terrorism of an international, mobile scale with complete capability for local cellular upgrade cannot be adequately countered by expensive conventional military approaches within one nation. If Afghanistan can be denied as a competent terrorist training center by stand-off air assaults and the constellation of ground based U.S. forces for far less cost, the U.S. deficit situation, and international environmental and counter terror police forces could be funded. It is vital to U.S. security that the U.S. economy by nationally focused on egalitarian and economic adequacy for all in order that the U.S. might be a a good example admired by foreign nations. Buying temporary allegiance in Afghanistan will not create a sustainable U.S. economy or security.
The General's ability to displace ongoing guerrilla activities with enough forces is real enough, and because of the political history of the world Mohammedan fundamentalist revolutionary status of the present, and of that of Afghanistan, the U.S. creation of an artificial Afghan government will exist phenomenally only so long as we do. When the expense from our nation of 300 million souls with 12 trillion of deficit is stopped the Afghan Government will collapse because of the inability to raise taxes enough to support a central warlord of Government. Tribal dissociation from the central warlord will ensue and regional tribal semi-autonomy proceed. While the myriad foreign terrorist are creating significant damage to U.S. interests aboard and close to home, they have little need to attack economic targets in America.
The right policy would be a safe harbor constellation of defensible fortresses in Afghanistan for the next century, whereat friendly elements in Afghanistan could =retreat to the safety of our own neo-Feudal military safety net in case of a local Jacobean reaction. The military fortresses would also coordinate distribution of humanitarian aid and non-military economic training for Afghan civilians, and provide security for occasional international large civilian construction projects. Such forces with a heavy component of special forces and engineers would as well be available to attack concentrations of adverse forces plotting terrorist capable missions against European, American and Patagonian targets. As many as 20,000 troops might be permanently stationed in Afghanistan, yet the excess and expenses should be immediately reduced. American political and military strategy for the region is as daft and expensive as it was in Vietnam basically, and the Presidents months long decision making was closed to the public. Maybe the majority in congress is really daft as well.Political correctness is a right way of thinking for our time. In the U.S.A. it means ignoring the idiocy of taking on trillions of dollars of debt as a way to stimulate the economy-all the money gets spent in paying interest to foreigners in the future on the money they loaned.
Political correctness is most effective when people work against their own interests. President Obama as a Harvard team player is accomplishing the bailing out of the rich version Republican 1.0 presently so they can have another round of profits after 2012. President Obama ran as an anti-war candidate; now he has become another Bush II protracted war administration leader will democrats say so? He placed a win-win bet in Afghanistan for assuring re-election. He swells the ranks 30,000 troops for a year and a half, gets some peacefulness and declares victory in time to run a re-election campaign. Then he can withdraw the troops to present levels and maybe in the next term deal with the return of Mohammedan issues that have been around a thousand years for another four.
The training of Afghanis to have a large standing Army and police force will provide the basis for expert new terrorists of the future with state of the art military skills. When the U.S.A. withdraws its support for a puppet government the natural order of disorder will probably resume, while American military planners of today will have retired to collect 150,000 dollars annually with full px privileges and free global air travel and health care besides. Creating a long lasting deficit spending policy for the United States in Afghanistan in order to keep the 100 known Al Qaeda terrorist their from attacking the United States is an idiotic policy.
The reason for such a daft military policy is simply that the U.S. military doesn't have top drawer political theorists, and their chief anti-guerrilla tactician General Petraeus is using classic counter guerilla tactics in a political arena where they are not capable of being effective. The problem is political as well as military, and the Petraeus approach must necessarily be short of political competence.
The General's ability to displace ongoing guerrilla activities with enough forces is real enough, and because of the political history of the world Mohammedan fundamentalist revolutionary status of the present, and of that of Afghanistan, the U.S. creation of an artificial Afghan government will exist phenomenally only so long as we do. When the expense from our nation of 300 million souls with 12 trillion of deficit is stopped the Afghan Government will collapse because of the inability to raise taxes enough to support a central warlord of Government. Tribal dissociation from the central warlord will ensue and regional tribal semi-autonomy proceed. While the myriad foreign terrorist are creating significant damage to U.S. interests aboard and close to home, they have little need to attack economic targets in America.
The right policy would be a safe harbor constellation of defensible fortresses in Afghanistan for the next century, whereat friendly elements in Afghanistan could =retreat to the safety of our own neo-Feudal military safety net in case of a local Jacobean reaction. The military fortresses would also coordinate distribution of humanitarian aid and non-military economic training for Afghan civilians, and provide security for occasional international large civilian construction projects. Such forces with a heavy component of special forces and engineers would as well be available to attack concentrations of adverse forces plotting terrorist capable missions against European, American and Patagonian targets. As many as 20,000 troops might be permanently stationed in Afghanistan, yet the excess and expenses should be immediately reduced. American political and military strategy for the region is as daft and expensive as it was in Vietnam basically, and the Presidents months long decision making was closed to the public. Maybe the majority in congress is really daft as well.
Political correctness is a right way of thinking for our time. In the U.S.A. it means ignoring the idiocy of taking on trillions of dollars of debt as a way to stimulate the economy-all the money gets spent in paying interest to foreigners in the future on the money they loaned. Economists are often a bunch of sycophants for the corporate rich that try to figure out how to optimalize the production of heat and allocation of meat in the communal cave. They don't have an innovative or inventive character to simply change the criterion of the economy entirely.
Repairing the U.S. economy is easy-take back democracy from control by the rich. Let the majority decide to change the fundamental infrastructure of the nation that needs to be replaced. Jobs that can't be outsourced should not be filled by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are a kind of governor that reduce wages and create surplus labor as they migrate in when the employment situation is good. They swell cheap corporate expansion by freeing up workers to take corporate jobs that will be eliminated when a cheaper way to produce overseas is found. The profits of corporate deflate a little with the collapse of the soufflé boundaries of expansion. The government borrows trillions to induce corporations to invest some in America and create a few jobs.
To restructure the U.S. economy a million jobs could be created building a quality solar power Mexican border patrol highway and control barrier berm infrastructure. The all the U.S. interstate and most asphalt highways could be torn up creating millions of jobs. An in ground vacuum tube electro-magnetic accelerator could be constructed to move electric tube and hovercraft inter-modal compatible vehicles around the nation at 900 m.p.h., and over the tubes, where the highways were a national gardening program to produce food locally could be planted creating a million jobs.
All zoning laws prohibiting gardening in suburban lawn areas should be banned. A super-conducting grid of liquid hydrogen should be built w underground where the highways were as well to collect power from national wind, solar and hydrogen from electrolysis plants. Homes should be limited in size per square feet per individual, and monolithic domes should be built on round lots in order to create more green space. With more and smaller dome homes a better population density with more green space per person along with privacy could be constructed nationally.
Democracy must exert its majority and poor number power over the elite concentrated wealth rich or fail. Democracy can limit the maximum extremes of wealth and poverty, and also limit the maximum size of corporations too perhaps 3000 employees in order to assure competition and prevent the foundation of oligarchy, plutocracy and corporation. Yet the economics and political facts are too difficult for the majority to comprehend and so they let themselves be reduced to corporate vassals with a fairly good yet inefficient and wasteful standard of living. Political correctness does not allow the actualization of democracy in the united States presently, and will not for some decades as the people are trained seals to serve the rich minority against their own self-interest, and that's a neat trick.
One may agree with a majority and be right or disagree and be wrong. That makes a difference too. If one is politically correct in Soviet Russia and says some politically incorrect thing such that Stalin has an ugly mustache then N.K.V.D. Chief Beria has you arrested, taken to his office basement, and shoots you in the head if you are lucky-otherwise perhaps torture and off to the gulag. In the United States political incorrectness may just make you want to move to France-if you could find the work in the U.S.A. to afford to retire there.
Political incorrectness is the kitsch- a German root word-it is saying what the majority don't want to hear. It can also keep those importunate wretches complaining in the cargo hold about the foot and a half of living space down where they belong. It is a plain truth to the comfortable and powerful that the down and enchained are a bunch of knickers of ingratitude that need to know their place. Oil flows to the blessed and deserving and bullship walks- everyone knows. So darn the political incorrectness and full spigots ahead!When they are happy believing lies and illusions it must continue forever for their class is not too bright and wants never to risk changing supremacy into poverty. Because Oprah is politically correct right now she can give away 276 cars to audience members regardless of global warming. If the Federal Government did it then Oprah can do it to! hooray for Oprah then and her market analysts and do not say she could have picked a more green cash for clunkers give away.
Political incorrectness isn't invariably good or bad. If a majority of free people band together to accomplish some honorable purpose and some dissenter keeps running them down it can really be a drag. A volunteer military is a case in point. Should some sergeant try to get volunteers to go awol and desert saying the nation is really crooked (even if it was)? These are volunteers after all.
Alternatively political incorrectness can let the majority know that they are a lot of kow towing sycophants of evil without a good thought ever darkening the door of their minds. Dissent can be helpful if its good, constructive criticism. People should mind becoming a bunch of goose stepping homos of fashion corrupting the meaning of marriage to mean anything other than the sane thing. They may make it a hate crime to express a dissenting opinion or censor it with an ultimatum about self repression of expression. One may reply they are anarchists yet with a private ownership by collective corporations the will of the Satanic Prince of this world has the high card.
We are sure that Hillary Clinton isn't the best recruiter for the Taliban when she visits Afghanistan, and that it is our job not to vaporize Iranian nuclear facilities before that can make any, because we are reactionary rather than initiators of security. Political correctness let people of the era of the Inquisition know to be cautious and not overly defend those accused of blatant familiarity with the devil. It is better to lose a few neighbors to witchcraft burnings than to be a dissident and join the auto de fe oneself.Political correctness is just the way the majority goes in a mass society. The United States was founded as a society of individuals rather than of mass collective corporate organizations, and the fitting today isn't good. The Congress makes laws like a home builder adding on in a million directions without a plan simply because he has the money and power. No longer are laws planned philosophically to support democracy and individualism. Instead, laws are made to support corporate collectivism, the rich and the middle class in that order and we call that patriotic and free enterprise. Everyone supporting the well being of all Americans is called a fascist nor a communist. Sophists say the well being of Americans is in fealty to trans-national corporatism.
The United States pays a million dollars per soldier to be in Afghanistan per year while the Taliban pays about $4.95 and has a lot of patience. They hire guys from outside the country to vacation and blow themselves up a few times a year perhaps-hard to defend. Yet the U.S. Government is a source of trillions of dollars that will be paid to defense contractors and oil services corporations to do just that-where else is a loose trillion or two to be had except from gullible U.S. taxpayers?
Since the government borrows the money from China anyway maybe it isn't so bad? The Kow-towing of politicians may have only just begun. The Chinese are a cheaper and larger source of labor for those greedy trans-nationalists anyway...its not politically correct to say down the middle class and poor chumps-yet we know they mean it anyway.At least there are no geniuses of military, economic and political capability in the States Dept. or Pentagon. One would be a good value asset in finding cheaper, more effective ways to adroitly scale down the costs of the Afghan and Iraqi actions. Caesar would have spent money and formed alliances rightly to win in an efficient way the true interests of Rome. Our guys are using Pakistan as an excuse to lose a few more dozen billion. Political correctness though has either the retreat and withdraw or dump more hundreds of billions like its play money. Not enough demand that the administration doesn't act like idiots. Obama isn't G.W. Bush yet, I hope he can find some military-political-economic genius? Any spare young Henry Kissingers out there?
12/6/09
How Long After Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan Can A Puppet Governent Exist Without Collecting Taxes?
Such a point of reference must be at least equal in quality to U.S. Government budget planning that reasonably sees a reversal of deficit spending economics after the total is 21 trillion dollars. That can be our example for a reasonable point of reference. An example is the deployment of 30,000 more troops to prop up a puppet government that will have broad support in 18 months when the troops are withdrawn (that sounds like a banking procedure-deposit with loans then withdraw). In 18 months the puppet government of Afghanistan will have large taxation authority able to gather all of the people of Afghanistan together to tax them enough to pay for the government and a large military able to defeat the Taliban insurgency that will arise when U.S. troops withdraw. Now that sounds reasonable.
Does Philosophy Need A Reasonable Point of Reference?
If 'a philosophy' needs a 'reasonable point of reference' it does sound important. Physical theories may have no reference points for a time, but only abstract and non-testable criteria for some time, that might be removed later. Cosmological theories may be set in a hundred of extra dimensions and be just conjecture in the mind of brilliant mathematicians and physicists, while philosophical work needs a reasonable rather than an extravagant or silly point of reference. Such a point of reference must be at least equal in quality to U.S. Government budget planning that reasonably sees a reversal of deficit spending economics after the total is 21 trillion dollars. That can be our example for a reasonable point of reference. Another example is the deployment of 30, 000 more troops to prop up a puppet government that will have broad support in 18 months when the troops are withdrawn (that sounds like a banking procedure-deposit with loans then withdraw). In 18 months the puppet government of Afghanistan will have large taxation authority able to gather all of the people of Afghanistan together to tax them enough to pay for the government and a large military able to defeat the Taliban insurgency that will arise when U.S. troops withdraw. Now that sounds reasonable.
Philosophical work, unlike physical cosmology requires a higher standard that we can take from the U.S. Government economic and environmental planners. Philosophers need at least one reasonable point of reference to start with. Personally I like Oprah for that, and then just go on to symbolic logic or whatever. W.V.O. Quine in 'Methods of Logic' just took apart the construction of logic making it easy to construct language, of course he didn't have an Oprah endorsement as a reasonable point of reference. Who will the reference be for a definition of reasonable here anyway.
Romanticism cannot be the alternative obviously. Corporatism is an effort to collectivize a society over which they might rule for point of profit. Individualism and individual legal rights are eschewed by corporatists as troublesome remnants of democratic tendencies. It is better to bundle everyone as a collective class without rights as individuals and then decree what each class is entitled to-even communist can agree with that reasonable point of reference. Since we eschew collectivism as a legal concept and admire private property in order to pursue individualized and copyrightable private intellectual capital acquisition ventures it is good to return to other points for consideration on the topic of our inquiry presently.
Philosophy is an effort of thinking about reality and truth. The love of wisdom isn't restricted to a pre-defined anything-referrals or whatever we may posit as some primordial essent of ground of being such as the Nazi Head of Education for some time in the 1930's sought in his book ' Being and Time'. Sein und Zeit is a brilliant work on the philosophical topic of phenomenalism. Heidegger resigned his post before the war- comprehended what the Nazis were or were becoming, and retired to a hut to pursue his philosophical investigations on the nature of language and perceptions of reality. There are no fundamental preconditions in the vocation of a philosophical investigations that are not malleable to construction as new synthetic compositions or for reconstruction within existing lexical criteria.
Language are historical evolved sets of meaning-units socially comprehensible and of use for communication. Philosophy often seeks to move beyond that pre-set language and look to the deeper meaning of things in themselves. Some are skeptical that such philosophical research regarding things perceived for-themselves can be known. Many phenomenal or perceived things exist as specialized experiences for human or other sentient life, as if they were conditional, contingent things that would disappear without being regarded by humans.
Consider a form of advanced computer virtual reality unit that could be placed over your head and that would allow you to perceive just those aspect of reality that were selected by some electromagnetic spectrum selector, and then reformed by a computer program into some completely fictional alternative construction for visual perception by the human wearing the head unit. The perception of that view of reality, if consistent and given to all other human beings with the same filter and reprogramming would present patterns and forms recognizable by all, yet of course the perceived views would not exist in nature but instead only in the common experience of the viewers of the analog reality. The reality would be derived from things known by the raw data acquisition system yet presented to each human without giving any idea of what reality looks like for itself.
Such a unit and program logic might provide a certain level of resolution to the viewer-experiencers. Philosophically, out own cognitive and neurological inheritance may provide something like that artificial experience naturally. The structure for cognition provided by our innate human sense organs and brain reasoning structure create a kind of sentient objective awareness of our own natural interpretation of the heterodox otherness of the material Universe-if we may call it material at least nominally.
Philosophers must regard such things as exist. Probably people considering relationships between things before they understood the concept of number-even 'one' may have been an underused term at some point way back in then past.
Humanity was born in the stream of change and given flow of space-time that Heraclitus said that we can never step in to twice. Like Moses we were cast into that ever changing yet eternally one stream flow in a human being basket of integrated thought experience with nature. Our own experience of life is of the same one continuous flow co-existing with our own lives and being always to become part of the present and future. Our own unified experience of being is the origin of our ground of philosophical endeavors from which the effort at understanding all must flow.
Such active personal tributaries of inquiry into the overall compilation of the nature of existence is a kind of human wonder. We wonder if our ideas accurately correspond to accurate accounts of how things really are in themselves. With some certainty we believe that reality is far deeper than even profound yet nominal physical cosmological research can enlighten us about. The division of the world of p0henomenal apperception into a microcosm of quantum mechanics following logic brings the investigation for a physical etiology like the inquiry of reverse mitosis to the cellular origin of the primordial membrane of zero dimension. Sure and begorrah it must have then expanded. For we are certain that all things originate with thermodynamic change and generally of cyclical and pervasive physical patterns and structures understandable through analysis, research, and so forth. If God is plural and had neither a singular origin nor was originally singular, we must be able to relate or negate such conjectures because we would have a hard time reconciling such considerations with our present human condition if we did not, right?
Philosophers, unlike some others working at fixing plumbing for instance, may consider experience and phenomena from many approaches and avenues of inquiry. Reasoning to the truth comprises analytic and synthetic thought, yet if the world is a creation of the One, it may require neither objective references, as is advocated by certain mystics such as in the book on knowing God 'The Cloud of Unknowing' while alternatively it may involve entire sets of experience or phenomenal deliberations upon such that is transcending number as either one, two, five a dozen etc. A philosophy rather that being an objective product for marketing to the masses is, for some philosophers at least, a living way of being. If an angel of God approached one with some communication, then the subjective experience would not be subject to delimitation as either subjective or objective, for such is the nature of human perception of reality, and in such a problematic realm of being is the quantum reality of space-time to a certain extent. We must await the quantization of virtual particles before the Big Bang in a vacuum before the inflation to know if the number is one or infinity.
There are additional approaches to consider regarding the nature and quantity required for 'reasonable points of reference'. The Vienna Circle of philosophers including Schlick, Carnap, Neurath, Gdel and many others led to logical positivism and empiricism. Quine of course later destroyed empiricist premises in his 'The Two Dogmas of Empiricism'. The Vienna Circle tried to establish a principle of verifiability, or the inverse principle of falsifiability into extensional or scientific statements about the world. They hoped to eliminate metaphysics and reduce philosophical thought to rigorous science. Wittgenstein's analytic philosophy and investigation into the philosophy of logic led him to assert that the 'meaning of a sentence is in its verification'.
One point of verification or falsifiability will not make any scientific statement necessarily true. Philosophers such as Popper found science to be a more intuitive process with dead reckoning combined a variety of methods as it deems useful to form a falsifiable hypothesis. We cannot however say that philosophy must necessarily be scientific nor that the inability for some to form falsifiable hypothesis regarding analytic, mathematical structures means that it cannot be done, or that mathematics and logic have no a priori similarity to the fundamental structure of the quantum mechanical universe of which human beings are a part.
If we regard language itself as a word and referent linguistic composition, then obviously any lexicon must have at least one word. Yet we are not considering philosophy to be such a fundamental verbal construction as that, but something of a higher order structuring of words to produce meaning. Perhaps Zen may ideally have no referents, yet Western philosophy also has an ideal of becoming One with the will of God. Perhaps that too is philosophical, yet we still cannot positively assert any particular number of referents as in some way being fundamental to philosophical constructions. A reasonable point of reference is a little vague itself. Einstein's theories of relativity did not seem very reasonable in its first publication to most people.
In the Perennial Book of Sophistry we can discovery the listing for 'requisite philosophical points of reference' under sub-heading auxiliary B-29 article 13F; On the Requirement that All Philosophies Must Have Initial Verifiable and Subsequent Points of Reference'.
I will stipulate that I only briefly perused this expensive reference book. Even an annual subscription to it's supplements costs more than I can afford (998 Euros per year), so haven't referenced the current update, yet public libraries have the 2009 philosophers guidelines that at least mention the reference book in credited citations ex libre.
Maybe a philosophy can start without a point of reference and hope to find one. They could be like Cartesian coordinates or g.p.s. points. Personally I believe that is one is sailing in the Adriatic then it would be on the port rather than the starboard side.
'A philosophy' hasn't necessarily got a definition of a point of reference to build in, nor certainty if it should be included free as software to start with. Inclusion of a point of reference after the start of a philosophy would present the problem Hume had with cause and effect investigations I would think. That can be very troubling.
If we included several reference points such as 'north of the Peace River and west of Athabasca' will we get deserved credit for it? Philosophies apparently can be favorably compared with cartography. Keeping that in mind you might get illustrations done too for illuminated manuscripts. Every philosophy needs a good cartoonist for large-page graphic philosophy books.
We must return from the lofty realms of cumulus philosophy with its Irwin Correys to more mundane issues concerning the effort to increase human wisdom.
'The kingdom of God is within you', Our Lord said. We need not run to where the vultures have gathered to find our point of reference. Faith surpasses understanding, and God brings one to awareness of His righteousness rather than vice versa.
A philosophy is usually done by a human being. Some humans consider themselves as comprising their own point of reference, yet we will consider that of computers. Does a computer need a reasonable 'point of reference' when making 'a philosophy'? Can we imagine then right ingredients of a completely abstract philosophy without reference points off-line?
A computer needs a good encapsulating box to live in...something like a homeless person or a billionaire, yet billionaires may have several big boxes to live in and so their point of reference could be multiple boxes and variable. In fact the spaces could be considered to be abstract boxes or encapsulating spaces for such a one as has many potential boxes of habitation. The homeless guy with a cardboard box to live in might have just one point of reference, yet if making a philosophy that would be a good place to start. If it were me I would use a magic marker because they work good for writing on cardboard. Yet we were on the subject of computational points of reference for computer philosophies.
Well, can a computer actually have a philosophy? It has no internal point of reference besides egalitarian data storage binary bits. Quantum computers may have more than binary bit states of information content storage yet they would all be the same value for a point of reference. The point of reference would be the one central processing unit them. The entire abstract group yet real collection of all of the storage unit bytes are the point of reference, Maybe every thinking thing has its own self as a point of reference.
Computers don't think of course, so self awareness is its own point of reference that seems to arise from the brain's complex bio-chemical neurons and synaptic procedures. It differs from the neurons and chemicals for-themselves obviously in that they aren't self aware. Self-awareness needs no point of reference though; it is for-itself aware before self-reference.
Computers function in producing information without ever having a self-awareness. I believe they could even be programmed to produce a philosophy paper or thesis without ever realizing they had done so. It would actually be the writer of the program that had produced the philosophy paper instead of the computer. Computers we shall conclude have no points of reference meaningful to themselves. They also have no self.
Human beings can create many things that we might call 'a philosophy'. I would guess that a painting of abstract expressionism could be considered to be a philosophy in some cases. Then we would ask the perennial question is it abstract or representational? Could it be both simultaneously?
Must a philosophical quest or supposition be about something found in what used to be considered to be the empirical world? Are entirely analytic philosophical activities that are about thought not philosophical because they don't refer to things outside the mind? Then do we exclude brilliant algebras and group theories from being 'philosophies' because they are exclusively analytic?
What if analytic-synthetic combination of things occur in actuality. If Quine's ideas about empiricism are right then thought can be considered as epiphenomenalism in space-time. It is the only part of space-time that we understand directly as it is present in our mind. Must we believe that our own thoughts are a little alien from our self-awareness, that they are passing through our minds like cleverly assembled data bits temporally just to be forgotten soon after? Computers lack the self awareness capacity yet process the information without it. Humans are watchers on a premonitory of the sunrises and sunsets of the world of ideas that passes before their awareness. Will creates it's own content of experience interactively with the Universe providing the quarking components of self. In the midst of the concatenated experience we do not create permanent points of reference, and few or none are given to us. Time and space remove either our selves or the objects of our experience from experience. Philosophical activity may be a pursuit of wisdom and knowledge, yet Socrates said that he knew that he knew nothing. I agree. Faith is the best we can do. One may have faith without an immediate point of reference. We find such a hypothetical, metaphysical object obscurantive to the nature of philosophical inquiry.
Philosophers tend to use their natural logic in a somewhat more disciplined way than do most people. They may construct a theory of everything or just a theory about thought. Language and logic have themselves been the subject of philosophical investigation as well as the nature of the material or spirit perceived by the mind. When one strips down the methods of logic and language to its bare essentials we have an opportunity to process data that may be presented to mind and reasoning a little more constructively. There may be ten-thousand 'points of reference' or perhaps just one (although that would be a very monistic criterion making the observer or user of one reference point something of a passive partner to the one point of reference perhaps).
Cognitively we are philosophically challenged to find any 'external' reality of such a super-real character that it is a transcendent reference base. Einstein's theory of relativity transcended Newton's concept of absolute space and left us with a space-time in relationship to other points. Of course we may leapfrog over that and assume that the mass-energy field has an absolute time position value in the reference frame of the Universe from time=0 at the inflationary era. Perhaps alternatively time does not exist but is transcended by energy-mass form criteria. We find the Universe in primordial uncertainty.
Referred to points may be suitable for a particular set theory, yet of course we would prefer more than one point if we hoped to construct something meaningful. In systems of relativity at least three points of reference are required for directions of motion to be established. In language, one referent would be a one word vocabulary. Primordially even apes accomplish more than that with recognizable grunt referent meanings. The challenge for linguistics is to denote specific lexical ontology referents amidst others. Philosophically the challenge may be to reduce the possible plethora of words and objects to primary structures of meaning. Martin Heidegger pursued language in such a way looking for 'essents'. Modern analytical philosophers may exploit some of the ontological references of science for their cosmological criteria as well as neurological foundation for thought similes to epistemological phenomena subjectively.
Unreasonable points of reference are a little hoary, so we prefer reasonable ones if we are compelled to choose. So one must make a reasoned reasonable point to have a philosophy and eat it too, as if it were a cake. How might one argue with such fell logic as that? I think we must try.
A philosophy as an objective thing in itself seems something of a trivialization of the activity of the pursuit of wisdom. Yet moderns like to have sound bite reasoning and packaged products such as 'a philosophy' and then describe the contents it must have to be a marketable product. It needs a point of reference, and the point of reference must be reasonable. We cannot say who the judge must be of whether or not a particular point in a philosophy is reasonable or not. Certainly in ecclesiastical history there were those that de facto stipulated that 'a philosophy' was heretical and the authors would be burned at the stake or given unto the inquisition. At least Galileo learned to mind his p's and q's and was spared be burned at the stake. He knew when to assert a reasonable point of reference and when to kow-tow to the communist party ideologues of the day (a Chinese former communist professor was just given a ten year prison sentence for forming a political party. Only one party is reasonable in China).
We like to believe that in the many fields of philosophy including political philosophy virtually any approach regarding the mind or matter, spirit or social order, mass or energy might be taken with potential for good results. The French philosopher Descartes intentionally dispensed with any conventional points of reference in his quest to understand existence. His existential doubt was a result of the will to found philosophical knowledge upon first principles-things or ideas he could regard as direct knowledge in personal experience as true. He had no 'point of reference'. Cogito ergo sum was self-standing or self-evident. At least he believed it was and that belief advanced philosophy significantly.
Jean Paul Sartre's existentialist researches expanded French philosophical rationalism beyond the a priori, analytic thinking efforts of Descartes. Sartre's existentialism made the entirety of experience a self-aware cognitive field that was all that might be known. He recognized the heterodox nature of experience with the existence of other's in the cognitive event. The Critique of Dialectical Reason was an effort to describe the concatenated nature of that experience.
If one has a reasoning mind it is important to keep free the criteria of investigation with which one might construct a philosophical lexicon of ideas. If one doesn't have a reasoning mind then find a point of reference and make that your philosophy. Be an elephant that grasps hold of the tale before thee and waddle along to the beat of the same drummer booming through the speakers of your brain housing unit. Otherwise break down those ideas into workable size and use a little symbolic or even classical logic to analyze the meaning they have. Remove all of the adjectives and such to get to the salient proposition if it may be approached that way. Determine like Hume did what is sophistry and what isn't. Determine what is actual rather than some sort of actually meaningless metaphysics or passing the buck refer to a point of reference next that is just one of an infinite series of points in some order along a meaningless path of unnatural numbers representing computer generated phrases. Think for yourself but read those great ideas worth learning in order to not reinvent the wheel each day.
Philosophy is more than an epistemology or theory of knowledge. A theory of knowledge is implicitly referential to something other than the immediate self-awareness; that is it must explain itself preferably within its own terms and context. Of course to do so is in a way self-defeating. Theories of knowledge naturally tend to be propositional ontologies other than self. If one is referring to a theory of knowledge as a theory of mind, which one presumably has, then it must always be a kind of alienation of idea as experience from self. It is a reductionism from mind to an ossified phrase and inert, or dead.
A point of reference does seem to a prior assume that points exist, and that a particular point-do we mean geographic or linguistic coordinate reference points- has some ordination from which all other inferences and deductions are made. A philosophy would seem in this context to be contingent upon a prime meridian for meaning, placing the meridian at a higher level than the egalitarian context of the rest. One may reasonably assume certain axioms within any given ontology to induct and construct the remainder of the composition members of the element set. In matters of life and experience referring to the world as it appears we find it improbable that a single reference point-a most obscure assumed premise-might adequately serve to anchor a theory of either monism or pluralism. it is instead a kind of social myopia that fails a criterion of pragmatism.
W.V.O. Quine's 'Word and Object' and 'Ontological Relativity' of course are linguistic and logic based philosophical analysis of the meaning of language and of how it is used. It especially considers how the philosophical uses of language and symbolic logic are structured. Life itself has a self-standing reality about which people talk. Talk and words to refer to present and not present things or events are primordial in the history of mankind. Perhaps one-hundred thousand years ago more or less simple human languages existed. Language has as many objects or referents potentially to talk about as there are objects in the Universes of experience and imagination. Words refer to objects. It is a wonderful fact that words can refer to themselves. They are address points of meaning. The Universe itself is the one primary referent, and of course we include ourselves within this Universe. Human beings even refer to their own being, and self, in self-reference.
Philosophically we prefer to consider knowledge of what is experienced, and of knowledge beyond one's personal being, and of course of existing at all as activities or investments of our time worth the pursuit. Some element of wisdom seems to exist in learning all one can about life. Of course we also pursue these most general yet intimately important of concerns is philosophical activities. Philosophy is a method of inquiry. Knowledge continually should advance without ever reaching a conclusion in some sort of omniscience.
Theologically our interests are developed in learning about the Ultimate Designer of the Universe1 and of any potential other Universes. In such concerns our metaphysical inquiry becomes an alternate ontology rather than the self-evident one into which we are born, live and die.
It is somewhat fashionable nowadays more than a 150 years after Darwin's theory for many in society to regard themselves as liberated from hoary church dogma of creation. So many were oppressed by corrupt ecclesiastical neo-theocratic relationships with feudal lords that history did not refer sufficiently to the role that the Catholic Church played occasionally in opposing rising national imperial powers. Following the Inquisition such neglect was perhaps well deserved in the popular realm. At any rate following the Darwinism many were concerned that the disbelief that a scientific explanation for the origin of the species could not be anything besides a contradiction and even a negation of the Genesis story of creation. The last forty years have shown us that a theistic evolution of the Universe is consistent with the Bible, yet without modern scientific knowledge there were few that could interpret the book of Genesis in such a light.
The 'incredible lightness of being'; the giddiness of disbelief in God was feared by some authorities as leaving mankind rootless and adrift in a meaningless mechanical Universe. Of course the assumption that the Universe as it is cannot be a self-evident ground for being philosophically grounded isn't too valid. Cicero's natural law and a myriad other systems are able to provide an ordination for morality inferred from the criterion of being in-the-world. Kant's categorical imperative is a deontological inference from logic and being. Kant believed in God yet his moral law is axiomatic.
The 'point of reference' a mariner might have wanted in the era before the invention of the compass isn't too applicable to philosophy. The Universe of experience exists for-itself; the 'reference' is all around us. We believe also that God exists transcendentally though we have no material point of reference for that faith. The ungrounded with hysterical 'philosophies' requiring a 'point of reference' have existed throughout history even before Darwin or the reformation. The Dionysian choice may itself become an ethic for a majority of ruling elites. A point of reference is no assurance of the existential validity of a particular philosophical ontology.
Philosophers did not first invent an a priori language such as found in Descartes cogito and then construct reality from it; they simply have tried to learn more and more about the actual world experienced. Perhaps some could miss it. Take the first right...
Philosophical work, unlike physical cosmology requires a higher standard that we can take from the U.S. Government economic and environmental planners. Philosophers need at least one reasonable point of reference to start with. Personally I like Oprah for that, and then just go on to symbolic logic or whatever. W.V.O. Quine in 'Methods of Logic' just took apart the construction of logic making it easy to construct language, of course he didn't have an Oprah endorsement as a reasonable point of reference. Who will the reference be for a definition of reasonable here anyway.
Romanticism cannot be the alternative obviously. Corporatism is an effort to collectivize a society over which they might rule for point of profit. Individualism and individual legal rights are eschewed by corporatists as troublesome remnants of democratic tendencies. It is better to bundle everyone as a collective class without rights as individuals and then decree what each class is entitled to-even communist can agree with that reasonable point of reference. Since we eschew collectivism as a legal concept and admire private property in order to pursue individualized and copyrightable private intellectual capital acquisition ventures it is good to return to other points for consideration on the topic of our inquiry presently.
Philosophy is an effort of thinking about reality and truth. The love of wisdom isn't restricted to a pre-defined anything-referrals or whatever we may posit as some primordial essent of ground of being such as the Nazi Head of Education for some time in the 1930's sought in his book ' Being and Time'. Sein und Zeit is a brilliant work on the philosophical topic of phenomenalism. Heidegger resigned his post before the war- comprehended what the Nazis were or were becoming, and retired to a hut to pursue his philosophical investigations on the nature of language and perceptions of reality. There are no fundamental preconditions in the vocation of a philosophical investigations that are not malleable to construction as new synthetic compositions or for reconstruction within existing lexical criteria.
Language are historical evolved sets of meaning-units socially comprehensible and of use for communication. Philosophy often seeks to move beyond that pre-set language and look to the deeper meaning of things in themselves. Some are skeptical that such philosophical research regarding things perceived for-themselves can be known. Many phenomenal or perceived things exist as specialized experiences for human or other sentient life, as if they were conditional, contingent things that would disappear without being regarded by humans.
Consider a form of advanced computer virtual reality unit that could be placed over your head and that would allow you to perceive just those aspect of reality that were selected by some electromagnetic spectrum selector, and then reformed by a computer program into some completely fictional alternative construction for visual perception by the human wearing the head unit. The perception of that view of reality, if consistent and given to all other human beings with the same filter and reprogramming would present patterns and forms recognizable by all, yet of course the perceived views would not exist in nature but instead only in the common experience of the viewers of the analog reality. The reality would be derived from things known by the raw data acquisition system yet presented to each human without giving any idea of what reality looks like for itself.
Such a unit and program logic might provide a certain level of resolution to the viewer-experiencers. Philosophically, out own cognitive and neurological inheritance may provide something like that artificial experience naturally. The structure for cognition provided by our innate human sense organs and brain reasoning structure create a kind of sentient objective awareness of our own natural interpretation of the heterodox otherness of the material Universe-if we may call it material at least nominally.
Philosophers must regard such things as exist. Probably people considering relationships between things before they understood the concept of number-even 'one' may have been an underused term at some point way back in then past.
Humanity was born in the stream of change and given flow of space-time that Heraclitus said that we can never step in to twice. Like Moses we were cast into that ever changing yet eternally one stream flow in a human being basket of integrated thought experience with nature. Our own experience of life is of the same one continuous flow co-existing with our own lives and being always to become part of the present and future. Our own unified experience of being is the origin of our ground of philosophical endeavors from which the effort at understanding all must flow.
Such active personal tributaries of inquiry into the overall compilation of the nature of existence is a kind of human wonder. We wonder if our ideas accurately correspond to accurate accounts of how things really are in themselves. With some certainty we believe that reality is far deeper than even profound yet nominal physical cosmological research can enlighten us about. The division of the world of p0henomenal apperception into a microcosm of quantum mechanics following logic brings the investigation for a physical etiology like the inquiry of reverse mitosis to the cellular origin of the primordial membrane of zero dimension. Sure and begorrah it must have then expanded. For we are certain that all things originate with thermodynamic change and generally of cyclical and pervasive physical patterns and structures understandable through analysis, research, and so forth. If God is plural and had neither a singular origin nor was originally singular, we must be able to relate or negate such conjectures because we would have a hard time reconciling such considerations with our present human condition if we did not, right?
Philosophers, unlike some others working at fixing plumbing for instance, may consider experience and phenomena from many approaches and avenues of inquiry. Reasoning to the truth comprises analytic and synthetic thought, yet if the world is a creation of the One, it may require neither objective references, as is advocated by certain mystics such as in the book on knowing God 'The Cloud of Unknowing' while alternatively it may involve entire sets of experience or phenomenal deliberations upon such that is transcending number as either one, two, five a dozen etc. A philosophy rather that being an objective product for marketing to the masses is, for some philosophers at least, a living way of being. If an angel of God approached one with some communication, then the subjective experience would not be subject to delimitation as either subjective or objective, for such is the nature of human perception of reality, and in such a problematic realm of being is the quantum reality of space-time to a certain extent. We must await the quantization of virtual particles before the Big Bang in a vacuum before the inflation to know if the number is one or infinity.
There are additional approaches to consider regarding the nature and quantity required for 'reasonable points of reference'. The Vienna Circle of philosophers including Schlick, Carnap, Neurath, Gdel and many others led to logical positivism and empiricism. Quine of course later destroyed empiricist premises in his 'The Two Dogmas of Empiricism'. The Vienna Circle tried to establish a principle of verifiability, or the inverse principle of falsifiability into extensional or scientific statements about the world. They hoped to eliminate metaphysics and reduce philosophical thought to rigorous science. Wittgenstein's analytic philosophy and investigation into the philosophy of logic led him to assert that the 'meaning of a sentence is in its verification'.
One point of verification or falsifiability will not make any scientific statement necessarily true. Philosophers such as Popper found science to be a more intuitive process with dead reckoning combined a variety of methods as it deems useful to form a falsifiable hypothesis. We cannot however say that philosophy must necessarily be scientific nor that the inability for some to form falsifiable hypothesis regarding analytic, mathematical structures means that it cannot be done, or that mathematics and logic have no a priori similarity to the fundamental structure of the quantum mechanical universe of which human beings are a part.
If we regard language itself as a word and referent linguistic composition, then obviously any lexicon must have at least one word. Yet we are not considering philosophy to be such a fundamental verbal construction as that, but something of a higher order structuring of words to produce meaning. Perhaps Zen may ideally have no referents, yet Western philosophy also has an ideal of becoming One with the will of God. Perhaps that too is philosophical, yet we still cannot positively assert any particular number of referents as in some way being fundamental to philosophical constructions. A reasonable point of reference is a little vague itself. Einstein's theories of relativity did not seem very reasonable in its first publication to most people.
In the Perennial Book of Sophistry we can discovery the listing for 'requisite philosophical points of reference' under sub-heading auxiliary B-29 article 13F; On the Requirement that All Philosophies Must Have Initial Verifiable and Subsequent Points of Reference'.
I will stipulate that I only briefly perused this expensive reference book. Even an annual subscription to it's supplements costs more than I can afford (998 Euros per year), so haven't referenced the current update, yet public libraries have the 2009 philosophers guidelines that at least mention the reference book in credited citations ex libre.
Maybe a philosophy can start without a point of reference and hope to find one. They could be like Cartesian coordinates or g.p.s. points. Personally I believe that is one is sailing in the Adriatic then it would be on the port rather than the starboard side.
'A philosophy' hasn't necessarily got a definition of a point of reference to build in, nor certainty if it should be included free as software to start with. Inclusion of a point of reference after the start of a philosophy would present the problem Hume had with cause and effect investigations I would think. That can be very troubling.
If we included several reference points such as 'north of the Peace River and west of Athabasca' will we get deserved credit for it? Philosophies apparently can be favorably compared with cartography. Keeping that in mind you might get illustrations done too for illuminated manuscripts. Every philosophy needs a good cartoonist for large-page graphic philosophy books.
We must return from the lofty realms of cumulus philosophy with its Irwin Correys to more mundane issues concerning the effort to increase human wisdom.
'The kingdom of God is within you', Our Lord said. We need not run to where the vultures have gathered to find our point of reference. Faith surpasses understanding, and God brings one to awareness of His righteousness rather than vice versa.
A philosophy is usually done by a human being. Some humans consider themselves as comprising their own point of reference, yet we will consider that of computers. Does a computer need a reasonable 'point of reference' when making 'a philosophy'? Can we imagine then right ingredients of a completely abstract philosophy without reference points off-line?
A computer needs a good encapsulating box to live in...something like a homeless person or a billionaire, yet billionaires may have several big boxes to live in and so their point of reference could be multiple boxes and variable. In fact the spaces could be considered to be abstract boxes or encapsulating spaces for such a one as has many potential boxes of habitation. The homeless guy with a cardboard box to live in might have just one point of reference, yet if making a philosophy that would be a good place to start. If it were me I would use a magic marker because they work good for writing on cardboard. Yet we were on the subject of computational points of reference for computer philosophies.
Well, can a computer actually have a philosophy? It has no internal point of reference besides egalitarian data storage binary bits. Quantum computers may have more than binary bit states of information content storage yet they would all be the same value for a point of reference. The point of reference would be the one central processing unit them. The entire abstract group yet real collection of all of the storage unit bytes are the point of reference, Maybe every thinking thing has its own self as a point of reference.
Computers don't think of course, so self awareness is its own point of reference that seems to arise from the brain's complex bio-chemical neurons and synaptic procedures. It differs from the neurons and chemicals for-themselves obviously in that they aren't self aware. Self-awareness needs no point of reference though; it is for-itself aware before self-reference.
Computers function in producing information without ever having a self-awareness. I believe they could even be programmed to produce a philosophy paper or thesis without ever realizing they had done so. It would actually be the writer of the program that had produced the philosophy paper instead of the computer. Computers we shall conclude have no points of reference meaningful to themselves. They also have no self.
Human beings can create many things that we might call 'a philosophy'. I would guess that a painting of abstract expressionism could be considered to be a philosophy in some cases. Then we would ask the perennial question is it abstract or representational? Could it be both simultaneously?
Must a philosophical quest or supposition be about something found in what used to be considered to be the empirical world? Are entirely analytic philosophical activities that are about thought not philosophical because they don't refer to things outside the mind? Then do we exclude brilliant algebras and group theories from being 'philosophies' because they are exclusively analytic?
What if analytic-synthetic combination of things occur in actuality. If Quine's ideas about empiricism are right then thought can be considered as epiphenomenalism in space-time. It is the only part of space-time that we understand directly as it is present in our mind. Must we believe that our own thoughts are a little alien from our self-awareness, that they are passing through our minds like cleverly assembled data bits temporally just to be forgotten soon after? Computers lack the self awareness capacity yet process the information without it. Humans are watchers on a premonitory of the sunrises and sunsets of the world of ideas that passes before their awareness. Will creates it's own content of experience interactively with the Universe providing the quarking components of self. In the midst of the concatenated experience we do not create permanent points of reference, and few or none are given to us. Time and space remove either our selves or the objects of our experience from experience. Philosophical activity may be a pursuit of wisdom and knowledge, yet Socrates said that he knew that he knew nothing. I agree. Faith is the best we can do. One may have faith without an immediate point of reference. We find such a hypothetical, metaphysical object obscurantive to the nature of philosophical inquiry.
Philosophers tend to use their natural logic in a somewhat more disciplined way than do most people. They may construct a theory of everything or just a theory about thought. Language and logic have themselves been the subject of philosophical investigation as well as the nature of the material or spirit perceived by the mind. When one strips down the methods of logic and language to its bare essentials we have an opportunity to process data that may be presented to mind and reasoning a little more constructively. There may be ten-thousand 'points of reference' or perhaps just one (although that would be a very monistic criterion making the observer or user of one reference point something of a passive partner to the one point of reference perhaps).
Cognitively we are philosophically challenged to find any 'external' reality of such a super-real character that it is a transcendent reference base. Einstein's theory of relativity transcended Newton's concept of absolute space and left us with a space-time in relationship to other points. Of course we may leapfrog over that and assume that the mass-energy field has an absolute time position value in the reference frame of the Universe from time=0 at the inflationary era. Perhaps alternatively time does not exist but is transcended by energy-mass form criteria. We find the Universe in primordial uncertainty.
Referred to points may be suitable for a particular set theory, yet of course we would prefer more than one point if we hoped to construct something meaningful. In systems of relativity at least three points of reference are required for directions of motion to be established. In language, one referent would be a one word vocabulary. Primordially even apes accomplish more than that with recognizable grunt referent meanings. The challenge for linguistics is to denote specific lexical ontology referents amidst others. Philosophically the challenge may be to reduce the possible plethora of words and objects to primary structures of meaning. Martin Heidegger pursued language in such a way looking for 'essents'. Modern analytical philosophers may exploit some of the ontological references of science for their cosmological criteria as well as neurological foundation for thought similes to epistemological phenomena subjectively.
Unreasonable points of reference are a little hoary, so we prefer reasonable ones if we are compelled to choose. So one must make a reasoned reasonable point to have a philosophy and eat it too, as if it were a cake. How might one argue with such fell logic as that? I think we must try.
A philosophy as an objective thing in itself seems something of a trivialization of the activity of the pursuit of wisdom. Yet moderns like to have sound bite reasoning and packaged products such as 'a philosophy' and then describe the contents it must have to be a marketable product. It needs a point of reference, and the point of reference must be reasonable. We cannot say who the judge must be of whether or not a particular point in a philosophy is reasonable or not. Certainly in ecclesiastical history there were those that de facto stipulated that 'a philosophy' was heretical and the authors would be burned at the stake or given unto the inquisition. At least Galileo learned to mind his p's and q's and was spared be burned at the stake. He knew when to assert a reasonable point of reference and when to kow-tow to the communist party ideologues of the day (a Chinese former communist professor was just given a ten year prison sentence for forming a political party. Only one party is reasonable in China).
We like to believe that in the many fields of philosophy including political philosophy virtually any approach regarding the mind or matter, spirit or social order, mass or energy might be taken with potential for good results. The French philosopher Descartes intentionally dispensed with any conventional points of reference in his quest to understand existence. His existential doubt was a result of the will to found philosophical knowledge upon first principles-things or ideas he could regard as direct knowledge in personal experience as true. He had no 'point of reference'. Cogito ergo sum was self-standing or self-evident. At least he believed it was and that belief advanced philosophy significantly.
Jean Paul Sartre's existentialist researches expanded French philosophical rationalism beyond the a priori, analytic thinking efforts of Descartes. Sartre's existentialism made the entirety of experience a self-aware cognitive field that was all that might be known. He recognized the heterodox nature of experience with the existence of other's in the cognitive event. The Critique of Dialectical Reason was an effort to describe the concatenated nature of that experience.
If one has a reasoning mind it is important to keep free the criteria of investigation with which one might construct a philosophical lexicon of ideas. If one doesn't have a reasoning mind then find a point of reference and make that your philosophy. Be an elephant that grasps hold of the tale before thee and waddle along to the beat of the same drummer booming through the speakers of your brain housing unit. Otherwise break down those ideas into workable size and use a little symbolic or even classical logic to analyze the meaning they have. Remove all of the adjectives and such to get to the salient proposition if it may be approached that way. Determine like Hume did what is sophistry and what isn't. Determine what is actual rather than some sort of actually meaningless metaphysics or passing the buck refer to a point of reference next that is just one of an infinite series of points in some order along a meaningless path of unnatural numbers representing computer generated phrases. Think for yourself but read those great ideas worth learning in order to not reinvent the wheel each day.
Philosophy is more than an epistemology or theory of knowledge. A theory of knowledge is implicitly referential to something other than the immediate self-awareness; that is it must explain itself preferably within its own terms and context. Of course to do so is in a way self-defeating. Theories of knowledge naturally tend to be propositional ontologies other than self. If one is referring to a theory of knowledge as a theory of mind, which one presumably has, then it must always be a kind of alienation of idea as experience from self. It is a reductionism from mind to an ossified phrase and inert, or dead.
A point of reference does seem to a prior assume that points exist, and that a particular point-do we mean geographic or linguistic coordinate reference points- has some ordination from which all other inferences and deductions are made. A philosophy would seem in this context to be contingent upon a prime meridian for meaning, placing the meridian at a higher level than the egalitarian context of the rest. One may reasonably assume certain axioms within any given ontology to induct and construct the remainder of the composition members of the element set. In matters of life and experience referring to the world as it appears we find it improbable that a single reference point-a most obscure assumed premise-might adequately serve to anchor a theory of either monism or pluralism. it is instead a kind of social myopia that fails a criterion of pragmatism.
W.V.O. Quine's 'Word and Object' and 'Ontological Relativity' of course are linguistic and logic based philosophical analysis of the meaning of language and of how it is used. It especially considers how the philosophical uses of language and symbolic logic are structured. Life itself has a self-standing reality about which people talk. Talk and words to refer to present and not present things or events are primordial in the history of mankind. Perhaps one-hundred thousand years ago more or less simple human languages existed. Language has as many objects or referents potentially to talk about as there are objects in the Universes of experience and imagination. Words refer to objects. It is a wonderful fact that words can refer to themselves. They are address points of meaning. The Universe itself is the one primary referent, and of course we include ourselves within this Universe. Human beings even refer to their own being, and self, in self-reference.
Philosophically we prefer to consider knowledge of what is experienced, and of knowledge beyond one's personal being, and of course of existing at all as activities or investments of our time worth the pursuit. Some element of wisdom seems to exist in learning all one can about life. Of course we also pursue these most general yet intimately important of concerns is philosophical activities. Philosophy is a method of inquiry. Knowledge continually should advance without ever reaching a conclusion in some sort of omniscience.
Theologically our interests are developed in learning about the Ultimate Designer of the Universe1 and of any potential other Universes. In such concerns our metaphysical inquiry becomes an alternate ontology rather than the self-evident one into which we are born, live and die.
It is somewhat fashionable nowadays more than a 150 years after Darwin's theory for many in society to regard themselves as liberated from hoary church dogma of creation. So many were oppressed by corrupt ecclesiastical neo-theocratic relationships with feudal lords that history did not refer sufficiently to the role that the Catholic Church played occasionally in opposing rising national imperial powers. Following the Inquisition such neglect was perhaps well deserved in the popular realm. At any rate following the Darwinism many were concerned that the disbelief that a scientific explanation for the origin of the species could not be anything besides a contradiction and even a negation of the Genesis story of creation. The last forty years have shown us that a theistic evolution of the Universe is consistent with the Bible, yet without modern scientific knowledge there were few that could interpret the book of Genesis in such a light.
The 'incredible lightness of being'; the giddiness of disbelief in God was feared by some authorities as leaving mankind rootless and adrift in a meaningless mechanical Universe. Of course the assumption that the Universe as it is cannot be a self-evident ground for being philosophically grounded isn't too valid. Cicero's natural law and a myriad other systems are able to provide an ordination for morality inferred from the criterion of being in-the-world. Kant's categorical imperative is a deontological inference from logic and being. Kant believed in God yet his moral law is axiomatic.
The 'point of reference' a mariner might have wanted in the era before the invention of the compass isn't too applicable to philosophy. The Universe of experience exists for-itself; the 'reference' is all around us. We believe also that God exists transcendentally though we have no material point of reference for that faith. The ungrounded with hysterical 'philosophies' requiring a 'point of reference' have existed throughout history even before Darwin or the reformation. The Dionysian choice may itself become an ethic for a majority of ruling elites. A point of reference is no assurance of the existential validity of a particular philosophical ontology.
Philosophers did not first invent an a priori language such as found in Descartes cogito and then construct reality from it; they simply have tried to learn more and more about the actual world experienced. Perhaps some could miss it. Take the first right...
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