Faith is a concept that has taken on political value in recent decades in the United States. Unfortunately it is all to commonly given an economic value as well regarding politics. I thought I would clarify what the implications or duties of faith are regarding politics and economics in the United States for Christians.
Faith in the existence of God and faith that salvation and eternal life follow from belief in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ brings no political or economic social philosophy along with it. At least there is no recognizable political philosophy in the United States today that resembles Christian ethical values.
Faith brings a recognition that eternal values are more important than the temporal, yet it does not follow that stupidity regarding integrity of economic methods is necessary or usual for Christians.
Faith in God does not equate to faith in economics. A Christian has a work ethic and rational ideas about economic production and values. Christians do not subscribe to magical, hocus pocus economic concepts at all unless they are substantially misguided. Much of the swing rave media seem to have the opinion to the contrary, that faith means stupidity regarding economics and the globalist corporations or local self-employment would be matters of indifference for a Christian.
Christians with faith in God have a work ethic. If they are a farmer they have a rational awareness of growing season, work required to produce a crop and the value of the harvest. Christians have traditionally had leadership in actual work efforts especially regarding small business.
In the modern world of financial sophistication as a way to earn a living, the idea that a Christian ought to have blind faith in any economic secular venture of possibly dubious value or honesty is silly. Christians may well utilize dead reckoning regarding the veracity of economic initiatives and look to the Bible as a guide on what sort of corrupt practices to avoid partaking in.
Avoidance of usury is a desirable Christian virtue, so would good neighborliness and sobriety be to the point of abstemiousness. Today in the globalizing economy wherein Adam Smith nationalist founded capitalism has been transcended, a Christian should watch out for the interests of his fellow citizens and tangibly improve his own and his neighbor citizens ecological and economic situation regularly.
One of the troubles with globalization is that such capitalization concentrates wealth existentially in global banks and in investments in other global investments. Wealth created in one nation is extracted and exported to global banks, and the phenomena besides corrupting local economics also corrupts local political power balances and employment security. Global corporations and the reduction of the opportunities for a citizen to work without consent of global corporate political will means an eclipse of political empowerment locally is an inevitable trend simultaneous with the fiduciary corruption of national elected officials through their support for global corporate interests.
Christians in the United States today have no priesthood of believers support organizations to reinforce Christian economic security, welfare or work credit exchanges for security. Each local Church should have a Bishop to decide issues of orthodoxy and also a sextant to maintain church property, yet their should be no laity as all members actively are peers in all liturgical and church works with the roles of Bishop and sextant being largely auxiliary. Because today’s hierarchical priesthood generally has the interest of paying itself and staff as a first priority and has all tithing flowing through its control, the rational increase of an egalitarian church contribution and resource use simply fails to develop. Few hierarchical priests would know anything about a priesthood of believers of course.
So Christians are largely on their own without meaningful support in deciding about economic issues. They will receive advice from hierarchical priests that support a hierarchical globalism unfortunately because of the primary desire to be well connected with concentrated wealth so far as possible. The Democratic Party is the party of egregious sin and homosexual corruption pervasively as well as an advocate for abortion, so Christians have no choice except to vote for Republicans and Independents when they decide to vote.
The Faith vote is not then generally in support of globalism and aloof outsourcing of jobs. The invasion of foreign global corporations to create dependence and remove wealth is just as bad. Modern globalism tends to reduce economic independence and freedom to create phenomenally. Some advocate far more high-tech training for C student average citizens unrealistically, and the laws of supply and demand will reduce the pay compensation for those high tech positions eventually as well when China, India and other nations also have as many high tech trained workers willing to work for lower wages.
In the intermediate future the creation of a pervasive prosperity in the United States will be contingent upon securing the national boundaries, limiting immigration to 100,000 refugees annually and moving toward a low entropy ecological economic foundation. The Government would need to support and give advantage to low entropy local employment creation while also investing in large scale, low cost high tech transportation infrastructure equal to the Promontory Point era. High-speed electro-magnetic cargo and personal ground transport at 1000 M.P.H. with safety should be designed.
Christian may have faith in good and accentuate the positive on Earth. Christians should be concerned for the well being of their Christian brothers and citizens first and then their non-Sectarian fellow citizens next.
Real work rather than sophisticated financial manipulation and trimming of others is a preference for honest Christians. That economic area of honest work is increasingly in disrepute in sophisticated political circles of course as the financial related service sector has expanded to more than 30% of the national economy.
Christians may have little choice except to vote for globalist Republicans as the mirage of Democratic economic policy with a national priority is also poisoned with the pervasive support for sin. That the homosexual and abortion community should hold national economics hostage is basic reason why the Republican globalists have little moral competition today for Christian votes. Yet Democrats are also globalists and supporters of illegal migrant as well as legal migrant workers and foreign corporate investments in the United States. Since Tip O'Neill left his jobs as Speaker of the House the Democrat party has also become a party of the middle class far more than a party representing the poor. They are also recognized as the party of sin (we know all are not worthy and fall short of the requirements for salvation on their own merits of course).
Christians are not validating Republican economics nor placing blind faith in worldly financial flummery when they vote against Democratic Champions of Perversion--they may just be voting against the perversions while aware of the rotten economic policies of the Republican and Democratic parties.
9/29/10
On Right to Revolt Against Waves of Corrupt Governments; Texas vs. Mexico
Texas, Arizona, California have become invasion routes for neo-annexation of much of the United States onto the corrupt neo-narco trafficker state with oppressive concentrated wealth through illegal migration. Even legally arrived Mexicans take seafood processing jobs in Alaska while Alaskans are rejected from being hired. Mexican-American citizens with dual citizenship implicity corrupt the sovereignty of other just U.S. citizens over their own nation.
As wealth is being concentrated in the United States and the elites are increasingly globalists seeking to degrade the quality of life of ordinary Americans in order to more like the Mexican ruling elites it may be useful to review the historical evolution of revolution and rights of liberty of the state of Texas and also consider briefly Mexico, Arizona and California.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/mexicanamericanwar/a/MexicanCause.htm
There is a basic principle in the history of revolutions against governments that are successful that the new government formed has legitimacy through its ability to dominate its claimed territory and hold it. It must also receive recognition by other national governments in order to receive whatever sort of security that exists in such peer consideration.
California as a colony of New Spain experienced an increase in non-Spanish trade and visitors toward the end of Spanish rule. There were several revolutionary phases and changes of government in Mexico. Distant California was increasingly developing an infrastructure and populace ready for independence. In the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s California was growing into independence. Alta California was ceded by the Mexican Government after the Mexican-American war.
The Mexican Government required that immigrants be Catholic in its distant territories. The desire for religious freedom for Protestant would have been an underlying cause to revolt against a neo-theocratic joint political power. Since the Inquisition Spanish government authorities had worked very closely with church hierarchy.
In Texas, German immigrants actually made a fairly substantial purchase payment of land from Commanches in order to settle disputed land claims in the hill country.
The Republic of Texas had absolutely no obligation to recognize the claims of sovereignty of the first Mexican Empire over its territory. The first Mexican Empire was a deal cut by the Mexican revolutionary leaders with the government of Spain. Spain was having its own problems at the time with Napoleon. The Mexicans agreed that a joint government would be formed with a leader appointed by Spain, the Houser of Bourbon, The Habsburgs or whomever (I need to research that).
The Texans had not obligation to recognize the New Mexican Empire at all. When New Spain existed the legitimacy of the government was without question from a western point of view, although it was of course undesirable and oppressive to the Indian population. The quality of the government is not at issue here, nor is its oppressive caste system.
The New Mexican Empire was short-lived and replaced by the First Mexican republic that existed until a coup that put Bustamente in the office of President between 1830-1832 and 1837 and 1841. Texans had no obligation to recognize any of these governments as rightfully sovereign over Texas. With the principle of self-determination, California and Arizona neither had any legal obligation to recognize the claims of any government following the end of New Spain. When the Soviet Union ended, several nations sought independence and claimed such. It basically was their power and will for separation that provided the opportunity to claim independence as peers of core Soviet States such as Russia.
General Santa Ana cancelled the Mexican Federal Constitution in 1835 and the people of Coahuila y Tejas and the Yucatan revolted. The Texans of course were successful at asserting their Independence though General Santa Ana led a force personally to annihilate the insurgents at the Alamo. Captured later in the war he granted Texas recognition as an independent Republic in exchange for his freedom. The ensuing Mexican Government proclamation disavowed the assertion of liberty.
An earlier Mexican government following independence issued land grants to citizens of the United States. In the absence of Spanish imperial forces the New Mexican Government believed that Americans would better defend their territory against Comanches. (see wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mexico#After_Independence_.281821-1846.29
The Governments of Mexico following the revolution from New Spain were no more legitimate than their ability to assert political control through force over subject peoples. Those governments revolted upon themselves on several occasions through coup d’etat changing form and personnel.
Initially Spanish priests that had lost cash and land through a Spanish confiscation order led the Mexican Revolution. Deprived of their wealth Father Hidalgo and later Father Morelos led Indian armies to war upon Spanish regulars. They were not ultimately successful, yet they paved the road to revolution for Guerrero and other in 1921.
When governments are perennial corrupt, distant, out of touch, imperious and ineffective it is a duty of the people to effectively take whatever means are required to rectify the situation and install a representative government with the consent of the governed.
When the Texas Republic petitioned the United States to become a state and was admitted Mexican military forces invaded and attacked Fort Texas. The following Mexican war with the United States brought Ulysses S. Grant to battle in the border region as an observing supply officer. It was his first bloody experience in combat with an invading, oppressive power. He stayed with Thorton far into Mexico, and is said to have commanded an artillery battery on the final fight into Mexico City to enforce a regime change or surrender to place people that would not attack the United States into power. Today, human smuggling gangs have arisen in Mexican border towns specializing in bringing middle easterners into the U.S.A. In 2007 I.N.S. officers reportedly arrested 70 in one group in rural Arizona and are said to have allowed another 500 to escape.
As wealth is being concentrated in the United States and the elites are increasingly globalists seeking to degrade the quality of life of ordinary Americans in order to more like the Mexican ruling elites it may be useful to review the historical evolution of revolution and rights of liberty of the state of Texas and also consider briefly Mexico, Arizona and California.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/mexicanamericanwar/a/MexicanCause.htm
There is a basic principle in the history of revolutions against governments that are successful that the new government formed has legitimacy through its ability to dominate its claimed territory and hold it. It must also receive recognition by other national governments in order to receive whatever sort of security that exists in such peer consideration.
California as a colony of New Spain experienced an increase in non-Spanish trade and visitors toward the end of Spanish rule. There were several revolutionary phases and changes of government in Mexico. Distant California was increasingly developing an infrastructure and populace ready for independence. In the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s California was growing into independence. Alta California was ceded by the Mexican Government after the Mexican-American war.
The Mexican Government required that immigrants be Catholic in its distant territories. The desire for religious freedom for Protestant would have been an underlying cause to revolt against a neo-theocratic joint political power. Since the Inquisition Spanish government authorities had worked very closely with church hierarchy.
In Texas, German immigrants actually made a fairly substantial purchase payment of land from Commanches in order to settle disputed land claims in the hill country.
The Republic of Texas had absolutely no obligation to recognize the claims of sovereignty of the first Mexican Empire over its territory. The first Mexican Empire was a deal cut by the Mexican revolutionary leaders with the government of Spain. Spain was having its own problems at the time with Napoleon. The Mexicans agreed that a joint government would be formed with a leader appointed by Spain, the Houser of Bourbon, The Habsburgs or whomever (I need to research that).
The Texans had not obligation to recognize the New Mexican Empire at all. When New Spain existed the legitimacy of the government was without question from a western point of view, although it was of course undesirable and oppressive to the Indian population. The quality of the government is not at issue here, nor is its oppressive caste system.
The New Mexican Empire was short-lived and replaced by the First Mexican republic that existed until a coup that put Bustamente in the office of President between 1830-1832 and 1837 and 1841. Texans had no obligation to recognize any of these governments as rightfully sovereign over Texas. With the principle of self-determination, California and Arizona neither had any legal obligation to recognize the claims of any government following the end of New Spain. When the Soviet Union ended, several nations sought independence and claimed such. It basically was their power and will for separation that provided the opportunity to claim independence as peers of core Soviet States such as Russia.
General Santa Ana cancelled the Mexican Federal Constitution in 1835 and the people of Coahuila y Tejas and the Yucatan revolted. The Texans of course were successful at asserting their Independence though General Santa Ana led a force personally to annihilate the insurgents at the Alamo. Captured later in the war he granted Texas recognition as an independent Republic in exchange for his freedom. The ensuing Mexican Government proclamation disavowed the assertion of liberty.
An earlier Mexican government following independence issued land grants to citizens of the United States. In the absence of Spanish imperial forces the New Mexican Government believed that Americans would better defend their territory against Comanches. (see wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mexico#After_Independence_.281821-1846.29
The Governments of Mexico following the revolution from New Spain were no more legitimate than their ability to assert political control through force over subject peoples. Those governments revolted upon themselves on several occasions through coup d’etat changing form and personnel.
Initially Spanish priests that had lost cash and land through a Spanish confiscation order led the Mexican Revolution. Deprived of their wealth Father Hidalgo and later Father Morelos led Indian armies to war upon Spanish regulars. They were not ultimately successful, yet they paved the road to revolution for Guerrero and other in 1921.
When governments are perennial corrupt, distant, out of touch, imperious and ineffective it is a duty of the people to effectively take whatever means are required to rectify the situation and install a representative government with the consent of the governed.
When the Texas Republic petitioned the United States to become a state and was admitted Mexican military forces invaded and attacked Fort Texas. The following Mexican war with the United States brought Ulysses S. Grant to battle in the border region as an observing supply officer. It was his first bloody experience in combat with an invading, oppressive power. He stayed with Thorton far into Mexico, and is said to have commanded an artillery battery on the final fight into Mexico City to enforce a regime change or surrender to place people that would not attack the United States into power. Today, human smuggling gangs have arisen in Mexican border towns specializing in bringing middle easterners into the U.S.A. In 2007 I.N.S. officers reportedly arrested 70 in one group in rural Arizona and are said to have allowed another 500 to escape.
9/26/10
Muhammad Ali Jinnah- First President of Muslim League/Gov. General of Pakistan
In the year 711 the first Mohammadan invaders roared through the Khyber Pass and descended into the Indian Subcontinent to conquer the land of district Sind. On 9-11 an two hijacked Aircraft crashed into New York's World Trade Towers and crash the largest symbols of the land of sin to the ground. A decade later a heavily financed group of Mohammadans sought to build a Muslim Cultural Center in the shadows of the Towers their co-religionists had destroyed. The pure land (the meaning of the word Pakistan) is an ideal of Deobandists, Wahaabists and other fundamentalist Mohammadans. In accord wth lands of the kfirs that are regarded as the Dar al Harb or land of war with infidels, the Muslim advance must start somewhere.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the leader of the Indian Muslim seperatist and independence movement. He was the first Muslim delegate to the New Government of India the British created early in the 20th century and soon quit to become leader of the Muslim seperatist movement. Jinnah was also the first Governor General of Pakistan after seperation in 1947.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jinnah_mohammad_ali.shtml
Jinnah and countless other Mohammadans or Mussulmen as they called themselves the five provinces that would become Pakistan wrote and made speeches on the fact that Mohammadanism and Hinduism were not religions so much as culltures, and that the two cultures were fundamentally entirely unreconcilable. Pakistan was founded upon the profound recognition of religious intolerance and the uncompatability of the Muslim religion with that of other.
The 20th century leaders of the Muslim independence movement wrote that repression of the Shria is unacceptable to Muslims, and that the evolution of the umma or realm alllegiant to Mohammad and Allah is an emergent, this worldly process unlike Christianity with its belief that this world is wicked. Christians it was said look forward to heaven and meekly attend churches, while Muslims may agitate until rule of Shria is accomplished. Thus the lying and killing normative in the advancing waves of Muslim expansion into new modern nations is acceptable with the Koran and immams in order to create a world molded after the fundamental power of those allegiant to Mohammadanism.
The intention to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero is an obvious affront of power to the city of New York as well as the people of the United States as well as a start at subverting the secular government of the United States. Nothing like that should occur perhaps even if the federal debt becomes entirely unmanagable because of reckless tax cuts, protracted incompetent spending in the military policy of Afghanistan and the national budget suffers because of fossil fuel imports and non-electric car imports.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jinnah_mohammad_ali.shtml
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the leader of the Indian Muslim seperatist and independence movement. He was the first Muslim delegate to the New Government of India the British created early in the 20th century and soon quit to become leader of the Muslim seperatist movement. Jinnah was also the first Governor General of Pakistan after seperation in 1947.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jinnah_mohammad_ali.shtml
Jinnah and countless other Mohammadans or Mussulmen as they called themselves the five provinces that would become Pakistan wrote and made speeches on the fact that Mohammadanism and Hinduism were not religions so much as culltures, and that the two cultures were fundamentally entirely unreconcilable. Pakistan was founded upon the profound recognition of religious intolerance and the uncompatability of the Muslim religion with that of other.
The 20th century leaders of the Muslim independence movement wrote that repression of the Shria is unacceptable to Muslims, and that the evolution of the umma or realm alllegiant to Mohammad and Allah is an emergent, this worldly process unlike Christianity with its belief that this world is wicked. Christians it was said look forward to heaven and meekly attend churches, while Muslims may agitate until rule of Shria is accomplished. Thus the lying and killing normative in the advancing waves of Muslim expansion into new modern nations is acceptable with the Koran and immams in order to create a world molded after the fundamental power of those allegiant to Mohammadanism.
The intention to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero is an obvious affront of power to the city of New York as well as the people of the United States as well as a start at subverting the secular government of the United States. Nothing like that should occur perhaps even if the federal debt becomes entirely unmanagable because of reckless tax cuts, protracted incompetent spending in the military policy of Afghanistan and the national budget suffers because of fossil fuel imports and non-electric car imports.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jinnah_mohammad_ali.shtml
Ideas About Photons
Photons are an interesting topic. Einstein won a Nobel in 1921 for the photoelectric effect. He should have won another two for the special and general theories of relativity obviously. My ideas about light vary according to what I have been reading recently. Unfortunately I have read a couple of books on Afghanistan and Pakistan most recently and thus am lamenting the political reasoning deficits the U.S. Government has in making foreign policy that is good instead of regarding the nature of light.
Photons are emergent wave-particles of the electrons perhaps comparable to phonons or clumps of sound waves. Some have described the way sound waves travel through walls as perhaps comparable to the way light waves travel through space.
Einstein's revolutionary view of space-time is undergoing theoretical changes today. Though Einstein was a founder of quantum mechanics a lot more is known about the sub-atomic world today. His ideas about space-time and quantum mechanics would certainly differ if he formulated them now.
Why would photons be affected by a curvature of space-time instead of traveling straight through it like a neutrino travels straight through the Earth? Photons may have very small rather than no mass. Gravitational lensing of light from distant stars passing the sun as in Eddington’s observations not only shows that space appears curved in altering the line of travel of photons but reciprocally that photons have some small mass.
Einstein also did not believe anything traveled faster than light. He did not believe in quantum super positioning or entanglement calling it ‘spook action at a distance”. Researchers have demonstrated the existence of quantum super positioning in which information is exchanged between distant quantum particles determining their state repeatedly as occurring. The question exists about how and what actually occurs. The information is exchanged faster than light speed between bound particle pairs.
Some could speculate that the quantum world has no distance or dimensions on the scale of the solid-state scale of physics such as our universe that we humans experience. Others speculate that information is exchanged in a kind of quantum computing way in which all information affects every other part of the universe.
Imagine a million light year long line of billiard balls placed in a perfectly straight line in space. If one pushes the first ball in line one billiard ball diameter forward the last billiard ball in line would simultaneously move forward the same distance. The information would pass from point a at the start of the line to point b at the end faster than light. In a quantum world in which all things exist in some way as part of a monistic state and in which pluralist appears through dimensions and scale are phenomenal it would be possible to have a universal quantum simultaneity of time for information purposes while yet maintaining a protocol of component particle-wave parts in their right relations and potentials.
Yet if a photon is like an energy wave passing through a solid or aether if space is more of a solid than a vacuum, perhaps it could be regarded as emergent phenomena transferring energy rather than a thing for-itself.
Space may be a kind of solid that emerged with energy-mass. If photons are a field phenomenon the field may be expanding along with the expansion of space-time and the photons may be stationary, yet not in comparison to mass.
The speed of light in a vacuum is finite of course. It takes time for a photon to travel from the outer edge of thee sun to the Earth...about eight minutes. Yet photons could be an emergent phenomenon of very low mass kicking adjoining sections of space such that they arrive on Earth. That raises the question of what space is?
It could be that it is simply a form of mass or joined matter and anti-matter in a neutral state. Some of that at the big bang was ruptured and inflated. The continuing expansion of space may be a little like the steady-state theory of Hoyle in so far as space and virtual particle continue to be emitted from a sub-dimensional field. It is difficult to say if space expansion through the emergence of new space components stretches fields existing in it or not--one would probably guess so.
Einstein’s universe is a little strange. His formula E=MC2 gives the ratio of the convertibility of mass to energy. Mass converted to pure energy has the characteristic of forming at the proportion of its original mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Light moving away from itself at its own speed in opposite directions is the basic energetic state.
When I think of energy, I think of it has potential mass, or mass in another form. Energy can be converted into mass and vice versa I believe.
Gravity is propagated at the speed of light also. Gravity acts upon mass. Gravity is an implicit part of the complete phenomena of mass, energy and the speed of light.
Because photons are basic energy in motion they have no mass, if mass might be regarded as a comparative rest state of energy. Photons may have no mass as they have no time on that graph of time and motion where mass has less time with increasing speed of motion relatively.
Because photons are energy and have relatively no mass I think it does not follow that they have no intrinsic mass and are a purely emergent phenomena of mass converted into energy. Compared with everything else that has less energy and speed they have no mass.
Mass not converted to energy traveling through space are said to become infinite accelerated near the speed of light. One would think that mass accelerated through space must be affected by the properties of space while photons are less affected. Space may have properties at the quantum level—I can’t say at what scale of size into which accelerated mass pushes adding gravity or relative mass unto itself as a field phenomena. Photons skip right through that however.
One might guess that photons are something like quantum units entangled at a distance that exchange information at a particular velocity. Quantum entanglement, superpositioned information occurs instantly at any distance faster than light obviously I believe. That super-positioning information is below the scale of space properties in which mass is entangled in a different, larger and slower way. Mass seems like a slower, stable form of energy. I think that I regard mass and energy as just materially existing things generally, although they are different phases of existing things. I therefore also regard photons as having some mass as existing things that are units of energy.
Wavelengths of energy of the electro-magnetic spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet and x-rays are not all visible to human eyes without technical assistance. I do not know if they all travel at the speed of visible light. The excitation of mass converted into energy and traveling as wave-particle analogues through space though affected a little by the properties of space indicates that photons are a low-mass or no-mass wave-particle propagation though a medium, or across a space-field of definite yet unknown properties.
Photons may be like the vibrations of a string given a certain amount of energy converted from mass. The string vibrations occur in a spatial field that limits and governs the mass and energy existing within it. Gravity, mass and energy are basic phenomena of the spatial field.
Photons are emergent wave-particles of the electrons perhaps comparable to phonons or clumps of sound waves. Some have described the way sound waves travel through walls as perhaps comparable to the way light waves travel through space.
Einstein's revolutionary view of space-time is undergoing theoretical changes today. Though Einstein was a founder of quantum mechanics a lot more is known about the sub-atomic world today. His ideas about space-time and quantum mechanics would certainly differ if he formulated them now.
Why would photons be affected by a curvature of space-time instead of traveling straight through it like a neutrino travels straight through the Earth? Photons may have very small rather than no mass. Gravitational lensing of light from distant stars passing the sun as in Eddington’s observations not only shows that space appears curved in altering the line of travel of photons but reciprocally that photons have some small mass.
Einstein also did not believe anything traveled faster than light. He did not believe in quantum super positioning or entanglement calling it ‘spook action at a distance”. Researchers have demonstrated the existence of quantum super positioning in which information is exchanged between distant quantum particles determining their state repeatedly as occurring. The question exists about how and what actually occurs. The information is exchanged faster than light speed between bound particle pairs.
Some could speculate that the quantum world has no distance or dimensions on the scale of the solid-state scale of physics such as our universe that we humans experience. Others speculate that information is exchanged in a kind of quantum computing way in which all information affects every other part of the universe.
Imagine a million light year long line of billiard balls placed in a perfectly straight line in space. If one pushes the first ball in line one billiard ball diameter forward the last billiard ball in line would simultaneously move forward the same distance. The information would pass from point a at the start of the line to point b at the end faster than light. In a quantum world in which all things exist in some way as part of a monistic state and in which pluralist appears through dimensions and scale are phenomenal it would be possible to have a universal quantum simultaneity of time for information purposes while yet maintaining a protocol of component particle-wave parts in their right relations and potentials.
Yet if a photon is like an energy wave passing through a solid or aether if space is more of a solid than a vacuum, perhaps it could be regarded as emergent phenomena transferring energy rather than a thing for-itself.
Space may be a kind of solid that emerged with energy-mass. If photons are a field phenomenon the field may be expanding along with the expansion of space-time and the photons may be stationary, yet not in comparison to mass.
The speed of light in a vacuum is finite of course. It takes time for a photon to travel from the outer edge of thee sun to the Earth...about eight minutes. Yet photons could be an emergent phenomenon of very low mass kicking adjoining sections of space such that they arrive on Earth. That raises the question of what space is?
It could be that it is simply a form of mass or joined matter and anti-matter in a neutral state. Some of that at the big bang was ruptured and inflated. The continuing expansion of space may be a little like the steady-state theory of Hoyle in so far as space and virtual particle continue to be emitted from a sub-dimensional field. It is difficult to say if space expansion through the emergence of new space components stretches fields existing in it or not--one would probably guess so.
Einstein’s universe is a little strange. His formula E=MC2 gives the ratio of the convertibility of mass to energy. Mass converted to pure energy has the characteristic of forming at the proportion of its original mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Light moving away from itself at its own speed in opposite directions is the basic energetic state.
When I think of energy, I think of it has potential mass, or mass in another form. Energy can be converted into mass and vice versa I believe.
Gravity is propagated at the speed of light also. Gravity acts upon mass. Gravity is an implicit part of the complete phenomena of mass, energy and the speed of light.
Because photons are basic energy in motion they have no mass, if mass might be regarded as a comparative rest state of energy. Photons may have no mass as they have no time on that graph of time and motion where mass has less time with increasing speed of motion relatively.
Because photons are energy and have relatively no mass I think it does not follow that they have no intrinsic mass and are a purely emergent phenomena of mass converted into energy. Compared with everything else that has less energy and speed they have no mass.
Mass not converted to energy traveling through space are said to become infinite accelerated near the speed of light. One would think that mass accelerated through space must be affected by the properties of space while photons are less affected. Space may have properties at the quantum level—I can’t say at what scale of size into which accelerated mass pushes adding gravity or relative mass unto itself as a field phenomena. Photons skip right through that however.
One might guess that photons are something like quantum units entangled at a distance that exchange information at a particular velocity. Quantum entanglement, superpositioned information occurs instantly at any distance faster than light obviously I believe. That super-positioning information is below the scale of space properties in which mass is entangled in a different, larger and slower way. Mass seems like a slower, stable form of energy. I think that I regard mass and energy as just materially existing things generally, although they are different phases of existing things. I therefore also regard photons as having some mass as existing things that are units of energy.
Wavelengths of energy of the electro-magnetic spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet and x-rays are not all visible to human eyes without technical assistance. I do not know if they all travel at the speed of visible light. The excitation of mass converted into energy and traveling as wave-particle analogues through space though affected a little by the properties of space indicates that photons are a low-mass or no-mass wave-particle propagation though a medium, or across a space-field of definite yet unknown properties.
Photons may be like the vibrations of a string given a certain amount of energy converted from mass. The string vibrations occur in a spatial field that limits and governs the mass and energy existing within it. Gravity, mass and energy are basic phenomena of the spatial field.
9/24/10
Steve Colbert Supports Cheap Mexican Migrant Labor to Gut Wages/Jobs & Trash Hope of Poor Americans.
Occassionally comical Stephen Colbert testified before congress in support of Mexican migrant workers picking his fruits and nuts. Mexicans can get down and do the dirty work for the U.S. non-physical working class of people pushing papers, electrons and bureaucracies in addition to the financial related services sector.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/?hpt=T2
The comical Steve Colbert believes that foreign workers are needed to process food for Americans. The classical historical maxxim 'Those that will not dirty their hands to grow their own food shall prosper' motivated the comedian to plea before the wealthy government politicians for better conditions and routes to the Presidency with right of return.
Because there are only ten or fifteen percent of U.S. citizens out of work and more underemployed the comedian's timing to advocate for more cheap foreign workers to labor on corporate farms to further destroy the wage negotiations advantage for American workers provided effective assistance to political global elite efforts to concentrate wealth and impoverish more Americans. The comic Colbert is on the side of those that would add more to the 44 million Americans living in poverty.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/?hpt=T2
The comical Steve Colbert believes that foreign workers are needed to process food for Americans. The classical historical maxxim 'Those that will not dirty their hands to grow their own food shall prosper' motivated the comedian to plea before the wealthy government politicians for better conditions and routes to the Presidency with right of return.
Because there are only ten or fifteen percent of U.S. citizens out of work and more underemployed the comedian's timing to advocate for more cheap foreign workers to labor on corporate farms to further destroy the wage negotiations advantage for American workers provided effective assistance to political global elite efforts to concentrate wealth and impoverish more Americans. The comic Colbert is on the side of those that would add more to the 44 million Americans living in poverty.
9/23/10
Causality, Cosmology and Christianity
Human perceptions of causal orders were evolved to respond to stimulus commensurate with the environment. I do not think that knowledge of causality is a part of the implicit natural environmental complex perceived.
Arthus Schopenhuer in his book of neo-Kantianism 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' noted some of the ways that perception is modified by reason and he used the example of depth perception. The mind must learn to integrate that binocular vision into a three dimensional portrait and then it become automatic.
Causality such as science learns is a cumulative social process. Epistemology and perception is obviously one of the perennial philosophical concerns. Modern science simply adds more knowledge to that database. Interestingly philosophical classification and assignment of causes or relationships within a neo-monistic field of uncertain pluralistic composition extending these days into speculation about extra-dimensions even might have a paradigm sharing overlapping set characteristics with Quine's ideas on linguistic arrangements in the Dewey lectures and published as’ Ontological Relativity'.
I don't mean to say that physical cosmology is a linguistic categorization process at all, I simply point out that incompleteness in logical descriptions of event-processes in the 'material' universe make reduction to any given selected area rather arbitrary and implicitly likely to be in error or inaccuracy. Where does one decide to cut off the causes and break them up into little, separate causes? It reminds me of the particle versus wave criterion of photons for example. Everything may be a part of some larger whole or cause, and the temporal view of things as extemporaneous things-for-themselves may be just because we as human beings are standing in some place watching the experience pass relativisticly as a nominalistic phenomenon.
Causality in some ways may be equated with physical forces of nature, though I noted above that laws of nature might be just consistent measurements of particular relationships that recur invariantly (per R. Laughlin).
If the weak force is found to be associated with another force such as electro-magnetism and is then the electro-weak force, if the virtual energy of the Universe is found to be a source of gravity because of the way it is effected by mass that creates an apparent warping of space (though space is better regarding as a kind of solid), our ideas of causality may be in error, and the ideas we have regarding sequence of events differs from what the causes of certain events are.
If the tides rise and fall associated with the moon and we don't know about gravity living in the year 1000 B.C. then correlation of the movement of water with the moon would be the best we could do. I would guess that someone sometime must have postulated that the moon was attracted to the Earth by the arrival of the water locally rather than speculating along the lines of Newton on gravity. It is easy to mistake the order of events with causes of events.
The causes of the existence of the Earth were quite contentious in many regards over the centuries when theorists with opposite points of view disputed them. The mistaking of the order of events with the causality of events occurs in politics all the time especially with contemporary macro-economic analysis and public debt in the United States.
I think that Robert Laughlin mentioned about the natural world of human perception (for example we only perceive a limited range of the electro-magnetic spectrum) that at a collective level the responses to that collective or concatenated physical level of protocol are appropriate for that particular context.
Perhaps that morphs into the concepts about Deism a little regarding causality--I don't regard Deism or a disconnect of God's power or omnipotence as an especially contemporarily viable context, and alternatively, I do not mean that an implication that a collective or concatenated state of the physical universe is continuously or occasionally changed by Divine intercession. Not because of Calvinism, yet neither in distinction to it, the deterministic nature of God's creative provenance allows a simultaneous belief that God pre determined everything yet did not create and forget about the Universe.
We have fairly plain prophetic messages in the Bible that make a determinist criterion nearly the inevitable interpretation of the phenomenal universe. Yet one may also belief that the degrees of free of movement and thought are also actual. The deterministic selections of probability, as Laughlin might have written about analogously, within a given quantum state, may be free locally yet when viewed in a larger sample seem deterministic or ordered.
Arthus Schopenhuer in his book of neo-Kantianism 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' noted some of the ways that perception is modified by reason and he used the example of depth perception. The mind must learn to integrate that binocular vision into a three dimensional portrait and then it become automatic.
Causality such as science learns is a cumulative social process. Epistemology and perception is obviously one of the perennial philosophical concerns. Modern science simply adds more knowledge to that database. Interestingly philosophical classification and assignment of causes or relationships within a neo-monistic field of uncertain pluralistic composition extending these days into speculation about extra-dimensions even might have a paradigm sharing overlapping set characteristics with Quine's ideas on linguistic arrangements in the Dewey lectures and published as’ Ontological Relativity'.
I don't mean to say that physical cosmology is a linguistic categorization process at all, I simply point out that incompleteness in logical descriptions of event-processes in the 'material' universe make reduction to any given selected area rather arbitrary and implicitly likely to be in error or inaccuracy. Where does one decide to cut off the causes and break them up into little, separate causes? It reminds me of the particle versus wave criterion of photons for example. Everything may be a part of some larger whole or cause, and the temporal view of things as extemporaneous things-for-themselves may be just because we as human beings are standing in some place watching the experience pass relativisticly as a nominalistic phenomenon.
Causality in some ways may be equated with physical forces of nature, though I noted above that laws of nature might be just consistent measurements of particular relationships that recur invariantly (per R. Laughlin).
If the weak force is found to be associated with another force such as electro-magnetism and is then the electro-weak force, if the virtual energy of the Universe is found to be a source of gravity because of the way it is effected by mass that creates an apparent warping of space (though space is better regarding as a kind of solid), our ideas of causality may be in error, and the ideas we have regarding sequence of events differs from what the causes of certain events are.
If the tides rise and fall associated with the moon and we don't know about gravity living in the year 1000 B.C. then correlation of the movement of water with the moon would be the best we could do. I would guess that someone sometime must have postulated that the moon was attracted to the Earth by the arrival of the water locally rather than speculating along the lines of Newton on gravity. It is easy to mistake the order of events with causes of events.
The causes of the existence of the Earth were quite contentious in many regards over the centuries when theorists with opposite points of view disputed them. The mistaking of the order of events with the causality of events occurs in politics all the time especially with contemporary macro-economic analysis and public debt in the United States.
I think that Robert Laughlin mentioned about the natural world of human perception (for example we only perceive a limited range of the electro-magnetic spectrum) that at a collective level the responses to that collective or concatenated physical level of protocol are appropriate for that particular context.
Perhaps that morphs into the concepts about Deism a little regarding causality--I don't regard Deism or a disconnect of God's power or omnipotence as an especially contemporarily viable context, and alternatively, I do not mean that an implication that a collective or concatenated state of the physical universe is continuously or occasionally changed by Divine intercession. Not because of Calvinism, yet neither in distinction to it, the deterministic nature of God's creative provenance allows a simultaneous belief that God pre determined everything yet did not create and forget about the Universe.
We have fairly plain prophetic messages in the Bible that make a determinist criterion nearly the inevitable interpretation of the phenomenal universe. Yet one may also belief that the degrees of free of movement and thought are also actual. The deterministic selections of probability, as Laughlin might have written about analogously, within a given quantum state, may be free locally yet when viewed in a larger sample seem deterministic or ordered.
Why Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party Fail Common Sense Economics
The Democratic Party of President Barrack Obama has become more dominated by anti-morality issues than of common sense economics. Some regard the Democrats as the Gay Party or the Party of Abortion,and many democrats would not vote for any party that does not regard those as essential issues.
When the democrats lost their economic issue prioritizing as shifted to anti-morality and atheism the L.B.J. and Tip O'Neil era economic competition to Republicans was lost. The economic innovations of Richard M. Nixon simply will not arise in a modern Republican who have developed globalism as a priority in order to concentrate wealth for the financial elites. Ronald Reagan's one-off/not to be repeated deficit spending and budget breaking extreme unction neo-Keynsianism has become the normal state of affairs for Lillyputian economic theorists. This is not a good situation.
When the Democrats lost morality they lost economic interest as Democrats as well and the Republican Party became the shelter for those of traditional morality, yet the financial elites could take the economic interests of the poor and middle class for granted because the morally inclined would have nowhere else to go. To vote for a Democratic President was to vote for abortion and homosexuallity-many Americans would rather let America have concentrated wealth and a vast number of poor uninsured Americans rather than vote to gay up marriage and the military.
Conversely, many Democrats would rather gay up marriage and the military than have a concern about the economic situation of the poor in the United States. Democrats as a party of anti-morality atheist middle-class feminists support the perennial revolution of illegal alien immigration with paths to citizenship because they aren't poor white or black males suffering from a perennially soft labor demand because of over-supply.
Democrats are the last to be affected by illegal immigrant labor and so just don't give a damn about stopping that flow for good. They aren't white or black males and should be Democrat Party supporters for a generation or two, they think.
The Tea Party operates with the wrong idea that cutting taxes and federal spending simultaneously will balance the budget or pay down the federal deficit. Actually to avoid a protracted losing economic scenario the U.S.A. should let the Bush tax cuts lapse, cut some federal spending and make a goal of reducing the federal debt to 8 trillion dollars instead of the present of 13.4 trillion dollars. The interest on the debt is a serious, progressive waste that soaks up capital that could be better invested elsewhere.
The economic policies of the Tea Party, The Republican Party and the Democratic Party fail common sense economics that would restore financial well being to all of the citizens of the United States from the bottom up. The willingness of ignorant prosperous citizens to accept a social philosophy that 'the poor will always be with us-so screw them' or an economic determinism making an inevitability of poverty is the result of pervasive ignorance and brain lock phenomena arising when the Occam's razor of economic intelligence indicates that one need not learn of experience of others or think much about anything beyond one's own immediate material interests.
Poverty is not a necessary condition for a democracy nor a benefit to general increase of the ecological and economic quality of life of a nation. Vestigial retro-economics-hoary, ancient classical economic thinking was brought into the 20th century via the principle of mediocrity in politics. It can and should change.
The U.S. public debt is rising more than 4 billion dollars each day (and has since 2007).
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
http://www.federalbudget.com/
When the democrats lost their economic issue prioritizing as shifted to anti-morality and atheism the L.B.J. and Tip O'Neil era economic competition to Republicans was lost. The economic innovations of Richard M. Nixon simply will not arise in a modern Republican who have developed globalism as a priority in order to concentrate wealth for the financial elites. Ronald Reagan's one-off/not to be repeated deficit spending and budget breaking extreme unction neo-Keynsianism has become the normal state of affairs for Lillyputian economic theorists. This is not a good situation.
When the Democrats lost morality they lost economic interest as Democrats as well and the Republican Party became the shelter for those of traditional morality, yet the financial elites could take the economic interests of the poor and middle class for granted because the morally inclined would have nowhere else to go. To vote for a Democratic President was to vote for abortion and homosexuallity-many Americans would rather let America have concentrated wealth and a vast number of poor uninsured Americans rather than vote to gay up marriage and the military.
Conversely, many Democrats would rather gay up marriage and the military than have a concern about the economic situation of the poor in the United States. Democrats as a party of anti-morality atheist middle-class feminists support the perennial revolution of illegal alien immigration with paths to citizenship because they aren't poor white or black males suffering from a perennially soft labor demand because of over-supply.
Democrats are the last to be affected by illegal immigrant labor and so just don't give a damn about stopping that flow for good. They aren't white or black males and should be Democrat Party supporters for a generation or two, they think.
The Tea Party operates with the wrong idea that cutting taxes and federal spending simultaneously will balance the budget or pay down the federal deficit. Actually to avoid a protracted losing economic scenario the U.S.A. should let the Bush tax cuts lapse, cut some federal spending and make a goal of reducing the federal debt to 8 trillion dollars instead of the present of 13.4 trillion dollars. The interest on the debt is a serious, progressive waste that soaks up capital that could be better invested elsewhere.
The economic policies of the Tea Party, The Republican Party and the Democratic Party fail common sense economics that would restore financial well being to all of the citizens of the United States from the bottom up. The willingness of ignorant prosperous citizens to accept a social philosophy that 'the poor will always be with us-so screw them' or an economic determinism making an inevitability of poverty is the result of pervasive ignorance and brain lock phenomena arising when the Occam's razor of economic intelligence indicates that one need not learn of experience of others or think much about anything beyond one's own immediate material interests.
Poverty is not a necessary condition for a democracy nor a benefit to general increase of the ecological and economic quality of life of a nation. Vestigial retro-economics-hoary, ancient classical economic thinking was brought into the 20th century via the principle of mediocrity in politics. It can and should change.
The U.S. public debt is rising more than 4 billion dollars each day (and has since 2007).
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
http://www.federalbudget.com/
9/22/10
Senate Defeats Bill to Make U.S. Openly Godless By Four Votes
The U.S. Senate Tuesday voted down a bill that would have allowed homosexuals to serve in the military openly. In a sense the Senate just had a substantial enough minority to keep the United States from becoming an openly Godless evil empire. Civil structures ought not, and need not to be in plain contradiction of Biblical truths. Society should be able to function without legislation that seems in defiance of the moral instructions of the Creator of the Universe and everything else. The truths we hold self-evident as are written in the Declaration should be consistent with God rather than in opposition to.
56 Democrats voted for a pro-homo U.S. military, 43 Republicans voted against and since the Democrats required 60 votes to avoid a filibuster the Republican dissent to depravity was enough.
I listened to an NPR reporter in Kandehar today. She was wearing a Burka and interviewing two guys in a coffee house upstairs with a view through plate glass windows of the street below. They wore starched clothes and said they wanted to be doctors. They were youths when the Taleban was evicted and fled over the border nearly a decade ago. Perhaps they avoided exploitation by the Taleban—in fact they expressed admiration for them. . It may yet be unsafe to do otherwise publicly.
The United State has foreign and domestic challenges with complex and subtle interaction solutions. Any old policy choice will not inevitably be the right one. U.S. foreign and domestic policy hasn’t a kind of papal infallibility to it (the Popes gave up that p0remise decades ago). Ecological economics and conservation of moral and boundary values are important for keeping the nation in good shape.
Schultheis said that Kandehar is known throughout Afghanistan as the homosexually inclined place. He reported a couple of jokes told about the place he had heard. Kandehar was a strong point for the Taleban when they were in power of most of Afghanistan, and of course Schultheis had reported on the dark undercurrents of homosexual pederasty of the Sunni 'religious students'.
The subtleties of Afghanistan are substantial, yet what concerns me most recently is U.S. lack of tactical recognition of Iran's Shi'a position as a nation between Pakistan and its radical Sunni I.S.I. terrorist supporting military armed with nuclear weapons on one side and Saudi Arabia as the center of Wahhabism and its 70 billion dollar most recent purchase of U.S. weapons besides perhaps owning a nuclear device or two quietly on the other. Well there is also Iraq with its invasive history as well as Afghanistan with Shi'a hating Taleban and a Pushtun majority government from which we have mostly helped exclude the non Sunni Northern Alliance from being a meaningful part.
Iran may feel that they need to develop a nuclear deterrent to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia or possible Iraq also at one time. George W. Bush At least believed Iraq was developing nuclear weapons so Iran’s rulers may have thought so too.
U.S. foreign policy since the fall of the Shah-the world's possibly last absolute monarch whom we unwisely helped put in power and then reinforced royally, has been heavily biased toward the Sunni wherein most of the worlds Muslim fundamentalist terrorists have arisen (though the Shi'a are competitive though second in a two-sect division.
The next administration may take the confusion in a different direction.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday against ending the policy of not permitting openly gay declarations in the U.S. military. Hopefully that the end of the ill-conceived effort to gay up the military.
The U.S. homosexual lobby seems to be unaware that it need not attack and expropriate heterosexual normal U.S. institution to achieve civil rights party. They are not African human chattel in America seeking to be free from slavery, instead they are biologically defective souls that have moved to homosexuality and seek to make that a norm by erasing heterosexuality.
Consider a military branch of its own of homosexuals. It could be named the Fagot Force, or Unisex Warriors or whatever.
The hetero males and females in mostly separate divisions for combat purposes would be on fundamentally the same biological clocks, periods of celibacy, determination to get the war done and go somewhere to rendezvous with there spouse (if they are moral). Meanwhile the Faggot Force with its own tanks and aircraft might be having sex within its own cadre at various times behind this bush or that. Sex might be traded as ways of promotions and few would complain to the civilian government about illicit sex that would become normal.
If male and female units slept together and served together in combat units all sorts of paring arrangement problems would arise, and of course jealousies would develop.
Part of the military discipline involving sexual morality probably is to prevent trained killers with access to high power weapons from just blasting a unit to death in revenge for things related to sex. Military officers of ages past were occasionally famous for dueling over honor concerning ladies in more than one nation (i.e. Russia). Issues such as adultery and cuckolding brought out the guns.
Homosexual militants just don't usually think out their methods of subverting civil rights of others politically too well. There are some soldiers that would not want to sleep with gays perhaps lusting after them. Inevitably some violence would occur and unit cohesiveness degraded. Homosexuals need only assert their own individual rights as citizens rather than ending heterosexual establishment to be camouflaged and get monetary benefits.
Another issue of concern some citizens have is that of the U.S. Government giving official sanction to sin. Homosexuality is sin and some God-fearing believers feel that if the U.S.A. becomes an officially reprobate nation pro forma it will receive divine correction. I personally agree with that concern. The right to privacy covers many sins-hence the secular genius of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.
Social benefits should be based upon individual needs and security with the exception of families that sometimes need some breaks cause they just cannot afford to go broke even for a while. If the homosexual lobby worked to assure health care for the poor, secure borders and a good environment and economy for all citizens then they would find their own interests taken care of in a more secure environment even if they are not poofed into happy heterosexual verisimilitudes.
56 Democrats voted for a pro-homo U.S. military, 43 Republicans voted against and since the Democrats required 60 votes to avoid a filibuster the Republican dissent to depravity was enough.
I listened to an NPR reporter in Kandehar today. She was wearing a Burka and interviewing two guys in a coffee house upstairs with a view through plate glass windows of the street below. They wore starched clothes and said they wanted to be doctors. They were youths when the Taleban was evicted and fled over the border nearly a decade ago. Perhaps they avoided exploitation by the Taleban—in fact they expressed admiration for them. . It may yet be unsafe to do otherwise publicly.
The United State has foreign and domestic challenges with complex and subtle interaction solutions. Any old policy choice will not inevitably be the right one. U.S. foreign and domestic policy hasn’t a kind of papal infallibility to it (the Popes gave up that p0remise decades ago). Ecological economics and conservation of moral and boundary values are important for keeping the nation in good shape.
Schultheis said that Kandehar is known throughout Afghanistan as the homosexually inclined place. He reported a couple of jokes told about the place he had heard. Kandehar was a strong point for the Taleban when they were in power of most of Afghanistan, and of course Schultheis had reported on the dark undercurrents of homosexual pederasty of the Sunni 'religious students'.
The subtleties of Afghanistan are substantial, yet what concerns me most recently is U.S. lack of tactical recognition of Iran's Shi'a position as a nation between Pakistan and its radical Sunni I.S.I. terrorist supporting military armed with nuclear weapons on one side and Saudi Arabia as the center of Wahhabism and its 70 billion dollar most recent purchase of U.S. weapons besides perhaps owning a nuclear device or two quietly on the other. Well there is also Iraq with its invasive history as well as Afghanistan with Shi'a hating Taleban and a Pushtun majority government from which we have mostly helped exclude the non Sunni Northern Alliance from being a meaningful part.
Iran may feel that they need to develop a nuclear deterrent to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia or possible Iraq also at one time. George W. Bush At least believed Iraq was developing nuclear weapons so Iran’s rulers may have thought so too.
U.S. foreign policy since the fall of the Shah-the world's possibly last absolute monarch whom we unwisely helped put in power and then reinforced royally, has been heavily biased toward the Sunni wherein most of the worlds Muslim fundamentalist terrorists have arisen (though the Shi'a are competitive though second in a two-sect division.
The next administration may take the confusion in a different direction.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday against ending the policy of not permitting openly gay declarations in the U.S. military. Hopefully that the end of the ill-conceived effort to gay up the military.
The U.S. homosexual lobby seems to be unaware that it need not attack and expropriate heterosexual normal U.S. institution to achieve civil rights party. They are not African human chattel in America seeking to be free from slavery, instead they are biologically defective souls that have moved to homosexuality and seek to make that a norm by erasing heterosexuality.
Consider a military branch of its own of homosexuals. It could be named the Fagot Force, or Unisex Warriors or whatever.
The hetero males and females in mostly separate divisions for combat purposes would be on fundamentally the same biological clocks, periods of celibacy, determination to get the war done and go somewhere to rendezvous with there spouse (if they are moral). Meanwhile the Faggot Force with its own tanks and aircraft might be having sex within its own cadre at various times behind this bush or that. Sex might be traded as ways of promotions and few would complain to the civilian government about illicit sex that would become normal.
If male and female units slept together and served together in combat units all sorts of paring arrangement problems would arise, and of course jealousies would develop.
Part of the military discipline involving sexual morality probably is to prevent trained killers with access to high power weapons from just blasting a unit to death in revenge for things related to sex. Military officers of ages past were occasionally famous for dueling over honor concerning ladies in more than one nation (i.e. Russia). Issues such as adultery and cuckolding brought out the guns.
Homosexual militants just don't usually think out their methods of subverting civil rights of others politically too well. There are some soldiers that would not want to sleep with gays perhaps lusting after them. Inevitably some violence would occur and unit cohesiveness degraded. Homosexuals need only assert their own individual rights as citizens rather than ending heterosexual establishment to be camouflaged and get monetary benefits.
Another issue of concern some citizens have is that of the U.S. Government giving official sanction to sin. Homosexuality is sin and some God-fearing believers feel that if the U.S.A. becomes an officially reprobate nation pro forma it will receive divine correction. I personally agree with that concern. The right to privacy covers many sins-hence the secular genius of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.
Social benefits should be based upon individual needs and security with the exception of families that sometimes need some breaks cause they just cannot afford to go broke even for a while. If the homosexual lobby worked to assure health care for the poor, secure borders and a good environment and economy for all citizens then they would find their own interests taken care of in a more secure environment even if they are not poofed into happy heterosexual verisimilitudes.
9/17/10
Physical Cosmology; Theology and Solid State of Uncertainty on Emergent Collective Characteristics
I am a bit remote from recollecting much of the history of Scholasticism and continental theology presently having worn out my Coppleston's History of Philosophy in Alaska a few years ago and migrated towards logic, cosmology and secular history and other topics inclusive of the New Testament. I remain a bit of a Toynbean and consider cyclic social history and low-entropy economics.I have considered buying McGee's 'The Bible Bus' on cd in order to reinforce a plain, Biblically based knowledge of old testament concepts.
I appreciate the scholastic investigation into causality, yet like the neo-Platonist method as well as a fell swoop method of inference about God's constructions that perhaps grace divulges. Yet presently reading Laughlin's 'A Different Universe-reinventing physics from the bottom down' I have derived some different ideas about group theory and of course causality.
The three persons that are one God is an interesting collective-singularity criterion for God that has an emergent characteristic itself perhaps negating the need for a causal explanation or reduction of cause and effect to one ponderous infinitely small particle that arose from nowhere. Perhaps Stephen Hawking would appreciate the collective as one nature of God concept of an omnipotent being that has no need for a point of origin in eternity. Stephen Hawking hypothesizes a universe that could arise de novo without diving help-perhaps because of quantum fluctuations of a vacuum energy assembling through attraction into a clump of mass large enough to expand through a phase transition of mass-energy repulsion (that may be something like the Hartle-Hawking Universe without a singularity in time merger into being with a dimension of space becoming a dimension of time.)
Robert Laughlin is not of course writing theology or divine mechanics contributions but just a different method of viewing solid state physics and quantum mechanics. I hence directly apply what I learn to the concepts about God and our relationship to His Universe and what it is.
I believe that when the emergent characteristics point of view of solid state physics is applied to cosmology and even teleology along with an awareness of the Galilean-Newtonian way of mechanics as of secondary importance to theology, the Plotinian concept of The One (God) may also be changed to be consistent to a collectivist unity as one without need for a causal reduction in time to one point explained.
God is not ultimately reducible to one particular point or grid coordinate with a place in time and with a first cause perhaps. Maybe modern physics is moving along with a parallel development about the causality of the Universe and the philosophical classification structure of mechanics.
Rigorous cause and effect structures of associated history such as would satisfy David Hume are not inconsistent with the divine attributes of omnipotence.Causality or observed changes in physical systems at a collective level are not invariably easy to reconcile with either quantum mechanics or divine causality.
I appreciate the scholastic investigation into causality, yet like the neo-Platonist method as well as a fell swoop method of inference about God's constructions that perhaps grace divulges. Yet presently reading Laughlin's 'A Different Universe-reinventing physics from the bottom down' I have derived some different ideas about group theory and of course causality.
The three persons that are one God is an interesting collective-singularity criterion for God that has an emergent characteristic itself perhaps negating the need for a causal explanation or reduction of cause and effect to one ponderous infinitely small particle that arose from nowhere. Perhaps Stephen Hawking would appreciate the collective as one nature of God concept of an omnipotent being that has no need for a point of origin in eternity. Stephen Hawking hypothesizes a universe that could arise de novo without diving help-perhaps because of quantum fluctuations of a vacuum energy assembling through attraction into a clump of mass large enough to expand through a phase transition of mass-energy repulsion (that may be something like the Hartle-Hawking Universe without a singularity in time merger into being with a dimension of space becoming a dimension of time.)
Robert Laughlin is not of course writing theology or divine mechanics contributions but just a different method of viewing solid state physics and quantum mechanics. I hence directly apply what I learn to the concepts about God and our relationship to His Universe and what it is.
I believe that when the emergent characteristics point of view of solid state physics is applied to cosmology and even teleology along with an awareness of the Galilean-Newtonian way of mechanics as of secondary importance to theology, the Plotinian concept of The One (God) may also be changed to be consistent to a collectivist unity as one without need for a causal reduction in time to one point explained.
God is not ultimately reducible to one particular point or grid coordinate with a place in time and with a first cause perhaps. Maybe modern physics is moving along with a parallel development about the causality of the Universe and the philosophical classification structure of mechanics.
Rigorous cause and effect structures of associated history such as would satisfy David Hume are not inconsistent with the divine attributes of omnipotence.Causality or observed changes in physical systems at a collective level are not invariably easy to reconcile with either quantum mechanics or divine causality.
9/15/10
Tea Party Ought to Dump Oil and Get Better, Cheaper Afghanistan Plan
A contemporary Tea Party today should advocate for a halt to fossil fuel use in transportation especially after the BP (a.k.a. British Petroleum) debacle flowing tens of millions of barrels of crude oil into U.S. waters. Motivation to stop the economically debilitating reliance on crude oil to power century old automotive vehicle concepts should be replace by more intelligent technologies for low cost, high quality personal transportation. A status quo can be hard to change in previously successful societies and often become the fin de siecle primer.
The U.S.A. imported 4,267,110,000 barrels of oil in 2009. http://www.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_a.htm
Oil prices averaging about 55-60 dollars per barrel and rising steadily creating an ongoing outflow of disposable income to foreign interests existentially.
For the United States Afghanistan is a long-range financial drain, with more than 300 billion dollars being spent so far and hundreds of billions more anticipated ahead in future years. The U.S.A. lacks a coherent leadership plan to address Afghanistan problem planning for combating terrorism, insurgents, narco-traffickers, ethnic civil conflict and multifarious concepts about how much and what form of government should exist. To cast out the devils occupying Afghanistan and then leave to allow seven worse devils to enter that house would be tragic and a stimulus to terrorism. Neither can the U.S.A. afford to spend more than a third of its present expenditure levels annually on a long-range foreign foundation. Better policy is needed to address the employment problem in Afghanistan as well as the military security needs. Washington tends to spend everything on government workers in one form or another in Afghanistan too. Even with medals and merit pay promotions government workers to commonly have a milieu exclusive of the civil interests of private citizens.
Pakistan’s regional political issues have brought their military and intelligence services to support the Taliban historically. A number of outside powers fund destabilization of Afghanistan—even Saudi Arabia has supported the Taliban financially before. The Tea Party today should form a policy to most effectively change the game toward a positive sum strategy of central Asia instead of simply funding top down government temporal slopping of the area to de frappe formation of terrorist control. A railroad project from the Russian system to Afghanistan enabling Europe and Vladivostok commercial shipment would create many jobs and a lasting business infrastructure connecting the Khyber Pass to the outside world. The U.S.A. should create a physical project of scale with international support and not just leave another dead-end bureaucratic puff of smoke like the space station, Vietnam and so forth. Transformation of existing social structures positively may require real improvements rather than bureaucratic and military spending phenomenalities.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf U.S. anti-terrorism war costs so far
Afghanistan as traditionally done well with limited government. Creating a modern superstructure of government without an underlying economic hull able to support the bureaucracy, police and military force seems implicitly unstable and unable to float for-itself. Bringing a railroad to a frontier changed things in the west with new jobs and development forming along the line, perhaps it could work in Afghanistan too. Construction, commercial and security work might be lasting changes for Afghanistan the United States could afford to help get started.
A modern Tea Party should try to develop solid ideas for stopping all illegal immigration from Mexico in order to compel Mexicans to stay in Mexico and fix their own spinning-out-of-control society developing an insurgency of narco traffickers killing thousands annually. Stopping illegal Mexican immigration will let wage values for cheap labor in the U.S.A. rise and make a demand for low-skilled, unemployed American workers .
A modern Tea Party would coordinate free health care for the poor with an improved V.A. hospital system needed the next few decades to treat the million or more Iraq and Afghanistan vets injured from sundry causes such as suffering post combat stress psych and concussion challenges.
I don’t know if many have thought of this, but Mexico’s able and injured may illegally migrate to the U.S.A. And get free health care at emergency rooms, while the poor and weak tend to remain in Mexico and suffer. If the U.S.A. sealed it border to illegal immigration from Mexico and also created a public health system for the poor, it could also begin a long process of agitating for Mexico to construct a same national health care program for its poor citizens. With illegal immigration the Mexican economy and that of the United States take worst-case development courses with poverty, low wages in each nation, drug and human trafficking and corruption. The default real economic fact is reinforcement for collectivism in corporatist and neo-socialist forms amidst corrupt patronage loops, venality and social stratification with a hard core of poverty, arrested space program material developments and non-renewable economic procedures without low-entropy calculations.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons as does India and potentially Iran one day. U.S. central Asian and subcontinent policy should be forward looking toward getting these nations to support mutual ecologically and economically practical prosperity and reinforce state security.
The U.S.A. imported 4,267,110,000 barrels of oil in 2009. http://www.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_a.htm
Oil prices averaging about 55-60 dollars per barrel and rising steadily creating an ongoing outflow of disposable income to foreign interests existentially.
For the United States Afghanistan is a long-range financial drain, with more than 300 billion dollars being spent so far and hundreds of billions more anticipated ahead in future years. The U.S.A. lacks a coherent leadership plan to address Afghanistan problem planning for combating terrorism, insurgents, narco-traffickers, ethnic civil conflict and multifarious concepts about how much and what form of government should exist. To cast out the devils occupying Afghanistan and then leave to allow seven worse devils to enter that house would be tragic and a stimulus to terrorism. Neither can the U.S.A. afford to spend more than a third of its present expenditure levels annually on a long-range foreign foundation. Better policy is needed to address the employment problem in Afghanistan as well as the military security needs. Washington tends to spend everything on government workers in one form or another in Afghanistan too. Even with medals and merit pay promotions government workers to commonly have a milieu exclusive of the civil interests of private citizens.
Pakistan’s regional political issues have brought their military and intelligence services to support the Taliban historically. A number of outside powers fund destabilization of Afghanistan—even Saudi Arabia has supported the Taliban financially before. The Tea Party today should form a policy to most effectively change the game toward a positive sum strategy of central Asia instead of simply funding top down government temporal slopping of the area to de frappe formation of terrorist control. A railroad project from the Russian system to Afghanistan enabling Europe and Vladivostok commercial shipment would create many jobs and a lasting business infrastructure connecting the Khyber Pass to the outside world. The U.S.A. should create a physical project of scale with international support and not just leave another dead-end bureaucratic puff of smoke like the space station, Vietnam and so forth. Transformation of existing social structures positively may require real improvements rather than bureaucratic and military spending phenomenalities.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf U.S. anti-terrorism war costs so far
Afghanistan as traditionally done well with limited government. Creating a modern superstructure of government without an underlying economic hull able to support the bureaucracy, police and military force seems implicitly unstable and unable to float for-itself. Bringing a railroad to a frontier changed things in the west with new jobs and development forming along the line, perhaps it could work in Afghanistan too. Construction, commercial and security work might be lasting changes for Afghanistan the United States could afford to help get started.
A modern Tea Party should try to develop solid ideas for stopping all illegal immigration from Mexico in order to compel Mexicans to stay in Mexico and fix their own spinning-out-of-control society developing an insurgency of narco traffickers killing thousands annually. Stopping illegal Mexican immigration will let wage values for cheap labor in the U.S.A. rise and make a demand for low-skilled, unemployed American workers .
A modern Tea Party would coordinate free health care for the poor with an improved V.A. hospital system needed the next few decades to treat the million or more Iraq and Afghanistan vets injured from sundry causes such as suffering post combat stress psych and concussion challenges.
I don’t know if many have thought of this, but Mexico’s able and injured may illegally migrate to the U.S.A. And get free health care at emergency rooms, while the poor and weak tend to remain in Mexico and suffer. If the U.S.A. sealed it border to illegal immigration from Mexico and also created a public health system for the poor, it could also begin a long process of agitating for Mexico to construct a same national health care program for its poor citizens. With illegal immigration the Mexican economy and that of the United States take worst-case development courses with poverty, low wages in each nation, drug and human trafficking and corruption. The default real economic fact is reinforcement for collectivism in corporatist and neo-socialist forms amidst corrupt patronage loops, venality and social stratification with a hard core of poverty, arrested space program material developments and non-renewable economic procedures without low-entropy calculations.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons as does India and potentially Iran one day. U.S. central Asian and subcontinent policy should be forward looking toward getting these nations to support mutual ecologically and economically practical prosperity and reinforce state security.
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