The idea that using natural gas instead of coal prevalently might slow or halt global warming is being attacked by some on valid scientific principles. It is better to go to entirely green technologies (or just stop using so much energy and insulate better) rather than use fossil fuels apparently.
In 1960 when I was a lad the U.S. population was only half what it is now (approximately). The people of tomorrow deserve to have a U.S.A. with just 160 million-its a better nation then, yet they can't, however it should be possible to just stabilize the population at the present levels with an end to illegal immigration perhaps.
A hburgeoning U.S. population is no good example to resource conservation. Even in Alaska one day there won't be room left to just build more roads to create jobs. The fisheries are declining here, the governor wants to dam the Susitna River and a giant mine for open pit copper is a possibility that may leach minerals and other toxic effluence into the Bristol Bay watershed. Even the inventor of the Gaia hypothesis believes global warming is going to happen to such an extent that the far noth will be about the only underst areas in the U.S.A. outside of a few small spots.
At some point intelligence should return to U.S. political leadership, yet its unlikely obviously. Voters have little choice about selecting candidates that don't support the new world order of economic concentration of wealth and population growth to accellerate consumption.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=switching-to-natural-gas-power
9/9/11
Dry Leave's Fall (poem)
Leaves drifting on the water
something better to write with
deeper cold currents swirling eddies
rippling through translucence
ponderous surfaces of meaning
Potential reflecting clouds
momentary mirrors of time
sunrises, sunsets and passing aircraft
supporting boaters gone over the wake
From rain gather limitless drops united
leaves mark microcurrents
spinning branch membranes around
water trails to frontiers present
summer has enveloped a cyclical past
opaque plankton bloom faded
bear ready for months of rest
beyond the hard rock that delimits
waters work eroding destiny
with deteminism's changes
while world tilts farther from the sun
Bringing minerals down to the opulent ocean
leaves fall with colors
like bleached out chlorofil papers
from branches crowded by evergreen dominion
into wind carrying raven's catlike plaintive cries
myriad morphemes echo a joy of living
though red colors surpass the green season
washing over forests
new frosts settle like tides of age
Far away where the land is dry
parched dust of social wars decimating dreams
with a brown shrouded thoughtless sky
sharp forces of pressure glittering
schemes in disarmed environments
rectilinear reason reduction's square circles
dull tones of repressive waves
plats, pipes, brickwork towards wheat and rice
transcended by ontologies of faith
moderated by political powers
patrolling streets
removing garbage in efficient dumps
sanitary landfills for new urban parks
where speakers on soapboxes fugue
challenges to destruction
of an ecosphere that is life
structured with complex integrity
grown over cold crust convected
Upward continents receive spirit
as experience encompasses
in field phenomenality
last leaves falling to concrete
moving with rivulets
drifting to shadowed gutters.
something better to write with
deeper cold currents swirling eddies
rippling through translucence
ponderous surfaces of meaning
Potential reflecting clouds
momentary mirrors of time
sunrises, sunsets and passing aircraft
supporting boaters gone over the wake
From rain gather limitless drops united
leaves mark microcurrents
spinning branch membranes around
water trails to frontiers present
summer has enveloped a cyclical past
opaque plankton bloom faded
bear ready for months of rest
beyond the hard rock that delimits
waters work eroding destiny
with deteminism's changes
while world tilts farther from the sun
Bringing minerals down to the opulent ocean
leaves fall with colors
like bleached out chlorofil papers
from branches crowded by evergreen dominion
into wind carrying raven's catlike plaintive cries
myriad morphemes echo a joy of living
though red colors surpass the green season
washing over forests
new frosts settle like tides of age
Far away where the land is dry
parched dust of social wars decimating dreams
with a brown shrouded thoughtless sky
sharp forces of pressure glittering
schemes in disarmed environments
rectilinear reason reduction's square circles
dull tones of repressive waves
plats, pipes, brickwork towards wheat and rice
transcended by ontologies of faith
moderated by political powers
patrolling streets
removing garbage in efficient dumps
sanitary landfills for new urban parks
where speakers on soapboxes fugue
challenges to destruction
of an ecosphere that is life
structured with complex integrity
grown over cold crust convected
Upward continents receive spirit
as experience encompasses
in field phenomenality
last leaves falling to concrete
moving with rivulets
drifting to shadowed gutters.
9/7/11
A Comment on U.S. Post Cold War Tax Policy on the Rich
America still has some manufacturing of course. One of the troubles is that when it reaches a certain size it can be outsourced to cheaper areas of production. Manufacturers listed on Wall Street may be purchased and stripped down for profit then outsourced.
The tax rate on the rich during the second war dropped some when the war was over-yet it remained at 70% right unto Reagan when the deficit radically began deepening to make up for tax cuts.
In some regards the taxation for a war economy never ended after the second world war because America was in a continuous state of near war until the ending of the cold war by Reagan, Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The challenges faced by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter until the Reagan era were that of a global arms race with numerous collateral social liberation wars. That was all quite expensive.
The failure of the post-Reagan governments to adapt to a post cold war era budget was increased by the poor Bush administration approach to the global war against terrorism. President Clinton had a reasonable tax policy yet he fully supported the globalization of the economy to the detriment of American workers. The Obama administration to is remarkably apposite to Republican global if not oligharchic policy without concern for U.S. democracy.
The unelected Presidency of Gerald Ford seemed to put together the first team assembly of the future advocates of the New World Order paradigm of the G.H.W. Bush administration. Gerald Ford appointed G.H.W. Bush as his C.I.A. Chief following a stint as Ambassador to China, and appointed his Chief of Staff, former Congressman Donald Rumsfeld to be his Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld had visited Cam Rahn Bay Vietnam early in the Johnson administration and learned of the Brown-Root contractor axis building U.S. Bases as part of a larger team of contractors.
The book 'Haliburton's Army' details how Brown grew from getting a contradct with L.B.J.'s help as a Congressman to build a dam on Lake Travis, Texas to join with Root and Halliburton later to become a defense contractor building and supply U.S. bases from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. The New World Order in some respects seems to be a point of view of select Texas politicians and corporations on defense contracts and oil fields foreign and domestic as well as post-communist-cold war realignment.
The tax rate on the rich during the second war dropped some when the war was over-yet it remained at 70% right unto Reagan when the deficit radically began deepening to make up for tax cuts.
In some regards the taxation for a war economy never ended after the second world war because America was in a continuous state of near war until the ending of the cold war by Reagan, Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The challenges faced by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter until the Reagan era were that of a global arms race with numerous collateral social liberation wars. That was all quite expensive.
The failure of the post-Reagan governments to adapt to a post cold war era budget was increased by the poor Bush administration approach to the global war against terrorism. President Clinton had a reasonable tax policy yet he fully supported the globalization of the economy to the detriment of American workers. The Obama administration to is remarkably apposite to Republican global if not oligharchic policy without concern for U.S. democracy.
The unelected Presidency of Gerald Ford seemed to put together the first team assembly of the future advocates of the New World Order paradigm of the G.H.W. Bush administration. Gerald Ford appointed G.H.W. Bush as his C.I.A. Chief following a stint as Ambassador to China, and appointed his Chief of Staff, former Congressman Donald Rumsfeld to be his Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld had visited Cam Rahn Bay Vietnam early in the Johnson administration and learned of the Brown-Root contractor axis building U.S. Bases as part of a larger team of contractors.
The book 'Haliburton's Army' details how Brown grew from getting a contradct with L.B.J.'s help as a Congressman to build a dam on Lake Travis, Texas to join with Root and Halliburton later to become a defense contractor building and supply U.S. bases from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. The New World Order in some respects seems to be a point of view of select Texas politicians and corporations on defense contracts and oil fields foreign and domestic as well as post-communist-cold war realignment.
Slipstream ©2011GaryCGibson (philosophical science fiction)
“Mankind is the only living thing that gratuitously kills life without eating it. God made all life templates de nova as deterministic possibilities yet human beings are about the only species that make things too-mostly inorganic contingencies, yet mankind pervasively kills animal and plant life eliminating countless species from existence- turning back its own prospects for survival. Animal and insect life reinforces plant life propagation and their existence. The challenge for human beings as an intelligent species is to be creative without killing living things needlessly. Mankind is part of the web of life. Truth and justice given by God is humanity’s example of tolerance and support of life.”
“Those are good thoughts Captain.”
“Take it down Lieutenant.”
Dropping through atmospheric thermoclines the UFO hypersonic shape saucer adjusted intent to a dead stop hovering upon the surface of the deep.
As if uncertainty had resolved it dropped with a plop beneath the sea waters coming to rest in 15 fathoms off Haiyang Island at the edge of the Yellow Sea.
Captain Meredith Oberdark ordered her wing pods retracted for silent contemplation and for emergency take off flipping the cap from a cold bottle of her own Alibzin special light rice beer drinking deeply aware of its exquisite flavor.
She quaffed the brew rejoining command with a belch then said “Lt. Khabarov, what’s up?”
Lieutenant Claude Khabarov was the fourth son of a line of dishwasher/prep cooks from Cleveland who sought a different adventure and enlisted in the elite Enterprise Naval Force in the servo-officer training program graduating near the bottom of his class. His rise to assistant UFO commander was meteoric.
Looking at his surfactant beam transponder display he said “Nothing besides a dozen pond skipper-jets. They must be floating for hydrogen refueling before returning to a trimaran carrier refueling float at the outer Pacific patrol line.”
“Good enough Lt. Lets cover the quantum book of vector changes.”
Beneath the solid state matter of the Universe with its atoms locked into a discrete formation of interconnecting force and particles of force exchanged like a semi-solid fog lay an improbable field of uncertainty wherein no solid mass or particle-no atoms or quark of any universe existed. Instead, infinite waves of potential existed from which a few elect virtual particles could emerge into a vacuum state. That vacuum state gradually accumulated enough virtual particles to comprise mass forming its own relationships that could not easily return to the realm of potential being.
The solid state of the Universe developed its own protocol of forces, however it was inherently unstable and in change. It implicitly expanded away from itself into further space and it did so with the illusion of order-an order that appeared to be time to intelligent beings that emerged from the quantum cloud to observe its change and progress. The implicit complexity of relationships and potential of the solid state of a quantum cloud emerged from an infinite realm of potential giving an order unto what was regarded as a Universe by mankind.
“What year did the Chinese Qing dynasty give up the Island of Taiwan in a treaty to Japan Lieutenant?”
“Uh, 1895 it was Captain.”
“And what year did the Kuomintang take control of Taiwan Lieutenant?”
“That be 1949 Captain Ma’am. It was after the Japanese efforts to win Manchuria and more of China fell through, and when the Nationalist Government lost the civil war. They had nowhere else to go, and the former imperial power had no military forces to keep it- having experienced a recent military loss.”
“Then there is no legal reason why the Peoples Dictatorship will trouble the Taiwanese Trading Partners?”
“Well Captain, being an associate dishwasher-scholar in Asian research, I can’t think of anything(k) besides the 37,000 conflicting patent applications filed each day relating to Asian inventions, or the hyper-secret quantum computer invention program research projects developed to out-invent and file for more patents than us or the TTP. That’s why we’re here t’isn’t it Captain, to make patent defenses of intellectual properties?”
“Forget that Lieutenant, just tell me how many micro fish brains are in the Yellow Sea between here and Port Arthur.”
The micro fish brain developed out of the ultra-secret naval advanced research projects institute on Koba Strasse in Zurich beyond an unbreakable key coded vault door guarded by Amazon warriors in synthetic cheetah skins with HK-Blazer guns. The small fish were difficult to spot yet in schools of millions and millions could swim in coordination at high speed like a swarm of piranha on steroids buzzing around their target before receiving the go code to detonate.
Brains cannot be judged by size alone-if that was so whales would rule the world. They have big hearts and the biggest brains, yet the neurons are large and so are the axon connectors between neurons. As everyone knows computer processing designers work to create smaller and more densely packed microcircuits on chips rather than larger ones.
Scientifically engineered stuffing and concentration of transistors closely packed on a chip increases information processing speed-the quicker and better ability to process information lets tremendously larger flops of data bits to tossed per second. If all of the information representing the Universe could process itself in a split second the result might be equivalent to 1 equals 1 to the infinite power, or not.
It might be more productive to pluralize universal data rather than to calculate it all into a reduced monistic status. Information adds up to intelligence.
Whales may have cooled their large yet not to densely packed brains by moving from land mammals into sea mammals, yet large, densely packed computer chips have an overheating problem some have solved by locating super-computers on the moon in regions never seeing sunlight and some have conjectured that the ultimate super-computer might be a quantum computer in temperatureless space of potential rather than actual.
Why this Universe of solid state matter could not be the actualization of a self-determining omniscient super-computer or Supreme Being is hard to say. Many believe the Universe is an actualization of one or an infinite number of potential idea concepts of a Supreme Being; it hadn’t anything to do with the patenting wars of Earth though.
Captain Oberdark was sent to gather intelligence as a kind of test cat’s paw. She wondered why her ship and crew was chosen for regional insinuation when remote intelligence sources would have worked just fine. An order for trilobites appeared on her DNA activated communication decoder ring.
“There are seven billion micro-fish brains in the area Captain. A minimum of two billion seem to be allied fish brains of friendly corporate controllers. Incidentally there are 27 actual biological fish worth catching for food swimming in the sea as well.”
“We have a few minutes more to gather intelligence here Lieutenant; activate the passive array pod, and activate the Free Network News.”
In the Church of the American Flag on the Rue de Droit near Ten Commandments National Park a riot was in progress with the Mayor’s order arresting all the city homeless that would not stay in churches and off public property.
The rioters wore middle class armbands and marked ballots for the Uniparty platform ordering tax cuts for the rich and dirty air to inhale. They made no sense of it all, and were glad for that.
A speaker strode forth from their midst to speak to the crowd a little after nine this morning. Up the steps of the Church he turned to face the mob; his precious mob, and delivered another beloved lecture.
“Idiots! Rational numbers have decimal extensions that can go on forever! It is never possible to finish a particular number as it has the potential to continue to infinity. One can never get to the last number of pi to continue on the journey of listing all rational numbers between three and four. That is our prop blem today!”
The congregation appreciated Motivator Zak’s remarkable, intuitive insight. Like a buzz of cicadas the noise of acclamation rose to swell with crescendo and drop off like a coyote running beyond the edge of a cliff during a chase.
The effort to rebuild a full employment economic condition in the global warming era is challenging. The recession of arable land giving way to new desert is a global phenomenon too difficult politically to react to with affirmative action. That would require politically intelligent leadership- a rare item in a synthetic corporate democracy.
One must balance twin and opposite concerns of defending individual liberty and public security simultaneously. With economic competition and concentrated wealth political challenges of a society increase ossification.
Political trading blocs make de facto religions of economically proprietary power evolving to reinforce atheist weltanschauung-world views-as well as theist. Few populist theist politicizers are interested in the problem of quantum uncertainty or of the aggregated improbability of a solid state material universe in a vacuum space with patterns recognizably phenomenal.
Political problems on Earth can be corrected with brighter, more honest, better political leaders. Problems of religion can be corrected with a right relationship to God rather than corrupt secular authorities.
Corrupt sodomic producer-oligarch consumerist establishment sought to convert the polity into becoming and being rational numbered moron-consumers units.
Motivator Zak described a way to reform marriage that would end its creeping corruption from modernism, divorce, homosexuality and from being a tool of sophist social fiscal advantage.
Social contract couple licenses in the United States could rectify the corrupted state of the institution of marriage. Renewable five year social contracts for couples with right of renewal could be issued in several classes such as with or without procreation. Twenty percent of the couples’ earnings could be set aside for end of contract bonus ending divorce or alimony. Child support would exist at a ten percent of each biological parent’s earning rate until the child reached maturity.
Adoptive parents would also incur a permanent 10% of income per child support tax regardless of the end of a social couple contract. Savings would be encouraged with the renewable set aside that would be disbursed to couples individual accounts at retirement age besides and then resume.
Motivator Zak had said that adopted and biological children alike would inherit 10% of any parent’s estate with the remainder a matter of parental will. If there were more children than inheritance, the percentage shared would rationally decrease.
It all seemed reasonable to Motivator Zak, and to his few hundred disciples in Congress at the end of Congress Street in a shining building on a hill. It meant little to the rest of the world who had no interest even in ecological economics or sustainable Earth ecosphere.
“Well Lieutenant, I got what I wanted here; a place to have a cold one. Let’s get over to T-3 before the struggling masses yearning to breathe free blow up a few billion of their micro fish brains around here.”
“Roger that Captain, lift off!”
Inboard magneto-crawlers drew the UFO silently upward through the water column. It shimmered on the surface of the sea as a stealth illusion of emptiness wrapping the horizons of instant time around it fully fueled with hydrogen and returning false molecular radar echoes of ambient molecular content around its acceleration. Flying through the Earth’s magnetic field lines in the ultra light super-conducting ship at speed not even the slightest morphing of the sky might have been visible to direct or indirect observation technology.
“Rig for silent running Lieutenant.”
“We are silent running Captain.”
“Yeh right, pass over another brew. Set a course for Tibet-3, there is a load of trilobite fossils for the Museum of Magellan Galaxy.”
“Got it. We will be at T-3 in a couple minutes.”
Planetary magnetic field impulse power was adequate for the quick trip. They arrived at a floating sky dock with a lift from the ground. Loading trilobites and seasoned take-out containers into the ship’s cargo bay they were quickly over way.
For the journey to the Magellan Galaxy the tiny ship slip streamed across the frothy top of quantum uncertainty bordering the steady state universe.
Tying up the steady state boundary of their delineated quantum data with the underlying uncertainty principles they passed between time and its order in the steady state of deterministic reality letting the Universe space between galaxies pass naturally beneath them before disengaging from the fog of uncertainty.
The solid state universe has an apparent order of time while the frothy slip stream of uncertainty hasn’t a direction of time. Returning to the local space-time of an expanding Universe was simple letting it move on beneath the atemporal froth or adjusting a point of detachment from the intertemporal flux of the slip stream.
Entering the atmosphere of the dark Museum planet the UFO was forced to slow and wait behind a long line of space ships at the port of entry.
“This place gives me the creeps Captain.”
“Yeah, I know what you mean-give me another delightful rice beer.”
“Captain, may I ask a question?”
“Sure.”
“Where are your people from on Earth?”
“They were living in Northern Russia 26,000 years ago Lieutenant. I don’t know where they went to after that-they never write.”
“What is with this world Captain?”
“Nothing special Lieutenant. It’s located by a main sequence star in the prime habitation zone in one of hundreds of galaxies named for Ferdinand Magellan. This Magellan galaxy is in the Hydra-Centaurus group moving toward The Great Wall. The Museum planet has a digital atlas of the known life content of the Universe represented in digital holography-hence the trilobites from ancient terra seas.
If you ever venture outside the traffic lane, avoid contact with the massless anti-massless field cold copying the artifacts-it hasn’t gravity, time or space-intervals and in some way allows infinite data packing without heat or gravitational affects.”
“How does that work?”
“Good question Lieutenant and I will take the time to answer, at the rate this line is moving we may not make it to Plotinus Station on time.
Gravity only occurs as a field within mass generally, within Universes with a surplus of baryonic matter residual from an initial cancelling out of anti-matter with mass. Mass has a slight survival advantage in patterned recombinant chirility over antimatter leaving a modest surplus of mass.
Creating massless anti-particles without the potential for making energy or gravity when they meet up with select massless particles allows an infinite quantity of representational data to be stored within an infinitely small area of non-space-time. It’s a useful thing to have if you have lots of videos and music to store.”
“O.K.” Captain.
“Packing an infinite amount of information within an infinitely small area without adding mass that would produce gravity or space-time affects is simple enough with an infinite capacity to generate dimensions and to place massless data in the same area.
The greater problem is actually that of running out of information to input into the storage area that has infinite potential to input additional information.”
“What occurs if an infinite amount of information does input to the storage hole-does the Universe turn itself inside out Captain.”
The tiny UFO at last followed a vast Tranugrin war freighter through the shining veil of waveform security into the great chasm of the museum of forms. Thousands of feet above the opulent anti-string filter of the one storage infinity dark clouds of an enigmatic fog swirled tendrils miles in length about the UFO. Captain Oberdark pulled over to an artificially intelligent, adjustable museum deposit chute and stopped.
“So, here we are Lieutenant-download the trilobites. Many dishes await you at the station.”
“There aren’t any dishes at the station Ma’am.”
“I’ll make some.”
“Those are good thoughts Captain.”
“Take it down Lieutenant.”
Dropping through atmospheric thermoclines the UFO hypersonic shape saucer adjusted intent to a dead stop hovering upon the surface of the deep.
As if uncertainty had resolved it dropped with a plop beneath the sea waters coming to rest in 15 fathoms off Haiyang Island at the edge of the Yellow Sea.
Captain Meredith Oberdark ordered her wing pods retracted for silent contemplation and for emergency take off flipping the cap from a cold bottle of her own Alibzin special light rice beer drinking deeply aware of its exquisite flavor.
She quaffed the brew rejoining command with a belch then said “Lt. Khabarov, what’s up?”
Lieutenant Claude Khabarov was the fourth son of a line of dishwasher/prep cooks from Cleveland who sought a different adventure and enlisted in the elite Enterprise Naval Force in the servo-officer training program graduating near the bottom of his class. His rise to assistant UFO commander was meteoric.
Looking at his surfactant beam transponder display he said “Nothing besides a dozen pond skipper-jets. They must be floating for hydrogen refueling before returning to a trimaran carrier refueling float at the outer Pacific patrol line.”
“Good enough Lt. Lets cover the quantum book of vector changes.”
Beneath the solid state matter of the Universe with its atoms locked into a discrete formation of interconnecting force and particles of force exchanged like a semi-solid fog lay an improbable field of uncertainty wherein no solid mass or particle-no atoms or quark of any universe existed. Instead, infinite waves of potential existed from which a few elect virtual particles could emerge into a vacuum state. That vacuum state gradually accumulated enough virtual particles to comprise mass forming its own relationships that could not easily return to the realm of potential being.
The solid state of the Universe developed its own protocol of forces, however it was inherently unstable and in change. It implicitly expanded away from itself into further space and it did so with the illusion of order-an order that appeared to be time to intelligent beings that emerged from the quantum cloud to observe its change and progress. The implicit complexity of relationships and potential of the solid state of a quantum cloud emerged from an infinite realm of potential giving an order unto what was regarded as a Universe by mankind.
“What year did the Chinese Qing dynasty give up the Island of Taiwan in a treaty to Japan Lieutenant?”
“Uh, 1895 it was Captain.”
“And what year did the Kuomintang take control of Taiwan Lieutenant?”
“That be 1949 Captain Ma’am. It was after the Japanese efforts to win Manchuria and more of China fell through, and when the Nationalist Government lost the civil war. They had nowhere else to go, and the former imperial power had no military forces to keep it- having experienced a recent military loss.”
“Then there is no legal reason why the Peoples Dictatorship will trouble the Taiwanese Trading Partners?”
“Well Captain, being an associate dishwasher-scholar in Asian research, I can’t think of anything(k) besides the 37,000 conflicting patent applications filed each day relating to Asian inventions, or the hyper-secret quantum computer invention program research projects developed to out-invent and file for more patents than us or the TTP. That’s why we’re here t’isn’t it Captain, to make patent defenses of intellectual properties?”
“Forget that Lieutenant, just tell me how many micro fish brains are in the Yellow Sea between here and Port Arthur.”
The micro fish brain developed out of the ultra-secret naval advanced research projects institute on Koba Strasse in Zurich beyond an unbreakable key coded vault door guarded by Amazon warriors in synthetic cheetah skins with HK-Blazer guns. The small fish were difficult to spot yet in schools of millions and millions could swim in coordination at high speed like a swarm of piranha on steroids buzzing around their target before receiving the go code to detonate.
Brains cannot be judged by size alone-if that was so whales would rule the world. They have big hearts and the biggest brains, yet the neurons are large and so are the axon connectors between neurons. As everyone knows computer processing designers work to create smaller and more densely packed microcircuits on chips rather than larger ones.
Scientifically engineered stuffing and concentration of transistors closely packed on a chip increases information processing speed-the quicker and better ability to process information lets tremendously larger flops of data bits to tossed per second. If all of the information representing the Universe could process itself in a split second the result might be equivalent to 1 equals 1 to the infinite power, or not.
It might be more productive to pluralize universal data rather than to calculate it all into a reduced monistic status. Information adds up to intelligence.
Whales may have cooled their large yet not to densely packed brains by moving from land mammals into sea mammals, yet large, densely packed computer chips have an overheating problem some have solved by locating super-computers on the moon in regions never seeing sunlight and some have conjectured that the ultimate super-computer might be a quantum computer in temperatureless space of potential rather than actual.
Why this Universe of solid state matter could not be the actualization of a self-determining omniscient super-computer or Supreme Being is hard to say. Many believe the Universe is an actualization of one or an infinite number of potential idea concepts of a Supreme Being; it hadn’t anything to do with the patenting wars of Earth though.
Captain Oberdark was sent to gather intelligence as a kind of test cat’s paw. She wondered why her ship and crew was chosen for regional insinuation when remote intelligence sources would have worked just fine. An order for trilobites appeared on her DNA activated communication decoder ring.
“There are seven billion micro-fish brains in the area Captain. A minimum of two billion seem to be allied fish brains of friendly corporate controllers. Incidentally there are 27 actual biological fish worth catching for food swimming in the sea as well.”
“We have a few minutes more to gather intelligence here Lieutenant; activate the passive array pod, and activate the Free Network News.”
In the Church of the American Flag on the Rue de Droit near Ten Commandments National Park a riot was in progress with the Mayor’s order arresting all the city homeless that would not stay in churches and off public property.
The rioters wore middle class armbands and marked ballots for the Uniparty platform ordering tax cuts for the rich and dirty air to inhale. They made no sense of it all, and were glad for that.
A speaker strode forth from their midst to speak to the crowd a little after nine this morning. Up the steps of the Church he turned to face the mob; his precious mob, and delivered another beloved lecture.
“Idiots! Rational numbers have decimal extensions that can go on forever! It is never possible to finish a particular number as it has the potential to continue to infinity. One can never get to the last number of pi to continue on the journey of listing all rational numbers between three and four. That is our prop blem today!”
The congregation appreciated Motivator Zak’s remarkable, intuitive insight. Like a buzz of cicadas the noise of acclamation rose to swell with crescendo and drop off like a coyote running beyond the edge of a cliff during a chase.
The effort to rebuild a full employment economic condition in the global warming era is challenging. The recession of arable land giving way to new desert is a global phenomenon too difficult politically to react to with affirmative action. That would require politically intelligent leadership- a rare item in a synthetic corporate democracy.
One must balance twin and opposite concerns of defending individual liberty and public security simultaneously. With economic competition and concentrated wealth political challenges of a society increase ossification.
Political trading blocs make de facto religions of economically proprietary power evolving to reinforce atheist weltanschauung-world views-as well as theist. Few populist theist politicizers are interested in the problem of quantum uncertainty or of the aggregated improbability of a solid state material universe in a vacuum space with patterns recognizably phenomenal.
Political problems on Earth can be corrected with brighter, more honest, better political leaders. Problems of religion can be corrected with a right relationship to God rather than corrupt secular authorities.
Corrupt sodomic producer-oligarch consumerist establishment sought to convert the polity into becoming and being rational numbered moron-consumers units.
Motivator Zak described a way to reform marriage that would end its creeping corruption from modernism, divorce, homosexuality and from being a tool of sophist social fiscal advantage.
Social contract couple licenses in the United States could rectify the corrupted state of the institution of marriage. Renewable five year social contracts for couples with right of renewal could be issued in several classes such as with or without procreation. Twenty percent of the couples’ earnings could be set aside for end of contract bonus ending divorce or alimony. Child support would exist at a ten percent of each biological parent’s earning rate until the child reached maturity.
Adoptive parents would also incur a permanent 10% of income per child support tax regardless of the end of a social couple contract. Savings would be encouraged with the renewable set aside that would be disbursed to couples individual accounts at retirement age besides and then resume.
Motivator Zak had said that adopted and biological children alike would inherit 10% of any parent’s estate with the remainder a matter of parental will. If there were more children than inheritance, the percentage shared would rationally decrease.
It all seemed reasonable to Motivator Zak, and to his few hundred disciples in Congress at the end of Congress Street in a shining building on a hill. It meant little to the rest of the world who had no interest even in ecological economics or sustainable Earth ecosphere.
“Well Lieutenant, I got what I wanted here; a place to have a cold one. Let’s get over to T-3 before the struggling masses yearning to breathe free blow up a few billion of their micro fish brains around here.”
“Roger that Captain, lift off!”
Inboard magneto-crawlers drew the UFO silently upward through the water column. It shimmered on the surface of the sea as a stealth illusion of emptiness wrapping the horizons of instant time around it fully fueled with hydrogen and returning false molecular radar echoes of ambient molecular content around its acceleration. Flying through the Earth’s magnetic field lines in the ultra light super-conducting ship at speed not even the slightest morphing of the sky might have been visible to direct or indirect observation technology.
“Rig for silent running Lieutenant.”
“We are silent running Captain.”
“Yeh right, pass over another brew. Set a course for Tibet-3, there is a load of trilobite fossils for the Museum of Magellan Galaxy.”
“Got it. We will be at T-3 in a couple minutes.”
Planetary magnetic field impulse power was adequate for the quick trip. They arrived at a floating sky dock with a lift from the ground. Loading trilobites and seasoned take-out containers into the ship’s cargo bay they were quickly over way.
For the journey to the Magellan Galaxy the tiny ship slip streamed across the frothy top of quantum uncertainty bordering the steady state universe.
Tying up the steady state boundary of their delineated quantum data with the underlying uncertainty principles they passed between time and its order in the steady state of deterministic reality letting the Universe space between galaxies pass naturally beneath them before disengaging from the fog of uncertainty.
The solid state universe has an apparent order of time while the frothy slip stream of uncertainty hasn’t a direction of time. Returning to the local space-time of an expanding Universe was simple letting it move on beneath the atemporal froth or adjusting a point of detachment from the intertemporal flux of the slip stream.
Entering the atmosphere of the dark Museum planet the UFO was forced to slow and wait behind a long line of space ships at the port of entry.
“This place gives me the creeps Captain.”
“Yeah, I know what you mean-give me another delightful rice beer.”
“Captain, may I ask a question?”
“Sure.”
“Where are your people from on Earth?”
“They were living in Northern Russia 26,000 years ago Lieutenant. I don’t know where they went to after that-they never write.”
“What is with this world Captain?”
“Nothing special Lieutenant. It’s located by a main sequence star in the prime habitation zone in one of hundreds of galaxies named for Ferdinand Magellan. This Magellan galaxy is in the Hydra-Centaurus group moving toward The Great Wall. The Museum planet has a digital atlas of the known life content of the Universe represented in digital holography-hence the trilobites from ancient terra seas.
If you ever venture outside the traffic lane, avoid contact with the massless anti-massless field cold copying the artifacts-it hasn’t gravity, time or space-intervals and in some way allows infinite data packing without heat or gravitational affects.”
“How does that work?”
“Good question Lieutenant and I will take the time to answer, at the rate this line is moving we may not make it to Plotinus Station on time.
Gravity only occurs as a field within mass generally, within Universes with a surplus of baryonic matter residual from an initial cancelling out of anti-matter with mass. Mass has a slight survival advantage in patterned recombinant chirility over antimatter leaving a modest surplus of mass.
Creating massless anti-particles without the potential for making energy or gravity when they meet up with select massless particles allows an infinite quantity of representational data to be stored within an infinitely small area of non-space-time. It’s a useful thing to have if you have lots of videos and music to store.”
“O.K.” Captain.
“Packing an infinite amount of information within an infinitely small area without adding mass that would produce gravity or space-time affects is simple enough with an infinite capacity to generate dimensions and to place massless data in the same area.
The greater problem is actually that of running out of information to input into the storage area that has infinite potential to input additional information.”
“What occurs if an infinite amount of information does input to the storage hole-does the Universe turn itself inside out Captain.”
The tiny UFO at last followed a vast Tranugrin war freighter through the shining veil of waveform security into the great chasm of the museum of forms. Thousands of feet above the opulent anti-string filter of the one storage infinity dark clouds of an enigmatic fog swirled tendrils miles in length about the UFO. Captain Oberdark pulled over to an artificially intelligent, adjustable museum deposit chute and stopped.
“So, here we are Lieutenant-download the trilobites. Many dishes await you at the station.”
“There aren’t any dishes at the station Ma’am.”
“I’ll make some.”
9/6/11
Excess Consumerism & The Public Debt
Point 1) President Obama had the power to not sign off on renewing the Bush tax cuts last December. The buck is supposed to stop with the President and he actually had to twist the arm of Congress to pass the extension so he could sign it for the Republican's benefit.
Point 2) The economy of the U.S.A. isn't based on debt. The U.S. public debt is the result of tax cuts during a time of high military spending. To finance WWII F.D.R. raised the top tacket rate at 90%. Raising taxes and sutting spending and paying off the U.S. debt is the honest way to go.
Point 3) The political-economic concept of consuming as a thing in itself isn't necessary for a democracy. All human beings consume energy of course, yet the quality of life issues a rational democracy should use to have an intelligent design principle of a recovering ecosphere, full employment and strong individual liberty and civil rights differs from a Sodomite criterion of pure consumption for-itself with few individual rights and an existential interpretation of the idea of capitalism.
I have recently been reading a biography of Abraham and it has a philosophically interesting exposition of ancient Sodom's sociology with the principle of what I would consider to be fundamental sadism wherein the interiority of others is violated and the external things such as consumption are too highly regarded. A healthy society needs high values for the interior, spiritual life and self of individuals and not just the outer fashions and conformity of the day.
Americans could create a zillion jobs in a high quality, sustainable ecological economy with a stable population, and be an example for other nations to follow.
Point 2) The economy of the U.S.A. isn't based on debt. The U.S. public debt is the result of tax cuts during a time of high military spending. To finance WWII F.D.R. raised the top tacket rate at 90%. Raising taxes and sutting spending and paying off the U.S. debt is the honest way to go.
Point 3) The political-economic concept of consuming as a thing in itself isn't necessary for a democracy. All human beings consume energy of course, yet the quality of life issues a rational democracy should use to have an intelligent design principle of a recovering ecosphere, full employment and strong individual liberty and civil rights differs from a Sodomite criterion of pure consumption for-itself with few individual rights and an existential interpretation of the idea of capitalism.
I have recently been reading a biography of Abraham and it has a philosophically interesting exposition of ancient Sodom's sociology with the principle of what I would consider to be fundamental sadism wherein the interiority of others is violated and the external things such as consumption are too highly regarded. A healthy society needs high values for the interior, spiritual life and self of individuals and not just the outer fashions and conformity of the day.
Americans could create a zillion jobs in a high quality, sustainable ecological economy with a stable population, and be an example for other nations to follow.
9/2/11
National Black Unemployment rate at 16.7%-Obama's Tax Cuts for the Rich to Blame
America's black population is suffering through very high unemployment through the Obama years. The remedy was in the President's grasp in December 2010 when he could have let the Bush era tax cuts expire and balance the federal budget automatically within two years. Then he could have negotiated with Republicans to cut a trillion dollars of federal spending and reallocate it to pay off a trillion dollars of federal debt each year eliminating it entirely in 15 years. With good fiscal policy investors would have returned to hiring.
Instead the prospects for American economic degradation seems to paint a bleak picture. Rick Perry of the Republican party grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and would have no problem find a regressive way to employ people in the cotton patch pickin at a reduced minimum or no minimum wage while cutting taxes on the rich to stimulate employment in China.
Even in Alaska prospects are tight. The economic insiders have the state byshort hairs of small mammals. The state economy is structured to allow total control by extraction industry globalists with a preferred, privelaged in-state population of bureaucratic servo-units. Any sort of non-controlled liberty is somewhat eradicated even in Anchorage where putting up a tent in the city's forests is now illegal, and the concentration and labeling of the poor and homeless with the mark of the globalist beast is requisite.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/news/economy/black_unemployment_rate/
I have wondered why Mayor Sullivan doesn't put up the overflow of the poor in the city's Sullivan Sports Arena instead of leveraging city churches to shelter the homeless and innoccent campers that failed to find a job and afford a plane ticket south berfore the harsh winter cold blankets the city the next several months. The logic of the advantaged insiders is to prevent free enterprise competition and any sort of change to the status quo ante. President Obama failed to comprehend that point about the real world last December and was a cheerleader throwing in the towell for tax cust for the rich. Rick Perry and the oil mob of Texas smell the blood in the waters. Mitt ROmney may be the only possible relief for American blacks and unemployed Alaskans for short term, no-strings-attached earnings relief.
Instead the prospects for American economic degradation seems to paint a bleak picture. Rick Perry of the Republican party grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and would have no problem find a regressive way to employ people in the cotton patch pickin at a reduced minimum or no minimum wage while cutting taxes on the rich to stimulate employment in China.
Even in Alaska prospects are tight. The economic insiders have the state byshort hairs of small mammals. The state economy is structured to allow total control by extraction industry globalists with a preferred, privelaged in-state population of bureaucratic servo-units. Any sort of non-controlled liberty is somewhat eradicated even in Anchorage where putting up a tent in the city's forests is now illegal, and the concentration and labeling of the poor and homeless with the mark of the globalist beast is requisite.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/news/economy/black_unemployment_rate/
I have wondered why Mayor Sullivan doesn't put up the overflow of the poor in the city's Sullivan Sports Arena instead of leveraging city churches to shelter the homeless and innoccent campers that failed to find a job and afford a plane ticket south berfore the harsh winter cold blankets the city the next several months. The logic of the advantaged insiders is to prevent free enterprise competition and any sort of change to the status quo ante. President Obama failed to comprehend that point about the real world last December and was a cheerleader throwing in the towell for tax cust for the rich. Rick Perry and the oil mob of Texas smell the blood in the waters. Mitt ROmney may be the only possible relief for American blacks and unemployed Alaskans for short term, no-strings-attached earnings relief.
Politically Regressive Homo Marriages Confer Bondage Upon Men
Homosexual marriages and civil unions in a few politically regressive American states confer an illiberal phenomenal degradation envelopement of enslavement of men over the fundamental freedom of men. It is wrong to tranch society with perverse socio-economic policy for tax and more purposes as if it were a Wall Street quant sophism of CDOs for the advantaged. A corrupt society will wither and die as a more rational and true nature overgrows it.
Marriage developed as a social contract between men and women in order to afford protection for the weaker sex during her procreative struggle and vulnerabilities of raising children. The feminine physiological design was specially adapted to bearing offspring, yet that design specialization made her comparatively unsuitable for war and heavy lifting labor. Like a low mileage SUV during the 2nd Bush administration, she could not get very far without gas and energy supplied by an oil depletion allowance tax subsidy.
If slavery were legal in the United States today perhaps a tenth of the population would voluntarily slip into it voluntarily over time because of social pressures and moral weakness. A minimum wage keeps people from working for nothing in Texas Cotton fields singing that ole song 'Massa he pay dem bills, We totes deh bails, Massa he go up deh hill, Massa he go to hail'. Slavery is no joking matter, and free men need to remain free and not enter into inferior status of any form of legal social bondage such as homo marriage.
Some men in a society must be free and remain free-not everyone can hide behind an inferior socially protected status if society is itself to be free. Perhaps the right response to the contemporary social tendency to create a new institution of male bondage is simply to require of the liberated modern women that she in longer require marriage of her husband, that in order to conserve freedom for society in general that women relinquish their former socially reinforced right of matrimony and simply bear the risk of freedom and her own economic support that males as head of families formerly had for both. In the modern U.S. economy women earn as much as men at any rate, and adequate government emergency safety nets for women exist.
If traditional marriage is being phased out in the United States then a defense of freedom act might be considered to eliminate the possibility of creating new marriage structures to enslave men to other men through legal fictions of corrupted marriage establishments as Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. Because of American social corruption and failure of political wisdom to provide health care for the poor and job security for all such as to preclude the pressure for the weak to yield to homosexual enticements for health care or financial reasons it may be that an evolution phasing out marriage in favor of short term marriages with different grades such as drivers licenses have for different kinds of relationships, purpose or time integral might be made.
Others have written about 5 year renewable marriage licenses, and payroll deductions of 20% for community marriage account distributed evenly upon expiration of marriage might be given-there would be no inheritance rights for anyone at all including the rich and rich homos. Individuals could dispose of their property as they wished and be subject to ordinary social laws regarding gifts and taxes. If homes are purchased during the period of marriage or other property is purchased they could be made with joint legal partnerships as might anyone not married.
Class A marriage licensing with right of renewal every 5 years could be set for relationships intended to procreate children. Class B licenses could be given for non-procreative relationships. Class C license could be set aside for one year convenience flings. It seems unfair to subvert the equal rights of single, free citizens to have non-traditional marriage benefits and tax dollars given to a homosexual sector of the population working to degrade the rights of man and make dependent wives with protected legal status as weak beings of some men as might be derived from the logic of protecting women with matrimony.
with all of the world's major religions against homosexual marriage besides, the innovation of American political perversion into law of homosexual marriage works counterproductively to U.S. national security. It is quite possible to defend the individual civil rights of men to be free and secure without the regressive deranged turn into homosexual marriage. Prosperity, national health care for the poor, full employment and ecospheric recovery may be better constructed by free and honorable men and women than by the evolution of pretending that weak and/or corrupt men are housewives requiring procreative legal protections of marriage.
Marriage developed as a social contract between men and women in order to afford protection for the weaker sex during her procreative struggle and vulnerabilities of raising children. The feminine physiological design was specially adapted to bearing offspring, yet that design specialization made her comparatively unsuitable for war and heavy lifting labor. Like a low mileage SUV during the 2nd Bush administration, she could not get very far without gas and energy supplied by an oil depletion allowance tax subsidy.
If slavery were legal in the United States today perhaps a tenth of the population would voluntarily slip into it voluntarily over time because of social pressures and moral weakness. A minimum wage keeps people from working for nothing in Texas Cotton fields singing that ole song 'Massa he pay dem bills, We totes deh bails, Massa he go up deh hill, Massa he go to hail'. Slavery is no joking matter, and free men need to remain free and not enter into inferior status of any form of legal social bondage such as homo marriage.
Some men in a society must be free and remain free-not everyone can hide behind an inferior socially protected status if society is itself to be free. Perhaps the right response to the contemporary social tendency to create a new institution of male bondage is simply to require of the liberated modern women that she in longer require marriage of her husband, that in order to conserve freedom for society in general that women relinquish their former socially reinforced right of matrimony and simply bear the risk of freedom and her own economic support that males as head of families formerly had for both. In the modern U.S. economy women earn as much as men at any rate, and adequate government emergency safety nets for women exist.
If traditional marriage is being phased out in the United States then a defense of freedom act might be considered to eliminate the possibility of creating new marriage structures to enslave men to other men through legal fictions of corrupted marriage establishments as Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. Because of American social corruption and failure of political wisdom to provide health care for the poor and job security for all such as to preclude the pressure for the weak to yield to homosexual enticements for health care or financial reasons it may be that an evolution phasing out marriage in favor of short term marriages with different grades such as drivers licenses have for different kinds of relationships, purpose or time integral might be made.
Others have written about 5 year renewable marriage licenses, and payroll deductions of 20% for community marriage account distributed evenly upon expiration of marriage might be given-there would be no inheritance rights for anyone at all including the rich and rich homos. Individuals could dispose of their property as they wished and be subject to ordinary social laws regarding gifts and taxes. If homes are purchased during the period of marriage or other property is purchased they could be made with joint legal partnerships as might anyone not married.
Class A marriage licensing with right of renewal every 5 years could be set for relationships intended to procreate children. Class B licenses could be given for non-procreative relationships. Class C license could be set aside for one year convenience flings. It seems unfair to subvert the equal rights of single, free citizens to have non-traditional marriage benefits and tax dollars given to a homosexual sector of the population working to degrade the rights of man and make dependent wives with protected legal status as weak beings of some men as might be derived from the logic of protecting women with matrimony.
with all of the world's major religions against homosexual marriage besides, the innovation of American political perversion into law of homosexual marriage works counterproductively to U.S. national security. It is quite possible to defend the individual civil rights of men to be free and secure without the regressive deranged turn into homosexual marriage. Prosperity, national health care for the poor, full employment and ecospheric recovery may be better constructed by free and honorable men and women than by the evolution of pretending that weak and/or corrupt men are housewives requiring procreative legal protections of marriage.
9/1/11
Helium.com Sells My Philosophy Article & Keeps Profit
note- This is a copy of an email sent to me at hotmail recently, from Helium...
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Dear Helium; You banned me from publishing at Helium on 24 December 2009 and confiscated all of my earnings for the future. Please stop rubbing it in. I know I have about 800 five star posts at Helium and have lost any profit from that the past two years as I have slept outside freezing in winters, drinking ice water, unable to afford a bottle of propane for coffee and feeeling like Helium is generally like the KGB 2nd directorate sending writers into destitute exile in Siberia.--thanks much.
looking forward to another winter (please do not contact me again as your Mr. Logan said he would write to the F.B.I. and tell them I am some sort of malefactor)
Gary C. Gibson
I have incidentally developed a theory about human digestive processes in cold weather in retrospect since last winter. I believe that if one drinks icewater instead of warm beverages and sleeps on the ground for months when the temperature is about 10 degrees or so the bacteria that processes food in the intestines is killed off. Well, in the spring one's digestion does not work near as well and one puts on weight much more readily in the warmer weather.
In the winter the weight gain and inefficiency in processing food is not as apparent because extra energy is needed to keep warm. Calories are burnt producing warmth. I listened to a doctor on the radio talking about diet in the summer and he mentioned that yogurt and its live culture offsets it weight gaining effects. I started eating yogurt and thereafter more food was processed and less weight gained as my own bacterial culture in the colon was recharged.
This is simply speculation of course. I am sure that there is documentation on the Internet of the effect of cold weather on digestion that I haven't time to locate because my webbook computer screen broke last January and I use public computers a few hours a week now.
The delayed effects remind me a little of when I immersed my combat boots in icewater and snow for 18 hours, then had my feet swell up quite a bit a day or two later, losing a a few toenails and having cyanotic blood flood for several years in even near freezing temperatures.
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:41:50 +0000
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> Subject: You've sold an article on Helium!
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> Dear Gary C. Gibson:
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Dear Helium; You banned me from publishing at Helium on 24 December 2009 and confiscated all of my earnings for the future. Please stop rubbing it in. I know I have about 800 five star posts at Helium and have lost any profit from that the past two years as I have slept outside freezing in winters, drinking ice water, unable to afford a bottle of propane for coffee and feeeling like Helium is generally like the KGB 2nd directorate sending writers into destitute exile in Siberia.--thanks much.
looking forward to another winter (please do not contact me again as your Mr. Logan said he would write to the F.B.I. and tell them I am some sort of malefactor)
Gary C. Gibson
I have incidentally developed a theory about human digestive processes in cold weather in retrospect since last winter. I believe that if one drinks icewater instead of warm beverages and sleeps on the ground for months when the temperature is about 10 degrees or so the bacteria that processes food in the intestines is killed off. Well, in the spring one's digestion does not work near as well and one puts on weight much more readily in the warmer weather.
In the winter the weight gain and inefficiency in processing food is not as apparent because extra energy is needed to keep warm. Calories are burnt producing warmth. I listened to a doctor on the radio talking about diet in the summer and he mentioned that yogurt and its live culture offsets it weight gaining effects. I started eating yogurt and thereafter more food was processed and less weight gained as my own bacterial culture in the colon was recharged.
This is simply speculation of course. I am sure that there is documentation on the Internet of the effect of cold weather on digestion that I haven't time to locate because my webbook computer screen broke last January and I use public computers a few hours a week now.
The delayed effects remind me a little of when I immersed my combat boots in icewater and snow for 18 hours, then had my feet swell up quite a bit a day or two later, losing a a few toenails and having cyanotic blood flood for several years in even near freezing temperatures.
8/30/11
WIll Independents 'Go Romne'y in 2012 General Election?
Democrats will be democrats, and Republicans will be Republicans, yet independents would probably vote for Mitt Romney vs. Obama, and yet lean toward Obama in a general election vs Perry.
Independents preponderantly tolerate public heath care-Perry is agin that though the courts will likely decide which of the half states for or against will get their poison. Probably the majority of states suing the government over Obamacare are from states with fewer electoral votes than the other 24 that aren't.
Independent voters preponderantly don't want four more years of Texas led wars. Neither do they want global warming. They also believe Rick Perry is clueless on economics.
Mitt Romney does better with independents than Perry, who would like to restart Reganomics with the borrowing well dry, and drill like James Watt to get Texans working and the rest of America further in debt to OPEC political control.
Mitt Romney might be the first constructive Republican President since Reagan, and he would have to find a new way to restart the economy than Reagan did. Anything is possible-even fundamentalist voters would reconcile and vote for Romney vs. Obama.
Independents preponderantly tolerate public heath care-Perry is agin that though the courts will likely decide which of the half states for or against will get their poison. Probably the majority of states suing the government over Obamacare are from states with fewer electoral votes than the other 24 that aren't.
Independent voters preponderantly don't want four more years of Texas led wars. Neither do they want global warming. They also believe Rick Perry is clueless on economics.
Mitt Romney does better with independents than Perry, who would like to restart Reganomics with the borrowing well dry, and drill like James Watt to get Texans working and the rest of America further in debt to OPEC political control.
Mitt Romney might be the first constructive Republican President since Reagan, and he would have to find a new way to restart the economy than Reagan did. Anything is possible-even fundamentalist voters would reconcile and vote for Romney vs. Obama.
On ‘Abraham-The First Historical Biography’ by David Rosenberg
Reading this fine book published in 2006 is a kind of journey through mind and of space and time as Rod Serling might have said. One returns to a kind of aboriginal dream time of the foundation of civilization catching glimpses of the people of Ur in the year 3300 B.C.E., then learns more about the life and history of that civilization and its people unto the time of Abraham in 1800 B.C.. A crucible driving Abraham to a break with his cultural past bringing him to make that momentous journey out of Sumer to the land of Canaan is brought to life with Rosenberg’s word portraits of the Patriarch’s world.
The author points out that after leaving Ur, Abraham was ‘houseless until his death’; not such bad company for today’s homeless to be in. The meek it is said, shall inherit the Earth.
God is a creative being, one whom makes things exist. Sin on the contrary is nihilistic activity, making things not exist and abnegating individual integrity for-self and for-others. Sin is destruction of creation-the production of broken forms.
A logic of sustaining beings that allow things to exist in the universe or in any possible form of universe, rather than to not exist, is plain enough, and good. The meek are more compatible with creative eternal life than are those reinforcing continua of nihilism and eternal death.
Abraham we learn was obedient to God. Abraham’s conformal behavior was compatible to the principle of life and existence over death and non-being. The founding patriarch of three faiths was simultaneously bold yet meek. Abraham was of course faithful to The One (who is three).
There are not too many biographically descriptive references to Abraham in the Bible that one might easily get much data describing the life at Ur of the founder of what today is thought of as the Jewish religion. Rosenberg-who provides his own translations from Hebrew carefully considers Biblical material and tries to create a reconstruction of the culture and time of Sumer and the home town of Abraham-the city of Ur, drawing upon ancient material and sources such as large numbers of cuneiform clay tablets of the Sumerian civilization that were excavated in the 20th century and now.
Rosenberg mentions a Sumerian epic story-history called ‘The World Order’ that probably was known a thousand years later at the late 11th century B.C.E. court of King Solomon. It is apropos that President G.H.W. Bush’s term ‘The New World Order’ was coined in the era of the first U.S. war with Iraq. Not so much changes after 5000 years in politics-at least where fossil fuels are concerned.
Scholarly translations and compilations of that ancient data from Sumerian libraries and elsewhere have increasingly shed light on the culture of ancient Sumer unto Abraham’s day.
David Rosenberg is a poet and biblical scholar. He is also a co-author of ‘The J Book’. That interesting work is an exposition of the J (Jehovah?) writer of the earliest parts of the book of Genesis. Scriptural criticism supposes that there were four primary scribes, writers and or redactors of the first five books of the Bible that have reached us today beginning with the J writer most likely of Solomon’s court; and surprising to some, possibly a female writer. The treatment of Sarah’s response to news of her planned pregnancy (planned by God) seems to have a more feminine touch than a male writer of the time might have had-yet if it was originally a scribbled note by Abraham himself-who can say? His relationship with Sarah and other highlights of the journey could have been saved as an outline-diary of meaningful events. Such jottings of one of the best writers of Sumer making his own exodus out of decay may have made it down through history and much retelling to J at King Solomon’s court.
-note Abraham is said to have wandered with his father Terah toward the CIty of Haran up the rivers toward Damascus or Megiddo on his way to Shalem (Jerusalem) where lived King Melchisedek and his Jebusites. It makes more sense that an ancient traveller would follow along the water way for drinking refreshment than that he would have turned southwest toward the Arabian deserts. I have elesewhere in this article mentioned Abraham as wandering around the Arabian Pennisnusla that after reading Rosenberg's book I would tend to agree that it would be an improbable route of travel.
Shimon Gibson in writing about his excavation of the cave of John the Baptist a couple of miles from his home town also made the point that early Christians were much less sexist than later ecclesiastical structures and traditions that developed in reflecting perhaps the pervasively male hierarchical social establishment of the era. The early Christian ideas of social priorities have themselves been eclipsed a little by the secular social hegemony over Christian organizations.
Abraham may have trained his own scribe to keep the cuneiform writing alive on his journey out of Ur. John Smith brought his own scribe to write down his actions exploring Chesapeake Bay. Perhaps the ‘disciple Jesus loved’ was a reference by one of John’s school of writers at Ephesus to their founder. Some of the more important writers of history had others complete their works under supervision-Julius Caesar for instance in his history of ‘The Civil War’ and wars in Libya and Alexandria.
The additional possibility exists that Sarah too learned to write cuneiform, and became one of the world’s first secretaries, added personal points of view to her husband’s recollections.
The topic of Abraham writing cuneiform leads me to wonder if a synthesis of cuneiform and hieroglyphic literacy traditions by Moses upon leaving Egypt led him to create an alphabet to write down Jewish speech about 1500 B.C.E. during the Exodus. I believe the Hebrew symbol yod is from the cuneiform numbering system. It would be interesting to have a map of archaeological locations of cuneiform writing outside of Mesopotamia. An alphabet representing sounds may have been simpler for Moses to construct than a synthesis of two less phonetically based writing systems. Were the Ten Commandments the first alphabetically based legal code?
Rosenberg builds with scholarly learning, poetic inference and creative insight an exegesis of J’s construction of Genesis from earlier sources including a hypothetical X writer in King Melchizedek court. We discover that Abraham was likely to have been a Sumerian writer himself who left Sumer at a time when the New Babylonian rulers were repressing the religious and culture creative license of Sumer that had already existed more than a thousand years. Abraham was called to venture away and found a new religious civilization or culture, and his heir would be named Israel.
Rosenberg’s book on Abraham is fine reading. One learns philosophically new ideas-perhaps worth being called a religious ontology, that might be quite different from the usual assumptions about the religious culture of ancient Ur. For some, the idea of treating Abraham as a real man albeit in a reconstructed and good spirited, best effort historical scenario could be a little bit faith-shaking initially. How could Abraham emerge from an evolving cultural religious paradigm and quite reasonably have a personal God flowing rather naturally from the culture and history of the time? Shouldn’t Abraham have simply been thwacked on the head by a finger of God and provided with divine insights while he was just minding his own business even though secularists already would be developing hagiographical details about the saintly, deserving soul?
Philosophically speaking, the development of a history outline of the religious culture of Sumer is brilliantly informative. There are other approaches to interpreting ancient civilizations and the foundations of some religious practices obviously, and some things are left out perhaps from this books such as one might expect existed in ancient culture such as human sacrifice, yet the book accomplishes rather convincingly presenting the picture of Abraham & ancient Sumeria while explaining mankinds theoretical and practical relationship to the divine and unknown in the ancient context. One knows that much is left out and much is poeticly liberated from nothingness with creative speculation, yet that is the brilliance of the work in finding so much in the scant and occluded historical record.
Religious ontologies may exist simultaneously with mundane, familiar weltanschauung, Sartre’s existential personal world experience coheres within the phenomenality of social dialectical reason and the cultural environment. Mankind and his civilizations exist within an apparent universe emerged or selected from all-possible-universes put up in some way fine tuned to support life.
From an unknowable perturbative vacuum with quantum uncertainty perhaps a void and space-time plus energy emerge. No one knows if a quantum uncertainty field before all universes really exists or why even one virtual particular particle would ever become a temporarily real thing or where it could appear or why, before anything materially was. One would think that all things existing become the past, presenting a form of paradox for-itself even if one regards a temporal linerar series of events mechanically and as self-explanatory.
The Sumerians had their own way of examining the juxtaposition of the supernatural and unknown with the natural and known-the Babylonians repressed that artistic and intellectual liberty with the dogmatism of the cult of Marduk and Abraham with his sculptor father Terah set out over the Arabian Peninsula to change the future history of mankind.
Sodom and Gomorrah were said to be located near the confluence of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River. Perhaps the mud brick towns were new and located on opposite bank of the Jordan. Over historical time it might have occurred to someone to dam the Jordan and one such dam broke sending a raging wave to sweep the perverse townsmen and their bricks before a river wave down to return to the elements in the Dead Sea.
Looking back into ancient history is a good thing for scholars. Culturally though societies may stagnate in the past or forget its lessons dooming themselves to repeat its errors. When Abraham’s nephew Lot was ordered to flee the city of Sodom before its destruction he and his family were told not to look back.
Leaving a corrupt civilization is what Abraham did when departing Ur that had fallen into economic and spiritual stagnation. Lot’s wife had to stop and look back across salt collection and drying ponds outside Sodom and was perhaps splashed and covered over with quick drying salt-slurry when some kind of collection retaining wall collapsed or a splattering thing struck down the city.
There are several messages in the story-a true story that one may take concerning the need for social and cultural reformation, the need to not have contempt for God and/or about the phenomenality of existence in a phenomenal Universe.
Perhaps we should not have smug politicians ignoring global heating, ecospheric depletion and economic corruption because they own stock in Exxon-Mobil or have investments in China. When capitalism is corrupted such that it puts a price on people and what they are worth to delete the economic methods assaults democracy and becomes a tool of financial democide. Corrupt political parties ping-ponging an economic ball with hypocritical moral paddles over an oily atmospheric and biospheric decay have too much of the Sodomites about them to be reformers and escape the enveloping return unto inanimate being without free will in-itself.
I recommend reading Rosenberg’s book ‘Abraham’. It is a serious effort to reconstruct more about ancient writers and what they thought of life. Some people believed that God could have evolved the world if he choose, yet philosophically it’s easy to understand that God also would have complete foreknowledge of all quantum variables at any level so far as he like. People have free will yet God’s will entirely determines how things are-even quantum mechanics has similar paradoxes on the nature of matter and of getting information about it.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is also a kind of quantum displacement principle as all things determined are yet grounded in the infinite and unfounded expect for the phenomenal-perhaps inclusive of the human mind and of human experience. Abraham might have emerged from a culture supporting the religious concepts that emerged and in part formed elements of the religious paradigm of Judaism, Islam and Christianity-yet so what, would God not human beings to develop a religious or spiritual capability bringing them to recognize His true self the Universe phenomenalized?
There are still Sumerian ethnic peoples-Amorites living in Iraq. Those we might regard today as Jews were just another Semitic people many of whom had moved to Sumer though some lived in Canaan. The ideas of Sumer continue with us including some of the religious paradigms in some regards. Abraham in leaving Sumer became the first Jew, it is said; a religious way of relating to the transcendent.
It is good for Christian faith that the principals in our own first century a.d. drama of reality were all real people, Jesus Christ was a real man too, for whom the witnessed experiences of the Apostles, disciples and countless others of the miracles of Jesus were given, transcending the foundations of experience and history to become a reliable ontology for-itself…the best a human being may have.
The author points out that after leaving Ur, Abraham was ‘houseless until his death’; not such bad company for today’s homeless to be in. The meek it is said, shall inherit the Earth.
God is a creative being, one whom makes things exist. Sin on the contrary is nihilistic activity, making things not exist and abnegating individual integrity for-self and for-others. Sin is destruction of creation-the production of broken forms.
A logic of sustaining beings that allow things to exist in the universe or in any possible form of universe, rather than to not exist, is plain enough, and good. The meek are more compatible with creative eternal life than are those reinforcing continua of nihilism and eternal death.
Abraham we learn was obedient to God. Abraham’s conformal behavior was compatible to the principle of life and existence over death and non-being. The founding patriarch of three faiths was simultaneously bold yet meek. Abraham was of course faithful to The One (who is three).
There are not too many biographically descriptive references to Abraham in the Bible that one might easily get much data describing the life at Ur of the founder of what today is thought of as the Jewish religion. Rosenberg-who provides his own translations from Hebrew carefully considers Biblical material and tries to create a reconstruction of the culture and time of Sumer and the home town of Abraham-the city of Ur, drawing upon ancient material and sources such as large numbers of cuneiform clay tablets of the Sumerian civilization that were excavated in the 20th century and now.
Rosenberg mentions a Sumerian epic story-history called ‘The World Order’ that probably was known a thousand years later at the late 11th century B.C.E. court of King Solomon. It is apropos that President G.H.W. Bush’s term ‘The New World Order’ was coined in the era of the first U.S. war with Iraq. Not so much changes after 5000 years in politics-at least where fossil fuels are concerned.
Scholarly translations and compilations of that ancient data from Sumerian libraries and elsewhere have increasingly shed light on the culture of ancient Sumer unto Abraham’s day.
David Rosenberg is a poet and biblical scholar. He is also a co-author of ‘The J Book’. That interesting work is an exposition of the J (Jehovah?) writer of the earliest parts of the book of Genesis. Scriptural criticism supposes that there were four primary scribes, writers and or redactors of the first five books of the Bible that have reached us today beginning with the J writer most likely of Solomon’s court; and surprising to some, possibly a female writer. The treatment of Sarah’s response to news of her planned pregnancy (planned by God) seems to have a more feminine touch than a male writer of the time might have had-yet if it was originally a scribbled note by Abraham himself-who can say? His relationship with Sarah and other highlights of the journey could have been saved as an outline-diary of meaningful events. Such jottings of one of the best writers of Sumer making his own exodus out of decay may have made it down through history and much retelling to J at King Solomon’s court.
-note Abraham is said to have wandered with his father Terah toward the CIty of Haran up the rivers toward Damascus or Megiddo on his way to Shalem (Jerusalem) where lived King Melchisedek and his Jebusites. It makes more sense that an ancient traveller would follow along the water way for drinking refreshment than that he would have turned southwest toward the Arabian deserts. I have elesewhere in this article mentioned Abraham as wandering around the Arabian Pennisnusla that after reading Rosenberg's book I would tend to agree that it would be an improbable route of travel.
Shimon Gibson in writing about his excavation of the cave of John the Baptist a couple of miles from his home town also made the point that early Christians were much less sexist than later ecclesiastical structures and traditions that developed in reflecting perhaps the pervasively male hierarchical social establishment of the era. The early Christian ideas of social priorities have themselves been eclipsed a little by the secular social hegemony over Christian organizations.
Abraham may have trained his own scribe to keep the cuneiform writing alive on his journey out of Ur. John Smith brought his own scribe to write down his actions exploring Chesapeake Bay. Perhaps the ‘disciple Jesus loved’ was a reference by one of John’s school of writers at Ephesus to their founder. Some of the more important writers of history had others complete their works under supervision-Julius Caesar for instance in his history of ‘The Civil War’ and wars in Libya and Alexandria.
The additional possibility exists that Sarah too learned to write cuneiform, and became one of the world’s first secretaries, added personal points of view to her husband’s recollections.
The topic of Abraham writing cuneiform leads me to wonder if a synthesis of cuneiform and hieroglyphic literacy traditions by Moses upon leaving Egypt led him to create an alphabet to write down Jewish speech about 1500 B.C.E. during the Exodus. I believe the Hebrew symbol yod is from the cuneiform numbering system. It would be interesting to have a map of archaeological locations of cuneiform writing outside of Mesopotamia. An alphabet representing sounds may have been simpler for Moses to construct than a synthesis of two less phonetically based writing systems. Were the Ten Commandments the first alphabetically based legal code?
Rosenberg builds with scholarly learning, poetic inference and creative insight an exegesis of J’s construction of Genesis from earlier sources including a hypothetical X writer in King Melchizedek court. We discover that Abraham was likely to have been a Sumerian writer himself who left Sumer at a time when the New Babylonian rulers were repressing the religious and culture creative license of Sumer that had already existed more than a thousand years. Abraham was called to venture away and found a new religious civilization or culture, and his heir would be named Israel.
Rosenberg’s book on Abraham is fine reading. One learns philosophically new ideas-perhaps worth being called a religious ontology, that might be quite different from the usual assumptions about the religious culture of ancient Ur. For some, the idea of treating Abraham as a real man albeit in a reconstructed and good spirited, best effort historical scenario could be a little bit faith-shaking initially. How could Abraham emerge from an evolving cultural religious paradigm and quite reasonably have a personal God flowing rather naturally from the culture and history of the time? Shouldn’t Abraham have simply been thwacked on the head by a finger of God and provided with divine insights while he was just minding his own business even though secularists already would be developing hagiographical details about the saintly, deserving soul?
Philosophically speaking, the development of a history outline of the religious culture of Sumer is brilliantly informative. There are other approaches to interpreting ancient civilizations and the foundations of some religious practices obviously, and some things are left out perhaps from this books such as one might expect existed in ancient culture such as human sacrifice, yet the book accomplishes rather convincingly presenting the picture of Abraham & ancient Sumeria while explaining mankinds theoretical and practical relationship to the divine and unknown in the ancient context. One knows that much is left out and much is poeticly liberated from nothingness with creative speculation, yet that is the brilliance of the work in finding so much in the scant and occluded historical record.
Religious ontologies may exist simultaneously with mundane, familiar weltanschauung, Sartre’s existential personal world experience coheres within the phenomenality of social dialectical reason and the cultural environment. Mankind and his civilizations exist within an apparent universe emerged or selected from all-possible-universes put up in some way fine tuned to support life.
From an unknowable perturbative vacuum with quantum uncertainty perhaps a void and space-time plus energy emerge. No one knows if a quantum uncertainty field before all universes really exists or why even one virtual particular particle would ever become a temporarily real thing or where it could appear or why, before anything materially was. One would think that all things existing become the past, presenting a form of paradox for-itself even if one regards a temporal linerar series of events mechanically and as self-explanatory.
The Sumerians had their own way of examining the juxtaposition of the supernatural and unknown with the natural and known-the Babylonians repressed that artistic and intellectual liberty with the dogmatism of the cult of Marduk and Abraham with his sculptor father Terah set out over the Arabian Peninsula to change the future history of mankind.
Sodom and Gomorrah were said to be located near the confluence of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River. Perhaps the mud brick towns were new and located on opposite bank of the Jordan. Over historical time it might have occurred to someone to dam the Jordan and one such dam broke sending a raging wave to sweep the perverse townsmen and their bricks before a river wave down to return to the elements in the Dead Sea.
Looking back into ancient history is a good thing for scholars. Culturally though societies may stagnate in the past or forget its lessons dooming themselves to repeat its errors. When Abraham’s nephew Lot was ordered to flee the city of Sodom before its destruction he and his family were told not to look back.
Leaving a corrupt civilization is what Abraham did when departing Ur that had fallen into economic and spiritual stagnation. Lot’s wife had to stop and look back across salt collection and drying ponds outside Sodom and was perhaps splashed and covered over with quick drying salt-slurry when some kind of collection retaining wall collapsed or a splattering thing struck down the city.
There are several messages in the story-a true story that one may take concerning the need for social and cultural reformation, the need to not have contempt for God and/or about the phenomenality of existence in a phenomenal Universe.
Perhaps we should not have smug politicians ignoring global heating, ecospheric depletion and economic corruption because they own stock in Exxon-Mobil or have investments in China. When capitalism is corrupted such that it puts a price on people and what they are worth to delete the economic methods assaults democracy and becomes a tool of financial democide. Corrupt political parties ping-ponging an economic ball with hypocritical moral paddles over an oily atmospheric and biospheric decay have too much of the Sodomites about them to be reformers and escape the enveloping return unto inanimate being without free will in-itself.
I recommend reading Rosenberg’s book ‘Abraham’. It is a serious effort to reconstruct more about ancient writers and what they thought of life. Some people believed that God could have evolved the world if he choose, yet philosophically it’s easy to understand that God also would have complete foreknowledge of all quantum variables at any level so far as he like. People have free will yet God’s will entirely determines how things are-even quantum mechanics has similar paradoxes on the nature of matter and of getting information about it.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is also a kind of quantum displacement principle as all things determined are yet grounded in the infinite and unfounded expect for the phenomenal-perhaps inclusive of the human mind and of human experience. Abraham might have emerged from a culture supporting the religious concepts that emerged and in part formed elements of the religious paradigm of Judaism, Islam and Christianity-yet so what, would God not human beings to develop a religious or spiritual capability bringing them to recognize His true self the Universe phenomenalized?
There are still Sumerian ethnic peoples-Amorites living in Iraq. Those we might regard today as Jews were just another Semitic people many of whom had moved to Sumer though some lived in Canaan. The ideas of Sumer continue with us including some of the religious paradigms in some regards. Abraham in leaving Sumer became the first Jew, it is said; a religious way of relating to the transcendent.
It is good for Christian faith that the principals in our own first century a.d. drama of reality were all real people, Jesus Christ was a real man too, for whom the witnessed experiences of the Apostles, disciples and countless others of the miracles of Jesus were given, transcending the foundations of experience and history to become a reliable ontology for-itself…the best a human being may have.
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