Good Summer Non-Fiction Reading

Nigel Warburton recently left his position as senior lecturer at the Open University. The philosopher takes a turn at non-Academic philosophy free of the constraints of academia. His recent book Philosophy Bites Back with David Edmonds is at the top of my list of non-fiction. There are more non-fiction books of interest.

The Future by Al Gore leads with the concept of globalism as a stateless .com for the Utopian evolution. Cynics take a different view of globalism. Thunder on the Mountain by Peter A. Galuszka takes a hands on dirty look at big coal and corporate indifference. We don't believe globalism will improve human nature much, but will instead enforce a draconian domination by oppressive elites.

Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey of Whole Foods and Raj Sisodia seek to improve the 'heroic spirit of business' by upgrading their thinking caps through guru'd mentoring. Good luck. It's a good read too.

Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland is subtitled THE RISE of the NEW GLOBAL SUPER_RICH and the FALL OF EVERYONE ELSE. This book sounds like a must-read. Evidently people are interpreting the global elephant of capitalism and corporatism in different ways believing it will run amock and trample every place the grapes of wrath are stored profitably or dump too much fertilizer. 

Jared Diamond wrote THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY subtitled What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies. I like this topic quite a bit and hope to find the time to read the book. In the meantime here are a couple of traditional society tips.

Long ago S.E. Alaska had less water and more land and ice. When the end of the Wisconsin ice age started 16,000 years ago that all changed. Ice started melting and the sea level rose. Though Alaska brown bear genetically have two different lines arriving at different times and being isolated by rising water on islands such as Admiralty, they wern't the only ones affected. Human settlements of S.E. Alaska also changed.

Anthropological pre-history has people boating or walking along the Pacific coast maybe 20.000 years ago to points south with the now submerged land erasing the trail. It is known though that Athabascan tribesmen arrived from the Yukon and Stikine River maybe 5,000 years ago. They built a network of salmon traps in S.E. enabling a renewable harvest. Folklore reports Tlingits (means Sea Lion clan) of the larger Tongass tribe of Athabascans wasted very little of salmon eggs putting some of the egg and roe together in the streams before eating the fish. Salmon roe has vitamins A, C and D with 30% protein and no trans-fat or carbs.

Another fact is that Tlingits were the last tribe to have slaves in the U.S.A. They had traditional war with neighboring tribes such as the Haida executing as many as 70,000 a story goes in the mists of traditional history keeping a single hair count of each dead warrior building up to several inches thick. The Haida lived at Skid Gate in the Queen Charlotte Islands and may have arrived from Hawaii in large canoes manned by 60 warriors and/or women. Hai in Chinese means ocean I think, like Shang-hai means the Shang (original Chinese tribe) ocean. Our blue water navy can learn something from that too maybe.

Alaska News of HAARP, Weather/ Mind Control, Boundary Petitions & U.S. Senate Campaign

The U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in the 2016 Alaska election currently held by Mark Begich-a Democrat, got a new candidate today-Alaska's Republican Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell. Treadwell will join another candidate-Joe Miller (who ran unsuccessfully against party-line-jumping Republican-to-Independent-to-Republican Lisa Murkowsky losing the close election with cross-over Democrats voting for Murkowsky in 2010) in the run against the son of former U.S. Representative Nick Begich who was killed in the K.A.L. 007 shoot-down by a Soviet fighter-jet decades ago over Sakhalin Island.

Begich has a somewhat aloof webpage making it more difficult to send him emails than the Republican congressional delegation. Sen. Begich heated many Anchorage sidewalks when Mayor to melt ice. He also appeared with George Norrie on Coast-to Coast AM to discuss HAARP several times. What the government's hidden program of ethereal transitions was about was the concern. As Senator he hasn't told us if those evil machinations are still sending out possibly bad waves or if tin foil hats are a good enough defense. Maybe HAARP helped spy satellites listen to conversations of extra-terrestrials on Chinese mountaintops. Yek the dreaded possibility remains that Mark sold out to exobiological martinets pulling strings of U.S. political economy from the deep lab at Area 51 and won't disclose the facts he has learned.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2005/10/23 HAARP, Weather and Mind Control

The Treadwell vs. Miller Republican primary should be a good one with the incumbent Begich watching from the sidelines (Begich beat the late Sen. Ted Stevens after he was convicted of seven felonies that were eventually thrown out on appeal) will have to guess if the scion of the Treadwell gold mine family or the Yale Law, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks M.A. in Economics, Bronze Star winning man-of-the-people will be his opponent in 2016.

The Treadwell Mine in Juneau was a fascinating turn-of-the-century development that was state-of-the-art in its day with some facilities for workers and their health. Lt. Governor Treadwell still prefers natural resource development, though it's no longer the turn of the 20th century. There will be 11-12 billion people on Earth by 2100 and global warming controls and mass species extermination reversals are not developing at an adequate pace to work. Politicians should be leaders instead of throwers of accelerants on global eco-flames.

Anchorage Mayor Dan 'Body Count' Sullivan has thrown his hat into the race for Lt Governor. Sullivan's record of making life difficult for the poor of Anchorage let residents watch the annual winter body count of homeless people dying of hypothermia increase to as many as 11. Anchorage is a city were realistic effective policy can be far more important to life than traditional and hardened insider political postures.

The Alaska State Supreme Court threw out the political reapportionment process last month directing it be restarted. We will probably all get new voter's I.D. cards if the cookie cutters can decide how to best gerrymander the districts to let foreign corporations scarf down anything valuable

The Juneau-Petersburg borough boundary issue was decided in favor of Petersburg. The natural boundary would have given Petersburg as far north as Kupreanov Island's north end to Cape Fanshaw. Petersburg instead got the equivalent of a position on Juneau's 30-yard line at Holkam Bay.

http://commerce.alaska.gov/dca/lbc/2012_City_and_Borough_of_Juneau_Annexation/

One wonders if environmental concerns were the reason why? With a far smaller number of people living in Petersburg maybe development of natural resources would be slower than if Juneau got an equal portion of wilderness. Yet the reasoning might be the opposite; Juneau might have more environmentalists than Petersburg making getting easy approvals from the Petersburg borough assembly more attractive to  disposable-ecosphere developers.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-28/juneau-appeals-petersburg-borough-boundary-approval       

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/01/03/petersburg-becomes-19th-borough-in-alaska/

Juneau has a highly visible drive-up glacier, the Mendenhall Glacier, that is in fast melting recession because of global warming. The Mendenhall Valley auto culture is a local focal point pollution source for northern greenhouse gas  emission where one can see the direct damage perhaps working against Juneau's credibility as  conservator of vestigial wilderness in S.E.

Mendenhall Glacier

Road building mania drives many including the Governor and Lt. Governor to seek roads to Haines and adverse impact on whale lifestyles not too numerous wolves, marmots and indirectly human life on Earth. The cheap and easy cookie jar of wild environment drives plundering instead of creative economic invention and renewal of habit on Earth. One would hope these geniuses would develop a green ethic for transplanting to make lifeless exo-planets green and Lush before desertification of Earth kills us all.

Image credit State of Alaska

The city-borough of Juneau is correct in appealing the decision to give the area in red to Petersburg. Petersburg's natural range of influence should end at Cape Fanshaw. The area in red should be set aside for non-development so whales and voyageurs might have relief from the maddening crowd in the few decades of eco-health remaining ahead.

Whale jumps at Faragut Bay April 2013

Internet & S.S.U.T.A. Taxation Status Explained by Rep. Don Young of Alaska

Alaska Rep. Don Young explains efforts to tax the Internet through the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement that 24 states have signed in to.

   " Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 684, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013.  I appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns with me.

     Under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, a state may not impose tax collection responsibilities on an out-of-state seller that does not have a physical presence in the state.  This interpretation has allowed many online businesses to sell to customers in various states without having to collect and pay owed sales taxes unless the business has an actual building in the states.  In fact, to combat this many states have established laws that require the customer to pay the sales tax to their home state, but the rate of compliance is extremely low.

     The inherent difficulties in collecting state-specific sales taxes led many state tax administrators to form a working group tasked with finding a uniform way to collect sales taxes among the states.  In 2002, the working group produced the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), which was adopted by 24 states so far.  Alaska has not adopted the SSUTA and does not impose a sales tax on its businesses or purchasers.

     On February 14, 2013, Representative Steve Womack (R-AZ) introduced H.R. 684 to allow states to impose sales tax collection duties on remote sellers if the state has adopted the SSUTA or similar state legislation.  An exemption would be provided to sellers with online gross sales less than $1 million per year.  This means that if H.R. 684 were law, any state which adopted the SSUTA would have to collect sales taxes from its constituents, who purchased products online from an out-of-state vendor, and remit those taxes to the vendor's home state.  Opponents of this legislation argue that the legislation would force online retailers to become tax collectors for the 46 states who collect sales taxes.  Furthermore, they argue that enacting H.R. 684 into law could mean online businesses facing multiple out-of-state audits if these businesses fail to collect the proper amount of taxes.     As more and more purchases are made over the Internet and states experience more and more fiscal troubles, state governments are looking for new ways to collect taxes from sales generated online.  Alaska does not impose a state sales tax and has not adopted the SSUTA.  Therefore, it does not appear that H.R. 684 would affect Alaskans even if it were adopted.  However, if Alaska were to adopt the SSUTA, the idea that H.R. 684 could force Alaskan online vendors to become tax collectors for 46 states is troublesome.  For that reason, I remain highly skeptical of H.R. 684 in its current form."

Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution Officially Dead Says Saeb Erekat

The two-state solution to incessant Palestinian attacks on Israel is officially dead according to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. Erekat made the remark in reply to a statement by Israeli Economic minister Naftali Bennet. Deputy Defense Minister Danny Dannon echoed Bennet's recalcitrance on a two-state solution. We thought as much might develop following the brutal Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of the coalition of the willing and neo-con bungling of nation-rebuilding.

Gaza's Hamas party has never quit attacking Israel, and as first cousin of the Muslim Brotherhood the two-state solution founded on a secular government in Egypt and a more moderate P.L.O does seem anachronistic. In the current political environment of a destabilized Middle East, with shoulder-fired anti-jetliner missiles purloined from the late Libyan Dictator Moamar Ghaddafi's arsenal possible reaching Al Qaeda of the Nigeria or the Maghreb, and with a recrudescent Sunni collection of visiting terrorist and revolutionaries active in Syria seeking to establish another Muslim Brotherhood branch government Israel is increasingly seeming to be in something like a geopolitical situation like that before the 1967 Middle-East war where a pan-Arabic group  of governments led by Abdul Nasser developed and executed belligerent actions. If Israel were to accept a two-state solution they would in effect simply be cede defense territory before a possible next conflict.  That would not be in Israel's interest.

http://nationaluasi.com/dru/node/1126

While the U.S. administration has said it would start to donate small arms (weapons of war such as assault weapons, grenades, semi-automatic pistols, machine guns and such) to particular illegal combatants in Syria who pro-Syrians might regard as terrorists for eating the intestines of dead government soldiers now and then, the Syrian conflict may continue for a few years with increased support from Hezballah and other neo-Shiite allies of the neo-Shia Alawite Assad Government. With such an alumni of terrorist pros gathering experience in the conflicts of the Middle East Israel will need to increase it's vigilance. After the end of the conflict in Syria pro or con the terrorist underground networks may seek further employment attacking Israel with renewed support from the infusion of small arms and weapons of war loosed during the Arab Spring of Revolt. In time the traditional unifying factor of terrorist networks might resume the trash talk and attack Israel axis of evil.

Probably the better time for a two-state solution was before all of the changes of the Arab spring and profusion of terrorists and terrorist weapons throughout the Middle East. In the present destabilized environment Israel will have to hunker down and increase its defense capabilities and border security. Perhaps in a decade or two after the present generation of radicals ages a little it might be a stable and responsible enough environment of political leadership for a two-state solution with some land in Syria or Egypt going to Palestinians in addition to the Gaza and some West Bank properties. It would probably be best though that evolution through twittering and Facebooked friendly relations and business practices develop such that in time the regional exploitation of workers issues wither away.

Afghanistan's Social-Military Development; Michael Hastings & 'The Operators'

When a reporter working for Rolling Stone magazine did a story on then commander of U.S. and ISAF troops in Afghanistan four-star general Stan McCrystal in 2010 the die was cast for revealing the V.P. 'Bite-me' appellation heard round the world, and General McCrystal's resignation was accepted when the pdf report was leaked. The reporter Michael Hastings wrote a fine book on the in-depth development of the story with interviews with the general and his staff in Europe and Afghanistan as well as a wealth of information about the war, the effect on the people of Afghanistan and the costs. The booked is named 'The Operators' after McCrystal's Special Forces and JSOC personal history. Operators are what Delta force personnel are called. Instead of being another truth-better-than fiction action adventure tale one might expect, The Operators is a high-level view of how politicians and generals got it wrong.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/afghanistan-drawdown-take-security-lead-from-us-nato_n_3450858.html?utm_hp_ref=world

The Huffington Post blog today has a story on the soon to be announced transition of Afghan security forces taking the lead from American and ISAF forces in Afghanistan, and it seems about time. Hasting's book provides some detail about the Afghan security forces and American political-military management of the war that are a little disturbing. The war for one thing just didn't seem necessary. We sent a conventional Army to fight against a non-existent insurgency. Initially the C.I.A. supported the Northern Alliances efforts to take down the Taliban successfully helped with a few Blue-72 bombs, Special Forces and bucket loads of cash. Only then did the large military build-up begin to take out an Al-Qae'da that were mostly gone and that had been Arabs and international terrorists doing guest training in country.

Hastings writes that the majority of Afghan soldiers and security forces smoke hashish, as does President Karzai. Homosexual exploitation of boys by Afghan security forces is also common. They have a phrase 'boys are for fun and girls are for children' in Afghanistan. We do not need to support such a Muslim society that is implicitly corrupt perhaps through the effects of decades of foreign intervention.

In my opinion the United States can't get anything right economically and uses military power instead of defensible ecospheric economic intervention that survives anyone's terror attacks. There is just no green economic genius in the U.S. military and politicians tend to be clueless about foreign intelligence before intervention militarily.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Operators-Terrifying-Americas-Afghanistan/dp/0452298962

There are plans to build-up warlords to persist regionally after the U.S. drawdown and let the corrupt at least offset development of a Taliban-led fundamentalist state. In such a political climate U.S. Special Forces might interpolate to attack incipient international terrorist training bases theoretically. Billions being spent tends to be the first congressional response to international terrorism defense even if there isn't any good reason for it. It's as if students with the flunking math scores are running the U.S. government and that isn't very helpful to the economic bottom line or dead civilians.

Accuracy is important in chess, and it's important in economics and war as well. U.S. generals like Stan McCrystal don't have the authority to just win the war, and civilian political leaders haven't the competence to run the war if it isn't conventional at least.  That is one present problem for the American democracy. Wrong political choices and management mean wars are badly addressed. Not even the counter-insurgency techniques of General Petraeus (COIN) derived from Galula's doctrine were meaningful for Afghanistan. Insurgent recruitment increased to resist the foreign invaders (U.S.) whenever we killed an insurgent or two. The 'insurgency' was that of natives at home defending against aloof, wealthy killers spending money on defense items like drunken sailors-maybe to find Bin Laden, who was probably allowed to escape from Torah Borah to Pakistan years before.

Anand (Ind) vs Carlsen (Nor) World Chess Championship Nov. 6 to 26, 2013

The 2013 World Chess Championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand and first-time challenger Magnus Carlsen will be held in Chennai India in November. The 22 year old Norwegian will square off against the 43 year old Anand who is brilliant at counter play.  Carlsen has the highest-ever chess rating at 2864. Anand's rating is fourth in the world at 2786.

The chess world three decades after saturation of pc's and chess programs has taken a turn toward the quick. Timed games online at chess.com may have 10,000 players on any given Saturday. It's free to join and amusing intellectually to play. youtube has many free chess videos from chess coaches like thechesswebsite, MatoJelic and Kingscrusher. Following the action of master-class chess players online in live blitz games lasting five or ten minutes, or as little as one minute bullet games is a refreshing way to clear the cobwebs out. It takes about a year to learn to play at a 1000 level, so there is some work required to move one's score up  the ladder. 

World chess champions of the past started chess playing as early as age four (Karpov). Carlsen was a Grand master at age 13. There are three players with scores higher than 2800 and they all started playing chess early in the morning.

Club chess players are those with ratings between 1200 and 1800. Higher than that one finds FIDE masters (FM's), National and International masters and Grand masters (GMs). In the world there are about a thousand Grand masters. What is interesting about the present highest-level chess play is the large number of players rated higher than 2700. The U.S.A. has a player-Hikaru Nakamura, rated 5th in the world with just two fewer points than Anand. Aronian, Kramnik, Karjakin, Topolov, Grischuck and Caruana are other top-ten rated players that one expects to be challenging in the future, whoever wins the thrilla in Chennai.

Image credit: U.S. public domain Philadelphia Museum of Art 1917 Juan Gris, Chessboard, Glass and Dish

Snowden's Theft of N.S.A. Data Indicates Broad Exposure to Digital Corruption

Edward Snowden's theft of N.S.A. surveillance information to reveal to the public and Communist Chinese the depth of technical penetration of communications networks does indicate the tip of the iceberg of data mining the upper classes and criminal gangs exploit. Douglas Bamford's excellent 2009 book on the N.S.A. The Shadow Factory provided a in-depth look into the covert-overt agency. Private sector data mining companies track a lot of information too. Not just online either; r.t.f. chips in everything from smart cards to automobile parts and phones are tied in to computer networks tracking the location of hard-wired Americans.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-America/dp/0307279391

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining

http://www.kypost.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/downtown/data-mining-is-big-business-for-kroger-&-getting-bigger-all-the-time

It is interesting that any sort of debate exists on Snowden's violation of public trust. Democracy requires that people obey the laws voluntarily. That the N.S.A. does data mining means that its part of the real modern world. The public ought to be alarmed about the inherent insecurity of Internet communications and general data tracking yet of course they aren't. It's too complex and abtruse of a topic to be concerned about and if their privacy goes out the window well, they already probably tweeted something about their criminal activities anyway.

It is probable that a complete reformation of the Internet and cell phones, rtf card readers and other surveillance structures should be redesigned to enable virtually complete privacy. The crackerbox palaces of modern high-rise office buildings that collapse like a house of cards if hit by some jet fuel explosive should be phased out and modern artificial mountain range living structures with high-quality ecosphere contribution phased in. No one in politics has any interest in a competent reform of anything though. Evolution toward the global warming, mass extinction of bio-diversity, mass human population collapse through conflict, scarce resources and the death of individual freedom from the interference-of-others via mass control,  the concentration of wealth and repression of individual free enterprise because of the corporatist controlled political environment will probably go ahead like a reciprocal of the recession of glaciers. Not too worry. It will be twitted and reported when it happens.

Development of Marine Nitrogen Cycle Knowledge & Global Warming

Development of knowledge of the marine nitrogen cycle has increased the past twenty years. Molecular biology and genetic database technology provided new insights into what, where and how oceanic nitrogen is transformed, fixed and sequestered.  The recently published McGill University study (see article link below) showed that a few thousand years are needed for the oceans to adapt to global warming. 


http://aem.asm.org/content/68/3/1015.full  Nitrogen Cycling in the Ocean: New Perspectives on Processes and Paradigms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130614111606.htm McGill University study to quantity ocean nitrogen cycle response to climate change.

More protection for S.E. Alaska salmon habitat would be helpful if that fish is to survive in the century ahead in the wild.

http://m.juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-11/scientists-ask-protections-salmon-tongass

Pres. Obama to Arm Rebels, P.M. Cameron Claims Syria Used Sarin & Killed 150

Though Germany invented Sarin gas in 1938 the United States and Britain developed large stocks and perhaps the first casualty was a British test subject at Porton Down. Sarin is about 500 times more powerful than cyanide and can kill  in a minute. Sarin is a nerve agent and messes up neuro-chemicals. The administrations of the U.S., Britain and France claim the Assad government used Sarin on the rebels and killed 150 of them. We are a little skeptical because it is a potential excuse for U.S. intervention on the side of the rebels.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE95C16L20130614

If the Assad government used a chemical weapon it would be quite bad (it was outlawed by the U.N. in the 1990's). We wonder though why Assad would use such a politically dangerous weapon to kill just one-hundred people instead of conventional yet effective weapons of which he has plenty. We wonder if the claim is another Gulf of Tonkin resolution or W.M.D. in Saddam Hussein's Iraq quanta of political flim flam? Twice-burned once shy.  With defense outlays for Afghanistan winding down in 2014 the military-industrial complex may be searching for new places to drop munitions for profit (defense contractors need to resupply the U.S. military for profit).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22908836#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Senator McCain has already called for U.S. intervention to ground the Syrian Air Force. Cratering explosives on airfields and maybe Stinger should-launched missiles for Al Qaeda visiting rebels might do the trick. One wonders if the Syrian Air Force was used to kill just one-hundred rebels with Sarin by air drops of bombs?

In 2004 Iraqi rebels used an artillery shell with two-part Sarin precursors to attack a U.S. convoy ineffectively because the shell needed to rotate at high speed to mix the Sarin and an I.E.D. wouldn't do it. Syria has artillery and tanks to launch Sarin-precursor filled shells (not like creme-filled donuts) if they wanted to, so where is the effectiveness of a no-fly zone for controlling a possible Sarin attack from the air? It seems possible that former Iraqi rebels have a store of Sarin-precursor filled artillery shells that they might be able to use as guest-rebels for Team Sunni in Syria. We are skeptical about the Sarin fog of war, and hope for restraint from the Condor legion wing of the U.S. Government lusting for no-fly zones abroad until use of chemical weapons becomes a solidly witnessed and documented fact. 

A substantive approach to verification of quanta of contemporary history requires a probability curve of use consistent with military objectives in the given political environment. The allegation of technical use of Sarin gas by the Assad government of Syria thus far is not convincing. It seems to be a managed political level akin to claiming the unemployment rate was 7.9% before the Nov. 2012 Presidential election rather than 8.0. True or not there were still 30 million souls out of work in the U.S.A.


Image credit of Rocky Mountain Arsenal 1970 Sarin dtest rabbit-Library of Congress photo taken by U.S. Forest Service employee.

Evolution as Intelligent Design- Evolving Moral Positions and Intellectual Content v.2

 Sartre once said that he had evolved a new idea on what an intellectual is. President Obama used the phrase that he was evolving a new opinion about homosexual marriage decades later. Evolving subjective intellectual content is a self-regarded activity these days. One cannot be sure if such intellectual development evolves because of random chance or the natural selection of saying what the people want to here most in order to get political power (regardless of the merit of the idea). If evolution of ideas is powered by conscious, intentional thought then evolution comprises design. That paradox is ponderous. It means that evolution and intelligent design are synonyms. Evolving an opinion about the whore in the harbor of Babylon the Great trading with all the nations of the world might be easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8JVK4Fppw Sartre on 'What an Intellectual Is'

If morality is what people actually do in a social context, then perhaps ethics is a description of the normalized procedures for implementing moral choices. Certainly people seem to choose to do wrong often enough with select ethical criterions, yet perhaps for atheists without belief in a transcendent moral structure there is no wrong, but only evolution. How can it be wrong for Hitler to invade Poland within an evolutionary criterion? For Christians and Dietrich Bonhoeffer that wickedness of the Reich should have been morally and actually opposed?

One may reasonably oppose the existence of a logical condition as being present if there is present some sort of factor that cannot coexist simultaneously.

Not (A & B).

A or B

A & B

If one can prove these simple conditions to be valid for select, or Universal circumstances inclusive of an omnipotent God then I suppose one would have a hard to defeat bunker position with a clear enough logical field of fire, yet I believe that the presence of evil (if one recognizes evil and is not just atheistically 'evolving' an advantageous position does not satisfy the Universal disjunct logically.

Not simply because complex numbers evidently are used for description in quantum mechanics and one day for quantum computing that transcend the binary 0 or 1 criteria of computers today, but for the reason that God stipulated right out that people have original sin and a fallen nature. The premise is that given immortality mankind might become even more wicked than now. Mankind is given to labor and women to go through childbirth and mortality would abbreviate the evil of human experience.

That doesn't mean that human beingness is bad-only that the human nature to go wrong needs to be overcome through faith, yet I wanted to remain on logical grounds rather than that of faith for the present.

I have no idea what sort of things God might want to accomplish in eternity. I believe that God is tougher than NFL players with those concussive head injuries however, and he might be able to withstand tough things in the Universe that he creates perhaps as stress tests. Certainly human beings going through some of those horrible times were quite remarkably tough. Those Christians eaten by lions or burned alive for their faith were of strong moral character. Even some Buddhists that have burned themselves in protest of war showed a certain ability to overcome the horrors possible of the mortal coil, yet one would think that it should be evil rather than one's self that does evil in-the-world.

I think that the problem of evil is not something that precludes the existence of the Divine being-especially since He exists for eternity, sent His Son to share the experience and is has enough time to make things right.