Predestination of the Elect and Divine Mechanics

The doctrine of predestination of the Christian elect is a difficult one for those contemplating theology to work out. The reformation of the church by Martin Luther and others from one stressing works and even the sale of indulgences forgiving sin to one of justification by faith was developed further by John Calvin to an Augustinian paradigm of salvation by election of God with no elements of human works involved in it. Arminianists such as john Wesley took exception to that with the belief that such a doctrine would make the intervention of Christ and his atoning sacrifice meaningless. So how does one work that out?

One approach might be with analogies from quantum mechanics and quantum cosmology. The divine mechanics of God might be as challenging for ordinary humans to understand as is the math of M-Theory. The strong force binding quarks together actually gets stronger with separation to a certain distance. Some of the answers to divine mechanics may not be so simple. Even so let us take our shot at it in order to clarify the issue a little.

Jesus Christ is the solution to the problem of predestination. The Lord brought a blank check for the sins of humanity to the temporal world. Jesus Christ transcends temporality. The Lord inherently predestines any elements an individuals of the temporal for-himself and those that are saved are given, post hoc, the election of predestination. John Wheeler the late cosmologist-physicist developed the idea of retro-causality for the Universe's history. How much so the Lord has the capacity for retro-causality or ex-temporal causality reconciling the saved from among the lost unto himself existing before time or space existed.

The creation story in the book of Genesis is challenging to interpret in several respects. The work of the J writer perhaps from the court of Solomon or Rehoboam in redacting a prior paper dating to as early as the origin of the aleph beth possibly by Moses as an Egyptian prince adapting hieroglyphs to the Jewish language for their own writing may recount a common story also found in the tale of Gilgamesh about a flood and end of Eden perhaps under the whole prior world of a lower Persian Gulf plain. It may describe an exile of Adam and Eve from an Eden in Yemen or Saudi Arabia during the late Wisconsin Ice Age before they migrated to Mesopotamia. The actual pre-history of the world referred to in Genesis is difficult to be certain of. It is said thought that four cherubim guard the gates of Eden-perhaps those are the space-time dimensions that make it impossible to re-enter the past or even a non-temporal realm of being that Adam and Eve existed in-it's interesting to consider.

The problem of original sin as the entry of Adam and Eve from a non-temporal existence into a temporal Universe and world is consistent with the control of the disobedient nature of Adam and Eve in eating of the tree of knowledge. Temporality and mortality limited their ability to go wrong with their 'little godhood' level of learning. God said he reduced them to a mortal condition before they ate of the tree of eternal life. If Adam and Eve having eaten from the tree of knowledge had then ate from the tree of immortality that would have created a permanent and powerful schism between God and his creations.

Where does that leave us with the problem of infants that die in the human condition of original sin and had no chance to be saved? Some theologians of the past have battled strenuously with different sides of the issue. Anabaptists were even burnt alive about it. Zwingli was liberal and the topic and Calvin took a different turn. It is the problem of human linear reasoning that makes it such a difficult to answer question.

If God were to predestine all infants to salvation simply by dying too young for accountability that too would seem to negate the problem for original sin. If the unsaved are given eternal life what if they turn out to repeat the same errors of Adam and Eve without being at all remorseful? What if they become arrogant idiots for all of eternity? All of that sort of reasoning avoids considering that humans simply can't comprehend the eternal God at all well.

I would think that God has the capacity to just suspend judgment about infants that die without a chance of being saved and let them try again in some other realm of God. Anything is possible with God. One doesn't know well how the hell the willfully unsaved choose to go to for-themselves in effect by disregarding the call of the Holy Spirit during life will be. It is far better to be saved and respond to the call to all of the Lord.

World Chess Championship in Alaska.?

There were no bids to host this years World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand. With another round of bidding perhaps the U.S.A.-even Juneau Alaska, could enter into the bidding process for the exciting match. Of course E-Bay is the last resort for bidding.

Former Champion Gary Kasparov blamed the current F.I.D.E. administration for the problem with a lack of professionalism. Kasparov; one of the best five chess players of all-time, is seeking to be President of F.I.D.E. for-himself and for-others.

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/carlsen-versus-anand-the-sequel-gets-no-bids-for-hosting-rights/

Change Name of Washington Redskins to D.C. Doofus-Demons

Accuracy in naming is sometimes a virtue. The D.C. Doofus-Demons,  Econo-Turkeys or Deficit Spenders could relieve the team of victimizing those with a hint of red skin further.  Onomatopoeiac names such as the Washington Grunt might be good alternatively.

Some might argue that they are too smart to care and old enough to know better than to be interested in the controversy. Washington Blue Skins marching to a different drummer might foe something non-traditional-not sure what exactly.

Notes on Ukrainian Wheat Production in the Russia and Soviet Empires

The Russian bread basket-the Ukraine is of inestimable value to the north Rus people (some Congressmen probably believe Russians should buy their bread from Wal-Mart). Democrat and Republican policies since 2001 in effect have supported the rise of a constellation of new Al Qaeda training camps all over North Africa, the Middle East and central Asia. Daft policy brings unintended consequences to fruition. As a result of the ineffective interventionist policies the U.S. Government may want to stimulate the rise of Madrassas and Al Qaeda cells in the Ukraine.

In a sad note the western supplied Ukraine militia attacked pro-Russian Ukrainians in Slovyansk with much loss of life of civilian dissidents to rule by Wall Street puppets. The Obama administration has specialists at stimulating civil conflict. I hope they do not build another large one in Ukraine. It may be that President Putin's perceived slight to queer propaganda during the Olympics required revenge from Obamanites.

 http://news.msn.com/world/ukraine-many-insurgents-killed-in-slovyansk

It might be informative to compare the historical grain production from the Ukraine shipped to the rest of Moscow since the 18th century to determine how much is lacking presently. It should be noted that Russia itself exported 20 million metric tons of wheat in 2010-2011. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-ukraine-surging-in-global-grain-markets-2012-05-14

 http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq344e/aq344e.pdf Ukraine wheat export economy 1990-2000

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

 http://www.nass.usda.gov/Education_and_Outreach/Reports,_Presentations_and_Conferences/Yield_Reports/Grain%20Production%20in%20the%20USSR%20Present%20Situation,%20Perspectives%20for%20Development%20and%20Methods%20for%20Prediction.pdf

Illegal Alien Labor Supply and the Retardation of Minimum Wage

With of millions of illegal alien workers in the U.S.A. and the potential for millions more arriving whenever the economy improves a little the demand for labor imposes a natural governor retarding the rise of the natural minimum wage. One feels the Democrat Party efforts to force through a minimum wage increase high enough to stimulate the transfer of jobs to Mexico and China is a King Canute sort of aloof Ivy League idiocy of those detached from the reality of the sun belt and non-blue states full of government workers.

Consider Phoenix temporary employers for the homeless and others without quality permanent employment. If the minimum wage is $15 an hour then Labor Ready and Labor Finders would need to charge employers about $25 an hour per temp worker. With illegal aliens working for $3 an hour the possibilities of an American citizen getting a job would be slim to none. No one besides large corporate employers that can't hide illegal temporary workers would hire. Americans. With N.A.F.T.A. making cross border production easy-breezy production might preponderantly shift south of the border. That's a  small act of Congress but a giant leap for Mexico.

Democrat Party leadership doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals of supply and demand. Like King Canute they seem to feel that they just need to command something to happen and it will be so. Reality is an externality to not only global warming deniers but to Democrat economic analysts.

So Nancy Pelosi is ansy to get illegal aliens by the millions made legal so they can work for $15 an hour too. No worry about the cheap labor for Democrats though-they expect millions and millions of new illegal aliens to arrive to take the jobs Americans are legally able to take for less than $15 an hour. They ought instead to consider the actual facts of labor supply and real wage compensation in relation to demand for labor and seal the border against illegal immigration entirely. If jobs that can't be outsourced are must be filled by legal workers the value of labor will increase and wages will naturally rise. It would be a simple matter to create hundreds of thousands of new temporary jobs building a vast Mexican border boundary control zone that is ecologically advanced with canals for desalinating seawater to make fresh water for irrigation and drinking along the desert .

The Democrat Party, deficient of rational economic reason since the loss of Tip O'Neil has no sense of nationalism and benefits foreign nations equally as well as that of the United States. They simply don't know about ball control, and like the Republicans who are incomprehending of how the Russian bread basket-the Ukraine, is of inestimable value to the north Rus people (some Congressmen believe Russians should buy there bread from Wal-Mart), or Democrats and Republicans that support the rise of a constellation of new Al Qaeda training camps all over North Africa, the middle east and central Asia as a result of the ineffective interventionist policies probably want to stimulate the rise of Madrassas and Al Qaeda cells in the Ukraine.

It might be informative to compare the historical grain production from the Ukraine shipped to the rest of Moscow since the 18th century to determine how much is lacking presently. It should be noted that Russia itself exported 20 million metric tons of wheat in 2010-2011. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-ukraine-surging-in-global-grain-markets-2012-05-14

 http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq344e/aq344e.pdf Ukraine wheat export economy 1990-2000

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

 http://www.nass.usda.gov/Education_and_Outreach/Reports,_Presentations_and_Conferences/Yield_Reports/Grain%20Production%20in%20the%20USSR%20Present%20Situation,%20Perspectives%20for%20Development%20and%20Methods%20for%20Prediction.pdf

There is a choice of building the United States toward rational ecologically efficient lines with secure, responsible boundaries and population or just incompetantly increasing a sprawl of a few hundred million new Americans, destruction of the remaining environmental health and continuation of cheap labor, low-tech driven boom and bust economic cycles premised on exploiting cheap labor and avoiding environmental and social responsibility wherever possible. Without a Democrat Party that is competent and responsible there is no one to reign in the economic aggression of Republican capitalism when it needs to be moved into constructive channels.

N.B.A. Bans Stirling For Life; Fined Millions

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Stirling was banned for life and fined at least $2.5 million for interactive talk with his girlfriend at the time. She seemed to be bullying Stirling into acquiescing into saying he is racist, yet he said he loved blacks yet didn't want her to bring them to his Clippers games. He said that he had a culture or something to be concerned about. I took that to mean that rich people need to seem morally superior and so he wanted her to remain low-profile and not draw attention to herself with people like Magic Johnson. If one is in the business class and not Hugh Hefner one needs traditionally to seem as square as Bill Gates.

 It is difficult to imagine Donald Stirling in the company of the Puritans so influenced by John Calvin. Even so it is worth recollecting that one of Martin Luther's biggest mistakes was in supporting his friend Phillip of Hesse-The Landgrave's-bigomy. The Landgrave like Frederick the Elector had been very supportive in trying to safely reconcile various German divisions yet the gratitude perhaps went too far.

Albert Einstein-a physical twin of George LeMaitre-a priestly inventor of big bang theory-in making his self-described biggest blunder of adding a cosmological constant to his General Theory of Relativity actual turned out to have been right about that too. Unlike ordinary mortals Einstein was right even when he thought he was wrong.

Well so much for that genuine Stirling error. Evidently the N.B.A. leadership knows that Stirling really meant that his Clipper's games were for white people only and that he didn't want his girlfriend to be seen with blacks even though she is of mixed up race for-herself and for-others because he is a slum lord and so the tape is just good enough for a lifetime ban. At least Pete Rose was supposed top have gambled enough to go to jail.

Now the public can feel safer and recover from the damage Stirling caused with that horrible 9 minute 26 second conversation.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nba-race-furor/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-fined-2-5m-banned-life-nba-n92671

 http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-watch-live-nba-donald-sterling-20140429-dto,0,1366821.story

-note; I have no idea about Stirling's slum lord activities. It seems possible that this episode was an effort to get Stirling because of his social history. Even so the big lie is something that traditionally concerns me at the political level. Hitler, holocaust and global warming deniers, Arabs teaching bad stuff about Jews in elementary school books and so forth use the big lie. It would be difficult for an impartial juror with rudiments of language and logic instruction to find much in the recording that Stirling actually deserves such a suspension for.  At the least public and private speech implicitly are different things.

-post script; Donald Sterling's former girlfirend or former employee said he is not racist...
http://time.com/86690/v-stiviano-says-donald-sterling-is-not-a-racist/

If Sterling isn't racist the broadcast media and N.B.A. are providing an excellent example of corporatism and political correctness in action. It is no wonder that corporate employees make such milk-toast or no political comments and the two parties are the way they are. American corporate employees need to watch everything they say or big brother will herre and demote them.

Will Sanctions Help Russia Detach From Future Dollar Crash?

For more than a decade financial analysts have foreseen the prospect of the crash of the dollar. I wonder if the sanctions on Russia imposed by the administration will help to accelerate the process or if Russia may be better situated to overcome the fiscal mismanagement of D.C. even thought the capable Janet Yeltsin from Wal-Street has taken over the reigns of the federal reserve.

U.S. public debt today is nearly 17.5 trillion dollars. 

Russia may be able to sell it's dollar reserves and develop the ruble as a mid-currency floating it's value on the global stock exchange where investors could buy and sell it though Moscow could print out currency as it liked. The alternatives for Russia might be to buy the Yuan and Euro simultaneously balancing the ruble on a combination of the two.

With a more stable indexed ruble the global financial markets may be able to survive the crash of the possibly over-valued dollar. While Russia is trying to recover the Russian Ukraine following the cold war ending loss signed into being by Boris Yelin it may be able to serve the interest of stabilizing the global currency market.

Donald Sterling Conundrum: Sell Out-Let Clippers Move to Northwest?

The spare basketball team in L.A. owned by an affirmative action language failure plainly should be sold and moved to Boise Idaho to become the N.B.A. Spuds or Mashed.

When Orwellian Ministry of Truth language analysis plainly shows that private language to concubines or whatever isn't appropriate righteous politically correct verbiage fit for T.M.Z. viewers it is time to make the donuts and sell the aloof offshore sailing yacht club to an American city like Boise where potatoes are king.

Even President Obama has weighed in on the topic from somewhere in Malaysia or China or wherever he is keeping tabs on Donald Silverberg from, or whatever his name is.

U.S. Public Debt Today $ 1 7 , 4 4 5 , 2 4 6 , 8 8 7 , 0 8 7 . 1 6

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
 

Sterling's magic johnson troubles with girlfriend and race

After listening to nine minutes of San Diego Clipper's owner Sterling's talk with his girlfriend in which he repeatedly, disgustingly and ingratiatingly says that he loves black people (reminding me of Donald Pleasence in 'Escape From New York' saying 'your the duke') I am not sure that Sterling actually made anything that is a racist comment. With all the who-haw I thought he must have said something about mean flying monkey warriors from the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

Certainly he didn't intend to do anything more than to ask his girlfriend not to 'broadcast'  pictures of herself on Instagram with stars like Magic Johnson who is Afro-American. Instagram could be some sort of Internet hangout I guess-maybe comparable to Twitter. As a philandering old rich white guy that is understandable-why should he want his girlfriend to be a publicity hound drawing attention to herself?
image-James Naismith-Candian inventor of basketball

  It seems in the tape that Sterling's girlfriend is doing her best to frame up a racist paradigm. Sterling doesn't seem to have any solid racist content in his interaction-it seems it's mostly about the lady hanging around people of potentially loose morals-Wilt Chamberlain screwed 25,000 women, and Magic Johnson may have used his magic johnson/electrical banana on a few too. It is worth considering that the paradigm of an N.B.A. owner paying millions and millions of dollars to generally black athletes and perhaps sexing up an attractive Hispanic woman is less a matter of the racist on his media plantation chumping the powerless or a person of interest planning a Mengelish psychological takeover of society  than that of a Comdogger paradigm as contrasted with a Commander. In the realm of vice (in this case meaning informal kitch relationships) things can go wrong that are implicitly undignified.

Plainly pro sports is corrupt with salaries that go far beyond their worth to society. Sterling said nothing about watermelons, Speedy Gonzalez, magic jumping beans, the Old Sawannee River or fried chicken, nor anything about quantum mechanics. With the world environment in decay and unemployed college graduates searching to adapt to fast food restaurant work the public building of sports stadiums and narcissistic neurotic sports media codling attention and exorbitant, 1% pay for pro sports stars is disgusting. Naismith invented a prophylaxis against teen-age wasteland game, and that shouldn't draw the top pay in America. Learning honest work should be more profitable for anyone than learning games. Hoops is not productive-it doesn't build anything at all-its a luxury, entertainment game.

People are starving in some parts of India, the Sudan and Bangladesh now and then and global warming is building. Public colleges and Universities should stop paying for athletes to travel anywhere and sports in colleges should just be intramural. Scholarship should be stressed and no scholarships given to sports students.

If old white men want to play their magic johnsons with women besides their wives enhanced with legal dope, viagra and possibly glow in the dark condoms they should not expect it to be risk free. Adultery isn't a policy of safe sex.

http://extramustard.si.com/2014/04/26/clippers-donald-sterling-racist-comments-girlfriend/