7/1/14

Parameters of Genesis Cosmology (video)

People have many thoughts about Genesis and in comparison to scientific cosmology. Interesting thing about subjective epistemology though is that it's often or usually wrong or incomplete. This is an introduction to 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal values of Genesis'. A book I put together to examine some of the many possible meanings of the book of Genesis' cosmology content and contrast that with recently learned scientific parameters of cosmology that are incomplete obviously.
 Reading an introduction to Karl Barth's theology noetic and ontic contexts for man's relation to God arise that transcend simple analysis of the natural world investigated by natural philosophy. I note Barth's excellent paradigm in this intro as another point to consider.-I have some decent images of S.E. Alaska for the voice-over.






6/29/14

Ecosphere, Economy and Politics Video

I am not  optimistic about the prospects of electing a quality President up to the job with good ideas in the next few elections-that just isn't necessary for Wall Street to collect rents, wealth to be concentrated or for Democrats to select quietist, uncreative majority leadership or Presidents without ecospheric economics, full employment and security education.

I made a video with images taken on the west side of the Mendenhall Glacier wherein I make some philosophical comments about ecosphere poltics and the problem of perceptions about the effect of housing on the environment. Alice Cooper's Elected video encapsulates the futility of the meaning of the vote for the helots these days.





6/28/14

President Obama's Counterproductive Development of Terrorist Army

At first glance President Obama's Middle East policy seems crazy. At second glance it could be his early childhood Sunni Muslim orientation growing up in Sunni Indonesian society. In Indonesia 88% are Muslim and 99% of Muslims are Sunni. A couple of days after Syria got rid of all its chemical weapons stockpile he asked Congress for a half billion dollars for weapons for the Sunni jihadist at war on the Syrian Government. The President subconsciously may see red at Shi'a and Alawite and doesn't mind building up a vast jihadist army in the Middle east without a nation of their own to topple Alawite-Shiist Assad if possible, intimidate Iran with quality terrorist insurgents, eye-down Jewish Israel and look southwest toward oil-fat Crotiun Saudi Arabian royals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVrBzuyhFA elected video by Alice Cooper

ISIS has of course taken much of Iraq already. ISIS is undermining the Iraq government and the President wasn't able to influence Prime Minister Malaki much over the years. Withdrawal from Iraq without security arrangements was followed by building up a jihadist fighting force. Al Qaeda has completely swelled in numbers as a consequence.

Civilian casualties for Syria and Iraq during the President's tenure have been huge and probable will increase. Muslims have a different view of Armageddon than Christians. The President may not be aware of the appearance to Christians of his Middle East policy.

6/26/14

Orion Spacecraft Scheduled for DRO Flight Around Moon in 2017

N.A.S.A.'s Orion spacecraft intended to take space travelers to Mars is scheduled for its first significant mission in 2017 in what is called a distant retrograde orbit. That is a budget orbit around the moon that doesn't require fuel expense to keep the orbit after the spacecraft arrives. L-3 and L-5 apparently do cost something according to an explanation in Aviation Week 7 Space Technology June 23, 2014.       Orion concept image credit-N.A.S.A.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/five-things-we-ll-learn-from-orion-s-first-flight-test/#.U6x505TzZmg

As Buzz Aldrin suggested among others, construction of an Earth-Mars orbiter permanently making the voyage perhaps helped with ion engines could be a method for regular shuttle of astronauts to mars and back. Landers sent from Earth or the Moon on auto pilot could be sent to meet visitors to Mars down to the planet surface from the Earth-Mars shuttle.

It could be useful to design a number of low cost and effective Bernoulli sphere Earth-Mars taxi capsules with cosmic-ray protection for biological life given with water made from ice strewn around the solar system. Nearly ten feet of water are required to defend against cosmic ray damage. One hopes that N.A.S.A. has encouraged with some sort of incentive design competition to get ideas for Bernoulli sphere containers for solar system taxis.

Fed Court Decides Utah Homo Marriage Ban Illegal-Squares Circle

The U.S. 10th Court of Appeals green-lighted homosexual marriage in Utah overturning the state's constitutional ban. The court said that there is no logical reason why not. We appreciate the court's athority on rules of logic. One anticipates the court reasons that squares are circles too, and a2 + a2 = c2.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/utah-gay-marriage/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-utahs-same-sex-marriage-ban-n140656

6/25/14

Time for Washington Redkins to Drop the 'Red'

The Washington Redskins is a potent political symbol of Red State decline of fortune. After the Clinton and Obama administrations the D.C. football team has become a symbol of transition to anachronism failing to change to Obama blue. Blue states have the political power and red states fossil fuel panache.

One would hope that Redskins ownership would change to apostrophe Skins perhaps with a shirtless Mr. Universe or a Green Hulk on the helmet instead of the noble native American warrior.Washington Redskins logo

Linux Mint 17 Qiana Released

The newest version of Linux Mint-an open source operating system fairly easy to install that may be dual booted with Windows was published. It is named Qiana.  Mint version 17 will be maintained two or three years evidently. One can install it from a thumb drive. Learning how to make a bootable thumb drive can take a little time-Ubuntu has a hyperlink for making a bootable thumb drive.

 http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
 http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

If one has a bootable thumb drive and installed uneboot or easybcd its necessary to shrink the volume of drive c where windows is kept maybe 30 or 40% in order to free up room for Mint to install itself.When Mint is booted up from the thumb drive or cd it will offer the option to dual boot with windows and save the existing files in windows-that's a good choice. You can access those files from within Mint.

http://www.linuxmint.com/

Capitalism as Quality vs Quantity Growth for Ecospheric Commerce

Saving the planet from the irrational exuberance of quantitative capital growth that depletes the fund of natural capital is challenging in this anthropocene era were the profound of me-ness in material power has made an atheist god of capitalism. Inflexibility and non-adaptability were thought to be the characteristics of government instead of capitalism generally, yet in the corporatist era of networking and mass broadcast media networking a pervasive ossification has ensued resistant to progress. Here is what can be done to rectify the political economy.

Government direction of economic development toward qualitative rather than quantitative growth is requisite for change. There are existing facts that can't be changed of course. America isn't a leader on environmental economics and the second and third world will want to increase their production of greenhouse gases and extermination of ecospheric habitat in order to upgrade their consumer comfort to something like that of the United States of America.

The U.S.A. can't cut back its carbon emission much-even a 25%  would be shocking and virtually communist to some pundits. Instead the United States outsources its material production to China and blames the Chinese for being the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter. When the American Midwest becomes a desert and the Mississippi River dries up, when Americans try to crowd in to Alaska the argument about reduction of greenhouse gases will be late.

The United States could act a priori and begin a vast desalinization of seawater for irrigation purposes border control canal project if it had the intellectual wherewithal to work macro-physical construction projects of scale any more. Instead it will seek after regulatory, bureaucrat solutions or alternatively through science laboratory packages Those likely policy approaches aren't likely to  work though some believe evolutionary capitalism will get to the right place eventually as needed. End of the

Capitalism doesn't need to be like an airliner taking off along a runway, inflexible and unable to alter direction of lift-off. If terrorists armed with stinger missiles taken from the Iraqi Army are at the end of the runway capitalism can invent in overdrive and qualitatively improve for example taking off straight up with electro-magnetic lift and choosing any direction to be electro-magnetically accelerated in by a charge particle beam until airspeed is sufficient for its jets to carry on. Qualitative change parameters selected for the survival of human life on Earth in addition to full employment well-being of Americans should be national priorities.

Like a draft animal-a stubborn Missouri Mule for instance, capitalism if it is to do more than browse the grass and work sexing like turbo-donkeys as ineffectively as homosexual marriages producing nothing needs to be put to work pulling more than its own weight in qualitatively improving wagons. Capitalism and free enterprise should serve democracy and be given guidelines and parameters for progress to reduce the depletion of natural environmental capital. Actually destruction of the ecosphere is a dumb trade since the creation and context of the environment is far more valuable and intricately complex than the comparatively simple, stupid materials manufacture of human technologists. Be like little gods as they might regard themselves politically seem incapable of successfully responding to the challenges set through demography, capitalism, natural resource limits and the bite of corporatism into democratic self-determination.

As a citizen of a democracy that is ineffective at selecting Presidential and general political leadership it is frustrating to experience the juggernaut of environmental doom unhindered in its development. Additionally the are too many people out of work, national debt is increasing and the flood of illegal aliens is likely to increase. Quantitative growth encouraged by government intention should provide some object criteria for free enterprisers to work within.



6/24/14

On Barth's Post-Calvinist Paradigm of Election & Predestination


In several respects Karl Barth reformed the theology of the reformed church. Issues that persist todays for Christians on the topic of predestination of the elect remain conversational objects especially in the dialogue between believers and the faithless. Usually people draw upon Augustine and Calvin for theological insights into scripture. Karl Barth wrote a new and even upgraded interpretation of the subject of election however, that seems eminently logical and with some support in scripture.

In short-all humans comprise the elect when they are saved. The reason for that is that just one man-Jesus Christ who is God, actually is the elect. God approved/elected Himself. Fairly though, God also rejected Himself in the crucifixion of the Son. Jesus Christ as man bore the physical body housing original sin in the fallen, temporal Universe. Since he was God though he was without spiritual sin and able to overcome the original sin's withering effects on morality. Christians become the elect through faith in the Son. An Introduction to Barth's Theology by Geoffrey Bromley is a succinct accounting of Barth's innovative and realistic insight

I would add the observation that spiritual coherence in the will of God once broken-as Adam and Eve perpetrated in the Garden-cannot easily be fixed. God as God is recognizable only to himself yet as the man Jesus Christ became subject-for-others. Even so God and the Holy Spirit are One with the Lord. Human free will arose with disobedience to God somewhat like symmetry breaking of a perfect unified field without imbalance in an original singularity created rapid expansion and hyperinflation hypothetically of a basic Universe within one physical cosmology theoretical paradigm. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as God can restore the lost, free willed sinners of the realm of broken forms, temporal entropy and original sin to perfection in the will of God.

A Chamber of Eco-Commerce Might Provide Leadership

An Ecosphere friendly chamber of commerce would be a useful tool to pragmatically support development of business and employment that reinforces ecospheric integrity such as is possible. Few politicians or business people have a good notion of what ecological economics are. Entire fields of study have been devoted to it in colleges however. The application of new business to society requires analysis of its political prospects in adverse non-supportive political social environments. A Russian-American or Russian-Alaska Ecosphere of Commerce could help bridge the gap created by the failures of Washington D.C. to move forward with Russia toward a green conservative full employment

Gov. Sean Parnell on the job
There are numerous reasons for the failures of U..S. leadership that I won't digress upon. Alaska of course is subject to political control by oil corporations that support the state government. Imperialism was the traditional way of commerce for the British Empire-a little island with big economic ambitions-and Bill Clinton supported that on Wall Street during his Presidency. Global imperialism through business may be good for Britain yet it's bad for the U.S.A.  Developing easy breezy foreign interests neglects one's national interests-that brought down the Roman Empire and it can bring down the U.S.A. Britain needed imperialism yet the United States always had plenty of resources to support its own development needs. If America can't make it on its own no one else probably can either. The people of the world have too big of economic appetites with natural resources sufficient to support the habit.

Some may say that imperialism isn't the issue. The problem is just that government and business exist in a networking, bureaucrat and finance heavy drug using immoral social environment where government can't really do anything besides occupy the big chairs in the big jobs and plan for retirement with lots of foreign vacations. That may be so. N.P.R. was worried about the Norfolk naval bases flooding in a century from sea level rise. Poor navy-they will need to get boats to save the admiral's homes from drowning.

The U.S. navy could become something of a bureaucracy itself with no surface battles for a century. A zillion micro-drone fast attack force delivery packages could track and sink any significant surface vessel in a decade or less. Maybe the Navy should plan for something else in ruling the waves for bureaucrats and Wall Street. Assuredly people need to be able to get about on the ocean yet new military paradigms could develop that don't comprise copious imperial spending and anachronistic security criteria.

Alaska's Governor has supported minor cross-border exchanges with Russia. It would be good if an Ecosphere of Commerce  were to arise with government and business supported perhaps coordinated by Amory Lovins and other seriously green individuals. The Anthropocene Era of mass extinction perhaps including human life is upon us. One should never misunderestimate the ineffectiveness of government and its inability to created or allow political reform in the era of bureaucratic-financial networking glamor inertia.

Imperfect Character is Universal

The question of why anything exists rather than nothing was a question that Plotinus considered in The Enneads. Why would The One order anyt...