Why Market Fundamentalists Can't Solve the Perennial Low-Cost Housing Shortage

Market fundamentalists drive up the price of housing rather than down. Capitalism does not low home costs through mass production or streamlining of design. It does not produce a two-bedroom hard shell sprayed on for $19.95. The median cost of homes increases and reflects the prevailing high-end middle class ability to pay as a maximum capacity of salary. There is no separate housing market for the poor and middle class that only the poor can buy in. If the poor can’t afford that middle class lifestyle then they must pay rent to the rich or perhaps go to a for-profit prison so the rich can collect rent on their bodies. This is an essay about finding remedies to the perennial shortage of affordable housing for the poor.

Unregulated market dynamics creating investment opportunities work against the manufacture of quality low cost housing affordable to the poor and lower middle class. Hence there is a perennial housing shortage created by capital concentration on Wall Street forever seeking new profit watercourses to flow in. If a dynamic housing developer were to create a national franchise of low cost, super-insulated, simple high-tech three-room dome homes on modest green lots for $30,000-a super value. Instead of 50,000 poor people moving in to low-interest, government-guaranteed financed homes investors on Wall Street recognizing the value would throw down money and take them for-themselves. Then the home plunderers might flip the homes for a profit or just rent them out to the poor. Concentrated capital can buy up and spoil any sort of private sector mass housing programs intended to benefit the poor or lower middle class-that’s just the way it is.

 In the neo-totalitarian corporate state theory predominates over practical democracy. In totalitarian theory no place should exist in the U.S.A. whereby a soul can exist without paying rent to the rich. They might prefer that no one breathe for free either. They want no place where the unemployed or the Son of Man could lay his head without subjugation to totalized geo-political-financial power of the corporate state. Servitude, subjugation and tyranny by the corrupt is the basic effort of the housing paradigm squeezing out the little wealth of the poor and middle class to flow upward to the rich.

A better theory would envision every American owning their home with none renting. Obviously some renting would exist simply because of the advantage in being able to have temporary housing to many. Home owning should be a basic right of all Americans and that should be rationally supported in Democratic policy. Sorting out many of the practical social difficulties created by Americans with housing problems and relieving the poor of existing in a totalized state whereby pressure to compel rent-paying to the corrupt that can even effect political liberty as pressure by the corrupt rich can be placed down the ladder to silence political opinion and free expression of it through economic and housing/ pressure would be a useful way to move from the claims of totalitarian control or all American real estate to a democratic society.

Housing for the poor that is affordable produced purely through the market is as unsatisfactory and ineffective as public housing at solving the never-ending housing problem. Because the corrupt wish to collect rents from others those with the power to end the problem don’t really want to. 

Designing practical low cost private homes easily affordable for the poor and middle class would require sophisticated sociological, environmental, urban and suburban syntegrity. New forms of contractual financing that guarantee affordability and home owning security would need to arise. The homes could not be allowed to be ‘flipped’ or even resold buy a buyer for several decades. A home owner that must relocate could trade the standard home contract to someone elsewhere for an equal home. If the home owner prospers he could keep his basic home and buy more or larger housing on the free market, yet he could not sell the home before three decades have passes although he might rent it out. So many practical problems of movement and material are created by homelessness that it ought to be avoided.

I write here from personal experience. After several years of directed public radio harassment I sold my lot at Wrangell Island Alaska intended for retirement after working down south a few decades. So with homelessness I struggled along with the standard problems of no electricity, short ours of light and so forth. Finally in my 40^th anniversary of arriving in Juneau I got a trespass-eviction notice at a remote place in the forest a mile from nice homes owned by prosperous state workers, professionals, etc. With some substantial effort I packed my stuff away and left the forest looking green and verdant as if no one had been there. This may be regarded by some as the aryan consolidation season in Juneau. In sanskrit arya means 'noble' (as in aristocrat). Perhaps I look like a nigger to the advantaged; who can say. When I was a poor member of the Alaska Army Guard I learned respect for the wild though I never got a paycheck from the state before I left the guard for active duty.

I wonder how it is possible for the poor to extract themselves from poverty with honor. My University of Alaska-Juneau associate degree was of no value in finding work here or elsewhere. I think of it as less valuable than toilet paper. Since the semester I made the chancellors list they did not publish the chancellor’s list and began the process of changing the college name to the University of Alaska-S.E. I might have guessed the degree was a substitute for Charmin.

Still, the forest tent was a good place to work on a graduate course in theology. I was writing a paper on ecclesiology when the eviction notice was posted, yet with seven days to move I was able to work through the notice and look ahead to the eschatology paper. That brief eschatology paper may lead me into an entire course in eschatology. I should stipulate that I tend to be one who believes that realized eschatology is the right interpretation of matters of the Bible. However the kingdom of God is within you while temporality surrounds you and includes your beingness as a human. One may be alive when certain prophesied real events occur in future history yet that is incidental. A Christian always has one foot in the kingdom of God as it were. Though one might need to have two dollars in a pocket to afford bus fare to move their worldly goods there is no cost for transportation to the kingdom of God. I had planned to leave Juneau later this year or early next anyway. It is a fact that when one plans to leave the devil seems to act though people to attempt a last minute trim-it’s kind of weird yet not uncommon.

Private housing should be available for all Americans at a low price. It is of course silly to expect older people or poor people to pay a quarter million dollars for a home even if given a flippy contract from the deep pocket lender flipping the contract in little pieces all over the world. Packaging high quality, low cost housing for the poor and middle class should become a standard government program that as a contract-franchise for production could be fulfilled by many builders. Profit for a builder would be very modest yet with the housing designs and land issues solved ahead of time the development costs would be lower too. It would be necessary to restrict home purchases in the program to those actually poor or lower middle class in order to deliver the product to those that need it.

Houston Beat Down of D.C. / R.G. III 17 to 6

Houston completely stuffed R.G. III and the Washington Redskins by a score of 17 to 6 Sunday.  Robert Griffin the Third not only has to overcome solid knee injuries, he needs to overcome the name of the team that is currently in popular in Boston and other liberal centers of protest against inappropriate symbolism. Houston's all-pro defensive genius tackle  J.J. Watts led the tough Texan defense to stuff the D.C. entry into the brain battering league. That issue raises another point.

Why do colleges and the N.F.L. continue to give scholarships to good football players that aren't motivated by academics and will at best read graphic novels after they graduate? That policy deprives good students of scholarships and promotes an alumni of thugs and anti-intellectual bureaucrats yearning to repress intellectuals any way they can think of.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/redskins-self-inflicted-wounds-in-a-17-6-loss-in-houston-ruin-jay-grudens-debut/2014/09/07/7ab190d4-36ca-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html

R.G. III could use a good runner to relieve him of the pressure to run for-himself so much. When a quarterback leaves the pocket except on an occasional roll out he is exposing his throwing arm and muscle coordination onto the dice table. A pure passer should be a smooth operator with machine-like accuracy instead of a brain-damaged O.J. running over and around opposition who might throw the ball inaccurately now and then.

Coaches shouldn't seek to make defensive lines look good. They are a Maginot line to the coordinated blitkreigs of the N.F.L. staffed with balanced air and ground attack.

Ten Days to Go in 2014 England vs. Scotland U.K. Cup Election

In just ten days Scots will go to the polls to cast their dolts onto the important matter of should they cast their subjugation to England aside and become free. If the Scots give up their prostration to the Thames gang where will they go? 

In times like these one might ask themself; what would Mel Gibson do? Since the diaspora of Scots to engine rooms across the globe Scotland has become weak. America has Rowdy Roddy Piper, not Edinborough. Those highland flings to foreign shores have allowed British fish and chips to usurp the natural Scottish batters and fish. Scots use the British currency-whatever that is...something written with the face of Allen Greenspan on it I think.

It is said that just 50,000 Scots pay more in taxes than they receive in tax benefits from the central government so one would expect loyalty to the Thames gang to trump the vote for independence. The proud brogue of broad Scots has a natural disaffection to the London twang with the  money dialect. Scotland as a free people at last able to vote in the U.N. will be able to take charge of the British Open and have its own force de frappe. Bingin good show!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11080618/Ten-days-to-save-the-Union-with-Scotland.html

                                                               

Another J.F.K.- Big Oil Conspiracy Theory

In the latest episode of an account of the J.F.K. assassination Texas oil men have been plotting to gain power, wealth and jobs by replacing J.F.K. with the apposite V.P. Lyndon Baines Johnson.

-photographer unknown-J.F.K. Library L.B.J. had given the K.B.R. legacy a boost up as a congressman with a special contract to build the Lake Travis dam. As a proven friend of the K.B.R. thread, evil oil and construction planners search for a dupe to get the wet work done; to kill President Kennedy-a proven New England Yankee and replace him with a good ole boy of the south who will kick back federal money in construction contracts. The opportune selection was Lee Harvey Oswald who came up in a C.I.A. data bank of Americans who had visited the Soviet Union and could shoot.  Oswald is positioned by handlers to be in the right place at the right time perhaps as the shooter-perhaps as a cut out, and sanitized later by Jack Ruby who then died of a heart attack.

The K.B.R. legacy  (I use the term K.B.R. legacy throughout this account inn order to not take the time to detail the history of how and when Halliburton, Kellog, Brown and Root associated and separated) becomes the largest builder of U.S. bases in Vietnam after L.B.J. escalates the war. Donald Rumsefld is an early visitor to tone of the largest bases-Cam Ranh Bay he bases as a young congressman. Later a Texas oil man and former C.I.A. chief-President George H.W. Bush would appoint Rumsfeld to be head of the C.I.A.

In the second installment of the called history repeats itself, after President H.W. Bush is besmirched in his re-election campaign by Pat Buchanan's weird homosexual insinuation ad campaign and loses to the British Oxford trained Bill Clinton who gets besmirched by getting blow jobs from a student intern and makes it difficult for his V.P Al Gore to get elected, President George W. Bush (the younger) is elected,  appoints a former head of Halliburton-K.B.R. to be his V.P running mate and then a disaster occurs-the 9-11 attacks. The 9-11 attack financed by Osama Bin Ladin by a son of the biggest construction-engineering firm of the largest oil producing nation in the world at the time-Saudi Arabia, who had a relative that was an investor-partner in George W. Bush's Texas oil company provided President George . Bush the opportunity to invade Iraq and give huge non-competitive contracts to Halliburton-KBR. That was the history repeating itself episode. Like the Vietnam War the war in Iraq would last more than six years and cost trillions of dollars. 

If there are lessons to this conspiracy theory I am not sure what they are, perhaps it is that many people write something about the J.F.K. assassination but that doesn't mean there is any sort of coordination in that.

At Helsinki Accord Ukraine Was Part of Russia-What Changed?

Western claims to have honestly expropriated Ukraine from Russia have used a few historical whoppers for pseudo-legalistic assertions of a right-of-annexation of Ukraine and Crimea to independent/western-affiliated status. The 1975 Helsinki accord that included the agreement between N.A.T.O. and the Soviet Union to not change national borders through force is an example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Accords#Signatory_states

When the Helsinki Accord was signed Crimea and Ukraine were Russian as they had been with a few intervals for centuries. After decades of sanctions and Star Wars the Soviet Communist government bit the dust. All were glad that President Gorbachev’s glasnost and Perestroika started a cascade of commercial and political changes to end the Stalinist variety of communism that most hated everywhere except for select establishment organizational persons benefiting from the power of tyranny, and the end of the Evil Empire occurred mostly bloodlessly, yet the transition to a post Soviet new-Russian order was difficult with uncertain course.

Governing institutions and establishments affiliated are generally reluctant to change modus operandi or modus vivendi. The cold war establishment roles were well known-the west found it easier to return to a cold war role model inherited from prior generations than to evolve a good working relationship with Russia. After digesting the eastern European nations that were given up at the end of the Soviet Union the west’s appetite for more of weakened Russia looked toward Ukraine and Crimea.

It is an historical point that gaining a Pyrrhic victory that ends up costing more than staying out of conflict is better avoided. Conflict with Russia over Ukraine-especially Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s vital Dnepr River barge traffic corridor for transport of commodities (one barge is worth 200 truck loads)-can harm the west’s commercial and security interests significantly. Finding new ways to have mutual peace and prosperity is a political method the west avoids to its monomaniacal drive for litigation and conflict as litigation through other means.

Another fiction used by the west is that of Soviet or Russian history in occupation of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states at the end of the Second World War. The false impression is commonly given that naked Soviet aggression took those states through force-and that is a perfect lie. The Soviet Union captured Eastern Europe in counterattacking against the Nazis who had invaded Russia/the Soviet Union. The Russians/Soviets kicked the Nazi butts all the way to the Baltic-all the way to Berlin and it cost them tens of millions of dead Russians. The Russians liberated the Balkans from the Nazis to in long, bloody war. The battles of Stalingrad and Leningrad were famously epic, bloody things of which innumerable movies and documentaries have been made. If the United States had experienced that sort of conflict, how soon would the United States give back those captured territories and trust their former enemies or their political cohabitants?

It took the Soviets/Russians about 50 years to give back Eastern Europe and let it become independent. The United States had built up a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons with multiple reentry warheads with a slight advantage over the more numerous Soviet-Russian warheads in quality though the Soviets had more ICBMs overall. After the Helsinki Accords and S.A.L.T. tacks the United States continued on development of new weapons technology debatably flanking the A.B.M. treaty that limited anti-ballistic missile development to basically just Moscow and Washington D.C. (we should have selected Pittsburgh instead). That was a lot of force to apply to the Evil Empire to change its borders.

When the cold war ended with the Soviet Empire disappearing by a signature of Boris Yeltsin there was no lawful government following it up. There probably should have been some sort of conservatorship applied by an international power to secure integral Russian lands such as Ukraine and Crimea in order to plainly differentiate them from lands that formerly were independent powers and not part of the Soviet sphere of influence until 1945 or later. It is notable that the Soviet Union never formerly annexed those Warsaw Pact nations it had captured from the Nazis in 1944-45.

Plainly promulgating confusion and historical falsehood putting Ukraine and Crimea into the same political category as Poland and Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia in order to justify the expropriation of formerly integral parts of Russia is disingenuous. With such ordinary ignorance of history in America and perhaps Europe of Russian history the inertial characteristic of incapability of viewing historically objectively-contemporary history included, is strong. That ignorance seriously damages western political veracity and competence in addressing real political issues that would find a righteous settlement to contentious issues, such as Ukraine.

Assuring Russian right to navigate the Dnepr River and have barge access from its heartland farmlands to the world is a basic, non-negotiable point. It is also well known that Britain has had a problem with Russia since Ivan the Terrible kicked out Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor after they sailed to Murmansk in the first British voyage around the Kola Peninsula. John Paul Jones worked for the Russian-not the British navy, after the American Revolutionary War.

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

Muslim fundamentalism, Market fundamentalism and Socialist fundamentalism are all threats to democracy and free enterprise globally. Each ism seeks global power. Capitalism differs from democracy as royalty differs from Islam’s dar al Islam. Cessationism is another point to consider-I acknowledge it has good and bad connotations regardless of one’s opinion about it.

America’s Republican and Democrat parties are two sides of the coin of corporatism. Democrats take the queer, abortionist side of corporatism while Republicans are the military, fake conservative branch of corporatism. Neither are moral conservatives obviously, and the media including Rush Limbaugh fall into those two corporatist sects. Market fundamentalists are superficial and non-objective on historical reasoning while the Democrat branch thinks international relations are best accomplished with drone shots and queering things up.

 

Britain has for hundreds of years been involved with European land battles to expand markets. That is as natural as breathing for them. British interest in the Ukraine would be antipathetic to any Russian sovereignty over it. President Bill Clinton-an anglophile Rhodes Scholar who lived at Oxford with Hillary smoking dope but not inhaling, interacted substantially with Boris Yeltsin and in the year the U.S.A. was launching cruise missile and aircraft sorties on the former Yugoslavia got the weak Boris Yeltsin to sign away the Ukraine in a deal no subsequent Russian President would ever accept. It was a bridge to far-a part of Russia removed like it was a formerly independent nation of Eastern Europe that would be a bone of contention and a divisive wedge to destroy the peaceful development and trust between Russia and the West that would grow for decades. Allowing the wedge to develop, that rift to widen would harm the economy and security of the west for decades, especially as it could end the cooperation of Russia and the west in the battle to contain Muslin political expansion through terror-a fundamental component of the Mohammedan creed.

Obama Policies Led to Rise of ISIS in Syria-Pres. Obama Demands Action

The execution of a second American journalist by ISIS-aka the Caliphate silenced a reporter for the wealthy, powerful broadcast media making conflict something of a world spectator event. The 'objectivity' of the media itself is an unreal way to react to conflict. That issue aside, the 'horrific' execution-worse than chemical execution in U.S. death rows that can take hours is itself somewhat weird. President Obama has urged that action be taken to bring to justice the ISIS terrorists that probably couldn't have formed a Caliphate at all if the administration had not been goading on regime change in Syria for several years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-02/islamic-state-video-shows-beheading-of-american-sotloff-1-.html

In the Hindu religion there are two ways that a bodhisatva might improve the world; through action or through non-action. If that idea can be applied politically then perhaps non-action is a better course for the U.S. to take than action sometimes when we end up making situations worse that require further action.

I.S.I.S. needs to be reduced from a proto-state to a dissbanded organization yet the basic way to do that is to reverse Obama policy toward Syria and allow the Assad regime to recover and purge its land of guerrila fighters. That challenge is the prime conundrum for an unrealistic and somewhat cruel administration policy of continuing to support the Syrian civil war for several more years while just helping the 'nice' revolutionaries that wouldn't become Sunni radicals if they took power. Perhaps some Baathy secularists remain, or maybe Tudeh sorts of secular communist Arabs or Persians. What kind of fantasy world political planners live in in D.C. is not clear.

One might ask Israel to conquer the bad parts of Syria or maybe the Kurds to create a Kurdistan yet neither might be too enthusiastic about that. WHile the administration and N.A.T.O.. had the spaced-out Wall Street Market Fundamentalist regard for Ukraine-that Russia has invaded it at least a little, they need to basically grab land from Assad in order to keep if from being useful for the Caliphate.

President Obama's quiet bombing air campaign in a time of no policy seems reasonable enough. There is no reason to draw a map for ISIS about what DOD might be planning. The need to have media dissimulation about policy and to declare the higher civilization of Wall Street or CNN might not be credible to the poor of the Middle East or those Muslims that view the homosexual policies of the Obama administration in a bad light. Maybe its time to just give Syria to Israel, give the Alawi of Syria associate citizenship in a quid pro quo for Israel citizenship in Syria and declare it part of the eschaton and hope that King Adullah still sells oil to everyone that wants it without declaring jihad.

One Direction for Gravity (poem)

Gravity moves in one direction

like time its field of scale hasn’t an opposite

as space expands gravity contracts

serving relativity of mass with energy to form

shapes with dynamic tension

configured with organic logic

better things than were known or unknown

before sentient organics arose to theorize

about broadcast mafias of politics

controlling a planet for mafia investors-

criminal organizations evolving structure

One wonders if gravity is one dimension of several

potential methods for configuring mass

in shapes of hyper-pretzels and ten-dimensional valley-scapes

where nothing is the comma between Universes

and the Anthropic principle is a micro-field of complex waves

calming a kilometer of ocean amidst thousand-foot raves

a Universe of energy in a micro-dot

packed with trees of life and stars to burn

though gangsters will flex muscle

like filter feeders in a toilet bowl

demanding power over-all.

Majority of Media Opinion on Global Issues Reflect Market Fundamentalism?

With so much of the established media owned by the wealthy, and with limited opportunities for the public to comment, the political opinions seem to reflect the interests of market fundamental in international affairs rather than some variety of democratic constituent expression. It just happens that way.

The Holy Spirit & Human Experience

The Holy Spirit is thought of as one person of the Trinity. The word person is used in recognition of the identity of an individual sentient being. With God though whom is the transcending omnipotent, omniscient being the differentiation from monism to pluralism is challenging to understand. One wonders what could differentiates or forms boundaries within the being of God such that differences could exist yet equally as well one might wonder how God could not have primary differentiation in order to achieve better intellect or capacity such as one finds in moving from monocular to binocular vision. The Holy Spirit is God, yet so are the Father and the Son.

It is a little difficult to describe the Holy Spirit without describing the Father and the Son for each cohere within God and comprise the essential nature of God as a triune being from whom all good things are made to exist (though one might have an opinion that all things always exist in some nook within the infinite spatio-temporal, non-spatio-atemporal- memory as reality -knowledge of God). The Holy Spirit is held to have always existed as have the Father and Son.

Obviously scientists would want find in that an interest in deconstructing a synthesis as they might find a synthesis in the history of human R.N.A. and mitochondrial D.N.A. or the evolution of a given government bureaucracy such as Homeland Security from prior bureaucracies. The trinity though is something more than what a Nobel Prize winning physicist wrote about phase changes generating new wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts in a book called ‘Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Up’. Existence and creation may be enabled because of the complexity possible with the Trinity.

Albert Einstein had a friend and fellow physicist (Paul Ehrenfrest) who discovered the principle that three dimensions of space and one of time seems to be the ideal configuration for the existence of atoms. With fewer dimensions of space atoms either could not exist as complex structures and with more dimensions the formation of atoms would be too difficult and simple motions would not be possible. Nuclear valence shells would be obstructed by complexity; electrons could not orbit a nucleus and so forth.

If atoms exist in three dimensions of space it is possible that they are made up of one or two dimensional strings at a very fundamental level. At a larger level membrane of space-time may collide to generate energy or membranes of spatial dimensions may intersect and move along creating an appearance of the passage of time for humans or other sentient beings existing within the intersecting ‘branes’.  In that context space ‘branes’ would have field energy that generates complexity after collisions. That complexity seem like a big bang and a Universe of particles could appear as detritus. That has been compared to a collision in a particle accelerator. This is all natural philosophy view by humanity within some existing realm willed by God to exist. Various fields and branes, if they exist, would be pluralistic creations will by God to exist. In the infinite power of God all things are possible including an infinite generation of spatial membranes.

The Holy Spirit as one of the trinity has a special role enabling communication with humanity and providing grace unto humanity though the world is itself complex and challenging to exist within. The Holy Spirit has more power than even gravity to transcend the criterion of mass, for gravity acts without differentiation upon all mass with only massless particles being uninfluenced by it, while the Holy Spirit can act specifically upon individuals as the will of God deems. The Trinity may be the way God interacts with all created things while for-himself He just is.

God exists in a heterodox fashion with things existing eternally one might guess as an essential attribute. The Holy Spirit is God as are the Father and Son, yet one might also regard the Holy Spirit from the perspective of existential relations of being-for-others. In that sense one finds the Holy Spirit to be  little different-a Person of Holiness and excellence drawing human beings toward the perfect and good, the true and righteous, to a directions leading to fulfillment of the purposes of God. Through revelation human beings learn of the Holy Spirit. It is only as created beings that humanity can regard the Holy Spirit. What or how the Holy Spirit is for-himself or more accurately what God is like for-himself human beings simply cannot know. The most close we can get to that is through Jesus Christ, as Jesus informed us in his special prayer of renormalization unto one-ness.

In order to provide a measure of comparison of what I have written here to the historical context of what has been written about the Holy Spirit I will provide a substantial quote from a Christian historian on the Holy Spirit. It is interesting to see how a writer’s knowledge-base affects his approaches for writing about a topic that has existed for writers as a topic for millennia. It occurs to me for example, that the problem of free will and determinism can be approached differently today with string and atomic theory cosmology than during the early Christian era, of course it wasn’t necessary to develop apologetics or replies to quantum physics or the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, General Relativity or quantum teleportation in the first century A.D. With all of that it is illuminating to consider that the Holy Spirit would seem to implicitly have an advantage in acting within and through deterministic sectors of space-time mass and/or energy configured as human life and human affairs. One also might wonder how God can effect deterministic space-time mass or energy once it is set in motion. Though brane theory can negate the need for local brane motion when the appearance of motion can arise through intersecting, traveling branes, some motion does seem to exist at at least one meta-level of brane existence or in a variegated field of branes. With the uncertainty principle perhaps arising because of the difference in space-mass-energy configurations on intersecting branes yet at any rate required for freedom-of-movement within an overall deterministic field, the Holy Spirit can act directly beyond and through any given configuration of branes, entangled mass energy, fields, strings or other atomic structure…helpful indeed for the fallen and lost human race.

Holy Spirit (page 503) and the Trinity (page 507) in volume 2 of Schaff’s History of the Christian Church; (in the public domain).

Quote-“The doctrine of the Holy Spirit was far less developed, and until the middle of the fourth century was never a subject of special controversy. So in the Apostles’ Creed, only one article is devoted to the third person of the holy Trinity, while the confession of the Son of God, in six or seven articles, forms the body of the symbol. Even the original Nicene Creed breaks off abruptly with the words: "And in the Holy Spirit;" the other clauses being later additions. Logical knowledge appears to be here still further removed than in Christology from the living substance of faith. This period was still in immediate contact with the fresh spiritual life of the apostolic, still witnessed the lingering operations of the extraordinary gifts, and experienced in full measure the regenerating, sanctifying, and comforting influences of the divine Spirit in life, suffering, and death; but, as to the theological definition of the nature and work of the Spirit, it remained in many respects confused and wavering down to the Nicene age.

Yet rationalistic historians go quite too far when, among other accusations, they

charge the early church with making the Holy Spirit identical with the Logos. To confound the functions, as in attributing the inspiration of the prophets, for example, now to the Holy Spirit, now to the Logos, is by no means to confound the persons. On the contrary, the thorough investigations of recent times show plainly that the ante-Nicene fathers, with the exception of the Monarchians and perhaps Lactantius, agreed in the two fundamental points, that the Holy Spirit, the sole agent in the application of redemption, is a supernatural divine being, and that he is an independent person; thus closely allied to the Father and the Son yet hypostatically different from them both. This was the practical conception, as demanded even by the formula of baptism. But instead of making the Holy Spirit strictly coordinate with the other divine persons, as the Nicene doctrine does, it commonly left him subordinate to the Father and the Son.

So in Justin, the pioneer of scientific discovery in Pneumatology as well as in Christology. He refutes the heathen charge of atheism with the explanation, that the Christians worship the Creator of the universe, in the second place the Son, in the third

the prophetic Spirit; placing the three divine hypostases in a descending gradation

as objects of worship. In another passage, quite similar, he interposes the host of good

angels between the Son and the Spirit, and thus favors the inference that he regarded the Holy Ghost himself as akin to the angels and therefore a created being. But aside from the obscurity and ambiguity of the words relating to the angelic host, the coordination of the Holy Ghost with the angels is utterly precluded by many other expressions of Justin, in which he exalts the Spirit far above the sphere of all created being, and challenges for the members of the divine trinity a worship forbidden to angels. The leading function of the Holy Spirit, with him, as with other apologists, is the inspiration of the Old Testament prophets. In general the Spirit conducted the Jewish theocracy, and qualified the theocratic officers. All his gifts concentrated themselves finally in Christ; and thence they pass to the faithful in the church. It is a striking fact, however, that Justin in only two passages refers the new moral life of the Christian to the Spirit, he commonly represents the Logos as its fountain. He lacks all insight into the distinction of the Old Testament Spirit and the New, and urges their identity in opposition to the Gnostics.

In Clement of Alexandria we find very little progress beyond this point. Yet he calls

the Holy Spirit the third member of the sacred triad, and requires thanksgiving to be addressed to him as to the Son and the Father.

Origen vacillates in his Pneumatology still more than in his Christology between

orthodox and heterodox views. He ascribes to the Holy Spirit eternal existence, exalts him, as he does the Son, far above all creatures and considers him the source of all charisms, especially as the principle of all the illumination and holiness of believers under the Old Covenant and the New. But he places the Spirit in essence, dignity, and efficiency below the Son, as far as he places the Son below the Father; and though he grants in one passage that the Bible nowhere calls the Holy Spirit a creature, yet, according to another somewhat obscure sentence, he himself inclines towards the view, which, however he does not avow that the Holy Spirit had a beginning (though, according to his system, not in time but from eternity), and is the first and most excellent of all the beings produced by the Logos.

In the same connection he adduces three opinions concerning the Holy Spirit; one regarding him as not having an origin; another, ascribing to him no separate personality; and a third, making him a being originated by the Logos. The first of these opinions he rejects because the Father alone is without origin (ἀγέννητος); the second he rejects because in Matt. 12:32 the Spirit is plainly distinguished from the Father and the Son; the third he takes for the true and scriptural view, because everything was made by the Logos. Indeed, according to Matt. 12:32, the Holy Spirit would seem to stand above the Son; but the sin against the Holy Ghost is more heinous than that against the Son of Man, only because he who has received the Holy Spirit stands higher than he who has merely the reason from the Logos.

Here again Irenaeus comes nearer than the Alexandrians to the dogma of the perfect

substantial identity of the Spirit with the Father and the Son; though his repeated figurative (but for this reason not so definite) designation of the Son and Spirit as the "hands" of the Father, by which he made all things, implies a certain subordination. He differs from most of the Fathers in referring the Wisdom of the book of Proverbs not to the Logos but to the Spirit; and hence must regard him as eternal. Yet he was far from conceiving the Spirit a mere power or attribute; he considered him an independent personality, like the Logos. "With God" says he, "are ever the Word and the Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, through whom and in whom he freely made all things, to whom he said, ’Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’ "But he speaks more of the operations than of the nature of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit predicted in the prophets the coming of Christ; has been near to man in all divine ordinances; communicates the knowledge of the Father and the Son; gives believers the consciousness of sonship; is fellowship with Christ, the pledge of imperishable life, and the ladder on which we ascend to God.

In the Montanistic system the Paraclete occupies a peculiarly important place. He

appears there as the principle of the highest stage of revelation, or of the church of the

consummation. Tertullian made the Holy Spirit the proper essence of the church, but subordinated him to the Son, as he did the Son to the Father, though elsewhere he asserts the "unitas substantiae." In his view the Spirit proceeds "a Patre per Filium," as the fruit from the root through the stem. The view of the Trinity presented by Sabellius contributed to the suppression of these subordinatian ideas.

§ 149. The Holy Trinity.

Comp. the works quoted in §144, especially Petravius, Bull, Baur, and Dorner.

Here now we have the elements of the dogma of the Trinity, that is, the doctrine of the

living, only true God, Father, Son, and Spirit, of whom, through whom, and to whom are

all things. This dogma has a peculiar, comprehensive, and definitive import in the Christian system, as a brief summary of all the truths and blessings of revealed religion. Hence the baptismal formula (Matt. 28:19), which forms the basis of all the ancient creeds, is trinitarian; as is the apostolic benediction also (2 Cor. 13:14). This doctrine meets us in the Scriptures, however, not so much in direct statements and single expressions, of which the two just mentioned are the clearest, as in great living facts; in the history of a threefold revelation of the living God in the creation and government, the reconciliation and redemption, and the sanctification and consummation of the world—a history continued in the experience of Christendom. In the article of the Trinity the Christian conception of God completely defines itself, in distinction alike from the abstract monotheism of the Jewish religion, and from the polytheism and dualism of the heathen. It has accordingly been looked upon in all ages as the sacred symbol and the fundamental doctrine of the Christian church, with the denial of which the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit, and the divine character of the work of redemption and sanctification, fall to the ground.

On this scriptural basis and the Christian consciousness of a threefold relation we

sustain to God as our Maker, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, the church dogma of the Trinity

arose; and it directly or indirectly ruled even the ante-Nicene theology though it did not

attain its fixed definition till in the Nicene age. It is primarily of a practical religious nature,

and speculative only in a secondary sense. It arose not from the field of metaphysics, but from that of experience and worship; and not as an abstract, isolated dogma, but in inseparable connection with the study of Christ and of the Holy Spirit; especially in connection with Christology, since all theology proceeds from "God in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." Under the condition of monotheism, this doctrine followed of necessity from the doctrine of the divinity of Christ and of the Holy Spirit. The unity of God was already immovably fixed by the Old Testament as a fundamental article of revealed religion in opposition to all forms of idolatry. But the New Testament and the Christian consciousness as firmly demanded faith in the divinity of the Son, who effected redemption, and of the Holy Spirit, who founded the church and dwells in believers; and these apparently contradictory interests could be reconciled only in the form of the Trinity; that is, by distinguishing in the one and indivisible essence of God three hypostases or persons; at the same time allowing for the insufficiency of all human conceptions and words to describe such an unfathomable mystery.

The Socinian and rationalistic opinion, that the church doctrine of the Trinity

sprang from Platonism and Neo-Platonism is therefore radically false. The

Indian Trimurti, altogether pantheistic in spirit, is still further from the Christian Trinity.

Only thus much is true, that the Hellenic philosophy operated from without, as a stimulating force, upon the form of the whole patristic theology, the doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity among the rest; and that the deeper minds of heathen antiquity showed a presentiment of a threefold distinction in the divine essence: but only a remote and vague presentiment which, like all the deeper instincts of the heathen mind, serves to strengthen the Christian truth. Far clearer and more fruitful suggestions presented themselves in the Old Testament, particularly in the doctrines of the Messiah, of the Spirit, of the Word, and of the Wisdom of God, and even in the system of symbolical numbers, which rests on the sacredness of the numbers three (God), four (the world), seven and twelve (the union of God and the world, hence the covenant numbers. But the mystery of the Trinity could be fully revealed only in the New Testament after the completion of the work of redemption and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The historical manifestation of the Trinity is the condition of the knowledge of the Trinity.”-endquote

British P.M Cameroon Considers Expanding Censorship for ELites

I would hate to say that P.M. Cameroon’s desire to rule the free speech of the masses is crude, crass and rash. In the Internet era people are far more threatened by those who would put chains on free speech rather by those who use hateful speech. If Brits can’t say ‘off with the King’s head’ what is the world coming to?

Without free speech could the French have had their revolution or Jacobean reaction to guillotine the rich? Without free speech what kind of protest would reform Wall Street and Footsie financial flummery? If it were illegal to even talk about substantive removal of rich elites from cat-bird seats of opportunity would the masses have any effective means of reform?

Banning political speech in country A would require that Internet speech in country B be censored too. If one has a Sir Queen running for P.M. yet it would be considered hateful to point out that a homosexual politician is queering and blackmailing his, her or its way to the top, but they report that in observant country B-won’t the P.M. need to cut the wire from country B to country A in order to protect the delicate political sensitivity of his country A flock?

British efforts to censor hit Nathan Hale and Patrick Henry a little earlier in history when democracy was just getting started. Sometimes the Brits never change and revert to imperial form. Taming down the hateful masses cannot substitute for poor immigration policy or the right-to-revolt against institutional hatred of the masses whereby every word from the lips of an oppressive ruler is hateful to the oppressed receiving it.

Given the right incentives such as Jacobite correction it is possible for economists and politicians to keep a society in full employment, a good standard of living, conservation and recovery of the ecosphere, a balanced budget and a narrow gap between the most rich and the most poor in a society-without the proper incentives such as decapitating failing leadership classes when economic indexes rise to intolerable pre-set levels the elites just concentrate wealth and let business go on as usual-that’s just the way it is sadly; the human condition has innate greed, corruption and insatiable desire for immortal wealth for a mortal body and of course they should instead be looking toward Jesus Christ.

The United States has for a century been malinfluenced by the Brits. We should never have bailed them out in the First World War. If we had let the war find a natural balance the Nazis and Second World War would never have occurred like as not. American Presidents and Congress too often put themselves into a Master-Blaster role of being the muscle for corrupt British P.M. brains as Brits needed to recover from the loss of their imperial empire with American military power. America should not send free speech down the way of the Buffalo course to oblivion. Free speech should roam free and wild from border to border, sea to BP oil slickened shiny sea.

Across the globe there are nations with censorship in place. Free speech is considered dangerous by establishments that seek to retard change in order to conserve its place of power. The media domination of broadcast media given by government to the wealthy is itself a censorship of free speech of citizen pod cast user a priori-states should use broadcast wavelengths with new technology for citizens pod cast time-slices. A war to conserve free speech needs to be fought that finds new ways to increase access of the masses to express it.

Hate speech lexicons defined by establishment authorities necessarily conserve the power of those authorities. Virtually anything can be marked as hate language with criteria determined by the state or corporate authority and that is quite dangerous. A writer might use one hate word variable per 5000 words of high quality material and find the entire essay deleted-and that retards social development and citizen participation as peers in society. How can neighbor A say to neighbor B ‘I have the right to limit what you say to words that are not hateful?” How may a government implement speech controls through the rubric of hate speech censorship and not be worthy of deletion itself?

The internet reaches more than 180 nations-each with different ideas about what speech is hateful and different constituencies with different opinions about what speech is hateful. Keep in mind that words are just representative symbols with no implicit value as sounds. It is only within a given culture that the meaning of a word can be a referent to a designated object or event-process and be more than noise. Cultural freedom to make noises with referent objects is requisite for a better-than-simian social environment. Prime Minister Cameron is wrong to take Britain down the long and winding road to the chimp heaven of state censorship. Every nation on Earth will need to convene to form a standardized lexicon of hate speech words and phrases with translations into every language in order that one may liberally ban the offending thousands of words and lobotomize public thought effectively enough that the flock is free from programmatic hate-speech by dissenters to hate Britain too.

In the United States the federal judiciary has made something of a mockery of democracy with vetoes of state bans on homosexual marriage-bans that were approved by popular vote in referenda. Democracy was subverted by corporatist judicial appointees and homosexuals to prove the point that the people can’t really have democracy except to be yes-persons to the will of the elites. To change that situation would require changing the constitution-a cumbersome, expensive process easily thwarted by concentrated wealth elites and their corporatist political minions…they want to impose language bans of hate speech too.

A better way that censorship might be to compel diversity of opinion in public forums dedicated to just one side-such as jihadist Britains that want to kill or maim parliament and napalm Windsor Castle etc. It is illegal in most places to advocate crimes or to form a criminal conspiracy to commit crimes, yet that is a long way from just hate speech saying that Tories suck or Labor have their heads up their arses (I don’t know the except British epithets for that sort of expression-to some that want steak and eggs, fish and chips is hate speech). Britain could experiment with compelling extremist web sites to have hyperlinks and windows to opposite opinion sites instead of censorship.

If Saudi Arabia required anti-Jewish web pages to have windows with Jewish women in Professorial robes taking about the dangers of global warming or whatever I imagine that some of the hate speech of Jews would be defrapped (as the French Christine Leguard defrapped things like the world monetary fund that were frapped by Dominique Strauss-Khan). Christine LeGuard should run for Prime Minister of Britain and defrappe that. Plainly free speech should be increase so that Internet troglodytes trolling just a few websites as people tend to do experience the grand vistas of the Internet-maybe Bing’s nice pictures and lose some of the rabidity that Prime Minister Cameron fears might be hateful.

Brits sometimes are impractical in their impecuniary political selections because of greed. The Depr River ought to be a joint Ukraine Russian waterway peacefully facilitating regional and even global trade and commerce with tax-free barge traffic for business large and small. Instead P.M. Cameroon might prefer to have all of the Ukraine and run a British barge line on the Dnepr for use of which the Russians would pay dearly. To be fair and balanced though, American Senator Menendez wants to donate free weapons to the Ukraine P.M. Billionaire Poor-o-shingle. One would think that establishing a new college of Guerilla training for Europe might be in store with the proven success of the American College for Guerilla training in Syria and Iraq. Senator McCain might like to set up a bombing range in the Ukraine area generally. He is a guy good to have on your side when the foe attacks.

Hate speech censorship seems like an anachronistic trick more suitable for Catherine the Great and Radischev or other prior eras before the Internet was invented by Al Gore. Not only may radio talk about droopery in private pictures taken by defunct newspapers such as The Guardian, they report that hackers have got into Apple’s private accounts and taken nude pictures of celebrities and posted them on the Internet. They also said that anyone posting them (such as in Namibia) will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in that jurisdiction of corporatism when the N.S.A. catches them.

Britain may not have the technical power to listen to everyone’s smart phone for hate speech yet the N.S.A. does. Perhaps as a cross-pond reciprocation for a first round political issue draft choice and future considerations the N.S.A. could eves-drop and find out who is saying hateful things about P.M. Cameron or seeking to sabotage his re-election campaign with hate speech. As corporatism concentrates wealth even talk about taxing the rich more could be regarded as hate speech. Censoring words is no substitute for rational political measures, immigration policies and economic justice.

Concentrating wealth through corporatism gradually evolves a stagnant society with wealth given over to uncreative heirs reinvesting in an existing, ossifying establishment. The acceleration of the velocity of money through globalization and networking reinforced with theories in support of market fundamentalism will petrify social liberty, economic innovation and prohibit critical political change to reply to environmental threats in a way satisfactory to the majority of the people with a minority of global capital and political power. Concentration of wealth and political power to prohibit free speech may bring about the end of human life on earth, and I for one, would hate that.