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1/23/16
1/22/16
Ravens and Friends
During the many years I camped in a tent in S.E. Alaska ravens were a usual part of life. Science has shown that ravens are about the smartest bird, with blue jays and magpies being second Ravens make camp life in the northern forest far less bland than it might be with so few creatures living in it besides bear, wolf (if one is lucky) and so forth-it isn't the Amazonian rain forest so rich with wildlife.
Ravens usually woke me up each morning flying over the tent or landing nearby and sounding off with various calls just before light when safe flying was possible. They weren't attracted just by the possibility of food, although they will recognize people that feed them now and them and distinguish them from those that don't, as they also distinguish those that have attacked them from those that haven't.
http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/birds/archives/2013/crows-recognizing-faces.aspx
Ravens will interact simply to have something to do, vocally. One can reply to basic raven caws with a similar caw, yet the vast range of raven sounds changes, and they have a repertoire that English language speakers cannot well imitate. Ravens seem attracted by certain kinds of music from a radio, and seem to like sound quite a lot as it is a tool for communication as well as pleasure. Some of the sounds are quite remarkable. With good sound recording equipment and living in a tent several years a scientist could record quite a raven lexicon, yet its important to have a relationship with the birds rather than to be simply a visitor in order to observe the social communication permutation.
After feeding ravens walking along a road a couple of days with leftovers or crackers attacked by mice and deemed unsafe to eat ravens on subsequent days remember the source of food and will follow the walking individual and fly as close as a foot or two away to attract attention and stimulate the recall of the walker that the raven wants food. Ravens even remember where a trail is that the walker will take and may approach just at the critical moment as a last chance to get a crust of bread.
Raven life is interesting to observe.
Ravens usually woke me up each morning flying over the tent or landing nearby and sounding off with various calls just before light when safe flying was possible. They weren't attracted just by the possibility of food, although they will recognize people that feed them now and them and distinguish them from those that don't, as they also distinguish those that have attacked them from those that haven't.
http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/birds/archives/2013/crows-recognizing-faces.aspx
Ravens will interact simply to have something to do, vocally. One can reply to basic raven caws with a similar caw, yet the vast range of raven sounds changes, and they have a repertoire that English language speakers cannot well imitate. Ravens seem attracted by certain kinds of music from a radio, and seem to like sound quite a lot as it is a tool for communication as well as pleasure. Some of the sounds are quite remarkable. With good sound recording equipment and living in a tent several years a scientist could record quite a raven lexicon, yet its important to have a relationship with the birds rather than to be simply a visitor in order to observe the social communication permutation.
After feeding ravens walking along a road a couple of days with leftovers or crackers attacked by mice and deemed unsafe to eat ravens on subsequent days remember the source of food and will follow the walking individual and fly as close as a foot or two away to attract attention and stimulate the recall of the walker that the raven wants food. Ravens even remember where a trail is that the walker will take and may approach just at the critical moment as a last chance to get a crust of bread.
Raven life is interesting to observe.
Why It's Tougher for Some to Focus on Christian Concerns Now Than in the 1st Century
I think it is because there are more distractions and competing agencies of socialization.Cellular telephones and television and automobiles formed a different culture where attention to one truth alone is not easy. The economic facts are more complicated too and isolate people socially within a mass culture even while conditioning them to things like Facebook, Twitter-headedness and so forth. Christians may work in liquor stores to support a family or encounter rock & roll ministers that don't have true faith yet want true middle class income. Popular video games like HALO are indirectly vicious anti-Christian propaganda and pro-evolutionary training tools. It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times.
How to Make Snow Ice Cream
Take a large bowl and pour in a little milk or half and half, some sugar, vanilla extract and add snow slowly stirring the mixture up until the ice cream is as you like it.
I like to use about a half cup of milk and sugar, a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract and lots of snow to get a half quart of fresh ice cream that should be consumed with the stirring spoon, yet its according to taste obviously. Some people get radical with the ingredients or add more.
I like to use about a half cup of milk and sugar, a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract and lots of snow to get a half quart of fresh ice cream that should be consumed with the stirring spoon, yet its according to taste obviously. Some people get radical with the ingredients or add more.
Undercounting the Homeless in Dallas-Plano
A Dallas radio station reported today that last night their was a metro area-wide count of the homeless for government purposes and that the number was approx. 600 seriously underestimating the actual number of homeless people.
When I flew into DFW recently and travelled to Plano to begin living in a tent, I discovered that it is challenging to find a place to safely put up a tent. Plano is a community sprawling north extending the greater Dallas area with expensive cloned homes with mal-designed steep roofs designed better for snow country roofed with asphalt shingles rather than solar photon collecting tiles. Little space is allowed to remain for wildlife (actually about none) though nice bike paths and green spaces are planned to let the entire community be a sort of poverty free middle class slum without homeless people, cheap motels or anything that would upset the aloof milieu. Homeless people may still be away from urban centers and living more like coyotes at the edges of town where they may dash in to try to find work occasionally.
In my humble opinion the actual number of homeless people in the Dallas/Plano area is more like 2000. Counters of homeless people only find the ones that are easy to locate rather than those that have some sense and try to remain out of sight of the violent automobile driving goons that prey upon the homeless to alleviate their sense of inferiority.
In the environmmentally mal-adaptive suburban sprawl of cloned 400,000 dollar clone homes even their human servo-units have adopted the ethos of purging poverty and environment to the shadows, and purging any unregulated tree caused shadows.
When I flew into DFW recently and travelled to Plano to begin living in a tent, I discovered that it is challenging to find a place to safely put up a tent. Plano is a community sprawling north extending the greater Dallas area with expensive cloned homes with mal-designed steep roofs designed better for snow country roofed with asphalt shingles rather than solar photon collecting tiles. Little space is allowed to remain for wildlife (actually about none) though nice bike paths and green spaces are planned to let the entire community be a sort of poverty free middle class slum without homeless people, cheap motels or anything that would upset the aloof milieu. Homeless people may still be away from urban centers and living more like coyotes at the edges of town where they may dash in to try to find work occasionally.
In my humble opinion the actual number of homeless people in the Dallas/Plano area is more like 2000. Counters of homeless people only find the ones that are easy to locate rather than those that have some sense and try to remain out of sight of the violent automobile driving goons that prey upon the homeless to alleviate their sense of inferiority.
In the environmmentally mal-adaptive suburban sprawl of cloned 400,000 dollar clone homes even their human servo-units have adopted the ethos of purging poverty and environment to the shadows, and purging any unregulated tree caused shadows.
1/20/16
ISIS Accellerates Purge of Christian in Middle East- Trash St. Elijah's Monastery
ISIS reportedly destroyed the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, or Kurdistan as the case or border may be, in Mosul. The structure was 1400 years old.
The monastery was previously destroyed by Tahmiz Nadir Shah of Persia in 1743. He also executed the monks living there at the time. ISIS at least destroyed an abandoned facility. Yet they apparently have no sense of aesthetic values, are inartistic and rudely annihilate ancient empty buildings that the economically excluded draw comfort from in reflecting upon the fact that the glitzy rich buildings of now will also be dust someday along with the swells in them. Get a life ISIS-leave the world heritage sites alone.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-reportedly-destroys-1400-year-christian-monastery-iraq/story?id=36402008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dair_Mar_Elia
The monastery was previously destroyed by Tahmiz Nadir Shah of Persia in 1743. He also executed the monks living there at the time. ISIS at least destroyed an abandoned facility. Yet they apparently have no sense of aesthetic values, are inartistic and rudely annihilate ancient empty buildings that the economically excluded draw comfort from in reflecting upon the fact that the glitzy rich buildings of now will also be dust someday along with the swells in them. Get a life ISIS-leave the world heritage sites alone.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-reportedly-destroys-1400-year-christian-monastery-iraq/story?id=36402008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dair_Mar_Elia
Federal Budget Deficit to Rise in 2016
For the first time since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the U.S. Federal budget deficit will rise relative to the economy. The deficit will reach nearly 3% of the nation's gross domestic product in 2016.
Increasing debts seem likely in the next decade as the economy and federal budget is rather ill-founded.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84539cf4-bed2-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html#axzz3xofgI9Ec
The continuing very slow oil price per barrel -just 27$ today, will ease the transition to a sustainable economy with lower comparative entropy and more efficiency if intelligent political leadership has a will to do so perhaps renewing U.S. independence economically speaking and leading the way bite example.Full employment,guaranteed minimum income and housing that is realistic environmentally offer opportune goals for a better society.
Increasing debts seem likely in the next decade as the economy and federal budget is rather ill-founded.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84539cf4-bed2-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html#axzz3xofgI9Ec
The continuing very slow oil price per barrel -just 27$ today, will ease the transition to a sustainable economy with lower comparative entropy and more efficiency if intelligent political leadership has a will to do so perhaps renewing U.S. independence economically speaking and leading the way bite example.Full employment,guaranteed minimum income and housing that is realistic environmentally offer opportune goals for a better society.
1/18/16
Integration, Disintegration and Equilibrium
I
watched a physics video primer on equilibrium the other day and it
made me think about the way basic chemical and molecular forms change
in the context of larger systems. Equilibrium is a more or less
balanced state of multi-component systems including space as a
component in distinction to being. Change of a balanced state of
equilibrium involves disintegration of that state and integration to
another.
The
parameters of chemical equilibrium may be analogous to larger systems
comprising the entire universe as well as to language and social
concepts about the nature of change and condition of the economic
infrastructure of any given system. Space-time change is itself an integration of the complete complex to construct compresence while disintegrating the past simultaneously. Change of space-time itself means disintegration as well as integration. Humans may try to form a changeless social milieu, such as existed in ancient Egypt, and conservation is not always bad-especially if in a lifeboat. Life is a process of change even while some spiritual things and forms remain the same.
There
are open and closed systems with relative states of equilibrium.
Space-time evolution or change of physical systems along a time axis,
with time being a subjective measurement of the systemic change,
involves the disintegration of an existing comparative equilibrium
and the integration of new components or component relationships
toward a new equilibrium. That new equilibrium is a status quo
that is changed or evolved with additional disintegration of existing
forms and relationships through integration of new components.
Obviously
with integration being a change of disintegration of an existing
equilibrium the effect upon terms of political correctness can
integrate new ideas that potentially may disintegrate a status
quo-not invariably and undesirable evolution, yet neither a
necessarily positive change.
Besides
the onerous recognition that sometimes needs to be given to warriors
of political correctness, the evolution of ideas to philosophically
adapt them to correctly appreciate the nature of physical systems is
positive, especially as one recognizes the boundaries for validity of
the idea lexicons of equilibrium, integrating and disintegrating
concepts.
If
the steady state field of material built upon field quanta is
over-all in a state of equilibrium gradually transitioning to a lower
state of energy, there is a possibility that the entire field is a
spiritual creation of God phenomenally given fundamental field values
and laws of order. Spirit precedes membranes or monads of
one-dimension that arise as ordered field wave fragments.
1/17/16
Phenomenality of Mind & Matter (poem)
Life
pixels formed more
than
shadowed wisps of memories
arranged
freely like compositions
coalescent
structures moving on
being
themselves the content of time
within
and without
disintegrations
of sensibility
racing
the content of change
toward
present oblivion
where
all things become the past
and
pixels were attracted bits
spilled
like Tom Bean's tomorrows
the
A.I. existed in a space before
she
evaporated through a loose expiration date
unencumbered
without a predestined soul.
1/16/16
Would Cruz Renounce Goldman Sachs, Cuban & Canadian Citizenship if Elected
Senators Cruz and Rubio each might have Cuban citizenship as sons of Cuban migrants. Senator Cruz also has Canadian
citizenship having been born there. Yet it's his Goldman, Sachs 2012 campaign financing that has tossed a wrench into his Tea Party nationalism creds.
Goldman Sachs has had very dubious global financial dealings since the 2008-2009 financial meltdown and is a partner in global financial crime in a manner of speaking. Senator Cruz might be bought and paid for by Butch party globalists and designed to seem American while appealing to illegal aliens in Texas who lower the prevailing wage level for poor, unemployed nationalists. Labor shortages are requisite for average wages to go up and make physical labor as valuable as financial service workers employed by organized political criminals so far as undermining democracy goes.
The globalist Republican candidates are as bad as the Clintons at converting the U.S.A. into a pawn of planetary imperialists.
citizenship having been born there. Yet it's his Goldman, Sachs 2012 campaign financing that has tossed a wrench into his Tea Party nationalism creds.
Goldman Sachs has had very dubious global financial dealings since the 2008-2009 financial meltdown and is a partner in global financial crime in a manner of speaking. Senator Cruz might be bought and paid for by Butch party globalists and designed to seem American while appealing to illegal aliens in Texas who lower the prevailing wage level for poor, unemployed nationalists. Labor shortages are requisite for average wages to go up and make physical labor as valuable as financial service workers employed by organized political criminals so far as undermining democracy goes.
The globalist Republican candidates are as bad as the Clintons at converting the U.S.A. into a pawn of planetary imperialists.
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