Video-Practical Philosophical Essays (economics, environment etc.)

Will Cruz Challenge Trudeau for P.M. Post?

U.S. Presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz could choose to run for Prime Minister of Canada if he fails to take the nomination and job in D.C. That could shape him up for another try at the White House in 2020. With globalism running amok voters must not assume they can anticipate every candidate's use of his options.

Consider things since the 1996 election regarding who wins a loses; moderates or conservatives. Dole was a moderate? 10th mountain division/Riva Ridge guy? Jack Kemp as VP choice? Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes were the primary rivals. Dole was solid.He didn't have populist appeal that is requisite for winning presently. Clinton did and the media liked him, as they did Obama. Bush II was elected with huge help from evangelicals, and he did a terrible job on foreign policy and didn't correct the Clinton mortgage, banking and Wall Street structuring errors at all. With all that debt-as much as Obama built in his first term added to the public-it is hard to regard Bush II as anything besides a moderate globalist like Cruz. Romney and McCain were straw men guaranteed to lose for various reasons, and that helped the 1%. Since 2008 the government purpose was to serve the 1%-the top 5% get 90% of the national income.

Denton Cemetery Oddfellows Body Bigotry Bites Dust

Denton Texas has an ancient cemetery donated by the Oddfellows long ago that racially segregated corpses. News has been aired that the city has done what it can to officially end the discrimination against corpses on the basis of race. Now if it can compensate those victims of discrimination with inclusion amidst Oddfellows they can at last be equals.

One can never really trust government for it does not exist as an entity. People occupy government offices and may be good or evil as their times shape their characters. The federal government seems ready to try to register women for military draft as a first ignoble step for allocation of reproductive age females to undetermined locations for combat and perhaps burial at some undetermined date. When combat casualties kill off male soldiers, female soldiers will advance to the front before new male civilians are trained as soldiers. The U.S.A. doers not have guaranteed military security forever.

War cannot always be scripted nor contained within pre-determined boundaries. Democracy should not readily give up realistic rights of social existence because the media and corrupt government people convey the idea that it brings equality and improvement. Government people tend to view people as products for processing without any rights that should be ready for burial as needed. People often are not sophisticated sufficiently to resist the advance of corruption.

It is good when the dead can rest in peace. So should the living.

Is Registration of Women for Draft Rational?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/02/02/army-and-marine-corps-chiefs-its-time-for-women-to-register-for-the-draft/

1. Army and Marine top generals testified in favor of registering women for the draft the Washington Post reported. It doesn't seem reasonable considering the biological differences between men and women.
2. One wonders if the Generals are closet communists, mafia planners or butches with no respect for women. Could they be court-martialed?.It is unimaginable that a quality guy like George Washington would have considered sending Martha off to war.
3. Perhaps the plutonomy want a way to trim non-white women demographically by sending them off for cannon and drone fodder. Maybe it wants to in doctrinate all women as well as men better with globalist denationalization and godless atheism.
4. There are large biological differences structural amidst women.
5. Some women that are thinish, flat-chested and athletic would make good enough soldiers while innumerable of the more feminine, large hipped, large breasted, slower and shorter ones would be entirely unsuitable. In fact it is rather outrageously cruel to suggest it. Those women have the excellent biological adaptation of being suitable for childbearing and rearing-important to humanity at least when it isn't so politically challenged as to fail at ecospheric conservation and races like fossil fueled dinosaurs toward planetary overpopulation in a mal-adapted economic structure.
6. All people inclusive of women need to have the opportunity and actuality of living a good, productive, dignified, intellectually challenging and healthy life. People aren't all interchangeable robot units in the same roles as perverse political leadership seems to think.
7. I recall when the Navy Chief and Secdef were eyeballing each other testifying pro-homosexualizing the military. Perhaps the next evolution is to have those guys up testifying in support of the fertility statues as reservists for Hamburger Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtPnQr3eHQo  Hamburger Hill

Presidential Campaign Prospects After Iowa

The results of the Iowa primary showed that Hillary Clinton with a tremendous boost from establishment organs inherited from Bill could not to more than eke out a tie with the late entry independent minded Bernie Sanders. Sanders should win the next few contests.

The Republican primary results showed the material candidacy of the Canadian was sufficient to woo conservative voters with no sense at all about damaging their party's opportunity to get a Republican in the White House. The Canadian used the old Bush ploy of going after evangelical voters with no political sense or sound eschatology (they think the world will end soon through means other than electing bad politicians), and took the election from the American billionaire Donald Trump. That was probably a one-time fluke possible because of the material nature of preparation.

Marco Rube; the future Donald trump Vice Presidential partner I would think because of his ability to deliver Florida, did well too, finishing just a point behind second place Trump.

Probably the Trump presidency is inevitable as the only way to return the nation to an American footing without Indonesian, Canadian, Cuban or British worries associated with the Canadian, Barrack Obama and Clintonistas. The nation perhaps will be happy to see Trump's lifetime of fast-lane connections and his familiarity with money at a functioning level bring the financial glitterati to his parties and staff as malleable allies to make the nation's economy work for more than Goldman Sachs.

I of course would prefer an ecological economist with good Christian morality that supports a priesthood of believers rather than a hierarchical ecclesiastic model to be elected President. Since that can't happy the Trump card for America seems to be to trust the billionaire to return a little of Barrack Obama's tax cuts to the 90% of Americans that share between them just 10% of the nation's wealth.

The Canadian Tom Cruz did finish first in Iowa yet that should fade away as he is transitioned out to the lonely fate of being Trump's Sect of State perhaps with Oprah Winfree as SecDef if she is interested. The plutonomy rules presently. It is the voter's fate to elect an American to get the largest share for them, or to elect a wanna-be-rich who will give more to the plutonomy in exchange for enriching themselves and family. Can't say I didn't write about this trend long ago.

The plutonomy; the top 5% most rich of the 1% most rich, probably want candidates with blurry U.S. citizenship elected to the White House in order to reinforce global plutocratic control. When citizens grow up in Indonesia, are born in Mexico or Canada, attend law school in Britain as Rhodes scholars they blur American political lines of command and control. The Rubes may not realize that's bad for their own chances of avoiding becoming puppets to global corporate plutonomy. The plutonomy regards the masses as little more than consumers that should have neither moral resistance nor reluctance to be downsized.

Trump and Sanders are the only two candidates besides Ben Carson that might be able to change that direction a little.

Trump vs Sanders Would Present Interesting Contrast

A Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders 2016 Presidential race would present an interesting contrast of political philosophies and styles. While I believe that given the way the U.S. political system is today the election of a Republican President and a Republican Congress is the next best player personnel configuration to try to fix the nation's financial woes created by the Clinton's financial and home mortgage economic restructuring of the 1990's that was recovered from with Titanic size icebergs of Federal Reserve and U.S. Government buying up bad debt, I haven't a dog in the primary fight really. So long as it's not a Clinton or Bush the nation might have a chance to politically recover from the way things were.

Sanders as a socialist and Trump as the friendly face of capitalism represent the way things are generally regarded as political archetypes. Each need to be cognizant of the national need for ecological recovery prioritization, non-invasive, inexpensive, high-speed, mass transportation and positive foreign engagement instead of perfidious.

In some future time perhaps a candidate with degrees in ecological economics and physics will run for the Presidential job, yet even if an ideal candidate were elected he can’t get any farther than a cooperative Congress would let him go-if he wasn’t in cahoots with a corrupt Supreme Court at least whereby the laws can be interpreted to conform to fearless leader’s will.

                        a scenic texas river

Chess, Birdsong and Cognitive Evolution

Birdsong in forests may have been instrumental in stimulating the development of human spatial and cognitive reasoning. That spatial skill is largely unused by modern urban Americans traveling and living in fairly sterile and unchallenging environments. In ancient times humans in forests and scrub brush land had birds commonly flying about them in 360 degrees emitting birdsong. Humans consciously and subconsciously recognized and categorized the flight and flight trajectories, location and type of bird. That was a fast and yet subtle interactive dynamic that existed for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. Modern Americans on the other hand usually destroy wildlife habit and have no brain cognitive stimulation from vast field forces in such a rich and complex interactive environment. That environmental co-development destroyed by evolving primates without sufficient environmental adaptive reasoning despiritualizes their intellectual prospects and strips them of natural external substantive brain development support. In a sterile environment the brain atrophies.

 

The ape-man modern human has sought to deforest and tech-evolve like hedonist consumers in a nutrient rich farm produced wonderland. That's a kind of fantasy cul de sac. Yet not all humans dogmatically slumber in modern economic fantasy actualization. Nor do they all fail to recognized that evolution is just a special theory that exists like all human theories in a quantum universe God allows to exist. God's environment is good; inadequate intellectual, cognitive and physical health are bad. Chess may be so popular because it provides a modicum of the spatial reasoning challenges familiar to humans experiencing birdsong everyday. Chess piece and pawn deployments are complex and varied comparably to birds flying through branches-yet of course, it is an internal rather than an external verisimilitude. Chess playing may prevent Alzheimer's increase prophylactically.

Some have regarded chess as an intellectual activity rather than as a game. Others have compared learning the ways of chess to learning trails in a forest or to a mouse learning and memorizing its way through a maze. Intellectual activity that largely involves memorization of specific historically precedented patterns as a format for execution of new activity with judgment is common to all of the above, and it may be common to learning and memorizing scripture chapter and verse.

 

I would like to think that all of those fundamental Christians that memorize much of the Holy Bible have the kind of minds that would make them good chess players able to memorize chess openings, middle and end games by famous players of the past. Like those that devote themselves solely to reading the Book of God, those devoting themselves to learning solely the book of chess (the historical games and patterned evolution of chess) that end up at grandmaster depth follow a comparatively closed intellectual field with a specific finite or delimited content rather than an open book such that history reading presents that is far more challenging to even survey comprehensively much less memorize.

 

I have learned chess the past three years as well as theology the past two and have respect for those citizens that learn chess or scripture so well they can cite games or verses accurately from memory. While I am good at finding trails through forests and memorizing ways even where there is no trail, I have been reading the Bible since I learned how to read and simply haven't learned to learn by rote memorization. Instead I have learned to survey everything available so far as possible and learn how to recover data from given locations when necessary; that wouldn't impress the authoritative Bible quoting people nor win chess matches against those who have memorized 30 forms of the Sicilian defense or Queen's gambit.

 

I think there are several forms of intellectual activity today. Some forms are solely mental pursuit of abstract issues while some forms involve mental activity that has mental abstractions and concentration or application immediately to real-world problems.

 

It is this latter field that I will comment on presently. Consider the intellectual activity of a house repainter. His thought if painting alone may include the location of every component of the work such as location of materials around the work site. The work site if in a secluded rural area with the owner absent may be free from abstract potential social interference by others. Even a car horn or dog running into a 24' extension ladder with the painter atop may cause issues. The painter needs to consider many issues abstract and a priori before they occur. He is not just like a mono-dimensional athlete on a game field who is actually a simile for a mono-dimensional chess player playing a game board. The active painter may be intellectually applying a Kantian form of synthetic a priori judgment comprising potential rain showers, spacetime weather abstractions, paint drying conditions, drying times, pant materials as primary or final applications and drying times and locations simultaneously. The intellectual activity is applied through his command and control of his body; arms and hands that may apply 3000 brush strokes to a single small home in a custom job. Financial abstractions in negotiating in a disadvantaged state, social conditions of ambient cheap labor competition for painting labor wages etc. A self-employed independent painter not established as a licensed paint contractor is quite disadvantaged-even NPR has dissed them as the clan with rave demotic falsely, and has little economic security or continuity of employment from job to job. The work engages the mind synthetically however in mind-body behavior intensely with risk even of spraying bleach mist used to remove mildew into one's eyes or lungs.

 

Intellectual work in purely abstract pursuits like philosophy that has similarities to history reading in tremendous, almost bottomless depth also may have contiguous academic fields with abstractions such as classical and symbolic logic that retroactively may be applied to the field with transcending transformation. It is possible to learn classical and symbolic logic to a certain depth and then use that knowledge as a filter to analyze or critically evaluate historical and philosophical ideas for accuracy. Chess tends to lack any sort of depth in that regard, although there are some tools such as exploiting square colors with oppositely colored bishops and elements of positional chess play that make it an interesting and intellectually stimulating game.

 

Reading scripture alone generally-although few people today become literate reading just the Bible, brings one into a world and Universe of unlimited depth. Some may stay on the surface just learning and memorizing scripture, yet its depth calls one to think about the ways that similar verses relate and inform. The Bible student inevitably develops his or her own way of interpreting scripture and develops some theory about it-that is called a hermeneutic in Bible scholarship.

 

The Bible has more than 3000 years of history behind it unlike chess. So if one goes beyond reading just the Bible and learns about Bible composition history one may also learn about ancient Middle Eastern history. Plainly great Bible scholars and theologians that have gone before call one to look into their writings. Scholars today like Kenneth Gentry who has brought a new approach to end times studies in a field called eschatology answer questions that arise in the thought of anyone who has read and thought about the Bible books of Matthew, Peter and the Revelation of John of Patmos. This sort of intellectual activity has more challenges than chess and is an open intellectual field rather than a closed field.

 

Modern chess computers have reached about a 3800 rating and that's about it-even with the best programming available. World chess champion Magnus Carlsen today has about a 2850 chess rating. Computer data banks may have millions of times more history content than a human being, not just less than a third better, yet a computer cannot presently write a single book of philosophy that is meaningful or useful much less write anything competent that is a philosophy of world social history.

 

I think that today evolution theory has inspired many people take up a jaundiced skeptical world view of atheist phenomenalism and randomicity theory as a philosophical point of view. Necessarily disregarded are deterministic factors of physics. Featured is quantum uncertainty while disregarded is the possibility that quantum uncertainty is simply a packing mechanism for one-dimensional or very small quanta that are not in space-time scales large enough to be measured in a steady-state-determined field. That does not mean that the quanta are themselves indeterministic phenomenally speaking. They too exist as dimensional phenomena in some greater than is measurable paradigm.

 

Applications of chess to the real world- inferences one may make from the chess tool kit about the nature of reality are few. Sociopaths and political theorists have commented on individuals in society in chess pawn and piece metaphors. There are people who view society as a sort of abstract chess game that one may 'win' through careful manipulation. In short, chess provides a penury class tool kit for making inferences about reality.

 

Chess as a philosophical tool is largely of an a posteriori construct. Chess analysts have noted 'materialism' in some players who will take an immediate en pris pawn for instant gratification instead of building a plan to maneuver and destroy an opponent. Chess is not Lao Tzu's 'Art of War'.

 

Reading and memorizing scripture alternatively may lead one to learn ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Latin languages; in fact even old English or German-since Bibles were translated into the German language by the 5th century. Philosophically scripture may lead one to make new inferences about the nature of reality based on remaining consistent with theology. Here is one example...

 

Christians learn that they are born with original sin. Perhaps it is the thermodynamic spatio-temporal and material state of being they have inherited from the fall of Adam and Eve-original humans who became cognizant of their fallen state. A Christian may infer that the ancient doctrine is informative and from God and perhaps a metaphor or analogy encompassing a criterion of cosmology.

 

If Christians require salvation because of their original sin and the temporal condition if they are to be acceptable and forgiven to the eternal God then a way to do that for humanity that is incapable of doing that for-themselves must be provided if they are to be saved. Only God himself in the Son Jesus Christ is capable of making that atoning sacrifice and of creating a bridge to eternal salvation.

 

That is a parameter that can support inferences of a very advanced kind. That is with the grace provided by God wherein the Christian is led to accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior-a substitute for themselves. Technically speaking one may wonder how that is done.

 

Thus one may establish an inferential paradigm and use physics concepts essentially as analogies since God as an Absolute Supreme Being who is spirit has transcendence over all physics.

 

Through acceptance of the Lord into one's heart a kind of real replacement therapy arises in which the Christian becomes more Christlike. The elect individual actual is receiving the grace of God allowing him or her spiritually to evolve to a state of pure Spirit closer unto God. God is acceptable to God unto eternity. Jesus is God. Christians receive the substitution content of God for-themselves spiritually and are readied for eternal being.

 

Of course there are innumerable details and complications to the process that will remain mysteries. Yet it is possible to imagine a situation where an old ship for instance is gradually replaced with new parts until it is a completely new ship made of a superior substance. Alternatively one could have an existing large and complex computer program that is gradually rewritten or translated into another language that is more appropriate for a new platform while keeping the meaning of the original program content except for flaws. People that are saved are like that becoming replaced in time with Christ although retaining their form and thoughts to a certain extent. Christians receive new and improved spiritual bodies much like their present form in heaven, yet I suppose each will be perfected.

A Few Essays More (Birds, Chess, Evo, Spirit) (video)

Honest History Volume 4 -presently free to download

For the present I've made my fourth compilation of my essays named "Honest History' free to download as an epub at...

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/honest-history-volume-four/ebook/product-22385546.html

About I Corinthians 10:4

The passage is about spiritual strongholds. Someone asked if is about politics and answered-maybe church politics.

'Church politics' is somewhat humorous I think. Jesus did not hang around to be anything like the Sanhedrin himself. Society is rife with ecclesiastic issues sectarian and otherwise. Yet one can syntegrate church issues with those of secular social reality for the purpose of inquiry. They are a continuum with the good, the bad and the ugly. I think one might want to take a philosophical view of what politics are and what the term politics means. Maybe Jesus and God's teleology transcend human academic ideas about social affairs, grouping and classifications and cuts that Gordian knot to rectify all human problems with being perfectly in the will of God.  People sin with thought-and even if sinful thought collectively increases and error becomes mass produced it still is opinion held by individuals that are ultimately accountable. All human social classifications exist in the heart and mind-they are intellectual rather than physical things that exist in the material world, so they are all malleable and subject to correction of the Lord.