The (Space) Force is with President Trump

President Trump has officially signed the Space Force into law. Finally an organized military presence will be established to defend against threats to world existence from space and the Universe of things that could go wrong.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/12/23/space-force-official-change-coming-patrick-air-force-base/2732133001/

A military space force that has a few true space ships and space soldiers able to travel to combat asteroids, aliens solar flares, world conquering Dicatures seeking to intimidate Earth dwellers with particle beams, lasers, accelerated rocks, boulders etc, redirected meteors and whatever else including hidden extra-terrestrial bio-weapons labs might be met with warriors kicking in the doors instead of school teachers, scientists, politicians or billionaires able to purchase tickets.

Some fear a space force; perhaps Democrats as well as Communist Chinese politicians that would seek a world domination unconcerned with independent space force personnel not willing to go quietly into the evil empire as would Democrats. Policing the high frontier is necessary as human space ventures and projects independent of Earth ramp up.


Space combat and civil engineers will have a lot of work digging in extra-terrestrial planets and moons to build underground bases able to withstand cosmic raises, the adverse vacuum and food scarcity under a military chain of command.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2019/12/23/china-attacks-us-space-force-as-threat-to-peace/

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/16/retired_us_air_force_general_warns_china_is_building_a_navy_in_space_with_space-based_equivalents_of_battleships_and_destroyers.html

Pres. Trump is the Most Christian-Friendly Candidate Possible Today

When the editor of the magazine Christianity Today wrote that President Trump should be impeached he made a blatantly political entry into the pig pen of indolent ignorant swine that is the American political swamp. President Trump is the sole candidate whom is friendly toward Christian interests in comparison to the godless, abortionist, homosexual, communist Democrat Party flunkies that are anti-American globalists promoting national amoeba blob-hood for all citizens with ample dope for all. Sectarian Christian editors should try to stay out of the swamp and not make themselves servants of evil even if unintentionally.

President Trump is squaring away several issues that need be done if the United States is to continue as a sovereign nation. He is working on securing the national borders against the incursion of illegal aliens; he has appointed better conservative judges than President G.W. Bush, rectification of trade and defense of intellectual properties against Chinese predation and so forth. Democrats are entirely spaced out in an alternative financial Universe where socialism will pay for tens of trillions of dollars of new public debt.

Christian evangelicals are theologically ill-informed and wreak great havoc upon American conservatives and the environment because of their wrong belief that Armageddon is ahead and they will be raptured out into thin air before the worst. That wrong opinion of pre-tribulation is shared by the Muslim world. The correct opinion is that the tribulation occurred in the first century a.d. and this is the time of building up the kingdom of God. Christian writers should read the works of Dr. Kenneth Gentry if they are so woefully ill-informed about the book of the Revelation.

Democrats are in effect the party of the anti-Christ. Wrong theology in support of homosexual marriage and political globalism that reinforces concentrated wealth while degrading nationalism lead to innumerable dystopian scenarios wherein silly man-bun wearing Christian editors can descry with a lispy croak the evil of the anti-Christ approaching and the doom of everyone to plead for increased contributions and rapture. That is an incorrect political approach to addressing the real world challenges to the U.S.A.

Democrats are far more interested in dividing the nation to get a replacement agenda accomplished with demographic party qualified members replacing the 20th century establishment class than fixing the environment. Democrats exploit the world environmental crisis in order to benefit their socialist-homo-economic empowerment-corporatist-socialist agenda. If they were serious about transitioning quickly to ecological economics they would leave out the socialist homo atheist agenda and work rationally.

With the very real concerns about global warming and planetary ecospheric decay with a mass extinction in progress there is no Green Party in the U.S.A. that is not entirely corrupted with the poison pill of atheism, homosexuality and abortion. There is no plain fix-the-environment, no-guile leadership factor in existence at all. Therefore many moral Americans choose to just let free enterprise and capitalism respond to the needs of the market and environment together instead of taking the known socialist-atheist-homosexual course of front-loaded doom with the pretense of being environmentally responsible. 

Democrats seek after wealth and are a new age immoral party coated with Teflon of the Beyond Good and Evil ethos of the 19th century philosopher Nietzsche. Donald Trump is the right Republican leader to address them; he understands what they are and can get in the mud with them and win a fight. Christian leaders that inexpertly hope for some sort of ascension of the honorable V.P. Mike Pence would divide the Republican Party at a critical time and find a way to reinforce the Democrat homo-atheist-socialist agenda. That isn't a Christian work at all.

Where to Start with Philosophy

The pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus started with cosmology; considering the evident and extrapolating from that. Alethea was the first name Attic philosophers called their activity- truth. Finding the truth, or accurate agreement in logical propositions, between words and objects was a basic activity. Pre-Socratics were fortunate to live in a lower-carbon atmosphere before some became dumb and dumber. As method and knowledge became formalized philosophers renamed their activity-for-others. Today their are many fields of accumulated knowledge to start with. One doesn't need to reinvent the Wright Brothers first 1903 aircraft to learn to fly today (the Boeing 737 and Starliner failures aside). There is just a lot of great material to start with to learn, new material to add, and the opportunity to consider all of the old and new data for-oneself, possibly adding new synthetic insights or investigating new topics. There may not be a perfect order of assembly.

One can make a curriculum for learning philosophy. Yet I liked learning philosophy, science and Christianity together. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Confucius, The New Testament, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Watson and Crick, Gregory Mendel, Kopernicus etc. Individuals all the way to the present day, including Darwin and Barth, Luther and W.V.O. Quine etc. Reading the works of excellent individuals is a good way to go. One should read the major works of all of the well known classical philosophers and in the process one learns about metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and etc. I like the philosophy of logic quite a lot. It is worthwhile reading a few books on the history of math and language. The history of Algebra is a great reading thread.

 Philosophy 101 is a great course. I read the works of Kant, Sartre, Plato, Husserl and numerous others before I took it, as well as Berkeley, Hume etc, so my opinion is a bit skewed on it. It is important to get college credit for coursework, yet if not in school one must just go ahead and read primary sources- they are more interesting. Plato and the Socratic discourses are wonderful compositions. Many of those guys were first-rate writers-not just thinkers. Primary sources of history are good too-like philosophy. Caesar wrote a history of the civil war that is very good. Cicero (On Natural Law) was a good writer as were so many others. There is a natural development of complexity in concepts that makes reading the older material easier in many cases, and with the added benefit of later writers referring to the earlier.

 I believe that beside the issue of grace and God leading one to learn particular things, there is an issue of faith leading one to make connections that would not be made otherwise. The results of the analysis and interpretation of literature (including social sciences and humanities, science etc.) may differ in accord with one's outlook to start with. I am not inclined to mystic or occluded knowledge concerning salvation though. The Bible is fairly plain about that. One does find more and more in it over time though, unlike any other book I have read-especially in philosophy. To develop such subtlety and complex constructions in meaning one needs to compare and contrast several dozen philosophy books into a synthetic viewpoint and even that the comparison isn't terribly good for the add together Kant, Hegel, Sartre etc side. Apparently how one uses the brain can change the brain's structure. There is a recent yet shallow report without much of a concluding account of the research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-mindfulness-video-game-areas-brain.html

Mind-Span Differs on Health Compared to 38 Year D.N.A. Life Span

Recent studies have determined that the natural life span for human beings based on D.N.A. researches is 38 years. That made we wonder a little about the life span of a human mind and its health.

Top elite chess players tend to be young and play at peak level no more than age 38 or 40. The effort to calculate and dead reckon complex positions requires a lot of brain energy as well as physical stamina.

 There may be other reasons why it is difficult for Super GMs to stay in the top ten rankings in the world beyond age 40 (although former world champion V. Anand is 50 and still a high ranked Super GM) including the fact that younger players know the games of older elite players while the older elite players haven’t had the time to study so many games of numerous potentially elite younger players since it’s easier to study the few at the top of the pyramid  for younger players at the bottom than vice-versa. Chess might be used by some as a yardstick for the life expectancy of elite mind power, yet not all activity of the mind demands the same kind of work effort.

While the human body may have evolved to physically life for a certain span for various evolutionary reasons, the human mind grew in knowledge and wisdom in an unequal and slower pace. A human brain that supports a mind is physical and can begin to decay as does the body. The mind is not a purely physical item though it occurs because of the physical brain. A human mind is more like the artificial intelligence of a computer if A.I. were actually fully sentient.

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/csiro-geneticists-say-38-years-is-the-natural-human-lifespan/11795944

A mind empty of knowledge is not the same as a mind stuffed with a lifetime of learning and intelligence. Thought the physical capacity of the mind may degrade comparably to the body in some cases, the mind itself may continue to increase in ability and knowledge. With intentional effort and reasonable work to increase knowledge, the mind as a sentient power may actually increase its competence within the brain while the brain loses some ‘computational’ power.

It is as if the central processing unit of a computer- the chip that processes instructions, and the storage area of a computer- the solid state drive and random access memory- were a tabula rasa without an operating system to start with and given only the most basic bios instructions on the CPU. BIOS (Basic Input/Output Instructions) is a booting up set of instructions written on the CPU that are the first think to start to ‘think’ when the power is turned on.

If the CPU, ram and SSD were designed to last 38 years and started slowly breaking down after that, yet the computer had increased its knowledge and became sentient, the sentience could be far more powerful than it was early in its life, or even at age 38, when more time –maybe decades- had passed.

Sentience is life a spiritual fire that becomes alive in-itself. It exists in a physical body that sustains its operations and provides information from the Universe of which it is a part. AS the fuel that sustains sentience become spent and cannot medically be replaced, as the physical body ages, sentience continues perhaps brighter than ever as an increasing fusion of ideas that perishes only with the last consumption of health of the body.

Can Partisan Democrat Impeachment Model Predator-Prey Dynamics?

With the recent completely partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump one must wonder if the balance in predator-prey relationships has fundamentally shifted. The traditional prey of capitalists has become the predators, and former capitalist predators have become the prey to a limited extent (since wealth continues to be concentrated to the largest predators).

Capitalism goes beyond the simple free enterprise yeomanship of small business sheep in a constructive, harmonious social equilibrium. Some, yet not all capitalists become predators consuming free enterprises and growing to very large scale through predation. In former ages worker employees were characterized as hapless prey victimized by capitalist predators (e.g. Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto (the book not the band)). Presently as a consequence of population dynamics, matured technologies, science, changes in moral norms and mass communications the former prey have become predators helped with the assistance of ad hoc socialist neo-unionization.  

Democrat party predator dynamics appeared with concatenated ad hoc identity politics moving predators toward simple domination through democracy with every opportunity used for predation upon Republican representatives of free enterprisers exploited to the maximum degree. That has culminated with the impeachment of the President in the House for partisan advantage.  One unusual point regarding the trial is that after denying the president due process in the House they have now denied him the right to a speedy trial in witholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate. The Predators are exacting cruel and unusual extra-judicial punishment on the President already, before the trial. Speaker Pelosi may actually quash the impeachment process after some time of enjoying the sadistic suspense forced on the President.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-impasse-trump-impeachment-trial-dems-cold-feet

The interesting point about the predator prey relationship is the difficulty in stabilizing a continuum of mutual existence for predators and prey to exist. Often predators consume prey and then starve themselves such as one would expect if predator Democrats consumed all of the intelligent leadership and partner socialists consumed all of the free enterprisers.

Apparently Democrat predators would consume all of the alienated wealth of the nation (that could be regarded as all of the wealth that in existence that Democrats do not possess). While predator capitalists consume independent small free enterprises and subjugate it unto their own purposes, Democrats and some government predators duplicate that consumer goal with free enterprisers and creators as the main course. That might leave predator Democrats and Fat Predator-Prey concentrated wealth holding capitalists in one future world-line. The balance is not at all plain to predict.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03603-3

Schedule Regular Partisan Impeachments for Mid-Term Elections

With the entirely partisan Democrat vote to impeach a Republican President where 100% of the minority Republican members of the House voted against impeachment the prospect of blatant partisan use of impeachment to reverse Presidential election results, or to try, may become normal legislative branch procedure in the future.

If one party controls both the Senate and House and loses the Presidential race it might be a good idea to reverse the Presidential election result with impeachment. A regularly scheduled impeachment would reduce the need for a special prosecutor and save tax dollars with all of the search for pretext for impeachment loaded onto the backs of partisan investigators that would have no need for a minority objection day as Rep. Schiff has proven in the House intelligence committee 'investigation' of President Trump. Like a Soviet show trial the expert witnesses can be friendly and objections to the process minimized.

With swift no-nonsense fish processing of the President by the House the conclusive gutting of election results can be accomplished in the Senate. Therefore the selection of a Vice-President to fill the void created by deletion of the initial election need be directly filled by a theoretically competent V.P. whom if he, she or it wins the next election would face their own mid-term impeachment.

It is good when the government shows it can get the nation's business done properly, and the five years in required to retire at age 62 with as much as 80%  of the $174,000 annual salary paid to legislators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/impeachment-trial.html

Determinism and Modal Universe Logic

Modal logic can entertain an infinite number of Universes with any kind of self-consistent premises within them I guess, yet logical structures may not be all that exists or could exist with actual Universes, since logic is a kind of structure itself unlike illogical structures that may exist. If sound has structure, alternatively, it may not have recombinatory logic, although echoes can be logically extrapolated from a sound source, and light waves may alter with blue and red shift characteristics consistent logically with their structure and that of the medium they travel in, the unknown like dark energy cannot readily be given logical context except in observation and comparison to known structures.

One must assume a given character or modal structure for any universe that one would make behavioral predictions about. Some simple predictions of deterministic behavior can be made upon prior decisions a person has made with the free will of the individual being consistent with predictions about his determined behavior. His free will has bound him to predictability like a chess player with a known kind of game.

It is also possible to make predictions early in life- about babies’ behaviors for example concerning basic material needs. A baby has free will yet its behavior is deterministic to adult others. Various stages in life’s way are more difficult to predict concerning an individual’s behavior of course, yet to someone smart enough it isn’t difficult. Just know for example the vote for two articles of impeachment of the President was completely partisan with no Republicans voting for and just two or three Democrats voting against. That was predetermined and easy for even dummies to predict, yet the politicians are said to have free will.

I will cut this reply short, for I have other things to move on to. There are numerous approaches to considering the theoria of determinism though. One may study it for years.

Propositions that can't be falsified, such as true foreknowledge in a superreal context, can have speculative answers. Tegmark's Mathematical Universe had decisions people make in a level 4 or 5 Multiverse switching them to an appropriate Universe consistent with the decision.. In other words Vincent would make all possible choices and gradations of a choice and a Universe would exist with the consequences of that choice where his mind would go. The idea was that all-possible-universes actually exist and it is said that thought switches seamlessly to an appropriate Universe. Sailor know about the petty relativity of real wind speed vs. apparent wind speed, and time has a comparative illusory nature in that it seems to exist, as does motion, yet in actuality every possible event in the history of every Universe always exists a priori and conscious minds journey through each with a succession of self-bodies at the right stage in the right condition to receive the journeying mind. God I suppose created the infinite Multiverse and knows the disposition of each as He views the past, present and future of everything as if it were a museum established for eternity perhaps (it is in His mind after all that anything exists. Perhaps the Multiverse in that context would be like dreams and memories stored in the mind, and dreams could take almost every possible form based on the real memories. I am not saying here that life is like a dream or a rowboat.

On the Cheaters at Chess

There was sadly, a GM recently that was caught cheating at chess. I am not at all confident that cheating would be of any value to me on-line especially. I think there is a coefficient of slowness on the baud rate or transmission speed such that if I start a game with x milliseconds delay it will be 3x before the game is over. That aside, I don't really know tablebase too well and reading the notation about suggested lines from SF wouldn't be much help either because it takes too long to decipher and when the opponent makes a different move that would throw everything all akimbo.

Why does sitting on the composting toilet and looking once at SF help a GM? I can understand that if it was a live following of move by move and a cheater played the best move that would help, unless playing against alpha zero.

With a beard or a bun one could hide a small receiver that quickly whispers the best move found by an accomplice on a computer. Alternatively dedicated cheaters could have a cochlear implant with a radio in it with some adjustable freq the accomplished engine could through-put. Maybe top-level chess player's matches should have a bio-radio-hazard level 4 screening (like the Andromeda Strain) before admission to the table to reduce skepticism about the veracity of the games. With so much trouble and expense cheating one should need, I think, to earn a lot from the cheating.  

A Question About God's Trans-(In) Finite Power

One may rely on authority and history to a certain extent. How can one know that Caesar existed for example? Generally the authority of history research, articles, and so forth. Caesar even wrote a book or two. There is a continuum of writing and thought going to the time of Jesus, and his status as the Son of God (the Trinity) provides first person experience. Intellectually one may approach the existence or logic of the existence of God in numerous ways including that of Plotinus the Neo-Platoinst. I wrote a bit on a subject that leads to the logic of the existence of God simply as an evident conclusion to thinking about being on the basis of science and logic. Someone asked if God has trans-infinite power. I thought about that and wrote this...

If the question refers to Gregory Cantor’s trans-finite infinities, whereat some infinities are greater than others, the obvious answer is that God is greater than all else. One would be aware that God is the issuer of all that exists including infinity (s) of any stature.

Infinity for God would be contingent being or a contingent state of relations. Infinity one might recall is generally taken to be a mathematical term; an abstract idea, rather than a physical existent, or even a physical construct of infinite scale.

One could consider Plotinus’ Enneads- 54 tractates, and regard infinity as a condition of a form rather than some physical thing of a lower order. That is kind of a fascinating (mildly) topic. Is a pure idea infinite (probably not) except for ideas that are Gods? Are all ideas created by God infinite a priori as a genre? Could ideas of God be categorizable as either finite or infinite (probably not I.M.O.)? If the Intelligence of Plotinus’ Enneads is equivalent to the Word of God in the Bible, are forms made or actualized by the Intelligence infinite?

One may wonder if ideas that are infinite could be considered at all, for the comprehension to know the idea would need be greater than the particular infinite nature or structure of the idea?

Power that is infinite is trans-finite. When learning about Cantor it is easy initially to write trans-infinite instead of the accurate trans-finite infinities. 

Transfinite number - Wikipedia 

It is possible to regard nothingness, theoretically, as the greatest physical, actualizable infinity. * That also seems implicitly self-contradictory. The total mass-energy of the Universe issued from a Big Bang or inflation would be finite. The total energy of an infinite Multiverse would be a finite mass forever expanding perhaps with ‘fuel’ from a pre-existing field of virtual energy that may be finite, or a priori infinite. If that monistic field has always existed without any Time=Alpha that just is unsatisfyingly improbable. It is simpler to regard God as Alpha and Omega preexisting any actualized field whom created the initial field that supported the growth of Multiverse. I suppose one could say in that context that God has trans-finite power.

*What is nothing anyway? There are at least two paradigms of nothingness. One is that of naive physics meaning absolute vacuum of space (and that may not exist). That is taken to mean physical nothingess, or the absence of anything existent at all, with pure space where nothing is.

Nothingness would perhaps be refuted as infinite by something or being exiting anywhere and displacing it. However if being and nothingness are each infinite one could use them as examples of Cantor's transfinite infinities.

The second meaning is that of Jean Paul Sartre where in nothingness is an absence of being or presentness rather than meaning empty space. In his book Being and Nothingness he used an example of the absence of a waiter in a restaurant named Pierre as an example of nothingness. In other words nothingness is ore than a memory of someone being gone, it is a change in the present array of physical being. So the past may be said to be nothingness in that it no longer exists as it was- even Mt. Everest is not the same way, exactly, as it was a few thousand years ago.

Therefore if space-type nothingness does not exist- it is just the condition of sparse being with virtual particles and other unknown content comprising it- the transformations of form of a Universe or Multiverse primordial field of solid state, decohered physical being is the source of comments about nothingness existing. Change has converted what was into a state of non-being.

If the entirety of the Multiverse content is one monistic field; changes of form and structure within it comprise nihilations of what was that ended with new forms and structures replacing them. Though there is a conservation of mass and energy over-all, it is believed that the loss of structure through change brings nothingness into being regarding what was and now is nothing.

If there is a conservation of information though, as Shannon entropy perhaps, then there may be eternal being for structure and forms as information conserved in some way- perhaps in the mind of God.

In the Christmas Season, Reflect on Hebrews 7

In the Christmas season it is good to reflect on Hebrews 7 wherein the Apostle Paul relates the history and person of the King of Salem; Melchisedec.

One knows the Lord's birth is celebrated on December 25 and that He was born of a woman, Mary. Abraham's encounter with Melchisedec provides an insight into the eternal nature of Christ.

Hebrews 7 King James Version (KJV)

7"For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore."