Besides Processing Memories

 Some believe that consciousness is primarily a phenomena to process memories. Consciousness does a pretty good job at evaluating threats like flying objects that were thrown at the brain housing unit. I believe it does more than process memory; consider people with amnesia due to organic insult who nevertheless have a full working consciousness. Socrates might have liked the concept though. In The Meno Socrates demonstrates that a slave boy has built in math memory. I read a refutation someplace of that Socratic experiment yet I would disagree with it anyway since it seems silly and contra to the way things are. If one can compare knowledge and percepts that are always arriving in the brain via senses, or even to falling into cold water, and even compare that accretion of data and sorting it out to atomic and molecular process of adding and radiating mass, there is more than an introverted regurgitation of memory going on.

Temporal Rhyme (poem)

 

The elect saved through grace
fade from time’s scything embrace
becoming one with the Lord
they respond to the knock on the door

The body of Christ is eternal
those worldly foes await the infernal
though the word has brought them near it
they’ve ignored the Holy Spirit

Jesus is the Son of God
together with the Father and Holy Spirit
the triune God is for mortal’s in fog
yet the church body is the Lord’s place alit

Within the kingdom pass many seasons
for life fulfills temporal Holy reasons
changes taking place
are given with the Lord’s grace

Many in one sing
pluralism with the Son brings
individuals to faithful light
Jesus Christ overcame the darkest night.

Oldest Paintings of Jesus Christ

 There are paintings of Jesus dating to 235 AD (in Syria) https://aleteia.org/.../10/the-six-oldest-images-of-jesus/ and the one below from 350 A.D. with more over the centuries of the Byzantine Empire. Even so most people aren't convinced they are actually historical likenesses. Jews of the first century A.D. tended not to make images of people because of scripture. It is possible that some of the followers were able to describe the Lord to Gentiles that saw him and they sketched a likeness that made its way to Roman and Byzantine ceilings. Probably most of the images are representational expressions rather than verisimilitudes of his actual appearance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus...

A Forest Sound With Someone There (poem)

 

Life is hard and then you die
withering flesh and roilsome skies
age is a trial one is convicted of
growing older waiting for heaven above

There is no normal wonder
except the power in the Lord
everything that is and some times blunders
cannot be taken ‘yond death like a horde

Temptations, cold and hunger
anger and emergent sores
blisters of temporal journeys
are set to beautiful sky scores

These leaders of mass confusion
leaving the ecosphere a wreck for dismay
bring wars and broadcast intrusions
and the electorate has not meaningful to say

One could hope for better
God has perfection now
yet not with Earth are Paul’s letters
written for world profits or plow

Thrown from the Temple
James also took the fall to the ground
an encouraging moral example
like Stephen he was beaten and cast down

Like a forest stand to be cut down
life of faith is endless
words from God profound
written on wood pulp public’s way pressed

When the time of night draws nigh
and the old enemy takes mortal life
one readies for travel beyond the sky
a call to resurrection overcoming strife.

Belechick more likely to move to San Diego than Las Vegas

  The Raiders and Chargers each have uncertainty about who their head coach will be next season. WIth Bill Belichick probably being available next season the question arises about his destination for 2024. SInce the Raiders have been playing fairly well after their recent coaching change to interim coach Antonio Pierce, it seems more likely the Chargers will be the team to try out the Belichick system after their recent 63 to 7 loss to the Raiders.

 The patriots are in a rebuild after the championship years and haven't yet fallen to the bottom to draft a quarterback with the first pick. The Chargers are a team that may be more ready-to-wear like the Chiefs and Seahawks were before hiring a new coach and winning championships. I vote for Belchick to San Diego; his disciplined style would be interesting in a town that John Unitas said had a long-haired, dope smoking football team.

EU Wars with Aggressive Racist Expansion to Reel In Ukraine Prize

 The European Union is swollen enough as it is; it has no need to devour all of the former Russian territory named Ukraine in order to grow larger. Europeans did historically have a racist attitude toward Eastern Slavs of Russia viewing them as backward peoples. Yet Russia has loads of resource-rich real estate to devour and enrich Western Europe- hence the history perfidy and war to annex Ukraine for the EU. Western Europe and the American Democrat Party have invested countless billions of dollars to provide weapons of war and cash to one of the most corrupt governments on Earth to keep bodies burning in war in hope of making Ukraine part of the EU.

The United States has made an historical error in backing up EU expansionism. It is rather like that of the French efforts to colonize Vietnam when the United States followed up with a decade of war to attempt to keep Vietnam free. Freedom then meant being a Neo-colony of the west and not aligned with Soviet Communism. Yet the Vietnamese apparently just didn’t want to be a colony of racist colonizers and after the war slowly moved toward a market economy with mixed results. The war probably wasn’t necessary to keep Americans free, and the cost to those involved was very steep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/15/ukraine-membership-european-union-explained/

N.A.T.O. is also very swollen. It has political entities far removed from the North Atlantic as members. Large military alliances tend toward throwing their weight around and that isn’t necessarily good for the United States. Such a large entity will draft the United States with member obligations into conflicts it has no inherent interest in.

N.A.T.O. embers will have dissimilar political interests than those of the United States as well over time and being independent politically may be more difficult.

If the EU wants to expand it might as well look toward Morocco or Algeria; and it would if the southern shore of the Mediterranean were still mostly white as it was during the era of the Carthaginians. Being non-white and Muslim the EU has erected barriers to prevent illegal alien migrants from entering western Europe and has expressed no interest in expansion to the south. Those southern countries might be more willing than Russia to have their real estate become part of the European Union.

Actually if Europeans had good reason they would end the Ukraine war, make peace and rebuild a partitioned Ukraine in partnership with Russia. After a period of a few years Russia could become part of the European Union and that would be the most rational course toward developing a peaceful Eurasia. Russia has a majority Eastern Slav population so war is the policy for the fascists of Europe lustfully eyeballing rich Ukraine farmland.

Philosophical and Theological Remarks

Solipsism is the default condition of human experience. That is what Sartre's Being and Nothingness is about really. He did say that only God could have the mind of the other and oneself simultaneously. Descartes' Meditations is French rationalism like Sartre's beginning with an epistemological doubt to prove or verify one's own existence. Throughout life one misunderestimates what it is that other people are thinking or know. How can one explain the apparent stupidity of politicians except to believe that their minds are hollow and only cognitive units perhaps cast by alien movie directors to vex normal people on Earth and make a better movie (just kidding)? I believe one doesn't think about solipsism too much and just goes on as if it weren't a thing because one can't do much with it. The idea isn't that other minds do not exist besides one's own. Instead the idea about solipsism is that one cannot prove they exist even if their is a surfeit of circumstantial evidence that they do. However the mind is just cognition, perception, language and experience. The body may fail and the mind worry about that. If one is a military medic and sees brains splattered one doesn't see a mind laying about. How can one's own thought prove that the words of others that originate actually exist somewhere in the brain of another? One's own mind is as ephemeral as that conjectured to exist within the brain and skull housing units of others. So people just kind of accept or recognize the working reality of the situation and move on to try to get positive things accomplished technically speaking.

The Academy philosophers (e.g. Socrates,Plato) called their activity alethea. It means truth. They told outsiders when asked that they were doing philosophy.

You may know about theodicy and the debates about God being responsible for evil or not. The world and Universe is a containment facility for those condemned with original sin. Humans are embedded in a temporal, thermodynamic field and are judged when their life is concluded. They have a chance to be saved or not. With so much information out there these days it's really up to the individual if they spend eternity in heaven or hell. God is wiling yet mankind is willful.

 I like to think of 'The One' that Plotinus mentioned in The Enneads as God the Father. Monism and pluralism present simultaneous unity and differentiation in all matter. Uncertainty in perceptions, borders and language are a priori categories of being. Free enterprise and private property allow specific progress and prosperity to develop. That requires some exclusivity. One cannot make 2 nanometer chips in a cow pasture, as the saying goes. Clean rooms are requisite and that means the unwashed cannot be too welcome. So one has conflicts- and there certainly are thieves, while some are greedy and maybe some politicians are sociopathic (eg Hitler and Stalin). One can try to makes the edges less sharp and create more comprehensive safety nets yet the task isn't politically simple. Good sentiments and a working healthy economy and world ecosphere need be compatible.

Vision of Ever 2.0

 

So how is time meaningful
allowance  forever nulled
  Levers lifting each moment now
after presence’ fast plough
  She found what seemed like ever
were nouns that change never
  How one knows each day it will trade
Tao and light for dark shades
  -Full Heaven can’t be Earth and ground
mulling world ocean sounds.

The rhyme scheme is;
1)xbxxxxxA
2)xbxxxxxA

3)xcxxxxxB
4)xcxxxB

5)xexxxxxC
6)xexxxC

  7)bxxxxxxD
  8)bxxxxD

  9)axxxxxxE
10)axxxxE

Vision of Ever (a poem)

 

So time is meaningful
while forever culled

  Presenting the moment now
after searching how

  The sky that was ever
would change never

  One knows even so it will trade
sight and light for darkest shades

  Heaven canst not be Earth and ground
nor a greying ocean’s sound.

U.S. Credibility is at Stake as an Enabler of Senseless Wars?

The Associated Press ran an article claiming that "American credibility is on the line" in regard to continuing to throw money down a black hole of war in Ukraine in return for dividing the world economy politically, rebuilding the Cold War, getting hundreds of thousands killed and injured senselessly and driving the world to the brink of nuclear war.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-ukraine-russia-660a3603c72a0b51b734d6a41499027b

The nation of course has amnesia regarding American credibility in Afghanistan and the precipitous Biden withdrawal disaster that flip flopping leadership of that nation overnight in another Vietnamization instant failure.

The world wants to believe the U.S.A. has consistently stupid leadership engaging in senseless and avoidable wars in order to promote weapons sales and if an administration doesn't continue that policy that Eisenhower warned about the U.S. will loses credibility. How troubling. Who could want peace in Ukraine and good relations with Russia after a settlement giving the Eastern part in now occupies to Russia? The argument is that it would reinforce dictators so war must continue even until the cows return to the barns, except Ukraine was part of Russia hundreds of years and they just don't want the Clinton-Yeltsin theft for the west to go unchallenged.