Some to be certain would die to find out. Others trusting physics and the conservation of information (Shannon entropy) believe a mind and its information must be eternal- even outlasting the Higgs Field and grand reunification to singularity or a cold dead universe/multiverse. Still others trust in God…for all things created by God as spirit logically always exist for God regardless of material configurations of the temporal.
American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
2/21/24
Plastic Whales (poem)
Parts per billion
words worth wisdom shatter as icicles on asphalt
dripping tar-balls and chemicals
nano-plastic content
spilt oil for
baleen filters
a whale steers through sound cones
keeping islands between it and
dendrites in confusion
discovered by fish finders
Plinking with sonar guidance
crashing into the leader
a hull gouges grooves across darkness
resurfaces survival values
in Thanatos’ caustic pollutants-
insults to epidermis
alienated and homeless
starving with the salmon faded
taken by mid-ocean drift nets
memories netted
death in cold water
The color of the water
a vast city’s sewer soup
affluence to oceans
drugs flushed to cetacea
received the swimmers
a rainbow of arterial additives
with motors distracting echoes
ripples in gray matter.
2/15/24
The Von Biden Plan to Build a New Iron Curtain for Europe
Democrat Party President Joe Biden is building the new Iron Country dividing the economies of east and west in order to prosecute a violent proxy war with Russia over Ukraine. His policy to fail to recognize legitimate historical Russian claims to the Crimea and Ukraine and to annex it onto Europe and N.A.T.O. at best will lead to a lasting adverse relationship with Russia and a situation for Europe comparable to that of North and South Korea. I experienced nearly a half century of cold war from youth and am of the opinion that swingy, corrupt and virtually insane Democrat Party preferences to restart it are exceptionally harmful to U.S. National security, to a unified world economic order and to efforts to restore the human caused world environmental decay with global heating. President Biden is incompetent and dangerous. He is even more so because Democrats seem willing to re-elect him and continue the war with Russia via Ukraine.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have intelligent, skillful, competent, productive leadership in the White House for a change? Leadership that brings peace now, restores the environment so far as he or she can, creates full employment, reduces public debt as is basically smarter than the average Democrat?
All that is required to end the conflict in Ukraine is for POTUS to recognize Russian ownership of the Crimea and the areas of far Eastern Ukraine that border Russia. European security is not enhanced with creation of a permanent state of hostility even if the conflict ends up as ‘successfully’ as the Korean war. European fear of Russia seems to flow from the political top down; Russia was never an economic threat to Europe with its comparatively small population and economy. With a free enterprise based economy Russia had let in a plethora of western corporations to do business before that changed with 8 years of the Obama administration and the election of Joe Biden to the White House.
Russian leadership wanted peace and prosperity shared with the west. President Putin has shown interest in repairing environmental damages globally. He was a partner in the war against terrorism. He also had to rebuild his nation from the ground up bureaucratically, forming a tax policy (and the war may help with that) and a military modeled on that of the U.S. volunteer force. His final task was to restore historical Russian lands and reverse the ignominious theft by Bill Clinton and that last leader of Communist Russia of historically Russian property in Ukraine. He Baltic Republics, Poland and England were never a part of the reconquista plan and desire for Russia. Russians aren’t stupid and they never sought World War Three or to conquer historically free nations of Western Europe. To pretend anything else in order to support the Ukraine war with Russia is dishonest, cowardly or incompetent to the point of insanity.
President Biden has built up a monster of a political situation for the United States that could melt like winter snow if Donald Trump is re-elected to the Presidency. Yet Democrats hate the idea of Russia owning Ukraine and will attack Mr. Trump and the Republican Party with as much hatred as they have for Russia; they absolutely do not want peace and a renormalized world economy that isn’t divided for some reason. Maybe Europe taking natural gas deliver from Russia rather than the U.S.A. was reason enough to foment political relations leading to Russia’s decision to go to war rather than trust Joe Biden. Now Europe gets natural gas from the United States and elsewhere. Perhaps the prospect of arms sales for war for a few generations was enticing enough to throw away peace and bury the key in a location more hidden than Golem’s ring of power. That ring of war should have been destroyed, not the ring of peace that should be in existence today, and could with righteous leadership with the fearful leadership of political runts taken out of the game.
2/14/24
Shem, Ham and Japheth; Jericho and Göbekli Tepe
I wanted to write something about the world’s first known city and the world’s first known temple site. Each were built within the Fertile Crescent following roughly an arc between Cairo and Babylon via Turkey south of the Atlas Mountains. Each date to about 10,000 B.C.
That era around 10,000 B.C. was a pivotal time in human history. The great Wisconsin Ice Age had nearly ended. Ocean water levels had risen 200 feet and would reach the high water mark about 8500 B.C. (until recent times of course with human caused atmospheric heating melting even more glacial ice and sending sea level up a little but higher though nothing so dramatic as before). The paleolithic era had nearly concluded having begun about 350,000 B.C. Mankind had not yet invented pottery yet would by 6500 B.C.
Göbekli Tepe is a great male-dominated hunter-gather society with great permanent stone temples decorated with animal carvings. It existed between 10,000 and 8500 B.C. The stone carvings were ritually buried on occasion. The final group of carvings are of humans. That is notable. Not only was hunting becoming less good with so many animals being killed, a son of Noah may have reached the pagan site and persuaded them to become followers of God rather than votaries of dumb animals even though they provided food and were important.
It is not as silly of an idea as it seems. Agriculture had not yet been invented yet was in the process. People were beginning to cultivate wild grain and animals were being domesticated for food and as tools (wolves into dogs). Adam and Eve may have s[pent their time in Eden sometime before 10,000 B.C. in a present desert region of the Saudi Peninsula or even in the Sahara during the ice age when each were far different than today. Adequate water existed then and the climate was milder. Having been tested by God they were cast out into the world; Eden literally disappeared with the end of the Wisconsin. Just as the land bridge named Berengia between Russia and Alaska disappeared by 8500 B.C. beneath the waters of the Bering Sea, the sea level Rose in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea burying any proton-human settlements along the shores. Adam and Eve may have lived alone or found a small group of people to live with along the Persian Gulf shore. It is probable that a first worldly city began there perhaps as early as 12 to 14,000 years before Christ. It was supposedly an industrious yet wicked and sinful people that God became discouraged with regarding their human nature. If they were living some were on a land-spit of the Euphrates river below the present sea level and if there was a flood arising up the Tigris-Euphrates from some burst of dammed up glacial meltwater during a rainstorm last forty days and nights the entire world of Noah’s experience may have been submerged and the mud dwelling destroyed.
There were evidently other humans existing in the world while the Adam and Eve experiment was being conducted. Maybe they were a test case to determine if humans created in perfect conditions could ever be worth a damn- who can say for sure? They failed and were moved out from Utopia to work for a living and give birth to short-lived kids (eventually) that could live for ever as they could have possibly if not for being found to be disobedient. It is possible that Genesis is itself a kind of history sketch of the natural history provided by God to the world in a kind of abstract summary given to inform humanity of general parameters until they were smart or learned enough to understand that.
Noah may have known the farming trade and given his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth the knowledge of farming and vine-keeping. They were sent out into the world to mix with a pre-existing population apparently. Earlier Cain who killed his brother Abel was cast out yet protected by a mark warning others not to kill him. He journeyed east of Eden, and perhaps north to the area of the fertile Crescent that gave rise to settlements like Göbekli Tepe and several others by 800 B.C.; city sites given names like Tel Caramel, Abu Huraya, Jerf El Ahmar, Karahan Tepe, Urfa, Cayonu and Nevali Cori. Maybe Cain farther east and organized people in his own way and the sons of Noah reached the settlements like Göbekli Tepe and Jericho. They have have brought significant cultural changes as missionary priests although the continuity was lost over passing millennia.
Jericho was a great for the era farming community with a different kind of pagan focus on Earth Mud-mother neo-dieties- maybe a different son had a different effect on the locals than the hunting nomads of Göbekli Tepe. Maybe the locals of Jericho took the agriculture knowledge and threw out the part about God. The first tower known to history was built excavated in Jericho. It is perhaps 30 feet tall- a speaking pulpit for an interesting, informative, edifying son of Noah?
It as of course much later when Abraham was called from Sumer to travel out of Southern Mesopotamia to journey north- as late as 2000 B.C. So it is easy to understand the great amount of time that was passed between a possible place-time for Adam and Eve during the middle of the end of the Wisconsin 18,000- 12,000 B.C.) until the bronze age (3300 B.C. to 1200 B.C.) and the Iron Age when David and Solomon lived.
One may interpret the Bible and history in numerous ways because the reference object to words and time become rather vague with time. One might find the work of Saul Kripke in 'Naming and Necessity’ add W.V.O. Quine in ‘Ontological Relativity and other Essays’ interesting and informative on the realist vs. nominalist nature of words and lexicons of language).
2/10/24
An Organization's Charter is Its Dogma or Purpose
Dogma virtually is organizational structure. It is accepted 'truth', policy and purpose. Cadre are programmed politically and act upon the policy without thinking. It happens in government a lot. There is serial and ossified praxis and organizational purpose- aka 'dogma', is also praxis. One has the dogma of Wal-mart if employed by them, or of the Democrat Party, Communist or Anarchist parties with their agenda. If working for an oil corporation one may be an unbeliever in global warming. If a Nazi one is a holocaust denier etc. Even secret organizations have dogma; the Illuminati, Bohemian Club, Skull and Bones and the Cult of Bullwinkle at the Moose Lodge.
Is dogma the cause of conflict? Sartre might have associated dogma with ossified praxis. That is the implicit nature of social organization; structure entails operating form and parameters. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant like Hobbes' leviathan. Hard to remove yet he needed to be gone. The Iraq war was deplorable in several respects. GW Bush said reconstruction would cost 50 billion and the actual cost was trillions. Radical Muslims and werewolves made the war after the war go on for years. 50,000 Iraqis were perishing under UN sanctions before the war and that needed to end. So it was either war or let Hussein go Scot free.
A sociology 101 course reveals some of the structural differences in social organization; for instance, the differences between patriarchal and matriarchal societies. Even so the concentration of wealth renders democracy somewhat moot, as plutonomy develops. Meanwhile mass media manipulates masses for the benefit of the rich, while national religious extremism in underdeveloped societies is a form of populism that rivals political power of elites. Palestine tends toward a patriarchy under organized crime more so than national democracy. The world is far more f'd up than is commonly realized, and Joe Biden does not remember being Vice President according to Special Counsel Hur.
2/9/24
President Biden Doesn't Remember 2009-2017 VP days
Special Council Robert Hur appointed by Merrick Garland interviewed the President for five hours and determined that the President can't remember when he was Vice President between 2009 and 2017. Probably he doesn't remember campaign promises either.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68244352
2/7/24
Dirt at the End of the Rainbow (a poem)
Dirt drifts in the wind
piling up like like poems
waiting for rain
to become glorious mud
Mud in your eye
the jealous eye of the beholder
resting in splendid repose
an eyestalk tall
extruding meters from the ground
where AI may see all that can be
Myriad creatures scurry and worry
fretfully finding crumbs
adequate for never-when
never known
particles of dust
in the wind to begin
Clinging to wheels mud is the deal
it shapes mysterious norms
conforms all blings to ring tone echoes
raps that whir
howling through sagebrush
cowboy poetry ranched
punching cattle
Greenest tiny growth
grass emotes
everyplace like an ocean
rearranging tan, sallow yellow bricks of colors
closest things to freeze dried dead
past punchers placed patterns
breaking trails for electronic fences
mending meaningless dividers for gold coins
To spend or not to spend
that is the question
weather it is colder hailing
or enduring outrageous rain
dirt doth show the snow
the way to flow
with freezes past
left to the summits of myths
Clods of time compacting past
warm flatness of high desert plains
with mountains able lost tectonic orogeny
well rounded to host remorseless dirt
electrostatic strong force brethren
coating fields with fixed sentient things
pretending rhymes with reasons
presence need be and become
tomorrow
with the will to outlast lush
verdant urges that overcomes senses
wherein politics rush
social piles of bones built
Nemissoolatakoos
overcome by the great spirit’s rivers
-Heraclitus never stepping in the same Universe
twice.
The Final Boss (poem)
The final boss
goat poet prospects grazing
the field of dreams where raising
with dross sludge of poems befudged
are myriad cantilevered verses breathing
with life given from amateur hopes
beside Browning, Yeats, Keats and Pope
One final toss
a shimmering sonnet
the dark lady’s legs
below the mysterious bonnet
Wallace Steven’s insurance
provides countless sharp notes
to Wesli Court’s forerunning peer
the final boss;
William Shakespeare.
2/6/24
Border Bill-Send Ukraine a Lump of Coal and Build a Desalinating Border Security Canal on Mexican Border
It will be nearly impossible to pass a border security bill with Democrats involved. Primarily they seek to fund the Biden-Ukraine war, enhance homosexual political power and grease the ways for millions of illegal aliens to enter the nation. Republicans seek to build a wall that is easy to breach instead of a fresh water making desalinating canal security zone to condense evaporating saltwater to capture billions and billions of gallons of fresh water and fail to condemn the senseless Ukraine war enabled by President Biden's balls in a blind Ukrainian trust organized crime account that requires unlimited funding instead of sharing with Russia.
Israel should receive all of Ukraine's war reinforcement portion and Ukraine should get the lump of coal; Israel can handle the dangerous equipment responsibly and not use it to harm U.S. interests.
2/5/24
Dictum de Gödel (poem)
fill a set of all sets with doubts laid to rest?
satisfy a build up with many theories and means
parameters for testing material scenes
like 256 forms of syllogistic A, I, E, O dreams
where just twenty-four valid ones form proper tests
and reply with lyre's ballad rhymed lyrics
everything in the cosmos proves to critics
whirring levels of black-bird spun trees
chastise silence to spring quantum string mystics.
U.S.A. Doesn't Need to Support N.A.T.O. Members that Attack Russia
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