New and Old Issues For Israel & the Middle East

The great commission given Jesus resurrected described by Matthew begins this little trek.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.”

It was given to the eleven disciples apparently, and in Galilee, away from the cosmopolitan center of Jerusalem and some doubted. The author of a lecture I read considers the places where the word doubt (in translation of course) is used in the gospel of Matthew and the way it indicates that Matthew understood the issue of doubt about the resurrection. It is notable that one additional place where the word doubt is used is in regard to the fig tree. Jesus knew about the issue of doubt too. In spite of everything he had done people would doubt-even with remedial help (fertilizer) given.

The lecture moved on to consider the authority of Jesus expressed in the gospel according to Matthew, since (Matthew 28:18), “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’” The next few paragraphs are an interesting bit of exegesis and illustration made by a scholar with decades of Bible learning. Find such if you have the time-it is time well spent.

Besides the Fertile Crescent running through Israel as a trade route from Babylon there is the historical issue of Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies, Seleucids and Maccabees leading to the Roman invasion of Jerusalem. The Jews had already had an apprenticeship in captivity in Egypt and Babylon.

 Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from the Jewish times in captivity. They have also been made captives by Soviets, Germans and Thessalonica was depopulated of them largely by the Nazis after Jews gathered there centuries before after expulsion from Spain. Christians as spiritual Jews, or the new and improved nation of Israel (remember Jacob/Yiśrāʾēl-'perservere with God), may have something to learn from that-don’t return to the spiritual bondage of the laws, Sharia or whathaveyou and carnality in which there is no forgiveness of sin possible-for only the Lord was perfectly free from sin and only through faith in Jesus Christ may one be set free.

The Persians were better rulers of conquered peoples than the Babylonians-Cyrus the Great is an example. The Romans have Ptolemy tramping through the Temple as of he were Antiochus Epiphanes (I believe I read about the succession of good and bad Jewish rulers in a book at the Houston Graduate School of Theology long ago). Eventually a non-Jewish King Herod only married into Jewish royalty marginally builds a lot. He may be have been something like an evil Donald Trump, except Trump didn’t have his heirs killed and a generation of babies slaughtered to pre-empt a rival ‘King of the Jews’. Democrats do that with support for abortion getting rid of potential Republican voters while they arrange for the illegal immigration of Latinos so they can vote Democrat and take back Texas from Republicans locking up the electoral college (sort of joking a little about that yet not too much).

Investigating the common perceptions about Pilate as a Governor (good guy vs. bad guy), the crucifixion and the Jewish revolt of 66-73 brings one rocketing through the first century of history through an important local periscope with global consequences. The importance of the revolt can be explained in an informative way. In one year the Romans had four emperors and the son of the General who destroyed Jerusalem-Vespasian is made Emperor. That Emperor-Titus was the patron of Josephus the writer. I’ve been doing some historical reading-I did not invent that observation myself.

Quite a bit of time passed from the crucifixion of Jesus to the writing by Josephus of the Jewish War. Obviously he needed to be very careful about what he wrote. There were thousands of crucifixions made by Romans then as they amused themselves finding novel ways to nail ‘em up finally running out of space for crosses (probably no fun crucifying squirming wretches for a living either). Plainly Josephus didn’t want to write too much about a ‘king of the Jews’ that wasn’t appointed by Rome and was already regarded by some of the Roman leadership as the source of trouble-making.

In 135 A.D. the Bar Kokokba revolt occurred-Emperor Hadrian suppressed it and built a temple of Zeus on the temple mount. Jews were given the death penalty if they were found in Jerusalem. In 200 A.D. the Mishnah was put together codifying rabbinic law. This little historical excursion allows a better idea of some of the reasons why history developed the way it did-and also provides some of the irony of history. The parable of the fig tree did warn that the tree would be cut down if it wasn’t productive. Unintentional Roman payback for Jewish leadership choice to crucify the Lord was mass crucifixions of Jewish survivors. History had only then started along the wrong selection corrections course for the decision of the elitist Sanhedrin.

The Jews have had a tough role as God’s chosen people being a blessing to all nations. One considers Einstein and Yassir Arafat; one can point out Omar Khayyam as a Muslim yet he was really Persian rather than Arab. The Arabs as Ishmaels sons seem to have been a little cursed-with the Ottoman Empire and abundant fossil fuels contributing to global warming and a dinosaur like death originating in a now desertified former Eden.

Some Jews have been saved through the Lord, and all Christians are spiritual Jews. They still have an important role in history and it seems evident that the Muslims –persecuting the Jews- are cursed. How could Muslim leadership be unaware that terrorist political leadership worst cases Palestinian and Muslim political development? Terrorists don’t operate along lines of Kant’s moral imperative. They don’t seek objective improvement for all human beings first nationally then globally in accord with the will of the governed. Instead political relativism elevates any silly political plank a candidate has to canonized status once he/she/it is in power instead of finding candidates with good ideas who are elected because they have good ideas. Cult over competence and mind over matter are dialectically opposite sides of e-coin.

Terrorist political leadership seeking to bring chunks of Israel into a recrudescent Caliphate conflict continues today. The Temple of Zeus or the Dome of the Rock on the temple mount symbolizes the realm of the lost. The media report from both sides of everything and invent some of their own cube roots. Rush Limbaugh as a populist like Ronald Reagan has driven the ecospheric and creative intelligentsia from the Republican Party while a succession of Democrat-like candidates has been elected pursing cult interests.

American political leadership is devoid of competence on macro-social issues except for Marko Rubio, Joe Miller, Rand Paul and eminence grilse Ralph Nadir. Even so President Bush II was correct about Al Qaeda seeking to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. He had that report in 2006 I guess when ISIS got its start in Iraq.  Unintentionally perhaps, President Obama has loosened up the Middle East for terrorist organizing as he has U.S. national border security. The nation of Israel will need to persist even while the world is run by the lost pursuing ways of eternal death without God.

Post-Subjectivist Analysis & Biblical Criticism

Cutting the Gordian knot of Anecdotal Thought

Developing a systematic method of historical thought reading the major works of history and forming an innate composite historical paradigm can accompany reading in translation all of the major works of western philosophy and of world religion. One can read Toynbee’s Study of History, Treadgold’s works on Byzantium, Procopius and other classical and neo-classical historians and yet read systematic works of history such as a History of Salt and pre-histories of science, archaeology, evolutionary biology, geology, cosmology etc. and build an intellectual objectivity that is not skeptical. Instead one places human knowledge within the temporal, contingent parameters of created, temporal space-time phenomena. Christians in the kingdom of God are I think comparable to prime numbers within an infinite series of numbers though they are given that status through grace. The kingdom of God is within you, and that is faith in the Lord. Jesus is Lord transcending the temporal creation-actually he created it- hence the last supper. Like sentient program code in a partitioned operating system Universe people of faith with Jesus as their Lord transcend the partition and exist concurrently within the meta-operating system of God.

The danger for the users of specialized literary tools for analysis I suppose is that they may restrict their own theory of knowledge to a particular methodology such as regarding the Bible from a purely literary perspective, from a deconstructionist viewpoint, solely as a work of history etc. It seems that one should have that archetypal left-right brain integration firing on all cylinders to understand all of the individual viewpoints on the Bible and regard the literary methods as special reading analysis tools instead of as ends-in-themselves.

I think perhaps one of the main lessons to draw from reading about particular theological methods of interpretation of and for drawing out the meaning of the Bible accurately is that human beings just don’t know it all, and that it takes an incredible amount of time and work to learn of what was provided in the Bible. Even so the brilliantly interesting concepts ontologically of ideas such as the Kingdom of God and the live presence of the Lord surrounding the temporal steady-state Universe make the reading of an historical text much more than reading say, The Civil War by Julius Caesar.

Elements of interpretation of different historical cultures show how people had different customs and meanings than today, or of one’s own if an author was writing in the past. The assumptions and operative beliefs of people in various historical periods differ. I would use the flood story of Genesis as an illustration. After the discovery that the world is round people interpreted Genesis to mean that the entire round world was flooded. Yet in the age of the proximal assembly of the book of Genesis in the court of Solomon or Rehoboam no one thought of the world as round. In Abraham’s time the whole world was probably just the region where the people lived, and earlier, in the flood era perhaps on the Persian Gulf shore thousands of years earlier, the reference term of the world that made it through oral tradition and later cuneiform to Abraham/AVRM was probably the first civilization-something a reader today naturally assumes if not putting a retro-cultural interpolated meaning of Urth/Earth world in to the book.

Scholars found the Donation of Constantine-a fraud-that influenced European history in the cultural interpretation context. It was subsequent literary-historical analysis that enfiladed the bogus origin of the document. Immanuel Kant and sapere aude as a symbol of the 19^th century age of reason was an abstract high ground approach to cutting through the Gordian know of anecdotal thought.

I think many people misunderstand Kant though. Kant was developing reason formally-like Descartes and that is fine-people don’t need to be stupid or have muddled thinking especially about the Bible. David Hume earlier recognized there was a lot of verbiage in pseudo-scientific publications of little merit. There was also philosophy that didn’t have much merit, so Hume besides being a friend of Adam Smith wrote on philosophy clarifying causality and other topics so far as he could. Readers of the Bible ought not be troubled by reason for they are not at all in conflict. There are categories of thought useful for classifying knowledge, yet not all knowledge is given equal importance to individual obviously.

Hume was said by Kant to have awoke him from a dogmatic slumber. Kant was for intelligent thought and reason for-oneself rather than reliance upon social programming from authorities. Protestants especially should be untroubled by that approach since Martin Luther was not unwilling to use his own reason for interpreting scripture himself rather than to rely on the Catholic Church authorities on matters such as the sale of indulgences.

It is not a matter of refuting all knowledge and reinventing the wheel though Descartes sought to think from ‘first principles’ of thought while taking solitary saunas as a mercenary in Bavaria composing in mind content such as cogito ergo sum. Instead it is about personal intellectual liberty to consider for-oneself knowledge, scripture and the manifest Universe and experience in order to decide what one believes instead of reliance upon authorities historically upon pain of torture or death for dissent.

Kant in a sense was the second Aristotle bringing logic to a new level on the border of epistemology. Leibnitz of course wrote the first mathematical symbolic logic treatise yet never published it. I think that especially in light of the interpretation fallacy it is useful to have a formal understanding of the philosophical problems of empiricism and subjectivity. Quine transcended the criterion of empiricism in The Two Dogmas of Empiricism and later in Word and Object delineated the relationship between knower and known, and word and object in a sharp technical epistemology. P.F. Strawson-a contemporary of Quine, wrote a similar book titled ‘Individuals’.

Kant in writing his Critique of Pure Reason, a book that is summarized in a smaller, useful text named A Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, developed the knower-known epistemology. It is not a simple subjectivity and more than that of Tillich or Barth. The basic difference is that some things are phenomenal and others noumenal.  Like Socrates one tries to know what it is one knows and what one doesn’t. These are occupational concerns with real applications at a certain point. If the Universe has a holographic component it would be helpful to learn that, or if time can be reconstructed like points in a pointillist painting placed wherever the artist wishes it might be useful to find that out.

As technology and knowledge increase it is worth knowing what is as brief and meaningless later as a dead computer language and what things are of value. Finding eternal values in the kingdom of God amidst a world with a dangerous level of social subjectivity neurotic about Wall Street investments, networking, globalism and foreign investments, a world that disregards the objective ecospheric health and the transcendent values of the kingdom of God that is a light in the darkness of temporal materiality (solid-state waveform or string-membrane entanglement) is challenging for some. I believe reason can lead one to the revealed word of God-if the Holy Spirit wills it so.

Some things are knowable and some things are unknowable. That is, of the world and of knowledge we see through a glass darkly and only know it part. I believe that one of the fallacies of science is that everything can be known directly, and there are too many reasons to state here why that is unlikely. It is reasonable however to pursue knowledge so far as possible so long as one keeps that occupation in perspective as a temporal,  contingent pursuit useful while waiting upon the Lord.

Scholars have reviewed ‘the quest for the historical Jesus’, Ferdinand Christian Baur and The Tubingen School. Baur wrote ‘Orthodoxy and Heresy’.

The idea of Orthodoxy and Heresy is apparently that over the history of the church there were both and of course winners write history and there values won, yet even so the losers were good people to with good Christian theology. Maybe the gnostic heresies weren’t really off, or the Arian heresy either? The approach of Baur seems to be presented as one of the rising tide of post-renaissance humanism and subjectivism. I tend to view that as a result of the printing press and opportunities for everyone to write continuing today.  With so many opinions the politically harmonious thing to say may be that each opinion is as important as another.  A purely democratic opinion about religious equal opportunity and tolerance may prevent conflict socially yet be implicitly accurate. Consider if aircraft designs were all considered to be equal and subjective-things would crash a lot more.

Karl Barth and others have felt that except for revelation humanity could no nothing of God. In Jeremiah God did say that everyone knows him and they just forget who He is-an example of what Sartre called false consciousness. Yet God probably intended the knowledge to exist and revealed it. Unlike aircraft designs that can be empirically verified, revealed religious truths are self-standing and transcendent yet not subject to temporal verification. Thus arises a paradox that though religious truth is subjective it is founded on an objective revelation of the word of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. The subjective perception of revealed truth of God  is heterodox and objective. It is somewhat like a subjective way to transcendence of the temporal steady-state Universe in a relationship to the operating system administrator-creator who issued a Universe/Multiverse and Earth.

Perhaps there is counter-networking social phenomenon that conforms individual analytical methods, convenient use-truths and represses creative independent scholarly expression existing in unionized academia to while an ad hoc neo-monopoly  has arisen in finance and trade with people buying mutual funds and owning shares in rival corporations stifling competition. History bumps along with ecosphere and the revealed word of God in the Bible as externalities to be unconcerned about. The Anthropocene era of mass extinction of life may include the loss of much human spiritual life from entry in to the kingdom of God as well. The meaning of life for some is all about getting e-dollars issued by the Federal Reserve.

Federal Judges Bungling Same-Sex Marriage Oxymoron

U.S. Appeals Court decisions to overturn state’s bans on homosexual marriage exemplify legislating language, morals and law from the bench. Same sexes can’t marry; to marry means to join to different things together. Same-sex marriage is an oxymoron.

 

Social epistemology arising from the swamp of philosophical subjectivity to the point of solipsism flexing perquisites of aloof power can force redefinitions of social reality on the many. Yet language use and judging have objective as well as subjective components. Marriage refers not only to social and legal concepts built up by legislators and custom over centuries that are being torn down presently by federal judges, it has a physical referent as well.

 

W.V.O. Quine wrote a good philosophical-linguistic primer on analytic philosophy titled Word and Object.  I won’t venture into the field of what comprises a real object here, nevertheless there are real objectives or event-processes that exist in-the-world objectively perceptible to others and oneself socially, and that is also the realm where political issues occur. The mass media exist broadly in the realm of social language use with tremendous power to corrupt social reality in language content.

 

 Real objects and event-process(s) rather than entirely subjective-intentional ideas are the business of politics. Judges may make factual decisions in that realm generally instead of events comprising the subjective psychology or thoughts of citizens thinking-for-themselves. Marriage has a subjective social language component with traditional meaning yet also an objective material component. Word and object or material event-process concurs. Federal judges have detached from reality the word-meaning of marriage from the objective material fact of marriage.

 

Two different substances marry to create a new, third substance. To marry means to join to different substances making something new. What and flour combined make dough. In some substances such as color the union of two different colors produce a third color. Two different numbers multiplied together create another. Water of two temperatures added together make a different temperature, yet the adding together of two of the same of anything creates nothing new. There is an essential thermodynamic change in marriage that is hopefully for humans a way of developing better, more intelligent sentient beings capable of recognizing their Lord and host Jesus Christ-God (to much to hope for in Federal Appeals Court Judges perhaps).

 

I suppose a proper Socratic dialogue would look into that last point and look for an exception-there might be something witty to say; ‘Adding more public debt onto public debt creates a bigger mess than is imaginable’ or ‘adding more of the same sort of explosive will make a qualitatively different event’. Fortunately I don’t need to be so clever here in just describing the objective referent that the word marriage refers to at its core.

 

 Human beings-mammals-joined together in the social bonds called marriage are of two different sexes (substances) capable of making a third person. Human marriage is a codification of a monogamous procreative process. I would think that is why the 2012 Presidential contest was between a homosexual marriage organizer and a candidate from the historical church of polygamy-the elites of New England want to terminate marriage as a codification of monogamous procreation because of global over-population and resource depletion challenges. I would say that converting the truth to falsehood in legal language isn’t a good way to put it over on the demos.

 

The kingdom of God is as a mustard seed that started very small and grew to include very many Christians. Over the course of history since the ascension of the Lord the kingdom has simultaneously encountered the rise and fall of many nations. The U.S. Court of Appeals alumni association ought to stay right with God and the rational relationship of words and objects-event processes and forego further adulteration of the concept of marriage.

Do Republics Collapse into Plutocracy (video)

I read the post I wrote about the political transformation of Republics into the tyranny of the rich (plutocracy) that may result in an emperor (Caesar).  Either the rich may concentrate wealth and phase out Congress perhaps making the President an imperial stooge, or the public may demand a Caesar to counteract rich oligarchic Republicans. A depraved plebian set (democrats) may enjoy soma (dope) , bread, circuses and so worth with occasional military adventures in the empire. Maybe something like that happened in ancient Rome and will occur in the U.S.A.

Stuffed Chinese Dumplings for a Simple Low-cost Snack

Making a quick simple food in the field requires little more than flour, water, a can of spam and some seasoning. Chinese dumplings take advantage of the protein gluten in flower to form a wrappings for a little chunk of meat that will get dropped into boiling water for five minutes or so into a pot of boiling water until the meat is cooked varying of course upon how much meat is used.

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/bakingdesserts/p/gluten.htm

Make a dough out of the flour adding a pinch of salt water to consistency, kneed it with hands and then flatten it with the heel of the hand, fold it over and repeat several times.  The dough could be the size of a softball.

Roll the dough into a lengthy shape then roll it out in two directions with a rolling pin until very thin. Take a cookie cutter or a glass at cut out little round pieces of dough onto which a piece of diced spa is placed in the center. Fold the dough over like fold a circle in half. Seal the dough without leaving air pockets and voila-drop the wrapped meat in the dough into thee boiling water.

It is possible to experiment with seasoning with the basic dough, and of course with different kinds of meat filling. Flour is affordable as is spam,  salt and water in first world nations. If one has chives or onion that too can be a good additive. Ketchup works great on this sort of thing too. Be careful about eating the dumpling before it cools.

The Ultra-Rich Want Quick, Cheap, Dirty Alien Labor Amnesty Bill

The ultra-rich Gates, Buffet, Adelson troika have pressurized the U.S. Congress to pass a quick dirty cheap labor amnesty bill in order that global plutocracy may better develop an imperial empire including the U.S.A. Instead of investing in construction of a border-control water-desalinzation evaporation zone on the Mexican border creating thousands of shovel-ready jobs the ultra-rich and their puppet President Obama want amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and/or a few billion to process illegal aliens and hire more lawyers to represent them while their aren't enough public defenders for Americans as it is.

The billionaires believe congress should toe the line of servitude to the global plutocracy and do what they say. President Obama already has received support from Warren Buffett explaining why the tax cuts for the rich went through. Now they expect Congresspersons to throw in the towel and be their Stepin Fetchits. Concentration of wealth creates concentration of political power as well. Breaking up the concentrated wealth and de-escalating the oligarchy might help to return a semblance of democracy to the U.S. Government.

Some suspect Democrat Party leadership connivance in flooding the nation with runaways from Central America to put more leverage on Congress to panic and lift their skirts for the ultra-rich and the President and put their limp wrists of approval to a reform to imperialism illegal alien right-of-way bill.

Plainly windows is a slow, hostile to non-windows products operating system not intended to web books-just desk tops I think. One can spend one's internet time just making windows work, installing updates etc. It runs very, very slow when a dual booted Linux issue works fine--why? Why do corporate raiders like Warren Buffet making billions and billions buying other people's corporations rate any higher value input to congress than the citizens of this democracy being down-graded by the flanking of public sovereignty over the borders? I think they should not.

The Congress should tax the rich at a 90% rate like F.D.R. and encourage them to make faster operating systems and secure borders instead of urging flimsy spending bills and amnesty post hoc policy sycophancy from the remnant branch of democratic government in the U.S.A.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/07/11/immigration-warren-buffett-bill-gates-adelson/

Dual Booting a Natural Universe (video)

This video is an illustration of the concept of the Universe existing as a contingent creation comparable to a computer operating system existing within a partitioned area of a primary operating system it hasn't access to. Such a boundary condition could be delimited within any number of means of quantum physics, membrane dynamics, nothingness or discrete time quantifiers.

Capitalism's Creative Destruction of World Ecosphere (video)

Capitalism's creative destruction of industrial practices bringing reform and change has the unintended consequence of destruction of ecosphere as an externality. Here are some ideas on the issue. The author reads his essay on the topic with voice over Alaska images.

Creative Destruction of Evolutionary Capitalism Destroys the Ecosphere Too

Joseph Schumpeter is credited with coining the term 'creative destruction of capitalism' in reference to the change of economic infrastructure from industrialism to post-industrial tool-kit. That creative destruction has the side effect of destroying the planet's ecosphere as a bi-product or externality. Plainly stuffy capitalism as ecospheric vishnu defenders need to destroy their own ideas about what capitalism is and adapt to a post-trash-the-ecosphere new way of capitalism. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

Environmental economics that are adaptable to present national and global challenges require intelligent design of political parameters responsive to meeting the challenges to the synthesis of social economy and ecosphere. Capitalism in its present evolutionary form is demonstrably inadequately responsive to challenges of habitat loss, mass species extinction, global warming, oceanic pollution and dislocation of economic and physical security of the citizens of the U.S.A. and world. In theory capitalism with intelligent design parameters established politically would better work to satisfy political and consumer needs.

Mass media sycophants of concentrated wealth and power get news feed from government and corporate releases largely. Reiteration of ethics values of concentrated wealth form the bulk of the political socialization of the masses encountering the mass media, hence those values of evolutionary capitalism instead of capitalism under the direction of intelligent design gather together like a pelaton in a distance bike race riding through ecospheric and economic eschaton waiting to crash down upon them like a spring-loaded hyper-Maxwell’s hammer.

Plainly one wonders if the Federal Reserve can print up money to buy U.S. bonds and issue zero interest loans to large banks as a permanent feature of the U.S. economy without causing hyper-inflation and devaluation of the value of the dollar. Another potential problem is the large number of dollars held abroad in relation to the quantity held by Americans-will Americans be able to afford to live in their own nation if they aren’t part of the 1% in the future? One also wonders if the Denver Broncos will win the Super Bowl, if Lebron James will go to the Cavaliers, Lakers or Nicks and where Carmello Anthony will be this fall-a dual gunner with the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant?

Present Obama has had seven major policy achievements in his 6 years;

1-Obamacare

2-Queering the federal government

3-Making Bush tax cuts for the rich permanent

4-Getting a Sunni Caliphate started in the Middle East

5-Forming bad diplomatic relations with Russia and Germany

6-Running the money printing presses copiously without causing hyper-inflation
7-Building more public debt in one term than G.W. Bush in two

It is the last policy that is remarkable and a cause for wonder. It seems as if a new age of economics has arrived long after Nixon took the U.S.A. off the gold standard; the Federal Reserve can just issue more money to buy U.S. bonds and fund the cost of government and make zero interest loans to large banks- free money effectively so the rich can buy up global business opportunity. There must be some unintended consequences for that-I just can’t say what it is.

In Afghanistan however the probable fraud that bilked the Adullah Adullah Presidential run seems set to marginalize the Shi’a-Tajik candidate and ensconce the Sunni who can perhaps work better with the Taliban after the U.S.A. accelerates withdrawal of most remaining forces. President Obama doesn’t evidently have much concern about the re incipient necessity for a partition to spare the Northern Alliance oriented partisans the embarrassments of protracted Sunni oppression post-N.A.T.O. occupation. Realistically the U.S. Government should consider plan B to partition Afghanistan and reinforce the Northern Alliance if we are returning to a pre-2001 configuration eventually. Maybe Iran can be of help in reinforcing the Northern Alliance if they aren’t too busy reinforcing the Iraqi Shi’a under siege from the Sunni Caliphate in Northern Iraq and part of Syria. 

The role of the U.S.A. in developing a broad Sunni terrorist infrastructure in the Middle East is sadly evident though perhaps more a result of ineptness rather than intention. I hope they do not transform behind the wave ineptitude into further destabilization of the Middle East politically-that can bring economic and ecospheric harm as well.

Dual Booting a Contingent Universe

God created creatures called humans. In this paradigm the creatures learn through divine revelation that God is real and concerned about them. That is humanity has received sufficient communication to assemble in the Bible. What about God’s point of view of things? We don’t often consider that (as if we could) yet we might act a little as if we did in order to understand our own situation as human beings a little better.

God is. God is the great I am. God is God. God is being. Creating creatures or anything sentient with its own Universe is like dual booting an operating system that isn’t aware that it exists within a larger OS. God can set aside a partitioned area of the omnipotent hard drive and create a Universe or Multi-verse within it containing people, animals, matter and energy with its own protocols of order. It has death in it-nothingness delimiting the temporal boundaries of the creatures. Like an operating system that won’t be maintained forever-like Windows XP unfortunately-humanity in the partitioned Universe just won’t be maintained in their contingent being beyond a certain, finite date.

Within the partitioned area of the hard drive the existence of the partition cannot be known. Only revelation arriving from God transcending the partition can inform the creatures of the true nature of their existence. Though mankind as fallen, temporal being subject to evolutionary thermodynamic entropy has implicit facts, obedience to the revealed will of God frees humanity from that bondage to sin. Sin is fundamental disobedience to the will of God.

Sin is itself an aspect of nothingness. Being and nothingness is the veritable dichotomy of good and evil. Evil and sin is the brinksmanship in disobedience unto nothingness.

Philosophically speaking God is the unmoved mover Being all things. He is Lord of everything. Nothing is a mysterious element that permits free will to make errors; errors, falsehoods and intentions leading to nothingness. Containing disobedient free will within the temporal Universe is a brilliant way of adapting the altered spiritual condition of the beta version humans Adam and Eve to a Universal environment commensurate with their change. It has strife and challenge. Yet God still cares about His creatures and the Son appeared as man himself in order to give humanity a way to return to a normative, obedient relation with God. Jesus Christ is God as is the Holy Spirit. The trinity cohere within one another for-us.

The Universal operating system has physical cosmology of great interest with the pursuit of knowledge of that system developed in natural philosophy. God is however, live, eternal and creations and everything else are contingent aspects of His own Being. God is all Being yet not all sentient beings are God. In a comparable way-all of the data and programs in an operating system of a contingent operating system were created by the meta-operating system programmer and are in a sense ‘his’ too, however not all of the individual lines of code in the contingent Universe OS are the operating system. Anyone who has looked at the files on Windows knows that not all files including program files can be said to be the Windows operating system.

Perhaps I didn’t make that last point very clear. Here is another point of difference yet, Windows isn’t the hardware comprising the computer whereas the operating system for the contingent Universe in it’s partitioned area comprises that Universe’s hardware.

The steady state Universe of entangled quantum mass and energy is regarded by some as information or bits of data with locations running in accord with thermodynamic physical laws of causality. The OS is the hardware flowing from an original boundary condition at the point of origin-Big Bang, Inflaton, Membrane or Dimension collisions whatever. That Universe exists as a partitioned area-one cannot locate evidence of the metaphysics of the realm beyond the partition because God exists beyond, spiritually. Only through the word of God and in particular the Lord Jesus Christ can one return to freedom with obedience to the will of God. God forgives the sin of the fallen creatures of the temporal partition if they accept the Son as their Lord.

Jesus Christ made the atoning sacrifice on the cross.  He showed that God recognizes the fallen human condition and condemns it even in His Son yet because Jesus Christ was resurrected God showed that there is a way through and away from that temporal human condition leading to death and unto the right eternal relationship with the Creator transcending the temporal Universe and sin. God does not condemn God. In other words God didn’t condemn Jesus Christ-only the temporal physical form of mankind existing in the partitioned Universe OS. People have the ability to overcome their programmed D.N.A. and have faith in the Lord and His sacrifice providing a way unto the right relationship with God and eternal life in heaven (the operating system beyond the partition where God is the evident administrator).

The Devolution of Democracy into Tyranny

Could the Roman Republic have survived into the Christian era if Caesar had not won the Roman civil war? The Roman patricians of the Republic had invested heavily in foreign concerns and cared too little for the nation. Of course they wanted to preserve their class political power yet who exactly was to mind the store?

History presents interesting questions and lessons to learn about human social environments from. The Phoenicians were before the Romans the great naval power of the Mediterranean. With the rise of Roma as a rival they sent their General Hannibal to beat down Rome and of course he failed. Though a greatly innovative and determined military leaders Phoenician Carthage was a naval and trading power instead of one with a history of successful land war. Eventually at the critical moment when Hannibal had Rome in his grasp the Carthaginian financiers cut off his military funding as too costly. Perhaps the Roman Republic could be understood as dying from a similar cause of distracted commercial leaders in political-economic power unwilling to comprehend and support their real national interest.

The charismatic Julius Caesar was a populist supported by the common plebian urbanites who understood their rich Republican rulers were busy concentrating wealth through foreign interests across the ancient world including luxurious villas in France (trans-alpine Gaul) while they had high unemployment and uncertain economic security. Republicanism might have appeared like an aristocracy on a hill, aloof, imperious and callous uttering advice of a stoic nature to the poor to bite the bullet and stuff will trickle down in a hypothetical spatiotemporal time parameter acceptable to proper civil order conserving the interests of the rich. Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon with his legion understood the circumstance of popular discontent. Over the course of the war he met and defeated Pompey’s legion in Greece who then fled.  Winning the civil war he would eventually become with recalcitrance, Emperor. The plebian mob liked it. The imperial Empire buried the Roman Republic for good replacing bad coin with worse. When wealth is over-concentrated concentrated Republicanism becomes a casualty. In the U.S.A. the concentration of wealth supported by Democrats and Republicans could lead to the end of Republicanism and Democracy.

The United States seems to have similar dangers today as did Republican Rome. Its political leaders are tools for commercial global interests. Federal and Wall Street misadministration built up the 2008 financial crash. Federal debt continues to compile and civil leadership to reduce global expenses on standing military and increase ecosphere reconstruction with employment and quality of life improvements are lacking.

Contemporary plebeians experience an unresponsive and aloof, ineffective political leadership class unwilling to reform capitalism that has moved its center of effort offshore. The U.S. Senate is led by a quietist majority leader used to raising daughters so non-dynamic that the President is tempted to be too executive such as to disregard the Congressional right to make the laws and his duty to obey and execute the laws of Congress.

When the United States was founded it inherited the problem of slavery created by imperial government before. Importation of slavery was stopped as soon as reasonably possible in that era-about 20 years after the signing of the constitution into law. It would take fourscore and ten years before the American civil war to end slavery. It wouldn’t have been possible for the United States to have long endured without the slave states sandwiched between imperialists North and South. The experiment in democracy would have quickly ended. The wisdom of the founders brought in the slave states to the revolution and cut off the head of the imperialist leaders, politically speaking, later in winning the civil war. Rehabilitating the southern states into democracy was a time consuming and costly process. The war of 1812 though demonstrated how dangerous British imperialists still were and the need to include the southern states in the revolution of 1776.

The revolutionary era of American history was still on something more of a human level of egalitarianism than today. There wasn’t so much difference between rich and poor and neither did medical procedures give the rich the assurance of longer, healthier lifespan. The revolutionaries fought human beings rather than half billion dollar stealth bombers, nuclear attack submarines, space satellites, and nuclear weapons. I mention this enormous change in the relationship between the power of any government of that era and its citizens and those of today for a reason; to point out that it may be impossible for Americans to revolt against their government today and without that ability, one enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, government power may have no real limit to its ability to degrade democracy and popular sovereignty.

It is difficult to imagine the President becoming an Emperor in this or any of the next few administrations, yet the transformation of the U.S. Government to an insular institution loyal to global financial Plutocracy isn’t. A benevolent dictatorship is an oxymoron however a sham democratic government protected by loyal to the rich broadcast media isn’t. Mercenary broadcast media political opinion hasn’t the same political interests at all as plebian urbanites and rural Americans. More illegal aliens arrive in America every few years than there were American citizens in the early Republic. With open borders and cheap air travel or to the beach of Laredo and Phoenix hundreds of millions of migrants would move if they could, anytime before the U.S.A. runs out of natural resources and jobs to plunder and take. Inrushing masses care little about the national ecospheric, security or civil rights and order issues of the nation-they are in quest of cash and have cell phones and the internet to get instructions from the world with about where to g and what to do.

The President seems to live in the 19^th century on the subject of immigration and not recognize the numbers of people involved. There are more illegal aliens in the U.S.A. today than were Americans in the country in 1860. It has real consequences to let in a few million illegals here and a few more there.  The scalar field increase of resource consumption and inverse reduction of per capita land area available is a fact in the arrival of illegal alien millions that does no good at all to the democratic concept of  self-determination of the people of the United States from within.

American democracy is premised to be a country of, by and for the people with political rule with the consent of the governed. Americans don’t set illegal immigration levels for the year the illegals decide for themselves to enter whenever they choose destroying the sovereignty of the citizens of the United States over immigration.

The people of the United States have historically set immigration levels. Immigrant quotas from Europe were set early in U.S. history. When the danger of anarchists and communist seemed to develop amidst eastern Europeans immigration quotas were drastically cut. Most Americans arrived here legally and were hence acting within the popular sovereignty of the people of United States unlike the illegal immigrants from the south the past 50 years. President Obama has supported the idea of making law breaking of the sovereign laws of the people of the United States a pathway to U.S. citizenship in accord with his tendency toward an imperial executive power.

Control of immigration levels are important for sovereign citizen government designs of policy reacting satisfactorily to public will. Surplus labor supply may be undesired by the masses of Americans without prospects for good jobs or even any job at all so they may not want millions of immigrants in some year or decade. The environment may be viewed as endangered by human exploitation and the public will by a majority may be for zero or low population growth. There are any number of reasons why political will of the majority may oppose high immigration levels yet illegal immigration bypasses the political system completely. Illegal aliens can enter illegally because the Democrat congress and neo-imperial executive won’t defend the border adequately or empower local law officials to arrest illegal aliens and remand them to federal custody for repatriation to real homeland.

President Obama as an executive enforcing laws selectively seems to prefer a plutocratic imperialism down-grading American democracy. Support for mass illegal immigration and refusing to let Bush II era tax cuts expire are imperial policy directions. While there is any public debt the taxes on the rich should not have been cut. The way to cut public debt is to tax the rich. The poor will get off reliance on public support when they have good jobs or good job prospects that won’t happen with surplus cheap labor.  The rich are concentrating wealth in the meanwhile, the environment is in decay, public debt increases at something like a trillion a year more or less and the President sets a new record every week on the number of gold games played in two terms by a President. The broadcast media like imperialism with the people experiencing democracy vicariously through them in a new age bread, circuses (T.V.) and soporifics.

Imperial and brute imposition of alien will from leaders and migrants into the nation is traditionally un-American. The former was a stimulus to the American Revolution. Today the globalist government-corporate entity finds distance non-existent with speed-of-light communication and U.S. ideas about the sovereign political will of plebian Republicans quaint. American Republicans were, to start with, more like Roman plebeians than Roman republicans- that were more like an aristocracy after more century increasing wealth and power. It’s hard to say where it will develop or it what manner reform could occur.

The Roman Republicans might have evolved a broader representative franchise and avoided the transition to imperialism yet failed with their attention focused on concentrating wealth and training foreign mercenaries to serve in their army and substitute for them in military service. The failure of elite Republican leadership to comprehend what comprises and interests the populous seems recurrent to a certain extent. Examples are limited because Republics are limited in number to review over history.

Ronald Reagan understood populism and was a popular Republican leader-it wasn’t just the conservativism of rich. Elite Republicanism detached from the plebian sort of populism that is supposed to be the true foundation (under God) of American democratic government (representative government) probably leads in the same sort of direction as the Republicanism of ancient Rome toward imperialism- even if in a new age form of global plutocracy and Wall Street networking of concentrated wealth (the 5% of the 1%).

Republicanism that fails to lead on ecological economic reform will not get the chance often enough to stop the illegal immigration that will eventually undermine democracy and their own political base. Imperialism ends Republicanism with concentrating wealth rather leading to fewer and fewer Republicans. It is then that the populous feeling repressed support a symbolic popular imperialist (Caesar) to be the benevolent dictator ostensibly working for the masses. Democracy has then died.

Room for Angels in the Modern World

Protestant images of angels are difficult to imagine. Catholics have had an easier time of that, perhaps over-imaging angelic images. In the modern scientific world of drug users and godless materialism one might reasonably ask where do angels fit in to the world view of Protestant Christians?

I think the answer is not much. Protestants tend toward agnosticism on having opinions about angels yet they shouldn't. The theologian Karl Barth believed that since angels are in scripture it is necessary to have faith in angels too. I can live with that, especially after learning more about Karl Barth's views on scripture.

Americans tend to view extra-terrestrials more favorably than angels. Scientists seem to like the idea of extra-terrestrials on exo-planets that just haven't given us a call yet. In spite of all the effort with S.E.T.I. to locate the little green men from red planets and elsewhere the warblings of the creatures of fantasy remain undiscovered' fine-there are probably good reasons for that.

Angels though are comparable to extra-terrestrials I would think in that they are from somewhere else than here; some place not easy to seem with a telescope. Heaven-the place where angels are reputed to live-may be regarded as being of an extra-dimensional location. There may be innumerable undiscoverd dimensions, even string theory posits hundreds of them. Qualitative differences in dimensions may make heaven a place one can't ever by a space flight to. It has some sort of one-way accessability for the elect rhough the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Angels are beings already living in heaven whereas humans are living on Earth. The realm of the Earth could comprise the entire solid state Universe as a material condition I suppose-from the point of view of angels in heaven. An analogy would be that viewed from the moon the earth looks like a blue marble or some sort of potential topaz nugget for deposit in an account in a dark pool faster-than-light trading firm's computer accounts offshore.

Angels may be God's ambassadors or emissaries to Earth persons when the trinity wants to put in a personal appearance through the angels. Barth advises though to not go beyond scriptural references and invent one's own images of angels or imagine their works. Protestants I think tend to worry about the possibility of creating falsehood theologically speaking about the roles and impacts of angels upon humans individually and socially that might distract from thinking about the real relationship with the Lord and work of the Holy Spirit. Even so there is still room for angels in the world. If you ever actually meet one it probably won't require abstract verification.

U.S. Labor Participation Rate Expected to Decrease the Next Decade

U.S. labor force participation is the lowest in 35 years. In spite of a good June employment report of 288,000 jobs the need for several million quality employment positions remains. The bleak job outlook for the nation is a great opportunity for the next Presidential candidate to build an economy for ecosphere renewal to raise that labor participation rate up from 62 million to perhaps 100 million.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FM.ZS ratio of female/male employment in world nations

King salmon fishing in Alaska and the North Pacific is bad not only because of river habitat degradation. The salmon oceanic four-year life cycle is technologically obsolete. The big fish can’t dodge those big drift nets on their easily predictable routes so many years. Pink salmon that are on a two year closer to shore life cycle tend to thrive however. The ecosphere predation economy of humans has outgrown the prey (natural resources) and requires conservation.

Nations with rivers that have or had King salmon runs could agree to not fish in the middle of the ocean any more and just catch fish close to home in limited numbers, yet if they did that they would probably lose out as nations from elsewhere on the planet sent ships to the North Atlantic to take the bounty. King Salmon numbers are doomed by the political economy.

 A new President who comprehends what ecological economics is and who is able to reform and direct capitalism to work within new procedural parameters could stimulate the creation of new work. The low labor participation rate is an excellent opportunity to reform capitalism and de-escalate the concentration of wealth neo-monopoly of Wall Street networking capitalism and return it to the former pluralism through limits on the numbers of corporations one can invest in to three (so that people have to work their own business instead of just owning others).

Probably no one in either party has a clue about what ecological economics is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics

The U.S. dept. of labor anticipates that labor participation rate will continue to fall in comparison to the past until at least 2022. Young workers aren't entering the work force as much for some reason, and population increase has slowed except for that of recent immigrants.

 http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/labor-force-projections-to-2022-the-labor-force-participation-rate-continues-to-fall-1.htm

Getting good ecologically reconstructive work for more Americans ought to be a goal of Presidential candidates instead of just creating more quick and dirty exploit the environment sorts of work in work procedures of the past.


                 U.S. Labor Force Participation chart from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
                                                   of the millions of Americans working

President Obama’s Subtle War on Women Through Corrupt Federal Courts

When President Obama said that with homo marriage ‘you can marry whoever you love’ he expressed executive contempt for thousands of years of human reason building up the institution of marriage around procreation and protection of women as vulnerable child bearers. To the President marriage is nothing more than a federal legal term like a joint partnership or corporation that ought to be used by any legal adult with whoever. Yet it isn’t as simple as that.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/applause-618293-going-climate.html

Marriage reflects a rational biological content comprising procreation in heterosexual reproduction. It isn’t just a legal arrangement. There are laws against marrying close relatives for instance even if one loves them (meeting the President’s criteria) because of the biological consequences of inbreeding. Marriage laws that are implicitly designed to support heterosexual reproduction cannot just be applied existentially to any adult.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/alimony-women-increasingly_n_1506394.html

The unintended consequences of ending the human institution of marriage and reworking it to be an encumbering legal partnership with rights of inheritance and so forth expanded to include homosexuals would be implicitly structured without equality for heterosexuals and homosexuals. Laws against incest would remain to stop the President’s existential paradigm for marriage. Laws against bestiality would remain so democrats can’t marry the dog they love or the burro the bought in Mexico, and the social bias that one sex has an obligation to pay child support or alimony payments after divorce would stop in order that heterosexuals are discriminated against. Since it is unreasonable to find that one partner of a same sex marriage has an implicit biological, sexed obligation to pay alimony to ‘the weaker sex’ plainly there is a biological foundation for marriage that would end in order that marriage laws apply equally to queers, steers and heterosexuals. That is a war on women.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/kentucky-same-sex-marriage-ban-rejected-by-federal-judge-1404306317

The Federal Courts that are forcing homosexual marriage upon the states seem like a generation of legalists that used too much L.S.D. or cocaine.  Who needs respect when they have the power of military terror to dominate and define social reality? They seem spaced and incorrigibly corrupt and unworthy of social respect. That isn’t a good thing. It is challenging to revolt in the modern world where the Federal Government has so much power and so many goons ready to kill for its pay and ‘really good benefits’, yet the founders in today’s business climate would have found most of Wall Street supporting the British Torrie establishment instead of a minority of radicals. 

With the Federal monopoly on nuclear weapons revolt is effectively impractical, so the inertia of evil corrupt power just rolls on running roughshod over the sentiments of perhaps more than a hundred million Americans. When the republic grew up the Federal Government didn't have a large standing army and vast military power including nuclear weapons and N.S.A. surveillance to intimidate the population into docility. Instead the D.C. government had to actually listen to the people to get them to support government objectives. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Acton).

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=united-states-of-america

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/02/4215359/comparison-of-privacy-reports.html

The thing is, none of that was necessary. A new institution especially for queers could have been created that would not have attacked marriage. Maybe that’s a result of insiders seeking to reduce the population forcibly. I regard the preference for moral corruption rather than social education as a bad policy choice.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/29/blame-the-obama-doctrine-for-iraq.html

Besides the empirical result of created a new Caliphate in the Middle East from Iraq and Syria President Obama as attacked American moral significantly. Debatably he has organized international terrorism better than Osama Bin Laden although unintentionally and domestically he has attacked marriage vigorously seeking to end it as a viable procreative institution. Happy Fourth of July.

Parameters of Genesis Cosmology (video)

People have many thoughts about Genesis and in comparison to scientific cosmology. Interesting thing about subjective epistemology though is that it's often or usually wrong or incomplete. This is an introduction to 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal values of Genesis'. A book I put together to examine some of the many possible meanings of the book of Genesis' cosmology content and contrast that with recently learned scientific parameters of cosmology that are incomplete obviously.
 Reading an introduction to Karl Barth's theology noetic and ontic contexts for man's relation to God arise that transcend simple analysis of the natural world investigated by natural philosophy. I note Barth's excellent paradigm in this intro as another point to consider.-I have some decent images of S.E. Alaska for the voice-over.