This book will not inform you that the Mayan word for 'day' was 'kin' or explain Hubble's Law, what it will do is bring the reader to a vista of a worldview occluded for many today, and of a man who met the resurrected Christ -a view across the greatly interesting expanse of the life of the Apostle of Jesus Christ. This perspective is one we may lack even with decades of reading the New Testament casually, and even with faith.
Gary Wills published this book in 2006. Paul's confirmed letters-seven of the thirteen in the New Testament, were sent to the ekklesia (churches) within 20 years of the crucifixion of The Lord Jesus Christ. They are the first published works of the New Testament preceding even the books of the gospel by decades. Gary Will's book illuminates ideas about the circumstances in which the letters were written, and necessarily of the life of Paul. That is an excellent investment of time and thought for the faithful and even for those cultured despisers of belief.
If the New Testament was written by men, and if the books are what remain of fragments of more works, of historical captures of the oral history nature of the culture, Biblical scholarship investigating the order, manner and composition of that writing-not simply considerations and comparisons of books selected for inclusion in the new Testament and those left out, we may find the knowledge increases our faith in the grace of God allowing mortal man to experience some of the light of the revelation of God as Jesus Christ-the Messiah and convey it to future generations through the experience and writing of mortal man.
Paul encountered Jesus Christ personally-perhaps several times, in his resurrected, glorified body. His own descriptions differ from those recorded in the Book of the Acts. The Book of Acts was written perhaps quite a bit after Paul's letters and may be a historical capture of knowledge of events 'as told by' for posterity.
This book of discovery of 'What Paul Meant' brings the reader to experience the live context of what Paul meant in writing letters to several groups of believers that met in home churches as equals without rank more or less as part of working life mission as an Apostle of Jesus Christ.
7/15/11
Waveform Politics; Newscorp's Troubles
Rupert Murdoch's vast center-right wing media organization is one of a few that dominate the U.S. broadcast media wavelengths. Of course they are not limited to broadcast media but own cable and print outlets as well. Newcorp personnel in Britain caught with their fingers in cell phone data mining cookie jars scotched Newscorps takeover of B Sky B.
Fox televion and radio news is quite influential in contemporary U.S politics. Newscorp and the Tea Party may be losers in the approaching Federal budget default crisis receiving a significant portion of the blame.
Nationalism is frowned upon in national economics by globally owned media. Since U.S. media became owned by global corporations such as Disney and Newscorp the Congress and FCC quit upgrading the broadcast frequencies for the use of citizen journalists via Internet podcast rebroadcasts as technology would allow. Instead the wavelengths are dominated by global concentrations of wealth propagandizing Americans to give up their independence.
Fox televion and radio news is quite influential in contemporary U.S politics. Newscorp and the Tea Party may be losers in the approaching Federal budget default crisis receiving a significant portion of the blame.
Nationalism is frowned upon in national economics by globally owned media. Since U.S. media became owned by global corporations such as Disney and Newscorp the Congress and FCC quit upgrading the broadcast frequencies for the use of citizen journalists via Internet podcast rebroadcasts as technology would allow. Instead the wavelengths are dominated by global concentrations of wealth propagandizing Americans to give up their independence.
7/14/11
Levi Aron & The Bloody Crime in N.Y.'s Jewish Community
One would not want to think that the average New Yorker has such a social conditioning toward homicide that someone asking for directions at random might become a victim of a killer. That is one of the reasons why this very unusual (I hope) crime by Levi Aron-a Jew with an obviously symbolicly important name requires some thought.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/levi-aron-arrested-lieby-kletzky_n_897184.html
Of course the persecution of European Jews by government authorities rumor mongering sensational and untrue stories about Jewish practices including sacrifice of European children that were goyim (gentiles) was a recurrent feature from imperial Russia to Germany. That a 35 year old New Yorker might have sacrificed a kid as a spur of the moment thing-or perhaps the lost kid asking for directions was a fullfillment of a repressed desire of killer to sacrifice a victim in some way to recognize N.Y.'s new homosexual marriage law?, is a sign of the times perhaps. It is possible to imagine such crimes in humanities past though, as a darker trait.
New York City as a kind of epiphenomenal accretion of human civilization-over populated, dense urbanization, unsustainable food production or energy basis, is a kind of prediction of the future of the human race if they do not develop a steady state economy with full employment and a healthy biosphere. Religious freedom is a fundamental right and so too is the right of life. Often when human society becomes out of balance it has wars to change the situation without micro-reasoning subtlety. Then all of society become murders with approriate honors and sanctification for those that perish and those that work it with most valour.
Maybe Mr. Aron was just socially obsessve though-he does had that Loughner sort of look to him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/levi-aron-arrested-lieby-kletzky_n_897184.html
Of course the persecution of European Jews by government authorities rumor mongering sensational and untrue stories about Jewish practices including sacrifice of European children that were goyim (gentiles) was a recurrent feature from imperial Russia to Germany. That a 35 year old New Yorker might have sacrificed a kid as a spur of the moment thing-or perhaps the lost kid asking for directions was a fullfillment of a repressed desire of killer to sacrifice a victim in some way to recognize N.Y.'s new homosexual marriage law?, is a sign of the times perhaps. It is possible to imagine such crimes in humanities past though, as a darker trait.
New York City as a kind of epiphenomenal accretion of human civilization-over populated, dense urbanization, unsustainable food production or energy basis, is a kind of prediction of the future of the human race if they do not develop a steady state economy with full employment and a healthy biosphere. Religious freedom is a fundamental right and so too is the right of life. Often when human society becomes out of balance it has wars to change the situation without micro-reasoning subtlety. Then all of society become murders with approriate honors and sanctification for those that perish and those that work it with most valour.
Maybe Mr. Aron was just socially obsessve though-he does had that Loughner sort of look to him.
An Alaska Republican Government Against Free Enterpise?
Alaska's Republican dominated state legislature has a Republican Governor now to match up with control over state politics. On moral issues the state Republicans may be more conservative than democrats, yet on free enterprise they seem to be less innovative than Vladimir Lenin.
The state Republican government over the long run has created a reliance upon major international oil and gas producers for funding the state government. Funding the state government and sharing some of those oil and gas royalties with municipal governments often times seems to be the Republican idea of free enterprise in the state.
The present gas pipeline through Canada from Alaska's North Slope is the present golden idol goal for funding the stae Republican dominated government. They seek to have an Exxon partnered firm construct a pipeline to help get rid of the state's valuable fossil fuel remnants at low cost to global corporations; that is the Republican concept of free enterprise in Alaska-and the best use of public natural resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_gas_pipeline
The idea of conserving those oil and gas fields on state lands for use in the state of Alaska the next 300 years doesn't appear on the Republican radar screen at all. If a gas field developer were hired to drill and build a pipeline to Anchorage and create retail natural gas sales stations along the way perhaps for 30% of the value of the profit the people of Alaska would have very low energy prices and have a better free enterprise prospect than states or many nations with higher energy prices.
It is o.k. for the state to sell it public natural resources directly to the public. An Exxon or BP is no more a private interest ort entitled to cheap energy than the Alaska citizen that wants cheap propane to heat coffee to sell at his coffee drive thru. Cheap energy prices in one area can attract businesses that can pay tax revenues if needed to fund state government services that actually are needed.
Alaska's Government could set the retail price of natural gas sold at its partnered sales outlets. Natural gas sold at 50 cents per gallon with a stable supply would let Alaskans convert their gas guzzlers to burn 50 cents a gallon propane if they wanted too. They can also use propane in fuel cells (I believe) and have cheap heating energy for homes, businesses and greenhouses.
Obviously global warming and decay of the ecosphere are vitally important issues to consider in government today. A stable energy supply for even one state would allow government to address better ecological zoning laws development and policies that would encourage high insulation efficeincy in houses, prevention of leakage of heat outdoors, and a balanced state budget with liberty, justice and free enterprise jobs for all.
The state Republican government over the long run has created a reliance upon major international oil and gas producers for funding the state government. Funding the state government and sharing some of those oil and gas royalties with municipal governments often times seems to be the Republican idea of free enterprise in the state.
The present gas pipeline through Canada from Alaska's North Slope is the present golden idol goal for funding the stae Republican dominated government. They seek to have an Exxon partnered firm construct a pipeline to help get rid of the state's valuable fossil fuel remnants at low cost to global corporations; that is the Republican concept of free enterprise in Alaska-and the best use of public natural resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_gas_pipeline
The idea of conserving those oil and gas fields on state lands for use in the state of Alaska the next 300 years doesn't appear on the Republican radar screen at all. If a gas field developer were hired to drill and build a pipeline to Anchorage and create retail natural gas sales stations along the way perhaps for 30% of the value of the profit the people of Alaska would have very low energy prices and have a better free enterprise prospect than states or many nations with higher energy prices.
It is o.k. for the state to sell it public natural resources directly to the public. An Exxon or BP is no more a private interest ort entitled to cheap energy than the Alaska citizen that wants cheap propane to heat coffee to sell at his coffee drive thru. Cheap energy prices in one area can attract businesses that can pay tax revenues if needed to fund state government services that actually are needed.
Alaska's Government could set the retail price of natural gas sold at its partnered sales outlets. Natural gas sold at 50 cents per gallon with a stable supply would let Alaskans convert their gas guzzlers to burn 50 cents a gallon propane if they wanted too. They can also use propane in fuel cells (I believe) and have cheap heating energy for homes, businesses and greenhouses.
Obviously global warming and decay of the ecosphere are vitally important issues to consider in government today. A stable energy supply for even one state would allow government to address better ecological zoning laws development and policies that would encourage high insulation efficeincy in houses, prevention of leakage of heat outdoors, and a balanced state budget with liberty, justice and free enterprise jobs for all.
7/13/11
President Obama Line Item Veto Showdown on Federal Budget Debt Limit
With the approaching federal spending debt limit the President might start to develop alternate plans A through D on what to cut from the federal budget . Now is the time to round up his herd for the showdown at the o.k. veto-cuttin corral.
For a Ronald Reagan kind of guy with fast draw tendencies on line item veto'ing these are some of the things that might drop at high noon August 2nd, 2011; reduce military wages 50% (there is a year waiting list for enlistment and a 9.2% unemployment rate), to limit social security payments at total income for any individual of less than $18,000 annually from all sources, to withdraw all except 35,000 troops from Afghanistan-squaring aware the northern alliance and other persecuted non-Sunni citizens in defensible areas and letting the fledgling Afghan government fly free, cutting the Marines down to 50,000 and creating a new SF BOP force of 50,000 special forces rapid deployment specialists...the opportunities for specialized line item quality budget cutting and restructuring by a bold creative President is approaching August 2nd.
I am not certain if President Obama has the legal power to fund portions of programs and to redesign others. Getting more bang for the buck out of the present federal budget should be easy enough. The President must have good ideas and be chomping at the bit to get started on cutting and slashing federal spending his political opponents prefer and that are dumb so long as he increases employment and national security.
Perhaps the Congress can pass a resolution of support for the Presidential right of line item spending vetoes of unfunded federal programs and debt obligations to make his own budget duties balance.
For a Ronald Reagan kind of guy with fast draw tendencies on line item veto'ing these are some of the things that might drop at high noon August 2nd, 2011; reduce military wages 50% (there is a year waiting list for enlistment and a 9.2% unemployment rate), to limit social security payments at total income for any individual of less than $18,000 annually from all sources, to withdraw all except 35,000 troops from Afghanistan-squaring aware the northern alliance and other persecuted non-Sunni citizens in defensible areas and letting the fledgling Afghan government fly free, cutting the Marines down to 50,000 and creating a new SF BOP force of 50,000 special forces rapid deployment specialists...the opportunities for specialized line item quality budget cutting and restructuring by a bold creative President is approaching August 2nd.
I am not certain if President Obama has the legal power to fund portions of programs and to redesign others. Getting more bang for the buck out of the present federal budget should be easy enough. The President must have good ideas and be chomping at the bit to get started on cutting and slashing federal spending his political opponents prefer and that are dumb so long as he increases employment and national security.
Perhaps the Congress can pass a resolution of support for the Presidential right of line item spending vetoes of unfunded federal programs and debt obligations to make his own budget duties balance.
An Imperial Presidency to Solve the Spending Limit Federal Budget Impasse?
Senator McConnell's strange idea that the President should set the federal debt limit can have some unintended consequences. The idea seems to have some support though.
It is a strange idea; if the President is given that degree of federal spending control it seems a move toward oligarchy or an imperial Presidency.
Federal spending is supposed to be the role of the Congress. It votes to give the President a certain amount of money for particular works and that all he gets. Sen. McConnel would change that.
With the new Imperial Presidency a future President could decide to spend whatever he likes so long as his party in Congress comprises at last a third of the members in order to prevent a veto.
Some M.B.A. papered President might decide to send a trillion dollars to a numbered Cayman Islands account and then resign to make way for new people and change while he goes into retirement in the Cayman Islands. A President might wage a war through foreign mercenaries or support for proxie militaries and fund it without concern of Congressionally rude war funding disruption.
A future Imperial President could set the debt limit 50% lower than the amount of the spending that congress voted to support and tell them to bite it when they ask for more asphalt for highway construction.
The Imperial President could expand his executive branch agency budgets and do without further Congressional legislating of bills.
It is a strange idea; if the President is given that degree of federal spending control it seems a move toward oligarchy or an imperial Presidency.
Federal spending is supposed to be the role of the Congress. It votes to give the President a certain amount of money for particular works and that all he gets. Sen. McConnel would change that.
With the new Imperial Presidency a future President could decide to spend whatever he likes so long as his party in Congress comprises at last a third of the members in order to prevent a veto.
Some M.B.A. papered President might decide to send a trillion dollars to a numbered Cayman Islands account and then resign to make way for new people and change while he goes into retirement in the Cayman Islands. A President might wage a war through foreign mercenaries or support for proxie militaries and fund it without concern of Congressionally rude war funding disruption.
A future Imperial President could set the debt limit 50% lower than the amount of the spending that congress voted to support and tell them to bite it when they ask for more asphalt for highway construction.
The Imperial President could expand his executive branch agency budgets and do without further Congressional legislating of bills.
On the Extracosmic Void
Reading a book on the void of space and the topic of nothing brings me to consider the topic that Aristotle amongst other considered so long ago. Not that I will do so as well or completely-just a few ideas to write down.
Is it an extracosmic void with neutral pressure rather than a negative vacuum pressure that serves to let the positive pressure of the matter of the Universe expand at increasing pace? Does the extracosmic void beyond the edge of the universe (or an infinite garden of universes connected in some way) continue on without boundaries forever? That idea of pure nothingness is one of the most challenging ideas of all to ponder.
I think it a better idea to consider God as creating matter, energy and nothing as well within his own field of being. It seems more reasonable for me to think that God actually occupies all space infinitely and creates the space-time and voids for universes as willed rather than to believe that God exists separately from an independent primordial nothingness into which he ordered a Universe to exist.
In the beginning the deep was without form and void-yet it was God's form and void existing like a blank canvas on which to fill in the 4 dimensional art of The Creation.
Albert Camus expressed one perspective of the existential paradox in his book 'The Stranger'. At one point in the story the stranger was on a beach alone and philosophically experienced nausea that anything existed at all-it is a difficult thing to think about deeply.
Sartre may have taken that literary experience as the title of his first philosophical fiction book 'Nausea'. As an associate professor of philosophy in La Havre before the 2nd world war he had some time to write. He did not write about God in generally as a theological concept of everything existing-possibly a more difficult realization even than Camus', instead he wrote about subjective experience of being in particular; a common philosophical approach instead of a theoretical speculation with an Aquinian or metaphysical style. We too may leave off from the difficult, even mystical contemplation of God as the sole existing reality transcendently and consider the more local subject of this particular universe, potential infinite universes and any causality we might think of regarding physics and empty space.
If there is an infinite number of Universes it isn't impossible that they all comprise some kind of a structure. As quarks, sub-atomic particles, atoms, elements, dust, planets, stars and galaxies exist, and as the observable universe exists, the entire universe may exist as a part of a larger structure. It may function like a cell in a body of a far more complex being...or not. Even so it is not necessary that an infinite number of universes existing in a disordered matrix of accidental and phenomenal causality. There may be quite a number of physical channels of communication structured meta-universally. The neutral void may continually affect the actualizing history of those compositions of mass.
Is it an extracosmic void with neutral pressure rather than a negative vacuum pressure that serves to let the positive pressure of the matter of the Universe expand at increasing pace? Does the extracosmic void beyond the edge of the universe (or an infinite garden of universes connected in some way) continue on without boundaries forever? That idea of pure nothingness is one of the most challenging ideas of all to ponder.
I think it a better idea to consider God as creating matter, energy and nothing as well within his own field of being. It seems more reasonable for me to think that God actually occupies all space infinitely and creates the space-time and voids for universes as willed rather than to believe that God exists separately from an independent primordial nothingness into which he ordered a Universe to exist.
In the beginning the deep was without form and void-yet it was God's form and void existing like a blank canvas on which to fill in the 4 dimensional art of The Creation.
Albert Camus expressed one perspective of the existential paradox in his book 'The Stranger'. At one point in the story the stranger was on a beach alone and philosophically experienced nausea that anything existed at all-it is a difficult thing to think about deeply.
Sartre may have taken that literary experience as the title of his first philosophical fiction book 'Nausea'. As an associate professor of philosophy in La Havre before the 2nd world war he had some time to write. He did not write about God in generally as a theological concept of everything existing-possibly a more difficult realization even than Camus', instead he wrote about subjective experience of being in particular; a common philosophical approach instead of a theoretical speculation with an Aquinian or metaphysical style. We too may leave off from the difficult, even mystical contemplation of God as the sole existing reality transcendently and consider the more local subject of this particular universe, potential infinite universes and any causality we might think of regarding physics and empty space.
If there is an infinite number of Universes it isn't impossible that they all comprise some kind of a structure. As quarks, sub-atomic particles, atoms, elements, dust, planets, stars and galaxies exist, and as the observable universe exists, the entire universe may exist as a part of a larger structure. It may function like a cell in a body of a far more complex being...or not. Even so it is not necessary that an infinite number of universes existing in a disordered matrix of accidental and phenomenal causality. There may be quite a number of physical channels of communication structured meta-universally. The neutral void may continually affect the actualizing history of those compositions of mass.
The New Normal/An Era of Nothingness
NPR has described the high state of unemployment and lackluster economic growth as 'the new normal'. I believe that technically it might better be called the new b.s.
Lucretius for one amongst middle aged investigators considered the formation of a vacuum. Aristotle before had inferred attributes of a theoretical vacuum space and of pure nothingness-he rejected its existence. I shall regard it a little more even so.
A zero-growth ecologically sustainable economy cold still have full employment. The present problem is that economic growth and national productivity is unrelated to the employment rate directly. Instead the increased profits just go to concentrated wealth management and the upper class while the government apologists for 'the new normal' of ordinary citizens being screwed by the corporate world fail to consider the infinite subtlety and beauty of constructivist economic systems and rules for free enterprise democracy that allow a myriad of formations of prosperous cultural versions of a democratic society to potentially exist.
Ideas about nothing are as challenging as ideas about things potential yet not actual. We tend to regard the concept of an empty universe and a vacuum as one with three dimensions if it did exist before any Universe ever did. It is more difficult to imagine a vacuum or empty universe without any dimensions at all.
In fact the idea of a primordial vacuum could be wrong. A vacuum has negative pressure in comparison to something else with positive pressure or mass. So before any universe ever existed, before the first virtual particle ever oozed out of nothingness, the vacuum with its unbounded infinite existence must have had neutral pressure (no pressure). The emergence of even one single dimensional virtual particle would have exerted a pejorative negative pressure upon the entire neutral vacuum universe forever increasing collaterally with the appearance of more virtual string-particles. That concatenated pejorative positive pressure on the neutral vacuum might account for the acelleration of the Universe into the extra-cosmic vacuum noticed since about 1999.
A steady-state economy can be regarded as a full employment economy with sustainable energy input that does no harm to the ecospheric viability of a continent or world. Negative internal pressure of an economy creates high unemployment, poverty and pathos. Positive external pressure degrades and destroys the viability of an an ecosphere and non-sustainable accelerates thermodynamic conversion of natural resources from a low to high entropy condition.
It is possible to have an economy that sucks with high unemployment and simultaneously concentrates wealth while devastating the ecosphere. A health steady state economy has neither of those features. It perennially increases the quality of life for all its citizens with improvements in culture and in optimizing use of renewable resources.
Lucretius for one amongst middle aged investigators considered the formation of a vacuum. Aristotle before had inferred attributes of a theoretical vacuum space and of pure nothingness-he rejected its existence. I shall regard it a little more even so.
A zero-growth ecologically sustainable economy cold still have full employment. The present problem is that economic growth and national productivity is unrelated to the employment rate directly. Instead the increased profits just go to concentrated wealth management and the upper class while the government apologists for 'the new normal' of ordinary citizens being screwed by the corporate world fail to consider the infinite subtlety and beauty of constructivist economic systems and rules for free enterprise democracy that allow a myriad of formations of prosperous cultural versions of a democratic society to potentially exist.
Ideas about nothing are as challenging as ideas about things potential yet not actual. We tend to regard the concept of an empty universe and a vacuum as one with three dimensions if it did exist before any Universe ever did. It is more difficult to imagine a vacuum or empty universe without any dimensions at all.
In fact the idea of a primordial vacuum could be wrong. A vacuum has negative pressure in comparison to something else with positive pressure or mass. So before any universe ever existed, before the first virtual particle ever oozed out of nothingness, the vacuum with its unbounded infinite existence must have had neutral pressure (no pressure). The emergence of even one single dimensional virtual particle would have exerted a pejorative negative pressure upon the entire neutral vacuum universe forever increasing collaterally with the appearance of more virtual string-particles. That concatenated pejorative positive pressure on the neutral vacuum might account for the acelleration of the Universe into the extra-cosmic vacuum noticed since about 1999.
A steady-state economy can be regarded as a full employment economy with sustainable energy input that does no harm to the ecospheric viability of a continent or world. Negative internal pressure of an economy creates high unemployment, poverty and pathos. Positive external pressure degrades and destroys the viability of an an ecosphere and non-sustainable accelerates thermodynamic conversion of natural resources from a low to high entropy condition.
It is possible to have an economy that sucks with high unemployment and simultaneously concentrates wealth while devastating the ecosphere. A health steady state economy has neither of those features. It perennially increases the quality of life for all its citizens with improvements in culture and in optimizing use of renewable resources.
Bad or Good Penny?
The 2010 U.S. penny has something that looks like an acorn on its back-at the top it is inscribed ‘e pluribus unum’. ‘In many we are one’ might be regarded as a new world order zeitgeist of select financial elites. So much for free enterprise pluralism and individualism.
With luck Lincoln’s commemorative obverse is only a temporary, bad design. In some ways the Lincoln Penny’s Babylonian back suggests a new world order minting; let me explain…
I had become accustomed to the Lincoln Memorial classical building on the obverse of Lincoln’s penny established the past few decades. Then one summer day I occasioned to examine one of the strange shiny objects with the unfamiliar symbol and found that it was a transformed penny.
At first glance the art looks like a vast left-wing acorn. I guess it could be some sort of Union symbol for the 150th anniversary of the civil war to save the Union from recrudessecent global oligarchy, yet it is also implicitly a shield with a chevron-like figure at top. That sort of Army E-2 rank mosquito wing doesn’t suggest anything good.
Recently I learned something more about cuneiform-you know-those Sumerian-Babylonian writing and number symbols of 2600 B.C. with the style stick imprimtur used in mud tablets. I realized that the Army military ranking we use today for enlisted men/women and undeclared are all based on the Babylonian-Sumerian numbering cuneiform imprimatur for the number ten. It is a mosquito wing rotated 90 degrees.
The 360 degrees of a compass or circle and 60 minutes of an hour are also of Babylonian origin-yet disregard that for the time being.
The symbol for ten was rotated on its side for military purposes. One mosquito wing meant ten, two of the stripes represented twenty, three stripes thirty and so on.
The Babylonian mosquito wing also has a tiny diamond at its interior apex as if it anticipated a first sergeant’s status symbol.
Cuneiform stripes add up better as one reaches sergeant, staff, platoon sergeant etc with cuneiform coincidence of leader of respective numbers of units of ten. A squad is usually made of ten soldiers, a platoon of 40 to 60.
So what if America uses Babylonian stripes for its ranking system and as the chevron rank on the top of the acorn Lincoln penny backside you might ask-well perhaps it’s a Christian recalcitrance about Babylon the Great trading with all the nations of the world. Babylon has a bad end in the Bible, and all the nations actually cheer at her demise like the Chinese did when Al Qaeda took down the World Trade Center Towers in New York. It just seems like a bad penny with maladroit symbolism.
Maybe the military should change its ranking symbols and use something modern-numbers of catapults, space capsules, x’s and o’s, peace signs, pluses or minuses, lines, geodesic domes or atoms.
The United States’ war and political culture rebuilding for Iraq is estimated to cost about 3 trillion dollars by the time the real costs are in. The United States in its decade long Iraq policy drift began a new political policy era of global militarism as a political and economic cultural pacification device with borrowed money. It was a bad policy that made money for a contractual minority and failed to create long range stability without a counterproductive U.S. investment policy of ‘constructive’ engagement.
A Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mike Mullins advocated openly homosexual enlistees in the military. Open tolerance of sin seems in conflict with traditional moral norms. Some Christians at least might wish that U.S. policy aspires at least toward domestic policy harmonious with the will of God expressed in the Bible. Of course every nation must fall short of the moral perfection of Jesus Christ. The United States at least should try and do the best it can.
The net effect of the bad penny and associated national moral decay in politics presents the appearance of a drift toward Babylon the Greatism described in the ‘Book of The Revelation’ with the United States as political role player of the whorl of Babylon on the global stage. In my opinion it is not an intelligent role to play.
The back of Abe Lincoln’s penny should have an image of Mary Todd. If Lincoln had not had a wife the good times of his life would have been limited to getting positive body counts and good weather for burials in Robert E. Lee’s Arlington horse pasture or kicking a rock around the White House horse and buggy lot. His speeches would have been more grim, jokes and optimism absent and his staff kept busy taking notes on his eschatological hopes for the future. Lincoln might have envisioned solar powered, glow in the dark tombstones and hot selling advertising on them with scrolling lightening writing to pay for government funeral and burial costs in a somber, inspired mood.
If Mary Todd can’t go on the back of the coin, some sort of miniature math instruction cheat sheet series might be inscribed each year to remind Americans of basic math concepts and physics formulas.
With luck Lincoln’s commemorative obverse is only a temporary, bad design. In some ways the Lincoln Penny’s Babylonian back suggests a new world order minting; let me explain…
I had become accustomed to the Lincoln Memorial classical building on the obverse of Lincoln’s penny established the past few decades. Then one summer day I occasioned to examine one of the strange shiny objects with the unfamiliar symbol and found that it was a transformed penny.
At first glance the art looks like a vast left-wing acorn. I guess it could be some sort of Union symbol for the 150th anniversary of the civil war to save the Union from recrudessecent global oligarchy, yet it is also implicitly a shield with a chevron-like figure at top. That sort of Army E-2 rank mosquito wing doesn’t suggest anything good.
Recently I learned something more about cuneiform-you know-those Sumerian-Babylonian writing and number symbols of 2600 B.C. with the style stick imprimtur used in mud tablets. I realized that the Army military ranking we use today for enlisted men/women and undeclared are all based on the Babylonian-Sumerian numbering cuneiform imprimatur for the number ten. It is a mosquito wing rotated 90 degrees.
The 360 degrees of a compass or circle and 60 minutes of an hour are also of Babylonian origin-yet disregard that for the time being.
The symbol for ten was rotated on its side for military purposes. One mosquito wing meant ten, two of the stripes represented twenty, three stripes thirty and so on.
The Babylonian mosquito wing also has a tiny diamond at its interior apex as if it anticipated a first sergeant’s status symbol.
Cuneiform stripes add up better as one reaches sergeant, staff, platoon sergeant etc with cuneiform coincidence of leader of respective numbers of units of ten. A squad is usually made of ten soldiers, a platoon of 40 to 60.
So what if America uses Babylonian stripes for its ranking system and as the chevron rank on the top of the acorn Lincoln penny backside you might ask-well perhaps it’s a Christian recalcitrance about Babylon the Great trading with all the nations of the world. Babylon has a bad end in the Bible, and all the nations actually cheer at her demise like the Chinese did when Al Qaeda took down the World Trade Center Towers in New York. It just seems like a bad penny with maladroit symbolism.
Maybe the military should change its ranking symbols and use something modern-numbers of catapults, space capsules, x’s and o’s, peace signs, pluses or minuses, lines, geodesic domes or atoms.
The United States’ war and political culture rebuilding for Iraq is estimated to cost about 3 trillion dollars by the time the real costs are in. The United States in its decade long Iraq policy drift began a new political policy era of global militarism as a political and economic cultural pacification device with borrowed money. It was a bad policy that made money for a contractual minority and failed to create long range stability without a counterproductive U.S. investment policy of ‘constructive’ engagement.
A Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mike Mullins advocated openly homosexual enlistees in the military. Open tolerance of sin seems in conflict with traditional moral norms. Some Christians at least might wish that U.S. policy aspires at least toward domestic policy harmonious with the will of God expressed in the Bible. Of course every nation must fall short of the moral perfection of Jesus Christ. The United States at least should try and do the best it can.
The net effect of the bad penny and associated national moral decay in politics presents the appearance of a drift toward Babylon the Greatism described in the ‘Book of The Revelation’ with the United States as political role player of the whorl of Babylon on the global stage. In my opinion it is not an intelligent role to play.
The back of Abe Lincoln’s penny should have an image of Mary Todd. If Lincoln had not had a wife the good times of his life would have been limited to getting positive body counts and good weather for burials in Robert E. Lee’s Arlington horse pasture or kicking a rock around the White House horse and buggy lot. His speeches would have been more grim, jokes and optimism absent and his staff kept busy taking notes on his eschatological hopes for the future. Lincoln might have envisioned solar powered, glow in the dark tombstones and hot selling advertising on them with scrolling lightening writing to pay for government funeral and burial costs in a somber, inspired mood.
If Mary Todd can’t go on the back of the coin, some sort of miniature math instruction cheat sheet series might be inscribed each year to remind Americans of basic math concepts and physics formulas.
7/12/11
South Sudan- New Independent Nation With Current Prospects
The South Sudan could select the Chinese yuan as its new national currency for a few years and perhaps profit as the yuan rises in value and the dollar drops.
With use of the Yuan the burgeoning Chinese economic political managers might dump additional political and economic aid as a way to increase Chinese cultural currency in Northcentral Africa.
American investors have piggybacked on the Chinese economy for more than two decades and American farmers and ranchers look to export U.S. crops to cash paying customers abroad. The prospects of a U.S. led ecological economic infrastructure development of the South Sudan is hence about nil. The U.S.A. may provide South Sudan with military assistance; machine guns, explosives, concertina wire, rockets and aerial overblast protection as part of its multi-decade glorious war on Al Q'eda. Some of that multi-trillion dollar project may spill over into the South Sudan to help develop their economy. Mybe they need tax cuts for the rich as well to help provide jobs for the poor.
The South Sudan might also sell passports for a thousand dollars to those needing a dual citizenship free base and tax liberation if they show some intent to reside in the Sudan perhaps contributing to quality soup kitchens for the broke.
With use of the Yuan the burgeoning Chinese economic political managers might dump additional political and economic aid as a way to increase Chinese cultural currency in Northcentral Africa.
American investors have piggybacked on the Chinese economy for more than two decades and American farmers and ranchers look to export U.S. crops to cash paying customers abroad. The prospects of a U.S. led ecological economic infrastructure development of the South Sudan is hence about nil. The U.S.A. may provide South Sudan with military assistance; machine guns, explosives, concertina wire, rockets and aerial overblast protection as part of its multi-decade glorious war on Al Q'eda. Some of that multi-trillion dollar project may spill over into the South Sudan to help develop their economy. Mybe they need tax cuts for the rich as well to help provide jobs for the poor.
The South Sudan might also sell passports for a thousand dollars to those needing a dual citizenship free base and tax liberation if they show some intent to reside in the Sudan perhaps contributing to quality soup kitchens for the broke.
Supply Side Economics Have Produced Federal Debt Since 1981
Never since the era of cutting taxes and running a federal deficit was created by the Reagan administration has increased business growth brought enough additional tax revenues to pay off the deficit. Republican administrations have themselves increased federal spending at any rate treating the nation's infrastructure a little like the way the Red Army and The Fearless Leader regarded the German industrial infrastructure in 1946.
Since 1971 Republican leaders have downsized U.S. corporate employment wages and health benefits, job security and social economic egalitarianism while flooding the U.S.A. with illegal alien workers and relocating manufacturing to China over time.
President Obama through in the towel on letting Bush II era tax cuts expire in December 2010. Now the Republicans have the opportunity to repair the federal budget as did The President in December 2010 before he gave up. Walking on the supply side of the force has concentrated wealth and gutted America's immediate economic well being for those not owned by Darth.
Republicans can raise taxes on the rich and upper middle class and cut federal spending and tax dodgeholes and run a budget surplus to pay off federal debt straightaway. The instead rely on the completely discredited Laughferian supply side theories that will create more economic misery ahead for a nation already misguided by excessive Wall Street financial and trading deregulation.
Since 1971 Republican leaders have downsized U.S. corporate employment wages and health benefits, job security and social economic egalitarianism while flooding the U.S.A. with illegal alien workers and relocating manufacturing to China over time.
President Obama through in the towel on letting Bush II era tax cuts expire in December 2010. Now the Republicans have the opportunity to repair the federal budget as did The President in December 2010 before he gave up. Walking on the supply side of the force has concentrated wealth and gutted America's immediate economic well being for those not owned by Darth.
Republicans can raise taxes on the rich and upper middle class and cut federal spending and tax dodgeholes and run a budget surplus to pay off federal debt straightaway. The instead rely on the completely discredited Laughferian supply side theories that will create more economic misery ahead for a nation already misguided by excessive Wall Street financial and trading deregulation.
Infinities & Numbers as Representations of Real Things and The Apparition of Soup Bowls
I am not a mathematician; I enjoy philosophical thought however so I have a few comments of a philosophical nature about numbers here.
I had read J.D. Barrow’s ‘The Infinite Book’ and recently added another fine book of Barrow’s to my summer reading list- ‘The Book of Nothing’. This book is quite an interesting elaboration of zero and nothing as an idea in math and philosophy as well as physics and cosmology.
Barrow described the social evolution of number systems in various civilizations such as Mayan, Babylonian and Indian. It is easy to see the correlation of abstract representations of real things that are counted to symbols that represent the things. Real substances are represented in the abstract by symbols, and the meanings or validity of the symbolic representation coincides with the accurate representation of the substances quantitatively.
I believe that relationship is the basis for much or all of mathematical validity.
Our base ten number system decimal system’s 1-9 are symbols that originated largely in India as Brahmin culture numbers as early as 300 B.C. The Indian numbering system and ideas about zero eventually made its way to Arab civilization and Europe. The point is that the symbols might be anything.
Georg Cantor’s work on infinite series is discussed in The Infinite Book. Abstract mathematical infinities seem to arise as abstract representational phenomena.
If one has a barrel of soup and subtracts no real quantity from it, that might be done and infinite number of times; one divided by zero equals infinity.
If one has a circle with ordinal measuring unit spacing on it such as whole even numbers one can insert and infinitely smaller ordinal series of numbers within it infinitely.
It is possible to insert an infinite number of differently ordered infinite series within any given infinite series or finite series or segment with differently ordered series.
Cantor’s transfinite series may be a way of representing the theoretical capacity of infinity to contain an infinite number of dissimilar, variegated ordered mathematical series representing infinity. That is something like saying that in an infinite barrel of soup there is an infinite number of ways of increasing the size of the bowls of soup served from it in unlimited quantities. Representing those bowls and serving size and numbers in structured and infinite series would be a phenomenal activity never completed if one wanted to describe every possible size combination of bowl, spoon and serving size and number issued.
If there is a finite barrel of soup the kind of infinity that can be made to describe potential servings of soup is limited however. I am not sure if the real barrel of soup could be represented by the Surreal Numbers of John Conway. I am not sure that any numbering system for infinite series could not itself be permutated infinitely. 1 could become 1A, 2 could become 2A and so on. Logicians differentiate symbols occasionally with a ‘representation (prime); 1’ and 1’’ could be the start of infinite series of representing real substances like soup.
So if one wants to subdivide the serving size of an infinite barrel of soup infinitely obviously one could with forever smaller portions. Making a Mandelbrot fractalization landscape formula representing infinitely decreasing quantum bowls of soup-perhaps shrinking down to a smaller quantum representational level as each soup bowl field is consumed might be one way of making a finite algorithm representing infinite reduction.
The use of a Mandelbrot fractal sequence as a way to model the expansion or contraction of a given form of order of structure consistently at various magnitudes obviously can suggest to some philosophical thought a potential for representing quantum mechanical structures immersed in various environments that would cause the usual model assembly to change its formations quantitatively and perhaps model it’s new characteristics as particle/waves and forces of the Universe.
The point is that one may make infinite series only in one direction-the direction of reduction, when one must confine infinities to a real barrel of soup or other finite substance.
Whole numbers, even and odd numbers, countable infinities and non-countable infinities made from real numbers; these seem to be no more than detached from real substance potential series of representation.
W.V.O. Quine’s book Elements of Logic described how to build a system of logic. Number systems seem to be sets for representing relations to real substances. Newton’s law of gravity falling off at the square root of the distance between objects seems representative of the most simple fundamental association of mathematical representation to real substance; planets etc.
Mathematics in this Universe seems to have a requirement that it conform to the being and nothingness relationships of substances of matter. It is perhaps possible to imagine a universe where the pluralism of objects of this universe and its logical, original monistic unified field were represented with a different way of being…
Perhaps the spin values of quantum particles or of quantum effects providing not obvious or consistent arithmetic assumptions in appearance and combination might be given. The way the universe at the observable level ordinarily is though, if one substance is divided in portions then numbers that represent its quantitative features must conform to meaning indicating the new number of portions.
Any arbitrary numerical series of representation could have any sort of size r dimension infinitely and would work to represent portions of the soup so long as its existential parameters coincided with the actual quantitative characteristics of the barrel of soup for instance. The series of numbers might be letters or other symbols with structured quantitative value-even with extra dimensions as subscripts within every bowl.
That’s all I had to write about infinite series and numbers here; they seem to be potential infinities rather than necessarily corresponding to real substance; potential descriptions of meanings.
J.D. Barrow’s ‘The Book of Nothing’ mentions that ‘bindu’ was an ancient Sanskrit word for nothingness as a point. I guess that sort of point is something equivalent to the notion of a tiny micro-loop or string as a fundamental quantum foundation for mass.
Of course the Brahmin of The Indus Civilization had the idea of a monistic creator issuing the Universe in various kalpas of 50 billion years or so perhaps from an infinitely small zero state in nothing before inflating another cycle of existence. In the Book of Jeremiah God says that everyone knows Him and just develops intentional forgetfulness (perhaps because of the fallen nature of mankind)-so this kind of speculation is actually good enough. Numbering and quantifying nearly infinitely small loops or strings that exist potentially or actually as some sort of a unified, monistic state of being in an apparent pluralism for forms isn’t a simple matter mathematically. It is good that scientists are working on the association of transfinite infinities in representational mathematical systems with the real world of the Universe at physics research facilities as time moves on.
I had read J.D. Barrow’s ‘The Infinite Book’ and recently added another fine book of Barrow’s to my summer reading list- ‘The Book of Nothing’. This book is quite an interesting elaboration of zero and nothing as an idea in math and philosophy as well as physics and cosmology.
Barrow described the social evolution of number systems in various civilizations such as Mayan, Babylonian and Indian. It is easy to see the correlation of abstract representations of real things that are counted to symbols that represent the things. Real substances are represented in the abstract by symbols, and the meanings or validity of the symbolic representation coincides with the accurate representation of the substances quantitatively.
I believe that relationship is the basis for much or all of mathematical validity.
Our base ten number system decimal system’s 1-9 are symbols that originated largely in India as Brahmin culture numbers as early as 300 B.C. The Indian numbering system and ideas about zero eventually made its way to Arab civilization and Europe. The point is that the symbols might be anything.
Georg Cantor’s work on infinite series is discussed in The Infinite Book. Abstract mathematical infinities seem to arise as abstract representational phenomena.
If one has a barrel of soup and subtracts no real quantity from it, that might be done and infinite number of times; one divided by zero equals infinity.
If one has a circle with ordinal measuring unit spacing on it such as whole even numbers one can insert and infinitely smaller ordinal series of numbers within it infinitely.
It is possible to insert an infinite number of differently ordered infinite series within any given infinite series or finite series or segment with differently ordered series.
Cantor’s transfinite series may be a way of representing the theoretical capacity of infinity to contain an infinite number of dissimilar, variegated ordered mathematical series representing infinity. That is something like saying that in an infinite barrel of soup there is an infinite number of ways of increasing the size of the bowls of soup served from it in unlimited quantities. Representing those bowls and serving size and numbers in structured and infinite series would be a phenomenal activity never completed if one wanted to describe every possible size combination of bowl, spoon and serving size and number issued.
If there is a finite barrel of soup the kind of infinity that can be made to describe potential servings of soup is limited however. I am not sure if the real barrel of soup could be represented by the Surreal Numbers of John Conway. I am not sure that any numbering system for infinite series could not itself be permutated infinitely. 1 could become 1A, 2 could become 2A and so on. Logicians differentiate symbols occasionally with a ‘representation (prime); 1’ and 1’’ could be the start of infinite series of representing real substances like soup.
So if one wants to subdivide the serving size of an infinite barrel of soup infinitely obviously one could with forever smaller portions. Making a Mandelbrot fractalization landscape formula representing infinitely decreasing quantum bowls of soup-perhaps shrinking down to a smaller quantum representational level as each soup bowl field is consumed might be one way of making a finite algorithm representing infinite reduction.
The use of a Mandelbrot fractal sequence as a way to model the expansion or contraction of a given form of order of structure consistently at various magnitudes obviously can suggest to some philosophical thought a potential for representing quantum mechanical structures immersed in various environments that would cause the usual model assembly to change its formations quantitatively and perhaps model it’s new characteristics as particle/waves and forces of the Universe.
The point is that one may make infinite series only in one direction-the direction of reduction, when one must confine infinities to a real barrel of soup or other finite substance.
Whole numbers, even and odd numbers, countable infinities and non-countable infinities made from real numbers; these seem to be no more than detached from real substance potential series of representation.
W.V.O. Quine’s book Elements of Logic described how to build a system of logic. Number systems seem to be sets for representing relations to real substances. Newton’s law of gravity falling off at the square root of the distance between objects seems representative of the most simple fundamental association of mathematical representation to real substance; planets etc.
Mathematics in this Universe seems to have a requirement that it conform to the being and nothingness relationships of substances of matter. It is perhaps possible to imagine a universe where the pluralism of objects of this universe and its logical, original monistic unified field were represented with a different way of being…
Perhaps the spin values of quantum particles or of quantum effects providing not obvious or consistent arithmetic assumptions in appearance and combination might be given. The way the universe at the observable level ordinarily is though, if one substance is divided in portions then numbers that represent its quantitative features must conform to meaning indicating the new number of portions.
Any arbitrary numerical series of representation could have any sort of size r dimension infinitely and would work to represent portions of the soup so long as its existential parameters coincided with the actual quantitative characteristics of the barrel of soup for instance. The series of numbers might be letters or other symbols with structured quantitative value-even with extra dimensions as subscripts within every bowl.
That’s all I had to write about infinite series and numbers here; they seem to be potential infinities rather than necessarily corresponding to real substance; potential descriptions of meanings.
J.D. Barrow’s ‘The Book of Nothing’ mentions that ‘bindu’ was an ancient Sanskrit word for nothingness as a point. I guess that sort of point is something equivalent to the notion of a tiny micro-loop or string as a fundamental quantum foundation for mass.
Of course the Brahmin of The Indus Civilization had the idea of a monistic creator issuing the Universe in various kalpas of 50 billion years or so perhaps from an infinitely small zero state in nothing before inflating another cycle of existence. In the Book of Jeremiah God says that everyone knows Him and just develops intentional forgetfulness (perhaps because of the fallen nature of mankind)-so this kind of speculation is actually good enough. Numbering and quantifying nearly infinitely small loops or strings that exist potentially or actually as some sort of a unified, monistic state of being in an apparent pluralism for forms isn’t a simple matter mathematically. It is good that scientists are working on the association of transfinite infinities in representational mathematical systems with the real world of the Universe at physics research facilities as time moves on.
7/11/11
Mammusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God/6 Days of Creation
The first translation of the Bible into the Massachusetts language (Natick-Algonquin) in 1661 enabled pre-Columbian ancestry Americans of New England to have an idea of the creation of the Universe by God that not even English speaking Americans would have for several hundred years when Einstein's General and Special Theories would provide theoretical physics parameters of space-time cosmology for an expanding universe.
Yes, in the first six days of the history of the Universe all things that were to be were begun. Besides, as God is infinite He could view all temporal, finite segments as already past.
As mass becomes infinitely compacted as in singularities and black holes time seems to slow down for outside observers. The opposite holds though-as in the Twins Paradox time speeds up for the insiders. What seems a day to those near the singularity might seem a thousand years to those far outside. For those in the singularity time effectively stops-itself a paradox from our human perspective.
The speed of light photons at 186,000 miles per second is regarded as the maximum possible speed of anything in the material universe. Photons have no mass size and ere emergent characteristics of an electro-magnetic field in space-time perhaps. If one were able to travel much faster than light-even infinitely faster, it would be possible to watch time unfold or travel from ahead of it. It is a contemporary cosological speculation that the universe actually experienced a faster-than-light inflationary period within the first second of its existence. It is believed possible because the laws of the physical universe were not quite yet firmed up with nothing to hinder a sudden burst of high-energy expansion of space-time.
Black holes and gravitational singularities may or may not exist, yet for an infinite Creator it is quite reasonable that he created the world in just six days. He might in fact have created this and all possible universes in infinite numbers to complete fulfillment in that six days and viewed them from the seventh day of rest in a transfinite post-temporality not described in detail in Genesis.
Yes, in the first six days of the history of the Universe all things that were to be were begun. Besides, as God is infinite He could view all temporal, finite segments as already past.
As mass becomes infinitely compacted as in singularities and black holes time seems to slow down for outside observers. The opposite holds though-as in the Twins Paradox time speeds up for the insiders. What seems a day to those near the singularity might seem a thousand years to those far outside. For those in the singularity time effectively stops-itself a paradox from our human perspective.
The speed of light photons at 186,000 miles per second is regarded as the maximum possible speed of anything in the material universe. Photons have no mass size and ere emergent characteristics of an electro-magnetic field in space-time perhaps. If one were able to travel much faster than light-even infinitely faster, it would be possible to watch time unfold or travel from ahead of it. It is a contemporary cosological speculation that the universe actually experienced a faster-than-light inflationary period within the first second of its existence. It is believed possible because the laws of the physical universe were not quite yet firmed up with nothing to hinder a sudden burst of high-energy expansion of space-time.
Black holes and gravitational singularities may or may not exist, yet for an infinite Creator it is quite reasonable that he created the world in just six days. He might in fact have created this and all possible universes in infinite numbers to complete fulfillment in that six days and viewed them from the seventh day of rest in a transfinite post-temporality not described in detail in Genesis.
The Three Temptations of Christ
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
I hadn't given much thought about the archetypal nature of the three temptations the devil presented to Christ. I enjoyed reading Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov too. Pelakin points out in 'Whose Bible Is It' that Dostoyevsky said of the temptations that "the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature".
The three temptations are about food, health and political power. Maybe those sum up the necessary challenges of life that are forced options and presented to every human being.
The devil challenges Jesus to turn stones into bread, to jump from the top of the Temple and let God protect him as if he was in The Matrix, and finally says to Jesus that he will give him ruling power over all the world if he will just worship the devil.
Perhaps sex temptations are a synthetic combination of food and health drives. Its not so difficult to understand why eukaryotic life forms have such individual and collective interaction conflicts with simple explainable foundation.
Such challenges by natural gas extractors to state governments and universities may exist already. Some future governor of Alaska may look at the north Slope gas and say 'il n'y a plus!' and plea for pervasive fracking (chtonic geo-crazing).
Fracting shale formations containing natural gas after the primary gas reserves are depleted may bring Alaska's arctic slope to evolve thousands of drill holes through the permafrost and seafloor and countless millions of gallons of toxic water to surface over time.
Economic concatenations of eukaryotic life form stimulus-response quests for energy in less than optimally intelligent ways may bring future fracking to Cook Inlet.
Jesus answers the challenge of the devil's temptations with scriptural quotes reiterating reliance upon God. The ongoing Logos actualizing the world and Universe draws the rational soul to the spirit of reason. Temptations of the Devil invariably miss the mark of the good.
Americans are challenged by food and health issues-medical care is costly, and they are perennially challenged by issues of political allegiances relating to economic opportunity. In effect they are encouraged to trade their soul(s) for political inclusion required for temporal economic prosperity.
Listening to a report on the environmentally risky process of fracting shale formations to produce natural gas in Pennsylvania I was reminded a little of the story of the devil being imprisoned a thousand years in the pit....
If a day to God equals a thousand years then a thousand years might represent 365 million human-earth years-about the time that gas was being formed in those ancient sediments to be sequestered from mankind until the present. What ancient bacteria and odd life forms or viruses might be released through the emergence of millions of gallons of contaminated waters injected deep underground to increase pressure on the gas fomenting explosive flatulence trickling up to the surface of the Earth through the pipelines from the pit?
There are a variety of better ways for human culture to radically alter its methods of designing and zoning homes, insulating and heating and cooling capture without relying on wasteful fossil fuel procedures. It isn't simply a choice between communist regulatory totalitarianism and man-in-the-wilderness libertarianism that urban corporations struggle in as modern Daniel Boones of business.
It is possible for human culture to develop a rational economic order that can be revised and updated to meet environmental challenges within a democratic context-even if the present government budget and debt ceiling negotiations and U.S. transportation and energy policies make it appear improbable.
It is written that what is loosed on Earth will be loosed in heaven (if one is saved/healthy that is). It is also written that in an infinite universe anything that has a zero probability of not occurring will occur an infinite number of times.
When Jesus replies to the Tempter with answers professing right relationship with God, humanity is afforded an example of pursuit of a spiritual, sentient way of living amidst environmental challenges rather than replying with unreflective, rash submission to domination by material vicissitudes and/or sensory stimulus response loops through least creative intellectual effort.
With that example Isaac Newton was spiritually minded and pursued knowledge and rational empirical inquiry with reason rather than just replying with a plant-like sensual water-light turn in human cultural questions, (He was the British Chancellor of the Exchequer too), empirical challenges and unknowns.
Brilliant business minds working for good overall culture may find cheaper, cleaner heating, cooling and transport methods in the U.S.A. Government leaders may discover the enlightening national interest of ecospheric economic efficiency and turn toward spiritual cultural reconstruction.
Medical care for the poor in the U.S.A. provided free at government clinics and hospitals might have kept down overall health costs. So long as the middle class and the upper class could afford the world's best medical services the working poor and unemployed poor often had inadequate medical provisioning. In recent time the rising costs of medical services and downward mobility of the American middle class the past 40 years stimulated passage of a hare-brained public health insurance bill in which the elites traded the privacy souls of Americans to global corporations in return for mandatory health insurance payments from all Americans to the global rich concentrating worldly wealth.
Power, health and food remain the perennial challenges tempting to mankind. That cornucopia of temptation adversely affects social intellect, creativity, faith and moral capacity to innovate a free and ecologically rational culture with economic security for all.
I hadn't given much thought about the archetypal nature of the three temptations the devil presented to Christ. I enjoyed reading Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov too. Pelakin points out in 'Whose Bible Is It' that Dostoyevsky said of the temptations that "the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature".
The three temptations are about food, health and political power. Maybe those sum up the necessary challenges of life that are forced options and presented to every human being.
The devil challenges Jesus to turn stones into bread, to jump from the top of the Temple and let God protect him as if he was in The Matrix, and finally says to Jesus that he will give him ruling power over all the world if he will just worship the devil.
Perhaps sex temptations are a synthetic combination of food and health drives. Its not so difficult to understand why eukaryotic life forms have such individual and collective interaction conflicts with simple explainable foundation.
Such challenges by natural gas extractors to state governments and universities may exist already. Some future governor of Alaska may look at the north Slope gas and say 'il n'y a plus!' and plea for pervasive fracking (chtonic geo-crazing).
Fracting shale formations containing natural gas after the primary gas reserves are depleted may bring Alaska's arctic slope to evolve thousands of drill holes through the permafrost and seafloor and countless millions of gallons of toxic water to surface over time.
Economic concatenations of eukaryotic life form stimulus-response quests for energy in less than optimally intelligent ways may bring future fracking to Cook Inlet.
Jesus answers the challenge of the devil's temptations with scriptural quotes reiterating reliance upon God. The ongoing Logos actualizing the world and Universe draws the rational soul to the spirit of reason. Temptations of the Devil invariably miss the mark of the good.
Americans are challenged by food and health issues-medical care is costly, and they are perennially challenged by issues of political allegiances relating to economic opportunity. In effect they are encouraged to trade their soul(s) for political inclusion required for temporal economic prosperity.
Listening to a report on the environmentally risky process of fracting shale formations to produce natural gas in Pennsylvania I was reminded a little of the story of the devil being imprisoned a thousand years in the pit....
If a day to God equals a thousand years then a thousand years might represent 365 million human-earth years-about the time that gas was being formed in those ancient sediments to be sequestered from mankind until the present. What ancient bacteria and odd life forms or viruses might be released through the emergence of millions of gallons of contaminated waters injected deep underground to increase pressure on the gas fomenting explosive flatulence trickling up to the surface of the Earth through the pipelines from the pit?
There are a variety of better ways for human culture to radically alter its methods of designing and zoning homes, insulating and heating and cooling capture without relying on wasteful fossil fuel procedures. It isn't simply a choice between communist regulatory totalitarianism and man-in-the-wilderness libertarianism that urban corporations struggle in as modern Daniel Boones of business.
It is possible for human culture to develop a rational economic order that can be revised and updated to meet environmental challenges within a democratic context-even if the present government budget and debt ceiling negotiations and U.S. transportation and energy policies make it appear improbable.
It is written that what is loosed on Earth will be loosed in heaven (if one is saved/healthy that is). It is also written that in an infinite universe anything that has a zero probability of not occurring will occur an infinite number of times.
When Jesus replies to the Tempter with answers professing right relationship with God, humanity is afforded an example of pursuit of a spiritual, sentient way of living amidst environmental challenges rather than replying with unreflective, rash submission to domination by material vicissitudes and/or sensory stimulus response loops through least creative intellectual effort.
With that example Isaac Newton was spiritually minded and pursued knowledge and rational empirical inquiry with reason rather than just replying with a plant-like sensual water-light turn in human cultural questions, (He was the British Chancellor of the Exchequer too), empirical challenges and unknowns.
Brilliant business minds working for good overall culture may find cheaper, cleaner heating, cooling and transport methods in the U.S.A. Government leaders may discover the enlightening national interest of ecospheric economic efficiency and turn toward spiritual cultural reconstruction.
Medical care for the poor in the U.S.A. provided free at government clinics and hospitals might have kept down overall health costs. So long as the middle class and the upper class could afford the world's best medical services the working poor and unemployed poor often had inadequate medical provisioning. In recent time the rising costs of medical services and downward mobility of the American middle class the past 40 years stimulated passage of a hare-brained public health insurance bill in which the elites traded the privacy souls of Americans to global corporations in return for mandatory health insurance payments from all Americans to the global rich concentrating worldly wealth.
Power, health and food remain the perennial challenges tempting to mankind. That cornucopia of temptation adversely affects social intellect, creativity, faith and moral capacity to innovate a free and ecologically rational culture with economic security for all.
Casting out foul spirits to Cure Disease & Balance Federal Budget
Foul spirits and devils could be a cause of Congressional budgeting incompetence-maybe some foul spirits and devils in high places just don't want to eliminate the federal debt, reduce unemployment and grow a green economy. There are several instances in the Bible wherein a devil or foul spirit is credited with being the cause of a human disease.
I wanted to write a small counterfactual reply to some of the know-it-all mockers of demonic etiology of human caused illnesses who view that as having a zero probability of being a valid explanation.
We might use the Matrix criterion as an example of disease causality from unnatural sources. In the program simulation of a world reality that was the Matrix, everything existing was caused by a computer program. It would be reasonable to say that writers of computer program viruses are veritable foul spirits. Though people living in the simulation might be able to use in-context natural medical cures for illnesses, the true source of all illnesses experienced by residents of the Matrix are devilish computer programmer viruses and malwear of a different world order.
Simulations of universes by civilizations with advanced intelligence are something of a common speculation of modern cosmology. If humanity doesn't destroy its environment on Earth before learning to build ecospheres on barren worlds; if human civilization advances over millennia to learn the deeper structure of cosmological physics so far as to be able to design and generate universes itself-the Universes it makes would probably be those with an anthropic principle of friendliness for living beings.
Over time perhaps an infinite number of life-friendly universes might be designed. Yet with advanced design intelligence there arises the possibility that malefactors of the future could create illness and evils for residents of those universes (perhaps illegally) that only prayer to the creators of the Universe might fix in the absence of technical skill. In fact the Universe might be designed to subtly respond with affirmative action to prayer as a positive s/r feedback for sentient thought.
Some diseases caused by supernatural devils from other universes or of the future as programmers of simulated universes or as time and space modifiers of artificially generated universes might be locally remedied with natural in-context cures, and others might be repaired only with a plea to the Creator.
Obviously it may well be that there are no additional Universes. Jesus Christ as God recognized that foul spirit might coincide with disease. Might cause programming malfunctions to The Father's Universe be introduced by spiritual malwear?
Alternatively, The Lord might have found using common terminology was simpler than explaining biological concepts beyond the ken of people of that era.
In Mark 14 Jesus mentions that he does not himself know when he shall return-only The Father knows that. Even today we cannot be certain when the age of the nations will be fulfilled and The Lord will return. We should live as if it were to be today.
Mar 14:32 "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, not the angels which are in heaven, neither The Son, but the Father."
33:" Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."
34:" For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch."
35: "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:
36:"Lest suddenly coming he find you sleeping.
37:"And what I say unto you, I say unto all. Watch."
If there are infinite alternative universes it does not mean that Jesus Christ has to appear and be crucified in each of those Universes either- The decision of God to send the Son of God into a Universe to save the lost and wayward is unique. The Son of God is non-contingent being; he need not appear as a phenomenal issue in every universe (even His virgin conception indicates a miraculous intervention into the natural order of this Universe) and is not subject to the odds of universal natural selection from the promulgation of an infinite number of universes with all things with a non-zero probability of occurring being actualized in every possible form in an infinite number of universes.
Devils as malefactious computer programmers, as toxic waste emitters, as designers of global warming and unnecessary hot weather heat injury, as tax cutters under-funding health care for the poor, as extra-dimensional designers of lepton and muon structural entanglement interpolating human biological malfunction; there are a billion ways that intentional design of sickness might be added to human beings by what l spirits and Devils to Cure appear to human beings to be supernatural causes.
Some of those appearances might actually be caused by metaphysical malwear devil design while others might be designed naturally for reasons requiring additional theological clarification for those interested, as well as the usual medical procedures that are affordable.
I wanted to write a small counterfactual reply to some of the know-it-all mockers of demonic etiology of human caused illnesses who view that as having a zero probability of being a valid explanation.
We might use the Matrix criterion as an example of disease causality from unnatural sources. In the program simulation of a world reality that was the Matrix, everything existing was caused by a computer program. It would be reasonable to say that writers of computer program viruses are veritable foul spirits. Though people living in the simulation might be able to use in-context natural medical cures for illnesses, the true source of all illnesses experienced by residents of the Matrix are devilish computer programmer viruses and malwear of a different world order.
Simulations of universes by civilizations with advanced intelligence are something of a common speculation of modern cosmology. If humanity doesn't destroy its environment on Earth before learning to build ecospheres on barren worlds; if human civilization advances over millennia to learn the deeper structure of cosmological physics so far as to be able to design and generate universes itself-the Universes it makes would probably be those with an anthropic principle of friendliness for living beings.
Over time perhaps an infinite number of life-friendly universes might be designed. Yet with advanced design intelligence there arises the possibility that malefactors of the future could create illness and evils for residents of those universes (perhaps illegally) that only prayer to the creators of the Universe might fix in the absence of technical skill. In fact the Universe might be designed to subtly respond with affirmative action to prayer as a positive s/r feedback for sentient thought.
Some diseases caused by supernatural devils from other universes or of the future as programmers of simulated universes or as time and space modifiers of artificially generated universes might be locally remedied with natural in-context cures, and others might be repaired only with a plea to the Creator.
Obviously it may well be that there are no additional Universes. Jesus Christ as God recognized that foul spirit might coincide with disease. Might cause programming malfunctions to The Father's Universe be introduced by spiritual malwear?
Alternatively, The Lord might have found using common terminology was simpler than explaining biological concepts beyond the ken of people of that era.
In Mark 14 Jesus mentions that he does not himself know when he shall return-only The Father knows that. Even today we cannot be certain when the age of the nations will be fulfilled and The Lord will return. We should live as if it were to be today.
Mar 14:32 "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, not the angels which are in heaven, neither The Son, but the Father."
33:" Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."
34:" For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch."
35: "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:
36:"Lest suddenly coming he find you sleeping.
37:"And what I say unto you, I say unto all. Watch."
If there are infinite alternative universes it does not mean that Jesus Christ has to appear and be crucified in each of those Universes either- The decision of God to send the Son of God into a Universe to save the lost and wayward is unique. The Son of God is non-contingent being; he need not appear as a phenomenal issue in every universe (even His virgin conception indicates a miraculous intervention into the natural order of this Universe) and is not subject to the odds of universal natural selection from the promulgation of an infinite number of universes with all things with a non-zero probability of occurring being actualized in every possible form in an infinite number of universes.
Devils as malefactious computer programmers, as toxic waste emitters, as designers of global warming and unnecessary hot weather heat injury, as tax cutters under-funding health care for the poor, as extra-dimensional designers of lepton and muon structural entanglement interpolating human biological malfunction; there are a billion ways that intentional design of sickness might be added to human beings by what l spirits and Devils to Cure appear to human beings to be supernatural causes.
Some of those appearances might actually be caused by metaphysical malwear devil design while others might be designed naturally for reasons requiring additional theological clarification for those interested, as well as the usual medical procedures that are affordable.
7/7/11
Insider Hedge Fund Dollar Bets on Debt Ceiling Negotiation Horse Race?
Insider Hedge Fund Dollar Bets on Debt Ceiling Negotiation Horse Race?
It is easy to imagine that the rise or fall of the value of the dollar, hedge fund bets on it besides credit default swaps and sundry ten dimensional financial trading instruments could be the present Wall Street illuminati wave of public trust trimming that some Republicans could be making a killing on by letting the federal government default on its debt August 2nd 2011.
Unfortunately it seems to financially unsophisticated observers that the Wall Street Banking, Investment, Risk Arbitrage and currency speculators with Republican support may be toying once again with exotic trading products for windfall profit to their immediate financial gain without regard for the economic loss of the nation.
The Hungarian-Jewish-American legendary currency hedge fund short seller George Soros famously made a fortune betting on the value of the British pound and was credited with costing that government loads of cash. Perhaps President Obama might get expert advice from Mr. Soros on what to look for on Wall Street’s present betting in order to trace possible connections to Republican political inside traders short selling the U.S.A.
Raising taxes on Wall Street’s rich would be one realistic way to capture some investment for development of new, transformative ecologically rational transportation and housing businesses in the U.S.A. rather than far beyond the borders. Republican House and Senate leaders are positioned like inside trading partners heavily invested in global trading funds and corporations with full knowledge of their own plans to devalue the dollar unilaterally by letting the government negotiations on raising the debt ceiling fail.
In failing to raise taxes on the rich and on Wall Street, and in failing to cut pork barrel and bad federal projects in their districts Congressional Republicans know they have a President weak at economic negotiations and comprehension of Wall Street’s affect on the nation’s economy the past 40 years. They also have confidence that Chief Justice Roberts will without exception throw court decisions in the directions of his investments on The Street when simultaneous processing of cases of international investments are in the balance..
The spirit of Ted Stevens at appropriations lives on in Sen. McConnell and Speaker Boehner.
If Greece was not using the Euro instead of the Drachma these days hedge fund manager would be placing their billions on that currency during Greece’s present budget troubles. It is said that the U.S.A. isn’t Greece-that the U.S.A. isn’t really broke; however the U.S. dollar does stand alone and is thus a good currency to bet on and to win billions or even a trillion or two should the dollar’s value plummet on a definite schedule known by insiders.
It is easy to imagine that the rise or fall of the value of the dollar, hedge fund bets on it besides credit default swaps and sundry ten dimensional financial trading instruments could be the present Wall Street illuminati wave of public trust trimming that some Republicans could be making a killing on by letting the federal government default on its debt August 2nd 2011.
Unfortunately it seems to financially unsophisticated observers that the Wall Street Banking, Investment, Risk Arbitrage and currency speculators with Republican support may be toying once again with exotic trading products for windfall profit to their immediate financial gain without regard for the economic loss of the nation.
The Hungarian-Jewish-American legendary currency hedge fund short seller George Soros famously made a fortune betting on the value of the British pound and was credited with costing that government loads of cash. Perhaps President Obama might get expert advice from Mr. Soros on what to look for on Wall Street’s present betting in order to trace possible connections to Republican political inside traders short selling the U.S.A.
Raising taxes on Wall Street’s rich would be one realistic way to capture some investment for development of new, transformative ecologically rational transportation and housing businesses in the U.S.A. rather than far beyond the borders. Republican House and Senate leaders are positioned like inside trading partners heavily invested in global trading funds and corporations with full knowledge of their own plans to devalue the dollar unilaterally by letting the government negotiations on raising the debt ceiling fail.
In failing to raise taxes on the rich and on Wall Street, and in failing to cut pork barrel and bad federal projects in their districts Congressional Republicans know they have a President weak at economic negotiations and comprehension of Wall Street’s affect on the nation’s economy the past 40 years. They also have confidence that Chief Justice Roberts will without exception throw court decisions in the directions of his investments on The Street when simultaneous processing of cases of international investments are in the balance..
The spirit of Ted Stevens at appropriations lives on in Sen. McConnell and Speaker Boehner.
If Greece was not using the Euro instead of the Drachma these days hedge fund manager would be placing their billions on that currency during Greece’s present budget troubles. It is said that the U.S.A. isn’t Greece-that the U.S.A. isn’t really broke; however the U.S. dollar does stand alone and is thus a good currency to bet on and to win billions or even a trillion or two should the dollar’s value plummet on a definite schedule known by insiders.
7/6/11
Presidential Hopeful Farley Huddsagger Interview on Playtwit
Playtwit Announcer Lunk Fish; "Moderated, filtered archetypal questions selected from millions and millions served have been quantified and optimized with FDA approved high fructose filler, modified corn starch and reduced trans-fatty free speech. Playtwit News moderator Connie Twarp will channel the best questions with state-of-the-art empathy feedback sensory awareness presentation."
Connie Twarp; Mr. Huddsagger; thank you for being with the nation today on Playtwit. Loyals around the globe are ready for smokin hot twits to their tough political, emoted bestions.
Reply Farley Huddsagger; Yeah-sure Connie, make my day.
Question One; If a demon sends all the good jobs to foreign nation with cheaper wages and brings their cheap goods to the U.S.A. will that violate the conservation of energy economic laws?
Reply; No Connie it dwill not. Disorganizing entropy is a feature of transverse global capitalism. The constitution of formerly democratic societies will diminish with reverse osmosis of oligarchic ideas allocated as resources of pearls to swine.
Question Two; Will America's foreign wars end before the election in 2016?
Reply; This is a difficult question to answer. I do not wish to bias the results for my successor. The defense of Homeland Security never ends until collateralized short selling of future debt obligations and transfinite investment integers indicate a downturn in probable profit taking. Global distribution of capital plant investments and contract supply subsidiaries make futures cultural speculation difficult to predict with certainty. Stabilization for concentrating wealth processes may require patience and a few more decades to complete.
Question Three; Is there hope for tomorrow?
Reply; America can be better as a sunset power providing August illumination for the waxing powers of the second world that will be my new cheap factory labor. Americans can hope to be bumped by cheap illegal immigrant workers, quality jobs sent abroad and also experience an ecosphere in decline in order that wealth may be concentrated. The elite political class will have more global influence in the new era where labor and democratic political thought is broken. That Broke Back Mountain policy of my Pentagon, the Administration makes it simpler for the ingression of the slimification of Amerian youth. An educational process inculcating ever declining, morphing, degrading ideas of liberty and quality of life is the hope for the future. Eventually I hope to rename the District of Columbia 'Clowntown'.
Question Four; Founding liberal revolutionaries fought to free Amerians from oligharchic conservatives. Today leftists and conservatives alike seek to overthrow american nationalism in favor of globalism and the concentration of wealth and power; why is that?
Reply; Americans always wuz a lot of dumb buzzards. After the cold war against commmunist totalitarianism ended they never hit the reset button to defend against oligharchy and concentration of wealth from the right again.
Question Five- Do you think the Internet can be leveraged into ownership by concentrated wealth in this generation?
Reply-Absolutely!
Thank you Mr. Huddsagger.
Connie Twarp; Mr. Huddsagger; thank you for being with the nation today on Playtwit. Loyals around the globe are ready for smokin hot twits to their tough political, emoted bestions.
Reply Farley Huddsagger; Yeah-sure Connie, make my day.
Question One; If a demon sends all the good jobs to foreign nation with cheaper wages and brings their cheap goods to the U.S.A. will that violate the conservation of energy economic laws?
Reply; No Connie it dwill not. Disorganizing entropy is a feature of transverse global capitalism. The constitution of formerly democratic societies will diminish with reverse osmosis of oligarchic ideas allocated as resources of pearls to swine.
Question Two; Will America's foreign wars end before the election in 2016?
Reply; This is a difficult question to answer. I do not wish to bias the results for my successor. The defense of Homeland Security never ends until collateralized short selling of future debt obligations and transfinite investment integers indicate a downturn in probable profit taking. Global distribution of capital plant investments and contract supply subsidiaries make futures cultural speculation difficult to predict with certainty. Stabilization for concentrating wealth processes may require patience and a few more decades to complete.
Question Three; Is there hope for tomorrow?
Reply; America can be better as a sunset power providing August illumination for the waxing powers of the second world that will be my new cheap factory labor. Americans can hope to be bumped by cheap illegal immigrant workers, quality jobs sent abroad and also experience an ecosphere in decline in order that wealth may be concentrated. The elite political class will have more global influence in the new era where labor and democratic political thought is broken. That Broke Back Mountain policy of my Pentagon, the Administration makes it simpler for the ingression of the slimification of Amerian youth. An educational process inculcating ever declining, morphing, degrading ideas of liberty and quality of life is the hope for the future. Eventually I hope to rename the District of Columbia 'Clowntown'.
Question Four; Founding liberal revolutionaries fought to free Amerians from oligharchic conservatives. Today leftists and conservatives alike seek to overthrow american nationalism in favor of globalism and the concentration of wealth and power; why is that?
Reply; Americans always wuz a lot of dumb buzzards. After the cold war against commmunist totalitarianism ended they never hit the reset button to defend against oligharchy and concentration of wealth from the right again.
Question Five- Do you think the Internet can be leveraged into ownership by concentrated wealth in this generation?
Reply-Absolutely!
Thank you Mr. Huddsagger.
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