Russia Should Create Eqv. of Rhodes Scholarship for U.S.A.

Vladmir Purin should create the equivelent of the Rhodes Scholarship to balance the influence on U.S. foreign policy. Bill Clinton-the first U.S. President to have attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, radically warped U.S. foreign and domestic policy toward the Brtish and dope. Even the next Democrat President Barrack Hussein Obama used cocaine as a youth.

Rhodes scholars never go away. Bill Clinton has been all over the U.S. political scene warping everything to benefit the Brits and his bank accounts since leaving office. Russia has suffered quite a bit since that Rhodes scholar held the Presidency. Russia could make its scholarship equally prestigious to the Rhodes with superior funding for the scholar.

That scholar would not be investigated by the F.B.I. for 'meeting with the British envoy', even if elected President.

Germany is another nation with a bad rep that should create the equivelence of the Rhodes scholarship that is 'dedicated to the advancement of the Anglo race' with the intent of influencing U.S. domestic policy for the purpose of 'selling e-books of Gary C Gibson' (just kidding) allowing Germans to fell superior to everyone else again or alternatively; 'to negate those d-mn racist Brits.

Svalbard, Arctic Ice Loss, Methane Issues etc (YouTube videos)

Here are a few interesting and scenic Northern Ice videos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrxlYExeyU      Svalbard satellite timelapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t58AbGd2Vd0     Taking off from Svalbardx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1F_BzHdjQs     NASA Operation IceBridge Zig Zag East (Svalbard - Thule Air Base)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJfOWfaP6RI      Methane in East Siberian Arctic Shelf 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1G9gqhkYA      Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7Oj-r9Hko        Arctic ice loss time lapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdL0g8Cc0ks       Ocean's oxygen dropping much faster than previously believed

Germany Is Very Bad; What Can Be Done About That

President Trump rightly pointed out that the Germans are very, very bad. He was referring to their trade surplus with the U.S.A. After reading Tacitus history book on Germany I realized that. Germans had a monetary compensation based corrections system that charged less for injuring a stranger to the tribe than a tribe member.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trumps-alleged-slight-against-germans-generates-confusion-backlash/2017/05/26/0325255a-4219-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html?utm_term=.55c2109c3f77

It is easy to understand President Trump's displeasure with our traditional enemy. For those that forgot history (Alzheimer's deaths are up 55% the past 15 years maybe due to dopers getting old), Germany sent mercenaries to fight against the American Revolution, attacked U.S. shipping (e.g. the Lusitania) to draw us into the first world war and then resumed the war in the final battle called W.W. II.

There is no question that Germans would have nuked the U.S.A. if they had developed the A-bomb before the Manhattan project. Because Germany was so misguided traditionally, they have sought to exterminate Jews and make good friends to sympathetic Muslims. Thus Germany liked Barrack Obama and Israel didn't seem to care for him. Now the Germans have a trade surplus with the U.S.A. and show no moral guilt for having that.

Germany should invest 60 billion more each year in the U.S.A. buying into U.S. space businesses that create jobs paying good wages. They should fundamentally spend more in Alaska besides in tourism as well.

Cars are obsolete that use fossil fuels-and even electric cars require global heating causing blacktop roads. So Germany should lead in non-governmental environmental reconstruction in the U.S.A. instead of cheating to pass government auto exhaust tests .

Germany may one day try a sneaky war on the U.S.A. with biological or nano-weapons; who can say? Germany history in the long run shows that they are a latent threat. If they attack again the U.S.A. would vaporize em for good I suppose. My father was a W.W. II veteran of four years off North Africa. That war doesn't seem so terribly long ago in some respects, although he would have been first to forgive them and the Japanese for making the mistake of causing a war that led directly to the deaths of more than 50 million people.

Germans are good technicians with the problem of being taken over by aristocrats now and then. Left Hegelians such as Feurbach, Bauer and Marx also emerged from the self-defining ego school of German romanticism that shapes the wrong thought of people not only of the right, but of the left too.

Germany could develop a good space program in the U,S,A, launching to build a moon base perhaps. Or spend on programs that would get more Americans to use alternative energy that produce electricity for individuals and homes. The German trade surplus properly addressed could be a tool for much good.

Is President Trump Assertive Enough (video)

President Trump without brusque rudeness levered his way to the front of the pack of politicians at a NATO summit recently. The media wrote that it was a 'shove'. Thankfully they aren't in the judiciary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4rWVOeEI7Y

President Trump could learn politeness on how to kurtsy and kiss a with European leaders that are Russian haters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XedTY80DKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etiMil0_4Jw

Were Some of the Web Giants a Bit Crooked?

When the Harvard Crimson student paper was hacked targeting Mark Zuckerberg visiting for a commencement speech there were articles posted about it descriving some of the Facebook founder's murck or even trecherous origin of the corporation wherein he might have stolen the idea from fellow students who had hired him to develop 'Harvard Connections' and expand it to other campuses.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-speech-trolled-by-harvard-newspaper-sabotage/

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3?op=1/#-going-to-fuck-them-4

Peter Theil founder of Pay Pal was an early investor in the Zuckerberg Facebook start-up.

That made me recall that Bill Gates of Microsoft was also alledged to have received stolen goods; the DOS disc operating system that was developed by Gary Kildall through IBM who had purloined it and gave an exclusive contract to Mr. Gates for its pcs if he developed it.

Then there is the late Steve Jobs of Apple. Legend has it he stole the mouse idea that made small computer use practical. Apparently Jobs is the only one of the big three that seems to be entirely kosher. His encounter with the mouse of Xerox within a legitiamte paradigm allowed him to apply his talent for innovation and improvement to make a better mouse by orders of magnitude.

http://zurb.com/article/801/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno

Jobs too had some early encounters with Bill Gates that are interesting.

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ms-dos-examined-for-thef/

http://stevejobsinc.blogspot.com/2011/04/bill-gates-steals-from-steve-jobs.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse

Alaska's State Government; Finance Issues

Nations that rely on oil revenues to pay for government usually are backward, authoritarian leaning corrupt phenomenalities opposed to reason and equal protection of the law. So many Alaskan sycophants of big oil seek to be the most flattering minions of those globalists. They have no interest in the historical facts that government must be paid for by the people and users if democracy is to exist meaningfully. An income tax is part of the equation of opportunity. It is a kind of user tax inclusive of those that simply visit the state, extract income and leave paying nothing.

The usual practice for a kleptocracy is to plunder whatever it can (oil, Permanent Fund etc.) while it can before leaving the state finance and diversification plans in ruins when the money runs out. Then of course they prefer selling government to the highest bidder.

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/05/25/alaska-needs-a-fiscal-solution-in-2017-thats-now/

Can President Trump Restore International Order?

When Barrack Obama left office he had brought chaos to the Middle East and a slow-burning conflict to Europe in Ukraine. Terrorism had increased more than at any time since 911 for Europe and the U.S.A. Illegal alien immigration had established networks of sedulous 'sanctuary cities in the U.S.A. scoffing at law, democracy and self-determnation of the electorate over immigration levels and work training. President Trump needs to correct all that mess.

When President Trump delivered a stern message to N.A.T.O.. to take their defense obligations seriously. He failed to say that if Russia is perceived as the main danger to Europe then a rapprochement with the Russians such that peace and harmony again develop as it started to under the Reagan-Gorbachev aegis, would allow reduced arms expenses (a threat to arms manufacturers) and increased European economic health. What Europe doesn't need is stress with Russia instead of love and understanding.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/530051945/as-trump-slams-nato-allies-obama-defends-international-order (a leftist audio rag)

President Obamao spoke in Germany with our former bitter and bloody enemies about Americans 'hiding behind a wall' in a speech ridiculing national job security. Maybe growing up in a Muslim nation he doesn't think much about American efforts to liberate Germany from Hitler and the Nazis during the 1940s. Americans weren't hiding behind a wall then nor would be now if they built a viable national defense barrier against illegal immigration.

President Trump is faced with as great of a challenge as was Hercules in correcting the deficiences to U.S. and International interests created by the leadership vacuum after Reagan-Bush in 1992. Cleaning out the stables of mountains of bureaucratic policy poop would make any non-sycophant of just spend and Fed Reserve roll out the money policy flinch a little considering the size of the deficits environmentally and economically.

The President's budget isn't so bad, yet he should eliminate and cuts to the Department of Energy's advanced and non-polluting tech research. That's the increasing way of the future. The Government needs to work with change in order to work with corporations and individuals producing items that bring it.

President Trump should leave ANWR alone because it will be a big fight creating enmity forever and making Republicans seem like retarded neanderthals trying to enrich Exxon-Mobile/BP primarily without any sense of public service or leadership or a remnant of integrity.

Walls are built at prisons to keep convicts in, yet the Welsh leader Offa built a great dike that kept savage, troubled Brits from invading pastoral Wales for some time. The Romans built a wall to keep vile, rapacious, ugly Scot warrior-hordes from attacking the lovely and bucolic southern parts in the primary British isle. Mexican hordes of job-plundering international anarchists wreaking havoc on the value of labor in the U.S.A. can be kept at bay with a salt-water desalination canal (condensation from evaporation) on the border while making water if the administration has a little good sense. The water can be piped in from the Pacific ocean using solar powered pumps.

Cheap labor is damaging to the efforts to treat all lawful Americans fairly and even to change the economy to a sustainable atmospherically benign activity. The U.S.A. could show Mexico how to build a health and sustainable ecospherically cool economy if it had a clue about how to do that itself.

Republican Health Care Bill D.O.A.-Victimizes the Poor, Weak, and Old Yearning for Pain Relief

Republicans need to get real with a good health care paradigm that isn't just a crooks ideal transformation of Obama-Corporate-Burocratocare into cheap-o-care for the benefit of the rich.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/05/24/republican-health-care-bill-indicted-again-editorials-debates/102117716/

The sole affordable health care would be for the government to invest in upgrading and expanding existing V.A. hospitals and poor peoples public health clinics...I will modestly name that Trump-Care. Every poor American would be eligible free treatment for walking in.

The government should offer very low-interest short and moderate term health care loans for people that need some sort of blue-moon surgery or emergency treatment yet have jobs and solid annual income since money is so cheap from the Federal Reserve now. The loans would be up to $30,000 with favorable repayment terms.

Pre-existing conditions and chronic illness care should be in another program if insurers are reluctant to cover that.

Its fairly simple to ad hoc and piece together a better coverage paradigm for all Americans-even bringing fuel cell and electric vehicle transportation networks to synergize patient transportation to authorized low-or-no-income treatment outlets. There are numerous ways to delivery free or affordable health care that aren't even considered by the U.S. Government because big corporate and big governemnt are their primary ways of thinking about anything.

Alzheimer's Dead Up 50%-Probably From Auto Exhaust and Clinton Era 'Dumbing Down'

People dying from Alzheimer's are up 50% perhaps as a result of a worse social environment to live in rather than from an influx of immigrants from a part of the world thick with the disease. People forget that Dumb and Dumber movies wern't always held to be the pinnacle of art.

http://www.livescience.com/59261-alzheimers-deaths-increase.html

Loud music, dope and profuse automobile exhaust may be exacting there grim toll in those exposed to cars, bars Clintons and global warming. Television could also be a contributing factor as people become dumbed down and encourage to disrespect intelligence, reading, philosophy and thoughtfulness general. Even before the disease manifests they have been trained to be victims.

Maybe Americans really should have worn tin foil hats to protect them from cosmic rays and cell phone microwaves. Nothing can stop fatty foods and obesity from clogging up the brain and letting swiss cheese disease develop,

I will try to write another pseudo-scientific article some other time. One needs to worry about what to write before the capacity to think disappears watching the broadcast media.

Seattle Should Trade Richard Sherman to Dallas for Zeke Elliot

One would need ESP to know how the Seahawks will do next season. Richard Sherman is restive and wants to move on and Coach Carroll should find a way to let him go,

Herb Adderly-Hall of Fame image credit

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19446657/seattle-seahawks-cornerback-richard-sherman-let-go-problem-nfl-2017

WIthout a great runner on offense to keep opponents honest Russell  WIlson has fewer opportunities to complete passes. Coach Carroll shoud expect Elliot and a receiver in trade-maybe even old Jason Witten (who will probably make the hall of fame).

Sure reasonable people would like the Broncos to win the Superbowl yet their quarterback problems don't seem close to being solved; actually they have three that all could use seasoning yet aren't ready now. And Russell Wilson probably could use R.G. III or Johnny Manziel as an alter-ego and trainee rival to encourage excellence.

Theremgiht be some sort of quality cornerback waiting unsigned working as a Mongolian cowboy on the high plains somewhere that Seattle could get to work cheaper than Mr. Sherman. who would make less of a splash and more tackles.

How to Body-Slam the Media

Candidate for U.S. Congress in Montana Greg Gianforte reportedly body-slammed one of the media papparrizi that got in his face. Though the term may be more media hyperbole, or disinformation, here is a video with a minute of instruction on how candidates could really body slam (the media) when they get too invasive.

Congress should body-slam NPR and remove their funding from the Federal budget.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/a-transcript-of-the-greg-gianforte-body-slam-audio/528102/

The Self-Positing Ego and Dr. Ben Carson's Romanticism

The self-positing ego may easily be misunderstood. A=A probably should have a bi-conditional logic operator rather than an equal sign, or rather, it might be noted that 'I' is implicitly tautologous.

Fiche's paradigm seems incorrect, yet to various degrees those that have experienced life swimmingly without too much adversity may regard society itself as a kind of tabula rasa they can transform as readily as they might learn another language. I wrote a brief essay on a comment of Dr. Ben Carson serving in the Trump administration l will include below.

It might be useful to compare the point of view of Fichte with Bishop Berkeley and his 'ideamism'. Fichte sought to actualize his subjectivity as a transcending fact while Berkeley left it as an academic argument. In Berkeley's Matrix like paradigm the construction of reality is heterodox rather than solipsistic.

Kierkegaard was right on many or most of the topics regarding the balance required to use irony as a life-tool rather than to allow subjectivity to lead one to delusion. His 'Sickness Unto Death' can be summarized in the phrase he used that 'despair is the unwillingness to be oneself'. A clinically useful insight.

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had a context in which it appeared such as a given ‘mindset’ inertially exists as a cultural characteristic, however it is a useful comment for illustrating the point of view of certain German romantics of the mid-19th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/?utm_term=.3e20a7fcad4a

Those romantics exploiting the concept of irony or subjective detachment from the objective social world-establishment to the point of abnegation and nihilism regarded social conventions as of little worth. There is another way to use the detachment or subjective perspective associated with Socrates and his saying ‘know thyself’ that isn’t nihilistic. Instead it is analytical-critical of society and culture while introspective and moving on to comprehend what is right and wrong, good or bad, true or false about society upon reflection rather than just dismissing it all.

It is somewhat ironic that the conservative Dr. Ben Carson personified the relativism vilified by conservatives who prefer objective facts and established empirical reality over subjectivity and detachment favored by the left. Obviously the truth is somewhere mid-way between the two extremes. The extreme subjectivity reaching unto solipsism favored by Schlegel and somewhat less so by Goethe can dismiss objective reality and say that for the individual everything is just a state of mind-even when it is pouring cold rain it would be nothing more than a state of mind for the romantic being drenched. The coefficient of adversity keeping one in poverty is not just one's own thought; it has reciprocals in the thought of others.

Poverty like slavery is not just a state of mind. When wealth concentrates and plutocracy controls and totalized the economy and when computer quant programs control 70% of Wall Street transactions at least in part, or when a city burns down with incendiary bombs dropping in from the sky it is more than a state of mind experienced or even constructed by an individual.

Saying that poverty is a state of mind reflects the poverty of naive realism drifting in as a cloud of optimism around the heads of those who have made it good rather easily with insufficient experience of social resistance to making things better.

Ben Carson's Romanticism; 'Poverty is a State of Mind'

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had a context in which it appeared such as a given ‘mindset’ inertially exists as a cultural characteristic, however it is a useful comment for illustrating the point of view of certain German romantics of the mid-19^th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/?utm_term=.3e20a7fcad4a

Those romantics exploiting the concept of irony or subjective detachment from the objective social world-establishment to the point of abnegation and nihilism regarded social conventions as of little worth. There is another way to use the detachment or subjective perspective associated with Socrates and his saying ‘know thyself’ that isn’t nihilistic. Instead it is analytical-critical of society and culture while introspective and moving on to comprehend what is right and wrong, good or bad, true or false about society upon reflection rather than just dismissing it all.

It is somewhat ironic that the conservative Dr. Ben Carson personified the relativism vilified by conservatives who prefer objective facts and established empirical reality over subjectivity and detachment favored by the left. Obviously the truth is somewhere mid-way between the two extremes. The extreme subjectivity reaching unto solipsism favored by Schlegel and somewhat less so by Goethe can dismiss objective reality and say that for the individual everything is just a state of mind-even when it is pouring cold rain it would be nothing more than a state of mind for the romantic being drenched. The coefficient of adversity keeping one in poverty is not just one's own thought; it has reciprocals in the thought of others.

Poverty like slavery is not just a state of mind. When wealth concentrates and plutocracy controls and totalized the econom and when computer quant programs control 70% of Wall Street transactions at least in part, or when a city burns down with incendiary bombs dropping in from the sky it is more than a state of mind experienced or even constructed by an individual.

Saying that poverty is a state of mind reflects the poverty of realism drifting in as a cloud of optimism around the heads of those who have made it good rather easily who have no experience of social resistance to making things better.

An Essay on Socratic Irony (video)

Evolution of Christianity

Evolution can mean many things. Change and complexity increasing in time seems to be the main meaning. Things that don't work die off. That's the paradigm when someone says something like 'our seminary will grow if it's God's will'. In that case though it's a kind of directed evolution determining the winners within a pre-determined physical Universe of possibilities. The irony is that winning means being chosen by God for salvation unto eternity rather than the temporal. Plainly over time Christianity has grown in scale and compexity.

The visible church has evolved extensively-possibly more than any other human social organization establishment the past two millenia plus. To fail to see that would require blindness. Consider just the relation of Church and state, empires and ethics across the entire world from Jesuits in Japan and Brazil to the Orthodox church in Byzantine and Russian history, the tonsure and celibacy policies of various times, dead sea scrolls, illustrated manuscripts and PDF files.

Even so the concept of evolution does not require atheism as part of its meaning. Neither does evolution mean that one must accept Darwinian evolution as its meaning exclusively. Christian theology has evolved as well as the visible church. Arianism mostly died off for example. There are not too many Lollards about these days, and in the second century Jehovas Witnesses and Mormons had yet to see frst light. One could write on the topic for years regarding the historical evolution of the Christian church including that of the history of St. Cyril, Constantine and Irish Celtic Christians.

Chrstianity and the kingdom of God in the church of the Lord has increased like Abraham's children from a small sprout to a great tree rich with complexity and size. From being communicated just in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin the gospel is available now in virtually every spoken language and on every continent. etc.

Cheeto and the Whales; Plundering ANWR

The costs of destroying the purity of ANWR will far outweigh the benefits of tearing up tundra, melting permafrost, laying miles of pipeline, spillling pollutants, wreaking havoc on the Beaufort Sea, killing off marine mammals with noise and increasing global warming. Increasing dependence on what should be an obsolete energy technology, and would be if Alaska didn't have a goal of being a second world energy state, is good mostly for oil CEO bank accounts..

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/whales-dang-big-science-may-finally-answer/

President Trump, who acerbic democrats called Cheeto and the orangutan common ancestor of humanity, should send Johnny Depp in full pirate regalia as Ambassador to ANWR to inform the humans of Arctictown of the benefits of fossil fuels and value of ANWR to Exxon-Mobile, BP or whomever.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/05/22/ape-that-lived-in-europe-7-million-years-ago-could-be-human-ancestor-controversial-study-suggests/

Neither party has a responsible budget paradigm. Democrats are the nag half of Republican husbandry such that it's a one-party system of spendthrifts. U.S. public debt is a litle shy (about 80 billion) of 20 trillion and the federal budget is about 80% tied up with little for discretionary spending. What is needed are new ways with sustainable ecosphere and economic policies, and nations seldom meet new challenges to alter economic infrstructure practices sucessfully. Each party is working for a global plutocratic oliarchy-Obama's tax cuts helped with that. The ANWR gambit is just another plunder everything possible and concentrate wealth for the 1% tack.

Irony and Individuality; Why Nihilism is Relatively Meaningless

I have sometimes wondered what culture people come from such that they ask questions like; 'who am I', without having suffered from amnesia. I haven't really been troubled by a problem of cosmological meaninglessness or personal identity crisis. IMO people that have might be originally from a tightly controlled social environment wherein they really are turned out in cookie cutter fashion. I commiserate with people that have been formed in mass produced circumstances rather than with the freedom of individuality.

Escaping from conformity formerly was something of a European problem perhaps. In the United State from the time of the founders people were doomed to be free individuals on the edge of a frontier. Spiritually the frontier never really closed before the 1970s.

Cosmology is neither a source for anxiety about meaninglessness. People exist everywhere as individuals and it was what they think subjectively that they experience as conscious thought experience. It is their freedom to put together whatever package of knowledge and data they can in the best possible configuration within their own capacity.

I suppose the Universe and mass energy might be compared to a pointillist painting with everything made of strings, branes, quarks and atoms including individuals. As in the novel Utopia that means 'nowhere', nowhere is where anyone exists...one place is in an absolute sense (against a transcending Universal backdrop), as central as any other. Even so people are not just quantum dots clumped together by their own free will. Instead there are forces, patterns and destiny that holds people together in addition to elements, planets, stars, dark matter and energy etc.

Individuals exist apart from any other in a unique space-time position. In theory the force of gravity holding them on Earth could be negated with technology and they might relocate anyplace in the temporal Universe. As individuals meaning would still be relative to themselves and their understanding of all of the waves of communication they perceive, and reason about what they find.

Kripke and Quine had somewhat different approaches to nominalism and pluralism, Platonic realism and nominalism (e.g. 'Naming and Necessity' and 'Ontological Relativism'. Particulars and Universals such as Socrates regarded and Plato wrote of were somewhat ahead of Aristotle's great efforts at classifying human knowledge are tools for existential analysis. Irony or self-objectivity about the external social world with one's subjective capacity of thinking for oneself is what all humans necessarily do to a certain extent since they are not automatons only resembling sentient beings. While everything is relative to one's subjectivity, communication is a socially dialectical phenomenon. Words and ideas; meanings- are more phenomenal things to be perceived and used as one constructs their life-project in-the-world as best as they can.

Jesus Christ was/is the truth that makes one free. He was God-for others and one of the three persons who is God. One is phenomenally free yet existent within various physical force fields. People are as unique as anything that is just as one planet is not another though there are billions, and one number is not the same in an infinite series though there is an infinity of them.

Developing introspective and reasoning skills can be fairly said to have entered intellectual history with Socrates, yet he also was an exponent of classical virtue. I believe he should not have been able to precisely define 'the good' yet he does provide a fine exposition of classical virtue and pursuit of the good and knowledge in the Platonic dialogues. That is lacking from modern nihilism and relativism. Socrates and classic virtue did not vacate morality claiming that relativism made everything absolutely subjective. Just as Jesus said the kingdom is within you and the truth shall make you free, Socrates sought to awaken individuals to an inner reflection on virtue and its meaning finding that it would comprise a dialectic with the natural world. It is a kind of natural law as Cicero wrote of later, yet even more virtuous.

Any age may have a spirit of the times. However the Holy Spirit is the sole guide worth following. It is wisdom as well as natural law. It transforms the individual from bondage to nature and unreflective pursuit of baser desires to contemplation of virtue, the good and the divine. With irony and individual might discern that it is his or her own responsibility to improve their intellectual library of understanding of how the Universe or Multiverse functions, to be aware of one's place in the temporal phenomenon and to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior who is prior to space-time in any possible material Universe. 

Salvation does not mean that one blandly, blindly follows the way of the cultural-economic world show wherein 'one struts and frets an hour upon the stage meaninglessly signifying nothing'. Christians may work, construct, design, solve, journey, forgive, innovate and provide relief so far as their capacity permits. One has an infinite sea of words, ideas and Universes of learning and wisdom to consider in this life awaiting the personal eternal transformation to the realm of God, who is good.

President Trump Joins Eco-Pirates withn ANWR Lust

President Trump wants to plunder the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for its oil to provide global oil corporations more oil than they need already. Trump's analysts have given him ANWRs value as 1.6 billion dollars over a decade, yet the environmental costs are probably greater. And the United States already has more oil than it needs due to fracking, fracking has already started in Alaska and existing fields may be regenerated, and eventually the public will be left holding the bag with the costs of cleaning up after thousands of weather beaten dried up wellheads, pipeline, melted permafrost from global warming, costs of saving endangered species, costs of leaking oil wells into the Arctic ocean and rivers never before polluted by mankind, underground water purity violated with fracking fluids etc.

The President really is unlikely to get a second term if someone other than satan doesn't run against him, as he loses independent yet ecospherically informed voters. The high Arctic needs to be protected, not plundered. He may want to have Johnny Depp in full pirate gear serve as Ambassador to ANWR  persuade people of the value of extracting the oil.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/23/trump-proposes-opening-anwr-to-drilling-selling-strategic-oil-reserves/

Irony and Human Knowledge

The book of Genesis is arguably the most influential work in human history. It has influenced innumerable intellectuals and ordinary people. Yet ironically it has largely been misunderstood.

Especially interesting as an illustration of the double-edged nature of knowled regarding bomb making knowledge yesterday was a suicide bomber detonating him or herself (or indeterminate in the midst of sex confirmation evolution) at an Ariana Grande music concert in England killing more than 22 people. Knowledge is dangerous yet human life is dangerous, as is virtually all animal life. The three stooges with uncertainty on how to use or configure what-they-know.

Ferdinand Christian Baur was the founder of the high form of Biblical criticism at Tubingen and was influenced by 'Kierkegaard's dialectic' (ref. Wikipeda). Preaching or providing one's opinions about the state of worldly affairs and/or religious concerns is of the essence of irony.

And that too is why it is ironic that the largest paradigm for human existence at its traditional genesis is misunderstood. Adam and Eve were cast out of an atemporal existence not subject to space-time entropy and then were cast out into-the-world. Apparently they existed apart from the space-time Universe. Only after the fall did they receive the containment corrections for original sin. Human mortality and the paradigms for animal existence in the Universe were where Adam and Eve as souls were sent. That is, the physical existence of being human and like animals requirement to metabolize is the context for original sin.

Thus what's wisdom to man is foolishness to God, and one may only be saved through faith. One may knock oneself out with the greatest quest for knowledge and still end up as simply human and isolated from God in the material, human condition. 

The state of the Christian church in Europe since the second century has always been an important part of civil society by increasing degrees. The church-state relation concerned empire and counter-empire, reform and counter-reform. Human development occurred within the church in Europe inseparably until recent times, as well as in parallel cultural establishment. Human knowledge and the body of thought that comprise the history of ideas continues as a fire growing from its earliest days possibly in the Balkans circa 7.2 million years b.p. where mankind may have branched off from big apes according to recent scientific reports.

Church establishments like all cultural establishments and organizations tend to seek to expand. Perpetual revolution or creative destruction seems to be the nature of governing and organizational establishment even if within a conservative evolutionary rather than a violent paradigm. Christians probably need to use irony such as Kierkegaard employed to be able to take the gospel of Jesus Christ for itself rather than as given by an established organizational hierarchy with goals virtually indistinguishable from those of any acme organization to sustain the standard of living of its members.

The human quest for knowledge will continue until the age of the gentiles is fulfilled.

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Socrates and Subjective Truth

As a practical matter; stones don't think and people do. Digital recorders and parrots can repeat what they hear without belief or knowing what the meaning is. People just existing as part of a social order may live without thinking much about why anything is the way it is either. Socrates wanted to stimulate people to think critically and to develop their own reasoning capacity, although it may have been because he was secretly symathetic to Sparta's form of government (much more like that of 'The Republic' than Athenian democracy. Free thought requires that one determine what is true or not for-oneself rather than blindly repeating what one has been told.

Subjectivity and truth are different concepts. Socrates sometimes found truth and subjectivity coinciding, sometimes not, perhaps. Modern philosophy makes retro-interpretation of Attic paradigms a little challenging. There wasn't a philosophical field of epistemology Socrates could use to compare and contrast his ideas..

Truth theory for example. There are many of them. I prefer the correspondence theory or the truth assignments practices of propositional logic. One may make up a truth table and assign various conditions such as true or false,being or nothingness to the sentence and clusters of sentences of it and test variables or constants of it for consistency etc.

I believe Socrates great contribution is that of being the founder of analytic philosophy along with Plato and Aristotle. Particulars and Universals in word and ideas, forms and a realm of forms; that was genius. Kierkeguaard's role in developing irony and subjectivity occurred in a different poltical-historical context yet is comparable favorably to that of Socrates-even more so as the political dangers were probably greater internationally. Kierkeguaard can't be credited with founding the practice of subjectivity for individuals yet he was modern popularizer of it. His writing such as Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death are I think, his great contributions.

On Socrates other notable features concerning subjectivity and individualism of which he is extolled so commonly ( I recall encountering that even in elementary school world history), I believe people don't regard his historical paradigm well enough. He was a combat veteran of the Peloponnese an war and might have had a little PTSD. He seemed more than a little stoic in the modern sense. The Republic described by Plato really resembles a philosophers ideal dream of Sparta transformed.

Supposedly Socrates twice saved the life of the brilliant Alcibiades during the wars. Before Alcibiades defected to the Spartan League he chiseled the noses off some of the Gods of Athens. The war ended only in 404 B.C. and Socrates was executed in 399. His efforts to corrupt youth exteded to seeking support for the restoration of oligarchy apparently. That is what is called sedition now days.

Socrates must have been a little torn by the comparative political systems of Sparta and Athens. His inner voice or Daimon might have been a deeper balancing thought speaking to him for clarification. Although Socrates evidently did believe in God, it was an unknown and transcendent God for him that Christians might identify with as being omnipresent.

A substantial part of the subjective-objective truth paradigm has been resolved by analytic philosophy (e.g. Kant (The Critique of Pure Reason) Strawson (Individuals), Quine (The Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Word and Object). Yet for Socrates and later Kierkegaard there was so much virgin philosophical turf to plow that it was more than a lifetime task developing the terms and paradigms for individuals and society. Sartre wrote that his Existentialism was a continuation of the French rationalism of Descartes insofar as it examined thought from first principles of cogitation and self-reflection. Yet the idea of criticizing social constructions and ossified praxis (Sartre's term) formally was virtually non-existent in Socrates day outside the writings of Hebrew prophets (i.e. Isaiah).

It is useful to have social roles that people can easily fit in. Socrates wrote that the unexamined life is not worth living though, and if one is to find Christ in a non-Christian culture that is certainly true. It is also true if one has an undesirable social role and wants to get out of the gutter as it were being exploited by Jobba the Hut. In the U.S.A. 11 million jobs in retail are expected to disappear to robots the next 10 years. The unemployed keep finding it harder to find anything meaningful to do for earning a living. Stability can be good, yet in ancient Athens the contrast between unchanging social forms and radical change that would be brought by Alexander, Macedonians and subsequent hordes of new pagan gods was like a calm between the past and the perfect storm and giant waves of the future.