Wtaching the L.A. Lakers defeat the Knicks then become crushed by Milwuakie might give us the tale of two cities if cities weere involved rather than sports teams; even so the Lakers have a chance to win the title actually with quite a few young players supplying energy. Paul Westfall might be good for an eastern team, yet for the west the Lakers might start Kobi-light Malik Monk/Bradley and Reeve/Anthony and get a shooting forward for Mr. Westfall.
Lebron is sort of Mr. Basketball wisdom and the team is playing better even with Westfall not shooting pointers so well as he would ideally, like Kobi.
Strange hearing expert blasts from the past speaking ahout public ragdio in support of the conflict-with-Russia narrative. Most recently former cheap of staff- the Moses Snake of Power holder Admiral Mullins, appeared with comments concerning Ukraine. Mr. Mullins if you remember, spoke before Congress during the Obama administration in support of homosexual marriage; making what seemed to be lustful sexpressions toward SecDef Bill Gates (or some similar potentatecy).
Extremists (audio-sic) who dissent with homosexual marriage might believe former madmiral Mullins ought to have been keelhauled, given 50 lashes from the cat-o-nine tails, hung from the highest yardarm, given a dishonorable discharge and fed to sharks, yet he would be a corporatist supporter of Russia as invaders of their former homeland narrative- like all paradoxically trending corporatists of government and public radio and is promotable. The plot thickens to a degree comparable to Ludlum’s Aquitane Progression. Maybe a half century of economic sanctions will follow the Reconquista of Ukraine rather than a soaking nuclear exchange of the usual suspects. The west may patiently wait for the elevation of a strong homosymp to the Russian Presidency to make things right for global corporatrism. If I could afford Bitcoins I would guess they are presently a good investment until the internet crashes with EMP. Pie-sus of eight might be fair substitute for those that passed the bar-d-har-vard.
I suppose this comment wouldn’t pass corporate muster with Ukraine initiative neo-cons, yek (that means spirit in Tlingit), however I am mostly censored anyway at Blogger with zero views these days per post so it won’t disturb anyone. Besides I have a photographic memory of everything I hear, so I need to comment while I can before the sound-waves fade away into the great oblivion taking them all.
A digital universe created as it were by a pointillist artist of physics is a novel idea of the 20th century that has emerged as a secular rival to natural evolution theory. Some might regard natural evolution as complimentary to a digital universe embedded within in initial parameters of a Universe without setting them. In that sense evolution itself would be a fluke determined incidental to a Universe that may have had many alternative boundary conditions. What is a digital universe?
If undifferentiated fields of unknown origin are the fundamental phenomena of being, points made from breaking up fields into small units would be a logical egression to engender pluralism. Points or strings as units could be fundamental components – each digit assigned a mathematical variable or constant value, or infinite scalar field ordinal and cardinal relative values, of a proto-digital universe. An omniscient artist emanating fields relative to spirit, or a spiritual digital programmer-author setting boundary conditions, or even some sort of self-starting digital designer from eternity might know to control fields and field variations and compositions so well as to order all of the basic physical constructions, atoms, molecules and relativistic fields of a universe construction. I believe that is what is meant by a digital universe. Although there is another meaning to consider.
Some regard a digital universe as a simulation that seems real to sentient minds embedded within it as if they were in a Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions or Matrix Resurrection paradigm. In that simulation a real universe made from natural evolution is believed to still exist, yet sentients are unaware of the real universe and in some way have their minds with apparent bodies existing within a fake, simulated universe. The developments of virtual reality entertainment devices were people experience visually comprehensive places produced for their eyes see has supported the extrapolation as in the movie Tron, that people can in some way live in a digitally constructed universe operated by a computer though someplace outside a natural physical universe exists.
Simulated universes aren’t likely to have much cosmological investigation into boundary conditions of the timeline origin of a universe. They won’t have WMAP observations of cosmic background radiation to inference the earliest dispersion pattern of mass and energy in a big bang of some kind. They aren’t likely to invest in Hubble or Webb space telescopes to view the oldest and earliest stars of the Universe (or their aged light). One might wonder if any Universe that exists should need to have a big bang and inflation origin or if the observable universe of any existing universe should necessarily be such that the original light is within view of observers living while the light can still be observed if the Universe is expanding.
Why would a great explosion at point time=0 occur anyway? Some have speculated that energy was concentrated at an infinite point singularity like a Dictator with all of the money in existence and that is was destabilized all of a sudden and burst out in a cosmic spending spree that last only for a while, and then the entire Universe was inflated greatly because all of the new space was rich with energy and demand for more created economic inflation (some humor in that paradigm). The break up of a singularity because of quantum jitters is not a cinched theory though, even if subsequent observations seem to support it, since there may be innumerable alternative explanations for that start including digital scripting.
If energy were dropped into absolute space from a concentration dispersion into nothingness seems natural. At what speed would energy disperse? Einstein might have written that the speed of light squared- moving away from itself would be the pace if he also assumed that the initial space existed and existed with dimensions without qualities except possibly polarization and that space had no qualities like slope. He probably would have considered that a Designer of Digital Energy might have set the Universe to occur within a charged field. The premise that empty space itself has no velocity or slope, asymmetric charge or field that would affect the speed of energy or its form as mass is the usual. For all I know (which isn’t much), space alone may have infinite speed characteristics naturally and dimensions could be single quality fields that may intersect to comprise standing wave phenomena for some time before moving off. Or cycling through to some other space-time. The four dimensions of this Universe could be broken off pieces of dimensional fields that remained locked up with the energy-mass consequents from the entry point of digitization.
Diplomacy 101 should be a required course for a government that seems to fail at it. Too many sycophantic bureaucrats and technicians unable to think for themselves and speak with an educated, independent, objective voice seem to run the state department and dominate D.C. The present maladroit American vector in opposition to reason and history is an educational experience for observers that have read Being and Nothingness, The Critique of Dialectical Reason and Toynbee and Treadgold’s works on history exemplifying theory as fact. State and N.A.T.O have a colonialist view of Ukraine and Russia and narrate use-truths that define their own social reality. Russians probably want to repossess the Ukraine- the borderlands, regarding it as something like a stolen truck.
U.S. diplomacy concerning potential or actual belligerents isn’t too subtle; it means give up or we will sanction and conflict you and yours until we bury you. It would be a preferred alternative to have creative means of transcending paradigms that draw American interests to use their diplomats and politicians like puppets and mouthpieces in support of plutocratic policy. Like Hitler, President Clinton and the Brits thought they could ‘jack the Ukraine from Russia in 1994 and nothing meaningful would follow except profits. They couldn’t have been more wrong. President Ronald Reagan was the only one in his administration that wanted completely bilateral nuclear disarmament.
When most of the west were mired in a Cold War mentality President Reagan shepherded the west and worked with Soviet Union leadership toward ending the conflict for good, and communists sought Reagan’s free enterprise and democracy. Reagan understood real politik; Democrats today are a media kool-aid drinking crew of one party-rule (themselves) with hate for all opposition. When time moved on and with Reagan long gone evil lawyers frumped the dark side of the force exploited the nascent Russian Federation like carpet baggers looting nations.
In the United States the rise of the black internal proletariat generated a worldview in opposition to the historical majority monomaniacally taken up by the Democrat Party and is used to view the world. In the proletariat’s view there are allies and foes of just demands of proletarians. Race is used as a metric for legislation rather than economics and classes impartial of race. The dwindling white middle class majority that had kept concentrated wealth in check with progressive taxes for a generation became targets of downsizing b y Democrats and Wall Street that had policies in support of borderless globalization and cheap labor. White middle class conservative anti-disestablishmentarianism was thought of as fascist. Not all white American males were of the same political opinions though; the civil war for example scythed the best whites of north as well as south.
Democrats have joined with Wall Street to synthesize a point of view enabling capitalist colonization of the globe, importation of cheap labor and eliminating all resistance to Wall Street’s concentration of wealth and partly shared values of the internal proletariat such as homosexual ‘marriage’. Russia is regarded as resisting British, butch and foreign political power.
Russian plainly wants the Ukraine returned. I admonished the Democratic party not to elect Bill Clinton or Tom Harkins in the 1992 primaries yet they did, against good reason. Harkins and Clinton were too much the anglophiles investing in British territories and/or education. MI-5 may have made videos of Bill Clinton as an Oxford Rhodes scholar getting serviced by British girls or smoking dope or using cocaine and would have had him effectively by the balls for his future (vis. Bill Clinton-Jeffrey Epstein-Brit royal axis of evil). I doubt that Mr. Clinton just started getting serviced by women transported by state troopers to hotel rooms as Arkansas governor.
Did the lawyer-President Bill Clinton abuse his power to get service from Monica Lewinsky the student-intern? Did the nuclear N.A.T.O. ready-for-war at military peak efficiency leader President Bill Clinton abuse his power over Boris Yeltsin- leader of a vulnerable, weak Russian Federation in disarray transitioning from communism? Democrat Party leaders are a bunch of lawyers believing they are pursuing litigation against Russia with a winning hand; as if they were Aleph Beth Corporation (just a fiction example to illustrate the point) lawyers levering a poor negro to give up his home and modest inheritance because of legal threats and asymmetric power disadvantage. Democrat lawyers are instead trying to defend and honor a (approximately.) thirty year old political mugging by President Clinton and the Brits.
President Clinton advanced British imperial interests (as Rhodes scholars are purposed to do) by taking advantaged of the weakened state of Russia in 1994 to get President Yeltsin to sign an agreement with Britain and the U.S. to relinquish Ukraine. That was comparable to the agreement Vladimir Lenin signed with Foreign Minister Molotov to relinquish Ukraine to end the war between Germany and Russia. Each submission would engender lasting and avoidable political harm to those that made the agreements. The First World War armistice laid heavy burdens, reparations and land grabs on the Germans and helped foment the Second World War (though by no means the sole cause), Since then the U.S. has learned to give generous terms to powers it has defeated in war in order to make allies of them so far as possible.
England has been at odds with Russia since the Tsar rebuffed and deported the Chancellor expedition about a half millennia ago that was the first English mission to Russia. England has been too happy to be the master with the U.S. blaster in its relationship with Russia when ignorant and compliant U.S. anglophiles have kissed British political asses instead of thinking for themselves of U.S. national interests. The Brits are not all bad, yet they have an imperial spirit at heart of minion-subjects under rich authority and one need be mindful of that. Brits may leap into avoidable conflicts for potential profits knowing the U.S. will bear the lion’s share of the costs.
Russia needs Dnepr river frontage and Ukrainian real estate for historical, economic and security reasons. Western Ukraine tends to want independence, and bringing those interests together is the realistic and necessary solution to the troubles. Diplomacy that has those to goals might give Eastern Ukraine to Russia and allow West Ukraine to join N.A.T.O. Even Russia might be able to live with that.
Stabilizing the Ukraine region and its century of problems concerning western tries to annex it should be done intelligently rather than stupidly and forcefully as U.S. leadership desires. Getting Russia to align with the west in most trade and security matters might be a positive influence on China and its global ambitions to divide the world toward socialist-corporatism-authoritarianism and pure corporatism. The west faces the challenge of taxing plutocrats enough to keep democracy alive and China has continuing demographic challenges that seem to require socialism and Neo-authoritarianism to de frappe.
Capitalism in a socially totalized world with no free, wild lands or way for individuals to live outside the social economy requires regulation of wealth and diminishing ecosphere health to keep democracy/republics well functioning. Otherwise democracy becomes nothing more than tokenism as a mask covering plutocracy with greed and power dominating socially and environmentally albeit usually hidden behind the media they own. The U.S. has slid so far into the plutocratic swamp that written social media opinions of dissent are labeled trink- treasonous ink (trink isn’t a reference to the German word meaning drink). Dissent is discouraged in corporatism.
With Europe, Russia, the U.S.A. and India all on the same sheet of Eco-economic and defense sheet of music Chinese aggression toward what properly should be an independent Taiwan should be easier to contain. China should find greater advantages in working with the west and Asia than being an opponent. Dangers presented by planetary plutocrats are challenges to east and west, China and the United States. Russia and Ukraine are simply chips in the global poker game big Wall Street investors play.
Religious pluralism was a basic stimulant of the rise of modern western democracy. I would like to say that it was essential for the rise of ancient Athenian democracy too, yet on that subject I am not well enough informed to make an opinion as I might about something like Socrates supporting oligarchy instead of democracy. It isn’t just a coincidence that societies in history with religious pluralism developed democracies before other nations with a more Catholic view of politics that remained true to feudalism, imperial monarchies and aristocratic social structures. Uniting individuals or princes to oppose monarchy or authoritarianism creates a natural draft of democracy to oppose tyranny.
Human social structures have their own dialectical dynamics that exist and operate rather independently of any rational or philosophical idea that is the purpose of the organization. It has the case that in modern history organizations may conflict with other organizations with the belief they are in opposition to ideas or philosophy when in fact it is nothing more than social organizations in conflict. Ideas and philosophies maybe examined in reasoned dialectic rather than conflict. People exist in organizations to secure their own personal living interests sometimes without more than ostensible, nominal belief in organizational philosophy. Organizations may adapt their operating philosophies to secular paradigms to increase their power or prosperity. Organizations have a life of their own that in the modern world are a basic cause of war.
Yet conflicting organizations centered around beliefs have been a driver in the historical development of democracy from societies that were previously monarchical or uniform. Religions may be associated with the organizational or ecclesiastic side and beliefs, philosophy and thought with the spiritual side. As ecclesiastical organizations differed interpreting scripture they organized and reformed in accordance to their ideas. Philosophical or theological pluralism stimulated organizational and ecclesiastical pluralism that grew in secular society too. In some cases as in Lutheran Germany, secession from the Catholic Hapsburg Imperial Empire grew with German princes sponsoring Protestant churches with the principalities eventually going to war with the Hapsburg Imperial, Catholic Empire and losing. Even so Protestant theological independence grew taking secular political separatism along with it. For a large part of human history free thinking individualism wasn’t allowed and religions need be in accord with the will of state political leadership. Religious tolerance only followed the growth of more democratic political systems, yet even today may not exist at all in some Muslim societies.
In the United States in social media modern atheists often write acerbically, hatefully of believers in spirit and have a nihilist attitude toward discussion about God. Atheists are an ad hoc anti-spiritual sect in conflict, fundamentally with the freedom of philosophical thought inclusive of contemplation of spiritual affairs or contingent modal logic extrapolation of the relationship of God to Multiverse parameters in regard to eternal being, quantum cosmology and so forth. Free thought differs from organizational dogma, and many atheist with evolution ideology are absolutely intolerant of free thought as it may bring more than purely materialist concepts into consideration.
An example is a digital universe. If the Universe is a digital simulation one has numerous questions concerning its relationship to God or Spirit in-itself (not just on a technical examination to discern if or where scripture supports the idea of the Word creating the Universe digitally) and to natural history; does a simulated universe trump a naturally evolved Universe because it might have been written in seven days by an advanced programmer in a form that appears within the simulation to have taken 13.2 billion years to evolve?
Philosophical contemplation is not restricted to particular lines of inquiry as popular organizational dogmatics might wish. Philosophy always reserves the right to reason and for individuals to think for themselves. Philosophy is a pluralistic procedure rather than one of simple, dogmatic monism, and one finds many philosophers ion societies that developed religious pluralism even within one sect.
Eastern societies brought numerous forms of Buddhism into existence. One wonders if the nihilist, absurdist core of Buddhism rather than belief in God reinforced monarchy necessarily rather than secular pluralism to match organizational, sectarian pluralism. Shi’a Islam developed from a dissent branch of Muhammadanism via Ali that also led to the Persian society that evolved the first modern Muslim democratic society or parliament until the U.S sponsored coup of 1954 ended it and restored an imperial government.
I wasn’t sure where I would place this post (my blog being the alternative) if anyone is concerned about finding new businesses locally where even senior citizens could be employed doing something and fish farming hasn't been considered. Norway for instance has 400 million farmed fish and half a million wild fish "at any given time".
Drawing in a new industry to Wrangell to create local jobs in an environmentally friendly way could be a goal with some evidence of existing. Would new fish farms in a district with good location and water between Shoemaker Bay and the old mill site be Wrangell’s way to develop jobs? Would the state sell small fry from the King salmon hatchery a few miles south to an entrepreneur? Would fish farming be compatible with those catching a dwindling supply of wild fish?
Wrangell has underutilized capacity at fish processing that could be filled with fish farm stock. The pathetic news report of just 48,000 extra king salmon for all of S.E. allocated mostly to commercial fisher-persons is caused by Eleatic commercial over-fishing quotas rather than sports and subsistence fishermen taking fish. Regardless of the harm to fisheries health the state always sets too low of escapement and sports and subsistence fishing quotas so the fish numbers invariably dwindle to a fraction of what a free unfettered fish stock naturally is. Therefore the politics may be right for King salmon fish farms at Wrangell to compete with European and South American fish farms as the national supply of King salmon is far less than demand. Creating several stable year-around jobs at Wrangell would be useful for those that want to work.
One of the main objections to salmon farms is fish excrement. U.A.S.E. should lead research to invent a way to filter the fish excrement from water, capture and concentrate it for land farming fertilizer sales. Exports of fertilizer to Washington farmers (if the excrement is good for farming) could be a secondary local business.
Former Sect of State Mike Pompeo seems to have a clear field for a possible 2024 Presidential bid with the administration looking weak and usually disinterested in running electable quality candidates. Pompeo isn't remotely as divisive as Donald Trump, thought he supports oil and gas for energy infrastructure continuity and will lose independent voters that favor modernization and innovation lover dinosaur fossil fuel lazy thinking. Many Republicans would like Mr. Trump to run again, yet I.M.O. he would lose again to anyone on the Democrat side of the divide.
Listening for days to the media jingoism for war with Russia over Ukraine it seems evident the administration is in the pocket of the 1% that desire a little more land and wealth east of Europe in to traditional Russian land. With no-brain U.S. political leadership European and former Pentagon general officers swell up like a lynch mob to take on the easy-peasy Russians in a show down over Ukraine.
With the least bit of diplomatic skills and negotiations the United States and Russia could have prospered dividing Ukraine along the Dnepr River. Ukraine could be a demilitarized free trade, tax free zone east and west. Apparently President Biden and the State Department minions learned nothing from the Cold War and division of Berlin and seek to repeat and improve on historical errors of the past. Ukraine isn’t part of N.A.T.O. at any rate. Ukraine isn’t even near the North Atlantic.
The United States isn’t a weak girly nation that needs to get all the girls together to take on Russian bullies because little Europeans are frightened and want to drive Russians back to Siberia where they belong with the U.S. Army and Air Force in a blitzkrieg on any Ukrainian areas with Russian speakers or autonomy and political self-determination (what’s that?). The U.S. can cut a deal with Russia directly to stabilize matters- even stationing troops in Western Ukraine and get on to good and full diplomatic relations with Russia.
The United States likes to paint itself in a corner with interminable hillbilly conflicts and always needs some place to invade to war for a while and exit with deficit spending being the victory to bring home. If U.S. leadership wasn’t so stupid it could find peaceful, prosperous ways to arrange international affairs. Not very difficult at all. Especially with Russia.
Society has become so obsessed with money and material things that good sense about mankind being better off if people work for the social good as well as themselves is being lost. If the masses can’t see the wood for the trees and political leaders aren’t able to comprehend what can make a nation better off in pursuit of their own, existential position, civilization can decline.
There are two basic forms of government for humanity these days; those that seek to concentrate wealth in a tiny minority and make slave laborers and happy work minions of everyone else, and those that prefer free enterprise and democracy with limits to capital acquisition. Plutocracy threatens the integrity of elections and enterprise with monopoly.
Atheists tend toward reduction of philosophy to the field of natural history including philosophy that is regarded as having entirely physical, evolutionary causes. In a sense those that virtual worship natural history to the exclusion of objective conceptualizing of philosophical concepts for-themselves, to be consistent, need eliminate rational thought as meaningful since that is physically deterministic phenomena. Philosophers can consider natural history inclusive of evolution paradigmata, yet also consider modal logic paradigms of an infinite supreme being (God) in regard to possible parameters of construction of infinite Universes and how an eternal being spins off temporal universes while being omniscient –i.e. do all Universes always exist and subjective minds experience them as temporal journeying through ( ref. Tegmark’s Level 4 Multiverse).
I.M.O. proper theology belongs in a spiritual site, as anti-spiritual atheism belongs rightly in some Satanic theology site. Philosophical consideration of infinite being in relation to the temporal is simply another interest of philosophy; atheists proselytizing on philosophy sites trying to prevent philosophy that does more than consider natural philosophy sectarian bores.
Why does God let evil exist? A philosophical account differs a lot from a theological opinion. For one thing, humans have free will. The Bible differentiates between evil (natural disasters) and wickedness (the evil men do) said J. Vernon McGee. Humans also have original sin and per Aquinas are totally depraved, and per Calvin need be saved by the grace of God for they have no merit and can't help themselves. The Universe in my opinion is a thermodynamic containment facility for beings ingesting energy and inclined to get rough to get the energy and blimp themselves up physically and socially; wickedness happens. A philosophical explanation is quite a bit different and too much to consider here.
Infinities are useful in constructing philosophical paradigms that can become dialogue in science fiction. Here are a few paragraphs on the topic of cosmology that I wrote.
"Quantum field theory; Q.F.T. describes some of the characteristics and strengths of quantum fields. Advanced Q.F.T. relates the behaviors of fields mathematically in relation to other fields occurring in four dimensions of space-time allowing fractional changes to the spin of constituent energy packets after they are converted into just numbers. One dimension points may be inducted with virtual fields and built between quantum field values with charges that adequately mirror quantum field objects; bringing into four dimensions and with higher maths and dimensions, virtual quantum fields.
“If numbers are fractions of a whole or have meaning only in relation to a series of numbers; infinities as it were in all directions except as arbitrary sets are delimiting paradigms Laura, why are numbers not infinite in quantity and size in every position and each dimension without any sort of delimiting structure at all? How can trans-finite series, as Cantor discovered, have any real or unique identity that would make them greater or lesser than every number that exists is an infinite continuum for all possible dimensions?”
“Victor, I would guess you wonder that because if numbers are the true foundation of all energy and mass, and gravity exists as well as thermodynamics in each universe, then obviously there is a process for changing sets that exist within the continuum of all possible numbers, at every possible location. Why would numbers develop temporally finite sets like squalls across an infinite sea? Are they echoes from the passage of an idea from the deity?
Why do numbers draw other positions together within a continuum that has infinite numbers at every location? What makes for an increase or decrease of value anywhere, if anyplace may as well be nowhere?
Why would a spatial field; perhaps a field of charged virtual particles, upsurge like a hernia driving apart space-time, and appear within fields of a universe as elements with cardinal or ordinal differentiation in no-space? The quantity is infinite at every location, so the relative scalar difference of magnitude causality could be explained with dimensional intrusions.”
Wki has a good description of da (there) sein (to be). Heidegger didn't invent the term (Hegel used it too) yet reinterpreted it. To be (or not to be vis. Shakespeare) seems self-evident .
Heidegger may have considered criticism of social existence in a way similar to that of Kierkegaard criticizing 19th century German romanticism that followed Hegel. Socratic irony considered the superficiality of social existence as did Kierkegaard who regarded Socrates as having created a method of social analysis critical of ‘inauthentic being’.
Heidegger was initially appointed Minister of German education by the Nazis yet quit fairly soon upon discovering what a bunch of louts they were. He retired to a hut in the forest to work on philosophical projects and had the opportunity to think about inauthentic social existence and group think (Orwell later) or what Sartre might call the social dialectic and Nazi use-truths.
An eternal universe generation of infinite numbers of universes is consistent with God's eternal nature. Heraclitus was a good pre-Socratic philosopher. One wonders how omniscience and omnipotence would create infinite numbers of Universes and let them always exist in His spirit and actualize them temporally for contingent other sentient beings etc to contemplate. The always in motion vs always at rest criterion of Parmenides and Heraclitus reminds me of Tegmark's level 4 Multiverse paradigm with overtones of Berkeleyan ideaism.
