Psalm 111 verse 10; Contemplation

 

Should one fear the Other
respect for possibility and full ranging personality
the non-self creator of all being
infinity to know
In the light and dark
day and night
lightning flashes of insight
the natural moral order
shouldn’t one fear God
concerned  with right
and the wisdom of the Lord of Hosts
with quanta arrayed
entangled in a Higgs Field
a ram caught in a burning bush
Avrm led somewhere beyond
a  journey through space-time
an encounter with Mechilzedeck  at Mt. Zion
the omniscient power makes Universes
in every possible form
like a dream-coat for contingent beings
whom are willful, uncertain
- thankful for the grace for the Lord.

Determinism and Free Will; Not Mutually Exclusive

 Free will and determinism are not mutually exclusive. One would want to define what freedom means and obviously what determinism means.

 Quantum uncertainty is interesting to consider in regard to will. I believe the paradigm that is most useful is that being in the four-dimension continuum is phenomenal. Some say it is emergent and contingent being- a secondary phenomenon of the Higgs field and massless 2-dimensional particle-waves of an unknown field.

 Freedom of motion means degrees of free motion. In zero gravity one has more degrees of freedom of motion than on the surface of a planet with gravity. Free will may be comparable. One has freedom to think within the criterion of having a brain, body and mind that work together in a particular way in a very definite environment that is limited. Freedom is to think is delimited by the circumstance in which the mind is found to occur and within a particular temporal order.

 Adam and Eve probably were not on Earth. That is the Garden of Eden was exempt from space-time temporality and thermodynamics. I would think they were spirits in spiritual bodies. Created and tested they were found to be lacking direct obedience to the will of God. That is they weren’t infallibly obedient. Instead having the capacity to choose to think for themselves- what did Kant say? Oh yeah- Sapere aude! Not much has changed in that regard.

 So God created beings that could think for themselves, tested them. It was a learning experience, and demonstrating to them that they weren’t perfect like God, cast them into thermodynamics of the Universe where they began to age, had to work, had child bearing and developed short life-spans. Relativity and gravity slowed them down. Massless particles have no age and just two dimensions until slowed down in the Higgs Field and pick up a third dimension. Something like that happened to Adam and Eve.

 Adam and Eve had free will and choose to abuse it. The Universe was a temporal containment facility so those spiritual beings would not eat of the tree of life or the tree of knowledge further. They had run amok and would have become eternal, willful malevolent spirits if given a mortal body.

 Once in the temporal Universe humanity was destined to die and to be judged eventually. Because of original sin containment was necessary and most people choose not to accept the salvation offered through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. People are pre-destined to eternal death unless they are saved.

 Free will in the Universe will not bring eternal life. There is comparably, no way for an odd number to become an even number or a prime number if it isn’t. God’s grace draws those who He wills to salvation. One must heed the call although none are deserve a pardon from original sin. Why God chooses to save some rather than others is known to the omnipotent one rather than to mankind.

 If there were an infinite Multiverse and human minds merely switched between the right Universe that conforms to the way they think at each new thought, God would know what choices would lead away from Him and which toward Him, even of the Spirit of God were needed to help people make the right choices or thoughts as He wills.

 If there is just this Universe (of however great a size) and no other, it is still a containment facility for those with original sin and the likelihood of being entirely will-full and running amuck-worthy given eternal life and infinite knowledge. Why should God enable such problems as the Devil to develop for created beings routinely? I would think it’s not in his divine economy. It is possible that with omnipotence and omniscience God has created (in his mind) every possible Universe and form of it a priori. The salient question, as Plotinus might have asked is; why bother to actualize anything like Universes and people then?

Tighten Up to Overcome (poem)

  

  The philosopher tightened a wrench
giving an extra twist on the nut at last
a wheel fixed firmly
he let the jack slack
and the electric car dropped a wheel down

  Where rainfall is measured in metric terms
while kilometers will drop in turn
scientists collaborate to fondle the Earth and Universe
calibrating concise intervals with facts to learn

  Measurements of the sky and falling stars arrived
to be or not to be comets
asteroids and pieces of broken planets
crowding imagination for what it’s worth

  Maximum population density
structures that killed growing spaces
reshoveling dirt with androids, A.I. and hydraulic power
overcoming the world’ perspicacity

  Packed in tighter than drum skins
beating the syncopation of cities
economic consumerism watering down
existence with chemical sprays too profound

  The philosopher considered robust existentialism
and dialectical reason’s functionalist
structuralism phenomenalized in serial cues
everyone in line watched youtubian news

  Building more buildings
wider than before
shaped like atrocious mountains
for everyone an open door

    Artificial instruction light fireflies way
passing through darkness unto eternal light’s day
something other than nothing
it was forever to be

  Something in motion; everything to see
electromagnetic accelerators a million miles long
gossamer wires in zero gravity spree
fields will hum capsules like generic song

  Bootstrapping beyond silence
when nearly everyone is wrong
finding the brightest stars
when all life is nearly gone

  What would become of you and I
if no one does plan ahead
would brilliance  at last overcome
materialism that can lead to just dead.

Differences between Philosophy and Science

 I wonder if you are familiar with the development of rationalism from Descartes to Sartre, and linguistic philosophy aka the philosophy of logic?Scientific method can be used for sundry applications and is obviously valuable, yet philosophy is more than technical applications of a method. It is interesting to contrast Berkeley's ideaism with the 'Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics' by Immanuel Kant; noumenon with speculations about infinite Multiverses or even being-in-itself of quantum fields. These are philosophical speculations for those that like philosophy, and a waste of time for those that regard empiricism and scientific testing of theories as the sole means of credible inquiry.

I believe philosophy to a considerable extent, is what one makes of it. There is a lot of the inductive side to it, unlike science that is more deductive and methodological. Philosophical inquiries have innumerable potentials and interdisciplinary synthetic recombinatorial potentials yet that is of course contingent upon the philosopher. There is a good reason why doctorates of philosophy are given to scientists too, for they may venture into areas that are interdisciplinary, original and far more than methodologies of plain science. 'Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down' by Robert Laughlin is an example of an approach to science that rises to the level of philosophy. Laughlin won a Nobel for solid state physics I believe it was, and he is obviously an inventive guy.

Philosophical thought is analytical and inductive building synthetic new lines of inquiry. That process has continued since the pre-Socratics Thales and Parmenides, yet philosophers that developed science such that it became methodological had their 'knowledge' aka science, become an ossified technique no longer part of philosophy except as phenomenal tools.

Philosophy isn't a settled technique or method; instead it is a pursuit of wisdom often able to generate new thought with discovery. On the other hand science can be bureaucratized and has millions of ardent defenders placing themselves at the center of the Universe of meaning.

It is comparable to a vast colony of ants defending their empirical turf. If humans can be compared to ants with organizational skills, structures and leaders to a limited extent, rather than more independent polar bears hunting for seals, philosophers are individuals that consider the entire phenomena from numerous angles with various filters, as well as the island Universe where they find themselves living.

Jesus Christ is Co-eternal (a poem)

 

Jesus Christ is co-eternal
with the Father and Holy Spirit
one God in three persons
alpha and omega;
Logos
in the beginning
light in the darkness
Savior of the lost.

Linguistic Epistemology (a poem)

 

Theories of knowledge in countless Universes
filled with sets of words
nominalism vs realism
lexicons for what is said

  Never filled with dread
what s said
rises with red blood
tides of where the spirit led

  To imagination electro-magnetics’
accelerators in space race
shattering speed to near light
inertial reference frames and gravity tight

  A solar system wired with e.m.g. routes
Earth to Pluto in two and a half months’ time
overcoming ‘lethargic chemical rocket doubts
pushing the envelope to fastest sub-luminal rhymes

  Worlds built in a literal day
one can’t sleep while A.I. makes hay
crushed rocket cycled to Dyson Sphere lines
somewhere, someplace, progress is more than a sign.

Philosophy in Comparison to Science (with Linguistic Epistemology)

 To contrast philosophy vs science, consider Husserl's 'Logical Investigations'; philosophy as rigorous science. Frege, Bretano, Whitehead and Russell, the 'Principia Mathematica and the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus'. Aristotle's classification system was rather useful in the day as well as his expression of logic. Leibniz also invented mathematical logic although he didn't publish it and speculated usefully about monads...and that 'atomistic idea of one dimensional bits of pure spirit equivalent to strings really is somewhat apropos for the contemporary description of quanta or energy units at the smallest scale- at least it isn't obviously refuted.

I believe that science is about physics and philosophy somewhat more concerning greater and speculative physics (aka metaphysics). Logic is a field of philosophy too. One field that is active is that of ethics and why it is that people can't get along in a practical way (such as in the border dispute in Ukraine). The parameters are a little too large for simple science experimentation to solve.

There are scientific investigations of the brain that are great of course, and also sociological observations of the behavior of individuals an groups yet packing together different fields and data, ideas and considering possibilities for ad hoc remedies to political choices that result in very harmful social outcomes is more the realm of philosophical activity I.M.O.

I enjoyed reading the Philosophy of Logic. Examples of good works are W.V.O. Quine's 'Word and Object', Strawson's 'Individuals' and Kripke's 'Naming and Necessity'. Wittgenstein's 'Blue and Brown Books' are also about language, and nominalism in a sense- quite philosophic. Also known as linguistic philosophy, the philosophy of logic is a primary tool for contemporary epistemology. When contrasting realism and nominalism having an idea of the values of words and what sort of lexicon they arise in is useful. One might consider The Critique of Pure Reason in light of the philosophy of logic and an emergent field that I would name 'Linguistic Epistemology'. That primarily would be simply the philosophy of logic.

Pluck the Day

Retrospection. A google search of carpe diem relates that literally it means ‘pluck the day’ rather than the usual ‘seize the day’. Once plucked the day is on a timer with limited life. Perhaps observation of the present differs from plucking the present part of a temporal exstasis. The latter is sort of a collapse of the Schrodinger wave function.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8469247-Carpe-Diem-by-Robert-Frost

The Truth About Energy (what it really is)

 Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently, action.

Energy is a term that describes and coincides with the primal quanta/field of being. It implicitly coheres in any unit of quanta/fields-even theoretical strings. It is the basic reference word for ‘We don’t really know what it is or how it works but witness it’s effects’. Everything at its core is evidently action.

Though Temporality Confers an Order, Thought Happens in More than a Linear Fashion

Thought occurs in more than a simple linear fashion, not necessarily as if it were a machine or computer with one or two states and courses for transitions. There may be innumerable paths to select destinations, as well as quantum jumps or downloads with eigenvalues incrementally changing or reverting to state as it was before.

One might consider the legend of Voltaire in a lightning storm suddenly flipped to faith from unbelief. His thought was not necessarily flowing along in deliberation of theological speculations before the instantaneous electrical discharge at close range. Then afterword, after fear or inspiration from an external source to his own thought occurred and faded into the past., he might have a recurrence of doubt (or not, perhaps developing more faith). He would consider the experience of fear and trembling as subjective- even overly so, and move a little toward rationalism and a review of Descartes’ Meditations and wonder if he could trust his own way of thinking about certain matters rather than others, such as the certainty of his own existence because he is self-aware.

Biden Seeks Re-Election to Have Four More Years of Proxy War with Russia

If a Democrat President were to be elected in 2024, U.S. foreign policy would be likely to follow the crazy, counter-productive course of hostility to Russia four more years. Instead of peace and a robust, satisfying reconstruction of a borderland tax free, ecological economics free trade zone that could arise along the Deeper River the US party of slavery wants to enslave taxpayers to buying HIMARS rockets to kill Eurasians and enrich defense contractors, dark pool arms dealers and politician’s pockets.

If Elected; Trump Will Invoke Insurrection Act

 President Trump in January 2025 could use US troops to quell riotous American cities like Portland Oregon legally. The insurrection act allows US military forces to face down insurrections.

It makes me wonder though, as I look to the east, if any of the main Republican presidential candidates can jump from an aircraft at 7000 feet or more like Pres Bush 41? That candidate would deserve a 2nd look.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-hints-expanded-role-military-us-legacy-law-105172859

Supper on the Eastern Front (a poem)

 

    A spaghetti like that Scriabin song
fate oodles it's way along
solitary chords placed à plate
with a single note scored

  Called in to curly fries
potato wedges laced in Tabasco
sauces slathered like the letters
left in stanzas of betters

  Mountains of mayhemic pasta
what it would finally cost
compiled politics diet of worms
such that no menu was lost

  Supper was served at seven
when rockets flared overheated
each role is made with the leven
from chefs that cook for the dead.

Telephone Wire (a poem)

 

The raven spins
and having spun
time moves on

  Laughing cackling brook
the raven spins
time moves on

  The raven flies
and having flown
time moves on

  On the wire
raven world is hungry song
time moves on

  Woman on the wire
parasol’d one spun day
time moves on.

Israel Through the Night (poem)

 

    Jacob was injured wrestling with God
an all night contest he couldn't win
chosen by the most Holy
an eponymous nation to begin

  The struggle is edifying
the people wayward
sin is the normal deflection
the people will slide toward

  Founding land somewhere
humans wandering through
a temporal hasteland
homesites are a hopeful clue

  Where the kingdom of God is
more than fertile land
home is where the heart is
with God not possessions of man

  Hosea showed what's wrong
he married a whore
Israel became worldly
everything an open door

    Israel became a faith with a new covenant accord
peace became bonded in the crucifixion and the Lord
wickedness and evil forever overcome
a place for faith in God not a sword

  Israel forever symbolizes all of us
a people of faith
with the Redeemer
in whom we trust.

Lair of the Ice Worm (a poem)

 

  

    Deadly gas
of geologic melting
sudden surge brinks
jökulhlaup floods
sci-fi ice worm blinks.

Send the ISS Outward Bound with small Ion Engines

Attaching several small ion engines to slow push the ISS out of Earth orbit and toward the outer solar system might be cheaper in the long run, than spending a billion dollars to have it crash into the Earth's ocean. If it is technically possibly it might t be useful to create a kind of outpost that would provide a place that could be rehabbed to provide a temporary shelter or storage facility for missions to Europa. The disposable items approach characteristic of modern culture is kinda disgusting.

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2023-11-23-nasa-1-billion-dollar-mission-to-crash-international-space-station

Call of the Wild (poem celebrating election of Geert Wilders)

 

   Nations set their standards
for immigration policy
to reinforce national will
so time will pass hurdles easily
cultural divisions de frapped

   Preferring the same stoic values
history should flow like syrup
smooth employment, frictionless lives
antipathetic migrants flail
when new giving just won't arrive

   Wilder's hopes for progress won’t wait
rational order can’t be late
nor include I‘slam conquest goals
that atheists, queers, dopers go
to capitalism's social traps.

Faith Doesn't Implicitly Conflict with Logic

 One needs to define what truth theory one is using and determine if propositions made within it correspond in some way to a verificationist paradigm. Generally comparing unrelated propositions without a logical structure creates inaccuracy obviously. One sometimes need use dead reckoning blind trust in one’s own judgments or those of God.

It is possible to use inductive logic and create presently unverified theory. On some occasions it is possible to have faith that a theory drawn from inducted parameters is true without being able to prove it objectively or empirically in the present.

Another topic slightly related.

Heart decides a lot of things, for instance if it near maximum sustainable heart rate riding a bike in hot weather one need get off and rest a few minutes to let it slow down before getting on and resuming riding. The heart’s condition informs the brain and the smart rider rests a bit. One’s heart can skip a beat simply because of an emotion.

The heartless it is said have no heart and are callous or on different about others in certain circumstances, yet no one believes they lack one because it was removed and auction for a transplant. Losing one”s heart doesn’t literally mean that very often though captives of Aztecs sometimes did etc. Emotion can be reflected in the heart as well, yet rigorous formal logic is a skill like chess playing. So one may love logic and know ever abstract form while simultaneously have a heart and give a valentine to some sweet thing Feb 14.

Concerning the Nature of TIme

 

Maybe there is a key insight into each (space and time) within the parameters of the special theory of relativity. Namely, why is time 100% at rest and less so while in motion?

Massless particles have no time, yet they are field phenomena; part of an existential continua that had an origin in time so that isn’t of great value. Shouldn’t all massless particles such as neutrinos occur within a field beside the Higgs.

On AI: AI will put most people out of work eventually except perhaps for laborers (until robots replace laborers). Nothing to fear. Politicians will create national basic income so Americans will finally be free to learn finger painting.