If I were to talk in my sleep
more eloquently than in life
conversation would flow like playing a fife
not like dull day when thoughts must needs leap
to reach phrase ends first and last
each night to start I could talk with the sheep
I count flying skyword to jump mountains steep
we could talk of politics or futures past
IVs, quarks and dark helicopters of night.
Following Colorado’s lead in removing Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots the obvious next step further down the road of political madness is for all blue states to remove the winner of the 2016 election from 2024 ballots. Maybe Red states can emulate the Democrats and remove candidate Joe Biden from Red state ballots so only contested purple states elections would be required to select the next target of litigation and criminal charges to lead the nation to bad politics and legislation that creates vast public debt, lasting poverty for some senior citizens, youth stuck in a work/unemployment cycle that makes it impractical to always have housing or long-term investments, foreign wars and an expensive moon settlement program that just doesn’t seem to get anything built there.
Neither party cares enough about fixing the ecosphere and atmospheric heating to get it done and the re-entry of wolves to Colorado is probably just a PR show that will result in the pack being crushed one at a time on freeways by diesel trucks and shot by ranchers after being spotted by drones.
The brilliance of the Democrat method of upgrading conflicts was proven during Trump’s first term when specious Russian collusion charges eventually evolved to impeachment and a legendary insurrection that was something less than a Guy Fawkes try and more like a ‘Trump is the marionette in chief who pulled the strings for a mob conquest of congress show that was supposed to overturn election results’. Now the mythical insurrection is the cause for Democrat state supreme court judges to ban Trump from being re-elected; truly a triumph of political crock-pottery of the first order.
Colorado recently banned candidate for President Donald Trump from being on the ballot. Donald Trump isn't a convicted felon nyet, so should Colorado be banned from participating in the 2024 election itself since it's getting jiggy with it.
One doesn't want courts subverting democracy.
The soul may be simply information- the coordinate patterns of all of the quantum comprising an individual, he body, mind and history over the course of a lifetime. Information is conserved. With the data it would be possible to reconstruct any or all of a being for ever if an eternal being wanted it to be so. God may have better or more subtle ways of keeping track of sentient beings though.
Evidence is things and relationships evident. I wonder why it is that people leap towards ‘nothing evident’ these days…for political purposes I would guess. One shouldn’t overlook the evident. People exist, they have a structure made of quanta and it has a form. People know about Shannon Entropy and Deictic references I suppose, about patents, designs that outlast individual products because there is a record kept somewhere; of Plato’s realm of forms. I am presently taking a course on the Archaeology of Africa, one learns various techniques for interpreting the material present and its theoretical use in the culture long gone. One has evident matters like rocks, lithic artifacts and micromorphology, one uses reason to attempt to interpret the unknown, and what tools one has available, such as to interpret marks on ancient bones. One may ask oneself; how would scriptural references to something like a soul be understood or said today in modern terms. What part of human existence does according to modern physics last forever? That which does is information. Hawking theorized that information even escapes black holes. The criterion of Shannon entropy that information is conserved is the obvious association for what a soul is.
A no-fuel new device causes one to wonder how it works.
One might be able to use magnets like batteries? Instead of moving a coil through a magnetic field (or vice versa to push electrons down a wire could one use AI switching on and off magnets in some way, like a form of wheel motor can, or a linear electromagnetic accelerator/rail gun, push electrons down a wire? If the amount of electric needed to switch the ‘gates’ on/off were less than the energy that flows because of the field strength it might generate positive electricity surplus. The magnets have stored energy. I wonder why magnets can store energy, how much and for how much time before they wear down. The magnet would be the power source for the system. Maybe one would need to kick start it in a manner of speaking.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/first-ai-nonrotational-power-cop28
Magnets can be used to ‘induce electric currents’. The electromagnetic force is one of the four basic forces of nature as you know. Hence a standing magnetic field is a kind of battery in that it can induce the flow of electrons comprising a current. It is like a standing wave of force that need be discharged by moving through a conducting medium like copper wire to induce electron flow through a medium, rather than storing electrons in a box. I wonder if a magnetic field will run down at a particular rate when used as a force field to push electrons/charged particles. If the inventors have found a way to simulate motion of a medium through a magnetic field with gate switching then they are clever. Magnetism converts one form of energy to another very effectively. It is a force yet has no energy. However a force field is a power- a kind of battery. Photons exist in an electromagnetic field and can be converted to energy with voltaics for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization
Moving that force field is a tool that may be underutilized though it is used for 99% of nuclear, fossil fuel power plant conversion of mass to energy. One might put powerful magnets on some tidal float/barge per example to push electrons as it rises and falls with the tide past some kind of coil. I like the idea a lot of using emg field for something comparable to a battery for storing force to make energy. Kind of like a lighter that isn’t a fire but can be used to ignite a fire if the conditions are right (such as oxygen being present). Exploiting electro-magnetic fields is something I have been interested in for some time in order to deploy vast fields in micro-gravity to accelerate charged modules toward the outer solar system much faster than chemical rockets. It is interesting to consider using a star to power an electromagnetic field of a few million miles in size to push charged modules to perhaps 3/4 the speed of light to Proxima Centauri.
Time involves mass and change; photons have zero mass for time to grab on to. It is interesting to consider gravitons as zero mass particles; maybe they acquire mass and that is the gravitational effect. Google says that “The vacuum speed of light is not a valid rest frame, because it’s a frame that can never be at rest.”
Gravity also travels at the speed of light. Light speed seems to be the standard speed of zero mass particles, that all at any rate seem to be elements of a field when measured at a particular location. It’s funny that the wavefunction collapse doesn’t apply to massless particles unless they interact with matter.
Trying to associate primary substances with massless particles given the appearance of mass and a third dimension in the Higgs field is difficult; mass is contingent being so my answer is no. Everything that is mass is emergent and apparent being and half of a phenomenal event of massless particles appearing to have substance because of the effects of travelling through the Higgs field.
The cold, dark, longest night
follows weeks of frost and frozen wood
soaked from warm weathered rains, rotting
like time crystallizing blood in white fingers
The poverty of the deer
wandering snow trails in darkness
hunted by wolfie
sole survivor of the culled pack
World nauseated by the heat of summer sun
tilts its pole toward the galactic center
yet there lies a heart of darkness and crush of death
a super-massive black hole reels in matter for breadth
Senseless cold passes slow, interminable
ten degrees below Fahrenheit's frost freedom
liberating moment of meltwater
joke of a theory for deep snow lies ahead
Wind harassing thin walls
shuddering at 70 m.p.h.
challenging Venus to try to remain in place
when the spinning Earth has won the race.
Bloody sinners boiled the political poverty
melting the fat, passing svelte rats
to those that don’t know cold months
like the tracks of small mammals over the snow
After months of semi-dead torpor
with rotten snow
life will flow through plants again
and the longest night stop making sense.
S.S.I. has a program for poor seniors citizens over 65 that includes a monthly payment. yet the policies for the program were not designed by poor people with actual experience at living a life in poverty so there are implicit unfair structures in it. There are some criteria that need be rectified. Some native Americans have for thousands of years maintained a winter and a summer residence instead of living year-around in one dwelling. S.S.I. eligibility criteria disqualify people that own two residences- even if it is simply a warm winter place and a cool summer place and the total value of each property is fewer than $10,000. S.S.I. would allow those better off and able to afford a $150,000 condo where they can live annually with electricity, running water, toilets and a road eligibility if their other resources were less than $2000. S.S.I.'s eligibility criteria drive Americans to be poor and to not help themselves. Because some poor Americans have two lots instead of one nice house the very practical low-cost living solution of camping on private property year-around in two places where the weather is tolerable is a disqualifier for the S.S.I. cash supplement program.
S.S.I. eligibility criteria should not penalize Americans for trying to help themselves. If they are on S.S.I. for being old or being disabled they should feel free to look for employment or try self-employment without worry they will lose S.S.I. if the job doesn't last and they won't be able to return to the program quickly. S.S.I. might better be regarded as the core of a national basic income that kicks in for the old and disabled first if they have fewer annual earnings than something like $20,000 and makes up the difference. Especially in this era of environmental and A.I. challenges and changes to employment prospects and stability it is important to create a national basic income infrastructure that is effective. It would enable Americans some lifetime security against losing all of their possessions and investments the next time there is a high unemployment rate and inflation.
Actually there are many poor Americans that would buy land in different climate zones to survive each year if they would not lose S.S.I. eligibility. The policy is implicitly unfair and a remedy would be just to allow one eligibility if they have less than $30,000 in multiple real estate possessions or a single residence worth fewer than $100,000. There is no reason to compel Americans to become poorer- seasonally homeless in order to receive S.S.I. and have a livable annual income. Neither is there a good reason to penalize ingenuity at finding practical solutions to where one can live in retirement affordably.People do discriminate actively against age for employment, and there is also race and gender discrimination from some quarters that everyone experience regardless of race or gender. Therefore making objective programs from the government that work for the poor should be a goal for rectifying implicit federal iniquities.
A soul may be just the quantum information/identity of an individual. Back in the day they didn't use physics concepts for spiritual terms that wouldn't be understood for two or three thousand years.
In a move that will renew pejorative descriptions of the Pope as The Anti-Christ, Catholic Pope Francis gave Catholic priests the right to bless homosexual relationships : "that don't resemble marriage". He has made an apparent conflict of interest with the New and Old Testament reproofs against homosexuality even if he has some sort of Jesuit technical legalist exoneration for himself.The etymology of 'blessing' means to 'sprinkle with blood'. Since the context for Christians is the blood of Christ, it may require copious quantities since blessing present and new sins appears destined to conflict with even more portions of scripture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/pope-gay-lesbian-same-sex-blessing.html
One might expect a partial breakup of the Catholic Church to follow as has occurred already in numerous Protestant sects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/the-united-methodist-church-schism.html
One can make a lot of anecdotal arguments that disregard scripture. One may have false hermeneutics. The seven churches of The Revelation were warned about corrupt practices and bad behavior. Evil dogmatics simply evil. From an historical point of view one realizes these periods of social corruption and decadence are not new. Some day reform will occur or a new society will form without moral decay for a while. Then it will discover deficit spending as if it were rediscovering the ability to eat fruit forbidden in the Garden of Eden. A church that stands for nothing is a self-negation. A car dealer that sells just fruit is no car dealer.
Keep in mind what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and what Paul wrote to the church at Rome; the Roman Pope has plainly disregarded scripture and gone his own way. I Corinthians 6:9-11 KJV""Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (malakoi), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (arsenokoitai), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." People may persuade themselves of whatever they like yet in so doing fail to be saved in order to have worldly comfort or tax cuts (lol). A gospel of hedonism or sexual license is not the Gospel of God. Romans 1:27 "27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
Comparing the Pope's decretals to Paul's apostolic letters to the churches is silly. Paul met the Lord on the road to Damascus. He received words directly from the resurrected Christ. Catholics may believe in continuing revelation while Protestants traditionally haven't. The Revelation warns about adding anything to it. (Revelation 22:18-19). The Pope has no Apostolic authority whatsoever. "Rev. Billy Joe Schmoe said today that he will bless sin from now on because there are a lot of sinners that want to be considered to be following the word and kosher. As leader of the First Church of What's Happening Now he said that since most of his flock are thieves ,yet trying to change, so long as they don't take nothin from him he will bless thievery" You are of course free to believe what you want. People that continue to egregiously sin are supposed to be put out of the Church until they change. I will reiterate the point that a Church leader is not supposed to bless sin. "Matthew 18:15-17 "15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector." The Vatican might want to start an impeachment inquiry into the Pope's conduct and replace him with someone with a square, solid moral foundation. He may move to liberalize abortion next, and then dope for the Catholic Church. It shouldn't be that difficult to just say wrong is wrong yet not hate or persecute people doing wrong. One should not bless what is wrong. Christians are supposed to be trying to live up to what the little books (biblos) relate, not trying to corrupt them, adulterate them, make sinful conduct OK and etc.
The atmospheric heating phenomena may be the coefficient of the concentration of wealth. Wealth concentration has a narrow point of view oriented toward profit that regards non proximal profit elements as beyond its range of interest, or externalities that are not too meaningful.
Concentrated wealth can afford to purchase support for policies that decrease taxation and environmental remediation. A more liberal tax basis that raises the rate of taxes on concentrated wealth probably would pay for a higher percentage of global warming reduction through government policy.
With overly concentrated wealth the electorate become stifled to a large extent in regard to expressing political opinions on taxation antipathetic to the preferred alternatives of the very rich. It may not be possible to effectively slow or reduce global warming without a near-term large tax rate increase on those earning more than $250,000 annually.
I hate the idea of nobility referenced as superior (noble). Some fairly scummy characters have been nobles; they didn’t get there because of virtue. Often they were just the best killers amd/or the most conniving schemers. Mankind had a hard time overcoming those with superior political rights. freedom includes the right to hate things like obnoxious songs, bad politics etc. It is necessary for a democracy to be vigilant against cults, classes and concentrated wealth that would make mankind spiritless jellyfish-sardines malleable to their will.
In the Bible; Revelation 3:15-16″“15“I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. 16* So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.” Also consider Luke 14:26 “
“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”
One must be wary of government and corporate ideas about hate speech and psychological and political control of the masses for they have always been too happy to exercise thought control. Wrong, reprehensible acts can fairly be proscribed, and language plainly intended to cause harm may be countered but people need be free to thin and to hate things, and that basically means to reject things, that they do not like. Freedom of thought and speech are essential human rights for a life that isn’t subordinated to a superior class by force.
Some believe that consciousness is primarily a phenomena to process memories. Consciousness does a pretty good job at evaluating threats like flying objects that were thrown at the brain housing unit. I believe it does more than process memory; consider people with amnesia due to organic insult who nevertheless have a full working consciousness. Socrates might have liked the concept though. In The Meno Socrates demonstrates that a slave boy has built in math memory. I read a refutation someplace of that Socratic experiment yet I would disagree with it anyway since it seems silly and contra to the way things are. If one can compare knowledge and percepts that are always arriving in the brain via senses, or even to falling into cold water, and even compare that accretion of data and sorting it out to atomic and molecular process of adding and radiating mass, there is more than an introverted regurgitation of memory going on.
The elect saved through grace
fade from time’s scything embrace
becoming one with the Lord
they respond to the knock on the door
The body of Christ is eternal
those worldly foes await the infernal
though the word has brought them near it
they’ve ignored the Holy Spirit
Jesus is the Son of God
together with the Father and Holy Spirit
the triune God is for mortal’s in fog
yet the church body is the Lord’s place alit
Within the kingdom pass many seasons
for life fulfills temporal Holy reasons
changes taking place
are given with the Lord’s grace
Many in one sing
pluralism with the Son brings
individuals to faithful light
Jesus Christ overcame the darkest night.
There are paintings of Jesus dating to 235 AD (in Syria) https://aleteia.org/.../10/the-six-oldest-images-of-jesus/ and the one below from 350 A.D. with more over the centuries of the Byzantine Empire. Even so most people aren't convinced they are actually historical likenesses. Jews of the first century A.D. tended not to make images of people because of scripture. It is possible that some of the followers were able to describe the Lord to Gentiles that saw him and they sketched a likeness that made its way to Roman and Byzantine ceilings. Probably most of the images are representational expressions rather than verisimilitudes of his actual appearance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus...
Life is hard and then you die
withering flesh and roilsome skies
age is a trial one is convicted of
growing older waiting for heaven above
There is no normal wonder
except the power in the Lord
everything that is and some times blunders
cannot be taken ‘yond death like a horde
Temptations, cold and hunger
anger and emergent sores
blisters of temporal journeys
are set to beautiful sky scores
These leaders of mass confusion
leaving the ecosphere a wreck for dismay
bring wars and broadcast intrusions
and the electorate has not meaningful to say
One could hope for better
God has perfection now
yet not with Earth are Paul’s letters
written for world profits or plow
Thrown from the Temple
James also took the fall to the ground
an encouraging moral example
like Stephen he was beaten and cast down
Like a forest stand to be cut down
life of faith is endless
words from God profound
written on wood pulp public’s way pressed
When the time of night draws nigh
and the old enemy takes mortal life
one readies for travel beyond the sky
a call to resurrection overcoming strife.
The Raiders and Chargers each have uncertainty about who their head coach will be next season. WIth Bill Belichick probably being available next season the question arises about his destination for 2024. SInce the Raiders have been playing fairly well after their recent coaching change to interim coach Antonio Pierce, it seems more likely the Chargers will be the team to try out the Belichick system after their recent 63 to 7 loss to the Raiders.
The patriots are in a rebuild after the championship years and haven't yet fallen to the bottom to draft a quarterback with the first pick. The Chargers are a team that may be more ready-to-wear like the Chiefs and Seahawks were before hiring a new coach and winning championships. I vote for Belchick to San Diego; his disciplined style would be interesting in a town that John Unitas said had a long-haired, dope smoking football team.
The European Union is swollen enough as it is; it has no need to devour all of the former Russian territory named Ukraine in order to grow larger. Europeans did historically have a racist attitude toward Eastern Slavs of Russia viewing them as backward peoples. Yet Russia has loads of resource-rich real estate to devour and enrich Western Europe- hence the history perfidy and war to annex Ukraine for the EU. Western Europe and the American Democrat Party have invested countless billions of dollars to provide weapons of war and cash to one of the most corrupt governments on Earth to keep bodies burning in war in hope of making Ukraine part of the EU.
The United States has made an historical error in backing up EU expansionism. It is rather like that of the French efforts to colonize Vietnam when the United States followed up with a decade of war to attempt to keep Vietnam free. Freedom then meant being a Neo-colony of the west and not aligned with Soviet Communism. Yet the Vietnamese apparently just didn’t want to be a colony of racist colonizers and after the war slowly moved toward a market economy with mixed results. The war probably wasn’t necessary to keep Americans free, and the cost to those involved was very steep.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/15/ukraine-membership-european-union-explained/
N.A.T.O. is also very swollen. It has political entities far removed from the North Atlantic as members. Large military alliances tend toward throwing their weight around and that isn’t necessarily good for the United States. Such a large entity will draft the United States with member obligations into conflicts it has no inherent interest in.
N.A.T.O. embers will have dissimilar political interests than those of the United States as well over time and being independent politically may be more difficult.
If the EU wants to expand it might as well look toward Morocco or Algeria; and it would if the southern shore of the Mediterranean were still mostly white as it was during the era of the Carthaginians. Being non-white and Muslim the EU has erected barriers to prevent illegal alien migrants from entering western Europe and has expressed no interest in expansion to the south. Those southern countries might be more willing than Russia to have their real estate become part of the European Union.
Actually if Europeans had good reason they would end the Ukraine war, make peace and rebuild a partitioned Ukraine in partnership with Russia. After a period of a few years Russia could become part of the European Union and that would be the most rational course toward developing a peaceful Eurasia. Russia has a majority Eastern Slav population so war is the policy for the fascists of Europe lustfully eyeballing rich Ukraine farmland.
Solipsism is the default condition of human experience. That is what Sartre's Being and Nothingness is about really. He did say that only God could have the mind of the other and oneself simultaneously. Descartes' Meditations is French rationalism like Sartre's beginning with an epistemological doubt to prove or verify one's own existence. Throughout life one misunderestimates what it is that other people are thinking or know. How can one explain the apparent stupidity of politicians except to believe that their minds are hollow and only cognitive units perhaps cast by alien movie directors to vex normal people on Earth and make a better movie (just kidding)? I believe one doesn't think about solipsism too much and just goes on as if it weren't a thing because one can't do much with it. The idea isn't that other minds do not exist besides one's own. Instead the idea about solipsism is that one cannot prove they exist even if their is a surfeit of circumstantial evidence that they do. However the mind is just cognition, perception, language and experience. The body may fail and the mind worry about that. If one is a military medic and sees brains splattered one doesn't see a mind laying about. How can one's own thought prove that the words of others that originate actually exist somewhere in the brain of another? One's own mind is as ephemeral as that conjectured to exist within the brain and skull housing units of others. So people just kind of accept or recognize the working reality of the situation and move on to try to get positive things accomplished technically speaking.
The Academy philosophers (e.g. Socrates,Plato) called their activity alethea. It means truth. They told outsiders when asked that they were doing philosophy.
You may know about theodicy and the debates about God being responsible for evil or not. The world and Universe is a containment facility for those condemned with original sin. Humans are embedded in a temporal, thermodynamic field and are judged when their life is concluded. They have a chance to be saved or not. With so much information out there these days it's really up to the individual if they spend eternity in heaven or hell. God is wiling yet mankind is willful.
I like to think of 'The One' that Plotinus mentioned in The Enneads as God the Father. Monism and pluralism present simultaneous unity and differentiation in all matter. Uncertainty in perceptions, borders and language are a priori categories of being. Free enterprise and private property allow specific progress and prosperity to develop. That requires some exclusivity. One cannot make 2 nanometer chips in a cow pasture, as the saying goes. Clean rooms are requisite and that means the unwashed cannot be too welcome. So one has conflicts- and there certainly are thieves, while some are greedy and maybe some politicians are sociopathic (eg Hitler and Stalin). One can try to makes the edges less sharp and create more comprehensive safety nets yet the task isn't politically simple. Good sentiments and a working healthy economy and world ecosphere need be compatible.
