American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
03 January 2025
Subjective-Objective Distinction and Democrats
02 January 2025
Balance the Federal Budget
I have been for a balanced budget and deficit reduction since the Reagan era, and have written in support of that since 1991 or earlier. I tended to regard David Stockman’s budget approach as correct.
Suspending fiscal sanity in order to increase the military budget and end the cold war was Keynesianism on a Laffer scale and possibly excusable for one administration since it worked. Continuing it forever after was genuinely irresponsible; especially since the peace was destroyed and cold war resumed
Why Pantheism is an Incorrect Assumption
01 January 2025
Meaning of Exist, Real and Absolute Philosophically Speaking
Was it Kierkegaard who hated the use of the word 'absolute'? That word is derived from absolve that means to free from blame. Most people don't use it that way. He didn't like Hegel's work much and Hegel used the word quite a bit. It doesn't add any meaning to anything really. Absolute is used as a sort of super adjective. For instance in Hegel's 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' (if I recall correctly that book is a kind of abbreviation of the Phenomenology of Mind). It is one of the more over-used words in philosophy, or was. Exist does stand apart. It means one is talking about the condition of being itself. Exist is a basic philosophical word; one of reflection on being. Real is a comparable term although perhaps a lesser one. It seems to mean that something does exist.
Diversity of Life Declines
31 December 2024
Universal Basic Income Should be a Doge Priority
Faith vs Original Sin/Matthew 18:2-3
Sin means to miss the mark of.
The famous analogy is that of an archer missing the bullseye.
Humanity is in a containment facility for the sin of the first people. They came to reach self awareness and were as little Gods. That is the learned the difference between good and evil unlike animals that simply kill and eat without sin. Humans were given a temporal existence with brief life spans. God did not want people to live forever with their willful disobedience.
Children are born with original sin and are in the thermodynamic field inputting energy to exist. Most perped sins besides the original are related to that.
Children though have naive trust in their parents and faith in them (unless the parents are wicked, abusive or neglectful). Becoming as little children probably means having true faith in Christ-regardless of what sophists and scoffers say.
Matthew 18:2-3, which says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”.
Salient Wars of Democrat Presidents Since 1960
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was the upgrade to real war.Vietnam was a Democrat war. Eisenhower had only sent military aid with 700 soldiers to field it. Then he left office. Kennedy sent 16,000 advisers and they incurred the first US casualties. Then Johnson, another Democrat, sent a half million with more than 58,000 becoming dying there.
There is a bit more to the history of Democrats and war since Kennedy. Carter was different through. As a nuclear engineer on a submarine with ICBMs he well understood the need to avoid war. Clinton though bungled the end of the Cold War and took Ukraine away from Russia. Good historians noted that would be a problem for the future. It was the seed sewn for the present Ukraine conflict. He encouraged expansion of NATO instead of better relations with Russia.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/13/the-clinton-era-blunder-that-set-the-stage-for-todays-ukrainian-crisis/
Clinton also involved himself in the Balkan conflict and the US went to war with Serbia. That tilted the balance toward Muslim terror expansion.
President Obama was a coordinator for the Syrian Civil War that cost more than 600,000 lives. He was an organizer and financier besides providing weapons and training. The he took a Kinetic Military Action, as his SecDef called it, against Moamar Gaddafi’s Libya who had signed a treaty with the Bush administration. That brought chaos and a haven for terrorists after the death of Gaddafi. He isn’t responsible for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that he inherited.
President Biden has rejected every opportunity to find peace with Russia and has applied every sanction possible on Russia. He has allowed US missiles to be launched into Russia, has contributed 174 billion dollars in weapons and finance to Ukraine and may be behind the sinking of Civilian ships of Russia transporting oil and technology. He is also providing intelligence to the Zelinski regime that has stayed in office beyond his elected term of office by suspending elections. Zelinski is lowering the draft age to 18 to force another 500,000 Ukrainians to the front lines. Russia is a nuclear state and forcing the war to continue instead of settling in in place runs a good chance of developing a nuclear war.
If Russia were losing ground and or NATO attacks Russia people will use nuclear weapons to stand. Biden has given Ukraine another 3 and a half dollars worth of weapons this month. World War 3 is not acceptable and normal relations should be restored with Russia asap to make for a better economy and work for a peaceful, verdant world.
Build A Baseball Hall of Deplorables Annex
Create a Hall of Fame Annex for deplorables. It could have all the stars banned from the side with those that would be welcome in the Harper Valley P.T.A. I saw Rod Carew steal second, third and home; he could be an honorary member.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens; without those players in the Hall the math doesn’t add up.
News of the Dog Star Cult
Transcript from the Dog Star Cult. “When the Big Bag spilled it’s guts and hyper inflated a split second later faster than light because the field expansion was quicker than particles of it tangling themselves up with mass confusion in a manner of speaking the swag was glommed up in fields breaking apart with traceable elements relativity detectives could use to trace the heist. Nobody in the unbelievers mob thought any big brain intelligence spilled the beans of the Big Bag and were unconcerned with police finding the m.o. or pros that took it for themselves”.
30 December 2024
Metaphysics
Theory for Reducing Cost of Pharmaceuticals
Reforming the patent system might be the simplest way. The USA produces 74% of the worlds new drugs so we shouldn’t do any harm to the profit incentive. New drugs are costly to invent and exclusive patents keep the cost of new drug sales high. Letting new drug patents become public domain after ten years so generic production would make the drugs cheap, yet 10% of sales price would go to the patent holder would lower the cost and keep the profit motive alive.
28 December 2024
Some Want Scientific Proof of God
Stars Through Night Air (a poem)
Shadows of days disappear
families of forever silhouette silence
softly changing from being too past
outlines of darkness
in a veil of deep cold
Stars are loyal lights in the night
sky of oxygen and eternity
while life runs its course
children gazing in wonder at bright constellations
rediscover them again when old
Memories are visions
when the stars’ breath was mystery
and life was life, not history
fire of the sun placed to grow grass
lain upon after twilight
Stars remain forever
thrown across the Universe
like beaches of diamond worlds
joined with atmospheric heaven
in the smell of Earth’s moist lome
It was there and always shall be
a world without end
for a moment seeming personal
remembrance an old friend
others already gone away
where future too does send.
Awareness
Free Will in Relation to Consciousness and Subconsciousness
Will is contingent upon consciousness. If one has consciousness one may choose to act or not. Some say conscious decisions to act are not made by consciousness, instead they believe conditioning subconsciously determines conscious decisions.
The will exists in the sub conscious and it is free. Otherwise there would be a lower level, more primary set of instructions controlling the sub conscious and a superfluous deceived consciousness.
Consciousness exists supported by the subconscious. It is not possible for human consciousness to keep all of their experience, memories, judgments and history active in conscious thoughts. Instead there is an innate middle ground of intellect that retrieves data from the subconscious in accord with conscious thought and the lesser intelligent yet active and closer related to emotion will.
Will exist as a modified reflection of conscious thought that needn’t be mentally, internally expressed in order to be present and act. It can retrieve subconscious information for consciousness and may also join with conscious thought and be directed by it. An aware mind freely chooses to act. Thought is in harmony with the will and subconscious usually, yet on some occasions they may not. An example may be a conscious choice to act peacefully while the will is to punch an offender as memory informs the mind of dire consequences of taking the latter course
I have heard a song or thought of something I can’t recall like the title of that song, and directed my subconscious to find it. Some time later the right idea appears in my conscious thought.
A human mind is a continuum of conscious, will and sub-consciousness that each have intelligence. Will and subconscious work for the conscious mind. It is a trinity that works.
https://www.udio.com/songs/u9qu6CYDEWTyZih3sjGd1P
27 December 2024
Humans May Have Evolved From Rats; Adam and Eve Were Spliced In
Humans May Have Evolved From Rats Named Purgatoriuos 65 Million Years BC
I had a concentration in history in college and learned a lot from the past. I wouldn’t suggest people can’t learn from the past-
Agriculture developed when hunting and gathering couldn’t sustain concentrated populations in towns. The transition period was 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Hunter-gathering was the way of economics before that going back to when people started eating meat as the human line may have evolved from rodents circa 65 million years BC (Adam and Eve were spliced in to an existing human line).
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/our-earliest-primate-ancestors-rapidly-spread-after-dinosaur-extinction
When people sustained with agriculture could sustain civil organizations with rulers organized wars began. Raiders had something established to attack and civil wars could occur as well for regime change. Organized wars started during the late Neolithic Age too.
https://www.history.com/news/when-did-humans-start-waging-wars
An excavation of Cohokia in St. Louis showed that the preceding ruling dynasty members were ceremonially killed when a new ruling family took over. So it’s an American tradition too.
Metaphysics; What It Is
Metaphysics is an activity. It can use many kinds of tools. It is bigger and smaller, simultaneously, than a bread box while being for-itself.
Free Will; A Binary Question
To be or not to be; that is an example of a binary absolute.In logic and programming there are disjuncts. A logic gate tests for a condition to be on or off. Schrodinger’s cat could live in a state compatible with life and death simultaneously, in theory, until collapse of the wave-function, however that super-position status doesn’t work for all mortal philosophical questions. Either/Or, Neither,/Nor are disjuncts of a sort. One shouldn’t expect philosophy to invariably provide weak, vague, uncertain answers and represent them as Truth because political correctness suggests that constructing ideas that will appeal somewhat to everyone returns the most demographic support.
Free will seems to be a question that cannot support affirmative and negative conditions on the same level, or on all possible dimensions.
It is also the case that people want to defend what they believe and sometimes strongly when they don’t realize they are wrong and are duty bound by themselves to defend their wrong, godless atheist opinions.
Marxism; Good Revolution Organizer for a Bad Economic System
Marxism is a practical idea for organizing revolutionaries that are from underdeveloped countries with concentrated wealth. The masses are led to class consciousness as oppressed, exploited people and brought to revolution with the belief they will share equally the wealth of the ruling class when they are deposed. That idea of upward mobility supports the revolutionary esprit. With victory the economic revolution following becomes a challenge to make productive. Alec Nove wrote a book named ‘An Economic History of the Soviet Union’ decades ago that examines some of the problems for Lenin and Stalin.
Marx had good sociological understanding of wealth in England that was his model. He had poor development of post-revolutionary economic models that would work. That sort of economic theory development has always been troublesome. China for instance is a work in progress that has used much of the economic structure of the West retrofitted onto Maoist socialism.
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