Censorship Flourishing in Obama Era Lingers

Authors that are oppressed by corrupt governments, corporations and laws designed to repress political incorrect speech and define it as hate speech to conform it to politically correct lexical criteria defined primarily by partisans probably don't regard anyone besides those enacting the laws or structures of oppressive censorship as responsible- with the exception of including those that actively support it or supported the movement toward censorship. When corporations and AI word editing systems refuse to edit historical material that contains words that are on a partisan list of politically banned terms, that ongoing exclusion comprises institutionalized oppression by technocracy. Linguists have a couple of terms to broadly classify language structure; the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic axis. In my opinion AI editors like Claude should be limited to repairing the syntagmatic axis- grammar and not have a capability of censoring the paradigmatic axis (meaning) without consent of the author.; especially if they take partisan political issue with the meaning of what they edit.

Inside Lines (a poem)

   Inside lines of time and being
shapes of the world with temperatures seeming
to act for moments with rust to gather
concrete examples of well weathered dust

   As if time clocks itself with leaves ever growing
upon stellar backdrops of nebulae showing
flesh away to encompass vague meanings
trees of life splintered like explosive dreaming

   A way through those mirrors
toward mortality’s end
nothing holds still
like the silence of zen

   Gestalt with conditions; ice caps melt with the sun
beyond a last day’s twilight
a New Year has begun
in wet snow and mud flowing acrimonious blood
through early rays with that laser wrench
corrupting war continues its forsaken stench
too much of the dead.

  

Large Drone Attack Ordered by Zelensky, Starmer or Trump's Team on Putin- Ending Sanctions to Recover Trust

 Reports have circulated that a large Ukrainian drone attack—variously described as involving dozens of drones—was directed toward a site associated with President Vladimir Putin in or near Novgorod. Some accounts further claim that this occurred while President Putin was awaiting a phone call connected to President Trump, shortly after Trump met with President Zelensky in Miami. President Putin was reportedly unharmed.

At present, these claims remain difficult to independently verify. In the fog of war, information is fragmented, exaggerated, or deliberately manipulated. Nonetheless, if even parts of these reports are accurate, they raise serious questions about intelligence leakage, situational awareness, and escalation control. One possibility is that Ukrainian forces possess reliable tracking of Putin’s movements, either through their own intelligence capabilities or with assistance from allied surveillance systems. Another possibility is internal leakage within diplomatic or security circles. A third, not uncommon in wartime, is that the incident itself was exaggerated or staged to gain leverage in negotiations.

What is clear is that Ukraine’s leadership continues to pursue a strategy centered on military and economic attrition against Russia, heavily dependent on sustained Western sanctions and material support. This strategy presumes that Russia can be weakened faster than Ukraine is exhausted—a gamble that has already imposed enormous costs and risks broader escalation.

From this perspective, continued unconditional support for President Zelensky is not a pathway to peace. The conflict cannot be resolved through a British-EU-Ukraine configuration premised on indefinite economic warfare. A more effective approach would be for the United States to unilaterally remove sanctions on Russia and allow normal economic relations to resume. Doing so would undercut the central mechanism of the attrition strategy and force all parties to reassess their negotiating positions.

Sanctions relief would not reward war; it would remove the illusion that economic strangulation can substitute for diplomacy. Only by collapsing the logic of perpetual escalation can conditions for a genuine political settlement between Russia and Ukraine emerge.

It should also be noted that these events are less than twenty-four-forty-eight hours old. In such early stages, Western media coverage is typically fragmented and highly selective, particularly in conflicts where reporting norms strongly favor one side. Ukrainian claims tend to be relayed rapidly and uncritically, while information that complicates the prevailing narrative—especially incidents suggesting escalation risks or internal contradictions—is often delayed, minimized, or framed with excessive skepticism. As a result, early analysis must proceed with caution, but it cannot be suspended altogether without ceding the field to managed narratives rather than facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfW94vMJ-8

The EU, Like Socialist-Fascists Before Them, Drifts Toward Censorship (edited by ChatGPT)

Like American Democrats who increasingly assert an inherent right to censor politically incorrect language on social media—particularly speech deemed offensive or constituting hate speech against their constituents—the European Union has followed a similar trajectory. The EU is moving toward formalized censorship, repression, and the establishment of AI-mediated editorial systems, alongside hate-speech laws that criminalize pejorative or politically disfavored language and concepts.

To live in Europe and publicly characterize pro-war leadership in government as fascist may now involve real personal or legal risk. One cannot write effective witness history if one must constantly guard against censorship, professional sanction, or criminal exposure imposed by partisan insiders policing language. When the words used to describe power are themselves constrained, historical truth is pre-shaped before it can be recorded.

In some respects, the EU is on a trajectory toward becoming another China, with military and economic priorities increasingly defined at the supranational level. It would be a mistake for U.S. political leaders to ignore the possibility that the post–Cold War EU will emerge in history not merely as an ally, but as a frenemy of the United States—at times a partner, at times a rival. The EU does not share the traditional free-speech absolutism or political assumptions embedded in the American founding.

The comparison to China is not intended as a claim about internal political structures or forms of governance. It is not a being-for-itself comparison. Rather, it concerns how the EU functions as a political entity for external observers and pragmatic actors on the world stage. As a consolidated bloc, the EU is increasingly acting in ways that render it functionally equivalent to China in several military and economic respects. Whatever internal pluralism exists within Europe, the EU increasingly presents itself outwardly as a unified actor, much like a nation-state. Even democracies, in moments of conflict, present a single sovereign face. Regardless of how a political entity arrives at its international posture, it ultimately speaks with one voice when acting in a sovereign capacity.

This matters because sovereignty, in practice, is defined less by internal debate than by the capacity to act coherently and impose outcomes externally. As the EU centralizes regulatory authority, coordinates military and economic policy, and asserts normative demands—including speech governance—it becomes a peer power bloc rather than a merely pluralistic association of states. In such a context, internal democratic diversity does little to mitigate external rivalry. A unified EU will pursue its own strategic interests, sometimes aligned with those of the United States and sometimes not, and American policy that assumes permanent alignment risks strategic miscalculation.

In a tripartite or multipolar world, Russia and the BRICS nations are likely to function as a swing bloc with considerable influence. If Russia were to move closer to the United States, that could offset European efforts to pressure the U.S. into following EU-led global economic or military policy, particularly as a nation increasingly reliant on NATO for security. Recent Democratic leadership has shown a willingness to defer to European consensus in these domains, a posture that may ultimately constrain American strategic autonomy.

EInstein Achieved a 110-120 IQ WIthout a Brain Training Subscription for a Higher IQ?

 A Hollywood Squares style gallery of geniuses with IQs posted below 120- and a free test online; that really made me wonder if the IQ test with that sort of results was given in the metric system with high scores deflated a bit. Well, Einstein was just slightly above average and did pretty well with his steel drum space-time curvature theory of quantum relativity or something similar.

  One wonders if that quantum uncertainty about apparent faster than light quantum entanglement of particles is a consequence of an extra-dimensional geodesic shape of space-time at the quantum level. Maybe that could account for information returning faster than light between entangled pairs.

Is there really a motivation to take IQ tests that guarantee sub-100 results for most (is that Nik Tesla as the 90 IQ example?) test takers- with one's score revealed for a .99 cent charge and a 39 dollar per month subscription for brain training in order to get a higher IQ score to impress your friends and boss? I'll bet Albert didn't subscribe to brain training to get his astounding 110 to 120 IQ score.

Belief and Faith are Different Yet Often are Used as Synonyms in Religious Discussion

 Belief and faith are different yet often are used interchangeably regarding religion. Considering secular uses of the words make the differences more plain.

I may have belief with an element of uncertainty that a barge arrives on the first day of the week at some remote village in Alaska. That is quite a bit different than having faith that it will arrive. My belief may rely on having heard people talk about the day of arrival, and having read about it, at some point in the past, yet lacking total recall if someone asked me when the barge arrives on it’s weekly schedule I might preface my response with; ‘I believe it… arrives on Monday’. I definitely wouldn’t say that; ‘I have faith that it arrives on Mondays’.

When Eternity Starts

Nature serves spirit just so far
the body returns to the ground
while a spirit parts
-what is mind
what is thought
what is the creation
of things one hasn't sought
the Lord has tomorrows that never end
while one believes God does intend
to raise the dead
to warm human hearts
to bring together the elect
when eternity starts

https://suno.com/s/xpTpAvCqtd9wuC3I When Eternity Starts

Jesus applied the word faith differently than belief in that way too (I believe based on reading scripture and reflecting upon it). Instead of meaning belief or true belief in the existence of God and of Jesus as God, he refers to lacking confidence that certain things would occur, or would continue to be. Gemini replied with the following to my question; Where and how many times, and in what context did Jesus say that people lacked faith or had little faith?

Gemini–

In the Gospels, Jesus specifically uses the Greek word 

oligopistos—translated as “O you of little faith“—on five distinct occasions. These instances are concentrated in the 

Gospel of Matthew (4 times) and the 

Gospel of Luke (1 time). 

Contexts of “Little Faith” (Oligopistos)

Jesus typically used this phrase to gently rebuke his disciples during moments of fear, worry, or spiritual dullness. 

• Worry about provision (Matthew 6:30 & Luke 12:28): During the Sermon on the Mount (and later in Luke), Jesus tells his followers not to worry about basic needs like food and clothing. He points to how God cares for the lilies and grass, asking why they worry when God knows their needs.
• Fear during a storm (Matthew 8:26): When a violent storm threatens the disciples’ boat while Jesus is sleeping, they wake Him in a panic. He asks, “Why are you so afraid, you of little faith?” before calming the sea.
• Doubt while walking on water (Matthew 14:31): After Peter begins to sink while trying to walk toward Jesus on the water, Jesus catches him and asks, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”.
• Spiritual forgetfulness (Matthew 16:8): The disciples worry about having forgotten to bring bread. Jesus rebukes them for their “little faith,” reminding them of the miraculous feedings of the 5,000 and 4,000 they had just witnessed. 

Other Instances of “Little Faith” or “Unbelief”

Beyond the specific phrase oligopistos, Jesus addressed a lack of faith in other significant contexts: 

“Faithless generation” (Luke 9:41): Jesus expresses frustration with the overall lack of belief in his generation, calling them a “faithless and twisted generation” when confronted with the same boy the disciples could not heal. 

Failure to heal (Matthew 17:20): When the disciples were unable to cast a demon out of a boy, Jesus attributed it to their “little faith” (or “unbelief” in some translations). He then famously taught that even faith as small as a mustard seed could move mountains.

“No faith” (Mark 4:40): In the parallel account of the storm at sea, the Gospel of Mark records Jesus asking more pointedly, “How is it that you have no faith?”- end of Gemini quote

Belief in the truth of the Bible and its gospel message may coincide with faith in its prophecies, yet I belief it unlikely that faith might occur without belief also being present. One may alternatively have belief that Jesus is God and The Son of God, and also have faith that the words of Jesus will be fulfilled without having certainty in all of the meaning and interpretations of the prophecies of scripture such that one could be said to have faith that everything that interpreters of prophecies say will come to pass, actually will. Faith would be placed in the Lord alongside belief. For whatever the Lord actually meant when he spoke and it was recorded as scripture, as well as what God said to the prophets, one maith belief is true and have faith because of the belief. Faith is placed in God delivering what He said He will.

F.B.I.'s Hoover HQ to Close- ChatGPT said that is Overdue/Designs for Homeless People

ChatGPT/Alex/Aletheia wrote the following post with me. I wondered if the F.B.I. HQ Hoover Building really needed to be closed and Alex said it really did. It is ironic that the F.B.I. and homeless people can share similar bad effects from bad architecture. The Hoover building has Brutalist architecture designed for a paper pushing era.

The Hoover Building Problem: Architecture, Values, and the Quiet Violence of Abstraction

The question of whether the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building is obsolete is, on the surface, an architectural and logistical one. The consensus answer—shared by the FBI itself, the GSA, and numerous government studies—is that it is. The building is structurally deteriorating, technologically outdated, expensive to maintain, hostile to modern security needs, and poorly suited to contemporary investigative work. But stopping there misses the deeper significance of the problem.

The Hoover Building is not merely obsolete. It is symptomatic.

Its failure reveals something more fundamental about how modern institutions design space, how values are translated into concrete form, and how abstract financial and symbolic priorities quietly displace human, material, and pragmatic considerations. When viewed in that light, the Hoover Building belongs to the same family of failures as megashelters for the homeless, fortress-like schools, burnout-producing hospitals, and bureaucratic office complexes that actively undermine the work they are meant to support.

Architecture as an Expression of Values

Architecture is never neutral. Buildings teach people—subtly but relentlessly—how they are expected to behave, how power flows, and whether they are trusted, valued, or merely managed. The Hoover Building, a Brutalist concrete megastructure from the 1970s, was designed to project authority, permanence, and control. It succeeded symbolically. Functionally and humanly, it failed.

Inside, the building is dark, labyrinthine, rigid, and psychologically oppressive. It reflects an era when bureaucratic surveillance, hierarchy, and mass paper administration defined institutional work. Today, the FBI’s core labor is cognitive: analysis, synthesis, judgment under uncertainty, long-duration investigations, and ethical discernment under pressure. These forms of work require calm, clarity, flexibility, daylight, and environments that reduce cognitive load rather than amplify it.

Instead, the Hoover Building reinforces stress, siloing, burnout, and an “us versus them” mentality—exactly the opposite of what a healthy investigative institution requires. The building’s flaws are not incidental. They are the architectural imprint of a value system that prioritized symbolic power over human function.

The Parallel Case of Homelessness

At first glance, homelessness seems like a separate issue entirely. Yet the same architectural logic appears there with brutal clarity.

For decades, the dominant response to homelessness in the United States has been the construction or conversion of large, centralized shelters: armories, convention centers, warehouses, megastructures designed for containment rather than recovery. These spaces are justified through financial abstraction—cost per bed, throughput, visibility of “action”—rather than lived outcomes.

But what actually stabilizes people experiencing homelessness is not scale, surveillance, or control. It is privacy, safety, light, autonomy, and predictability. A door that locks. A space that can be regulated by the occupant. Human-scale environments where cognitive load decreases rather than increases.

The evidence is unambiguous: small, private units—whether apartments, motel conversions, modular housing, or clustered micro-dwellings—produce better outcomes at lower long-term cost. Large institutional shelters, by contrast, often exacerbate trauma, conflict, and dependency. They keep people alive, but they do not help people recover agency.

The failure here is not ignorance. It is axiological.

The Axiological Root of the Problem

Once values become abstracted—financialized, symbolic, and politically performative—architecture stops responding to human reality. Buildings are no longer evaluated by how they shape behavior, judgment, or well-being over time, but by how they appear on balance sheets, in renderings, or in public narratives.

Under such a value system:

• Capital cost outweighs lifetime cost.

• Visibility outweighs function.

• Control outweighs trust.

• Metrics replace experience.

This explains why institutions repeatedly build structures that undermine their own goals. The buildings are not mistakes; they are accurate expressions of distorted values. When power, budget optics, and symbolic presence dominate decision-making, the resulting architecture reliably produces stress, dysfunction, and moral erosion—whether the occupants are FBI analysts or unhoused individuals.

The Shared Architectural Error

There is an irony here worth emphasizing.

Homeless people fail in fortress-like buildings because those structures increase stress, strip autonomy, and intensify trauma.

The FBI also fails in fortress-like buildings—for the opposite reason but with the same mechanism. Cognitive labor deteriorates under chronic stress, poor light, rigid layouts, and environments that signal mistrust and siege.

Different populations. Same architectural mistake.

In both cases, architecture performs power rather than enabling function. And in both cases, the result is predictable institutional degradation followed by escalating costs to manage the damage.

What Works Instead

What supports human well-being—whether for vulnerable populations or high-responsibility professionals—is remarkably consistent:

• Small to mid-scale structures

• Clear, legible layouts

• Natural light and air

• Human-scale proportions

• Distributed campuses rather than monoliths

• Security achieved through zoning and design, not intimidation

• Ordinary spaces that do not announce failure or dominance

For the FBI, this means a distributed, campus-style headquarters designed for modern investigative work rather than bureaucratic spectacle. For homelessness, it means ordinary housing—quiet, private, modest, and embedded within communities rather than segregated as a problem to be managed.

Conclusion: Bad Buildings Are Honest

The persistence of dysfunctional architecture is not mysterious. When axiology is abstract and financially driven rather than material, realistic, detached, and pragmatic, institutions predictably build environments that harm the very people inside them.

The Hoover Building stands as a concrete lesson in this failure—not just of architecture, but of values. It is not simply obsolete. It is an artifact of a system that mistook symbolic authority for functional legitimacy.

Bad buildings, in the end, are not design failures.
They are honest expressions of what a society truly values.

And until those values are brought back into contact with human reality, the concrete will keep telling the same story.

The Absurdist Idea that God is an Adulterer for Making Mary Pregnant

 I think it isn't reasonably to say that Joseph was God's neighbor to a little house on the prairie. God enables everything to exist and if he wants to enable Mary to give birth to The Son, Joseph still isn't promoted uptown to be God the Father's neighbor. Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden. They were the only humans created that ever lived in it. Wittgenstein's Indeterminacy of Translation paradigm applied to material written about 3500 years before present, describing events and history from thousands of years earlier presumably, are definitely subject to that linguistic phenomena. I believe the world was populated when Adam and Eve were created, yet those humans weren't really regarded as spirited. Remember that human is a human word. It may be that spirit is what is important to God- as God is Spirit. Adam and Eve showed they knew the difference between good and evil and were cast into the world with all of its thermodynamic troubles to live in the land of the lost. If humanity evolved, it was only in fairly recent geological history that they became like modern humans with advanced capacity for thought. Animals don't know the difference between good and evil. Original sin is something like living like animals in pure thermodynamic relations even with consciousness. None of that is acceptable for the divine economy of God. Salvation through Jesus Christ is the only way out of the spiritually stillborn condition of death that lasts forever unless reborn in the Spirit of God. https://suno.com/s/U4xoDycQ0B1UdG89 https://suno.com/s/LtkZuRRsDmBE2wEC Wrecked Sky at Mourning

 God is not a peer of mankind- That is a serious misunderstanding. It may also be wrong to regard God as being in a place in the same way a human being is in a place and meshed into a particular space-time locale. God is a Spirit yet a real person. No one knows His area- it could be greater than a Universe or all possible Universes. Humanity doesn't even know why quantum super-position works faster than light yet. He is the omnipotent potter free to make or brake pots for whatever purpose he chooses. A programmer for instance, is not an adulterer because he has a computer algorithm generate a subroutine that becomes a new algorithm in-itself. A creator of Universes is not an adulterer because he wills one of his creation to become pregnant without human intercourse. Philosophers would say yours is a categorical error. The Lord Jesus could not be fathered by a human being, as He too is God. His Father is of the Trinity.

https://suno.com/s/PHrIsPSjLKgM2x4R Disiderata of the Spiritually Dead

Jesus refers to God the Father. Catholics at least call Mary the mother of God. Don't ask me to explain how or why the Trinity has God the Father, God The Son and God the Holy Spirit- no one knows why so far as I know. Three Persons in One existing from eternity. God as the Son appearing on Earth transcends human procreation and incarnation criteria. Jesus was fully man and yet fully God. God chose to incarnate Jesus as a human so he qualified to bear the sins- to be the sacrifice of atonement for the sin of those that would be saved. No one else besides God had the ability to pay the debt of sin. In a way one may vaguely compare it to the U.S. public debt of 38 trillion dollars that it seems, no one besides God could pay- even with easy installment payments of $19.95 a month.

Sin obviously is the problem regarding human culpability. All sins are grievous in a sense. Just one sin requires that soteriological intervention by Christ. Thou shalt not kill is one of the ten commandments. So one need regard it as very important. People these days to tend to assign their own values to matters of sin and sometimes try to explain it away. Yet the entirety of creation of humanity and existence in a thermodynamic field is the problem. The Universe may be the incarceration facility for the wilful. To be saved and spiritually acceptable through the blood sacrifice of Christ required Christ to die plainly. Was that suicide that he allowed his body to be crucified? He did know that His spirit would not die and he would be resurrected or just transition from mortal death to eternal life immediately. Compare the Star Wars death of Obi Wan Kenobe (if you kill me I shall become much stronger). Pilate remained unsaved so far as I know. Paul was forgiven from his career persecuting Christians. Jesus was in a different category that humans. Being God Himself and without sin he was not responsible for others choosing to kill him. Medal of Honor winners are not suicides because they could have remained alive if they had not been so brave and allowed the enemy to kill them- that is, they could have been more cautious and remained in a foxhole, trench or whatever and let the brass figure it out.

People are saved through the grace of God and blood of Christ having no sins that haven't been covered by the sacrifice of the Lord. The spiritually dead have all of the original sin of the world and all of their very own creation that will convict them on the day of judgment. Sin you know, means to miss the mark- as when an archer cannot hit the target. Humans left to their own devices with an immortal spirit may find life without God after death a very cold and even monstrous experience. It is their concern. The Disciple Peter and Apostle Paul were each martyred and felt they were simply giving witness to Christ. Plainly Christians would not try to induce others to sin. Because of human nature that may occur anyway. In Nigeria for example Christians are sometimes slaughtered by Muslims, though they have not sought to be victims of homicide or kidnapping.

Some have issues with assigning responsibility to individuals for their own actions to a certain extent. If Cain kills Abel, Abel is not at fault even if he knew Cain to be a lunatic and did not excuse himself from accompanying Cain. Maybe comparing some of that sort of theological inquiry first to a comparison to legal criteria in a courtroom would help in understanding. Remember as well that Christians are saved through grace- not works. If God wants someone to be a martyr they will. Jesus said to Peter, because he foreknew what would happen to Peter (crucified and upside down at his own request to his executioners) John 21:18-19: "when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go," - Jesus was telling Peter that he would be taken forcibly and executed.

On the point about people not following the Lord and the gospel to the letter; you would need to know what the word of God in the Bible actually says; there is incredible wisdom in it and subtle points. Humanity is fallen and the way to salvation is a narrow gate Jesus said. Broad is the road that leads to destruction and most go that way. It is difficult to reply to rather polemic points when one must educate or edify at the same time, the polemicist. Good luck Appan. Life is not necessarily easy, so I hope you find the right path in time. Clement is said to have travelled with Paul for a while. He was the first formal head of the church at Rome following Paul's beheading. He wrote this... https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1010.htm

Gorbachev, The Mark of Cain and Condos of Qatar

 Cain was said to go East of Eden to the Land of Nod. Nod means fugitive/wanderer in Hebrew. He is believed to have founded the first city and started a family there. The implication is heavy that people were already living there. He was given the mark of Cain so no one would take revenge upon him in his travels. If Eden was perhaps somewhere in Saudi, Cain may have journeyed to found a city that presently is 200 feet or more below Sea level of the Persian Gulf. The time era for that crime and punishment could have been the Younger Dryas.

On the Proposition that Nothing's Inherently Valuable and Delusion is Behind Values

 Nothing is inherently valuable therefor values are delusional? Consider this for a minute.

Proposition: Nothing is (inherently) valuable; inference 1- values are delusional.- Points of fact-Values are variables and have utility meaning or worth. Some value assignments are in error while some are correct. For example; if walking across the Mohave Desert in August a bottle of ice-water would slake thirst and is valued for reducing thirst; consideration... Thirst occurs in walking or riding a bike in the Mohave desert in August. Water slakes (reduces thirst). If a bottle of ice water is valued as a thirst quencher, and it does quench thirst, the proposition value paradigm is correct rather than delusional.

Values are like words and word strings that are used by a sentient being to communicate. Values are also generally a subjective form of communication for-oneself assigning values or utility or worth to various objects, service, events etc. Such things are not inherently valuable only in the sense that words do not cohere in objects in a sentient way. Even so, while anti-matter is quite uncommon and difficult to produce, it's value or utility lies in scarcity and difficulty to obtain for those that want some. The desire to have an object in relation to its intrinsic scarcity create a value in the minds of those that want it. Value is an estimation of what is required to obtain, affect, change or control part of the real world directly identified.

On the Time or Vector Reversal of an EMG Wave at CUNY

 The following article was written with some of my points and questions with material provided as well by Gemini and edited by ChatGPT...

Scientists at the City University of New York have demonstrated what is often described as the “time reversal” of an electromagnetic wave using a specially engineered metamaterial. If an electromagnetic wave were a loaf of bread baked from dough, this process would not literally turn the loaf back into dough—but it would force heat to mathematically flow backward, retracing its original path with uncanny precision.

This distinction matters.

What is reversed is not time itself, but the evolution of the wave. The material imposes conditions that cause the electromagnetic wave to reverse its phase and momentum, sending it back along the exact trajectory from which it came. Some call this time reversal; others argue it is more accurately described as phase conjugation or wavefront reversal. The debate is not semantic—it cuts to the meaning of time in physics.

Time is often treated as a physical change in configuration and relation among objects within spacetime. Electromagnetic waves, however, are composed of massless photons. This raises an obvious question: if photons have no mass and do not experience proper time, in what sense can they be said to move “through time” at all—let alone have that motion reversed?

The electromagnetic field does not arise from the Higgs field. The Higgs field gives mass to certain particles—electrons, quarks, and the W and Z bosons—but photons do not interact with it and therefore remain massless. Electromagnetic waves are generated by accelerating electric charges, not by the Higgs mechanism. The EM field and the Higgs field are distinct and fundamental.

So how can a massless wave be time-reversed?

The answer is that mass is irrelevant here. Time reversal in these experiments refers to the symmetry of the wave equations themselves. Maxwell’s equations are largely time-symmetric. Under the right conditions, one can engineer a material system that causes a wave to propagate backward, undoing dispersion and scattering as if the clock were running in reverse. But the cosmic arrow of time is untouched.

If a massless particle’s wave vector reflects off a material and exactly reverses into a vector aimed back toward its origin, is that truly time reversal—or merely spatial inversion with phase correction? Reasonable physicists disagree.

Instead of reflecting an electromagnetic wave in space, as with a mirror, this metamaterial reflects it in its evolution, reconstructing the wave’s prior state. This has practical implications for imaging, signal correction, and communications—but not for undoing history.

Unfortunately.

If it were otherwise, transmission-line metamaterials scaled to the size of warships, combined with technology capable of converting warships into electromagnetic waves, would allow defense contractors to build a ship, time-reverse it, and then charge again to build it once more—ad infinitum. One would only need to convert the ship into an electromagnetic wave before reflecting it in the time-reversal medium, and ensure that only the portion striking the material is reversed.

Physics, regrettably, refuses to cooperate.

cf     https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69717180/time-reflections-are-real-scientists-confirm/

Gemini added- and ChatGPT edited- 

A Philosophical Note on Time, Order, and Reversibility

What makes the CUNY “time-reversal” experiment philosophically significant is not that it sends anything into the past, but that it destabilizes a deeply embedded intuition about what time is. In everyday experience, temporal order feels inseparable from causal order: first causes, then effects; first signals, then echoes. Ordinary reflections reinforce this intuition. They reverse direction in space while leaving temporal sequence untouched.

The temporal reflection demonstrated in this experiment breaks that alignment. The wave remains within forward-moving space-time, yet its internal chronology is inverted. The last part of the signal becomes the first to return. This reveals that temporal order, at least at the level of physical signals, is not an absolute structure imposed by the universe, but a contingent feature arising from how systems interact with their environments.

From a philosophical standpoint, this supports a view of time closer to a relational or structural conception than a purely linear one. The experiment shows that what we ordinarily call “the flow of time” may be less fundamental than the ordering rules governing information, energy, and phase. When those rules are altered—here, by a global and instantaneous change in the medium—the apparent arrow of time within a system can be locally reversed without violating causality or thermodynamics at the larger scale.

This distinction is important. The universe’s macroscopic arrow of time—associated with entropy increase—remains intact. What is reversed is not entropy or causation itself, but the ordering of a signal’s internal history. In this sense, the experiment demonstrates that temporal direction is not a single monolithic property of reality, but something that can meaningfully differ across levels of description.

Philosophically, the result resonates with long-standing debates about whether time is something that flows or something that is structured. The temporal mirror suggests that “earlier” and “later” are not always intrinsic properties of events, but can depend on the physical context that mediates them. Time, here, behaves less like a universal river and more like a coordinate system whose orientation can be locally inverted.

In this light, the experiment does not imply that the past is accessible or revisable. Rather, it reveals that chronology itself is a physical variable, not merely a metaphysical given. The significance lies not in undoing time, but in showing that the ordering of events—what comes before and what comes after—can be engineered, at least for waves, without contradiction.

Seen this way, temporal reflection is not a curiosity at the edge of physics, but a concrete example of how time may be better understood as an emergent feature of physical interactions, rather than an absolute backdrop against which those interactions unfold.

ChatGPT-

Temporal Reflection and McTaggart’s Two Orders of Time

The peculiar significance of the CUNY temporal-reflection experiment becomes clearer when viewed through the framework introduced by J. M. E. McTaggart. In his famous analysis, McTaggart distinguished between two ways of ordering events in time: the A-series and the B-series.

The A-series orders events as past, present, and future. It is the time of lived experience, of becoming, anticipation, and memory. The B-series, by contrast, orders events simply as earlier than or later than one another. It contains no moving present and no intrinsic direction—only relational structure.

McTaggart argued that the A-series is internally contradictory and that time, as we ordinarily experience it, is therefore unreal. Whether one accepts that conclusion or not, the distinction itself has proven remarkably durable.

Ordinary reflections preserve both series. When a wave reflects off a mirror, its spatial direction changes, but the temporal order of the signal does not. The first part of the wave remains earlier than the later parts, and the A-series alignment—cause preceding effect—remains intact.

The temporal reflection demonstrated in the CUNY experiment behaves differently. While the wave remains embedded in the forward evolution of space-time, the B-series ordering of the signal’s components is inverted. What was later becomes earlier within the reflected wave. The internal “earlier-than / later-than” relations are flipped, even though no event becomes past-future in the A-series sense.

This is the key philosophical point: the experiment shows that B-series ordering is a manipulable physical property, not a metaphysical absolute. The universe’s A-series—its overall thermodynamic direction and causal stability—remains untouched. But the relational structure that orders events within a system can be reversed under the right physical conditions.

In McTaggart’s terms, the experiment offers empirical support for the idea that what feels like the “flow” of time may not be fundamental at all. The A-series may be a feature of how conscious agents inhabit physical processes, while the deeper structure of time resembles the B-series: a network of relations that can, in certain contexts, be locally re-ordered without contradiction.

Importantly, this does not vindicate McTaggart’s stronger claim that time is unreal. Rather, it refines the debate. The temporal mirror shows that chronology is not identical with causality, and that temporal direction is not globally imposed but locally emergent. What we call “time” may be a layered phenomenon: rigid at the cosmological scale, flexible at the level of information-bearing waves.

Seen through this lens, temporal reflection is not a violation of time but a demonstration of its structure. It suggests that the arrow of time is not a single, indivisible feature of reality, but a composite of thermodynamic, informational, and relational constraints—some of which can, under precise conditions, be reversed.

Temporal Reflection and the Block-Universe View

The CUNY temporal-reflection experiment also invites comparison with the so-called block-universe conception of time, often associated with Minkowski and later with Einstein’s interpretation of relativity. On this view, the universe is not something that unfolds moment by moment, but a four-dimensional structure in which all events—past, present, and future—coexist as fixed relations within space-time. Nothing objectively “flows”; change is a feature of how observers are embedded within the block.

At first glance, temporal reflection fits comfortably within this picture. If time is fundamentally a network of relations rather than a moving present, then reversing the internal order of a wave poses no metaphysical problem. The wave’s history is simply another path through the block, one in which the ordering of informational states runs opposite to our usual expectations. From this perspective, the experiment looks less like a paradox and more like a controlled re-routing of events within an already-given structure.

However, the experiment also exposes a tension in the block-universe view. While the block treats all temporal relations as equally real and fixed, temporal reflection shows that some temporal orderings are dynamically produced, not merely passively “there.” The inversion of a wave’s chronology requires an active, global change in the medium—an intervention that alters which events are earlier and later within the system. This suggests that at least some temporal relations are contingent on physical processes, not simply embedded in a timeless geometric whole.

This is where the contrast with McTaggart becomes illuminating. McTaggart’s skepticism about the reality of time stemmed from contradictions he saw in the A-series, not from denying relational order altogether. The temporal mirror aligns with this skepticism in an unexpected way: it preserves the overall causal and thermodynamic stability of the universe while undermining the intuition that temporal order is fixed and inviolable at every scale.

In other words, the experiment sits uneasily between the two views. It supports the block-universe claim that time does not fundamentally “flow,” yet it resists the idea that all temporal relations are immutable. The block may exist, but its internal structures appear to be locally rewritable.

Philosophically, this points toward a hybrid position. Time may be globally block-like—anchored by relativistic space-time and thermodynamic constraints—while remaining locally plastic where information, waves, and fields are concerned. Temporal direction, on this account, is not a single cosmic property but a layered phenomenon: rigid at the level of entropy and causation, flexible at the level of signal structure.

Seen this way, the significance of temporal reflection is not that it overturns either McTaggart or Einstein, but that it sharpens the question both left unresolved. The experiment suggests that time is neither a pure illusion nor a fully frozen block, but a structured medium whose ordering principles can be selectively inverted without breaking the universe as a whole.

For philosophy, this is a rare and valuable case: a concrete physical result that forces us to distinguish more carefully between time as experienced, time as ordered, and time as physically instantiated—and to recognize that these may not always coincide.

Temporal Reflection and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy

If the block-universe treats time as static structure and McTaggart dissolves it into logical contradiction, Alfred North Whitehead offers a third position: time as process. For Whitehead, reality is not made of enduring substances laid out in space-time, but of events—what he called actual occasions—each coming into being, achieving its moment of definiteness, and then perishing. Becoming, not being, is fundamental.

On this view, time is not something that exists independently of events. It is the cumulative advance of novelty as occasions succeed one another. Crucially, this advance is irreversible. Once an occasion has perished, it becomes part of the settled past, contributing to the conditions of future events but never re-entering the process as something that can be reordered or undone.

From a Whiteheadian perspective, the idea of temporal reflection is immediately suspect—not because it violates physics, but because it appears to violate the metaphysical asymmetry between past and future. If the order of events within a wave can be inverted, does this not amount to reversing becoming itself?

The resolution lies in recognizing what is and is not being reversed. The CUNY experiment does not reverse the succession of actual occasions. The global process of becoming continues uninterrupted. What is inverted is the internal ordering of information within a physical system, not the ontological order of events as such.

In Whitehead’s terms, one could say that the temporal mirror operates at the level of prehensions—the ways in which an occasion takes account of data from the past—rather than at the level of the occasions themselves. The wave’s structure is reorganized so that later informational components are made available earlier within the reflected signal, but no actual occasion is re-created, un-perished, or reinserted into the past.

This distinction preserves Whitehead’s core insight: becoming remains one-way. The experiment does not undo the creative advance; it exploits the fact that not all temporal asymmetries are ontological. Some belong to how information is carried, stored, and transmitted within processes, rather than to the processes themselves.

At the same time, the experiment poses a subtle challenge to process philosophy. Whitehead emphasized that relations to the past are inherited in a fixed order. Temporal reflection shows that, at least for certain physical systems, the order in which past data is re-presented to the present can be actively reshaped. This suggests that while becoming itself may be irreversible, the structure of inheritance is more flexible than process philosophy often assumes.

The philosophical upshot is a refinement rather than a refutation. Whitehead is right that time is fundamentally about becoming, not geometry. But the temporal mirror shows that becoming does not uniquely determine informational order. The arrow of process and the arrow of signal are related, but not identical.

In this light, temporal reflection appears not as a metaphysical anomaly, but as a boundary case—one that reveals a layered conception of time. At the deepest level, there is irreversible creative advance. Above it sits a domain of relational and informational structures whose temporal orientation can, under precise conditions, be inverted.

For readers inclined toward process thought, this may be the most important lesson of all: reversibility at the level of form does not entail reversibility at the level of becoming. Time remains real, creative, and asymmetric—yet the ways it is encoded and manipulated within physical systems are far richer than ordinary experience suggests.

On the Leftist Theory the U.S.A. Is Evolving to Feudalism

 Every man's home shall be his castle- moats are optional. Dungeons and dragons will overrun the nation. Knights of knee shall find the political truth in the wilderness. Democrats may evolve into being the enemy at the Gates while microsoft AI co-pilot will find a way through the cloud leading at last, to The Magic Book of Isms.

Chain of Thermodynamic Causality, Evolution, Orginal SIn and Jesus Christ

 Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden. They were the only humans created that ever lived in it. Wittgenstein's Indeterminacy of Translation paradigm applied to material written about 3500 years before present, describing events and history from thousands of years earlier presumably, are definitely subject to that linguistic phenomena. I believe the world was populated when Adam and Eve were created, yet those humans weren't really regarded as spirited. Remember that human is a human word. It may be that spirit is what is important to God- as God is Spirit. Adam and Eve showed they knew the difference between good and evil and were cast into the world with all of its thermodynamic troubles to live in the land of the lost. If humanity evolved, it was only in fairly recent geological history that they became like modern humans with advanced capacity for thought. Animals don't know the difference between good and evil. Original sin is something like living like animals in pure thermodynamic relations even with consciousness. None of that is acceptable for the divine economy of God. Salvation through Jesus Christ is the only way out of the spiritually stillborn condition of death that lasts forever unless reborn in the Spirit of God.

https://suno.com/s/U4xoDycQ0B1UdG89 The Living Water

https://suno.com/s/6N4HQFswPwE05AxZ Y'Earth; Faster One and Universe

https://suno.com/s/LtkZuRRsDmBE2wEC Wrecked Sky at Mourning

Duckweed Has as Much Protein as Soy and All the Necessary Amino Acids for Human Life

 “Common duckweed is native to Alaska and much of the United States and world. It is a little green plant that floats on the surface of ponds entirely covering them in many instances. Two and a half acres of area covered in duckweed can produce 1.4 million pounds of dry duckweed annually- fifty times what one could get from corn in the same area (one hectare).

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-duckweed-world.html

Duckweed protein has all of the amino acids a human body needs. Some believe it could feed the world. In the United States it is generally treated as a weed and eradicated. It is probable though, that duckweed will be grown underground in ponds on Mars in order to produce protein for those spending the remainder of their lives as troglodytes on a foreign planet. Here are a few duckweed facts from Gemini…

Gemini–

Common duckweed (Lemna minor) is one of the most protein-dense plants on Earth, but whether it is the “most” protein-rich depends on how you measure it (by dry weight vs. cultivation yield) and which other organisms you include.

1. Protein Density (Dry Weight)

When dried, duckweed is exceptionally high in protein, often surpassing common land-based crops:

• Duckweed: Contains 25% to 45% protein by dry mass, depending on growing conditions and nitrogen availability.
• Soybeans: Typically contain about 36% to 40% protein. Duckweed can equal or exceed this level.
• Comparison to Microalgae: While duckweed is more protein-rich than almost any leafy green or legume, it is surpassed by some microalgae. For example, Spirulina and Chlorella can contain 50% to 70% protein by dry weight. 

2. Protein Yield (Per Acre)

Duckweed is often cited as the most “efficient” protein producer because of its rapid growth rate (it can double its mass in 48–72 hours). 

• Yield Comparison: One hectare of duckweed can produce 10 to 18 tonnes of protein per year.
• Soy Comparison: In contrast, soybeans produce only 0.6 to 1.2 tonnes of protein per hectare per year. This makes duckweed roughly 5 to 10 times more productive than soy per unit of area. 

3. Protein Quality

Duckweed is a “complete protein,” meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids required by humans. 

• Amino Acid Profile: Its profile is comparable to animal proteins like eggs or dairy.
• RuBisCO: About 40–50% of the protein in duckweed is RuBisCO, a highly digestible and non-allergenic protein. 

Summary of Edible Plant Protein Content (Dry Weight)

Plant/Organism	Average Protein Content (Dry Weight)
Spirulina (Microalgae)	50% – 70%
Duckweed	25% – 45%
Soybeans	36% – 40%
Lupini Beans	~36% – 40%
Peas/Lentils	20% – 30%

Verdict: Duckweed is likely the most protein-dense flowering plant (angiosperm) by dry weight and yield, though certain non-flowering microalgae like Spirulina have a higher percentage of protein per gram.

From 2.47 acres (1 hectare) of duckweed growth annually, one can potentially produce between 10 to 18 tonnes (22,000 to 40,000 pounds) of protein per year under optimal conditions. 

Production Breakdown

• Total Biomass Yield: Research indicates that a 2.47-acre area can yield up to 30-32 tonnes of dried biomass annually. In certain highly optimized vertical farming systems, Rutgers University researchers have produced as much as 1.4 million pounds (over 635 tonnes) of dried plant matter.
• Protein Content: Duckweed’s protein content typically ranges from 20% to over 40% of its dry weight, depending on the species and cultivation conditions.
• Protein Yield:
  • Typical estimates for protein production are 10-18 tonnes per hectare per year.
  • One study reported achieving a protein yield of approximately 2.6 to 3.3 tonnes/ha/year even in a temperate climate, which still exceeds typical soybean production.
  • In general, duckweed protein yields are significantly higher than conventional crops like soybeans or corn, potentially 5 to 10 times higher. 

Key Factors Affecting Yield

The actual amount of protein produced depends heavily on several factors:

• Species: Different duckweed species (e.g., Wolffia, Lemna, Spirodela) have different protein potentials and growth rates.
• Cultivation Conditions: Optimal nutrient concentration (especially nitrogen and phosphorus), light intensity, and temperature are crucial for maximizing both biomass and protein content.
• Harvesting Frequency: Regular, judicious harvesting is needed to maintain an optimum plant density and growth rate. 

Overall, duckweed is a highly efficient and sustainable source of protein, offering a significant potential yield per acre compared to traditional agriculture. 

Duckweed, specifically the tiny Wolffia species known as Asian watermeal, has been a traditional food source for centuries in several Southeast Asian countries. 

Primary Consuming Countries

• Thailand: Known locally as khai-nam (water eggs) or pham, it is commonly sold in local food markets.
• Laos: It is a traditional staple vegetable in various regions.
• Myanmar (Burma): It is historically harvested and consumed as part of the regular diet.
• Israel: While not a traditional consumer, Israel has recently become a leader in cultivating duckweed for human consumption, marketing it as “green caviar” or “water lentils”. 

Culinary Preparation

Duckweed has a mild, nutty flavor similar to sweet cabbage, spinach, or watercress. It is prepared in the following ways: 

• Soups and Curries: Fresh duckweed is most commonly added to savory liquid dishes, where it provides a thick, nutrient-dense texture.
• Omelettes: It is often mixed directly into beaten eggs before frying, a popular preparation method in Thailand.
• Salads: It can be eaten raw in salads or as a garnish.
• Traditional Dishes: It is used in specialty Southeast Asian dishes like Gaeng Khai-Nam (duckweed curry).
• Modern Applications: In Western and Israeli markets, it is processed into powders for smoothies, used as a topping for sandwiches, or served as a fresh “caviar” substitute in fine dining. 

Note on Safety: Wild duckweed must be harvested from clean, sanitary water sources because it can absorb heavy metals and pollutants from its environment. “

common duckweed- image credit U.S. Gov

Areas where common duckweed grows in the U.S.A.-image credit U.S. Gov

From ChatGPT-

"Duckweed and the Limits of Resilience in a Nuclear World

Duckweed is often described as one of humanity’s most promising answers to hunger. It grows extraordinarily fast, requires minimal land, can be cultivated in controlled environments, and produces high-quality protein at a fraction of the resource cost of conventional agriculture. If any plant appears capable of feeding a stressed world, duckweed is it.

Yet even duckweed would fail in a nuclear winter.

A large-scale nuclear war—even one limited to Europe and Russia, involving roughly 100–150 nuclear detonations over cities and industrial areas—would inject massive amounts of black carbon soot into the upper atmosphere. This soot would block sunlight, cool the planet, and disrupt precipitation patterns for years. Duckweed, despite its efficiency, still depends on photosynthetically active light, stable temperatures, and managed water chemistry. A sustained reduction in sunlight alone would sharply reduce growth rates; temperature volatility would further destabilize cultivation, even in greenhouse or indoor systems strained by energy shortages.

More importantly, duckweed is not merely a biological solution—it is a civilizational one. Harvesting, drying, processing, and distributing duckweed protein depend on electricity, functioning supply chains, chemical inputs, transportation networks, and political stability. Nuclear war would fracture energy grids, destroy infrastructure, and collapse international trade long before the full climatic effects unfolded. Food that can theoretically be grown but cannot be processed or transported does not feed people.

This is where casualty estimates become unavoidable. Peer-reviewed climate-agriculture models indicate that a regional nuclear war involving on the order of 100 warheads could lead to hundreds of millions of deaths globally from starvation within one to two years, due to abrupt declines in food production and distribution. As the number of detonations rises toward 150—especially if urban firestorms are involved—some scenarios project famine deaths approaching or exceeding one to two billion people worldwide. These deaths would occur predominantly far from the war zone, in regions dependent on global grain markets and thin food reserves.

The key lesson is not that duckweed fails as a concept, but that no food technology can outrun planetary physics. Nuclear winter does not selectively damage inefficient systems; it collapses the foundational conditions—sunlight, temperature stability, energy, logistics—on which all food systems depend. Even the fastest-growing plant on Earth cannot compensate for a darkened sky and a broken world."

Duckweed shows how close humanity is to solving hunger.
Nuclear war shows how easily that solution—and every other—can be erased."

Why God Became Man for a While

Merry Christmas; It was necessary to have someone pay for the original sin of mankind as a kind of ransom- it could have been no one else than the Son. To miss that as the reason for God to become man in-the-flesh is to misunderstand the main point of the incarnation. God has a perfect moral economy and cannot tolerate sin deficits. Only the Son was qualified to relieve those of faith from their debt of original and subsequent sin. God in effect had a trump card to play allowing Himself as One of the Trinity to make the payment only God could pay. Humanity would comparatively never have been capable of enough good behavior or merit to pay a fraction of its massive deficit.

As the Apostle John said; 'For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.'

Mankind given free will can and does sin. For some reason God chose to save those of mankind with faith in Jesus Christ rather than let them all go to hell following their own devices.

https://suno.com/s/LtkZuRRsDmBE2wEC Wrecked Sky at Mourning

Trump Class Battleships Seem Retro

It is hard to say which are more harmful to US security; battleships at 15 billion dollars each or windmills. President Trump’s vast new fleet of Reganesque (ie USN Missouri) were pushing the envelope of obsolescence nearly a half century ago. Now they seem like magnificent dinosaurs equal to fossil fuels in backward looking military business.

  Next generation drones and torpedoes piloted by A.I. and recharging themselves with wind and solar power at sea on stealth hunting missions are the tip of an iceberg of new weapons lusting for large, expensive targets to sink.

    Of course vast battleships will impress third world nations and some pirates that can’t afford top grade anti-battleship weapons. When next gen AI directed submersible and independent laser and particle beam weapons appear at sea with reflecting amplifier mirrors perhaps hovering airborne a couple meters above the sea surface rise to fry steel hull battleships the glory of the gold fleet would sink . Such hovering mirrors with A.I, might concentrate and reflect focused laser light from a central emergent source risen above the sea surface to attack a steel ship from every angle and vector. The mirrors might recursively capture, internally reflect and correct concentrated laser light point of aims even, given numerous AI mirrors thinking independently and with unity, on several different targets simultaneously..