Reading from A Universal Widget in the Realm of Forms (video)

I read about a half-hour from my science fiction novel The Universal Widget in the Realm of Forms. Voice-over unrelated yet amusing images. A philosopher-entrepreneur, Patrick Voevoda, and his excellent quantum entangled mate  Yvonne discuss quantum cosmology and the missing Universal Widget discovering traces of its inventive interventions in the Rangestar system's planet Spud. 

                                                                          

The Presidential Sodom and Gomorrah Economic Policy

President Obama as a shill for implanting economic policy favorable to global corporatist needs something to pacify the Democrat Party that is for-itself deficient of economic reason or patriotism this decade. Global corporatists have learned how to market to American masses in the age of intellectual and ideological fracture. They provide homosexuality and illegal drugs along with incessant broadcast media reinforcement of immoral values-that is those values not in support of tax cuts for the rich, homosexual marriage and denationalization of the economy.

 

Nations opposed to homosexual marriage tend to also be in favor of economic nationalism. China has a state policy allowing foreign corporations ton own just 49% of any Chinese Corporation thus keeping political control national. Russia and Saudi Arabia tend to operate along the same lines-remember Saudi’s nationalization of Aramco. Homosexuality within a Nietszchian ‘beyond good and evil’ amoral context allowing wealthy elites to act immorally without moral reproach tends to be an agent of dissolution of existing, national and traditional economic social infrastructure. That sort of policy is favored by a bought and paid for administration and supported by a Democrat Party without national economic reason.

It is challenging to have confidence in any administration policy. Economic sins of omission and commission makes us wonder if the line of famous Guzman's; the founder of the Dominican Order, The Founder of the Shining Path and the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, has this time presented a no-bodyguards voluntary return to the penalty box for political benefits to a Chicago political machine. One wonders why a Mexican-border saltwater canal to desalinate water for farming through evaporation and condensation isn't mentioned as the draught may just be in the beginning stages of long-term increase in the Southwest. The answer is that such policy would enhance  U.S. national security and economic interests. Like a bill in congress to require that 51% ownership of any corporation in the U.S.A. be American, Wall  Street globalists wouldn't like it.

 

The appeal of an amoral culture beyond good and evil is substantial for the average citizens of a post-modern democracy. Ethics and intellect require intellectual effort. To be immersed instead of a pre-intellectual milieu of hedonist evolutionary amoral impulse reinforced by media and government works for many yet collectively it is a sleeper hold mercy killing the electorate’s reason. The Presidential policy development of the Democrat Party encapsulated like an amoral commune within a corporate global network struck does not bode well for the prospects for American inventiveness, economic reform or even life on Earth.

Elements of Church History Before the Dark Ages (incl. video)

In writing of a history of the Christian church in the ancient era after the end of the apostolic era and before the start of the Middle Ages one ought to determine where the word church arose and what it meant. Because of the 3^rd Goth invasions of Asia Minor at the end of the classical era of history associated with the fall of the Western Roman Empire many Greek words were brought into Germanic languages including. In Greek the original term for Christian assemblies was ἐκκλησία or ekklēsia and ecclesia. Arising from the Greek word referring to city-state assemblies that only citizens could participate in ecclesia was also used by Christians to refer to their own assemblies.

Cirice is the proximal Old English forerunner of the English word church via a Greek into German etymlogical path. A congregation of the Lord was ἐκκλησία κυριακή ekklēsia kuriakē. That made it into  West German as kirika from κυριακή kuriakē. The word for Lord was κύριος-kurios. Old English derived cirice from  from kirika and thus church emerged. An assembly of people who are believers that Jesus Christ is Lord is the church.

The development of social organization around Jesus to spread the good news followed his instruction in Mark 16:15 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” This leaves open the possibility of preaching the gospel one day to extra-terrestrials I suppose.

Development of the Christian church in many respects occurs within a contemporary historical tapestry of change and social development. Empires arise and civilizations fall. The proliferation of Christian faith and the establishment of churches in communities transcend borders and governments. In fact the establishment of the church itself creates a form of government itself in the evolution of the episkopos or bishops and the ekklesia or assembly that becomes a church structure prevalently within an Episcopal organizational patrimony. Even before the end of the first century Clement of Rome wrote epistles to other churches as an authority. One asks why the egalitarianism of early Christianity changed during the second century largely to an Episcopal structure as the apostolic era faded away. The answer is twofold. One, there was a need to establish a catholic or standard doctrine amidst the diverse assemblies and secondly human social organization tend to organize hierarchically to reflect authority.

The churches of North Africa, the Near East and Asia Minor developed regional authorities or Bishops with some more influential than others. Initially the churches of Antioch, Jerusalem and Rome were regarded more or less equally as centers of authority. Later Constantinople arrived to be considered an equal Christian center of authority, yet the development of Church authority in equal proportional measure with population and political power resembles in some ways the kind of proportional government found in the U.S. House of Representatives with those from populous states collectively having more representation. In the church history that evolved into Rome being the seat of authority in Western Europe especially after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and in the East Constantinople emerged as the center of Christian authority with much respect for Rome until the second schism.

One might say that the post-Apostolic increase of early Christianity was a process of missions, increase in the numbers of the faithful and ossification of hierarchical church structure under the authority of a bishop, and the bishops increased in number eventually recognizing particular metropolitan bishops as Bishops of Bishops or prime ministers under the authority of Christ. Church doctrine developed such that the opinions of the bishops were regarded as if they were themselves spokesmen for the Lord. Of course in the era before electronic communications perhaps they were approximately right. Keeping orthodoxy of faith and disseminating the true gospel without error such as Monophysitism and Arianism required a certain standardized coordination in the entire Christian world that was roughly the same area as that of the Roman Empire.

Institutional methods for distinguishing Christians from heretical votaries were developed conforming to standardized catechetical instruction and pubic baptism to symbolize admission of righteous faith.  Peter’s confession in Matthew 16:16 was the forerunner of creeds of faith and Matthew 28-19 of Trinitarian baptismal expressions.

Audio On Eschatology With Post-Chiliastic, Petrine Inflationary Cosmological Parameters

End times theories created for a post-Chiliastic paradigm using Petrine and Inflationary Cosmology parameters are worth some thought. Here is some conjecture.

http://www.buzzsprout.com/20597/152233-end-times-parameters-with-modern-cosmological-values

The Transition of the Old World to the New (Dark Ages)

The final century of the old world age of civilizations might be held to be the 6^th century. Benedict clears a vestigial sacred heathen grove and founds a monastery at Mount Cassino in 529-the same year Emperor Justinian ordered closure of the philosophy schools (e.g. The Academy) of Athens. There was a great controversy in Christology with Monophysite and Catholic opinions following the Council of Chalcedon (451) so far as to precipitate a schism between East and Western branches of the church. Nestorianism is also a problem for some theologians, the Western Roman Empire has finally fallen in 476 and Western European nations were only slowly developing as local imperial realms. Numerous local, secular wars arise. The Church itself sometimes becomes a partner of powerful rulers in the final century before Islam would sweep across North Africa and begin a theocratic assault on Africa, Europe and Asia Minor for more than a thousand years.

Greek was the lingua franca for the first five centuries of the Christian Church. It might be said that entry into the dark ages was a period of gestation, turmoil and transition to local languages and in the west the Latin language while savage yet nominally Christian kings led marauding armies and formed the trappings of feudal societies. Even so, the nascent conditions for reformation and the modern world were established.

The Emperor Justinian built up the physical structure of Byzantine civilization with splendor yet a famous monk visited his palace, got a look at him, turned and left saying that he had seen Satan. While Justinian was constructing great buildings a famine struck the Empire. People learned to hate the Evil Empire. Due to his maladministration tens of millions needlessly died. He married an Empress named Theodora who had once had sex in public with a legion of men during her career as a prostitute before marrying the Emperor. Historians have pointed out that the Byzantine civilization produced few good writers and was one of the most bureaucratic. It was a sort of coelacanth lasting until the 15^th century bridging much of the transition from the old world to the new. It gave Vikings somewhere so spend their loot. Muslims catapulted plague-invested rats over its walls.

The old world was aching for the new. Christianity would sort out its theological controversies amidst a simultaneous secular social chaos of civilization. When Attila the Hun visited Byzantium and Italy for war, when his ultra-fast horsemen made battle in France lassoing troops of a Roman legion under the direction of a rebel general there were consequences for believers as well.  When corrupt secular forces disorganize and destabilize civil order Christians also experience increased material stress. Secular wickedness is not invariably banal as Hannah Arendt described the bureaucrat Heinrich Himmler.

Jesus is the light in the darkness providing faith, hope and love through the midst of the troubles of the dark ages. The old civilizations and remaining heathenism withered with the end of Empire and/or the scourge of Islam. From Persia to Egypt and Asia Minor the deaths of infidels was to be profound. 

San Fran Politico to Enable Smart Phone Kill Switch Apocalypse?

A California State legislator from San Francisco is introducing legislation to require a hot-phone kill switch in new smart phones. The reasoning is that rendering a stolen phone inoperable by remote control code entry would nihilate its value to thieves. That may be true yet there is a hidden dark side of the force to consider. Legislators may be considering installing a kill switch in opposition political party citizenry too (just kidding).

A Universal kill switch feature on all smart phones sold in California would let the N.S.A., extraterrestrials and wise-guys kill all smart phones in California with a single instruction. That’s a useful tool to have for totalitarian state developers. It’s especially bad in California because outdoor burning is seasonally illegal; after a government takes down smart phones the public might need smoke signals for command and control of well-armed refusnik militia.

One may wonder how the kill switch scenario would fit into government disaster planning advice for families. When I went to school the government prepared adequately with nuclear blast security plans for student safety. Students were instructed to get under our little desk-chairs until the blast was over. The same spirit of enlightenment would encourage Americans today to plan ahead for unforeseeable national emergencies and follow through on plans to rally and cook out with pemmican and biscuit supplies.nable Smart Phone Kill Switch P

If family members are too young to think for-themselves perhaps they shouldn’t be out on their own, even so they may think to call home if the kill switch hasn’t been thrown. Thus plan b is to rendezvous at some safe spot like Uncle Max’s Pizza Joint in Cleveland even if it is where the most concentrated levels of toxins are found or if the metropolitan area was vaporized-it’s the thought that counts. In San Francisco during national emergency legislators with smart phone casualties can meet at the local saloon to buy whiskey for their men and beer for the horses. No national emergency can’t be mitigated by planning and the help of F.E.M.A., not even financial crash.

(Gov.) Parnell's Effort to Break Up Alaska's Public Education Monopoly

Alaska’s public education is in a race to the bottom along with that of the rest of the U.S.A. Recent news reports show that China and Asia student achievement is three grades above that of their Alaska and American age peers. Children of Chinese street sweepers score higher than America’s most privileged. This is a logical result of monopolistic education with that of the most spoilt nation faring worse.

If American public education is going to the dogs because of monopoly in a spoilt cultural milieu indoctrinating youth with the political correctness of the day instead of allowing diversity of quality education with school vouchers the consequences are well deserved. America was built up with entrepreneurial and revolutionary innovators rather than kow-towing followers. National Socialism in Hitler’s Germany was a sick substitute for the defunct royal class across Europe. Jews were blamed for being democratic revolutionaries (somewhat rightly) and perceived as reinforcing the rise of democracy over the natural superiority of the rigorous moral and ethical values of the best. Americans too naturally descend into a natural socialism with elites concentrating wealth and authoritarian government and corporate educational venues indoctrinating the intellectually weak. School vouchers for private educational diversity is perhaps the best available way to break up the disastrous drift toward the class indoctrination of thugocrats working for idiotic, deluded elites.

Governor Parnell’s effort to introduce diversity and competition into Alaska’s public education race to the bottom of world achievement standings is a good idea worth support.