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11 August 2014
Computer Chess and Football Analysis
08 August 2014
Troubles of Being the Chosen People an the Intersection of History
I think Christians need to use very careful, nuanced language regarding Jews because it has been used so badly traditionally-by anti-Semites that have perpetrated pogroms, purges, and holocausts. One considers the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia, the persecutions in Russia sent by the Tsar for a distraction from domestic troubles, and the expulsion of the Jews beyond the Pale of Poland and that something fewer than 30% of German Christian ministers dissented adequately from the Reich's State Church hostile takeover.
So are Jews God's chosen people-the leavening sent into the world to bring the word of God and ideas of God to the focus of the world's attention? It would be hard to say that they aren't in light of their history and Bible prophecy. God hasn't divorced his chosen people. They are still in his plan and always were. Realized eschatology brought Christians too into the tribe of Israel with the new covenant-we are a branch grafted onto the tree as the parable goes. Jesus brought the new covenant and the Mosaic Law was fulfilled and surpassed, yet the Jews are more than just the lost world, Jesus writing the laws of God on the hearts and minds allowed Israel to move beyond the boundaries of national Israel and the Mosaic law paradigm when it was ripe historically.
It is probably not a good idea for Christians to overly evaluate the Jews as no more the chosen people and claim that we Christians will sit on the right hand of the Lord. We are saved by the grace of the Lord yet the Jews have their own worldly destiny that they can't seem circumstantially to avoid-being in the center of things at the crossroads of the world and drawing the wrath of the forces loyal to a false prophet from Mecca too influenced by Essene determinism I think. Jews are only 13 million or so on Earth and if they have an attitude it is because they need it for self-defense. Americans have a large, powerful military and the Christian community benefited from being far away from Barbary pirates, Muslim fanatics and kow-towers to emperors for a long time.
We can't expect Israels to be sweet, gentle and exterminated by head choppers right away. One must ask if Christians would be happier living in Israel or the Caliphate, and be aware that there are many kinds of persecution both religious and non-religious, and that Americans are said not to have a theology of suffering living in a dream as it were. I hope that continues-yet with decadence it tends to be lost.
Limbaugh's Radical Subjectivism Split the Republican Parrty
Traditionally
neo-conservative talk radio guys put on the hat of naïve realism. Yek they can alternatively
wear a cynic hat with less audience share. Generally though, naïve realism is
the paradigm. Trying to understand Rush Limbaugh, worthwhile since he has 20 or
30 million occasional followers, and consider why he can be so completely daft
on some points and accurate on others provides insight into the power of
broadcast media to mess up American democracy.
Mr.
Limbaugh’s erratic analytical method tends to divide up the Republican Party
into separate wings comprising the aloof upper-class globalist blue-bloods and
the scientifically dumb conservative followers of Rush transforming the
Republicans into the intellectual constiuency of traditional Democrat donkeys
leaving the important stuff to the brains of the outfit in talk radio. In times
past Republicans were regarded as the more intellectually astute party leading
the way with sharp business ideas with some fat cat industrialists that surged
ahead. In those times there wasn’t such a vast gap between the very rich and
the very poor. Rush Limbaugh tends to take the New Republican Dumb constituency
on that long, black train leading to nowhere as a generality waiting for Godot.
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Surprisingly
Rush made a conservative ingression into radical subjectivism standing with
John Lennon in the Strawberry Fields nothing
is real psychology of the Beatles classic. That is the intellectually limp
leader has a right-wing version of popular subjectivism started perhaps by John
Dewey with a topping of moral and epistemological relativism that droops down
ecospheric reform and responsibility.
Radical
epistemological subjectivism entered academia, politics, business and religion
and even in to talk radio. Radical subjectivism allows the buck to be passed
infinitely in theory.
Jesus
Christ in saying that the king of God is
within you was not establishing a purely subjective epistemology. Obviously
Jesus was in the Kingdom of God for-himself yet existed
in the world for-others. There are many ways to interpret the meaning of what
Jesus said about the kingdom of God and of what the kingdom of God is, and where it is, yet
it wasn’t a purely subjective epistemology. The kingdom of God may be experienced
subjectively yet it is also founded or grounded in God. God is the
objective-other as Sartre might have said, yet that pure objectivity is
transcended through receiving Jesus Christ as one’s personal Lord and Savior.
Jesus Christ is the sole way to God. Some find a sense of realized eschatology
in the concept of the kingdom of God being within Christians
as an initial entry of the developing kingdom of God that will fully emerge
objectively at the end of temporal history. Well, to return to Rush Limbaugh
and the left’s radical subjectivism…
The
left notably took a turn in the 20th century toward subjectivism and
subjective psychology. A book named The
Age of Fracture described some of the American political developments of
that intellectual-theoretical trend. One
didn’t expect Rush Limbaugh and naïve conservative realists to take a turn toward
radical epistemological subjectivism too. Yet sharing that realm of radical
subjectivism with the left was possible for those that wandered through the
moral relativism and ethical subjectivism required for the moral immunity to
Wall Street corruption leading to the 2008 crash. Where one has a kind of
epistemological-intellectual libertarianism one can apply Derrida’s objective
treatment of literature to the real world regarding it as subjective and
amusing.
Whereas
Karl Marx applied G.W.F. Hegel’s metaphysical induction to analysis of
political evolution without the theoretical-teleogical paradigm, Rush Limbaugh
seems to use a Sartrian phenomenalism with a topping of Marxist dialect to
produce a weltanshauuung where everything is regarded as political with
politics perhaps meaning a social process of adjudicative transaction.
In
Limbaugh’s weltanshauung science is subject
tive
and hence scientists produce political theories. Instead of studying the world
and Universe objectively they study it subjectively within a social-political
context and generate political points of affirmation or denial of an evolving
socialist vs. capitalist dialectic. Limbaugh views vegetarianism and global
warming theorists as political dupes or willing apparatchiks of the dark side
of the dialectical force in the perennial battle of good vs. evil. Limbaugh is
something of a Manichean or Zoroastrian existentialist soaked in the sauce of
cold war era dialectical materialism morphed to a form where it is a dialectical
evolution to nowhere besides entropy and the heat death of the Universe I
suppose, after yielding maximal prophets-and its al a dream.
Limbaugh’s
weltanshaung shared with subjectivists of the radical left that fled there
perhaps when Marxist-Stalinism lost its glint and Sartre provided the
existentialist Critique of Dialectical
Reason as a refuge for the philosophically challenged is reliant on the
ultimate subjective nature of mass and energy and of its phenomenal nature.
Science though is dedicated to the study of mass, energy and forms as well as a
human being can do. Scientific results tend to approach the validity at least
of that language has in publicly verifiable use. Science has produced some of
the greater advances in the human condition. Applied science has relieved
objective human suffering from disease. Good science can be applied with bad
politics to do harm. Adolph Eichman used scientific fruit of technology and
I.B.M. card readers to process Jews for extermination in the holocaust. Too
many car making fossil fuels emissions generate greenhouse gasses contributing
significantly to global warming causality. Science and technology produced
automotive technology, bad politics want to continue to misapply it, deny any
bad effects and deny any scientific capacity for objectivity. Science it is
said by the politically maladroit produces just politics.
That
point calls for some humor of course. I haven’t the time for that here. One can
imagine Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton
producing political material instead of science and technology. Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin on the moon were political merry pranksters and the Hiroshima bomb was just a political
invention of no substance used to put Marxists in power and increase the size
of government to super-enhanced. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.
Human
thinking and sentience is what distinguishes human beings from animals and even
inanimate mass and energy. Human beings are organism too and simply being a
happy organism isn’t really human. Human beings are sentient beings that need
to think critically, rationally and objectively as possible. Man does not live
by bread alone. So can science measure the atmospheric and sea surface
temperature of the planet or what the atmosphere is made of-of course. Can
science compare the present state of the thermal condition of the world to ages
past-yes.
Human
affairs of a social nature often are political.
Political-social responses to objective environmental challenges may
have partisans of several sides on innumerable issues with various combinations
of issues packaged occasionally so large as to comprise political party
platforms. It would be just stupid though to claim that the potential for
making anything a political issue negates the reality and potential for
objective existence of the issue. In a sense the radical subjective
epistemological theory of the left and of Rush Limbaugh too apparently denies
the possibility of a democracy having any real issues to fix or respond to.
Instead issues such as global warming when applied with the Limbaugh
weltanshaung filter can be regarded as political illusion to support the dark
side of the dialectical force and the demi-urge of doom egging on anti-Canutian
political force.
Rush
Limbaugh is not entirely wrong about particular political issues yet his
theoretical competence is deficient to the point where he seems to be Talking
Under the Influence –T.U.I. with an irrational, perhaps CO2 influenced
giddiness(joking about this last point). He believes Vegetarianism or Veganism
is political and doesn’t seem to be able to separate or distinguish what the political is regarding issues and the
issues for themselves. Vegetarians sometimes just don’t want to eat Bambi.
Some
reincarnationists thought meat eating would consume some kindred spirit
perhaps. There were religious and personal reasons for not eating animals, or
eve health concerns in kosher proscriptions. Mad cow disease was caused with prions
brought by feeding cattle dead cattle pieces. It required scientific
objectivity to understand how the infection mechanisms worked. Even Rush
Limbaugh’s artifical hearinh cochlear implants were developed with work by
individuals with more than a radical subjective epistemology believing nothing
is real.
It
is fairly easy to misunderstand the philosophical points about epistemology
that have developed since the pre-Socratics along to modern Super-String
theory. Christians may have a different point of view about the nature of
mass-energy in relation to spirit too, and spirit in relation to mass-energy
can be regarded in different ways. Madonna the pop singer sang The Material Girl yet evolved interest
in the neo-Gnostic Kabalah. Philo of Alexandria was defiantly not a naïve
materialist. Even if all of thought, mind and body is made of matter
(material), matter-mass-energy is itself perhaps a practico-inert substance of
God presented for-others in Higgs field entanglement. For us matter is a
potential practico-inert substance for reforming and manufacture that can be
neither created or destroyed (generally). In the beginning there was brought
into being a finite quantity of matter-energy brought or issued-spoken into the
darkness when it was without form and void.
The
way the Universe is today and its method of physical change in an ordered,
logical paradigm within consistent characteristics of conduct including some
room for uncertainty that permits a wide range of freedom of motion lets human
minds experience the phenomenon of being and the objective characteristics of
the Universe. Subjective and objective characteristics cohere within the
phenomenon of being for humans to discover. The Universe is not just an
experience of purely subjective epistemology presenting no moral or ethical
concern to the rich or leftist totalitarians.
07 August 2014
Napalm Security Area Around Stranded Yazidis of Iraq?
The tragic fact that Bush II and Obama I policies have led to the creation of a Caliphate that has treed 15,000 stranded on a mountaintop without food or water supply calls for a regular Noah's Ark relief mission napalming the paradise around their perimeter to keep the dogs of death at bay as well as air drops and relocation of the most vulnerable Yazis first. Perhaps a few special forces teams could be the calvary arriving to help defend against the evil mufsidoon until everyone can be relocated. Its only 15,000. Maybe they could go to one of resident Obama's illegal alien concentration camps too until a safe place in Iraq can be carved out for them.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-considers-air-drops-to-15000-iraq-refugees-fleeing-isis/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-considers-air-drops-to-15000-iraq-refugees-fleeing-isis/
06 August 2014
Low-Information Losas Liberated by Piltdown-Mann
Quickbling Piltdown-Mann the successful low-information top-radio hose has been to the top of the mountain of bureaucratic trash reading high-information facts on global heating and concluded it weren’t happening; Never twas and neva, neva dwill he said. Piltdown has a special mission to rescue 2-foot tall droopin midgets in that vast left-wink government plunked into the Democrankern Potty; Piltdown said; Wise-up!
Thus spake Piltdown-Mann; N.A.S.A. looked down through its elitist space periscopes from satellite dollah-soakas upon the planetary iced pack and found that them ice crystals aren’t shrunk at all. They are ‘bout the same size they ever was and so’s the glaciers of Alaska. No one need blather all hot and bothered about anything meltin or sea levels risin. I ain't takin no T.U.I. rap for talking under the influence of CO2.
Ice is ice and frozen water and cold all over Iceland is cold-ice that hasn’t warmed up at all and it can’t; its frozen. Everyone no’s there neva was icepack in Miami except in my biah crueller. Sponsas of top radio pay good money to sell fossil fuels and the world needs more. More coal burnin plants, more deforestation, more gas guzzling SUVs, fewa wild animals to faht in the air and more jobs fo low information votas.
In Alaska coastal areas that are flooded now that never were before coverin up ancient archeological sites before they can be excavated and the stuff catalogued from what early legal immigrants to America had for technology and lifestyle is just rhoomas sewn like tares to undermine Tea Potty Patriots throwin tea and old growth forests that are really weeds into the ocean where they belong chopped up like salad by vast industrial propellas sendin ships of commerce to the tables of subdivisions in China for the top 1%. The storms bling storm surges as storm surges do and properly always has. Fossil fuel electrification is happinen in Nigeria beatin out that next generation solar panel and fuel cell infrastructure that don’t rely on fine old heriarchical corporatist social infrastructure needed to cut down the dam jungles and wild animals, concentrate wealth and power and so forced.
The perfect-tense meltin of glaciers, sea level increase, reduction of the cryosphere area and measuring of the sea surface temperature, carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere and other stuff like that are N.A.S.A.’s problem and they agree with me. Other scientists shove that contradiction and disputes exist in science too and low-information scientists get very bad outcomes with 99.8% probability of being leftist, commie anti-wealth propaganda. The bad actors need to go back to the drawin boards to reconfigure pseudo-scientific conclusions with logical premises verified and confirmed with adult supervision and super-bondo anti-low information, high-information fixin agent.
Temporal Cross Currents (free download science fiction novel)
We gonna show that a crack-a-jack school of Cairo-critique trainin at New Eco-Gitmo-and-go can yelp high-information rich content for anyone that wants to be like the 1% that know the world is cool and full of credit. This leads the way to the prosperity and security. High information radio talk hokin provin the world atmosphere is the same old same old and global heating gas content in the atmosphere don’t really increase and neva dwill ‘cause of reliable New Eco-Cairo-critique spinal adjustment malleting of sticky widgets quicken’d by technology correction products of Adam Smith’s high-information invisible empire hands-on manipulation of the thermostat guarantee optimal perfectly balanced plenitude.”
Thus spake Piltdown-Mann; N.A.S.A. looked down through its elitist space periscopes from satellite dollah-soakas upon the planetary iced pack and found that them ice crystals aren’t shrunk at all. They are ‘bout the same size they ever was and so’s the glaciers of Alaska. No one need blather all hot and bothered about anything meltin or sea levels risin. I ain't takin no T.U.I. rap for talking under the influence of CO2.
Ice is ice and frozen water and cold all over Iceland is cold-ice that hasn’t warmed up at all and it can’t; its frozen. Everyone no’s there neva was icepack in Miami except in my biah crueller. Sponsas of top radio pay good money to sell fossil fuels and the world needs more. More coal burnin plants, more deforestation, more gas guzzling SUVs, fewa wild animals to faht in the air and more jobs fo low information votas.
In Alaska coastal areas that are flooded now that never were before coverin up ancient archeological sites before they can be excavated and the stuff catalogued from what early legal immigrants to America had for technology and lifestyle is just rhoomas sewn like tares to undermine Tea Potty Patriots throwin tea and old growth forests that are really weeds into the ocean where they belong chopped up like salad by vast industrial propellas sendin ships of commerce to the tables of subdivisions in China for the top 1%. The storms bling storm surges as storm surges do and properly always has. Fossil fuel electrification is happinen in Nigeria beatin out that next generation solar panel and fuel cell infrastructure that don’t rely on fine old heriarchical corporatist social infrastructure needed to cut down the dam jungles and wild animals, concentrate wealth and power and so forced.
The perfect-tense meltin of glaciers, sea level increase, reduction of the cryosphere area and measuring of the sea surface temperature, carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere and other stuff like that are N.A.S.A.’s problem and they agree with me. Other scientists shove that contradiction and disputes exist in science too and low-information scientists get very bad outcomes with 99.8% probability of being leftist, commie anti-wealth propaganda. The bad actors need to go back to the drawin boards to reconfigure pseudo-scientific conclusions with logical premises verified and confirmed with adult supervision and super-bondo anti-low information, high-information fixin agent.
Temporal Cross Currents (free download science fiction novel)
We gonna show that a crack-a-jack school of Cairo-critique trainin at New Eco-Gitmo-and-go can yelp high-information rich content for anyone that wants to be like the 1% that know the world is cool and full of credit. This leads the way to the prosperity and security. High information radio talk hokin provin the world atmosphere is the same old same old and global heating gas content in the atmosphere don’t really increase and neva dwill ‘cause of reliable New Eco-Cairo-critique spinal adjustment malleting of sticky widgets quicken’d by technology correction products of Adam Smith’s high-information invisible empire hands-on manipulation of the thermostat guarantee optimal perfectly balanced plenitude.”
05 August 2014
Administration Thinks Russian Military Should Back Down from Its Ukraine Border
White House and State Dept. spokespersons have spoken out against Russian military exercises in Russia near the Ukraine recently. Since Russia has been invaded from the west catastrophically several times it isn't a reasonable expectation or hope. In fact Ukrainian soldiers invaded Russia recently before returning from the cross-border excursion (see WSJ article below).
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russia-officials-say-1407247834
Any military build-up in Ukraine will necessarily alarm President Putin. Ukraine was part of Russia for about a thousand years and Boris Yeltsin plied with Vodka gave it up easier than the Red Sox gave up Babe Ruth. A rivalry was created that lasted quite a while, yet of course in the case of Russia with a history of losing millions of civilian and military deaths to western invaders and with a protracted nuclear weapon threat cold war it has had little cause to trust western benevolence. Neither Russia or Israel have solid cause to trust the good intentions of their main adversary. The west has threatened Russia or invaded it for about 500 years and the Palestinian have waged war on Israel without let up for about 70 years. As in a chess game, if the Israelis give up pieces (land) to hope for a draw their opponent is disincentived to quit with nuevo advantage.
Basic reality politics seem lacking in the U.S. administration sometimes. If they were to occur with a good script for positive change written by a good writer for Reality Politics in D.C. the budget would be balanced, public debt eliminated, borders secured, full employment and ecospheric restoration renormalized and understanding of salient features of international relations and circumstances understood and acted upon to the betterment of humanity. We expect anything besides reality politics in the age of fracture. Reality itself though builds up to bite now and then.
A recent report said their are 25,000 terrorists living in the U.S.A., perhaps not including Democrat Party members, and a fifty percent increase of terrorists on Earth the past four years after all the support for community terror organizing in the absence of the Reality Political Show. Yet of course with the deconstruction of realism from politics none of that matters subjectively while the good times roll for the insiders.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russia-officials-say-1407247834
Any military build-up in Ukraine will necessarily alarm President Putin. Ukraine was part of Russia for about a thousand years and Boris Yeltsin plied with Vodka gave it up easier than the Red Sox gave up Babe Ruth. A rivalry was created that lasted quite a while, yet of course in the case of Russia with a history of losing millions of civilian and military deaths to western invaders and with a protracted nuclear weapon threat cold war it has had little cause to trust western benevolence. Neither Russia or Israel have solid cause to trust the good intentions of their main adversary. The west has threatened Russia or invaded it for about 500 years and the Palestinian have waged war on Israel without let up for about 70 years. As in a chess game, if the Israelis give up pieces (land) to hope for a draw their opponent is disincentived to quit with nuevo advantage.
Basic reality politics seem lacking in the U.S. administration sometimes. If they were to occur with a good script for positive change written by a good writer for Reality Politics in D.C. the budget would be balanced, public debt eliminated, borders secured, full employment and ecospheric restoration renormalized and understanding of salient features of international relations and circumstances understood and acted upon to the betterment of humanity. We expect anything besides reality politics in the age of fracture. Reality itself though builds up to bite now and then.
A recent report said their are 25,000 terrorists living in the U.S.A., perhaps not including Democrat Party members, and a fifty percent increase of terrorists on Earth the past four years after all the support for community terror organizing in the absence of the Reality Political Show. Yet of course with the deconstruction of realism from politics none of that matters subjectively while the good times roll for the insiders.
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