A Universal Widget in the Realm of Forms (in paperback)

I have published a paperback version of my science fiction book. It's a philosophical science fiction consideration of Plato's ideas about forms.

Plato wondered if forms of material things were actualizations of transcendent blueprints from the mind of God perhaps from a realm of forms. Philosophers sought a kind of Rosetta stone for comprehending quanta. In contemporary cosmology a Universal tool for generating forms has gone missing from an extra-terrestrial world. Patrick Voevoda-a philosopher and friend, investigate.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/a-universal-widget-in-the-realm-of-forms/paperback/product-22453412.html

Phenomenality of Mind, Matter & Equilibrium (video)

Ravens and Friends

During the many years I camped in a tent in S.E. Alaska ravens were a usual part of life. Science has shown that ravens are about the smartest bird, with blue jays and magpies being second Ravens make camp life in the northern forest far less bland than it might be with so few creatures living in it besides bear, wolf (if one is lucky) and so forth-it isn't the Amazonian rain forest so rich with wildlife.

Ravens usually woke me up each morning flying over the tent or landing nearby and sounding off with various calls just before light when safe flying was possible. They weren't attracted just by the possibility of food, although they will recognize people that feed them now and them and distinguish them from those that don't, as they also distinguish those that have attacked them from those that haven't.

http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/birds/archives/2013/crows-recognizing-faces.aspx

Ravens will interact simply to have something to do, vocally. One can reply to basic raven caws with a similar caw, yet the vast range of raven sounds changes, and they have a repertoire that English language speakers cannot well imitate. Ravens seem attracted by certain kinds of music from a radio, and seem to like sound quite a lot as it is a tool for communication as well as pleasure. Some of the sounds are quite remarkable. With good sound recording equipment and living in a tent several years a scientist could record quite a raven lexicon, yet its important to have a relationship with the birds rather than to be simply a visitor in order to observe the social communication permutation.

After feeding ravens walking along a road a couple of days with leftovers or crackers attacked by mice and deemed unsafe to eat ravens on subsequent days remember the source of food and will  follow the walking individual and fly as close as a foot or two away to attract attention and stimulate the recall of the walker that the raven wants food. Ravens even remember where a trail is that the walker will take and may approach just at the critical moment as a last chance to get a crust of bread.

Raven life is interesting to observe.

Why It's Tougher for Some to Focus on Christian Concerns Now Than in the 1st Century

I think it is because there are more distractions and competing agencies of socialization.Cellular telephones and television and automobiles formed a different culture where attention to one truth alone is not easy. The economic facts are more complicated too and isolate people socially within a mass culture even while conditioning them to things like Facebook, Twitter-headedness and so forth. Christians may work in liquor stores to support a family or encounter rock & roll ministers that don't have true faith yet want true middle class income. Popular video games like HALO are indirectly vicious anti-Christian propaganda and pro-evolutionary training tools. It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times.

How to Make Snow Ice Cream

Take a large bowl and pour in a little milk or half and half, some sugar, vanilla extract and add snow slowly stirring the mixture up until the ice cream is as you like it. 

I like to use about a half cup of milk and sugar, a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract and lots of snow to get a half quart of fresh ice cream that should be consumed with the stirring spoon, yet its according to taste obviously. Some people get radical with the ingredients or add more.

Undercounting the Homeless in Dallas-Plano

A Dallas radio station reported today that last night their was a metro area-wide count of the homeless for government purposes and that the number was approx. 600 seriously underestimating the actual number of homeless people.

When I flew into DFW recently and travelled to Plano to begin living in a tent, I discovered that it is challenging to find a place to safely put up a tent. Plano is a community sprawling north extending the greater Dallas area with expensive cloned homes with mal-designed steep roofs designed better for snow country roofed with asphalt shingles rather than solar photon collecting tiles. Little space is allowed to remain for wildlife (actually about none) though nice bike paths and green spaces are planned to let the entire community be a sort of poverty free middle class slum without homeless people, cheap motels or anything that would upset the aloof milieu. Homeless people may still be away from urban centers and living more like coyotes at the edges of town where they may dash in to try to find work occasionally.

In my humble opinion the actual number of homeless people in the Dallas/Plano area is more like 2000. Counters of homeless people only find the ones that are easy to locate rather than those that have some sense and try to remain out of sight of the violent automobile driving goons that prey upon the homeless to alleviate their sense of inferiority.

In the environmmentally mal-adaptive suburban sprawl of cloned 400,000 dollar clone homes even their human servo-units have adopted the ethos of purging poverty and environment to the shadows, and purging any unregulated tree caused shadows.

ISIS Accellerates Purge of Christian in Middle East- Trash St. Elijah's Monastery

ISIS reportedly destroyed the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, or Kurdistan as the case or border may be, in Mosul. The structure was 1400 years old.


The monastery was previously destroyed by Tahmiz Nadir Shah of Persia in 1743. He also executed the monks living there at the time. ISIS at least destroyed an abandoned facility. Yet they apparently have no sense of aesthetic values, are inartistic and rudely annihilate ancient empty buildings that the economically excluded draw comfort from in reflecting upon the fact that the glitzy rich  buildings of now will also be dust someday along with the swells in them. Get a life ISIS-leave the world heritage sites alone.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-reportedly-destroys-1400-year-christian-monastery-iraq/story?id=36402008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dair_Mar_Elia