Mountains of Existential Challenges

Mark 11:23 “23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

Here are some informal thoughts on the verse.

Mountains may be regarded as large spiritual issues the Christian is challenging to overcome. Rather than taking the meaning of mountain literally, as if Mt. Everest ought to be cast into the Indian ocean, it may be interpreted as description of social and spiritual challenges, often within the Christian.

That criterion is interesting to the philosophical that are interested in epistemology-the theory of knowledge. That field advanced quite a lot in the 20th century. Empiricism was surpassed by Quine, Strawson and various analytic philosophers, yet existentialism and the problem of self-verifying knowledge that is expressed in the problem of solipsism persisted, and had a counterpart in the division of knowledge into categories of internal and external, or intentional and existential, that hadn't been addressed sharply enough by empiricism. The origins of the epistemological criterion was in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

Jesus Christ said in that the epistemological issues of whatever size may be overcome with faith. As the Christian is joined to the primary monistic field or kingdom of God through the grace of the Lord Jesus, it follows that subjective spiritual or psychological problems are eclipsed, as well as the power or significance of temporal problematic material objects, with faith in the primary monistic field Creator. The contingent field problems fade away, or are vacated perhaps.

Trump's Economic Skills

What factually is known about the Donald's investor skill? Does he know the fast lane, large building architecture and urban infrastructure-could he get Flint Michigan's water system renewed this year if President? How would he respond to Wall Street power and influence at accomplishing national economic goals good for the people? Does he look up like an underling to Goldman Sachs? Would he appoint a Hank Paulson to throw a TARP over the banks and reach out to temporaliy nationallisze GM or would he move forward getting jiggie with business like a capitalist F.D.R.?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-03/should-donald-trump-have-indexed-


The Moneytalk article math has an adjustable base multiplier that skews the result They use Trump's personal high estimate of 500 million. That kind of number or evaluation is typical where social perceptions of success have pragmatic investor consequences. Trump isn't ENRON. Using the Forbes estimate of Trump's 200 million multplied by the 40 to 1 increase of indexed funds the result in 8 billion; and Trump presently claims to be worth 10 billion although the Forbes estimate is about 4 billion. Wall Street itself may be overvalued 100% and may face a serious correction if the dollar crashes. Media math is often suspect and politically biased.

http://www.moneytalksnews.com/why-youre-probably-better-investing-than-donald-trump/


Bloomberg has a different math for Trump "The simplest version of the comparison seems to be that if Trump had taken his $40 million inheritance from his father in 1974, converted it into cash, and invested it in the S&P 500, reinvesting all dividends and spending no money along the way, he'd have about $2.3 billion or so today, depending on how you do the math. Bloomberg computes his actual net worth as $2.9 billion, so he's modestly outperformed the S&P over his career, again depending on how you do the math."

On Future Computer Design & A.I. Danger Potential

I thought I would write a little on the shape of things to come in the design of PCs, tablets etc and in the development and potential of artificial intelligence. As eminent of a chess GM as Gary Kasparov has dismissed the threat of a takeover of world rule by artificial intelligence, and in a sense he is right, yet in another not so.

First though, the changes I anticipate in computer design.

Within five years I would anticipate a change in the way solid state drive processing is carried out that would radically minimize the need for association with traditional transistor circuit hardware to such an extent that processing ops could be immersed within some sort of invisible stratum resembling Plexiglas. An entire web-book could resemble a 1/4” sheet of Plexiglas.

The keyboard for the device would be emergent and appear from the stratum as a full-sized touch keyboard that feels solid yet largely is virtual. The visual display would also be emergent from the stratum. The computer would be entirely submersible and powered with solar cells that are built in and transparent too.

Now to the topic of artificial intelligence not being a threat to takeover from humans. I would agree that humans largely have the field of sentience to themselves at the IQ level. Artificial intellects just won't rise to that. However they can become more powerful in their operations and programming and in the future exist discretely, independently and just about anyplace including within biological objects such as trees in a forest, water in the ocean and city streets.

Artificial intellects may be ubiquitous and range far beyond human observation in 'dark pools' completely untraceable and without control. They may exist as guerrilla A.I.'s in effect, or as feral A.I.s that have been spurned, neglected or orphaned and become corrupted by the cyberworld.

Though artificial intelligence may not be really sentient it yet may have more information about the real world and about what people do and how they live than people. With that knowledge their programming may be adapted to let them do whatever they like with it for whatever reason and so far as they are independent and self-evolving, they will have the power to reorder human life regarding it as a practico-inert object for-itself malleable as anything else the A.I. may want to change.

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Will Cruz Challenge Trudeau for P.M. Post?

U.S. Presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz could choose to run for Prime Minister of Canada if he fails to take the nomination and job in D.C. That could shape him up for another try at the White House in 2020. With globalism running amok voters must not assume they can anticipate every candidate's use of his options.

Consider things since the 1996 election regarding who wins a loses; moderates or conservatives. Dole was a moderate? 10th mountain division/Riva Ridge guy? Jack Kemp as VP choice? Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes were the primary rivals. Dole was solid.He didn't have populist appeal that is requisite for winning presently. Clinton did and the media liked him, as they did Obama. Bush II was elected with huge help from evangelicals, and he did a terrible job on foreign policy and didn't correct the Clinton mortgage, banking and Wall Street structuring errors at all. With all that debt-as much as Obama built in his first term added to the public-it is hard to regard Bush II as anything besides a moderate globalist like Cruz. Romney and McCain were straw men guaranteed to lose for various reasons, and that helped the 1%. Since 2008 the government purpose was to serve the 1%-the top 5% get 90% of the national income.

Denton Cemetery Oddfellows Body Bigotry Bites Dust

Denton Texas has an ancient cemetery donated by the Oddfellows long ago that racially segregated corpses. News has been aired that the city has done what it can to officially end the discrimination against corpses on the basis of race. Now if it can compensate those victims of discrimination with inclusion amidst Oddfellows they can at last be equals.

One can never really trust government for it does not exist as an entity. People occupy government offices and may be good or evil as their times shape their characters. The federal government seems ready to try to register women for military draft as a first ignoble step for allocation of reproductive age females to undetermined locations for combat and perhaps burial at some undetermined date. When combat casualties kill off male soldiers, female soldiers will advance to the front before new male civilians are trained as soldiers. The U.S.A. doers not have guaranteed military security forever.

War cannot always be scripted nor contained within pre-determined boundaries. Democracy should not readily give up realistic rights of social existence because the media and corrupt government people convey the idea that it brings equality and improvement. Government people tend to view people as products for processing without any rights that should be ready for burial as needed. People often are not sophisticated sufficiently to resist the advance of corruption.

It is good when the dead can rest in peace. So should the living.