'The One' and Trans-finite Series

Infinite mathematical series of numbers are of much interest to philosophically inclined people. Do they really exist and what value are they since it is possible only to use a finite portion?

Greog Cantor developed the idea of trans-finite numbers. That means that not all infinite series are created equal, though we may be biased to believe that all truly infinite series must be eternal since if they are simply in progress of increase they are not really finite with some sort of beginning and present terminus even if only for a fraction of an instant of time.

The series of natural numbers (positive integers) are infinite in one direction; to the right, and I believe that Cantor would regard that as a trans-finite series. What does that mean? In regard to the infinite set between the numbers 2 and 3 for example where smaller and smaller rational numbers can be expressed in fractions, the natural numbers breezes beyond it.

Infinite number series though seem to be limited and finite in some respect simply because they are not a set of all sets of any kind of number that can be represented. Even number series do not include odd numbers, and positive numbers don't include negative numbers, in fact any series of numbers or geometry is a finite slice of the infinite continuum of numbers in all forms and size.

One of the interesting characteristics of infinite sets of rational numbers  is that they seem to have the potential for being implictly contradictory in time as they are expressed. Because they cannot seemingly exist a priori in infinite numbers without continuing to diminish in proportionate size retroactively from the beginning, with a kind of reverse causality, they might need to exist just in a finite temporaly context.

Numbers seem be nominal finite, proportional sets of true infinity encompassing all directions, dimensions, ordinal and cardinal sets and so forth that is inexpressible. The relationship of that infinity non-contingent One to the expression of forms in the 'real world' studied by physicists makes one wonder of the expressions of possible cosmologies in space-time by The One.

The experience of a finite element of space-time or a given Universe is a provision of from the realm of Absolute Spirit evidently, at least as a point of faith and logical inference.

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If one defines 'ontology' as a weltanshuung, or world view of explanation of existence comprehensively, then an ontology today seems to be conditional since their are so many of them (although there is only supposed to be one true ontology). Deontology in philosophical history meant 'duty' as one might infer from ontology what one's duty's were.


W.V.O. Quine adapted the use of the word 'ontology' to linguistic sets and logical parameters as if it were a modal universe. In constructing a theoretical ontology I suppose one can make up a set of all valid ideas, put them in a set of words that can be tested for logical validity and then call it an ontology. 


One might find that sort of thing in contemporary cosmology with the requirement  implicitly that the math adds up for the values and constants integrated with observable facts etc.


In modal logic one may construct a 'universe' with theoretical values that are self-consistent even if not at all like the 'real world'. Some computer programs comprise a kind of example of modal logic-for instance gaming worlds where a left turn for an avatar walking down a street always results in transporting to another galaxy in a slum before this universe existed.


Trans-finite series were the result of Georg Cantor's working with irrational numbers and comparing the scale of one set of  an infinite series to another. Some infinities were thought to be larger than others.


There were thought to be two kinds of infinite number series-those with irrational numbers than can be made infinitely smaller incrementally such as between the numbers 4 and five, and those oars-in-the-water number series such as positive integers that were believed to be able to increase forever. For that trans-infinite series the puny infinity between 4 and 5 would be laughable I suppose.


Trans-finite series though do seem to be just another way of adding prior numbers to a next one in a series with a certain value, and of course they all seem in a way to be the same number representing an arbitrary concept of always being able to add one more to the end of an infinite line in one or both directions. Trans-finite numbers do not seem to be as impressive or actual as one initially thinks they might unfortunately. They exist in theory yet not in the real Universe, and are representative of quantity and location within a given relativistic frame of reference if one cares to associate the cleverness of number systems with spatio-temporal coordinates.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_number

Atheism Hasn't Got a Valid Logical Foundation

Logical sets comprising a theoretical ontology are implicity incapable of providing comprehensive evidence for atheism. Logical sets of trans-infinite concepts are trans-infinite only in relation to other infinite sets none of which can be shown to contain all others including itself. Atheism would need to provide exhaustive data representation accurately regarding all Universal, trans-temporal and pre-Universal, before the big inflation and before any possible inflation or virtual loop, before anything ever was until the end of anything that could ever be (because of Wheeler's retro-causaliity idea) ways wherein God might exist to offer even minimal credibility (and it hasn't). Atheists to attain even a shred of credibility-for-others would need to demonstrate that human logic is capable of grasping the idea of God for-himself and negate that idea.

In the Bible the prophet Moses was allowed a small glimspe of the glory of God passing before him before he died. It  isn't evident that even human philosophers are able to comprehend the nature of God or even of one Universe, as if it were a dot in infinite non-space less significant than a period at the end of a sentence.

Without such a logical set of inferences of the absolute trans-infinite set that captures all sets and ideas that might be represented in sets, no reasoning about the non-existence of God could be anything more than conditional, contingent and wrong. Atheism cannot be logically proven except as an existential belief for itself held by an individual in error.

Why the U.S.A. Has Become a Slum Economy

The United States has become a slum economy since the end of the cold war, with the people experiencing the slump of center of effort of national economy development (it has moved much closer to China) being prevalently the poor and the middle class.

At the close of the Clinton administration U.S. public debt was less than six trillion dollars. At the end of the Bush II administration the debt was a little more than ten trillion and now in the last of the first term of the Obama administration public debt has reached nearly 16 trillion dollars. Public debt eventually requires cuts in public spending in order to pay interest on the debt and has many other dangers.

The Clinton administration got the slum rolling with deregulation of finance and flood of illegal alien workers and flimsy, pyramid scheme resembling finances for banking and commodified home mortgages simultaneous with outsourcing of economic renewal to China. The Bush II administration extended and increased the bad financial footing after 9-11 with the military spending of two protracted wars and large federal deficits. When the Banking and mortgage crash occurred in 2007-2008 the new U.S.A. as a slum emerged.

Five trillion dollars of new public debt after Wall Street's crash and automobile bailouts, the slum footing of the economy hasn't changed. The rich are getting richer and the middle class employed isn’t too bad off while the poor and unemployed have increased their numbers becoming a permanent and separate domestic underclass. Radical economic reform of free enterprise to reign in corporate networking advantages might be welcome by individuals seeking a restoration of individual entrepreneurial opportunity.

China is the plum for The Street and globalists and the United States is a slum second rated in economic development plans. The Street is not concerned about profit for the people of the United States nor national economic renewal; they are concerned with making a profit for shareholders. The U.S. Government, and especially the President of the United States is supposed to be setting economic parameters of advantage to the people and not stand idly by as President Obama waiting for The Street to begin employing Americans in good paying jobs and just deficit spending to in the meanwhile.

With the aloof prosperous investors in China and elsewhere overseas agitating perennially for tax cuts and the Democrat Party led by comfortable millionaires without any concept of economic reform (only increasing taxes on the rich minority but not on the middle class) there are few immediate, evident prospects for ending the inertia of a slumping nation. Basic American reforms to limit the scale of corporations and collectives is not on the political radar screen, and politicians and business people seem to live in a fantasy world regarding the decline of the world environment, basically ignoring it.

The Malvinas Should Be Peacefully Returned to Argentina

Argentina should be given its Malvinas Islands back from British imperialists in accord with the Monroe doctrine of 1823 that provided reproof for the evil of colonialism in the western hemisphere by European imperial powers. 

The Malvinas, a.k.a. 'Falklands' islands have been settled by five different nations. The Malvinas, a.k.a. 'Falklands' islands have been settled by five different nations over the course of history. British naval prowess induced that nation to continue efforts to dominate the Malvinas with force. Because of the first and second world war alliance the British were allowed to sneak back in, and of course they were more helpful that Argentines in the cold war era at anti-Soviet activity in the South Atlantic. Payment for military support by sacrificing the liberty of an Argentine island group to imperialism should not be a part of U.S. history however.

The British were one of the powers that let its subjects dwell upon the Malvinas, yet the British settlers vacated entirely after 1774. The Spaniards did not flee until 1811.

Later in 1820 and again in 1829 some British and Argentine privateers dwelt again on the Malvinas and asked protection from Britain and Argentina. The privateers under one Luis Vernet were given reproof by a U.S. Naval vessel-the U.S.S. Lexington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands

The islands were declared free from all Government by the U.S.A. and the privateers were arrested and released in Montevideo. This was in accord with the principles of the Monroe Doctrine and self-determination for free people of the western hemisphere throwing off the shackles of exploitative globalist rulers.

Efforts by colonialist powers to interfere in the affairs of the western hemisphere were to be viewed as acts of aggression. That included the Malvinas Islands.

Portrait of President Monroe from the Smithsonian Gallery (public domain/image credit Smithsonian Portrait Gallery)

Monroe Doctrine 1823   page 1 of 1  (image credits U.S. Government)

Monroe Doctrine 1823   page 2 of 2

European Migration to America (HaplogroupX) 30-20,000 B.C. With Siberian Immigration?

The topic is controversial; did Europeans reach North America before the first migrants across the Bering Sea land bridge, with it, comprise a late wave or is the theory all horse puckey? Recent D.N.A. researches have found evidence of European population genes in some American Indians, or have they?

Haplogroup X and its two population groups after dispersion 30,000 years ago are one possible source of European genes in some American Indian tribes genetic history. Some would view that opinion as politically moderate since the Siberian Altaians are migrants from Europe long ago. Algonquinians have as much as 25% mDNA types, Navaho 7% and Yakimas 5%. The Cherokee may have some of the wandering European genetic compliment-even Elizabeth Warren with her 1/32nd% Cherokee ancestry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_X_(mtDNA)

This research is of course all fascinating. One looks at the flowchart for the history of human mitochondrial D.N.A. and is astounded. Its almost as good as watching a superbowl, nearly.

The Druze have the highest percent of Haplogroup X in their mitochondrial D.N.A.

Haplogroup X diverged from Haplogroup N about 30,000 years and ago and not long after that, in 21,000 B.C. when glaciation was at its peak the X group wandered around the Mediterrainian and Europe and evidently to Siberia. It is easy to guess that some of those people also took the Berengian land bridge route to America. So the question arises; how European were those SIberian Altaians about 20,000 years ago and did they sunburn easily?

An alternative Soultrean hypothesis exists postulating that group X moved by boat along the edge of the ice about 18,000 B.C. to America. That seems reasonable too, for it was an early route for Albs also originally from the Mediterrainian Sea islands perhaps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630791/posts

http://www.telusplanet.net/dgarneau/euro4.htm

Will U.S. Public at the End of Another Obama Term Reach $30 Trillion

The Obama administration could have let the Bush tax cuts expire in Dec. 2010 and let the budget return to balance in 2012. It might have recovered some middle class tax cuts from a position of strength through congressional negotiations. It could have given some concessions to Republicans for cuts in government spending, it chose not to. The Obama team set the agenda for a future era of forced smaller government when the reality of vast public debt sets in.

The U.S. public debt is about 15 trillion 700 billion dollars presently and will hit 16 trillion before the end of this year. If President Obama were to be re-elected the public debt by the end of a second term might reach 25 or 30 trillion dollars. Then one might guess Democratic leadership would decide to hand the ball off to Republicans and let them fix it.

A better policy would be to elect Mitt Romney in November and hope he can not only cut federal spending, but reform and improve the quality of federal spending as well. In bureaucracies a buck slip is an inter-office paper routing order and a customary policy on difficult work is to pass along the paper with a buck slip moving it somewhere else. Passing the buck is the sine qua non of modern government.

It is obviously the poor, the environment, American independence and individual free enterprise that will suffer most from an epoch of vast public debt,huge interest payments, reliance on foreign products producers and an effete globalist financial sector employing 30% Americans.

Debt increases and wealth concentrates as the U.S.A.moves down toward the upper tier of the second world over time. While U.S. domestic economic growth is only about 2% annually continuing reliance on the Reaganomic idea of increasing economic growth  and tax revenues faster than public debt increase is apparently a daft idea for the President to keep.

The President appears to have no interest in Federal economic leadership to reform free enterprise and corporate scale enabling better individual competition against established corporate collectives and networks-even on the Internet. The President seems to want to rely upon Wall Street to create employment and form rational macro-economic policy when of course the Street  is a global phenomena concerned about profit and unconcerned with U.S. public debt except incidentally. In the meantime he is contented on increasing public debt for he may at some point believe the government can counterfeit its own currency and by up its own debt without damage to U.S. economic interests. 

It is still possible that the dollar may crash in value with a mass sell off of foreign held reserves.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Europeans tend toward being a godless political ensemble these decades without over-much concern for anything perhaps as the result of that century of wars and mass killings. One can look back toward the 19th century when civilization in Europe was more like today's American society and global economic power policy with economic exploitation of anyone or everyone not-an essential concern.

In the 19th century royalty was endangered and aristocracy in decline. Free enterprisers and middle class capitalism were on the rise without much consumer protection. Social classes were in competition and transition and individual with militarism too in the mix stimulated change along with bad social health and pervasive economic insecurity concurrent with expansion and environmental habitat destruction; what a time!

Today's global exploiters are organizing into class collectives with corporate and government networked relationships. While the immorality ethos is personalized through micro-moral decay the collectives simply co-opt individualism empirically.

Corporatism is still corporatism even if it's in the form of big corporations and small governments or of big governments and tamed corporations. A neo-socialist state with corporate leadership emerges in either case.

Untreatable Gonorrhea from Asia is increasing in the U.S.A. The Clap is the second most common infectious disease among Americans with more than 600,000 new cases each year. The untreatable version may comprise as much as 1.4% of the new cases and seems on the rise. The Obama administration economic policy shares phenomenal attributes with Gonorrhea finding the economic malaise untreatable. with conventional and measures.

Not only must the economy be reformed so the poor are employed in realistically quality standard of living providing positions, the entire economy needs to be moved toward a sustainable new foundation ecologically-and that is a tremendous challenge resisted by human beings that believe their is no end of the Earth as an inert object in itself supporting the stage of human technical increase.

Myriad global problems including that of the economy are a distraction from the vital economic and economic reform challenges disregarded by U.S. administrations. The Obama administration may cite its foreign military policy record of letting Iran and North Korean nuclear weapons programs continue, or assure Americans that India's new missile able to launch on Beijing bring stability to Boston and Washington D.C. Those are however only the tip of the iceberg of global issues that should be of secondary importance to the economic security of the poor in the United States.

Moslem Turnout May Be Key to Sunday's Presidential Election

France's next President may be determined by how many French Muslims get out to vote against the centrist candidate and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. The right wing candidate Marine Le Pen took 18% of the vote in the primary, so Sarkozy is courting the right to enable him to overcome the leading socialist candidate Francois Hollande.

Muslim immigration to Europe displacing a formerly Christian culture is a perennial political issue. 2011's Norwegian bombing and shootings by the right wing youth Anders Behring Breivik higlighted the point of resistance to lax immigration policy, and that is a paradox.

For the Muslims presence is an inherent conservativism on morality for-itself that runs counter to the trend of European and American moral decay. When the right opposes Muslim immigration it opposes reinforcement for morally conservative positions. It is the left that support Muslim immigration that would extirminate their moral outlook if possible, and the right that oppose their co-moralists even if not co-religionists.

Europeans tend toward being a godless political ensemble these decades without over-much concern for anything perhaps as the result of that century of wars and mass killings. One can look back toward the 19th century when civilization in Europe was more like today's American society and global economic power policy with economic exploitation of anyone or everyone not-an essential concern.

In the 19th century royalty was endangered and aristocracy in decline. Free enterprisers and middle class capitalism were on the rise without much consumer protection. Social classes were in competition and transition and individual with militarism too in the mix stimulated change along with bad social health and pervasive economic insecurity concurrent with expansion and environmental habitat destruction; what a time!

Today's global exploiters are organizing into class collectives with corporate and government networked relationships. While the immorality ethos is personalized through micro-moral decay the collectives simply co-opt individualism empirically.

Corporatism is still corporatism even if it's in the form of big corporations and small governments or of big governments and tamed corporations. A neo-socialist state with corporate leadership emerges in either case.

While the Obama administration could have let the Bush tax cuts expire in Dec. 2010 and let the budget balance giving back through congressional negotiations some tax cuts for the middle class and reductions in government spending, it chose not to. The Obama team set the agenda for a future with smaller government with more debt and concentrated wealth as the U.S.A.moves toward the upper tier of the second world over time.

The French will be alright short of nuclear or biological depopulation. Muslim immigrants might help them to get a hold on the slippery slope of absolute moral decay and remain out of the pit of doom. Norway's Breivik paradoxically opted to oppose the moral force against decay of Norwegian society-understandably since their must be many nostalgic for the good old days of yore when one could go a vi-king with a long ship abroad without concern for one's homeland security. Racial conservatism is difficult to defend these days-especially in the absence of moral conservatism. France may gets its share of Wahhabists and the Salafi if the socialists can get their man Hollande in to office.