Nelson Mandela Passes On

The passing of Nelson Mandela is another milestone of history such as was experienced by many Americans in the early 1960s when the World War Two generals and Presidents passed on. There is so much a trend toward historical revisionism that I decided to write a comment about the former African National Congress revolutionary leaders and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela.

The true apartheid concern of Americans today is really economic segregation. A metric of economic segregation within a nation is about the sole objective criteria to recognize who is being put down. Corporatists and communists internationally as well as fascists are happy to play the race card and elect any sort of tax-cuts-for-the-rich politician the media can be blowhards for as a shill for control. South African history was not like that however. Mandela was a real revolutionary who grew up in the historical evolution of South Africa.

Why did South Africa develop apartheid and why did it take so long to end? Apartheid or racial separation was an historical process rather than a designed or theoretical political system. Bantu were early settlers of South Africa and Portuguese and later Dutch settlers arrived about the same time as the Zulu fighting as tribes for control of the region. Racial tribalism was the way of the world back then and only slowly would racial integration without war on a battlefield evolve.

The American civil war was largely fought to keep democracy intact for the first truly democratic society of modern times. Ending southern slavery was a necessity for keeping the old regime of global elites from dividing and conquering the U.S.A. one piece at a time. The world was ruled by royals and elites in the 19^th century with Britain supporting the cause of the southern Confederacy as a successor subversion follow-up to burning the capital at Washington D.C. like an Al Qaeda attack during the war of 1812. Apartheid was not slavery-it initially was a way of keeping the savage foes at bay beyond the forts.

Before electronics and C.S.I. law and order enforcement was bad. Murder was too common. An excavation at a non-battle site in the Middle East from the late Neolithic found that the majority of men had died from head wounds. Into modern time law-enforcement was fairly ineffective except with punitive measures such as burning a village to eliminate an insurgency. Social frontiers were established with military rather than police power and unfortunately that included South Africa.

One might have thought that after the troubles of the Nazis and Japanese imperialists ended with the Second World War that the time for South Africa’s apartheid to end had arrived. After all the effort to use military conquest for colonial purposes had halted long before, a year or two, and Gandhi had returned to India from service as a police sergeant in South Africa to reprove settlements  with Muslims on issues of Jammu and Kashmiri independence. Instead what happened what wrenched the works was development of a cold war with proxy wars and Cuban soldiers running amuck across Africa. Dumped weapons stimulated revolutionary wars. A profusion of Kalashnikov rifles and explosives created liberation movements. Doctor Che Guevara gained his moment in the left-wing constellation before perishing in a South America jungle firefight. And then Nelson Mandela had to sit out 27 years in a prison cell. America has two or three million souls in prison cells, some innocent. When some innocent guy is released after 20 or 30 years usually he seems peaceful. I suppose most of the anger has been burned out of him long before because of the futility of emotion-within-self that does no good at all. Emotion is somewhat rational.

It because obvious during the late years of the cold war that apartheid was a propaganda victory in progress for the Red Block. Apartheid needed to end along with the cold war and unsurprisingly it died a natural death in 1994. Nelson Mandela’s main contribution historically was in stabilizing the post-Apartheid South African government. He did that a little better than President George W. Bush stabilized post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. We are skeptical that President Obama will stabilize Afghanistan after 2014 very well.

In the late 60’s and early 70s one could watch Bob Rule, Lenny Wilkins, Spencer Haywood, Walter Hazzard and other African-ancestry basketball stars playing for the Seattle Supersonics. They were not underprivileged nor segregated souls, and so viewing from afar the troubles of South Africa amidst the world of wars, Carlos the Jackal killers and egregious pollution such as at Minimata Japan one might wonder why people could not assure full employment, a good environment and national security for themselves.

In the U.S.A. labor unions that had high black membership along with most others have withered away along with low unemployment. A variety of ways of creating permanent economic segregation for citizens of the United States have developed and Americans with dual Mexican citizenship are being cultivated as a way to let globalists remote control the U.S. democracy and reduce it to a servile corporatist plaything. The media is corporate owned or influenced and agitates to organize corporatist values.  Well, we have poetry at least for consolation.

  Freedom to Choose Jesus

Mapungubwe, Maghreb, Pate, ha nahar, Ibn Tumart

impulse drives contend for the love of God

 Pastor of the mysterious river of time

He put forces of heaven in esse

majestically made life ist

words of Jesus shine as the sun

  Perfect High Priest and final sacrifice

atoning for the fallen nature of man

saving those whom believe to eternal life

 Jesus, tempted at its pinnacle

anon said not a stone of it would be left standing

Herod’s temple gone with fire and wind

transformed to a desolate temple mount

   City of Peace stumbling block

 dome or reconstructed temple

 would it be the platform for the anti-christ

 with broadcast team to deify it in audience share?

  Chumalungma, Yenesei, Yukon, Mare Ibrium

vain babblings and oppositions of science

ambling walkabouts, geo researches, time flows

Isaac and Ishmael forked at Beer-sheba

        humanity must choose at the cross.

From the Sphere at the Edge of a Dream

 ©1993GIBSON      

  For this sphere’s lost soul’s Jesus walked

then into Jerusalem

time talks like irreversible physics

to this being Jesus was

into the being-for-others of social reality

  Deliverer to the In-itself

Redeemer unto eternal life

that cosmos of one/none before the event horizon

three-in-one and every mortal’s dreams

to this being Jesus was

into the being-for-others of social organization

deliverer to the In-itself

  For the people of this sphere Jesus talked

then to Jerusalem and crucifixion

overcoming the demons of hell to rise

on the third day

  The Creator for many is a faith

transcending the temporal ekstasis

thermodynamics of past, present, future

with mercy, wisdom, salvation and eternity.

         Frozen Corner Stones

 ©1977GIBSON                                 

Grey marble block, granite flaked with white

snow lights in brittle branches

twigs snapped, the immense Christmas eve courthouse

of Burleigh County

freezes alone this night-

its woodwork banisters for moonbeams

and ghosts of cosmic panes

The jail is set for tours on weekdays

against the very minus wind chill factor

it’s neon sign stolen in the Earth’s frigid breath

Christmas eve and the cornerstones be, with inscription

are as everything time has, or will never remember

of this night and the morrow

the cornerstones are visions of molecules fading

into an eternal star field

from the inside, in a blank space

to the outer surface of their appearances.

 http://csrl.org/gs/ Ralp Nader's book on corporatism

Does History Repeat Itself?

Arnold Toynbee, Herbert Spencer and others noted cycles in civilization. I like Toynbee's challenge-response paradigm myself. If history can be said to repeat itself though one must ask what it is that repeats?

Human beings have innate behavior involving natural functions that are replicated in all individuals. So one wonders if societies and civilizations also have innate behaviors and obviously they do. I value G.W.F.  Hegel's quite highly myself though his dialectical paradigm for history being God evolving through history is somewhat over-generalized for use in the particular paradigm of 'does history repeat itself?'

One wants to place human existence on Earth within the broad parameters of Universal existence in a space-time field in order to ask literally if history repeats itself to which we tend to provide a definite 'no'. The space-time continuum is a linear flow with entropy having a direction. In an infinite multiverse however it might be possible that history recurs nearly the same in an infinite number of permutations although each in a different Universe. Again that fairly difficult to pin down paradigm of recurrent historical cycles could be itself just another contingent ontology within God. If God can foreknow and pre-exist in effect all things would he really need to actualize them?

Leaving off the difficult question of the nature of reality-for-humans as a contingent space-time field phenomena for now and returning to the question of 'does history repeat itself' in a narrower interpretation it is possible to break down the question into pieces; do some things in history repeat such as the growth of trees or species if not exterminated, or do weather patterns recur, and do corrupt rulers ever recur in history, do nations end because of excess public debt and so forth. I believe there is evidence to support the idea that civilizations and nations repeat errors just as some people repeat criminal behavior.

The troubles with getting rulers to work for Utopian goals optimizing so far as possible an optimal course of human development tend to recur too for analysts trying to goad a society toward better goals. I think there was a movie maybe starring William Holden 'The Bridge of Toko Ri' or some such that had a recurring effort to destroy the bridge of the bad guys so the good guys could liberate the oppressed, well on second thought I am thinking of another movie about test pilots.

All these test pilots were killed and the project was to find out why-they all kept making the same mistakes or the plane's fault was killing them in the same way; no one knew what it was. Historical mistakes were recurring. I guess if one had many planetary civilizations to consider one might discover that many or most ended their existence by destroying their ecosphere or themselves through war before learning about it. One must hope to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past especially if that involves the hubris of lacking faith in the living, transcendent God.

Truth Theories etc/Touch Screen Germ Pools

Correction- I cited axiology as = Truth theory when actually axiology equals value theory.
Value theory is one excellent field of study. The United States has one value theory primarily and that kind of monetary monomania can actually fail to respond meaningfully to external challenges.

On truth theories there are theories such as coherence theory, correspondence theory a  disquotation theory, constructivist, pragmatist, concensus etc. that are well worth thinking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_theory#Major_theories_of_truth

Consider a man training arduously for the world championships at two-thumb data entry flexing his thumbs on an international aircraft. He had left a bus station just an hour before where he needed to wait for a ride to the airport. He sensed the danger of the bus station amidst the crowd and looked in the reflections of a plate glass window to see if his rival's agent was following. The guy is a bit paranoid and works for a confederal government.

Two-thumb data entry world record holders are an elite crew comparable perhaps to opposable-thumb champions at grasping objects in trees millions of years before. They may strive to overcome competition at text messaging in hard-to-be-heard on a phone locations like a Seattle Seahawk's home game.

On the airplane the messages entered on the touch-screen were enough to write a small book before the end of the flight. Walking through the custom's station and 3rd degree of Homeland Security he exploited a new requirement that he wash his hands before entering the U.S.A. to cut down on germ transmission to Americans from abroad. Yet he made a critical mistake failing to put his micro-tablet touch screen in a handy touch screen decontaminator on the way out of Homeland Security.The touch-screen data entry champion put his thumbs back on to the germ pool of the touch screen that recontaminates his digits immediately after hand washing bringing a fresh, unique collection of bugs from the Middle-East city he had been training in.

So one may ask; is there any truth to the concept that touch-screens are germ storage facilities defeating hand-washing in America and wonder where the answers will be found. In a way there is a temporal element to truth-values; some truth values exist for a while, some truths are undiscovered yet, some truths transform into falsehood after a while (i.e. it is raining outside now), some truths are implicitly logically absurd or false (water is always dry) and some propositions are not falsifiable.

It is useful to remember that one cannot prove the particular with the universal. God is the Universal and people are particulars. One can argue reasonably that God is the Universal and the particulars with the particulars having limited intellect as if they were denouements of power quanta with limited range and in a field of protocol. There are consequences for the individual spirit-units believing that nothing is real and everything subjective as if they caused their own hallucinations inclusive of that of existence so they might ask if they were capable 'who programmed that computer to think it exists'?.

If the federal government believes that reality may be entirely subjective, or of that isn't a sort of popular idea on Wall Street in the age of fracture, won't that adversely affect public debt management? If  government is largely incompetent with challenged ideas about the reality of reality how can it be brought back closer unto sober neo-empiricism, as is the underlying secret fact of pragmatic investors seeking to rule the world?

Isn't political economy management like directing a flood of river water? There are prosperous flows and debt causing flows surging over the river banks. Government cannot just watch and let nature take its course and remain a government. Neither should it try to contain and control the flow without regard to the real role of the watercourse way in nature or mankind's place in nature under God. 

Government should pragmatically try to direct the flood sufficiently to accomplish the natural interests of the citizens of prosperity, health, recovering ecosphere and national security with equal justice for all. That can be done with smart leadership applying this and that measure here and there rather than through one daft piece of legislation. King Canute economic management and the alternative theory of nothing is real haven't a good historical track record.

Truth Theories

Truth theories are numerous in contemporary philosophy. The ideas of W.V.O. Quine are illuminating on that subject.

If truth is confirmation of a hypothesis or assertion, then often one finds truth. Yet language values for axiology (truth theory) are variables and the difficulty in finding things true in all circumstances.

The Universe is temporal and that is probably why the idea occurred to Plato of timeless 'forms' or truth objects as if he would think today that quarks or a Higgs bosun is some immutable substance.

Ultimately among the numerous theories of truth one arrives at a postulation that God is the logical Truth value and all concepts relative to God that could have more than disquotation or concurrence with temporal postulations. That is probably not written very simply. I mean that the fundamental source of all things that are not contingent and relative is God. Obviously one would need to have faith in God to believe that.

Godless Scientism Killing Ordinary Souls in the 'Name of Gravity'

Interesting about Dostoyevsky. I believe that Stendhal must have read Tolstoy, taken a look at Dostoyevsky and then written The Red and the Black. That book is a little ordinary reminding me somewhat of The Idiot (by Dostoyevsky) until the end. Stendhal learned how to make that great ending. It's kind of a religious insight and makes the entirety worth reading.

I wanted to comment on the idea that no one has died for the cause of gravity. There was nearly a killing of a believer in gravity by religious people. For Galileo his notions about gravity might have been a contributing cause for his near death before recantation by religious people, yet if scientific atheism includes the theory of gravity as an element then we have the terrible history of the Soviet Union to provide millions of examples of people that have perished in the political effort to foist mandatory godless scientism upon the world.

Don't forget that the Kulakization program killed millions of Russians with more than a couple of cows or a small farm-that was as devastating as large scale corporate farming at getting rid of small farmers (fatally in the first case because of starvation and freezing in Sibir). Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago series recounted some of the trimming science-only advocates put on tens of millions of ordinary people.  Other examples abound such as the Kymer Rouge and Pol Pot's government execution of intelligent souls and probably people of faith. One might say they were just ignorant communists however they were steeped in the mindless atheist theory of Karl Marx. 

Better ways exist to secure social economic justice and offset unfair power acquired through exploitation of humans as owned capital or the advantage of machines. One example is progressive taxation and limit's on the size and number of corporations that any individual may own shares in.

Tolstoy, the WIkipedia Relates, Was a Christian Anarchist

Tolstoy, the wikipedia relates, was a Christian anarchist. "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."-Tolstoy.

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

Tolstoy was a veteran of war and became a skeptic generally about mankind and social organizations. He did seem to believe in God however, and in the life of Jesus Christ. Christology has found some controversy historically in the nature of the divinity of Jesus Christ. I have a positive few of that so much so that The Lord was the Son of God-in other words a specific incarnation of God in temporal form and one with eternal life. Obviously there is a substantial amount of range of latitude one can take with interpretation of that kind of comment.

Tolstoy was something of a natural mystic. In later life he renounced wealth and affirmed asceticism. He greatly respected Jesus and believed that people commonly misunderstand his meaning. The Lord said in Matthew 19:24 ""It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.""

I listened to Tolstoy's commentary on religion available free at Thought Audio. He was a skeptic about the formal church structure in Russia and thought it somewhat syncretistic and disingenuous. In fact he believed that the regular liturgy tended to keep people ignorant. In Russia of his day the peasants were still discouraged to read the Bible for-themselves.

Jesus of course said that the kingdom of God is within you and one would expect nothing less of a transcending God concerned with spirit. Tolstoy was theistic yet he evidently enjoyed reading Schopenhauer so far as he encountered the mystical sort of influence perhaps first such as Schopenhauer derived himself from the East, Zoroastrianism and the influence of the idea of Brahma.

Unlike the Palagians that did not believe in the dual nature of Christ, the left position might be construed as tending toward a Spinozan or Shirley McClain sort of God is within you paradigm with the subject persona of the individual being a kind of illusion.

The differences East and West and not so great historically between the two points of view. Even within the Orthodox church tradition their were many that experienced heyschasm or mystical union with God before that was banned by the church hierarchy. Plotinus described the One in his 54 tractates named the Enneads, and he is perhaps mistakenly regarded as a pagan by those unaware of the deeper idea of a transcendent God surpassing the Higgs field of one's time.

There are reasons historically why orthodox and even state churches opposed the influence of mysticism and wanted pure naive-realism as the foundation for church worship of God. Part of that was historical too with state religions sometimes worshiping the fearless leader of politics as a god (such as Nero). Others had vested interests in exclusive control of access to heaven and hell on Earth and beyond the 4 dimensions of space-time if they thought about the beyond the garden of Eden downloaded paradigm.

Anyway, so much for Tolstoy for now. Dostoyevsky is of interest too. What about Alyosha? Wasn't he a better soul than his brother Ivan,  and more humble about life besides?

Democrat Party Loses Generations of Liberal Progress Following Homo Agenda

Since F.D.R. reformed the U.S. economy following the depression the Democrat party has pursued socially egalitarian reforms to better the lifestyle of ordinary Americans. Since the Obama administration took office a meaningless drift toward a homosexual agenda has replaced the tradition of real national economic progress. The Democrat Party has evolved to being a kind of COMINTERN global exporter of homosexuality as the new Marxism as if behavior that is fundamentally politically meaningless would itself make the world economy a better place.

Obamacare was probably designed to let homosexuals with AIDS or HIV get insurance at the same cost as the uninfected. The Obama homosexual community activism can’t substitute for the badly needed ecospheric and economic transformations toward progress, full employment and a cessation of increase of public debt. Homosexual theorists are simply wrong about their place in the world and effect on national politics.

The fiction of homosexuals as liberal democrats is the perfect tool for dissolving the economic class interests of the American poor and middle class. Homosexuals are rich as well as poor or middle class. Besides being a transgender element they are a trans-economic class fact including very likely billionaires. When the Democrat Party takes its focus off the purely economic picture and moves into the business of making morality by judicial and legislative decretals the classical historical interests of the ruling class rise with wealth increasingly concentrated through global networking.

Homosexual militants have expropriated the race card unto themselves claiming bigotry to those politically opposing their rapid expansion of power for degenerate social behavior trivializing the real historical problems of balancing and neutralizing racial distrust as elements of social oppression. In this era of swollen conservative homosexual militancy and consolidated wealth for the 1% radio advertisers have boasted of their “human capital” resources as if the era of slavery had returned already.

There have been bisexuals throughout military history. Before bedding Cleopatra Mark Anthony on military campaigns had a record of drunken debauchery with male soldiers. It has always been an aspect of the ruling class that they have had periods of wild Zarathustran type will. Julius Caesar is said to have been a plaything of a foreign king before rising to bed most of the Senator’s wives. Caesar’s family claimed descent from the pagan goddess of love- Venus. Though Caesar was necessarily a populist-like Ronald Reagan, he made himself the first Roman Emperor and ended the Republic that was moribund and corrupt due to more concern for globalism than Roman national interests.

Obamacare-Romney care was tested in the homosexual coordinating center of Boston Massachusetts. The Boston butch bosses thought they could enslave and tax youth into paying for the costs of AIDS and HIV medical treatment for those homosexuals with pre-existing conditions unable to buy health insurance. OF course that worked out well for conservatives in the corporate world interested in collecting rents from healthy youth.

The inexpensive way to provide AIDS and Mental health pharmacopeias to the afflicted would have been with government provided generic drugs costing a fraction of what insurers and corporate hospitals charge. The generic drugs administered by non-profit public health networks would have been a practical cost-effective remedy yet of course the Democrats with the Corporatist-homosexual agenda would have none of that.

Objective, effective economic policy is what is needed in White House leadership. Although there is virtually no chance of a competent President being elected in 2016 able to move toward ecospheric restoration with a halt to species loss concurrent with full national employment without adding to public debt it may be possible to change the fundamental Democrat Party political philosophy tangent toward homosexual behavior as a cure all snake oil remedy for anything while concentrating wealth, increasing public debt and outsourcing U.S. national independence.

The basic challenge facing Americans is American errors in political policy. Health care should reforms should serve the poor first with government provisioning for medical emergency with loans and a national network of public health clinics and V.A. Hospitals. To be a global leader on environmental and economic reform and not rely oink the dubiously trustworthy collection of bureaucrats at the U.N. seeking international funds to devour the U.S. government needs to be a exemplary leader at ecospheric conservation simultaneous with full employment at home within it’s own borders.

Viruses are scary to people anyway, there is no need to push a queer agenda politically to reduce over-population or to stimulate research to counteract de facto ambient biological war by nature upon promiscuity and homosexuality. Almost no one wants loose biological epidemics floating about as a cull upon the herd.