Eschatology and Evolution

The end of days-studied in a field known as eschatology-is of interest to many over the ages. This article considers a few eschatological ideas and the way they relate to evolution theory as well as cosmology. If evolving planetary doom means the end of days will be soon can there room for change or rescheduling of the hour?

Eschatology to many means a prophetic vision of the end times of either the world or its people. Alternatively it may refer to the end of a civilization or even the Universe. Traditionally eschatology has been regarded as something more of a religious field -although in the early times of mankind before vast right-wing polysyllabic words arose that could describe with a sociological objectivity human areas of belief such as might be regarded as religious end times eschatology could also be said to have included a unified field of primitive religio-philosophic-physical speculations about the nature of the experienced world-environment. Thus Ragnarök and Brahma along with the plain of Tilmun were out there with Janus the Door goddess and the vast turtle of labor carrying the world upon its back. At least like Aristarchus the idea of a rotation of the Earth or land was a primary element of the explanation.

Humanity never developed a comprehensive explanation for the reason that the Universe exist nor did it find an exhaustive, unimpeachable description of the physical boundaries. Instead it learned that time is an implicit characteristic of matter that is itself convertible to energy explaining rather nicely I suppose that energy can present a time aspect when it becomes matter and loses it inversely as it converts to energy. Cosmologists can speculate perhaps if time was included in finite quantity at an initial singularity with alpha and omega being equal or if energy existed at singularity or mass and if it was a finite quantity and is so, why? Why did an initial denouement of energy or mass filling the singularity cut off at a particular place without having exhausted the initial supply?

Christian eschatology has three fundamental fields on the reformed side of things. One is a premillennialist belief that John's Book of Revelation described future events that mostly haven't yet happened. That viewpoint has some logical difficulties. One is that for the saved Jesus lives in a real sense in their spirit in some mysterious way. That indwelling spirit is the being born again belief and is the first resurrection post-mills believe. Logically it might be absent from the pre-millennialist paradigm wherein Jesus won't appear until the end time. There is something of a different criteria for the kingdom of God existing in part right now on Earth too.

Post-millennialists believe along the lines wherein Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within you, that the kingdom of God is drawing in new believers and that the world will gradually increase the number of Christians until the real end times that could be soon or way down the road even unto the distant future (when the time of the gentiles is fulfilled). Christians in the post-mill scenario are a dampening of the doom that results from a pagan or atheistic world that is always seeking to increase its power. Christians should eventually become a majoritarian polity though evil still does exist in-the-world.

One might regard the fact that it requires just a small minority of Bolsheviks or terrorists to throw a wrench into social stability or establishment even when the establishment is a corrupt or oppressive minority itself; evil minorities are historically not uncommon ruling political powers seeking to expropriate the private property and economic independence empirically in order to establish networking collectives dominated by oligarchy, plutonomy, aristocracy or dictatorship. Annihilating marriage designed to protect the poor and middle-class interests in order to theoretically reconfigure society to a spineless white meat boneless product increasing profits for the rich is a usual method for turning the clock back to the year zero socially speaking so that the timer may begin all over again to the drummer bought and paid for by the sponsors. When these sorts of things happen believers may look for one coming in the clouds to change the changlings back to a less politically antipathetic form.

End times paradigms exist thus in many contexts. Some require active human participation, others have a deterministic fatalism such that it is all pre-determined clockwork ticking along like a wave of bombs biding there time until explosion. Some are of a Universal and physical kind-a third kind one might say, without a plain end-somewhat silly for an end-times theory I will note.

Cosmologist with humble and uncertain origins of the singularity that started the big band or inflaton or collision of symbolic membranes such as occurs in the 1812 Overture may consider the end of the Universe as a very distant future event that would be the conclusion of the highly organized energy at the start of the Universe that expanded losing its organizational coherence in the time-process and ran down to a cold and low energy state with matter perhaps as energy dispersed in powerless isolation as basic elements. Whatever it is that make up quarks-perhaps one-dimension brains-would be equally spaced away from each other perhaps a few trillion miles and that could be said to be an uncertain yet probable end time.

Except that evolution as a process of degradation of organization materially speaking could evolve not more complex forms on the way to the cold dead end, it could evolve non-existence at any time too. There is no guarantee that evolution could not move molecules or quarks to some mysterious presently yet pre-determined configuration that poofs mass and energy into coherence again with a return to the One singularity. Coherence is sort of an odd word as physicists use it for cosmology and quantum affairs. They regard mass as a kind of entanglement of energy quanta in a field that decohered from the field to take the form of mass (matter) as if it were a sacrificial lamb found by Abraham in a bush to take the place of a son for a sacrifice, or better-a cosmology theory to sacrifice.

I am not very comfortable with the idea of energy quanta existing decohered from a meta-Higgs field yet still going through the hoops of a singularity and expansion as degrading organization with some life formation from complex, expensive molecule on the way-it seems a little like having two different theories in one that makes one or the other so contingent that it is hard to be fashionably cool. If one knows that a particular cosmology theory is something of a joke-or at least a little Buddhist illusion resembling yet still real, it is challenging to take it as seriously as if it were a ninja turtle carrying the world on its back.

Energetic particles of quanta have existing forces such as the strong force that keeps quarks together. It is hard to imagine how they would break down. In a Higgs and meta-Higgs field however all things are possible for the imagination at least.

In the end of the universe isolated quanta would still exist in a meta-field and might be regarded as the final phase of decoherence before returning unto the one true field of fields. Maybe only only in complete end times isolation could an energetic quanta be so relativistically dissociated from other particles that it could be considered to be matter-as-energy for-itself. Energy however seems like an event instead of a thing. Energy must be some sort of intrusion through micro-entanglement into the space of nothingness that humans regard as the Universe. So when it is really run down that field fluctuation return generally produces nothing for observers entangled in the field to observe nor any observers either. It makes philosophical writers wonder what is happening on the other side of the field that yielded the entangled state of energy that seems to be the matter of this Universe,-or perhaps, what is happening all the time 'up there' in the heaven beyond the quanta entangled in a steady state form that seems to be this Universe?

The answer to what a sponsoring field is like isn't that of a myriad Universes. A myriad Universes could be produced simultaneously or in an order and progressive profusion however that would be beside the point in question such that one wonders if the field progenitor of Universes with an abundance of energy sufficient to light up a infinite number of Universe into being has much of a concern about how much time it takes (just kidding)

There are some controversies about all of the various forms and potentials for end times scenarios synthetic and given by Revelation. There are those who trust a particular theory and desire the extinction of any sort of rival theory of course however with the all things must pass thought in mind the astute interpreter of end times theories may find that though some seem to have more merit than others none are entirely comprehensive nor even necessarily mutually exclusive and exhaustive as the very interpretive terms and literal values of rival theories may be in error or inaccurately understood. That amazes one considering how God could keep track of all of the various theories of end-times for-Himself.

Jesus Christ as the way to renormalize the spirit unto a form acceptable with God transcends the time whorls and relativistic networks of space-time and potential space-time that are circumstantial formations of the physical cosmos. Reason overcomes evolution in a sense always transcending and surpassing its deterministic parameters in some senses yet remains within it as a product or quality of the field-entanglement itself. Quantum uncertainty within the field and within the mind of an individual may be enabling conditions that let the soul or living identity of an individual in-the-field become within the transcending kingdom-of-God even while remaining within the steady state decoherence of the Universe-field quanta. When the worldly existence of an individual or of the species will end is difficult to know exactly yet be assured that there are a number of elements working to bring that situation to exist if unintentionally through economically fueled mass extinctions and global warming gas emissions. One never knows though maybe 'we shall overcome'.

U.S. Government Torture and Other Mualadroit Policies

Government torture of Al Qaeda suspects was bad policy yet the Bush II administration and A.G. Gonzalez felt that it was necessary. Federal sadism is an abuse of power in an era when abuse of power with nominal excuses seems to be the rule instead of the exception. A politician or chief executive needs plausible blamability of someone else for effective implementation.

While Al Qaeda did tremendous damage to New York and Arlington Va on 9-11 so did Clinton era economic policies that let Wall Street establish flam as the norm. President Bush II doubling down on his own enrich Halliburton method of ops with no-bid contracts in a 3 trillion dollar war didn't no that his own method of spending his political capital would enfilade President Clinton's hidden method of transferring wealth to the rich already in effect nor the effect it would have of bringing a financial crash to Wall Street. President Obama hasn't really changed much to correct that. Instead he has developed a new upgrade of abusing executive power in serialized neo-imperialism though he did take over the Colbert Report recently to the relief of the unemployed.

Torture is bad policy that wasn't necessary to elicit information leading to old man Oz hidden near the Pakistan Military College. The U.S. Government has lots of bad policy like any other government though except Sweden. Sen. Feinstein assures us that democracy is open and so spilling government secrets must therefor be good for democracy, however Democracy may be more common in Africa than any other continent and it has had a debatably positive effect compared to some hypothetical better form of government yet to be invented.

Africa at least got rid of its Kings and left the savage past behind unlike Europe with its atavistic royals of Norway, Britain and elsewhere. It may be the higher neolithic genetic content, yet that could be a good thing too-it brought them out of being slavers quicker than some other places.

Bad policies of torture like bad public radio harms particular individuals whom haven't practical recourse. The legal system is already too expensive and doesn't correct very well. One might say that sadism is in its blood.

There is good news on the religious front though...post-millennialism seems to indicate that the areas of the world positively influenced by the saved is likely to increase. One might be skeptical since the Nixon Corporate health care plan that is a nearly half-century old was laundered through the Romneys and President Obama then forced into law when the Democrat Party used the nuclear option. If one has learned anything from the past few years it is that more political silliness from a neo-corporatist government will not fix the problems with Mexico that send so many illegal migrants to the U.S.A. to compete with jobs with suffering Americans unemployed and dropped out of the work force so the government can put a happy-face unemployment statistic out when there are probably more working age Americans not working than are.

Mexico should have a European standard of living and then like Europeans it would not send many illegals here to the U.S.A. One must halt all illegal immigration with a salt-water moat to desalinate water then create a Marshall Plan for Mexico to bring full employment about. The people that like cheap labor however will never allow things to change. If Mexico no longer sent illegal workers north the cheap labor people would get them here from China or elsewhere...and dirty wars that cost a lot will probably recur too.

Free E-Book for 2014- A Universal Widget- In the Realm of Forms

Plato's idea about a realm of forms where the originals of all things that exist provide patterns for all things that exist is an idea that many have forgotten about as it dropped off the radar screen of actual intellectual pursuits to a certain extent with the rise of scientific method. Yet the Higgs field and inferences about the quantum structure of mass and energy that were discovered by physicists remind one of the fundamental forms that matter and perhaps dimensions can take-even sentient brains tend to be spherical to optimize shortest routes of travel for neuron signaling-one might say that nature repeats certain forms existentially over others, and one wonders where the original context for a particular Universe 's laws might cohere.

That is the topic of the science fiction novel 'A Universal Widget; In the Realms of Forms'. Rather light reading in a philosophical vain to explain a few ideas regarding the potentials of being and nothingness.

It is available for a while free to download as an epub file from my book page...

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Why Some Scientists Have Trouble With Evidence and Faith (video)

Explaining the 2014 Presbyterian-U.S.A. Perversion of Marriage Act

I read part of a Presbyterian Theology publication with a minority report dissent to degeration into sin as renormalized hunkie dorrie policy on the homosexual marriage issue. In June 2014 the Presbyterian General Assembly approved a perversion of marriage act believing the Bible doesn't indicate marriage is a sexual thing (meaning heterosexual reproduction) between two sexes. Apparently they view the New Testament and Old evidence to the contrary as quaint and apply the principle of moral relativism apropos to a given historical era as better. 

With the problems of hierarchical church leadership instead of a priesthood of believers as the norm it is difficult for a populist bottom-up laity to resist imposition from the powerful above. A majority of 172 regional Presbyteries seem to have been taken over by insiders with homosexual sin affections. I suppose secularist corporatists would like the church generally to reflect corporate values. I am not sure how this plays out in regard to the pre-mill-post-mill-amill views about the future. With so much closet Hegelianism in politics affecting everyone's ideas about evolution and destiny it is easy for elites to lead people down the road to perdition.

Safer Arrest Technology Could Avert Police Resistor Casualties

Public protests about white police officers that have had the misfortune to kill a subject resisting arrest have grown in recent months yet little has been said about ways to make it safer for police officers to arrest those resisting arrest with violence or the threat of violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/justice/new-york-grand-jury-chokehold/

Police officers are not all world champion wrestlers or martiall artists with the ability to effortlessly subdue a physical resistor to arrest. Police officers encounter those with an itch to kill  them or those that are on hyper-activity drugs such as pcp or drunk and rowdy people. Additionally there are those plain dumb and without common sense that to commit a crime on a po,lice officer directly by resisting arrest is a very bad idea and should never be attempted unless one really needs to return to Al Qaeda, some foreign intelligence agency or a whatever such that a death sentence probably will follow if taken in to custody.

Police officers sometimes are spread kind of thin. They may be working alone in a patrol car to get twice the coverage from the same number of personnel. If they must arrest someone-even a black person, it can be dangerous. If someone resists arrest they may not be able to wait until help arrives or even be able to call for help. If it is a mano y mano conflict the police officer must win generally-and victory all the time is difficult-not even Muhammad Ali was able to accomplish that.

Unless a police officer has a guaranteed knock out punch there aren't a lot of options to choose from without a black belt-hit em with a flashlight or nightstick maybe, and of course there is a gun. So police officers may use the choke-hold like a lot of inexperienced fighters-the body follows the head.

Can a police officer use a headlock? Sure-yet he may spend more energy in applying the headlock and controlling the suspect than the subject he is trying to arrest and when he eventually lets go the subject is ready for round two. Applying a headlock means that the police officers hands aren't free to apply hand cuffs either-so what is he or she to do?

One imagines some sort of a derringer up the sleeve contact-taser that is voice activated so a police officer could knock out the subject with a jolt after saying the activating code-word-and maybe that would make it possible to get hand cuffs on the individual being arrested.

To avert accidental police caused fatalities of suspect resisting arrest some kind of tech solution producing a Judge Dred taser might be the remedy. The hopefully the government can go to work solving the problem of blacks shooting blacks in Chicago and other American cities. Though they aren't police officers doing the shooting the victims still perish.

Mal-Administration of Russ-American Relations with Ukraine

It is wrong to undermine the positive resolution of the cold war with a nit-picking corporate desire to consume all of the Ukraine from the historically Russian patrimony. The U.S.A. too suffers from the schism with Russia toward a better democratic future with free enterprise-yet corporatism is prevalently collectivist after all primarily benefiting elites.

Plainly the west doesn't get it generally on Russian Ukrainian interests; they need their traditional Black Sea frontage and Dneiper River access to the Russian heartland. The west just wants more land and Bill Clinton got a transitional Russian leader-inebriate under stress to sign away the Ukraine. He could not sign away Russian history,sentiment or Geo-political economic interests.

The west these days has evolved under atheist political trendiness toward corporate Blob status in an upgrade of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Corporate interests and the concentration of wealth to global plutocrats matters-morality or mind, private interests or anything else not within corporate networks must be absorbed including Ukraine.

A practical settlement for Ukraine would let the Russian speaking areas on the Black Sea and Dneiper become part of Russia if they want yet Russians and Ukrainians would sign a free trade agreement and citizens of each nation would have the right to buy 5 acres of real estate in the other if they wanted. Besides voting or Military conscription the freedoms of each party in both nations would be liberal. Everyone knows the oligarchs and Blob insiders of both nations will eventually be transnational investors anyway-it is the ordinary people that will be missing body parts and land, buildings and hope will the Blob increases its mass.

U.S. Presidents should be more than mouthpieces of the Blob. President Putin may as well be negotiating with a corporation that characteristically would never yield, compromise or discover a creative new course to conflict resolution. Americans haven't had a national war for a century and a half. American leaders should not lightly foist civil conflicts upon foreign nations nor take actions to encourage them such as in Syria and Ukraine. The cold-blooded M.B.A. analysis of profit and loss should not be the paradigm for political postures/relations internationally. Artificial intelligence can be difficult to differentiate from human thought when human thought becomes too machine-like.