Alzheimer's Dead Up 50%-Probably From Auto Exhaust and Clinton Era 'Dumbing Down'

People dying from Alzheimer's are up 50% perhaps as a result of a worse social environment to live in rather than from an influx of immigrants from a part of the world thick with the disease. People forget that Dumb and Dumber movies wern't always held to be the pinnacle of art.

http://www.livescience.com/59261-alzheimers-deaths-increase.html

Loud music, dope and profuse automobile exhaust may be exacting there grim toll in those exposed to cars, bars Clintons and global warming. Television could also be a contributing factor as people become dumbed down and encourage to disrespect intelligence, reading, philosophy and thoughtfulness general. Even before the disease manifests they have been trained to be victims.

Maybe Americans really should have worn tin foil hats to protect them from cosmic rays and cell phone microwaves. Nothing can stop fatty foods and obesity from clogging up the brain and letting swiss cheese disease develop,

I will try to write another pseudo-scientific article some other time. One needs to worry about what to write before the capacity to think disappears watching the broadcast media.

Seattle Should Trade Richard Sherman to Dallas for Zeke Elliot

One would need ESP to know how the Seahawks will do next season. Richard Sherman is restive and wants to move on and Coach Carroll should find a way to let him go,

Herb Adderly-Hall of Fame image credit

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19446657/seattle-seahawks-cornerback-richard-sherman-let-go-problem-nfl-2017

WIthout a great runner on offense to keep opponents honest Russell  WIlson has fewer opportunities to complete passes. Coach Carroll shoud expect Elliot and a receiver in trade-maybe even old Jason Witten (who will probably make the hall of fame).

Sure reasonable people would like the Broncos to win the Superbowl yet their quarterback problems don't seem close to being solved; actually they have three that all could use seasoning yet aren't ready now. And Russell Wilson probably could use R.G. III or Johnny Manziel as an alter-ego and trainee rival to encourage excellence.

Theremgiht be some sort of quality cornerback waiting unsigned working as a Mongolian cowboy on the high plains somewhere that Seattle could get to work cheaper than Mr. Sherman. who would make less of a splash and more tackles.

How to Body-Slam the Media

Candidate for U.S. Congress in Montana Greg Gianforte reportedly body-slammed one of the media papparrizi that got in his face. Though the term may be more media hyperbole, or disinformation, here is a video with a minute of instruction on how candidates could really body slam (the media) when they get too invasive.

Congress should body-slam NPR and remove their funding from the Federal budget.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/a-transcript-of-the-greg-gianforte-body-slam-audio/528102/

The Self-Positing Ego and Dr. Ben Carson's Romanticism

The self-positing ego may easily be misunderstood. A=A probably should have a bi-conditional logic operator rather than an equal sign, or rather, it might be noted that 'I' is implicitly tautologous.

Fiche's paradigm seems incorrect, yet to various degrees those that have experienced life swimmingly without too much adversity may regard society itself as a kind of tabula rasa they can transform as readily as they might learn another language. I wrote a brief essay on a comment of Dr. Ben Carson serving in the Trump administration l will include below.

It might be useful to compare the point of view of Fichte with Bishop Berkeley and his 'ideamism'. Fichte sought to actualize his subjectivity as a transcending fact while Berkeley left it as an academic argument. In Berkeley's Matrix like paradigm the construction of reality is heterodox rather than solipsistic.

Kierkegaard was right on many or most of the topics regarding the balance required to use irony as a life-tool rather than to allow subjectivity to lead one to delusion. His 'Sickness Unto Death' can be summarized in the phrase he used that 'despair is the unwillingness to be oneself'. A clinically useful insight.

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had a context in which it appeared such as a given ‘mindset’ inertially exists as a cultural characteristic, however it is a useful comment for illustrating the point of view of certain German romantics of the mid-19th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/?utm_term=.3e20a7fcad4a

Those romantics exploiting the concept of irony or subjective detachment from the objective social world-establishment to the point of abnegation and nihilism regarded social conventions as of little worth. There is another way to use the detachment or subjective perspective associated with Socrates and his saying ‘know thyself’ that isn’t nihilistic. Instead it is analytical-critical of society and culture while introspective and moving on to comprehend what is right and wrong, good or bad, true or false about society upon reflection rather than just dismissing it all.

It is somewhat ironic that the conservative Dr. Ben Carson personified the relativism vilified by conservatives who prefer objective facts and established empirical reality over subjectivity and detachment favored by the left. Obviously the truth is somewhere mid-way between the two extremes. The extreme subjectivity reaching unto solipsism favored by Schlegel and somewhat less so by Goethe can dismiss objective reality and say that for the individual everything is just a state of mind-even when it is pouring cold rain it would be nothing more than a state of mind for the romantic being drenched. The coefficient of adversity keeping one in poverty is not just one's own thought; it has reciprocals in the thought of others.

Poverty like slavery is not just a state of mind. When wealth concentrates and plutocracy controls and totalized the economy and when computer quant programs control 70% of Wall Street transactions at least in part, or when a city burns down with incendiary bombs dropping in from the sky it is more than a state of mind experienced or even constructed by an individual.

Saying that poverty is a state of mind reflects the poverty of naive realism drifting in as a cloud of optimism around the heads of those who have made it good rather easily with insufficient experience of social resistance to making things better.

Ben Carson's Romanticism; 'Poverty is a State of Mind'

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had a context in which it appeared such as a given ‘mindset’ inertially exists as a cultural characteristic, however it is a useful comment for illustrating the point of view of certain German romantics of the mid-19^th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/?utm_term=.3e20a7fcad4a

Those romantics exploiting the concept of irony or subjective detachment from the objective social world-establishment to the point of abnegation and nihilism regarded social conventions as of little worth. There is another way to use the detachment or subjective perspective associated with Socrates and his saying ‘know thyself’ that isn’t nihilistic. Instead it is analytical-critical of society and culture while introspective and moving on to comprehend what is right and wrong, good or bad, true or false about society upon reflection rather than just dismissing it all.

It is somewhat ironic that the conservative Dr. Ben Carson personified the relativism vilified by conservatives who prefer objective facts and established empirical reality over subjectivity and detachment favored by the left. Obviously the truth is somewhere mid-way between the two extremes. The extreme subjectivity reaching unto solipsism favored by Schlegel and somewhat less so by Goethe can dismiss objective reality and say that for the individual everything is just a state of mind-even when it is pouring cold rain it would be nothing more than a state of mind for the romantic being drenched. The coefficient of adversity keeping one in poverty is not just one's own thought; it has reciprocals in the thought of others.

Poverty like slavery is not just a state of mind. When wealth concentrates and plutocracy controls and totalized the econom and when computer quant programs control 70% of Wall Street transactions at least in part, or when a city burns down with incendiary bombs dropping in from the sky it is more than a state of mind experienced or even constructed by an individual.

Saying that poverty is a state of mind reflects the poverty of realism drifting in as a cloud of optimism around the heads of those who have made it good rather easily who have no experience of social resistance to making things better.

An Essay on Socratic Irony (video)

Evolution of Christianity

Evolution can mean many things. Change and complexity increasing in time seems to be the main meaning. Things that don't work die off. That's the paradigm when someone says something like 'our seminary will grow if it's God's will'. In that case though it's a kind of directed evolution determining the winners within a pre-determined physical Universe of possibilities. The irony is that winning means being chosen by God for salvation unto eternity rather than the temporal. Plainly over time Christianity has grown in scale and compexity.

The visible church has evolved extensively-possibly more than any other human social organization establishment the past two millenia plus. To fail to see that would require blindness. Consider just the relation of Church and state, empires and ethics across the entire world from Jesuits in Japan and Brazil to the Orthodox church in Byzantine and Russian history, the tonsure and celibacy policies of various times, dead sea scrolls, illustrated manuscripts and PDF files.

Even so the concept of evolution does not require atheism as part of its meaning. Neither does evolution mean that one must accept Darwinian evolution as its meaning exclusively. Christian theology has evolved as well as the visible church. Arianism mostly died off for example. There are not too many Lollards about these days, and in the second century Jehovas Witnesses and Mormons had yet to see frst light. One could write on the topic for years regarding the historical evolution of the Christian church including that of the history of St. Cyril, Constantine and Irish Celtic Christians.

Chrstianity and the kingdom of God in the church of the Lord has increased like Abraham's children from a small sprout to a great tree rich with complexity and size. From being communicated just in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin the gospel is available now in virtually every spoken language and on every continent. etc.