Drone Ensemble for I.E.D. Removal

The problem of improvised explosive devices might be addressed with drones able to convey a lightweight ground probe unit quickly to discovered i.e.d.s for detonation or removal. Various locations for central control could be placed with units able to be quickly dispatched and arrive for processing of i.e.d.'s- even with A.I. flight and process controllers when humans are  unavailable,  when provided with a g.p.s. coordinate.

The ground unit robot should be lightweight yet effective and probing or detonating i.e.d.

Because terrorists may use drones to deliver explosives it might be a useful response to develop jagdrones to hunt hostile drones as well.

Advantages include fast response time compared to human operators travelling on the ground.

Why People are Religious

People had fear of the unknown-and rightly so in most cases. Explanations were made to account for things (ref Big Bang theory). Liege lords demanded allegiance from their peasant-serfs. Yet God is different from secular loyalty, fealty and such matters. There were tribal gods of course, and when different tribal gods appeared in different tribes that caused issues. Actually it was challenging to separate the concept of god from tribal approaches to god. The idea of eternal life freed people from the hopelessness of bad political leadership and death.

https://time.com/5699122/elizabeth-warren-facebook-fake-ad-mark-zuckerberg/

A transcendent god differs quite a bit from the Roman amalgam of gods taken from tribes they conquered. Muhammad’s father was keeper of the Kaaba (spirit house) at Mecca with its pantheon of gods. When Muhammad’s father lost his job and was kicked out Muhammad borrowed Christian and Jewish ideas and scripture to write his own transcending approach to god- Allah. Allah was a tribal god without borders able to lead all of the tribes that joined in. The political  approach to religion or legiance attaches even to secular concepts such as evolution that is an endemic belief of the Democrat party in the U.S.A. Like Allah, secular atheist evolution runs toward a god-without-borders approach politically manifesting in the hatred of traditional American values and border security in favor of globalism.

People do learn religious ideas from culture. In the Bible God does say that everyone knows him and that they just forget who he is, or repress that sense (in the book of Jeremiah). Secular evolutionists like to explain away God through various reductionist straw men associations, and that is good enough to satisfy those that aren’t too philosophically inclined.

There were a number of arguments in support of the necessity of God- such as the ontological argument, or rather the logical probability of God, that can also be improved to support the idea that a Supreme Being is the source of all that exists. Logical studies for-themselves support the plausibility of a Supreme Being whom is spirit and different than the content of creation. That is, one may use logic and reason to look into the idea that a Supreme being created the Universe in some way regardless of disputes that may arise concerning a posteriori hermeneutics or cosmological mechanics in support or opposition.

A philosophical approach to consideration of the likelihood of the existence of a Supreme Being differs significantly from purely tribal approaches to belief in a tribal god.

The Japanese Shinto ideas seems reasonable yet unbelievable to westerners. The Tori and Kami- spirit gates and spirits fluttering about like birds don’t seem better than the Romans and Local deities such as Janus-the door god, whose temple opened only when the Romans went to war.

Christians of course believe in the person that was Jesus Christ as the Son (member of the trinity) of God, and God Himself, equal to the Father. I think Jesus was the real thing too. It was lucky that he appeared in history when he did.

Christianity is also a transcendent faith-without-borders yet it also instructs Christians to obey  secular laws and authorities (that don’t interfere with Christian faith).

So why do some have more religion than others? For the same reasons I would suppose as people believe in anything including science. Personal thought, reliance on authority, prevailing social customs; maybe it is a matter of grace finally. Some people try to treat all religions as the same, and religious belief too, in order to 'solve' them. One might use biology to solve physics or geology equally well.

When James Peebles won the Nobel for physics a couple of days ago that showed how much scientists believe in Big Bang theory. It is part of a secular belief system, yet it could be wrong. That is there are other ideas that could account for the existence of the physical Universe in the same scientific vein such as this Universe could be the froth around a 4 dimensional black hole from a Universe with five dimensions, etc...a white hole as it were.

Thus Spake Zarathustra- What its About

'Thus Spake Zarathustra' is Nietzsche's world view as the philosopher of the eternal recurrence. His philosopher named Zarathustra lived on a hill overlooking a city far below. From that homeless guy's tent (I added that) he viewed and considered the morality and social structure of the people in the village.

Zarathustra considers the hum-drum life of the villagers whom he regards as mindless sheep going about their social conventional lives like meaningless ants. The 19th century was the age of romanticism and idealism- those were points of view that disdained the social order. Nietzsche had a different point of view.

One night walking along the shore of Lake Geneva he had a strong sense of déjà vous. He realized (for-himself) that the life, world and Universe had happened before- an infinite number of times. That ‘enlightenment’ made him superior to others. He believed the right response for superpersons with an eternally recursive point of view was to act like wolves, predators or vampires upon the human species that were not so enlightened living unreflectively and unaware in their lives in the villages and cities.

There are interesting paradoxes in Nietzche’s infinite recursion of everything that exists. For one thing, even the vampire superpersons would be doomed to act as vampire super-persons forever without being able to change anything about their lives.

My thought is that Nietzche’s strong mental states were a little traumatizing and introverting. His syphilis may have made him view the Universe as recurrent. If life is tough it may be that déjà vous occurs naturally in some circumstances. It could be a kind of self-reflecting cognition of the present that makes it seem infinitely recurring, like when a tv camera is pointed at a camera giving the illusion of infinite recurrence.

Nietzsche put his point of view in his book 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'. Perhaps he envisioned himself as being like Zarathustra himself as a great man founding a religion. Certainly there are a lot of syphilitic drug addict followers of Nietzsche today.

Physicalism, Information and Soul

 Physicalism is itself a philosophical point of view about the mass and energy in which humans exist and of which the Universe is made. It used to be called materialism. People exist within the field that is the Universe as it is generally understood. People tend to believe it is made of particles and waves that are energy. The entire structure from largest to smallest isn't fully known, though a lot of the things within it are. Some believe God created and sustains the energy field-as it could all be within his thought, others think it might be a hologram or even pure mathematics at its core, yet one thing can be certain; people experience the Universe.

Physicalism is also known as material monism. Some people use the concept to distinguishing if from Ryle kinds of ghost-in-the-machine theories about spirit. Personally I believe God needs no extra substance for a soul to be immortal. If a soul is information God as an omniscient being has no loss of information as if Shannon entropy destroyed His data.  Actually information is thought never to be lost from the Universe-even at a black hole. So with the right information God can sustain or clone a soul (though each is unique in theology) and give it whatever span he chooses. What is information to absolute Spirit one might wonder?

Physicalists tend to be monists exclusively, though lacking an overall account of everything that is falsifiable (obviously and perhaps necessarily)

The Universe could as well be an idea, or a super-computer simulation.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/ Berkeley’s ideaism
https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_quantum.html
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/111 The Higgs Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646 The Mathematical Universe

About Dying for Your Country and Living for Others

I think it might be easier to understand in a primitive situation. For example if a family of humans with small children were walking on the savanna and a lion attacked- should the father not defend his family, or just run and let the kids be devoured (and the woman)? patriotism depends on the circumstances and the reasons.

 Some ideals are probably worth defending to the death and others not. It would be better to keep a free society and people free than to fall into slavery. That is a reason why democracy sometimes needs to be defended against oligarchs, plutocrats and communists. 

Wouldn't one rather live in freedom than slavery? On the living for others principle; the Lord pointed out that service for others is a good idea. This world is temporal and the kingdom of God eternal. If one has faith in that it makes sense. If one has no faith then it is altruism which is o.k., or servility or slavishness that is bad. 

One last point; some whit said it is better to let the enemy die for your country.

About Jesus and Judgment

When Jesus said judge not lest ye be judged I had a sense that he was referring to the judiciary or something like it. That is one could make judgments about people back in the day and act on one's judgment that could be wrong with lynch mobs or stonings, and do harm to innocent people. The Lord was then trying to save people rather than someone sitting in judgment over them. Jesus said in John 12:48 "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." That is, on Judgment day when the living and the dead are brought before God. It is about eternal life, and who goes with the Lord when this mortal experience is at an end. That is an amazing statement.

 Remember that the Lord's prophecies applied at several levels simultaneously, the least of which was not that he would have saved those living in Jerusalem that would reject him, and that not a stone would be left standing in the city, and in 70 A.D. Jerusalem was totally destroyed by the Romans with a million Jews killed, Keep in mind the Lord's mission. He said in the book of Luke "35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
(ref Matthew 7:1-6; Romans 14:1-12)

37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Von Trump Policy Enabled Turkey to Shell U.S. Special Forces

Treacherous policy changes done with no public debate and carried out like a burglary make one wonder if the President is having his strings pulled by foreign puppeteers. President Trump may have essential airhead blonde syndrome with inflated, narcissistic self-opinion of his I.Q. and intelligence. It doesn't seem alright to cut the throat of good Kurdish allies and move on as if nothing happened.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7566595/Syrian-Kurds-military-leader-tells-U-S-diplomat-leaving-slaughtered.html

In pursuing his own family economic interests and land holdings overseas he threw American Kurdish allies to imperial wolves. He should donate Mar a Lago to charity to show his contempt for land-owning that he finds a fault with the Kurds since they actually want a homeland to live in. Turks shelled U.S. special forces in their rush to bump off Kurds. Hopefully it won't become another Armenian style genocide.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727

Short-sighted and reversible policy like abandoning the Kurds may be of financial value to the President, yet it is harmful to American interests. Imagine what U.S. Middle east policy would have been if the Kurds hadn't aligned their interests with those of the United States. The President cannot be so ignorant of the history of Germany and Turkey/Ottoman Empire as to want the Turks to swell back into those spaces. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/9/1891413/-The-Kurds-did-help-the-Allies-in-WWII

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/465494-furious-republicans-prepare-to-rebuke-trump-on-syria

It is unfortunate that the U.S.A. has presidential leadership choices between corrupt, decadent evil party cadre at war on half of the people of the United States through other means,  seeking to flood it with illegal aliens, and a golden blonde narcissist. Hair color doesn't make one instance of a human brighter than another.

The bottom of the barrel defaults to lead because intelligent folks may not want the responsibility for 23 trillion dollars of public debt.