Will Catholics Excommunicate the Pope?

 When the Pope expressed the opinion that homosexual civil unions are o.k. he did not avoid giving the appearance of acquiescence in support of sin. Homosexuality is plainly condemned in the Bible in quite strong language so the statement seems an expression of apostasy.  As a member of the Jesuit order he may have been using a little duplicity to accomplish some organizational goal of increasing membership in the secular world. The E.U. and the United States each have homosexual marriage or civil union already so he may have been trying to follow what he believes is the leading political line.

 The Catholic Church has something of an imperial history, or quasi-imperial in association with actual political royals, and a swinish society where people rely on imperial authority instead of civil law isn’t uncommon. That may be the developing trend around the world today actually. A fellow that had returned from Australia felt a certain pride in that Australians tended to just fight among themselves and didn’t use lawyers too much, unaware that Australia has a magisterial rather than an adversarial legal system. In societies with a royal, imperial history magisterial legal systems tend to exist still, and the Judge has a role closer to that of a rep of royalty listening to pleas of the commoners rather than as an impartial judge of the commoners. The Pope said he was not one to Judge on the issue of homo marriage in the year before the Obama administration made a full court press to get homo marriage the law of the land; he was just swinging along with the times and will of Wall Street.

 The Catholic Church for the first thousand years more or less was o.k. and brought a unity to savage pagan lands. Europe in Christendom was able to survive pagan and Muslim attacks from the east and south. Some people were actually saved for Christ yet as apostasy shows many professing to be Christian may actually be rather duplicitous about that. Papal infallibility was a reasonable claim when a standard doctrine was required amidst a wealth of heresy and schismatic hermeneutics. Keeping a standard doctrine amid mostly illiterate savages of Europe and the rest of the world wasn’t so easy; the pope was a kind of Supreme Court of Himself back in the day getting the last word on doctrinal disputes. Of course sometimes schisms did arise by powerful groups that could afford to split off and hence the Orthodox Church arose as later did the Church of England. A former Pope relinquished a Papal claim to infallability maybe a half century ago –sometime after they ended The Index (the last bit of the Inquisition) about 1960 something.

 There are numerous apostate Christian sects these days. Darwinism weakened the Church a lot; scientists and bad theologians advocating pre-tribulationism have taken theological thought away from the truth and moved it toward either atheist science or secularism entirely or end times apocalyptic movies and books. The Bible seems to indicate for many though that the apocalypse was in the first century from the crucifixion of the Lord for the next 40 years culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem with a million dead. Jesus Christ said all of the things he said concerning end times would occur before the end of that living generation and they did. Those were the most accurate prophecies by one individual in the Bible and most Christians throw out that idea altogether. What was to follow those end times was the establishment of the kingdom of God on Earth in the hearts and minds of believers for an unspecified period of time that continues to the present day even though some seem to be falling away or supporting false doctrine to a certain extent.

 The Protestant reformation of the 15^th century showed that the Church structure needed a lot of change and reform to return to the gospel expressed in the Bible. It was not right for an amalgam of syncretistic or unbiblical correct practices to be associated with or to become Church doctrine. Independent, non-papal Church leadership developed. Salvation was thought to be between and individual soul and Jesus Christ directly without mediators in the clergy. The Pope’s recent apparent expression of support for homosexual relationships formalized in law could be regarded as a reason why direct relationships between believers and God through the Lord is a good idea; relying upon sinful, fallen mankind for salvation or official help with that or making doctrine from the Bible as if with divine authority just won’t work very well.

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-faces-divided-reactions-after-backing-same-sex-civil-n1244243

Of course the Pope may have just been somewhat clumsy with his words and meant something instead like ‘civil law concerns civil authorities, I am just concerned with Godly and Biblical things myself’. If that were the case he might have simply commented on what the Bible says about homosexuality (homosexuals and drunkards won’t be going to heaven although they could change) and noted that civil laws are for civil authorities. That is he should have disambiguated his viewpoint as leader of the Catholic Church from sin and secular practices regarded as permissible in civil law. I believe he might have done so if he actually belied what the Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Romans and if he had no interest in trying to make his imperial, modestly in decline, religious imperial empire mirror the evolution of civil law in the west.

 People today have so many wrong ideas concerning philosophy and religion as well as inferences to be made from evolution concerning spiritual matters (as well as in interpreting the Bible) that Erasmus’ book title ‘In Praise of Folly’ seems appropriate for the era. It really is remarkable and the present Pope just seems to go along with that trend. Christians should probably move toward a priesthood of believers’ church structure as Luther seemed to wish. The trouble with that is the clergy want job security and don’t really want to step aside. In an era of near universal illiteracy t more rigid clergy was requisite for keeping the gospel message intact and universal. In an era of universal literacy that church structure is anachronistic and fails to make the faithful direct ministers participating in church themselves. There are numerous ways Christian worship services perhaps in smaller groups could be made more spiritual, egalitarian and yet remain with standard Biblically correct doctrine.

 Why so many people of so many religions and scientists to have wrong ideas concerning the Church of Jesus Christ is a little difficult to understand-just a little though. Most misunderstand why the economic structure of the Earth is causing mass species extinctions too. At least I understand why there are so many traffic accidents in crowded urban areas. One there is a lot of traffic and two- everyone is looking for an advantage to help themselves a little where they can to get ahead.

 Christianity need only be consistent with the Bible and the Lord to be Christianity. It shouldn’t at all be concerned with trying to get the approval of the worldly.

Pre-Tribulationist Pastors Aren’t Necessarily Good Political Theorists

 Pre-tribulationist pastors have a wrong eschatology that leads them toward an inherent pessimism concerning the fate of the world and of human destiny in the world. They have an incorrect interpretation of the Bible, and share that wrong interpretation with Muslims who got that from Mohammed the creator of Mohammadanism. Muslims and pre-trib Christian have a naïve and literalist understanding of the Revelation of John. Martin Luther said the book has a lot of straw in it, meaning that it wasn’t a simple recounting of the works of Jesus by a disciple or apostle. The book was written by a captive disciple who needed to guard his words carefully during a persecution by the Emperor Nero. The inverted numbers 666 referred to Nero for example, yet pre-tribbers miss that and the basic context of the tribulation occurring in the first century rather than sometime out in the future.

https://www.amazon.com/Navigating-Book-Revelation-Special-Important/dp/0984322035

 With the wrong belief that the world is soon to be destroyed by the war known as Armageddon important political issues like environmentalism and global warming seem of little consequence to pre-tribbers. Pre-trib political issues by pastors that simply aren’t political philosophers nor accurate theologians tend to support the concentration of wealth and destruction of the world ecosphere to natural resource predators and neither is a meaningful or good Christian value. Christian should tend to support egalitarianism economically and especially free health care for the poor. They should be concerned about the health of the environment for the people that need to live in it and are part of it and not help bring it to an end.

  U.S. politics should be about good ideas rather than cults of immoralists, wrong eschatologists, environmental predators and so on. The fundamental issues meaningful to all citizens are fairly easy to discern and they are perennial American values such as the pursuit of happiness, a good environment for everyone including wildlife, a healthy well-educated populace, national security and so forth. Political philosophy need adapt to the complexity of the modern world, political economy and demographics and should not be misunderstood as a battle between dysfunction 18^th and 19^th century economics of Adam Smith and Karl Marx that are a very shallow and obsolete way to view the world.

 The present national election of 2020 is a good example of what happens when candidates are selected not for the good ideas they have, but for the organizations or structures they rise in. Church pastors would better serve the public by innovating a priesthood of believers structure instead of profiting themselves and the comfortable and advocating for good ideas instead of siding with the least objectionable bottom feeders running for office. They should look for good ideas if they must enter the field of politics without much competence of understanding, and not promote simple the least hateable ideas presented. Creating new economic and ecclesiastical structural reforms requires much more than negativity and criticism of offensive political activity. One should not simple bunt every election the bad pitches of whoever is running for office.

Court Packing High B.T.U.Consumption Judges Is a Bad Idea

The Democrat party leadership has threatened to corrupt the U.S. Supreme Court by adding more members to it that will decide cases favorable for Democrats. It wasn’t a good idea when Franklin Roosevelt sought it and was slapped down by a friendly congress that knew better. Democrats since the Obama administration have taken to a policy of lunatic extremism to have their way using whatever force they can get away with, and that is malodorous when applied to the top guns of legal justice that is the U.S. Supreme Court. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

 The U.S. Supreme Court, in spite of the Chief Justice so heavily invested in Wall Street and the Obama appointees is still respectable enough. Nine justices are well able to make sound decisions. Adding another six judges would do nothing more than degrade the prestige of the Court, create a new layer of sinecured, high-paying personnel and staff, and make most decisions of the court partisan. The Court would become another divided entity like the Congress with votes along party lines the rule rather than the exception.

 A house divided, or a court divided, isn’t likely to stand.

Houses with inefficient heating and cooling drive up costs for everyone.

  In the future courts will hear more environmental economic issues and packed courts full of high-energy consumption judges are less likely that nine efficient judges to vote in favor cases concerning environmental economic progress.

 In warm climates prosperous people that use 70,000 B.T.U.’s or more for cooling most of the year need to earn more to pay high energy bills. They seek higher wages and pay packages and inflate costs for others in society including those that are energy efficient with low annual B.T.U. (British Thermal Unit) consumption. With high energy bills and inflated prices for goods, people on fixed incomes suffer, and those rationally seeking to lower human thermal emissions to the atmosphere cannot afford to install natural ground heating and cooling systems that use virtually no electricity except maybe a little solar energy for circulation. The hacienda owners with high energy consumption seek illegal alien workers to perform work at low cost and live cheaply buying used stuff while the enfeofed, comfortable class of energy consuming Americans with high incomes live comfortably affording inflated prices-they buy $5 Starbucks coffee with whip crème special frills instead of instant coffee from a Salvation Army thermos.

 An environmentally progressive court may appear one day to rectify environmental practices with economics suitable for democracy. A court that is packed with high energy consuming judges may take the world of unsustainably high personal energy consumption as normal and bias decisions to support their irresponsible lifestyles. Sometimes the composition of court personnel need be considered as much as issues like constructionism.

 Regard the N.F.L. changes at the quarterback position of recent years. Drop-back immobile pocket quarterbacks have fallen into disfavor though some remain around and successfully so. Hybrid runner-with-an-option to pass Q.B.s have entered the game, like Michael Vick and maybe Lamar Jackson. They are a running step ahead of good passing quarterbacks that are mobile who will run well if they need to yet prefer to pass or hand off the ball to runners. Seattle and K.C. have such Q.B.s presently in a John Elway mode of performance. One hasn’t occurred at the quarterback position is the appearance of the pure runner- a Marshawn Lynch sort of quarterback, who just runs or hands off the ball to two other runners in the backfield, with one or both of those halfback and fullback positions having Vick-Jackson runner-with-option to pass capable guys. Environmental economics progress benefits from mobile political leadership and honest Supreme Court Justices that understand the differences between pragmatic applied Earth adaptation and theoretical lazy faire business-as-usual interially high energy consuming sloponomic policies when they reach them for a verdict. It is possible to align a pure passer in a Victory passing wedge of course if the personnel support that sort of approach where wings of the wedge are offensive ends and wide-out receivers. If the wedge need move forward like a Roman infantry turtle for some reason that’s just the way it is. The court would need to decide if a pass was thrown prior to crossing the line of scrimmage. With the House choosing to flake up rules to advance legislation these days including that of court packing potentially, mobile adaptive quarterbacks and judges need to keep an eye on the goal line of environmentally sustainable economics with liberty, justice and egalitarian economics for all.

 

 

 

 

The Breakfast Scroll of Clod D’Gjap

 A discussion at breakfast concerning the lost scroll of Clod D’Gjap that was not finished resumed the investigation of the roll of the middle finger of fate in sentencing a god of the gaps to interstellar voids and dark spaces where science had yet to shed light and establish pagan-per-view. The last sc’roll establishing being and time for the moment was misplaced, or alternatively displaced leaving a state of inadequate instruction pour la scienzia (aka 4 the science) of semi-official business management of thought that users need. Therefore new coding for the creation of apps referred to as the god of the apps code was hastily advanced through particle accelerators sending scintillations cascading about. Scintillations in two dimensions were nothing more than energetic ideas wherefore encountering the Higgs Field and general relativity slow down to sub-light speed in three dimensions making curved three-dimensional waves with thermal heat radiating. These atomized apps of three dimensions with coerced fields tying complexities together present standardized forms.

 Heated breakfast scrolls that are honey sweet going down bring a semblance of bitterness to the condition of the apps determined to be self-determining while undeterministic for-themselves leaving a sense of jake-breaking flatulence persisting in memory.  Coffee is complimentary to the creation of newer meaning that would synergize; energize, the ensemble of everything with market value and greater understanding even though apps lacking authority in regard to the creation of anything not already existing in some form run on like clear water over angelic falls.

 Great apes of evolution send god to the feminine court of the gaps with the middle finger of scientific fate- the knowledge of which counts for wisdom in the food court of m’academia. Clod D’Gjap’s scroll documenting that evolution of secular takeover of scientific apps across the former terrain of nobles, clergy and sociological stalagtites of sundry forms is a necessary top-heavy log-rolling flip-flopping gradual adjustment in the basic advancing knowledge of the apps of the simulation to reality although reaching the erroneous working conclusion that thinking for themselves crowns themselves as the center of sentient universality with precocious prima facia mirth. Adjustments were required concerning their understanding of ancient code in relation to the new code they possessed especially in regard to logic inferences both necessary and strict; God is free-standing and not limited to gaps, apps or dark unborn Universes such as are commonly aborted a priori in simulations.

There was a post-script to the scroll apparently written in coffee- 

I don't know of many that prefer to 'wallow' in suffering. Suffering for a good cause may be an excuse, and then it may be known as courage or fortitude. Toynbee wrote about challenge and response to civilizations and noted that those without challenges tend to be the least productive and too much of a challenge created an arrested civilization that can't develop. Hence stimulus and response loops (S/R) are meaningful and make changes that build a history of patterns of response (character), yet one doesn't want to go out and seek them without thinking about them first. People may seek challenges; yet they tend to choose comfortable ones that won't overcome them or with a high probability of doing so. None would choose to be the first to moon the Earth from the Moon because of the likelihood of freezing one's butt off.  Suffering that others dump on others because they are sadistic louts or whatever is wrong obviously. The Apostle Paul in Corinthians mentions numerous sufferings that are overcome by the Lord- that is a different paradigm than the worldly view of course.

Direct Federal Presidential Vote Swipe Card?

It makes little sense to package the election of a federal President and Vice-President on state ballots so locals or any of innumerable organized ad hoc crime syndicates can have a chance to make it difficult to vote. Each U.S. citizen over the age of 18 could be issued one Presidential vote swipe card in some way when they sign up to vote. The card could be punched and swiped over a period of a couple of days at the start of each election year. It would be a good idea to avoid the entire packaging with state ballots and all of the junk processes about state voter registration that mobile Americans may find as inconvenient as Obamacare residency requirements.

 Credit card companies and even federal programs have no trouble with card transactions that require valid I.D. Issuing non-counterfeitable voter I.D. swipe cards that allow registered citizens to choose a candidate (or write one in on the signature line) while keeping voter identity secret regarding choice should be easy. The United States used to be a somewhat smart country making steady progress.

 Why bunk things up with silly state absentee ballot requirements with weird dates? Why not make things simple for any American so they can vote at any convenience store or check out self-service line for President?

 Some Americans of the Democrat Party want the nation to be made of immoral or amoral imperial stooges free to help concentrate wealth while cutting taxes like President Trump, Obama and Trump and slopping the pigs with affordable corporate health care; that doesn’t mean the nation need be stupid and anachronistic regarding voting booths and crowds as if they were Soviet proles in line for bread. If there was an easy to get Presidential swipe card I would run it through the card scanner in November when I buy a loaf of bread and gruel- If just to write-in the name of the best American clergyman who is post-millennialist or the most competent ecological economist.

Some conservative me-first and only Republicans fail to understand that a society advances generally in relation to how well off the most poor of society are. Like military units that make certain that privates have good health, food and equipment, civil society too functions better with few people structurally repressed with dysfunctional social economic positions. The federal government should at least streamline its federal election method so everyone can easily vote.

VP Candidates, Like Their Senior Partners, Have Inaccurate Ideas

 Voters are supposed to take Presidential elections seriously. Even the New England Medical Association (or was that the A.M.A.?) broke against President Trump’s re-election. I however find it challenging to take the candidates of either partner seriously this year, for I vote for candidates with the best ideas, least number of wrong ones, and find the offerings this year rotten.

I like Kamala Harris like most guys I would think- she won the debate with VP Pence by a large margin (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819119/Kamala-Harris-wins-instant-poll-vice-presidential-debate-Mike-Pence.html) not just for being cute. Her ideas concerning Russia are dead wrong though. Let me explain why…

Politicians must lead sometimes and not simply be sycophants. President Reagan was the only one in his White House for complete nuclear disarmament and that process led to the end of the cold war. As a reservist in that era ending the Cold War and the threat of global nuclear holocaust was my sole priority. When that mission was accomplished through peace, it needed to be aggressively defended. Democrats have everything to turn back the clock with Russia and fail to comprehend Russian history concerning the Crimea and Ukraine.

Flying into Salt Lake City recently the pollution index was 100. I believe that was smoke from fires someplace west. I was a little alarmed envisioning a normal future of global thermal warming caused by mankind’s industrial and automotive choices. Watching Alita Battle Angel for a diversion on the aircraft while the smog over the Rockies, Wasatch and Salt Flats was so thick, I noticed the garbage society they lived in. Politicians need to lead to peaceful relations and ecospheric economics rather than functions as sycophants of Wall Street. Salt Lake is the ideal city for solar power generation, and has mountains for wind power- I wonder what percent of it and the flats are actually equipped so.

My concern for the Biden administration if elected is that it will be four more years of the usual promotion of Democrat cronies and flooding the nation with cheap labor while getting union support. Reforming society, Wall Street and government requires a stable, informed citizenry without millions of illegals usurping the political agenda. Rationality is not required for union work- keeping one’s head down and eschewing intelligent and independent thought is good enough. The government should create and Ecosphere Corps to help poor nations transition to ecological economics (including Mexico). That would help reduce organized crime on both sides of the border.

Progressive taxes on capital, income and inheritance need to be restored or implemented while Wall Street is given incentives to transition to sustainable ecological economic principles through regulation and incentives. Even greenhouse gassing can be down with incentives instead of trillions of dollars of pork distributed to advantaged corporations.

The Mystery of Two Dimensional Cosmological Field Interactions (or not)

 Apparently there is a continuing foundational problem with the standard model of particle physics known as the Copenhagen Interpretation. The model works for practical quantum calculations yet it has an observation problem and remains silent about the nature of the quantum realm for-itself when not observed.

 There are alternative theories to the standard model that include descriptions of the unobserved quantum world in a venture of through the looking glass Lewis Carrol science including multi-universes, string theory and more. Most of those alternative theories have similar or the same mathematical relations to the observed quantum world as that of the standard model, if I read correctly from Adam Beckler’s excellent book on the foundations of quantum mechanics in ‘What is Real?’; they just go about things deeper and look somewhat farther although speculatively.

 Becker’s book is an historical investigation of the historical developments, people and relationships of the standard model and what followed it so far. It is fascinating reading and quite surprisingly has a philosophically well informed review of where or how philosophical ideas influenced quantum physical theories, and the lack of philosophical insight tended to bring out the usual social herd-conformity unwillingness to risk new scientific thought. Most popular works by physicists have a paucity of philosophical awareness in conformity to plain specialization along neo-logical positivist lines of “shut up and calculate”.

 The true nature of the unobserved quantum world is yet unknown. There are investigators searching for ways to solve issues left unsolved by the standard model and to conform new theories with cosmological observations. One of the obvious problems is that of quantum non-locality that Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’ where entangled particles would need to travel faster than light to share the same information in an example of what is non-locality. Other issues arise with non-locality and Multiverses with probability etc.

 There are numerous ways that mathematics may find models adding to the standard model with or without a profusion-even an infinite profusion of Universes. What if it is much simpler than that however. What if the actual nature of dimensions for-themselves are misunderstood (not just as mathematical exponents)? For the time being, a simplified four dimensional Universe paradigm may be more useful (or equally useful) for ordinary understanding than that of N Universes. Following is a simple approach to looking deeper into the nature of the Universe (without any mathematical suggestions for methods of investigation).

 The way two-dimensional fields or membranes interact with one another is something to think about. Cosmology questions that arise from information one may learn concerning quantum field theory- invented by P.A.M. Dirac and quantum cosmology, the fields seem to suggest answers from each other for-themselves.

 Dirac applied Einstein’s special relativity parameters to field theory and invented anti-matter in a way presently unknown to me. Another datum to consider is that of the Higgs Field. It is said that the Higgs field slows down particles travelling at the speed of light to sub-light speeds. I believe the reductions in speed are perhaps known, and that the speed of particle-waves such as exists within atoms, are constant for particular species of particle-waves. Maybe electrons travel faster than quarks or not, and perhaps gluons are slower than neutrons- who knows? In my opinion though, lighter particles with less mass and more power over a distance are likely to have less of a speed reduction from c (speed of light), and logically one might guess that heavier particles are also slow. There might be a ratio of wavelength to speed and mass parameters too.

 The way that particle-waves existing initially in a two dimensional state are slowed down in the Higgs field and acquire mass in three-dimensional existence- perhaps with the third dimension being along the line of travel is something to consider too. I wonder in particular if the Higgs Field is also two dimensional and transects the two dimensional energy membrane that is morphed into three dimensions there from. The thought occurred to me that one of the two dimensions of the Higgs Membrane-field accounts for time and the other, the third dimension, with gravity increasing around mass more, and warping the second dimension of the Higgs Field-time, along with it. A warped Higgs dimension may affect other particles around it, although the relation of General Relativity’s parameters to mass may affect quantum particle-waves located in the area of the warped field significantly, or not. Time-dilation affects for the quantum particle-waves located on their own two-dimensional membrane that encounter the intensely warped one-or two dimensions of the Higgs Field bent because of mass accretion locally might be limited to Higgs Field shared third dimension phenomena- I have little capacity to take speculations of that sort meaningfully further.

 So I suppose the paradigm of two-dimensional energy membranes interacting may have thousands of permutations for geometric calculus modeling. If one dimension of a two dimensional membrane is space and the other is time that would seem prima facie to be consistent with a three-dimensional spatial Universe with a fourth dimension of time. Particle wave positions calculated with the Schrodinger wave function might collapse upon observation because arresting motion from a dimension of the Higgs field isn’t realistic-as it is a dimension sustaining the existence of mass in the third dimension at the quantum level where mass may be at any rate, entirely contingent and relative- an apparent wind speed instead of a real wind speed (a sailor’s paradigm). Alternately entangled particles may coexist along a dimensional plane on opposite sides and at a distance relative to third dimension positions appear with collapse of a wave-function with observation.

 String theory does of course post thousands of dimensions, or maybe hundreds, to make mathematics consistent with observations and theoretical quantum structures that could account for the mass-energy of this Universe. If two-dimensional energized membranes interact to form a three dimensional Universe though, that is another line of development to consider as well, and one that might potentially be simpler for non-mathematicians to contemplate. The pair of two-dimensional field may differ in starting energy form comprising a heterodox birth of a three-dimensional Universe with time. The granularity or potential for energy particle-wave forms may differ too, and the position of the fields relative to one another may change as they could be themselves in motion perhaps around a shared axis point. General relativity acting upon the interactive Higgs Field dimensional membrane could account for dark matter and the increasing acceleration of the space of the Universe as well. It is easy to infer a relation between the ‘slope’ of gravity and rate of acceleration of a composite three-dimensional apparent Universe and a two-dimensional Higgs Field.

 Symmetry Breaking Universe Snowflakes

   As an island Universe

with islands of thought

in entanglements of energy

was it ever something sought?

 

  Infinite clusters of Universes

like neurons of the mind of God

dimensions intersecting being

sent time and space far abroad

 

  One verse for a penny

separating one and the many

energized to be and become

shadows and silence on the run

 

  Day and night, dark and light

wave-functions of evermore

particular waves super-positioned

collapsing together left and right

 

   Symmetry breaking Universe snowflakes

flying apart across a vacuum space

with upwelling currents at noumenal pace

covering each side of a second dimension lake.