A sonnet written by ChatGPT that I will call...

Metaphysic Twilight

In twilight's grasp, when sun begins to wane,
A gentle breeze whispers through fields of gold,
Awakening dreams in hearts that still remain,
In nature's embrace, a tale to be told.

The crimson hues adorn the evening sky,
As stars emerge, their shimmering light aglow,
A tapestry of wonders for each eye,
Unfolding secrets that only night may show.

The moon, a guiding lantern in the dark,
Illuminates the path of wandering souls,
And lends its glow to dreams that leave their mark,
On those who seek to find life's hidden roles.

So let us cherish nights that grace our days,
And let our dreams take flight in twilight's haze.

Joe Biden's World Conquest Battle Royal Plan for N.A.T.O.

 Evidently N.A.T.O. expansion seeks to become the dominant military force on this planet. Besides Turkey trying to lever the Sweden issue to become an EU member, N.A.T.O. plans to let Ukraine join after the war with Russia is concluded in order not to be obliged to start World War Three right away. N.A..T. O. has expanded military ties with Japan whom is supporting Ukraine militarily too and has opened a liasson office with N.A.T.O. Japan may one day be a member of N.A.T.O. too in order to get a better defensive posture against China and North Korea.

The Biden administration sent cluster bombs with cluster fs politically toward rational U.S. foreign policy that should have sought peace with a settlement in Easstern Ukraine with Russia omnstead of a divide the world into N.A.T.O. with Japan vs Russia and China with Bric nations and Africa somewhat neutral (excluding of course Russia and China. The policy is harmful to the USA's real economic and environmental interests with a heavy retro focus on Cold War relations with modern weapons updates. It's a bad fit for world politics and unspeakably stupid.

https://warontherocks.com/2023/07/anarchy-is-a-bridge-russia-and-china-are-pushing-nato-and-japan-together/

Something more than materialism

 A thread prompt suggested that Anton Zellinger, the physicist remarked that matter may not explain everything.

Zellinger has written informatively about quantum superposition, photons and quantum entanglement. Materialism or matter is just one aspect of what exists. Mass for instance is energy (vis. Einstein's convertability formula E=mc2) yet it can be understood as something more or less than that. Apparently two-dimensional massless particles experience no time...one requires mass to experience time. 

Those two dimensional particles are slowed down in the Higgs Field and pick up a third dimension. So particles are entangled in the Higgs Field and and become something that for human perceptions and experience resemble mass. Humans and other solid bodies with a steady state are emergent and perhaps contingent phenomena. Zellinger may mean that one cannot reason from the contingent state of matter as if matter is all there is or is even the primary phenomenality of existence. He might not be alluding to spirit (or he might); what can be reasonably inferred is that non-matter two-dimensional particles aren’t the be all and end all of existence. The Math Universe Hypothesis of Tegmark posits that math for-itself is the ‘substance’ of what exists.

The First Human Civilization- Where It's At

I always think of the Middle East or Fertile Crescent as where human civilizations began...you know-Sumer and Akad. Egypt is about equally old. Jericho is said to have had human occupancy from 9000 B.C. and that's pretty old. Maybe it wasn't actually a civilzation though. I think the actual first human civilization- the one mentioned in the Bible, was washed away by a flood and also by sea level rise when the Wisconsin Ice age started ending about 30,000 years ago. That might have ocurred ten or fifteen thousand years ago-who can say. Perhaps there are relics of the first civilization remaining below the Persian Gulf deeply covered by mud. The Bible says that Noah's descendents went on to join or found civilizations. Perhaps they stopped in Jericho to get a drink of water on a hot day.

Being De-platformed is the Primary Challenge for a Writer

 Being deplatformed is the primary challenge besides not having a electrical connection in rural Alaska. SInce the Obama administration the places where I can write were either shut down or I was banned. Even Google bought Geocities and made it Blogger. I used to get a thousand or two views most days before I criticized the NSA's evesdropping on Americans and today years later my new posts have zero views for several weeks. I cannot even give away my books on-line today whereas years ago two or three hundred went out for free each month and a few copies sold ( I have forty books more or less. Here is a link to a free brief science fiction novel; just testing... https://www.lulu.com/.../ind.../ebook/product-mjyrgv.html...

Empiricism, Rationalism and Mysticism

Sartre said that his philosophy was French rationalism. I believe that comprised continuity from Descartes. One develops that primary, cognitive analytical first-person epistemology concerning what is. It is transcendent subjectivity if possible. That accounts for percepts of sense data. Obviously one is aware of the Higgs Field and the embedded massless quanta acquiring an appearance of having mass because they were slowed and presented a third dimension and was entangled with other quanta; one is aware of the phenomenology of mind (borrowing Hegel’s title) that is live experience.

One could consider the entire affair mystic to a certain degree just because it is so fascinating. Quantum cosmology is very strange to consider and it’s also where one need place of physical empiricism receding in the distance.

Social reality and political power commonly express the will to control others. That is an empire or empirical realm of interest to social philosophers and political philosophers yet not so much so to those interested in metaphysics.

Mankind being ahead for-himself; Heidegger and Inertia

 In politics mankind often gets ahead of himself. Europeans built a political weltanshauung around the Soviet Union and associated that with Russia. They happily tossed that out, with Bill Clinton's mentoring, to sever Russia from the Crimea and Donbas to form a post Cold War political distribution real estate favorable to themselves. Russia could be regarded as the aggressor of the former Soviet Union and historical Russian- land rather than Soviet, could be forgotten in a case of false consciusness.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6770479-dasein-exists-as-an-entity-for-which-in-its-being

While Russia was completely disorganized it was tempting to reduce it in size. The result was the rise of conflict as the schism grew between Russia and the west. The west grew more fearful of Russia viewing it as a big bear threatening former Warsaw Pact nations. When Russia captured the Crimea and invaded Ukraine that European fear was imagined to be confirmed and Russia was seen as trying to capture everything from Warsaw even to Paris I would think. Everyone in Europe sent weapons to Ukraine. The past from the present perspective contained the seeds or forms for the future. It was historical determinism at its most plain. I was disappointed that mankind was so deterministic as if they were stupid machines with bad programming.

I am not sure that the continuity of form that goes forward in time with the inertia of being is a great insight; useful perhaps since one may plan better for harvesting fruit from orchards and field crops as the principle of futures emerging from the continuity of the present exists for everything that exists at some point in their existence. The difference between people and annual vegetables is significant however. One should be aware the humans can change quite a bit in time being and becoming more overweight or learning new tricks while on the other hand trees in a forest simple get a little larger or smaller annually as rainfall and other factors such as logging bring life changing impact.

I took a course in Kierkegaard and Socratic Irony a few years ago that was quite good. The dynamic tension between society and the individual and that of German 19th century idealists and romantics appeared as exemplifying a perennial theme even Nietzsche reflected in his philosopher as detached from the ordinary point of view of the man on the street or their rulers in politics. Morals and ethics tended to flow in those systems with sycophantic waves of emulations without reflective deliberation. One other thing that emerged in the course of the course was the confusion of European philosophy as it merged to consensus among different heterodox cultures with mass subjective epistemological relativism, empathetic emulation of silly viewpoints and so forth. Common sense may be lacking in contemporary European political philosophy. Being well informed in history too can be helpful.