The second horse is blood red and is given great authority to take peace from the world, so that people might slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword. Even Democrats voted for that big sword, but then its the Apocalypse, right, so you would expect that sort of thing.
The week following 9-11 was the weirdest of my life. Eyes wide open, I did not sleep until the following Sunday afternoon. I was up all day and all night, 24 hours a day, day following night following day. This is unusual for me, since I often fall asleep at the keyboard at the same time each day. As I developed sleep deprivation psychosis, I began to feel superhuman. Finally, I thought, I had conquered the need to sleep. I looked ahead to many months of productive labor, having gained, after all, an extra eight hours a day, and after weeks and months that would really start to add up. Consumed with horror, I watched that blood red horse being given that great big sword and tremendous authority. Hell, even the Democrats were signing on to that deal, and signing over that great authority and that great sword. But then, as I said, I suppose, some things just had to happen. And now the American's are stuck with a ‘war president', but then I guess everyone has to do what they seem to think they have to do. Everyone has their role to play in the Apocalypse, otherwise it just wouldn't happen, right?
The third horse holds a pair of scales and cries out ‘a day's wages for a loaf of bread, but do not touch the olive and the vine.' What you would expect here would be such things as tax cuts for the very rich while growing job losses and economic hardship bear down on the rest of the population. And even Democrats don't seem inclined to go after that olive or the vine, but then it's the Apocalypse, right, so you would expect that sort of behavior.
I would like to suggest a campaign slogan for the Republicans in the next election. "Do not touch the olive and the vine." That pretty well sums up their tax cut policy, which they are now expanding, because if you make it illegal to touch the olive and the vine, it helps the economy, which is why Republicans are always arguing in favor of not touching the olive and the vine.
When the Republicans were running for office they sold those tax cuts, and that bit about not touching the olive and the vine, as being 'tax relief' but then when the economy tanked it became 'job creation' and fortunately only cost three million jobs so far, the worst sequence of job losses since the Great Depression, as everyone keeps reminding us. What is remarkable is that even with the most profligate multi-trillion dollar borrowing spree going on, and the dollar going down the tank, only 3 million jobs were lost, and so one must suppose that it could have been 6 million without the extraordinary interventions. Even more peculiar is that the trade deficit is now approaching half a trillion dollars, which is strange, given that low dollar, but even so, at least only 3 million jobs were lost (with another one hundred thousand coming job cuts announced in January). But is the Apocalypse, right. Someone has to do that bit about living in dire poverty, while the Republicans do their bit to bring down the Apocalypse by not letting anyone touch the olive and the vine.
It is not surprising that you hear so much about how great the economy is doing, or how great it will do in the near future, and how proper it is to leave along that olive and that vine, for, after all, who wants to run for office in an election year while some horse from the Apocalypse is running on a rampage through the country. Something like that is hard to spin doctor, and so denial is a lot better. "In some ways, I'm sorry that there were other forces, government or economic reports, that kept saying the economy is actually stronger than it is. The truth is, it has not been that strong. It's been highly damaged." Jim Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, announcing factory closing in the Grand Rapids Press.
One usually hears of ‘four horsemen of the Apocalypse' but actually there are five. The fourth horse, Death, brings its friend, Hell, the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, which follows close behind. Death and Hell. But then its the Apocalypse, right, so one would expect that sort of thing. These two use both the animals of the world and the sword to spread destruction over a quarter of the planet, killing people with pestilential plagues and violence and famine.
At the moment it would seem that the animals of the world are doing their bit to bring down the Apocalypse on their human oppressors, by cooking up a potent stew of pestilential plague. This looming flu pandemic is noteworthy for its lethality. This is not a case of the flu that has a person blowing their nose and then lying down for a while. That thing is virulent and so far, seems to have killed every single person it has come into contact with, without exception.
The policies of ‘neo-liberalism' have contributed greatly to the looming disaster, by slashing health care, increasing poverty and misery, and also by cramming one billion human beings in teeming, unhealthy slums in the third world, most of these people being now landless peasants who having lost their livelihood on the land are now densely packed in unhealthy urban slums, in the perfect conditions to incubate a particularly virulent, nasty case of the flu, which has been characterized so far by both its lethality and the speed with which it has spread like wildfire. For this reason this looming pandemic has already been given the nickname ‘the Slum flu.'
The disease originally incubated in factory farms, that all important animal connection. But then its the apocalypse, so I suppose you would have to expect that sort of thing. Call it the caged animals revenge, or nature's outrage, I suppose. This deadly animal plague is now only a mutation away from unleashing the next great pandemic, and the crowded, unhealthy conditions of the modern urban third world slum provide the perfect environment for the disease to experiment with mutations until, finally, it finds the right combination of altered genes to hop from human to human, at which time given the speed with it spreads and its lethality, and given the growth in technology and global movement and transportation, it will probably outdo the last great flu pandemic and kill many more people.
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A Unified Field Theory
The Unified Field Theory
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Introduction :The Pioneer Effect and the New Physics. A brief description of the new physics required to explain the 'Pioneer Effect', which is the constant deceleration of space craft as they fly through space.
Principles of Evolution: A Study in the Evolution of Bedbugs
Therefore it is my hypothesis that evolution occurs by means of the transfer of dominate genes, with the production of such dominant genes being the product of 'biological algorithms', a genetic software program that brings physical characteristics into harmony with behavior, such that when behavior changes, and a conflict then exists, this acts as a trigger and causes the release of dominant genes. The result is rapid evolution of species. The bedbug is a relatively new insect, not the product of millions of years of evolution but rather an insect that is evolving in real time. The newly emerging dominant form of the insect is the flat, round ciruclar insect, well adapted to living in human bedrooms (it is flat, rather than tubular, thus allowing it to hide in the smallest cracks, living a stealthy lifestyle, and it is round, which gives the insect a maximum storage capacity such that it must endanger itself only a few times a month by emerging to feed.
Other examples of rapid evolution include the development of long legs in an invasive species of toad in Australia. As the toads move into the mountainous regions of Australia, and their behvaior changes, making them 'climbing toads', over the course of just a couple of decades the toads in the highlands have grown long legs specially adapted to climbing. It is worth noting here that the toads are poisonous, and are a successful invasive species because they have no natural predators in Australia, and so it would not be the case that the toads with long legs were 'the fittest survivors', because all the toads are survivors, and therefore predation does not explain the rapid emergence and spread of such well adapted, long legged toads. Once again we see evidence for the existence of biological algorithms and the rapid spread of dominant genes through a population, which once introduced proceed to overwhelm the older genes which are being replaced (making toad long legged and a bed bug round and flat).
A Theological Experiment
I also believe that it is possible to justify theological propositions using experimental methods. If a thing is an objective truth then it can be verified and proven true by means of experimentation. Such a theological proposition is of more value than a ‘divine revelation’, since such revelations depend upon nothing more than establishing authority figures which requires the creation of artificial hierarchies, for the only reason why I might be encouraged to believe an authority figure who orders me to believe unsubstantiated opinions is if I could somehow be convinced that this authority possessed a mind that was somehow superior to mine, and thus was fit to express opinions as though opinions were unquestionable facts and thus worthy of being elevated to the status of absolute dogma.
There is a self evident human inequality which is visibly apparent. Some people are ‘beautiful’ and thus are the true elite on this planet, and some people are not. It is this sexual inequality and the degeneration that follows upon beauty that is the true driving force behind all the evil that happens on earth. The need for ruthless oppression and the pursuit of wealth and the consequent creation of suffering and poverty which must follow upon this practice is for the purpose of creating an artificial alpha elite.
The true elites are the young and the beautiful. The artificial elite are the rich and the wealthy. The elite aging rich artificial alpha male has no good looks, for he is physically degenerate, but he will be found escorting beauty because he has a beautiful wallet. If he loses his wallet he will be found at home with all the other unattractive aged beta males sitting in a rocking chair watching reruns of Bonanza. No money, no sex. It is for this reason that the alpha males are found to be so ruthless and so violent in pursuit of their goal. The alpha male has fallen. The beta male has arisen and now the whole planet is full of ruinous destruction for it.
We see in religion a confused and contradictory reaction to this reality. On the one hand religion preaches a sexless heaven where castration and the clitorectomy create ‘pure spirits’. Muslims throw women under sacks. On the other hand religion supports hierarchy and is the prop of the elite alpha male. It is for this reason that religion is incoherent when it comes to speaking about sex.
Now we see this same principle at work in all of nature. Guppies dance and show off their colorful tails and the guppy who dances with the most colorful tail is the sexually successful guppy. Therefore it is the doctrine of the ruthless oppressor which teaches that the solution to human sexual violence is to be found in castration and the creation of pure ghosts. This would be equivalent to damning an aardvark for having the ‘sinful aardvark nature’ or prosecuting an anteater for the high crime of ‘ant genocide’.
Therefore it was my theological hypothesis that the correct solution to this problem is to give every guppy a beautiful colorful tail. I compare this solution to the classic religious solution which is to cut off every tail since having a tail is ‘sinful’. If having a tail is sinful then God must be sinful for no human being has any choice in deciding whether or not they would be born with a colorful tail, or whether they would not.
When I was young I was a beautiful guppy with a lovely tail. So everyone seemed to think. I am older now. My nose became very badly sunburned and destroyed. It seemed good to me to test my hypothesis by using these ‘biological algorithms’ to correct this problem. I healed half my nose as you can see by the line separating the still very dark patch on the side in the photograph below.
I documented my experiment on these pages. one two t hree four fi ve six
I have confirmed to my own satisfaction that my theological proposition is correct and that religious dogma is erroneous, being based as it was upon nothing more than ‘divine revelation’ which is just a form of opinionated speculation. For the time being I am not continuing this experiment, for I must wait until the weather on this planet improves, and the dark clouds of ruthless oppression break letting a little sun shine come through so that I can show the world the truth about God, by showing people how God goes about giving an old guppy back his beautiful colorful tail.
Until then I will have to sit on the sidelines, while all my scientific breakthroughs are deliberately ignored, while I wonder to myself what ever in the world could be wrong with the human race, because what this all will prove at the end of it all is that there definitely was something wrong with the people on this planet.