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Rivers in the Desert?
Alternatives to Punitive Justice
The following piece is a continuation of a discussion begun on the page, Prophecy 2004 and the page On Punitive Justice.
I am looking for a sign. I am lobbying and taking my concerns to the very top. I am looking for some help down here, something that will really work. I have faith, and I am looking for the fruits of that faith. I feel like someone who is living in a desert, which is more or less what it has always felt like to live in a world where all faith seems to be dead. As I was thinking about this, and as I was thinking about how everything that has happened over the last few years began over a desert, it seems somehow fitting that things should also come to a conclusion over a desert. Rivers in a desert seems like a fitting metaphor for the kind of changes on the planet I would like to see. As well it has occurred to me that there is always the possibility of alternatives to punitive justice. First rivers in the desert, and then when all options are exhausted, punitive justice, since even something as painful as that crying game known as punitive justice is better than nothing at all.
Sunset over the Sahara, January 13th, 14th, 2004
Sahara, Earth Day 2001
You know, on this planet, at this time, faith is not highly valued, and this year, 2004, I intend to bring this matter to a conclusion. Faith never failed me before, and faith don't fail me now...I remain optimistic and confident, even if I am perplexed. (How I wish I was a poet). Poor, poor suffering Eden. She is wasteland, she has been made a desolation, a desert, neglected, like a deserted lover cast off and forsaken, wind beaten, storm tossed, and never comforted...how I long to see her foundations laid with sapphire and walls built up with rubies...for she is Eden, after all, and that is what she deserves...how she is abused and scornfully used...Oh Eden, how could I ever forget you...
The way the world works...a parable
Here is a little parable, a faith based story which I think does explain 'how things turn out' in the world we live in ... Once upon a time a little faith came into the world, but, for reasons that are difficult to comprehend, the world did know it ... Nothing changed. Now what I am referring to here is part of a long story which I really don't think I need to tell over and over again. In brief a little bit of faith came into the world at that 'Summit of the Americas' in Quebec city, a little bit of Eden. Now, to my amazement, since I thought to myself that this was a rather decent demonstration of the power of faith and the rewards that can come for taking risks in the name of faith and trust, nothing happened to the world. Now people said to me all my life that I was obviously crazy, but then there was that craft that appeared outside the International Space Station right after Earth Day, and so, at least now I can state catagorically and without fear of contradiction that no matter what might people might think about what is going on in the world, I am not crazy and the true explanation for these things lies elsewhere. Or, rather, those people important enough and with a very high national security clearance can understand what I mean when I say that behind everything that has happened is something very real, which helps to explain it all, and when you consider this matter, helps to make sense of it all. The exception to this case would be 'ordinary people' who don't have the proper clearance and thus are not allowed to know what is really going on, and thus will find that perhaps none of this makes sense for that very reason, and who might also conclude that faith is really a worthless thing, and few are the benefits of being trusting in a cold, silent, dead, lifeless universe such as the one we live in, or so they would think. Of course they don't know and thus must make their decisions based upon only a partial understanding of what is actually going on in the universe in which they too have a part. This to is metaphor for the way the world really works, in that most voters, for example, must make their erroneous decisions about important issues either without the required information, which is withheld, or based upon fabricated information.
And so, it would seem, faith was defeated...This is the way of the world. When faith is defeated people will say, 'faith, it is a worthless thing,' because, after all, faith is defeated and when something is defeated how can it be worth a plug nickel...
And so I imagine a world with even more faith, perhaps, yes perhaps even rivers in the desert. Now let us use our imaginations and understand what would happen if an act of faith resulted in rivers in the desert (an appropriate metaphor, I think, since the world is like an unwatered desert, a desolate Eden, parched and thirsty). Here is what I imagine, or better said, what I have come to expect. Once upon a time there were rivers in the desert, and that seems appropriate since so much began over the desert, and if faith should once again come full circle and return to the desert that seems fitting. Now I would expect that once again faith would be defeated, and so it would be said that faith was a worthless thing, for it was defeated, and anything that can be so easily defeated can't be worth much of anything at all.
This is admittedly a very cynical view of the world, but it does a good job of encapsulating my view of the nature of reality in this world. To tell the truth, I think that faith could become extravagant and faith would be defeated over and over again. Faith cannot do anything right. Not on planet following the course this planet follows.
I was shocked when the world carried on as though nothing had happened, and war was launched in Afghanistan. Now someone explain something to me. Could the people running this place be so atrociously blind that somehow they did not notice what was right before their eyes. I am talking about what was right before their eyes and caught on tape, with NASA's space shuttle camera kindly doing the job of catching the whole business on tape, which was helpful, since then there would not be any of that doubt concerning whether or not such and such a tape was a forgery, no doubt about the motives of those who made the tape, in particular when you consider how this happened during a live broadcast from the space station viewed live, in real time, through the cameras of the space shuttle, and when you consider just how damned hard it is to get that tape released for public viewing, you pretty much understand how damned inconvenient such a tape is, and how unlikely it would be, therefore, that NASA or the Pentagon (where the tape is now, no doubt) would have forged such a tape themselves. No that tape has to be kept locked in vault, and then, to my utter amazement, it was back to business as usual, invading Afghanistan, and then Iraq, not to mention all those power plays and diplomacy and the rest of the things that go on in this place.
I would suppose then that even faith cannot change something that entrenched, nor can it alter the foreordained path the world is following. Which brings us sooner or later to punitive justice, in all its ugliness. It you follow the logic through to its conclusion you can see that since faith is useless, then the choice becomes either punitive justice or nothing at all, rather, more and more and more of the same old same old, and if one assumes that this unacceptable, then punitive justice (and all the associated high costs associated with it) is, at the end of the road, the only option that remains.
For it turned out, in my imaginary scenario (which, based on what I have seen, is the most likely outcome) that even rivers and rivers of faith washing over a vast desert, parched with thirst and as empty of faith as it is of life, even such a river could do nothing to change the course of events. Punitive justice turned out to be the last recourse, but its coming turned out to be inevitable given the nature of the world, as described in the scenario I just outlined above, and as I said, such a cynical parable, based as it is on what I have seen, encapsulates perfectly my view of the true nature of both faith and the way of the world on this planet...
Prophecy 2004
On Punitive Justice
Top Secret! Highly classified information revealed!!!!
Another world already exists! Down with the resistance!
The sin of religion - a filth covered rag
Why do satellites show no cloud cover as Middle East Floods?
Ash Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
Ash Wednesday (continued)
Ash Wednesday, Forgive Them Not
The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
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A Unified Field Theory
The Unified Field Theory
is also available as a zip file -> unified.zip
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
A couple of years ago my bedroom was invaded by bedbugs. There were two variant genetic lines. One type of bedbug was an enlongated, thin, tubular insect, and the second genetic line was a flat, perfectly circular insect. The result of the cross breeding of these two genetically distinct variants was the production of a bedbug with charcteristics of both, an enlongated, flat bedbug with a central bulge (such that the shape of the bedbug was somewhere between 'long' and 'circular'). The long skinny bedbugs were such strange and unfamiliar looking insects that at first I did not recognize them as being bedbugs, and considered them to be a seperate species of insect. However, as the photographs of bedbugs above indicate, enlongated and skinny bedbugs are not uncommon, and the photographs also show the variants that are produced by genetic combinations that result in an insect somewhere in between 'circular' and 'enlongated'.
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
My interest in pursuing the Unified Field Theory is spurred on by my
need to discover the theoretical explanation of a new form of
propulsion (as explained on this page: Why the
Unified Field Theory?). The experiment involving the bedbugs came
out of nowhere.
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
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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.