Escape to Here Now

  I have become somewhat obsessed with: E pluribus unum  one from many And just what does that imply? Well, it seems to me that such an arrangement of that kind, would require a good deal of trust, as to how, why, and what is going on. Really kind of hard to know how that: one from many  would work realistically without trust. 

  One thing right off, evil does seem a little less evil than Evil. Based from previous post, I was reflecting a little bit on those  things which are available to us to make us less uncertain, and  I began to think back to The Stand, again from Stephan King,  which contained a lot of the " sense of evil ".   The turning point, I believe, occurred when everyone was able to gather together and gain strength and clarity from what was in effect  unity in their thinking and feeling. This created a sense of direction which allowed them to, in the end, eliminate that " sense of evil ", with which they had been plagued. So, I am simply pointing out how that sense of unity is important in focusing such qualities, as strength, persistence and perseverance, which can often eliminate some of the uncertainty, which this period of time seems so thoroughly " infected ".  

  So, I have to mention an experience that happened last night in which Stephen King, was able to project a sense of " genuine " evil in one sentence, which to me was kind of frightening. Of course he has worked at that skill for some time, but I found it quite unsettling.  His wiki page follows; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King So, I'm pretty sure only he could explain how he can do that, and I expect he might have something to say about what exactly it is, this " evil " thing. It obviously has to do with with a sense of fear about some situation that might - potentially - occur, and so that sense of what might happen, but a lack of certainty.  So, it appears to me that -- evil -- , in the sense of our experiencing that feeling or sense of evil, has a compositional quality.  It has two distinct qualities of -- uncertainty -- and  also fear. So where does that uncertainty come from?  I think uncertainty is a quality embedded in our experience, whi...

  I guess I happen to be somewhat fortunate in that I live in a place that has a great deal of ambiguity build into it, about what is east and what is west.  I say fortunate, but that ambiguity has caused me some difficulty over time.   Nevertheless, even here, we do have an east and a west.  The existence of this somewhat nebulous reality has a variety of ways of making itself known, on  lots of different levels.  Of course, in this nation we also have east and west, and even in the state I live in there is  such a thing as well.  Then we have extended this even to the globe. Now, that has always been very difficult for me, because, how  do you determine what is east and what is west on a globe?  You can stare at a ball, for a long time and possibly never be able to determine, what is east and what is west.  Nevertheless, some how we have managed to divide our globe into a quite distinct east and west.  But if you wake up...

  First, generally, it is my personal belief, that to dismiss religion out of hand is what I can only describe as --- unwise ---.   I say that simply because almost every civilization that has ever existed on earth has always been connected to a religion of some type.  Beyond that, simply the accumulation of information and data connected to religion is of course, entirely enormous and incredibly detailed. So there is something, there, which has pre-occupied many, many people, for many, many generations. On a personal level a conversation on this subject which always sticks in  my mind occurred between P.A.M. Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli probably in the late 1920's , possibly at Solvay, during which Dirac argued against the possibility of the existence of God, presumably some argument in which geometry played some role, to which Pauli replied, " Dirac has a religion, it is the religion of Paul Dirac "., ( not necessarily an exact quote but pretty close).  ...

  And so, I was fortunate to hear Howard Zinn, this morning on Democracy Now, and he did mention I believe this issue of totalitarian-ism , ( ism, it, whatever ). It was a rebroadcast of a speech and interview with Howard Zinn. https://www.democracynow.org/ I know for sure that one of the greatest fears/scares of my youth was the black and white , British, version of 1984, I think it was from 1956. I was a pretty big fan of horror at that time, like Frankenstein, etc. One of my really big scares when I was about 5 years old, was a live broadcast of a play about Dracula.  Anyway, just the notion of totalitarian stuff,  was and I still think is, a big fear for me as well as others.   There is another big fear from my youth, which still persists to this day, which is the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it, because it is seriously difficult for anyone to really create a decent definition of what  -- world -- , might mean.  Bes...

  So, this can be a difficult subject, because the word is used in a vast number of contexts, and therefore has a vast number of really different meanings depending on exactly the context in which you are focused.   So, looking at  a simple example, if a group of people are traveling from one location to another, the leader would most often be the person who has made that  trip the most, because he would have the best indications of how to go, landmarks, and distance and things of that sort.   But, of course, generally the kind of leadership we are looking for involves going to someplace you have never been before, meaning generally, the future.  Since no one has been there before, it's pretty hard to know the best way to go.    Of course, this is not really hopeless, for various reasons because, we do it all the time.  Often, we have issues about who might be the " best " leader, but in fact, in practical matters, the leader can be...

  So, in 1960, the population of the U.S. was about 200,000,000 and the globe was about 4,000,000,000. Today the population of the globe is moving toward 8,000,000,000 and the population of the U.S. is around 300,000,000.  So, I did not check that, but approximately.  Regardless of how you look at that, the world of 1960 is really not the same as the world we are living in today.  Nevertheless, many of the principals still do apply today as they applied then, and many of these same principals have been effective in various ways over even a longer period of time.   One of those principals that applied in 1960, as far as the U.S.A. would be concerned is that the people make the government but that the government is made for the benefit of the people.   That of course is quite an interesting if somewhat curious principal.  I am not sure if those folks that came up with that idea, would have been quite as enthusiastic if they could have had a cle...

  Sometimes, I think, it is very hard to know when you are winning or losing, and I guess, if I has one thing to say about the Blues, and it might be hard to say " one thing ", it is about the difficulty in distinguishing between these two situations, the kind of ambiguity that can be put in front of us, the kind of uncertainty that results from certain kinds of events.  It's a lot like just plain sadness of course, but it can feel like a little more than that, in part, I think, produced by that sense of ambiguity. But you know, it does seem to be a persistent theme in most of our lives. Certainly there can be many - what you might call - wins, successes, or events of that type, but there are usually included some genuine losses, maybe even connected to frightening events.   And I guess, sometimes those wins and losses are interconnected and intertwined in some ways.  Like how can you feel genuinely happy, when you have never been sad.  How can you achieve ...

  So as in previous post there is clearly a very strong connection between qualities and differences, because in examining qualities we are concerned with differences and distinctions, in order to effectively describe those qualities.  Also, when we are talking about different " things ", like apricots, helicopters, waterfalls, or albatrosses, we are using differences to describe those " things " as distinct.  Also sometimes we are also  concerned with aspects, such as the aspects of people and how they  organize themselves, which would be mostly - like - sociology.   So differences are a big deal all the way around.  Now, it seems to me, vaguely, but my experience does suggest that particularly, between 2016 and 2020 differences, became kind of exaggerated more that what normally goes on lets say in a normal four year cycle.  And so when Joe Biden entered the Presidency, he had a " goal " of uniting the America people, by which he mostly mea...

  This maybe should correctly be " Qualities and science ", but  it didn't work out that way. But a good deal of the focus here is on qualities.  When you consider science in general you will note that science tends to focus on the qualities of things in general.  The " kind of " sad story about science, is nobody ever agreed or decided that, we will only consider " such and such " kind of things. Rather the situation is, if you can find a thing, then it's kind of open hunting on the scientific " process " examining the qualities of that thing.  Of course there are an awful lot of things, for example, bananas,   clouds, bodies of water, birds, and of course another kind of important " thing " would also be  the ever enigmatic -- human being --- . Then of course once you isolated that thing, you begin to examine it's qualities in ever greater details, and try and share those observations with someone else who would care about...

  I am only guessing, but it seems to me, that very frequently individuals will get into a pattern, in which they sort of stumble from crisis to crisis.  In part, this might have to do with the heighted motivation often experienced during a crisis.  When individuals do reach  some kind of understanding about the causes of these crisis,  there lurching into the crisis will undoubtedly decrease,  although the lurching might not decrease.  You're just not  lurching into a crisis, because you have eliminated the cause  of the crisis in the first place. So people do this all the time, and it definitely might require some serious efforts to isolate and prevent some those " variables " that will decrease these crisis, but the results and the benefits to those individuals, is generally significant. Likewise, you will notice a pattern like this has also been going on globally for at least 70 years.  Of course, globally , we did a lot of lurching ...

  And so, when we are talking about structure, ( most famously, undefined term ), principals see like, the basis in which you can have reasonable conversations. So good example of a principal is that the U.S.A. democracy is based, substantially on, the principal that the government is by the people and for the people.   Actually, the by the people part is kind of well, every government is made up of people.   The "for the people" part is probably a little more important and therefore gives substantially more meaning to the " by the people " part. So, obviously principals are a key element when examining or evaluating  structure as it applies to government in this country.   Now, obviously there are a lot of other principals that are pretty essential to this notion , such as the dignity of people, but in the case of the U.S.A., it seems like the critical issue is that dignity  should ( or you could say, must ), be applied to all people, becaus...

Isaac Newton seems to have really been into the idea of action and reaction, and I am not 100% sure where he got that idea, but it's seems to have been very useful in the development of lots of technology and stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton However, these ideas did evolve to the concept of least action from Hamilton:   http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Principle_of_least_action#:~:text=The%20Hamilton%20principle%20means%20that,consistent%20with%20the%20given%20constraints. This notion of action and reaction does seem to have lots of applications.   My guess, is that there is a kind of natural conclusion that can be drawn about over use of violence to ensure safety.  Anyway, I think you might be able to reach your own conclusion on how reasonable it is to use unreasonable force  to promote general well being. So, the point ?  What is the point?  I guess that is the  point.   The following raises some more interesting q...

  And so, when my grandmother was growing up, there were no cars, no radios, no ice-boxes and a lot of other thing-a-ma-bobs were missing.  When she started raising her kids, the ice was delivered for the ice box, whatever that was like, and probably the milk.  Her husband drove a Ford Mercury, for most of the time that I was around, and back and forth from Florida once a year.   Curious, how adaptive we can be to carry out activities that we view as necessarily to support, what, I guess you might call: - general well being.   Today, I think, we maybe somewhat short of thing-a-ma-bobs, although for sure we do have quite a few.  I think that is really okay, because one thing we seem to be pretty good at is - slapping together - a thing-a-ma-bob or two, when we really need one. And then, of course, we do have those what-ca-ma-call-its,

  A bit out of my expertise, etc,, however, my guess is a contained high energy plasma would have some kind of characteristic or dominant wave form connected in some way to it.   So my conjecture is that some kind of device can translate that wave form to something more closely connected to or with some kind of e.m. wave.  Perhaps multiple translations. Could just be goblty gook, or maybe another can of worms, most likely connected to another re-invention of the thing-a-ma-bob.

      Pursue the rainbow and find the gravel,     then, see the rainbow in the gravel.  And so, if you examine beliefs a bit, you must admit there is a  tremendous connection between what we believe and what we do.  Because people actually do a terrific variety of different things you must conclude that what people do believe must, on an individual level be significantly different, as they do such different things.  Therefore, you must conclude that beliefs are in fact very individual although we do think in terms of beliefs being shared among a large number of people. Simultaneously , (really hard to spell), there is another process going on which is judgements, made all the time, based on the results of those actions.  So this is simply an exercise of the quality or virtue of justice, an activity which is going on continuously within us. So, if you recognize this, it is an algorithm which goes on continuously throughout our lives. Now,...

  I hate to speak hypothetically, because it's really hard to keep track of where you are going to. Anyway, allegedly, there is a guy, who allegedly did something wrong. Allegedly, he may have done something else wrong, and this kind of turns into a spiral, and well, maybe it's a lot of things, and you know  how hard it is when you are working with negative numbers. Therefore, hypothetically, it might be easier to add up the things this guy did right,  than trying to add up all the wrong stuff,  because, hypothetically speaking, you would be using all positive numbers?   Don't know, not for sure, but it kinds' seems like that. It is only possible that, the above mentioned guy has a strong affection for the Mothers of Invention, hypothetically or allegedly.

  I remember some story about Einstein, not sure if it's true, that he used to imagine traveling at the speed of light on a bicycle.  I am not sure if he finally concluded how fast we are all traveling. One of the first things, when you think about that, is the rotation of the earth, which means we are all traveling round and round on the earth at about 1000 mi/hr.  So in one second , 1000/hr * 3600 s/hr *  2 /10000 ft/mi  360 * 2 or about 720 ft/sec.  ( 1/5200 =  2 * 10 ^ -4 ). With a lot of momentum involved.  Then of course around the sun 584 * 10^6 miles, in 365 days, which is like 67,000 mi/hr. and then we are traveling around the core of the galaxy and moving quite quickly in that way. So some have actually concluded that we are all moving at the same speed,  which is the speed of light, in the direction of space, but I can't really explain that.  What you must conclude from this is we are all ( everyone on earth )  traveling ...

  Or what about nerve racking or nerve wracking. Well, the one nice thing you can say about nerve racking or nerve wracking, is you got a nerve.  So that's probably a good thing.  Other than that, well, if the top was the bottom, either way, it is hard to imagine, that there is not some distance a head, and some of that distance a head you might expect to be difficult, real difficult, or just pretty difficult, regardless or your belief structures or ethical or moral framework.  But if you might be experiencing what may be described as --- lots of  <<< data in >>> that may be concerning and difficult to process and which may cause some racking or wracking of the nerve bones.  Well, you should try and make the best of it.  It could be good for you, unless you make an unreasonable decision to " pretend " or " imagine ", that what is going on, is not going on.    And my point?  We are naturally equipped to deal with  s...

  So this is mostly about questions, not so much about answers.  For many, it could be a " real " turn off, because it's mostly about contrasting Bohmian and Bohrian, perspectives on ionized water.   It is important to note, that ,neither Bohmian or Bohrian are likely "proper" words.   For some reason , I am pretty sure that we know about water in other regions of our solar systems, and perhaps even beyond that. Regardless, when we picture ionized water, that picture is mostly about , a WHOLE, hydrogen atom separated from another hydrogen atom is some spatial way.  Now, of course a lot of this get's a bit  " smeared about " by the so called  reality of all this occurring in a Hilbert space.  Moving on, from  there, in a more Bohmian point of view. This visualization is more of  " real wave forms ", which are determining the locations of stuff we call atoms and of course there   constitutes, mostly like pinballs. ...

  This could be more as speculation, totally wrong, or perhaps correct and maybe provable at some level. Imagine if you had a tool, ( which in fact we do have ), similar to our new telescope for viewing distant objects, which could examine the human body at a similar granular level.  Then my speculation, or thesis or suggestion is that you would, in fact, see something very similar to what we see of the visible universe.   Why this idea is so valuable is that similar technologies or engineering to go far and go fast in what you might call our " universe ", could also be applied in medical practice, although differently. Probably none of this makes any sense, but the title is pretty cool, anyway. 

  Firstly this follows along with learning, as a method for basically " getting better ", in various ways, perhaps connected to healing as well.  But certainly, one of the objectives of learning is a thing called knowledge, along with understanding, information, wisdom, and perhaps other things of that nature. Now, I just feel that I need to mention, both Richard Feynman and Leonard Susskind, as examples of two individuals that have been effective in collecting, organizing,  communicating, and even perhaps discovering new knowledge through investigation. There are obviously many others who have followed and are following in similar paths. Anyway, a specific example of knowledge  may be useful.  Most people who use butter will try to have a spot for it, maybe move it around a bit, but generally try to be organized about it.  Most likely the reason for this, is what happens when butter is mishandled. The result is generally " a mess " and usually a mess that ...

  So, I guess, the end of the day did not arrive as quickly as I was hoping. As far as barriers to learning are concerned, one that has to rate high on the list would have to be fear.  And this could take on a variety of forms, such as, the fear of failure.  That fear, of course, could also be connected back to lack of confidence, and they (lack of confidence & fear of failure) have to be connected somehow. These kinds of fears also take a big toll on self respect.  Maybe, I should just speak about myself. At the end, hopefully, of this day or some other, we have lot's of stuff to learn , so much that we might view it as " over-whelming ", but that might also be viewed as some kind of fear.  It is an opportunity, however, and also clearly linked to survival and how our survival and success will proceed , in the present, as well as any potential future. As an aside, I would(and do) really appreciate, somebody, who would track down the guy or Guy, or guys, act...

 Things are interesting. I have previously asserted that , in my opinion, the single greatest cause of 1/6/2020 , disaster, was a massive lack of self respect among a wide variety of individuals. Further, I would say that, that assertion is demonstrable as either true or false.  Actually, there may ,in fact, be other significant factors but at least, in my opinion, it is number one. Back to learning. Learning can be an amazing experience. It is also a terrific source of self respect. You only have to consider how you felt about yourself when you learned to walk, or ride a bike, or any particular skill.  And, of course, respect is closely connected back to love, love for others, love for yourself, and other things. So think about a new pair of shoes, you " respect " them, exactly because they are "new". Rushing to the end of the day, I think learning is like love, in that it is a natural behavior, but both behaviors need to be nourished.  However, also like love, lea...

  This could be confusing, but just consider, how civilizations which might be preeminent at any given time, lapse, in that station and another civilization might arise to that preeminent status.   It's a lot easier to visualize on a more personal level, in that some individual which may reach a preeminent state is superseded by some one who then becomes preeminent, in various fields , like art , or sports, or other vocations and occupations.   When we consider nations or other types of organization in our time, it is somewhat goofy ( can't think of a better word ) , to think that some particular organization might be - de facto - preeminent for some particular reason.  In the case of nations, it is much easier to consider, that many or all of them have preeminent qualities and even some of  them may retain these qualities over time. If that is true, then it does seem like greater co-operation might be a good way to progress, since many of these qualit...

  This can be or become a very convoluted, esoteric, and sometimes confusing idea.  First , note that , we mostly talk about Jesus Christ, we can shorten it to Jesus or Christ, but mostly the same guy or Guy. Anyway, when talking about the return of Christ, we rarely say, the return of Jesus.  Not sure how important that is, but it's kind of interesting. So this must  be only an opinion, because, certainly, I am not applying for a patent or copy right, here.  I just think that Christ is always and has always been returning.  Simply that " spirit " or " reality " of Christ, returns in all of us to a greater or lesser degree.  That degree is determined mostly by the actions we take. So finally, and, in conclusion, it seems to me, that, that is mostly the point of Christianity.  I am going to leave the whole issue of " believing " entirely out of it.

  And so, starting with hate and love, it is not uncommon  to consider love to be like an antidote for hate.  This may be true, some what true, and maybe not true at all.  Clearly the actions which are more based on love are clearly different than those motivated by hate.  But, of course, we often find ourselves in a situation where it seems that there is kind of a mixture of actions. So that brings us to the place of , well, what is love anyway.  That turns out to be an incredibly difficult thing to really, kind of, turn into brass tacks.  We certainly have ideas about it, and then you might realize that what we are dealing with mostly is on an emotional level, that it is difficult to associate either words to, or have clear idea about, mostly because emotions and idea are quite different.  So when you think about hate, to nail that down, it does seem like hate is mostly what love is not. So here's the thing, the point, which is mostly an opinion...

  I guess, that one of the most difficult things to deal with in regard to something we might call God, is the idea of God's mercy.  This is difficult , for example if we instead talk about God's Mercy, and then try to figure out how that might be the same thing or different. Many folks will be reluctant to think in theistic terms of a theistic framework, simply because of this notion.  Our general experience of life is that it tends not to be filled with what you might call merciful experiences,  and if all our experience is connected to some single source, then where is all this mercy going, and why does all this seem more than a little bit arbitrary?   I do not think I can answer that question, although, there may indeed be an answer, but regardless of your position on theism, it seems a relevant and valid question to consider.

  I have to preface this, with, this could be a very hard train to follow, and I'm just hoping it doesn't crash at the end. I was fortunate, when I was very young to have been in a community, pretty much without T.V. s but in which they were being introduced gradually. So, when I was about 3 or 4 years old we had one, and the first experience I remember with that, was the Wizard of Oz.  I didn't see it completely  because I totally freaked out at the first appearance of the Wicked Witch of the West.  I remember this so distinctly, because I was unable to go into a dark room for about 3 weeks.  I was diagnosed with acute Witch-itis.   Moving on to the unlimited power.  Today, in the world we live in, we have selected, individuals to have practically unlimited power. I say that because, we really don't want to test that level of power, so the result is - that power then , becomes practically with out bounds. Now, one good question would be how is th...

  Looking at early (beginning in 1700's) developments in mathematics and physics the concept of tension plays a fundamental role.  It seems appropriate to mention the work of  Joseph Lagrange and Joseph Fourier. which make up significant parts of the foundation of modern scientific thought.  Ultimately, this notion is fundamental , as well, in our understandings of quantum systems in a broad way. Wiki references follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier Also, there are other areas in which tension plays a significant role specifically economics, politics, phycology, and even of course music and art. Considering how much effort and thought  has gone into this particular topic, you might think we would have reached some greater understanding of how to deal with tension, which exists in such a fundamental way in various systems, more specifically in how to reduce tension in systems, which are proceeding...

  Full disclosure, I have only worked with focus, briefly. Anyway, the first thing that comes to mind is screwing in a screw.  I am pretty sure, anyone who has had this experience, recognizes that without a " certain ", amount of focus, the screw in not going to get the placement it might need, for a good out come.  In other words, without the required amount of focus the effort will result in failure. Of course, focus is something that is required of us, in pretty many environments, and pretty much all the time. Examples include: basketball, knitting, playing cards, tying shoes, cooking, brushing your teeth, and many other activities.  Even some highly passive activities require at least some kind of focus, regardless of the effort involved. One of the " big " deals, and highly important aspects of focus is; it is pretty key to any kind of problem solving situations. Sometimes, these situation require some higher levels of focus, and some require a more persistent ...

  I have to begin with Happy Tuesday, a day most well known, because it is between Monday and Wednesday, which is, I guess,  kind of important.  Apparently somebody was concerned about Monday and Wednesday getting too close.  But of course in English, we know:  : Middle English   Tewesday,  meaning "Tīw's Day", the day of Tiw or  Týr ,  the god of  single combat , and law and justice in  Norse mythology But in other Latin based languages it is Martes, after Mars, You can find this information here:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday But focusing in on differences, I have to mention Isaac Newton, who spent a good deal of his youth, concerned with differences, which was  motivated considerably by his fascination with  the Moon, that is Earth's Moon, and thank goodness we have one. It certainly kept young Isaac busy, which allows me to mention how much our global or national culture owns to the energy and vitality o...

  What follows is probably pretty subjective, mostly in   the same way that the notion of a top and a bottom is pretty arbitrary. From the perspective of what we know about the history of mathematics, and how I interpret it, it seems like there was a terrific focus on flat surfaces, that lasted almost until the 10 th century a.d., when people began to feel or sense that they did have a pretty good idea of what flat was.  This evolved a while until sometime in the 17th or 18th century when mathematicians became a little more focused on spherical things. This may have had a lot to do with navigation and drawing maps during that period and how important map making became. It's hard to say, but  two prominent mathematicians  Sophus Lie 1842 - 1899 and Bernhard Reimann 1826 - 1866 certainly began focusing a lot of energy on thinking about spherical objects and surfaces. Of course, many of these concepts and ideas have become thoroughly entrenched it what we thin...