Knowing His Name

Well, I clung to God during the next day and hunted for His input throughout conversation. I got this...

While communicating with ramp control in Boston, the controller referred to our aircraft as a CRJ. This stands for Canadair Regional Jet. Our aircraft is not a CRJ it is an ERJ (Embraer Regional Jet).

The captain said to me, "They're always calling us that incorrectly."

My response, "If she knew what the C in CRJ stood for she probably would know not you use it incorrectly."

No response from the captain.

From past conversations about very personal topics such as faith, I've learned that long silences are very key moments.

Cognition is often left uninhibited when we close our mouths (This is the reason we pilot's obey "Sterile Cockpit").

I had used silence previously throughout the day as the Captains mouth said, "My, God" many times. At these moments I refuse to acknowledge what was said.

The CRJ comment doesn't seem like a special moment unless you put it in context of the day and the flight deck atmoshpere for that trip.

This is the reason why I share it here. (By the way, I flew with another self-professed atheist today...third one this week!)

Information Theory

Today....I flew with another atheist captain. The conversation quickly went from 'love of food' to 'entropy and information theory'. Sometimes I wish this wouldn't happen. We fly together again tomorrow.

Let's see what happens!

Constant Pain

I had a weird conversation with a fellow pilot today. The state of health care and insurance lead to a discussion of pharmacy and pain medication. He questioned (almost rhetorically) about individuals who take meds for chronic pain. I told him my experience of dropping plywood on my toe recently (it's very black and gross now).

In my story I related that knowledge let me "step outside myself" in extreme pain and tolerate it. I intended to say that the observation of my toe lead me to believe I would be just fine while the pain said, "cry like a two year old."

His response was one of silent thought with a few, 'hmmm's.

From previous conversations I have assumed he is an atheist. I get the feeling he's in chronic pain. I think I should pray.

Global Nation

-If currency is current --(information age where money is exchanged via the electron and value is determined by how much of Truth you know.)

-how much do we print? --(I relate the "lie" of printing money to pay for debts with literally lying and spreading false information for profit)

-If voting is by district --(global representative govt. is possible with the Internet)

-will the district give consent? --(will rebellion occur with every attempt to democratically pass a law)

-If justice reigns from east to west --(uniform global enforcement of law)

-will law apply to past events? --(global government doesn't cure the injustice of the past)

I prefer the border be
a mountain side or an ocean wide,
than ideology.

Intel and AMD have a long way to go

Human efforts have gotten this far:

This is the end point:

Health Is My True Wealth

Health is my true wealth. I get this idea from Luke 12:13-21

This is a picture of the book that says, "Yes we can [insure your God-given wealth]!"

Correlation is where a learned concept transfers to another realm of life and learning prevades other areas of behavior.

I don't think we are correlating Fannie and Freddie with Uncle Sam as a health care provider.

The highest levels of learning are not experiential. I no longer need to experience evil to know what evil is (Gen. 3:7).

Going Green

"Going Green"= sacrificing liberty (in other words...more laws to know and comply with) to preserve the present temperature of the earth.

"Green Energy"= low carbon emission energy

"Green"= young, naive, easily taken advantage of

I don't think it's any coincidence.

If I chose the language to use it would be all about ending dependence upon Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan oil.

Living Documents

I recently heard the P.O.T.U.S. refer to the U.S. Constitution (not the ship, that's "U.S.S.") as a living document.

He studied constitutional law at the University of Chicago and even taught it. He probably believes he has built iron clad intellectual arguments for his interpretation of the constitution (the one that I carry to work...not Iraq's, California's, or our neighborhood civic organization's).

Unfortunately for us and the US, the philosophy of Obama's statement isn't so iron clad. You see, if a document can be "living" then a document can also die. Obama's "Old Iron Sides" collapses under the weight of it's defense. Contradiction and revision to meet cultural means (averages/norms) sink the ship. Legislate upon what is correct, not what the census reveals.

I wonder how a 4 dimensional life form would reveal itself to a 3 dimensional one? Maybe by going 2D and if that didn't work then 3D! And as if that wasn't enough...4D also! To God, we are living documents.

Eternity is in Our Hearts?

I shared my faith equation (see first post on this web log) with some brothers in Christ this past Fri. morn. I felt like a freak. I couldn't identify the stares. Some said, "I think he's crazy" while others said, "sounds correct".

It probably "sounds correct" because it's so vague. When looking at "f(y)=1/(1-x)" it's not obvious that it's a cardinality comparison between God's Will and our place within God's Will. It not obvious because it's FAITH expressed in the ultimate abstraction (mathematics). It is an expression of my belief that is beyond proof BECAUSE the proof lies beyond the f(x).

I understand FAITH to be the "on switch" to God's Will. Faith (belief beyond proof) awakens our "heart" to God's Will (the faithful have an uncircumcised heart (I might be heretical on that comparison)).

So why is this titled "Eternity is in Our Hearts"? Because deep within our subconscious is a desire for eternity (just ask modern youth why they love video games....eternal life. How well would a 'first-person shooter' that deletes itself after one life sell?...Not well).

That desire for eternity can only be quenched by an eternal life form. We can only get to know the one and only eternal life form through FAITH (belief beyond proof). Let your switch be turned on.

Ayn Rand says (parapharasing) ,"If you don't choose an operating system, one will be chosen for you." Check out Philosophy: Who Needs It? by Ayn Rand, but most importantly...Study the 66 books of the Christian Canon.

Reformation and Literacy

Spoken language is abstracted and recorded and you have text.

Books are a progression from analog (human memory) to digital recording (2 dimensional script).
Increased literacy and digital distribution create Reformation.

When cause and effect are abstracted and recorded you get mathematics.

The literacy boom that created The Reformation certainly didn't destoy faith in God. It deepened it.

This is occuring with mathematics, today. Faith is beeing deepened by increased literacy...not destroyed by it.

Totalitarian

I used to think that personal anarchy (internal moral deficiency) lead to governmental anarchy (external moral deficiency). I was wrong. Personal anarchy leads to a totalitarian government.

Jacob Talmon

Miracles Observed

I've seen how "man wounds" affect some of my fellow Christians at bible study. These wounds (distant father, overbearing mother, or absent parents all together) affect how they presently live.

I've have the benefit of a whole data set from my parents. My parents relationship was an excellent model for who God is and what Love is. My desire to please my parents has carried over into a desire to please God.

These thoughts lead me to what hope humans without a whole data set possess. It seems that the space-time of their childhood has severly limited their future worldlines.

The hope they have is to forgive their absent, distant, or overbearing parents. Forgiveness is analogous to the "fdisk" command in Microsoft DOS. Fdisk brings up options for dealing with the "fixed disk" of the computer (data storage center, or hard drive). Forgiveness is where the past's influence upon the future is broken. It is the breaking of a deterministic model for the universe. When we forgive "those who trespass against us" a singularity/miracle occurs.

Hmmm, I wonder if God has ever used "fdisk" on his computer?

Time...Fusion or Illusion?

I learned my neighbor grows flowers for his wife.

If said neighbor gives flowers to me to give to my wife, is he growing flowers for my wife?

Is he "courting" my wife?

Flowers require abundant energy for the plant to produce. They are for the purpose of reproduction. I ,therefore, threw away the flowers from my neighbor and will serve my wife through abundant energy in my own way.

I don't think that marriage is supposed to be a low energy nuclear reaction (cold fusion). Fusion through fission doesn't work either. Nothing is left alive. It's M.A.D.ness.

I'm no longer a digital computer.

Microsoft's latests advertising campaign portrays humans as PC's (personal computers). I think it's a great campaign, however, it won't beat Apple's culture of form over function.

My thoughts say, humans can exists as two types of personal computers...Analog and Digital. Analog death is spiritual death (separation from God) while digital death is physical death (failure of the body). As a human I have chosen to build my analog life upon the axiom of truth that Jesus was what his name implies (Savior). Due to the certainty of my digital death, it is my analog life that is important.

"Hello, I'm a PC and I'm running on my relationship with God."

The De-evolution of Thanks

"Thanks be to God."=a declaration that everything comes from God. You and I don't deserve the glory. As human knowledge progresses this gets harder and harder to see that it's still true.

"Thank God."=a commandment to both the proclaimer and the listener to give thanks to God. I believe the change was due to the forgetting of God's glory as humans progressed in knowledge. It's almost a nostalgic commandment from one generation to another, and from present self to your future self. This form is used as flippantly and frequently as "Oh, my God" and thus lost much of it's meaning.

"Thank You."=this represents a major de-evolution in human existence. Now the Giver of every object has been replaced by the subject. Objectivism has died (but is redeemed in Jesus the Christ) at this point in time and is revealed by human language.

"Thanks."=this is the open-ended statement. This lets the subject of your thanks apply the glory to him/herself or to God. This is the de-evolution into political correctness rather than governmental correctness. To be politically correct is a subjective existence. To be governmentally correct is an objective existence.


It's likely that thanksgiving has always taken on these forms. I am applying my subjective evolutionary timeline to the above language. How far off am I?


------Thanks be to God for the reaction between an electron and positron. The annihilation [EDIT: Instead of 'annihilation', which results in gamma radiation, I should have used 'interaction of matter and antimatter'] of matter and antimatter occurs and the photon is released. It allows a "glory" to be seen while flying! And thanks be to God for flying!

Aeroscraft

As a pilot I find this interesting:

http://www.aerosml.com/ml866/specs.html

Air vs. CO2

CO2 weighs more than air at ISA (international standard atmoshpere) given the same volume.

After about 20 solid hours of global warming/climate change research this is as much as I found to be true and within the realm of human observation.

While researching Pi, Axioms, and God...

While self-educating this evening I wrote this:

I couldn't prove God gone,
so I tried to prove God wrong.
As I tried,
I nearly died,
but found life long.

(This could be read that I found life long and boring or that I found life in an eternal form. I like the open endedness of the last sentence and that it's a few syllables short of a comfortable finish.)

"Welcome Back, Carter" vs. "Welcome Back, Kotter"

There's a conservative T-shirt that reads "Welcome Back, Carter" with Barrack H. Obama's picture on it. So far I agree.

You'll never hear democrats or the New York Times refer to Freddie Mac's role in our recession. That view of our current mess was inconspicously hushed with the new administration. The blame always falls upon "Wall Street". The government created entity that allows our mortgages to become financial derivatives is and was Freddie Mac.

Every financial derivitive is economically stupid. Financial derivatives are the equivilent of gambling with someone elses money.

That is exactly what the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is. It's a financial derivative that gambles with my future in order to pay for Freddie Mac's past.

This adminstration seems to be returning us to the same alma mater(nurturing mother) of Jimmy Carter Economics.

A Citizen's Journal

I've got all kinds of ideas, but I'm still testing them. Therefore, I will write about the day.

"Men's Fraternity" this morning at Christian Fellowship Chruch dealt with personality from a spiritual energy approach. I was revealed to be someone of:

(In order of most fundamental trait)

1. Stable faith and persisting (stubborn maybe but with defined reasons)

2. Logical thinking and recognition needing (let progress and failure be represented by numbers)
3. Seeking harmonious relationships and feelings conscious (I consider emotion second to logic)

4. Energized by alone time and dreaming (I focus more on the real than the ideal)

5. Fun seeking and spontanious (determinism is fun to me, but I believe miracles/singularities do occur)

6. Action oriented and deal making (inaction is sometimes the best action, God IS and has His own consequences for injustice.)

After this morning Brooke and I will go see some friends who are having a baby soon.

It should be a fun and maybe even a humorous weekend.

Abstract Abstraction (meaningless representation)

Money is an abstraction of service, labor, resources, or trust. Christians and Jews get plenty of practice applying meaning to abstraction. We believe that all of creation is abstraction, God is real and separate from His abstraction. To worship the abstraction is to lose meaning and purpose. "No idols" is an important rule.

This might be why the Old Testament says more about money than any other subject. Applying meaning to abstraction requires seeing how PART fits in with the WHOLE (context). Serving God and money (the abstraction of service) is impossible. It is quite absurd to serve service. "Serving service" reminds me of polytheistic pantheism. This would be the worship, and idolatry of abstraction itself. God is not abstraction. God is alive and I love getting to know Him.

H.R. 1 is a Bad Loan

I read a NY Time editorial yesterday that was unintelligent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/opinion/27herbert.html?em

Bob Herbert writes about the Dem. Congress and President Bush bailing out Wall Street:

The public was told that the money would be used to loosen the frozen credit markets and thus help revive the economy. But as the article pointed out, there were bankers with other ideas. John C. Hope III, the chairman of the Whitney National Bank in New Orleans, in an address to Wall Street fat cats gathered at the Palm Beach Ritz-Carlton, said:

“Make more loans? We’re not going to change our business model or our credit policies to accommodate the needs of the public sector as they see it to have us make more loans.”

How’s that for arrogance and contempt for the public interest? Mr. Hope’s bank received $300 million in taxpayer bailout money.

----What Bob Herbet is saying is....Make more bad loans because it's in the "public interest".

He's going to get his wish with the even more Dem. Congress and President Obama. The "public interest" this time is literal. The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" is a loan on the labor of the "public" and our children. I hope it's not a A.R.M. with a balloon payment.

Star Wars vs. Star Trek

-Star Wars (Theological Fantasy) Lucas developed (faith not in human ability)
-Star Trek (Technological Fiction) Rodenberry developed (faith in human ability)

Govt. vs. Citizen

My peers, you are cowards. Mockery, and perversion are your faith. Truth for you, lies in Comedy Central and internet porn. Your Mt. Dew stained teeth spew ignorant pop psycology. History is to be changed to suit present in your formless faith. You blame your parents divorces, your violent software, your chemical inbalances and most of all, God. It's time to mature. It's time to question Budweiser on their model of a MAN! It's time to question how free your children will be along our present course. Here are my thoughts today on government.

A mistake by a citizen can only be forgiven and go unprosecuted if the existence of the government isn't threatened by letting the citizen make the mistake.

How is the mistake defined?

-by the law.

What is law?

-documented, written down faith

What is faith?

-axioms, belief from which truth begins (for instance, "I am alive" is an axiom upon which truth is built).

Where does the law come from?

-from the citizens.

Wait....the government uses our own belief to prosecute us?

-Yes, unless you help form law.

How do I help form law?

1. by developing your own faith

2. by testing your personal law (snap shots of faith, privilege, our faith can change but at any one point of time it could be called religion. Personal anarchy leads to governmental anarchy. A state church disables the government from changing it's faith.)

3. by letting your representatives know where your faith rests.

My faith is not in government, religion, or law. My faith is that God limited Himself to provide an axiom which builds eternal truth. Law, religion, government, and all knowledge stem from this faith.

Based upon these thoughts, we are headed for serious instability of our government.

Speed of Human Thought

Human thoughts
wrong and fast
lead away
from that which lasts.

In other words, speed doesn't mater (pun intended...mater vs. matter).

Eviloution

It's my belief that Christians can help themselves out by investigating evolution. If we Christians are knowledgeable about environmental selection and biological processes we can better minister to humans who use the word "random" (defined as statistical independence)whenever they want to deny God's works (conditional independence).

This is from the title of contents of a January Scientific American I purchased recently for $5.99 in Hudson News at JFK airport:

"From Atoms to Traits: Random variations in organisms provide fodder for evolution. Modern scientists...."

If biologists would talk to computer scientists more (and they are) then the word random would fall out of biology's vocabulary like it has fallen out of Christian vocabulary.

When computer science has built a base 4 (instead of base 2), 500 petahertz processing (speed of human thought via Michio Kaku on The Screensavers), multicore, thermally stable (heat is the number 3 problem after viral infection and the Uncertainty Principle), 120 year waranty (the limit to our days..although 122 is the record during modern history), question asking (essential act of consiousness), free-willed (we can choose other than God's will), self-reproducing machine (as far as we can observe with the electron), that runs on the same stuff it's made out of (lipids, carbs, protein, and nucleic acids)....then biology will lose the word random.



Psalm 139

The Land of Lincoln (We are a republic.)

Debt is slavery. President-Elect Obama must get us out of debt (foreign first, then domestic). We'll see how the Lincoln vs. Obama comparison plays out. FDR, LBJ, and JFK seem much more analogous to BHO so far.

Freeing the slaves of today (those in debt) requires getting the slaves to apply meaning to our abstract currency. Unfortunately, it seems that the next administration wants us to save our money so that Govt. can spend it. This reduces its value and meaning to the citizen.

In my mind, the IRS (a non-profit org.) is the South. The local credit union (a not-for-profit org.) is the North.

Lincoln once said, "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. " The "last best hope of earth" is our exceptional CREDIT UNION THE U.S.A.

Those who pay no debt to the nation are more free than those of us who do. The tax payer and land owner are today's slave.

Obama seems to be no Lincoln. Obama shouldn't even want to be associated with Lincoln.

Freedom = the sum of individual right. Individual right is increased by privilege (private law). Freedom without borders offers no protection and stability. Liberty is an individual citizens ability to change governmental law/borders. So many of us sinners scream "GIVE ME LIBERTY!" when we are found to be outside the borders of freedom. An individuals call for liberty must be backed by their willingness to die for that call. This is where justice comes into play. Justice lies just outside freedom. God's justice is played out when His children call for liberty. Justice is the oposite of mercy. Mercy = not getting what you do deserve. Let's see if Congress and Obama have mercy upon the slaves.

In 2006, Citizens making above $31,987 (top 50%) paid 97.01% of income tax. Those below $31,987 (50%) paid 2.99%.

Infinitely Infinite is feel good crap.

My understanding of infinity is that it is a imaginative tool (much like the imaginary number...the square root of -1). It's a tool that either gives form (converging sum, and integral) or reveals a progression toward formlessness (diverging sum). In calculus, we let the key variable in a function approach infinity and the functions value is found. To imagine an infinite amount of something reveals how a part is equal to the whole. Imagining an infinite set of life forms reveals our place whitin the properties of life (the things science has determined alive things do).

After reading how to count infinities (George Gamow's 1,2,3 Infinity) I have a theory. An infinite number of infinite series isn't that much different than zero.

The ability to count infinities relies upon a 1 to 1 comparison of number sets. The number of real, whole numbers is one type of an infinite set. Comparing it to the number of all geometrical points on a line results in a realization that an infinite set of points (on a line) is above a set of whole numbers. The amount of points on a line is supersceeded by the amount of lines that you can draw (curved lines).

George Gamow's book points out that the human mind can't count past 3 infinite series. This is an old book so that might not still hold true today, but it has led me to think about an infinite number of infinites. This is where my mind finds a formless and unstructured set of nothing. This seems to be the number zero.

This makes me think of atheism. Atheists seems to believe in an infinite number of infinite sets thus making their faith formless. They will worship nothingness and claim that they aren't.

Let the set
of infinite sets
approach infinity
and what do you get?

A ruler like Nero
where meaning is zero
and god dies
in spite of his bet.

(god not capitalized because I'm refereing to Nero and Roman leaders insistance upon their status as gods. Nero commited suicide...a sign of sin being full grown)

The Way and The Light

I'm really wondering about what time is. I'm thinking it's nothing more than my relationship with God. When I use the words "nothing more than" it sounds like I'm downplaying the importance of a relationship with some anti-thing living in another dimension. Honeslty...I think I am. I actually see (minds eye) how the ever progessing human knowledge base leads toward an existence of the God portrayed in the christian canon (which one right? Yeah I know there are a few). This study I've undertaken really scares me. To actually believe there is a anti-something and only one of them who is 3 in 1 seems crazy to my former self. But, so far, I conclude it's true and I am fearful of God.