MooPig Cosmology and Time Department :: Introducing "Civitas Humana..."

Time to get Serious?
Mixed Mashed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 9, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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Why do teachers, such as ministers, teach Metaphysics to people who can't even understand Physics? A teacher might say to a child, "Every time a bell rings an Angel gets her wings." Angels, bells, ... eh?

Time is quantifiable only if one cannot see the future nor recapture the past. We as humans see time as a axis in the dimensions of physics, stretching out linear. In nature there are living things that might be able to see past/present/future simultaneously. Not a far-fetched idea, but very basic to being human. Toying with timelines causes confusion.

What would be some of those life forms on earth that might see time differently? It is reported that lobsters never grow old, they live on and on. At least Al Sears, MD, said this:

"...They [lobsters] only die if they get eaten or injured from a predator, or get a rare disease, but never from old age. They don’t have a built-in life expectancy in their cells (Sears, Al. 01/2014. LINK)..."

And the Smithsonian claims:

"...So what would be a natural death for lobsters?
According to Carl Wilson, lead lobster biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources, between 10 and 15 percent of lobsters die naturally each year as they shed their exoskeletons because the exertion proves to be too much. Each molting process requires more and more energy than the one before it as lobsters grow in size (Marina Koren. JUNE 3, 2013. LINK)..."

Can't you just feel the welling up of a good molting, dear reader? In nature, live things change in shape and in form during their lifetimes. Our journey through time involves each of us changing from one form to another in almost supernatural ways. Can you explain to me the hollow ball of cells called a blastula in human reproduction. Eh?

I didn't think so.

Ah, heck discuss among yourself these too:  Fetus Morula Embryo Zygote Blastocyst Neonate... and put them in correct order according to time.

The part left out of the Books of Enoch, and other books of wisdom, includes explaining the life force of reproduction that is so dominate in all life forms... and probably explains a lot of the confusion about our cosmos too.

We tend to talk about what is observable. That makes sense. But we cannot, as previously noted, observe our past/present/future all at the same time. Here one blogger examines ...

Cosmology and Time in Metaphysical Naturalism | Civitas Humana: "For the next part of my series about the ‘metaphysics’ in metaphysical naturalism I will be analyzing how modern scientific theories about cosmology fit in to the naturalist worldview. Since I am not a professional scientist, I will be quoting authorities for all critical information. The purpose of this article is more philosophical than scientific, in that it does not seek to advance a particular scientific theory, but rather to demonstrate how modern cosmological theories align with the definition of metaphysical naturalism discussed earlier in this series (ADVERSUSAPOLOGETICA.
MAY 21, 2014. LINK)... "
'via Blog this'

"...The study of cosmology has a long history (see here), but since around the end of the 20th century scientists have reached a generally cohesive view of what our universe looks like. The observable universe that we live in is a sphere with a radius of about 46 billion lightyears. Beyond that the unobservable universe is much larger, and is still inflating rapidly. Within this observable part of the universe alone there are at least 100 billion galaxies (and possibly 500 billion galaxies in the whole universe), and, if modern observational estimates among astronomers are correct about there being 17 billion Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, then the rest of the universe no doubt contains many, many more (ibid. ADVERSUSAPOLOGETICA)..."

SUMMARY
Naturalism is a closed system, that can be observed in methodology, or not observable because of metaphysical [supernatural] causes. Scientific observation does not deal with "metaphysical" occurrence.

Stages of life are observable, but why they are observable depends on a time frame. Pat/Present/Future defines us and lobsters, and every living thing in the universe.

To experience supernatural stimuli, we humans must change from our current mental state of living in the ever-present linear time frame, to another form that can see past/present/future simultaneously. This could explain the reason for death.

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_________________________Reference
http://civitashumana.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/cosmology-and-time-in-metaphysical-naturalism/
http://www.alsearsmd.com/2014/01/lobsters-and-telomeres/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dont-listen-to-the-buzz-lobsters-arent-actually-immortal-88450872/#xdH3cB8Ti2c0GSA4.99
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec01.html
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/10/27/how-big-is-the-unobservable-un/
http://www.physics.org/facts/sand-galaxies.asp
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/500-billion-a-universe-of-galaxies-some-older-than-milky-way.html
http://www.space.com/19157-billions-earth-size-alien-planets-aas221.html
http://civitashumana.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/defining-the-natural-in-metaphysical-naturalism/
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

MooPig's Wisdom: Plain Speaking

Today's Slice of Wisdom Pie
by Wisdom Division of MooPig and Dez

...the Moral:

Jam makes your hands sticky.

...the Lesson:

That's the reason we like metaphors so much: we don't know how to say the truth anymore.

[Art by Dez; Hearts and Stars]

UPDATE: Vacationing Like the Kennedy's

If you have been taught only to focus on the assasination of JFK, you might want to revise your historical perspective !! There is a much bigger picture that like a jigsaw puzzle might take a lifetime to understand.

The key to this Regime lies somewhere in this mysterious dissapperance in WWII:
"Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the man who would be president. His father dreamed of the day when he would become the first Irish Catholic President of the United States. In 1944 he signed on for a second tour and in July volunteered for a special attack unit secret mission to knock out Hitler's V-1 rockets.
"Project Anvil involved using explosive-filled bombers which were piloted part way to their target, and after the pilot bailed out, were then guided by radio control to smash into German submarine pens or rocket-launching sites. On August 12, Joe Kennedy's plane exploded shortly after takeoff, killing him and his co-pilot instantly. Project Anvil was so secret the Kennedy family was told few details."

...and in the news yesterday the hospital visit by Teddy Kennedy:

"Kennedy is the last son from his generation of a famed political family. When older brother John F. Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, Ted Kennedy stepped into his Senate seat, and has held it since.

Sen. Kennedy Recovers After Seizure
By GLEN JOHNSON,
Posted: 2008-05-17 19:47:11

In this photo from 1960, Ted Kennedy is seated to the right; brothers John and Robert are standing, center.

In the Kennedy's youth is a unique relationship of sons and fathers, mothers and daughters.

For instance Fathers of the sixties have a unique tool called "master plan."

Let me explain. JFK was elected for reasons set in motion by his wondrous Dad, many years before Jack was even walking. Joseph Kennedy had a "master plan" on his children, and it came to pass.

It so influenced the nation of post WWII working class, I found myself part of that "Kennedy Master Plan." Happily it was not one of those "mein Kampf" plans, rather a plan of free-thinking and free association to the ideal of USA all the Way! It was party time, I believe; our fathers' responses to interruption of their youths, lives mucked up by dipshit Hitler brought on with his boyscout bullshit...

Photo: I remember my and all my friends' dads thought they were only two situps from dating this woman------}

What a sad lot we are: I am not complaining, and not whining: I am here to report on the long term result of Kennedy regime.

Every politician has compared himself and herself shamelessly to JFK every since the Jackie Lee Bouvier days.

Yes even Nixon said: "I'm not a crook... " could be a throw back to Joe Kennedy's rum runner days.. who might have said 'I'm not a crook' as well while his master planned kingdom developed in the first part of last century.

Was Joseph Kennedy really a Rum Runner?

"Joseph Kennedy, son of Irish Catholic immigrants and patriarch of the infamous Kennedy family was a client of Rocco Perri’s.

(retrieved from 100 Years of Wooden Glory - The Rum Runners Lavida Lifestyle - September 2007 )

"Joseph Kennedy, who was most recognizable as the father of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, became affectionately known as a “Baptist Bootlegger”.

"By the mid 1920’s the Volstead Act was being reviewed by his allies in the American Government with a view to repealing it, but Kennedy was making so much money while prohibition was in existence, that he secretly aligned himself with Temperance Movement supporters in an effort to keep prohibition in place.

"With a certain degree of control at that point and insider information during the prohibition period, he positioned himself as the sole import agent of several brands of alcohol, purchasing millions of dollars worth of stock. The day prohibition ended in 1933 his company re-sold the stock legally making tens of millions of dollars of profit.

"While subversively controlling the distribution of illegal alcohol during prohibition, Kennedy disguised his activities as the legitimate owner of an investment firm, trading in the largely unregulated stock market.

"In what would be considered highly illegal by today’s governance of the stock exchange, Joseph Kennedy manipulated the stock values of companies in cooperation with a pool of investors up or down depending on the position of the pool at the time.

"In 1928 Kennedy pulled hundreds of millions of dollars out of the markets just prior to the market crash of 1929 and then subsequently made a secondary fortune on his short positions.

"In the early 1930’s Joseph Kennedy funded the election of President Theodore Roosevelt who made him Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, closing the door behind him to anyone else intent on amassing a fortune in illegal trading practices.

In the long term Roosevelt helped groom Joseph’s eldest son Robert Kennedy for the White House job, until his assassination on the campaign trail some time after. Later, Joseph Kennedy would live the Presidency vicariously through his second son John F. Kennedy who was elected in 1961 and subsequently assassinated in 1963." (retrieved from 100 Years of Wooden Glory - The Rum Runners Lavida Lifestyle - September 2007 )

"With the significant connections Rocco Perri and Bessie Starkman had made from the eastern seaboard of the United States through to the mid-west, the trafficking of heroin and morphine ran alongside the sale of illegal alcohol through an established network in all major U.S. cities." ( Lavida Lifestyle - September 2007 )

Summary [sort of]

Okay, so the last of the Catholic cowboy Kennedy's is up for health and prosperity review. Poor Edward Kennedy is having to unbutton his button-down collar to allow some blood to get to his head.

"Hey, Teddy, I know what it's like," says MooPig, who can't button anything anymore.

Besides his dip in the icy waters, his legacy might be: "No one tried to kill me, yet" oldest legislator in House, second only to some unknown Senator. [Gee I hope it's not McCain they're saying is older.]

I know it is low to pick on a man when he is down, but that doesn't stop Randy Couture. Tonight I feel like a little ground and pound; as I know pundits are reading my stuff, because it keeps showing up on talk shows. So you guys too, I want to ground and pound... some day. We have a date in the Octagon, eh, Pundits?

Now in hopes my own Dad does not take too much issue, I remember at 8 years old I knew I was psychic. You see my dear Dad was so in tune with JFK that I too knew the exact moment JFK was killed. I stood up in Mrs Bickman's 3rd grade class and said: "Did the President get killed?" She hustled me out in the hall, and said, "How do you know that?"

In conclusion today: Potato Famine; Rum Running; Vacationing

Here is the "Master Plan" as it is understood by me -- "Work hard all year, and take a well earned vacation with your family, that involves kid's athletic prowess: Revelation !!"

Because tomorrow might bring another potato famine, and our service-based work-force might have to learn to use its hands.

I truly believe we live in the past in "goddamn the USA," [Rev Wright, 2008] as direct response to the bad times spanning 1840 to 1940 --

"Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country.

"Ireland in the mid-1800s was an agricultural nation, populated by eight million persons who were among the poorest people in the Western World. Only about a quarter of the population could read and write. Life expectancy was short, just 40 years for men. The Irish married quite young, girls at 16, boys at 17 or 18, and tended to have large families, although infant mortality was also quite high." (Retrieved 17/May/08: from History Place)

Therefore, if your old man's master plan is in its third level of completion -- after fleeing the potato famine, and making illicit millions of dollars -- you too can Vacation Like the Kennedy's !!!

...But be careful you might become target practice for some unforgiving clansmen with long memories and no written history.

1946: G.O. -- Please Don't say Orwellian

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist.

Dear Writers: Honestly, to where did I arrive after all those hours of learning English? The present age of dying metaphors, and pretentious diction of acronyms and style was predicted by George Orwell, in 1946. Broadcaster: BBC 2 George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
Distributor: BBC Worldwide
Completion Date: 2003

George Orwell, 1903 - 1950
(excerpt)...Dying metaphors. A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g. iron resolution ) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

Examples are: bring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles' heel, swan song, hotbed .

Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning (what is a "rift," for instance?), and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning withouth those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line .

Another example is the hammer and the anvil , now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase.


Operators or verbal false limbs. These save the trouble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns, and at the same time pad each sentence with extra syllables which give it an appearance of symmetry. Characteristic phrases are render inoperative, militate against, make contact with, be subjected to, give rise to, give grounds for, have the effect of, play a leading part (role) in, make itself felt, take effect, exhibit a tendency to, serve the purpose of, etc.,etc .

The keynote is the elimination of simple verbs. Instead of being a single word, such as break, stop, spoil, mend, kill , a verb becomes a phrase , made up of a noun or adjective tacked on to some general-purpose verb such as prove, serve, form, play, render . In addition, the passive voice is wherever possible used in preference to the active, and noun constructions are used instead of gerunds (by examination of instead of by examining ).

The range of verbs is further cut down by means of the -ize and de- formations, and the banal statements are given an appearance of profundity by means of the not un- formation. Simple conjunctions and prepositions are replaced by such phrases as with respect to, having regard to, the fact that, by dint of, in view of, in the interests of, on the hypothesis that ; and the ends of sentences are saved by anticlimax by such resounding commonplaces as greatly to be desired, cannot be left out of account, a development to be expected in the near future, deserving of serious consideration, brought to a satisfactory conclusion , and so on and so forth.


Pretentious diction. Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate , are used to dress up a simple statement and give an aire of scientific impartiality to biased judgements.

Adjectives like epoch-making, epic, historic, unforgettable, triumphant, age-old, inevitable, inexorable, veritable , are used to dignify the sordid process of international politics, while writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes on an archaic color, its characteristic words being: realm, throne, chariot, mailed fist, trident, sword, shield, buckler, banner, jackboot, clarion . Foreign words and expressions such as cul de sac, ancien reacutgime, deus ex machina, mutatis mutandis, status quo, gleichschaltung, weltanschauung , are used to give an air of culture and elegance.

Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g. , and etc. , there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language. Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous , and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers.

The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (hyena, hangman, cannibal, petty bourgeois, these gentry, lackey, flunkey, mad dog, White Guard , etc.) consists largely of words translated from Russian, German, or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the size formation.

It is often easier to make up words of this kind (deregionalize, impermissible, extramarital, non-fragmentary and so forth) than to think up the English words that will cover one's meaning. The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness!

Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one's meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations. Afterward one can choose -- not simply accept -- the phrases that will best cover the meaning, and then switch round and decide what impressions one's words are likely to mak on another person. This last effort of the mind cuts out all stale or mixed images, all prefabricated phrases, needless repetitions, and humbug and vagueness generally. But one can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.


• Never us a long word where a short one will do.


• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.


• Never use the passive where you can use the active.


• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.


• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell
1946
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

G.O.'s Conclusion: "One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs." Yes I have a recycle bin on my desktop! >>PD