Monday, July 30, 2012

Self-Evident Truth: "The God Particle"

From the 18th Century (1776) Declaration of Independence:

Because (w)e hold these truths to be self-evident (i.e., “the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles” us):  Ithe unalterable security of "The God Particle" one of the "self-evident" truths for which “Governments are instituted among Men”?  If so;

What does it mean to us?

From National Geographic Magazine - The God Particle: At the Heart of All Matter:
  .  .  .  The universe is a tough nut to crack.
Go back a little more than a century to the late 1800s, and look at the field of physics: a mature science, and rather complacent. There were those who believed there wasn’t much more to do than smooth out some rough edges in nature’s plan. There was a sensible order to things, a clockwork universe governed by Newtonian forces, with atoms as the foundation of matter.  Atoms were indivisible by definition—the word comes from the Greek for “uncuttable.”  .  .  . 
Physics underwent one revolution after another. Einstein’s special theory of relativity (1905) begat the general theory of relativity (1915), and suddenly even such reliable concepts as absolute space and absolute time had been discarded in favor of a mind-boggling space-time fabric in which two events can never be said to be simultaneous. Matter bends space; space directs how matter moves. Light is both a particle and a wave. Energy and mass are inter- changeable. Reality is probabilistic and not deterministic: Einstein didn’t believe that God plays dice with the universe, but that became the scientific orthodoxy.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Biggest Banking Scandal The World Has Ever Seen

About the LIBOR, The Biggest Banking Scandal The World Has Ever Seen.

Saturday, July 07, 2012

The Newsroom

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Friday, July 06, 2012

SPLC's "Hatewatch" Plugs Sherman Institute

The following vitriol was published by the purveyors of "tolerance and diversity":
- Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center - http://www.splcenter.org/blog -

School for Scoundrels: Online ‘Patriot’ University Opens Doors

Posted By Leah Nelson On June 8, 2012 @ 3:54 pm In patriot | 29 Comments

Attention, students and lovers of learning: If you’ve been seeking an education with a “moral and nationalist perspective,” unencumbered by government censorship and “political correctness,” your search is finally over. The Roger Sherman Institute (RSI), a new and unusual institute of higher learning that presents a “‘spin’ on America” that “is distinctly nationalist, patriotic, biblical, and constitutional,” this week marked its “inaugural semester,” opening its virtual doors to aspiring scholars everywhere.

Founded in 2012 by an encyclopedia salesman, a movie stuntman, and a building inspector, RSI doesn’t teach “theoretical physics, double-entry accounting, or Freudian voodoo.” Instead, it offers courses on conspiracy theories, farm science and aquaculture, and “the sociotheosphere, where you can learn about historical battles between dominant religions and government.”

RSI was named after Roger Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer who served in the U.S. Senate in the 1790s and signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. According to the school’s website, Sherman was “a man of impeccable moral fibre” with an “absolute hatred of paper money,” who “walked to the beat of a vastly different drummer than those who occupy modern Wall Street and Washington, D.C.”

(Prospective theology students who fear the name of the institute is “some form of man-centric idolatry” are told to “take heart. He can be an example to others, in much the same way as any of the Apostles or Reformers now have Seminaries named for their achievements. We do not think him a ‘saint’ in any way. Those decisions are left to the Ultimate Judge of us all.”)  .  .  .  More .  .  . 

* * * The following "comment" was submitted by me to SPLC +/- Noon on 7/5/12 * * *

For whom - and from what - did the 56 educated men who signed the Declaration of Independence declare their "Independence"?

How is it there is no transitional word connecting the thought of the first paragraph with the thought in the second? Is not a new paragraph a new thought?

Knowing that they were dissolving their "political bands"; i.e., their corporate "charters" with their former potentates who "created" the colonies, shouldn't these learned English speaking men - men (and women) like you - have inserted a transitional word to show a logical connection between the "God" of the first paragraph and the "Creator" in the second?

Was this oversight deliberate?

Because there is to be "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind"; do you, the reader, have an opinion as to what the transitional word in this revered Declaration of Independence should be? If so, shouldn’t it be stated?

The following list of transitional words is from an Indiana University tutorial on "Writing" (http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/paragraphs.shtml). I offer this list to refresh the readers' memory about using " ... transition words or phrases between sentences and between paragraphs"; a skill (presumably) well developed in each of the learned English speaking signers of the founding documents of the several states as they became united. The following transition words (copied from the linked “indiana.edu” site) are recommended:

- To show addition: again, and, also, besides, equally important, first (second, etc.), further, furthermore, in addition, in the first place, moreover, next, too
- To give examples: for example, for instance, in fact, specifically, that is, to illustrate
- To compare: also, in the same manner, likewise, similarly
- To contrast: although, and yet, at the same time, but, despite, even though, however, in contrast, in spite of, nevertheless, on the contrary, on the other hand, still, though, yet
- To summarize or conclude: all in all, in conclusion, in other words, in short, in summary, on the whole, that is, therefore, to sum up
- To show time: after, afterward, as, as long as, as soon as, at last, before, during, earlier, finally, formerly, immediately, later, meanwhile, next, since, shortly, subsequently, then, thereafter, until, when, while
- To show place or direction: above, below, beyond, close, elsewhere, farther on, here, nearby, opposite, to the left (north, etc.)
- To indicate logical relationship: accordingly, as a result, because, consequently, for this reason, hence, if, otherwise, since, so, then, therefore, thus

Perhaps it's time for positional name-calling to cease and this apparently clever (and I believe deliberate) oversight to include a transitional word at the beginning of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence be once-and-for-all corrected. Therefore, given the obvious return of our nation into the feudalistic Form of governance from whence many came; the transitional words "Because", "Therefore", "Although", or "While" seem (to me) most obvious. The former two transitional words (“Because” and “Therefore”) imply a government that secures the economic and property Rights that were endowed by the omniscient and omnipotent “God” of the first paragraph; the latter two (“Although” and “While”) imply a government that secures economic and property Rights only to those who have been contractually endowed by their oligarchic “Creator”. Because, in a democratic process, there is to be "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind", in this generation, what transition word accurately identifies the Form of government we believe ourselves to have been given? What transitional word accurately identifies the Form of government that has evolved?

 * * * First-hand information about Sherman Institute is at Sherman Institute. * * *

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

What Word is Missing From the Declaration of Independence?

For whom - and from what - did the 56 educated men who signed the Declaration of Independence declare their "Independence"?  How is it there is no transitional word connecting the thought of the first paragraph with the thought in the second?  Is not a new paragraph a new thought?

Knowing that they were dissolving their "political bands"; i.e., their corporate "charters" with their former potentates who "created" the colonies, shouldn't these learned English speaking men have inserted a transitional word (perhaps; "Because", "Therefore", "Although", or "While") to show a logical connection between the "God" of the first paragraph and the "Creator" in the second?

Was this oversight deliberate?

Because there is to be "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind"; do you, the reader, have an opinion as to what the transitional word in this revered Declaration of Independence should be?

Here's the first, and beginning of the second, paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. What word would you put as the first word of the second paragraph?
 
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"(Because) (Therefore) (Although) (While) (________) (w)e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, . . . "

Given recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and the evolutionary dismantling of what we, the people, were led to believe was a government "under GOD", it may be time for the "opinions of mankind" to be respected.   Maybe (if enough of us render our opinion) the Supreme Court will render a decision in this matter and provide to us "full disclosure" of our true form of government.
 
Again;

Begin the second paragraph with the transitional word (for instance) "Although"? And, then again, with the transitional word "Because"? Which word best transitions the "truths" of the first paragraph with why "Governments are instituted among Men"?

Remember; the colonies were "chartered"; i.e., "brought forth" or "Created". 

Therefore; "Although" these men may have held the "truths" of the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence to be "self-evident" they, nevertheless, may have deliberately omitted a transitional word (e.g., "Because") to let this new Form of government; i.e., (as I understand it to be per Art IV, Sec 4) a republican Form of government (with a democratic process) develop.

Do you suppose Benjamin Franklin may have been thinking of the deliberate omission of the transitional word of the second paragraph when he said to the woman who asked him, 'What form of government have you given us?'; "A republic, Madam; if you can keep it"?