Colbert: On the fourteen-point pledge [political] candidates have to first vow “Personal fidelity to my spouse.” That is essential for candidates to have to swear to that one…cus that vow they said at their wedding?….BULLSH#T!
For the July 12, 2011 episode in its hilarity, click on his picture. His guest is sex-columnist Dan Savage discussing marriage and monogamy! Do not miss it!
The Five Nations International Space Station with docked NASA Shuttle
In Celebration of the Shuttle Program’s Last Flight
Once bitter rivals during the Cold War, in 1992 Russia and the United States decided to put aside their historical differences and nuclear weapons and begin a collaborative effort in space exploration for the benefit of humanity. Over the last ten years the International Space Station has been crewed by astronauts from over 23 different nations all working side-by-side toward the understanding of geo-orbital life and eventually the human colonization of space. The ISS and its multi-national crews, supporting staffs in five different countries, and national agencies, as well as private international corporations and investors show beautifully that humanity can indeed exist not only in peace, but as brothers and sisters toward common goals; yes, even from a planet sometimes gripped by hate, separatism, elitism, and death to each other. The ISS is truly one of mankind’s greatest beacons of hope, brilliance, and inspirations. Perhaps a large neon sign could be placed on the station’s exterior that lights up:
Welcome to our new home!We are human beings from the planet Earth.How may we serve each other?
The U.S. Defense budget, however needed, is one of our nation’s most largest budgets and dwarfs the NASA budget. The same is likely true for other first and second-world nations. Enjoy this following NASA video of human collaboration in its most magnificent form and imagine if you will what is possible if all people and all nations, no matter what their origin, gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, if MORE unified efforts were made preparing and accomplishing for human survival on an environmentally unstable challenged planet. The ISS proves it is more than just possible!
If you would like to watch the ISS or NASA Shuttle across your sky, here is the link to find what dates, times, and elevation you will be able to spot them. Click here. You must be early and know somewhat precisely where to look because they are traveling so fast the viewing window is only about 2-5 minutes before they disappear over the horizon!
L to R: Samuel, Rachel, mother Vicki and Sara Weaver
On August 21, 1992 Samuel Weaver and his father Randy Weaver along with partially adopted Kevin Harris walk out of their remote Idaho cabin on Ruby Ridge to see why the family dog was barking incessantly. Suspecting there was an animal that “Striker” had sniffed out, Sam, Kevin, and Randy take their rifles to investigate. Daughter and sister, Sara Weaver remained in the house with her mother Vicki, little sister Rachel, and infant sister Elisheba. Minutes later several rifle shots rung out. When Randy and Kevin returned to the house stunned, they informed Vicki and the girls that little Samuel was dead and they needed to go retrieve his body. Striker, the Labrador retriever had also been shot dead. Harris and Randy were unaware that one of Kevin’s three fired bullets had killed U.S. Marshall William Degan when bullets from everywhere were flying.
Weaver cabin front door
About 15 minutes had passed. Randy, Vicki, and Kevin Harris picked up Samuel’s limp body where he had fallen and stored it in a nearby shed next to their cabin so not to traumatize the girls. Hours later the Weaver’s wanted to view Samuel’s body, pray over it and decide how to bury him. Father Randy, daughter Sara, and Kevin walked out of the cabin toward the small shed which held the body; all of them carrying rifles. Suddenly another shot rang out and Randy Weaver heaped over and screamed for Vicki. All three of them turned and ran quickly back to the cabin’s front door. Hearing the gun shot and Randy’s pain, Vicki Weaver ran to the front door, clasping baby Elisheba to her chest, holding the door open for their refuge. As Harris was approaching the doorway, another rifle shot rang out. The high-powered bullet shattered the door’s window pane, passed through Vicki’s head barely missing the baby, then penetrating Harris’ left arm and chest. Vicki dropped to her knees still holding Elisheba, moaned in agony for about 20 seconds uttering “Yahweh” a few times, and collapsed. Writhing from their gaping wounds, Randy and Kevin managed to get back over to Vicki’s body but she was dead. Her face was unrecognizable. This caused Mr. Weaver and all his daughters to sob uncontrollably.
At the end of the day a 14-year old boy, a Federal Marshall, and a mother lay dead. All deaths were certainly unnecessary and beyond a shadow of a doubt quite avoidable. But my first two paragraphs do not tell the entire story from all possible angles. There is no need for my decades late report of these well-known events. The facts of the Ruby Ridge siege — aside from Kevin Harris’ testimony of the first events with Samuel and Striker — are available to the public in many forms all portraying slight variations of what took place and how. Ultimately the case made for Randy Weaver against the U.S. Federal agencies by defense attorney Gerry Spence was the correct verdict. It is also well publicized that the Federal agencies and on-sight special agents clearly did not “serve and protect” according to their duties and the U.S. Constitution. However, due to the overshadowing Federal agencies glaring wrong-doings, there is another aspect of this tragedy that has not been given much consideration.
Weaver’s weapons cache from inside the cabin
The fuse to this ticking time-bomb in August 1992 had been lit and set in motion days, months, and perhaps years earlier by Mr. and Mrs. Weaver. First, what type of gun safety had been taught to a 14-year old boy and 16-year old girl and when did it start? Was the sanctity of human life taught to this boy and if so, why did the boy fire multiple shots at a person he had no clue who they were OR if they had actually shot his dog (intentionally or by accident), and when multiple rifles are everywhere outside AND inside the Weaver cabin?
Secondly, if one argues the heat-of-the-moment or fog-of-war scenario for an immature scared 14-year old boy, then why was he toting a loaded rifle in the first place? That is the perfect reason not to arm little boys and girls EVER…even if Striker had found a furious animal! Yet, Samuel didn’t stumble upon an animal, he came armed and within 10-feet of a U.S. Marshall. Also, Randy Weaver had increasing run-ins with Federal law-enforcement and agencies, each time becoming more threatening and short-tempered with their authority. Surely being a former Army Green Beret he could have anticipated more tactical pressure from his self-perceived enemies? With that said, arming his 14-year old son and 16-year old daughter sounds eerily reminiscent of Hitler’s SS youth. Coincidentally, Randy Weaver then and to this day hints or speaks derogatory about non-caucasian ethnic groups.
Finally, Vicki Weaver and Randall Weaver had both grown more and more angry with their surrounding church members, friends, and American society and government for becoming in their eyes weak-willed complacent Christians in a hell-bound world. In the years leading up to August 1992, Randy and Vicki separated themselves and their kids (home schooled in strict biblical customs) from mainstream society. In fact, by 1978 Vicki Weaver had begun studying and embracing the Amish-Mennonite separatist self-sustaining way of life. I recently wrote a blog about the Amish and all extreme separatist groups in America and around the world: Collaborative Ineptitude. Having studied over two years in a theological seminary learning the “Protestant” Old and New Testaments backwards and forwards, what has often astonished me about hyper-separatist groups/denominations are how the theme of reconciliation as lived and taught by Jesus/Yeshua (according strictly to the canonical Gospels) is ignored or overlooked by separatist. The canonical Gospels clearly show Jesus/Yeshua spent a large majority of his ministry in and among the social outcasts, diseased, unclean, and unGodly! What Vicki and Randy Weaver also failed to recognize was that most Amish do not tote around one, two, or three guns per person, much less own them. Ironically, Yeshua had more problems with the Jewish-Zealots (ancient Jerusalem’s version of modern religious militants) than he did with moderate Jews and Gentiles.
In 1992 and today it is a common statistic that most personally owned guns end up hurting or fatally wounding those in the home, not criminals or hyper-perceived apocalyptic enemies. In later interviews on the Ruby Ridge tragedy, Sara Weaver often comments about how utterly alien the “outside world” was for her when she was sent to extended family members during her father’s trial. She adds how very ill-prepared she was to cope with the hell-bound world along with the tragic death of her mother and little brother! Now married and a mother herself, Sara does not speak fondly about a life of isolation; understandably so. Sara Weaver is now an active advocate for compassion and forgiveness.
I remind readers that what the Federal agencies and their agents did at the Weaver’s cabin was entirely wrong and unnecessary. Obviously so in light of Waco and the Koresh compound. Worse still, with similar anger as Randy Weaver, Timothy McVeigh used Ruby Ridge and Waco as his battle cry to justify killing 168 innocent people in his Oklahoma City bombing, 19 of which were just as young or younger as Samuel Weaver.
In light of Ruby Ridge and Waco, I hope Americans realize that hateful separatism, stockpiles of weapons, or violence — in the absence of relentless informed diplomacy — is always and will be unimaginably bloodier, even sacrificial of children for a cause their little minds can’t fully comprehend. When religion becomes militant the distinction between “righteous” and say Islāmic terrorists flying jet-liners into skyscrapers becomes so blurred it’s impossible for any sane person to become inspired to civil reform. I hope Randy Weaver has grasped the big picture, now that it is too late. Something is terribly wrong when we are arming boys and girls that are barely teenagers.
I will attempt to put in simple terms (from my blog Connectivity — Part 2) what Quantum Superposition, Entanglement, and Bose-Einstein Condensates mean to the average person on the streets. At least that is my hope. My apologies if I am unsuccessful, but in my brain and soul what is taking place in the fields of paranormal investigations within law-enforcement, as well as research by investigators at haunted locations around the world, the gap between Quantum Field physicists and their remarkable discoveries, and that of common “ghost” investigators…is closing with every passing year. This is most exciting! What pleases me more is that it is being done without religious orthodoxy — indeed it cannot be done within the confines of traditional religious orthodoxy. Creativity and discovery — one of mankind’s most powerful gifts — cannot be realized when a system of conformity forbids it. Breaking free from centuries of stifling religious chains-of-superstition, Nobel Prize scientists and research are making exciting progress! Indeed, they are unlocking The Nature of the Universe!
Through these following short videos I will point out one spectrum of uniformity — in Quantum Mechanics called the Unified Field — that is not visible to our naked eye, but is quite real nonetheless.
Sub-atomic particles can never be destroyed or reduced into nothingness according to the classical Law of Conservation of Matter. Objects merely change form after certain chemical or nuclear reactions in a closed or sealed air-tight system. From the studies of modern chemistry and physics came nuclear physics: the nature, interaction, and building blocks of atomic nuclei. Beginning at the nuclear and atomic levels, scientists have developed laws and theories explaining why and how the nature of life behaves. The two videos you just watched showed that by some seemingly invisible force, particles moved or joined into intelligent symmetrical and elliptical shapes based on the intensity or energy created.
It is well-known how easily electric currents travel through water. Sound travels through water the same way. What is probably less understood is how any type of energy transports from one point to another. But first, what is going on with sound? Sound is a mechanical wave form resulting from disturbed atomic particles vibrating back and forth within some type of solid, liquid, or gas medium. The human ear can audibly detect these waves only within a specific frequency range of 20 Hz – 20,000 Hz (pitch resolution), also determined by intensity (expressed in decibel), and atmospheric pressure (expressed in vibrations of one-tenth of an atomic diameter). Frequencies below 20 Hz are usually felt and not heard if the number of disturbed atomic particles are large enough (amplitude). Frequencies above 20,000 Hz can sometimes be detected by infants, toddlers, or young children due to their youthful uncontaminated eardrums. Much of what we perceive through our senses, e.g. sight, sound, touch, even smell, is vibrational movement or disturbance that our senses capture.
Frequency Wavelength Chart – Click to enlarge
Even though our ears and eyes are very sensitive to nature’s waveforms, we actually perceive a very tiny range of the full spectrum of known vibrations; or that is to say, the full range of disturbances in atomic particles generated by forces of energy. Light travels on the electromagnetic spectrum; a much larger range of frequencies (see Frequency Chart) than our sound range. As you can see in the Frequency Chart, our senses are only able to perceive vibrations between 34,000 and 64,000 waves to the inch. Detecting other vibrations outside this range requires special high-tech equipment like FLIR cameras (Forward Looking InfraRed) or electromagnetic indicators (e.g. EMF detector) that are capable of taking us and our perceived world and glimpse the Aethericworld. But are machines the only means into the aetheric? Was there an aetheric vibrating world in existence prior to our technological advances? Have vibrational disturbances through mediums such as solids, liquids, and gases, even vacuums been taking place all along on higher and lower frequencies our eyes, ears, skin, and noses are not attuned to?
Nuclear physics and Quantum mechanics are showing compellingly that the entire Universe is indeed one massive medium with vibrations going on simultaneously (Entanglement) on all frequencies all the time. On the subatomic level, electrons, protons, and neutrons are constantly interacting. Some repel each other, some attract each other to form a new molecule, and some coexist. And the space between these interacting or disturbed particles is on a 10 to the minus 8 centimeters scale; plenty of space for wild interactions! These nonstop interactions are taking place now, even between objects, and have done so since the birth of the Universe. Our human bodies exist in only one small part of the true full spectrum of Inner space (the nuclear level) and Outer space. But every bit of it connects. With that said, what does it also say about the potential of our human brain? Or better yet, what does it mean for a soul? The following video clip Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, airing on the Science Channel, explains how our thoughts influence our immediate space around us and into the eternal memory bank of the Universe.
The third video clip postulated water having memory. If that is true as Quantum science is supporting, what does it imply about the air around us as shown in the first two video clips? And given that no nuclear particle is ever completely destroyed into nothingness, how does a perpetual infinite memory bank impact those around us? On other frequencies beyond our very limited powers of observation, how much is seen or not seen, and remembered, forever? What if even our most secret thoughts were secret in illusion only, but available to anyone at anytime, including as it is happening? That approaches pre-detection or recognitions doesn’t it? That is essentially what Quantum physicists call Superposition…as I understand it. Since vibrations cause movement, and on the atomic and nuclear scales movement causes energy and temperatures, now is good time to explain Bose-Einstein Condensates.
Most of us know that when certain gas molecules join together forming a liquid, it is called condensation. For example with a frosted mug placed on the table, eventually a wet ring forms at the base; it happens because energy in the surrounding warm air is lost. Gases are very excited energized atoms. Liquids are less energized and solids are the least energized with only electronic movement within the atoms. Bose-Einstein Condensates represent the congealing of very cold atomic particles right before absolute zero (Kelvin scale) stops everything; or that is to say a group of atoms take up the same space with all the same qualities forming a super atom.
It may still seem abstract at this point but what modern physics has revealed is that beyond our classical Newtonian-Empedoclesian laws of nature, those laws completely collapse on the atomic and subatomic levels. Over that threshold an entirely different world of laws exist. And don’t be too hasty to slap a catch-all title to that Aether world. When I say the ancient laws of nature completely collapse, included are most of the ancient myths of all the world’s religions.
What has our return to physics class told us? In the brief time that I have probably crudely explained over this post and the previous two posts on Connectivity, one point needs understanding: our human body, our brain, our soul are very much connected not only with our immediate surroundings but equally so with this planet, everyone on it, and this Universe. Space or time does not separate our existence from anyone or anything. Think about that for a moment.
Before moving on to my next blog on Connectivity — The New Paradigm, the following video clip can perhaps put everything in a more understandable framework. It is from the 2004 series What the Bleep Do We Know – Down the Rabbit Hole.
Even a 1-degree shift causes desolation and ice ages
Geophysicists and astrophysicists are in common agreement: Earth is in a very fragile state of ecological homeostasis. Geo and astroscientists as well as archaeologists know that the Sahara Desert was once a lush green oasis just 6,000 years ago until the earth’s axis moved less than one degree closer to the sun. This was no surprise to scientists. Our planetary wobble (or axial obliquity in scientific terms) happens about every 41,000 years in conjunction with other variations such as Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbital gravitational forces onto earth, or shifts down in earth’s molten core resulting in major earthquakes. Earth’s axis is in perpetual flux moving ever so slightly over centuries. It is currently at 23.44 degrees and decreasing, nearing the end of another 41,000 year cycle. Unfortunately, axial obliquity and tectonic plate shifting have catastrophic effects often coupled with mass extinctions of species.
New York City after sea levels rise just 70 meters
As our protective atmosphere continues to gain more CO2 (carbon dioxide) from humans burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil making the surface more susceptible to the sun’s heat and radiation, melting the polar ice caps and pushing sea levels up over one foot per century, the homeostasis is disrupted more. Again, scientists are in agreement that by the next two or three centuries the earth’s sea levels will rise between 230 – 250 feet. Metropolitan areas such as London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New Orleans will all be under water. These alarming facts are not at all apocalyptic prophecy fulfilled or the coming of some miraculous rapture. This has been simple cold hard science beginning around the First World War and today in geophysical and astrophysical communities is well-known. Earth and the solar system she belongs has always been going through violent changes. It is not a question of if or ever, but when. The more critical question is… How are we as simple human beings going to manage together the cataclysmic threats to the human race?
Five Amish teens experience “the Devil’s world”
Religious, ethnic, gender, or racial separatism will most certainly fail, and fail miserably. In the coming two centuries those four global and social discords will be mankind’s greatest challenge. How mammoth are these challenges? Regarding religious separatism, National Geographic recently aired a documentary called Amish On Break where five Amish 16 year olds take for the first time in their lives a four-week excursion outside their ultra-sheltered communities and over to Great Britain. It airs again Monday, June 27, 2011 on the National Geographic Channel. If you would like to watch a 3:35 video clip, click here.
What was most astonishing in the 1-hour episode was how naïve these teenagers were of the outside world’s real hardships or achievements. On one occasion the five sat in one of their British host’s school classrooms. The teacher read a quote from the U.S. Constitution, written of course by Thomas Jefferson, saying “We 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.” He tried to engage the American Amish boys in the meaning and impact of those words, but they had no idea what the U.S. Constitution represented nor who Thomas Jefferson might have been; they had nothing at all to contribute to the U.S. political history class. In the Amish-Mennonite communities formal education is only from age 6 to 14 and includes just reading, writing, and mathematics. Beyond those basics the rest of their education concentrates on Amish vocational training and socialization strictly within Amish values.
On another occasion during a formal dinner, the host mother asked the Amish teenagers if they were active in any Green Movements such as recycling or if they were aware of global warming. Again, the five couldn’t explain at all what global warming involves, how CO2 increases the green-house effect, or even that their U.S. federal and state governments enact laws and policies that can directly or indirectly effect their own homes! They were silent with empty gazes for their hosts. It would be safe to assume the Amish teenagers would also not be able to speak anything on the matter of global drought and rising water shortages.
The Amish are by no means the world’s only separatist. Many other religious groups are socially less educated and unaware. Sadly, some separatists do not care for any broad education but live only to kill and die ushering in their own self-perceived after-life.
I have no ill-feelings for the Amish-Mennonite people. Unlike many religious separatists, they are some of the most peaceful respectful humans on earth. Their work ethics are to be greatly admired. Their simple humble lives offer several emotional and physical benefits to the general American high-stress, competitive lifestyle. However, I can’t help but classify their “faith” any differently than the rest of this world’s current non-militant theocracies, ecclesiocracies, or groups that have separatist-doctrines as the following:
Islāmic states (Sharia) or ethnic groups: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan,Yemen.
Vatican City and then where Roman Catholicism is state religion: Costa Rica, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, and cantons of Switzerland.
Israel (Zionism).
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An even greater number of nations adhere to Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglican, or Lutheran tenets within their laws; 27 nations exactly. Then the rest of the planet has a seemingly infinite variety of tenets from Mormonism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christian Protestant like the Amish-Mennonite. Trying to decide which group contain active radical separatist movements or primarily historical movements that have become passive or completely disregarded is a frustrating task for unity. Any Fortune 100 CEO would be seriously challenged to reverse the proverbial chief-to-indian ratio to an efficient profitable working corporation. To avoid complete bankruptcy, this fictional board of directors would be attempting to coalesce a crippled workforce — all claiming absolute truth and God’s favor — just to carry out a few simple turnaround tasks. What this planet will soon be confronting is on a scale that not even the richest, most powerful Western nations, much less the religious supremacist, can dream to manage. It must be a collaborative global effort.
For the sake of the next two, three or four generations after us, it is time to seriously consider not just whether the human race will survive, it will; but more importantly maximizing how many can be spared. And for apocalyptic fatalists who proudly proclaim their ideological discriminations, the cold hard facts are that the many forces of this planetary system and its Universe doesn’t discriminate in the least. These cyclical violent changes will indeed happen and they will claim WHOMEVER they want. Religious, ethnic, gender, or racial affiliations or passive beliefs of rapture will all fall irrelevantly mute. We are clear and simple Homo Sapiens. If we have any real threats to our survival, they are only two: ourselves and the cosmos in which our submissive planet exists. One we are fully capable of managing. The other demands nothing less from us than unified collaboration.
I have zero expectation that anything I ever say will end someone’s belief in their God. Not my goal or purpose. That alone belongs to the individual. ~ Zoe
'Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it' - Terry Pratchett
The Professor's Convatorium 