Donald Trump, Vlad the Impaler, and Pol Pot for President

 

Donald Trump, Vlad the Impaler, and Pol Pot for President 

(*Note* When making entries to this blog on political topics, along with my own opinions, I'll be quoting political analysts from different newspaper articles, found in the archives, who obviously have the real knowledge of the world. This article used information from six well respected newspapers in North America)

 Vlad the Impaler reigned Wallachia as Prince from 1448 to 1462 and killed about 20% of the population under his rule. He impaled several of his victims through the buttocks till the stake came out of the mouth. A German pamphlet read: "He roasted children, whom he fed to their mothers. And he cut off the breasts of women and forced their husbands to eat them. After that, he had them all impaled."

 Pol Pot was the leader of the Cambodian revolutionary group the Khmer Rogue, which had orchestrated the Cambodian genocide. Pol Pot believed in destroying the Cambodian civilization in order to start a new regime and usher in a new age. He is probably the only man in history who ordered mass genocide on his own country. During his reign as Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979, his policies led to the death of around 2 million people which was 25% of the entire population. He liked to keep the skulls of people he had killed, and he went as far as ordering babies to be torn limb by limb. He died of natural causes.

 Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United states began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017 and ended on January 20, 2021. As the most powerful leader of the free world Donald Trump's behavior and influence on a healthy democracy has resulted in the cautionary warnings of experts in free speech and freedom from all over the free world.

 During Donald Trump's presidency the CIA's employee who was most in danger for a year was not a CIA operative on a mission abroad, but an analyst who faced a torrent of threats after filing a whistleblower report that led to the impeachment of President Trump. The former president soon afterwards began tweeting threateningly, like a dictator, calling for blood.

 "Where's the whistleblower? Where's the whistleblower?" Trump bellowed while standing on stages before large audiences, and typing on twitter, as he inspired his misguided audience to want to crush political dissent against him.

 Measures had to be imposed by the CIA's Security Protective Service, which monitors thousands of messages across social media and internet chat rooms. Over time, a pattern has emerged under Trump. Violent messages surge after people under this President dare to speak out freely against him. Trump then targets people's free views in tweets, or he makes public remarks against them in public speeches, which he knows will insight crowds of his followers to act in undemocratic ways. During Donald Trump's time in office public servants across the country have faced numerous ordeals for using their free speech. The target of Trumps threatening tweets and remarks encompass nearly every category of government service: mayors, governors, and members of Congress, as well as officials within his own administration. The dynamics in response appears to be without precedent: government agencies taking extraordinary measures to protect their people from strains of seething hostility stoked deliberately by a sitting president.

 Trump fomented mob-like anger at perceived adversaries throughout his entire presidency and will do so again if he is re-elected. He is now the favored Republican nominee for President and America's most popular candidate. Although his exhortations generally stop short of explicitly promoting violence, his words have been echoed in hundreds of menacing online messages. And he has consistently resisted speaking in defense of citizens to discourage violence against free people with differing opinions.

 A healthy leader, when confronted with such facts, would say, "Oh my gosh, I had no idea and that was not my intent. Let me clear the air to make it clear I do not support these causes!" But Trump does the opposite, he doubles down. He cannot admit that his language is having the horrible effect, because he knows it's motivating his supporters exactly the way dictators like Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Benito Mussolini once motivated their supporters. Trump has taken his play book from every pathetic despot in history in how to influence his audiences.

 High ranking government officials described an exceedingly ugly situation that occurred under Trump's despotic Presidency: one in which lawmakers were made to disregard private principle in their votes and often do so out of literal fear. Not only did they describe members who advocated for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office later voting against impeachment, but they cited fears of physical violence directly impacting resulting votes.

 Maybe people are too busy laughing to see it. Perhaps it's the jokes and memes that Donald Trump generates in abundance, the gift that keeps on giving, that blinds people to a chilling fact that they would rather not face. Put simply, the former leader of the world's most powerful nation was behaving like an authoritarian dictator, who if re-elected threatens democracy in his own country and far beyond.

 Trump has threatened to jail his political opponents. He also has a despot's attitude to the truth--lying routinely, even about trivial matters, partly to demonstrate power. So great is his sway over his devotees, he can make them believe even what is provably false. And he has a despot's contempt for a free press, forever railing against the "fake news" media and while President all but abolishing the White House daily briefing, which at least aimed to hold successive administrations to account. Note his abuse of power to pursue vendettas against the companies that own media organizations that displease him: seeking to raise postal charges on Amazon, as retaliation against the Washington Post, owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos; and moving to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger to hurt CNN.

 The most chilling moment of Trumps encounter with Vladimir Putin came when the two men bonded over their shared loathing of journalists: "Get rid of them." Trump said to his Kremlin counterpart, perhaps envious of the toll of 26 murdered journalists notched up in Russia during the Putin years.

 Trumps disregard for the rule of law in also that of an autocrat. His aids simply ignore subpoenas to appear before Congress. Part of it is that trump has not been able to do his worst. No elections have been overturned, no dissidents jailed, no journalists arrested. The restraints of the US system have, so far, kept Trump in check. Yet that can lull people into a false sense of security, into what is called: "the confidence trap" the belief that, because democracy has withstood past threats, it will withstand present and future ones too. That's complacent, not least because those restraints are fraying fast. Note how Trump appointed sympathetic judges in record numbers: you can't rely on the courts to check an authoritarian president if the courts are increasingly in the president's image.

 Like it or not, and Canada likes it, the US is the mightiest player in the democratic world. When America is led by a would-be dictator, it undermines global democratic standards. How can the west stand up to, say, Viktor Orban, when it indulges Donald Trump?

 As former President Trump slithers around between rocks, free loving people everywhere are standing up for our God given ideals. As the world sees Trumps buddy Putin invade the freedom loving nation of Ukraine the lovers of good and fairness itself are getting ready to defend our ideals. In response to the invasion of the Ukraine all across the world people are volunteering to go and fight on behalf of the Ukraine. In the United States right now, small groups of military veterans are gathering, planning, and getting passports in order. after years of serving in smoldering occupations, trying to spread democracy in places that they had only a tepid interest in, many are hungry for what they see as a righteous fight to defend freedom against an autocratic aggressor with a conventional and target-rich army.

 One veteran in the USA was quoted in a widely circulated newspaper. "A lot of us are watching what is happening and just want to grab a rifle and go over there. Some want to try to recapture the intense clarity and purpose they felt in war, which is often missing in modern suburban life. Others want a chance to make amends for failed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and see the fight to defend democracy against a totalitarian invader as the reason they joined the military."

 Democracy and freedom loving people of courage and righteous conviction everywhere are preparing now to go to war with Ukraine's totalitarian invader. At this important moment in history, strangely, instead of supporting this noble and virtuous cause, Trump, a former American President, is weirdly now trying to draw American voters attention elsewhere. While on the verge of World War III, against evil itself, Trump has strangely chosen right now, on the brink of World War III, to pick a fight with Canada. This response to evil itself, which has Trump seeming to wink now at Vladimir Putin, suggests he is trying to show Putin that he can punish the Canadian Prime Minister for daring to speak out in the strongest possible language against evil in the world. This really shows Trumps awful nature and evil interests well.

 Former U.S president Donald Trump, on the brink of World War III, has strangely taken aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, telling his supporters that if they want to fight for democracy abroad, "they should start with the democracy that is under threat right next door, a place called Canada. “The radical left is trying to replace American democracy with woke tyranny," Trump said as Ukrainians in love of freedom were being killed by advancing Russian tanks in the Ukraine. "They want to do the same thing to America that Trudeau has been doing to Canada--and much, much worse," he continued, bringing the audience before him to its feet.

 His accusations came at a time when truckers were making their way across the United States in their own "Freedom Convoy" style protest. "A line has been crossed: you are either with the peaceful truckers, or you are with the left-wing fascists and that's what's been happening," Trump continued.

 One of Trumps cronies then remarked. "We have a crisis at the southern border, a fascist up north, and instead of *that*, we are supposed to care about a turf war over some street corner in the Far East," far-right personality Mike Cernovich tweeted on Sunday, comparing Trudeau to the sadistic and self-serving Star Wars emperor. "We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated."

 Bruce Heyman, former U.S ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said the remarks were "reckless, dangerous, and crossed every line of diplomacy and decency. "Canada is our best friend, best trading partner, closest ally and should be treated as such," he tweeted.

 Evil as an entity always supports itself. The demon chain of evil is all linked and all those on the side of the beast will eventually show their true loyalty to Beelzebub when needed and rise for the great battle against fairness, the right, and the good. So why should this evil not turn ruthlessly on the leader of one of the most peace-loving countries the world has ever known and attack its leader instead of attacking a monstrous despot terrorizing the world with war and nuclear weapons. Why not flirt with bulldozing friendly Canada to the ground as an executive order, it makes sense, somehow this is mysteriously to Trumps followers the sign of responsible leadership, and strategic genius, a move they see that really has America's best interest in mind, or perhaps it's really the sign of a traitor to God and good itself.

 Over the past week, Trump has publicly and diabolically praised the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose armed forces continue to pummel Ukrainian cities, according to multiple videos and accounts from the ground in Europe. As invading troops battled with Ukrainian forces, Trump described Putin as "smart."

 "Of course he's smart," Trump said in his remarks Saturday, doubling down on praise of the Russian leader that many other Republicans have avoided after the invasion. "But the real problem is our leaders are dumb. Dumb. So dumb."

 Trumps egregious behavior makes absolutely no moral or strategic sense at all accept that he desires to impress despotic leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung-Un. The world is now watching the deranged thought of the favored candidate for President of the United States of America. Everyone sees him dancing and prancing about on the world stage while bellowing evil rhetoric in his obnoxious voice. Other responsible statesmen, other leaders of fair and free nations, all working hard to sustain a healthy world order, see this maniac on the stage dividing not only Americans but now Canadians in his fanatical appeal. 

 It is obvious to the wise, and even mental patients, that Trumps behavior clearly shows his secret authoritarian leanings. He fashions himself as a strongman and he would like to see America come under his full despotic rule entirely. He does more then simply object to free speech that dares to challenge him, he sends his mindless undemocratic sellouts to freedom and our values out in a rage looking to punch and smash and retaliate against free speech itself. He would move the free world away from a free press, and already has. He favors a society where the press is monitored for content by totalitarian oversight. He desires the corrupted distortion of ordinary people's perceptions and beliefs, and he dreams of filling democracy itself with more far-reaching propaganda, and conspiracy theories, tearing a part the fabric and underpinnings of democracy, which at this very moment is a strategy being mass engineered in think tanks across eastern Europe. Under Trump, America, and other free nations, are going to be made to dance about under his strings as he, the entertained puppet master of humanity, misguides his ideologically fed puppets.

 When I was a kid, growing up in small town Nova Scotia, Canada, me, and other kids used to play war with pretend riffles and revolvers. We ran across our neighbors green daffodil covered grass in the summer months in the sleepy rural village I grew up in. I developed a lot of the ideas that ran through my imagination after watching American produced television and movies on pay TV and then imitating those ideas as I played with my friends.

 I remember watching the movie Red Dawn numerous times, a movie where American teenagers organized themselves into an armed guerilla resistance group after the Soviet Union invaded the USA. Canadian society is full of so many influences that come to us directly from American culture. For a kid growing up in Canada, as a result of these deep soulful connections, I admired my heroic neighbors to the south, and still do, along with our own war hero's here. I remember pretending numerous times to be fighting for America in war as me and my boyhood friends ran through a local cow barn, of a nearby dairy farm, shooting make believe bullets back and forth. I recall my boyhood friend, who's parents immigrated from Germany, rolling his eyes at me, as I claimed in our young discussions to have American citizenship.

 Yet I wasn't alone as a Canadian in my fascination and love for America. Many millions of our Canadian citizens have a deep and inseparable love for America and hold the belief that America is a great nation, and on the side of good itself, at least when living up to the nations best ideals. The treatment of the Palestinian people draws a lot of criticism towards US foreign policy, as well as the nonsensical war in Iraq, but hopefully with future leadership these mistakes can be corrected, and the worlds critics silenced by sound leadership.

 In writing this blog I do not represent the Canadian government, or the Canadian people, only myself. When I comment on President Trump, and America, it is because I honestly care about America, and how this great nations policies and leadership directs the world. America is the greatest and most influential country on earth, so the USA showing good leadership matters for the fate and future of us all.  All Canadians would gladly watch America's back. We'd give our left arm to defend this great country, and we'd gladly follow the USA for another thousand years to come as the great leader of the free world.

 I suspect that I'll be targeted now by Trumps ideologically lost followers for daring to speak out against his autocratic movement while exercising my right to free speech. My outspoken opposition to the former President, and his angry rhetoric, as he try's to defy democratic checks and balances, could lead to threats, or even violence against me, because Trump does not respect or defend the rules of democracy. Make no mistake about it, people under his influence are gradually losing their freedom. Shout it as loud as you can from the rooftops, and let everyone know, he has come to destroy freedom itself.

 As the world faces the prospect of World War III, if peace can now be somehow preserved, it's extraordinarily important that American voters demand by their votes that democracy itself be safeguarded.  Don't allow a devious man, with sneaky authoritarian leanings, to lead the free world again.

 Two of my latest books are available for anyone who's interested, the first book, a work of fiction: "Demons In The Pleasant Valley Hills" and the second, and most recent book, part fiction, and part nonfiction: "A Paranoid Schizophrenics Message Of Hope For The World," really need to be read.

 Both books make profound philosophical arguments where the characters enter into deep ethical debates about God, evil, morality, and hope, that argue persuasively that there is really significant meaning to this life, now, and beyond this world.

 These latest books came into existence after God's direct inspiration on my thought directed the writing process throughout these works. The truth is I was guided by clear thoughts from God through every stage of the writing process. I know this is a dubious claim, especially made by a paranoid schizophrenic, but it's a fact that God directed the writing process of these two books. For this reason, these are two extremely important books, which God inspired directly, which have yet to have been properly read or evaluated. The latest book, especially, completed now more then three weeks ago, might end up lost to history, and never be read by anyone, even after God inspired the full content, and spoke directly in numerous chapters. I in return obediently wrote down the words in this book after listening to clear schizophrenia experienced thoughts that guided me what to write.

 To the right of this blogs page, under the heading: "Available novels by this writer" you will find the country links to my author page. If the links are clicked they will reveal my photo and the available books I've written on Amazon's websites. Thankyou for reading this blog. Please consider checking back in now and then to read future posts.

Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Jin Ping, and the invasion of Ukraine,

 Yesterday, people around the world started off their day with the deeply disturbing and troubling news that the anticipated invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces had started. The news came out incrementally, as more and more of the day went on, as free loving people everywhere on God's earth learned more information about the ruthless deplorable invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military.  

This invasion of the Ukraine was carried out ruthlessly and diabolically by a force of evil in this world that is comparable to the same kind of evil that drove Adolf Hitler and his NAZI party in World War II. The thug responsible, a demon possessed guardian of the demonic order, Vladimir Putin, a ruthless despot, has once again openly defied the free world, and the worlds best ideals, and now threatens all peace-loving communities everywhere on earth with his nuclear weapons. Putin’s Russia, and his new pals the Chinese, who he's now joined at the hip with by a new arrangement, defiantly now mock democracy, rule of all, autonomous nations, and their security and autonomous right to exist peacefully. This new pact between Russia and China seems to suggest to the world that the wellbeing of free loving people everywhere is now in danger. 

 Putin has sent his weapons of war and deliberately invaded a sovereign country, a peace-loving Ukraine, who God shines his bright light of love on with great concern now, a people who's hope's and aspirations was all along to preserve their freedom and live a long happy life in their own free and great sovereign nation.   

 The United States of America, a great, dignified, and civilized country, known as this world's imperfect, but steadfast defender of democracy in the world, recently had its own incompetent commander in chief. America's incompetent leader was former President Donald Trump.

 Trump was recently interviewed on Fox news just days ago on the matter of Putin’s military buildup on the border with Ukraine revealing what his deep empathetic concerns were and what his action as President might be. This ex-president, who should never have led the free world, told Fox news, among other words lacking wisdom or any gravity of understanding as to the current state of the world, all while seeming not to grasp what kind of evil threatens America and its allies, that "Putin and I respect each other." 

 I think back now to both times Donald Trump ran for President and I recall the Christian community in America embracing him, in an overwhelming voice of consent, and wanting him to be their great candidate as President. The President of the United States of America, the most dignified, and important position a leader can hold anywhere on earth, in order to safely guide and protect humanity at large, not just Americans, in the ways of freedom and fairness for humanity. 

 Anyone who thinks America can exist as an island by itself knows absolutely nothing about how the world really works. The highest office in the world would become an office occupied by a fool under Donald Trumps presidency, a man who was nothing more as a President then a Russian stooge.

 The church in effect deliberately turned a blind eye and indifferently refused to demand that their Presidential candidate be a principled person who is morally accountable to standards of decency. They didn't ask fairly, which should only be part of properly following the Bible, that their President be rational, predictable, or a stable person, instead choosing to support an incompetent man with numerous and large moral failings. The Christian community seemed to make a deal with the devil himself, because they thought the devil would look after their interests. They checked off their voter cards and went about gaining the support of their fellow Congregationalists for this ill suited and awful candidate for president. 

 Think about these words of Trump as the free people of Ukraine are now being killed by Trumps pal in Russia. "Putin and I respect each other." How can an American president support a dictator in any way unless he secretly holds authoritarian aspirations himself? There is actual evidence from Trumps presidency, that people have seen through his very actions, that he pursued authoritarian ambitions through his leadership. 

 Don't be fools voters in America and repeat the fiasco of allowing that traitor to all our values be president of the free world again. If the world can overt World War III right now, which the world might not be able to do, then the greatest freedom preserving nation on earth needs a principled rational commander in chief just like the current President Joe Biden! Don't think for a moment that Joe Biden is "Sleepy Joe" or one of the crude terms you misrepresent him as because of Trump! Your current President is well revered throughout the free world by people who understand what's really going on, unlike under half of American voters seem to understand.

  America's allies watched what happened once Trump took office as he tried to sever ties with Canada, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, and basically all NATO countries, as he then strangely went farther and threatened diabolically to pull the USA entirely out of NATO. He was no doubt winking at Vladimir Putin the whole time who he weirdly and strangely respects more then decent diplomats in other free countries. These are all countries which have great respect for the United States Of America. 

  Trump defiantly tried to break off all relationships with America's closest allies, all members of a united body that stands together in defense of freedom itself in this God given earth. Trump thought the organization of NATO was irrelevant to his selfish aspirations did he not? Are American voters now paying attention to the situation in eastern Europe? NATO forces are moving troops in mass, as we now speak, into eastern Europe together, because we, the civilized world, are very close to all out war. Trump still remains the strongest candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, according to polls, that's almost as scary as what's happening now!

 What informed person, who watched Trump in office and witnessed him do absolutely nothing to take preventable action to help limit deaths from COVID, can now think in the event of World War III that he's somehow competent to be the leader. There were more then 943,000 deaths in the USA from COVID. Canada, in comparison to the US, which has a smaller population, lost far fewer lives, but do the math and see how many people would of died if Trump had of acted responsibly as leader in comparison.

  I don't hate America in saying this, no, actually I really love America in saying this! Wake up American voters! You have a great President RIGHT NOW! Are you watching President Biden stare down Putin? President Joe Biden is a principled, decent man, and when it comes to facing off against evil itself your leader needs to be on the side of good and President Joe Biden is a decent man and that really matters do you know that? 

 Lets talk about the diabolical invasion of Ukraine. Media reports say that Ukraine will be posthumously honoring a group of Ukrainian border guards who were killed after they reportedly told an officer on board a Russian navy warship to go f---yourself" when asked to surrender. The 13 valiant heroic border guards were defending tiny Snake Island in the Black sea during Russia’s evil invasion. 

 Who is backing Russia as they kill brave young Ukrainians? China's Xi has leaned China much toward Russia recently. According to the NY Times Xi and Putin met at the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics in early February where they issued a joint statement declaring that their countries friendship "has no bounds."

 Now that Russia has invaded an autonomous nation Chinese diplomats will no doubt be busy putting a spin on the facts as they explain to the Chinese people, and other world leaders, how that special relationship with Russia aligns with their preaching about respecting the sovereignty of other nations. It will be really difficult however for China after the invasion to signal to the world that it doesn't support Russia’s militant move which is strange. 

 I was a little naïve before and held the misguided understanding that China was a responsible acter on the world stage and that they somehow had values that defended certain fair behaviors in the world community. China of course preached about not interfering with other nations sovereignty a lot and lectured other countries never to invade a sovereign country but now it strangely seems like China is being obviously very hypocritical? Is it possible that they might not have that belief in respecting other nations sovereignty after all? I wonder what they really believe in China, and I wonder what will happen if there isn't war and China is allowed to get bigger and stronger because if they have no moral foundation at all in their society how can they be trusted?

  Oh I get it that certain parts of socialism are good. I was in a chat room arguing with communists and a Chinese man said he can't protect his kids now because of the influence of democracy on their lives. I don't personally believe our violence crazed culture is healthy for any mind especially children’s. Socialism sees to it that no guns flood Chinese streets, and its ideas work to promote harmony in its people, which I think is really good. But what about the good of other parts of democracy. I'm a mentally ill Canadian, with an anxiety order, and paranoid schizophrenia, which makes me the least valued member of society. Yet I can access information and find clearer information and honest knowledge of the political affairs of the world in a fairer and more truth telling way then hundreds of millions of the most educated and accomplished citizens of China can. Our media has ethical standards, and they pursue truth telling, while being free to investigate politicians openly. If the media we're being lied to, and they found out, they'd let us know and there would be widespread consequences. We aren't being lead by leaders that aren't held accountable for their actions and that’s mostly different then socialism.. 

 This man said to me in our debate "Democracy is the new evil." No, I don't agree with the idea that democracy is an evil political ideology, Democracy is flawed, it produces imperfect results maybe, but it comes nearest to what could be considered real fairness for humanity in the world. 

 "The abrupt changes in the eastern regions of Ukraine have been drawing the close attention of the international community." Mr. Xi of China told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call on Friday. 

 "China's fundamental stance has been consistent in respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and abiding by the mission and principals of the United Nations Charter," Mr. Xi said. 

  Outside the echo chamber of Chinese official media, however, there seems little doubt that Russia’s war has put its new partner in Beijing in a severe bind, including where it stands on other countries' sovereign rights.  On the one hand, China has long said that the United States, and other Western powers, routinely trample over other countries, most egregiously in recent times in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. China's message has been that it is the true guardian of sovereign independence, especially for poorer countries. 

 How then did this great economic giant China react to the diabolical invasion of innocent Ukraine? According to the NY Times they laid responsibility for Europe’s worst war in decades on hubris by the United States. China has also distanced itself from the condemnation of Russia at the United Nations. 

 I'm sorry but all this deception and manipulation of thought and ideas, to justify evil ends, doesn't sit well with me. If I wanted to listen to lies that tolerate evil ends then I'd have tuned into former President Donald Trumps speeches.

Off The Nova Scotia Coast (A short story)

When I glanced over toward the wall the clock had stopped. I realized It was time to wake up and begin traveling to where I needed to visit. I began fidgeting in the dark room eventually finding my watch and discovered it was 4:11 AM.   

I quickly got ready and left the house, stepping out the front door, and looking up where below Heaven, gazing down upon the Earth, I admired the prehistoric bright crescent moon in the sky. Seemingly lonely up there among the stars in her desolation, seemingly companionless but for God, she was the only light in the dark summer evening sky but for the dots of distant alien known stars beyond her.

Soon I was backing out of the driveway on our small dead end street in my small hometown of Brookfield. I spotted a skunk dead on the edge of the lane. I stopped and stepped out and with the glow of the cars tail lights I looked checking now as I wasn't sure what I saw in the dark. The exhaust pipe behind the car was beside me as I turned and walked toward the front of the vehicle where beneath the hood sounded the steady purr of the engine.

Staring around in the darkness I noted that accept for the light of a nearby Church parking lot  and the beams of headlights lighting up the lane ahead that I was among darkness as I felt now a peace here in the night time. Everything was calm at this hour I marveled standing there. I should be afraid, I thought, where I’m going now, but nothing, I feel nothing, no fear. I simply have to do this I thought.

With the window open and driving down the road now I can feel the wind against my arm and face and hair. I marvel driving through the intersection how when I see a bug fly into the windshield it just turns into a splatter of blood. I  heard somewhere it was more likely you'd get more splats at night when moths flew toward headlights. The person I listened to who told me this said that insects fly four to five feet off the ground which is perfect striking distance for passing cars.

I left my small rural town of Brookfield driving past a local cemetery where the gravestones stand quietly there row after row of them. I am on my way east and am heading to the south shore of the province to the the village of Chester. Chester is situated on a peninsula halfway along the coast of Mahone Bay. I knew the town and thought it to be one of the most picturesque communities on earth.

Chester overlooks island filled Mahone Bay, a sailor's paradise, with inscrutable weather patterns, high winds, fog and seasonal tides, making yacht racing competitive and enjoyable there. Boats come from all over the continent to compete in mid-August Race week.

As I drive along on rout an hour passes and I find myself on the Hammonds Plains road which is a short cut on rout to the Saint Margret Bay road.

The reason I was going to Chester was deeply hidden secret that started as an obsession I had.  For a long time I had thought with deep reflection and obsessive wonderment about how three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water. I was compulsively fascinated how the ocean itself conceals billions of creatures interacting in ways that we will never fully understand. Much of the ocean, I marvel about very frequently, is mysterious like the infinity beyond our planet out there in that great unknown.

I was out of psychiatric medication now for my schizophrenia but I thought to myself I don’t really need it for this journey anyway. I am in control and not the medication I think brazenly even though great danger may accompany this journey.

After twenty minutes I reach Saint Margret's Bay as I come to bends in the road where the craggy twisty formations of the sea came graduating inland. The land formations made for views in the daylight of quiet sheltered coves.

It was approaching dawn after more time had past as I now see a mist rising slowly before me. The windswept coast is met with a coastal wind that comes breezing through my windshield with the gradual lifting of the fog while my nostrils breath in the sea air.

I had made a very secretive purchase two weeks earlier with some savings by buying an old dory boat, an outboard motor, and an old rusting deep sea cable that was 13,000 meters long and rolled up on a crank. I had also purchased a dragging rake with several hooks, four large gasoline jugs full of gasoline, two ores, a canopy to shield the sun above me with, as well as enough water, diet Pepsi, and plenty of food for the journey.

I knew a vague history of what my boat was used for originally before I bought it. Sailing crews on fishing schooners sailed out of the ports of Newfoundland, the Maritime provinces of Canada, and the New England States of America. The ports which claimed most of these crews were Lunenburg, in Nova Scotia, which was near Chester, and Gloucester and Boston, in Massachusetts. 

The sailing crews sailed on fishing-schooners but these schooners also held a number of flat bottomed, high-sided boats, called dories, that were carried for the actual fishing. These dories, like the one I purchased from a man in Lunenburg, originally were from 18 to 22 feet over all.  My dory that I purchased was 18 feet long with an outboard motor attached which was very unusual for these type of boats.

As I neared Chester now the sun had risen in the eastern sky. The revealed fresh colors before me seemed realistically like they had been prepared on a  geniuses artistic canvas. That canvas I beheld was this life revealed in all its indifference, brutality, and grotesqueness, as well as its astounding beauty, possibility, and mind-boggling creativity. It all made for a great wonder at this seismic curiosity as we the conscious beings who love and share in its mystery are left to ask great soul searching questions.

It was hard for me to describe how I felt now looking at this morning light while looking out toward Mahone bays dotted Islands as I parked there on the shoulder of the road. The open waters held a feeling in me deeply captured within the soul. The orange and gold and blue stretched one way as far as I could look and then again in the other direction. As I watched now, it being just past dawn in the morning, everything seemed to change again with rich hues of orange, purple and crimsons.  The rising sun soon then magnificently lit everything up completely just as I came into the village of Chester.

I stopped the car when I reached the wharf beside the front harbor of the town. I had limited permission to keep my newly purchased boat there for a period of time. The weather worn wharf I walked unto now had a few missing planks and might easily have been two hundred or more years old. A rope tied to the pier secured the dory which was twisted and tied in weathered knots. That fraying rope fought with me as I began untying it. The old rope was frayed with knots and resisted my efforts stubbornly in untying it.

I carried my food and supply's to the dory and then sat at the back of the boat. I looked around a few minutes looking up the front harbor and past the harbor front restaurant named The Rope and Loft. After a brief hesitation I then pushed off the wharf and began drifting in the stagnant front harbor.

I hesitated a moment longer, drew in a deep breath, and then started the outboard motor and began cutting a wake through the tranquil morning ocean. I passed the The Rope and Loft restaurant, and then the docked yachts, looking beyond to old architecture there in the harbor, then I scanned in all direction viewing incredible scenic mansions lining the lush green lawns up on surrounding coastal elevations. Hillsides on these peninsulas held immaculately kept estates with panoramic views of both harbors with the views looking unto Mahone Bay itself to its many offshore islands.

Sailboats dotted Chester's waters that I passed by now. I had brought on my trip a handcrafted walking stick. The walking stick had a built in compass at its tip. I needed the compass as I had plans on heading far into open water. I was hoping to head far out to sea at least 32 miles or more off the coast. 

Soon I cut a wake through the sea and land was left behind me as I went into the open ocean. I had to do a lot of research in preparation for this trip in advance. I learned what topographical features were which included mountains, hills, valleys, lakes, oceans, rivers, cities, dams, and roads. The elevation, or height, of mountains, and other objects, was recorded as part of topography. I was interested in how it was recorded in reference to the sea level and the depths of the ocean.

I knew I was currently traveling over a continental shelf less than 250 meters deep while the vast deep ocean plains were between 4,000 and 6,000 meters deep. I wasn’t interested in these petty shallow waters at all but instead I was interested in heading out into the truly deep ocean. I was headed toward a trench offshore which was 32 miles out to sea with the ocean depth there being a mysterious and unfathomable 11,000 meters deep.

The floor of the Atlantic, like those of other oceans, was actually very flat, even in this area of the deep trench. These vast sediment covered abyssal plains of the ocean fascinated me while learning about them in my research. What strange beings might inhabit these undiscovered depths lead me to a profound fascination of this unknown.

The sun met my face as I cut through the waves rolling across the choppy Atlantic. I'd left sight of  land and could look to the horizon in all directions around me. I looked downward to my left looking down into the blue murky endless enormous puddle lying around me as a gentle breeze brought in more salt air and sea smell.

So soft and familiar is this scent that I relax a bit with tears forming in my eyes.

I began thinking back to being on a wharf that overlooked Lunenburg and looking across the harbor four years earlier. I recalled a brief romance there shared over several bottles of wine. I could still picture the Lunenburg shore indented with inlets and coves where we had been.

I recalled a boat trip earlier that day in the afternoon four years ago and the isolated peninsulas seen approaching them from the sea. I pictured the steep hills rising up those shores while looking at Lunenburg on the innermost extremity on her own fabulous peninsula. A town of colorful waterfront, narrow streets, and captivating architecture, full of seafaring heritage.

I remembered how we’d sat drinking the wine on an outward jutting wharf where local fishermen sank their expectant fishing hooks. Gulls had gone flying past white feathers tucked in. There were also the ghosts of those who remained from before. They were there in the luminous silence all around us. Their silent conversations and friendly shouts were all around. They were the spirits of ghosts that haunted the shadows of the wharf as they picnicked there and swam in Mahone Bay hardly casting us a nod where we drank guiltlessly looking lustfully on at one other.

"I'm sorry if my body fat triggers feelings of disgust in you, but I hope you're ready. I'm going to take off my clothes and go for a swim!" I remember her saying as what met my eyes next was her slender waist and navel, sumptuous buttocks, flaring hips, and a convex belly. I recalled what a lovely woman she was to know now sighing in reflection.

Then my thoughts return to my objective as I realize I’ve been traveling for several hours in daydream. This isn't the kind of weather to cause shipwrecks, I think, like the kind of weather where storms rage I try and reassure myself looking around me. The sea is not roaring today but is only swaying back and forth with the tides rising and falling.

Then several more hours pass away nervously as I move deeper out into the Atlantic where all sight of land was gone. I have a lot of time to think now as I bob across the white cresting waves.

One knot was equivalent to one nautical mile and I had been doing a speed of four nautical miles per hour. I had been on the sea for seven and a half hours on a direct course. 

 

As I looked around me now I suddenly realized, and was convinced, that this was truly a hallowed place. As I calculated my speed and then looked at the compass I finally sighed again as I swallowed feeling a lump in my throat.

 

I knew now suddenly that I had reached the deepest trench in the sea. Below me now the sea level was 11,000 meters deep. I shut off the gas to the outboard motor and began drifting silently moving quietly up and down with the current and waves. Around me now where I sat 32 miles at sea there was total silence. Waves crested with gentle splashes and there was also the hull of the boat that now rocked with the rising of a wave and then it fell down again beyond with a splash, and there was the breeze, with the wind whispering, but besides these sounds there was absolute silence around me.

 

I could easily have been in a cold grave underneath me now in the watery depth of the deep ocean. Knowing loneliness I looked around me there on the sea. I realized with melancholy that compared to anything I knew, that this here, where I was, was the loneliest place in the world.

 

Maybe out in the far off depth of interstellar space, if it was ever neared, to drift there among eons of century's of traveling light, maybe, maybe there, absent sound, ones thoughts might know a greater solitude then here, but here on this planet, this was it, this was the most desolate place of them all I thought scanning the open ocean around me.

 

I rocked in the dory in the current. Here now where I am, I realize, no mermaids are emerging out of the 11,000 meters of deep ocean depths beneath me. From distant shores now no sea faring vassals are anywhere in sight either. As I think this to myself suddenly there emerges from the depth strangely and bafflingly, and also very eerily, a series of bubbles rising up to the oceans surface.

 

I look at the bubbles now with great curiosity and fascination, with my jaw dropping open, followed almost instantly then by a raw determination rising in me. I feel a desperate needfulness to know what made those strange deep sea bubbles. I had came here specifically and secretively to discover what lay at the bottom of that 11,000 meter trench in the ocean floor. I knew I couldn’t meet aliens or travel between galaxies but I knew I had to try and know what was down there beneath those waters.

 

I quickly reached and grabbed the jagged hooks and netting used for snagging objects and dragging the ocean floor. I then quickly wasted no time in then attaching the long 12 hundred meter thin almost weightless wire cable end fastening it to the dragging hooks. I then without hesitation tossed the heavy hooks into the water which immediately began to sink slowly toward the bottom as I started unrolling the cable by turning the wheel to allow it to submerge.

 

With the sun flickering on the water the bright blue of air and sky were perfectly visible around me. I worked feverishly lowering the cable, turning the crank, while great globs of sweat dripped from my forehead. I was utterly obsessed with reaching the ocean floor while counting on the cable measurement system the meters of cable now used.

 

I worked tireless for an hour and thirty minutes to near collapse and when just about drained physically, suddenly, with great wonderment, I hit the sea floor.

 

I sat there stunned with a dumbfounded look regaining my wind slowly. After a minute of feeling an awe inspired fascination sitting there an insane look came to my face as I then quickly turned on the outboard motor. Giving the throttle gas quickly I then began maneuvering the steering of the dory moving in the water while dragging the cable behind the boat. The boat proceeded to drag the hooks back and forth as the boat zigzagged over several square kilometers across the ocean floor. I continued to weave back and forth and cut a coordinated path through the deep sea.

 

Then suddenly and very unexpectedly I seemed to hook something. I panicked immediately realizing this as whatever it was suddenly pulled the boat sideways more then eleven feet. I realized desperately that there was something big and scary underneath in the seas unknown depth below me.

 

I now began cranking the wheel in a state of Insanity pulling up the cable by turning the wheel. I was obsessed, straining my muscles with each rotation, knowing something really big was on the line.

 

I fought the resistance below for over an hour screaming at the top of my lungs as I struggled.

 

“COME ON YOU BIG BASTARD! YOU SON OF A ^&(*%!”

 

I swore mercilessly, cranking furiously, until eventually I slowed in vigor facing a gradual windedness. I continued at a slow almost beaten pace then panting for breath.

 

Then surprisingly after forty minutes whatever it was that was on the hook I realized was now nearing the surface. I peered over the side of the dory into the choppy waters waiting to see what it was I’d snagged with a loss of breath.

 

With wispy clouds coming now out of nowhere in the sky, on that blue clear day, I sat there on that ocean on my dory as the familiar yellow ball of fire sent its light on my exposed skin from above. I watched obsessively looking into the ocean while wondering what unique species, so foreign to me, might now come out from the depths of the sea. Was it an alien being or a hideous mutation from some lightless deep mysterious depth I wondered eerily.

 

Suddenly then, to my ghastly surprise, without any warning at all, coming right out of the ocean at me, God forbid I thought franticly, there suddenly came the most hideous and terrifying creature I've ever laid eyes on. The grotesque beast emerged unexpectedly and had to my horror eight arms and two large tentacles. The tentacles surged forth from the water and reached forward into my boat with these two tentacles fiercely encircling my neck and my leg.

 

The son creature must have been 43 feet long from tentacle tip to tentacle tip I estimated quickly terrified by what I saw. I screamed out in ghastly fear horrified and in a state of terror.

 

“GET AWAY! GET AWAY YOU BIG BEAST! YOU SON OF %^**! YOU KNOW GOOD A %$#@! HELLLLLLLLLLLLP! SOMEONE HELP ME!!!”

 

I was trying to fight off the suction cups now that were sucking on my leg and neck. As I fought the Giant Squid it began crawling forward until half its body mass made it unto my boat nearly capsizing us in the surf. The beast clearly must have weighed over 600 pounds or far more.

 

In the boat with me now the enormous squid moved now, to my revulsion, its hidden jaws moving toward me. Then abruptly, and for some unknown unexplained reason, the Giant Squid stopped in motion and relaxed. With its mighty face a foot from mine I hollered in exhilaration.

 

“WHO ARE YOU GREAT SQUID???? WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?????”

 

Then looking me right in my eyes through its own obviously intelligent eyes, an intelligence that I’ve never seen in any human being, he stared at me for thirty uninterrupted seconds and studied me there.

 

Then for whatever reason, after seemingly finding his answer, he did the strangest thing, the great squid winked at me.

 

I was utterly amazed at this display. Immediately I lost all fear staring at this deep ocean alien like intelligent creature. I released my grip on its tentacles at the same time it too released its grip on my body. The great squid quickly then slid from the dory into the ocean and quietly disappeared into the depth leaving me open jawed there in utter amazement. I hollered out now in exhilaration.

 

“I MET THE GREAT SQUID! I MET THE GREAT SQUID! I MET THE GREAT SEA CREATURE THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL!”

 

I looked around me in all directions and then stood up in the dory and began dancing around in a crazed delirium.

 

“WOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

 

After some time feeling this amazement, and still delirious, I lifted the walking stick. I checked the compass, and found the direction west, and then started the outboard motor, and setting my course, I headed off toward land  smiling ear to ear.

Food for thought (Philosophy)

Real philosophers and their ideas, as they appeared through the centuries, and then my humble commentary after each one.

 

Blanshard, Brand (1892-1987)

 

There are, Blanshard said, genuine necessary connections in the world. A naturalist in ethics, Blandshard held that ‘to call an experience intrinsically good is to say that it is fulfilling and satisfying’. Since he granted ‘that the word “good” has in addition an aura of emotional and associate meaning’, he could ‘keep emotive meaning and also keep it in its place’. A naturalist in religion too, he took ‘the service of reason’ as his religion. ‘That service calls for the use of one’s reason to embrace as much as one can of the reason implicit in the universe, and in its use at the same time to define and harmonize the ends of practical life.’ Blanchards personal demeanor was one of extraordinary graciousness. 

 

(Interpretation)

 

Why are there these ‘necessary connections in the world’ that are intrinsically good. Why when we see worth in an ‘experience intrinsically good’ is it fulfilling and satisfying and does that necessary connection we recognized point even farther beyond toward the possibility of knowing in existence something that is transcendently intrinsically ‘good’ by the neccesary chain of connections This good also has an aura of emotional and associative meaning, as he said, that he could keep, but keep in its place, grounding foundationally emotional meaning as a direct attachment and connection to the ‘intrinsically good’ which makes me ask why are we meant to examine good by our emotional experiences.

 

Questions of life’s meaning arise related to his philosophy. What really might this life be all about given our emotional attachments in discovering intrinsic value to our experiences that we now know. Can we believe in experiences not merely for their temporal sake, but originating beyond that for a far greater purpose. Like can we believe that the source of those experiences transcends us, has a source,  goes beyond our view of our self as mortal, with such experience even having intelligibly at its source. This source then is not us and the interpretation we give reality alone is not the only relative or meaningful one in the universe, or beyond it perhaps, where fundamentally, foundationally might there exist an architect or further truth.

 

With Blanshard being a naturalist in religion the service of reason was his religion. By using reason he implicitly embraced the open ended possibilities of the universe with open mindedness. This might or might not involve him being open to God in some form. He sought to make practical life more harmonies and was also an extraordinarily thankful and appreciative person.

 

 

boat, Neurath’s

 

‘We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.’ His pragmatism encompasses the social sciences and extends to society and politics: knowledge and life are built without foundations.

 

(Interpretation)

 

We start this life from wherever we’re born, whoever we’re born to. Whatever hardships there are that effect us, whatever time period we’re in, whatever religions dominates the territory we’re in, all matters for our weak foundational underpinnings. The culture, the economy we’re in, our education, all shapes how far out in the open sea we are, and how far from dry-dock, revealing are incompleteness to knowing ourselves, our purpose, us not having the remotest idea what we’re were meant to do, while also not at all aware of what we’re ‘really’ a part of.

 

Our inability to fathom completely knowledge's reach, even with the best of educations, puts all of us on the open sea. We never just know the nature of who we are and what we’re a part of here. I doubt we will ever finally figure out for our self an even slight resemblance of the person we really are now in this life however self-evaluating of our self we are be it we’re forty-seven, my age, or we live to be ninety-nine.

 

We never truly get what this earth in the sky is all about unless we accept nursery rhymes. Many of us do accept ancient story’s absolutely in one form or another as final authorities.

 

We are like sailors regardless of our opinions and beliefs. We can be blown over on our ship by a breeze or a wave as we fumble to maintain ourselves in accordance with mental and physical and spiritual processes. This is the uncertain reality we’re a part of now which is also wonderful really if pure potential and open possibilities intrigue us as journeyers before the open ended unknown. Maybe one day we will find ourselves in dry dock but the people lost at sea need understanding, not arbitrary judgment, for their confused thought. 

 

 

Bolzano, Bernard (1781-1848)

 

Bolzano developed a special logico-ontological atomism directed against radical skepticism and subjectivism.  The objectivity of knowledge had to be secured by the existence of non-linguistic entities (ideas, propositions, and truths) independent of human beings and prior to cognition. His major work contains various contributions to logic and semantics concerning the relations of compatibility , derivability, and consequence, the deduction theorem, and the logic of classes, entailment and probability.

 

(Interpretation)

 

‘Non linguistic entities’ ‘prior to cognition’ existing prior to us people as ‘ideas, propositions and truths’ this fascinates me as I wonder where ideas, propositions and truths come from.  In philosophy ‘objectivity’ is the concept of truth independent from individual subjectivity (bias caused by one's perception, emotions, or imagination.) Objectivity then is how things really are regardless of opinion.

 

According to Bolzano knowledge had to be secured as being real and not merely created or imagined linguistically by us. This knowledge itself he found was independent of human beings and existed prior to cognition, before our thoughts could instead create this knowledge, recognizing it, organizing it, or before our thinking processes could at work interact with this knowledge in any way making it what it is. So Ideas, propositions and truth, he is saying, predated our humanity and was prior to us at work regardless if linguistically we were here to describe this knowledge. Yet why would this knowledge exist so suited for our discovery.

 

He also talks about the relations of compatibility and so by association how this knowledge seems to be suited for us, being possibly made in order to create derivability and consequence, and curiously all this has an unusual probability factor that we’d come to know it. The question is if knowledge transcends us in this way, while it is meant for us, what are its real origins beyond us.

 

Boyle, Robert (1627-91)

 

Boyle is well known as a scientist but underrated as a philosopher. He was interestingly, lengthily, and with more philosophical sophistication then the admiring Locke a commentator on topics such as atheism, atomism, epistemology, God’s existence, miracles, natural laws, qualities, and scientific method. Emphasizing experience over theory Boyle refused to construct global theories. Boyle’s universe involved God at every stage as creator, designer, sustainer, and frequent intervener. For example, God ’almost every moment in the day’ works ‘Physical Miracles’ by forming ‘Animals of such a Compounded nature, as the... Laws of matter and motion, would not without a peculiar interposition of God, be able to produce.’ None the less, in science appeal to God was inappropriate: all ‘intelligible’ explanations must be in the terms of minute corpuscles of matter and their motion.

 

(Interpretation)

 

Part of capturing the genius of being alive, in this ingenious mysterious physical world, is articulating the full gravity of the mystery so as to pay it its do reverence. Boyel’s universe involved a recognition of there being a God that he knew exists behind the mystery of life. I too have this recognition of God, though without being a scientist or philosopher. Overarching all our lives is a reality that is very seismic, with understated potentiality; a vastness feebly underestimated no matter how high we set our sights on the sublime. A  grander picture and perspective then we can see and presently gauge operates in our world and beyond that in all likelihood. Story’s about Noah's Ark and the parting of the Red Sea myths, told as miracles, performed by God, for God are perhaps seen merely as human beings needing to find the miraculous, when we’re already staring it in the face, because our minds are dulled, uninspired, unfocused, unreceptive to the miracles of far greater immensity in the physical world and the motion of celestial body’s.

 

‘God almost every moment in the day’ works ‘Physical Miracles’ according to Boyle, ‘by forming ‘Animals of such a Compounded nature, as the....Laws of matter and motion, would not without a peculiar interposition of God, be able to produce.’

 

Miracles are abundant and operate plainly in sight, for instance the brilliant life in the worlds great oceans, or in our human experience of being conscious searching persons. Miracles exist in our time here and now and also potentially after our deaths.

 

With science he says that all ‘intelligible’ explanations must be in terms of minute corpuscles of matter and their motion. Boyle was both a scientist and a believer there exists a God and felt no pressure to bend his loyalty to one side or the other.

 

Boethius, Anucius Manllus Severinus (480-526)

 

Roman patrician, Master of the Offices under the Italian king Theodoric, later accused of treason and magic, imprisoned at Pavia, tortured and executed; an early eminence in the tradition of Latin philosophy stretching forward to Kant. Besides commentaries on Cicero, Porphyry, and Aristotle, essays on logic, and short treatises on the Trinity, we still have from him textbooks on his quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music, intended for his own darkening times but destined to serve all the Latin Middle Ages. In prison he wrote the incomparable Consolation of Philosophy, which contains a famous definition of eternity as ‘perfect possession all at the same time of endless life.’

 

(Interpretation)

 

‘Perfect possession all at the same time of endless life.’ If Heaven exists, and many people believe Heaven is as real as the earth is, how will that perfect possession of time, ‘perfect possession all at the same time of endless life,’  and maybe a full recognition of all that is good all at once, a mindboggling scenario,  be there experienced. How is it to be decided by God what to really present to us in endless life if it is true that He so loves us enough to open the door forward into this place of His great love for us.

 

Sight, sound, taste, feeling, our hearing, might be the senses we know now, but what happens if when what freely is given to us appears very differently to us. What will the endless creative love of an eternally creative and limitlessly loving Being be like, if that is Gods true character and nature like people come to understand in faith is real. How might we experience our future in a place not of thorns, thistles, snakes, wars, viruses, pathogens, chance, ferocious wind storms, famines, and the angry distorted perceptions that mankind has while struggling irrationally in the world. Heaven would deny evil entry and secure all peace, clarity, and direction of mind.

 

Beyond all this what if the divine skies we will in the future float upon is terrain that encompasses brilliant vistas and incomparable settings. Places of extreme peace, tranquility and intense beauty, of creative interest, unfolding, along with a kind of hope accompanied by indescribable joy, peace, Holiness, that now, as things are, we fail to, and fear now to, even dare hope might exist. Now our efforts at envisioning a place of that kind of good are blocked instinctively to comprehending what real good awaits us in ‘endless life.’

 

 

 

Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)

 

Danish physicist and Nobel prize-winner. (1922) Bohr made important contributions to atomic theory and nuclear physics and, indirectly, influenced the rise of molecular biology. Much to his surprise he found that his early belief that experience is basically ambiguous was supported by ‘hard and solid’ scientific evidence: concepts firmly grounded in facts divide into mutually exclusive or ‘complementary’ groups all of which are needed for stating what we know, though the use of any particular group rules out the use of the rest. According to Bohr different cultures, different concepts or attitudes within a particular culture (truth and clarity, love and justice), and different methodological approaches (mechanism and teleology in the life sciences) are related in a similar way. Bohr believed that the problems created by the paradoxical status of human beings—they are part of the world and yet put themselves outside of it when claiming to possess knowledge—are resolved by using complementary descriptions instead of single ‘objective’ frame.

 

(Interpretation)

 

He is saying experience is open to more then one interpretation and can have different meanings is really what Bohr meant by saying ‘experience is basically ambiguous.’ His theory was supported by hard scientific evidence. A concept, (which is an abstract idea or a general notion,) can be firmly grounded in fact but divide into exclusive (excluding or not admitting other things) or complementary groups. Concepts are needed for stating what we know, though the use of any one concept by any particular group can rule out the use of the rest.

 

According to Bohr different cultures have different concepts or attitudes within them. Those concepts and attitudes are things like appreciations of truth, clarity, love and justice. I think he’s saying that all over the earth we in different cultures can deal in different truths, clarify reality differently, pursue love in unique ways, form different ideas of pursuing and creating justice etc..

 

Bohr seems to believe that in different cultures we pursue ideas common to us all, but in often different ways, which creates a paradoxical (seemingly absurd or self contradictory) status of human beings. We’re all part of the same world pursuing basic ideas but all claiming, each of us, that our ideas are perfect and the only legitimate approach to the truth.

 

I think Bohr believed that the problems created by the paradoxical status of human beings—they are part of the world and yet put themselves outside of it when claiming to possess knowledge—are resolved by using complementary descriptions instead of a single ‘objective’ frame. Which is to say instead of saying that we alone only know truth, absurdly in the only demonstrable and legitimate way, we look for our complementary descriptions so we look for ideas that are producing the same truth, clarity, love, justice etc.. That’s my interpretation anyway. lol It’s probably not right.

 

Bergson, Henri-Lois (1859-1941) 

 

French philosopher of Anglo-Polish extraction who worked mainly at the College de France in Paris. Bergson is famous for two main doctrines while later in life Bergson turned his attention to morality. He claimed that universal benevolence could never be achieved by starting with group loyalties and making the groups ever wider. Group loyalty always required a contrasting out group, and could be transcended only by a qualitative leap of the sort taken by mystics in their love of all mankind.

 

(Interpretation)

 

I absolutely believe in this sound reasoning of Bergson. Universal benevolence (The quality of being well meaning, having kindness) can not be achieved for instance by Christian missionaries seeking to convert the world by that approach alone being used. It might be a good approach to teach people about Jesus Christ, I think so personally.  Yet seeking to convert others is also taking group loyalties and trying to make the group ever wider which regularly creates an ‘out group.’ That out group, seen from the group loyalty, then often loses value if one doesn’t love humanity universally. Like for instance when dealing with an atheist dictator ruling over an oppressed nation, or where there is another religion in a country, in these circumstances others are seen as the out group. So often enough they don’t conform to the Christian group and become the out group and therefore they aren’t seen with well meaning or genuine kindness. That is what unfortunately realistically occurs in imperfect people and so the outsiders miss out on receiving real benevolence. To transcend the problem is not to demand simple group loyalty, or sameness of belief, in order to be accepted, but to love everyone, all of mankind, universally, like in how the mystics showed in their love of all mankind. People by the mystics example are loved regardless if those other groups of humanity are of the mystics own group.

 

Wherever people are they are dealing with ideas and they are loved in spite of them in my opinion. Whether or not a person has the ideas of another man of opinion, as we all tend to dabble in opinions and truth claims, is irrelevant. A belief, as it seems to a man, is a belief that he has it all sorted out in this world. Competing ideas in human cultures are irrelevant to his surety he knows what constitutes the truth. What’s fundamentally important is wherever we are, whatever condition of thought we’re in, is that ultimately we’re loved, whether we know it or not, and not cast away or forgotten by our merciful God.

 

The Christianity I accept loves everyone no matter what the persons ideology is. A misuse of Christianity, in my strong opinion, is denying for instance gays and lesbians their own friendly places of worship to experience friendship with God. Another error in religion is in suggesting women should have less authority then men in the church. The God I believe in accepts all people with equality and not through an outdated ancient standard where men are distinctively the true authorities. In the case of gays and lesbians to suggest to them that for thousands of years of human history there hasn’t been the same normal kinds of attractions that they know now as normal and common to the human nature and experience is terribly unreasonable.

 

Jesus Himself spoke no condemning or unloving words towards any such people.  People in this world are often facing great hardship in their lives wherever they live in the world, and it could be anywhere. The language of God for humanity is love for all people wherever they are in this world.