Murder and Culture

https://pastorjameshein.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/abortion-then-now-what-we-can-learn-from-how-the-early-church-dealt-with-abortion-infanticide/

A good article discussing a bit of the history of abortion and it's logical link to infanticide. 

If you believe abortion is fine,  then "morality" has been replaced by "practicality / individual choice / the search for pleasure / convenience / etc in your mind. 

 

As Nietzsche observed, "without God, all things are permissible". 

Crenshaw Future Of Republican Party

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/02/is-dan-crenshaw-the-future-of-the-gop-225257

Just go read the article, 

The weekend before the 2018 midterm elections, “Saturday Night Live” comedian Pete Davidson mocked Crenshaw’s physical appearance, saying the wounded veteran’s eye patch made him look like a “hitman in a porno movie.” When “SNL” invited Crenshaw on the show the next week, he agreed and, after ribbing Davidson, provided a rare moment of political unity. “Americans can forgive one another. We can remember what brings us together,” Crenshaw said, before telling viewers to “never forget the sacrifices of veterans past and present, and never forget those we lost on 9/11, heroes like Pete’s father,” a firefighter who died trying to save those trapped in the World Trade Center.

And while you are at it, read his book. 

Dirty Democrats Defeated At Great Cost

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/kavanaugh-confirmed.php

America was a Christian nation with values like the Golden Rule, and some attempt to treat even those who "hate you" with comity. (loving them being a command for which Christ died to save us, as our ability to follow it is pitiful)

It was a nation where huge super-majoirities understood and supported principles like "innocent until proven guilty", "the burden of PROOF is on the accuser", the redemptive effects of time with life well lived, and even the concept of "redemption and forgivnness" -- even for criminals.

Today, not being 100% in lock step with the dogma of "The Party" (TP-D) is the "unforgiveable sin" for the left. Abortion on demand in all 50 states is their greatest sacrament, and thou shalt not make believe that people in states should be able to decide which states and how late a baby may be murdered! As we see with Kavenaugh, their "morality" is a throw back to the 30 years war in Europe or the Salem Witch Trials -- being ACCUSED by there cabal means certain guilt and you must pay for not kneeling before their power!

So Kavenaugh has been confirmed, as Thomas was before him, and Bork was not -- no left wing nominee, not matter how in your fact political and far left has suffered the treatment of the now triumvirate of Kavenaugh, Thomas and Bork. As Kavenaugh correctly stated, most likely, "what goes around will at least EVENTUALLY come around". It hasn't yet, it would be wonderful if it didn't , but the "standard", slimey though it may be, has been absolutely set!

Pure unsubstantiated calumny against a nominee not far to the left is that standard at this point. Will the right now march to that standard? Human nature says they eventually will -- holding on to morality when your opposition makes it clear they have none is a very high bar.

Yes, we are all Tribal now, but as I pointed out after the Trump rally in Rochester, the Tribes are not yet equivalent, and the behavior of the Democrats in the Senate and the anti-Trump protestors this past Thursday night proves it.

Being: The Rashomon Effect

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything

Being is a slippery yet important thing.

The Rashomon Effect is how things look different from different perspectives -- often REALLY different when the things are complex, people with different perspectives are looking at them, etc. A simple way to get an idea of it is to stare at this Necker cube and Rubin vase a bit.  Both the interpretations of each are "real".

We might think of physics as "cut and dried", however there are many mysteries, one of which is this.

“One of the amazing characteristics of nature is this variety of interpretational schemes,”  ( Feynman). What’s more, this multifariousness applies only to the true laws of nature—it doesn’t work if the laws are misstated. “If you modify the laws much, you find you can only write them in fewer ways,”. Feynman again: . “I always found that mysterious, and I do not know the reason why it is that the correct laws of physics are expressible in such a tremendous variety of ways. They seem to be able to get through several wickets at the same time.”

Even as physicists work to understand the material content of the universe—the properties of particles, the nature of the big bang, the origins of dark matter and dark energy—their work is shadowed by this Rashomon effect, which raises metaphysical questions about the meaning of physics and the nature of reality. Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, is one of today’s leading theoreticians. “The miraculous shape-shifting property of the laws is the single most amazing thing I know about them,” he told me, this past fall. It “must be a huge clue to the nature of the ultimate truth.”

"They seem to be able to get through several wickets at the same time" where "wicket" is a small gate. One of my favorite ways of thinking about this is the "Many Worlds" interpretation. In this view, each "observation" results in a "fork" of the universe the observation is made in where that universe now takes two paths that have the same history up to the observation, but in one (in the common wave/particle example) a wave is observed, in the other a particle is observed. This is one way to get to the 10¹⁰ universes.

The two universes vary by only that observation to begin the "fork" -- however the level of "observation", or "decision" that might cause a fork is unknown.