YIKES Revisited

 Yes I realized soon after I posted it that it's still bribery even if it's paid for privately so I repent in sackcloth and ashes.  I was trying to give Trump the enefit of the doubt that he merely wanted to motivate people who would ordinarily fvote for him to actually get out and do it, but wrong is wrong and I repent.

However, I did have another bright idea, oh help us.  Thinking of the problem I write ahout in the post below about how we can get some conservative sense into liberal heads it occurred to me that maybe we could pay them to learn about it.  Maybe collect donations for it, maybe Elon Musk would like to contribute.  

There isn't eough time to do a bgood job of it before the midterm election but the idea would be to collect a body of information that we can see is most needed to be heard by liberal s who never hear any of the truth and get it into reasonable sized chunks and pay them to listen to it.  To ensure honesty I think conservatives should nominate their own liberal friends and family to be the recipiebnts of this.  They won't talk to us and they wouldn't have to this way either, but maybe they'd be willing to hear a few things if they would earn some money doint it.  I listed a few things I had in mind for the information in that post but I'm now thinking of adding segments of talk show hoests like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and so on and parts of the free courses given by Hillsdale College, and of course parts of Thomas Sowell's nook and so on and so forth.  

Well, why not.  I guess it's bripbery of a sort but it doesn't coerce anyoe's vote, it's just an attempot to solve the problem of liberal ignorance.

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The Copatibility of God and Science

 Not that there's any questio in my own mind, there isn't, but atheists offten pclaim that science and religio are incopatible so it's good when soeone comes up with an answer to that.  hich is what Steven C. Meyer has done in his book, Yhe Return of the God Hypothesis, which I've been listening to.  I'm not very far into it but it's in the first couple of chapters where he lays out the history of science and shows how science as we know it could not have existed without Christianity.  So I want to recommend the book.

I was very surprised to find out that in his own time Newton was regarded as controversial with his theory of gravity of all things.  Mayer describes all that very nicely.  They really were in a completely other mental set back in those dats.  We take a lot of r granted about what science is in our day and have little appreciation of how hard won it was.

I gather that he's oing to go on to show first hoiw we got from a Christian frame of reference for science to the atheistic claim that no God is needed to explain how the physical world works and even the biological world, and then he'll; get to what he sees as the return of scientists to the recognition that an intelligent Designer is needed, and particularly the BGod of the BBible.  But it's a big book and I'm not there yet.

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YIKES!! No, you can't brige voteres, Mr. Trump

 No, you can

t use paxpayer money to ge votwers to suport the cause of your own party, no no no no no.  I'm not sure evwen if you used your own money or money fro donors if you could jusgify bribig voters, but there is no question that you cannot use government money for that purpose.  Good grief.  We desperaely need to win this midterm but we need to do it ithithe right way.  

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winning the midterm?

 Surely there are enough sane liberalsout there somewhere who would change their minds about their libral views if they got hold ot f the struthm but the proble has always been how to get the truth to them.  They follow only the esablishment press, TV or internet, often because they don't have tine for enythihg else, and all they are going to hear there is the liberal lies, or in Thomas  Sowell's words, The Vison of the Anointed.  Qhen a sane liberal does hear the truth it can knock him off hs feet for a while.  That happened to the guy who founded the Walkaway movmeent some yhears back.  He had to realize when shown it by a firnedm that the eida had been tlying to him about Trump, specifically in ths particular case, about Trump's supposedly mocking a reported who had a wphysical disability of some sort.  The truth is that Trum0 was mocking something he said, which was evidenced to this ma by his friend by a series of videos showibg im mocking many others for their views.  The man was devastated and it took him a few days to recover but then he got up and did his own research and found out that the media were lying about Trump all the time.  Then he started the walkaaway movemetnt of people who were seeing tghrough the lies and leaving the Democratic party.   I hoe his website is still out there.  

One of those who contributed her stort to the walkaway moevement was a Georgia H who did a very articulate video about her echange of mind.  I hope she is still out there too.

It seems to me that there is enough information that could and should change the mind of a sane liberal that it is well worth whatever it takes of our time and ingenuity to get the medssage out to thej.  How has always been a problem, but a blitze of You Tube and Faceookk and Xh and Instagram and others would be good and when the message get s taken tdown put it back up ovr and over again.  And give URLs to private websites where the information can be found, websityes you can start yourself.  I ca't do any of this but surely there are some who can.

Recewntly Mark Levin pread some of an articulae by Ayaab Hirsi Alli about the true nautre of Islam hat ought to wake people up to the impossibility of every  ever chaging their minds and winning them to the western mindset.    I forget yhe title of her article unfortunately ubut he said it was on an internet magazine called Tablet, I think.    Islam is one of the ways the country is going down, and could very well be the one that defeats all the others in the end because of its energetic implacability and conviction that it is God himself who wants them to destroy us.    

It is stupidity of the sort Thomas Sowell writes about in The Vision of the Anointed that has allowed Islam to get as far as it has in America abd before us in Europe where it has been menacing them for a long tme.    The idea that nineleeven was the work of eople who were merely victims of western discrimiunation , of lack of economc opportutyies and that sort of thing Sowell identifies as lies basred on nothing but the ideology that is sconteradicted by facts and reality wherever it is put to the test.  Nopne of it explains our own domestic problems of poverty and criminality and it doesn't expplain Islam either.   

But in the same of Islam it is a murderous ideology that truly inspires its adherents to kill those who oppose it and aims to take the whole world for Allah in tghe end that we're up against and that has been idgnored and pooh poohed for decades bnow.  The evidence is right there in eheir holy books which are unholy but anyway, it's right there but still its ignored.  As Swowell makes clear, those with the Vision nof the Anointed are impervious to facts and reality.  

Alyaa  Ayaan is an ex Muslimwho kows what she is talking about so she should have ore credibility than anyone in my position could ever have.  But I got my own knowledge of these things back before nine eleven when I read by  a boo k title Philistine by Ramon Bennett who documented the acttitudes of all the Muslim contries around Israel to make it clea rr that they are not in the slightest open to ay kninkd of negotionatio and we are fools to think they ever gcould be.  Ww'vw bewen fools for many many years wbile Islam has bgrow in power in the west all the while.    

I did some posys on Bennett way back on this blog I'm sure, and maybe on one of my other boogs so if you put his name in the search box at the upper left they may come up.   

But that's ust abojtut Islam.  Marxism and COmmunism are just as big a threat ad  liberals need to get inoculated against those too.  Mark Levin is a course as are all the standard conservative talk shows, but I remember the testimony of Yuri Bezmeov that I also posted on years ago and hope is stil out there because he made it plain that the Soviets were systematicaly working to undermine the west by introducing scertain ideas into oyur public mind which have unfortunatelysucceeded  to the extent that they are a real threat now to the survivial of the nation.   I may have a post on him that can be found through the search line with Yuri Bezmenov or just by looking for ghim on You tube.  

I also remember the shocking fact that the great foundatons such as Rockefeller and Cearnegie had been prooting Ommunism in America.  There was an interview with a I htink a senator at the time I think something Todd, I wish I could remember, about all that and if I can find it I'll try bto come back aand put the information here.  Of course 

Of course Thomas Sowell's book would go a long way if anyoe would read it.    Too bad about hte  title. Anyone coming on it cold isn't going to have any idea what it's really aboutut just from that title.  

I'm sure there are lots of other sources out there too and if just a few people would make use of whatever social media or other internet outlets they have avaoialable to them as soon as possible maybe we could save this contry.

Oh, Bret and Heather, just remembered.  I happened to hear an old podcast of their from before the elecyion in 24, titled The Caste  The Case fo Trump.  They are liberals bugy sane liberals and hey do a bgood mjob on that pocast of laying out whow the left is destroying the country and trump has the better agenda.    Their podast is called Dark Horse podcast.    

If anyobody got into any of these people beoeyond just these particular recent productons that would be good too .  Ayaan for sre is full of good stuff, and although sometimes ret and Heather bore me they also have a lo of good stuff in betwen as well..  

I've been positing from time to time about how we're under God's judgment, wgich swems apparent to me from the very fact that these destructive leftist ideas have been fagaining in power over the last decades.  When it's hard to overturn something evil it's likely to be because it''s comeing from God as judgment ainst us.  On the other hand He's obviously also have mercy on us since Trump has been making a lot of headway as well and the information I post above is out there to help us.  It could all be blown away in one midtern election however, an certainy with the election of one more liberal Predsident.   I had another blog about the daeth of America but it's een a long proloned death and we're still brearthing shallowely at least so I ope we can still be revived but i's going to take a lot of commitment.

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Thomas Sowell again; the arrogant stupidity of the Left and how it's destroying Aerica and reality itselgf

I've been reading Sowell again.  The VIsion of the Annited is a book I think everybody should read,  every American anyway.  It might inoculate some against the stupidities tyhat are taking the country down.  H covers every facet of the thinking, or nonthinking, of the left in this book, mosly throygh how the left misuese statistics to buttress what is othig more than a vision or daydream, utterly without fats or vidence to suport it.  It souold make everybody with a shred of rationality mad and up in arms to save ys from this miserable assault on everything that matters.

The book is thirty years old but it's just as relevant now as it was then, unfortunately, only of corse all of it is much worse now though the same thining patterns are still the same.  It could use an updating just to get the latest insanities on record but otherwise it can be read for our time quite easily.

It ay be in audible form on You tube, I meant to check so if I find out that it's there are I write this I may come back to say so.  

Read the last chapter for starters, or just the last line.   Never have so ......  Never ....  Never beore have so few done so much damage to so many.  If that's not an exact quote it's very close, off by only a word or two at most.    This recognition needs to become familiar to us with all its evidences as Sowell presents them so that we can make use of them when needed, against an enemy that is so often hard to piin down because of the verbal slight of hand that is part of the problem   

Then read the whole last chapter where he summarizes the book with plenty of examples.  All the evids we've had foisted upon us as laws and public policies that have done damage to the soecity and to individuals in the millions.  Liberalism is not just a political point of view, it's a mental aberration and a threat to civicilization.

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Later:  Yes there is an audio version of The Vision of the Aointed at You tube.

I also want to mention that I did aother post on this book back in April, Thomas Sowell Nails Liberalimsms to the Wall...  where Isaid mor about the content of the book than I did in the above.

thoughts about art again

Later, Wednesday:  After listeing to the post I realized I'd had my habnds on the wrong keys for the first couple of paragraphs, but that was just about how my eyes are bad so it's hard to see art, whch youd think might prevent me from writing about it.  But the thing is I can see some things sort of, just that it's blurry and I miss details.  My biggest loss is not being able to read.   However, over the last few days trying ro find out more about Bell's Significant Form I've had to realize that I can't see pictures well enough to talk about them either.  Yes I can make out the general scene usually, but trhat's not enough for this kind of inqurty.  

But I did run across a book I wish I could get in audible form, a monography by an American Professor of Philosophy written in the seventies, titled Clive Bell's Eye, whic sounds like exactly what I've veen needing to brig this topic to a close.  It's pretty clear that Bell himself didn't want to, or couldn't, say more than he did to expplain his concepts because he regarded them as pointed to something beyond words, that all he could do is int a person to the art tiitslef and advise looking at it many times to learn for oneself what he meant.  But he also said he thinks not everyone has this ability.  He likesns it to mystical experience or an xperience that seems to give access to another world.  

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 It's odd of me of course, to write something about visual art when I'm now legally blind and         can see images in a distorted way.  It's pt o,[pssob;e tp see tje, bit tjeu are b;irru amd O cam

t a[[recoate tje, as O ised tp/  O cam ,ale ,u eues rpa, arpimd om a [ocitre amd ,pre pr ;ess et tje pvera;; semse pf ot bit ot

s mpt tje sa,e as ot issede tp be/  O dp jae tp sau. jpwever. tjat O cam see [ocitres a ;pt better tjam O cam read/  Redomg os kist abpit o,[passob;e amu ,pre. evem wjem O dp ,u best tp ,ale tje ;etters bog amd bp;d amd as meat as O cam ,amage/    Amuwau wotj a;; tjat soa dO jave beem tjomlomg abpit art agaom amd as isia; O dpm

t ;ole ,pst pf wjat O fomd [ep[;e sauomg abpit ot/  I don't like being in this possibility because it's like saying I'm oh so uch more sentsitive to art than all these people whose opinions I diaslikw and here I am a nobody who can claim any special aythijg about arty.    

Qwll maybe I can claim a little.  Some paintings could stir min me someting I think is what Clive Bell meant by the aesthetic emption, and I've always wanted to understand more BOUT IT AND     discover how to find it more often, even be able to say just what exactly it is or if not exactly then at leas a lot better than I've vever heard anyone destcribe it.  Including Clive Bell who is annoyingly speechless when it comes to making clear just exactly what he means by the terms he uses.  He says art is that which rovokes the aesthetic emotion and then he says that in ppaintings it's the  sense of signficant form which provokes the aestheitc emotion and he defines signifiant form as the way lines and colors and three dimensional spacew are arranged in a painting that provokes that emotio and so on.  I can't find even an example of a painting to which he might point to illustrate what he is taling about. Whewn shen I look up the concepts and find others talking about them I'm very sure they haven't a clue what he is taling about.  They may be artistics and teacghers of art butg they haven't a clue.  If I know one thing from reading Bell it's that he's trying to define what is a direct experience he himself has had, so that if a teacher says he got such and such an idea from Kant I know he's blowing smoke.  

The aestehtic emotion at its strongest I'm sure is a sense of leasure that just grtaps you when you lookl at something that provokes it to an intense degree, a ppleasure that makes you groan.  Something about how the lines and colors and three dimensional speace come together, okay fine but those things sodcome together in one way or another in every paintibg don't they, and very very few of them provoke that aestehtic emotion.  And in some of them that do it amay only be in one part of the picture, ot the picture as a whole.  This much I got from reading Bell.  

I've had flashes of that feeling and I would like to have found out how to have it more, and Clive Bell is one of the few who could have pinted me toward it and he did not.I thin I have a btter grasp of what he meant thab the people I've been listening to, enevertheless, yes I am that much of a n arrogant snob about it I guess.  

I have a smiliar reaction to the concept of Notan which is a concept I think originated in Asia ssomethiwhere to desdribe the relation of light and dark party s of a painting or image to each other.  I came across someone one who seemed to think he understood it and put a huge dark shadow in his painting of a street that I absolutely nknow had nothing to do with Notan.  There is a book about Notaln that I read years ago.  I may even have it somewhere in a box but I've got too many boxews I'll just never go through.  There was one little illustration in that book of a picture that provoked in me what I would call that eaestehtic emotion Clive Bell talks about, just a little drawing that held no interest for me in whatevr it was a bout, an animal of some tsort I think, but the way the light and dark were situated in the picture is what provoked the emotion, a larger amount of white with smaller areas of black but the arrangement was somewhow extremely ppleasurable and I couldn't say how.     now I'm fdining examples at you tube that purport to illustrate the concept and while they are much more truly examples of the meaning of the term, there is nothng anywhere neart that concept in any of the illustrations to what I saw in that book.  Peopele just don't seem to get it.  Even when they sort of get it they don't get it.

Theis relates to a larger subject .  All my life, not always with any particular awareness of it, I've felt myself surrounded by ugliness, or a dearth of beauty.   I have no ability to create beauty myself, it's something I have to find, and I ca't arfford to collect tyhe thihgs I finsd so my personal life ahs also always been withouit the luxurry of beauty.  I'd acceppt prettiness at time even but that isn't to be found anywhere in this modern world either.  Oh in nature yeas but that's a different kind of beauty or orettingss, not the prettiness of art or human doing which is what this is all about.    Things are ugly , buildings are ugly , the walls of my apartment are uglyg, nothing has a sens of proportion, it's all utilitarian, empty, nothijbnglessness.  i think this is vwerty hard on our human souls and not ood for us at all.

Tge iuht abiyt Bitab us tgat uts a cibceot if art as aesteutc exoeruebcem bit hyst sine jubd if firnyka fir darj abd kuggt as a cibvebtuib if sinetgubg kuje tgat,  

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Food, cancer, Junk DNA, God's Judgmetn on America

 I just don't have the energy.  When I sit alone and think about  it I have so many thoughts they could alost be a book if I could get them all written down as completely as I'd like to, but ther's the rub, getting them written down.  even remembering them all for that matter, when I sit down at the computer.   So I end up sometimes just sketching out the broad outline of what I've been thinkibg about, hoig that eventually I'll have the endergy to come back and do it all justice.  I won't say that neer happens but unortunately a lot of the time it doesn't.  

For weeks now I'vew wanted to write mostre about fallenneness in the context of things I've een readingmmeaning of course sllistening to since I can't see to read any more, but Ijust don't even make it to the computer, or if I do I use up my energy doing what little research I have the energy to do and never get to the blog.  

One of the areas I'd like to write about is nutritional treatments for various diseases which I've been reading about recently.  Of course Chris Warks's Chris beat Cancer, which I return to from time to time becauyse I forget things he said, and now two books by William Li, EWat To Beat Disease and Eat to Beat Your Diet, which ae both full of interesting facs about whgat foods dowdo in the body, some of which Chris Wark refers to in his book.  Many foods have been studied for their effect on cancers for instance, just by dripping their juidce onto cancer cells in the lab.  This way they discover things like which fruits and vegetables have the strongest cancer killing effects on the many different kinds of cancers.  It's the sort of thing I'd have made my own reference lists for if I could still see to read.   Intad I have to remember things.  As a result of what Ive been reading I've incorporated some new items into my eating, even things like powdered extracts of things like cranberry juice and pomegranate juice and amla juice.  all kjown to have powerful anti cancer and general health building effets.   

I've also been listening to a book by Steven C Meyeer, Signature in the Cell, in which he defends the scientific qualifications of Intelligent Designn to answer the question of the origin of life, compairing it to various materialistic theores of how life could have originated purely through the random actiities of chemistry.   I think he does a boogood job of making his point, that ID is definitely a scientific approach to the problem, despite the scoffing of opponents who relegate it to religion and then throw out religion as nonscientific.    

But I also appreciate his book because iyt's introduced me to a much fuller appreciation of the scientific questons about all this and especially to the actual cheical facts involved in its study, what is actually going on in the DNA molule gor instance, in the cell where proteins move around like liing things performaing tasks that stagger the imagination.  As with most such techical books I'll probably go back to this onw over and over to get it all clearer in my mind.  

But one thing that it brought up for me that I think about from time to time anyway and now with more knowledge, is the question of what Junk DNA rally is.  One thing became clear from his book concerning junk DNA, which is that since ID is looing for an explanation for whow life opriginated, meaning how all the poarts of the living cell can be explained best by IDS, it's not going to be addressing anything like junk DNA AS junk DNA unless it csimply dismissed it as junk as the majoirity of evoloutionaists apparently to.,  It seems to be the IDers and creationists, o tthe same group by the way, who insist that junk DNA is ot jusnk but has a function, or many functions, because if it was created by an intelligence it must be of use to the organism.  You can't have that much waste in a system with that sort of origina.  Nwewtheless I've always thought that junk DNA fits in very nicely with Christian thweology since it seems to bme to be exatly what one expect of the world and all the orgnisms in it after the Fall.  The world chaged for the worse and living things became sucject to disease and death wghich had not existed in the world God oirginally created.   It made sense to me that junk DNA would simpley reflect the destruction that would ahve occurred through utations as a result of the disease processes of the fallen world, even more so perhaps on accountof the worldwide Flood of Noah.    

I understand why ID with its sceintific orientation doesn't look at it this way, but I would have expected Christians to do so.  But even they don't.  they seem to forget that this world is fallen and keep talking as if they expect DNA to function peectly or at least better than junk DNA would dususggest.  It's a major complaint aainst ID by its opponents who refuse to see that it is not the same thing as Christianity to accuse it of failing to appreciate all the gobbledygook in the DNA moleculem wgic they say proves that IDS is false since the creator they impute to it, against its own cleaims remember, could n't have created his world in such a messy way.  But the Fall exlains that the true God did not ccreate the world in a messay way at all, the messineess is a result of the Fall, of human disobediewnce jof gGod.  Again, this is not what ID is about, but I am not into ID, I think in terms of Christian biblical theology as best I can.

All yhese are toics I think deserve a lot more thought and development that I'm not up to.  Maybe, ha ha, if I keep taking these health building supplemnts I'll eventalully have the energy to  do all that.  Yeah, ha ha.

I guess I should add that if it is true that noncoding DNA really isn't junk DNA, or that a lot of it istn't, and that it actually has some of the maazing functions Meyer atrributes to it in his Epilogue to the gobook, well OK, I'll adapt.  In fact the incredible complexit of what he sees in it is beauyifully consistent with God's ailities anyway aso I like it.   But I still think that junk DNA fits well with the Fall.  Whicheever is the truth I'm for it.

SOMETHING COMPPLETELY DIFFERent:

Another topic I'd like to write about at more length is one OiI go back to from time to time here, tnadthat is the idea that America is under god's judmgnet and that His tools of judgment or puishemtn actually include our current version of liberalism with its antiAmerican and antiConstitituional bent, the strong Marxist and Commuist elemtn in our politicis gthat has been threatening to succeed beond our worst nightmares, and Islam which is maybe the biggest ightmare of all which has acquiried an amazing degre of popularity and power among Americans themselvdes in some odd ineplicable way in the lsast few decades.  Ever since nine eleven this has been apparentl.  You'd lthink Islam awould have lost favor as a result of that eent but no, oddly it's only been gaining in favor.

The only thing that exlain all this i that God is begind it.  No, it's not that God is in favor of any of these things, no, it is not that ust because Islam wany s to see us deatd that God agrees with them, nom and He doesn't like Communism or Marcism either and He decertainly doesnt like abortion and gay marriage and gay tirrights and divorce and pornograpy and the insane idea that prayer in cschools violates the first amenemetn and all that nonesnes.  No no andmmore no.  But as with Isareal in Old Testament times He brings their enemeies against them toi pushish them when they need it .  He sends Assyria to destroy the northermn kidndome and the souther kingdom goes into Babylon for seventy years.  Israel remains His chosen people, He's not particularly in favor of Babylon or assyria at all, they are tools in this case to pushish His chosen people.  So with this wacko Listeralism we see togdaty and Communism and Marxism and Islam and all that, they are tools to pushish us because we've allowed all those violateions of His law go continue.  Who is trying any more to do away with gay marriage?  Who is even raising a voice aainst the rampant divorcew in the nation, or e.  Qw o we do hear the prolife objections to abortion at least ut for the most part the churches seem to be as paralyzed as the coservtive elements of our political system.  Nobdoy seem ts to be albotto to do wnything or even have the right idea about what needs to be done.

I pray that we will not lost the midterm, sometmimes with sobbing fervency even, but I know that we might because it's up to God and wqe don't deerve to win becaue we havet't been defending His causes as we should be, particularly we Christians.  It's our job and we haven't been doing it well enough.  Some churches weeen excuse themselve sfrom that job as if they are here only to give the gosple and keeop their mouths shut about what's going on in the greater world.    Salt abnd light, ha/   Anyway my opoint is that we 

talk a lot abaoinstainst Commuism and Marxism and liberalsm as the cause of God's judgment, but we nee to understand that the reaon we have no power against them is that God is allowing them to grow in strength until we repent and realized that we deserve what they are doing to us and whaant to do to us.,

We could of course start with prayer that God would show us what to do.  

So much more that needs to be said but time to stop.  Said more than I thought I'd be up to thought, there's that.

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