Category: Analysis

The American Decline

 It was those Yale Safe Spaces, and coming off of Jerry Sandusky. And the Freddy Grey murder. And the Bill Cosby thing, that shocked the Black Community because he was practically the success story and standard, showing they could have the American Dream too. The real start of it was the Free Love movement in the 60s, Vietnam, then the Drug War and no warrant searches, Columbine, then 9/11, the Patriot Act, Iraq being so prolonged and damaging the economy, then the things I talked about above, and then Covid and the Alex Jones Lawsuit. Next who knows. It's just a long train of bad leadership since Eisenhower. Most of it driven by the media.

My Life at 18

Was hot, had a shot with a few supermodel looking girls, was just beginning to get serious about writing books, had a good job that paid about 30,000 a year, had a decent friend’s group, was about to pay my way through community college… then my grandfather died; I got back together with my ex, who then may or may not have been cheating on me as she had excessive interest in the boys across the street; and I learned about conspiracy theories, so I had a mental break down, got paranoid, assaulted two teenagers, and then got fat, and then confessed crimes I committed at 14, got put on a sex offender registry, and none of my books sell for anything, am applying for social security, with no car, and the only thing to show for my life is those books nobody will read.

On Narcissism

I can honestly say I don't know anyone like this. I know some selfish people... but nobody to this extreme. But what I've always noticed, is narcissists use the word Narcissist and Boundaries. "Oh I just realized XY is a narcissist," Really? Is my first reaction... I think it's six to one, half a dozen the other in that case. I just know from experience... the people going hunting for narcissists and talking about setting boundaries, are themselves the most likely narcissists. Normal people don't think about things that way.

Not you: I know you are hurt, but you don't accuse people. You try to love them.

Christianity and the Founding Fathers

The core group of Founders were Diest, and they generally accepted religion as a whole as being beneficial--though probably never actually studied some of the weirder things that can happen. At that time, people generally thought all religion was for moral guidance, and they would prefer it to Atheism. That much is true. But, certainly, they would have no qualms with a Hindu or Muslim or Sikh, so long as they stuck to the principles of civil government. They wouldn't appreciate abortion, homosexuality or transgenderism, though.

Like, they want religion to be safe, because it teaches you a set of moral values, that restrains the population from doing evil. They also don't want that religion being set up in the government. They want religion to be a personal choice, and something that governs man's heart, and not the society's. As many of them felt religion was a personal journey--being that a lot of them were Masons--and they felt religion was a personal experience, which is why they carefully craft their words to say "Religion" and not "Christianity". But, they had the highest respect for the doctrine of Christ, there can be no doubt about that. They preferred Him to all others, but many of them probably took it as a moral framework, and didn't actually believe He was the Son of God.

Math

Math is framed. Neither invented or discovered. Basically, it just gets more and more clear the more we learn about it. Every equation gets more focused the more advanced the mathematics become, or the more we need to do with it, so it's like framing a picture, and cropping parts of it. Like, all principles in math are just built from other smaller principles, starting with the basic operations, all the way to a shape that could describe Reiman's Hypothesis. You don't discover the shape, or invent it, but describe it.

1 =/= 2

1 can never equal 2. That's impossible. Except to say that 2 inches equals 5.08 centimeters, but there's a conversion formula for that. We need to relearn number theory, as a society. So we don't end up making 1=2, as it never will.

[If] you subtracted out a similar term, and unbalanced the equation, [or something like it] the equality has to be equal the whole time, for it to work. We used to know that... it was the whole premise of my High School Education. I think the Internet made people braindead.

[T]his is a qualm I have with the internet, that it's literally making people forget some of the most basic things.

{}Some people try to make that point, [like in common core math, or they call math a "Western Concept"] these days. It's a strange world we live in.

I don't know... I was taught the equation has to always be equal, hence the term equation. You see where you reduced it, it's no longer equal.

In fact, in language that's how we have knowledge, too, is when empirical facts start equating, or things in the real world start being described. Like Geometry. Not many people relate math back to geometry, but that's where our entire knowledge of number and algebra comes from, is studying shapes, and deriving axioms of logic around it. And in fact, the evidence for the Bible does this very well, in archeology, ethics and also psychology.

The Beauty of Number

Everything has number involved with it, from chemistry, to geometry, to physics. It's just the numbers work in proportion and relation to each other by equalities. Even the imaginary numbers are real, as they represent something, just in a higher dimension.

I can easily show you negative 9. It will plot on a graph, and work inverse in relation to the geometric figure. So, take a leaf, and do calculus with the curve for the leaf's edge, you'll find you need negatives for some of the curve and rate of change, to fully document the leaf, as some of the leaf's structure overlaps with the others in new dimensions of space. Like, you have a square represented on that x/y graph, the numbers are going to relate to actual geometry, and negatives are going to plot different points onto the graph, and create different lines and different dimensions, only equal to the equation.

Money's [also], not imaginary. Without it, you'd have no marker for received debts, or work. Like you need money to mark how much capital you have, and how much you've worked, and keep track of that, because without it, you'd have no way of keeping track of labor or production costs, which is real. Like your entire dollar bill is backed by capital, labor and how much work is invested into the economy, which is why a Banana Republic can happen, when there's nothing real--no labor or capital--backing the currencies, it causes inflation. Which is also why currencies spring up in every society, be it smoked meats, or sea shells, or sand dollars, or beads, or even dollar bills.

Integrity And Foolishness

Better to call yourself a fool, and be called wise by others, than be called wise by your own lips, and a fool by all you know.

But truthfully, I am a fool. I conduct business badly because I put my trust in other people's integrity. And then when someone's honest, I don't know because I've been screwed so many times. I doubt my allies too much, and put my confidence in my enemies. I don't know how to tell the difference. It's a great pain, because I love everyone, but don't want to destroy myself through lies. So I try to be honest, and often that honesty gets me in trouble. Because we have a system that's built to reward lies.

Time to Talk About the Internet

There are thousands of things we're forgetting because of it. Literally, core concepts in math, such as Geometry's relation to Algebra, or contextual based reading skills... we're losing it.

I don't understand how we've become so dull, but I think the answer lies in the fact that everything we do on the internet, revolves around social constructs, and a priori reasoning. This was common knowledge in the 90's and 00's, that we understood this fact that everything in language, related back to something we described in the real world.  It was taught in our High Schools. Until it wasn't, and I think the education degraded under the Patriot Act and Common Core, and Universities were focused too much on squaring the circle, and making absurd conjectures about Postmodern nonsense, rather than sticking to the foundations of evidence and reason.

And you can still believe in Christ, through evidence and reason. There's no point in casting aside Christ for this, as there's a foundational bedrock of evidence in support of the Bible. Both witness, and archeological.

But, this comes to the fact, that the internet has given people infinite information, but infinite bad information, and has made the world dull, in that everything is related to language rather than the context or substance of that language. Rather, Math we used to understand has a Hermeneutics too, and it was the foundation of Western Society, and without it, we've lost ground, and it's entirely the Internet's fault.