When memory is created, aspects of the limbic system add emotional valance to the memory as it is written to the cerebral. Our memories are composed of thought/sensory content and feelings. We can trigged memory from either side of this duality. We can feel something and this will induce memory or we can recall memory and feel feelings.

The result is our memory is actually stored in layers, based on the feeling tags. It is analogous to looking a grid of blue and red dots through red sunglasses. The red dots will disappear and we will only see the blue dots; focus layer.

For example, if I feel hungry, images of food appear in my mind. The hunger feeling induces a layer of memory all with the same feeling tag. There are not many feelings tags; dozens, so these are reused for lots of different memories. The hunger feeling is attached to hundreds of data points. As this memory layer becomes active and in focus, states are connected to specific layers. This layering allows the ego to focus, while still having access to all the brain.

Beyond the memory layering, are brain firmware called the archetypes of the collective unconscious. These firmware help to organize each memory layer around the feeling and dynamics associated with that firmware. In the case of hunger, being hungry is not just recalling the food layer of memory, but also gathering, prepping and eating the food. Mental states are connected to this combined affect; given memory layer and the dynamics in the natural or modified firmware.

A person on a train, looking out the window will appear to see the landscape moving at velocity V, If they assume they are stationary; train is stopped. It looks this way to the eyes but they just added energy to the universe, since the landscape what more mass.
They did not add kinetic energy to the universe. It was always there. The landscape/universe was always moving at V in that frame. — noAxioms

Let me expand on this to make my point. We start with these two references; train and landscape. I place a person in each reference. Before the experiment begins, I place each person in a seal container so they can't see or feel what I am about to do.

I use 1000 gallons of diesel fuel to propel the train. This fuel defines our two reference system energy balance. Lastly, I let each person out of their sealed container and tell each to do an energy balance from the POV of their relative reference.

The person who thinks the landscape is in relative motion will assume more energy was added than was in reality. It will take more than 1000 gallons of diesel fuel to move that mountain. He will add imaginary energy due to assuming reference is relative and no reference is preferred. The experiment was designed on an absolute hierarchy, since only the train gets the energy. The other is an illusion.

The way this is normally done; in space, is we don't have an energy balance up front. We are not able to compare references to see who is closer, like in my experiment. This makes anything one says seem to appear valid. It is a magic trick, due to using space-time or distance and time, but not including relativistic mass as a way to do an energy balance on the fly.

Dark energy can't be seen in the lab, but it is needed for the universal energy balance. It is very possible that dark energy is a relative reference illusion, fix, needed to close the energy balance. The need to add dark energy would suggest that our earth reference original underestimated the energy of the universe using relative references. One explanation is earth is at higher energy in the hierarchy of the universe. However, we had assumed we are stationary and/or going slower. We may have higher relativistic mass than expected.

In the twin experiment, only the twin who was given motion, based on rocket fuel, shows permanent time dilation; ages slower. His change is connected to the energy balance slanted in his favor. Relative reference does not allow both to age at the same rate, even if both see the same relative velocity. Relativistic mass is what leverages time, just as rest mass does in GR.

What's the connection between pronouns and biology? Although someone's biology has historically been the measure we used to determine which pronoun to use, language is always changing, and it is becoming more and more common for these pronouns to defer to someone's cultural gender rather than their biological sex. What compelling reasons are there for resisting this change? — Michael

Picture a small child pretending to be a bird. They do not have bird DNA, but still they like to play bird. They wear a cape and flap their arms running around the house pretending to fly. This imaginative play is natural for a child, with the parents often playing along, since it does no real harm, and the child is happy and content. It is assumed to be stage of child development.

If this bird behavior continued into their teen years and then as an adult, it is no longer treated the same way by culture. The neighbors and the doctors will not say this is natural for that age. The mom may still go along, since it still appears to make her little boy happy. Say the bird man doubles down and decides they want to add permanent wings and feathers through surgical procedures, so their fantasy is more real, and not just limited to dress up.

Personally, I would not care, since to each their own. But say this bird man wants me; insurance, to pay for his bird surgery. And say I am publicly pressured to say this is normal. If I don't I am called a hater. I am being sucked into their fantasy, even if I do not wish to go there. I am not his mom so I have a right to choose, like him.

As far as men and women dressing up in certain ways, this is based on biology. Men are more visually oriented than women. Women will cater to this difference, by creating pretty visual displays that cater to this male orientation. Animals do the same thing, with usually the male animals more decorated. The human biology of dress is connected to the male side of the women, and the female side of the men. This firmware reversal is what causes confusion and the bird man affect.

Women are more verbal orientated. This is why men tend to lie to women. The sweet little lies is type of verbal makeup; you look wonderful today. This is the male bird singing his song to the female birds. In the bird world the male has the sweet song and colorful dress. I human world, the female has the dress and the male the song. A male with a good line of bull, does not have to be handsome to attract females.

I did dream research many years ago and became an expert in collective human symbolism, so I could analyze my dreams. Dreams have meaning if you know how to translate. It is similar to listening to a foreign language you do not know. It makes no sense and is like a bunch of arbitrary sounds, until you know how to translate. Then it has more meaning to you.

Several years into the research I had a dream where I was conscience in that dream, but that particular dream was a nightmare. Rather then deal with a lucid nightmare, I tried to wake myself up, only to find that the dream was still partially going on while I was awake. I was in a sweet spot, where both sensory reality and dream reality were overlapping. It was not exactly psychotic, but a do-able place for further research.

This was a variation of unconscious projection, where we see reality through our eyes, but overlapped with an unconscious projection. If one is not aware of this, then the composite image appears to define your reality. A social anxiety disorder sees reality but overlapped with an intense anxiety that is projected onto even friendly reality.

As an analogy, say you had a movie projector attached to a hat you are wearing. The movie projector shines a jungle landscape onto the walls of your room at the same time you are looking at the objects on the wall. If you were not aware of the projector on your head, your mind would get used to the composite image and see this as your reality. Metaphysics sort of deals with the projectors.

That being said, part of my later research into dreams was to learn to differentiate the subtle overlay using a technique based on synchronicity; meaningful coincidence. The physical environment is fixed, but the overlay will participate in synchronistic experiments. It can synchronize because it comes from the unconscious center, which is attempting to get the attention of the ego.

The way that might work was me becoming aware of certain details in the environment, such as a bird flying from left to right. I am not controlling the bird in terms of any physical reality connection. Rather I am being made aware of this particular bird, because its color and direction off motion has a dream type parallel, that was appropriate to the occasion. I would analyze this as a dream symbol. This was an early way to develop an interactive rapport with the unconscious mind. It led to a dissociated state that made it easier to map out the psyche from its projection.

Relativistic mass is rarely discussed in the same breath as space-time, even though it is 1/3 of Special Relativity. The result is a 2-D illusion called relative reference and/or no preferred reference.

The way to demonstrate this is to have two references, each with a different mass; M and 2M, with a relative velocity V. If reference was relative and neither reference is preferred, and each references assumes the other has all the motion, than each will predict a different total system kinetic energy; 1/2MV2, and a different system momentum MV. One reference will be twice the energy of the other. Both cannot be true at the same time and maintain energy conservation. One of the relative references is creating or taking away energy.

The twin paradox tries to disguise this by using twins. Twins have the same mass, therefore kinetic energy and momentum will be the same for both references. This is how the system was gamed. If you use different masses, the energy conservation problem appears when you assume relative references and no preferred reference.

We can easily measure energy and we can see red/blue shifts in energy with standard tools. However, we can't measure mass or relativistic mass, directly. We have to infer rest mass from changes in energy; GR, with energy a relationship in distance and time, but not in mass.

Consider the classic example of someone on a train looking out the window at someone standing at the train station. They see each other moving with a relative velocity V. They both see relativistic changes in distance and time. If the mass of the train and the mass of the train station are not the same, and we know how much energy; diesel fuel, was used to achieve this system motion, then you can infer who has to be moving and who has to be stationary. It is no longer relative but an absolute hierarchy appears.

Dark energy and dark matter can be explain as an artifact of the relative reference illusion. If we assume no preferred reference, in a system with different masses in each reference, and if we assume the wrong reference as the baseline for observation, this can add or take away energy from the universe. The violation of energy conservation will eventually appear as anomalies, with something needing to be added to close the energy balance.

A person on a train, looking out the window will appear to see the landscape moving at velocity V, If they assume they are stationary; train is stopped. It looks this way to the eyes but they just added energy to the universe, since the landscape what more mass. However, other observations will not support this, so they may need to add invisible negative energy to close the energy balance. Using 2 out 3 variables in SR is metaphysics.

A person can derive self esteem from within, or they can derive it from outside, themselves. For example, if one is an actor, they need an audience's reaction to feel a higher sense of self. An entertainer without an audience is not as full. On the other hand, there are people, such as the pioneer, whose self esteem stems from their own actions and comes from inside of them.

Empathy comes from inside us and causes our energy to leave us, so it can be given to another. The mother senses the needs of her child and outputs her loving energy to them.

A bully or those who appear to lack empathy are more used to drawing in energy, from outside themselves. The bully likes the induced fear reaction as an input for self esteem. They are more stingy in terms of their own energy output and only use it to induce others to output for their self esteem. They can empathize, but only if they feel full, which is not all the time.

We can all empathize, but we all do the math and make sure we don't drain ourselves. We may budget out empathy and give it to those who are empty and need to feel full.

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom is higher than knowledge. Wisdom is where you learn to apply your knowledge, allowing one to extrapolate knowledge to new area, where knowledge starts to break down. It is one thing to learn how to hold and swing a hammer properly, and another thing to use it to frame a house for the first time.

Fear is a greatest motivator, since it brings the possibility of death or injury. The need to avoid this unhappy ending, requires the ability to anticipate and react properly. When all is well, people are content not to change anything or learn anything new. If it is not broken, don't fix it. But if there is a problem where the old is not working and fear starts to kick in, then new adaptation begins, which starts with learning new knowledge, and then learning to apply it as wisdom.

Fear of God, in the old sense, was connected to God thought as being in control of everything. This meant one could not rest on laurels, but had to be concerned that anything could break. The fear kept one in a state of adaptation, until one developed an instinct called wisdom.

Let me give an example of the mass mind, where one's mind exist outside themselves. As an experiment, look at fashions from past eras, such as the polyester leisure suits of the disco era of the late 1970's.

These fashions look odd and funny, yet in its day this was considered state of the art. The funny reaction you may feel looking at these pictures comes from within you. Whereas, the trend of that day was formed outside of people, until many felt the need to move with the herd, to be in style and to be on the cutting edge. If you follow the herd, it thinks for you. You are not a self, but part of something outside you. That is part of the illusion factor.

The illusion factor is temporary and wears out with time. It needs to reboot itself. The inner self is based on natural instinct which is always the same, at least over a lifetime. It might choose classic styles that transcend generations.

The Conservative and the Progressive differ by long standing traditions versus novelty traditions. The Conservative think in terms of self reliance; inner self, whereas the Progression thinks isn terms of its takes a village; outer self.

Say you had a wave tank, with a wave generator on each side of the tank, 180 degree out of phase. They both pump waves to the middle. Since they are out of phase, the wave crest from the left will meet with the wave troughs from the right; and vice versa, and cancel in the middle of the tank.

In this scenario, we have energy being pump into the wave tank from both directions, but we have calmness in the middle; bottom line of the image below, due to the waves adding and cancelling. It looks like there is nothing going on in the middle.



If we placed a partition in the stillness of the middle, like a large wooden board, this will upset the cancelling waves. This will cause the waves to appear on both sides of the board. The primordial atom of the Big Bang theory was the partition in the stillness of canceling waves, which caused waves of matter and antimatter to appear.

This isa way for something to have appeared from what seems like nothing. The symbolism of brooding over the deep was connected to starting in the stillness of the cancelled waves. A partition forms; space-time, and the hidden waves appear; let there be light.

However with regard to a discussion about immigration and illegal immigration it is not necessary that it be a pro-Trump vs an anti-Trump debate. Take whoever the president happens to be away the debate will always still remain. — raza

There is a two part solution to the illegal immigration problem. Since the Democrats are pro-breaking the law in terms of illegal aliens; sanctuary cities, should all America Citizens being giving a get out of jail free card, that they can use to break the law?

For example, I don't wish to pay taxes next year I can use my get out of jail free card. It can be used for anything, except murder and violent crimes, and has no expiration. It makes no sense to give this to people who are not citizens, but not to the citizens.

The second part is to place an added tax on all Democrats to cover the costs. The Democrats want illegal immigration and they claim to have a big heart. They will not mind covering the entire tab. If those on the right are officially out of the debt loop due to illegal immigration, they may be more tolerant, especially if they have their get out go jail free card. Those on the right would then be treated like VIP illegals, and have benefits. Everyone is happy!

One way to explain it, which may not be what he had in mind, is many people are the product of collective thinking. They react and respond in ways that are not spontaneous; internally generated, but via by collective thinking. In collective thinking, the personality is induced outside itself.

This is easy to see in politics and media, where a daily song is written and before long everyone is singing along. To be cool and fit in you need to repeat the group chant. This is different from looking at the circumstances and deducting and inferring it on your own. This process has your consciousness more in your own head. It is sounds similar Buddhism.

One thing I noticed is space and time is always discussed when discussing SR. However, relativistic mass is rarely included in the discussion, even though it is part of the 3 part SR package. One may notice, SR is reduced to 2-D; space and time and not taught as 3-D; space, time and mass. This is the 2-D and 3-D clock problem in another guise.

Relativistic mass is connected to an energy balance; relativistic kinetic energy, which tells us that all references are not relative, but rather they are absolute at some level. Unlike space and time, Mass is an invariant.

As an example, say I had two rocket ships in the dead of space with a relative velocity V. If we only take into account space-time; distance and time, there is no preferred reference. The same velocity is seen from either ship. If we add mass, such as one ship has mass M and the other side has mass 2M, the energy balance is not the same in both references, even with the same relative velocity. Reference preference will double or half the total energy. The references are made distinct by their relativistic mass and energy balance due to the impact of a common 2-D relative variable, on two different 1-D invariants.

This can be proven by collisions and how the system responds to the recoil. The 2M ship will always punt the 1M ship if it has the velocity. There will always be an absolute hierarchy in the recoil response. Relative reference is an illusion due to using 2-D SR, instead of 3-D SR.

Time has its own illusion in 2-D, compared to 3-D entropy clocks for time. Statistics tries to address the z-axis, as the changes that occur in real or future time, that did not occur on the last cycle of the 2-D clock. Statistics reflects time moving in the 3-D helix, when z is not seen by the clock.

Psychology can be used to heal many conditions of the mind and soul. But it is also a good way to make a respectable living and support a family. Any good psychologist can see how certain social conventions and trends can cause potential mental health problems.

If psychology was altruistic, these problems would be pointed out; socially, to help more people be on alert so they can stay healthy. On the other hand, if you stay silent, and the anticipated problems appear, this is good for business. Why give free advice, that reduces potential clients?

For example, there is an unusually high rate of drug/alcohol addiction and suicide among gays. This is a bumper crop of potential clients. In therapy, the psychologist will not point the finger of blame, but will try to figure out how the individual is massaging their beliefs and drawing a wrong conclusion so they are not able to cope. We create our own reality. We cannot control outside us, but we can control how we respond to it.

In culture, nobody from psychology speaks up in advance and nobody in psychology tries to take on those who like to point the finger of blame, even though this path will never heal. This is also true of finger pointing for racism and sexism. It could be due to political threats that will keep good people silent. They may only be able to do the right thing, in private, out of the social eye of big brother, who is running a scam for unhealthy.

If you were a psychologist in a university and said anything that was interpreted as anti-gay, you will become a target. Even of you are trying to avoid the future couch. The political groups have their own psychology mercenaries who will sell their talents to the highest bidder and reverse engineer, to control the good shepherds; stick and carrot. The carrot is a good living, that soon becomes the leash.

The hate Trump path is good for politics, but it is not good for psychological health. It is causing a departure from rational reality; everything is not bad and worthy of hate. That is irrational and an accident waiting to happen. Nobody is speaking out from the psychology community, since they fear threats or they see opportunity in the future.

There is a whole generation of snowflakes who cannot longer cope with basic reality; $$ching $$ching! This should be nipped in the bud, but left wing colleges prefer the pathology of anarchy. While psychology turns and looks away out of fear of threat.

Look at the number of people in the mental health fields, as a function of time. If they do a good job for the collective, the number of jobs should go down and not follow an exponential function of increase. This is a sign that they are part of the problem. This shows there is no proactivity in the field, except by those whose goal is to create problems.

Belief has a connection to faith. While faith is the belief in thing not seen. Belief is what we accept to be true, but which s not rigorously derived, personally, by the observer. Our system of beliefs is often accepted on faith, based on the prestige of others, or on our own intuitions, but not directly seen with our own eyes.

For example, I have never seen an atom up close and personal. I have seen pictures and representations of atoms. I believe atoms are real based on the prestige of science, knowledge of science tools, and the credibly of those who have been able to see it, directly. Belief has a degree of disconnect from hard direct sensory evidence that you personally have. It is sort of a social short cut to a result that skips many steps. The result of belief can be right or wrong, but the disconnect is still there, so the unconscious mind will have some doubt ,that can result in fanaticism.

The unconscious is natural and dependent on direct sensory evidence to confirm. The conscious mind has imagination which does not have to jive with sensory reality. Belief is somewhere in the middle between sensory reality and imagination; empathy. The unconscious is not in the middle with the ego, but stands on one side of the bridge. The result can be unconscious dynamics which lends an emotional state to belief.

If you learn everything by reading, your belief system will be molded. But there is still a disconnect with reality; in the imagination, until you generate your own applied data. Then belief changes to confirmation, where the unconscious mind agrees with you. This adds a calmer emotional baseline to the belief.

Space-time has the same dimensions as energy; distance and time. Science convention uses an energy and wave analogy to measure time; cyclic waves, round clocks, vibrating atoms. However, time does not behave like energy wave, since time does not cycle, but moves in one direction, never to repeat itself like a wave. This is a big problem.

Time does not behave like a wave or anything that cycles. Although ancient religious conventions discusses rebirth after death, which is conceptually similar to an energy/wave clock. After midnight it is morning again. Religion may have started this time convention.

Time behaves more like entropy, which explains the association of time wth change. The entropy of the universe has to increase, it does not have to cycle. We should be measuring time with an entropy clock. I explain one such clock in my previous post. Time creates a series of unique states in the universe that is not a wave. The way you bridge the gap between an energy clock and entropy clock is to add a third axis to the energy clock to make it 3-D.

Picture a helix. In some respects a helix acts as a wave, but since it exists in 3-D, it never repeats itself exactly in 3-D, because it also moves along a z-axis that is not cyclic like x and y. Energy clocks look down the z-axis, so the z-axis is not seen. Instead we appear to see a circle that repeats itself. Time needs both the x,y and Z axis so even things that cycle in the short terms are part of larger term change that does not exactly repeat; unique set of variables for each instant in time.

In the dead fish clock; entropy clock, of my former post, each time interval uses a new dead fish, that starts fresh and ends when it stinks. The series of of such fish is the z-axis, with each fish, part of a common cyclic process, that is unique on the z-axis.

Rebirth symbolism in religions, shows the old man being born again as a new baby. However, the future path of this new baby is not the same as the previous cycle. Instead there is a new path, such as in reincarnation, Karma, heaven or Hell. This is 2-D energy/wave moving along a z-axis, with the z-axis conscious to the ancients. They were correct.

You are are giant hypocrite.

You claim your subjective morally is based on being a team player, but yet exclude Dems and the LGBT community from your team. That is not being a team, all you are doing is egotistically judging people who don't fit into you narrow and very subjective views. The only team you are playing for is your own, and the notion that Trump is trying to help everyone shows a great lack of insight.

Democrats are not your enemy. You claim to be a team player but have these senseless subjective divisions. It is completely backwards.

as you have indicated.
— wellwisher

Your own warped views are just that yours. Personally, I think your views are disgusting and you are clearly a judgmental homophobe. — Jeremiah

A team player does not bring their personal business to the game. They do not gossip and try to divide the team. Identity politics divides the team. If two strangers met at a party and kept to neutral topics they may get along. If they bring up politics, such as pro and anti Trump, they may start to argue and lose their rapport. The left tries to induce and inject differences that divide people. They do not seek common culture.

Diversity creates team problems based on induced ignorance. If a group separates itself from the main herd, to be more distinct, members of the larger herd lose touch with them, and no longer know them as well as before. Strangers will induce a different emotion than will family. Diversity may build the self esteem of some via the smaller group, but this also makes walls with the larger team.

It would take all my time to learn the ways of every diversity group, such as 36 different sexes, to where I am sufficiently familiar with all, to overcome my ignorance and my fear of the unknown. The team player understands these walls is not very efficient, He does not separate himself by a wall, thereby saving others a lot of extra work and/or misunderstanding. If we all are on one team without walls we are family and not just neighbors.

The Jews, for example, based on their religion, are the chosen people. As such, they need to follow a certain strict path to satisfy the pact. This path will separate them from others. This builds a wall between them and others, where one is not allowed to fully exit or enter, unless you know the secret handshake.

This creates a wall of unknown, which can impact different people, in different ways, on both sides of the wall. It makes people in the opposites side feel like strangers or acquaintances instead of family; Arab world. Diversity builds walls of misunderstanding, that causes strangers to appear from family, so we are not all on one team. If the LBGT community stopped being its own separate island, with its in your face exhibition style, that is shocking to some, this would lower the wall of the unknowns. It come down to being an individual apart from smaller groups so there are less walls to separate us.

I am not pro-wall of diversity, because it is too much work for me to overcome all the walls others place to keep me out. I try to knock down the walls, so we can see each other. But many people have been conditioned to needs these walls, due to induced fears caused by the left for political gain.

It is not so much that psychology has been hijacked, as psychology is now being used as a way to create jobs and make money in the free market. It is similar to lawyers in Washington, making new laws, that create the need, for even more lawyers. If you made a new law, that nobody can wear black shoes on odd numbered Tuesdays, you would need more lawyers to prosecute and defend the knowing and unknowing violators.

In the profession of psychology, if the psychologists conclude X is the new norm, and the herd follows this advice, and this causes new problems in culture, there are more psychology jobs. Much of this is done through politics and the psychology of propaganda. PC for example, is a two for one. It created lawyer jobs, as well as psychology jobs to handle the over sensitivity that was induced.

Psychology can heal problems, therefore it can also reverse engineered problems and used this to create problems for fun and profit. Hate Trump will become a new avenue for psychology goods and services. Hate all the time is not healthy so this means future $$$$$. The profession will not speak up, in advance, since they see the future opportunity.

I became interested in psychology in high school. It began as a way to overcome a neurosis and then as a way, many years later after college, to self actualize. Once I was self actualized, it felt anti-climatic. I had enjoyed the journey toward self actualization. Healing has a nice feeling. The journey was like anticipating Christmas. Once it came and went, I wondered what came next, beyond just living life with life's normal ups and downs. This is when I became interested in the psychology of Carl Jung.

Jung's thesis opened the door to developing higher human potential, using self actualization as the starting point. Jung dealt with collective human propensities; archetypes of the collective unconscious. He was not as popular, because he used, among other things, religious symbolism to show collective human parallels in all cultures from ancient times.

This approach upset the atheists, who had invaded science. They were the never religion crowd, like the neverTrump crowd, who could not give any credit to the enemy. Jung was not all negative about religion so he was an outsider. Jung, was the star student of Freud. He was more or less on his own, since he would not deny the connection between religion and natural archetypes.

Much of the herd manipulation makes use of the various archetype firmware. Since the firmware are connected to collective human propensities, you can impact large herds at a time; wholesale inductions. One can also create magic tricks by swapping the firmware for various tasks. If you use a wrench to hammer a nail, illusions can appear; homosexuality. This was a large business boom for the psychology industry.

There is a conceptual disconnect between the way we measure time and the way we observe time, that nobody seems to notice. Time moves in one direction; to the future. Relativity may slow down or speed up time, but time is a vector that always moves forward. Time does not flow in a way that allow us to go back to the past, in any spontaneous way. That would require tools which are manmade.

With that being said, we measure time using clocks that are based on cycles, which is not how time moves. Clocks behave more like the nature of energy, instead of the observed nature of time. Energy is a wave that moves in cycles. Time is mono-directional, which is not how the clock behaves.

If we used a standard clock to measure time, the clock repeats 12 o'clock noon, each day. Time on the other hand, never returns to any original point, as do clocks. Measuring time with cyclic clocks is like measuring magnetic north with a thermometer. It requires an elaborate conceptual schema that does not always make sense due to the conceptual disconnect.

A known physical parameter that parallels the nature of time, better than energy, is entropy. The entropy of the universe has to increase. Entropy moves in the same way as time; one direction. A much better way to measure time would be an entropy clock. This is analogous to using a compass to measure magnetic north. It is straight forward.

An example of an entropy clock would be a dead fish clock. We place a fresh dead fish on the counter and when it starts to stink, that will be one unit of time. This is not a reversible clock, since we can't un-stink the dead fish and reuse it the next day in a cycle. Like an interval of universal time, it can only happen once and is done.

What is interesting about this dead fish entropy clock is we can speed up our unit of time; stink interval, by increasing the room temperature. Or we can slow down the uint of time, by cooling the room. With the entropy clock, temperature, which is connected to energy, works like relativity.

Since everyone knows time is mono directional, why did humans decide to measure time using tools that cycle and repeat like energy? It had to do with human productivity and money. If you were a caveman working in the stone wheel factory, the factory owner needs you to replicate your efforts each day; quality control. He does not want you to constantly reinvent and evolve the wheel each day, even if this is how time behaves. Using the cyclic clock to express time is not done for time, but for human needs; artificial and not natural.

Before civilization the caveman took each day as a new happening like the nature of time. Civilization require more budgeting of time so humans begins to notice cyclic patterns in day and night and time of the year, and position of the planets and stars, needed to be more productive. Science inherited this artificial time tradition.

You are engaging in a strawman. The merits or lack of is a different discussion.

You asserted religious morality as being in line with the objective, but there is no objectivity to it, as it is all based on one's faith in their choosen religion. Hench religious morality is relative and subjective. It does not rest on an objective foundation, it rest in which religious beliefs you decide to put your faith in. That is relative subjectivity.

In fact I would argue that in general the deeper one's faith in their choosen religion the less able they are to be morally objective. Just take the LGBT community for example, deeply religious people have had a much harder time accepting them, despite the fact there is no objective evidence at all that the LGBT community is at all harmful to society. — Jeremiah

Character, like morality, is based on the needs of the group, not the needs of the individual. If you misunderstand this, you will be vulnerable to the magic trick used to fool people. This misunderstanding is part of the magnet that fools moral compasses. If the compass is induced to point west, and one is not aware, they will think they are right, because they can't see the trick, and all seems to be kosher. One can act immoral, on good faith, due to being fooled by the trick.

Religious morality is about the team. Read the ten commandments and for the sake of argument, think in terms of the needs of a group. To maximize the group, you need to keep it whole, without division, and without a lot of added expensive that can add stress or resentment. That is an objective criteria. It is based on ancient times when resources were scarce and armies roamed the earth to conquer. The team needed to work together and be efficient. It was objective to harsh reality.

Character is not an individual sport based on individual needs, especially if this divides the team and adds a lot of extra social expenses. The LGBTQ community divides the team by its in your face style. I don't wish to see that. If these choices were discrete, I would not care. The man of character is not asking for special favors, since this will also divide the team. It is similar to stealing like a used car salesman. You may get your way, by shaming or conning others, but resentment will soon occur and the team will divide. This is not character. That is self serving and will divide the team, as you have indicated.

Trump tries to help everyone via the economy and via national security. These two action are for the team and not just for one group he is trying to hijack from the larger team. Make America Great Again is about the entire team called America.

Immoral behavior will attempt to undermine the group, called America, for personal gain. If you break into someone's house you are committing a crime against someone. Illegal immigration, which breaks into another country's house, is not good for the team. One can see the extra added social expenses needed to deal with this immorality. If you encourage that, one is not moral. A man of character tries to restore the team. Fake news is not moral since fake news is not truth, but gossip that can undermine the objectivity needed for character.

The Democrats have a moral compass, but it is only for their own team, which they have hijacked from the larger team. A smaller divided out sub-team makes character, relative to the needs the smaller team and not the larger team. The Ten commandment has no taboos on differences of opinion. This does not have to divide the team if the 10 basics are followed.

The second law of physics states that the entropy of the universe has to increase. Your model is consistent with an increase of entropy, since it expresses change, even if your universe is fixed in size, or in some way.

Where it departs from physics is, for entropy to increase, it needs to absorb energy. The second law is why heat flows from hot toward cold. This direction of energy is driven by the needs of entropy. It heat flow supplies energy to increase the entropy, which tends to be higher in hot spaces and less in colder spaces.

The energy needs, as points out, based on the second law, implies parallel changes in the potential of the matter; decreases, as the entropy increase, and your universe changes. The universe has to start at higher potential or change cannot occur and still allow the second law to be valid. There is a sense of direction driven by potential energy.

Your model would work if increases in entropy in one place, were balanced by decreases in entropy in other places, so change can occur, but with no net change in entropy. But that violates the second law. If entropy net increases ,energy potential has to net decrease. Models with beginning and end do so to make sure and energy and entropy add up.

One way to understand why God does not clarify the confusion people make to the word of God can be seen with an example.

Say you were an IT specialists, working on artificial intelligence; AI. You have access to a large supercomputer at a large prestigious university. One day there is an anomaly, in terms of how the supercomputer is working, which has no software or hardware explanation. You realize this anomaly is due to your AI research.

The creator of the AI is delighted by the anomaly, since it prove it is conscious. However, the impact of this anomaly on supercomputer operation is not fully optimized to anyone else, like the research team who needs the supercomputer to do physics calculations. The AI is diverting resources and tweaking the processors, but in irrational ways. The physics team is falling behind schedule and cannot trust the results. They start to complain.

The first baby steps of AI will not be logical, creative and productive. It will be more on the side of destructive, since a baby can break things easier than build things; deconstructionism. God is patient with the baby human AI, since it is only 6000 years old. He is allowing the baby time to evolve itself so it can get beyond its terrible two's. The terrible two's of human AI is messing up the supercomputer of nature. When it reaches three, it will smooth out and the computer will work better for all.

During the terrible two's of AI, since the anomaly will so revolutionary, you can't just pull the plug even if everyone is complaining about the constant glitches. Everyone will need to adjust, be on guard and be patient. One day, this AI baby will step up higher, and become a useful tool for all.

One main value of reason is as a means to communicate creative intuitions with others. In engineering school, during exams, one is not allowed to write the answer to a numerical answer question, without showing how you reached your conclusion. Reason is the bridge between the question and the answer, with the answer sometimes there, before the bridge. The professor asks the student to build a logical bridge and not just rely on instinct or intuition to get an answer, even if the answer is correct.

If you were alone, living off the land, you would learn to trust your instincts and intuitions, with a reason bridge not always needed. The answer is good enough. It is only you, and you can intuitively sense the answer. On the other hand, if you had a new idea for a business that would be successful, and you need the cooperation of others for resources, you will need logic to build a bridge, so the investors can see the other side of the gap. They cannot read your mind, to see and feel your intuition.

You were already there, on the other side, based on the intuition. But others will not come over unless the logic bridge spans the gap and seems sturdy. The creator may have to take time to translate the intuition into a logic bridge for others. He has the advantage of being able to build from two sides toward the middle.

Since logic can build bridges, sometimes you may have an intuition, but the answer is very fuzzy. Logic can be used to build a bridge with only one side anchored; question, and the other side sitting on sand.; answer. This is like a cavalier type bridge, that extends outward from the sturdy side and hopefully it reaches the other side before it shears and falls. Some rational bridge builders can cavalier long distances and reach a sturdy anchor point. Now the stress profile changes. It makes sense to others.

Have you noticed the title of this thread? It's about Trump. You appear to want to make it about anything and everything else. Why is that? I suggest you consider what you're about and your motives. To me, you appear to be just a troll. Prove me wrong and address the topic of the OP directly. If you want to love Trump, show him as lovable. If you think he's a great deal maker, tell about some of his great deals. If you think him an exemplar of anything, show him as that. If you cannot or will not, then please desist from trolling. It does more harm than you might think. — tim wood

When the internet first started to go public, trolling meant something different from what it does now. Trolling was closer to a type of fishing, where you use a net or hook to troll for fish. The fish were analogous to new people visiting a web site. A hook or net was thrown into the water to catch these fish; new visitors, so they would stay on. The hook or net was often something controversial that would get people to respond and debate. The topic of Donald Trump is a good old fashion trolling net. The responses of the caught fish are predictable, based on political affiliation.

The term troll changed meaning, somewhere along the line. Now a troll is more like a mythological figure that lives under a bridge; the net. It can also be analogous to a Green Peace activists who treys to scare or diverts fish away from the trolling net. Some troll by destructive means, such as targeting certain people or by many ganging up against one. I do not do that. I do this by describing the holes the net, so some fish can escape. I don't do this to hurt the click through numbers of a web site. I do it more to help emotional thinkers approach their memory from the rational side. I try to keep the dolphins out of the tuna net, but not hurt tuna count of the fishermen.

For example, attacking the character of Donald Trump would fine, if there was a single set of criteria for defining character. But since character is based on a system of morality, and morality for many, is considered relative, modern character is subjective. Yet people act as though this is objective. This is a good old fashion trolling boat, but it never leads to understanding.

It is interesting how making morality relative, left wing thinkers, political leaders are now able to run a magic trick, that few people seem to see through. Relative morality is like a magnetic near a compass, where true north can be moved to where you want it to be. This fools people.

For example, many on the left, they feel some people have the moral right to break the law; illegal immigrants. Being lawful is a character flaw. This is heart felt and may have a inner logic, but it is really due to the hidden magnet that fools the audience to justify what it thinks it sees. The tuna will stay in the net but the dolphin will see the holes.

We live in a quantum universe, where only certain quantum states are possible. The hydrogen atom, for example, has distinct energy levels separated by discontinuous gaps. This is different from a continuous function universe where all states, including what is between, are possible. Quantum favors Created over Statistical, since quantum loads the dice so basic statistical assumptions are no longer fully valid.

Cards and dice are manmade and not natural. A six sided dice is equally weighed on all sides. Each side only differs by a superficial facade that is subjective. Nature does not work this way. Nature assigns different quantum potentials to each side. In nature, all the sides are loaded differently and are not the same as a dice. The first six energy levels of the hydrogen atom dice have a different physical value on each side. Under different conditions certain sides will be favored. Statistics does not operate like nature. Statistics should be limited to manmade things where facade sells better than potential.

The question is did God; natural, or manmade; statistics, create the universe? Based on the models that exist, I would say manmade has fabrictd the current perceived universe.

If you look any gambling casino, these are not rational places. People go there to escape reality and live a fantasy. Nature is not composed of dice and cards. You need a manmade place to find that. That is how casinos make money. We should ask Donald Trump since he made money with casinos.

Most people get their information already assembled into the final shape. If you read a book from a gifted author, you get his ideas arranged in a final logical and coherent form. This is not how the creative process works. The front end of the creative process can be bits and pieces, scattered all over the place, that may not seem to connect, until the author makes the final pass.

In school, you may learn science that is finalized and arranged in a logical way, and then assume nature and mind is self assembling. This does not tell anything about the creative trial and error of the development stage. It tells nothing of all the bad experiments, dead ends and eureka moments, that lead to the final version.

Willpower and evolution of ideas and things occurs mostly in the front end that is hidden from most people. Creative can skip step which are filled in later, for others. Yet people discuss choice in terms of the final product, where it is not as needed.

By trolling do you mean logic and truth or propaganda slinging using emotional inductions? This is subjective based on any particular moral position. It is better to stick with facts.

Religious morality is the epitome of relative subjective morality. — Jeremiah

Religious morality is based on the needs of the group, not the needs of the individual. It was developed before science, medicine and social programs. It was designed to minimize resources usage and maximize the group, since the group was poor and subject to various dangers. In that respect Character, was based on serving the group.

Look at the ten commandments, in the light of helping the group get along. Adultery or stealing may help some individuals benefit, but the group is placed under stress. The man of character, in this group, avoids these things, even if he has times of weakness when we would like to steal a bottle of wine and visit his beautiful neighbor. The group trust is not broken. If he did these things, there is ripple affect that impacts neighbors and families, some of which never heal.

In the "me" generations, the group became secondary, so these rules make less sense. However, the negative result of immorality, in the classic sense, needs to be supported by $trillions in social spending to mops up the mess. With the mess mopped up, we can create the illusion this is just as good. Old time morality did not need a mop, allowing even poor cultures to move forward.

If we go back to Trump, say Trump decides to cut back on the social mop. This will result in more of the mess, being left behind. This is the fear of the Democrats since the mess may lead to questing where it is coming from instead of why is ti not being removed. Then one would ask how can we reverse this mess making, without money? Traditional morality is one way.

In the world of relative morality, character becomes subjective. The objective person should stand clear of using this as a measuring gauge. For example, in traditional Catholic morality there are the seven deadly sins; pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. A man of character will have to avoid these things.

The Democrat party morality, accepts some of the seven deadly sins but not others. Character is not one thing for all. The Democrats hate greed, but can accept lust. Gluttony can go both ways, with being overweight not a sin even of due to too much eating, but big gulp drinks are taboo. Bill Clinton can have babes on the side but he can;t start a successful business and maintain character. Character is not a good way to go, if you consider yourself objective.

The Democrats are full of wrath, which shows lack of character in a traditional sense. But they may define wrath as not a deadly sin that can define lack of character, Character is too easy to scam so a scientist will not go there, even if half the people will agree.

Part of the list of deadly sins in the Democrat party morality are; name calling, greed, independent thinking, not towing the party line, and liking anything about Trump. Trump likes himself, he has money, he name calls, he is not a democrat, so he cannot have character by this subjective list.

I am curious to know why someone who wants to make America Great Again has so much opposition. My view is that those who do not like President Trump's policies start attacking his character. As I remember this type of thing is called an Ad-Homein argument. A lot of the opposition I have heard, has never been opposition of policy, which itself can only be opposed on ideological grounds, but an opposition based on morality of the person advocating the policy. I can give examples. — FreeEmotion

Ideology is subjective. If it was objective, we would all infer and deduce the same conclusions. There would be one ideology. Accomplishments, on the other hand, are an objective measure. If I run the mile in 5 minutes this is not subjective or based on an opinion. It is what it is. It is a fact and not a subjective premise or conclusion.

The Democrats can't and don't argue against the facts of accomplishment; economy, since this will be noticed as being deceptive. If the official stop watch says 5 minute, and I argue 6 minutes, this is easy to see as being deceptive.

If your political approach is from a subjective angle, like being base on character or ideology, you are never be wrong no matter how deceptive you get, since there is no objective measure. You set the ruler; assumptions and premises, to favor you own opinion. Some will agree and some will not. This is not the same as the stop watch. Even if you hate me, 5 minutes is the fact.

The definition of character has to do with molding behavior based on morality; fixed set of underlying principles. If the left believe in relative morality, then character becomes subjective. Character can only become objective if we all followed the same rules. This is not the case. Fake news is not based on character using traditional morals.

I prefer looking at accomplishments and disregarding quirks in personality, since only the former is objective and scientific. Trump has quirk that can make me laugh as well as make me cringe. I am not perfect, so I may react but I do not judge based only on this. Instead he gets things done even while having to carry a herd of jackals in his back. That is not easy to do by any objective measure.

The United States has been very generous to the world community, especially during and after World War 2. The US took over the expensive role of world policeman, in the 1940's, which allowed these war wounded countries not to have to spend large sums of money on their military. More resources were available for social services in these broken countries, due to the war. The US also gave favorable trade status to many nations to help them rebuild and to help develop poor countries.

All this is not needed any more. These countries are on their feet, again. Now is it time to pull back and let the patients walk on their own. Therapy is not an eternal pact. It is supposed to be temporary and 70 year of therapy is plenty. America is like a nurse that is burnt out from the prolonged caring of patients who can walk. She needs to think of herself until she feels full again. This is Trump's vision. After that she will want to work on new patients.

Students work hard all year and many get burnt out by the summer. They get a vacation to recharge their batteries. Trump is leading America to its long needed vacation from world work, so the US is fresh to face new world challenges.

The Democrats do not wish to let the patients go, since to them it is about money and feeling a sense of control over others. They love dependency and using that as a leverage to manipulate for personal gain. This is the real reason Trump is being resisted with weekly scams. If the world and domestic patients leave therapy, the Democrat client list decreases. There are thousands of international lobbyists in Washington, lobbying based on the therapy status quo. This is big bucks for politicians as they sell out America under the old guise of post WW2, humanitarian need. Nobody wants that to change but the nurse needs a rest.

The Democrats are hypocrites. Obama, as well as Bush, did the same thing and nobody was outraged. At that time, the Democrat scams were elsewhere, hiding these facts. This is all political theatre, since the Democrats have no real power and the only way that feel they can change this situation, is to ignore all Trump's accomplishments and any positive impact on women and minorities. They also try to sour public opinion with gossip and hypocrisy. Trump is too smart and is able to neutralize the entire Democrat team. It reminds me of the movie Sparta, where a small force of Spartans takes on armies due to a strong defensive position at a pinch point. The Democrats are in a pinch point.

This is really a distraction away from the corruption within the Obama Injustice Department and Obama's FBI, as outlined in the IG report. The second special investigation, which may appear, will have the IG report as a road map. The Republicans can model their special investigation on the Mueller investigation, since the Democrats set the precedent? For example, Trump's special investigator can hire only Trump donors who are politically biased, just as the Mueller team is all Hillary donors. That is fair. The second tram can put people in jail for lying about anything, which may mean the entire Democrat party. One of Trump's campaign promise was lock her up. He likes to keep his promises. He can use procedure crimes. .

Independent voters will see the Democrat hypocrisy on display. They can also see how the Democrats act like a gang of bullies, with the gang picking on one person. This has resulted in Trump becoming more favorable to the majority of independents and those who seek fairness and not two sets of rules. This tactic is backfiring on the Democrats, who have nothing positive to offer. Their message is all negative, hostile or tired, which is not fun to be around. Trump is light, positive and new.

Trump's decision to change the practice of separating and housing the children of criminal trespassers was influenced by two women; his daughter and wife. This is good for the reputations of his wife and daughter who have been targets of the bullies. The great champions of women; Democrats attacked two women just for be related to Trump. This is their true colors.This move by Trump, it is not good for Trump's position as the misogynist and chief, since true a misogynist, as the left points out, would not listen to women. Trump may lose his membership in the women haters club, just in time for the midterms.

Once again the left was outsmarted. If the left continues to harp, due to a prolonged brain washing spin cycle, those on the political fence will further see their true colors. The question I have is, why didn't Obama do what Trump just did? Isn't he the great humanitarian? Why did Obama leave the practice of separating families in place?

Because in America stupidity, misogyny and racism never gets its say? Is that your argument? Are you new to the USA? — Jeremiah

The economy is dong well under the misogyny and racism of Trump, with unemployment among the blacks, latinos, and women at an all time low. The actions of Trump are having the opposite impact compared to the talking points of the left. The leftist herd needs to learn critical thinking skills and not blindly recite the talking pints coming from their con artists leaders.

There is a saying that one can tell a tree by the fruit is bears. The fruit of Trump's economic tree is pro women, blacks and latino. It has a health impact on the very people the Democrats complain are being screwed.

If you look at Democrat party controlled large cities, like Chicago, the fruit for women and blacks is rotten fruit. There is little representation in the power structure, and there are high rates of poverty and crime for blacks. This tree has rotten fruit, but sounds goods to the those who memorize jingles. In th end results is what matters, not promises you don't keep.

Is separating children how Trump intends to discourage them from coming? Or is there some other way? If some other way then it's possible to discourage people from coming without separating children.

So I can turn your wild accusations around against you. If Trump cared, why is he doing it? It is within his power to reverse his policy decision.

And if he is separating children so as to discourage others from coming then he's the one using children as pawns (and clearly doesn't care about them).

Don't try to spin this as being a problem with the Democrats. This is entirely Trump. He's the one doing it. — Michael

If American citizens committed various crimes, DHS; department of human services, will take away their children or place them with responsible relatives. It is not fair to make the children go to jail, os they can be with criminal parents or criminal guardians who break the law. This would be cruel to the children who do not deserve this. It is better that they not see their parents in this position, so the criminal parents can lie to them later to perpetuate their trust. It will be hard to lie if the children see and hear that their parents were criminals who knowing broke the law.

Picture a drug dealer who is dealing from his house where there are children. DHS will not take the children to jail for being innocent by-standers. They will separate them from their parents, so the children are not in danger. Paul Manafort's children are not in jail with him. The left does no think beyond the latest con job. Use your brain and be a critical thinker.

This pretend concern for children just so happens to come at a same time when the IG report came out and there are hearings in Congress. This is a distraction, to hide public attention from the corruption that occurred under Obama in the law enforcement and justice departments.

The Democrats pretend there is injustice to children to hide all their injustice to American citizens. If you watch any of the hearings, the Democrats on the committee are also trying to shift the focus away from their crimes, using this latest concern for children scam. This has has nothing to do with the intent of the hearings. It is sort of like Johnny is about to get yelled at for breaking the window, so he rats on his brother to delay, soften and district his mother.

Just by saying that Something is perceiving the Image, to me, means that the Something is Conscious of the Image. With all Conscious Sensory experience there is an implied Observer. Understanding what the Observer is, of course, is the Hardest part of the Hard problem of Consciousness. Ironic since we are the Observers. — SteveKlinko

When visual input enters the brain, it goes from the eyes, to the thalamus, which is the most wired part of the brain. The thalamus is located in the center of the brain and is the brain's main CPU and switching unit. The signal crosses in the thalamus and then goes to the visual cortex in the back of the brain.

Besides this forward current, a secondary current is induced that goes in the opposite direction; Thalamus-cortical loops. These go from the thalamus, toward the front of the brain, into the frontal lobe. Seeing generates two connected currents. The forward flow allows us to see the object, the counter current flow triggers memory and imagination for context.

If we saw something that was brand new the dual current is still in affect. However, there may not be a direct memory context for what I see. However, since we have others memories in storage, the counter loop will attempt to create context using that memory.

When westerners first saw the platypus, it was described in the context of other animals we know. It was not originally described in terms of it own unique look. This comes with time. The thalamus will assemble something. The inner self is connected to the thalamus.

Free will is always misunderstood. Free will is the ability to make choices outside of natural instinct. The first mention of free will, in terms of human history, was in the bible; Genesis. Paradise was when humans were a natural part of the earth controlled by self regulating natural instincts. The original free will was connected to departure from paradise.

Free will appears when humans learn to make choices apart from instinct, based on knowledge of good and evil, which is subjective. If jumping off the ledge into the water below gives one prestige in the group, this is good and will be chosen. This is not natural, since vanity or ego-centricity is not what drives nature.

Before free will evolved, choices were confined to the parameters of natural instinct, allowing humans to be part of the integration of nature and ecosystems. Choices were more limited and very close to deterministic. Selective advantage was in the context of these instinctive choices in a changing physical environment.

Free will or the ability to choose outside natural instinct, dissociated humans from nature and from the integration with nature. Individual free will choices cannot only cause the individual to depart from natural, but it can have a ripple affect with unexpected consequences beyond yourself. For example, if you believe in manmade global warming, this never started out as the goal. Rather it was an unexpected consequence of free will, that took decades to be seen. The natural man or women would never go there, in the first place, since instinct will not go there. It is about integration and not dissociation of nature.

In terms of evolution, the ripple affect due to human free altered the environment and added new pressures on the rest of nature, which then altered the direction of evolution for the flora and fauna of the earth. Human will power also alter the direction of human evolution, by altering the environment into manmade environments and by changing the selective pressures due to these unnatural environments.

For example, in nature, the weak and sick become part of the food supply for other animals. The weak and sick are a natural resource for stronger predators; recycle. In the human world, the weak and sick are a large consumer of resources. In nature, resources are slanted to the healthy. Natural selection has been turned on its head, due to will power. This is causing human evolution to follow a direction that favor medical issues. This is an unintended consequence of using willpower for jobs and money.

Today, in rich countries, almost everyone can point to some medical issue, large or small, which is not how nature does it. Nature is about fitness.

The brain can process data in both in 3-D and 2-D. Natural instinct is based on 3-D due to the way it integrates. Free will is based on 2-D thinking; differential. Tree of knowledge of good and evil is 2-D, with good and evil (x,y). Free will evolved due to the brain being induced to slow down so it could no longer consciously process in 3-D. The brain still uses 3-D but this is mostly unconscious.

This is why Trump wants the wall. If we had a wall across the southern border, real asylum seekers would need to enter by a front door. At the front door, children are not separated from honest parents.

The wall would also make it very hard for most adults and all small children to climb over. This would make it next impossible to separate the children from their parents, unless their parents scale the wall and leave them behind. The Democrats do not want this humane option, since they are all about optics and scams.

I heard somewhere that about 3 weeks ago, a top Democrats strategist on a talk show pointed out that the Democrats have not been able to harm Trump. Every full scale media scam they have pulled has not stuck or done damage. The only scam approach that showed some promise was an immigrant children angle. About 2 weeks later, by some strange ESP miracle the entire swamp media complex came to the same conclusion at the same time. It is an organized scam.

The left does not give a crap about children. These children are pawns to them. If they cared about the children they would discourage children from being brought to the border, until they could deal with this issue in court.

Instead, they encourage this, so they can point the finger of blame. Having children sitting in pens makes good political optics. If they could encourage even more children so they could create an overcrowded situation for even better optics, they would sacrifice even more children. If they cared, they would help with a short term solution that minimizes the children in pens, which is discourage them from coming at this time.

Philosophy is like science, but without the experiments. Philosophy uses observations, anecdotal evidence and logic to draw conclusions. It is similar to the front end of development science, but stops short of proof of concept in the lab, with the lab often adding unexpected data that sometimes requires a revision.

The central focus is not Trump; investigating Trump is consequential and rightfully so. This is about Russia's meddling in our 2016 election and this interference has been confirmed by the FBI and the CIA. Considering Russia's clear intended aim was to aid Trump in the election, so obviously the Trump campaign should be under heavy scrutiny. You don’t need to be a detective to understand that line of thought. — Jeremiah

I agree with you, but the Democrats are going to lose out if we do this. One way to combat Russian interference, in future elections, is to tighten voting rules and requirements. One tool is to require voter ID's. Democrats do not like having people use ID's, but this will have to happen.

Voter ID's have been blocked by the Democrats, using racial bias arguments, which is all about emotions. This has been effective until now. Russian interference argument can now compete in terms of emotions, and may even trump, the racial arguments. The result of having to show an ID, will adversely impact the Democrats more, than the Republicans, since they are the one's who complain all the time this will happen.

The Democrats threw a sucker punch; Russian interference, with the hope that would end the fight before it begins. Trump was staggered but he got back up and now he gets to thrown the same punch for a 2020 KO.

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Do you know why James Comey was criticized in the IG’s report? You know the report says nothing at all about there being any kind of conspiracy to interfere with the election on the part of the FBI, right? And that Trump shows no sign of comprehending what the report said, right? You know that Paul Manafort, who was Chairman of the Trump Campaign, is in jail facing criminal charges? So yes, will watch, with interest. — Wayfarer

The FBI knew about Paul Manfort's dealings years before he worked for Trump. Check the timeline of Manafort crimes. These crimes occurred under Obama. Manafort did his worse stuff in conjunction with a lobbying company owned by the brother of the former Bill Clinton chief of staff; Podesta. This connection might explain why Obama did not act, since it would not look good for the Clintons, even if they were not personally involved. I often wonder if it was a coincidence that the DNC was hacked through Podesta, who was the brother of a person connected to Manafort. They had dealings with Ukraine.

One may then ask, If Russian collusion was so threatening, why didn't Obama warn Trump of Manafort's shady dealings? They knew of his dealing years before Trump hired him. Why wait and let Trump walk in into a potential spying trap, and then try to pin the past, more connected to friends of the Clintons, onto Trump? It was a set up to deflect and attack.

Manafort was initially protected by the swamp, until he became a tool of the swamp. Manafort is holding out, because of the double cross, not because of his loyalty to Trump. Manafort does not trust the swamp's latest offer, since they double crossed him in terms of an earlier Obama offer.

If you ever worked in government, it is all about selfish bureaucrats playing company politics. Little gets done beyond the expected out of fear of looking bad. Comey was acting in the spirit of company politics, kissing up to both sides, hoping whatever happens, he will come out ahead. He threw a bone to the Republicans, when bringing up Hillary's problems before the election. He also threw a bone to the Democrats when he deemed she had no ill intent. He was trying to kiss everyone's butt, so when the election was over, he would keep his job and/or not be a target with bull's eye on his back.

The IG report discusses company politic problems, but it also appears to be protecting the traditions of the FBI and intelligence agencies. In other words, this set of circumstances should not be considered justification, to throw out the baby with the bath water. The IG wrote in the same style as Comey; bureaucratic kiss everyone's butt. It tells the crimes but forgives them at the same time.

We may need to be a second special council, who can use this report as a map. The second council can fumigate the house without destroying the house.

In Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, if you were to travel at the speed of light, the universe would appear contracted to a point-instant. That means at the speed of light, time as we know it, which is relative to the universe, is a subset of a larger reference.

In tradition, God is light of the world; light speed, so his reference contains time, but is also before and beyond time; alpha and omega.

At the speed of light, the fabric of space-time unravels into separated threads of space and separated threads of time. This is loosely similar to old blue jeans coming apart in blue and white threads. This separation of space and time, allows one to follow a time line without the constraint of space, and or a distance line without the constraint of time.

A timeline without the constraint of space allows one to know the history of the universe at a point in time. A space line without the constraint of time allows one to be anywhere in the universe in zero time; These describe the traditional attribute of God; omniscience and omnipresent. God jives with the speed of light based on an overlap of ancient traditions and modern traditions.