Getting Screwed in Transit

You know, in the old days before the digital camera, there was always the danger of a photograph getting screwed, or ruined, before the photograph could be developed or "fixed". In religion this process still goes on and the blame is an occurance of etheline gas at an inoppertune moment. No I'm not referring to farting in a crowded elevator. I have a parable Jesus must have told but it got left out of all versions of the gospells. Suppose there was a bulb with your name on it. This bulb was your life. Normally (I say advisadly) the bulb would be planted and mature and bloom into a beautiful gladiola or some other pretty flower, and then the workers in the vinyard would come at the end of days and transfer you to his hot house where I'd have you bronzed or something for all posterity. But one day the Father got lax because he had a heavy day at work and he told his son, "be sure these bulbs get planted today" and the soil was all marked off and ready to plant. But the son decided before he did this he would "have a smoke" and so put the bulbs in the refrigerator believing that the bulbs would "soak up knowledge and inspiration" from the other produce and ripening fruit around it. But there is a little thing called ethyline gas- - and what ethyline gas serves as is a catylist that speeds up growth. So all of the bulbs germinated and because they lacked the proper soil, they all died. This can happen with a Christian if you try and "help God out" and go up to the alter to confess your sins and get saved before it is your proper time. This sort of thing goes on every day. In Mark Campbell's lizzard analogy, the eggs are abandoned by the mother and burried in the sand, and they hatch, and the new hatchling lizzards make a mad dash to the river before they can be caught and eaten by predators. The lucky ones make it to the water where they are safe. When the Apostle Paul speaks of death and what kind of life will we have- - perhaps he isn't speaking of physical death so much as a "place of safety" where your destiny can't suffer harm, like a photograph dipped in the hypo. The soil in this analogy if you believe in "expositional constancy" is your environment, which you have little to no control over. If you doubt this consider the parable of the tares and the wheat. After the tares and the wheat are harvested the soil remains just as "Tara" remains in Gone with the Wind, after every other colamnity has come and gone. (Selah)

Our world is at risk. If you've been watching the Today show this week you realize that the earth is vulnerable and is at risk for every and all disaster. Perhaps Killemonjaro will lose all of it's snow. Glatures are melting in iceland. Coral Wreths are getting bleached all over the world, which is a sign of distress. Ocean waters are too warm, adversely affecting the life of fish and cutting down their breathable oxygen. The forests of the Rocky Mountains are withering away being eaten by a beetle, which only attacks trees undergoing an extended drought. Temperatures in the Rockys and elsewhere in the West are way above normal. We in Southern California have had one of our worst fire seasons ever with over a thousand houses consumed, and untold heartache. Fire season is virtually year round beginning in February, and it isn't over yet. Polar Bears are drowning because the ice is melting and they can't troll for fish. And even in all this those on the Political Right are telling you that man is not to blame in any way- - either this or it's all in our minds to begin with. There is a gigantic conspiracy to muzzle all of the "true" scientists out there with political pressure from telling us the Truth. This is if you believe those on the right. Now in the transition of governments Obama has been working with Mc Cain to solve these problems. Clearly there are other things biologists look for too from whether or not penguins are losing weight to the reproduction rates of various plant species.

It's important to know the escape volocity of any Religious Cult. What you do know is that the closser you get to it, like approaching a newtron star, the escape volocity gets higher and higher and the question when is that threshhold when you no longer posess within yourself the escape volicity to escape it. Take Melody and Nick Fallen. You remember Nick Fallen, he's the inturn that did all of Einstein's greatest calculations which proved fear of Black Holes is unwarrented because Black Holes don't exist, therefore anyone who sees or says they've discovered a Black Hole must be delusional. Anyhow Nick had an object of his affections named Melanie. Gradually Nicks world got smaller and smaller and his life got colder and colder. And with every new cold snap he'd throw a bunch of new mathmatical calculations into the fire to keep warm. Finally there was nothing to stablize Nick's life other than the obsessive object of his affection Melanie. We all remember how Nick's mother Jessica was a psycho and a scitzophrenic who alternately called herself "Angelique". Now the seeds of the mother were germanating in the son. Up to the moment when they left the Horton house Melanie had a choice. She could go to the police department and confess to the murder of her father, which she can't even remember. Or she could "run away and be safe" with Nick Fallen. Well, you know what happened. They were stranded in a Motel without a phone, and I think the Bates Motel sign hadn't been turned on yet. They were in a room without a phone in one of those places they used to mention on Superman episodes where you could scream your lungs out and nobody would hear you or bother to come to your rescue. You tried all the manuvers you learned from the Misory movie including drugging your captor- - but nothing seems to work. "He's got you where he wants you - - - so you better face reality".

The question is whether Obama is going to roll over with his paws in the air like Joel Olsteen's pet German Shepherd. You know the buzz is that Obama isn't going to relinquish any of the Presidential Powers that Bush obtained for himself during the last eight years. The Imperial Presidency is that much more entranched. There are all sorts of laws about who can be arrested and on what grounds. None of the secret government spying stuff will at all be diminished under an Obama presidency. Like I've said before, I am a little uneasy with news of the "smoothness" of the transition. You know, General Patton fought the de-Nasification of Germany after the war and his rationalization was "We want them to have a sense of pride", to which a normal person would say "They are the vanquished foe. They're not supposed to have pride! Even if Patton's idea might make "the transition go smoother" it still isn't a good idea. We know the President has the power to declare a State of Emergency for any reason or for no reason at all. It would seem that signing an executive order is some remnent of a quazi dictatorship we now have in this country. It was stated by Hank Poulson or somebody that "If congress hadn't passed that 700 Billion bail out bill, we would have had Marshal Law here in this country within the month. That is a scarey proposition. We know now that the whole mortgage bail out bill was a Lie, but the bigger question is did congress even have a Choice any more, or has this nation moved into the real of a prohibitive Escape Volocity, that would preclude any other decision? I wonder if Obama is staying up at night thinking of Pope John Paul the First, and how he had proposed sweeping changes in the Catholic Church but one day he wound up dead. Or how Jack Kennedy was roomered to be planning a complete pull out of troops in Viet Nam just before he was assasenated? I find another fact downright scarey. 47% of the people voted for the Mc Cain - Palin ticket, as badly as that campaign was run. Rush Limbaugh himself today said that "Mc Cain is not the sort of person to put out a position paper on where he stands on anything". I agree with Rush on one thing. Sarah Palin came off as silly talking about how she and John Mc Cain were "Mavoricks". That word is now so tainted for all time. 47% of you people actually agree with the precepts set in that campaign. That is scarey because it's the most conservative campaign by any party since Barry Goldwater's in 1964 and Goldy got clobbered and embarrassed in that one. I think we are mo sheep like than we want to admit and were we in the early days of Nazi Germany I'm not all that certain we could resist the bait.

They say there isn't really anything new in math. But there is one formula I've never seen written down on paper. We know that a ninety degree cube had six sides. Question: How many sides does a four dimensional cube have? I have wrestled with that number. You can make an argument by using the N! figure in Windows calculator that the number is 24. But I have another set of numbers in mind. First of all in one dimension there are no sides to a cube because a cube can't exist. In two dimensions a cubs had one side. Not two, but one. The argument about "any pancake no matter how thin has two sides" is invalid because you still first have to have a three dimensional pancake. So the number is one for a two dimensional universe. This brings us to four dimensions. There are six sets of planes- - or six possible conbinations of "grids" you might say. But there are three such ninety degree planes in a three dimensional universe but a cube has six sides! Well, add the two for the next dimension down. Using this logic a two dimensional cube has one and not two sides. A four dimensional cube would have eighteen sides and a five dimensional cubs would have forty sides because there are ten possible intersecting (90 deg) planes here and you times it by four, which is one down from five. Given this logic a six dimensional cube would have 75 sides. The Federation has spoken of the number forty pertaining to "nature". Might this be the "nature" of a cube?