Despots Like to Use "Narritives"

One politician supposedly came to Ronald Reagan one day seeking advice of "What can I say or do to insure that I win and to get my message accross?"  Ronald Reagan responded that what he needed was a story, a "narritive".  That is, a scenario of events that "sets the scene" that justifies whatever whacko ideas the political leader may care to put forth.  We see this in Judy's depiction of the Wall Street Protestors as anarchists and communists and people - - mauraders, if you will, who want to cease the property of the rich.  We see this also in Robert Gates' assertion that "Revolutions almost always turn out bad".  Actually this isn't true.  The thirty years war in the seventeenth century could be boiled down to France and Italy and the Catholic Church against the rest of the world in far flung places such as Prussia and England and Russia.  After the war ended in 1648,  England almost that exact same time instituted certain "common law rights" that we adopted in our Constitution as far as the right to face your accusers and trial by jury, and the right to cross examine the opponents witnesses.   The tea party has been trying to come up with a new narritive since the old one about the economy failing because of President Obama's socialist policies- - appears more flimsy and tattered with each passing day.  Not are all private areas of the economy stronger and more robust with each passing day,  but now a new study has announced that the government deficet has dropped to six hundred billion, which is about two hundred billion below where everybody expected we'd be at this point.  Mort Zuckerman can put that and his pipe and smoke it.  They say if the number of government jobs had grown, as it usually does upon most recession as a counter-balance measure both republicans and democrats agree on (but not this time) had this growth proceded along the previous pattern- the unemployment rate would now be 6.1% - - which isn't great, but it would be tollerable.  Anyhow that won't work now.  We have no need for Mitt Romney's talking about "slow walking the real estate crisis" or how the Dodd - Frank bill has crippled new bank loans, and all the rest.  So now we have some new narritives.  Moe Kelly and ABC news both played into the hands of the doom and gloomsters today in saying that President Obama is "facing the worst crisis of his Presidency' and "All Hell is breaking loose around him" in Washington.  We have the Bengazi narritive which is kind of an updated version of the "2016" movie script from last Summer when of course we learn this President was influenced by his Mother who was an orthodox Marxist- - - and how she divorced her husband when he turned Capitalist.  We hear that President Obama - - supports oil drilling in Brazil but has blocked oil production in a major way in this country.   We hear how President Obama "Prevented the Canadian oil pipeline from being built" and if he had, gasoline prices wouldn't have risen to nearly five dollars last year.  And now we hear how this President ordered security forces in Libya to "stand down" because Obama doesn't care about US deaths if Moslems do it, because the President is a Moslem himself and so of course he's never going to "admit" that Islamists can on occasion be hostile.  But today the President torpedoed these claims by release of the E Mails that are rather private- - which reveal step by step why itr was believed that wording the talking points the way we did last September is in the national interest- - and doesn't blow CIA leads as to who did it in the interest of flashy press coverage.   The President believed that saying "We don't know yet who did it' was the proper thing to do.  Politically, this proved to be the wrong decision.  As to the Internal Revenue Service thing - - my feeling now is "bring it on" because the Republicans will only look stupid bringing the thing up any more.  About as stupid as Will Horton going to Hope and saying "I know who murdered Raphael - - Nick Fallon.  But I can't tell you because if I did I would be prosecuted for attempted murder myself.  But I know Nick was up to no good.  You can count on that".

Christians have their crucifixion narritive, of course, by which an innocent "protestor against the inherent repressive nature of Judaism was martyred for his beliefs, because he on principle refused to deny his divinity.    That's a powerful narritive, all right.  The problem with that is that evidence I uncovered today supports my thesis that the first so called "Christians' were in fact following a Living Christ- - - first in Egypt and then to Rome, where at some point the founder died a natural death that went unherolded.   Perhaps no more powerful evidence exists that the "Catholic Church" as we know it did not exist in first century Rome is that - - Dometian was an Emperor who reigned for fifteen long years, and there is not a hint that ever persecuted Christians - - except for stuff that appeared in the Fourth Century that makes fleeting reference to some sort of persecution.   Since Dometian had such a despotic nature- - we know if Christians had been around the way they claimed to be preaching their "Gospel" that Dometian would have been on them like white on rice.   In the paragraph further down - - we note some interesting things about St Paul.  One of these he wasn't given to using the term "Christian".  In fact Catholics aren't given to referring to themselves as "Christians' but rather as Catholics.  Why do you suppose that is?   Were St Paul and Marcion really the same person?  They say we don't have any of Marcion's writings.  But what if we actually do?  What about those ten "epistles" to the Churches?   Marcion didn't reject the Old Testament or its prophecies of the Messiah on factual grounds- - but rather more etherial theological grounds.  Marcion accepted the "Crucifixion narritive" just as other groups like Jehovah's Witnesses, and Baptists and Mormons or Greek Orthodox do.  In fact Marcion-Paul elevated the whole death and reserrection thing that it's pretty much the centerpiece of his theology.   Do you remember what Tassitus said of those earliest Christians?  His last sentense was "Even to this day the sect of Christianity hasn't entirely died out".    He did not say they were growing.  He did not say they were a threat.   He did say they were an almost universally hated group.   One thing Marcion sought to change in His - - "narritive" was - - not only does his Luke lack the Christmas story - - but apparently reference to Christ's second coming were deleted.  (What you might call the Neil Savedra school)   Why would Martion NOT want reference to "The Last Days" in his theological repetuire?   Because it's something those original under-ground Christians believed in.  Marcion did not embrace THEIR messiah because THEIR messiah never claimed to have died and been raised from the dead, but appealed to his audience rather on some "Last Days" advent of the Kingdom of God on earth.  Think about it.  Sects that believe in an iminent Judgement Day are inherently short lived- - because obviously when "Judgement Day" fails to arrive, the people, one by one, abandon the sect.

Moe Kelly is upset at the Oxygen network again.  This time it isn’t baby mamas of rappers but rather it’s scandals of Church Leaders of Los Angeles,  Moe rattled off a lot of names of presumably famous pastors I’d never heard of, and have the feeling I wouldn’t want to, by how they have lived their lives.  I had Rush Limbaugh on for a while and he said Chris Matthews said “President Obama is bored his job and hates the routine duties of being an executive but would rather campaign all the time”.  But as it turns out I checked out that program and Chris Matthews was saying exactly the opposite.  That President Obama stepped up to the plate and grabbed the bull by the horns tackeling this Internal Revenue Service full on.  He fired Steve Miller last night, and another guy just under him resigned today.  But neither man was at the lead post when this abuse was alleged to have been going on.  Rather that was a Bush appointee.   We just had cold cut sandwiches for lunch, and French fries with catsup.  The tomato soup was so hot it took an extended time to let it cool down.  We had cantaloupe for desert.  I listened to Randy Rhodes at noon and at two, and I watched the soap opera.  The key remark of the entire day was Gabriel.  She remembered something that had also lodged in my mind.  It was that phone call that E J Di Mira received saying “OK- - so it’s done?  Good!” and he had a smile on his face.  Gabriel interoperated this as satisfaction for a malicious deed well done.  And I am inclined to agree.   Lucas is the last to find out about his mother having an affair, as he puts it, with the husband of his ex wife.  Awkward.

This is after dinner.  We had chicken Alfredo tonight.  I had three helpings of it all together and all of them were rather small.  I had my initial serving, with the squash, and that Prune guy gave me most of his, including some squash, and then seconds came around and I had that, too.  We had strawberry ice cream for dessert.  Before dinner I was reading up again on some old favorites like Marcion and Marcionism, looking for any new slant.  They say that Marcion believed in a lot of things he couldn’t if he endorsed Paul’s writings.  I was reading from Romans and Galations from my bible earlier.  It’s interesting that it would be unnecessary for Paul to write a letter to the Galation church condemning Judaizers, because if he was away- - and then visited the Church and learned first hand of the hericy, then he would be THERE.  So why write a letter saying you’re dismayed about it later?  It’s funny how for Rome- - Paul says ‘I have spiritual gifts I want to impart to you” and also “I would desire fruit from you”.  At times Paul sounds awfully narcissistic, saying another place he wants to teach them his Gospel, but also acknowledges that “Your faith affects the whole world” or something.    They say that Marcion was a preacher of the “Unknown God” named Monia or something - - this Gnostic prime source is given a personal name, which I’d never heard before.   It is said of him that “earth was a stranger to him”, not that earth didn’t know of Him, but that He as God never had “visited this planet before”.   I have trouble with this.  But elsewhere they admit that Marcion does not dispute the factual material of the Old Testament, or that OT scriptures spoke of the Messiah.    There was some group of Palinists in the early middle ages from 660 to about 850 or something - - which the “Emperor” (?) tried to snuff out.  I also reread Clement of Rome.   Much as I feared you can learn nothing of what things were actually like in Rome, Christian wise, at the end of the first century since Clement’s life biography was generally written centuries later.  But things are said like Paul referred to Clement, and that Peter personally anointed Clement as Pope.  But the Coptic Church has a rather different portrait making him more secular.

 

House Republicans Pass "Empoyee Flexability Bill

These republicans in the US House of Representatives are at it again.  Last week they passed a craftily worded bill to screw American Workers and to undo worker related rights that have been in existance for multiple decades.  House members in Tenessee originated this bill, that narrowly passed the US house with mostly, but not entirely - Republican house members voting for it's passage.  Here's more.  The Working Families Flexibility Act would instead supposedly allow employees to choose compensatory time instead of overtime pay when they worked more than 40 hours a week.  This means, of course, that it would apply only to workers who get paid by the hour — those at the bottom of the wage scale. They’re the least likely to have paid leave benefits. So the bill might seem a boon to them.  But it isn’t — mainly because these workers wouldn’t really have the choice the bill seems to give them.  Hypothetically, they could choose to continue getting overtime pay instead of opting for comp. time. We have to assume that many would, since $10.00 an hour — the average wage for workers without paid sick leave — is barely enough to lift a family of three above the federal poverty line.  But, as Working America argues, employers would have the upper hand. They could give workers incentives to choose comp. time, e.g., a better shift. They could pressure them.   True, the bill specifically prohibits employers from intimidating, threatening or coercing employees to accept comp. time instead of overtime pay.   But, as the National Women’s Law Center notes, we have more than enough evidence that many employers pay no mind to provisions in our labor laws that are supposed to protect low-wage workers.  Even workers who willingly chose comp. time couldn’t necessarily use it when they needed it.  An employer could legally deny a request by saying it “unduly disrupts … operations” or grant it “within a reasonable period,” rather than for the particular day(s) or hour(s) requested.
So much for taking a day off when your kid is sick — or her school declares a snow day and there’s no one else to care for her.  So much for knowing you can get a few hours off when you need to get legal protection from an abuser.  The Working Families Flexibility Act has another implication for low-wage workers. It really is, as Working America says, a “job killer” because it enables employers to get all needed work done on the cheap.   At this point, as the Fair Labor Standards Act intended, employers have a financial incentive to hire more workers — or offer some part-timers full-time jobs — when they need to get more work done because overtime is half again as costly as straight wage.  Comp. time obviously does away with the incentive.   So here you are, working mothers. You can’t be sure you’ll generally work only eight hours a day and thus have a little time to get to the grocery store, help your kids with their homework, etc.
You can’t be sure you’ll have time off when you need it — or enough time off for a major life event like childbirth because your employer can, at any time, convert all but 80 hours of your comp. time to pay.
You can’t work overtime to make ends meet. And if, like 7.6 million workers, you’ve got a part-time job, though you’d like full-time work, you’re probably stuck with the hours you’ve got.
If House Republicans hadn’t already made “flexibility” a suspect word, this bill would do it.

OJ Simpson was in that Las Vegas court again and explained for the first time the circumstances of that armed robbery.  He was told by friends insistently that “People are selling all your mother’s stuff.  What are you going to do about it?  You better come and see if you can salvage anything that’s left”. OJ said he would be going to Los Angeles and couldn’t make it to New York where his stuff was.  But they he was called back and informed that ALL of his stuff was in Las Vegas.  OJ said ‘I’ll be there”.  But of course he took five of his buddies along with him and they all had guns.  OJ now claims he had no idea.  But there is a tape of OJ making threatening remarks at the spot like “Nobody leave this room”.  OJ claims his attorney on the last outing strongly advised him not to testify because “Their evidence is so weak it will never stand up in court”.  Now OJ wants a new trial partially because “Those attorneys took an awful lot of money right out of my pension- with little to show for it”.  This event occurred six years ago and he’s already served several years of his 33 year term, or whatever.  Of course everyone is saying how “tired” and beaten down OJ Simpson looks now.  Some expert in psychology and such advised that even if OJ should get a new trial and win he’ll need extensive counseling because he doesn’t know how to live his life and to “process information”.  The guy accused OJ of being a narcicist.  It’s the “Mrs Grenville” adage of “The courts may acquit you but society never will”.

 
According to Mike Meloy - House member Michelle Bachman wants to move to Oregon because they have an anti gay marriage provision in their state Constitution.  There is a running gag that husband Marcus Bachman is gay, and that she'll leave him behind in Minisota.  Of course I hope Michelle knows that in Oregon they have legal physician assisted suicide.  That's almost a worse provision than gay marriage.  We'll just have to wait and see.


Various ethical problems are necessarily ignored with the Soap opera plot.  For instance, I've noted that one person to Not Yet ever have a meeting with "Father Eric" is Will Horton.  Since Salem is such a religious city shouldn't Will be a logical candidate as a good Catholic to talk to a Priest about his gayness.  Eric might also say that God admires people of their word, too.  People are trying to parse President's words when it comes to Bengazi saying that "terrorism" does not necessarily to Al Qaeda terrorism.  For those who would plead the blood of the cross for their salvation - - if they take Jesus' words literally - - then if you are forgiven a large debt owed- - but think youre free as a now Clensed Agent- - to nit pick on the debts of others to you, you're in for a nasty surprise because Jesus concludes that in such a case "The lord of the house will cut that servant to pieces" or some such thing.  And if we take Jesus at his Word, as I presume we are supposed to, then there are any number of people who Jesus didn't seem the least bit interested in forgiving.  I like to nail down my facts before I go wagging accusatory fingers at anybody- - no matter the crime.  Often there are other "reasonable explanations" for the same Events viewed in a different perspective.  First of all Kate comes in and explodes at Stephano for murdering Raphael out of sheer possessive vengeance because he wants her all to himself.  And then you have Elvis.  He has two motives- like killing two birds with one stone.  First he gets rid of Nick like his beloved wife to be asked him to do.  Stephano Di Mira put Samantha in her place yesterday.  But the other reason is that Elvis sees Raphael as a continuing threat to his own relation with Samantha and is in morbid fear he’ll go back to her.  He had the new “FBI” shirt on him that Johnny wanted, because he had out-grown the other one Raphael gave him.  And Johnny indicated he preferred living with Samantha and Raphael than here at the Mansion.  But looking from Nick’s side of the thing - - Will Horton has broken his Word to him – twice.  First he broke his Word saying he was the father of the baby.  He didn’t have to do that.  In fact if he’d kept silent - - all he would have done would be to make Chad look like a hysterical ranter, because he knew nothing.  But - - how dense can Will be to not figure out that Nick wants Will and his mother off his case all the time.  “Just let me and Gabriel form our own family without outside interference”.    You really have to be pretty dense - - not to know that continuing to lobby threats of a verbal nature- - or for Samantha to threaten Nick with a gun - - this does not constitute “leaving us alone”.  Now there is no reason why Nick shouldn’t just go to Roman and say “I hesitated to tell what I knew but my conscience was gnawing at me- - and I know that as a good citizen I owe it to society to report crimes.  I had made a deal with Will but since he never kept up his end of the bargain, there is no reason on God’s green earth to keep up mine, especially when it’s wrong.”

Fire is a treacherous thing as we know all to well in California.  Fire can spring up rapidly or suddenly change its mind, like a woman.  And yet in all Fire does, it does it without a Will.  It can be argued that in a sentense define what separates the Dead from the Living - - it could well be that the Living have a Will.  They are sensient beings.  Some people would extinguish the one thing in Man (or a major thing) that separates him from inaminate non living things.  The difference between a Man and most other animals, is that other Animals arrive at "decisions as to what they are going to do in any given situation" a whole lot quicker than does a human being.  Awareness for the most part is a linear thing.  They say the human brain "technically" can only process one bit of information at any given Instant.  It may be good as multi-tasking but still it has to take that split second to shift gears and move to the other topic.  If one person were simotaniously aware of all possible time lines of the Universe at once- - it's questionable whether any notable Events - - would even stand out in the mind at all.  So how is the Universe organized.  Is one side of the mass continuoum labled Living - - and the other labeled Inimate Material?  It would be really funny if the chemicals in a test tube being combined would "feel themselves coming into existance".  Some will argue that God is Alive - AND also argue that God is none other than the Collective Consciousness of us all.  That's an interesting theory.
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Bill Handel's Strange Economic Theories

There was an odd report in the news yesterday.  Governor Jerry Brown said he was all wrong about Proposition 30 bringing in more money to California and it wasn't nearly as much as we'd hoped.  As a consequence none of the social programs in the State designed to help the poor- - that have had progressive cuts year after year- - none of these social program cuts will be restored.  Instead any extra capital influx will go to Education.  If there is one thing I've learned over the years is that the education lobby are among the biggest whiners for more revenue of any- - and the squeaky wheel always seems to get the oil.  After all if we use fifteen year old grammar and math and history books - - the next generation will grow up to be a bunch of blithering idiots- - without the latest computers- in an industry that seems to "reinvent itself' every few years.  Meanwhile people like me who actually Need that money - - don't get it.  But Bill Handel has an explanation for all of this.  He explains that the capital gains tax was raised from 35 to 39 percent.  And that "all of the rich stock owners unloaded their stocks in late 1993 when the last hike was instituted.  And one big rich stock holder paid six hundred million in taxes for 1993.  Suppose I am the State of California.  And my employer informs me "I'm going to pay your next ten years' salary right NOW.  Assuming this happens, most likely am I going to have more - -  or less money in my treasury in say- a year or two than I would have had - had I NOT gotten paid ten years in advance?  Do you see the silliness of Jerry Brown's logic?  And according to Bill this same thing is happening in California right now.  Untold tax hikes bill be occurring in California next year.  Luckily you have people like me to sort out this mess for you.  As George Burnes said in the "Oh God" movie, "You have the Advantage that comes from Knowing".  Let's look at this.  Bill Handel says that if capital gains taxes are raised four percent then "everybody" will dump their stocks and "temporarily flood the state with tax revenues" only to languish the following year.  So if I sell my billions worth in common stocks at the end of 1993 to avoid the tax hike and pay 35% on that money (using Bill's figures) at the end of the years 1994 and 1995 now much taxes have I paid on that capital gains?  35% obviously.  Now suppose I Don't sell these stocks at all but hold on to them as the price goes up fifteen, twenty, twenty five and maybe even a high percentage by the end of 1995.  How much capital gains tax have I paid on these stocks.  Zero.  The difference is that I still Own these stocks and am continuing to accrew capital. I would rather pay a higher percentage on Income I make than a lower percent on Income that I Ain't Got.   Bill says that "Everybody will sell under such circumstances".  Well - -did "Everybody" sell at the end of 1993.  No.  On the contrary by the very fact that prices on common stocks exploded in the latter part of 1994 - one would deduce that people did just the opposite.  It's like that example from "Leave it to Beaver" where Beaver and a bunch of friends of his all agree they're going to make a weird face for the class photo in the year book.  But when the photo comes out only Beaver made the funny face, so He alone is the odd-ball.  So it is with someone selling out all their stocks at the trough of of a business recession like we had in 1993.  You see- - you'd only sell out all your stocks on news of a four percent tax rate hike- - if at Most you only expected to extract another three or four percent increase in price of those stocks.  In other words if you feel that your holdings "have about had it".  If you actually believed the clap trap Rush Limbaugh was preaching in 1993 maybe you were dumb enough to believe this.  You know I have no doubt Bill Handel has way more legal knowledge on the nuts and bolts of that profession than I'll ever have.  But leave the Economics to me, because you're out of your area of expertise, Bill.

Now apparently there are three major Scandals brewing in the Obama Administration.  There is Bengazi and the IRS scandal and most recently this Associated Press scandal.  Apparently Eric Holder has tapped the phones of AP to "plug a leak"  (like Nixon's plumbers) because according to Bill Handel, "These leaks are so dangerous to national security that you have to throw out the constitution to find out the culperate who did it".  Bill Press is saying that AG Eric Holder should be fired.  I'd fire him anyhow because he hasn't been doing his job.  Bill Press says the Obama Administration (like Nixon before him) is developing a regular Fixation about leaks.  Just between you and me I tend to fall back on the old addage that a news reporter should not be compelled to reveal his Sources.  Because any reporter worth his salt knows that said Source would dry up rather quickly and kill whatever story I was working on in hopes of getting a pulitzer prize.  I must say that- - this whole IRS "scandal" if you care to tall it that- - isn't playing at all well in the media for the Obama administration.  The majority of Americans tend to believe that the Internal Revenue Service has been over-bearing in this case, perhaps from personal encounters with them- - which no doubt is the case with people like Judy.

According to Bill Handel once again - - it is inconceivable that a twelve year old guy could make up a lie about something and NOT be guilty of brutally murdering his Sister.  (I'm not even going to venture what kind of a family Bill Handel comes from)  The attorney for this twelve year old boy now claims the boy made up the story about warding off an intruder or facing him down- - simply out of macho bravado and inwardly he was scared to death upon seeing his eight year old sister stabbed to death.  According to Bill Handel no twelve year old would ever make up a story involving macho bravodo because inwardly he was scared shitless about something.  I wasn't that macho when I was twelve.  My voice hadn't even begun to change- - and I hadn't "buffed out" the way some twelve year olds now seem to with steroids and all they get from their rich parents.   Many girls in my same class were taller than I was and some ninth graders were a foot taller than me.  What we need to know is - - is there physical evidence connecting the twelve year old with his dead sister.  I haven't heard of any.  It should be easy enough to prove such as blood on the murderer or a weapon or finger prints and the like.  The only thing I've heard is that the twelve year old got along fine with his sister.  Normally bigger brothers are protective of their little sisters.  The only rivelry comes between younger brothers and older sisters because of the power mis-match between boys and girls where a younger boy has relatively more power for his age than an older girl and then a natural rivelry insues.

If you hope to actually win in a power ball contest- - this is the WORST time to be a player because your own purchase interest will be an inherently smaller percentage of the pie.  And your odds for getting ANY money at all rest on your equity in as large of a percentage of the Whole Pie- - that you can get.  It makes little sense to say "The grand prize of something I'll never win anyhow is now ten times what it usually is".  That's right up there with "Free gas tomorrow".   Hopefully though - - California should get its cut from Power Ball revenue from the suckers who actually pay into it.

Then you have another Bill Handel take on a story.  It seems that Black students comprise nine percent of the students who cut up in class or who are insubordenate or are otherwise unmanagable and more importantly unteachable and disruptive to the rest of the class.  As the old granny addage goes "The bad apple is commencing to spoil the barrel".   I believe in "liberalizing' our suspension policies, meaning I believe that suspensions and expulsions should be exercised more Liberally than they are now.  Having said this - if it's true that 26% of those expelled are Blacks, when they comprise only nine percent of the students acting up- - we can conclude that the Blacks are over-represented in the number of suspended students by a factor of nearly three to one.  But I think Bill Handel believes that by merely being Black - - this is crime enough.  What it means of course that of those bad apples NOT caught by the suspension net- -  they Will be over-represented by Whites- - those still In school.

Here are some metaphysical questions for you.  What direction would one of those big pendulums like you see at Observaatories- - which direction would it swing to knock over the dominoes along the edge- - if you were in Quito Equador?   An air bubble will rise from the bottom to the top of a tank of water.  It makes no difference the siize of the tank, the air bubble will still rise.  Every incident we encounter in our lives is a circumstance.  Circumstance is everything.  Ethics not based on a situation or circumstance is nonsensical.  When a stylus hits a snag in a vinyl record- - does the stylus move in the direction AWAY from the vinyl or Tword the vinyl.  Suppose Jesus was asked about the scripture which reads "Father forgive them for they know not what they do"  and one asks Jesus, "Did you really say these words, because most texts say that you didn't".  Jesus might answer "I did if you have the faith to believe I did".   Waves of psychic activity first affect the psychic realm - - and only sometimes to they spill over into the physical realm.  The karmic wheel turns at a rate dictated by the varience of the pendulum swing.  Karma always comes around again - - and it is He who turns the wheel who determins When that is.  People ARE what they DO.   People don't sin against Things but against other People, who are of like realm with them.  Decisions that move mountains are made because of circumstance and the Will is only a conscious awareness of the rationality (or necessity) of one's actions.  Chess pieces have power and control space -  but they aren't sensient - - and therefore the will of others overrules their own, if they even had a will, which they don't.   If our brains "scramble" and reassemble images received in the retina upside down - - may not time perception be a thing "gotten used to" even if it runs backwards.   Here's a crossword puzzle clue of T and six letters.  What is the cause of a record "snag".   Here's another one.  Not HOW but WHY are snags usually caused?  What behavior is engaged in that has a high probability of ending up in causing a snag?  When matter and anti matter collide- - - is Energy destroyed?  Think about this one before you answer.  The laboritory experiment has already been run, and the answer is instrumental in one of my Metaphysical theories.   If you are able to undo the effects of a say a psychological Trauma - - - what will be a major effect psychologically?  If Jesus spoke in Hyperbola - - - and we know that a generic definition of hyperbola is "missing the mark - high" then if hyperbola is a subset of "missing the mark" in general- - hence Sin- - can we not deduce that for those who say "Jesus spoke in hyperbola" as saying "Jesus sinned".   Vibrations through the air- - like say someone playing a drum set- - and you're recording a record album- - the drums can be heard in the quiet places of the record.  So psychic vibrations "through the other side of the Higgs boxon" will be faint but audible.   Objects on this side- - exist in shapes- - and all outside the shape could be said to be of void relivence to said object.  On the other side- - what is defined as Plasma - - expands to Fill the Void evenly.   If God is the Instigator and Cause of Everything when traced to its Root- - since "engrams" are under the subset of "everything" cannot we conclude that God is the Author of Engrams?   The stylus is ruled by circumstance.  If a stylus faithfully reproduces what is there- - it does well.  When you are in "The realm of the Air"  (Actually a St. Paul term) then behold- - things not immediately proximate to one another can be affected by said disturbance in this realm.  The goal of a News Herald- - is to Disturb its Readers.  (Selah)