Observing the Human Condition

Let me collate some trends and reasons for higher unemployment.  The blogisphere says that higher degrees don’t help today so this whole push to get everybody College Educated, might just prove to be a colossal dud of an idea.  This is because this creates a glut of higher degrees so that the quality (value) of each individual degree is cheapened, and worth less on the market do to its higher availability.  Also there is a glut of content or “product” on the internet, so you can have “Eight hundred million channels to Me”.  There is no record company or publisher or radio station DJ to deal with now.  You can produce “product” that may be quite good but perhaps not as “unique” as said “product” was in the old days.  You have all these publishers and record producers out of work- - and a glut of product so that no one listener can think of buying, or even reading or listening to everything that’s out there.  Finally you have the continued advancement of Robotics, which takes away more and more menial jobs as Robots learn increasingly complex tasks, which formerly took some higher mental reasoning.   Of course all of this efficiency won’t generate a leisure class, as people in the sixties logically presumed that it would.  They join the ranks of the under-paid and the poor.  And the corporations just pocket the profit themselves.  They don’t reinvest in plant improvement or expansion because they are already “improved”.  And there is no need to give the workers a share of the profits.  Not only is Roosevelt dead, as Rush Limbaugh reminds us, but Karl Marx is certainly dead.  No – you have all this new efficiency per employee now- - and the stock holder gets that savings.

Salifi Islam or Salifism, is the root sect behind Al Qaeda and ISIS.  22% of the Saudis are Salifist, so they refer to it as a “dominant minority”.  If there is wisdom in numbers (you can find a verse in the Bible for) than Salifism is rather lacking in wisdom.  They are firmly against any sort of philosophical extrapolation about God’s nature, and are also solidly against the veneration of Saints or any statues thereof- - because they say it’s idolatry.  Joe Byden’s three Iraq solution may not be such a bad thing because the majority of Iraqis are Shiite, whereas the majority of Syrians are not the ‘Allowite” demonination of Assad.  Indeed they say Assad runs a “secular government”, which is news to me.  So it’s only logical that ISIS should gain military victories and sympathy (so they claim) from the inhabitants of NW Iraq and SE Syria, because there does appear to be a major Sunni “bloc” there.  This is a factor in my initial lack of concern about the sudden spread of ISIS territory.  If you liken it to the Jews wanting Palestine, than one might even validate military conquests to have these people gathered in some “homeland”.  Oh well, it’s just a thought.  But the Wikkipedia goes on to say that the vast majority of Sunni clerics condemn the ways of thinking of the Salifist movement.  They point to roots going back to when years were just triple digits.  And the word “Salifi” pops in writings back then now and then.  But it was this Wahabi guy in the seventten hundreds that popularized the whole philosophy.  But the Salifi’s back away from calling themselves Wahabiists because – once again- - they consider that idolatry of just one man, who was a true prophet, but he wasn’t God.

There is this lady on a talk show who wants to "Throw political correctness in the garbage" and says that we need to start Hating ALL Muslims because "If the minority of violent Muslims call the tune, then the violent portion is the only really Relevant portion.  But she distorts figures.  She reduced the number of Muslims in the world from 1.8 billion to 1.2 billion.  And she increases the number of Violent Muslims from twenty million to three hundred million, or approximately as many Muslims who want to kill Americans as there are Americans.  She mentions how not all Russians are responsible for the deaths under Communism, and not all Japanese are responsible for planning the deaths of American fighting soldiers in WW II.   I would cite her the proverb of "Judge not least you be judged".   Would we want to judge all Christians by the actions of Oklahoma Bomber Timothy Mc Vey, for instance?  No.  I rest my case.  It's not a question of "Political correctness" as she puts it, but Factual Accuracy.  From my statistics, maybe three percent of the Islamics of the world tend tword violence and Jihad- - not twenty five percent.  It would seem from another source, that there about a third as many Many - - Muslims living in America as there are Jews.  But you'd never know it from the Media portrayals who portray ANY Muslim as somehow esoteric, extreme, and rare.  (Selah) 

I was just reading up on the Jewish population demographics of the world.  The United States is about two percent Jewish, which is huge.  We have more Jewish people living in America than live in Israel.  For Israel it’s in the six million and the “non enhanced” Jewish population is three quarters of their demographic make-up.  The percentage of Jewish populations in other countries falls off really fast.  But the concept of “The Jewish lobby” takes on more significance now since- - from a demographic point of view it is a “partnership” with Israel.  But it does get you to thinking how vastly overrepresented both Jews and gays are in the media, where they seem to be everywhere- - -yet not in the overall population.  So at best Israel has maybe eleven million people who have been in a virtual constant state of war with various neighbors for the past seventy years.  There is this obsession among Israeli leaders that their entire nation could be “wiped out - - just like that”.  The Jews of Jesus’ day had the same perception about themselves.  And they were “wiped out - - just like that”.  But if you want accurate Bible history knowledge I suggest you go to a fundamentalist Baptist of Pentecostal, and not a member of the Jewish faith, because we know their scripture a heck of a lot better than they themselves know it.  They ad-mix in so much other lore and tradition- - they fundamentally change the meaning of a lot of things.  In foreign policy it’s almost a “tail wag the dog” type of situation where the Jewish people (like the gays) have an inordinate “Vote” as to the priorities of our government.  But it just got me to wondering about the smallness of the percentage of people who visit Israel as tourists - - that have, shall we say “solid Jewish credentials”.

Last night on the news there was this young boy who has a vivid memory of “another life” lived during the glory years of Hollywood.  The man was a small-time actor and was married five times and died at age 61 - - actually correcting his own obituary.  There was nothing about this other life in the Wikkipedia, and nearly nothing on the internet.  You had to rummage through old photo scrap books to learn the truth.  But apparently they have over a thousand cases cataloged somewhere- - of young children claiming to have lived past lives.  Back in 2011 and earlier I spoke of that “other life” I refer to as the San Barnidino incarnation- - though I’m not even sure about that city.  I won’t go into that here- - and this “other life” thing has faded in the past few years but for a while it played a bit part in my dream life.  It was like a co-existance with a much younger man named Richard- - who was a young teenager in 2000 or so- - and probably graduated High School around 2005, just to give you a ball park figure.  So I think the idea of reincarnation or even being a “Traveler” from life to live- - like on Vampire Diaries- - is a real possibility.  Now some say the mother must have coached the kid- - force feeding him with a ton of facts (and they have quite a list of details compiled) about this other life.  But this assumes the average three or four year old would even have that kind of patience to learn this stuff.  Rather- - there were just “stories” that he would spontaneously tell his mother.

 Purity Products was on and they were talking about Aztezanten, which is a carrotenoid.  KEIB has Purity back on as a regular.  Just as an isolated fact, Thom Hartman says it's much better to actually eat fish for your brain rather than to rely on fish oil.  President Obama made a pitch for his Attorney General candidate to be confirmed after four months.  And the Republican response on KNX dealt with what a great thing the Republican budget was.  I had Chris Matthews on the radio - - and I guess you have a choice now of “play list” verses “full episodes”.  I thought maybe those two things meant something else.  I didn’t learn all that much anyhow.  Dick Derbin of Illinois played the race card with the AG candidate.  I wouldn’t have done it personally, because I didn’t believe it was the best way to attack republicans.  But I don’t fault him for doing it.  Different strokes for different folks.  He was obviously “playing to the base”.  I had Rachael Maddow on and she talked about auto-driving cars.  They now have cars that parrellel park themselves.  Great way to pass a driving test.  There was a solar eclipse yesterday in Norway.  There seem to be an inordinate number of solar eclipses in the polar regions than one would normally expect using geometric logic. That solar magnetic flair they had on the sun the other day didn’t seem to have any adverse effects on my computer.

Last night at dinner I finally received my bank statement, where my account checked out OK.  I won’t get flagged for an over-draft from using the ATM three times.  I also got this letter from Hummana reminding me about the fact that one medication (and I imagine it to be Lamisil) will no longer be covered after March 31^st.  I don’t want to get dinged for that charge.  I didn’t show it to Donnie last night but I showed the letter to Yadera this morning when I got my meds and she said Dr Saran could be here belatedly on Tuesday and talk to him about it.  Last night I got an egg salad sandwich from Donnie.  Paul Evans gave me a second sandwich.  Duke played Robert Morris and I guess won.  I had some ABC network news on.  Then it was the San Diego Aztecs playing St John’s.  Again- - this “other life” spent time at San Diego State living in a frat house and didn’t get along very well with his house mates there.  “Bones” was on at eight and I started watching part of the second episode then went to bed.  I slept well.  I didn’t wake till it was getting light.  How can nine hours of sleep not be enough?  I’ve actually missed the coffee more than the cigarettes.   At any rate I got a smoke and then went to the med room.

Look for perhaps something Supernatural to occur in the early days of June of this year.  It will be the end of that fourteen year cycle discussed in the previous posting.  The full moon will be in the "Al Qaeda home planet" (star) about that date.  Of course the word is "The base" of the tail of the scorpion, in this case.  But as Federation "theologians" point out- - - this star is actually the progenitor of the "Midianites" a Biblical shepherd desert roaving beddowin group.  Father Abraham was a Midianite in our theology.  So in this case it would be the glorification of any religious philosophy or race connected with Abraham.  Of course from a Biblical point of view the Midianites as well as the Arab people at large (as opposed to just the Saudis) would be exhalted or glorified.  I'll leave it to you what this mean on the international battle front scene.