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Journal: Septemer 2, 2013
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Gender Rights                         Morality                         Science (Space)

Drugs are “good” if they lift one back from pathology to normalcy, but “bad” if they inebriate above normalcy only for the thrill, not to alleviate suffering. So the warrior mentality of pursuing joy is “bad”, while joining others in suffering is good: compassion for others. Strange, very strange.


Art: I made a picture of Indians looking into the light. I prefer the light behind me to better reflect the details of God’s creation. Many it seems prefer to see creation as but silhouetted shadows bathed in homogenous light. “All men are created equal”, oops, sorry girls, “all humans” --- better? But damn it, I am not a woman!
Indian Man and Woman Looking into the Light

Astronomers: Some say astronomers have diminished our importance in the universe. They have proved beyond a doubt that we are but a mote in a universe of motes. Insignificant in terms of power beyond our imagining. A nearby supernova, say Eta Carina, could blow away our Van Allen belts and fry all life to a crisp, let alone those nasty, dinosaur killing meteors. An insignificant mote (individuals), a part of a mote (species) on a mote (earth) in a mote (solar system) in a mote (galaxy) in a universe of motes! Yes! Isn’t it glorious to know that?
You see, I think astronomers have rather always kept us in the center of the universe, and still do. Do they not tell us each point is the center of the expanding universe and our point is but a mote among almost infinite motes? Perhaps, but not to me.

If I be a mote, so be it. But I be a mote at the center of creation. Astronomers’ telescopes are always centered: azimuth, ascension, declension. In a similar way, Einstein tells me that indeed, just as I suspected all along, the sun moves across the sky as I am stationary. We construct mathematical frames of reference relative to our current position all the time (no pun intended distinguishing space and time).


Morality: There ain’t no “outside” universe for the spiritual world, it’s all inside, un-communicable; yet many look for it “outside”, in scripture, law, (what’s the difference?) or some other moral authority. Because morality is entirely spiritual, despite attempts to materialize it with numbers and weights based on polls of peoples’ opinions, based on weights on weights (e.g. what questions to ask to whom).

There ain’t no “outside” by sum, subgroup, or individual whether a condtion or situation is good or bad; only a stated objective, a premise, for which there is no unambiguously communicable authority. And therein lies so much of human conflict, whereby:

“Ignorant people just don’t understand what's right and wrong. So for their well-being as well as society’s we must correct them, punish them, rehabilitate them, perhaps kill them to save them and us from evil.”