Theo’s Pub

McHiggins and the pygmalion effect: hockeymom becomes Pitbull with lipstick. Take away the lipstick and you have a pitbull.

The Sacred is all that is.
The profane is all that is not.

When the shuttles are retired, park a couple of them near the ISS for emergency shelter, supplies, tools, and maybe a way down.

New Bumper Sticker:

Obama-Baracks!

“Experts warn that children are most at risk in wake of Myanmar cyclone, as some impoverished victims wait for help a week after the storm.” –MSNBC May 10, 2008
That government is clearly evil for making the victims wait so long for rescue. Compare their response to a natural disaster to the response of the Bush Administration when Katrina hit New Orleans.

Time Travel: Every second of every minute we rush away from this world in the direction of eternity never to return.

The flap about employees perusing the candidates’ passport files is oh so justified and should lead to investigations, firings, prison sentences, and new legislation.
But it ignores the gorilla.
Which is: that the employees having access to privacy protected files are not even government employees. They are CONTRACT employees. The Bush Administration wants to privatize (ie make profitable to the business community) all of the government’s business.
1. Where is the accountability?
a. The Inspector General of the State Department has no jurisdiction over “Contract” employees because they do not serve as government employees.
b. The Justice Department whose job it is to prosecute those who snoop in the peoples’ business, is loyal to the policies of the current administration. The Attorney General cannot see the gorilla.
2. The government of, by and for the people should be non-profit. I love capitalism as much as the next red-blooded American, but I don’t want MY GOVERNMENT extracting a PROFIT off of me for some friend of the administration.
3. The abuses are legion when business and government cuddle together. Corruption is inevitable.
4. The Gorilla is growling.

It seems fair to assume that the headwaters of life on this planet are found in the microbiotic world. Early in the chain of life there was the microbe, for multi-cell creatures evolved from the original simpler forms.

It seems to be self-evident that the most basic, primal urge of the microbe had to be something about adapting and procreating. In a changing and essentially hostile environment, the microbe adapted and adapted into the diversity of life now apparent on the planet.

In the twentieth century, by mankind’s calendrical reckoning, that highly adapted and evolved version of the microbiotic issue, mankind, discovered a way to destroy other, more primitive adaptations, the ones which were inimical to man, such as smallpox, diptheria, polio, and influenza. The science of antibiotics was established.

When you dam the headwaters of a river, the water finds another route, for its imperative is to flow, adapting to the terrain. Likewise, when a microbe is stopped from its adaptive movement in evolution, it will find another route, and adapt around the obstacle; in the case of the twentieth century science, it will adapt around the antibiotic.

A destructive microbe in a living person’s body can be seen as a growing tribe which will eventually overwhelm the body’s natural immune system. This microbe, in cannibalizing its host body, is self-limiting unless it can jump to another person, not because it is defeated by the body’s natural defenses, but because its host dies. The balance between microbes and their descendent mankind is maintained by natural processes.

However, when man, through his animal and plant husbandry, releases antibiotics into the environment, into the water systems of the planet, the microbes have no choice but to adapt around this hostile additive to its environment. It will do what it has done so successfully from the very ancient beginning. It, like the waters flowing to the sea, will find another path. It will mutate and survive.
Man’s antibiotic approach to enhancing his own immune defenses is clearly suicidal in nature. It is a sure and inevitable way to eradicate himself from the earthly habitat. For the microbe, the archetype for all of life on Earth, is mightier than the lab

The Florida and Michigan problems fall into the category known as “Electile Dysfunction.” You heard it here first.

I understand “atheist” to mean someone whose world-view is without God. (a-without, theos-God.) So I guess that I am not an atheist, although I have no use for organized and dogmatic religions. If the only way to God is through religion, then the route to God is not upward toward spirit, but rather downward into the chaos of primal and fearful belief systems. I am sure there are plenty of demons masquerading as prophets hiding in all religious prescriptions for pleasing “God.” But I do not find God in my beliefs or anyone else’s.

My world is not without God because God to me is not about beliefs. God is what is, and was before me and will be after me and is indeed manifesting me.
As for Christ and Buddha and Muhammad and such, I have no problem with their divinity. We are all divine; the difference between us and them is that they KNEW that they and all else in the world and beyond are divine, and we only think it or imagine it or believe it.

I have glimpsed the larger reality where all is divine, and I treasure those visions and find deep peace there, because I do not believe in what I experienced in those rare moments of transcendence, but I KNOW something that cannot be explained. It ignites the stories of Christ and Buddha beyond words, history and imagination.

I have SEEN, but I am still bound to my illusions about the world and can only aspire to the Christ and the Buddha and the Aurobindo and the Rashneesh and the Muktananda and the hundreds if not thousands who have realized God beyond believing or thinking.

Religion is about believing. I am not atheistic; I am a-religious because religion stands in the way of knowing the Truth about existence. Its founding purpose was to control and manipulate through indoctrination into half-truths using corrupted translations of ancient universal divine symbols to scare the crap out of people. It’s all about fear.

It still blocks me, but I am no longer fearful, and the symbols are becoming portals into the REAL.

As for Christian, pagan, and otherwise seasonal celebrations: Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

They are screaming about Hillary’s vote to declare the elite guard in Iran as terrorist. In truth, she just didn’t go for the bait. It is a terrorist outfit. Instead of doing partisan, ad hominem politics, she is voting as she should vote, and not opposing something just because W is for it. If more politicians would vote according to the oath of office they swore to, we would not be in this mess.

Fred Thompson said, in a TV ad, that “we need to remember that our rights are given by God, not by a government.”

Does this mean that if a government tramples on our rights, we should disagree, protest, or even rebel against that government? Is that what Fred Thompson is saying?

Dennis “Luke” Kucinich is looking for you.

My mind is a reflection of the objects of my world–my attachments–because there is no subject in my mind. My mind itself is an object to itself and attaches to itself as if it were a thing. It appears real to itself because it presumes that it is the wellspring of itself. Cogito ergo sum.This is a misperception of the relationship of the part to the whole. As if the sparkle on the water thought itself to be the sun and the sea.

Words are intended to stand outside the experience and point into it.

Thoughts fly through my mind much faster than the words I use to reflect them. Experience is faster than thoughts. My words blot out the moment.

PARIS - Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.

He passed quietly.

Why would men go down into the earth in a mineshaft and not carry a radio to communicate with the outside world? If the radio waves cannot penetrate the earth, then unroll a wire as you go down. Or leave wireless communication hubs along the way to relay the signals back to the outside air. But to have no communication? Why? And why has the question not been asked?

If you want to end the nightmare, wake up.

If the vacuum form of space-time is transparent to light, wouldn’t that make the relative observation of the speed of light vary with the degree of compression of space-time created by gravity waves? (ie) When space-time is under compression in the direction of the light’s travel, the speed should be measured as faster if it’s absolute speed is non-variable, unless the compression of space-time increases time density, so that the apparent velocity of light remains unchanged. If this is the case, then as the compressed measure of space approaches zero, the passage of time expands, approaches infinity. The gravity-compression waves at the edge of a black hole reduce space to nearly zero, resulting in a shell of nearly infinite time, surrounding the black hole with concentric rings of near-eternity. Light attempting to escape the black hole would therefore linger for a really long time on the roller coaster of the gravity rings.