I am so tired of being told that China is a rising star ...

Note: See the edit at end of this post before you ask.

This video is extremely disturbing to the average American, where we still value life and our freedoms keep us unafraid to step out and help a fellow human being in distress, so be careful if you choose to watch.

I am only posting this link as further proof to my argument, that China has not joined the West as a '1st World' capitalist partner, but that China is still a brutal 3rd world country and it's only advantage that brings it into the global market, is that it is extremely large and populous. And the only capitalizing the Politburo does is capitalizing on it's vast subjugated and impoverished labor force.

The reaction of the people in this video, is the result of several generations of terror, of what might result for failing to keep their eyes to the ground and scurrying away to their assigned duties.
The Chinese Politburo are rutheless terrorists, and every time we purchase or sell to China, we support them in terrorizing their citizens.

The Value of A Two Year Old Girls Life On The Streets of China: http://youtu.be/66Tc0QpXx-Q

My apologies for the emotional trauma of the video, but the 'Politburo of The Communist Party of China' are not our friends, or our equal partners in a global marketplace. And any business that is done with China, is done through or under the watch of the Politburo, and does not enhance the quality of any life in China, that is not already enhanced by association with a Party member, and only furthers the oppressive brutality of the government against it's common peoples.



Max

EDIT: I have been asked; "What does this video have to do with politics and world trade with China, or even really to do with the government at all?"
The Chinese people are brutaly conditioned to never help each other, this, among other things, keeps crowds from drawing while the police drag some 'enemy of the state' away. Unfortunately, it is beaten in to the people so deeply, that they will not even veer from their assigned tasks to help a two year old.
The point is that this video glaringly demonstrates that fact.

Today’s Ponder 07/15/2011

Instruction by example can only remain justifiable for a short amount of time when it is ignored, before it becomes simply, ‘Pissing Up A Rope’.
___________

Without an implied value, gold is simply a rock.
___________

Living without making the effort to become more, is simply glorified food processing.
___________

A stray thought caused me to ponder an occurrence that I have simply accepted as a fact, since I first learned of it.
The occurrence is, that nipples become erect when the breast chills to a certain temperature, or at least in relation to the bodies core temperature.

It suddenly struck me, that there could be some adaptation of evolution that caused this to happen … What then was the cause?

I tried looking for clues on the net and in what books I have, that aren’t temporarily packed away for moving. No luck from either, so I started thinking; What if the erect nipple is a trigger that stimulates the babies feeding impulse.

This could also explain part of the odd subconscious trigger that affects many adults of both sexes, when surprised with an erect nipple.

Anyway .. I wondered why nature might increase the survival of a human infant, by eliciting a response to an erect nipple, on a chilled breast.

It came to me that a single, or some combination of criteria, might benefit the infant from chilled breast milk. It is now general knowledge that human breast milk carries a plethora of beneficial bacterial flora and anti-bodies to the infant, and everything in nature has an optimum temperature, so I thought that perhaps the immune elements of breast milk, might flourish most profusely at a few degrees lower than the bodies core temperature.

I also wondered, that even with the infants stomachs less acidic environment, if a cooler milks bacterial flora would have a better chance to survive to the intestine?

So, if I assume any of this, or a related thing that I haven’t yet considered is true, then it would absolutely prove that a chill makes a nipple become erect, for the simple purpose of causing an infant to feed while the milk is at its healthiest temperature.
Which actually makes a hellofalotta sense!

It also then occurred to me, that if this were indeed true, all those tongue in cheek comparisons to that thing that pops out when a turkey is ready .. were actually fairly accurate.

Max

Absolute Freedom

Some claim that true freedom comes only with poverty.

When you posses a thing, then you must compromise your freedom to some degree so that you might retain it.

What they fail to recognize, is that to remain in poverty, we must abandon our freedom to possess a thing.

Establishing by this, that freedom can never be absolute, and might only be obtained to some degree.

We must then avoid addiction, unquenchable desire to possess and accumulate, and inequitable philanthropy, lest we become restricted by our own actions.

This being true, moderation and conservation then, is the maximum degree of freedom that a man may attain.

Paul 'Max' Conklin

Riding Processes

Riding my motorcycle frees my thoughts.

In everyday life, I am constantly barraged by snippets of conversations past, disconnected strings of theory attempting to validate too fact, and a whole ocean of other stuff, that washes up onto the beaches of my consciousness, from the depths and currents of my subconscious.

I like to calm the waters, by busying the currents with the task of driving the bike, so I can then think without interruption.

It works kinda like this …

First we must understand that the conscious part of our brain performs all the parallel processing, and our subconscious is where linear processing takes place. The conscious thought section, picks and discards information from our senses and subconscious, and is constantly comparing sensory input to subconscious experience, and many times, all in several different tangents and sub-tangents, etc...
So while the subconscious focuses on a singular train of thought and develops it in a given direction, the conscious dips in and out of all of them, constantly changing the variables and direction in real time, and sampling the output, and comparing it again with experience and input, to choose a meaning or reaction.

So, as I pick up speed and begin negotiating the curves, I begin relegating the tasks of observing the various calculations of riding to my subconscious, in the form of active, and TSR or Terminate and Stay Resident assignments.
By Terminate and Stay Resident, I mean for example; That I pick an eddy of thought, or linear processing area, and assign it to calculate distance to the next variance in our path, such as a curve visible within a mile. I then shut the calculation down, except for the tiny bit that watches for the increasing proximity of approach, and then the calculation will trigger back into full operation, when I get close enough, that I need to prepare for the curve.
This is a TSR.

Along with these TSRs, is the constant comparison of geometric planes that are constantly tracking horizontal and vertical movement, and comparing these to the pendulum that hangs from the CoG or Center of Gravity.
The pendulum itself is a half dozen parallel calculations involving; Inertia, tire angle against the road, the reciprocating properties that slight pressure on the handlebar makes as it shifts the neck-frame-fork angle and shifts the point where the pendulum contacts the road surface, how the position of my body affects the CoG, etc …

And the individual processes do not stop at this level, for instance, the inertia calculation is actually a linear process that is in a loop and fed output data from several other processes, that combined with sensory input, track things such as speed, weight, friction and height calculations, and then turns this into a formula that actively supplies feedback that modifies my physical perception of the inertia of a curve, and by this, subconsciously regulating my speed and lean, as I go through the curve.

After everything conscious and subconscious is running properly, all my conscious has to do is shuttle data around between the linear processes, and channel the sensory input, and triggered reactions to the proper pathways. And by this, I have now freed at least 85% of my conscious thought to other tasks. And as these linear calculating and monitoring processes tie up more and more of my linear subconscious thought, I have less and less questionably relevant and random thought, to disrupt my conscious from focusing on a resolution, to whatever particular situation that I intend to resolve, with deep dredging of long distance memory, or precise navigation of detail.

Whereas, just sitting at my desk will not allow this, as my subconscious is then unfettered and will constantly search, sort and present distracting data that has some vaguely seeming relation, rather than the ride’s forcing the random searching out, and allowing only a higher relevance to trigger a presentation to conscious thought.

This is just one of the kazillion things I figured out, during several hours of backroad riding to the Roost and back yesterday.

I hope you enjoyed skimming the edge of it, at least a little as much as I enjoyed riding into it yesterday.

Paul ‘Max’ Conklin

Intent and Deed

There is a sometimes subtle difference between intent and deed, which despite every similarity, remains.
Offering to do anything for someone, will never be equal to doing everything you can.

If you ever really want to lose weight, turn off your air-conditioner.

If bad people can get ahead of the game by having secret societies, doesn’t it make sense that good people will have to do the same?

She doesn’t so much want to be loved by a type of someone, so much as she wants to be loved like that.

If you make yourself who you are, and run your own life, what does it say for you when you complain about your life?

I don’t think camping is where we go, in a home away from home, to do the same things we normally do, I think camping is where we go to do completely different things, in a completely different place.

The worst part of life is having people I love enough, that I will miss terribly when they have gone.
The best part of life is having people I love enough, that I will miss terribly when they have gone.

Max

The gift of knowledge -vs- The gift of eternal life

An old rambling redone.


Since mankind has first contemplated living, rather than dying.
There has been borne a struggle, between life and death, and knowledge.
Genesis indicates a choice of two trees, in The Garden of Eden, Eternal Life, and Knowledge.

Is there a reason the serpent enticed with knowledge, rather than life, or some luxury?

Is there some ancient philosophy behind this choice, that we have failed to retain over these millenium?

Doesn't the choice of knowledge over life, luxury, or instant gratification, directly correlate to “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”?
If so, then why are Adam and Eve condemned by their god, for teaching themselves to fish?

It does now occur to me to ponder; had Eve chosen the other fruit, from the Tree of Eternal Life, would we utilize eternal life, to aquire knowledge?

I ask this because, we currently further the original knowledge gained by Adam, in that long ago garden, to extend life.

And what good would be an extended life, without the perspective to understand the finite, death, and ultimately, the circle of life itself?


How would you take pleasure in living forever, if you had no knowledge of death?

What good is knowledge, if it is not used to prolong and save lives, and prevent death?

How can we think that we might someday prevent death, if we had never been told it once was?

What else might inspire our civilization, religions, advances in technology, and education of self, if not for struggling against the limits of time placed upon us by death?

Myself, I would rather be aware of my innescapable demise, than to perpetuate through infinity, in ignorance.

This choice made, I must thus admit, to be arrogant towards ignorance, in preferance of one, over the other.

Arrogance then becomes vanity, the quest for extended life through knowledge a vexation, and even in death's passing, knowing that we do.

Solomon argued that; "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."

This argument accepted, lifes punishment for the vanity of desire for knowledge then, is death.

"And the innocent shall inherit the Earth."

And the struggle to aquire knowledge, shall accomplish the hard purchase of extending our time above it, before we too inherit, the Earth.


Meanwhile...

In my own vain pursuit of knowledge,
I prepare myself, for that thing which shall be my final thought,
something that might encompass the whole of my life,
and hopefully justify it's course, in ending.

In the midst of all my efforts,
and I fleetingly suppose,
considering my passion for motorcycles, speed, and adventure,
regardless of what I contemplate,
and twisted irony that fate becomes,
my final thought, and eulogy of self,
will most likely be;

 "OUCH !!"



Adieu! and take thy praise with thee to heaven,
Thy ignomy sleep with thee in the grave,
But not remember’d in thy epitaph!
Shakespeare, Henry IV



Max

Orbital Coincidence and The Stuff Black Holes Are Made Of ...

 

Modern Astronomy claims that there are no coincidental correlations between Earth, Moon, and Sun.

Being the scofflaw that I am, it occurred to me that the timing and substance of Greek and Babylonian Astronomical calculations, Archimedes chronological devices, and the earliest recorded Mayan long count dates, seemed a bit more than coincidence.

So reaching back to some Babylonian and Greek astronomical principles recorded during that time period, I calculated the approximate 6585.3213 days of the Saros Cycle, which is when the sun and moon repeat the same basic geometry and eclipse in almost exactly the same spot from a perspective on the surface of the Earth, and factored this into the 5,125 year Mayan Long Count Calendar, which is coincidental to the Solar Systems cycle of passing through the Galactic Rift, and multiplying 365 days times 5,125 years, reached a sum of 1,870,625 days in a Rift Cycle, dividing the 6585.3213 days of the Saros into the 1,870,625 days of a Rift Cycle and found that almost exactly 284 Saros Cycles(284.0597921926755) pass during a Rift Cycle.
Even though this showed an overall coincidence of Sun, Earth, and Moon, I then, just for shits and grins, calculated to see if I could discover a coincidence just in the timing of the Moon’s orbit.
This was a bit difficult as the moon has somewhat of a discrepancy in that an Anomalistic orbit(27.5546 days) is the exact distance around its ellipse, whereas a Synodic orbit(29.5306 days) includes the bit extra it has to travel, in order to catch up to its beginning spot on the Earth, taking into consideration that the Earth is moving ahead of it in relation to half of the Moon’s orbital rotation.
However, neither the Anomolistic, or the Synodic orbital variants would divide into a Rift Cycle, so just as The Mythbusters will not quit until a thing blows up, it occurred to me to take an average of the two cycles, and I came up with 28.5426 days, which divided into the 1,870,625 days of the Rift Cycle at 65,538.0028 Lunar Cycles in a Rift Cycle.
Not really scientific, but fun to find a correlation just the same.

Considering that orbital geometry is constantly varying with gravitational influences by the other planets, that is as pretty much near an orbital coincidence as I can see in a nearly 2 million day cycle. Although not quite as apparent as Mercury's 3:2 resonance, I still claim that these are an indication of a coincidental phenomenon, not just between the Earth, Moon and Sun, but a resonance that also includes the Galaxy’s Plane and Center.

Could this also be an indication that there might be some orbital ‘tweaking’ as we pass through the Galactic Rift, in order to maintain this resonance for the next cycle, that might possibly occur as we pass through the center of the Galactic Rift, on December twenty first, in the year twenty twelve(12/21/2012) of the current era?

I will be absolutely thrilled, if I am still alive during this time, and have the opportunity to find out, whatever course it may take.

I also hold personal beliefs that everything resonates, or pulses to a common rhythm, from the smallest buzzing of electrons around a nucleus of an atom, to Suns whirling around Galaxies, and that every single one of these subtle and incredibly huge resonances and harmonies, influence and ‘Butterfly Effect’ everything throughout the infinite universe. 

Along this line, I also believe that our bodies and all other organic mater ‘hums along' with the harmonic resonance of the Earth, Sun and Moon, present at the Earth’s surface, and that without this hum, the common resonance of the atomic structure of our bodies will begin to lose its harmonic balance, and this loss of harmonic integrity explains why when Astronauts leave the Earth’s gravitational field for extended periods, they begin to suffer from health issues.

And from this, I believe that when and if, science establishes a measure of atomic resonance, and the properties of harmonics that define attraction and repulsion, rather than separate measurements, for what appears to our limited senses to be separate phenomenon, we will then break through to the physics dreamed of in Star Trek movies.

Just a bit of stray thought that wouldn’t let me sleep at about 2:30AM, so I got out of bed and on the internet, to find and crunch the numbers, and sure enough, there they were, and I hope you are all happy that I decided to share this bit of insomnia with you.

Max

NOTE:  I was actually awakened by the sudden realization, during a 'contemplating things' semi-dream state, that a massive star shedding the last of it's energy(evaporation) and its subsequent collapse(magnetic bottle), must invariably create something quite similar to what is known as Bose-Einstein Condensate, and that this incredibly huge amount of dense matter gravitationally held together at near absolute zero temperatures, must be what Black Holes are made of. The research tangent that led me to speculating if my atomic resonance theory might lead somewhere with this issue, then side tracked me to the orbital resonance/coincidence question, and that was more easily resolved in a little under an hour, so I took the easy way out.

I hope to e-mail with some of the researchers involved in the B-E C, and have some answers for those of you sharing my curiosity, sometime in the near future.

And before some smart-aleck comes back with that the 5125 year Rift Cycle might should actually be multiplied by 365.25 days(that includes the 4 year leap day) 4 Galactic Rift Cycles(7,487,625 days) is equal to 1137.0174 Saros Cycles.
And 4 x 5,125 year Galactic Rift Cycles, are coincidentally nearly equal to both the Precessional 20-26,000 year and the Oblique 41,000 year Milankovitch Axial Cycles of the Earth. 

And that is also a hellofa coincidence  .. :p