The Illuminati and Christian End Times

Organized religion seeks to include everyone in the same organization, but the degree to which they try to inflict their beliefs on people who are not their co-religionists varies tremendously from Unitarians and Universal Life Church people who would just as soon you followed your own spirit to fundamentalists of various types, from Christian to Islam, who believe it is their responsibility to make you live their kind of proper life, or they will torture you until you change (or they think about that at least). The fundamentalists are major supporters of the Illuminati, and Christian fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists, and the Illuminati all are trying to impose the New World Order on you.

They have slightly different terms of what they are seeking to impose, but it involves making you do what they want, regardless of your wishes. 

The Christian fundamentalists think that the “end times” will bring in an era of world unification, when everyone will live in harmony, after their enemies have been silenced. Apparently the Christians don’t realize that the Second Coming of Jesus happened in the second century CE.

The Islamic fundamentalists are more insistent about being right, but they don’t have as much scriptural authority. The Koran doesn’t include a book about end times, as the Christian Bible does, and the Muslims try to enforce their beliefs on others, which is specifically forbidden in the Koran, but they stopped following the Koran; they are following the Illuminati. And the Illuminati want to impose their will of all humans, and make them into sheep.

It is ironic that institutions that opposed the Soviet attempt to impose the centralization of power led by the Illuminati are now the chief proponents of the Illuminati doctrines, right there with the United Nations and the International Jewish Bankers’ Conspiracy. Now the sides have changed, but the struggle remains the same.

In fact, it is ironic that religions that profess to follow the god of Abraham with all of the morality and spirituality that entails are involved in any way with the godless and immoral Illuminati, but they are. And the two opposing views of religion have been allies for thousands of years since the first religions emerged.

Organized religion in some forms has openly supported and even fought for the goals of the Illuminati. The Catholic Church tried to establish itself over the world in the Crusades, which were against Muslims who had eschewed the Koran to try to force people to follow their version of the same god. It’s almost enough to get one to ask whether that god is the heart and soul of the godless and soulless Illuminati. Is it possible that the god who inspired the Book of Revelations also inspired international corporations and banks?

It makes me wonder whether the directors of the Illuminati meet in the Vatican.

It also makes me wonder about the end times. Science indicates that the Sun will last for another ten to twenty billion years, and there are no signs that a war of annihilation will break out, and there are no international disputes that would cause a serious war, and so on, and we know that the events predicted in the Book of revelations happened before 200 CE, so what do the people who think that the world will end are thinking about? There have been plenty of candidates for the Antichrist; although it was originally meant to indicate the Roman Emperor. Can life be so bad for those people that they dream that the final times will be better, or what? It also makes me wonder whether it is valid to classify religion as a mental illness. Religion certainly encourages people to believe things that are not true, but are those delusions?

This question brings up many other questions about the nature of organized religion and what it does to people, but I will not go into that now.

Ectotherms and Endotherms

I have recently noticed that the Human Race seems to have bifurcated. There now appear to be two races: the Endothermic race (the one that has existed for millions of years) and the Ectothermic race. The separation may have existed for a long time, but I only recently noticed that the two appear to be separate races. We all know that Humans are mammals, and mammals are warm-blooded animals; that means that humans are endothermic; they produce heat internally to maintain their bodies at a roughly even temperature.

Being endothermic means that humans don’t need tremendous amounts of covering to keep them comfortable, and they can easily tolerate a wide range of temperatures. Not having a goodly coat of fur, as bears have, humans need something to keep the warmth that they produce from dissipating immediately, but something that is slightly insulating and windproof is quite adequate in temperatures down to below zero Fahrenheit, when additional insulation become necessary.

Ectotherms require heavy, insulating garments whenever the temperature drops below seventy degrees, or they will lose the warmth they gained from other sources and eventually slow down and stop. A pleasantly cool day with temperature in the thirties is painfully cold to the ectotherms, so they pile on down coats or stay inside and adjust their heating systems to put out even more heat to keep them from stiffening up like a frog in a freezer.

Perhaps they have changed more than just their thermal characteristics. I wonder if they are mammals any more. I have heard that some animals that are clearly ectotherms are viviparous, as some snakes are viviparous, so that doesn’t provide any useful information. I wonder whether they have lost other mammalian traits.

Which reminds me that the ectotherms seem to also have trouble with the upper end on the temperature range. Humans, like most hairless or short-haired mammals, sweat to dissipate heat when the surroundings become excessively warm. That is why humans have been able to tolerate for short periods of time temperatures that exceed the temperature at which water boils. Ectotherms seem to have trouble with temperatures over eighty degrees, which leaves them with an operating range from seventy-two to eighty, and above that they need to remain in air-conditioned spaces that cool the air to about seventy. In contrast, regular humans can operate in temperatures from about twenty to well over one hundred with no problems, assuming that they have appropriate garb.

I can understand that some humans never became accustomed to extremes in temperature. The people of some parts of Africa and India in particular are accustomed to heat, but they can’t take the coolth, and some people who live in the Polar regions have trouble with the warmth.

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I wrote this far, when it suddenly came to me that the endotherms and the ectotherms need not be different races. The difference could also be explained as an evolutionary tactic in which ectothermic women and endothermic men seek each other and vice versa. This would make for more mixing of the gene pool, and more comfort for the women and men. Those who always feel cold would tend to snuggle up with those who are always warm, and both would be more comfortable. Rather than being a wedge between two races that would not recombine but would eventually become separate species, the different thermic types would mix and remix like an electric furnace.


Whether you are an endotherm or an ectotherm, your comments are not simply solicited but greatly desired. Should we eliminate ectotherms as an undesirable degeneration of the human race or accept them as a way to cool down on warm nights?

The Problem of Asperger's Syndrome

Last week I was thinking about including a character who with Asperger’s Syndrome in a story I am writing. Alas, Influenza stopped that for several days, during which time I thought about the matter some more. I started writing a blog entry about Asperger’s Syndrome and low intelligence, then I went out for lunch. After eating and having coffee and discussing the matter of the Judeo-Christian god having problems managing anger, it occurred to me that the god might actually have Asperger’s Syndrome. The principal symptom is insistence on being right regardless of actual fact. In the real world with humans there are many other signs of the Syndrome, but we have only the Scriptures for evidence regarding this.
That that god has problems regarding truth and enforces his opinions violently argue strongly in favor of a diagnosis of Asperger’s, but it could be OCD. In addition, we don’t know whether that god had any learning disability.

This is something about which I will have to think more, but my preliminary decision is: Asperger’s Syndrome.

I am wondering whether anyone else as any thoughts on this matter. I previously had thought that god had problems of low self-esteem as in evidenced by the commandment that demands that other gods not be put before him, but that might just be the tip of the iceberg.

The Perception of Time

    I just finished reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and I was struck by the attitude that he had toward time. Then I remembered that my mother had a similar attitude, and so do many of the people that I have encountered. That attitude is that they felt that they were very old, and that things in their lives happened a long, long time ago. I previously had the impression that people developed a longer view of things as they matured. It makes sense that little children would think that anything that happened before they were born happened a long, long time ago, but they would learn that their parents and other relatives may have lived back then, so it couldn't be all that long ago. And as time passed that view would extend to even earlier times. I have found that I consider anything since the fall of Rome to be fairly recent. I don't know anyone who was alive then, but I can imagine the times and events. Sometimes I stretch a little and remember that Babylon throve not long before that, so maybe recent times go back to 3000 BCE. Part of the reason why Olden Days seem recent to me is that I am comfortable with history and feel that I have a good idea of how people and things were then, while many people think that it was unfathomably different. There are even some people who think that people didn't have a sense of individuality until quite recently.
    That strange idea is held by a fair number of people in academia, especially ones who never bothered paying attention to history and literature. Perhaps people are getting the idea to the past was so different from those academics. If one reads ancient literature carefully, then one will realize that people thought and acted the same three or four thousand years ago as they think and act now.
    Then too, time, or the perception of time, is variable. "Time flies when you're having fun." This is a common perception that most people have at least some of the time. And there are things that seem to take forever. Such perceptions seem to be quite individual. Then there was the time when I met someone who I hadn't seen in about fifteen years, and I said, "Ir's been a while." He replied, "Yeah, a long while." To which I said, "No, not that long, just a few weeks." I could remember our last encounter as if it had happened a few days earlier. I take this to mean that perception of personal time is partly based on memory.
    I don't know, but I suspect that one's understanding of the past and feeling of how distant it is depends largely on how clearly one recalls or understands. People who know nothing of the past would find it impossibly distant, outside their understanding, while someone who knows history reasonably well and feels comfortable with it would regard the past as things that happened in the knowable yesterdays, rather than in some unimaginably distant time.

How do other people perceive the past? Was Julius Caesar's murder something that felt like yesterday's news when you heard of it, or was it something that happened in a different world? Can you imagine sitting down and having a comfortable conversation over dinner with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and a few others of that era? .

It's a New Era

Since the world will be coming to an end on the twenty-first day of this month, we have to start a new world. For that purpose, I propose a new era, which will be named “The New Era”, and a new calendar that will start when the Mayan Calendar ends. This new calendar will be named The New Calendar. The year will start with two intercalendral holidays that will not be part of any moth: Winter Solstice and New Year’s Day. After that we will get to the common matter of the ten day weeks, three to a month.
For convenience, and so we won’t have to learn all new names for the days, we will retain the seven days that the old-fashioned calendar has, and to those we will add days named for Neptune, Pluto, and Jupiter, Neptday, Plutday, and Jupday.
We may want to rearrange the names of the days, but that isn’t important. It will be important that there will be a three day weekend every week, but, at least for a while, there will be no holidays. The situation will be much more convenient, because 31% of the days will be weekends or intercalendral, while only 28% are such at present. It will also be easier to remember what day of the week falls on which date, because each day of a month will fall on the same day of the week every month.
Everyone will win, except for the Moon worshippers (well, someone had to lose), and the people who print calendars, because two will serve for every year – one for regular years and one for leap years.

I have already calculated the dates for many years to come, and I will post that when I figure out how to make a spreadsheet look right in here.

The Advantage of Lust

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

The Advantage of Lust

There is a great article in The Economist regarding sexual differentiation, longevity, and the pursuit of women. Human females have a longer life span than men, but men can extend their life span, if they continue to pursue women. It also implies that men in long term relationships with women will live longer than men who have polygynous relationships. Ii also says that it appears that humans in the far distant past were polygynous along the lines of horses and deer; obviously that relationship has ceased in general.

If the conclusions from the study are correct, then I suppose that it would be best for men to have a few long term sexual relationships. It has already been shown that women in long term relationships tend to outlive their mates, and women often die within a few years of their mates. So it would be better for women to dump their mates before they die; and it would be best for men to dump their mates for young women when the prior mate reaches menopause.

Related studies have shown that high level of testosterone lead to greater general health and longevity. In fact, in the past testosterone was used as a life extender for both men and women; there were some side effects, especially in women, so that treatment was stopped. I would guess that women shouldn't have levels of testosterone that are too much higher than their natural level at times of sexual arousal, which is only about ten percent of the normal level of men. I would imagine that the treatments of women who are so foolish as to have sex change procedures would indicate the maximum safe level.

How Real is What?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

How Real is What?

I just saw something that reminded me of part of the way that my calculus teacher explained imaginary

numbers when I was in high school. He said, "Imaginary numbers are really more real than real numbers." I went to a Catholic high school, and the teacher was a member of the Xaverian Brothers. I didn't usually think of him, or the other brothers, as Medieval thinkers, but that idea was very spiritual and Medieval. That idea was also mystical and closely related to the Kabalistic view of the universe.

In that view, humans are made up of four 'bodies' or levels of being: the physical, astral, mental, and

spiritual (or the soul). They are also graded in quality in that order from lowest to highest. That succession of 'bodies' also makes humans superior to all other creations, because other animals and angels have only one or two bodies. This is also the way that humans are most like the Gods and Goddesses, because they have at least four bodies; actually, they can have as many or as few as they wish.

Thought is a product of the mental body, which is the second highest body, and some thought is spiritual, and thus emanates from the soul. Real numbers are simply symbols of things that exist in the physical, so they have a nature that is a mixture of the mental and physical. Imaginary numbers do not correspond with anything in the known physical universe, so they are not tainted with the mud of the physical world. In theory, that makes imaginary numbers superior to real numbers.

The questions are whether there are multiple 'bodies' and whether that is of any significance. My experience suggests that humans understand things on different levels, and some people are incapable of understanding some things, but I don't know whether that is evidence. One item that I think is strong evidence is to the

division of the human consciousness into different levels is emotion, which is a matter of the astral body. The evidence from FMRI scans of brains has shown quite clearly the pathways of thought of various things. Matters that are emotional use different paths from intellectual matters.

Even by thinking about emotions, one can detect a difference between emotional matters and intellectual matters, because the emotional thoughts cause physical responses of some sort. People often mistakenly think that spoken or written matter can be purely emotional, but that is impossible. All verbal expression takes the same path from the left frontal lobe to Broca's region, then to the part of the body that will do the expression.

On to the question of degree of 'realness' of various sorts of thought. The mystical thinker would contend that the physical universe is an impure manifestation of the higher levels of being. They may be right, but I would contend that we humans have no practical way to tell. On a practical level, pure thought can be done with less distraction by physical, emotional, and ethical considerations. Some would regard it as purer simply for those reasons. Personally, I regard all levels of existence as having value, so I don't see a great deal of difference among them, but a Kabalistic view of the universe is useful, and it corresponds quite closely to the view that provided by Quantum Physics.

I suspect that it's a matter of point of view.