Slightly off topic, It's not clear to me that the small increase in co2, rather than an existential threat, is in fact hugely beneficial to all life on earth. I don't know that I am correct, I do know that I am being lied to about it.
I am sure of almost nothing because someone told me long ago, "Only fools are sure," but I'll stick my neck out and say I'm sure you're right. We are being lied to and have been lied to for generations. The only reason CO2 has been made a villain in all this is the fact that every living, breathing creature on the planet produces it, so we all have to share the guilt and burden. The real pollutants are the POP's other chemical poisons that are produced by virtue signaling corporations that feed the technocracy and the WHOferWEFers. They are purely and simply lying bastards! The human race needs to wake up. More CO2 = More trees = more O2 = healthy planet.
As I drill into my granddaughter, we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide to share with the trees, they take in the carbon dioxide, turn it into oxygen and share it with us.
I would be remiss if I didn't drop a link to this site run by the brightest solar-terrestrial physicist on the planet today: https://suspicious0bservers.org/
Spoiler alert: It's the sun, it's the sun, it's the sun.
But if it's the sun, and not people, that affects our weather, then the globalist tyrants won't have an excuse to control every facet of our lives. I am so glad my mother taught me the lesson of Chicken Little.
I strongly advise anyone who thinks they smell a rat about CO2 and climate to read James Hansen "Storms of My Grandchildren". You can <snort> and <guffaw> all you like but without reading this thoroughly your objections are worthless. Certainly, when there is an "issue", especially a big one, all sorts of players will come in and bend it to their profit, but that has no bearing whatever on whether the issue itself is valid. So, seeing that WEF is on a kick about climate change has no bearing on whether there actually IS A PROBLEM. There is, and Hansen will explain to you why apparently in ages past CO2 rose only AFTER temperature rise, one of the main argumets the climate deniers use. And, you absolutely need to understand exactly how CO2 and CH4 prevent infrared from escaping back into space, and why a small change in concentration results in enormously increased absorption of heat by planet earth. Taking as meaningful the deniers' constant claims that there is only a tiny rise, etc., is pure ignorance, and willful ignorance at that. You also need to understand that most of the xs heat absorbed in the past few decades has gone into the ocean. And it is the warmed ocean currents that have been circulating and melting to N Polar icecap from underneath. You also need to understand the physics of latent heat of fusion of water, the enormous amount of energy needed to melt ice at a constant temperature. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Latent_heat
If you can see through the idiocies about covid and mRNA promoted by almost all the "experts" you should be able to see the same type of nonsense concerning other issues, notably climate change. Vigilance required. Sharpen your BS Detectors!
Yeah yeah yeah.... except a big FAT part of the whole thing was how there would, obviously, be a hot spot over the tropics.
And when they finally got the satellites and balloons all lined up, testing the hypothesis ready to PROVE to us ignorant deniers...
THERE WAS NO FUCKING HOTSPOT.
Yeah they waffled and flip-flopped about how it didn't matter THAT THEIR ENTIRE HYPOTHESIS JUST IMPLODED and continued as normal, before later declaring that there was a hot-spot, there really was! And so it was IMPORTANT again, really - you just had to torture the data enough to get it to confess to whatever you wanted it to say, such as "If you squint a bit, on a Sunday just after a typhoon before a full moon, there's a hint of warmth, maybe, within a few thousand miles of where our hypotheses demanded a hotspot be found."
"who thinks they smell a rat about CO2".. there is no doubt about smelling rats, you should really be able to recognise this... surely? Much of the distrust around 'settled science' ( A rat for you right there) is precisely because the rats are visible.
You can make the legitimate argument that political propaganda and corporate interests are clouding the science, but the rats are real.
"the climate deniers"... Probably better not to use the language of propagandists, it doesn't help. Much like 'anti-vax' is a sure sign in that particular realm.
No, I'm not from anywhere you know, a reason I can see it clearly. Several of you here who have replied are obviously in your own little mass formation bubble and are completely un-educatable on the subject. I don't mind, it does provide something to laugh at in the midst of an otherwise rather depressing situation. So, get a grip!
CO2 has trivial relevance to atmospheric heat retention, cloud cover is the best atmospheric heat insulator. Anyone rational can see this, by recording the outside, nighttime temperature, with and without cloud cover after similar daytime temperatures. The conclusion, cloudy nights are generally warmer, than clear sky nights! I have a wireless weather station which logs all of this and shows 3-day graphs of the outside temperate, so it is damned obvious!
CO2 is a good thing. it makes plants, crops, and trees grow faster. And there is only .004 of our atmosphere that is CO2, and most of that comes from the 30,000 volcanoes on our planet. There have been times when our atmosphere was .07 CO2 AND THE EARTH WAS COVERED with giant ferns. The people of Canada, Siberia, and Lappland would benefit from some warming. And when the people in Europe freeze and starve this winter Greta and the Greenies had better find a safe place to hide.
CO2 levels are a trailing, rather than a leading, indicator of global warming. As the oceans warm, CO2 is released into the atmosphere. CO2 may contribute to global warming via that feedback mechanism, but it is not the initiator.
There are several questions embedded here. This is a topic far too deep and rich for a Substack comment, but here's a first-cup-of-coffee response.
First, whether our actions are consequential. That, indubitably. Your example shows this.
The deeper question is whether our actions are optional. Individually, we experience choices; we make decisions, which design the arrow of time and become part of the event record.
What if we think of this in terms of Superdeterminism? Yes, there was uncertainty experienced. But was there any real doubt from a cosmic perspective? Is it really logical to say events "could have" occurred otherwise? As they say on the streets, it is what it is.
Time being this illusion, once a choice has been made, from that perspective, this choice was always the one that was to be made. The probability wave collapsed, wasn't that the choice which was always going to be made?
Is there another universe where a different choice was made? Perhaps. But the state of our Universe is as it is, and we're being purely hypothetical when we talk about it "could have been" some other way. We don't know that. This reference to the unrealized possibilities is not, you know, real.
As a system, as humanity, though, are there really such options? Power accumulates around the economic imperatives that are not really dependent on the choices of individuals. Events and developments follow the flow of forces that lead to industrial and political decisions, and while we may feel that these are mutable, this may be an illusion.
Systemic human action is the result of a cascade of events, each leading to the next. We're where we are as the result of innovations; these were born from the mother of necessity. While we may think that these events had some potential to be different, this is, again, a hypothetical construct.
We like to imagine the world if Carthage had defeated Rome. Would that have changed history? We'd have a language tree which was Semitic rather than Latin in the area. We might find ourselves struggling under a cult of paganism rather than the monotheopoly. Tripoli might be a holy city. Qaddafi might rule the world. And so on.
What we see when comparing alternate history lines is that, while details might curiously emerge differently, the pattern of power and colonization has a certain inevitability. Successful empires seek to expand, because they can and must. If they have more coastline than heartland, they eventually build ships and conquer the world. This would almost certainly have had to happen out of the Mediterranean Sea, with the perfect combination of nautical development and limited land expansion opportunities.
We think and believe, as individuals, that we are making choices; but the choices we make are within the context of our culture. Literally every word of every idea is part of an equilibrium consciousness, produced collectively. Our values, however transformed by our experiences, are fundamentally received. Whatever choices we think we're making are in context, and inextricable from that context. So, it could be that "our" choices are simply the consequence of cultural forces, causing us to hold values and ideas that we experience as uniquely our own, but which were inevitable.
This doesn't mean free will doesn't exist; but it may be an illusion. You may be making choices; but did you choose to be the person you are? When you make a choice, perhaps to change some habit, is that an independent variable, or is it yet another inevitable expression of the cultural values and context that leads you to make the only decision you, as a unique concrescence, are capable of making? When we make a choice, was there truly another choice we "could have" made? We may think so. But that's as far as it gets. The world record only includes the collapsed probability.
Some would take all this as fatalism, but there's no reason to reject the illusion of free will. We don't know how the choices will play out, even if the destiny was inevitable. Actors know how the play will conclude, but their characters don't. In the end, do we consider the motivation of the actor, or of the role they played? That's an illusion, too. Yet somehow more real.
Not bad for a first-cup-of-coffee response! If I had more of a knack for writing, I could say you took the words out of my mouth. But I don't. So thanks for your words.
Indeed, the argument can be made from here, that, since only the mutable-future model is affected by our decisions, that we must behave as if the future is mutable, in case it is. Since it wouldn't matter if it isn't.
Essentially, we have no choice but to act as if we have free will.
Boy, I have to disagree with this. Each choice we make is not pre-determined. That sentence itself is oxymoronic. I would agree that as a result of our choices, a path is taken in our lives, but that only reinforces the notion that consequences cannot be avoided for our choices, and for some, that choice or sequence of choices has led them to where they are today. The fact that we all have VERY different lives, interests, etc. is proof that we have choice. And where a short, fat guy can practice as much as he wants, he'll never be able to slam dunk a basketball in a hoop. One can say his future is pre-determined by his genetic makeup, taking away such agency from someone is such a dangerous road to go down - "simulated", deterministically or forced.
I happen to be of the mindset that agency is what is given to each of us by God. It allows for bad things to happen to good people at the hands of bad people. But think of the power God has given us! What we do with it is our own choice. And yes, that agency can indeed be very restrictive, should we choose to indulge with a drug habit, find ourselves incarcerated for crimes against another, or one beer too many resulting in the life of a child born and you are obligated to support it.
I really have a hard time grasping how these paths are predetermined.
The whole idea of "pre" determined is completely outside of what we're talking about here. Not "pre". "Super". "Pre"-determined implies a linear timeline, in which the future is determined in the past.
Here, we invert the arrow of time and reason backward; the future outcome is what determines what the future of the past always was going to be.
Nobody said "pre-determined." It's more like retrocausally post-determined.
Not really sure you understand what you are "disagreeing" with. Nothing about this idea challenges the idea of "agency". On the contrary, it provides a strong rationale for agency, or the experience and attitude of agency, despite the possibility that we have as much actual agency as sand swirling in the desert.
Does anything we do matter? In fact, it does. A recent advance has been to understand how to get rid of POPs, which I wrote a book on. For example, we now have approximately 600 chemicals we know of, unstudied to date, and suspect there are over 1000, created by additives to the water supply that then after the use of that water enter the ecosystem as waste water where sunlight alters their composition to completely new chemicals never seen before. the fact the science has technically developed a method to rid the earth of POPs is somewhat comforting but the actual implementation of those procedures is likely a decade away.
Another book I published, Food Drugs, 1700 pages, 43 chapters, describing over 100 drugs, classified by the FDA as drugs, are in the food supply. Thus we see, especially in the minority communities, people that look like basketballs ready to explode. Examining 1930-1950s images of NYC it's quite easy to see, no one was overweight. Here's an example of numerous images from that era and obesity did not exist and morbid obesity was unheard of. POPs are the cause along with Food Additives.
From my perspective, EVERYTHING we do matters, without getting into the construct of "matter" and "energy"in particular. I just noticed a post below confirming that forever chemicals are, in fact, now being permanently destroyed or more accurately we have the means to do so. Whether we are or not I can't say although the process of collecting them may be prohibitive.
Yet what YOU and each of us do is critical and matters right now in this instant more than anything any of us have ever down before. We're living in a time where what we do, each of us here, will matter for decades ahead.
Indeed, so in that regard, I'm writing a book to be published in early October. I've written and/or authored over 100 books on POPs, TDBPs, Glyphosate, Vaccines, ASIA, 5G, all 100% peer review and all quite successful, because they're all free and I have them connected to about 500 colleges and research institutions. I do sell 5 or 10 books a month on Amazon and I'll put this on Amazon but it only amounts to pennies. So my question is, Jessica, can I use some of your substack articles to publish SUBSTACK? And if so I'd need your bio. Spartacus has agreed so far, I just asked Dr. Nass as well. I intend to also ask Dr. Toby, Dead Man Walking and perhaps others. I also intend to add some video to the eBook edition. I can be contacted at jprager@rocketmail.com and my web site is linked but I've been censored somewhat so I stopped paying for analytics and they're now letting up. You can scroll to see my titles. I generate over 300 online page-reads per day, about 30 downloads per day and reach over 500 educational and research institutions in over 140 countries. I'd like to chapter by your names and have 6 posts per person. Perhaps you'd like to download ASIA as an example or Atrocity Propaganda or Scamdemic so you can examine my books before making a decision. Again, they're all free. Clicking my name at the top left of the page will take you to a little over 80 of my books: https://www.academia.edu/45033876/Scamdemic_Fraud_At_The_Highest_Levels_Of_Governance
We old hippies were right about a lot of things but Erewhon went from sacks of oats that smelled like weed from the back of a panel truck to a mega corp & so many niche products have nothing left of the original but the name recognition.
My memory is a fuzzy place and names more so but I wanna feel like we met last month at Covert Action NYC rooftop event.. if not there was a copy of your book floating around w assorted authors, notables & Skyhorse titles... random c'est la me trivia. :~)
I am an old hippie, always will be and unlike those that gave up their values for dollars in the work-a-day world, I didn't. As for my books, they're all published by my own Publishing Companies—Anarchy Books and a second, Runaway Slaves LLC—so I don't believe you saw any of my books although I do have several on Amazon and the Ground Zero Model is a book I published for 4 nuclear physicists so, being NYC, you may have seen that one. And yes, we were, in my opinion, right about EVERYTHING except, since I'm 67, not trusting anyone over 30 which I believed while under 30. :)
My books are all free even though some are on Amazon. Before I was censored on Academia my books generally had between 500 and 5000 views with one reaching over 75,000 but now it's censorship all the way. My books total over 100, a little over 80 are here: https://independent.academia.edu/Prager
I’ve been bothered by many of our technological “advances” but could not put my finger on why they bothered me so. It is the (assumedly) unintended consequences.
What if I were to answer your question regarding whether anything matters with "it depends"? What are the consequences of our actions? And are they inescapable once we have "done something"? It seems we as humans work so hard to avoid consequences, with some broaching moral boundaries. Who are we to short circuit or try to escape the consequences, or worse, transfer them to others?
As for matter... the organizing of it is a god-like power, depending on the complexity of the creation. And yet, we don't know how to avoid the consequences of those creations.
And then the question becomes, "Should we create those creations?" We rarely think about the consequences of our creations until they affect us adversely.
I'll leave these as an exercise for the reader. :-)
It seems to me that absolutely everything we do matters, probably more than we can even begin to imagine or comprehend. When I say "everything we do" I include everything, including how we use our psyche, or mind.
Much like most come to the question at some point "Why Am I Here" or "What Is This Really" etc. we forget or cover-over the special innocent knowledge, almost magical intuitiveness we had as a child.
Yes, this all matters as is all matter is connected. Getting back to that child-like knowledge should be encouraged with the added benefit of time / growth. If we are heartfully seeking knowledge, we will find it. Sifting out truth from distraction and diversion from REALITY is where many of us go off the rails. AND, to any that debate REALITY, there is only ONE. If not, it couldn't be at all. It's another big topic that gets very convoluted, purposely for this or that reason, but it's simple in the sum.
Slightly off topic, It's not clear to me that the small increase in co2, rather than an existential threat, is in fact hugely beneficial to all life on earth. I don't know that I am correct, I do know that I am being lied to about it.
I am sure of almost nothing because someone told me long ago, "Only fools are sure," but I'll stick my neck out and say I'm sure you're right. We are being lied to and have been lied to for generations. The only reason CO2 has been made a villain in all this is the fact that every living, breathing creature on the planet produces it, so we all have to share the guilt and burden. The real pollutants are the POP's other chemical poisons that are produced by virtue signaling corporations that feed the technocracy and the WHOferWEFers. They are purely and simply lying bastards! The human race needs to wake up. More CO2 = More trees = more O2 = healthy planet.
As I drill into my granddaughter, we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide to share with the trees, they take in the carbon dioxide, turn it into oxygen and share it with us.
Keep drilling.
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I would be remiss if I didn't drop a link to this site run by the brightest solar-terrestrial physicist on the planet today: https://suspicious0bservers.org/
Spoiler alert: It's the sun, it's the sun, it's the sun.
But if it's the sun, and not people, that affects our weather, then the globalist tyrants won't have an excuse to control every facet of our lives. I am so glad my mother taught me the lesson of Chicken Little.
Eyes open, no fear.
I strongly advise anyone who thinks they smell a rat about CO2 and climate to read James Hansen "Storms of My Grandchildren". You can <snort> and <guffaw> all you like but without reading this thoroughly your objections are worthless. Certainly, when there is an "issue", especially a big one, all sorts of players will come in and bend it to their profit, but that has no bearing whatever on whether the issue itself is valid. So, seeing that WEF is on a kick about climate change has no bearing on whether there actually IS A PROBLEM. There is, and Hansen will explain to you why apparently in ages past CO2 rose only AFTER temperature rise, one of the main argumets the climate deniers use. And, you absolutely need to understand exactly how CO2 and CH4 prevent infrared from escaping back into space, and why a small change in concentration results in enormously increased absorption of heat by planet earth. Taking as meaningful the deniers' constant claims that there is only a tiny rise, etc., is pure ignorance, and willful ignorance at that. You also need to understand that most of the xs heat absorbed in the past few decades has gone into the ocean. And it is the warmed ocean currents that have been circulating and melting to N Polar icecap from underneath. You also need to understand the physics of latent heat of fusion of water, the enormous amount of energy needed to melt ice at a constant temperature. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Latent_heat
If you can see through the idiocies about covid and mRNA promoted by almost all the "experts" you should be able to see the same type of nonsense concerning other issues, notably climate change. Vigilance required. Sharpen your BS Detectors!
Yeah yeah yeah.... except a big FAT part of the whole thing was how there would, obviously, be a hot spot over the tropics.
And when they finally got the satellites and balloons all lined up, testing the hypothesis ready to PROVE to us ignorant deniers...
THERE WAS NO FUCKING HOTSPOT.
Yeah they waffled and flip-flopped about how it didn't matter THAT THEIR ENTIRE HYPOTHESIS JUST IMPLODED and continued as normal, before later declaring that there was a hot-spot, there really was! And so it was IMPORTANT again, really - you just had to torture the data enough to get it to confess to whatever you wanted it to say, such as "If you squint a bit, on a Sunday just after a typhoon before a full moon, there's a hint of warmth, maybe, within a few thousand miles of where our hypotheses demanded a hotspot be found."
Science settled, huh?
"who thinks they smell a rat about CO2".. there is no doubt about smelling rats, you should really be able to recognise this... surely? Much of the distrust around 'settled science' ( A rat for you right there) is precisely because the rats are visible.
You can make the legitimate argument that political propaganda and corporate interests are clouding the science, but the rats are real.
"the climate deniers"... Probably better not to use the language of propagandists, it doesn't help. Much like 'anti-vax' is a sure sign in that particular realm.
"I'm Peter Webster from the IPCC and I'm here to school you climate deniers!"
No, I'm not from anywhere you know, a reason I can see it clearly. Several of you here who have replied are obviously in your own little mass formation bubble and are completely un-educatable on the subject. I don't mind, it does provide something to laugh at in the midst of an otherwise rather depressing situation. So, get a grip!
You are the only one insisting you are correct and that everyone else must be 'un-educated' and in a 'bubble' . That should tell you something.
You got me!!
But my post was factual, the replies not, or ignorant of the facts I presented. Stick to the facts, avoid ad hominem and more people will respect you.
Avoid ad hominem - like "uneducable" and "climate deniers"?
Who taught you how to make rational arguments, Saul Alinsky?
🤣🤣🤣
CO2 has trivial relevance to atmospheric heat retention, cloud cover is the best atmospheric heat insulator. Anyone rational can see this, by recording the outside, nighttime temperature, with and without cloud cover after similar daytime temperatures. The conclusion, cloudy nights are generally warmer, than clear sky nights! I have a wireless weather station which logs all of this and shows 3-day graphs of the outside temperate, so it is damned obvious!
Someone recently turned me onto this site:
https://co2coalition.org/fact_category/co2/
And this one:
https://realclimatescience.com/
CO2 is a good thing. it makes plants, crops, and trees grow faster. And there is only .004 of our atmosphere that is CO2, and most of that comes from the 30,000 volcanoes on our planet. There have been times when our atmosphere was .07 CO2 AND THE EARTH WAS COVERED with giant ferns. The people of Canada, Siberia, and Lappland would benefit from some warming. And when the people in Europe freeze and starve this winter Greta and the Greenies had better find a safe place to hide.
CO2 levels are a trailing, rather than a leading, indicator of global warming. As the oceans warm, CO2 is released into the atmosphere. CO2 may contribute to global warming via that feedback mechanism, but it is not the initiator.
What you are doing matters. A lot. Thank you.
There are several questions embedded here. This is a topic far too deep and rich for a Substack comment, but here's a first-cup-of-coffee response.
First, whether our actions are consequential. That, indubitably. Your example shows this.
The deeper question is whether our actions are optional. Individually, we experience choices; we make decisions, which design the arrow of time and become part of the event record.
What if we think of this in terms of Superdeterminism? Yes, there was uncertainty experienced. But was there any real doubt from a cosmic perspective? Is it really logical to say events "could have" occurred otherwise? As they say on the streets, it is what it is.
Time being this illusion, once a choice has been made, from that perspective, this choice was always the one that was to be made. The probability wave collapsed, wasn't that the choice which was always going to be made?
Is there another universe where a different choice was made? Perhaps. But the state of our Universe is as it is, and we're being purely hypothetical when we talk about it "could have been" some other way. We don't know that. This reference to the unrealized possibilities is not, you know, real.
As a system, as humanity, though, are there really such options? Power accumulates around the economic imperatives that are not really dependent on the choices of individuals. Events and developments follow the flow of forces that lead to industrial and political decisions, and while we may feel that these are mutable, this may be an illusion.
Systemic human action is the result of a cascade of events, each leading to the next. We're where we are as the result of innovations; these were born from the mother of necessity. While we may think that these events had some potential to be different, this is, again, a hypothetical construct.
We like to imagine the world if Carthage had defeated Rome. Would that have changed history? We'd have a language tree which was Semitic rather than Latin in the area. We might find ourselves struggling under a cult of paganism rather than the monotheopoly. Tripoli might be a holy city. Qaddafi might rule the world. And so on.
What we see when comparing alternate history lines is that, while details might curiously emerge differently, the pattern of power and colonization has a certain inevitability. Successful empires seek to expand, because they can and must. If they have more coastline than heartland, they eventually build ships and conquer the world. This would almost certainly have had to happen out of the Mediterranean Sea, with the perfect combination of nautical development and limited land expansion opportunities.
We think and believe, as individuals, that we are making choices; but the choices we make are within the context of our culture. Literally every word of every idea is part of an equilibrium consciousness, produced collectively. Our values, however transformed by our experiences, are fundamentally received. Whatever choices we think we're making are in context, and inextricable from that context. So, it could be that "our" choices are simply the consequence of cultural forces, causing us to hold values and ideas that we experience as uniquely our own, but which were inevitable.
This doesn't mean free will doesn't exist; but it may be an illusion. You may be making choices; but did you choose to be the person you are? When you make a choice, perhaps to change some habit, is that an independent variable, or is it yet another inevitable expression of the cultural values and context that leads you to make the only decision you, as a unique concrescence, are capable of making? When we make a choice, was there truly another choice we "could have" made? We may think so. But that's as far as it gets. The world record only includes the collapsed probability.
Some would take all this as fatalism, but there's no reason to reject the illusion of free will. We don't know how the choices will play out, even if the destiny was inevitable. Actors know how the play will conclude, but their characters don't. In the end, do we consider the motivation of the actor, or of the role they played? That's an illusion, too. Yet somehow more real.
Not bad for a first-cup-of-coffee response! If I had more of a knack for writing, I could say you took the words out of my mouth. But I don't. So thanks for your words.
In Vedanta they call IT 'That' as in "I'm That; Thou art That; All this is that." And 'That' is all there is. It is what it is...doing what it does.
Awesome post. If I could be a writer you'd be one of my heroes.
"but there's no reason to reject the illusion of free will. We don't know how the choices will play out, even if the destiny was inevitable."
Exactly, rendering the arguments around free will purely academic, there is zero benefit from accepting a pre-determined fate.
Indeed, the argument can be made from here, that, since only the mutable-future model is affected by our decisions, that we must behave as if the future is mutable, in case it is. Since it wouldn't matter if it isn't.
Essentially, we have no choice but to act as if we have free will.
Boy, I have to disagree with this. Each choice we make is not pre-determined. That sentence itself is oxymoronic. I would agree that as a result of our choices, a path is taken in our lives, but that only reinforces the notion that consequences cannot be avoided for our choices, and for some, that choice or sequence of choices has led them to where they are today. The fact that we all have VERY different lives, interests, etc. is proof that we have choice. And where a short, fat guy can practice as much as he wants, he'll never be able to slam dunk a basketball in a hoop. One can say his future is pre-determined by his genetic makeup, taking away such agency from someone is such a dangerous road to go down - "simulated", deterministically or forced.
I happen to be of the mindset that agency is what is given to each of us by God. It allows for bad things to happen to good people at the hands of bad people. But think of the power God has given us! What we do with it is our own choice. And yes, that agency can indeed be very restrictive, should we choose to indulge with a drug habit, find ourselves incarcerated for crimes against another, or one beer too many resulting in the life of a child born and you are obligated to support it.
I really have a hard time grasping how these paths are predetermined.
Agency for the win!
The whole idea of "pre" determined is completely outside of what we're talking about here. Not "pre". "Super". "Pre"-determined implies a linear timeline, in which the future is determined in the past.
Here, we invert the arrow of time and reason backward; the future outcome is what determines what the future of the past always was going to be.
Nobody said "pre-determined." It's more like retrocausally post-determined.
Not really sure you understand what you are "disagreeing" with. Nothing about this idea challenges the idea of "agency". On the contrary, it provides a strong rationale for agency, or the experience and attitude of agency, despite the possibility that we have as much actual agency as sand swirling in the desert.
Does anything we do matter? In fact, it does. A recent advance has been to understand how to get rid of POPs, which I wrote a book on. For example, we now have approximately 600 chemicals we know of, unstudied to date, and suspect there are over 1000, created by additives to the water supply that then after the use of that water enter the ecosystem as waste water where sunlight alters their composition to completely new chemicals never seen before. the fact the science has technically developed a method to rid the earth of POPs is somewhat comforting but the actual implementation of those procedures is likely a decade away.
Another book I published, Food Drugs, 1700 pages, 43 chapters, describing over 100 drugs, classified by the FDA as drugs, are in the food supply. Thus we see, especially in the minority communities, people that look like basketballs ready to explode. Examining 1930-1950s images of NYC it's quite easy to see, no one was overweight. Here's an example of numerous images from that era and obesity did not exist and morbid obesity was unheard of. POPs are the cause along with Food Additives.
From my perspective, EVERYTHING we do matters, without getting into the construct of "matter" and "energy"in particular. I just noticed a post below confirming that forever chemicals are, in fact, now being permanently destroyed or more accurately we have the means to do so. Whether we are or not I can't say although the process of collecting them may be prohibitive.
Yet what YOU and each of us do is critical and matters right now in this instant more than anything any of us have ever down before. We're living in a time where what we do, each of us here, will matter for decades ahead.
I couldn't agree more. :)
So agree! Every action or inaction has a ripple effect that we may or may not be aware of. Energy is matter, matter is energy, it all matters.
Indeed, so in that regard, I'm writing a book to be published in early October. I've written and/or authored over 100 books on POPs, TDBPs, Glyphosate, Vaccines, ASIA, 5G, all 100% peer review and all quite successful, because they're all free and I have them connected to about 500 colleges and research institutions. I do sell 5 or 10 books a month on Amazon and I'll put this on Amazon but it only amounts to pennies. So my question is, Jessica, can I use some of your substack articles to publish SUBSTACK? And if so I'd need your bio. Spartacus has agreed so far, I just asked Dr. Nass as well. I intend to also ask Dr. Toby, Dead Man Walking and perhaps others. I also intend to add some video to the eBook edition. I can be contacted at jprager@rocketmail.com and my web site is linked but I've been censored somewhat so I stopped paying for analytics and they're now letting up. You can scroll to see my titles. I generate over 300 online page-reads per day, about 30 downloads per day and reach over 500 educational and research institutions in over 140 countries. I'd like to chapter by your names and have 6 posts per person. Perhaps you'd like to download ASIA as an example or Atrocity Propaganda or Scamdemic so you can examine my books before making a decision. Again, they're all free. Clicking my name at the top left of the page will take you to a little over 80 of my books: https://www.academia.edu/45033876/Scamdemic_Fraud_At_The_Highest_Levels_Of_Governance
https://mymodernmet.com/daily-life-new-york-1940s/
We old hippies were right about a lot of things but Erewhon went from sacks of oats that smelled like weed from the back of a panel truck to a mega corp & so many niche products have nothing left of the original but the name recognition.
My memory is a fuzzy place and names more so but I wanna feel like we met last month at Covert Action NYC rooftop event.. if not there was a copy of your book floating around w assorted authors, notables & Skyhorse titles... random c'est la me trivia. :~)
I am an old hippie, always will be and unlike those that gave up their values for dollars in the work-a-day world, I didn't. As for my books, they're all published by my own Publishing Companies—Anarchy Books and a second, Runaway Slaves LLC—so I don't believe you saw any of my books although I do have several on Amazon and the Ground Zero Model is a book I published for 4 nuclear physicists so, being NYC, you may have seen that one. And yes, we were, in my opinion, right about EVERYTHING except, since I'm 67, not trusting anyone over 30 which I believed while under 30. :)
My books are all free even though some are on Amazon. Before I was censored on Academia my books generally had between 500 and 5000 views with one reaching over 75,000 but now it's censorship all the way. My books total over 100, a little over 80 are here: https://independent.academia.edu/Prager
"Right at the corner of Vortex Street
And Enigma Avenue
Squatters blew up the Utopia Suite
So we’re booked in room Catch-22
Now is tomorrow with a backspin twist
And you’d better believe nothing unreal exists
Oh, I swear we’re halfway there
Down roundabout halls and endless stairs
Got to think around the box
To navigate this place
No vacancy in the Hotel Paradox
But we never run out of space
And we’re halfway there
Always halfway
Halfway there
The front desk has already checked out
The pool full of atmosphere
The marquee is powered by doubt
For if you knew, you wouldn’t be here
If you have to ask, the answer is know
‘Cause we ran out of answers ages ago
Oh, I swear we’re halfway there
Down roundabout halls and endless stairs
Got to think around the box
To navigate this place
No vacancy in the Hotel Paradox
But we never run out of space
And we’re halfway there
Always halfway
Halfway there
The time has come, the walrus said
To vacuum the upstairs ceiling
Time to lie in an unmade bed
And watch the paint a-peelin’
Well, nobody asked if you wanted to be
So free will’s an illusion if you ask me
Oh, I swear we’re halfway there
Down roundabout halls and endless stairs
Got to think around the box
To navigate this place
No vacancy in the Hotel Paradox
But we never run out of space
And we’re halfway there
Always halfway
Halfway there"
https://www.airliftunderground.com/airlift/hotel-paradox/
awesome. is it yours?
Sure is. We haven't recorded it yet, though. It's been bumped from two album lists so far.
Maybe we'll record it live at our show this Friday.
This is our first album. The second one is still being mastered.
https://airliftunderground.bandcamp.com/album/no-mind-left-unblown
Each day I choose pro life attitude in all things, more creation/life less destroying/death…my ‘energy’ can change the room….all to JC
I believe in the unity and connectedness of everything in the universe. The trillions of equations that manifest themselves as reality are constantly being altered by what we do. I have given my readers this, to explain why “everything matters”. “Changing the World One Good Deed at a Time”. https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/changing-the-world-one-good-deed?r=gjogf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Every action each one of us makes is a choice as to which universe we're going to live in.
Agreed. :) See you soon!
A thought of love, when one makes it happen, becomes “a thing” that instantly reaches the whole universe.
i think i love this.
You always "jump start" my desire to reach beyond assumptions, Thanks JP
I’ve been bothered by many of our technological “advances” but could not put my finger on why they bothered me so. It is the (assumedly) unintended consequences.
What if I were to answer your question regarding whether anything matters with "it depends"? What are the consequences of our actions? And are they inescapable once we have "done something"? It seems we as humans work so hard to avoid consequences, with some broaching moral boundaries. Who are we to short circuit or try to escape the consequences, or worse, transfer them to others?
As for matter... the organizing of it is a god-like power, depending on the complexity of the creation. And yet, we don't know how to avoid the consequences of those creations.
And then the question becomes, "Should we create those creations?" We rarely think about the consequences of our creations until they affect us adversely.
I'll leave these as an exercise for the reader. :-)
Brilliant and profound. Thank you, Jessica.
It seems to me that absolutely everything we do matters, probably more than we can even begin to imagine or comprehend. When I say "everything we do" I include everything, including how we use our psyche, or mind.
Ionic transfer across synapses causes tiny energy changes…each one possibly giving off “mass”…
…then each series of synapses produces a definable series of energy releases
I appreciate your work Jessica.
A fun, lovely working brain, proved again!
Much like most come to the question at some point "Why Am I Here" or "What Is This Really" etc. we forget or cover-over the special innocent knowledge, almost magical intuitiveness we had as a child.
Yes, this all matters as is all matter is connected. Getting back to that child-like knowledge should be encouraged with the added benefit of time / growth. If we are heartfully seeking knowledge, we will find it. Sifting out truth from distraction and diversion from REALITY is where many of us go off the rails. AND, to any that debate REALITY, there is only ONE. If not, it couldn't be at all. It's another big topic that gets very convoluted, purposely for this or that reason, but it's simple in the sum.