By Donald Swarbrick.

Mankind always speculates on how the world will be in the future, but as usual, calculates his theories on the environmental situation at that given time,  not allowing for the catastrophes that the earth endures on its journey through time and space.

They speculate on the population reaching a point where our resources will run out, and are already assuming that they are the ones who will be left to solve the problem, not taking into consideration, that a power much higher than them has been taking care of the world since its creation.

Mother nature has a way of turning things around whenever a crisis looms, and tends to solve the problems for us, by creating a disaster, or by useing the bacteria in our atmosphere to produce a virus that culls the population before mankind can find a cure for it.

The recent Tsunami of 2004 in the Indian ocean is an example of how one natural movement of the earth’s crust can tragically annihilate large numbers of people in various countries, which in one fell blow reduced the population instantly, and nullified all the calculations for the future population of these areas.

One small corner of the world, one major disaster, proving the power of mother nature, or of the God who created it all, and promised to watch over us, making me wonder if the mother nature we talk about is really God, carrying out these task to ensure the earth will continue until HE is ready to take us all to his planet.

Now we have progressed out into space we tend to look there for impending disasters that could destroy mankind, but there are still many time bombs waiting to go off around the planet that we tend to put secondary, as we seem to fear an asteroid more than the sleeping super volcanoes scattered around the surface of the earth.

Although these potential killers are still monitered, they are thought to be dormant, but given the fact that the one in Yellowstone park in America, has a history of erupting around every 600,000 years, and the last time it erupted was 620,000 years ago, we have to wonder if it’s hibernation is nearing its end, or if it has exhausted it’s power, and is subdued enough for us to worry less about it.

These super volcanoes are scattered around the earth’s surface in key areas, and with their unpredictability we can never discount their potential to be the cause of another ice age occurring, as the aftermath of just one of them could be enough to decimate the population mankind is so concerned about.

When you look back at the history of earth, and mankind, and think of the number of people that would be  around now if there had been no wars, killing millions, aircraft crashes, road deaths, deaths due to pandemics, natural disaster deaths like earthquakes etc, and deaths caused by disease to name the main causes of our demise, then you will realise that we would have been over populated years ago if it had not been for these occurrences, so like it or not we have to be sacrificed to ensure the survival of our planet. We are being culled just as we cull, and interfere with other life forms on earth to ensure survival.

When we find a cure for one disease, another rears its ugly head, and we  go through the process all over again on our fight for survival down here, as it is a built in instinct in mankind to survive, but we all die in the end, so we should worry less about the population increase in the future, and concentrate more on the present, finding ways to improve our relationships with our fellow man with whom our destiny will be shared, instead of fighting among ourselves.

My God, your God, or mother nature (depending on your beliefs) has power that mankind can only conform to, and no matter HIS achievements, he has little say in his future, or the future of the earth, so the global warming, over population, 2012, or any other assumption mankind thinks he has any say in is out of his hands, and will be taken care of by powers above, and not by us who are only a part of the great natural wonder, “THE UNIVERSE” created billions of years ago by a chemical reaction that continues to evolve, and will keep on doing so long after we are gone from this planet.

We can only hope that it IS our God, and not mother nature that is looking after us, as that way we will survive on the perfect planet “Heaven” he has promised, the survival we strive for, and contemplate during our life on this unpredictable planet that is earth.

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Plato’s views on the Soul
by Tatiana Velitchkov © 2009

Plato is a legend and a person who held a strong view on the soul and what it entails. Man is made up of two entities – one the body, and two the soul – that was Plato’s view. Plato viewed the soul as an immortal being that came in three cycles which were in three basic states and they are pre natal, embodiment and post mortem.

Plato definitely backed his views by giving an argument on why he saw the soul as immortal. Existent was a theory on opposites, a theory of recollection plus the theory of destruction, this are the basic theories he used to back his views. Many people have claimed that through the text Plato wrote there has been an unsubstantiated argument about his theory on immortality.

Plato stated that the parts of the soul consisted of reason, emotions and desire. He stated that in some way man could act in two different manners at the same time, he continued to say that this were two different parts in conflict with each other. For the mind to be it has to think right using ego. Plato’s view on the soul was that.

Plato stated that everything that is currently large was once small and that every strong thing must a have been weak at some point. He explains that the soul is in its pre natal state by using the knowledge of man on equality. He dealt specifically with the principles that involve what happens to the soul after death. He explains through the theory of re collection that this life must have been pre existent, because man knew things from the past.

Using this theory of re collection he states that forms are eternal unimportant objects only known to the soul. If only man was to realize this then the sense of equality can be perfectly understood. Plato’s view on the soul is that understanding the soul is not something that is experienced it is something that was in existence even before birth. Since the pre existence of the soul cannot be completely proven, Plato stated that if man comes from death to come to life again then it is true that the soul must have been pre existent. The theory of destruction is another theory Plato explained. In this theory he states that the soul is divine and invariable and that the body is mortal and consistent.

And here is a video of Professor Kagan in which he elaborates on the “argument from simplicity” and discusses in detail Plato’s claims that the soul is simple, changeless and therefore indestructible.

By Donald Swarbrick.

July-24-09.

I would like to start by reminding you, that these are my theories, and would like you to consider them before being sent into a panic by the other therorists who think that the world will end on  21 or 23 of December 2012 by taking their assumptions from one of the Mayan calendars.

Lets look at a couple of the causes that are supposedly going to end the world or put it into such an upheaval that it will make our very existence dubious. Things that have been thrown into the mix are “solar bursts” which the world experiences all the time (the Aurora borealis and the aurora australis being an example of this) which the earth defends its self against by deflecting the rays around the surface keeping them safely above  our  atmosphere, and regardless of their strength the earth’s gravity will continue to deflect them as they are unlikely to become strong enough to counteract our gravitational field, as the burst are only clouds of charged particles, and not an actual furnace charging towards the earth.  We have to remember that there are planets nearer to the sun that get the same sun bursts as we do, and come to no harm although they get a stronger surge than us, and the bursts continue to the outer planets too, with no damaging results.

The earth has encountered strong solar busrts before and survived, the only difference this time is the fact that we have satellites up in the area that the bursts are being deflected through, and given the uses we have for these satellites it will cause a lot of disruption to the way of life we have become accustomed to, but once they are past we will be able to put things back the way they were although it may take some time. So if that is a portrayal of doomsday to you, then just be patient as everything will return to normal, or as they say “normal service will be resumed as soon as posible.”

Geomagnetic reversal, or polar shift is another expectation by some in the dreaded 2012 but as it takes 5,000 years for this to complete once the cycle has begun, and if we only had till 21 or 23 of December 2012 for its completion then we would be much nearer to the end of the cycle with more distinct signs, other than global warming, or volcanic and  geological movement to convince us. Earth has gone through many changes and the signs that the doom merchants are using to convince us that earth’s end is near are only natural occurences that the world has to endure through it’s lifespan, but will not dictate its demise.

The Mayans were very knowledgeable people both in astronomy and mathematics 2,000 years BC so you have to ask, where that knowledge came from, and why are the few descendents that are left, not as clever, or, why did they not carry on from where their ancestors left off giving us more to work on other than the records  they left behind?

I wrote a piece in “unfeatheredangels” on the subject of some of these intelligent races, all from a similar time zone and area where each of their cultures were only slightly different although they were not connected to each other, and made the suggestion that they could have gained their knowledge of the stars by traveling here from a planet that had become endangered, and were brought here by the same spacecraft described in “The Old Testament” by Ezekiel. This may sound outrageous to you but when you consider the knowledge they had then, compared to the knowledge the supposed learned people of today have, and why that knowledge was not passed down and elaborated on by their following generations, it becomes a more logical theory.

When you study their rituals and beliefs, which don’t always come from myths or legends, you can, if you study the beliefs,and look at them with an open mind, begin to see where my theories take some logic. Take one, for instance, the “Zapotee” (another race from around the same time zone and area as the Mayans) who think they come from an elite race among the clouds, so if they WERE  brought here from another planet, that is where their belief would have originated, and not from myths or legend as we have been led to believe.  It has been thought that most of  these races I am speaking about suddenly appeared on earth,and their ancestry has been nigh impossible to trace, so that is all the more reason not to discount my theory.

The Mayans had two calendars, one called Mesoamerican long calender, the other being the Venus cycle, and they took calculations from the stars for many different reasons that I am not going into now ( look up the Mayans on the internet for all the facts you need) so why has the public been frighened by one of them just because it happens to last for 5,125 years and expires in December 2012. They only used it for a certain purpose and whatever purpose that was, was not needed after 2012, not because the world was going to end but because the astronomical reason they were using it would have become outdated as the stars alignments altered. They never predicted the end of the world although they were knowledgeable enough to do so, if it was possible at all, and would have made it more clear than a date on some calendar they were going to discard in 2012 had they survived in the strength and knowledge of their origin, and not have mysteriously faded into oblivion, taking their exceptional knowledge with them.

The Mayans, and the other races in and around that time knew more than they should, and one reason that cannot be discounted is the fact that they could have gained their knowledge first hand from the space travellers who brought them here, the same poeple the bible is refering to. Their calendars could have been brought from their own planet as they do not fit with earth’s cycles, and the calculations taken from there, while the long count calendar that all the fuss is about, having nothing whatsoever to do with earth.

If the person who started all the fuss had explained to the gullible people more of the culture and rituals of the Mayans, then there would be more understanding of such an intelligent race, and less ridiculous theories on a prediction they never made or suggested.

Thankfully we have the internet to fall back on now, so if you want to put your mind at ease on the 2012 subject, then I suggest you go  and study the Mayans and make your own mind up instead of listening to other peoples theories, mine included.

Some of you will never be convinced that 2012 is not going to bring disaster to the earth, but I will be under the clock with a red rose in my lapel, to meet any of you who care to turn up on the 25th of December 2012 to prove I was right.  What clock?  I will disclose that on the 24th but remember to buy my Christmas present. A bottle of Bacardi would be fine to bring in the new year of 2013…………….? Now thirteen is an unlucky number to some……………………………….  I wonder??????

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Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy
by Tatiana Velitchkov © 2009

The study of principles regarding reality relative to scientific principles otherwise known as metaphysics was began in ancient ages though by then it was known by different terminology. The term ‘meta’ was coined later from the Greek word meaning ‘beyond’. As such metaphysics seeks a more in-depth explanation to the state of the world than can be explained through mundane scientific principles. Ancient metaphysicians such as Aristotle and Thales never even had the terminology with which to refer to this branch of science and as is the case for Aristotle he referred to it as ‘first philosophy’.

Philosophy in ancient times was founded on explaining and discovering the dynamism of life’s processes. There arose radical philosophers whose views and inputs have shaped the course of philosophy for ages. After effort had been made to explain and discover scientific philosophies and principles the scholars sought to solve the puzzle of what exists after these principles. Philosophy through its branches of epistemology concentrate on the overall pursuit of knowledge as far as its nature and origin is concerned. Metaphysics developed from the thirst of ancient scholars in finding out further explanations to theories of human behavior and existence than those provided by sciences.

Reality forms the basis of metaphysics as it seeks to direct thought towards the existing matters rather than possibilities and theories. To this end metaphysics focuses on elementary factors such as water-of which leading Greek philosopher, Thales said is the basis for all life on earth – to paraphrase. Metaphysics in its endeavor to put its point across has stepped on a few toes such as religion. The premise of philosophy pursuit of knowledge – allows it a wide margin of inquiry – from which observations and ideas are formed. These ideas haven’t always been in line with the principles of religion hence conflict. Left for a long time the ideas have influenced behavioral traits that are considered contrary to popular religious beliefs like the question of polytheism.

Ancient divisions of metaphysics studied ontology (the study of existence and being), natural theology (involving spiritual issues) and universal science from which all questions find base. Ancient philosophy cannot in any way be overlooked because of it being – ancient. The ancient philosophies embraced a wider view of metaphysics including the sciences, language, mind and perception philosophy and religion – each of which modern philosophy now categorizes into distinct branches of philosophy. Aristotle to whose works can be credited the origin of metaphysics was himself a critical thinker and astute philosopher who was able to interrogate issues and derive significant conclusions from them. By, and large such practices have formed the basis of philosophy.

Feel free to watch the video clip by Ralph McInerny, Ph.D on the Metaphysics of Aristotle

By Donald Swarbrick.

Although we are very primitive in comparison to the people from God’s planet, we have sent out probes to explore planets that are close enough for us to reach by unmanned craft, but are too far away for us to travel there, so why do we find it so strange  and unbelievable to think that a superior race can send their crafts around the universe, manned or unmanned?

This goes back to fact that earth people think that they are the most intelligent life in all the vast universe, and that IF there are any other life forms out there, they will be less intelligent than us, and we will be the ones to discover them.

If we read the bible as a history book, as that is what it is,we should by now have realised that spacecraft and probes could well be what is being described in many chapters of this book.

God has said that he would watch over us, so a type of unmanned probe with their version of CCTV could be sent close to, and around our planet to assist in this feat without being observed by us, with the odd manned craft appearing now and then to keep an eye on them, without raising too much suspicion falling on them, as we are all sceptics until we have definite proof of their existence, because, as we know, people who claim to have seen them are doubted by most, so God’s people who come here in their crafts have no real need to worry about being seen every now and then, as it would take us to capture them, and show them to the world population, before we believed, and even then there would be doubters, thinking it was some kind of trick.

Spacecraft are described in the bible in some detail, and only a few people on earth have realised that these desciptions are of craft from another world, and if  crafts of that size have been here, then, the people whose world they came from will have been here with them.

Because we think we are the superior race in the universe we don’t want to believe that we have been discovered by a more advanced race from another planet, let alone admit they might look like us, that is one of the reasons all the farce at Roswell in 1947 sprang up.

Firstly you have to ask,  if a race of people were educated enough to build a craft, capable of carrying them from a planet so far way, that we have yet to discover, would they be stupid enough to allow theirselves to be captured by a race of people as violent as us? When missions to earth were planned every aspect of safety would have been secured before they would have ventured near us, as they would have known how violent a people we are, and would have made sure of their safe return to their own planet.

Some of the UFOs seen in our skies would have been their craft, and others would have been hoaxes by people on earth who long for the day when a spacecraft from another planet lands here, and are just playing out their fantasy by trying to portray what they imagine it will be like.

The Roswell incident, though a farce in my view, is an example of why a more intelligent race would never let theirselves be captured by us, as they know they would be placed on a slab and disseceted for scientific purposes before they had the chance to converse with us and let us know how peacful they were.

We are a violent race, of that there is no doubt, and cannot agree or get on with the nations around us, so before we think of welcoming other races in any way at all, we will firstly have to assure them that when they return here it will not be the slab that awaits them but a warm welcome, with a friendly handshake, with a view to learn from them instead of attacking and capturing them, as is in the minds of the powers that be just now.

Mankind is obviously frustrated, when he looks out to space and knows there are many mysteries he has to solve, knowing full well that they will not be solved in his lifetime if it is left to us to reach the stars, with the only hope of finding if other life forms exist, is if they reach us.

We have plenty people who dedicate their life to finding out as much as they can, and to go as far as they can into space, and we have others who create their fantisies by making movies like “STAR TREK“  And ” STARS WARS” and always assuming the people they would meet in space will be as aggressive as we are, but  look completely different to us, ignoring the facts in the history book left to us “we are made in Gods image” therefore the people we meet out there will look like us, as God will have influenced the whole universe, and not just a small corner of it.

Roswell, in my mind was a ploy to distract from the fact that new designs of aircrft were being tested there, but in the unlikely event that there was any truth in the matter, and weird looking aliens were captured from a spaceship, it would be that it was a probe with some robot like computer, sent to observe what all the newly designed aircraft were like, and to see if we were any closer to their designs.

Something as ridiculous as that mock up would be no loss up there, and IF it did come from there could have been a prank, causing as much merriment in heaven as it caused down here, (to them with more sense at least) as they, up there, are bound to have a sesnse of hunour too.

One important thing we will have to bear in mind is, when the next true visit of  our friends from space occurs is to react in a friendly way and not go in with all guns blazing. They are not coming here to conquer us, but to help us as they have in the past, so we will have to learn to live in harmony among ourselves, before we can expect them to come back down among us, and the way things are shaping up on this planet, it will be a long time before that happens.

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Aristotle’s views on the Soul
by Tatiana Velitchkov © 2009

There have been many philosophers in the last several centuries. Among the earlier ones was Aristotle. He was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato who was also an earlier philosopher. Aristotle presented many views on different things. One of them was that of the soul. Aristotle defines the soul as the core of a person’s living but argues that it has an entirely separate existence.

In his view the activity is the soul of a living thing, for example, an eye’s soul would be sight. Again if a pen had a life of its own its soul would be writing, because the essence of the pen is to write and the eye is sight. According to Aristotle the soul is an actuality of the body. In other words the soul cannot continue living when the body dies, what other philosophers describe as ghostly characters of the body.

This is just like the pen the writing stops when the pen is destroyed. The soul cannot be immortal so when the body dies so does the soul. However, Aristotle writes that the soul does not remember after death. It is unclear on to what extent he believed the soul was separate to the body. In his De Anima, one of his many works, he makes it clear that he believes the intellectual part of the soul can be separable from the body and is eternal.

This makes it a bit confusing on whether the soul is part of the body or separate, or is it some part of the soul that is separable. Many philosophers are debating on the writings of the De Anima, and on the views of Aristotle on the immortality of the soul. It is worth noting that Aquinas interpreted these remarks as reasonable, logically argued and convincing. Aristotle’s view on the afterlife is somehow comparable to the Christian than it would seem at initial glance.

Aristotle separated the intellectual sense into the “calculative” or “deliberative” or ‘theoretical’ or ‘scientific’. The first part is art meaning outside man hence the result of his activity. The other part is prudence that is the activity-referred to as the “art” of doing. It is greatly articulated in politics. Prudence concerns what men are supposed to do with the future. The part of scientific understanding is the top activity of the faculty and of man himself since it’s man’s intellectual ability that separates him from other creatures.

Absolute Understanding – Could It Be?
by Tatiana Velitchkov © 2009

What is the absolute understanding or reality? Man is convinced that it is the actions that create reality because actions are also thoughts. The words pronounced in speech or heard in the mind have been rated as reality. There still remains room to define what reality really is. Thoughts, spoken or written words are continuously changing and therefore they should not be deemed as reality because reality demands eternity and invariableness. Everything in the world is neither eternal nor unchanging. Therefore what is real?

Throughout history man has been dependent on time. He has had the desire to control everything that is around him. Man has yet to determine whether life experiences are real, for example Love. Is love real? The reality of this words “I love you” are questioned when love’s consequences are examined.

If love was real the consequences should be either terrible or pleasing but not both. Love is stated as real and backed by loyalty and trust yet disloyalty and mistrust is easily conveyed. Then there is the break of love which if it was real this would not be so. Similar to this is the paradox of the words referring to religion and every day life.

The reality of human beings lies within the scope of time. If it were in line with time would life be eternal? Since eternity does not contain time. Since time exists it goes together with death and to man death is a reality. So if man acknowledges that death is real then everything is supposed to be dead. So if death were real is it present in life. Is life alive? Man expresses life as a great energy flow demonstration that appears and disappears from simple to large, simple to complex of all creatures.

This man constantly seeks to bond with and yet every moment life slips away while man is unaware. In life man is constantly in search of an identity that is always in the making. No one can control mould life to fit his way in his mind. It is only that at times life unfolds with accuracy that it gives an expression of control. The bottom line remains that life is unpredictable and spontaneous with no notice of what is about to happen. Life is constantly transforming itself from one form to another. So how can we say that life is real?

See this video of the owner of Freedomain Radio – the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web – about his views on Reality

The thing that puzzles us most about space now is, how black holes are formed and what the dark matter in space consists of, as we think, that by solving these questions we will discover more about the birth of the universe.

In my opinion, black holes originate in a similar way to tornados, although they gather their momentum by chemical reactions from undetected gases within the dark matter interacting to ignite a circular motion, which increases with such velocity it creates a vortex so massive and violent that it becomes an enormous space blender, drawing everything in its range inside it, where more chemical reactions and fusions take place until it spits out such a potent mixture, it results in new galaxies being formed.

The dark matter will conceal within it, gases and chemicals that we have no knowledge of, or will be able to trace with our instruments, mainly, owing to the fact that they do not exist in our part of the universe, and its only if we can  reach manually, these outer limits where they are, will we ever be able to distinguish them.

The answer to the origin of the universe does lie within these black holes, as it would have been the first, and largest of them that kicked off the chain reaction that we now know as the universe.

Gases swirling in the vast emptiness that was there before the BIG BANG, would have eventually met up setting off a chemical reaction that resulted in the biggest vortex you could imagine, and over billions of years it would have enlarged so much that every kind of gases and atoms that were concealed in the dark matter would have been gathered within it, which set off other reactions, ending up in the explosion we know as the BIG BANG, where the first galaxies would have formed once the blast eased enough to allow the planets to settle.

The reason we have new black holes forming is because,  the outward forces of the blast carrying the debris of the original BIG BANG, disturbs the dark matter it is being pushed through, which draws the same ingredients  that started the first chain reaction together, resulting in black holes smaller than the original but big enough to create galaxies.

Although the original black hole formed the biggest percentage of the universe, the smaller black holes scattered throughout space continue to explode periodically, creating stars and constellations, boosting the outward progression of the universe caused by the BIG BANG, hence the reason the universe is still expanding like a giant firework spreading out over the sky.

Once the ingredients that cause the reactions burn out, and there are no more black holes forming, the universe will slow down until it eventually comes to a stop, retracting back towards the largest planet at it’s centre, drawn by it’s gravitational pull, not just dropping out of the sky like the burned out firework, but regrouping at the centre where it all began, and only God knows what will happen then, because the planet at the centre of it all is heaven, formed at the core of the BIG BANG.

If you observe what happens when an explosion takes place you will notice that the largest pieces of the solid object that has been blown up, stay close to the centre of the blast, while the smaller fragments scatter and spread, with the smallest travelling farthest.

The largest solid object from the big bang, spun around, where over a period of billions of years it became rounded in shape, and it’s spinning motion affected the nearest solid objects to it, which caused them to spin on their own axes, creating gravity, and eventually life was formed on some of the planets.

With heaven being formed first, life would have originated there, hence the reason for God’s people  being so much more advanced than the rest of the universe, gaining knowledge, and utilizing the  materials sourced on their planet over the billions of years head start they had over any other planet, leading to their immortality, space travel, and their ability to assist the universe when need be.

I have to wonder though, if even God can tell us where the first wisp of gas came from, or the contents of the first atom, questions that I think will never be answered no matter how much else we discover about this amazing chemical reaction we have become part of.

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