Remember when you hated English class

 

Remember the phrase: “the world is my oyster”

Remember when young people around the world were obsessed with the Henry Potter book series, remember when a couple of generations ago, the obsession for adventure was the Hardy Boys series

Remember reading the Sunday paper thoroughly

Remember the struggle of having to read history books in high school. Remember the phrase “if you don’t read history you are doomed to repeat it”

Remember reading all the lyrics to your favorite song and memorizing them, yet when the English teacher gave you poetry you balked or worse made you read Shakespeare

Remember speech or drama class, well maybe not all of you

Remember that time you had to go to the library to finish your research paper for high school or college

Remember the time you wanted to go to the library because it was raining outside and there was nothing better to do and it was close

Remember reading about yesterday’s games in the sports page because only one or two games were on television or remember when you devoured statistics on the sports page and craved more

Remember reading, the joy, the struggle, the information you craved, the information you were forced to know, do you remember what it gave you?

My fear is we are now probably in our second generation where reading and literature are dying especially in public education. Once we could read as humans it captivated us for millennia, yet now we face losing humanity because we don’t take the time to understand who we are. And how did we do that, by reading.

And people who hate reading still benefited from it. They don’t want to admit it because then they have to say English class was worth it, lol. Yes, we all struggled diagraming sentences or knowing the difference between an adverb and an adjective. And some of the deeper particulars were maybe just for people who write, yet all in all if we do not understand our own language whether English, Spanish, Japanese or whatever, we never can grow in our lives.

So again my fear is our current young generations are cheated in life. Whether it is knowledge, adventure, entertainment, relaxing with a good book, exploring the deeper meaning of life through a few words (poetry), or whatever, young people today live blindly. And as our current President likes to say, “sad”.

I am going to take two quick digs. First a political one, the democrats always say they want better education, then why is our education system systematically getting worse decade after decade?

Second a religious one, or the anti religious one. Children in high school did or maybe they still do, read more about mythology than Christianity. Yet Christianity influenced more on Western history than anything else over the last two thousand years. So if you hate Christianity I am surprised you don’t want it in school discussing the parts where men used Christianity for their own benefit in history class versus the true reason for Christianity (which you don’t want read). Or if Christian, aren’t you worried young people will not be able to read the Bible soon? Unless of course you want to control people through religion and not let them learn their faith?

Reading is education on so many levels. You can control the narrative if you control what is read. So contrarily you need to make sure people can and do read quite a bit. Or at least read enough to develop critical thinking skills. Yet today, education is brushed over and reading is now like too many books ending up in the trash bin.

If you care about the future, our children, your own lives, the state of the world or just enjoying a raining Saturday afternoon, you need to get involved in bringing back reading, especially in education. This isn’t a well that would be a good idea. This is actually drastically important for the future of humanity. Humans may live for millennia more, yet humanity may die soon if we do not recognize the dangers facing us. And more than a few dangers face us now from morality dying to AI to quality of life and more. We are watching us destroy our own children without a peep.

Remember the phrase the world is our oyster, where we have everything to gain referencing the beauty of the pearl inside, well right now we give our children an empty oyster. We, who do read, need to remember why we read and share that joy with the future.

 

(And yes I see the irony of people who need to read, not reading this post.)

It is bad enough to sell your soul to the devil, but to do so through a third-rate carnival barker?

 

It just boggles my mind that grown adults who say they are the principled ones, can act so pathetically. How can they look at themselves in the mirror? Or have they been doing it for so long they no longer cringe?

If you watch any of the liberal or non-right wing news you have probably heard about the hearing with Jack Smith. Sure the headline is the Senator from Kansas that blew the text about the basketball teams, yet the whole hearing was a farse. The Republican Senators spent hours trying to find something to discredit Smith, yet it was all a secondary sideshow to the idea of a Senate hearing or at least what a hearing should accomplish.

I try to stay away from headline news especially of late, yet this was so pathetic I cringe as a conservative, albeit a independent one, to watch people succumb to Trump in such a feeble effort.

I still say we need two new parties. The need for a new conservative party is desperate. Like so many talking heads said last night, what were they thinking? The voters, including Trump’s base need to hear they make the effort to represent them and are doing something about inflation. And inflation is just a start, but that is the headline going into this election and what are so called principled people doing? And if making Jack Smith look bad is important to Trump, then at least do a better job. That whole day was watching one principled man not throw up into his mouth listening to the charade of accusations and recriminations coming from back-end orifices, not anything of principle.

Again as an independent conservative, I do not see a conservative party anymore. It was bad enough when the Republicans put the rich and big business over the needs of the country including their own constituencies, but to watch them crawl on their bellies to please a man so devoid of values is a horror story worthy of this Halloween season.

Please make this nightmare stop.

And one other disaster that proves they are only digging deeper into the crevice is the document created by Trump’s team that says the AI bros will be in charge of the guardrails.  Morally binding???? MORALLY BINDING???

Morally binding from a man that lives and breathes the seven deadly sins.

Yep, AI is probably going to kill us by the end of the decade for our own good. Might want to go to confession everyday from here on out just to be on the safe side.

It is just a hypothesis, but I had it long before I began reading that book

 

So if you follow real closely on Substack this will make more sense than if you read from the other platforms I use, yet you will g understand it all anyway.

I had to take a break from reading the massive amounts of non fiction I have enveloped myself into and read for some entertainment purposes to relax my brain. I accidentally ran across a science fiction book called “Anathem”. It is not an easy read if you spend the time exploring the detail of the world the author, Neal Stephenson, creates. If like me, you are just reading the story and let the details slide to the side and view them as you journey along without stopping to explore; it is an interesting book or let’s say story.

Not that I have anything published, yet I have lots of fiction written in various states and my style is to write the story first then expand it or deepen it or broaden it. You can choose your adverb of what I am doing, or maybe writing expansively or is it the writing is expansive an adjective. You know folks this stuff is hard, lol. So let’s get to the science and science fiction.

None of that matters and I want to say upfront, years ago I posted a similar idea that Mr. Stephenson uses in his book that the cosmos rotate.

I didn’t say it that way. I said our universe is rotating. Since then I have thought more on this thought and believe it is rotating or will be rotating. How do I come to that conclusion?

First I believe before the big bang that whatever energy that led up to the big bang was rotating, yet in all directions. Imagine a ball, a ball of what I do not know, say energy and it spinning, yet not on axis like our planet. So in its spin it is rotating so what was once on top is now on the side and this doesn’t move in any lockstep fashion. It is swirling and spinning around waiting to be released.

So the big bang happens and everything goes outward, yet not in a straight line as from what little I know people tend to think as such. Or I get that impression based on we put up the James Webb telescope to look back in time like it is a straight line.

In my eyes it doesn’t go in a straight line and since I do not study physics or any other discipline deeply I have no idea how off base I am from other thinking or if others have thought about this.

In my eyes since the energy was spinning, everything threw off into an ever expanding curve that has or will eventually revolve around the center from which the big bang happened.

If you can picture the visual instead of outward expanding lines from a center you have a center where the outward expanding lines begin to curve to slowly create an orbit. Now does the orbit grow from the center as time goes on, ie the original outward lines curve around and then continue to curve around itself or does it find an orbital path that the material we now see such as galaxies are beginning to fall into orbit or as most that I read suggest it is continuing to expand. The difference is not straight lines, but slowly circular lines that continue around the center but each time it goes round it is further away. I think it is this latter curve and expanding orbit is what is happening.

I made my original observation of this thought years ago in this blog. I am not going to go back and try and find it unless it becomes important somehow. I am expanding on my original hypothesis since some articles I have read concerning what the James Webb Space telescope is seeing is that objects such as galaxies are more developed than the models suggest in the time line we think we know.

Or if we look straight back, the galaxies blow up many theories on our first thoughts of what happened with the big bang and how long it took for matter, hence stars then galaxies to develop. Yet if we look back through a curve expansion then the time line is different and galaxies may seem like they are closer to the big bang in time constructs, but actually further along the evolutionary scale of universe development even though they appear closer to the big bang because we are seeing them go from the big bang then march outward and start to go around.

 

 

Word keeps wanting to correct my shapes in its auto programming so this is very crude since I am trying to bypass it trying to tell me what to do. The second sketch is if we have already reached an orbit type model. The first is we haven’t reached and ongoing orbit with matter yet.

As described above I think we are still in the above or first diagram and who knows if it ever curves around, but it is headed that way.

I drew two lines around to show multiple or layered growth. The direction doesn’t matter, it is what the direction that occurred when the actual energy was released. Picture us along either one of the curves trying to look back. We see galaxies that are more on the developmental timeline than what we see if we think we are looking straight back. All this is just a hypothesis because hey why not.

 

So is all this because I want to prove a point that I thought of the idea of rotating cosmos before a well known science fiction writer. Or am I just procrastinating on working on My Journey through City of God. Finally I do want to say I am working on a science fiction novel myself, yet it deals with a whole different set of science fiction fun and theories.

 

Cheers