The Art of the Possible

President Obama changed his oppinion on whether you could raise 800 Billion dollars just by closing tax loopholes.  He now believes that is impossible.  Consider this fact.  Our economy did just fine under the Clinton taxation rates we are all dreading reverting to now.  And consider this one.  When was the last time a filthy rich tea party person ever "decided to do something for his country" with his new windfalls of cash, as he's received these past four years?  Something like - giving a poor person a job?  And another thing - - is there any guarentee that no matter how Rich a politician is he won't "go cheap" and hire illegal aliens to clean his house and do his gardening>  From the Republican point of view let me give this simple illustration to show their assenine attitude.  As you know I am worried about getting an inheritence.  But suppose I was told that "right now" I could have seventy-five percent of my "wish list" of what I'd consider optimal.  Would I go for it?  I'd be a fool not to.  Anybody would.  But not these Republicans.  They say they fear the new recession "cliff" and yet when given a chance to get seventy or eighty percent of what they want- - they turn up their nose at the offer, and apparently would rather have none of it.  Somehow sabotaging the economy is a plan of action they will employ now, as they tried to employ this past year to try and defeat the President, which they were unable to do.  I had Randy Rhodes on at the usual times.  Her show was not especially eventful but she’s always informative.  I’d hire her for treasurer or somewhere in economics in government, because I trust her a hell of a lot more than I do most of these politicians. She says that the gross national product used to break down about fifty – fifty in terms of corporate profits verses wages to workers.  But now worker’s wages comprise only 43%, so I assume that means that profits account for 57%.  I assume these numbers are compared just to each other and not other intangibles such as law enforcement and other government functions.  It seems that as a percentage of the gross national product, Corporate profits have never been higher, as of the third quarter of this year.  But worker’s wages are at an all time percentage low, when measured against the GNP.  That’s very telling and something Judy and Dr. Levy will never admit.  Never underestimate a tea bagger’s capacity to ignore hard numbers when staring them in the face.  Now they are telling us Real Estate prices are up 21 percent nation wide.  You'd think this would put a definitive end point to tea party worries, but knowing them they won't believe it.  Now we have more evidence of global warming.  It's seventy degrees in Chicago some thirty degrees above normal.  Dandelions in December, anyone?  It's balmy in Central Park, too, as well as in the nation's capital.

Let’s talk about this whole idea about psychotherapy to convert a teenager of either gender from homosexuality to normal heterosexuality.  The operative word in my mind is - - it’s “therapy”, which means it should be “therapeutic” to the patient, along the same lines that going to a sulphur hot spring is invigorating and rejouvenative to one’s physical health.  However fresh information leads me to believe that I have weighed in incorrectly on this issue, when I said I was all in favor of it.  Because apparently all the parties who engage in this particular practice addressed by the bill Governor Brown signed- - are right wing religious in nature.  And religion has little place in psychotherapy.  It has a place only to the extent that the patient himself brings up the topic as one of the troubling psychological issues in his life.  Certainly a therapist’s job is to make the patient feel comfortable and in a “safe” environment where he may talk freely and in confidence.  I must confess I can’t say this of myself as having a “safety net” environment, and I would not plan on such an environment being there in any future therapy sessions I might have for my own psychological problems.  But I too, like the guy on the radio, would ask the patient things that may be troubling him and conflicts he might have and attempt to draw out the solution to the patient’s own problems from the patient himself.  I would certainly lay out the idea that “actions have consequences” and that certain courses of action have happier, more fulfilling endings, than other actions.  But I most certainly would not try to convert him by reading from the book of Leviticus.  Nor would I “shame the patient into going straight”.  I would most certainly ask the patient about his day to day life with classmates, and relations with his parents, and do any particular things his father said to him - - bother him. 

Consider this reality?  Infinity is a geometric and an analog concept, but not a digital concept.  Bearing this thought in mind - is it possible to prove that Infinity equals itself by using a digital computer?

Suppose the saying 'You can't get There from here" is true.  Does it then make sense for the person making the statement to add, "You need to totally revamp your methodology and follow my instructions carefully believing that I know more than you about getting you where you want to go".

Consider this notion.  We regard Speed as a comodity, but we don't regard Time as a comodity but in infinite supply.  Suppose you lived in a world where Speed as an abstract concept was as endless as we regard the endless passage of Time - - but getting Time to pass at all, was regarded as just an unusual concept as we regard great ammounts of Speed.  This is a concept in the last paragraph.

Which sentense do I regard as gramatically correct, and why?

On "Wheel of Fortune" is it correct, gramatically to say "Can I buy a vowel?" or rather, should one say, "May I buy a vowel" and explain why.

Is it correct to say as an emphatic affirmation, "I should say so!" or is it more correct to say using Marcus Grammar rules to say "I would say so"

Which under Marcus rules is the gramatically proper sentens?"  "Steve Carone told me that Marcus is an expert marksman?" or should he say "Steve Carone told me that Marcus was an expert marksman?"

Which is gramitically correct.  You've just found out your factory is twenty thousand widgets short of short of the 110,000, where you expected to be.  What is the best way to express that?  "Out factory turns out fewer widgets than we did a year ago" or rather "Our factory turns out less widgets than it did a year ago".

Which is correct?  "Neither of the top two theories on the existance of God is the correct one", or rather should one say "Neither of the top two theories on the existance of God are correct".

Suppose Neil Savedra told me in the afterlife "God rejected you from the Kingdom of heaven because you didn't have the Faith to believe you were saved, but believed you had no choice but to attempt as best you could to try and make it on your own.  In other words, the only thing that kept you Out of heaven is because you fell short in that you failed to exercise the proper humility".  What is Logically Wrong with this assertion?

Last night they talked about “micro sleeping” with your eyes open, while doing things like driving.  They ran an experiment on this one guy who fell into micro sleep fourteen times, in a relatively brief road test, but he was only aware of it happening to him twice.  It’s a wonder there aren’t more major car crashes than there are.  Occasionally when I would be walking- - I’d laps into thought about something I read, and then be surprised I was almost a half mile down the road farther than I thought I was.  I guess that’s another form of “sleep walking”.  Now they have lowered the magic number of hours of sleep from eight to Seven.  OK.  It just occurred to me that a pretty good test of intelligence is to run that series of small tasks test like in that “Charlie” movie about the mentally retarded guy who recovered and became a genious, before slipping back again.  The therapist would issue four commands in a row like- sharpen a pencil, bring me a glass of water, open the window- - - move a chair to the other side of the room, for instance.  Since tea party members have seemingly no capacity at all to Listen to anything but the sound of their own voice, it’s an open question how they would perform in such a simple test.  You can tell when people are losing their "moral foundation" or having a basis for what they say.  There is one Bible teacher who would do "Bible Studies" at his home.  He would Lead these Bible "discussions" or studies, involving the group.  But then he came to a point where he would insist on not being interrupted but would "get in the flow" and he didn't want to be destracted, but said "But you can ask me questions afterwards".  Well guess what?  If ever there was a period afterwards when you could ask questions, this too vanished.  So you would try writing a letter.  At first this man would respond to letters.  But it soon came to pass it was clear this man didn't want to be bothered by me in any shape, say or form.  So it is with tea party members.  They don't want to be "distracted" by anything like fact checkers, or government statistics, or proven theories by real bonified economists out there.  They just want to remain in their own political echo chamber.

I’d like to talk about Objectivism a little more and why I think it is the “only way to go” in terms of what should be “believed in”.  Sometimes people who are wrong can mis constrew and mis use facts to prove a point that is based on that distorted perception of the facts.  For instance, Wayne Dyre believes in the mind generating a “positive field” and that “Positive confession” is a good thing - - not so much because being positive is better than being negative, but rather that “positive confession” can be used as a Tool to alter your own future destiny for the better.  For instance Wayne Dyre might point to the case of Fredrick K Price.  For a long time Fred never doubted the doctrine of Christian healing no matter what the medical condition.  But there came a time when Fred began saying that “The things I have done with myself as experiments in positive confession - - I do not recommend that you follow in my footsteps”.  He then began chiding his congregation for “not believing in healing so much, but you people are just stared stiff of visiting a doctor”.  He would then expand this do doing what he’d never done before and praising doctors and praising Hospitals for places you can have surgery in.  At some point after this- - he learned that Fred’s wife had serious bone cancer in the hip.  Clearly Wayne Dyre could argue - - given his bent- - that “allowing negative thought to creep into his awareness – introduced a “briech in his protective hedge” allowing Satan to come in and produce adverse circumstances in his life.  The solution is much simpler in my opinion.  I believe a lot of people intuitively Know the future.  That is they have this “mental radar” thing.  If the Future were NOT there to be Known- - then they wouldn’t know it.  Sometimes this premonition comes in the form that “I have the feeling I’m going to lose big if I make one more bet” and they make one more bet and sure enough they lose.  Their anxieties did not CAUSE a bad roll of the dice.  They just chose to ignore their own mental radar.   We have spoken of the “super self” theory.  This notion is based on what you’d have to call a metaphysical theory of mine we’ll call “symatrism” for lack of a better term.  This comes from the scientist’s notion that “tachyons can only travel faster than the speed of light” and for every particle of sub light speed there is a corresponding super speed light particle.  If you resort to what I call the “optical model” or “optical calibration” the thing would have a One at the center of a line - - (factor one) and the left of the line would go from zero to one- - but the right would go from factor one to infinity.  Actually this would work as a trigonometric tangent model, too.  But I don’t want to get too complicated here.  My point is just – in terms of some practical illustration you can kind of use to gauge what I am talking about  - - just as you look at an image in a magnifying glass- - and see an image at a less than one focal length, but at the focal length you see a blur- and then you see an upside down image that slowly shrinks the farther you recede the lens away.  I am not stating that this is MY theory – and science has not weighed in officially on this - but it’s a theory.  So that of course - - if you had some super-light “twin” out there - - He would already Know the future, and since he is symmetrically related to You, then that means You know it, too.