Question Your Theory

Religious/spiritual experiences happen, this is fact, this does not prove God.

My theory is that a higher power/God/whatever you want to call it, is in another dimension because there are several dimensions around us, yet we can only see one.

When someone has a religious experience, chemicals in the brain are released which allows the individual to see beyond our dimension, much like a 6th sense and to interact with God.

This seems like it makes sense, since we do not know about all the chemicals in the brain.

What do you think?

If you “forgive, but never forget” – can you ever truly move on?
By Catherine

We have all heard the saying, “Forgive, but never forget.” I know I heard the mantra numerous times from my mother after a boyfriend (or two) broke my little, high school heart. I suppose this was meant to be a compromise between taking the higher road and always remembering so we can learn from past mistakes. Ultimately, we are to be better people for it. However, a twisted paradox ends up forming that leaves ourselves and our relationships changed forever. Past wrongdoings will always be tucked away in the back of your mind.

Now, I am not saying it is impossible to do so. But, forgiveness is a tough thing. Can any of us truly say we have forgiven everyone who hurt us 100%? Some people are very easy to forgive – like a sister or brother who takes your clothes without asking. For others, we have to find the strength to forgive for the most unthinkable transgressions – like the infidelity of a partner or spouse.

And even if you do decide to forgive your loved one, would it really be possible to put the past out of your mind and move on with the relationship? Could the relationship ever be made whole and safe again?

Sure, you can make replacement piers and towers out of all the “I’m sorry” and “I will make this up to you” apologies to keep the cables aloft. But, the anchors, the most important parts of any bridge – trust and honesty – are forever shattered.

For me, this is one bridge that can never be completely mended.

I can forgive the person who hurt me. Being angry at him or her will only foster hatred and wasted energy.

I just pray for them…

I haven’t been to church since I don’t remember when
Things were going great ’til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
He said you can’t go hating others who have done wrong to you.
Sometimes we get angry, but we must not condemn.
Let the good Lord do His job and you just pray for them.

I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you

I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feeling better and I thank God for the words.
Yeah I’m going take the high road,
And do what the preacher told me to do,
You keep messing up and I’ll keep praying for you.

I pray your tire blows out at 110.
I pray you pass out drunk with your best friend and wake up with his and her tattoos.

I pray your brakes go out running down a hill.
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to.
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are, near or far, in your house or in your car,
wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
I pray for you

“I Pray For You” – Jaron and The Long Road to Love

This idea had popped into my head as I was pondering my life experiences.   Does memory become more valuable with age?

Every year my family and I would go to a certain place for vacation.  It was the same place every year for many years.

Since I was a small child maybe at the age of maybe 5 or 6, I had many good times and had formed many fond memories.

As I became older I had realized that many memories that I form at the age of maybe 13, 14 or maybe even 15 are resonating in my brain and becoming more and more important. This may have something to do with brain development, after all the brain doesn’t fully develop until the age around 21.

As I proceeded to get older, the memories I had formed were becoming further imprinted in my brain.  They were also being matched with high emotion and meaning.  It was as though my memory was becoming more valuable with my age.

I don’t know if this means that as we get older our actions and memories become more and more valued (or important) because as children we cant remember much or what?

I guess the question is, are memories made later in life more important than those made earlier simply because we can better digest those memories when we are older… and since most people can’t remember anything from their early childhood.

Maybe because when we were children we are carefree and we didn’t reflect on our thoughts, or digest them.

This makes me think about how precious how memories are and how much they influence your personality.

One way or another, I would say that since we are able to better digest new information (aka memories) when we are older, that memory becomes more valuable with age.

Since I was about 15 (14 years ago) I have been turning a theory over in my head surrounding the symbols and meanings for positive, negative, and neutral.

I never take my studies too in depth mostly from the enormity of the possibilities, and the conclusions I’ll come to will be through the influence of how I think things should be and not always socially accepted in conversation.

To do any theory you have to have a basic, simple and easy to remember foundation to build the rest of your ideas from, you would be essentially going back to the drawing board with no board waiting for you.

Like in building you have to add and take away things to keep the structure functioning and problem free. In our minds this is how this is “basically” done giving good thoughts a + signature and bad thoughts a – signature.  The neutral would be the essential drawing board, a blank screen 0. If you notice even naturally the – is more like ground in appearance symbolically speaking, and the + is providing a range of direction.

The reason I mention not delving too deep is because a + thought to you might end up a – thought when compared to the thoughts of everyone throughout time.  Even getting this far into it is more then I want to go mostly because its not about what’s right and what’s wrong, its about what we can come up with in the middle to make the struggle easier.

Trying to pick a side on more, over less is a losing battle. Meaning I don’t feel a person existing eternally would persist in being a negative person, It’s a matter of convincing the person the thoughts that lead their life is hurting them more than helping them, thus taking away and adding dealing with both forces. So when I started getting into symbols to basically just see if there were any others, I noticed it fit really well with the eternity symbol left side being – and spinning to the left with + on the right spinning to the right, and coming to focus at the 0 or point in the center. This connection really sent my mind racing; it literally felt like a nuclear bomb went off in my head….. Seriously.

This bomb of possibilities of symbols shapes and connections was even frighteningly overwhelming at times, I’m so glad my wife can handle a crazy husband cause I didn’t shut up.

I love history and figuring out the way things work, and I have noticed in many religions the things revolving around + acts are clockwise spinning to the right, like the prayer wheels you spin to the right while your saying your prayer, or even a clock, which we all revolve around.

I’ve also applied this to black and white with grey being neutral, and have noticed this separation of perception in Middle Eastern religions, with men wearing white and women wearing black.

I actually found this application to be more connected to religions still active today, but I see this as someone trying to get rid of their shadow in fear of what it might do to them, not having anything stable to hold onto in-between the burning light and frightening dark.

I know every religion wants the best for their people, same as politics, but they are always leaving another side out saying what these large number of people feel and believe isn’t right, make them go away and leave them without a path they can walk down. The greatest gift I feel we have received is the ability to essentially live an entire situation in our heads before we act it out. Imagination is endless, boundless, and will take you any direction you want to go.

As all this was going I started remembering some letters I combined when I was 15 and first starting this theory. These letters were “I am” get a piece of paper and pencil, and write the capitol A upside down with the lower case M on top of it. It makes a heart and if you put a lower case I between them it makes a multilayer-ed heart, the dot would be the point of perception.

Now I have actually seen this shape on Egyptian hieroglyphics. I found a few more fun things like this and I started noticing a pattern in which letters were flipped and which weren’t, and not only flipped but turned to the right or left as well.

To start lets examine the shape “m” not being capitol and in the context of the heart it could look like two people lying down while looking at them head on. This would imply an emotion that happens outside of our conscious control or even something spiritual, but things in this category would be turned to the right.

So write down the “m” on its side being turned to the right. Now we have the top of our heart and the beginning of our journey to what we need. Go ahead write the “i” normal but touching the bottom of the “m” so while you’re writing it gives the example of finding a point and working your way to the bottom of it. so when faced with the dilemma of love, and the “-” wants you start seeing all the anarchy going on around you and now you have to find a way to get out of it to offer a stable foundation for this love.

So in this example to build thought in our imaginations would turn a symbol to the left, this symbol being “A” for anarchy. Now write this down being turned to the left opposite the “m” completing the heart shape similar to “<3″. Now we have the full picture of what we want and who we want it with now we just need how to get it done. Coming to this conclusion would turn this symbol as a whole to the left being a new builds of thought. Something trivial like how to tie your shoes or something physical like a house is accepted by mans thoughts and reinforced into the earth, this would be the initial reason were here being gravity pulling down and hence the reason for the “i” being just normal and facing down not upside-down and holding the A and M of our heart together. Now we have our full heart with everything where we want it. “<I3″

When I mentioned the explosion of thought in “-0+” (Positive, Negative, Neutral theory) it was more like a bombardment of all different types of thoughts and almost had me convinced I was losing my grip.

Whereas most pertained to my theory the rest were very strange and random beyond what I felt was a normal thing to be thinking. After struggle with this flood I realized they were similar to a strange story, and when I treated the thoughts in this way the story started becoming clear.

I take only as much weight in this story as far as it reads because the biggest thing I have learned during all of this is what we see and think is never the full gravity of the situation.

So here goes.

At a certain beginning there were two people playing a game on a square table, they played this while exploring their areas in space. The player on the left was black and the player on the right was white.

The game got increasingly harder due to the fact both players were very skilled at this mastery, and at a certain point they happened to put their hands on their forehead to help them think. In doing so they consequently closed their third eyes, and shut off their connection of memory to the focus of thought.

Since they were so deep in their game they didn’t realize a third entity was created next to them with the sole purpose of remembering what it sees happening in the game, to counter act this lapse of consciousness and complete the circuit.

Being only able to record the game the third entity was unable to speak and couldn’t warn them of his presence. When the players hadn’t realized the lapse of memory and being frustrated at ending in a stale-mate in the game, the players turned from each other to be with their wives.

Seeing this for the first time, the third entity was curious now about what he saw because it is now something completely different then what he was created to remember. Being still in the cycle of remembering what he sees he reached out to touch the players for more information concerning the subject.

Unknowing about sex organs, the third entity happened to touch both life making parts of the players at the same time with both index fingers.

This connection of birth and energy shocked the entity into full life, similar to the players in shape but somewhere more like how they felt when he touched them… hard.

When this happened, the players felt the shock and also saw the third entity zipped away to the nearest ground to de-energize from the burst. When they followed they realized what had happened and figured they had better try to explain what happened. The third entity had touched both players and both players were put into him, making their way of communication make sense, and certain basics of life seem trivial to discuss, like breathing.

So all three stood before each other and the third entity could now speak like them and he said “who are you?” and the white player never has had to describe what separates him from the black player, it startled him and he simply answered “I’m me”.

Realizing this completed the thought the third entity moved on and asked “who is that?” pointing at the black player. “That’s him.” he responds and the third entity gets a confused look on his face while looking at 2 players and asks “so who am I?” The two players look at each other not quite sure how to respond and the white players says “you’re you.”

Since this also completed this thought he had another observation that the black player hadn’t talked the entire time, and he asked to him “are you unable to speak?”

The black player just laughed and said “of course I can speak, I was just letting him lead the conversation.” when he said that, the third entity realized the black player had called the white player “him” when he was under the impression his name was “me”. After too much time doing “who’s on first, what’s on second” the white and black players said they needed to step away for a little while to straighten out this thought.

After many variations of this idea they concluded “me”, “him”, and “you” wasn’t working out and needed time to fill the gap left in the third entities understanding of existence.

So they took pieces of all three of them to make a general surrounding for the third entity to learn in safety from the elements surrounding him. Eventually the players needed to get back to their old duties and had to leave until the third entity would be able to join them at their home.

The players noticed he was worried about them leaving so they left him a promise. They said “In your numbers we will have one son each.” the white player said “mine would be first, and the black player said “mine would be second and last.” The black player also added “to be last he has to kill the planet you now call home.” when the third entity agreed to this but reluctantly this worried the black player because he realized the third entity didn’t even understand his own death. So he added “still your heart, we have a rule that nothing can pass except through love, and when it dies it will be in the form of laughter.” After this was said the third entity still looked worried so the black player asked “why are you still worried?” and the entity replied “how will I know how to get home when I’m done?” the black player smiled and said ” it’s easy, exactly the same way you came… through the earth.

Just look into your heart and find the pieces you love and touched him on the chest.

(A logical examination of the steps to long term survival, expansion and universal awareness of a given species. Copied from msword, expect alignment issues.)

This artical assumes two things:

1. Other planets have in ”some form”, a table of elements, we could selectivly mine from and that under the proven theory of spontanious life, other garden worlds would too exist with corelating minerals.
2. The causes of periodic destruction or global dissruptions are natural, like increased solor activity and not little green men interfering with us.

So, we want to become an interplanetary dwelling species. What does that mean? What would it take? When could this happen, 20 minutes or 10,000 years? Can it realistically be done?

These are questions I attempt to address in this paper.

Let’s start with definition; What is an interplanetary dwelling species? In terms of long term survivability, it means being able to avoid natural and inevitable planetary catastrophes. Global changes like food pyramids toppling, impacts, solar changes, disease, volcanic activity -> insert doomsday mechanism of choice <- would be avoided by moving large masses of its population to new or existing alternate locations as individual system stability changed favorably. (See Dr. Michio Kaku on NASA’s findings in regard to the solar activity spike of 2012, and how large enough spikes in solar activity could be a global hazard to ALL LIFE.)

Even being able to move a substantial portion of the population to thrive elsewhere would keep the species alive and possibly provide them with data to more accurately predict specific global changes in the future. Much like we slowly drew up a knowledge base of planetary weather to predict many unfavorable conditions, we would slowly draw up a much larger weather map, a galactic weather map to predict favorable or unfavorable future conditions within individual star systems.

With this idea in mind, imagine another world, when we know that earth with have a one year solar radiation bath at deadly levels in 2012. Having know this event would occur precisely at “x” moment for roughly 100 years, we have already prepared the population for relocation via temporary starship transport and living quarters.

Imagine we mined up a new exotic mineral allowing us to make cheap solar shielding that also acted as a solar conductor stopping the deadly radiation while making it into something useful. Imagine the possibilities.

This cycle of global change occurs naturally and periodically. While I do not believe there is a consensus of timeframe, there are several theories.

The time frame on which this periodic change occurs is only directly relevant in that civilizations arising to apex while natural oil is high volume and gets discovered will have from then until the next major global change generally in which to make the leap to interplanetary operations, that being the only critical relevance to this case, the time frame of global changes affecting the rise or fall of civilizations will not be addressed in this paper.

I think if a civilization became advanced to where ours is today, the step to intergalactic travel is right now, if not a little late. As the paper continues, it will become clear how important oil production is to industries that build the first stages of an interplanetary mining network and how that leads to stepping up from a Type 0 to a Type 1 civilization. If oil production stops or becomes too sparse before this leap is made, it very likely will not happen.

“A species must be able to take a given planetary amount of x=fuel resource (we don’t know all civilizations would use oil or that their planet would even make oil.), time experimenting, global resource management and with those key steps, launch mining operations onto other planetary bodies, before their own planetary fuel resources ran out, to even begin long term species sustainability.” – Necessary and unavoidable steps to advance from a Type 0 to Type 1 civilization.

The minerals extracted on other worlds, (Preferably dead worlds however that is likely a moral debate involving factors we cannot yet be aware of.) are the lifeblood of the interplanetary species. If resources are wasted or remain unfound within a planetary body, a given civilization will not make the leap required in time, to avoid an inevitable planetary catastrophe, and most likely will largely die out. Chance A: If the resources remain unfound, a future civilization could have another chance to make this leap. Chance B: If the resource is wasted, the chance could be gone forever. (With the exception of outside intervention.) Is our planet one of those? We don’t know.

The possibilities; a yet unfound element with favorable fuel properties, an element mined away so extensively long ago we see no trace of it, an element the earth simply does not naturally make, an oversight in the nature of a known element, mining minerals on another planet is for the devil and shouldn’t be done or it simply is not possible. (Resource x)? It is very possible our table of elements is not complete. Other planets and process may have combined in different ways to create elements we are not aware of, elements with very favorable fuel properties. But for now, we work with what the earth gave us, oil.

Theoretically, Option #1, another interplanetary civilization who choose the less moral path of interplanetary mining could have found resource x before our time and marked us as a low travel zone so we wouldn’t find much about life in the universe before natural cycles of planetary changes wiped us out.

Option #2, a previous civilization (If you’ve ever read about “Out of place artifacts or OOPAR”) mined this resource to exhaustion before it got a firm interplanetary grip.

How likely are these two scenarios?

Well, Option #1, we have no idea. We don’t know if there really even are other civilizations out there, so we can’t really calculate those odds. While I realize that isn’t really answer, I must insist; Sometimes “I don’t know.” is indeed an acceptable answer. Not knowing something is only proof that there are things that you do not know. It proves nothing more and nothing less, and while we may not like it, must be a temporarily acceptable answer sometimes.

Option #2,When you consider “OOPAR” you must admit while small, there is some chance an advanced civilization arose here on earth before what we see today. Taking into account odd and end artifacts that represent knowledge we feel various civilizations of the time should not have known, structures they built we cannot replicate even today. This clearly becomes a theoretical possibility as well.

However the odds are still in our favor. Some mysterious “Resource X” may not be needed after all, oil could be that resource. Commonly accepted as the broken down remains of previous organic life, fossilized plant matter etc. Oil would naturally replenish itself after a great deal of time as organic life forms grow and die over vast amounts of time, meaning this could also be a common mineral on garden worlds.

Theoretically, I suppose among the variety of possible garden worlds, there could be garden / oil producing worlds inhabited by all varieties of non sentient life or worlds longer organically active (Dead worlds).

As for earths oil, we have a conundrum, we are almost out of it and we have not launched any kind of mining operations outside of our own planet for mineral resources. If oil is the fuel we need to get payloads out of the atmosphere, we must focus enough of what’s left to explore other worldly mining.

If we don’t, we then fall into the “Chance B” category; A civilization that used up their planetary fuel before expanding mining to other planetary bodies.

While oil might not be about to stop pumping tomorrow, it will soon enough. Without it we do not have a means to launch materials in or out of a planets orbit, making interplanetary mining highly improbable at that point due to exhausted fuel resources. (This does not mean there is not another way, we simply do not yet know of another way to put payloads in space.)

*fig 1

Here (*fig 1) we have an elementary table, displaying the possible precursors and outcomes. We have 2 realities here, Row A, and Row B. Each represents an existence where oil “IS” or “IS NOT” the best interplanetary fuel earth has to offer. Column 1 and 2, represent another chance, or option. Row A, Column 1 gives us our best shot under current knowledge and tech to achieve interplanetary mining. The case for starting mining operations on other worlds gets very strong at this point. Using oil resources in a mankind-wide goal of achieving interplanetary mining must be the first step in habiting other worlds. The resources to occupy multiple planets cannot and will not come from Earth alone.

At this point some of you may have observed, “Oil is not exactly the fuel we burn for space flight.” and you are right. However, oil is the fuel used to drive all of the industries that make space flight possible. It manufactures the machines, that are used to make the high tech machines used to build the space ships to safety specs. Oil is used in some small way in almost everything we use, build, eat, move, design. Without it, the process of interplanetary mining becomes an even more monumental task, lower the chances of the species surviving long term. So with the remaining oil reserves we have, globally as a species, should we dawdle it away on petty territory or religious wars? Sounds like something we would do with our last days doesn’t it? “Screw it, we’re out of fuel and we’re all gonna die, lets slaughter each other for what’s remains until no one is left.”

Mining on other planetary bodies is the only way to provide the physical mineral resources needed like steel, copper, iron, diamond, quartz and even fuels like oil or natural gas to build an interplanetary network with industrial transport ships, personal travel vessels, commercial travel. The raw materials required can only be procured through interplanetary mining for minerals. This also brings a high probability of finding new exotic elements to build with or use as efficient fuels, super conductors, who knows what else it could lead to discovering. Archeological remains, fossils, evidence of past life on a given planet? A more accurate understanding of the history of the planets in our system and others for certain, as well as valuable mineral resources that would be used to physically build the multi-planet network.

Perhaps we find history and perhaps not but to think of the world as anything but a flat disc was once such a silly notion that main stream scientists of the time would have laughed you out of a room for thinking about it any other way. As it turned out, the world was round and there very well could be some kind of life architecture past or present on almost any given planet. Accounting for impacts, planetary collisions, intruder bodies, colliding systems and all the other strange universal phenomenon, any given planet, in any given system could harbor some fashion of remnant from previous life architecture be they fossil or construct in nature. Learning to find and identify these remains is a challenge. But honestly very little about the world around us has been proven, nothing is yet impossible. Much of modern science is based on standing theory, not proven fact. Not that they aren’t very good theories, they are fascinating possibilities, but they are not facts until rigorously proven beyond doubt. Most have not been, and many have standing contradictory theories or even directly challenging evidence.

The crucial step of interplanetary mining provides the necessary building material to support population expansion, stable planetary safety measures, and interplanetary industrial / civilian travel networks in prolonged species existence. This ideal could seem for many civilizations like it does for ours here on earth. “A distant future dream, not a reality I’ll see in my lifetime.” and with that “it’s in the future only” mentality, they globally mismanagement resources on things like “My god is stronger than your god!” wars and wasteful “I own 13 homes over 13 million dollars!” lifestyles. This chance at real species wide sustainability passes them by while they burn through the remaining resources completely unaware of the (possibly one time) chance to break out of the “Single planetary dwelling cycle” that they just missed.

In closing, I would like to assert that I am no expert on the related material. I am however well read over my twenty-eight years. Space in general has been a lifelong passion of mine, and while I don’t know much in the way of mathematical physics I would like to believe I have a firm grasp on a wide variety of space related fields. The case in question however is not a case born of academic field study, it is a case born of simple logic. I do not believe one can really be granted a degree for logic. You either get it or you don’t. If Humans want to live as a self sustained, long term species, we have to make a choice; Go outside our home planet for resources OR blindly have “faith” earth will just magically always have enough for us.

To me it seems a clear resounding choice. Live or Die. Use the resources we have mining yet more, or burn through earths mineral reserves and re-deliver us unto a new stone-age every time the earth undergoes dramatic changes. We must start probing other planets for minerals and developing advanced yet reasonable ways to mine outside of our homeworld.