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Monday, September 15, 2014

NLT-The next step: Part 72 THINGS TO ADD LATER

I passed page 50 in the final edit of NLT.  I came across this post and decided to review it.  I am looking at 30-40 pages to the end.  Of course, I wonder what will happen if I decide to include any of this.
Do I really want to slow this process down?
I walked this evening, the humidity and heat were back, the air so thick you could not breath it, the walk a gasping, watery, thing.  I thought about what an unusual work this was going to be.  I've been rearranging some few chapters, most of it is organized well enough, but what chapter to lead with and what chapter to end with.  What is the note I want to strike with the reader.
What is the message I am trying to send to you.
This was originally set aside as part 29, the parts being chapters and approximately 2/3 of the chapters being posted.
There is still more groundwork to lay before covering the details of time orbits, the relationship of this to something else, I am not sure what, I'm not even sure why I wrote it anymore, all I know is the inspiration for it, the spark behind it, what burned to ashes, what has not yet rose from the ashes.  You know too, of course.
There is even more to cover before getting to the place where all of these concepts are brought together to get a more comprehensive view of the universe than the one I have typed so far.  This is a strange collection of orphan chapters, waiting to be adopted by the book and by discovering them at this late date, I am faced with the question of whether to include them or leave them to grow up on their own, alone and seeking some place, some person, where they belong.
Time is limited.
Some things that are not in the book yet.  I wonder...
INTELLIGENT DESIGN:  A logical creator would design a universe to function according to logical rules.  While we worry about how long this would take, NLT envisions that the creator would have infinite time, infinite intelligence relative to what we experience just based on our view of linearity.  There are forces we do not even understand that are suggested by Standard Clock Time and the mysteries of CT5.
  This is similar conceptually to our designing a puzzle or the "random" nature of natural selection which is following the rules of organization that seem to control outcomes in our universe.
Infinite intelligence is discussed in The Einstein Hologram Universe and is the result of concentrating all thought without dimensional or time separation.
Another element to infinite intelligence is CT5.  This environment seen in Black Holes with concentrations of 10^32 of matter clock time (CT4) is the same environment that was described pre-dating the origin of the universe where spatial and clock time separation go towards zero.  Just as matter is a concentration of energy (really CT3 changes being the same) so Black holes, spread out though they are, are very likely the next state of matter.  Just as we can manipulate energy, so too could a CT5 consciousness potentially manipulate CT4 in ways that we cannot fully understand.
Just as large quantities of energy coalesce into matter which in limited quantities coalesces into human minds; so too is it likely that such a concentration occurs on the scale of black holes to create super-matter (CT5) and even super-brains.  A simple example is that our minds can only hold one thought at a time, whereas a CT5 brain might be able to hold two (or more).



WHAT DO TIME ORBITS LOOK LIKE:
Time orbits are different from orbits defined by space time.  They are relatively speaking shapeless and time specific to the type of Clock time(s) which have gone linear to form them.
The best model to describe these presented so far is that of a database where each point is defined in terms of three (or more) coordinates.
CT1 has a series of defined points (P1, P2, etc) joined in a time orbit with a compression of 10^2 where compression is the amount of coordinated coordinate change, i.e. coordinates changing together at a scale of 10^2.  While not seen, these gravity affect orbits represent sufficient concentrations of Points of data to form space as we see it.  Uncoordinated Points would not appear as space since they would not change in concert with a set display that would make sense to a spinning universe (they'd randomly appear and disappear).  Gravity is the force represented by the orbit.
CT2 is the next time orbit.  The points previously concentrated "up to" 10^4 have now reached the critical mass of time concentration for perception of the universe.  We cannot measure the size of the particles at this concentration, but we know them as quantum photons and they show up in our studies of the forces of both photon energy and as a part of the signature of wave form energies which is easily explained by both the common origin of the two types, the fact that one is merely a concentration of the other with a different time orbit, and the fact that it is likely within the matrix of wave form energies both CT1 and CT2 time states exit. We cannot see the effect of time, but it can be measured and utilized more than space. Photonic energy is associated with this orbit or clock time for theoretical purposes.
CT3 can be seen as 10^8 concentration and concentration as coordinated coordinate change.  Combinations of this type are theorized to form electromagnetic features.  A greater degree of manipulation is possible for these using CT4.  At 10^8^4^2 concentration, these are more easily manipulated using quantum and non-quantum analysis and quantum properties are difficult to detect.
CT4 represents coordinated coordinate change at the rate of 10^16 and quantum elements are hidden by the amount of concentration as matter.  The forces created are considered to be nuclear forces only because those forces are present holding molecules together.  If only one force at at time is created we may have a concentration energy "excited and resting state" situation between strong and weak nuclear forces.  The alternative would be two separate concentration states with non-exponential change which is not expected, but equally likely.
CT5, black hole space 10^36.  This represents a theoretic space where black holes exist and presumably where they might even group together, their matrix being filled as we observe with CT1-CT4 elements, including us.



QUANTUM LEAPS IN DEFINING QUANTUM ORBITS.
Therefore we can define time orbits by their increasingly similar changes in coordinates where each orbit has coordinate change 1/scale closer than the prior orbit and where the similarity of the change is more fixed, that is it takes more positive entropy to separate them and more negative entropy to keep them together.
Hence two photons are loosely joined, but still have a 1/4 concentration defined as common coordinate change.  The much higher concentration of 1/16 (the difference between coordinate changes) for matter over energy (presumably it is 1/16+8+4+2) is why we have a more difficult time "penetrating" or separating or even changing coordinates for matter using positive entropy or "energy".
Again, this takes us to an additional inference that all Points in all clock times change relative to one another with consistency initially.  If these closer changes happen slower, which is to be believed based on conservation concepts (the conservation of time states-which in turn is indicated by logic-smaller changes would happen more often to get to a larger time change) then we can follow this inference with yet another.  As we go up in time orbit (the higher number clock times) these changes are closer together for similar clock time points while in between these changes some more rapidly changing lower clock times exist (CT3,CT2 and CT1 existing within each other like the Russian dolls and all of them existing within CT4 Points.


ANOTHER WAY OF VIEWING SEQUENTIAL TIME ORBITS
There is more than one way to skin a Sequential Time Orbit.  The initial discussion looked at these as growing orbits which is supported by the concept of negative entropy.  There is another way which is supported by the concept of gravity being "the tendency of time to go non linear" and the interpretation of black holes that results.  This second method, however, will allow for the same type of findings as we have in CT5 analysis.
This second method is very similar to the first but it assumes the transition from NLT (CT0) to CT1 is a much larger event in the time continuum and the subsequent moves are transitions back to non-linearity which is a central theme in defining gravity in particular and force (potentially) in general to the tendency of time states to go non-linear.
One can thereby envision the move from CT0 to CT1 to be a transition as far from NLT as can be found in our universe.  This would mean the subsequent transitions and concentrations were lower orbits from the highest orbit returning Time steadily to NLT ending, as far as we can tell, at CT5 and black holes which may or may not represent a return to non-linearity.
It is possible that black holes do in fact return to non-linearity but that we cannot observe the final step in the process because of the linearity of our time perspective prevents it just as there is not enough force to take matter to light speed and thereby transition to energy.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

NLT-god and dice and population growth

I'm sitting out in the heat, the last great heat of the summer of 2014 I hope.  I am not looking forward to the cold.  What little keeps me going these days is supported by the fact that I can go from this oppressive heat into a cold pool for an hour or so.  Whether I can stand that another winter is somewhat in doubt and at the end of that is nothing.  
After 3500 yards, my hair, what there is of it, has the consistency of dried out straw.  I'm dehydrated from the activity inside, but my skin feels almost like it has been composted for several decades, what you'd expect from a mummy that had been exposed to moisture.
I thought about how I'd describe how my life could be described now.  It is such a romantic, yet tragic story it should be written.  I have written it out in outline form, but I only have half of it, so much is missing; approximately half.
It ends, "And now every day I wonder if the day before it was not too late."
But its more of a statement for me to read and not a story and if it is ever written it will only be because I write it without the sadness overwhelming the joy of being alive. 
You have to embrace the horror of life to enjoy it.  I learned that lesson not once but twice.  The first time as a child who woke up happy one day after a life of disappointment.  The second time the world was ending, and I embraced what was important to me and therefore you have Non-linear time and I learned how to be happy in the face of everything falling apart.  
I thought the heat was going to kill me after swimming.  I was tired, it was so hot the dog collapsed over and over on the grass headed back, the humidity would accept none of my sweat and my clothes were soaked, holding in more of the heat.  How nice it would have been to wear nothing, but instead I was immersed in a wet heat, and there was nothing pleasant about it except the suffering and the life that allowed it.
So now I'm asked to to embrace the horror again, and I wonder if I can.  As we get older, the horror is much more intense, the finality closer, and strangely, when I thought I was too old to feel it, the pain worse, the sense of loss greater, the sense of responsibility heavier.
But that is the lesson of happiness, the willing to embrace the horror with it.

This post is about why happiness doesn't have to be conditioned on other things, why we don't have to cling to traditional constructs.  It is about life with happiness, the sacrifice of happiness for something else.  
That is not part of NLT although I've been trying to get rid of this quotation for a while and this gives me an opportunity.

You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. I hope that someone will discover a more realistic way, or rather a more tangible basis than it has been my lot to find. Even the great initial success of the Quantum Theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.” – Albert Einstein, 1944

Note that this was written in the middle, well sort of towards the end, of WWII.  June 6, 1944 was D-day.  July 16, 1945 was the first full scale explosion of a nuclear bomb.  By May 8 of the following year the war ended in Europe.  No atomic bomb had been dropped on an enemy at this point in time.

I suppose there is a part 2 to this, but I'm not sure if I can do it, if I can embrace the horror again.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

NLT the next thing 71: NLT and science fiction

Its hard to work well when you don't get more than 3 hours sleep at a time.  Fortunately, this is all written.  It's a little more than cutting and pasting (if I was using scissors I'd probably cut myself or glue myself to a wall) but not so much that I cannot do it.
Today is a day off.  I did my community service which was working alone in an attic space most of the time.  The heat, dust and close quarters made it feel like the inside of a coffin, but a spacious coffin and though the morning an uncomfortable one, the job I had was as technical a one as I get on a normal day, and it was finished.
Silence is harder than speaking.  Speaking may seem pointless.  But there is more than points to be made.  There is the decision, to say nothing or to speak.  Perhaps the more noble thing involves silence, certainly the more mysterious, perhaps even the less painful.
It is better to let the mind wander to things, Greek ruins, fallen civilizations, the beginning of things and their ends.  And to speak of it.  It is the easier thing, perhaps not the most sincere, or the nicest.
or the most kind or the most appropriate, but it is easier than staying quiet.
I see the end of the world, I don't blab about it, but I know its there and don't mind mentioning it every once in a while, it is not what bothers me the most, death being inevitable is not the most important thing.
But what if you know what's important and ignore it?  This morning at 4:00 am I thought about who I lived my life for.  I might advise everyone to live their lives for themselves given physics, but that doesn't appear to be the key to contentment (maybe its the key to happiness).  In my worst time, it was the surrender of self that seems to have saved me.  That has happened twice.  But that doesn't mean giving up happiness, it means accepting it.  And what happens if you don't do that?

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT EXPLAINED BY NLT
The exponential equation for the factor for clock time is 2^n as n moves from 0 to some unknown endpoint (apparently in discrete, quantum whole numbers at least at the lower quantum time states). If you accept the logarithmic functions as an integral part as suggested by the multiple appearances of other non-rational numbers (pi, e in particular) then you get the impression that the universe is designed around attempting to get somewhere but never arriving. As used here, the universe is the bigger universe, not just our system of CT5 elements, but the CT5 universe and the CT6 universe where the scale of compression makes even black wholes and our universe appear tiny.
Why the exponential of 2? An intuitive answer should always be suggested by NLT or it is no better than the other physics theories which allow counter-intuitive thinking and blind acceptance of phenomena just because it is convenient or necessary to the theory. This doesn't mean that NLT does not have similar failings, the only way to aovid that would be to explain what E-hologram theory describes as G-space and I'm not ready for that yet.
One step towards an explanation is that it is that each additional simultaneous coordinate change is a two part change, another is that you have the changes in terms of twos, the original change and the new change, at least after the initial change.
Another step is that you start with no elements, non-linearity. You add one going in two directions, towards linearity and away from linearity. You add another in two directions, one linear the other non-linear; but the first changing coordinate does not disappear, it remains changeable so you have exponential concentration to get from one to the other using a factor of 2.
This discussion of the source of exponential growth of the concentration of coordinated time changes, called compression, sounds like a minor issue. But in NLT, you cannot accept anything like you can in traditional physics because NLT is not based on a universe with preset rules, it is based on a universe where everything has happened at once and everything must have an intuitive basis.
Compression has some unexpected consequences that non-NLT physicists have struggled with but which become clear with NLT. We know that compression in NLT is the state of matching coordinate set changes so that they change at the same rate and in the same direction. We also know that there are coordinate sets other than the locational coordinates x, y and z. Two of these are the CT4 coordinate set known as spin and the CT5 coordinate  which is not even as clear as spin but results, in concentrations at the scale of 10^32.
Quantum entanglement can be envisioned as the matching in terms of compression of coordinate sets other than the locational coordinate sets so they change together. Hence, knowing what these coordinates are, for the first time, we can better match them and better understand how a change in one which we can manipulate (pushing on one side of a wagon affects the other side as it were) the other.
Now we're going to talk about how to create a transporter, science fiction and non-linear time.  This is not meant to imply that anything like a transporter is possible, only that quantum entanglement would provide a mechanism for moving elements from one place in the linear universe to another.
At almost any point in the universe, and the more compressed the area the better, you can match the "change" in spatial coordinates (x,y and z), to other points that will be changing (moving in the same direction at the same rate).  Aligning two coordinates in two points along a line, the two dimensional movement, is also possible. The third coordinate change rate can be the same, but alignment of those along a line would be impossible. However, imagine if you could coordinate the fourth, fifth, and perhaps additional dimensional elements represented by CT4 and CT5.  This would require the clock times in excess of the initial 3 were linear, but we exist with the fourth (spin) dimension and we are able to create temporary black holes thereby allowing, at least termporarily, localized CT5 states.  
It is believed that if we accept quantum entanglement, then entangling involves some entangling of dimensional characteristics, at least CT1-CT4.  It may involve aligning quantum time points along a line losing linear alignment of only a single coordinate which could otherwise remain compressed to the extent that the change occur in some of the same particulars, even though proximity was lost, like two dancers whose movements continue to be synchronized as they move apart and stop touching. 
 The idea of quantum entanglement is that the other coordinates remain matched so that a change in one particle clock time would be related to another through these higher time states.
Now imagine that you get a better understanding of the this matching and the time coordinates that do not depend on quantum change within just the three dimensions, that you add the dimensions of CT4, CT5 and perhaps other Clock time states. If this were possible, you could potentially determine what is happening in that other location and potentially you could either mimic or exchange the particle states by allignment from a distance using the clock time relationship although presumably you'd have to do it for small quantities at a time. If you could change enough coordinates in this fashion, you could either duplicate what exists in one location with another or exchange what is in one location with another, a replicator or a transporter or perhaps just a single quantum point which changed in concert with another far away allowing for some determination of what the quantum particle far away is experiencing; like two dancers who have danced too far apart, but remain engaged.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

RC-The mercenary army protecting rome vs the mercenary economy supplying the United States

I am really tired.  I'm not sure what the deal is.
Maybe it is the heat
Maybe it is the swimming, the steady build up of exhaustion
or perhaps just old age, the steady build up of death
or Juggling too many flaming projects
trying to turn all the tumblers
before they turn to ash or set me on fire
perhaps it is all of these things
the ashes of my life, the flames extinguished
I was up at 2:00 in the morning.
If only I could tell you why
it would make you cringe and laugh
we share our worlds with so many small things
So I didn't sleep but I managed to make a passable day of it,
I dealt with the seeming endless problem with wasps
And the problem with heat and the fierce sun
and I worked and spent as much time as possible writing
but today would have been a swimming day under other circumstances.
I could have gone, I wasn't willing to go.
Even those of us facing the inevitable decline if we give just a moments hesitation
hesitate and decline
Or perhaps it is my sense of the inevitable doom
which I am apparently too smart to miss and too dumb to be heard
something even you could not make me forget forever
how I envy the immortal.

In the decline and fall of the roman empire this idea of a country losing its spark through a long peaceful prosperity is raised and ties in directly with the failure of reserve currencies which has been discussed.
In that book the idea presented is that the minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated and while personal valor remained the country no longer possessed that public courage which is nourished by "the love of independence, the sense of national honor, the presence of danger and the habit of command."  If true, perhaps we owe more to the terrorists than we have to fear from them.  For in trying to harm us, and harming us in fact, they build both our sense of national honor and present a clear and present danger that might be absent otherwise.
However, we still have the problem of exporting our technology and wealth.
The discussion in the decline and fall continues.  The outsourcing there was the military.  The country no longer willing to defend itself, hired its armies who would have no national honor, at least none to rome.  And we here in the US, by my reckoning have outsourced our manufacturing, we have lost the public courage to provide for ourselves, our Radio Shacks having no creative...creators, goes bankrupt, the society that should support it throwing away everything rather than repairing it if it requires the least bit of technology, each abandoned cell phone, computer, alarm clock and hand towel surrendering a little more of our freedom, weakening us a little further in the face of our enemies.   Today, we hold out our reserve currency, backed with nothing more than reputation; and when the reputation is gone, we will have nothing, but what we have squandered and when the creative come out of the next generation and look for a place to find the little electronic pieces they need to rebuild our empire, they will find closed and abandoned buildings with broken signs that once said radio shack.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

NLT-the next thing- 70: 911 terrorist edition- roaring mice and Higss bosons

Hawking: 'God Particle' Could Wipe Out the Universe - Discovery News http://tinyurl.com/nmgajgx shared via www.newshog.co

There is no God particle according to NLT theory, but NLT has something which is better.  Before we get to that, let me mention that the perceived Higgs Boson is according to NLT theory an impression of something different.  This is because regular physics requires mass, spin and charge; but NLT defines these features with time coordinates.  The argument can be made that this is mere semantics; but it is more than semantics.  It is a different perspective; the difference between clinging to space time and releasing it completely.
This is not the only case.  The wave particle duality is inexplicable except in NLT where it is easily explained.  Physicist who fail to learn about NLT see things because they expect them instead of what is really there.  Hawkins should demand his money back.

But this is not about why Steven Hawkins should have won his bet, that is covered in a blog published long ago and you can find it if you search long enough.  Instead this is about something far grander than the Higgs Boson.

As I write this it is not 9-11; but I may not make it that far or perhaps the internet won't.

Super Dupe Fission and Fusion:

If black holes represent CT5 than the question of what the formation process or potential deformation process entails is worth considering.  The existence of small, temporary black holes in certain earthly environments (perceived if not actual in atom smashers) render this more than a study of outer space phenomena.

The idea here is that the CT4 to CT5 state is a kind of "super fusion" and the reversal of the process would be a "super fission".  We exist in a "super atom" (not a super molecule necessarily) and each of the black holes are fundamental particles in this system.

If a weapon could be made it would be exponentially more powerful that the fusion or fission bombs we imagine, the energy which radiates from Black Holes may well reflect the forces of this reaction.  Imagine a power source which was able to tap into this reaction, a power source able to provide exponentially greater power.  While illusory to the ignorant physicist, it is clear to the physicist of NLT.

While it is seductive to think in terms of all of clock time forces co-existing, this model indicates something different.  Instead this indicates that a "system" exists for each clock time.  The "size" of the system is a good question to ask, not because of any "real size" but an apparent size.  It is predicted that the size of the system for a given clock time is related to the extent of compression.  It is also predicted that the content of the system changes the way that the specific clock time interacts.  To put this in perspective, look at the so-called fundamental particles.  While they can all be explained away in terms of being nothing more than clock time, they all appear somewhat different.

To put this in perspective, every black hole should, to remain stable, reflect a compression factor of at least 10^32.  But what about those black holes that appear to have higher compression?  What about those black holes that have bigger systems around them that interact with them?

It is predictable that smaller systems (CT1 being the smallest linear system, at least in the most basic rendition of NLT) there were be fewer permutations which would explain the smaller number of fundamental particles that matter shows as compared to black holes.

And speaking of black wholes and making losing bets I have done some strange things lately.  I built a meditation room at my office which worked out surprisingly well.  It is a place that is dark and comfortable where I can burn a pine scented candle and listen to the long voiceless tracks on you tube and rest my dying eyes.  Every day since I started, I add little touches to the room, making it more empty and more comfortable.  But I cannot relax as I want to.  There are the demands on my time and my mind goes to those paths that I should not have taken, the dead things I left in my tracks.  The peace is shattered.  I know I should let those things go and relax, but I cling to them, their lifeless arms reaching out to grab the shreds of my dignity.  You left us, they say, and they ask, "for what?".  I don't answer, but I know; a life of regret, of being alone.  And the room is designed for being alone, and for finding peace, but the peace eludes me.

NLT-the next thing 69 more on wave-particle duality

For those of you who look for NLT entries, their absence will be replaced by the publication shortly, time permitting.  I continue to move apace through the final edits.  Some times I think I should just stop and publish, the theory in its entirety, it already being published here other than a few remaining chapters, like this one which covers some perception issues that appear all over the science fiction matrix, although not in terms of Non-linear Time Theory.
Then, however, I'll come across a typo or a formulaic discussion that is just too, well "too too" as they say, to leave alone and I reconcile myself and you to wait a little longer for the publication.
And, of course, there are the demands of life and death.  Do you know how distracted I am by all of this, how much it reduces me as a person, assuming there was/is anything left to reduce.  An example is in order, perhaps.   I swam 3200 yards yesterday and realized that I was perhaps 1 or 200 yards away from having swum 10,000 yards in 5 days; but did not turn around to spend the additional 2-4 minutes it would have taken to set this accomplishment.  What do you say about a person like that?

Wave Particle Duality II
Another way of looking at the CT1-CT3 energy phenomena is to use the universe as a model.  In the model we see CT5 (black hole) states surrounded by CT1-CT4 states, the concentrations of those meaning that there are much more CT1 than, more 2 than 3 and more 3 than 5 in terms of dimensional separation, anyway (the difference in compression distinguishing each successively greater state caused by the sharing of time orbits in the orbital model).  What this means is that we may extrapolate and assume in any wave energy (CT3 energy state) there is CT2 energy states (photonic) so that the duality is the result of the two states existing together just as CT5 states from a far enough distance might appear solid, but when you get to our level (CT4) you see all the elements around black holes (space, photons, wave energy, matter).
The same relative concentrations is why the do not appear separate (the scale of compression being much smaller) like we see in the CT3 to CT4 boundary and the even more obvious CT4-CT5 boundary.  The CT5 boundary is so great (10^32) that I have a hard time accepting black holes as separate clock times, but the evidence in favor of it seems great, even though the alternative (that black holes reflect non-linearity) is tempting.  The existence of gravity (the CT0-CT1 energy gradient) in black holes prevents us from accepting the non-linear model of black holes completely even though explanations can be given.  This in turn suggests a CT5-CT6 boundary of similar scale shift (10^64) which is so significant that we cannot see it from our Clock Time State (at least because we only look in terms of "waves" which are limited by light speed.  There are certainly other signatures of standard clock time (gravity for example) to consider, although clock time and light speed seem inter-twined, at least for us.
One can imagine the inhabitants of the CT5 and CT6 states as moving relatively ponderously given the increasing slowness of the changes of individual time coordinates but also having features of perception like super standard watch time and perhaps "super-duper" standard watch time for CT5 and CT6 respectively.
I wonder if the use of the term "super-duper standard watch time" distracts from the professional and profound nature of this discussion.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Terrorist and War as we approach 911 and the inevitable future terrorist attacks

We know from World War I that terrorism can lead to war.  World War I and 9-11 are both examples.  These were wars caused more by emotion than effect.  In each, there was an agenda behind the war, a need by world leaders (the Kaiser in World War 1 and Bush II in 9-11) to accomplish some personal task and sufficient outrage by the public to be led into disaster or perhaps something different.
And WWII was started by an individual who led an entire country to terrorism.
Today we have another terrorist country.  It has more or less defined borders, a government which we hardly can comprehend in the west but which would make perfect sense to anyone who wanted to enslave their people with an emphasis on the female population; and perhaps that includes many in the west.
As we approach 9-11 we see various terrorists being arrested in europe and we can be certain that there are plenty of individuals, some probably contributing members of society who are sympathetic, if not in league with the Islamic State, aka ISIS.  We can expect them to desire a celebration on a day when anyone who was logically western would mourn.
What Islam focuses on is not entirely unlike early Christianity.  It is not on violence, although islamic fundamentalist terrorism gives that impression.  Instead it is focused on the afterlife and concentrates on submission of the experienced life for what comes afterwards.  There are worse things to submit to, although a confirmed idea of the afterlife as opposed to one based totally in faith is in order here.  All religions seem to have a history based on convenience to some group as opposed to observation and the analysis relies on "facts" that are inconsistent from one to the other and no subject to empirical analysis.
But this is about terror and terror, as the Russian showed during WWI need not have religious underpinning.  Anyone with an agenda and a sufficiently well defined agenda can sway the will of a dissatisfied people and you don't even need an agenda to create terror, just a willingness to do things that hurt people.  Serial killers are terrorist, some terrorists are serial killers.  You have to have the intent to create terror to be a terrorist.  History brands terrorists as heroes or terrorists depending on the success or failure of their undertaking.
The question of whether terror is something we have to accept, like the long inspection lines at airports, or something we can some day eliminate is perhaps the more interesting question to ponder.
I have no one but my blog to ponder these issues with.  I sometimes think I know the answers to the worlds problems, and then I think that a person who cannot deal with their own issues should leave the world alone.
I have moved forward and backwards with my work on going to Mexico, I have seen things the last few days that have given me hope and frustrated me to no end.  Occasionally, I imagine I can understand the frustration of the terrorists, wishing I could allow myself to scream at people who sit and wait for things to happen or complain about how things are going without a willingness to act, and then there are people who act in such a way that I cannot accept, like the terrorist who I do not like and who I fear inevitably will harm me and like others who act out of wisdom, but which hurts me just as much.
 I have allowed myself to hope for the future, and then dashed it as romanticism.  But I am a hopeless romantic, and I have to hold out for the future or I will wither and die.  Of course, I am on the edge of withering and dying so perhaps I should not be so surprised.  On the one hand, I have shown great strength and endurance, a modicum of creativity, an exceptional amount of potential success (if I could only get everyone else to move apace) in dealing with the issues that limit my personal freedom.  But of course the biggest impediment to my personal freedom is me and on the other hand, I am withering on the vine because of my refusal to fertilize my own roots.
The inevitable terrorists are horrible people that harm even when they do not need to.  They have, it appears, already started another war in the Middle east where people will die and the US government and its allies will throw their resources and money into the sand which will soak it up as it soaks up the rains that are too rare to bring peace to the inhabitants.  This will strengthen our enemies who will supply us, for our wealth, with the means to kill our natural enemies, the source of the terrorism.
We refuse to solve our problems, our hands being tied by our morality or our wisdom, as a western civilization; so perhaps my own willingness to suffer this long death should prevent me from complaining of the waste of the terrorist, our newest war, and my own failings as a lover, a partner and a friend.