Politics In Desperate Situation

     I have been very stressed out recently by political situation and have added to stress by debating with self-styled atheists.  In addition, I am having financial problems.  I really need to write a blog about Quantum consciousness.  I re-did some stuff on my computer and had trouble getting back to this blog, will try to write the article I need to over next few days.  

Why I Speak of President as "Donald"

   Just very quickly I want to make clear that when I speak of the current president as "Donald" I am using the convention of referring to a child by first name.  Yes, that is the basis of the Old South  practice of referring to some people (colored folk, for instance) by first name.  Yes, "white trash" was also spoken to that way.  And I have repeatedly said that the Trump family gives "white trash" a bad name.
    I know some very good people (such as Partons) who give "white trash" a good name.  I was raised to NOT use that convention, except in circumstances where it would risk lives of good people.  One older "black" man once told me how he went to the back door when visiting white friends so that he wouldn't get lynched and his friend's house get burnt down.

Sagan, Einstien, and Me on Atheism

   One thing I have become aware of is that self styled atheists use different definitions of atheism depending on to whom they are talking.  I agree with both Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein on defining an atheist as a person who believes that there is no god (god in the very broad sense).  Einstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein) had an early Catholic education, despite being Jewish.  He said that a Jesuit priest would consider him to be an atheist, since they considered anyone not Catholic to be an atheist. ( https://owlcation.com/humanities/Einsteins-Religion-Theist-Deist-Pantheist-Humanist-Atheist).
   Specifically, I use the widely understood meaning of atheist as a person who believes that there is no god.  An agnostic is a person who claims to not know.  The phrase "'agnostic atheist" is an oxymoron.  "An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid."   http://philosophiesofmen.blogspot.com/2012/01/atheism-is-very-stupid-carl-sagan.html

poem, 22 July, 1974

 

While strolling
          Down the beach
     I happened
                Upon a shell,
And years later
       I found a poem.

Heisenberg on Religion

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.” 
― Werner Heisenberg

Heisenberg On God

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” 
― Werner Heisenberg

New Canine Companion

I am trying to get back to my blog.  I was  looking at past postings to try and find an article that I must have not written when I noticed that I had written about the death of my beloved dog, Lady.  A few weeks ago we had the good fortune of being blesed with a new canine companion named Tennessee.  He is supposed to be part Yorkie.  I suspect part Scottie.  He is polite, bright, and is certain that he is the biggest, baddest dog on the block.  I'll try to pose him for a portrait.  Almost a year and a half.....