I N F I N I T Y - A SOURCE OF NEEDLESS APPREHENSION

"Oh what joys we often forfeit

Oh what needless pain we bear

All because we do not carry

Everything to Commander Data in Prayer"

First of all we have a trilogy of news stories to kick off this posting. It is my hope that Bill Press, Thom Hartmann, and Randi Rhodes will read this blog to get more inspiration for their shows. I suggest strongly that you read the next two postings also because you probably haven't seen them since they were written in such close succession. This posting will most likely be the last posting for a while here, before we jump blogs. Jerry Sandusky is now out of jail out on bail loose and walking around and free to molest more children. A few days ago boy victim number one reported being in the basement of coach Sandusky's house and he knew that Mrs. Sandusky was in the house at the time and was crying out for help because he was in continued distress, and she did n't answer. Of course they had an episode of Law and Order lately on a local station involving a troubled teen that was forced to submit to molestation and his rage finally got the better of him. There is no telling the guilt and trauma these troubled teens suffer. Of course if his wife has in any way been instrumental in covering up Mr. Sandusky's crimes, she is liable and prosecutable as an accessary, and under Pennsylvania law will be compelled to testify as a witness against her husband. We've heard of women like this, who turn a blind eye to the attrocities of their husbands. That drone air craft was put on display by the Iranians today on their television for all to see, including us. Some from our government doubted that the article was genuine but they are sufficiently worried about it that even is there was extrapalation or reconstruction involved, we know there has been a major security break. There has been another shooting at Virginia Tech only now this troubled campus reported the incident more quickly and precautions for the safety of the students was taken. Apparently one guy shot a cop and then turned the gun on himself. They have said that politically that Newt and Mitt are seen as the most knowledgable and accomplished and qualified, whereas Newt and Michelle Bachman are seen as the most "genuine" in their beliefs and presentation. Hence since Newt is the one within both circles - - he is the logical candidate despite his much political baggage. Now the only thing I see that can stop him is the fact that Republicans higher up may decide that the will of the people in such politically skewed Primary states like Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida should be disregarded for the sake of the political sanity of the party and any hope of being elected.

Let's explore infinity a little more. People wonder how one could possibly have a number of Infinity. For instance if you were forever getting closer and closer to a destination and never seem to be getting there- - this is as bleak a concept as you could hope to get. The only thing that would be worse would be that if your forward trek steadily led you farther and farther from your destination. Let's take God as an object example. It is my belief that prayer has NO effect at all on anything except perhaps your psychological state of mind. Others may report that prayer helps. Others who later turn from the faith say that "Prayer made things worse". Both ideas are EQUALLY wrong in my oppinion and the result of abberent thinking. Were one doing a deviation diagram one would see infinity as the mean point- - and Infinity would be the reading you'd get if indeed prayer had NO effect upon anything. Some have wondered how you could have a figure such as "three and a half times Infinity". Simple. In circular trgonometry for example all you would need to do is start at Zero and cross the Infinity three times and then go half the distance farther and you'd be there. In optics one looking into a lens would be looking at infinity when the image disappeared completely and you just saw one color. Indeed were your eye call the focal point of the "real image" this is just what you'd see. This also would be what you would see of damn close to it were you looking back at a light source traveling away from it at the speed of light. Now we know that "the focal point of a lens is at its shortest point when it's at infinity". So points closer than infinity produce longer real image focal points. But what if you venture to a shorter focal point than you have at Infinity, what then? We covered this in physica class long ago. You now see what is called an "apparent image". The lines flip flop. Lines that were once diverging now are tipping the other way. Parenthetically looking into a mirror causes mirrored focal points for the image therein. But were you to look at a convex mirror this would not be the case. There would be a bifercation where objects inside the mirror would LOOK farther away and yet have a focal point in FRONT of the mirror. I varified this truth in an experiment in did in early December of 1970. What you view with the naked eye does not necessarily look the same when viewed with optical equipment. This idea of going beyond Infinity was a joke I tried to play on a computer program to try and get it to screw up. But the computer got the better of me. Built into the program unbeknownst to me was a provision to extrapelate back into the past to derive an answer, which in this case was "when would one car overtake another traveling the same direction?". The program involved the famous example with various trans and cars leaving at different speeds and different times going different directions. Beyond infinity the lines tip the other way and therewith the solution point to these linear equations, and they really are linear in the classic sense. Some have wondered how you can multiply Infinity. You can use infinity as a factor. But like zero you can't divide with it, using infinity as the divisor. One may wonder whether you can add with Infinity. Perhaps you could but as with adding proper fractions you have the necessity of finding a common denominator, and if you can come up with one of those, you're in business. You can of course take a known ammount of an Unknown, plus another known ammount of an Unknown, and derive a known ammount of that same Unknown. But what you can't do is to deal with an unknown ammount of an unknown. In quadratic equations as I understand them you have a known ammount of an Unknown, plus an Unknown ammount of that same unknown, plus a known number, equals a known number. Of course you know don't you that any open ended equals sign is by its very nature completable by an assumed third Variable. Wolframalpha.com relies on this idea. Now if you go out twice infinity with a magnifying lens you should see an upside down image with the same objects as the original. This is how it should be going twice the speed of light. Hence the sight of phantoms in space should not be the cause of alarm. To change the subject just a little, by now you may have guessed that I am ready to revive all that "event horizon" stuff I abandoned two years ago. It's time to retrieve all that material from the Recycle bin and get it back up on its feet. What this means of course is that space goes on and on. Scientists have suspected for some time now that objects really DO go faster than light and it isn't just some theory, but observable fact. Joe Drisco a month and a half ago reaffirmed that science has done this. As for infinity we know it can consist of one dot in art or photography, which is the geometric vanishing point. A whole stream of them constitutes the "termanator" as astronauts on the moon would say. To one extent or another Infinity is described or deliniated by how one chooses to perceive reality. Sometimes things seem one way but are actually another when seen by a different viewer. For instance if you look inside the image of a glass marble you see nothing but curved lines all around. No line is straight save for the "horizon" and "meridian" lines. However were you to view from Inside the circle everything would be well and good. As such curved lines would not only appear optically straight but one might even say Imminently - - - straight. It is my belief that the broken lines you see in the old Disneyland circerama theater that you observed from the cobbeling of images together is because all the screen is curved horizontally, it is not curved vertically and camera lenses will respond according. What you see in Circerama is not a spherical screen, after all but a cylindrical one. But upon thinking about this, there is a more obvious reason why the lines on sidewalks don't match up but tend to tail away at the side of each screen and that is because the film had to be shot with a camera with a wider angle than your viewing angle because they used a circular thing where the very center had no cameras at all and hence there was no "ideal distance"; every distance was short and hence had to be compensated for. To review then, to work tword a goal and never get closer is to hold said goal an infinite distance off. People speak of God "testing" people but nowhere do I find the term "everlasting probation" that people at me have felt they were on. I don't believe you ever see words like "infinite patience" or "infinite mercy" in the Bible because for this to occur God would be responding - not to put too find a point on it - as the Dead would respond. This is the only human counterpart that would be applicable. The dead view reality from the perspective of infinity, much as God perceives them. Like the dead, God cannot differentiate between a minute or a day or a year or a century. They are all alike to him. In both cases of God and the dead, ongoing events are viewed with Complete apathy. Some call this Godly, I call it not being Alive. But if this sort of life is what you wish- - viewing things from Infinity's viewpoint just might be your thing. (Selah)