"There is a fundamental reason for forced slavery: human nature. Economic advancement does not improve character. It does not reduce greed and selfishness. Unless human nature changes, mankind’s problems cannot be solved—and the slave trade, to take merely one example among a host of human evils, will continue."
From The Trumpet: entire article by Robert Morley here.
University of Lawsonomy
Alfred William Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals. In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take. He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill. The crash of his ambitious "Midnight Liner" during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921 ended his best chance for commercial aviation success.
In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200. He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as "penetrability", "suction and pressure" and "zig-zag-and-swirl" were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. He published numerous books on these concepts, all set in a distinctive typography. Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000.[citation needed]
He later propounded his own philosophy-Lawsonomy-and the Lawsonian religion. He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of "Direct Credits", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour. Lawson believed that the government should replace banks as the provider of loans to business and workers. His rallies and lectures attracted thousands of listeners in the early 30s, mainly in the upper Midwest, but by the late 30s the crowds had dwindled.
In 1943, he founded the so-called University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of "Knowledgian," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death. Lawson's financial arrangements remain mysterious to this day and in later years he seems to have owned little property, moving from city to city as a guest of his farflung acolytes. A 1952 attempt to haul him before a Senate investigative committee and get to the bottom of his operation ended with the cagey old gentleman leaving the senators outwitted and baffled.
A farm near Racine, Wisconsin is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas. The large sign, formerly reading "University of Lawsonomy", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line. Although the sign still exists, the "of" has now been replaced by the URL of their website.
From the Wikipedia article.
In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200. He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as "penetrability", "suction and pressure" and "zig-zag-and-swirl" were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. He published numerous books on these concepts, all set in a distinctive typography. Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000.[citation needed]
He later propounded his own philosophy-Lawsonomy-and the Lawsonian religion. He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of "Direct Credits", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour. Lawson believed that the government should replace banks as the provider of loans to business and workers. His rallies and lectures attracted thousands of listeners in the early 30s, mainly in the upper Midwest, but by the late 30s the crowds had dwindled.
In 1943, he founded the so-called University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of "Knowledgian," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death. Lawson's financial arrangements remain mysterious to this day and in later years he seems to have owned little property, moving from city to city as a guest of his farflung acolytes. A 1952 attempt to haul him before a Senate investigative committee and get to the bottom of his operation ended with the cagey old gentleman leaving the senators outwitted and baffled.
A farm near Racine, Wisconsin is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas. The large sign, formerly reading "University of Lawsonomy", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line. Although the sign still exists, the "of" has now been replaced by the URL of their website.
From the Wikipedia article.
Phantom Energy and The Cosmic Doomsday
For constant w = −3/2, the Milky Way will get stripped roughly 60 million years before the Big Rip. Curiously, when this occurs the horizon will still be ~ 70 Mpc, so there may still be other observable galaxies that we will also see stripped apart (although given the time delay from distant objects, we will see the Milky Way destroyed first). A few months before the end of time, the Earth will be ripped from the Sun, and ~ 30 minutes before the end the Earth will fall apart. Similar arguments also apply to objects bound by electromagnetic or strong forces. Thus, molecules and then atoms will be torn apart roughly 10−19 seconds before the end, and then nuclei and nucleons will get dissociated in the remaining interval.
(...)
It will be necessary to modify the adopted slogan among cosmic futurologists - "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice" - for a new fate may await our world.
Time: Event
~10−43: s Planck era
~10−36: s Inflation
First Three Minutes: Light Elements Formed
~105 yr: Atoms Formed
~1 Gyr: First Galaxies Formed
~15 Gyr: Today
TRip − 1 Gyr: Erase Galaxy Clusters
TRip − 60 Myr: Destroy Milky Way
TRip − 3 months: Unbind Solar System
TRip − 30 minutes: Earth Explodes
TRip − 10−19 s: Dissociate Atoms
TRip = 35 Gyrs: Big Rip
[ TRip = Time of Big Rip ]
TABLE I: The history and future of the Universe with w = −3/2 phantom energy
Details here.
(...)
It will be necessary to modify the adopted slogan among cosmic futurologists - "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice" - for a new fate may await our world.
Time: Event
~10−43: s Planck era
~10−36: s Inflation
First Three Minutes: Light Elements Formed
~105 yr: Atoms Formed
~1 Gyr: First Galaxies Formed
~15 Gyr: Today
TRip − 1 Gyr: Erase Galaxy Clusters
TRip − 60 Myr: Destroy Milky Way
TRip − 3 months: Unbind Solar System
TRip − 30 minutes: Earth Explodes
TRip − 10−19 s: Dissociate Atoms
TRip = 35 Gyrs: Big Rip
[ TRip = Time of Big Rip ]
TABLE I: The history and future of the Universe with w = −3/2 phantom energy
Details here.
Ragnarok
Ragnarok by Micha F. Lindemans
Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.
The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The stars will vanish from the sky. The cock Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden cock Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third cock will raise the dead.
Complete text here.
Another take on the subject.
Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.
The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The stars will vanish from the sky. The cock Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden cock Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third cock will raise the dead.
Complete text here.
Another take on the subject.
Safe for American oil interests
"I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested…. Looking back on it, I felt I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents." Complete article here
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen on a beautiful day:
Stockhausen on a beautiful day
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Helicopter String Quartet":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU
Stockhausen on 'sounds', 1972:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPVc2Jvd0w
Stockhausen on human evolution, 1972:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTeLI5dUzKw
"The Greatest Work of Art in the Entire Cosmos":
http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=14377
Stockhausen on a beautiful day
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Helicopter String Quartet":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU
Stockhausen on 'sounds', 1972:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPVc2Jvd0w
Stockhausen on human evolution, 1972:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTeLI5dUzKw
"The Greatest Work of Art in the Entire Cosmos":
http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=14377
Biggest black hole in the cosmos discovered
The most massive known black hole in the universe has been discovered, weighing in with the mass of 18 billion Suns.
The smaller black hole, which weighs about 100 million Suns, orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years.
Article here.
The smaller black hole, which weighs about 100 million Suns, orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years.
Article here.
Tank Man
Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. (Wikipedia)
Video here.
Video here.
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