_____Logic tells us that biological life must exist everywhere in the universe, mostly in some form of stasis, a spore state of some sort. Harboring the thought that, throughout the entire universe, life, in it’s almost unbelievable diversity, could have happened only on this earth is the ultimate in egotism.
_____Life has to exist elsewhere, and if elsewhere then everywhere, and where it does not find itself in an environment where it can actively survive it must be in some sort of stasis.
_____Whenever life finds itself in an environment in which it can actively survive, life will leave that stasis and evolve until it has become a species that is satisfied with existence in that environment. It will then re-enter some form of that stasis and simply exist sublimely in that environment, no longer evolving.
_____When that environment changes (as, witness the universe, it always does,) such that a species is no longer satisfied with its existence, the species will again leave that stasis and re-enter evolution until it is satisfied with its existence in the new environment. Specieal satisfaction is the driving force behind evolution and the satisfaction of the species in its previous environment is the criterion for the goal of evolution after an environmental change.
At age eleven, in sixth grade, I loved and trusted my teacher. She introduced me to science and, in particular, to evolution, telling us all, wistfully, that science knew virtually nothing of it, other than its existence.
That was the last of my academic education in science, but I read, and devoured any and all information found in the popular press, popular books, movies and television on science and evolution in particular. Some thirty years later I felt I had reached a full understanding of evolution and a fair understanding of science in general. I didn’t stop studying because it is a source of joy for me, but I felt comfortable in my accumulation of scientific knowledge.
I started noticing scientific conclusions being drawn erroneously given knowledge I was sure of. I let them ferment, expecting to learn more at a later date. A nagging sense that science had some basic misconceptions grew until suddenly some six years ago, I discovered that science was wrong at the very basic level about evolution, the stuff of the universe, and the structure of man.
To say the least I was stunned. I immediately immersed myself in organizing my understanding. It is organized, I am beginning to write, and I am looking for a publisher.
You may view some of my thinking at my website, thinkforpleasure.com. If you are interested, please contact me.
Thank you,
John Carlton Hagerhorst
_____The day Bill Gates announced he was planning to devote his time to giving away his money I wrote about it in this blog, suggesting the next thing for him to do would be to cajole his friends into doing the same thing. Hardly a week later, his friend Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world, announces he will give 85% of his wealth to charity through Bill Gates group, thereby assuring more of that 85% will go to the poor, less to administration.
_____And to think, all that power, and no-one even reads my blog.
A friend of mine commented in person about a statement in one blog that intellectual awareness began 7000 years ago. He felt that we may have been intellectually aware for possibly many more thousands of years, but just didn’t make calendars etc.
It took a while to get it across to him that some human beings did become intellectually aware on occasion throughout those thousands of years, hence tools and improvements to tools, but the moment of universal awareness came at that time. In science today we call it the hula hoop phenomenon or the hundreth monkey syndrome, and what it means is that change starts gradually and picks up slowly to a point, then suddenly gets accepted by all.
This is what happened 7000 years ago. I think it shows up pretty clearly in Egypt. Some few hundred years before the explosion of awareness, it went from one every generation or so to a few every generation, then some more, and they all confused the need for specieal satisfaction with the desire for self-satisfaction. The rest of us accepted food and protection from the weather and predators as sufficient, so we accepted dragging blocks up the pyramids just as sled dogs accept the harness.
Then came that moment when the “hundreth one” reached awareness and we all became aware overnight, realizing we were in slavery. The keepers didn’t see or understand the change and we have been fighting for our freedom ever since, albeit failing to differentiate between freedom and self-satisfaction. Once we realize that the truism, no-one is free until all are free is actually true, we can reach freedom. Let’s hope it’s soon.
_____I didn’t do it. Not known for hiding my light under a basket, I also don’t blow my own horn that loudly. That post was done with my wife’s agreement by my young and beautiful computer nerd, after which it was suggested I look.
_____That said, it does give me pleasure. It was taken at the opening of the Regional juried show at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick Maryland. To be selected as one of 65 out of 393 is an honor, especially amidst the plethora of very fine artists in the Frederick region, and I take pride in it. Enough said.
_____Last week, science shocked me again. Talking with a group that I believe to be fairly well documented scientists, I realized our scientific fields have no idea what happened 7000 years ago. I was somewhat flabbergasted.
_____The scientists did that to me once before, about 6 years ago, when I found out how they describe evolution. I was reading a creationist tract that mentioned it, and my initial reaction was that I had missed something in the beginning of that tract that necessitated their using such a ridiculous idea for the theory of evolution. I re-read and found no reason, so I checked my encyclopedia, and lo and behold, that ridiculous idea, random change and natural selection, was the position science was holding.
_____Back to 7000 years ago. It should be obvious to any open-minded thinker that humanity, in the act of evolution, developed an awareness of the intellectual function all life has, and began actively using it around that time. Calendars date from then, writing dates from then, history dates from then.
_____But nobody seems to notice. No-one seems to understand that we, in our drive toward satisfaction as a species, became imtellectually aware some 7000 years ago. This was also the time of the downfall of our evolutionary drive, and science, of course, doesn’t understand that either. My guess is they think we have completed evolution, or that evolution is such a conglomeration of infinitesimal and slow actring changes that there is no such thing as completing it.
_____You can go back to my website for the theory of universal evolution, which explains the history of evolution, and it will give you some idea of how it ends. How we forced ourselves to run in place rather than continue evolving to satisfaction was by two mistakes made almost everywhere in the world at that time. The first begat the second.
_____We mistook the drive for satisfaction of the species as a drive for personal satisfaction, and the males of us greedily took advantage of our strength to reduce our females to a secondary role as providers of satisfaction of the males, and took control of their sex lives. Evolution works through the free sexual choice of the female. By refusing to allow them free choice, by owning them, we stopped evolution in it’s tracks, reducing it to spinning wheels in the sands of time, leaving us with stories of five thousand years ago that still represent our race, and the strife of power demanding personal satisfaction going on today just as it did in ancient Egypt. We could say evolution actually ended 7000 years ago if we chose to believe that evolution is meant to end with the death of a species.
_____We can pull evolution onto the tarmac and get it moving toward the real end of finding the human race satisfied with it’s existence in it’s environment. First we must free the females. They must be able to choose, entirely on their own, with whom and when they will procreate. And then we must free ourselves from the grip of greed. That may be the hard one.
_____It shouldn’t be. We all know the result of striving for personal satisfaction. Achieving that trophy, that car, that house, that position is glory for a few minutes, then the feeling of dissatisfaction comes back all the stronger and one strives for yet more. Those stories abound throughout the last 7000 years of human life. The only ones in all this time that do not suffer this constant strife are those who devote their lives to achieving the satisfaction of humanity.
_____If we the people accept that personal greed is detrimental to society, then that list of the richest in the world will also realize it, and we will bring satisfaction to the race, thus allowing us to re-enter stasis, and allowing the world to continue while we enjoy it instead of destroying it.
_____The problem is gangs. The solution?
_____Here’s what I’m thinking. They said on the news tonight that the kids had nothing to do, and gravitated to the gangs because they were at least doing something. Why don’t we send them back to school? Then they’d be doing something and becoming more intellectually able, thus making them better citizens.
_____I can envision telling them to pick a field they are interested in, and we give them free education in that field, i.e. chemistry, language, engineering, etc., and support their education as long as it takes for them to be able to enter that field with a job. It would obviously take a much longer time, since we obviously did a poor job for them in their first education, but if we make it clear that we are there for them, I would expect most of them to reach for it.
_____We do have to bear in mind that almost every time we try something like this we fail from a combination of greed, incompetence, and fear. We would actually have to be there for them, letting them make their own decisions with true and competent guidance.
_____This one is straight off the top of my head, so I’d really appreciate feedback.
