Thursday, July 11, 2019
Victor Hess, addendum
I'm not going to purchase (if I could find it) that book by Victor Francis Hess where he explains, according to Wikipedia, why he believed in God.
Perhaps the rotted corpse of him in his grave would have any post-script opinions on that belief, seeing as how humans, from your earliest days toddling around with crap-filled diaper, have learned that death is ugly and smelly and is something their protectors, the grown-ups, turn into weepy-eyed bubbling morons over when it appears, usually without warning.
A few minutes searching the internet brought up his name, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist scientist credited with discovering the Cosmic Rays that exist in the sky *up* there above your monkey head.
I've witnessed personally those religious scam-artists trying to peddle the name of important historical figures along with the fairy-tales about their Imaginary Man With The Beard Who Lives In The Clouds And His Son Who Is Always Watching You Pee In The Bathroom.
As with their use of "faith" it's all just marketing buzz-words. Sales 101.
Jesus Salesman know that you're not thinkers. You're starkly terrified of mortality and you want to pay scam-artists to reassure you in your cowardice of mortality.
You're dumb and stupid and you make other people dumb and stupid.
As for Victor Hess, I suspect, without more information to verify, I suspect some of those guys are being sarcastic.
Sarcasm because they know that this monkey-infested Earth doesn't want to know the truth. The Truth of eons of natural variability. We exist as we exist because this planet is ancient and humans just dangerous monkeys. Narcissistic monkeys who are INTENSELY insecure and need to believe their pointless lives are not meaningless and pathetic and they are willing to spend big bucks for The Religious Whores to make them feel better about themselves and your pathetic and pointless and meaningless life.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201609/does-it-take-faith-be-atheist
Psychology Today
Phil Zuckerman Ph.D.
The Secular Life
Does It Take Faith to Be an Atheist?
Uh, no.
Posted Sep 22, 2016
Imagine you are a 12-year-old kid at summer camp. One morning, you and your cabin-mates wake up and find a glowing cake on the floor of your cabin. It is big and bright and actually floating three inches above the ground. Amazing. Miraculous.
A glowing, floating cake. Right there!
What makes it glow? How is it floating? Who made it?
No one really knows.
So your counselor says, “It must have been put there by a magician who snuck into our cabin in the middle of the night.”
You think about this, and it sounds reasonable. But there is no evidence that such a magician did such a thing. So you think to yourself, “Hm, that might be right. But I need further evidence to be sure.”
Then one of the kids in your cabin says, “I know! It must have been created by aliens who zapped it into our cabin using a special cake zapper from their space ship.” You think about this. The cake is pretty magical. Maybe it was aliens. But you would need more evidence proving that these aliens actually exist, and that they actually have such a cake zapper. Without compelling evidence, you remain skeptical.
Then another kids says, “Maybe the floating cake just created itself!” And you think, “Hm, that’s kinda weird. How could a floating, glowing cake create itself? I don’t see how that could happen.” So you decide that without any proof that the cake created itself, you’ll hold off on accepting such a proposition.
So there you sit on your bunk, staring at the glowing, floating cake. And you don’t know how it got there or who or what created it. You don't believe any of the guesses others have put forth, and just accept that it is a deep mystery. If someone can provide convincing evidence concerning who or what created the cake, you’ll accept it. But unless such evidence is convincing, you’ll remain in a state of unknowingness.
Do you have faith concerning the origins of the cake? Not at all. You don’t know anything about its origins. You are not making any claims. You simply doubt other people’s theories about it. That is not faith. It is the opposite of faith, for you are not believing in any specific conclusion which lacks evidence to back up that belief or conclusion.
OK, here we all are: on a planet floating in space. It is amazing. Awe-inspiring, Miraculous. There are squids and nectarines and shooting stars and dung beetles and xylophones and calculus and disco and toenails and ringworm and smallpox and Dairy Queen and snowflakes and cancer and pine needles and literature and pogo sticks and emeralds. How did it all get here? How was it all created?
As an atheist (of the agnostic bent), I say: I don’t know.
You say a magical invisible deity must have created it.
I say: what is your evidence? Can you prove that this magical deity exists? And who or what created it?
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Since you can’t provide rational, evidence-based answers to such questions, I don’t accept your theory or argument or belief or faith that everything was created by God. And in my skeptical rejection of your theological answer, I do not have faith in something else. I’m just humble and honest enough to accept my ignorance, and accept that the origin of creation remains a deep mystery.
Many people say that it takes faith to be an atheist. No, it does not. Atheism is simply the lack of a belief in a god. And as for who or what created the universe, we atheists say: who knows? That is not faith. That is an admission of ignorance.
Those who insist that it takes faith to not believe in God are not thinking clearly, and they do not understand the nature of faith. Which is really surprising, since their entire belief in God is based on it.
[ except ends Psychology Today ]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
SPOCK: Too primitive to grasp the concept of space flight, Doctor. Our appearance here would only confuse and frighten them.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
KIRK: It's only the wind and the thunder.
MIRAMANEE: I act like a stupid child. I have nothing to fear. You are here.
From 7/21/1989 ( The New York Times "Engine Fan May Have Come Apart, Crippling Jet" ) To 5/25/1995 is 2134 days
2134 = 1067 + 1067
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days
From 7/21/1989 ( UPI "Crash survivor tells chilling tale" ) To 5/25/1995 is 2134 days
2134 = 1067 + 1067
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days
From 5/10/1991 ( George Bush - Remarks at Dedication Ceremony of the Social Sciences Complex at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey ) To 5/25/1995 is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 5/25/1995 is 1531 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/11/1970 ( George Bush reportedly assigned - George W. Bush was never a pilot qualified or even capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military - flying duty as a pilot of F-102 fighter interceptors 111th Squadron at Ellington - fraud and desertion ) is 1531 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 5/25/1995 is 3968 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/13/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks Upon Signing the Government in the Sunshine Act ) is 3968 days
Many other posts by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/stargate-continuum.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-last-starfighter.html
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/boeingarchive.htm
BOEING
Boeing Pre-Merger News Release Archive,
1995 to July 31, 1997
May 25, 1995 First Comanche Helicopter Prototype Unveiled
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
Cosmic ray
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1912, Victor Hess carried three enhanced-accuracy Wulf electrometers to an altitude of 5,300 metres in a free balloon flight. He found the ionization rate increased approximately fourfold over the rate at ground level. Hess ruled out the Sun as the radiation's source by making a balloon ascent during a near-total eclipse. With the moon blocking much of the Sun's visible radiation, Hess still measured rising radiation at rising altitudes. He concluded that "The results of the observations seem most likely to be explained by the assumption that radiation of very high penetrating power enters from above into our atmosphere." In 1913–1914, Werner Kolhörster confirmed Victor Hess's earlier results by measuring the increased ionization enthalpy rate at an altitude of 9 km.
Hess received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
ELDER: Our legend predicts such danger and promises that the Wise Ones who planted us here will send a god to save us
- posted by Kerry Burgess 02:04 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 11 July 2019
