"Keeping us confused"
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/keeping-us-confused
"Keeping us confused"
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/keeping-us-confused
"Jubilee Incoming, Ready or Not; Why Not Make Ready, & Indeed Regular?"
https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/jubilee-incoming-ready-or-not-why-not-make-ready-indeed-regular/
https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-value-of-christian-study.html
It's a good read ... even if KT is squishy on the scientism issue.
from the 52:58 mark --
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But what about light? What did this [Special Relativity] mean for light's experience of space and time? Travelling at the fastest speed possible in the universe, the effects of relativity become extreme. Very Extreme. All distances shrink to zero. As does the time taken to cover these zero distances. And so, for photons, no matter how far they travel across the universe, not a single instant of time will tick by. Even though this light may have existed in time and space for many years [i.e. in time] or light years [i.e. in space], even though it would have been clearly formed by one electron in one location and vanished when absorbed by another electron in another location, the space-time distance between these two events would be exactly zero. To the photon, it is born and dies at precisely the same moment. To the photon, it is as it it had never existed at all. [I'm not convinced that this last statement stands up.]
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Another way to say the above is that from a photon's "point of view" or "frame of reference" it exists *simultaneously* at all times and at all points in space on the particular path which it takes from its creation to its destruction.
I had grasped this point about light with respect to Special Relativity, all on my own, years ago. This is why I have never been impressed with, nor intimidated by, the "Distant Starlight Proves the Universe is Billions Upon Billions of Years Old" assertion.
EDIT: What I mean is that it seems to me that the "Distant Starlight Proves the Universe is Billions Upon Billions of Years Old" assertion is based upon disregarding physics following Einstein and instead treating the now-considered-erroneous Newtonian physics as the measure by which to understand the universe.
https://youtu.be/bAedYtUredI?t=3179
Wilson is wrong on his current position that "There is no such thing as race / There is only the human race", but otherwise and overall this is a good take on all this.
It's getting to be that time again, when politicians who are not legally entitled to seek the US presidency will nonetheless seek the US presidency. It is up to *you*, as US citizens and electors, to understand why these politicians are ineligible and to *refuse* to support them in their illegal quests.
The US Constitution *requires* that the President and the Vice-President of the USA be natural born US citizens.
But, what does "natural born US citizen" mean? What requirement or requirements does one have to meet in order to be a "natural born US citizen"?
Some people
-- generally Democrats or other leftists, but also GOPers who want to obfuscate
the fact that their favorite politician is not a natural born US citizen – will
say, “The Constitution does not define the term ‘natural born US citizen’”, as though
that means anything; and with the generally unspoken assertion that the term
therefore means nothing, or they will explicitly say that therefore we cannot
know what it means. Same
difference. But, this pseudo-argument is
absurd in at least three ways:
1) The US
Constitution defines almost none of the terms it uses. One of the few terms it
does define is ‘treason’, and that is because it is redefining the term more
narrowly than it had been understood since 1066.
2) To say
that since the Constitution doesn’t define some term it uses, and thus that the
term’s meaning is unknown or obscure, is to say that the Framers mindlessly put
things in the document without knowing what they meant by those terms. You know, sort of like Nancy Pelosi’s
infamous “We have to pass it to find out what’s in it”.
3) To say that since the Constitution doesn’t define some term it uses, and thus that the term’s meaning is unknown or obscure, is to say that *all* terms used in the document are of unknown or obscure meanings.
Some people – much the same people as above, and for much the same reasons – will say that "natural born US citizen" means *anyone* born in the USA. But, does that assertion stand up to scrutiny? Are “anchor babies” natural born US citizens, and thus legally able to occupy the offices of President and Vice-President? Are “birth-tourism babies” natural born US citizens, and thus legally able to occupy the offices of President and Vice-President? I don’t know whether it’s still common, but some years ago it was popular with the more affluent subjects of (Communist) China to travel to the US just before their babies were due to be born, so as to take advantage of an at-the-time relatively recent supreme Court (capitalization intentional, as per the Constitution) re-interpretation of the first sentence of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
Are these people – Chinese “citizens”, born to Chinese “citizens”, reared in Communist China -- *really* natural born US citizens and legally able to occupy the offices of President and Vice-President? Of course not, that’s absurd!
So, if merely being born on US soil does not suffice to make one a natural born US citizen, what does?
Here are the conditions that one’s birth must meet to in order to make one a natural born US citizen:
1) One must be born under the *sole* jurisdiction of the USA;
2) One’s parents (note the plural) must be US citizens at the time of one’s birth;
2a) which implies that one’s parents must be married to one another, as bastards “have no father”.
Concerning “birth tourism” babies and “anchor babies”, while indeed born in the USA, they fail on both counts.
Concerning Nikki Haley, Kamala Harris, Marco Rubio, while indeed born in the USA, they also fail on both counts.
Concerning Ted Cruz, he also fails on both counts – he was not even born in the USA, his father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth, and, get this, he wasn’t even legally a US citizen until he was 16 years old.
Concerning
Barack Obama, we don’t know *where* he was born; he himself has given
conflicting accounts. But, we *do* know
that his father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth. Thus, Barack Obama is *not* a natural born
US citizen, and his occupancy of the office of US President was unconstitutional,
and thus illegal.