THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SAM | 2006-08-22

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It's well known that i am a lousy writer, the length of my posts reflects that. If this is in relation to my post that's not what i was asking. In fact i didn't ask anything.

I did not say Bush was a psychopath, i've always believed that he was aware of what he was doing.

Bob says: "So if I say Bush is not a psychopath, I will get a retort about how the person I am talking to thinks Bush is awful and I am saying he is nice."

I cant see how anyone would do that. Either they don't understand your point or they are looking for an argument. but i can see how tiring that is to have happen repeatedly.

Comment by Sam

MY OBSERVATION

"It's well known that i am a lousy writer, the length of my posts reflects that. If this is in relation to my post that's not what i was asking."

PLEASE Sam, PLEASE Shari, PLEASE spare me the bit about how unworthy you are of Lord Bob's attention.

A LOT of people have asked me whether Bush was a psychopath. You seem to think this was aimed entirely at YOU.

What an ego!

But let me go beyond your specific comment.

As usual what Sam made me think of has nothing to do with Sam.

Sam's disgusting modesty leads me to explain to readers the whole ethos of Southern thinking.

I talked about how Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina would keep saying, "I'm just a country lawyer from North Carolina." Another senator reminded him that he was not just a Harvard Law School graduate. He was not just a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

This senator said to Senator Ervin:

"Dammit, Sam, you say you are a just a country lawyer from North Carolina, but you are a MAGNA cum laude graduate of the Hravard Law School."

And Ole Sam grinned at him and replied, "Yes, but nobody will ever know it."

Let me explain why that reply is simple logic to a real Southerner.

In Massachusetts they say, "The Lodges speak only to the Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God." The Lodges and the Cabots came over onthe Mayflower, and they need speak to no one.

To a Southerner, that is an alien idea.

The Lodges and the Cabots got here after my ancestor DIED. So I have a background. I think that I am BETTER than other people.

But, unlike the Lodges and the Cabots, my background requires me to PROVE that I am better.

I think a LOT of Bob Whitaker. But as an American, I think that my genius means I can prove myself to you any time. They could not understand Sam Ervin because his whole point was, "I am real smart. "

That did not mean Sam Ervin's Hravard degree was real smart.

That meant SAM ERVIN is real smart.

In other words, "I, SAM ERVIN can prove he is smarter than anybody else. Harvard doesn't have thing to do with it. I prove it to them. I can prove it, right now, to YOU."

Can anybody even imagine that this has the slightest relationship to HUMILITY?

Compared to us, the Lodges and the Cabots bow and scrape. They admit to being snobs. Me and Senator Sam will beat you right now.

All this leads to my grudge against MY COMMENTERS putting themselves down.

Sam and Shari, Bob Whitaker approved your comments. Bob Whitaker finds your comments stimulating enough to include in Bob's Blog.

When you apologize, you are presuming to apologize for Bob.

Thank you very much, Bob will do his OWN damned apologizing.

If you think so much of Ole Bob, why can't you be deeply complimented by my using YOUR statements as a stimulus for all the brilliant stuff I have to say?

Get off the damned humility!

I hate to brag, but I have a lot more than any of you brat beginners to be humiliated about, and I can PROVE it!

If anybody is going to insult my commenters, I will do it.

BEYOND WORDISM | 2008-06-05

If you take what Dave, mderpelding and I said in the last two articles you can apply it to all history. There is a message here that no world view can be RATIONAL unless we step back and take a NEW look.

One thing that is being discovered every day is that all of our established beliefs are based on totally false assumptions. In The Planet of the Apes Movie, made just a generation ago, every assumption about apes versus men has since been shown to be nonsense.

In fact, the assumptions from the 1970s seem so absurd today that we are trained to forget they ever EXISTED. Jane Goodall, a lifelong expert on chimps, was utterly astonished to discover that the animals she had lied with for years went out and tore a monkey apart for its meant.

The whole Marxist ideology is based on the old idea that only man has a class system and guarded national borders. All of Marxism, all of Political Correctness, all of the Wrist side of Christianity which they copied, is built on the line:

"...and only Man is vile."

Marxists, Political Correctness priests, and "Christian" Wordists, all build on this line. All of these ideological edifices are constructed on the ASSUMPTION that man's wars and castes and greed are based on something unique to man, so their version of the words of Marx or Thomas Dewey or Abe Lincoln can perfect our special sins.

Without that ASSUMPTION, THE ENTIRE WORDIST EDIFICE COLLAPSES.

I repeat, even Jane Goodall was not aware that these critical assumptions were nonsense. To repeat, today, though we have world full of people parroting the ideologies BASED ENTIRELY on those assumptions, your average person on the Internet simply DOES NOT BELIEVE that any of this crap was ever really believed.

Wake up and smell the coffee! The reason nobody, left or right, BELIEVES any more is because the whole foundation of our competing, established, Wordists beliefs is based on is based on assumptions no professional commenter, whatever his institution, want to MENTION.

Today, what we call "both sides" sound an awfully lot alike to us. That's because, from the point of a literate person living in 2008, they ARE alike. When Pat Robertson and Charlie Rangel make a photo of themselves sitting together smiling, they are part of a campaign to getting "both sides" together in a mindless ACTIVISM which keeps them from realizing that BOTH programs of action are based on nonsense.

Rightist "Christians" and leftist "anti-racists" are daily more and more in unison in trying to censor the Internet and ban evil genetic engineering on crops. We have MILLIONS of conservatives and younger leftists to attack the censorship coalition or the Amish approach to science ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.

Most of what I say is so obvious people don't GET it. All over the Internet people are seeing that something stinks about all of this, but they waste their time pointing hysterically at one NEWS ITEM after another.

Most of what I say is so obvious people don't GET it. Every day the whole basis of what is said today by paid Mommy Professors and preachers feeding on what THEY call "Christianity" is being consigned to the loony bin.

So what is our reaction to this explosion at the BASE? It is to form a new political party or to get together all fifty of us and start a revolution RIGHT NOW.

What is REALLY going on is not only obvious, it is routine. We are in the position of the apes in the movie. Suddenly Space MEN are arriving in our midst and we all decide to ignore than and talk about the Old Books of Wisdom as if this new thing didn't exist.

Most of what I say is so obvious people don't GET it. The same Wise Old Apes are saying the same thing from what Apes see as "both sides." OF COURSE it all gets sillier and sillier. But you are not gong to find out what is silly by comparing the statements of Wise Apes.

THE SPEED OF LIGHT | 2005-11-07

I don't know how many young people have been right by the track when a train went by tooting its horn. When I was a kid and the train came by we would make a pulling motion over our heads and the engineer would reach up for the cord and toot his whistle for us, long and loud.

As the train moved toward us the whistle was very high. The train was moving, so the waves came to us faster and sounded higher. After it passed us the whistle had a lower pitch. It was kind of a "WHEE-ooooooh" sound.

People noticed this before Einstein was born, and it was called relativity.

Einstein developed the Theory of SPECIAL Relativity. Just as sound differs with the point of view of the person standing still, so things are different between things traveling at or near the speed of light and things standing still.

Einstein made some excellent observations on this basis, but like all theorists, he tried to explain EVERYTHING with it and he ran into what I call The Bob Problem:

It doesn't WORK.

Einstein insisted that the speed of light was the fastest anything could travel. So it takes eight minutes for light to reach us from the sun.

So far, so good.

But then he said that the speed of light was the fastest ANY force could travel.

Huh-oh!

Actually, gravity moves MUCH faster than the speed of light. We have not been able to measure the speed of gravity, it may be infinite. But we do know that a gravity shift from the sun has an instant effect here on earth while light is coming toward us at light speed.

Einstein therefore inserted a cheat factor to take care of that inconvenience. He said gravity was a curve in space. I am not going into the details here, but it doesn't really make any sense. He just needed it and put it in.

Like all theorists who outlive their time, Einstein died a scientific reactionary. The last part of his life was spent fighting quantum physics, which is fully accepted today because it WORKS.

But this whole business of light speed is something we will have to deal with. You have watched satellite broadcasts on cable television, and the people talking sound a little retarded. A question is asked and there is a noticable delay in the reply.

With short wave radio we didn't have that problem. If you are in Baghdad and I am here, the radio waves travel the six thousand miles between us directly. At the speed of light it takes the signal one thirteenth of a second to get to Baghdad, so there is no noticable delay.

But the satellite is 43,000 miles up. So the signal has to go all the way up there and back, some 86,000 miles, which takes half a second at light speed. That means the question and answer gap is a full second. In the give and take we are used to on the news, that is a very noticable delay.

What else moves faster than light?

This is not a practical matter right now. I suppose that when it comes to the speed of light we are about where Ben Franklin was in the matter of electricity. He tried and tried to think of some way electricity might actually be practical, but finally stated flatly that he couldn't even imagine one.

By the way, the terms current, positive and negative and battery were all invented personally by Franklin.

So what I am saying here is just fascinating to me the way electricity was to Franklin. But they may become practical. I understand that some uses have been found for electricity since Franklin's time.

So what is faster than light? Gravity is, but using gravity for anything practical is as weird an idea as using electricity was to Franklin.

What about ESP? It take years to contact anyone in another star system at light speed. But if I were in ESP contact with someone there, would the contact be light-speed or instantaneous?

This sounds like science fiction, right?

Do you happen to know who invented the entire satellite communications system we use today, every day, cable TV and all?

It was invented in a science fiction story written in 1947 by Arthur C. Clark. At the time no one could imagine it could have the slightest use outside of science fiction.

So let's let Ben Franklin have the last word on this.

He was doing one of his experiments and some Practical Man asked him, "But of what USE is this?"

Franklin replied, "Of what use is a newborn baby?"