Supreme Being or Big Bang Theory

1. Big Bang Theory

Some of our most intelligent people around the world believe in this theory. If it were True, how just in our solar system all the planets in our solar system maintain there same distance from the Sun? If our Planet Earth were a couple of miles closer to the Sun or a couple of miles further from the Sun. What would life be on this planet, if any?

Why is this the only planet that has an atmosphere that sustains life?

These questions keep me from believing in the Big Bang Theory.

2. Creation Theory

Throughout what we know about mans existence with the information that people in there search have come up with and documented. All around the globe, every piece of land where there are living beings or where there were living beings have some sort of belief in a Supreme Being. Something or energy or what ever is controlling and maintaining our solar system. Keeping everything in its proper place.

A Creator in other words, what ever it is. If we as individuals had the power to foresee the future, what would we do? Ex, If you could see the future and foresaw yourself getting married to a woman and producing a child that would grow up and Kill both of you. Would you marry and conceive the child? Of course you would not. If you foresaw and accident with you and your family, which caused all of your deaths, would you not prevent it?

If we all believe in a Creator who had no beginning and has no end. Then some questions would have to be answered about it. If we believe, He created man in his image, and then he also gave us the power or knowledge to create. We as a people or individuals have done that since the beginning of our creation. Just look around the world at our accomplishments. We learn from our mistakes, to improve on things we create in the future. Does our creator have the power to foresee the future?  Which is a very good question. I do not believe he or whatever it is does not. He or it is supposed to be a very loving God as he is called. So, if he could foresee the future, why would he let wars and hate constantly through out mans history kill each other and not prevent it? That is because he does not foresee the future. He creates, just as he has given us the power and knowledge to create. As far as his Adversary so it goes, he has to prove something to him or it. His way is the only way.

If we all believe that there is a Heaven, which I do. Which is so serene and beautiful, then why do we fight to keep ourselves alive and prolong our death?  Just die and go to the beautiful Heaven.

If we believe in a creator, we must also believe he has never stopped creating in the Universe. We have made fantastic discoveries since our creation. We have no concept of what he has created beyond the realm of our imagination. If he has created some form of life different from our own, then we may have the possibility to create ways to reach that very creation. Like he or it the Universe is endless. Imagine the possibilities of being able to reach those creations with the methods we learn to create ourselves. It’s mind boggling to be able to understand the possibility of living forever. Which I believe is why he or it created us in the first place. Just think about the possibilities, they are endless.

Heaven, if that is our final destination after death then let me die now and see if I reach it. We are living in Hell on our own Earth we have created. If I don’t make it then it was not meant to be and I won’t know it anyway.

This was just some Food for thought.

Everything that is going on around the globe to everyone, believe the end, as we know it is very near. Yet we fight to survive.

Thanks for listening or reading about how I feel. I don’t believe for a minute that I’m alone in my thoughts.

Raymond J. Delaney

CASSANDRA SYNDROME RELATING TO THE GOPHER HOLE

By Frosty Wooldridge  

In the last column you read and connected the dots from Dr. Albert Bartlett as he asked questions that pertain to the ‘silent assertion’.  You know this country cannot keep pretending that we can grow forever.  We must stabilize our population sooner rather than later.  We cannot apply 20th century solutions that will not solve 21st century challenges.

We cannot expect Third World countries to solve their own exploding populations.  

Noted scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson said, “The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct.  To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”

Those of us living in large cities in America can’t help but wonder: where does it all lead?  Denver, where I live, suffers a ‘Brown Cloud’ so thick with toxins that every breath fills my lungs with poison air.  Our traffic proves a daily nightmare of accidents, road rage and wasted hours sitting in bumper to bumper frustration.  I-70 heading into the mountains makes a weekend getaway a nightmare.  Returning proves a study in frustration.  Throw in our water shortages and you’ve got quality of life racing to the bottom of the sewer. Our natural gas costs jumped 33 percent this fall after they jumped 30 percent last year.  Our electricity costs jumped 13 percent.  Gas prices move toward five dollars a gallon. It’s already eight and nine dollars a gallon in Europe.  

Because of mass immigration, we expect an added six million people into Colorado by mid century. Texas adds 12 million by 2025 while California adds 20 million by 2035.  Water shortages will become water wars!

The 1993 EPA report stands as a perfect example of silent assertion’s denial of population growth as the prime culprit of our cities’ dilemmas:  “Where many areas are experiencing rapid urban growth and associated environmental problems…a stronger emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices will be a key element in any long-term solutions to problems in the area.”

How friggin’ stupid is that statement?  We cannot keep growing and stop destroying farmland!  In Colorado, we pave 100,000 acres annually in the name of ‘growth’.  Tell me how you can grow corn, wheat and vegetables on pavement!  You cannot solve traffic gridlock by adding thousands of cars to the highways.  You cannot solve water shortages by adding more people, lawns and toilets to flush.

The respected journalist Bill Moyers introduced another aspect of overpopulation when he asked science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth continues at the present rate?”  

Asimov replied, “It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call the bathroom metaphor: if two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom.  You can go to the bathroom anytime you want and stay as long as you want for whatever you need.  Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom.  But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing.  You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang on the door. “Aren’t you through yet?” And so on!”

Asimov made what may become a profound observation as we head into further overpopulation dilemmas: “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation.  Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation.  As you jam more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears.  It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more there are, the less one person matters.”

Does anyone here think Chinese and Indian citizens enjoy their predicament?  If they enjoy it, why are they fleeing their countries?

Thus, you might ponder a few of Dr. Bartlett’s Laws of Sustainability:

First Law: Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained.  Persons who advocate population growth are advocating unsustainability. Such persons mislead themselves and others.

Second Law: In a society with a growing population, the more difficult it will be to transform the society to the condition of sustainability.  This is caused by the phenomenon of ‘population momentum’.

Third Law:  The response time of populations to changes in human fertility rate is 70 years.  In other words, if we want to stabilize the population by mid 21st century, we must make changes now.   For the record, the US created a stable society at 2.03 fertility level, but immigration at four million annually negates it.

Fourth Law:  The size of population that can be sustained (carrying capacity) and the sustainable average standard of living of the population are inversely related to one another.  The higher the standard of living one wishes to sustain, the more urgent it is to stabilize population growth.

Fifth Law:  Sustainability requires that the size of the population be less than or equal to the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the desired standard of living.  The rate of destruction of ecosystems increases as the rate of growth of the population increases.  

Sixth Law: The benefits of population growth and consumption accrue to a few.  The costs are borne by the ‘many’ average citizens.  That’s why politicians and developers promote growth along with real estate people.  They move to other havens where they escape the ‘results’ of their labors.

Ninth Law:  When large efforts are made to improve efficiency, the results are wiped out by added population.

Fourteenth Law:  If humans fail to stop population growth and growth in the rates of consumption of resources, nature will stop these growths.  By contemporary standards, nature’s method of stopping growth is cruel and inhumane.

One look at the March 14, 2005 Time Magazine piece that reported eight million

people die annually of starvation world wide—offers a window into our future.  Additionally, you can see it on many of the religious channels where they solicit money for food for millions of starving children in Africa.  Notice they offer food which creates more children, so they never solve the core issue of too many humans.  They need to offer birth control devices, for, without birth control, all their efforts and your money become useless as those populations explode by 85 million annually.

Nonetheless, I’ll receive hundreds of emails countering this column by well meaning people who operate via emotions, hopes and faith that it will turn out okay. Their propensities fall into the “Cassandra Syndrome”: The Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out to be correct. This denotes a psychological tendency among people to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial. The person making the prediction is caught in the dilemma of knowing what is going to happen but not being able to resolve the problem.  The origin of the name is derived from Cassandra, who, using her prescience, foresaw the demise of Troy. No one believed her.

What happened to Bangladesh, China and India, happened!  Their problems relating to overpopulation create a miserable life for their citizens.  As to what is happening in Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France and Sydney, Australia from immigrating incompatible Third World cultures and languages, which resulted in violence, happened!  They dug a ‘gopher hole’ they can’t escape because the ‘beast’ is inside them.   It WILL and it IS happening in America unless we change course before the ‘beast’ is too big for us to stop.

I’ve covered the major laws. If you want a full and terribly sobering copy of this report, call 1 800 352 4843 or www.thesocialcontract.com.  Ask for the Fall 2007 Quarterly.

We can be docile passengers on the Titanic by silently suffering our fate, or, we can stand up and speak out to the captain and crew of our ship (president and Congress).  We are not lemmings or other helpless animals willing to be led over a cliff.  I’m confident that millions of Americans refuse the ‘silent assertion’ mode of denial.  They know their actions will be the only thing that saves America from drowning by mass immigration.  They know their actions create change for their children like their parents’ action in the last century gave them the wonders of a country that provides “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet.  Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years.  Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

To take action: www.numbersusa.com

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                     www.fairus.org

                     www.proenglish.org

                     www.capsweb.org

                     www.vdare.com

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border.  In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece.  He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges.  He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com

Overpopulation in America: How Far Down the Gopher Hole?

By Frosty Wooldridge  

This may be titled: "The Great Invitation to Newsweek to Address Overpopulation in America"

America added 106 million people from 1965 to 2006.  Demographic experts showed 300 million people living in America in October 2006.  We expect an added 100 million by 2035.   We create for our civilization irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems.

While most ‘experts’ denigrate "Malthus, the false prophet", Thomas Malthus' predictions manifest more today than in his own time. According to the World Health Organization, eight million adults starve to death annually around the globe followed by 10 million children that die from starvation or starvation related diseases year in and year out. (Source: World Health Organization)

As population rises, carrying capacity drops.  What is “carrying capacity?”  For a quick rendition, it means, “the amount resources on a given piece of land to allow long term sustainable human, plant and animal life.”

If animals or humans exceed ‘carrying capacity’ of any given land mass, they crash in numbers by various means, i.e., famine, war and disease.

For the 6.7 billion humans in the 21st century, oil resources will define that capacity quotient.  Noted Geologist Walter Youngquist said, “This is going to be an interesting decade, for the perfect storm is brewing—energy, immigration and oil imports.  China grows in direct confrontation for remaining oil.  I think the USA is on a big, slippery down hill slope.  Will the thin veneer of civilization survive?” To see how fast we grow, visit www.populationmedia.com

Youngquist continued, “Beyond oil, population is the number one problem of the 21st century, for when oil is gone as we know and use it today—and it WILL be gone—population will still be here.”

The world uses 84 million barrels daily!  That’s 42 gallons to a drum!  By mid century, use will top 120 million barrels per day.  Oil will run out because of limited reserves in the ground.

Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado said, “Present population growth rate is putting our children at risk.  They will experience holes in the ozone causing serious biological effects on plants and humans.  World ocean fisheries are collapsing from endless plundering.  Two thirds of the world’s people will suffer from water shortages by 2025.  It is not possible to sustain population growth or growth in rates of consumption of resources.”

Where is the worst overpopulation problem on the planet according to Dr. Bartlett?  “It’s right here in the United States!”

Dr. Bartlett said, “Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way, aided, assisted, or advanced, by having continued population growth—at the local level, the state level, the national level, or globally?”

How many people in the United States are enough?  How far down the rabbit hole do we want to dig ourselves?  At what point is enough—too much?  If we shut down the borders today with zero immigration, while enjoying our sustainable 2.03 fertility level of American women on average, we would still grow via ‘population momentum’ by an added 40 million.

We paint ourselves into a perilous corner. Once the numbers manifest, our society will suffer irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems.  One visit to Los Angeles will show you they suffer toxic air, dwindling safe drinking water, gridlock to the point of insanity, water shortages, endless highways and housing development.  Consider San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Denver and all other large cities grow beyond the bounds of reason!  

Sustainable growth, slow growth, managed growth, smart growth and all other kinds of growth prove oxymoronic.  Sustainable growth cannot be sustained.  Why? All growth exceeds carrying capacity at some point.  In other words, the bubble bursts, the dam breaks, the glass spills, the balloon pops and the red-lined engine blows up.

“Population growth is given as a cause of the problems identified, but eliminating the cause is not mentioned as a solution,” Bartlett said. “We are prescribing aspirin for cancer.”

At the current rate of growth driven by immigration, America will double its population just past mid century—from 300,000,000 to 600,000,000.  As long as the underlying cause of a problem is not dealt with, we, and our leaders, as a nation, perpetuate a falsehood which Mark Twain called ‘silent-assertion’:  “Almost all lies are acts,” he said.  “I am speaking of the lie of ‘silent-assertion’.  It would not be possible for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery; yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation in the North, agitators got small help from anyone.  They could not break the universal stillness that reigned from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom of society--the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of silent-assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which intelligent people were interested.

“The conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity (unlimited growth) or sham (unlimited immigration), never in the interest of the respectable (average citizens).  It is the most timid and shabby of all lies.  The silent-assertion is that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.”

‘Silent-assertion’ worked until it brought China, India and Bangladesh to their knees with sheer misery of numbers.  How do I know?  I’ve spent a lot of time in Asia and other overpopulated regions.  China, even with enforced one child per family, grows by 10 million annually. India, with 1.1 billion, adds even more yearly.  Bangladesh suffers 144 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio.  Do you see anyone racing to immigrate to those havens of human overload?

Do we as a nation, want millions upon millions of added people from countries already exceeding their ‘carrying capacity’?  Legal immigration proves as dangerous as illegal.  To think otherwise will allow that ‘silent-assertion’ to create another China or India in America.  Just imagine Ohio with 129 million people and all the rest of the United States with THAT kind of population density!

Albert Einstein said, “The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.”

We are no longer living in the 20th century America with only 75 million people riding horses or trains.  We’re in the 21st century with cars and jets and 300 million people added to the 6.6 billion on the planet--creating horrific environmental consequences.  Again, we had to change our ‘silent-assertion’ about slavery and we MUST change our ‘silent-assertion’ about population growth and economic growth.  If we continue steaming full speed ahead like the captain of the Titanic, our children will be on board when we hit the peak oil, global warming, ozone holes, collapsing species, air pollution and other commensurate problems related to the overpopulation “iceberg.”  Most died on the Titanic because there weren’t enough life boats.

Maybe some of us choose to maintain our ‘silent-assertion’ in the face of growing consequences, but how can any parent or grand parent be that callous to their children?  That rabbit hole runs deep!

Take Action: www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.numbersusa.com ;  www.capsweb.org ; www.fairus.org

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border.  In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece.  He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges.  He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website www.frostywooldridge.com

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