The real Satanists

ISIS is no more Islamic than the Spanish inquisition were Christians, for all the same reasons and more. People who believe Satanists to be secret cultists who sacrifice animals and read the bible backwards are mistaken. Satanists take the word of God and twist it into violence, abuse, oppression, slavery, rape, murder. They take religions espousing love and turn them to hate. They are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Sikh, and atheist. They are fascist, communist, socialist, capitalist, liberal, and conservative. They are stranger, date, spouse, mother, fathers, son, and daughter. Anyone espousing hatred in the name of god, particularly in Jesus's name - the Prince of peace -, is in fact a Satanist. All who harm others for their own gain are Satanists, be it virgins in heaven, or another billion dollars, or building your home on the land of the occupied and displaced, or feeling good because of someone's misfortune. There is not one Antichrist, they are legion. Right Putin? Right Assad? Right Cheney? Right Bush?

The last thing they think they are is evil. 

But the lord that they serve is not Allah, Jehovah, or Jesus.

Thoughts on Dark Energy and Quantum Theory

I was thinking about scientific ideas for my fantasy novels.

Imagine that the universe of space-time is a bubble within an ocean of what we might call dark energy, existing beyond the light (since light exists within space-time). The bubble is made of converted sea water (dark energy). Say that a "shell" of dark energy, (for simplicity of argument) as thick as 10% of the bubble's total diameter, gets converted each instant into expanded universe. This would mean that the total diameter would grow at an accelerating rate that leveled then jumped then leveled, with the length  and size of the leaps in acceleration increasing over time. The bigger the universe gets, the faster it expands. Until the remaining amount of dark energy is less than a full "shell" and expansion abruptly ends, if the amount of dark energy is finite. Then the universe might collapse, reverting into dark matter until compressed into the singularity and it all starts again.

Regarding quantum theory, I was thinking about the idea that each particle/field has a large number of probable positions and such, choices if you like, and that the one we vew as real might be only one possibility of the full range that are realized, each possibly in its own universe. It seems to me that if alone in the universe, this might be true, a particle/field -- entity -- could realize all it possibilities at once. However it is not alone. Other entities exist, also with a range of possibilities trying to be realized. Many will overlap with its neighbors strengthening their probability, while others conflict, rule out or cancel one another. And each entity has lots of neighbors. The range of each might be whittled down to just the strongest or most probable, which may have only one realized or may get together in compatible alternate universes. It would take many getting together productively to create a universe.

I lack the complex math skills to test this or know if any of this is even in left field. I would be interested to know.

Regardless it could work for my novels. Alternate realities and metaphysics play large roles.

Putin and ISIS - 21st century evils, medieval problems

Putin is an ex-KGB thug, and a thief on an massive scale, trapped in a nostalgic view of the Soviet Empire with a megalomaniac vision of its restoration as his empire and with his Thieves' Guild of oligarchs and cronies, right of the Dark Ages, as its nobility, just like the setup of the Czars and Soviets - a privileged "elite" served by an oppressed populace all equal in their powerlessness and poverty. In the west it is called serfdom or debt-slavery and there is no shortage. It's been an evil with us since civilation started. Puttin smells weakness and sees Ukraine as in a rebellion, against its proper role as part of Russia, that started when his corrupt puppet was thrown out. His fear of it joining NATO may ironically be self-fulfilling as he is pushing it that way with every deceitful action. His need to feed his pride and preserve a ghost empire has caused chaos and death in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq and given oxygen to worse brutes like ISIS. He is willing to kill the people of two countries, including Russians, for his dishonorable goals and to distract from traitorous acts like lying to his people, conducting a secret war, and stealing billions from his countrymen, but he has yet to become genocidal, just fascist in his singling out of gays as targets for hate to redirect his people's growing and justified outrage away from himself. His evil is based in selfishness and is about preserving his own little world, and he seems willing to spread chaos and death to do so, he may plunge us into general war, but only if it serves his purposes. He will not sacrifice himself to do so. He's just overcompensating. A terrible child compared to what he helped let loose.

ISIS is a social focus of hatred (away from self to everyone else) intense enough to set fire to the world,  with a fanatical wish to throw themselves into the flames for glory. They know no bounds. Everything they do is considered holy, but ISIS is evil incarnate, a perversion of all that is true in Islam. They are on Hitler's level, Biblical in their violence with a medieval understanding of reality. They must be eradicated as an organization. They are the greatest armed threat to the world today. They are a bunch of self-loathing, fanatical converts eager to prove their faith, to experience the power and thrill of killing, and to die, in order to cure their self-perceived impotence and gain paradise, while creating Hell for everyone else (who they blame for their self-loathing). They are too blind to see that they follow only one master and it ain't Allah. Everything they do serves the one true enemy.

Putin, for all his pride and megalomania, is just a puffed-up second fiddle. A common, lying criminal in a position of power over a people too accustomed to being treated as slaves and scared of the chaos of freedom. He is no saviour, just another jailer.

Of course, even together, they barely come close to the threats posed to humanity by climate change and gross worldwide inequality, both of which are helping to feed ISIS and destabilize the world politically, socially, and economically. But Putin and ISIS are a good place to start. Working together to stop the evil savages of ISIS would put mere bullies, like Putin in their place and get them, and their like, out of the way of dealing with the bigger messes we have made.

You never know. We work together and solve one or two problems and we might start to like it, and actually learn something.