Theos-Talk Archives (December 1997 Message tt00147)

Dallas wrote:
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>I was reading in the December 18th issue of the L.A.TIMES (p. B-2) an
>article by Cole concerning the Mach principle in physics whereby "inertia
>is presumed to be the cumulative resistance to change generated by all the
>gravitational interaction of every bit of matter with every other bit of
>matter in the universe."  Further investigation has shown by the warping of
>light [around stellar bodies of great density] that this theory has
>validity and ties in with Einstein's general theory of gravity.  The author
>continues:  "Like a fly caught in a spider web, everything we do has an
>effect on the whole of our universe.  Every time we twitch, the whole thing
>twitches with us...Ultimately we are related to granite and gold--all "star
>stuff," in the words of Carl Sagan,  Trace your ancestry back far enough,
>and your great....grandmother [a billion times removed] is an exploding
>star."

I tend to agree with Einstein's theory.  There was an experiment that
seemed to refute his theory (using the speed of light).  However, that
experiment was found to be erroneous due to laboratory errors.  Unhampered
by the scientific community (since he could not get a job among them), he
first arrived at his ideas INTUITIVELY, and then used mathematics to back
it up.  In the second part of his theory, the relation between mass-energy
to time-space, he could not back it up with usual mathematics, and found
non-Euclidean mathematics to back it up.  This seemed almost mystical, from
the universe to concretion, instead of the rational process of concretion
to the universe.  This is a true process of a search for truth.  Before
theosophists boo each other's ideas, we should keep this in mind.

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>Many a time I see the argument raised that we bought it with our time and
>labor.  True, but we can also share.  There is much to be done to reform
>the ills of our country, and also we have enough to spare to reach out to
>others to help them when they need it.  Of what value is politics or war if
>those seek to retain temporary dominance and personal power ?  Who enjoys ?
> who suffers ?  fi government has an ideal the distribution of assistance
>in time of need so that All may receive help, then the over-burden of many
>aspects of government clogs and exhausts it.

I find that thinking of others make giving painless.  You give because you
want someone to enjoy something that was yours.  Once you give, forget
about it.  That means it's no longer yours and you have no attachment to
it.  That means nobody owes you anything.  That means no wishing that you
still have it.

Thoa :o)