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The Ordinary Care of Providence

Madison's defense of the establishment clause to the Virginia

      legislature:

Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them, and not only during the period of miraculous aid but long after it had been left to its own evidence and the ordinary care of Providence.

 

                                          May I say

electromagnetic waves. Radiant energy.

Light travels in waves

                                      Waves of what?

Electromagnetic waves consist of electric and magnetic fields

oscillating at right angles to each other

and to the direction of motion of the wave.

                                                                        All waves can be described

in terms of amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed.

 

Waves of what?

                            Think of a hand waving. The wave itself

is virtual, ideal. The hand and eyes are waves. The wave's

a quantum guess.

                           Religion and electromagnetic waves - visible, audible, ideal

causing real reactions in earth-time (real as it gets). Madison's

ordinary

               care of Providence

                                               impossible to handle.

 

Needed is a medium: antenna, cathode ray, page,

body

          hairy, sweaty

                                 diurnal

with the capacity to say Providence electromagnetic visible light

element god.

                       Alone in your life and body. Say

the heavy word

weighty word

isotope

             charged word (ion god)

the particle physicist and political philosopher have it over the poet

who is sharing ignorance

                                           pretty much all he doesn't know.

 

Or who stays within a dimension she knows she knows, extrapolating

her hand in a child's hand or husband's hold or nest in a tree hole

limited government

                                  separation of powers

                                                                      daily low intensity warfare

light, radio and gamma waves

                                                     Waves of what?

Matter can be treated by both wave and particle theories (the duality of matter) since its convertible counterpart - light - has long been treated successfully by both theories.

convertible counterpart

                                         light matter light

 

Solutions to the equations are called wave functions, or orbitals.

Religion or the duty which we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much to soon forget it.

 

Last night's movie She's No Angel on the Christian channel

begged many essential questions (and had bad music)

                                                                                            why

the loving liberal successful couple should

keep a shotgun in the home (later used per Shakespeare)

                                                                                               what

the community's (authority's) reaction to the violence

and precipitating dissembling might have been (per The Crucible)

                                                                                                    whether

the golden spiritual couple would subsequently dissemble lobby or

      defend

themselves and the loved one legally and lengthily (per Dostoyevsky)

                                                                                              where

unclean tragic outcomes end in Death's cleanliness

ravens eat the fur and guts of bad guesses off the roads (per A

      Designer of Systems)

 

but not I think missing

the deeper lesson

 

that she is neither her past

nor her wings

 

but a pure goodness

                                   bone stillness

                                                          potential energy

 

a light wave

and a particle.

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Written by
robert-ronnow
Published
Aug 11, 2015
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--Madison, James, "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments"

--LeMay, Beall, Robblee & Brower, Chemistry: Connections to Our Changing World, Prentice Hall, 2000

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