http://garycgibson.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Gary C. Gibson en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:15:59 GMT 2010-01-04T03:15:59Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977965024 I n addition to mass-energy flowing from a pre-big bang Universe bottleneck, there was information regarding it's structure. I don't want to get too detailed here. I have several disparate ideas from . . . Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:38:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977965024 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-28T01:38:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963123 I have written about 50,000 words monthly at helium, and earned a top 5% peer rated, blind juried ranking. Living in a tent in Alaska, now, and previously all over the United States while writing at Helium . . . Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:35:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963123 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-26T02:35:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977962051 Christians may be supportive of a capitalist political philosophy or not as they prefer. Capitalism isn't a religion unless one becomes devoted to it sufficiently to make it an object of worship. Neither . . . Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:59:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977962051 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-24T19:59:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977959650 http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/waveform-politics-equilibrium-pattern-volume-4/79435 This political, philosophical and current events of the era compilation of essays written in the contentious . . . Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:46:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977959650 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-23T02:46:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977934144 Such a point of reference must be at least equal in quality to U.S. Government budget planning that reasonably sees a reversal of deficit spending economics after the total is 21 trillion dollars. . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:30:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977934144 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-07T02:30:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932738 The flames are always, initially unplanned if they have meaning it is because of their thin barrier from sub-zero that has earned its season for crystalline silence surrounding like an amused tide . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:47:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932738 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T02:47:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932690 Biblical apocalypse occurs with different destines for various sectors of the population. It cannot be said that humanity en mass 'suicides'. Not be saved is a kind of eternal spiritual death. I would . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:31:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932690 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T01:31:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932688 In the desert restless, through the night mesquite burning kept the clothes smoky without a union for blanketless travelers tents were not experienced beneath the stars through nights in cold . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:26:27 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932688 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T01:26:27Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932648 If  time passes faster as human beings age, because of an increasing pace of acceleration of the Universe, do we notice? When younger we regard only the particular immediate perceptions of . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:44:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932648 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T00:44:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932635 Homelessness in the United States is a politically enabled role so an individual has no right or chance to own private property. Physics of homelessness might be considered from several angles off . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:21:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932635 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T00:21:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932624 'The Failure of Nazi Economic Policy to Prepare Germany for World War Two'-the topic of this essay, flies against prevailing winds of traditional opinion. That opinion was that Nazi economic policy . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:07:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932624 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-06T00:07:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932608 President Obama said in July 2008 that if elected he would send an additional two brigades to Afghanistan. After taking office he sent more than 20,000. Yet he had said as a political talking point, . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:54:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932608 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T23:54:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932577 I think its fair to say that God is neither a concept or a physical form; physical forms are conceptually defined, as are concepts-each linguistic term was constructed by contingent human beings. . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:16:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932577 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T23:16:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932554 Books will not become obsolete any time soon. New forms of book like items are on the increase. Many have technical processing ability. What is needed are virtually disposable cheap books that are . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:55:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932554 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T22:55:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932544 Can a philosophical method based upon a logical analysis of words and meanings as they are applied to any given reference be the basis for a unified philosophical world view in at the start of the . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:45:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932544 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T22:45:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931594 Recent scientific research has shown that modern mankind 'are wimps' compared with their ancestors. The physical condition of people of ages long past was such that very easily they might run faster . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:17:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931594 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T02:17:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931573 The unprincipled realm 'beyond good and evil 'was pioneered formally by the 19th century German philosopher of the eternal recurrence F. Nietzsche. He had many forefathers and foremothers in the effort . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:02:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931573 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T02:02:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931554 Sartre's philosophical analysis of experience as an epistemological phenomenon is a useful starting point for comprehending the disenfranchised, the marginalized and sundry strangers experience of . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:32:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931554 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T01:32:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931545 Insinuating thin film solar technology into highway resurfacing materials technology is a long range goal for a universal solar power exterior coating material of nominal cost. In the era before that . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:19:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931545 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T01:19:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931521 Totalitarianism is the absolute power of the state. If, like the Sun King, our ruler says L'etat c'est mois' then our monarch may be a totalitarian. On the other hand is the Queen is such as rules . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:00:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931521 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-05T01:00:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931440 The African continent has surpassed the one billion population mark, and with its horridly corrupt political environment and lack of higher education its prospects for defending its environment . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:40:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931440 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T23:40:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931380 Some American poems may radically suppress certain vowels and a few consonants unexpectedly before the year 2035. We can expect invasions of foreign favored phonemes and even morphemes with obvious . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:45:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931380 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T22:45:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931338 'Explain Nietzsche's quote "One is not 'converted' to Christianity-one must first be sick enough for it."' It is difficult, or at least a little mired in the indeterminacy of translation issues . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:04:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931338 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T22:04:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931307 Alaska has a population moving up slowly towards seven hundred thousand. Far too many people are dependent upon crude resource extraction or termination industries for employment. Coincidentally . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:42:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931307 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T21:42:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931301 Immanuel Kant essentially was an enlightenment era philosopher of reason. Reason was the criterion within which he wrote in 18th century Konigsberg. 'The Critique of Pure Reason' was Kant's magnum . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931301 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T21:34:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931205 I think therefore I am; a Christian and an environmentalist. Looking at the trees and their outlines that fade into the darkness of the world without sunshine every night I find hope in the loss of . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:21:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931205 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T20:21:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931199 Human conflict is not a product of knowledge; it is a natural aspect of the genus homo sapiens. We are the sole surviving group of a number of varieties of bi-pedal upright walking hominid. Males . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:15:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931199 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T20:15:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931039   The topic of this essay; 'How does the religious view of creation (intelligent design) make sense?' asks an existential fallacy.  It conjoins a couple of universal premises to form . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:58:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931039 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T18:58:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931013 The analysis of historical cycles of civilization was the life's work of the late historian Arnold Toynbee. He was a juggler of ideas reading what comprises a civilization, how they arise, how long . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:34:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931013 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T18:34:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977930940 Humanism of the enlightenment era ended philosophically with Kant. It is a little difficult to consider Kant as a humanist rather than as a Prussian philosopher In would think, yet of course his hometown . . . Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:41:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977930940 Gary C. Gibson 2009-12-04T17:41:59Z