Why Art and Philosophy Have Unequaled Value in Human Affairs

Part I By Pete Holly

The first signs of humans moving towards civalization and culture are all related to
Art{Cave Paintings,Anicent Flutes} and belief systems{Life After Death,Buriel of the Dead,
With Ceremoniel Attachments}.Humans first buried thier dead ancestors with valuble jewelry,
Clothing,and Ceremoniel Objects whose only purpose could be to assisist them in the the After-
Life.This is how we know we know primative cultures on thier stairway towards civalization had
some form of religous practices.So we know that other than the discovery of fire and man's first
crude tools for hunting and craft-making,spiritual beginings were the first real sign that man
possessed a brain which you could define as having an inner soul or at least the capacity to
intellectualize such thoughts as,The Meaning of Life,Respect for the Dead,and other idea's which
spread quickly among the relativly small population of humans who lived in ancient times.


PartII The Journey Would Have Been Impossible

It is without a doubt man's ability to philosophize and create art that represented man's
first philosophical ideas that was the catalyst for the Giant leap in human intelligence that
eventually lead to the complex patterns of thought humans are capable of thinking today.
It's been a long journey !
This is why philosophy and Art play such an important part in the brains ability to arrange incredibly complex sets of thinking ability's-to ponder questions that before man's ability to
philosophize and create representative art and abstact art that in it's own way represented and
therefore preserved what man's thinking had taught him about the nature of the world and the nature of his own life and mind.Not only is Art and Philosophy Important ! In many ways
they are the only things that have enabled humans climb towards civalization. For without a way to analyze our life's meaning and preserve those thoughts
thru art and eventually writing.The Journey we have made would have been impossible.

Written by Pete Holly-2010-copyright-all rights reserved

BEHIND THE SUN

BY PETE HOLLY

Art and Music serve a vital role inthe human brains development,operation,
and to govern the more primative destuctive instincts-located in an a area of the
brain where the earlist human programing for the brain resides.It's the same area
of the brain that set's off alarms when certain words are spoken that are taboo-
shit-fuck-cunt-mother fucker-still rattle are brains alarm bells as the program that interprets these words connects the dots to the taboo alarm.Despite thier
offensive nature to most people-every language-without exception-has the equivalent of these taboo words and the reaction is the same in every culture.
These words are deeply embedded in our phyche of the taboo.
This is part of the 20% estimated knowledge we possess of are world,our
universe and our minds.That leaves 4 fifths of of everything-our minds-our world
-the universe in it's entirety stil completly unknow as far as what the true nature of it is.and just what it comprises and functions as.In other words-
in spite of 200 year of unparralelled discovery in every area of science,philosophy,the arts and logic-we still have a very long way to go,indeed.
And the truth is-the fact-what we know is relativly very little-and yet most
people-if you asked them-would announce with all the confidence in the world
that we know a large ammount about the "Mystery of the Mysteries".The facts
are-We Do Not.
In Lewis Carrols "Alices Adventures Underground" Alice ponder's the
question-"What if i were to keep on shrinking forever".Would i disappear
completely or would i stop at the smallist size i could become.Sound Familiar.
This is the same question many physics experts grapple with today.150 year's
before the big bang theory was introduced and eventually became more or less
accepted as the most likely scenerio as to the begining of our Universe;Carrol
introduced the basic idea's of the big bang theory in his seemingly innocent little fairy tale.Amazing ,yes,but true.
Supose,just for example,that instead of expanding,which we are sure is the case,the "Universe" suddenly started to condense or shrink.At that point,
Alice's question would become extremly relavent for us to know the final outcome of our Universe.Would the most extreme shrinking of the Universe make it a non-entity-because it's so small we can't detect it even with the most up to date technology-or would it stop just at the smallest size it could shrink to and still have the ability of humans to detect it in some fashion.
Because of Einstien we know that space time is a varilable.His theory's
of light and space becoming curved under certain conditions,opened up a whole new book of rules of physics that the Universe must allways obey.
But even thou the "Big Bang" theory look's good on paper-Einstien refused
to give it any consideration.There was a time when another scientist stumbled
upon the theory of relativiy before Einstien and he saw that the math backed up the theory 100%.But he believed that if the theory of relativity were true all
of Newton's work would be religated to the dustbin's of history and he just couldn't stand to do that to a man he admired so much-so he never went public
with mathmatic proof that the universe is governed by relativity.
Einstien saw things differantly.Instead of nullifying all of newtons postulates he saw relativity as an extention of what newton had discovered-
even thou it did prove that many of newtons ideas were wrong about the true nature of the universe-it also proved that some of them were correct.Even Newton himself knew that there was a great deal of activity in the universe that
his ideas couldn't account for.He had no explanation for them and just considered them anomalies and that the vast majority of the universe did work
as the principles of his physics described.Unfortunatly,that has turned out not
to be the case.The futher we travel out into space ,the more tests we conduct,
and the more studies that have been made in the realm of physics point directly to einstiens relativity theory as being most like what we observe in space and what scientists have discoved in the wake of Relativity -in expieriments and in
mathmatics.If there is anything in Einstiens thoughts which the world of
physics diagree's with-it was he refusal to even consider "The Big Bang Theory"
as a possible description of how the universe began.But even thought the majority of people in the world of physics have come to believe it to be the most
likely scenario-it doesn't nessassary follow that "The Big Bang Theory" is the
absolute correct theory.You never know-some day a discovery could be made
that give's creedance to Einstien's doubt of the big bang.If that were to happen
-just imagine an Einstien with one more incredible insight into the nature of the
Universe-It certainly would boogle the mind.
Einstien's theory of relativity which states that light,energy, and matter
excert forces on our Universe that make light bend and change the speed of time were proved to be true when during a solar eclipse.As a scientific photographer watched a full solar eclipse and photographed it the photo's
showed that stars which would have been behind the sun could be seen
clearly just on the lip of the corona.The only way this would be possible is
if Einstiens theory of relativity was exactly correct in predicting the bending of
spacetime given a large enough distance to be measurable.
Thou Einstien is most famous for E=MC2 he actually won the nobel
prize for his theory of the photo-electric effect-but that's another story.

written by Pete Holly-2010-copyright-all rights reserved
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(to be continued}

written by pete holly-2010-copyright-all rights reserved

Go Ask Alice !

The Enigma of Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures Underground" and
"Through the Looking Glass"
{and what alice found there}

What people refer to when they talk of "Alice in Wonderland" never has existed.
There never was a book called "Alice in Wonderland" and Mr. Carrol's real
creations mentioned in the title of this article are very rarely read in thier
original forms and even more rarely-truelly understood.Perhaps it's a good
thing to because the stories that Carrol wrote are really not appropriate for
children.There is way to much material of an adult nature that would send
many a family to the lines forming to ban the stories as Carrol originally wrote
them.
What most people have read is a compendium of the two very differant stories
watered down to the 100th degree to make it politically correct for modernity.
That's essentially what the Walt Disney movie was-and who can blame him.There
is no way Disney could have told the stories as they were written.They are far to
adult in nature,many of the referances to places and people would fall on deaf ears,
and people would not be entertained by Lewis Carrol's way of twisting the world
upside down so much as to be totally unrecognizable.No,people needed a neat and
tidy story that wouldn't upset parents or children and that's exactly what they
got.That's the "Alice" the modern public knows but the real alice{yes there was a
real alice}was a very unique person living in a completely unique time and place
and she and her two sisters just happened to fall in love with the stories told to
them by the Rev. Charles Dogson.It was alice that requested the Rev. to write the
stories down and that's really the only reason the alice stories ever made it to print.
Much of the information and inside jokes inside the original stories would only
be understood by Alice,her sisters and people who lived in the region of oxford,
england at the time.The questions about the nature of logic and nonsense and
the middle ground inbetween where Carrol mined the most humor and Wonder
from his storys has not appeared in print for nearly a Century.The only "Alice"
we get is second hand edited stories that have little if anything to do with what
Carrol and the Liddel sisters understood only to well.Maybe someday the real
Lewis Carrol stories will be printed again in thier original form but i fear it's
to late.The public has come to accept the watered down "Alice" and to bring back
the original stories in thier original text would only confuse people and cause an
uproar and we certainly don't need that.

Written by Pete Holly-all rights reserved-2010

-Martin Luther King Jr. Day-What it's all About-

Remembering The Dream !

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream,but in life,he was a realist.He knew
he couldn't make things right for his fellow Black Americans-Not in his own Lifetime-
-or even the next-but he also knew he had to try.He knew he would probably die trying-
Yet still he perseverded.Where do men like Dr. King come from ? Why are they so rare ?
Dr. King had a calling.A calling which he believed had truelly been ordained from a
Higher place.The Promised Land.It was a calling which allowed him to feel human weak-
ness and pain,but gave Dr. King and millions of his followers the courage to march on;
in the name of freedom.
Racism and segregation are still with us.Perhaps they allways will be,but Dr. King
left us a dream and it's up to us to Keep the Dream Alive ! That's what Martin Luther King
Jr. Day is all about.Keeping the Dream Alive.

In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

May his dream live on forever.

Pete Holly,
Looks Music Int.