[Oe List ...] Fw: Misc. Musing

Sun Jul 22 17:38:38 PDT 2012

Thanks, Rod.  A REALLY BIG picture.  Judy and I went to a band concert this evening.  The local brass band was playing at the band stand.  Kids running around, the sun setting, etc.

One of their selections was 76 trombones, and I found myself trying to remember the words we wrote.  My, we are a lot more timid and fearful than "back in the day"!

I AM THE ONE 

Tune: 76 Trombones 

I am the one set free to
embrace the world, I am the one compelled all to give. 

I am the one condemned to
be ever sorrow filled and to die each moment that I live. 

I am amazed my life is in
history, I am amazed this world's where I'm bound. 

I am amazed I'm one with
creation s family and in each the mystery is found.

The guardian of the world
for all eternity, living, living, with all who've gone before, 

The director of the world
in all its future, and the key history is waiting for. 

The wiseman who can always
know his knowing, standing, standing ever in the fray. 

The watchman who is always
on the stage in every single age, 

	and moves a million
mountains every day.

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--- On Sun, 7/22/12, Rod Rippel <rodrippel at cox.net> wrote:

From: Rod Rippel <rodrippel at cox.net>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Fw: Misc. Musing
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Date: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 4:24 PM

From: Rod Rippel 
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 1:59 PM
To: Carl Muma ; Marion Muma ; Bill and 
Audrey ; Herb Lawrence ; Jeff Rippel ; jkbdavis at netzero.com 
Subject: Misc. Musing

Hi All:  I didn’t have any idea where this was going when I 
started.  Maybe you can tell me?  I don’t think “enjoy” is quite 
appropriate.  Rod

Speculations…
Rod Rippel

Evidence of Sapient Caused 
Advanced Planetary Extinctions (E.S.C.A.P.E.)

I  Given enough 
time evolution produces random complex life forms and intelligent 
consciousness;

II  In the case 
of Earth the time has been 4 + 0.5 billion years out of a total of 13 – 
15 billion years since origin of the universe;

III  Tracking 
of observable planetary systems should be initiated to log evidence of sapient 
caused destruction of planetary scale, i.e., frequency of novas, changes in 
light emission or radiation signals.

IV  Hypothesis 
– If populations of sapient beings in other systems follows a similar pattern to 
Earth’s homo sapiens, then a very 
rapid acceleration in population will occur in a very short interval at some 
point 3 to 5 billion years out from origin.  If the stress on planetary resources 
that results is similar to homo 
sapien’s experience, catastrophic extinctions should begin taking place 
throughout the universe during the next cosmic time period.  However, it would be highly unlikely 
that any two sapient species would evolve at the same rate or develop cultures 
and societies at similar rates.  We 
should expect a rather wide spectrum of evolving towards 
ESCAPE.

V  Stresses in 
sapient communities (planets) could result in an increased frequency of 
Spectacular Cosmic Events (SCE) noticeable from, our planet.   This assumes 1) a large number of 
sapient occupied systems exist, and 2) a sizable fraction of those systems are 
unable to cope with or find solutions to their self-destruction.  Violent cosmic events (SCE) have already 
been observed throughout the universe.  
This provides some background from which accelerated events could be 
measured until refined measurements can be developed which could differentiate 
self-inflicted SCE from otherwise ‘natural’ events.

VI  Possible 
reactions by sapient beings to the pending collapse of their planet system could 
include violent struggles to control dwindling resources and ultimate resort to 
chain reaction forces capable of producing cosmic signals.

VII  At present 
on Earth we are seeing overall stress on several levels.  Most important are those related to 
global warming and the finite supply of water available to a rapidly growing 
planet population.  Struggles are 
already evident over fossil fuels and energy sources which contribute to the 
acceleration of climate change and especially to the level of CO2 in the 
atmosphere (also a finite resource of the planet).  Water will rapidly become more expensive 
than fossil fuels.  Food shortages 
will become a way of life.  Air 
pollution will accompany global warming hand-in-hand.  We will probably arrive at the maximum 
number of people that the finite planet can sustain sometime in this century 
unless the imperative to control population is obeyed.  Even so, the quality of life for a vast 
majority will be almost unlivable compared to what even the least advantaged of 
today enjoy.  The stresses 
accompanying the kind of disparity to be experienced in the near to intermediate 
future are almost unimaginable.  
This portends increased levels of terrorism, wars, famine, and violence 
for the majority of earth’s population as the powerful attempt to hold on to 
their resource access.

VIII  
Indicatves:

  Immediate reduction of CO2 emissions to global sustaining 
  max. 
  Global 
  zero population growth rate. 
  Planetary fresh water distribution system. 
  Global 
  rationing of fossil fuel use. 
  Alternate energy development. 
  Planetary polity research. 
  Non-automobile culture (walking).

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