Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

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Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies is the phrase I invented while writing my book, Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life.

The phrase defines a constellation of symbiotic relationships among natural, biological,and cosmic phenomena in which each component is individually improbable, yet together they form a stable, life‑enabling, or meaning‑bearing whole.

These interdependencies are “fortuitous” in their unlikely emergence, “interdependent” in their structural necessity, and “profound” in the depth of coherence and wonder they evoke.


Mutual enablement — Each element supports or amplifies the others; remove one and the system collapses or becomes radically diminished.

Improbable alignment — The components arise from contingent processes, yet converge with uncanny precision.

Emergent coherence — The whole exhibits properties, beauty, and functionality that none of the parts possess alone.

Philosophical resonance — The pattern invites reflection on purpose, design, the hidden harmonies of the Universe.

Cross‑domain applicability — It appears in physics, chemistry, biology, ecosystems, consciousness, morality, and human relationships.

 

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Whenever you have a problem to solve or you need information for anything important, utilize the procedure I call "successive approximation."

It usually isn't necessary to get a quick solution, but rather to sneak up on one using every source you can think of. Get as close to the best answer as you can with a book, computer or a friend. That often takes you to the next step which will get you ever closer until you have solved the problem optimally. Every time you solve a complex problem, you get better at doing it the next time, and you also develop more independence and self-confidence. When our daughters would ask us how to spell a word, my answer was always to encourage their working it out, "How do you think you spell it?" Over 90% of the time, they got it right. In the sixth grade, our older daughter won her school's spelling bee. Five years later, her little sister won it! We were very proud of them and they carried their success forward.

 

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Can you stump AI? It's like a college faculty talking to you.
Trying to stump AI, I asked it the answer to the old English Riddle:
"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks. Each sack had seven cats. Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?"

AI goofed, replying "1."

The correct answer is 0. "Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many (of these) were going to St. Ives?"

AI agreed with me.

 

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I asked AI if car insurance companies excluded coverage for idiots who were speeding away from police. Here was its response:

"Most auto policies contain criminal‑acts exclusions or intentional‑acts exclusions, and fleeing/eluding police is a criminal offense in every U.S. state. Insurers can—and frequently do—deny coverage when the loss arises from that conduct."

Then I checked my own Car Insurance Policy with Geico, 44 pages long, and no exclusions for illegal pursuits. Geico representative confirmed this by telephone. None of us want to pay higher premiums for idiots, so I will work to get this corrected across the major car insurers. You are welcome to help me.

 

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"Economy is among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt is the greatest of the dangers to be feared." - Thomas Jefferson

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson

"I yield to the conviction that our nation cannot last. It has survived thus far on miracles. They cannot last." - Thomas Jefferson

 

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"Twenty-four percent of Muslim youth are leaving Islam. And if we don't take constructive steps to deal with this, it is going to become an avalanche."



You mean Muslim youth aren't going for bitter hatefulness and beheadings? What is this world coming to?

 

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I just got off the radio with Jennifer Horn on 870 AM, Los Angeles. I said, "You guys are the best Ninety million Iranians are dancing in the street because we took out their terrorist leaders. Here in America, 10 million Trump deranged idiots are screaming in the streets in support of those terrorist leaders." Jennifer agreed. I closed out with "Love ya, babe." Then I hung up. Jennifer replied, "I like John in Irvine."

 

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A few of the dozens of representative quotes in my files from scholars dissenting from neo-Darwinism:

"My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least I should hardly be accused of having started from any preconceived anti-evolutionary standpoint."—*H. Nilsson, Synthetic Speciation (1953), p. 31.

"We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet.'" —*Errol White, Proceedings of the Linnean Society, London, 177:8 (1966).

"The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity—omnipotent chance."—*T. Rosazak, Unfinished Animal (1975), pp. 101-102.

 

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One snark of unwarranted intellectual condescension from atheists is “Who made God?” Professor of Mathematics, John Lennox, answers it brilliantly:
“If somebody made God, then He wouldn’t be God, would He.”

Another atheist snark is “The argument from incredulity,” as if asking questions were not itself the foundation of science. Science begins with asking “How?”, “Why?” and “What?” usually to increase the total of human or at least personal knowledge. Genuine scientific discoveries are almost always skeptical, more so to the scientists who discovered them. Take Carl Sagan’s statement at the beginning of Chapter 9, for example.
[ “Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still.” - Carl Sagan (Cosmos)]

Just so… one thing is quite sure, which is, no “quantum vacuum” made matter, energy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the wonders I will explore with you. A steady-state Universe was once the preeminent scientific belief, which means that the Universe is constant and eternal. We now know that this is a scientific impossibility. Nature’s God, the Maker of science, is not impossible, however. He is essential.

[From the Foreward of Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life]

 

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“Indeed, those who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the Fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. They are the worst of creatures.” - Surah 98 (Al Bayyinah), Ayah 6

“You are the best people ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin al maʿrūf (what is right), forbid al munkar (what is wrong), and believe in Allah.” - Qur’an 3:110 — Surah Āl ʿImrān

“I have been made victorious through terror.” – (Bukhari 4.52.220 - Mohammad)

“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, at the U.N. in 1974

 

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Summary in final few minutes:

1. Stupidity is energetically cheaper than intelligence.
2. It enables obedience. (Herd mentality)
3. It creates social cohesion. ("Team player," instead of "Troublemaker")
4. It eliminates self-doubt. Society rewards self-confidence.
5. It's easier to manipulate (as in schools).
6. Intelligence is punished; stupidity is rewarded.
Stupidity reproduces faster, genetically and culturally.

(This reminded me of one of my websites which features confirming graphs. Ironically my website shows the failure of Darwinian evolution, which assures mankind of continuous "improvement." Increasing stupidity is the opposite. This is to be expected since Charles Darwin acknowledged that he was an extremely mediocre student, and his father expressed grave doubt in Charles' future achievements. “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat‑catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.”)

 

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Leftist Democrats choose neither right nor kind.

 

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www.2001Principle.com

 

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Submitted to the California Post (New York Post offshoot) for publication tomorrow:

"But Trump was not owned by this faction of the right - any more than he is owned by Israel." - No One Can Control Him, by RIch Lowry in today's column. Just so. Leaders lead, and followers follow. Democrats have to do focus groups and public surveys to follow public opinion rather than make hard decisions. Suck lack of leadership would have doomed the founding of America. Our early Americans were evenly divided over going to war with what was the most powerful army on earth. One third were pro-revolution, one third were pro-Great Britain, and one third were undecided. Our leaders, thankfully, were decisive and victorious, like Trump.

 

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Some interesting thoughts, make sureyou read the last. As I recall if everything related to petroleum isremoved from the calculation of the gross domestic product of thecombined Islamic Middle East, you end up with one on a par withFinland. Consider that fact and the following if you wondered whythere are problems in the Middle East including terroristsetc.:


The Global Islamic population is approximately1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.

They havereceived the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1957 -Albert Camus
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.

Peace:
1978 - MohamedAnwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Physics:
1990 - EliasJames Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:
1960 - PeterBrian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad



The Global Jewishpopulation is aproximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the worldpopulation.


They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - HenriBergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966- Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac BashevisSinger
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 -Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 -Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - HenryKissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 -Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - AdolphVon Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 -Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charlesde Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972- William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - HerbertCharle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 -Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985- Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - RobertHuber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - AlanJ. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971- Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - LeonidKantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980- Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - RobertM. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 -Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - ElieMetchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 -Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936- Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 -Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - KonradBloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - GeorgeWald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970- Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald MauriceEdelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S.Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - DanielNathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 -Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - StanleyCohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 -Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 -Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - AlfredGilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics:
1907 - AlbertAbraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - AlbertEinstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - GustavHertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 -Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - EmilioSegre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962- Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 -Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - DennisGabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - BenjaminMottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978- Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - SheldonGlashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 -Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl

TheJews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yellingand chanting and asking for revenge, the Jews are not promoting thebrain washing of their children in military training camps, teachingthem how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews andother non Muslims.

The Jews don't high-jack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. The Jewsdon't have the economic strength that comes with vast Petroleum reserves nor the possibilities to force the world's media to see "their side" of the question.

Perhaps if the world'sMuslims would invest more in normal education and less in blaming theJews for all their problems we could all live in a better world.


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The greatest advances of civilization,whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, inindustry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.-- Milton Friedman

 

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Since I am single and live alone, my driver's license would offer little help ICE (In Case of Emergency). I printed my daughters' names and phone numbers underneath "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY" on 100-pound card stock, cut it to 1" x 2", and taped it face up to the back of my driver's license, on top, where it can be flipped up. Help others, even after you're gone.

 

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“Gratitude sharpens the mind the way exercise strengthens the body — quietly, steadily, and with cumulative force.” - John Jaeger

Every day offers at least one moment that could be dismissed as ordinary but is, in truth, a small miracle:

a breath taken without effort,

a conversation that lands just right,

a kindness you didn’t expect,

or the simple fact that you woke up with another chance to do good.

Gratitude is not passive.
It is active perception — the discipline of noticing what is excellent, admirable, or quietly sustaining.

Scripture puts it plainly:
“In everything give thanks.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Modern psychology echoes the same truth: gratitude rewires the brain toward resilience, clarity, and hope.

So today, take ten seconds — just ten — and name one thing that is good, true, or beautiful in your life.
You will feel the impact immediately.
And if you make it a habit, you will feel it permanently.

 

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"As we make progress understanding the expanding Universe, the problem itself expands, so that the solution always seems to recede from us." - Steven Weinberg, Physicist (Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life, Chapter 1, "Limitless Discovery")

Our Brilliant Creator arranged life for us tutorially, such that our earliest forbears were able to learn the basics of life they needed, and successive generations would always have more to learn to improve their lives and give them amazement and joy without limit. This is only possible because humans have multiple tutorially arranged means of communication starting with speech, whereby we learn from all those before us and build on it.

 

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"As we make progress understanding the expanding Universe, the problem itself expands, so that the solution always seems to recede from us." - Steven Weinberg, Physicist (Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life, Chapter 1, "Limitless Discovery")

Our Brilliant Creator arranged life for us tutorially, such that our earliest forbears were able to learn the basics of life they needed, and successive generations would always have more to learn to improve their lives and give them amazement and joy without limit. This is only possible because humans have multiple tutorially arranged means of communication starting with speech, whereby we learn from all those before us and build on it.