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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
 

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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