A Mathematical Model Explaining Why People Throughout History Have Thought They Were in the End Times

For most of the time since Jesus Christ was here, people have predicted that their times were the End Times. I have a mathematical model of history that explains why people have felt this way and predicted the end in their time so many times.

The Model:

1. History is divided into ages, each of which is either half as long or twice as long as the previous age. These ages exist in objective reality.
2. The length of each age = 5 * 2 ^ (44 - A) days, here A is the level of advancement of the age.
3. History, therefore approaches an end date in an asymptotic fashion if it continues to advance.
4. Each age contains the same number of significant events, so the rate of significant events doubles for each advance.
5. There is no guarantee that history will continue to advance. However advancement is the normal course of events.

Here is a diagram of the model over recent historic time:


Since advancement is normal we all have an innate appreciation for the asymptotic advancement of history. Therefore we all have an innate feeling that:

1. 1. Things will advance.
2. Change is accelerating
3. History will end soon.
4. The people in the future are much closer than the people in the past.
5. We can’t see the future so we underestimate how much has to happen before the end.
6. The past feels almost fixed according to our subjective sense of the rate of significant events.
7. The curve feels the same no matter where we are in history.

We can't see the future because what it is like is based on things such as institutions, inventions, concepts, organizing approaches, knowledge, causes, insights and events that have not yet been invented. It's hard to even come up with a covering model.



Since our present age is at level 33, this age will last 5 * 2 ^ (11) days = 28 years.
The tribulation will last 5 * 2 ^ (8) = 1280 days.
This means that the tribulation will either be at advancement level 36 or will more likely consist of the rest of history after level 36 if history continues to advance.

Satan opposes advancement because it means that his reign will come to an end sooner. Therefore he caused classical civilization to fail and continues to try to cause ours to fail so as to postpone the end. The tribulation will only happen once advancement has become inevitable and his only option is to try to destroy or conquer all of us.

Because Jesus implied that a period of time near the end would be shortened and because all people in all times since the time of Christ feel that they are near the end by the ramifications of the mathematical model, any age could be shortened, so Jesus could return at any time.

Jesus will shorten one of the ages to prevent Satan's success.

No matter where you are in history subjectively it looks the same. Everyone is in the exact same subjective environment as measured by ones persepective of known significant events. This is the real reason why everyone feels that they are in the end times. That and that the length of the age you are in exactly matches the entire rest of history after that age assuming things continue to advance. No matter which one you are in.

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Tense and Question Characteristics for a Model of English

OK, I'm at it again. I have added two more characteristics to my Rule of Twenty Profile Model of English. The first one was pluralism. The two new ones are Tense (past, present, future) and Question level. I haven't quite finished question level. All the characteristics have five or six possible values which will fit very nicely into the positions in my profile model.

Tense has five possible values:

1. Hard Past - for example 'went'
2. Implied Past - for example 'ago'
3. Present - for example 'climb'
4. Implied Future - for example 'toward'
5. Hard Future - for example 'will'

Question has six possible values so far:

1. no implied question - for example ''
2. implied yes or no answer - for example 'pregnancy?'
3. implied magnitide answer - for example 'length?'
4. implied selection answer - for example 'color?'
5. implied detailed answer - for example 'reason?'
6. true question word - for example 'why'

It's still too early to be sure that this is the list but it's looking like it. I also may have an 'Answer' characteristic.

Here is the word set complete with characteristics etc: 5750 word Excel file

Positions

If there are five possible values they will show up in the following positions in the profile model: 4444 3333 2222 1111 0000. If there are six possible values as with 'Pluralism' they will show up in the following positions: 5555 444 333 222 111 0000. Here is the full table:

number of possible   possible positions
values               for each value
-------------------  --------------------
10 possible values:  99887766554433221100
 9 possible values:  88877665544332211000 
 8 possible values:  77776655443322110000  
 7 possible values:  66665554433221110000
 6 possible values:  55554443332221110000
 5 possible values:  44443333222211110000 
 4 possible values:  33332222221111110000
 3 possible values:  22221111111111110000
 2 possible values:  11111111110000000000

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An English Model That a Computer Can Understand - Phase III, Pluralism

The first phase of my effort was to select four bits of information for part of speech giving 16 parts of speech.

The second phase was to select four bits of information for the 'realm' that the word exists in giving 16 realms.

The third phase of my effort and the one in which I am presently engaged is to pull out information regarding multiplicity and place it into one or more characteristics. I think I will have three: (1) groups, (2) implicit word combination effects and (3) pluralism.

I have started this effort by pulling out a characteristic with 6 possible values relating pluralism. The six values are:

0. no pluralism
1. singular - works best as part of the phrase 'a _______' for example 'a box'
2. partial pluralism - works best as part of the phrase 'the _______' for example 'the dark'
3. single pluralism - operates much like a proper name, for example 'Tuesday', or the ultimate: 'God'
4. substance pluralism - works best as part of the phrase 'how much _______?' for example 'how much milk?'
5. complete pluralism - works best as part of the phrase 'how many _______?' for example 'how many boxes?'

The anchor points are '1' and '4'. Position 1 means sungluar objects, and position 4 means substances like milk or ice etc. The more like a substance the word is, the higher the number. The more like a single object the word is, the lower the number. Below 1 is for words for which the idea of pluralism is meaningless for example 'eat', and above 4 is for actual plurals.

When it comes to adjectives it gets interesting, for example 'the strong' refers to 'a person who is strong', and 'the evident' refers to 'something that is evident' although there are far fewer combinations where 'the <adjective>' works for things rather than people. In theory almost any adjective that referes to a person could be used this way. For example we could use the test phrase 'the person is _______' for example 'the person is strong'. I think I would like my created persons in the created universes I want to build to be able to use adjectives in this way, so I will probably make most of them that refer to people 2's on the above list. I hink the test phrase I should use for adjectives to see if they have type 2 pluralism is 'king of the _______' or perhaps 'I work with the _______'.

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Three Tier Scalable ASP.NET Database Architecture

I have been doing a lot of work recently with developing a three tier database architecture for ASP.NET that is scalable, and can be made generic. The diagram below is a two dimensional diagram in which the right-left dimension is the three tier portion of it and the up-down dimension is an object model for the middle tier. This is sort of in the form of a cross. I have developed 14 different operations that can operate on the database in some cases and on the middle tier DataTables and the database in others. It isn't exactly three tier because many of these operate directly on the database but if you are a stickler you can avoid the 'add's and the 'modify's and stick with the 'bind's. Here is the diagram:

What has this got to do with Artificial Creativity? Large systems often need databases. having a ready made workable database architecture can speed development when a database is needed. AC systems are likely to be come large, so...

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