Gently Stilled

Gently Stilled by Glen Wells

Career Opportunities - The Clash They’re gonna have to introduce conscription They’re gonna have to take away my prescription If they wanna get me making toys If they wanna get me, well HELL, I got not choice

myth

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Devil in the details “I'd contest someone's claims Zeus farted and hence global warming” Apparently there are some areas with interstellar gases that occasionally get ignited and produce stellar objects that sometimes act as global warming devicesJ. One can observe, experiment, measure, speculate, theorize maybe even extrapolate on a particular unifying force that causes some effects that may include fundamental forces, such as gravity, electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear . It was the Ancients who first contested that there is one unifying force from which all sprang and that force is essentially neutral. While some simply reject various names attached to such a force, others seek it as a heel that looks to identify, verify and understand a T.O.E. And it has been proven that a buildup of some gases can become quite explosiveL. “or that Satan really does want them to rid the world of evil women” What memo did you get? I thought Satan wanted to fill the world with evil women. A central tenet of cognitive science is that a complete understanding of the mind/brain cannot be attained by studying only a single level. To deny this simple courtesy to any other discipline is the worst sort of bigotry, one that is easily remedied, but instead insists on remaining stubbornly, willfully and most of superficially ignorant of a cure. Only superficial judgments can come from superficial examinations of a single superficial level of a many leveled thousands of years old art form, that purports to embrace modern sciences in their quest for experience, knowledge and understanding. “If I wanted followers, I would have left a path.” "A single level of what? I'm not sure what you mean here exactly, could you please explain what you mean by "level" in this context since that's some fuzzy language you're using?" This is strictly googlenestity:

Cognitive science (insert alternate subjects here) may be concisely defined as the study of the nature of intelligence. It draws on multiple empirical disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science, sociology and biology. (ah the levels) Whether old or young, disciplines draw upon every area (level alert) of knowledge in order to obtain the most complete picture possible and still pieces will be missed, some due to tragedy, some to comedy, some to incompetence, impetuousness, superficiality, how a list of factors might ever end is indeed a mystery beyond the scope of the current horizon. If for no other reason some disciplines are kept for sentimental reasons, ready reference guides and what must be quite apparent (sometimes) stuff keeps getting forgot, dismissed and hung out to dry. If you don't speak the language, it appears that one must either think that they are talking about you or you think they should be and are dying to know why not, then the apathy sets in and some other topic takes precedence. "What's "googlenestity"?" I'm thinking hand signals might work better. "So by "levels" do you mean a variety of sources? To me "levels" indicates a hierarchy." Somehow meaning and indicates don't quite seem the same. Level means balance, in the plural form, yes a variety, no not a hierarchy. Yes, I am woefully behind the exploding nature of science and radically transforming inventions, but who isn't? Alas, I am more interested in being intelligent than the study of it., perhaps a contradiction, but it could have certain constraining effects, a light touch might be in order. My area of study lies more with language, or more informally, words, but pretty much all sources of science is fascinating. Yes, a balanced variety of inputs would be helpful in arriving at

conclusions, in order to determine valid assessments of any field of study, as opposed to narrow confinements that single out limited views of a storied past. A light touch does not bare so heavy upon a subject that resists revealing its mysteries too soon. As often the case, a forced refinement may lead to alleys that are better spent in less confining spaces. That the cutting edge will shear away at invisible obstacles is no surprise. I dare say there are new superstitions waiting to replace the old and while they may look a lot different and carry far different names, their purpose remains the same.

Areal without art everything would be real, exact. with art many things are really, different. reality is what is. art is what is wanted. or not wanted. what is beautiful and not. what to fear, what to be near, everything conceived, many things to be believed. Art is not just a mirror, a reflection, with inflection, an opposite, an exaggeration, a distortion that creates pleasing effects, even if it causes madness, especially when it's divine.

Emulation drenched in sunlight ephemeral

Everett http://www.univer.omsk.su/omsk/Sci/Everett/paper1957.html "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics* by Hugh Everett

"The "trajectory" of the memory configuration of an observer performing a sequence of measurements is thus not a linear sequence of memory configurations, but a branching tree, with all possible outcomes existing simultaneously in a final superposition with various coefficients in the mathematical model. In any familiar memory device the branching does not continue indefinitely, but must stop at a point limited by the capacity of the memory."

Everett's 'Relative State' was renamed (perhaps misnamed?) 'Many Worlds' by Bryce Dewitt, relative state does not imply infinite state, anymore than many worlds implies infinite worlds, just as all possible states does include all impossible states, (where impossible is defined as non-existent). It is interesting to note that a branching does not continue indefinitely and it is stopped when the memory capacity limit is reached. One analogy of death (a discontinued branch) might be that memory capacity is full. Does that allow other branches with perhaps more memory capacity, or less memories added, or added memory capacity to continue a branch longer than other branches? Is one of the keys to longevity of branches a matter of increasing memory capacity?

"In reply to a preprint of this article some correspondents have raised the question of the "transition from possible to actual," arguing that in "reality" there is — as our experience testifies — no such splitting of observers states, so that only one branch can ever actually exist. Since this point may occur to other readers the following is offered in explanation.

The whole issue of the transition from "possible" to "actual" is taken care of in the theory in a very simple way — there is no such transition, nor is such a transition necessary for the theory to be in accord with our experience. From the viewpoint of the theory all elements of a superposition (all "branches") are "actual," none <are [added in M.Price's FAQ — E.Sh.]> any more "real" than the rest. It is unnecessary to suppose that all but one are somehow destroyed, since all the separate elements of a superposition individually obey the wave equation with complete indifference to the presence or absence ("actuality" or not) of any other elements. This total lack of effect of one branch on another also implies that no observer will ever be aware of any "splitting" process. Arguments that the world picture presented by this theory is contradicted by experience, because we are unaware of any branching process, are like the criticism of the Copernican theory that the mobility of the earth as a real physical fact is incompatible with the common sense interpretation of nature because we feel no such motion. In both cases the argument fails when it is shown that the theory itself predicts that our experience will be what it in fact is. (In the Copernican case the addition of Newtonian physics was required to be able to show that the earth's inhabitants would be unaware of any motion of the earth.)"

Imagination alone is not required to prove any motion of earth, just an alternative perspective, such as escaping the gravity well and observing the spin from of a suitable distance. Likewise someone repeating a mistake likely will experience a similar result, someone repeating any habitual act will produce a predictable outcome, and learning from a mistake and changing a behavior can cause a changed effect (or a branch splitting).

hacked

The electrifying news went out throughout . It had never really occurred to anyone that their prize could be RE-PROGRAMMED. People seemed utterly amazed that anyone could have the nerve. Of course these prizes were "computers," and everybody knew hackers liked to "break into computers:" but prize computers were DIFFERENT from normal computers. The exact reason WHY these prize computers were "different" was rather ill-defined. It certainly wasn't the extent of their security. The security on these computers was lousy; the prize computers, for instance, didn't even have passwords. But there was no question that people strongly FELT that their prize computers were very different indeed. And if there were some criminals out there who had not gotten that message, people were determined to see that message taught. Yes, one can easily access a wealth of information that significantly furthers understanding of any subject, but equally one could read worthless pseudoscience, corporate/political spin doctoring and junk conspiracy theories that, at best, leave you uninformed and, at worst, make you dangerously deluded.

Osculation must is such a bright bone to pick, it seems quite strong, even brave. like it's coming through all the way to the other side, where everything is still felt cracked but not broken. almost bitter as a stone, yet still felt its weight hung low, cutting somewhere deep. wait to see how much its grown. this place made its own, this time taken in stride.

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In space-time continuums all parts of four-dimensional worlds may exist simultaneously as mathematical formalisms and lead to complete collapses of philosophical ideas of causalities. If so, switches from mathematical formalisms to philosophical ideas of causalities also leads to incomplete collapses, as well as complete and incomplete inflations. Well… we wouldn’t want to satisfy everyone would we? Depends if there was an ability to do so. Some people have told me that I have to love everyone so… One person said to me, "You love everyone." Her tone didn't make it a command or even an accusation, a simple statement, perhaps an opinion. However poorly I do, I have no cause to deny it. My spiritual roots are in Hinduism but… so are the spiritual roots of every other religion… ...and the spiritual roots of Hinduism are in even older religions, originated by 'the Ancients' who believed there was one fundamental force that is neutral, followed by positive and negative forces (in an electrically charged sense), these forces come in strong and weak forms. like it or not. I like. People who tell me I should love everyone certainly do not do so themselves and also don’t know what love is to begin with. The question is not should but how to love. I do my best to love and care for others but you don’t take an asp to your breast or pet a scorpion. True, but those that love asps and scorpions do. A handful of wealthy psychopaths decide that they don’t have enough and have managed to gain control of the press and the police, the governments and the courts and, of course, the means of

production. "The press", etc. implies there is only one, there are many. One can only exgaerrate infinity. Of course if one is controlled, all are threathened. Some of us screw things up worse than they were before as has been seen in the efforts of certain social and moral reformers. True for some, for others it is an effort of transformation, not really sure if there is really any differences between reforming and transforming. Given that it looks like bad weather up ahead, I suppose it’s only fair that winter is coming too. ...then spring. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.

A few theories that I have come across recently.

The common sense of one century becomes the wisdom of the next. The Ancients believed there was one unifying force (their Theory of Everything) from which all other forces flowed, the Force was Neutral (probably still is). We can know our past better than we can know our present and our future will know us better than we can know ourselves. Parts of our past are missing, these gaps represent what we can not know now, but we can miss. Parts of our past have been altered, misrepresented, lied about and they all aren't meant to harm us, some lies (cover-ups) are told to protect. What we do now, so much based on what was done to us and what we will do depends on what we want the future to be, a broken mirror with missing pieces, distorted shards and an imperfect reflection that is seen through old eyes made wise and mad. Everything seems perfectly normal, perfectly strange, familiar and brand new again, but our feelings are tugged by the weight of the past and pulled (sometimes screaming) into the an unknowable future. It can’t get any worse It could never get any worse. Is there ever a break in the action? There you are. Two cells united. Before you were doing fine. Incomplete. But not knowing it. Then, enter the dragon. Now sharing, the same piece of pie, suddenly got halved. You were full. Now you are half starving. But wait. Are you being greedy? You had it all, now you have half. Now you know want. That opens up new questions, that had never ever occurred. New possibilities are now open to suggestion. All these moments are happening, now, then, when you are open you decide, this could be an interesting moment, if that thought is held long enough to survive the change, the challenge, the new thought is, okay, I’ll go with this, I’ll survive and thrive, divide, soon. Again the division. Hardly have you had the time to adjust to the explosion, suddenly, change has not just made every possibility possible, it has made it real. Wait for it... No More Prisons tinyurl.com/5xa2xx

Past changes in the environment are a key to prediction of a future. Catastrophic events have happened, and are waiting to happen again. Worldviews. You only get one life. This is just one of many. Only. Just. Only, must make this one count. Hard ass. Just, take it all in stride, good/bad, better luck next time. Nostalgia. Only. Talk about pressure. Just. No worries. Pins and needles. Edgy. Que sera. Impatience. It is a profound and deep seated idea that massive tragedy and disasters are some sort of punishment from angry gods because life wasn't acting the way it should, quite the contradiction for being 'given' free-will then told not to actually use it. Don't kid yourself, enough will do it to you For those that I have abandoned, I offer apology, even though as you know you shared in the decision. For those that I have not abandoned, I apologize even more, for where you find the strength to not say go, I do not know. And where I find the strength to stay, I know is from you.

Thank yous Good is Promotion Evil is opposition Suppose you wanted to raise hamsters. You may really like hamsters as pets, or perhaps you like the way they taste. Either way they require care and feeding. This could become expensive, as your hamster population grows, you might think to sell some hamsters in support of your hamster habit. All is good in your hamster world, except not all seem to share your love for hamster pets, or even hamster stew. A bit of promotion might change some to your view, instead of thinking that hamsters don't do much in the way of entertainment, you decide to teach some hamsters some tricks, you think that is sure to dazzle a few, you could say, "Hey take a look at my hamsters doing tricks, bet you haven't seen this before, cause this is something new and even if you should tire of hamster tricks, there will always be room for some good old hamster stew." Now, along comes someone who doesn't like hamsters as pets, they might even think that hamsters should be left free, from doing those tricks that you taught them to do so well, perhaps sped along for convience sake by an electric shock or two. And this someone, who has become in active opposition to your hamster empire, that has grown so huge in its success at providing fun for all and snacks too, doesn't even really care if hamsters are used as pets or food. This someone, who now must be considered an enemy of your Hamster Kingdom, insists that it is a matter of principle. Today, this someone says to whoever will listen, "Hamsters are only the tip of a hugely growing iceberg of pet adventures and slaughterhouses, that are largely hidden from view. Why in a nearby town, it's not hamsters being toyed with but frogs. Yes frogs. There are frog jumping contests, frog emcees in comical variety shows, frogs getting kissed and turned into princes and jambes de grenouille for those tasty treats that can't be beat." So, while you may think it good to promote your hamster ways,

another may think it evil and be in opposition.

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF FORGIVENESS? Does forgiveness even have a purpose and meaning? Yes. Does the question even make sense? Yes. Does meaning come from within and from an external source? Yes. Can forgiveness be meaningful, given its apparent infinitude and permanence? Yes. Is it worthwhile only if there is an eternal aspect to it? Yes. I know when I ask for forgiveness, you will give it, but not gladly, no, not gladly. So, I won't ask. I know when I ask for everything, you will give it, but not everything is yours to give. So, I won't ask. I know when I leave you, you will mourn, and I too will be left alone to mourn. So, I will ask, please be glad again. I am not institutions biggest fan, I'm not their enemy either. I go my way, they go theirs. If insurance could be given for a bruised heart, I wonder how they would propose to satisfy a claim. I am sure they would seek the cause and ask if they had liability coverage. The insurance investigator might even ask for an apology, if none were forthcoming, a counter claim might ensue. Upon further inquiries, a heart of stone may be found, difficult to bruise, perhaps a crack will do. Revenge is best served cold, so some warriors say.

While Others know, a life well lived is the best we can do. Without forgiveness, there's more heartache. With more heartache, there's less well living.

Richet

J.B. Rhine, Charles Richet La première pensée de ceux que vous avez honorés de cette haute récompense (assurément la plus glorieuse qu'un savant puisse recevoir), c'est un sentiment de reconnaissance, si profond, si dominateur, qu'il envahit tout, et ne laisse guère place à d'autres idées. Merci donc au généreux citoyen de votre généreux pays, qui a voulu, par ce témoignage éclatant, enseigner au monde qu'il y a, pour tout homme vraiment digne d'être homme, un triple idéal: de poésie, de science, et de paix. La science, c'est la vérité; la poésie, c'est la beauté; la paix, c'est la justice. Vérité, beauté, justice, mots sonores et retentissants, qui émeuvent ce qu'il y a de meilleur dans l'âme humaine. Même il semble qu'en donnant à la science cette place prééminente, le grand Alfred Nobel ait merveilleusement compris le rôle de la science dans les destinées de l'homme. Nous sommes des êtres infimes et infirmes; nous nageons dans un océan de ténèbres. Partout, dans ce vaste univers, inconnu et inhumain, qui nous environne et nous écrase, l'obscurité et la nuit. Mais soudain la science nous révèle quelque fait imprévu; et, à cette pâle lueur qui s'allume, aussitôt quelques misères humaines s'apaisent; l'avenir devient moins incertain, et les choses présentes moins douloureuses. Si la science n'était pas là pour nous faire entrevoir quelques espérances, il n'y aurait pas de raison à la vie. Voilà ce que Nobel nous fait entendre en ce jour solennel. Voilà ce que désormais le monde entier doit comprendre, grâce à lui. Laissez-moi, pour terminer, vous dire encore que le grand honneur qui m'est fait, je le reporte tout entier sur cette chère Université de Paris, Alma mater, dont je suis doublement l'enfant. Aujourd'hui des Universités brillantes, fécondes en maîtres illustres et en élèves laborieux, riches en bibliothèques, en musées, en laboratoires, couvrent le monde civilisé, et sont la civilisation même, nulle part plus qu'en votre noble pays de Suède, Messieurs, dans le pays des Rudbeck et des Scheele, des Berzelius et des Linné, des Arrhenius et des Nordenskjöld. Mais il y a neuf cents ans, l'ignorance, comme un voile noir, s'étendait sur toute l'Europe. Alors s'est élevée la première Université, celle de Paris, et sur la montagne SainteGeneviève s'est allumé un premier flambeau, qui ne devait pas s'éteindre.

Au nom de l'antique Université de Paris, merci encore. Merci d'avoir compris que la science est la puissante et pacifique conquérante du monde de l'esprit, et le grand espoir de toute l'humanité.

Or a lack of knowldge about now and past...that makes future very unpredictable. And we generally have a very incomplete picture of 'now' and 'past'. I have no clue what you mean by 'now' being unpredictable because of a "change now". How can an change in this moment make this moment unpredictable? You have to predict this moment BEFORE the moment...hence the definition of predction. So the prediction occurs prior to the change. Therefore the change 'now' can't affect predictions of 'now'...'now' hadn't occured at the time of prediction. "Science is the truth; poetry, the beauty, peace is justice. Truth, beauty, justice, words sound and retention, which move the best in the human soul." - Charles Richet The idea of exploring is you don't know what will be found, you don't know what it means, but if you have the idea of being surprised, you might get a clue. I think we sometimes move slowly enough to anticipate and actually get what we predict. Or in a flash move quickly enough to change consciously. "We are tiny and infirm, we swim in a sea of darkness. Everywhere in this vast universe, unknown and inhuman, which surrounds us and we crushes, darkness and night. But suddenly the science tells us is something unexpected and, to this pale glow that illuminates, as some human miseries calm, the future becomes less uncertain and less painful these things." - Charles Richet If you agree that many nows have occurred in a past that went unchanged, many nows repeated, we call them routines, habits, same causes preceeds the effects, with minor inconsistancies, negible interruptions, a slight disturbance, soon the cast is resumed,

it takes a sudden change to break a mold, from this now becomes unpredictable, even rituals followed devotedly may suddenly be broken. Rarely and briefly now seems to join past and future. "If science was not there for us to glimpse some expectations, there would be no reason to life." - Charles Richet A forgotten memory will seem new, not just a sum.

Water is wet; it would be perverse to conclude, on the basis of its chemistry, that water is not wet because the atoms making it up are not wet; or that colours of things are not real because the atoms that make up those things have no colour .or, for that matter, that desires and intentions are not real because C-.bres .ring do not desire and do not intend. That plunges us back into philosophy, but of a tough-minded and conserv- ative sort. It is broadly functionalist as goes mind and meanings, as Wallace has made clear in a series of papers (Wallace 2003, 2005c, 2006). It is conserva-tive with respect to philosophical and physical principles; it appeals to standard methodology in the philosophy of language, and standard methods of the special sciences and in the specialisms of physics. Indeed, it is not hard to .nd truth conditions that, in accordance with the principle of charity, makes most of what we pre-theoretically say about uncertainty come out as true (Wallace 2005b, 2005c). They can even be given in a way that preserves bivalence and determi-nacy of reference (Saunders and Wallace 2007). It satis.es our key principles (1), (2), (3). It yields a better account of probability and the relation between credence and chance than any of its rivals. These are striking claims. If they are true, and granted that the Ever interpretation is at bottom a literalist construal of the

dynamical nitary evolu-tion, it would be astonishing if any other realist interpretation of the theory were possible, that leaves the equations unchanged. The implication , if these claims are true, is that our best physical theory, in place now for almost a century, is telling us that we live in a branching universe. - Simon Saunders

tagged Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. (To do this, go to "Notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish 1. I am 58 years old and will be 59 in September. 2. I have a 12 year old car. 3. I had a friend who often marveled, it seemed, how calm I was, how mellow, my kinda stock reply was, "If I was any calmer, I would be comatoast." Yes, I like puns. 4. I have lived in Henderson, Ky., Evansville, In., Nashville, Tn., Oaklawn, Il., Alhambra, Ca., Ft. Lewis, Wa., Ft. Hood, Tx., Kileen,Tx., Long Beach, Ca., Cheasepeake Bay, Key West, Fl., Miami, Fl., Concord, N.Y., Denver, Co. 5. Mary told me she prayed to God to send her an Angel, she told me I was an answered pray, I told her, she saved my life. 6. I have been married once, divorced once, widowed once, all to the same woman. 7. I worked with a salvage group, (for room and board) who looked for sunken treasure, but not while their ship was anchored in Cheasepeake bay with seawater in its motor. 8. I was a bike messenger in Denver, Co.. 9. I injured my back on a trampoline in high school

10. I went to Metro State 1/2 semester on G.I. bill, it turned out I couldn't even be paid to go to formal schooling, but it was fun. 11. I sold doughnuts door to door, mostly in apartment complexes. 12. Which gave me the idea to take a batch of marijuana chocolate chip cookies to the U. of Colorado in Boulder and do the same. 13. I became a librarian, sort of and still follow my writing dreams. 14. Photography is one of my favorite hobbies 15. My second car was a white ford maverick. 16. My Grandma Bertha was one half Cherokee and her husband, my Grandpa Joe was a railroad man, who gave me sips of beer. 17. My Mother Alta told me I was named after Glenn Ford and Alan Ladd. 18. I was once an aspiring Monk, for about 3 months, for awhile I took the name, Christopher. 19. I have done head stands on an elevator in an 80 story building. 20. I met Ron Lyle, professional boxer in September of 1975 while he was in Denver to fight Ernie Shaver. 21. Some nicknames I have been given: Roadrunner, Tyger, Star and Wild. 22. Someone once told me, "You love everybody." 23. My first pet was a kitten named Sweetface, a birthday gift from my favorite Aunt, Mary. 24. I let my hair grow for most of the 70's. 25. My favorite real life story: One day I was backing into a parking

space, slowly, I might have been high, I was definitely moving slowly. Too slow for a car that was rushing headfirst into the parking space. I stopped. I stared. The driver got out of his car and returned the stare. He seemed angry. At me. I continued to stare. I did not move my car; the slow movement had frozen in time. The man came near and said, "Are you trying to make me kick your ass!" I said, "I can't make you do anything." The man had no answer for this and walked away. I drove slowly away, in search of another parking space.

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a theory on entanglement erotic action at a distance your butterfly wings brushing against your hot breath that flows in an instant and reaches my lips that reach out in a puckered wet release back the way it come in the very same instant karmic payoff getting offf then jumping on and in no waiting for reincarnated bees buzzing their brains out squeese tight hold tight slippery when wet could go sliding all the way down falling in inside bursting exploding still pounding like surf on a shore roaring now waves building higher higher takes us higher crashing splashing

thinfat When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers. The code of Justinian and the theology of Justinian are two volumes expressing one movement of the human spirit. The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly. In the official formulation of the religion it has assumed the trivial form of the mere attribution to the Jews that they cherished a misconception about their Messiah. But the deeper idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained. The Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar. In the great formative period of theistic philosophy, which ended with the rise of Mahometanism, after a continuance coeval with civilization, three strains of thought emerge which, amid many variations in detail, respectively fashion God in the image of an imperial ruler, God in the image of a personification of moral energy, God in the image of an ultimate philosophical principle. Hume’s Dialogues criticize unanswerably these modes of explaining the system of the world. The three schools of thought can be associated respectively with the divine Caesars, the Hebrew prophets, and Aristotle. But Aristotle was antedated by Indian, and Buddhistic, thought; the Hebrew prophets can be paralleled in traces of earlier thought; Mahometanism and the divine Caesars merely represent the most natural, obvious, idolatrous theistic symbolism, at all epochs and places. The history of theistic philosophy exhibits various stages of combination of these three diverse ways of entertaining the problem. There is, however, in the Galilean origin of Christianity yet another suggestion which does not fit very well with any of the three main strands of thought. It does not emphasize the ruling Caesar, or the ruthless moralist, or the unmoved mover. It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operate by love;

and it finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world. Love neither rules, nor is it unmoved; also it is a little oblivious as to morals. It does not look to the future; for it finds its own reward in the immediate present. 16) All things being equal, fat people use more soap.

I don't know about all things, let's talk dirt. Equal amounts of dirt on a fat and a thin can be cleaned with the same amount of soap. But the thin will acquire more water. Don't like dirt? Let's go with skin. A very tall thin and a very short fat can have the same amount of skin. and use the same amount of soap. The thin is still using more water. Why, you may ask is thin using more water? Well, Miss fat complained that thin's long showers was raising the water bill. (:which she was paying for:) So, thin is paying the water bill and still taking long showers. All else being equal, more people use soap than they are use to. Fat definitely use more lotion though.

Tick my spyglass has fogged up would mind not looking guilty so that my report won't look like I missed something..signed spy elf or ..........elf spy....perhaps elfish spy.........spyish elf dosen't quite roll off the tongue...ok here is my efficiency report...don't let Soup see it.....I managed to help a patron download a photo to her yahoo instant messenger...now when in chats....she'll be looking right at the chatee...they can have staring contests now...yippee.....this took, in record time.......for a tortoise.....about an hour and a half....I refused to yield to the simplest solution and instead proceeded to exhaust every non-viable contingency. then while nearly collapsing from an odd strain of west Nile tick spray..oh did I mention that ticks have weaponized their latest offensive arsenal..that you might want to tell Soup about, when last seen, they were headed in his direction...you appear safe for the moment....on the other hand if guilt looking appeals to Ticks?..............................transmission interrupted.

Troll Apparently there are no trolls without trollees. Some Trolls merely act like trolls instead of actually being one, meaning that are role playing and are possibly capable of playing other roles as well. Trolls are often obnoxious writers bent on mischief and wickedness. Some sow feelings of fear, uncertainty and doubt, possibly a response to feelings of safeness, certainty and trust. Trolls may have no special powers, and are really mad about it, especially concerning those with special powers who may be overly happy about them. Sometimes Trolls are considered ignorant. Truly Trolls are in the minds of the perceiver .

trust - how do I trust you, when you don't trust me? - maybe I can't. - maybe I can. I will. - it takes time. - time we got. but how much? - we don't know. do we? - wanna know what people think of me? - I know what I think. okay what do others think? - I love everyone. - do you? - everyone I know. - who do you know? - so far just me. - you love you? congratulations. - just sometimes. sometimes I don't. maybe I don't know me enough. - it takes more than time. since you've had all your time. - it takes forgiveness. - the kind that is given before it is ever needed. what else do others think? - I will destroy them. - do you even know how to destroy? - it may not matter. I could do it without intention. I could do it with a lack of attention. but if I am poor enough at it. I can fail. the price of this failure may prove to be my greatest success. - you are a fool. - I'll add that to my list. although I considered that as a given. are we not all fools? - yes. but of different degrees. numerous measurements make it hard to predict. - wanna know what I think of me? - I don't trust you.

- a cowardly confused hypocrite. - you prove my point. Heaven is a Death Sentence as we live between the words cause the harm and charm affect alarms slightly out of touch attempt to live without illusion come naked frowns smiles are bound to succumb where is heated debate after school alert beware

Has anyone yet conceived of a methodology . . . of a system . . . whereby we can transition from the current capitalist model to a new one? Many conceive, some achieve, each adds/substracts/transforms transitions from all current/past/future models to new models. That one? This one? An other one? New models come from adaptations to internal/external/neutral forces. A new model likely may come from a mixture, a combination of systems that survive the competition of what works beyond mere expediancy. Some Cut Back on Prescription Drugs in Sour Economy By STEPHANIE SAUL http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/business/22drug.html?exprod=m

yyahoo "For the first time in at least a decade, the nation’s consumers are trying to get by on fewer prescription drugs. As people around the country respond to financial and economic hard times by juggling the cost of necessities like groceries and housing, drugs are sometimes having to wait."