"The Writing is on the Wall"
Held Verbally and Spiritually, Personally and Publicly, beginning at sundown on February 13, 2016 through sundown on February 16, 2016: An Intercalary; One day of the 45... Which Day? Only the Lord knows.
''How blessed is anyone who waits to reach for and arrive at the completion of 1,335 days." Daniel 12:12. For it is no longer, "As for you, go your way till the end of your days. You will slumber, resting peacefully and arise at the end of all days to receive your allotted inheritance," (Ibid, 13), for the allotment is soon...RISE! "When that time comes,מיכאל, the great prince who champions your people, SHALL RISE UP! ... at THIS TIME Righteous, Holy Yisra'el,ישוע ('Jesus...עמנואל)!" Ibid, 1. "Many resting in the dust SHALL RISE UP, their inheritance being rewarded, some to Everlasting Life, some to Everlasting Death." Ibid, 2. "While some who can discern be made anew as Sons of God, and those few who turn many to righteousness be made Eternal as our Father Himself!" Ibid, 3.
This time is not 'soon,' but NOW!
"Look! I am sending my messenger
to clear the way before me;"
As Elijah, cursing the damned to death in fire, and John, baptizing and washing anew in living water.
"and THE LORD, whom you seek,
will suddenly come to his temple.
Yes, the messenger of the covenant,
in whom you take such delight -- look! Here he comes."
Says El Shaddai!"
Malachi 3
You can also review my Twitter and Facebook feeds for this three day period for additional commentary.
For additional reading, see Malachi 3, and in non-Hebrew based translations, Malachi 4. For future deference, I said this is "On the Principle of "Everything."
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
On the Principle of "Everything" akin to a Theory of Everything, Part One
A review of the Theory of Everything can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything.
In an earlier posting, a muse was tugging at my chest, beckoning the slumbering poet within and I wrote "An Eternal Present Moment."
Racing tangent thoughts rev my mind...
Today is the summation of my being,
Driven to the present by past failures and achievements,
Propelled towards a future of tomorrow's hopes...
Stricken by fear of what might not be,
Pulled back to overcome yesterday's mistakes...
Today is the summation of my being, its value eternal.
Do I dare forget to live today?
Truth be told...during that time in my life, several years ago now, I had just fallen in love, but as many times before, I was remained of what it is to truly face one's fears: we fear not what is, but what might not be. We may fear not living while tomorrow is still today, dying while yesterday is never tomorrow with all its unspent desire, not living, not laughing, not loving, not being.
Perhaps, perchance, one may speculate or contemplate, and invitingly play the devil's advocate...
On a tangent thought, just a few days ago I met a young man who spiritually felt that simply being told "No" is a rebuke; I quoted Jude 9 to him and he retorted in anger that I was on the brink of blasphemy, but all I could tell him was ,"the Lord rebuke thee brother;" for not only did the man accuse me of eviscerating the scripture, but did so hypocritically: Jude 8 states ..."despise godly authority and insult angelic beings," it became evident that the young man lacked an understanding of a commandment in Christian theology that even the "angelic being" Satan be given respect and that even if the Archangel Mikha'el lacks authority to rebuke Satan, but must say, "the Lord rebuke thee," for only "the Lord," or "God" has authority to rebuke, then who is this young man to formulate in his head that one who tells him "No" is rebuking him...Reference Jude 8, "...despise godly authority," in other words, one who does not like being told he is wrong...BTW, Atheist, don't touch this one...I can already here retorts of circular reasoning, the oh so great Sophistry of a real devil, "all knowing, all reasoning man," a delusional concept unto itself, for the young man in question is a Christian believer, one who would be called "A Brother in Christ, By His anointing," and was discussing theology and a concept inherent to the philosophy expressed by Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings."
This leads me to quote Musashi: "What I call the void is where nothing exists. It is about things outside man's knowledge. Of course the void does not exist. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void." Interestingly, this void mentioned by Musashi can be likened, or viewed as akin to the aloneness GOD experiences that is hinted at by Hebrew and Muslim faiths, that on my lowly human I can only surmise as my approach at fear:
When stuck between an exhale of relief or a sigh, breathe. Life goes on. "Do I dare forget to live today?"
For that young man, I can only say this: The errors of our youth are God's grace by which we overcome to live a worthy life. Sadly, too many never realize this truth while the rest seem to hold those errors against one another...and fail to keep the second half of God's greatest commandment...love one another as you love yourself. And note, it doesn't say "friend or enemy," in fact our mutual belief should dictate we love our enemy as much as a friend. That a moment in time exists where this was not achieved is, as Musashi attempted to explain, "a void." A void moment where either, or both of us, failed to love one another and worse yet, love God as much as we should.
"Today is the summation of my being, Driven to the present by past failures and achievements." Greater of a master am I, young sir, than Musashi, for I look at the void, as you stated, "perceive that not seen," from The Ultimate's perspective, not yours, nor mine...for, the pupil, Musashi, failed to perceive it this way and now I lay it out simply for you: how is the void filled? Be careful...like a blade poised to strike, this is a loaded question...and still, the unseen, the potential void lingers. And until you can accept "No"as a heartfelt, friendly rebuttal, you have deviated far from the Way of the Warrior, long ago smothering your twofold spirit, blinding your ken and kan. And as I said, what is it that the other believes in, well..."What you believe in often proves to be contrary to the true way, distorted as it is by tendencies to favor your own thoughts and views." Quotes from The Book of Five Rings: The Book of the Void, Miyamoto Musashi.
So, here or there, there, feel free to play devil's advocate with this idea about the universe... Without complicated mathematics nor scientific theorems, designations of chemicals, elements, nor subatomic particles, is a "Principle of Everything," that in time will be scientifically proven...
And I begin by leaving you with a thought experiment:
Imagine your existence without the universe existing. This is Ku (emptiness)...this is aloneness...this is wisdom.
Now imagine, that your own existence, along with every single other person's existence, out of all space-time and energy-matter can only occupy the amount of space and time, and take the amount of matter and exert the amount of energy that will ever take up your life in an amount of space, and if measured as time, the infinitesimal period at the end of this sentence.
The truth is, even that is not accurate or true...for by it's very definition, the Big Bang is a singularity: it is something that does not exist, even infinitesimally momentarily.
"Sweet disposition...reckless abandon...a moment of truth, a moment of love..."
So to the one I fell in love with that tugged on my heart like a muse...I always will...love you...and though I will fail, protect you from evil.
In an earlier posting, a muse was tugging at my chest, beckoning the slumbering poet within and I wrote "An Eternal Present Moment."
Racing tangent thoughts rev my mind...
Today is the summation of my being,
Driven to the present by past failures and achievements,
Propelled towards a future of tomorrow's hopes...
Stricken by fear of what might not be,
Pulled back to overcome yesterday's mistakes...
Today is the summation of my being, its value eternal.
Do I dare forget to live today?
Truth be told...during that time in my life, several years ago now, I had just fallen in love, but as many times before, I was remained of what it is to truly face one's fears: we fear not what is, but what might not be. We may fear not living while tomorrow is still today, dying while yesterday is never tomorrow with all its unspent desire, not living, not laughing, not loving, not being.
Perhaps, perchance, one may speculate or contemplate, and invitingly play the devil's advocate...
On a tangent thought, just a few days ago I met a young man who spiritually felt that simply being told "No" is a rebuke; I quoted Jude 9 to him and he retorted in anger that I was on the brink of blasphemy, but all I could tell him was ,"the Lord rebuke thee brother;" for not only did the man accuse me of eviscerating the scripture, but did so hypocritically: Jude 8 states ..."despise godly authority and insult angelic beings," it became evident that the young man lacked an understanding of a commandment in Christian theology that even the "angelic being" Satan be given respect and that even if the Archangel Mikha'el lacks authority to rebuke Satan, but must say, "the Lord rebuke thee," for only "the Lord," or "God" has authority to rebuke, then who is this young man to formulate in his head that one who tells him "No" is rebuking him...Reference Jude 8, "...despise godly authority," in other words, one who does not like being told he is wrong...BTW, Atheist, don't touch this one...I can already here retorts of circular reasoning, the oh so great Sophistry of a real devil, "all knowing, all reasoning man," a delusional concept unto itself, for the young man in question is a Christian believer, one who would be called "A Brother in Christ, By His anointing," and was discussing theology and a concept inherent to the philosophy expressed by Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings."
This leads me to quote Musashi: "What I call the void is where nothing exists. It is about things outside man's knowledge. Of course the void does not exist. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void." Interestingly, this void mentioned by Musashi can be likened, or viewed as akin to the aloneness GOD experiences that is hinted at by Hebrew and Muslim faiths, that on my lowly human I can only surmise as my approach at fear:
When stuck between an exhale of relief or a sigh, breathe. Life goes on. "Do I dare forget to live today?"
For that young man, I can only say this: The errors of our youth are God's grace by which we overcome to live a worthy life. Sadly, too many never realize this truth while the rest seem to hold those errors against one another...and fail to keep the second half of God's greatest commandment...love one another as you love yourself. And note, it doesn't say "friend or enemy," in fact our mutual belief should dictate we love our enemy as much as a friend. That a moment in time exists where this was not achieved is, as Musashi attempted to explain, "a void." A void moment where either, or both of us, failed to love one another and worse yet, love God as much as we should.
"Today is the summation of my being, Driven to the present by past failures and achievements." Greater of a master am I, young sir, than Musashi, for I look at the void, as you stated, "perceive that not seen," from The Ultimate's perspective, not yours, nor mine...for, the pupil, Musashi, failed to perceive it this way and now I lay it out simply for you: how is the void filled? Be careful...like a blade poised to strike, this is a loaded question...and still, the unseen, the potential void lingers. And until you can accept "No"as a heartfelt, friendly rebuttal, you have deviated far from the Way of the Warrior, long ago smothering your twofold spirit, blinding your ken and kan. And as I said, what is it that the other believes in, well..."What you believe in often proves to be contrary to the true way, distorted as it is by tendencies to favor your own thoughts and views." Quotes from The Book of Five Rings: The Book of the Void, Miyamoto Musashi.
So, here or there, there, feel free to play devil's advocate with this idea about the universe... Without complicated mathematics nor scientific theorems, designations of chemicals, elements, nor subatomic particles, is a "Principle of Everything," that in time will be scientifically proven...
And I begin by leaving you with a thought experiment:
Imagine your existence without the universe existing. This is Ku (emptiness)...this is aloneness...this is wisdom.
Now imagine, that your own existence, along with every single other person's existence, out of all space-time and energy-matter can only occupy the amount of space and time, and take the amount of matter and exert the amount of energy that will ever take up your life in an amount of space, and if measured as time, the infinitesimal period at the end of this sentence.
The truth is, even that is not accurate or true...for by it's very definition, the Big Bang is a singularity: it is something that does not exist, even infinitesimally momentarily.
"Sweet disposition...reckless abandon...a moment of truth, a moment of love..."
So to the one I fell in love with that tugged on my heart like a muse...I always will...love you...and though I will fail, protect you from evil.
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Fallacy Bred by American Capitalism
The fallacy bred by American Capitalism is a fault, as identified by Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Company, other large American banks, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and current Chairman Bernanke is this:
Every market participant completely honest.
Otherwise, regulation is required.
Every market participant completely honest.
Otherwise, regulation is required.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Regarding DCMA
Please read:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201, Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute.
(a) Initial Ownership.— Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are coowners of copyright in the work.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201, Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute.
(a) Initial Ownership.— Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are coowners of copyright in the work.
(b) Works Made for Hire.— In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
(c) Contributions to Collective Works.— Copyright in each separate contribution to a collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole, and vests initially in the author of the contribution. In the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective work in the same series.
and
(e) Involuntary Transfer.— When an individual author’s ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, has not previously been transferred voluntarily by that individual author, no action by any governmental body or other official or organization purporting to seize, expropriate, transfer, or exercise rights of ownership with respect to the copyright, or any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, shall be given effect under this title, except as provided under title 11, (generally, bankruptcy).
Further, DCMA provided Safe Harbors for digital media providers and ISP services, i.e. TimeWarner, Twitter and YouTube Safe Harbors which does not expose those entities to legal liability for copyright infringement; this however, does not allow for users of those systems to wantonly infringe an another's copyright. Additionally, simply because monetary rewards have not been earned on works in any medium by the original content developer, and that such works have been "published" does not circumvent an author or creator of an original work from exercising copyright ownership.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Random thoughts on climate change
The question is not one regarding global warming which allows for confusion in determining how a changing climate affects the ability for life to exists on the planet.
Further, the following two theories lose importance behind a farce of polarized propaganda:
(1) Has human existence had a negative effect on climate variability?
(2) Does accelerating the period and rate at which climate cycles occur have a direct impact on the depletion of the Earth's atmosphere?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
iPhone Gmail App
As great as the iPhone Gmail app is (along with the great tools Gmail offers that I've finally learned to use) the one thing lacking is the ability to allow for banner notifications when emails are received.
Friday, January 6, 2012
The Demise of Yahoo!
I've been reorganizing my Internet email and calendar accounts lately...and today I'm going through my Yahoo account attempting to update my info, secondary email addresses, etc...
And there are two primary impressions about Yahoo's site and services...
Yahoo has actually updated a lot of it's services, including it's calendar and email products; perhaps one of the best features I like now about Yahoo's email is the "Automatic Organiser" application that allows the user to create subfolders and filtering rules by simply dragging and dropping a group of emails from the inbox to a folder the filter will move future emails. It's by far a better option than Google's "labels" that I am still figuring out (primarily because Google "groups" a string of emails together to which it applies the label rather than sorting into "folders"...which is odd because you can create IMAP folders in Google any way...but I'm getting ahead of myself with my own frustrations with how Gmail works and should probably save that rant for another blog posting).
Nonetheless...going back and forth between my Yahoo email page, Yahoo's main page and my own personalized "Y!" page, Yahoo's identity crisis and fall from eminent search engine mogul to a distant third nowadays is rather apparent. Attempting to get to my settings page for each various service is cumbersome and inefficiently time consuming...not to mention I often get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" screens after logging in from say my Yahoo Mail page to my Y! Personalized page...
Confused yet? So am I! Apparently the people in charge of developing all of these great technologies are failing to realize the importance of an integrated online personal presence that is simple to use. Ironic, because at several log on pages for Yahoo, I'm greeted by a screen that reads:
"There's a new master of the digital universe. YOU."
That's funny cause having to deal with a clunky web service that is leagues behind the integration process of it's competitors kind of pushes me to consider I should use another service altogether. But the likes of Google and Microsoft aren't without there own drawbacks (and of those two, Microsoft is beginning to look and feel a lot like Yahoo!, especially with it's PC internet based offerings; have you tried using LiveMesh and SkyDrive recently? Again, great products, but somewhat confusing how those two cloud services seemingly lack integration as well.)
All of this goes without mentioning that the reason why Yahoo's ad revenue has dwindled while Facebook and Google's has soared is because, well, the ads on Yahoo suck. A one line add, tiny in print on a part of the web page I generally overlook caught my attention as a horribly placed ad for a for-profit higher education institution. Another was promoting a free 10 (or was it 15?) day gym membership; part of the screen that contained the name of the gym was cut off and I only knew which gym was being advertised from the familiar mastodonic figure carrying a bent barbell. By the way, has anyone used Y! Screen for streaming video content? I hadn't heard of it until today at yet another login page (before getting another, "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" screen). Granted, I used Google to search for the service and typed in "Y Screen" and got a top listing for some website in German and didn't find "Yahoo Screen" or "Y! Screen" only until after searching for "Yahoo Screen." My point, however, only further shows the disarray in Yahoo's branding of itself and it's products. (And that reminds me of an ongoing privacy issue I have with Facebook too, all over the insertion of a period in an email address...apparently Facebook nor someone by the name of Adam Doyle in the UK know the difference.)
Looks like Scott Thompson, Yahoo's new CEO, has quite a lot to accomplish. For now, I think I'll concentrate more on how Apple and Google will deliver and sync my email, calendars and other media content to my PC and iPhone...
And there are two primary impressions about Yahoo's site and services...
Yahoo has actually updated a lot of it's services, including it's calendar and email products; perhaps one of the best features I like now about Yahoo's email is the "Automatic Organiser" application that allows the user to create subfolders and filtering rules by simply dragging and dropping a group of emails from the inbox to a folder the filter will move future emails. It's by far a better option than Google's "labels" that I am still figuring out (primarily because Google "groups" a string of emails together to which it applies the label rather than sorting into "folders"...which is odd because you can create IMAP folders in Google any way...but I'm getting ahead of myself with my own frustrations with how Gmail works and should probably save that rant for another blog posting).
Nonetheless...going back and forth between my Yahoo email page, Yahoo's main page and my own personalized "Y!" page, Yahoo's identity crisis and fall from eminent search engine mogul to a distant third nowadays is rather apparent. Attempting to get to my settings page for each various service is cumbersome and inefficiently time consuming...not to mention I often get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" screens after logging in from say my Yahoo Mail page to my Y! Personalized page...
Confused yet? So am I! Apparently the people in charge of developing all of these great technologies are failing to realize the importance of an integrated online personal presence that is simple to use. Ironic, because at several log on pages for Yahoo, I'm greeted by a screen that reads:
"There's a new master of the digital universe. YOU."
That's funny cause having to deal with a clunky web service that is leagues behind the integration process of it's competitors kind of pushes me to consider I should use another service altogether. But the likes of Google and Microsoft aren't without there own drawbacks (and of those two, Microsoft is beginning to look and feel a lot like Yahoo!, especially with it's PC internet based offerings; have you tried using LiveMesh and SkyDrive recently? Again, great products, but somewhat confusing how those two cloud services seemingly lack integration as well.)
All of this goes without mentioning that the reason why Yahoo's ad revenue has dwindled while Facebook and Google's has soared is because, well, the ads on Yahoo suck. A one line add, tiny in print on a part of the web page I generally overlook caught my attention as a horribly placed ad for a for-profit higher education institution. Another was promoting a free 10 (or was it 15?) day gym membership; part of the screen that contained the name of the gym was cut off and I only knew which gym was being advertised from the familiar mastodonic figure carrying a bent barbell. By the way, has anyone used Y! Screen for streaming video content? I hadn't heard of it until today at yet another login page (before getting another, "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" screen). Granted, I used Google to search for the service and typed in "Y Screen" and got a top listing for some website in German and didn't find "Yahoo Screen" or "Y! Screen" only until after searching for "Yahoo Screen." My point, however, only further shows the disarray in Yahoo's branding of itself and it's products. (And that reminds me of an ongoing privacy issue I have with Facebook too, all over the insertion of a period in an email address...apparently Facebook nor someone by the name of Adam Doyle in the UK know the difference.)
Looks like Scott Thompson, Yahoo's new CEO, has quite a lot to accomplish. For now, I think I'll concentrate more on how Apple and Google will deliver and sync my email, calendars and other media content to my PC and iPhone...
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