DILUTED AND POLLUTED MAN?
"Dilution" is the watering down, the thinning out, the degradation of the original.
Dilution can occur, indeed it has occurred, chemically, culturally, environmentally, and in other ways.
In terms of man, it is, at least, debatable whether the present devolution of man is a diluted version of the original man?
Imagine meeting nature in the raw, surviving, propagating; teaching; and figuring out what is good to eat and drink; how to speak and to write; how to compute and to build, "and on and on until the break of dawn," should give us modern humans pause in our presumptive superiority over our predecessors.
We may also be diluted not merely polluted in our mettle, values, virtues! We may be placed in this context purposefully to flourish in this unique niche in space-time .
But, praise be to God, we are still here even if diluted and polluted!
Monday, November 30, 2015
DILUTED AND POLLUTED MAN?
DILUTED AND POLLUTED MAN?
"Dilution" is the watering down, the thinning out, the degradation of the original.
Dilution can occur, indeed it has occurred, chemically, culturally, environmentally, and in other ways.
In terms of man, it is, at least, debatable whether the present devolution of man is a diluted version of the original man?
Imagine meeting nature in the raw, surviving, propagating; teaching; and figuring out what is good to eat and drink; how to speak and to write; how to compute and to build, "and on and on until the break of dawn," should give us modern humans pause in our presumptive superiority over our predecessors.
We may also be diluted not merely polluted in our mettle, values, virtues! We may be placed in this context purposefully to flourish in this unique niche in space-time .
But, praise be to God, we are still here even if diluted and polluted!
Sunday, November 29, 2015
SERMONIC SELECTIONS
The ability to make a sermon out of anything is a great gift. That unique ability implies the power of sight, feel, taste, hearing, scent, intuited from mystical realms of analogy, with each connected to the whole.
A member of a church that I then pastored told me that I had that ability one Sunday years ago. I thanked him for complimenting me, even though his meaning was not clear to me, before this very day.
Some preachers buy sermons, or lift them from others, or read them from various specially prescribed pastoralist texts or lectionaries. Not me, praise be to God! I can look out of the window and see one, or obtain them from history, current events, sports, meals, movies, etc.
2 FISH 5 BARLEY LOAVES
The 2 fishes and the 5 barley loaves, which Jesus blessed, broke, and gave his disciples to feed to the 5,000 on the hillside, including the boy, whose lunch they had been, are both prime numbers. The 12 baskets of scraps, remainders are composite numbers.
Prime numbers (2,3,5,7,11,13,...)
Prime number is a natural number that has only two divisors: 1 and itself.
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SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND GOD
SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND GOD
Undoubtedly simplicity, clarity and brevity promote comprehension while adding profundity, whether in penmanship or in physics .
Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared or (E=MC2) --the special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein--is about as simple, as clear, as brief, as any equation ever written, or as any thought ever uttered, and also as profound.
That formulation was perfected by Einstein and others from 1905 to 1946, until it achieved iconic status. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence
Ultimately it is a condensation of the two laws of conservation of energy and matter, into one law, its covariant; wherein and whereby each, energy and matter, subsumes, transposes, and swallows up the other, two states in one, innately and interminably.
As such, both being innately and interminably entangled, what a familiar Biblical metaphor from the book First Corinthians says about the conservation of the laws of matter and energy, or of matter as energy is also here appliable: the perishable becomes the imperishable and mortality becomes immortality. http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-54.htm
To God be the Glory!
Saturday, November 28, 2015
"DON'T SNITCH" IS STUPID
"DON'T SNITCH" IS STUPID!
A few years ago, a so-called "Don't snitch" campaign gained traction within certain tissues of the black body politic . I had heard it advocated by young rappers, who had also seemingly promoted certain illicit behaviors by t-shirts and verse. Self-serving? Yes!
Meanwhile, utilizing the "Don't snitch" cover, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, break-ins, drop-outs and gang-bangers were being drafted and engrafted into urban phalanxes of black "terrorists."
These miscreants preyed upon their own, pursuing power, profit, privileges, and glory, "by any means necessary," heedless of, indeed contemptuous of, its self-morbidity, its disabling tendency to disembody black unity/progress in their homes and in themselves !
I hereby suggest whoever brought us "Don't snitch " also brought its cultural accouterments, its criminal crew; to better exploit the whole.
I have no specific nor concrete evidence of this connection, this concupiscence, between vaunted "Don't snitch campaigns," and morbid "community" encroachment, to the extent that the former, physically-black "communities" still viably exist, as they once did, beyond postulates in the memories of folks over 55 like me!
Rather, I merely suggest this nexus based on my historical knowledge of the "divide and conquer" strategies involving guns, trinkets, cloth, mirrors, and inexpensive manufactured gewgaws, that were so successfully used in sub-Sahara Africa by Muslims and Christians to engender tribal war, an internecine, centuries-long, continent-wide, deportation and depopulation of that primordial birthplace of man.
These thoughts were prompted by my readings in WOODSON 'S APPEAL (1921, 2008), Dr. Carter G. Woodson's posthumously published manuscript. It was fortuitously and fortunately found among Dr. Rayford Logan's files by Dr. Darryl Scott in 2005. Logan was "the late Howard University professor and Association executive director after the death of Carter G. Woodson," writes Scott, in "Editor 's Preface" . Dr. Scott is presently Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History that Woodson founded in 1915. Scott is also a Howard University professor.
Get a copy of this "lost-now-found manuscript by the Father of Black History " for Christmas or sooner! (P. Xii)
A few years ago, a so-called "Don't snitch" campaign gained traction within certain tissues of the black body politic . I had heard it advocated by young rappers, who had also seemingly promoted certain illicit behaviors by t-shirts and verse. Self-serving? Yes!
Meanwhile, utilizing the "Don't snitch" cover, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, break-ins, drop-outs and gang-bangers were being drafted and engrafted into urban phalanxes of black "terrorists."
These miscreants preyed upon their own, pursuing power, profit, privileges, and glory, "by any means necessary," heedless of, indeed contemptuous of, its self-morbidity, its disabling tendency to disembody black unity/progress in their homes and in themselves !
I hereby suggest whoever brought us "Don't snitch " also brought its cultural accouterments, its criminal crew; to better exploit the whole.
I have no specific nor concrete evidence of this connection, this concupiscence, between vaunted "Don't snitch campaigns," and morbid "community" encroachment, to the extent that the former, physically-black "communities" still viably exist, as they once did, beyond postulates in the memories of folks over 55 like me!
Rather, I merely suggest this nexus based on my historical knowledge of the "divide and conquer" strategies involving guns, trinkets, cloth, mirrors, and inexpensive manufactured gewgaws, that were so successfully used in sub-Sahara Africa by Muslims and Christians to engender tribal war, an internecine, centuries-long, continent-wide, deportation and depopulation of that primordial birthplace of man.
These thoughts were prompted by my readings in WOODSON 'S APPEAL (1921, 2008), Dr. Carter G. Woodson's posthumously published manuscript. It was fortuitously and fortunately found among Dr. Rayford Logan's files by Dr. Darryl Scott in 2005. Logan was "the late Howard University professor and Association executive director after the death of Carter G. Woodson," writes Scott, in "Editor 's Preface" . Dr. Scott is presently Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History that Woodson founded in 1915. Scott is also a Howard University professor.
Get a copy of this "lost-now-found manuscript by the Father of Black History " for Christmas or sooner! (P. Xii)
JALEN HELPING OTHERS
Grandson, Jalen Imhotep Coleman, an Urban Scholar Athlete, preparing food for the disadvantaged at Thanksgiving buffet line! Way to learn compassionate caring & sharing!
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