ATOMIC AND HUMAN ENCOUNTERS

Certain events radiate energy as do certain encounters. At times, certain human encounters may become events that can, do, or have radiated far beyond the locus of a particular encounter. Not merely are later relationships of those who are involved in the event affected, altered, transformed, but so too are relationships involving their families, friends, neighbors, communities, untold others who have been later distributively impacted by the dynamic tension, radiation that was released by that singularly potent, eventful encounter, even if unknown. Certain tiny, invisible atoms, when split, under the right conditions, release massive amounts of atomic, of nuclear radiation seemingly from nothing at all, seemingly by magic. Certain atoms, when fused, empower the sun and other stars for billions of years, which empower planets, galaxies, moons. Human relationships are atomic or nuclear; fission or fusion, like certain atoms that also empower, engender their legacy. Amen.

EXPLANATION OF A PARABLE

"The heart is a god whose temple is the stomach; it rejoices when the other members are in a mood for feasting." P.550, "Inscription on the statue of Nebnetaru, Priest of Amon, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 B. C., by Theophile Obenga (2004) This metaphor of heart, god, temple, stomach, members, mood; with verbs rejoice, are and feast, mix various disciplines, perspectives, planes, in describing metabolism in relation to emotional existence. This aphorism is rich. This parable resonates, with our daily reality, carnal-spiritual necessities. It makes the heart divine. It makes eating, joyful, when motivated by a body's members' desires. The members' mood motivation is repaid by nutrition, by energy supplied by the stomach via the heart. A certain symbiosis subsists within this totality, this sensual mutuality of divine and earthen osmosis. Being ancient Egyptian the brain is not mentioned, not even meriting a canopic jar in their burial ritual The liver, lungs. intestines, stomach were placed in jars. The heart was left with the body for afterlife. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/canopic.htm

EGYPTIAN PRIESTESS TOMB @ 2900+ BC

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AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY, EXCERPT

"In the ancient Egyptian worldview , death was part of the universal order, whose main feature was life as created by the Demiurge. The state of being following physical death was therefore also known as 'ankh', that is to say, life. In other words, within the created organic world, life on earth and life in the afterworld were intimately linked."... "The heart is a god whose temple is the stomach; it rejoices when the other members are in a mood for feasting." P.549-550, "Inscription on the statue of Nebnetaru, Priest of Amon, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 B. C., by Theophile Obenga (2004)

NATURAL RESISTANCE

NATURAL RESISTANCE IS VARIABLE Anyone or anything constrained to act contrary to 'nature' must resist. Not just contrary to its particular nature, but contrary to all of nature. Such resistance is involuntary, is reflexive, automatic, like sneezing. If your jeans or shirt are too tight? The Torso resists ! Shoes too tight, feet resist! Food too hot or too cold, the mouth resists. All of life of any sort, fights mightily to protect its bodily integrity, from alien trespass, from intrusion, from constraints upon its natural liberty, before its life is lost. This natural tendency, involuntary reaction, propensity to resist, makes all the more remarkable, the staid, storied restraint of our people. Their disciplined demurrals to demonic evils are not merely illustrative of the "Sermon on the Mount" but of a divine power to persist and resist what we blacks have been subjected to in America, historically, unceasingly through slavery, Reconstruction, beyond. There were surely slave revolts in 1739 (Stono, SC), 1741 (NYC), 1800 (Richmond VA), 1811 (New Orleans, LA), 1822 (Charleston, SC), 1831 Northampton , Va). But none of these violent revolts (or near-revolts) were successful, due largely to logistics. Too-long repressed natural urges of the welled-up emotions of African Americans to strike back, to fight, to physically confront, resist or to avenge wrongs, were naturally not pursued for equally logistical reasons: like no arms, training, nor military leadership, no financial means to pay soldiers or to procure armaments, supplies, vehicles, and the requisite accoutrements to win an armed conflict. Fortunately we were able to hitchhike a ride on back of Civil War, as soldiers and sailors, dispensing with logistics issues that the sovereign supplied. Our symbiotic parasitism freed us from chattel slaves' chains as it saved the country from dissolution. In the Civil Rights Movement of the 1930s--1960s, civil rights litigation for equality in various sectors was fought in the courts, on our behalf, representatively, by the NAACP and the Legal Defense Fund, primarily. This was nonviolent resistance also. Later came the widespread sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, boycotts, rallies, speeches, wade-ins, media savvy means were used to shame, expose, vilify as hypocrites, white politicians, and others, who fought against us and who fought against their own laws, constitution, doctrines ! All of this was nonviolent , but were constructive releases for our ennui. So as we have shown remedial retribution, restorative exactions, need not necessarily be violent to be natural. Nature occupies all niches. Pictured is Dr. John Boyd of Virginia. This brave man, on behalf of himself and fellow black farmers (later female farmers, Hispanic farmers, too) has successfully obtained tens of billions of dollars in restitution , reparations, recompense from the federal government through the Black Farmers organization that he founded. He and they used litigation , Congressional lobbying, tractor-cade protests, newspaper, magazine, television across the South to be paid for past discrimination lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All of Dr. John Boyd's acts were nonviolent also, but were effectively fruitful for the tens of thousands that it helped. Natural resistance need not be violent.

LIFT UP

LET US LIFT EACH OTHER UP! One way to overcome our historic oppression in this era is to lift up those among us who have fought the good fight of faith for truth, justice, and right, even if they did not achieve fame, fortune, glory, or favorable recognition for their work. These thoughts have occurred to me as I reflect upon a Bison brother, who today has related that his father, who was also a Howard Law School graduate (1964), had not only not achieved the material rewards, i.e. riches, positions for his civil rights work; but who had suffered due to it, for it, greatly. Not only could I, personally, professionally, relate to that, I did and do relate to that powerful testimony every day that I live! Never mind his sufferings, that brave black man produced him! A son who summoned up the courage to tell the truth that is common to us blacks. At our historical base are countless, selfless, faceless, nameless, men, women, and children who have gone on before us ; who have made a way out of no-way; and who have been all but forgotten, not just by a black community, but by their own families! Memories are our actual histories! Let us, therefore, lift each other up in love , and all of those persons who are personally known to us, who have fought, in some way, for the right in their time, in their way. In lifting these up, in lifting ourselves up , we fortify, edify, vivify our own lives and progeny. Amen 🙏

BLACK ENOUGH.

Blessed enough, black enough! Amen!