FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

Since the federal courts' rules impose very rigid deadlines upon lawyers in civil cases without regard to the size of the lawyer's firm or anything else, it would be only fair to impose equivalent or commensurate deadlines on the federal courts, as well, to be fair to all lawyers and litigants, regardless of size or anything else. Justice delayed is justice denied, to lawyers and to their clients! "Juice for the goose also suits the gander!

good/bad seed

The sowers of good seed seldom know, if their good work will ever show . The sowers of bad seed readily see, what harm their evil seeds will be! Good crops grow fast but weeds grow faster, leeching life like alabaster!

SURROUNDED BY SYMBOLOGY

SURROUNDED BY SYMBOLOGY In "Huck Finn," it was the river. In "Tom Sawyer," it was the cave . In "Moby Dick," it was the whale. In "Roots," it was the slaveship. Symbols reify literature, bring it alive; attach its imagery to reality . Symbols do the same in politics, religion, mathematics, art, music, farming, building, navigating, medicine and all else. Symbols reify, vivify, personify, allegorize, symbolize, algorithmize, animate. Symbols lock in, matching mental images to material embodiments. Giving someone the finger or two symbolizes; as does sticking. out the tongue. Shaking the head, finger or buttocks, also sends silent signals, like grabbing the crotch a la Michael Jackson, or yawning. Symbols speak across languages and time: eating, drinking, symbols are commonly understood when in uncovered ancient art & artifacts. The flag, any flag, is a symbol. The gavel is a symbol as is the gun, the noose, burning cross, the hood. "Whiteness"is an American symbol like its coerced, if colored, condign, correlative "blackness." Both racial--also symbols--their tropes have overspread the earth with allied, often mendacious myths, in their titanic, ritual battle for cultural symbolic supremacy on the earth. The lion is a symbol; so too is the elephant ; the fox; the turkey; the wolf; the donkey; the fish. Theoretically, that is, archetypally, mankind itself is probably mere symbols on a divine chess board, "chess," itself being but another symbolic representation of life. The modern alphabet is a series of successive symbols. The pyramids are symbols, the Great Sphinx is a symbol; so too are hieroglyphics. And the cross. Yin and yang are symbols; as are the star and crescent; indeed all of nature is! Even the stars above. They too are symbols like water. Can we be other than symbols, ourselves? Wisps of cosmic ideas? Smile! (Ha! another symbol!)

UNCERTAIN ESSENCES

UNCERTAIN ESSENCES One's conception of oneself is a consequence of experience, when compared to others of like kind. That personal conception is ever dynamic and always evolving as new information comes into your mind for processing about yourself relative to others in space & time. At your school you may be the fastest runner, but not so beyond. This latter fact is experiential either in personam or by reading records. Imprinting is very powerful . A baby eagle may think it's a chicken, too, until one day it looks up above the barnyard, and sees an eagle flying. Then a deep-set stirring within the soul of the eagle says, "Spread your wings, little eagle, fly away!" Like that little eagle in the barnyard are we, rarely ever knowing who or what we are, just trying to blend into the barnyard, where we were never meant to be, by design nor by destiny; being there by fortuity. But, inevitably, some day, you may look up and see something that causes a strangely familiar stirring within your soul; you may hear it in your heart or feel it in your bones; even smell or taste its succulent textures. That calling is divine. It is saying, "Come out, little eagle!" It is the God's Eternal Essence activating your uncertain essence, saying unto you, "There is water." Asking you "what prevents you now from being baptized?" Acts 8:36. "Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children ! Wade in the water. God's gonna trouble the water."

ORIGEN'S WAY

Plato is an awesome philosopher. A student of Socrates, he taught Aristotle, another icon. But Plato whom I love, and Aristotle whom I respect, both lived and taught several centuries before Jesus lived and taught. Jesus' impact upon me has been greater than both Plato and Aristotle. What they all have in common is Egypt. Plato studied there over 10 years and knows it as blessed of the gods. Aristotle relocated and lived as long there, where he allegedly wrote his 1,000 books, while vastly, heavily, incessantly "borrowing" from the Great Library of Alexander, that later was burned to the ground. Jesus was carried there to Egypt as a baby, by Joseph and Mary, when fleeing the bloody wrath of Herod. There he too remained, until the prophesy was fulfilled "Out of Egypt have I called my son." Hosea 11:1. Roughly 185 years after Jesus died, on Cavalry, there arose another exegete, philosopher, theologian named Origen in Egypt, who was raised a Christian by his father, from childhood. This man, Origen, after the Apostle Paul, who also lived after Jesus' death, had perhaps the greatest impact upon "the way," later now known as Christianity. Origen's teacher is said to be Ammonias Saccas, another priest, even more mysterious in Alexandria, Egypt. There Origen was a friend of, and a fellow student of Ammonias' with, with Plotinus, the renown author of "The Enneads." The Enneads is a work which essentially codifies the primordial "Memphite theology" of ancient Egypt. Origen was privy to this theology and to the ensuing philosophies of Socrates and Plato which arose from that ancient theology's tenets. By and through the prismatic means of all of these present and previous influences, Origen interpreted "the way" -- Old and New Testaments--his way, spiritually. By reason of his exegesis ON FIRST PRINCIPLES he was later declared a heretic by the later leaders of the orthodox Christian church, which rejected its Egyptian roots, in preferring its own doctrinal Christianity. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/origen/ I am reading ON FIRST PRINCIPLES, now, as I travel along the way.

UNITY IN ACTION

"The great hindrance to the advancement of the free colored people is the want of unity.... "[T]he main reason why we are not united is that we are not equally oppressed. This is the grand secret of our lack of union. You cannot pick out five hundred free colored men in the free states who equally labor under the same species of oppression. In each of the free states, and often in different parts of the same state, the laws, or public opinion, mete out the colored man a different measure of oppression... "[F]or there must be a common oppression to produce a common resistance. "Hence, also we have too long blamed ourselves with the want of union without sufficiently inquiring into the cause thereof. We have attributed to innate fault of character which really belongs to the circumstances which surround us--And now that we have traced our want of union to this its real course--I mean unequal oppression--how shall we discover the remedy for our disunion?... "If it be true that the main reason for our disunion lies in the fact that we are not equally oppressed, then we must seek to create within ourselves such a hearty hatred of oppression that any wrong to one shall be a wrong to all; or we must seek to find without ourselves some general form of oppression continuous in character , against which we may all, as one man, combine and continuously struggle until we are free and equal." P.98, 100, "Unity in Action," THE WORKS OF JAMES MCCUNE SMITH: BLACK INTELLECTUAL AND ABOLITIONIST edited by John Stauffer (2006)

OSIRIAN FORM AND SUBSTANCE

Form and Substance and Breath Substance conforms to form, how or why exactly, being a divine mystery. Does form irrupt from energy's inert substance? Or: Is energy's inert substance teased into being by its cosmic form? Form appears first, soon followed by substance, being form's maturity. Form announces "I am"-- its identity. Substance completes form's destiny. Form is sketch: substance pigment. Form outlines . Substance colors in. Form is fraction . Substance is whole. Form is flesh; substance is spirit. Form is body. Substance is soul. One alone is impotent: substance lacking form; form lacking substance. It takes both: form and substance to subsist, but it takes the "breath" of life to exist. It invigorates the whole. These three make both me and thee: form, substance, and a breath of life.