Saturday, December 8, 2018
SOWERS SOW
Luke 8:5-8 King James Version (KJV)
5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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LIFE IS A PRIME NUMBER
Every male and female is a prime number relatively speaking. This proposition is proven in Euclid's geometry, book 7, proposition 1, to wit:
Proposition 1
When two unequal numbers are set out, and the less is continually subtracted in turn from the greater, if the number which is left never measures the one before it until a unit is left, then the original numbers are relatively prime.
The less of two unequal numbers AB and CD being continually subtracted from the greater, let the number which is left never measure the one before it until a unit is left.
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I say that AB and CD are relatively prime, that is, that a unit alone measures AB and CD.
If AB and CD are not relatively prime, then some number E measures them. Let CD, measuring BF, leave FA less than itself, let AF, measuring DG, leave GC less than itself, and let GC, measuring FH, leave a unit HA.
Since, then, E measures CD, and CD measures BF, therefore E also measures BF.
But it also measures the whole BA, therefore it measures the remainder AF. But AF measures DG, therefore E also measures DG. But it also measures the whole DC, therefore it also measures the remainder CG.
But CG measures FH, therefore E also measures FH. But it also measures the whole FA, therefore it measures the remainder, the unit AH, though it is a number, which is impossible.
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Therefore no number measures the numbers AB and CD. Therefore AB and CD are relatively prime.
Therefore, when two unequal numbers are set out, and the less is continually subtracted in turn from the greater, if the number which is left never measures the one before it until a unit is left, then the original numbers are relatively prime.
Q.E.D.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookVII/propVII1.html?fbclid=IwAR2z3GjwXw4KPAAS5NM0untt51Kr9lXk5kMwCyrqzegcgUdEBHR-JFhVQzs
Friday, December 7, 2018
PARADISE LOST
One fatal tree there stands, of knowledge called, forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them that? Can it be sin to know? Can it be death? And do they only stand by ignorance? Is that their happy state, the proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build their ruin! Hence, I will incite their minds with more desire to know, and to reject envious commands, invented with design to keep them low, whom knowledge might exalt equal with Gods: aspiring to be such, they taste and die: what likelier can ensue but first with narrow search I must walk round this garden, and no corner leave unespied; a chance but chance may lead where I may meet some wandering Spirit of Heaven by fountain side, or in thick shade retired, from him to draw what further would be learned. Live while ye may, ye happy pair; enjoy till I return , short pleasures, for long woes are to succeed."
P. 41, PARADISE LOST by John Milton (1667, 2015)

Thursday, December 6, 2018
SEPTIMA CLARK
Septima Clark, noted civil rights icon from Charleston, South Carolina, wrote in her stunning autobiography, READY FROM WITHIN (1996), that she and her WWII, departing, sailor-lover had kissed so hard, that the blue dye from his uniform left blue streaking stains on her white starched dress!
Some Kiss? I'd say! My Word!
INTUITION
Our first, birth language is intuition. It persists throughout life , communicating when tongues differ or fail.
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Sunday, December 02, 2018
TWIN KANSAS CITiES’ CAMARADERIE
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Moving to Kansas City, Missouri, from Washington, D.C. in 1976, after graduating law school, I enjoyed briefly the residue of a once-vibrant conviviality between the twin Kansas Cities in Kansas and Missouri.
What segregation had brought into being, --camaraderie-- integration destroyed d to a large degree.
This schism was not immediately apparent to me. Our Howard University Alumni Association met at members’ homes in Missouri and Kansas, as did our Barristers’ Wives organization. Missouri had Lincoln High School (where I happily volunteer-taught in 1978). Kansas had Sumner High School. Both schools have glorious histories, and to this day, maintain very high academic standards, as before integration.
But as time went on, and the old heads died off, I began to notice fissures and social discriminations based on whether one was from Kansas or Missouri. Certain lesser-educated Missouri folks actually referred to their Kansas cousins as “country!” Galled by this epithet, I asked them why? What made Kansans “country” when compared to themselves? Nothing definite was said, just vague impressions.
In truth, nothing separates Kansas from Missouri but history—Missouri is a slave state. Kansas became a free state after a “Border War” morphed into “Freedom War” a.k.a. “Civil War,” 1861-1865. Years later state line, rivers, and street signs divided Missouri and Kansas. Both states voted for Donald J. Trump overwhelmingly in 2016, and both voted against Barack H. Obama in 2012. Having friends in both states, having practiced law in courts in both states, they still seem to be substantially similar to me.
Thus, my hypothesis about the two states’ nebulous enmity is derived from differences in business and in politics. Black Kansans are traditionally Republicans. Black Missourians began to become Democrats, rather than Republicans, under Harry S. Truman, and conclusively Democrats under John F. Kennedy.
In business, segregation gave rise to “12th Street and Vine;” “18th and Vine” and “Kansas City Jazz” as a global phenomenon. These were greatly enriched by Charley ”Bird” Parker, virtuoso saxophonist, who was from Kansas City, Kansas; who found an outlet in wide-open KCMO in the 1930’s during Prohibition, thanks to Mayor Tom Pendergast, a mover, shaker, and thorn-in-the-side of competing white interests.
Black businesses boomed in both Kansas Cities in the ‘30s-‘50’s say old, black businessmen from both states. Then came integration, alienation, discrimination, thus, nebulous twin-cities’ enmity of today.
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Sunday, December 02, 2018
TWIN KANSAS CITiES’ CAMARADERIE
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Moving to Kansas City, Missouri, from Washington, D.C. in 1976, after graduating law school, I enjoyed briefly the residue of a once-vibrant conviviality between the twin Kansas Cities in Kansas and Missouri.
What segregation had brought into being, --camaraderie-- integration destroyed d to a large degree.
This schism was not immediately apparent to me. Our Howard University Alumni Association met at members’ homes in Missouri and Kansas, as did our Barristers’ Wives organization. Missouri had Lincoln High School (where I happily volunteer-taught in 1978). Kansas had Sumner High School. Both schools have glorious histories, and to this day, maintain very high academic standards, as before integration.
But as time went on, and the old heads died off, I began to notice fissures and social discriminations based on whether one was from Kansas or Missouri. Certain lesser-educated Missouri folks actually referred to their Kansas cousins as “country!” Galled by this epithet, I asked them why? What made Kansans “country” when compared to themselves? Nothing definite was said, just vague impressions.
In truth, nothing separates Kansas from Missouri but history—Missouri is a slave state. Kansas became a free state after a “Border War” morphed into “Freedom War” a.k.a. “Civil War,” 1861-1865. Years later state line, rivers, and street signs divided Missouri and Kansas. Both states voted for Donald J. Trump overwhelmingly in 2016, and both voted against Barack H. Obama in 2012. Having friends in both states, having practiced law in courts in both states, they still seem to be substantially similar to me.
Thus, my hypothesis about the two states’ nebulous enmity is derived from differences in business and in politics. Black Kansans are traditionally Republicans. Black Missourians began to become Democrats, rather than Republicans, under Harry S. Truman, and conclusively Democrats under John F. Kennedy.
In business, segregation gave rise to “12th Street and Vine;” “18th and Vine” and “Kansas City Jazz” as a global phenomenon. These were greatly enriched by Charley ”Bird” Parker, virtuoso saxophonist, who was from Kansas City, Kansas; who found an outlet in wide-open KCMO in the 1930’s during Prohibition, thanks to Mayor Tom Pendergast, a mover, shaker, and thorn-in-the-side of competing white interests.
Black businesses boomed in both Kansas Cities in the ‘30s-‘50’s say old, black businessmen from both states. Then came integration, alienation, discrimination, thus, nebulous twin-cities’ enmity of today.
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Saturday, December 1, 2018
DANCE OF DESTINY
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