Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

D wrote:

  On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, Coogan's Bluff wrote:
 

D wrote:

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Coogan's Bluff wrote:
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Ergo the need for Christ's grace and forgiveness, all as the Father intended.
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I try and save my back-patting for minor skills that have taken way too long to master, the rest is His.

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Ahh... mastering vim comes to mind! ;)

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This vim?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80mWp6H4zEw

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Yes, that's the one and only!
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You do Python and Perlscript too?

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Mostly python and bash. When I was young I did more programming, but
now, in older age, only occasionally when teaching, or when updating
some of the scripts that help me run my business.

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All the tools of my bafflement - but still syntax and as Larry Lessig once opined, code is language.

 This is the truth! I probably never was much of a programmer. Somehow I managed to get the things to work through sheer will power, without a trace of elegance. ;) But it did work and performed well for many years. But an elegant solution it was not.

Like bailing wire for tech - one makes do.

 

I wonder how the Creator squared that with his upping the media power of Uniparty?

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His ways are mysterious. A test perhaps? A teaching tool?

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Yes, very much so I feel.

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P.S. I'm just getting into the "cloud of unknowing" - the introduction is robustly overwritten, academia has to justify itself always.

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Don't get stuck in the introduction! The only interesting thing is the
text itself, and _if_ you find it useful in your own life.

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Correct.
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I will go back after to see if the lead in jibes with my findings or not.

 Sounds like a good plan!

I've had to do that with many of the annotated Apocrypha too.
Let the verses sing, then go back to interpret and muse.

I've generally found real value (not academic tub-thumping) in the works of Lumpkin.
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Took a detour through 1600s Russia with a pilgrim - they really did live on bread an water.

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Oh yes, for sure! We often forget how good we have it today. Reading
those stories, really brings home the fact the blessings of peace and
capitalism.

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It also point out that in privation and poverty can be birthed organically the most genuine fellowship and charity, always from those with less to give than they manage to share.

 This is the mystery of love. As a monk said in last nights documentary... Jesus is amazing. It doesn't matter how much you give to him or take from him, he just gives you more and more and more.

This is so beautiful!

I'd hate to  think the only times we can act as Christ instructs is when all the chips are down and suffering is the norm, not an artifact of a modern economy that lulls us with distractions and choices.

 This is very sad. Something is missing. We've never had it better materially, yet many people suffer from sicknesses of the soul. =(

It's a deep sense of collective longing and loss, and it grows palpably even now.
Perhaps that will change.
I can see it changing some:
https://youtu.be/ZgC6uC8IUvc
(Meet some real Muricans, Bwuthe)

 

I may need a bowl of Carmelites when I'm done...
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Once you're finished exploring some of the best texts (in my opinion)
from the orthodox and protestant traditions, you can always head over to
St. Teresa of Ávila or St. John of the Cross for some catholic flavoured
mysticism. Too symbolic and intellectual for my taste, but could be fun
for a comparative study.

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When the student is ready the teacher appears, always.

 This is the truth! Often in unexpected places, and often in the form of life itself, instead of in just one person.

The latter for sure, like a rising tide if you will.

And a stroll down some unfamiliar garden paths can only redirect back to the intended walk.
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It's a pity that rhyme may lead straight back to Mt. Hermon, but it is what it must be.
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https://youtu.be/05fFX_LuDuY
That's the "high place" where fallen angels were worshipped both before and after the flood. The preflood tech prior to the flood was more advanced. The nefelim helped build then.  Some were 15 feet tall others were at least up to 35 feet tall. History records regular humans as being as grasshoppers compared to them. The watchers we real and not the same as giants/nefelim. Lots of evidence for this. The real truth about the sites you cover that people want to suppress.❤