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Friend, I never knew some of my favorite musicians dedicated a song to the Great One..

Maybe I'm a progressive.. I'm holding out for the year he threatens lawmakers along with their villages and Burroughs with Perpetual Winter unless they figure out some way to legalize the recreational use of Cannabis in the state of Pennsylvania.

What does one do with it.. Save it. Put it in the closet.. and next year, re-gift it to another relative. Then they will be asking the same question.

Within six short days, a Legend of Greatness will emerge from his residence, and will utter a Great Message to his followers, and to the world..

why would the context of go and sin no more be relevant in terms of smoking a God made vegetable.. go on, just smoke no more pot..

I see you have the proper description properly spelled..

I feel like my, if you could call them extended family never left as well.. all of the old doctrines are still well set in place, including mark and avoid and willful ignoring. Even after they left or got kicked out years ago. I'd rather sit here, cold, friendless in the dark than go back to what they have to offer..

We were all born in event one. No relevance whether we wanted to be or not.. comment as you wish.

Miscellaneous comments. It takes the right kind of personality, to wake up one fine morning, find everything one believes is just plain wrong, or unexplainable.. and end up playing nice in this existence.. Other than that. What is the possibility that one can get even with the Whole Universe? Very good questions, Raph..

There is something amiss with the map..

Shardovan could perceive the recursive occlusion in his philosophy..

Maybe we are caught in some kind of time trap. Like.. Castrovalva. the books are indeed very old, and they chronicle the rise of civilization to this very day..

The problem with the spiritual smelling sense thing.. those who exercise it fail to be able to smell their own feces.

I always liked series and sequences. So far, except for infinity, the extended real numbers and such, I haven't used anything here past high school algebra. We're just adding fractions. of course to show the sum of 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 + ... is really ln2, requires a tad more. but one could take a calculator, start adding and subtracting fractions and observe the sum gets closer and closer to 0.6931 as one keeps it up.. Did you know, there are two decimal representations of the number 1? maybe or maybe not. They might look different, but they are in fact the same thing..

I flunked Real Analysis my first time through..

If you want the number to be infinity in the extended real number system.. simply choose to sum all of the positive terms first.. 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + 1/9 + ... This series diverges. In other words, is not bound by any real number. It "blows up" even before one gets a chance to add on any negative terms..

Like the series 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 + ... = ln2. ln2 is a real number. Approximately equal to .6931 if you re-arrange the series, say like: 1 + 1/3 - 1/2 + 1/5 + 1/7 - 1/4 ... you still use up all of the same terms. However, the sum will be greater. The real weird thing about this. One can simply pick a number. Any number.. and one can find a re-arrangement of the series which will sum to that number. It might be a *tad* difficult to list the series correctly, but it does exist.

Given any Conditionally convergent a series, on can chose it to sum any sum which one one wishes.

It is the short story. Dreamer, nothing breather, nothing but a dreamer.. Allright. Here we go again.. Now is the time.. There is too much.. that we need to share. Aw, yeah, we've gotta see.. I'd glad to find myself back home.. the twelve string guitar has always suckered me in.

If you don't mind me saying. To reclaim one's identity, sometimes one must push the "reset" button. For some, that might mean going to a few church services where the preacher refuses to define God Almighty for you.. maybe go to a few Catholic services. join a local civic group, and do some REAL good in the community. Or at least try to. Listen to old music you used to like to listen to. Beatles, Spirit, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zepplin, Traffic, James Gang, Yes.. and newer music that you missed like Norah Jones, Crowded House.. Eat somewhere between 600 and 800 morning glory seeds.. Petition the Creator as to what is really going on.. and don't be surprised if or when you get some kind of answer. Explore childhood dreams (or visions if you will), and attempt to connect with whatever impression one once had.. Go back to school. Study a subject that you really like, or one that you could learn to like. Maybe two subjects. just, do, something, different. I could keep adding to the list. I've tried most if not all of them. And by all means, say "Merry Christmas."

I heard that somebody signed in high german once..

Maybe a similar question. Could one claim that early christians impacted culture? In a real measurable sense? One might say.. yeah, look, we have writings that survived thousands of years.. but writings from those who are of different religion might be able to boast the same claim.

My original thought for this thread was from how another poster referenced this particular piece of "history" as not being relevant today. In other words, what good does knowing that the old ministry was being run by delusional, screaming, gun-toting psychopaths? Things did not improve after chrissy poo exited the scene, either. I know the general attitude: leave me alone, this is not "edifying". What difference does it all make in regards to my eternal security (ahem, eternal salvation) and all.. I don't see how "truth" always has to be "edifying". I wonder if *mr* geero still packs heat when he goes to put on a public meeting.. These just might be the kinds of things I would want to know before attending his church..

Another thing about the paper.. I believe it to also show geero as an enabler. Supposing it to be factual, if indeed the old man came sniveling and crying about his treatment from the trustees and his family, the best thing he could have done would have been to immediately drive him back to the airport and send him home.. but instead it appears he just allowed and enabled more bad behavior. More sniveling. More tantrums.. more calculated meanness, especially to geero's wife..

I think the relevance of the "document" is that in either case, whether his claims were factual or not, it makes out geero as a delusional nutcase. a royal rear end kisser.. him and those with the same kind of minds.. from what I understand of the old vicster, he needed a ROYAL amount of said kissing to be comfortable anywhere at home, or on his travels. Would go off on someone if a blade of grass accidentally fell on the wrong spot. With so much in common, maybe the two should have gotten married, or something..