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Another thread for my dear friend..

brought to the top, in case a dear friend here needs to find it.

Maybe a hint. Any set one can list in a Roster is countable. That is, there is the first element, the second, the third, etc. Don't say this is too hard. This is 1800's technology. We are in what now.. 213 give or take a few years past all of that..

So one is confronted with different sets of numbers. There are the Natural numbers.. they are called the counting numbers. {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...} and then there are other sets of numbers: the Integers. 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3... which set has more numbers, or members? That is the first big question..

First: some vocabulary.. Cardinality: the number of elements in a set A Set: A collection of objects. They can contain any members, usually numbers, for mathematicians. sets can have a finite number of elements, or infinite.. If sets have the same quantity of numbers, they have the same cardinality, by definition. (Maybe!) more to come.. I wish Walter would come here. I know he's seen all of this at least once..

maybe people should consider having home fellowships in homes that are not required to be meticulously neat, and groomed.. so you are going to wait until the kids, the spouse.. the you name it.. is in Perfect Detail. That is not a real home, to begin with.. If you want to come to my home, we will do readings out of Bullinger's Witness of the Stars. That's about all I've got left from my old twi library.. maybe we can do some math or something..

Patton studied at West Point.. MacArthur as well.. vic studied practical theology.. i.e. preaching. The only problem I have with Patton is that he did so poorly first time around with mathematics. Maybe he just didn't find the right instructor or something..

(not my) uncle harry raised skunks for pelts. *Miraculously* he never got sprayed when he picked them up. The whole story is in the little biography book the way used to sell. I do not have it on the book shelf now, it is long gone..

Tarot Cards are more complex. Maybe it depends on the Reader.

I hope it has enough room for the fearful, the terrified.. and here.. the Cats. Bullinger had a lot to say about the Ship. Bullinger had a lot of Victorian .... to sort through here.. Bullinger thinks that there are more Pilgrims than can be counted on the Great Ship..

Who would I absolutely love to see.. Waysider, Belle.. and fer gawd's sake, I could not logically define why. We have a rapidly contracting cosmos. Yeah. It's getting smaller.. and the likelihood of Connedtion is getting less, day by day. and ralphie. gone, dissipated in even more obscurity.. there is a really, really big ship, according to Bullinger.. that we get some passage on.. or do we..maybe it is asking for too much.

No, he didn't take the advanced class either. Not *really*. "black heart, white heart" is so spiritually juvenile.

We really were played, in a major way here.. let's see what the cuss detector does here.. the women were $%^$#ed. the men (?) were f*C*@#d. In a weird kind of way.. I feel more sorrow for the men. the women for the mot part figured out it was messed up. At least from what I've read here.

Barkers of Orders.. hmm. town*send.. in California. Barking Orders.. forbidding any kind of Christian Intellectualism. No Companion Bibles Allowed. They were beyond his Intellect.. must be devilish.. cummins. forbidding any kind of prohibition against adultery.. not *just* adultery, either. I met a couple from California, subjected to town*nds numbnutiness. But besides the logic behind the objections.. they would have not been any better than him.. or fiser.. or anybody else given free reign over a virgin organization. a bunch of kids playing grown up. Doesn't that really describe the organization? vic pretty much alienates and throws out any real kind of elder.. reminds me of something else in history..

vic was never in a "work program" either. Never mucked the pond, never fixed the mortar at Emporia.. never.. never. Never "did". But he found a few "leaders" who could bark orders in this kind of situation.. I met one. Or two. Or three. I'll stop at four.

vic went "witnessing" a few times. With a female way corps "fox" hanging off his arm.. she said something like this in an open meeting.. but not exactly. I wish these Numbnuts would come here to compare notes..

No.. never did. Not even going on an adventure, or experience that could even be compared to it. Neither did he go way corps.. nor its supposed model, the Marine Corps.. Neither did Walter.. or loy.. panarello.. I dunno. Maybe wow lite. I don't think vic ever went out LEAD either. hitch hike to gawd knows where, withing the prescribed time.. the mrs tried it I think. Probably minus the hitch hiking.. So. What is the point? We have a group of Authorities on Life Itself.. which never experienced life itself, to begin with.. the mrs. complained that there should be more allotted baths along the way..

Yes, it is. It's like military experts because they watch old films about Patton.. or something.

I find it hard to believe Walter was a math major..maybe he skipped the class that gave one an introduction on how to construct a proof..

It would be a pretty wild claim, wouldn't it?

Good point. What if you, I, and all the rest of every living organism existed before the incarnation of Abraham..

Who says that they really are that interested. In the grounds and upkeep that is.. except for the little area around the sign on w. road. Not so much to do.. they've rented out the land to local farmers, haven't they? Except for a few oil spills from wowmobiles in the parking lots.. there is not really a heck of a lot for staff to do, is there?

I understand what you are saying here.. they've worked with the lawyers, the investments, etc. And think they have some invented some kind of perpeptual motion machine. They are supposedly richer than God.. but, what if. What if.. one could not persuade somebody to deliver a truck load of food, to an address any where near 150 miles of Auglaize County, for love, or for money.. What if gasoline was non-existent, for over a 200 mile radius of the Household of Households.. how will they define "self-suffiency" then? No electricity. No Jet rides to the Bahamas.. I think this is not only a distinct possibility.. but that it is invertible. Will they be able to convince a few hungry followers to work their fields.. wait on them hand and foot..

Self-sufficient. I wonder if rosie and gang plan on turning loose the serfs (ahem, volunteers) loose on the fields this spring.. plowing, planting.. in the old self-sufficent manner.. no tractors, no gasoline.. no help from the outside world..

I used to think he was "dirty". But who isn't..