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maybe the forgiveness aspect is outside of one's jurisdiction. I mean, yes, in the manner of humans here, I can forgive anyone of anything, but maybe its something I really don't have the authority to forgive.. I can forgive someone for cheating me out of 47.00 personally. But I can't forgive the same person for robbing a bank for 10,000,000 bucks or something.. it wasn't MY money, in personal terms, or in the same magnitude. I call Johniam friend for much the same reason. I can agree to disagree on any doctrinal point, including the merits of st. vic.

I think it was more than that. I think the vicster could manipulate light to some degree.. take of this what you will.. it's just a (direct) observation. and the result.. geero, lynn, f*ser, etc. were basically spiritually castrated.. I don't know about f*nnegan..

I am beginning to think ministry of the Holy Spirit is done on an individual basis. No organization needed.. sometimes it is rejected. Bertrand Russel.. now this character, you could call him a womanizer, agnostic, etc, etc. Nowhere NEAR vic-like.. but when the rubber hit the road.. he COULD NOT follow a multitude to do evil..

I wish some offshoot or some such would ask me for a word of exhortation and comfort just about now.. "You stupid sonsabitches.. get off of your dumbasses and religious high horses.. fer Gawd's sakes.. you are not God. but try to be.. in your little arcane universes.. DO SOMETHING fer gawd's sake.. help out at the local soup kitchen.. do SOMETHING. and after you've done SOMETHING.. do SOMETHING ELSE. I'm sure you can figure it out.." sowy. It just hit me in the right place or something.. I already helped the local kitchen by preserving a few tomatoes. I'm just waiting for the next thing to do..

I thought geero WAS an american citizen. Maybe not.. why write "a letter to the American Cop Outs"? kinda weird.

I never heard of Gun before. Sounds vaguely familiar.. They can play at my wake, if they are still competent and all..

I dust Daily.

I'd really like to know how you figured this out. Not that it is true, or untrue.. sorry if this was a previous question.. where the hell did you come up with this?? Personally.. one thing I believe with conviction. Nothing is as it was presented to me.. there is a lot of nutttiness along these lines. It is all my own.. a dear, dear friend. A Guru.. asked me.. so.. what if every thing you believed, or possibly could ever believe was just, plain, wrong. yeah.. she is a friggin fruitcake. good for her.. what about those in this reality.. one nutcase after another.. don't you feel.. what is the word, offended, betrayed? No I do not. It was one step of deception after another.. I learned what it was I needed to learn, one step, one deception at a time. This soul is cool.. I'm only sorry all of this drove her, and others nuts.. *mods*. do as you wish here..

Can I play Spirit 'nature's way" and have some kind of vigil when you die? I hope somebody does the same for me, friend..

the only thing I can hope for in this situation, is a few death-bead confessions of sorts.. I'm really glad I don't have any such here.. I'm "blessed".. I think..

Let me *attempt* to translate this into what universities are doing. Trained dogs? no. That is left to the State Police, the best I know.. bless patrol? Ah... that is largely *it*. it's not "bless patrol".. it's "parking control". they (at least CMU) does their best to regulate lawful parking. How does this help? It makes it VERY DIFFICULT for extraneous drug dealers, and the like access to university property. It's cheap, and might I add effective prevention of crimes that might be. This went as far as to me.. somebody.. no idea who. copied my particular parking code.. and I thought I might be facing the Spanish Inquisition.. essentially, drug dealers and the like would have to proceed on University property on foot. So I have no idea whatever came of this. All I know is my parking permit remained intact on my window. I didn't rip it off and sell copies of it to anybody.. I've read stuff about Grateful Dead concerts.. the "big problem" was not being able to screen out cops on the way in.. just saying..

In mathematics one could argue that this is true.. about 90 percent of the time I can show students some real world justification as to why it is what we are learning.. where does it end.. the real question is how far do you really want to go.. I've never heard anyone claim their lives have been derailed by previous math or chemistry or physics classes, though.

lumps of coal.. hmm. Isn't that what Santa reserves for the "naughty" children? sorry.. I take reality, and abstract hallucinatory elements of reality, as they hit me..

His health fails, as the rest of us..

You suddenly woke up, and everything you believed was, just, plain, WRONG.. "I would be very angry" was one reply.. why? I mean, wouldn't one be relieved of responsibility or something? It wasn't my fault.. it wasn't my delusion.. everything was wrong. Up was not "down". that would be more predictable.. not down.. in less than a fraction of a second.. why be angry. They asked.. You were deceived.. every thing I have experienced has so far been one step (or was it) one stumbling block along the way..

My friend is buried slightly on this side of mt Pleasant.. maybe this is poetic or something.. it's the same dull story .. I didn't have the time to be the friend I was supposed to be.. I imagine the same dull, lifeless story plays out, one time after another.. I dunno. :)

my dear friend Raleigh Wert was on one of those submarines. He said among a few other statements: the kitchen is always open, for whatever meal you can imagine, on a self-perpetuating environment.. they would HAVE to leave the subject of food open ended.. all the steaks you could even imagine.. no Diesel exhaust to endure. I mourn his passing.. we shared a common love- Morse

eventually, yes.. just most would not have the patience to wait..

I dunno.. the Squirrel needs more Cabernet.. in the real world, what I am looking at or for is.. a logical justification, for the current body to lose about 12 or so pounds. but weight slowly stays stable. a low count of platelets without a visible blood loss.. larger than normal red blood cells.. this means what.. I dunno.

gawd.. It's coffee, isn't it? stretched or not.. some caffeine is infinitely better than no damned caffeine..

when a "student" can rock my world.. what a wonderful world it really is.. the square root of two is irrational. I asked them.. do you REALLY take my word that this is irrational? I had to prove this to myself.. they will have to prove the same. Depending upon their destiny, anyway.. I can show you the proof.. the question is, can you understand it, or believe it's ramifications.. Sorry raf. I generally go back to my weakness. Math.. it's my weakest point..

it is embarrassing when you do this in front of students. Or is it? I really did this.. the range of the function.. it looks TO ME like all real numbers.. and the smart guy with the calculator says.. it looks like we have a horizontal asymptote at y = 3.. god.. I loved it.. I must have rapidly walked around in an ellipse at three times with a smile on my face..

and HOPEFULLY you were *right* to begin with..

I've pre-maturely made use of reincarnated hard drives. You can't do much with the aluminum platter, except sell it for what it is worth in aluminum. With the right shop I could turn them into high voltage variable capacitors. Now the magnets in the base of the voice coil used to move the read/write heads.. one can do a lot of "old" things with these.. they make really nice utensil holders.. no, you were Chia Pet. Then Chia Pet II, then Chia Pet III..

the one radio in my garage.. is beyond hope of restoration in its original form. but it has a few vital parts that along with a few transistors could still actually function.. it has a tank circuit for the oscillator. a mixer stage, and i.f. filters.. well, it's A.M. only. a cheap germanium diode for detection.. I have a few dozen of these somewhere around here.. this radio, is The Challenge..