From Place to Place

Just as the previous paragraph avoided the aspect of limited human influence upon the physical environment other than in world changing natural habitat degrees, Demography of more than one will be used to describe the categories of groupings of humans by numeric parameters on a continuum from rural to megolapolitan and not as an exposition of intricate sociological intrigue other than as to predominant economic activity.

A brief chart of the major divisions of population are as follows:

CTGRY Rural<=Hse=Vill=Twn=Cty=Metro=>Megalo
TYPE
Scn/hunt/gthr Ag Dstr/Serv Mnfctr
[______I________I_______I_______=>
0-1====<5=====~200====>2000======>
POP/sqmi./Csqmi

The types listed in the chart above are proposed as characterizations of the primary economic activity. While they are generally exclusionary in the diminishing size direction, they are not generally exclusionary in total but rather usually additive and inclusive in the increasing size direction with anomalies as per specialized conditions from dense population centers toward rural population centers.

We can see by the numbers that the least populated community is one of a maximum of 100 people or less living in a 10mi x 10mi area. The greatest size being somewhat vague as to specific size, and generally as population centers grow together or expand beyond the base size of the sample area used they become considered one unit. The term Megalopolis is one coined to describe specifically that area between Chicago and New York and other areas in Europe, Africa and Asia where population centers of expansive area and hpgh density have emerged with cultural and social characteristics unique to communities of that size. So here we have an initial look at the strata of human community as nodal entities involving varying numbers of individuals.
Pathway(s) indicate to us the existence of communication. Pathways also help us to analyze the direction, type and amount of communication flows within communities and from one community to another. The term Pathways is used because it would have been an early form of other early forms of commutation used largely by individuals and sometimes by groups, that is still viable today, whereas, smoke signals and drumming are not, save in very isolated and infrequent situations. From microwave and satellite to radio, telephone and facsimile, and computer based internet information communications to the more traditional modes of conveying bodies and packages along roadways and rail and in ships, maritime as well as air, and today even rocket travel becomes more and more approachable, yet footpaths are making a comeback largely as intra-community pathways for recreational and health purposes for individuals so inclined, but also have some revival as inter-community modes of conveyance in areas such as Appalachia and Europe, and have remained in use as significant but diminishing modes in developing regions of the world. Pathways indicate to us the existence of communication by their evidence of movement of individuals between individuals and nodes of population which are limited and delimited in part by the physical environs upon and within which they exist.

Becoming Social

Social interaction is a necessary condition of community by being the action through which life is replicated and in which life is experienced, within varying degrees of social integration. To avoid the argument of chicken or egg as regards individual or society in order
to focus on the conditions and conditioning we know exist, seems the direct tact in developing a more cohesive understanding of the physical relationship of individual and society.
The physical parameters of social life can easily be delineated as non-human Geography, Demography of more than one, and Pathways of communication. Admittedly this limits our scope to that which is quantifiable by the five senses and generally verifiable through test and sample.
The reason for characterizing Geography here as non human is to avoid the confusion which might follow from the etymologically studied application of the word which reveals its true characteristic as an ‘overriding through sifter’, an umbrella word which also has more specific meanings and exclusionary applications. So to use the more exclusionary application and specifically meaning those attributes in the physical condition of life which, although they may include aspects modified by man, do not here include the writings and other recorded musings of men other than as they have been manifested directly and substantially on the canvass we often refer to as Mother Nature. In other words the section of the list concerning the needs in life as individuals become social includes human earth writings larger than Rushmore or Stone Mountain, and perhaps larger than Aswan Dam and the Dust Bowl and smog. An inclusive but not comprehensive rendering of the list: Astronomy, Topography, Meteorology and Geology seems fairly complete and at least example enough to indicate the area of community influence which is underlying all, though in many respects, especially as ‘the world grows smaller’ diminishing in its obvious direct influence but without which there is void.

More on Demographics of more than one, and Pathways of communication
later


RobeFRe

theo

RobeFRe said in response to a comment 'God of Person before God of group?'at Theo


most always by record as read

Adam
Enoch
Abraham
Moses
Samuel
Daniel
Mary
Matthew
The Samaritan Woman

All these had personal relationships with God who then sometimes used them to minister to the group.
Since the veil was wrent in two the relationship seems meant to be even more intensely personal again. I would say God of Person then God of Group. The role of group being fluid as to the individual need for relationship with God.
The organized group being unwieldy by size and need for tradition would generally be able to maintain the record of truth over time in better stead than the individual. But I am sure that this is not my blogspot, so I relinquish the floor for the purpose of a heightened personal, individual as well as group, relationship with God.

Spirit above, spirits within and spirits without

As we move from the physical through the intellect into the Spiritual, a universal question becomes evident–Why?. Why do we exist? Why do we continue? Why do we change? Why do we seemingly quit? Why do we not continue? Why do we suffer?
Inspiration is the key to beginnings. Begin, begoing?, begone. Why start? Why not stay? Why did we not stay? Because we were moved to move! Motivation, so many words to describe this precept, encourages us to change. To change position. To change placement. To change perspective. Inspiration as a key opens the door to understanding the source of ongoingness. Remembering that a rabbit sometimes goes on by being very still and quiet. Inspiration is a progenitor of instinct and concept. Many things we consider concepts were actually given to us, inspired in us from outside of us. Inspiration grabs us by the nape of the neck and points us in the direction we need, like blinders on the head of a draft animal it focuses us, it gives us our escape. Why are we not more inspired? Perhaps our vision of ourselves has disjointed that ability to see outside our box, to hear from beyond our self.
Concept, our vision of our self, is more an ongoing assimilation of outward conditions with and into the inward processes that make us distinctly our self. It is an important operand in the formula of life. This Concept is something which, though affected by outside forces, is a mentality wholly our own as individuals. It is our own as a part and parcel of inalienable rights, responsibilities and consequences. We make our bed, we read our life, scribble the borders, and crib our speech. But we do not live in a vacuum. Concept is derived from our experience. Concept, from the early years of dependance upon parentage, where it is very similar to its inspirational source, and through the sliding scale toward maturity--trial, rebellion, serendipity, and adaption--becomes personal. It is that thing which most ably describes who we think we are and thus who we are. It determines what we think is important and what we expect. What we expect is determined by whether we are continually looking inward or striving to see beyond our horizon. If our concept is valid then our interaction flourishes.
Vision describes that ability to discern and focus upon the significant influence. Although our vision helps determine our direction, timing and interaction. A part of our vision must appreciate our inner talents, limitations, and potentials. With experience, training, and a concept that is developed with vision in mind, vision improves, experiences become more in accordance with expectation, and inspiration can be more readily assimilated into the process of conception.
These three, inspiration, concept and vision, while similar and often interchangeable in usage, must, as the precepts described here, be independent, yet unavoidably synergistic to one another. This enables the self to be centered yet outgoing while resilient concerning the elliptic influence of living within earthly constraints.

RobeFRe

How I imit God

To start with a usable typo in the title can be a serendipitous rush. But why should'nt I tackle both the question of how I imitate God and how I limit God, both of which may precourse how I emit God and so the thing gets rolling. I was making the usual rounds, checking my lists, you know, when I stumbled upon the
Saecula
titled 'The Holy Father'. Anastasia, the author wonders in print why she dislikes Calvin and loves Foucalt. I, not knowing much of Foucalt, and limited Calvin other than by religious exerience in a Southern Baptist Church, think anyone, Calvin, Foucalt,or else, trying to limit God, is working very hard at making a god they can easily imitate and therefrom something they are familiar with, and so I see that perhaps both Foucalt and Calvin are the same in ways we have very little method of proofing much less proving.

First, God is not a something I can define completely and is independent of that which I define Him by, other than as He has made known to me and I have realized tested by the similar recounts of countless others and His immaculate Word. On the other hand God is more than I will ever recall and has never allowed me to be completely cognizant of His toal essence. I believe this is in part the lesson of the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. While we can never know His intent in placing that tree there, we can surmise that perhaps He intended to take that fruit, much as my grandfather would take an apple, when I was young, and peel it, slice it into small pieces, and feed me just enough to sate a hunger and leave me a desire, a curiosity, to consider more a viable alternative. Having not allowed me to overstuff myself on sweet juicy pulp, or to choke myself on tough untenable skin, the experience was pleasant and an edifice to all concerned.

In further support for this supposition is that, assuming the fruit was tasty, surely Adam and Eve overindulged upon its unfamiliar savor and substance, accumulating discomfort rather than satisfaction, which manifests itself today in reflexive preventive effort, as the tendency of the church to resist scientific facts and adversely to adhere to superstition.

It is dangerous to determine that God is no more than what I know or might know, and it is likewise dangerous to assume that any and thereby all description of God is healthy. In the Garden, Eve was sincere but wrong in saying that to touch was to die, for surely Adam was to care for that tree as well as any other. Satan on the other hand though misleading was correct to say 'surely you will not die', if we assume he means that God will provide an out(but will you take it?).

The question of foreknowledge--predestination--is one best answered with scripture such as 1 Peter 1:2 while tempering that edge with the very story we used in the beginning. God is bigger than my complaint, He is able to overcome my objection, but how? Jonah was desperate, he called out to God for help and God responded. Was Jonah coerced into obedience? Suffice it to say he was convinced otherwise than he first decided. But what of Israel the nation? Over and over and over and again God was faithful and forgiving while His people were sinful.

As an individual I have my will but if I give up my will then I have made a choice. By giving up will I continue to make choices but in accepting God's Will then my choices are made for me and that Divine Will becomes my will and so I have the Free Will but then where is choice? My choice should be made already but if I make a bad choice, I must return to Divine Will in order to draw closer,again, to God. Bad choices are what separate us from the Divine Will, so forgiveness, through the sprinkling of Jesus' blood, is the only thing which allows us into to the Divine Relationship.

Now as to the elect, the chosen of God known from before the foundation of the Earth by God, how is it that God has said we must go therefore into all the earth teaching them whatsoever He has taught us and Baptising them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost? He is sovereign and while determined that all be given the opportunity to reunite with Him, He is not deterministic, he gives us the opportunituy to ignore Him,

While we will find some seeming already in tune with God and having knowledge of Him and needing perhaops only to confess His Name and be baptised, there are many who are in much ignorance of Him and yet quite acquainted with evil and that way, so that it is through prayer and discipleship and example that we become able to demonstrate and tell that which God would have these outsiders know that they might have the opportunity to become in right fellowship and relationship with God.

Life Actuation

Mental dexterity defined as the processes involved in decision making necessary to accomplish a minimal material survival, assuming the base human experience, allows a detailed consideration at a later time of matters of esoteric intellect. For now, though, the most observable characteristics of the mind, the decisions action as a group, tends to cloak the operation and function of the first and second characteristics of the mind, those of perception and thinking. While even this most evident characteristic requires action to display itself, without the measured action of the first two, its effectiveness is limited and burdensome rather than liberating in scope. The effect of each upon the next in turn, and of the last result upon the next first observation, reveals a procedural ellipsoidal of arriving at a point by having been somewhere else useful, relevant and comparable. It is elliptical rather than cyclical by the law of deformation in material application: the growth, learning and progress of experience, internal changes, retractions and expansions from resultant adaptation and the eternal propensity of life to change its perspective, either actively or passively, while remaining generally focused upon a center. Body follows Mind follows Spirit.

Community Life is not to gather mess

So I have been looking around at the discussions by prospective and erstwhile PhD and D ‘whatever’ candidates; noting that many debatable points are raised yet very little meat is fed at the troughs. I find myself wondering what difference does it make that Hellenism influences the world today from a point so far in antiquity that one has to wonder if the Greeks could have been that shallow as to think that a rose by any other name could be other than a rose. One thing I rant about here is that the Greek’s typology misleads us all into the misunderstanding that love is anything other than that divine auspice which God has granted usward and in no wise is it anything other than that. Love is not lust, Love is not fleeting, Love is not without commitment. To the contrary, love is that thing which we take from God as if we starved and then cannot help but give it away as though we will never hunger again. The Greeks mislead us by claiming that this love or that love , love is something we share, the way we share it becomes the true descriptive and defining angle to use in explaining how we love. The object, then, is a major determinant in whether we use physical expression, and what sort of physical expression, as we relate our love for another to that other. This perspective lends itself to a less confusing understanding of relationships than trying to decide what kind of love we have for another.

The other moaning I have heard, is from those who surely know better, but delve into banal slighting of Brothers in Arms with Christ, whose only sin in the particular matter seems to be that they don't split hairs over motivation, but rather apply nuance to active onslaught against the wiles of the principalities of darkness manifested in our common and social structure(s).

Community life is to gether ness

Being together. Is that community? If there is togetherness then there is a relationship amongst units. Another implication of community is life. Living is being is life. And implicit in the word community is individual, a single unit. At the basis of living is a single life communing with at least one other single life. Community then is one communing with others. What is it that one commune? Basic to being is life, basic to life is an individual. But that individual is thwarted without community. The first need of life is parentage. An individual must both have parents and be a parent to fulfill the basic law of life. After life is established in an individual, then the who of parentage steps back in favor of the what of parenting. Birds, hens especially, begin to nest. Plants and many insects begin to store food as quickly as possible. The bounty of the Earth becomes evident. This relationship between living thing and place sets the tone and example for the order of all that follows. The one brought forth the other, the other maintains the former. It is a given that if one wants to be a helper, then he must find a way to help others. The former helps by providing, the other helps by pruning. The helped then must get something that they want, otherwise the helper becomes nuisance rather than help. The first need being life, then an understanding of life is helpful. So, to think straightforwardly, we begin simply: that is to say we look for the basic understanding through the barest example-the individual life. When the individual is observed to unveil his needs then we find legacy, consumption, assimilation, expulsion, security and ownership.

Evangelism Evangelicalism and intran sigencis ticality

Rather, lead me to that Peaceful River than the precipice of perplexity whereby if I stumble I might grab at thee by the nape and take us two(or more) down to town in a hurry!

Evangelism as opposed to evangelicalism, I suppose... is it too much to find it in Matt 28:19-22 as an inspiration into, rather than a condensation of, brain chemistry. Who could love the enemy and yet strive and encourage toward sanctity. Through inspiration we can! In terms of the human application of ideal to manifestation, how could what has come before be so complete as to need no improvement toward ideal(umbrella to idea)? If what a recent brain condenses(ideation) is to be complete then it cannot negate all, and seldom much, that has come before it. That which was, leading AND yielding to, that which is to be. Leaving us in the...midst...to be the fallable caretakers of The unkeepable Gift which overides our cursed unavoidable legacy. Now evangelicalism, be it the heavy reliance upon such things as tracts, the Roman Road, le lingue d'hier et au jour'd'hui(ou seul d'hier?), and action and attendance standards which do condense the message of scripture(gospel) into an analogy of a convert's relationship to The Saviour(sanctification) and tends to make known(evangelic) that convert's conversion's incept(intent required?).

Surely, as people enveloped within a precept of regenerative life as gifted toward us, we can work toward the betterment of society and the realization of eternal fellowship with the Father in unity simultaneously and consequentially, using such tools and techniques as become known to us when we find and have need of them, with blessing from and for our fellow letters of The Envelope.

out of order chaos

Life, having established itself in, as and through patterns, unveils itself to us as a very strict maestro. It is with very little frequency and much less success or sustenance that the anamolic occurence manifests itself. The frequency of the 'beneficial successful anamoly' as opposed to the 'detrimental successful anamoly' might be assumed to be somewhat greater, but is for, this writer, at this writing at least unexplored. Needless to say, 'sometimes a great notion'! God the author of order and provider of need-satisfaction must have seen the inevitability and neccesstiy of the carroom, out of left field, spontaneous, off the cuff, with no word of fair warning, 'what a pleasant surprise' happening; and in that foresight provided for the acclimatization of the same into the world's order and condition. To respond nonjudgementally with an air of rigidity and shock or horror to the out of the norm is to predicate the absence of that refreshing random kindness with and by which we can be and are so often encouraged.

RobeFRe

weakend looms

Having read another blog's post or two in the interim I realize that posting everyday is indicative of lots of time or enthusiasm for the post as well as fertive notions for the posting. As one able and knowledgeable writer has stated, it may be that leadership is the captain of endeavour, in the common sense, rather than inspiration. But let me unveil slightly that that thought has come from an apparent Anglican American considering jumping ship to the Catholic and wondering about, Nay! near disparaging Luther's desire for literacy amongst the laity. Poor protestant pretenders, have we no basis?
Listing Wants Outline Progress Report indicates a progression to nearly one third completion, with the beginning of the first of the remaining two thirds to begin soon. And most of the hard part behind.

Needs
Life
Individual
c. Spiritual
1c a 1 1)Inspiration
1c a 1 2)Concept
1c a 1 3)Vision


Sustenance
Individual
c. Spiritual
1c b 1 1)Nurture
1c b 1 2)Health
1c b 1 3)Security

Expanding Horizons Through Listing and Drifting or Listing and Intending in the beginagain refrain

I have been trying to unnerstan why some folks are so given to limiting their vision of themselves to only the things which might be, rather than considering the things which were and how they have helped and hindered them in their travels to this point in time and place. Now obviously, they are just fooling themselves and mostly noone else when they try to convince us that the only thing that matters is that which hasn't happened or even perhaps is only just now unraveling before us, so, "I am waiting to see what happens," doesn't get very far, and really can't operate as an accurate description of what is or isn't going on, because all things seem to have some sort of linkage through the 'degrees of separation' or is it now called 'everything theory?' or 'string elementals?'. So while horizon analysis gives us the simplest and quickkest set of contingencies in any one persons experience it becomes bulky and awkward by shere degreed division when applied to the part of the horizon that is behind us(for I wonder if it is really there when I or someone is not looking at it) and even moreso when that above us or below us becomes a factor of the sitchiation. So the word horizon becomes somewhat ambiguous when applied to the well rounded life. If we consider that even the actual shape of the horizon afront of us is somewhat curved down and away--something of a slider eh?, then perhaps horizon is a workable term. But the same condition might be better described as the 'arc of our vision'. That is not bad if there is no immediate obstruction to the 'line of sight'. Then vista comes into mind, for surely a vista is a horizon which might have an arc of vision and include obstruction both far and near and yet include and describe a depth of encounter. The vista! Enough listing and drifting, we go listin and intending next...

Blessed are the hongry for they shall be filled Luke 6:21 

New Pan of hot steaming Sourdough rolls 

New Pan of Sourdough Rolls

Ding Dong the witch is dead! We have moved a new pastor into his brand new house just yesterday evening. The hope and excitement was tremendous, palpable, cuttable with a knife. We are going to go again to the well and we are going to draw til we bloat. A man of letters even. A baccalaureate and a masters and a PHDiv or something great. We are going to slaughter the fatted calf and bake bread and you know the rest...! Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts. Praise him all ye creatures here below. Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost! AAAHHHHMMMehhhnnn

Peas in the New Year 

Peas in the New Year  

Grandma, what big eyelashes you have!

a response to a blog post titled 'The end is nigh' @ here and referencing a post at

here

Some cogitatin' might be the correct proposition here. That is of course in my best Tom Hanks voice from his professorial role in the 'Ladykillers'. But I do have to wonder if the instrument(s) played in the Harbinger blog are not some what antiquated of their own concept or is it conceipt? revealing my own inept? belief that God has 'a priori' claim to things such as precepts(are those propositions?). You know, "In the beginning God..." then everything else. Now I would have to agree that I have very little cognizance of what that I do not know, but then, that smacks of Yogi Berraism. It's also a bit like saying, "If the tree falls and no one hears...." If, he is saying that all is false that my mind does not encounter and assimilate, (by which methinks I am somewhat liberal with the standard applied), then what need have I, or anyone, of even education much less inspiration, and where does that lead? Why not come out of the shadow, rather than relish the dark?

maybe some more later