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

Bloodless Ecosystems

What are You Doing Here?
Reflections on Clomp Expansion


Sometimes we refer to something as God’s sense of humor. Dogs reveal that fairly well. Some men buy Pit Bulls. Then they seem to intend on making believers of all of us that the breed is a horrible mistake. Others take one of the same breed and enable it to demonstrate the capacity of that breed to be kind and gentle and loving as no other breed seems capable. Then other men, or is it their wives, buy Chihuahuas or miniature toy teacup Poodles or Pekinese and expect us to understand their love.... I play with a Labrador. He responds to a multi syllabic name. Ambrosius. If you say it just right it is the sound he makes when he talks. Brosie has many nicknames. He always knew the game fetch, instinct, I guess, but he is getting better at it(intelligence?). He carries big rocks around and then barks at them for hours when they drop. Did it bite him on the lip? Did it get tired of going and jump off and now refuses to continue? Is it supposed to grow wings and fly? Ambrose knows birds. He knows that the geese are supposed to stop by and visit, he invites them and the ducks to do so, emphatically. He loves the grackles because they do. They go for romps together. Ambrosie should have been a greyhound, he has a big backyard, sometimes, legs churning, he resembles a Dust Devil as he motors from one end to the other. Before I had a fence I had an Afghan/Whippet, Sirrococo, Sara, running was never so smooth and easy. And fast. She is still chasing that last rabbit, that last rabbit is still running to get away. It was an amazing sight to watch, rabbit in the lead, hound ever gaining, rabbit stops then darts a turn and light-footed hound, tongue lolling, scrambles uncharacteristically to regain the momentum. Grace on paws. On and on and on, minutes become segments of time, the rabbit was Grandaddy Jack, he was savvy and crafty, father of many, seemingly involved as the hound by the game, finally, abruptly, they lay down together, to Rest, in the bar ditch, next to the road, you know. They loved to run, I’m sure they still are. Now I have a fence.

But before Ambrose, the fence, and the rabbit fetcher, and others, was BB. Beatrice Brandywine A German Shepherd of Royal Dutch lineage. Five Pages of Royal Dutch Lineage. Big, long, tail swooping the ground, head held in a neck protecting swag. Regal. I think she spoke High Deutch. Her owner gave her to me when she was about a year and a half old. She kept lumbering the wrong way off, and ended up at the KOA quite often, on her wrong way back to him, her previous owner. Or maybe she was just free now and going away in a direction we didn’t recognize as viable. Finally, the previous owner stopped by and put her on the only leash Momma had, that skinny little wimpy, braided plastic Chihuahua leash, and walked BB to the corners of our present yard, they were alone, at each corner, Larry was standing there, that funny looking leash drooping between them as she sat at his feet, to the side of course, minutes became segments of time, they returned, and she would never leave the grounds again unless Momma took her, or she dutifully followed the tractor, I could not drag her away, I could call but she did not come, she would follow the tractor and stay with it during Dad’s coffee, until Dad returned, I could feed her and brush her but....She loved her new home. Used the many cats for pillows at night, preeners at sabbatical and warmers in the winter. Remember that image-Dogs and Cats at Peace. Not so Scruffy. Scruffy thinned the cat population like snapping flies out of the air. I was glad to see him go to his real home with my sister. She thinks dogs and cats are supposed to fight. She and I are kinda like dogs and cats. I’ll talk about Mutt some other time. And Spot and Snowball and Bullet and Verinne.

The thing that got this post started was the statement of a principle within the paper I was reading in Compton’s Encyclopedia about Ecological Principles. Environmental influences on the life pattern. Consider the Dogs and Cats at peace image from above. The scientists of this article suggest that there are three kinds of members of a community--Producers-Consumers-Decomposers. The writers posit, if there are no consumers, here defined as carnivores and herbivores, the biosphere will continue indefinitely however adaptively with just producers and decomposers.

Now obviously it becomes difficult for even a scientist to hypothesize about conditions for which there is little or no empirical evidence, but I wonder if we can twist the implication of this principle just a bit and consider the Biblical story of creation and re-creation imaged in Genesis where God said that all animals would use plants for meat. Then, waiting until Noah had landed the Ark in safety to state that now animals could be used for mealtime repast by man and animals for the first time. Not that animals had not substituted for meat before, but it is that then is when He first said it was okay to dine on flesh. Is the inspiration of the stated image in Revelation of the Lamb at rest with the Lion, the source of Isaiah’s Bear and goat, Wolf and lamb, Viper and Children, found in a prehistory as well as in revelation of the time to come? How should these thoughts, loosely configured from the Written Word of God, effect a philosopher’s attitude toward philosophy? How do they reflect the direction scientific endeavor will follow? If life systems(communities) reflect the physical parameters in which they are found, as influenced by competition and suitability, and disturbance and recovery, do we, as higher intellects also reflect the mental environment in which we live. If so, at what point and does the mind then embrace the spiritual affectation of its physical existence as something other than a pre-existing physical or otherwise conditioned(result of nature) response to the bowl in which we reside?

I am wondering why science seems, here, only to be able to posit that life could continue without animal influence and tacitly to imply that without plants(producers) or microbes(decomposers) life will not continue. All this, when science is continually working, though not so much by intent, to support many of the precepts found in the Bible. Would there be some method by which to measure the portent of a change in the menu of all carnivores as to exclude flesh and adapt vegetation. Would this so systemize competition as to allow the Lion and Lamb to Rest in Peace?

Pass the Peas Please?!

Environmental Clomp(cluster) Factors or Population Count Variations in Community Development Size Descriptions

Environment is one of those words I like to throw about much like a rag. 'Is that a dust rag?' you ask. 'Well...' 'a wash rag?' 'uhhm...' 'What then?!' If I use it to dust it is a dust rag, if I use it to wash it is a wash rag and if I use it to quilt then it is something else entirely. Environment is an umbrella type word that covers other smaller meanings of itself. I am sure there is a word which describes that more scientifically or technically than does umbrella but umbrella will have to do for now. Overriding through sifter? Nyehh...umbrella will have to do. Umbrella is not such a bad word--it covers us when it is raining or bright and hot, then helps us as we walk along needing something to lean on, and if a bad dog or miscreant perchance by with malice then we have a ready fender or is it fender off-er. So environment is somewhat like that in that it has various meanings and applications depending upon the perspective of the sayer of the word. Another word of the same ilk in this vein is community. I had not realized how intricate, and at the same time simple, a word community was until someone caused me to explore its definition(s). I had not considered that, as a part of community, communication can be between just two persons and at the same time must always be between at least two persons in order to be community as well as effective communication. On the other end, when population growth is unrestrained community begins to approach unmeasurable quantities, and communication largely becomes difficult to find as the majority comes across noisy and cluttered and static, rather than as comradery and fellowship and personableness. The overriding factor, though, is that even in places of excessive population, one finds that there remains the elements of community found in a subset of that larger sparsley and tersely communicating population. So quickly here, have I run into difficulty with the idea of a comprehensive community in a large scale population center that it is evident that some sort of modifier(s) must be developed to define community that is non family and non friendly though not antagonistic, but matter of fact, agnostic and self serving in its communication and facade. Is it community to merely communicate without the feeling of belonging we often associate with the phrase 'sense of community'? And yet, when the Boston Red Sox win the Series how many tens of millions feel that very illusive and fleeting sense of community we all so desire as to launch ourselves into the countryside and into diverse and even sordid activities to replace it into our lives?

Pretty eh?