Close to noon local time. Beautiful morning, small puffy clouds interspersed
with blue. You walked in the park and actually took a path on top for a ways.
More walking is good. The left knee hurts but not enough to have taken a pain
pill. Presently you are at McD's on Kings Mill Road with lots of cars shuffling
people from one place to another. The movement reminds you of ants at work.
Back in the fifth and sixth grades you used to wonder how it was with ants and
envisioned coming across a rather large anthill with three ants crucified on
little crosses. This, of course, led to lots of speculation in your elementary
and then junior high school mind. Carol just commented, talking about Steve
Berry's book, The Columbus Affair, published in 2012, and how it has
taken her to page 158, Chapter Twenty-five, to really get into the fun details
of the story of "just who was Christopher Columbus?". The nearby
Harley Davidson store is having a motorcycle rally today with lots of food and
music, you can hear the live band from your car about a quarter mile away. This
is a good time to work on Grandma 20, as it appears Carol wants to finish this
particular chapter. - Amorella
Late afternoon. You had a Subway picnic in
the shade of your front porch, then, finally painted the four deck chairs to go
with the table you painted more than a month ago.
1644 hours. I completed Grandma's Story 20 moments ago and am pleased
with it at the moment. I'm sure it needs a correction or two. I had a good time
working the words down.
Add and post, orndorff. Later, dude. -
Amorella
***
Grandma’s Story 20
©2013, rho, draft for GMG.vol.1
Fifteen
years have gone by and Grandma knows Criteria and Renaldo never married nor
consummated their relationship. They have become partners, story gatherers of
human truths. In their travels, Criteria has taken Renaldo to Rome, Athens,
Jerusalem and Cairo.
Criteria
feels almost all narratives are derived from one original story, just as she
senses all people are descendants of Adam and Eve. Renaldo thinks the accounts
are spawned by your spiritual nature. He doesn’t agree with Criteria that a
Master First Story existed. He parallels his thinking with Pythagoras who noted
some numbers are special and thus held sacred and that, likewise, some stories
are sacred. The two continually discuss these issues but never argue them;
secretly fearing of offending the other to the point it would destroy their
extended soul-felt friendship.
The
two, on horseback, are on the road from Rome to the Abbey of Saint Maurice and
from the abbey they were to head north to Notre Dame du Clarier, the Cathedral
of Sion in Valais.
"The
Bishops of Sion and of the Abbey of Saint Maurice are rumored of creating a
speculation," said Criteria amusingly, “I wonder what this is about?”
“A
sin, no doubt,” mirrored Renaldo's chuckle. “If there is a good story, a sin is
involved.” He had been assessing the founding his own story about their
surviving the previous night's unusual tornado, but he couldn't conjure a sin
to carry the wind of it.
Reading
his face Criteria declared, “In last night's cyclonic tempest, God have taken
our bodies and souls.”
Renaldo
responded, “I thought that. Aristotle, Pythagoras and Plato made allowances for
the soul's survival -- a method by which the soul may travel from one body to
another.”
Criteria
joked, “Metatempsycosis, modernized ideas from the Gnostics but not Rome.”
Renaldo
abruptly noted, “The Church says the body is resurrected, that the body is not
separate from the soul.”
“Pythagoras
said the body was divided from the soul and that the soul could transmigrate
from one body to another." A pause then, “I like Pythagoras because he
sometimes taught to an all woman audience, that one of the philosophical
monastic orders was all women and they held their property in common.”
“We
hold our property in common too, Criteria,” added Renaldo in laughter. “We are
a monastic order of two.”
“We
are,” she said and snuggled in close. She added affectionately, “We are one in
our hearts.”
Renaldo
warmly kissed her forehead, adding, "and our souls." They quickly
fell asleep in each other’s arms.
Criteria
stirred at dawn, “Renaldo, are you awake?”
“I
was thinking about the soul and perhaps it is possible that an angel would hold
of them if we both had died," said an obviously awake Renaldo.
Criteria
sat up in interest. “How, pray tell, did you come to that conclusion?”
Smiling
contentedly he said, “Because an angel holds each of us in his hand?”
After
bread and fresh water they climbed on the horses and continued north on the
road from Rome to St. Maurice.
That
evening after a meal of stewed goat meat and onions at the White Cross Inn the
Frank, Comets del Acqs III, interrupted them.
His
coat of arms clearly visible from a chain, he asks, “Good pilgrims, do you mind
if I sit?”
Both
stood in politeness, “Kind Lord, of course not, replied Renaldo. “We heard you
were staying at the inn. It is an honor to meet you, sire.”
“You
are a legend, sire,” professed Criteria, “as were your great, great grandfather
and great, great grandmother, King Pharamond and Queen Argotta.
Comets
del Acqs eyed her carefully and commented, “I think you are a princess in disguise.”
Criteria
set a standard aristocratic smile, saying in Greek, “I am but a simple pilgrim,
kind sir.”
“And
a scholarly one who knows her native language,” he replied. “I know your father
and one of your brothers.”
Renaldo
gently interrupted, “Kind Lord, do you have a story for our scribing? I am sure
Rome would enjoy the story from an illustrious a Lord as yourself.”
He
sat amused. Criteria and Renaldo sat. “I have a story. My grandfather had a
daughter, Viviane of Avallon del Acqs. My great, great aunt married Prince
Taliesin, the Arch Druid.”
“Blasphemy
in Rome, sire,” responded Renaldo while assessing the titled name, Viviane.
Comet
replied bluntly, “But not with the Franks, pilgrim. This is not Rome.”
Criteria
touched Comets del Acqs sleeve. “Indeed, Sir, it is not."
“You
are your father’s daughter, that I can see and I note that Pythagoras rests on
the extra chair.
“Plato
and Aristotle too,” added Renaldo.
Criteria
quickly remarked, “Renaldo is right, Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras -- our two
Greek columns and a pyramid,” and thankfully observed Comet del Acqs boisterous
grin.
795
words
***
1739
hours. As if directed within I popped open Pouch Text 20 in Braided Dreams and
at its conclusion a commentary with Soki about soul-shades. What is this
coincidence?
Perhaps, but drop it in here and we can see
if anything can be done with it. - Amorella
Should I have been going through all of Soki's comments in Pouch Text?
Some may be useful.
One never knows these things. - Amorella
But you are doing the writing; the first book is completed in my head. I
assume all three are completed.
The end needs no justification by the means.
The end is what it is. You may glean some insight by developing a Soki folder.
I do not know. We began focusing on the soul fairly recently. This is not those
books. You can read them at your leisure if you wish. - Amorella
I can find the information any time, now I'll stick with the Soki in
twenty.
Drop in the piece, orndorff. - Amorella
** **
Soki here. People need to keep their bearings like
Karlina [a human character in Braided Dreams], no doubt about it. I found
Solfire, who is an old Soulshade. Solfire likes being referenced as a she. We
have been discussing the subtle differences between the Living and the Dead. As
a Soulshade, when she is protecting a female heart, she usually takes the
aspects of a male. When she enters a male heart, she takes the aspects of a
female. She tells me that sometimes she keeps herself as the sex assigned
because the heart is more comfortable. Solfire thinks sex is more for comfort
an orientation in the metaphysical realms.
‘People
sometimes think I am an Angel,’ whispered Solfire, ‘but I am not. I am not constructed
to judge people either. I am a being who protects hearts. I carry the heart,
the kernel of who a person actually was and is, beyond the physical realms. My
duty is to listen and protect hearts, marsupial or human, it makes no
difference.
Other
Soulshades and I have been around since before Eve. You would not believe the
many hearts I have held, and the unbelievably true stories I have witnessed.
The stories the Dead carry are the only ones that make it safely to the other
side. The rest of life is, as it were, a busy silence as far as a human heart
is concerned. Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, people forget the best of
their deepest emotions and wishes and loves. Sometimes, people need to remember
the worst of their lives too, to keep a balanced perspective. How else can a
heart justly defend herorhis actions? Other Soulshades and I keep records. When
the heart touches the soul, or visa-versa, a recording is created. Thus, the
individual who does forget in life has a chance to remember life as it was
relative to herorhis time and place in the physical universe. It is reasonable
to be protective.
From: Braided Dreams, Pouch Text, conclusion of
Chapter 20
** **
You have read over this material and assume
it relates more to the heart than to the soul even though the 'Being" in
this case appears to be cast from the soul's light as a shade.
I didn't know the soul creates a light that would cast a shade. You mean
a shade as a shadow in context? Otherwise I would think of the word 'shade' as
. . .
A
soul-shade is as a ghost of a soul? - Amorella
I
don't know. "Lampshade" confused me.
I was attempting to be helpful. - Amorella
Oh.
Doug's recently sent article comes to mind (1821) -- (2123) based on the
following article he sent.
** **
Neutron Star Physics Governed By
Trio Of Related Properties, Scientists Show
Space.com | By Clara Moskowitz
Posted: 07/26/2013 8:37 am EDT
Scientists have uncovered a new
key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense
they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.
It turns out there is a universal
relationship linking a trio of properties related to how fast the star spins
and how easily its shape deforms. This relationship could help astronomers
understand the physics inside neutron stars' cores, and distinguish these stars
from their even weirder cousins, quark stars.
Neutron stars are born when
massive stars run out of ftuel for nuclear fusion and collapse. They expel
their outer layers, and their cores fall inward under the pull of gravity to
become denser and denser. Eventually, the pressure is so great that even atoms
cannot retain their structure, and they collapse. Protons and electrons
essentially melt into each other, producing neutrons as well as lightweight
particles called neutrinos. The end result is a star whose mass is 90percent
neutrons.
Quark stars are bizarre
theorized objects that are even denser than neutron stars, where even neutrons
can't survive and they melt down into their constituent quarks.
"Quark stars haven't been
observed," said Nicolas Yunes, a physicist at Montana State University who
co-authored the new study with his Montana State colleague Kent Yagi. Their
paper was published online today (July 25) in the journal Science.
Part of the problem is that
scientists can't definitively tell the difference between neutron stars and
quark stars from current observations, so some of the known neutron stars might
actually be quark stars. However, the new relationship found by Yagi and Yunes
could help distinguish the two super-dense bodies.
The researchers discovered that
for all neutron stars there is a relationship between three quantities: a
star's moment of inertia, which defines how quickly it can spin, and its Love
number and quadrupole moment, which reflect how easily the star's shape
deforms. The newfound relationship means that if one of these quantities can be
measured, the others can be deduced.
Though scientists previously
understood that these properties were connected, they didn't realize that such
a standard relationship held true. It turns out to be similar to a relationship
known for black holes, which are even denser than neutron and quark stars.
"For black holes there is
a well-known definite relation, but that made sense because black holes don't
have internal structure," Yunes told SPACE.com. "We all expected that
that wouldn't be true once you have objects that do have structure."
Understanding this relationship
for neutron stars could also help scientists study general relativity and the
laws of physics in a strong gravitational field.
"Since a neutron star is
very compact, it offers us a nice test-bed to probe gravitational theory in the
strong-field regime," Yagi told SPACE.com via email. Previously,
uncertainties about the internal structure of neutron stars prevented
researchers from carrying out such tests, he added.
"However, since our
universal relations do not depend on the neutron star internal structure, one
can perform general relativity tests without being affected by the ignorance of
the internal structure," Yagi said.
From: huffington
post.com/2013/07/26/neutron-star +
** **
What
came to mind as I was reading is this:
***
The researchers discovered that
for all neutron stars
there is a relationship between three quantities:
a star's moment of inertia, (which defines how quickly it
can spin),
which reflect how easily the star's shape deforms.
The newfound relationship means that
if one of these quantities can be measured,
the others can be deduced.
***
if I can come up the relationship among three
quantities of the soul then if one quality (rather than quantity) can be
measured the others can be deduced. Now, what are three qualities?
** **
1 the
quantity of food collected: amount,
total, aggregate, sum, quota, mass, weight, volume,
bulk; quantum, proportion, portion, part.
2 a
quantity of ammunition: amount,
lot, great deal, good deal, abundance, wealth,
profusion; informal pile,
ton, load, heap, mass, stack.
1 the
TV signal is of a poor quality | the
quality of life: standard,
grade, class, caliber, condition, character, nature,
form, rank, value, level; sort, type, kind, variety.
2 work
of such quality is rare: excellence,
superiority, merit, worth, value, virtue, caliber,
eminence, distinction, incomparability; talent, skill, virtuosity,
craftsmanship.
3 her
good qualities: feature,
trait, attribute, characteristic, point, aspect, facet,
side, property.
From: Oxford-English Dictionary -
Mac Software
** **
2146
hours. I don't know if I can do anything with this but if something can be used
to make a fiction appear more plausible this is fine with me.
The above shows how you have come to
'conjure' something, so to speak, for the good of the fiction and more
importantly here, for the good balance you feel your mind needs to pull this
off. The mind, in this case, is to observe the soul without the interference of
the heart in this 'pseudo-study'. Is this the case? - Amorella
What I am thinking is that Ship can come up with this for those on board
but also secretly for himself to better understand marsupial humanoid and Homo
sapiens' behavior. (2154)
Tomorrow is soon enough, boy. Your spirit is
in a 'rush to learn even in a fiction' as it were. You are an amusing little
fellow sometimes, boy. You become passionately excited over the simplest of
concepts: heart, soul and mind. You consider each a reality. Perhaps your
readers will come to think of them as real also. What do you think? - Amorella
I make fiction real (to myself) because I have to make myself (real to
me) when in the deepest of myself rests a fiction. I am legally real though, a
member of the Homo sapiens species living on this planet. Part of me is missing
though, through sensory malfunctions somewhere along the way. I have lived my
whole conscious life with this and have survived. Amazing. Living consciously
is really an amazing adventure.
True to form. Post, orndorff. Sleep well. -
Amorella
2203 hours. Your words are embarrassing to me. You are no more real than
I am, that's what I think. How could you be?
Good night, orndorff. Don't wake up dead. -
Amorella
I like that better. Thank you.
No problem. Whatever works. - Amorella
