0944
hours. I can hardly believe I am still alive. Who would have thought I would
make it this far? It is a partly cloudy and very pleasant Spring day. We are at
the park and Carol is walking and I would be too but for lower back arthritic
pains. I took a prescribed pain pill but it hasn’t had time to work. Still it
is a beautiful Sunday. I can live with it. (I thought you would write first
Amorella I didn’t want to mention all this that was on my mind.)
Your rules boy. This is that grand experiment
of yours that started way back when you thought it would be cool to write down
every thought that entered your head consciously and unconsciously for
twenty-four hours. – Amorella
0952 hours. True. That is what my
character Blake was going to do back in the original Merlyn series. He was
working on the machinery to do that. Obviously this isn’t the same thing in
real life. It has though, over the years, made ideas, concepts and abstract
thinking more real, like the idea of a thought dropping into a micro (or any
other) black hole. It helps me to visualize, to sense what it be like to be
dead from an objective point of view. For instance, it might be interesting to
(mind experiment) personify a soul. If a soul had our five (or six) senses what
would be its existence (at least in terms of the Merlyn books)? It is
interesting that when these questions are in context with a story, particularly
for me, a fictional story I don’t have the feeling I am treading where Angels
fear to tread. I easily apply this to the Bible and wonder if others do the
same with that? I cannot fathom someone saying anything is the Word of G---D. I
would be terrified of being struck dead on the spot. It wouldn’t be right. It
is a condition that is beyond where I would ever go myself. People do though.
To each his own, but it is not for me.
Would you give up the concept of G---D for
G---D? – Amorella
No, I would not.
Would you give up the concept of God for
G---D? – Amorella
1010 hours. I already have.
Carol returned you drove home for her book
talked to neighbors Tim and Amy King then headed to McD’s on Mason-Montgomery
Road just catty-cornered from P&G’s Mason division. You are sensitive to
the sense of G---D in your heart (first) and do not like the questions I gave
you because basically, you do not know the depths of your appreciation for
being alive as if you were being born, a stranger in a strange land and have
been (of sorts) ever since. – Amorella
You know how to read me. Amazing. You
hone in on what is really important – I can never seem to find the words for
such things. This is a revelation I like to keep to myself. I do, from time to
time, like to think of the ‘living experience’ as if Earth is ‘learning and
experience setting’ in time and space. The Merlyn books are an extension of
this. Everyone has a right to her or his own personal thoughts though because
that’s what you take with you as far as I am concerned, if you do indeed take
something with you, certainly it cannot be something tangible.
Your precursor here (in context) is that you
were who you are (without Earth experiences) before you were born, otherwise
how could you see yourself as a stranger in a strange land. – Amorella
1119 hours. It is an assumption I
suppose. But what would ‘I’ be without Earth experiences? It suggests that something is within
the soul, as it were, before heartanmind.
As far as the Merlyn books are concerned why
don’t we preclude ‘heart’ has some form of personal identity before connection
with the mind. – Amorella
1123 hours. One could build on this –
very interesting, Amorella. I don’t believe I have ever thought this before, at
least not in this context.
Carol is on page eighty-four of a new book, Don’t
Go by Lisa Scottoline. She loves to read and you love to write. – You have
moved from McD’s to Barnes and Noble’s where she is looking for a new book on
flowers.
1203 hours. Back to the heart, perhaps
that needs a personification before the soul as both are connected within
context. This is interesting. A symbiotic relationship comes to mind like
mitochondrial DNA.
** **
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in organelles
called mitochondria, structures within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical
energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Mitochondrial DNA is only a small portion of the DNA in a eukaryotic cell; most
of the DNA can be found in the cell nucleus, and in plants, the chlorplast as
well.
In humans, mitochondrial DNA can
be assessed as the smallest chromosome coding for 37 genes and containing
approximately 16,600 base pairs. Human mitochondrial DNA was the first
significant part of the human genome to be sequenced. In most species,
including humans, mtDNA is inherited solely from the mother.
Selected and edited from
Wikipedia
** **
We can use this reasoning. - Amorella
1215 hours. What qualities would this
[premature] heart have to know ‘self’?
Premature is the wrong word, boy. A heart is
what it is, and it grows in a nutrient-rich medium of soul and mind. – Amorella
1221 hours. What are the nutrients in
this developing analogy? (I love analogies.)
The virtues will do here: prudence, justice,
temperance and fortitude. Both Aristotle and Plato considered them the best
character traits. – Amorella
1226 hours. I need to see this in
definition.
I’ll edit from the Oxford-American: prudence – the quality of
cautiousness; justice – the quality of being fair and reasonable; temperance
– the quality of moderation and self-restraint; and fortitude – the
quality of resilience and of moral fiber. These four simplified definitions work well within the Merlyn books. –
Amorella
1234 hours. I like these for their
simplicity. Are we developing cultural rules for the marsupial humanoids here?
Whatever works within these virtues, boy. –
Amorella
Wow. I really do like this, four
qualities in which to build individual and social standards.
One of the reasons Friendly and crew see
possibility in the Homo sapiens, boy. What the marsupial humanoids have and use
already exists within human knowledge and past consideration.
You
had a late lunch – ham and cheese sandwich with multi-grain tortilla chips.
Before lunch you spent the better part of the afternoon working in the yard –
Carol was and is planting and you brought out most of the wrought iron lawn
furniture and set it up on the patio in the woods and on the deck. – Amorella
1539 hours. I have one large round table
in the woods but I only took down one chair as no one sits there but me. The
other large round table and four chairs are on the top deck. – Carol was just having
me inspect and give opinion on places for further plantings. She does enjoy
doing her Spring work. I enjoy being outside whether I am doing yard work or
just sitting. (1554)
1613
hours. I just read over yesterday’s post and found at least one major error, which
I corrected with all caps. This is a working blog, what else can I say other
than I am sorry for the uncaught errors.
Post. Take a break. – Amorella
1715
hours. One of the things I like best about these four qualities is that they
are positive. Laws, the way we set them up generally follow the ‘thou shall note’s’. I
remember in classroom years I had two rules: Be Respectful and Be Polite.
They were written and stapled to the bulletin board or they were understood
after I verbally told or showed them what the rules were at the beginning of
the course. – The only quality that needs further specifics to me at this
present time is ‘moral fiber’. I’ll go to Wikipedia first; (morality) – looking
this up was easy; however, the first problem is one of definition and the
second problem is one of interpretation. Here is where the lawyers would come
in I imagine.
Moral fiber is first built into the four
virtues, i.e. to be a good upstanding individual and to be a responsible
citizen within the family group. – Amorella
1820
hours. The first problem I see with this is that Friendly, Hartolite, Yermey
and possibly Ship are on a rogue and perhaps clandestine operation and thus they are not being responsible citizens within the family group.
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