Notes - tough shit / moving on / on "24" and books

        

        Mid-morning. You have another clear sky to sit under while waiting for Carol to complete her walk at the park – a very pleasant Saturday it is with the kids playing ball on the park grounds on the other side of the woods. A few male joggers are about but most are female. You wonder what there is to talk about this morning since you are plunging back into the clean up phase of the final draft. – Amorella

         0913 hours. I don’t appear to have anything on my mind, as you say, a very pleasant Saturday morning, and it is coolish too, almost like autumn but by Monday it will be back in the 90’s. Here I am sitting in the shade making conversation mostly with myself and it is mostly about the weather. Nothing particular registers. When I get home I’m going to take a nap then do my exercises unless Carol has other plans.

         You are tired and have a nagging dull pain in your chest. Your blood pressure is okay and so is your sugar; but you feel out of sorts nevertheless. – Amorella

         0922 hours. I know this already.

         You need to declare what you know your circumstance to be otherwise it becomes an unnecessary burden on the mind. – Amorella

         0925 hours. There was a letter to the editor in the morning paper about how Karl Marx, Charles Darwin and John Dewey were atheistic secularists (or is it secular atheists). He is entitled to his opinion but I am not sure what an atheistic secularist really is and it is difficult to imagine that the three were of the same. And, on a more personal level no doubt some would consider me an agnostic secularist I suppose. It is depressing to think on my character friends and how it would really be if aliens stopped by to say hello. It is like Yermey thinking that dignity comes before freedom. I can see his point but I suppose they would be considered, well, alien and therefore not as good and true to the faith as we are. We are in a quagmire of our own making and there seems no end to it, though there had, at one time, to have been a beginning.

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secular – adjective

1 denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis: secular buildings | secular moral theory. Contrasted with sacred.

2 Christian Church (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order. Contrasted with regular.

secularist – noun

a secular priest.

ORIGIN Middle English: sense 1 of the adjective and sense 2 of the adjective from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age,’ used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church); sense 3 of the adjective, sense 4 of the adjective, and sense 5 of the adjective (early 19th cent.) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period.’

From – Oxford-American software

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         You ran a couple of errands and are presently at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road waiting for Carol. It is difficult for anyone reading your notes to think of you as having anything but an unworldly streak in you someplace deep down. – Amorella

         1045 hours. I suppose, but people take things out of context – this can be a very unscrupulous world when it comes to political and religious opinion.

         Really, now boy? I was not aware of how the world can be, how nature can be – human and otherwise. – Amorella

         1051 hours. I like your humor, Amorella. I do see an advantage of having my notes out there and public. I may not be religious, like mainstream Presbyterian, but I think of myself as spiritual and agnostic.

         In here, being Dead and confronting one’s self is enough of a task; confronting an Angel of G---D is not on the ticket; that’s how it plays out in these secular Merlyn books. Tough shit. That’s how I see it. – Amorella.

         1101 hours. You signed this last paragraph, but I have a problem with it.

         Tough shit, orndorff. Post when convenient. - Amorella

         1634 hours. I have been through this before, Amorella. I can move on anyway.

         Good. Later, dude. - Amorella

         Carol made steak burgers, veggies and potato salad for supper. You watched ABC News and last week’s “Unforgettable” and “24”. Carol went upstairs to read and you are going up soon. - Amorella

         2143 hours. We have had another day with no air conditioning and windows open, and we will keep some of them open again tonight. It is very refreshing to have a night’s sleep in cooler dryer weather with just a ceiling fan and another stand fan on low towards my feet. Perhaps tomorrow I will finish two more chapters. I am so intrigued as to how “24” was produced. If this series were put together as a film I would watch the full twelve hours in one sitting. Characters, setting, plot, theme are all wonderfully connected with world peace almost always in the balance one way or another. Jack saves the day every week; always with obstacles to encounter and always with help to meet the goals to meet along the way. Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’ every week.

         Merlyn’s stories have settings, characters and theme but no plot other than for Merlyn to finish his dream, in this case, a refreshed dream, one that will end with Uncle Ernie satisfied with the conclusion.

         This is how you see it? – Amorella

         2201 hours. Presently, it is.

         Post. - Amorella