Early
afternoon. You did your exercises and then Carol drove to a home in Wyoming she
and Ann are visiting tomorrow afternoon. Even with GPS she likes to have a
practice run, especially when she is going to have a passenger. You went along
for the ride today. On the way back you were going to pass Graeter's so you
stopped for dessert - a couple of kids' cups, now she is at Hallmark and you
are taking over the driving. Lunch is next -- Egg McMuffins and a car fill up
at Kroger's. Prices may be heading to the three dollar range once again, at
least according to the morning newspaper. - Amorella
1325 hours. I has been snowing since about
eight this morning; the ground is covered but it's less than a half inch -- we
might get one to two inches. Last evening I mentioned we haven't really had any
snow but flurries; so, par for the course, I spoke (wrote) too soon.
Mid-afternoon. You are home and Carol is
beginning to write on Christmas cards; you will have your share to write a
little later. The snow is coming down in big flakes and the bare tree limbs and
bushes are beginning to accumulate the picturesque Winter white. Carol just
asked if you need to get new glasses and you replied, "No," but you
are not positive. The doctor never said you needed to get new ones and when
asked you said they seemed fine. - Amorella
1443 hours. I should not have
mentioned I had a floater once this month. I got my eyes dilated at her request
but I wasn't too pleased about it. Turns out there were no problems. I can't
really complain; because I have diabetes Aetna/Medicare takes care of the cost.
Your
tone with her was rather caustic. - Amorella
1452 hours. I don't like people browbeating
me into doing something I don't want to do. Besides, the earlier eye doctors
from the last decade and more said I didn't have to have them dilated as long
as I got the electronic pictures taken. I did get that done although it was
suggested that I need not. I did not get along with these people this year
philosophically, that's all. If it happens again then I'll go to another
Lenscrafter centered office. I like the machinery they use.
1506 hours. I was just looking over my blog
page views and see the today I have 150 hits from Poland, 39 from Russia and 25
from the United States. I never understand this sort of thing. About once a
month or so I'll get a high hit day for no reason that I can think of except a
friend once said maybe they use your blog in a 'Let's Practice Reading American
English' assignment. The majority of the posts hit were December 12, 11, 9th
and 10th. Personally I think it is some sort of electronic mistake, a glitch
most every 30 to 60 days.
I
insisted and still do that you put this blog out in public space, world public since
it can be done easily. You are a very private person who did and does not care
to share your mind let alone your heart and soul with but a few very close
friends (less than twenty-five by my count). However, as I (imaginary or not)
am sharing myself with you I demand you also share your spiritual worth (that
is what you might take with you when leaving this physical world) because it
makes you a better human being for sharing spiritually. You give what doesn't
cost anything and everything at the same time. - Amorella
1522 hours. I understand. I continue to share
because it makes me feel freer where it means the most. The beauty of this is
that I can do it quietly for whatever it is worth or not.
1550 hours. I
modified my definition statement:
"Spiritual
consciousness allows for intimate unconscious familiarity in humanoids."
Take a nap, orndorff, or
at least rest quietly for a while. - Amorella
You did have a nap
after Jadah snuggled on. You woke up in time to take some of Carol's Christmas
cards to the post office before closing -- where you ran into a rash of five
o'clock traffic on wet and possibly icy streets. As people say, Cincinnati does
not do well in snow and ice. - Amorella
1715 hours. Cincinnati is built on seven hills
like Rome and both John Glenn and Neil Armstrong are good examples of the Roman
Cincinnatus for whom the city is named. Surprised that came to mind but it did.
Background (for a reminder to me -- I remember piecemeal things not the
surrounding details -- one of the personal reasons I love Wikipedia so much because I can look it up and refresh my mind as to the details.
** **
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucius Quinctius or Quintius Cincinnatus (c. 519–430 BC)
was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Republic who
became a legendary figure of Roman virtues -- particularly Roman manliness and
civic virtute -- by the time of the Empire.
Supposedly, Cincinnatus was a conservative
opponent of the rights of the plebeians who fell into penury because of his
son's violent opposition to their desire for a written code of
equitably-enforced laws. Despite his old age, he worked his own small farm until
an invasion prompted his fellow citizens to call for his leadership. He came
from his plough to assume complete control over the state but, upon achieving a
swift victory, relinquished his power and its perquisites and returned to his
farm. His success and immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority with
the end of this crisis (traditionally dated to 458 BC) has often been
cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good,
civic virtue, lack of personal ambition,
and modesty. As a result, he has inspired a number of organizations and other
entities, some named in his honor.
Modern historians question some particulars of
the story recounted in Livy and elsewhere but usually accept Cincinnatus as a
historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in
458 BC and (possibly) again in 439 BC, when the patricians called on
him to suppress the feared uprising of the plebs under Spurius Maelius. . . .
Legend
In the traditional accounts of the story, Cincinnatus's son
Caeso was an openly violent opponent of the attempts of the plebeians to enact
the Terentilian Law, which sought codifying the Roman legal tradition and
circumscribing the authority of the patrician consuls. Caeso would lead gangs
to drive the tribunes of the plebs from the forum, disrupting the procedures
necessary to approve it. He was brought up on capital charges in 461 BC
but released on a large bail. A plebeian named Marcus Volscius testified that
his brother, while feeble from sickness, had been knocked down and injured by
Caeso with such force that he later died. Rather than face his accusers in court,
Caeso fled to the Etruscans. He was then condemned to death in absentia and his father subjected to
a huge punitive fine, forcing him to sell most of his estates and to retire
from public life to personally work a small farm. (Some accounts say Caeso was
killed with Poplicola in the recovery of the Capitoline from Herdonius.) Modern historians
particularly reject the fine as a later invention inserted to explain the
dictator's supposed poverty and heighten his virtues. Some reject the story in
its entirety.
Other legends
Cincinnatus became a legend to the Romans.
Twice granted supreme power, he held onto it for not a day longer than
absolutely necessary. The high esteem in which he was held by the later Romans is sometimes extended
to his compatriots. One legend from the end of his life claims a Capitolinus
defended one of his sons from a charge of military incompetence by asking the
jury who would go to tell the aged Cincinnatus the news in the event of a
conviction. The son was said to have been acquitted because the jury could not
bring itself to break the old man's heart.
Legacy
Many Italian cities have plazas, streets, or other locations
named for Cincinnatus (Italian: Cincinnato). The Cincinnato neighborhood
in Anzio, Italy, and Cincinnatus, New York, in the United States] are named in his
honor.
The Society of the Cincinnati was established by Henry Knox in
1783 to assist the officers of the Continental Army and Navy and their
families; to preserve the ideals of the American Revolution; and to maintain
the union of the former colonies. A French Society of the Cincinnati was
founded soon afterwards by King Louis XVI. Cincinnati, Ohio, long one of the
major cities of the United States, was named in its honor.
The legend of Cincinnatus's selfless service for his country has
continued to inspire admiration, including by Niccolo Machiavelli. It has also
been invoked to honor other political leaders, notably George Washington.. Washington's
relinquishing of control of the Continental Army, refusal to consider
establishing a monarchy or assuming monarchical powers, and voluntary
retirement after two terms as president to return to his farm at Mount Vernon have
made allusions to Cincinnatus common in historical and literary
treatments of the era.
The legend has also inspired or influenced
some fictional characters. Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russel Crowe) in
the year 2000 movie Gladiator began
as a portrayal of the wrestler Narcissus but the repeated rewrites before the
final script led some to compare him to Cincinnatus.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
** **
You really involve
yourself copying and edited a Wikipedia article to your 'sense of memory or
reflection' about the focus of the article. You delete the 'blue' marked words
from further research action within Wikipedia and retype in black. This takes
time but you do not mind because to you this shows respect for Wikipedia in the
process. Your intent is not to preclude further research but to show the sense
of the article as you see it yourself in context with the blog. - Amorella
1759 hours. While this is true Amorella I still,
from time to time, feel some guilt using other peoples' work for my own sense
of contextual background in the blog. From time to time I did similar work in
my classroom lectures. For instance, most of my history of England came from
Churchill's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples which
I first read through after high school. I always told my students where my
lecture material came from, mostly because I didn't want them to think I was
making it up. I got away with this in high school literature classes but I
cannot imagine doing such a thing in a college lecture class. (1805)
You
had left over pizza for supper, still as good as yesterday's nuked. You watched
NBC News, "Elementary" and a summer "Suits" -- two more
"Suits" episodes to watch. You also spent about an hour going through
all your medical receipts, etc. for 2016 to put in a single file to keep for
one year. You are ready for 2017medical receipts, etc. for yourself, Carol
keeps her own separately. - Amorella
2150 hours. Carol spent about a half hour or
so grinding up old personal medical records plus bills paid -- I must have had
four to six inches of two stacks one to grind and the other with no ID's to
throw in the recycle. The ground is bagged and goes in recycle also. So many
pieces of paper from Medicare, Aetna, Express Scripts, Kroger's, ear, eyes, plus
three different doctor's year of statements, etc. This next year should be
easier as more and more material is kept electronically. It used to be far
worse paper trail wise.
Carol's
going up to read or play a game; we have some time to work on the definition. -
Amorella
2207 hours. Fine with me.
Let's begin with a work copy of the s.c.3.outline
by putting the science sections together. - Amorella
2210 hours. Those would be: 2, 3, 4; then
philosophy: 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; then religious: 1, 6, 7, 14 -- Actually, I
think I did this separating almost automatically (unconsciously) so I am not sure if you did
this or myself.
This will work well enough. Place this in
outline form four. Now that this is done renumber the present order. - Amorella
***
Definition Outline, draft 4
Science
1. One problem
with seeking scientific evidence for the soul is that there is no clear or
unique definition of what the soul is.
2. In order to perform its science—that only the fundamental
phenomena studied by physics exist.
3. Physicist
Sean M. Carroll writes that for a soul to exist: "Not only is new physics
required, but dramatically new physics. Within QFT, there can’t be a new collection
of 'spirit particles' and 'spirit forces' that interact with our regular atoms,
because we would have detected them in existing experiments."
Philosophy
4. Biologist
Cyrille Barrette (fr) has written that "the soul is a word to designate an
idea we invented to represent the sensation of being inhabited by an existence,
by a conscience".
5. Rudolf Steiner differentiated three stages of soul
development, which interpenetrate one another in consciousness:
- The "sentient soul", centering on sensations,
drives, and passions, with strong conative (will) and emotional
components; [Heart]
- The "intellectual" or "mind soul",
internalizing and reflecting on outer experience, with strong affective
(feeling) and cognitive (thinking) components; and [Mind]
The "consciousness soul", in search of universal,
objective truths.
6. Drawing on the words of his teacher Socrates, Plato
considered the psyche to be the essence of a person, being that which decides
how we behave. He considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal
occupant of our being. Socrates says that even after death, the soul exists and
is able to think. He believed that as bodies die, the soul is continually
reborn in subsequent bodies and Plato believed this as well, however, he
thought that only one part of the soul was immortal (logos).
7. Some of
Avicenna's views on the soul include the idea that the immortality of the soul
is a consequence of its nature.
8. [Avicenna
and Ibn al-Nalfia's] argument was later refined and simplified by Rene
Descartes in epistemic terms, when he stated: "I can abstract from the
supposition of all external things, but not from the supposition of my own
consciousness."
9. Concerning
the human soul, [Thomas Aquinas’] epistemological theory required that, since
the knower becomes what he knows, the soul is definitely not corporeal—if it is
corporeal when it knows what some corporeal thing is, that thing would come to
be within it.. Therefore, the soul has an operation
which does not rely on a body organ, and therefore the soul can exist without a
body. Furthermore, since the rational soul of human beings is a subsistent form
and not something made of matter and form, it cannot be destroyed in any
natural process.
10. In his
discussions of rational psychology, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) identified the
soul as the "I" in the strictest sense, and argued that the existence
of inner experience can neither be proved nor disproved. "We cannot prove
a priori the immateriality of the soul, but rather only so much: that all
properties and actions of the soul cannot be recognized from materiality".
It is from the "I", or soul, that Kant proposes transcendental
rationalization, but cautions that such rationalization can only determine the
limits of knowledge if it is to remain practical.
Religious
11. Only human beings have
immortal souls.
12. The soul is the spirit, which is considered to be the real
self;
13. The soul was considered the incorporeal or spiritual
"breath" that animates the living organism.
14. In Hinduism, the Sanskrit words most closely corresponding
to soul are jiva, Atman, and “purusha”,
meaning the individual self. The term "soul" is misleading as it
implies an object possessed, whereas Self signifies the subject which perceives
all objects. This Self (Ātman) is held to be distinct from the various mental
faculties such as desires, thinking, understanding, reasoning and self-image
(ego), all of which are considered to be part of prakriti (nature). . . ."For the atman [the soul] there is neither birth nor
death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and
will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever – existing and primeval.
Srila Prabhupada, a great Vaishnava saint of the modern time
further explains: the atman [soul] has
no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He is eternal,
ever-existing and primeval – that is, there is no trace in history of his
coming into being." . . . Since the quality of Atma [soul] is primarily
consciousness, all sentient and insentient beings are pervaded by Atma,
including plants, animals, humans and gods. The difference between them is the
contracted or expanded state of that consciousness. For example, animals and
humans share in common the desire to live, fear of death, desire to procreate
and to protect their families and territory and the need for sleep, but animals' consciousness is more
contracted and has less possibility to expand than does human consciousness. .
. . When the Atma becomes embodied it is called birth, when the Aatma leaves a
body it is called death. The Aatma transmigrates
from one body to another body based on karmic [performed deeds] reactions. . .
. In Hinduism, the Sanskrit word most closely corresponding to soul is Atma,
which can mean soul
***
2232 hours. Reading this over it makes
clearer sense in organized contextual flow; however a good definition of
spiritual consciousness should be clear and concise. It also has to translate
reasonably into the following statement:
"Spiritual
consciousness allows for intimate unconscious familiarity in humanoid families."
Then it has to further
define the contextual non-physical heartansoulanmind within an individual
humanoid.
2242 hours. I understand this definition has to be a rule not
a law, is this correct?
Yes, no laws in this
spiritual world, only ridged rules with accidental happenings and limited
exceptions. - Amorella
2245 hours. How can one discern the difference
between accident-in-place and a very rare exception?
In here humanoids cannot
discern this and neither can souls or Betweeners. This in itself is a very
ridged rule. - Amorella
2248 hours. This is a very good rule. How did
these rules come about?
The same way physical
existence (physics) came about. - Amorella
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