Notes - on a B H C

       You had a relatively quiet day. You are not sure what goes on behind the scenes that allows the universe to continue to exist. You can easily imagine the Dead not having a sense of consciousness because it is not a necessity once dead. That consciousness of being is a sort of mental trick to help one survive to procreate the species. The natural tendency is for the species to survive but there is no reason observed for this to occur other than a literal self-fulling prophecy. Life (consciousness of being) is for the future of life (consciousness of being) in a general sense. The basic human condition is that you are here living or you are not here period. Sense and nonsense have little to do with it as far as the species is concerned. Life flows until it puddles and evaporates. The spiritual world is not a part of the world of the living, don't you think? - Amorella

       2205 hours. This is a very good question Amorella. Consciousness appears to allow us to become aware of the spiritual world but if consciousness is a natural mirror to/of being then it is a reflection of a self-reflection as far as the individual 'reflector of consciousness' is concerned. This leads the group to know/understand even less with a constant germination of more self-reflections doing what reflections do, absorb only partial reflections. Errors in perception are built in both individually and within any given group of individuals. It is a mostly perpetual machine energizing humor and irony. As such, in this grand assumption, I see the spiritual wrapped in humor and irony. Neither is a positive or a negative, just an engine in which both irony and humor abide -- a spiritual joke. I can live with this and if when I am dead, I am indeed dead, then I am comforted by both unknowingly. (2220) Better a plausible and entertaining joke than nothing at all. That's consciousness for you.

       Self-entertainment is a basic human condition. You and everybody else can be full of it. Perhaps under the best of circumstances it is allowed to expire quietly and with some dignity that the species can rise to the occasion from time to time. Post. - Amorella

       2224 hours. Eventually, blog-wise, you will have the last silent word here.

Short Notes on a Friday

        Dusk. The painters were at the house until about six. They started and finished (two coats) two bedrooms, hall, a two story ceiling at the steps, the living room, the dining room, the front door and the mailbox post. Monday, light gray (two coats) in the kitchen, hall to garage, entrance door to the garage, the family room, the study and two coats of white in the two-car garage. They moved all the furniture to the center to paint and placed it back once the second coat paint had dried. You have nothing but good words for the two days with five hard working and customer focused people on the crew. You had supper at Smashburgers before a stop at the bank and now a stop at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road. The car windows are down and the moon-roof is open as you wait comfortably this going-to-be-crisp Fall evening. - Amorella

       1942 hours. It has been a long day, but we spent most of the morning cleaning the garage and moving what are near the walls of the garage to the center. They have already been repairing the walls where needed. It will be cool to have a clean garage. I am going to get a couple new sturdier shelving pieces to take with us when we move and throw out the old ones. Painting the garage is well worth the eight hundred extra to us -- we believe it to be a very subtle selling point. 

       You are home, groceries are put away and you have straighten up the living room so it is mostly normal and fully useable. Later, old man. - Amorella

       Checked your email and are ready to call it a night. No painters until Monday morning, so your plan is to go to bed early and sleep in. Post. - Amorella

Notes - too much temptation to mischief

       Twenty-two hundred hours right on the button. You are wondering why you are even on tonight. The day was mostly busy. Carol had her breakfast with retired Blue Ash teacher friends and in the early afternoon Dr. Brad E. put in your new upper left bridge which had arrived early this morning. The five painters on the team finished all the ceilings today and all of the minor wall repair work except in the garage. The team will also help you move the furniture when needed and replace it when finished. The cats spent the day in the master bedroom and master bath while work was being done. You had a late supper at Piada's Street Italian then watched the NBC News, "Designated Survivor" and Tuesday's "NCIS". The cat are enjoying their relative freedom in the house this evening. - Amorella

       2211 hours. You do a good job summarizing the day Amorella, the main particulars are worth marking -- shows something worthwhile is being done each day, at least from my perspective.

       Why are the cats' lives important, boy? - Amorella

       2214 hours. They are our companions of a sort. We love our cats as other people love their own pets.

       Do you consider human beings as G-D's pets, G-D's companions of a sort? - Amorella

       2216 hours. Many decades ago I thought such thoughts but no, I don't. I cannot imagine human beings as G-D's companions. I cannot imagine G-D having any companions. Angels I see as extensions of G-D, as spiritual fingers if you will. I do not know. This whole conversation is rather awkward to be honest, and blunt. What is its purpose?

       To think about how Angels might consider human beings? - Amorella

       2224 hours. Why bring G-D into it first?

       As far as Angels are concerned they would see G-D as first, don't you think? - Amorella

       2226 hours. Religiously and culturally we have been taught this. The story-line is understood in analogy. Beyond this I have no idea. And, I have no imagination for it except by story, some quite old stories. Stories are our connection to both G-D and Angels. Neurologically, stories may be the way of 'connection' to the concepts of G-D and Angels; neurological pathways to the more fully spiritual world. I can think of no other way of connection besides analogy unless it is 'an actual spiritual experience'. In "Designated Survivor" the question came up about appearance and reality and the new character said that in terms of the Presidency 'appearance is reality' and I immediately verbally disagreed saying to Carol, "Appearance is theatre, reality is reality". (2239)

       Then perhaps Angels are theatre and G-D is G-D? - Amorella

       2240 hours. If Angels are theatre then what are human beings, props? I think not because people have a sense of freedom and dignity, freedom and dignity are not props. Moral fibers, as it were, are not becoming of props.

       Is moral fiber a becoming of an Angel? - Amorella

       2244 hours. Intuitively I would say, no. Strange that this comes to mind because the "No" leads me to the dialogues within Milton's Paradise Lost. I do not know or feel what an Angel might personally think about freedom and dignity. Spiritual beings are not human. -- I miss-phrase this. Human beings are spiritual being to me, but not fully spiritual. Fully spiritual human beings cannot exist physically, at least not to me.

       A good place to stop, boy. Post. - Amorella

       2253 hours. I agree. Too much temptation to mischief.