The Tower of Babel

The kings all came in conference
For the Tower of Babel fell---
Men had no common heritage
Or common tongue so all could tell.
They could not understand through context
What a word meant in its time.
They did not know the theory
They did not know the reasons why.
They spoke, then, through emotions
And not through conceptual things.
They spoke to each other through feelings
And not through heady weeds.
A poet was made poor one day
For this was what had happened---
Enthymeme, Calculus and Infinity
Had all been but forgotten.

Thus the kings in genocidal rage
Wished to purge the dull from the Earth.
But a wise poet rose up and claimed,
"No, for they still have human worth.
"Do not kill these poor creatures
"For they have love within their soul.
"They may not understand or know
"But good and bad, they still have in their throws
"Of toil upon this great earth
"They may find thought is a nuisance
"And communicated ideas they may find very truant.
"But recall, they are men, and men are good and wise
"If they know how to love each other, we shall keep them all alive.
"For, they need to know good from woe
"And know God's very law.
"For they know not how to understand the world
"So they need faith more than all.
"They need to push toward God in heaven
"And find Him all the same...
"They need the words of Jesus and to make them their good king.
"Over their lives, they shall reign, and be with blessed thoughts
"Of laws which they do not understand, but follow without fault.
"Love your neighbor, be kind to all, and merciful to a man
"And to turn the cheek to smiters, and not war in other lands.
"And this poet could retire, unknown and not understood
"If all mankind worked together, and loved more than shook
"The leaf of books like bread, they listened to the heart.
"Man could love each other then, and need not be very smart."

The American Decline

 It was those Yale Safe Spaces, and coming off of Jerry Sandusky. And the Freddy Grey murder. And the Bill Cosby thing, that shocked the Black Community because he was practically the success story and standard, showing they could have the American Dream too. The real start of it was the Free Love movement in the 60s, Vietnam, then the Drug War and no warrant searches, Columbine, then 9/11, the Patriot Act, Iraq being so prolonged and damaging the economy, then the things I talked about above, and then Covid and the Alex Jones Lawsuit. Next who knows. It's just a long train of bad leadership since Eisenhower. Most of it driven by the media.

Song of Songs

Song of Songs. Yes, dating is biblical. There's no boundary on true love. In fact, Solomon, taking the woman into his harem, is kind of made to be the bad guy, stealing from the shepherd his true love, which the Shepherd has to win back like a stag jousting for his doe. The Shepherd and Shulamite even go out into the fields to make love, as she escapes the harem at night. Pretty sultry stuff... and romantic.

The point being, when it's real you know, and nothing's going to stop you from being with that person, even a whole king and his court.

Which is also why the Psalmist says, "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!" because the passion is hot, and if it's stirred for the wrong person, can be heartbreaking. So guard yourself, too, from falling in love, unless absolutely right.

Solomon loves her for her body, but the Shepherd for her soul. That's important, too. That's why the Shepherd fights, and beats him. As if there were no passion stirred, a man cannot fight for his suitor, because A: she doesn't want him and B: he doesn't love her.

Degrees and Radians

[D]egrees are based on a circle. So, you couldn't have degrees without [a circle]. Every degree is based on the ratio of that part of the circle's circumference, and also why radians work. You construct a line, the top is 180°, but so is the bottom, completing a full circle, and also why radians work from Tao.

On Narcissism

I can honestly say I don't know anyone like this. I know some selfish people... but nobody to this extreme. But what I've always noticed, is narcissists use the word Narcissist and Boundaries. "Oh I just realized XY is a narcissist," Really? Is my first reaction... I think it's six to one, half a dozen the other in that case. I just know from experience... the people going hunting for narcissists and talking about setting boundaries, are themselves the most likely narcissists. Normal people don't think about things that way.

Not you: I know you are hurt, but you don't accuse people. You try to love them.

We Are Just Like Them, You Know?

A head of leaves, grown above
Tawny bark, like skin,
Roots either nourished
Or die by drought;
The tree has its fruit,
Delicious or dull,
And its body’s DNA
Determines its health.
It grows, it dies;
It lives, it falls.
We are just like them, you know?

Christianity and the Founding Fathers

The core group of Founders were Diest, and they generally accepted religion as a whole as being beneficial--though probably never actually studied some of the weirder things that can happen. At that time, people generally thought all religion was for moral guidance, and they would prefer it to Atheism. That much is true. But, certainly, they would have no qualms with a Hindu or Muslim or Sikh, so long as they stuck to the principles of civil government. They wouldn't appreciate abortion, homosexuality or transgenderism, though.

Like, they want religion to be safe, because it teaches you a set of moral values, that restrains the population from doing evil. They also don't want that religion being set up in the government. They want religion to be a personal choice, and something that governs man's heart, and not the society's. As many of them felt religion was a personal journey--being that a lot of them were Masons--and they felt religion was a personal experience, which is why they carefully craft their words to say "Religion" and not "Christianity". But, they had the highest respect for the doctrine of Christ, there can be no doubt about that. They preferred Him to all others, but many of them probably took it as a moral framework, and didn't actually believe He was the Son of God.

I Saw the Diver at Dutch Wonderland

I saw a man high dive at Dutch Wonderland.
Up so high, he dove into a very shallow pool.
The man I met at the State Park worked at Dorney---
I had mistakenly said Dorney and not Dutch Wonderland---
But we discussed how the good thing of our world
Was someone could be a diver, a juggler,
A clown, a writer or a magician,
And that was okay. That's why our world was good.

Math

Math is framed. Neither invented or discovered. Basically, it just gets more and more clear the more we learn about it. Every equation gets more focused the more advanced the mathematics become, or the more we need to do with it, so it's like framing a picture, and cropping parts of it. Like, all principles in math are just built from other smaller principles, starting with the basic operations, all the way to a shape that could describe Reiman's Hypothesis. You don't discover the shape, or invent it, but describe it.

The Book of Enoch

Enoch is not Scripture. It's not even Apocrypha. It seems kind of cultish, actually, like a Book of Mormon and Koran. I hope nobody {}lays it as [a] foundation, as it's not pure, but rather empty and kind of evil. I've known many people ruined by it. It's not good teaching, but is a cult text. If you want other books to study, try the Apostolic Fathers or the Old Testament Apocrypha. Or Martyr's Mirror by Thielman Van Braght. None of that is scripture, but it's better teaching than Enoch, which is completely void.