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Well, I think the computer problem at home is the CPU fan. Hense no update for three days. Hope to have that fixed soon.

I have agreed to give a presentation on alchemy at CUUPS. I now have ten days to prepare. Yee-haw! (That's "Whoopie!" for the Texas-challenged.) Actually I'm not worried. The info from my notes and from the two essays I have online should be enough to make for 90 minutes of decent discussion. Will post a synopsis here of course.

The hooptie has been ::knock wood:: working out very well so far.

Just learned that an Episcopal church less than a mile from me is doing a series of Taize services between now and Easter. I do want to catch at least one of these. They are also doing a series of labyrinth walkings.

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Was quoting Bucky Fuller for a comment in novapsyche's journal, and it led me down some mental pathways this morning. So I thought I'd record them here for posterity.

Synergetics 311.03 Universe is the aggregate of eternal generalized principles whose nonunitarily conceptual scenario is unfoldingly manifest in a variety of special-case, local, time-space transformative, evolutionary events.

Some of the more intriguing results to come out of physics labs in recent months have called into question the universal constancy of the speed of light and other very basic assumptions on which our current theories are based.

Suppose that no constants at all can be assumed. One one level this would be a satisfactory result for physicists, who do not like to postulate "arbitrary" natural laws. But the implications are mind-blowing. If nothing is constant, then ultimately the universe and everything in it is "special case." Only local conditions can be described with any accuracy. Nature is made of 'stuff' that figures out how to exist, ever improving in its efficiency, and then propagates solutions outwards like ripples -- no condition can be said to be true 'everywhere at once.'

Simply put, the universe refuses to cooperate with our need/desire to express infinite potential in terms understandable to finite minds.

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Exegesis of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, chapter 10.

Heresy rating: 9.9 out of 10.

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