Book Notes of Interest Cont…

Book Notes of Interest Cont…

More Than Human

P 23 Army – majority, not minority regard physical and mental perfection

P 65 Good description of psychiatry

P 99 Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic

P 177 Morals: societies code for individual survival

Ethics: Individual’s code for society’s survival

P 183 Nobody wants you and you are a monster

P 185 humanity question

Sacred Origens

P 39 Islam 5 pillars: shahada – profession of faith; zakat – alms; saum – fasting; hajj – pilgrimage; sakat – worship

P 46 **Names of Blessings

P 47 monstrare (monster) – to show off

P 49 manna – from bugs?

P 62 Angels Hebrew: mal’akh (messenger), avadim (servant), tzavah (host), k’doshim (holy; set apart) Angels created everyday; half earth, half fire

Rank 1. Seraphim 2. Cherubim 3. Thrones (ophanim) 4. Dominions 5. Virtues

6. Powers 7. Principalities 8. Archangels 9. Angels

P 75-80 Michael (Mikha’el) – who is like god?; Gabriel (Gouri’el) – God is my strength; Raphael (Reaph’el) – God has healed; Uriel (Uri’el) – Light of God {Islam = Izra’el – Angel of Death} + ‘whisperer of Kabbalah

P 84 Metatron – greatest angel of all, “an instrument for going beyond”; Prince of Angels, ‘the one whose name is like his master’s – metatron and shaddai (almighty) have value of 314 in kabbalah; rooted in pagan lore

P 139 Kabbalah; gematria (science)

Messiah symbol: serpent of a pole, brass pole = same # (358)

P 141 Name of God – shaddai, YHWH, Logos

P 242 Hindus think Jesus is an avatar of Vishnu

P 301-2 Deism – god is passive; Theism – God is active

P 365 Persian duality

Small Is Beautiful

P 6 moderation, preservation, and graduation

“Economists find it impossible to believe labor might be a freely chosen, non-exploitative and creative value” thus are ‘in favor of machines and cybernated systems”

P 7 Health, beauty and performance

Khai China: western experiment is folly, getting confidence back (How to change?)

P 16 Bland leading the blind

P 19 ‘tolerance margins’ which nature always provides

Khai Meeting of a trandscendant power – passes itself off as a god, we are tricked as Mayans; not trying to create a perfect system; trying to create an ethical one

P 30 materialism does not belong in this world because it contains no limiting principle.

P 33 luxuries of our fathers have become necessities of ourselves

P 36 **Human knowledge relies more on experiment than understanding

P 58 Man is not a producer but a converter

P 67 The really serious matters of life can not be calculated

P 86 B. Fuller “Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”

P 90-93 ***Education talk

P 90-91 Hence the longing for education, for something to lead us out of the dark wood of our muddled ignorance into the light of understanding.

P 91 Byron: Sorrow is knowledge, those who know the most, must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

P 98-99 Divergent (marriage) vs convergent (game) problems

P 159 Man is small, so small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go to self destruction

Khai Man is small, but his dreams are large, like a naïve child unwary of his actions, he creates his own monsters

P 165 **Good questions….How is it possible….?

P 224 **fortelling future

P 226 Types of future (semantics)

P 229 **Free will discussion

Khai Chinese value loyalty for all services – not only top down; has been peaceful for awhile because of this

Khai which companies have ‘quasi-firms’ Africa, Nippon Indus??

P 256 ‘reduction’ of science – reduction of economics, the strength of science

P 258 problem of duality; fanaticism shows intellectual weakness

P 293 whole first paragraph

Manifold: Space

P 116 “I want your raw emotions. If I coach you too much, it will spoil your perceptions.”

P119 soul talk Is there a soul? What medium does it pass through (gateway)? Is it only an illusion? A comfort? A pillow?

P 130 Talking to aliens – what is an alien, what are we?

P 180 Absence of pain information

P 237 Japanese suited to live in cramped spaces

Khai volitiles in moon itself, digging and then seismic broke up; spit is greeting , water is valuable

P 420 short life span; short lived humans and her concerns must seem as evanescent – as meaningless – and yet perhaps as beautiful – as the curl of the thread of smoke, the splash of a single raindrop

P 421 Mercury info

Centauri Dreams

P 2/3 Antimatter and options for use

P 6 celeritas (swiftness) c = speed of light

P 49 Star Systems (close by) 51 names – look again

P 50 Nemesis star info – our own binary system (possible reason for asteroid impacts?)

P 61 Ion engines info

P 70-1 deuterium / tritium x since radioactive

Deuterium / H3 ok since cleaner

P 71 Plasma info

P 159 When you’re talking about violating causality by going faster than light, what is it that is violating causality? The object or the image of the object? Images are images. If your image comes back to you before you leave, can that somehow stop you from leaving?

P 162 Penrose: Almost all my mathematical thinking is done visually and in terms of non verbal concepts, although the thoughts are quite often accompanied by inane and almost useless verbal commentary….Often the reason is that there are simply not the words available to express the concepts that are required. In fact I often calculate using specially designed diagrams which constitute a shorthand for certain types of algebraic expression. This is not to say that I so not sometimes think in words, it is just that I find words almost useless for mathematical thinking.

P 163 A.C. Clark 3 famous laws of science fiction: 1) when a distinguished but elderly scientist says something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says something is impossible, he is very probably wrong, 2) the only way of finding the limitations of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible, 3) any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

P 171 …slaves of the ordinary

Khai Tachyons

P 177 Gate talk!

P 177 ‘marker’ star info

P 205 parsec – 3.26 ly

P 212 //nature of technology is to offer Faustian bargains

P 217 slow evolution – trial and error, but spark of mutation can offer different lines of evolving