{"id":9,"date":"2017-07-29T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/2017\/07\/29\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:01:03","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/yhwhschofchrist\/2017\/07\/29\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur 2017 Trip to NYC and Calvary"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur 2017<\/span>
\nJune 2017 trip to NYC and Calvary; Baptist Church 123 West 57th<\/sup> St., that is, Princeton NJ, Washington DC June 28-July 6 2017, announcement of the Birth of God’s Son, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ in Saint Mary and Andrew forever after.  <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Along with URL links to our review of the mathematical philosopher and logician Philip Kitcher’s summary of the book about ethics “On What Matters: Volumes I and II” NUMBER AND NUMBERS at http:\/\/bit.ly\/LIGHTANDDARKNESS. Hopefully, this review will be considered a beginning of the creation of a new field in computer science, mathematics, engineering called Robotic Ethics. Also, it is another step in helping those of us other than God and Jesus Christ to understand, through mathematical theology, how Christianity and Judaism can be one religion for all of us to believe in and practice.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Document on the left next to his throne bears the letters ALEF, which form the beginning of the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. ‘From ‘Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Up Close.’<\/h3>\n

The Book of Genesis, chapter 1, tells us that God created the number One, Himself, as a name on day One… He Borah (created it), He Ruach ( moved it as a spirit), He Omered it (spoke it into existence), He saw it (YHWH Yireh) affirmed it as being Good and Desirable, He named it (Korah).<\/h3>\n

But it was not until the third day that he (YHWH YHWH) created it as a set, a real object, really existing in our world. He Omered it (spoke it into existence as a set then), Asehed (turned it, spun it righteously, made it correctly), He Yireh (saw it), He brought it out (tozhayed it) as a “seed of a seed”, saw that it was good (Tov) existing as a recursively defined function that, like Himself,  generates itself.<\/h3>\n

And, it wasn’t until the fourth day and fifth day that, using the Sun and Moon as timepieces, He put it, placed it (Yetayn et), saw that it was good (Tov), as a “real number” existing not only in eternity but our world’s everyday time… then let it afloat to swarm (Yesheer’tzu) inside the consciousness of His river of eternal life and fly in the heavens above us, seeing that so it was good. and Blessed (Barech) it inside of all of these creatures as a means to use, the idea of it, in order to increase.<\/b><\/h3>\n


\n<\/b>And, it wasn’t until the sixth day that He placed inside of His own consciousness, His own individuality or “monad”, and the consciousness and “monads” of all his angelic friends at the beginning of the creation of the World as an <\/b>image (tzelem) and likeness (domot) to use in order to be Himself (YHWH I AM THAT I AM, YHWH I AM WHO I AM) as Hope the expectation of Good, and Faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and saw that thus created it was good (Tov).<\/b><\/h3>\n

For more details see the How do You define the “number One”? topic at the Religion and Science discussion group of the yhwhschofchrist.org discussion board:<\/b><\/h3>\n

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“How Do We Define the Number One?”, MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS, 2010.  <\/a><\/div>\n
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\nSubject: How do You define the “number One”?<\/b>How do You define the number One?<\/span> <\/span> Schemes for Sensor Data from Fractal Surfaces”, MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS 2010.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“A Short History of Logic Diagrams”, MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS, 2010. http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/5073\/LogicDiagrams1.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n
“How Do We Define the Number One, Part II?”, MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS 2012.   http:\/\/www.yhwhschofchrist.org\/5073\/HOWTODEFINE1PT1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Had a beautiful Delta airlines flight from Jackson, MS to Atlanta to JFK airport, NYC. Took a taxi from the airport to the Flatiron Hotel 9 W. 28th<\/sup> St., which is near the Musuem of Mathematics I visited in October, 2016 before the last Presidental election, to buy some graduate level mathematics and  <\/span>also beginning math puzzle books, especially those published by my friends the editors of  <\/span>the math books of the Princeton U. Press.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Some Old Testament Bible study with, the Seven Haftarahs of Consolations, in the Book of Isaiah, and the Torah teachings from the beginning of the last book of the Torah, Deuteronomy, where Saint Moses explains the Shema again to us.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
Many thanks and long time blessings to John Surrat, Religion editor for the Vicksburg Evening Post, and my Port City Kiwanis friend who did a full one-page article on me and took a good picture of me in my home to go along with it for the July 22,2017 edition of the Post. The full article is posted at http:\/\/www.ourprayergroupnews.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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For those lucky few of you, about 40, who received free copies of our 2017 YHWH School of Christianity prayer calendar, I unfortunately, this year, neglected to put that many Bible verses on it. We will begin studying the 7 haftorahs of consolations in the end of the year, beginning of next Jewish prayer liturgy this year. This ancient Torah based liturgy, which we know Jesus followed, since some of the verses of it have made their way into the New Testament, begins with the seven weeks of haftarahs of consolation that occur before Rosh Hashanah and the High Holy Days this year : passages from Parashas Va\u2019et-chanan (Moses, whose name has the same gematria as El Shaddai, God of the Strength of the Mountains ordains the Shema):, <\/span>
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\n<\/span>and continuing with Moses He talks to us in the first Torah section in Deuteronomy using two short discourse forms, He has told us before he died, “Va-et-chanan (515 gematria)I have pleaded with you with 515 prayers” These 515 prayer pleadings or supplications should be enough. But, the haftorah before from Isaiah chapter 1 tells us that God does not desire our prayers as sacrifices, but tells us to “wash yourselves; cleanse yourselves, put your evil doings away from My sight. Cease to do evil”.  <\/span>
\nIf Moses is a Saint living in heaven on earth today, and I believe He is, He would probably pray with God more contemplatively, using denials of his own ideas of what is evil and good in the face of God’s judgement, and affirmations that bless us all for happiness and well-being. <\/span>
\nHe would probably tell you that the Name of God YHWH expresses itself in us as Truth in Three ways: <\/span>
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\n2) When God is Two, His Truth is Two, YHWH Christ,<\/span>
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\nstarting the week from July 29 to August 5 using the dates for the Holy Days in our calendars, <\/span>
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\n “Comfort my people, [those in ourprayergroup that we pray with], says your God, Speak tenderly to him or her, tell them they have served their term and their sins are pardoned.”, <\/span>
\nthen 2) Parashas Ekev (“And, if you do obey these rules and observe them faithfully.”) <\/span>
\nalong with Isaiah chapter 49, verse 14 to chapter 51, verse 3,<\/span>
\n then 3) Parashas R’ei (“See this day I have put before you with these rules and teachings the two-fold blessing and curse”<\/span>
\nIsaiah, chapter 54, verse 11 to chapter 55,verse 5, <\/span>
\nthen 4) Parashas Shoftim (“You shall appoint magistrates and judges”).<\/span>
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\nthen, 5) <\/span>Ki Teitzei “When you take the field against your enemies.”<\/span>
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\nthen, 6) Ki Tavo “When you enter the land the Lord, your God is giving you.”, along with Isaiah chapter 60. verses 1-22, <\/span>
\nthen, 7) Nitzavim “You stand, this day, before the Lord your God” along with Isaiah,chapter 61, verse 10 to chapter 63, verse 9. <\/span>
\nYou can find many more details of the standard commentary on these verses in the book \u2018Haftarah Commentary\u2019 and ‘The Torah a Modern Commentary’ by Gunther Platt or on the online website  <\/span>http\/\/www.torah.org.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Healing and Miracles come from Faith.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Hearing the Word of God comes from listening to It or Him or Her, the Word of God, in prayer, meditating and realizing how it is affecting us in our own prayer lives as it is preached to us in Churches,  <\/span>and by reading the Bible on our own, listening our own personal Lord and Saviour, God\u2019s Son, through His Power and through the Power of the Mercy of His Father God who gives us spiritual strength to meditate on it and allows us to be attentive to it over long periods of time in order to defeat our until Christ came, indeterminably interconnected original sinful natures and continue to hear it as it continues to express Itself through the Immeasurable and Eternal Acts of Loving Kindness, Blessedness, Compassion inward and outward to each of us through each other and as a result, certainly, still dwelling in Him or Her inside of us all forever.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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An interior view of Calvary Baptist at W. 57 St., right across the stree from Carnegie Hall and conveniently near Rockefeller Center, Columbus Circle, Central Park South, Trump Tower, Musuem of Modern Art, St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Calvary Baptist is having a mission trip to Israel April 23-May 3, 2018 from New York Hosted by Dr. David Epstein and Billy Nelson. Call (212) 975-0175  <\/span>I will be going myself sometime early next year with Cal Berkeley Travel and Odysseys Int., you don\u2019t have to be an alumni to travel with us, but the group is small and you need to sign up quickly. Just go to their website Cal Discoveries Travel for more info on this.  <\/span>888-CALALUM<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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I found out Calvary Baptist also had a Christian Jewish Bible Studies Institute with courses in June<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/span>\u201cIntroduction to the Old Testament\u201d, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cBe Doers of the Word: A Study of the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle of James\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201dMoses, the Man Behind the Myth\u2026from murderer to field marshall, Moses as you have never seen him before. Journey through Exodus 1-14 with Moses\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201dThe Theology in Prayer.. takes a look at How do I get my prayers answered? Should I pray for everyone? How must I pray? For how long? How precise?\u201d,\u201dCreating Courageous Men in the Church\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201dFor Our Neighbors, See What Love Can Do\u2026so often the World knows what Christians are against instead of what they are FOR.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Do your neighbors know you are FOR Them? What would happen if we started acting like everybody is invited to the party? This course will look at the life of Jesus\u2026How He treated others.   <\/span>Tanya Velardo Children\u2019s Ministry Director\u201d.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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They also handed out to me a fascinating magazine \u201cIRAN and Beyond\u201d News and insight on the Persian speaking world from Elam ministries about Christian in Iran. It has articles such as \u201c16 Muslims hear the Gospel during a 3-hour layover\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cGod is saving many:But ministry is messy\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/span>\u201cI wanted to die for my religion, until I learned that Jesus already died for me\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201dMany come to Christ through telegram app\u201d, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
and \u201cNo longer alone, How a TV program is bringing corporate worship to isolated Christians inside of Iran<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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for many non-believers to encounter Jesus through satellite TV andgive their lives to Him,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cIranian Christians: A Light to the Afghan people\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cEven Children are not Free from the Listening Ears of the Authorities\u201d,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cPolitical Unrest and the Expansion of the Gospel\u201d.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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An exterior view from the \u201cTop of the Rock\u201d toward south Central Park, West 57th<\/sup> St. and Columbus Circle.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
My grandfather, Claude Eustis Harrell taught Sunday school there around 1915 when he was helping to build the Flatiron building.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
By a coincidence of the young people\u2019s Christian group getting ready to head out on a mission trip, half were from the French Camp Academy at Kosciusko, MS which I support yearly with prayers and small financial donations and the others from a church near Harrisburg, PA the home area of Andrew Ellicott, first mathematician and explorer in the 1760s-1790s in US whom I am writing a book about.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Skyview of the lower west side of Manhattan and docks and piers extending into the Hudson River, taken from the top of the rebuilt World Trade Center. The aircraft carrier Intrepid in the upper part of the shot has a nice place to stand and view the river along with an interesting display of naval aircraft on its deck and one on the history and future of drones in an adjecent building. You have to get off the R train at the times square stop and walk about 10 blocks west to reach it. The Flatiron hotel and Flatiron building are about the same distance east from the 20 St. pier areas.  <\/span>This whole area is now called the Flatiron district and has a lot of refurbished buildings for artists and similar creative type people and also I discovered around the corner from the hotel a vipassana insight meditation center with some not quite as high and \u201copened-up\u201d top-floor window viewing.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n
Speaking of first class art, as I write this there is a wondelful exhibit of enlarged paintings of Michelangelo which decorate the interior of the Sistine Chapel at the bottom floor of an adjacent building to the World Trade. What an enlightened and helpful healing thing for our friends the Pope and his Cardinals at the Vatican to do\u2026releasing this exhibit to the visitors and people of NYC to study and meditate on there.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Another prophet, who lived in the 8th Century BC, the first in our trilogy of Isaiah, Jeremiah 7th Century, Ezekiel 6th Century. Is Isaiah, whose name also means, Jeshua, or God saves, foretold the coming of and the sacrificial death of Jesus or Joshua. In this painting he has placed the fingers of his right hand between the pages of his book, as if he wants to carry on reading shortly. His attention, however, is focused on the small angelic figure standing behind him. In these depictions of prophet, these figures are considered to be conveyors of God’s message.<\/h4>\n

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After two days at the Flatiron I went over to explore and take some peace walks down Lexington Ave. and back stopping at a few of the NYC small city parks toward the Greenwich Village area. I stayed at the Lex a small minimalist hotel with a rooftop viewing area, but no restaurant, swimming pool, or fitness exercise room. No problem, there are many excellent restaurants, coffee shops, deli\u2019s within a block or two and you can take a $8 taxi to the really first rate  <\/span>West 14th<\/sup> ST. YMCA where your current and updated and paid Y membership key card allows you general access and use.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Joel, one of the oldest prophets in the Old Testament. Michelangelo shows him in a fully concentrated pose, with his attention focused on the writing on the parchment school in his hands. noel heralded a divine punishment that would be inflicted on the sinful Israelites in the form of an army. Michelangelo used a large  amount of detail when painting the prophet’s facial expression, with Joel’s puckered brows and wrinkled forehead bearing reference to his sorrowful prophecy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two new “Twin Towers” built after 9\/11 in the Upper West Side of Manhattan around the Columbus Circle area.  Now there are four You can knock down two towers, but you cannot destroy the will of New York Americans to have important, magnificent, skyscrapers in their city. Nor can you destroy the eternal nature of their souls and the purposes in them as long as we believe in a God that grounds us under His or Her moral control and places the will of beings He or She or He and She has created, no matter how weak, under their overwatching protection and providence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From Penn Station in NYC I took the train to Prineton Junction and then  <\/span>a taxi to the Nassau Inn in downtown Princeton, that is what little of a town downtown Princeton is. There is a nice sandwich shop in the place I ran into Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh in 1973 and spent about 40 minutes of silent meditation with just me and him. This was before he had written about 40 books explaining Buddhism better to us Christians. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Notes on the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s notes on \u201cHow to Love\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cOur Heart is like a River.\u201d We need to let God place an open door that cannot be shut in it.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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True Love has depth and is expansive. \u201cThe essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
2)   <\/span><\/span><\/span>Through its compassion Love has breath and strength (see http:\/\/www.ourprayergroup.blogspot.com  <\/span>49 days  <\/span>from Passover to Shavuous of Jewish Christin[sic] prayer discussion about great concepts associated with God). \u201cCompassion is the capacity to understand suffering in oneself and another.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
3)   <\/span><\/span><\/span>Through its joy, Love lasts and is good (ibid). \u201cWhen you know how to offer joy it nourishes you and the other person.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
4)   <\/span><\/span><\/span>Through its equanimity Love is Truthful, as it has to be to victorious. And, when it is victorious with God\u2019s help it is a glorious thing that dwells in us forever as us knowing God\u2019s Name as a crown of glory at the mountiantop of our souls. \u201cThe fourth element of true love is equanimity. We can also call it inclusiveness or non-discrimination.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nDear prayer friends your home is the same home as mine. We are after the same ever-after, God\u2019s Kingdom dwelling inside and outside of us here on this same earth on which we were both born. To live here you must first \u201cget saved\u201d, having faith in and being Jesus Christ is God\u2019s way of us \u201cgetting saved\u201d.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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One way to understand how Jesus Christ is the Logos, the connection between God\u2019s body and God\u2019s mind dwelling in us is to know how our backward goal oriented purposeful faithful thinking  <\/span>can be chained together rationally with mental forward object oriented rational thought. I have written a computer mathematics paper on this for the Corps of Engineers that shows how to order the about 100 rules of an river repair expert system logically. It is posted on my curriculum vita part of the yhwhschofchrist.org website.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cA deep thirst. Sometimes we feel empty a vacuum, a great lack of something. We don\u2019t know the cause. It is very vague.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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We are all together Eternal souls swimming in a river of God\u2019s Eternal Life. We all have a deep thirst, unconsciously, to swim in that River.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cOpening the Door. Once you know how to come home to yourself, then you can open your home to other people., because you have something to give.\u201d <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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The One Buddha who is God\u2019s Son, Christ Jesus, like Jesus, is a door, an open door which cannot be shut (cf. Gospel of John and Book of Revelation). Instead of putting stone or metal statues of Him in a room with a closed door to meditate inside of, why not open the door to the meditation room and meditate on Him dwelling in the people coming into the meditation room as they enter the door?<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cNourishing our love with edible food. The first source of nourishment is edible food. The second source is sensory food, sensory impressions, what we consume with our eye and ears. The third source of nourshment is volition. This is your desire, your hope, your aspirations. The fourth source of nourishment is collective and individual consciousness. The fifth source is the four immeasurable parts of our divine minds, loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity\u2026already discussed.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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We can also nourish it, love, through meditation on the Word of God, which is also our food. Our faith in God\u2019s promises contained in his Words in the Bible help us love ourselves and each other more, Eternally.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cLove as an offering, and the greatest gift. To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention or love. To love is to offer the other person joy and love as a balm for their sufferings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
One of the greatest gifts we can offer another person is to embody nonattachment and non fear.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Since God is Love Itself He does not need Love in our prayers as an offering. He or She is already Love. God does not want our prayers to be offerings. The only people who believe that don\u2019t know who He or She is. He or She is there to serve us, and to accept our offerings, but when we Love others as God Loves us,  <\/span>then we will want to give each other this type of offering, Love.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The greatest gift of Love to another is to offer that other person your self in order to create new self through both of you.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cFriendship. Be a friend to yourself. If you are a true friend to yourself, then you can be a true friend to another person.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Figure <\/span>11<\/span><\/span>  <\/span>The LAST JUDGEMENT  <\/span>UP CLOSE, CEILING FROM THE SISTINE CHAPEL<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
There is Labyrinth Books right next to an upstairs apartment where they said they moved what is left of Dr. Einstein household stuff from the house on Mercer St., but the Einstein Museum was not open so I went into the bookstore to buy some top grade reading material on mathematics, theology, physics which were on \u00bd off sale.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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There, I got into an interesting theological conversation with a female bookseller who for some reason reminded me of St. Mary and later carried the conversation on with some other people I met. After buying a good chunk of these books, one on a different translation of the minor Upanishads than the one I have. One on Bill Thurston\u2019s work on train tracks which is related to how to use algebraic topology and differential geometry to desingularize complex mapping class manifolds in a finite algorithmic way. All that remains to do is to figure out how to use some of the network search programs I wrote to classify the 3-dim and 4-dim manifolds that arise on the boundaries of the Riemann surface parts of these things. Something I plan to write a paper on as a sequel to my thesis if I ever am able to understand enough about all the side mathematics.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2028<\/span>\u2028\u2028\u2028Series of contemplative prayer questions & answers to St. Mary and Jesus about how you get saved in the YHWH School of Christianity follows<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Andrew W. Harrell<\/strong>\u200f<\/span> <\/span><\/span>@AndrewWHarrell<\/span><\/a>  1m  World Peace Day<\/span>
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