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The Church of the SubGenius is coming to New York City on Saturday, October 9, 2010.
Members of the controversial cult will be gathering for a religious Devival designed to promote the cause of Slack, Abnormality, and the Word of Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. SubGenius Devivals are spiritual events unlike any other, and audience attendance is expected to reach capacity crowds.
http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Physics.html
“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered; the attitude that all is uncertain; to summarize it — the humility of the intellect. The other great heritage is Christian ethics — the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual — the humility of the spirit.”
Richard Feynman, Sub-Genius
Socrates was certain of his calling but unlike the prophets (Moses, John, Jesus, Allah et al) he had nothing to proclaim…His mission was to search and to question unrelentingly.
Socrates requires no faith in anything including himself, he demands thought, questioning, testing, and don’t cook the books! Data is king. He may not have been the first scientist but his example HIS PRACTISE his way of thinking fits the scientific method.
In summary: Socrates is ‘for the world’ and he’s committed to understanding the world of human community (the polis) by the use of rational thought. His is the love of wisdom, of giving oneself to the never-ending search for the truth. Within the “Socratic Method” there was no room for dogmatic beliefs based on custom, culture and opinion.
Jesus by contrast was a champion of ‘devotional ethics’.
DEVOTIONAL ETHICS
· The experiential (the ‘heart’)
· Poetic-passionate
· Concerned with individuals (personal)
· Salvation through faith in an Almighty God
· Liberation from sin and guilt
· ‘Ethical being’
· ‘Right attitude/predisposition’
· Obedience to the will of God
Jesus’ way of communicating that goes directly to the ‘hearts’ and ‘souls’ of individual men and women. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’, ‘fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom…The ‘Jesus’ mood is one of dread and jubilation.
This mix of ‘fear, anxiety and good news’, is apparent in the subjectivist approaches of the Protestant Reformers (Luther, Calvin et al). They all fall, with Jesus, within the same, subjectivist paradigm of understanding in which reason and metaphysical thought have no real place.
In contrast to the type IV approach of a Confucius: Jesus goes to the ‘core of being’, not ‘outward action’. JESUS constantly focuses his listeners’ attention on the great choice that they have to make: " What is this one important thing? Each man is faced with the terrible alternative: to be accepted in the kingdom of heaven or rejected….’No man can serve two masters…Ye cannot serve God and mammon’. In contrast to the concern with rational thought in types I and II: Jesus speaks in concrete terms, expresses intelligible ideas, utters definite commandments…But all his direct statements are vehicles of a meaning which ultimately evades rational interpretation. Jesus shows little concern for logical consistency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards; one originally given to a front writer, and one awarded to Robert Rich, Trumbo’s pseudonym.[1][2][3]
Americans are talking less on their cellphones.
When they do talk, the conversations are shorter, according to industry data.
Partly, this reflects the shift in use of cellphones more as mobile computers that communicate via written messages. But this also reflects a subtle shift in etiquette, experts say. People increasingly use text messages and e-mail to arrange telephone calls, which are reserved for more important, complicated dialogues. An unscheduled call from people other than family members, they say, is often regarded as a rude intrusion.
College freshman don’t wear watches — cellphones are their timepieces — and seldom use e-mail, notes the Beloit College Mindset List, which was released last week.
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Chinese swimsuit pictures Beijing Olympics
Early in Gary Shteyngart’s “Absurdistan” the narrator says he is “almost disabused” of the belief that he can fly. The word “almost” is beautifully exact. Shteyngart’s characters never give in to reality all at once.
http://www.myspace.com/winstonchurchill1
The Wall is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust, because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the museum’s main door are political correct digit decay bull-waddle untruth.
So just who did pinch the great man’s Havana Cigar?
It wasn’t the anti-smoking lobby, which has had no known contact with the museum; it certainly wasn’t Churchill’s family - his grandson Nicholas Soames said ‘it doesn’t matter one way or the other’ and it wasn’t the museum itself (policy) - in fact they have wartime posters advertising cigarettes on the walls.
But intriguingly the museum, which gives all profits to charity, declined to name who put together the display and, crucially, who enlarged the image for the poster.
Museum manager John Welsh was astonished to be told the image was missing one vital ingredient.
‘The cigar is part of what makes Churchill an iconic figure and of course it was very much part of his image as war leader - it went hand in hand with his victory salute and the uniforms he wore.
‘What’s politically correct for 2010 was not politically correct for 1940.’
Churchill is not the first figure to fall foul of such meddling.
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Winston drank whiskey before breakfast, smoked, he was fat, yet he lived till 90 doing all the things that kill most of the rest of us! Stress. He worked longer and harder than most and suffered real defeats and disgraces. This can’t be denied any more than the cigar can be taken out of the picture – unless of course we only google and none of us notice what some well-intended computer clerk can do without check or balance. I doubt they’ll ever know who did it and she’s not admitting a thing and I’m not going there. In IBM we use to call them “duck bites” and bravado notwithstanding i’ve seen friends killed by a thousand bites.
19 August, 2010: 
Wild Eyes is drifting eastwards at approximately 24 nautical miles per day towards the Australian coast.
http://soloround.blogspot.com/
Abby Sutherland
Born: 10.19.1993
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, California
Started Sailing: 6 months
Family: Second of 7 kids
Interests: Sailing, adventure, art, animals
Quote: "I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don’t come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip. It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too." http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37621453
A lifelong sailor, Abby Sunderland had begun her journey trying to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world — a record briefly held last year by her brother
Team Abby has chosen the Open 40 sailboat as the vessel of choice for Abby’s solo, non-stop circumnavigation. The Open 40 was specifically designed for single-handed sailing in the Southern Ocean. It has the benefit of both speed and safety necessary to navigate the conditions Abby will experience in the Southern Ocean.
VESSEL PARTICULARS:
Name: WILD EYES
Designer: Jutson Yacht design, Australia
Builder: A.S.A. Yachts PTY, Australia
Model: Open 40, solo
Built: 2001
LOA: 40′ / 12.19m
Beam: 11.21′ / 3.41m
Displacement: 7407 lbs. / 3360 Kg.
Ballast: 2094 lbs / 950 Kg.
Tonnage: 16 Gross, 15 Net
Engines: Yanmar - 18hp
HULL, DECK and CABIN
E Glass with Kevlar reinforcement built to IMOCA standards
5 Watertight Compartments with Stern Escape Hatch and Crash Bulkead
Port and Starboard 750 liter Water Ballast Tanks
Keel Trim Tab for Upwind Optimization
Fixed Keel Strut with T Bulb
Galley to Starboard with Propane Stove with Burner, Stainless Steel Sink, Ice Box
MAST and RIGGING
Carbon Spar, Triple Spreader, Stainless Rod Rigging, Jack Mast Stepping System
Anderson Winches
Fredericksen Turning and Fairlead Blocks
Spinlock Clutchs
ProFurl Roller Furling System for Genoas and Staysails
Lazy Jacks
ELECTRONICS
Full Centerline Amidship Navigation Suites with Full Compliment of Electronics for Trans Oceanic Sailing
12 Volt DC and 110 Volt AC Electrical Systems
Battery Parallel Switch
3 Batteries
Inverter
Solar Panels
Two Wind Generators
Two Coursemaster CM850i Hydraulic Autopilots with remote
Deck Mounted and Below Deck Repeaters and Control Heads (includes remote)
Built in Computer Monitor and CPU in Navigation Suite
Raytheon Radar and Chart Plotter
Thrane & Thrane Sailor 250
Permanent SAT Phone Antenna
2 Below Deck Rudder Mounted Hydraulic Auto Pilots (CourseMaster)
Control Heads (with windvane mode)
Fully Integrated with GPS
ICOM M710 SSB Radion and Antenna
Horizon Intrepid VHF and Handheld VHF
Energy Monitor and Controller
BilgAlarm, BA4R-4W, Four Sensor Bilge Alarm System
SAILS
2010 UK Halsey Spectra/Carbon Tape Drive with double-sided taffeta Main
2010 UK Halsey Spectra/Carbon Tape Drive with double-sided taffeta Genoa
Code 0
Storm Jib
2010 UK Halsey Spectra/Carbon Tape Drive with double-sided taffeta Stay Sail
All with Individual Custom Socks
MISCELLANEOUS
Custom Carbon Emergency Rudder and Tiller Cassette
Custom Cradle
Pressure Fresh Water
Hand Held Shower
Diesel Heater
Two Anchors and rode / chain
2 Fresh Water Tanks
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