{"id":12638,"date":"2020-08-16T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=12638"},"modified":"2022-08-15T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:43:51","slug":"waiting-for-a-miracle-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=12638","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for a Miracle to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can hope for a catastrophe or wait for a miracle<\/a>, but you cannot expect normalcy.<\/p>\n

I am becoming more like Don Quixote. I live in a world that does not really exist and I fight imaginary battles. I hope I win one someday.<\/p>\n

Wittgenstein confessed, \u201cIt\u2019s damned hard to write things that make blank sheets better!\u201d \u2026 he got that right, but I don’t see it discouraging anyone.<\/p>\n

Adam named the animals, which implies he understood the essences of things. Lesser men today engage in magical thinking. They change the names of things, believing, thereby, that they are changing essences.<\/p>\n

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them \u2026 the vulgar always judge by appearances and by results, and in the world there are only the vulgar ~ Machiavelli<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been watching physics videos to see if the world makes sense. It doesn’t. In Is faster-than-light travel possible?<\/a>, Sabine tells of a fellow who went back in time, accidentally killed his grandfather, and immediately ceased to exist. Also, a particle can’t tell if it is moving backwards or forwards in time. I think I could tell.<\/p>\n

We’ve learned that we can live just fine without professional sports, but not without the workers at power plants. Which of these would you choose: shut down all the “news” channels or the meat packing plants?<\/p>\n

We poker players have an adage: \u201cIf you can\u2019t recognize who the chump is at the table, it is probably you.\u201d Likewise, you don\u2019t want to be the one with a knife at a gun fight.<\/p>\n

The Argyraspides<\/a> were a feared and revered division of Alexander\u2019s army, consisting of veterans past the age of 60 years. They won many a battle. They could save the US army beaucoup bucks since they pay themselves out of their plunder, and they may actually win a war or two.<\/p>\n

The Inverse of Truth<\/h2>\n

The effects of Adam\u2019s fall are from a higher state to a state of ignorance, malice, and concupiscence. Tradition teaches that knowledge of the good ameliorates malice and concupiscence. The collected wisdom of the group provided that knowledge to the ignorant.<\/p>\n

The current belief is that man \u201cevolved\u201d upwards to ignorance, malice, and concupiscence. This is the solution of the modern world:<\/p>\n