Lay On MacDuff

"Lay on, MacDuff, and damned be him who first cries ‘Hold! Enough!”

-Macbeth, William Shakespeare

…them’s fighting words?

Sounds more like poke'r to me.

(I Am my Father's daughter and, like Him, I, too, believe that Gaming is the only sport where you lose as soon as you sit down to play it, and in order to make real money You just gotta Earn it (as in work for it and not simply rely on the luck of the draw)).

“Who would want to hurt you?”
When the question was first posed over 15 years ago, my naiveté would only permit the following response;
"Duh--like I don’t know…”

But in retrospect the answer is more than likely, “Practically the entire human populace because I had to be the one to break it to them that for all their pageantry and eons of human evolution, they still haven’t figured out how to have sex—they go around big-footing it all over the world when the men can’t even make a conquest in their own bedrooms, being easily duped into believing otherwise; and their women have it in for me since, (apparently even Dr. Ruth did not venture into this uncharted territory), there are juicy signs as torrential as the Great Flood, and now the jig is up and they can’t fake it any more (like in the diner scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally--and unlike that film Producer's Mom in that same scene I Don't Want What She's Having!)."

(What does everybody think Rain songs on the Radio are all about—the weather? For that we have the meteorological forecast.)

...and, speaking of Meteo-rites, an alien take on their solar system...

Surah 34 Sheba (The Queen of She-Ba)

أَفَلَمْ يَرَوْا إِلَى مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُم مِّنَ السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضِ
 إِن نَّشَأْ نَخْسِفْ بِهِمُ الْأَرْضَ أَوْ نُسْقِطْ عَلَيْهِمْ كِسَفًا مِّنَ السَّمَاء
 إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَةً لِّكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ  34:9  

34:9 Do they not see how much lies (open) between their hands and how much is (lies) hidden in the Heavens and Earth...(in other words, how little they see of what lies open and hidden in Heaven and Earth?); if We Willed We Eclipse/Cleave the Earth with them or Drop pieces of the Sky over them; Truly (Indeed), in these Signs (are) Every Servant (of God) Foretells/Predicts/Calculates/Is Penitent/Remorseful.

Penitent and Remorseful, sound a lot like Sad to me, and while it is True that '...you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness (Song Lyrics from 'Somebody That I Used To Know') I, for one, do not enjoy being sad...but I should have figured out there was a problem much sooner, at the first hint that my friends thought they saw me coming in Orange when I know I was Blue.

But Colors are another subject altogether, it's much easier to just stick with the numbers..

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
--Isaac Newton

Sign 34:9, taken as a simple ratio is 3.77777777....or Three (3) + (7/9). Nine we all know is 3^{^2}.
The fraction or decimal portion when dividing by 9 always given by a single repeating numeral; 1/9=0.11111...; 2/9=0.22222....; 3/9=0.333333...;...and 13/9=1.44444.....

In this case MOD(34, 9)=7, ie. 7/9 or a repeating decimal of 0.7777777...

Relationship Between Solar System Planets/Objects
With Respect to Mercury@ 1AU vs Earth@1AU
and the Lemniscate Constant

The first approximation as to why there may be something out there according to the Table Above. Assuming a progression or natural harmonic for the mean distance (aka semi-major axis of an elliptical orbit) of the known planets/objects in the Solar System, the product of the Lemniscate Constant (2.6225) and each planet/object's mean distance (using Earth as the basis for 1 AU) results in a value close to that planet/object's mean distance with respect to  Mercury as the basis for 1 AU.

This was used as a first order approximation since the Lemniscate ties in well with orbits/space/time  and the pattern emerged readily.

Using the conventional standard Earth mean distance at 1AU, then Mercury =0.387 AU x 2.6225 (the Lemniscate constant)= 1.015AU (giving the Earth Mean Distance by this convention, and about what it takes to make Mercury the convention for 1AU,  http://www.solargeometry.com/).

Since this also corresponded roughly to the mean distance of the Earth @ 1 AU, the way the table developed it turned out to be the 3rd object from Mercury, while still being the 3rd Planet from the Sun (ie., compare distances in column O_n vs column C_(n+3) vs D_n ).

The next outer planet Venus mean distance wrt Earth=1AU then follows from  0.7224AU (wrt Earth=1AU) x (2.6225)= 1.866 AU (Venus mean distance wrt Mercury=1AU). The expectation being a value close to 1.9 AU should correspond to some planet/object y for this pattern to hold in Column C Row 7.

Then to keep an even distribution and give Mars as the 3rd planet from   'something (phi= j)'  between Mercury and Venus is expected to be near 1-1/3 AU (wrt Mercury @ 1AU s.t. the mean distance wrt Earth @ 1AU  in C3 is (1.33../2.58..) approx. 0.516 AU x (2.6225)= 1.3533 (a mean distance that roughly corresponds to Mars mean distance in Column C Row 6, according to this pattern (distance in O3 vs C6)).

The 1-1/3 value was not selected at random (refer to the Lusona lesson). The idea was to keep the distribution about as even as possible and keep as much symmetry in the distribution as possible.

Since a rough estimate for the mean distance to a Kuiper Belt object was taken as a round number, 50 AU wrt Earth @ 1 AU, worked out to approximately 129.17 AR wrt Mercury @ 1 AU and when 50*the Lemniscate constant worked out to 131, a number close enough to 133 to keep the symmetry given the breadth of the field of such objects,  this was in good enough keeping (both in the progression and geometry) to guess something 'phi' at 1.3333 AU (in Column C Row 3). It also didn't hurt that 133/7 = 19 (see further down the post).

(I hope You are reeling with awe regarding the shallow depth of Knowledge I have in Astrophysics; but, since I can't even do simple math or hold a number in my head longer than a femtosecond,  this is what I can manage).

Pursuing this method, objects/planetoids were expected at locations j= x, y, z, aa, and bb. The pattern that emerged simply using the Lemniscate constant as a multiplier holds at least up to mean distance of Kuiper Belt objects from the Sun.

Unlike the finesse required for Rocket Science, ever the tactful one, this is more of  a bludgeon approach to introduce an 'error' (j, x, y, z...) and check for 'ringing' kind of engine.ear.ring---(Where Can I Go to See What You *(all) Got?).

The idea is to keep some constant multiplier (in this case 2.6225...that would give the next outer planet/object approximate mean distance in an orderly fashion, and keep percent errors as close to 0 as possible for known planets/objects/'guesstimates'.

--What's the use? There ain't no use, if it's gonna hit, it'll hit--this is simply a pain-coping mechanism short of resorting to illicit drugs.

Flatlander Fred's Encounter With A Sphere

A Meaty-ORE from RealmSpace is About to Hit Flatlander Fred ’s Humble Home.

But, as You (ALL) can see, that's not really what a 3-D sphere looks like to 2-D Fred the Flatlander.
To Fred sitting in his living room one day, getting an unexpected visit from the sphere from ’outer space’, looks like it passes through the air right before his eyes.

To him, it will appear as if a circle came out of nowhere and materialized right before his eyes.

It expands rapidly, and Fred fears that its going to devour him and his house with him.

But to his relief, its growth slows down, then stops, then the circle starts to recede (shrink) again, but slowly. Then it starts to shrink faster and faster until it quickly disappears.

(Drawings and Text from Higher Dimensions. Find even More skillfully executed drawings and adventures of Fred, Emily, and Bob at Higher Dimensions.)

Mean Planetary Distance From the Sun vs Quotient of 19

For a second approximation, choose to represent each planet/object mean distance from the Sun as a quotient of 19, the farthest column shows the percent error between the quotient (calculated) and the apparent mean distance for each planet/object.

Well, why 19?---one finds themselves asking.

The easy answer is 'cuz the source under consideration says so...See?--Right here (Sign 74:30).

There are other more pragmatic reasons for choosing to represent each distance as a quotient of 19.

• Most cases divide by 19 gives an irreducible fraction or a repeating decimal of period 18.
• 19 in binary form is 10011_2
• 19 and 17 form twin prime pairs.
• 19 is the exponent for the Mersenne prime 2^{^19} -1=524 287, associated associated with the perfect number 137438691328 = (2^{^19} -1) (2^{^19} -1).
• 524 287 binary form representation is 1111111111111111111_2. (presumably 1400++ years ago there were no computers at the Prophet's disposal, but now that we have some laying around maybe the binary form is of some interest and may give some interesting insights.)

Note: Pertaining to 17 as a twin prime to 19, an inner planet/object distance wrt Mercury @ 1AU x (17/9)=1.8888... holds a similar pattern as when using that planet/object's mean distance wrt Earth @ 1AU x the Lemniscate constant in the previous table; such that Mercury @ 1 AU x 1.88 = 1.88 (approx. Venus (1.86) wrt Mercury at 1AU); x @ 1.33 x 1.888...=2.52 approx. Earth (2.53) wrt Mercury at 1AU; Venus @ 1.86 x (17/9) = 3.5 (near Mars (3.9) wrt Mercury @ 1AU; Mars @ 3.9 AU x (17/9) = 4. 87 (about what is expected at location y (5 AU wrt Mercury at 1AU, etc.). The table is not shown in full in the interest of conserving space and since those values can be readily generated, simply using 19 as the multiplier, (ie., 133/7, but since that is a factor of 10 too high 19/10 x mean distance wrt  Mercury at 1 AU, would be the equivalent multiplier).

Using the Magic Angle M(theta) as an Iteration for Mean Distance Formula of Solar System Objects

An interim step using the Numerator for the Mean Distance as a Quotient of 19 was to derive the mean distance wrt the Magic Angle

q_M

q_M     =ACOS(1/Ö3)

The formula in column H is mean distance in (column E_n/2.1)/(8+ACOS(1/Ö3)). This gives values for mean distance of each planet/object as a function of  (8+q_M    .).

Each mean distance in H is given by the numerator of the mean distance expressed as a quotient of 19 (Column E)  divided by 2.1*(8+q_{M .}).

The magic angle is typically given by Sec^{^-1}  (Ö3) (for more on religious/spiritual/Masonic associations pertaining to Ö3) refer to Vesica Piscis (now We know what that Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse and Guam has been on about these past few weeks in the Prickly City Comic Strip).

While Arc_secant is typically an inverse trigonometric function used in the States, elsewhere it is simply expressed as the inverse cosine function Arcos (1/Ö3), (ie, 54.740 degrees or 0.9553166 radians; 54 degrees, 44 arc minutes, 24 arc seconds; or RA 3 h: 38 min: 58 sec).

A finagle factor (divide by 2.09, 2.1 or 1.5), while serving as a simple multiplier to approximate the mean distance relative to the magic angle, is a number that also relates to the packing density for body-centered and/or face-centered/or simple-cubic lattices.

While at first appearing to be quite random, this factor of 2.1, is really nothing other than 19/9 = 2.11111....(see twin primes 17 and 19 above, the ratio of each to 3^{^2} , the Gee_ometry of the Solar System,  and how they relate to each other here).

("So What?" You Say, "I can find some relationship between any 2 somethings!" While this is true, it is more difficult to find and keep relationships between sets of somethings that make sense Math-wise--that can only happen by Design and when done right it can be made to look like an Accident--See Lie Groups, Quotient or Factor Group, symmetry, continuous transformation isomorphic/homomorphic/kernel--->pre-image_null space+zero point field)

Solar System Planetary Distance From the Sun vs Root Approximations

The mean distances are represented as approximate roots and what emerged was interesting in that the golden mean (j) figured in some of them and more to the point was the fact that p/4 (ie. 4/p, or specifically (4/p)^{^2} ) also emerged as a convenient way to represent the mean distance of known planets and objects in the Solar system.

Euler's number was expected to emerge as well, when finding ways to set Mercury to 1AU, so wherever possible, it was attempted to work e into the formulas, but it didn't seem to fit naturally until resolving Kuiper Belt objects with this approach.

Sure we can do what Newton and Einstein and all the other highly respected physicists did, and we are familiar with their work, but can they predict what is coming out of nowhere based on their models?

Ducks Window Shopping Along the Boulevard
Venice, CA Feb 26, 2012
Reported to have Obeyed Traffic Rules,
Crossed The Street Using The Crosswalk

So, since God is Perfect and the News is All Good, just for kicks, a perfect Solar System should be well represented Mathematically without resorting to all the mind bending physics rigmarole, because I once was a highly developed thinker, but now I am retarded--especially after the recent 3-day 'migraine' layover--I think my brain is now Duck Soup, suited to simple tasks-- like shopping.

What's of interest here, is that in order for the pattern using prime square roots (Ö2, Ö3, Ö5, Ö7...), j, p and e to work, the Kuiper belt objects were refined to a mean distance of about 127.7(002)... which kept the percent error between the mean formula distance and that mean object distance as close to 0% as possible with a rather simple relationship that followed from using j^8 * e; and the number 127.7(02) also fit the pattern using p as a formula mean distance wrt Earth @1AU, which worked out to 8425/(21p)=127.702.

The root formulas had led to finding the magic angle relationship f(Ö3) in the previous table which bolstered guess-timating something of interest in the area of the Kuiper Belt objects close to the 127.7 AU wrt Mercury@1AU (or about 49.438 AU wrt Earth @ 1AU).

For the purposes of this exercise that distance for a Kuiper Belt object was revised from the first approximation of 133 AU to 127.702 AU (hopefully a refinement).
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It's especially exciting to see that p/4 (or (4/p)^{^2} ) since this intuitively means we are dealing with solid angles...wait while I check because I don't remember exactly why I thought this to be so exciting...

I even remember thinking seeing this (4/ p)^{^2}   to be elegant at one point....
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The Lemniscate is an inverse curve of a hyperbola ( the Lemniscate of Bernoulli or 'pendent ribbon' being the familiar case---> sideways figure 8, a special case of the Cassinin Oval), so where 2 branches of a curve would asymptotically fly off to infinity as in the hyperbolic case, the Lemniscate as the inverse of such a hyperbola 'knots' or 'ties' the two ends together (so to speak, see reference heavens/knitting/intertwined/woven paths) 'binding' it to a closed path where it may 'curve' back on itself.

Other inverse curves of the hyperbola include the limaçon, and the strophoid (or 'belt with a loop', of which there are two types, the oblique strophoid or the right strophoid--similar in shape to the early Christian symbol Icthus). The right strophoid or foliate curve is also called the  logocycle curve properties include: forming the basis for deriving logarithms, is its own inverse curve, and has a total area A=4a^2 (the square of the semi-major? axis of the parabola), normals to the parabola are equal like radii are equal for a circle.

That the logocycle curve is called just that probably stems from its utility in deriving logs (logarithms), since the word logos originates from the Greek verb 'to count.' And it probably is no mere coincidence that the early Christian symbol Icthys (the fish)  is the shape of the logocycle curve. (He wonders why I try so hard when i know i am not even connected to the internet---but, did you hear what's playing on the radio, see what's on TV, listen to what they're preaching from the pulpit?--go ahead, keep trying to make me die (again) laughing).

Early Biblical translations of the nature of Jesus reflected in their understanding of 'In the Beginning there was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) was God.'  An attempt to understand a difficult concept about dualism.

More about the possible connection between Logos, Logocycle Curve, and the Transfiguration/Crusifixion/Resurrection of Jesus   (http://apageinthelife.blogspot.com/p/logocycle-and-transfiguration-of-jesus.html).

In 'Real World' terms this would imply that Time, while understood to be infinite, has a nature by which it can and does 'curve' back onto itself (The Equation of Time), and its 2 ends meet in some manner, much the same way a hyperbola inverts to a Lemniscate. (And yes, in someways  just like the Tide washes in and out).

Or, how a simple harmonic wraps around or projects from a developmental surface, such as a cylinder or cone, to form such curves.

This further implies that Time's asymptosy (too tempting not to use such a word given its definition, Asymptosy: A useful yet endangered word, found rarely outside the confines of the Oxford English Dictionary) is in fact not a direct 'one-way arrow' as we are led to believe by our limited faculties and life experience, but rather that it approaches the 'ideal' final limit, or its 'asymptote' arbitrarily closely without ever meeting or crossing it, according to the very definition of what it is to display asymptotic behaviour.

This asymptosy or arbitrary, random walk (like the shopping ducks appear to be doing unless someone notices they use the crosswalk), verging on the threshold (the ceiling, or boundary) is what we would call a 'meandering' path'...a paradox about the infinite in finite space-time similar in scope to the Diagonoal (Coastline) Paradox.

{The etymology for asymptotic from New Latin *asymptotus, and Greek asymptōtos;   a- not + sympiptein to meet, ie.,  not meeting, And from a- "not" + syn "with" + ptotos "fallen," verbal adj. from piptein "to fall", ie., not falling together. More to the point here is 'petition' as derived from 'piptein' ; "a supplication or prayer, especially to a deity," from O.Fr. peticiun (12c.), from L. petitionem (nom. petitio) "a request, solicitation," noun of action from petere "to require, seek, go forward," also "to rush at, attack," ult. from PIE base *pet-/*pte- "to rush, to fly" (cf. Skt. patram "wing, feather, leaf," patara- "flying, fleeting;" Hittite pittar "wing;" Gk. piptein "to fall," potamos "rushing water," pteryx "wing;" O.E. feðer "feather;" L. penna "feather, wing;" O.C.S. pero "feather;" O.Welsh eterin "bird"). Meaning "formal written request to a superior (earthly, but in my case Not).

The Argyle Sweater 02.13.2012
Scott Hilburn
"Get The 'L' Outta Here!"

And as such serves as the premise for this Letter from Multiple Earths--a supplication to God to get me the L out of here (it was some time ago that I got the hint that prayer is no longer necessary, I guess I reached a point where it won't do any more good so I figure it shouldn't hurt to just ask, again) because we did not fall together And I stand by my claim that We did land together, but He ditched me--on more than one occasion, without any explanation or good reason.

But if I have to be the one to come up with a reason (read Excuse) for this (hurtful) behaviour, it may have everything to do with asymptotic direction after such a 'landing'-- one in which the normal curvature is zero. Such that a point on an asymptotic curve (or line), is in a plane which bears both the curve's tangent and the surface's normal (perpendicular) at that point. The curve (or line) of intersection of the plane and the surface will have zero curvature at that point.

Asymptotic directions can only occur when the Gaussian curvature is negative (saddle) or zero (flat).

In the case of negative Gaussian curvature (the saddle), there will be 2 asymptotic directions and these directions are bisected by the principal directions; {which could explain Our Parting of the Ways.}

Asymptotic directions at a Saddle Point (Gaussian Curvature is Negative)
 are Bisected by the Principal Directions

(Michael, I know 1992 was a spoiler alert and I don't even have to pack, I just need to go and seeing how SomeOne grounded me for these last 2012-1996/1997 number of years, I Respectfully Request that You Bring the 'Car' Around and Collect Both Me and My Daughter, I Know my Son has indeed Gone On Ahead of Us--I'm not trying to be funny here).

The Quranic reference for norms (normals, ridges) at 7:46, 7:48, 7:89, (for the return; 7:168, 7:169, 7:174...35:4...

Now for Sedna...

Mean Distance Planets/Objects in the Solar System vs. 19 vs. Sedna

I don't have an exact equation for the orbit of Sedna, presumably someOne else has already figured that one out.

But working with area graphs based on the emerging pattern developed when dividing mean distances by 19, it is expected that someThing of interest will occur (if it hasn't already) at approximately 375 AU (wrt Mercury at 1 AU) when Sedna is about 54 to 55 years (c 2130 ) past its Perihelion (which is supposed to be c 2075), refer to Column P row 18 in the Table above.

From the above table mean Distances in Column D are a function of Distances in Columns O & P, in that the second outer Planet/Object is a function f(inner planet/object) s.t. D_n relates to D_n+2 directly. So, with this 'squishy' predictive algorithm it points to something (in the gap/Mah) in Column D 13 ~ 37.4 AU is related to some trans-Neptunian object ~ 72 AU wrt , and that there may be something related to this at a distance approximately 131 AU, (ie., between Kuiper Belt objects (~127 AU) and where Sedna orbits c. 2008/2012 (~224.5 AU - 250 AU), (average distances given wrt Mercury @ 1AU),---go Figure!

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This post started off with a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth, a play about a Scottish Thane, and appropriately so, as the History of the Christian Church in Scotland is consequent to the works of Saint Columba (one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland whose name, closely affiliated with the Scott Clan Malcolm aka MacCallum, derived from 'Colum Cille,' from Gaelic/Erse for 'Dove of the Church').

The Arabic for MacCallum sounds like , مكلم , 'm.k.l.m' which carries the meaning of having been 'Spoken To' and the understanding is that 'God Spoke To' one of them; and if God Spoke and Malcolm/MacCallum listened to Him that would make them Isma'3liya and would explain how these two Clan names are affiliated to each other.

{I'm certain God Met with better Success Speaking to Malcolm than I did with the Malcolm I tried to speak to recently, who was conflicted whether to 'break the ice?' or 'not break the ice?' So, I went waaaayyyy out of my comfort zone to make it easy for him and he let me know that he just didn't want to be bothered, (maybe it was his bad back talking, but I'll not be doing that again any time soon---hmmm, something intriguing about these cranky 'old' men 'though (read 'men of Olde')).

Both the Biblical names Jonah and Jonas share a Hebrew etymology for Dove, as does the Pleiades star cluster, 7 or more stars visible to the naked eye, that are associated with Sailing probably due to the onset of Navigation season upon their Helical Rising.

This narration, about the connection between the Scottish Clan Malcolm (derives from 'shaven head,' or 'priest') and MacCallum, Saint Columba, the Early Christian Church, the Dove, Sacred Geometry, Architecture, and other Symbols related to Hidden Knowledge (The Occult) is all the more curious given Heraldry's deep ties to Scottish Shields and Crests (Coats of Arms) and the emphasis Freemasons place on such Symbols/Signs/Representations.

To tie things up, the significant connectivity between the various threads of surface elements gleaned from this cursory study reveals some interesting details as to how they are intertwined. There is no telling what Revelation may be had from a comprehensive examination of just the elements mentioned here, if one were inclined to dig a little deeper into the Mystery (like, 'Where'd they go?!')

Someone Started A Rumor

What is it about Americans that the 2 most often repeated phrases are "I'm sorry," and, "I love you."
Do you know what that sounds like to an alien?
It sounds like this; "I'm sorry I love you!"

And the alien can merely respond by saying, "My condolences, I understand your WIFE is a Muslim."

SomeOne searching 'been let down quotes' and 'you let me down' from unknown.unknown isp, then all traces of it vanished (and, howdie-do to our mangled-wire computer cousins at the US Army Signal Corp).
Not because there is any reason to suspect that being the case, but more than likely because someone started a rumor...that's why?
And it wasn't me. Nope, despite what anyone says I don't think I'm too good for You.
And if the let down has anything to do with my performance to demostrate my range, it was a training exercise-- putting a young-sounding voice to good use; and if my faulty memory serves, it culminated in the biggest bust of a worldwide child trafficking ring a few years later.


The phone records and chatroom snipe are probably still on your desk if not your top file drawer (and it was my cousin, Joey?, pointing me out to You in the middle of that unpartitioned office area, going through my paces on that particular afternoon--so, if I thought there was anything to hide I would not have been doing such a great job in a wide open common work area--with me being the only female in a 'bullpen' shared with 7 other male engineers, that's why it was called the 'bullpen').

And if You want to act like You don't know exactly what it is I am talking about then You deserve a bigger Oscar than the one I should get for my following Your 'I need you to go on sinning and grinning' acting direction from You Know Who?--You!

There really is no reason for me to live under such uncomfortable conditions, but seeing as how I don't even get what I work for and earn, I figure it highly unlikely that I can get what I simply ask for--not because I need any more lessons, but because I know there are more Powers at play than what those around me perceive.

For example, I have known that I am on the federal? payroll in some capacity as a government Annalist/Analyst since at least as far back as 2007 (maybe 2006) but I have yet to see a single penny of it--whatsamatter, having a little trouble making sense of the cumulative time?

See? I warned You--can't afford me?


Times like these I wonder why our family can't have our piano recitals in concert halls, like other families. (I know, it wouldn't be fair when Gabriel has more talent in His left nostril than the entire population that ever was or is or will walk the Earth, combined).

"I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats."--BRAM STOKER, Dracula

In an ideal world (Heaven) I should be compensated for exposing my (hare) brain for Your consideration on at least the same par as world class models get for exposing their...their...their wookies (ie., other admirable/bankable hairy parts on earth).

Surah 60 Al.Mumtahhineh (The Examined One, Those Tested)
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
 إِذَا جَاءكُمُ الْمُؤْمِنَاتُ مُهَاجِرَاتٍ فَامْتَحِنُوهُنَّ 
اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَانِهِنَّ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِنَاتٍ
 فَلَا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ
 وَآتُوهُم مَّا أَنفَقُوا وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَن تَنكِحُوهُنَّ إِذَا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ
وَلَا تُمْسِكُوا بِعِصَمِ الْكَوَافِرِ وَاسْأَلُوا مَا أَنفَقْتُمْ وَلْيَسْأَلُوا مَا أَنفَقُوا
 ذَلِكُمْ حُكْمُ اللَّهِ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ  (60:10

 60:10 All You Believers (Faithful)! When believing women come to you as fugitives, examine (test) them. God Knows what's between them (among them). Then, if you ascertain them to be  believers (faithful), do not send them back to the disbelievers (infidels). They are no longer lawful to the disbelievers (unfaithful), nor are the disbelievers lawful for them (any longer). And give them whatever they may have spent. And it is not a sin for you to marry such women when you have given them first what they have earned. And do not keep (hold onto) defending disbelieving women; nor ask for (the return of) what you have spent (on them); and let the disbelievers ask for what they have spent (the are entitled to what they have spent). That is God's Judgment. God Judges between you. And God is Aware (Knowing), Wise.

But, fair is fair, and my Father predicted that I won't fall for that little beauty trick either (Really, I overheard Him on my way out the sports club telling someone He has every confidence I can pass that test, too!--I don't recall Him laying any odds on it, though.)

Check it out...Testing, Testing...
Surah 18 The Cave
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا مَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ زِينَةً لَّهَا لِنَبْلُوَهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا 18:7
18:7 Indeed, We Created everything  of Beauty on Earth to Test people as to which of them is Best in Conduct

( I passed this Test with flying colors, especially the night of Jan 13, 2012, when a drop dead gorgeous blond was openly flirting with me as I worked deligently on a business letter that was to be only 'a couple of paragraphs' and turned out to be 1600 words.
Don't get me wrong, I was flattered to no end--especially since the last time that happened I was 16 years old---now that I'm a semi-centurian, her attentions didn't quite ring so True.
Besides, that's a no-go for me, seeing as how I stated my position about Women earlier and found it to be much in keeping with WC Fields' feelings about Elephants.
Moreover, if they also happen to be anywhere nearly pretty enough for me to sense any kind of familial connection, then nothin' doin' --sis, 'cuz, G-Aunt, hoaxter!--And the real Killer to this non-starter Test is, I've openly stated where my true passions rest.)

Surah 20 Ta-Ha (Can You Hear Me?  'طه')
وَلَا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيْكَ إِلَى مَا مَتَّعْنَا بِهِ أَزْوَاجًا مِّنْهُمْ زَهْرَةَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنيَا لِنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ وَرِزْقُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَى 20:131
20:131 And don't strain your eyes in longing for the splendour of the life of this world, things We have given for enjoyment to matched pairs (married couples) of them through which We Test them: but the Provision of your Lord is Better and More Enduring

(Another gimmee---what splendour are we referring to exactly? Hauling his laundry hamper up and down 2 flights of stairs while carrying his baby full term because he's too special to help with it or that he never reciprocated any of the good she's ever done for him or the support she freely gave him because he somehow finds it acceptable to abuse the 'now found to be mentally ill for saying she suffered a chronic toxic exposure from working in a sick building for umpteen frickin years?" and threatening to never let her see her children again if she so much as flinched at the despotism of living under his rule now that he would never allow for a divorce and use emotional blackmail to keep her in check---yeah, if I was God and ran this kind of test on someone, I would ...deleted for seeming contemptuous).

Surah 23 The Believers (Faithful)
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَاهُم بِالْعَذَابِ فَمَا اسْتَكَانُوا لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ 23:76
23:76 And We Tested them through suffer­ing/trials, but they did not humble themselves before their Lord; nor did they ever pray (entreat/plead with Him)

(For this one, I get a Gold Star. You wanna know why? I actually saw and heard the Witnesses offer to give You a front row seat to see Me Down On My Knees; apparently, I was doing it quite a bit for some number of years that You could catch that show with some regularity--I only stopped when I got the signal that it was pointless beyond a certain threshold, see 15:98-15:99 below.)

Surah 29 The Spider
أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ (29:2)
وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَاذِبِينَ (29:3)
29:2 Do people think that they will be left (at ease simply) because they say, 'We believe', and that they will not be Tested with hardships?

(Nope, never thought that for a twinkle, but I Never thought it would drag on forever, either, because beyond the first 5 Earth Years, that, too, became pointless!
I am not doing the waking up in a hospital bed Men In Black thing, and I am not doing the Groundhog's Day thing, and I am not waking up to any walk throughs of any other scenes from any movie that was ever made or screenplay that was so much as even accepted on spec, okay--that's it! I've Had it- I had it when I called Him a RedHead and He corrected me to say that Tawny is in fact the more accurate description of the color (LIKE a LION)).

Surah 44 Smoke
وَآتَيْنَاهُم مِّنَ الْآيَاتِ مَا فِيهِ بَلَاء مُّبِينٌ 44:33
44:33 ..and We gave them such Signs as would clearly presage a Test 

(I got the Signs, all right *alright, to the effect that I started a diary, and a blog to preserve them for all posterity & what could be a Bigger Better Betoken than THE Michael Himself announcing His Presence- that was not a Sign to Presage a Test in 1992, that was like AN ANNOUNCEMENT, but I still wonder, why Me? ---there are definitely prettier, smarter, richer, taller, thinner, more powerful people--and we still have a President to the United States, or do we? And of course, those who drive nicer cars.
What? Did the world run out of virgins?
I'd already had a kid or 2; now I hear I have over 100--not bad for a woman whose own husband hasn't so much as dated her since their 7th anniversary.
Can you even imagine what that can do to a woman's self image? Let alone, anyone's ego---psshhaw, nothing!
I keep pretty busy and I still prefer being a female to being a male; if not for the fact that we don't sweat as much, than for the mere frilly lingerie incentive alone.)

Surah 72 Jinn
وَأَلَّوِ اسْتَقَامُوا عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ لَأَسْقَيْنَاهُم مَّاء غَدَقًا  72:16   
لِنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ وَمَن يُعْرِضْ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِّهِ يَسْلُكْهُ عَذَابًا صَعَدًا 72:17
72:16 ...had they but tread firmly on the right path, We would have showered them with Abundance
72:17 As a Test to determine which of them would turn away from their Lord; He will thrust such (as turn away) into ever increasing torment.

(This one leaves me in a Quandary.
I tread the path, as right as it could be in the mind of a neophyte.
If we were talking averages, like engineers are wont to do, I'd say better than the average of what I saw going on around me (note, better than average, not better than everything and everyone---averages are more meaningful when we are taking a populatoin of 7 billion, because any 1 Event (Person/Thing) in and of itself may be considered as a statistical OUTLIER!
Yet, y, y, y the increasing torment?--I passed all of the above tests, and not only did I submit/surrender/give up without prompting the first time, but I tried to do it again a few weeks ago--You may remember, I even waited in the cold night air for SOMEone to haul themselves in for me to SUrrender to, and they Flaked, giving me to understand that my Unconditional Surrender is not accepted under any terms---I must have really ticked someOne off.
I now consider that my major life achievement---now, if I could only figure out Who that SomeOne is/was and where they're hiding.)

And if the disappointment stems from my having stopped praying, it's only due to this little love note:
15:98-15:99 ...pray until ....Can You guess how I interpret 'certainty'? ...
What is there left to say?

That this is how much injustice has to be tipped against me in order that they keep breeding and breathing?

... Want another demonstration?

Sasha, tell us what book you're reading at breakfast table and your sister can share her plans for running for office?

الْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَا أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
(36:65)
This Day We Shall Set a Seal on their mouths
but they will speak to Us with their hands,
 and their feet shall bear witness to whatever they earned in Life.
(36:65)

---
My hands r not tied, I'm free

It's not that I can't, I won't

I am not poor, just broke(n).

My G-Aunt keeps wanting to chime in with, "You know, Dear, the boys keep saying it's a sin to talk about it; but, just between us girls, headaches are a lot sexier on the Men."

I hear Him Say, 'Some fisherman you turned out to be when your net comes up empty time and again'.

I am more a 'catch and release' kind of fisherman...or some such 'sort' of thing.

And as for opting to pursue some 'weird dream' rather than to open my eyes to what's going on around me, I don't think I am as blind as some would like to believe. My 'weird dreams' manifest in physical space and time.

Take for example the image on the right--not a metaphor, but an event:
Location: ~ 34.07573, -118.38503  (~ 34° 4' 30.965" N     -118° 22' 51.363" W )
Orientation:  SSW? (same as that of the Roman reception desk)
Date: May 17, 1997
Time: 6 - 7 pm

UFO and Related Sightings Surrounding 'the event':

NEW BRIGHTON UFO SIGHTING

On April 25, 1997, the night more than 30 UFOs were seen over New Brighton, Minnesota, just north of the "Twin Cities" of  Minneapolis and St. Paul a sky watcher observed 3 UFOs in the same binocular field.

Over a course of several months… avid sky watchers have observed extremely high moving objects which traverse the sky in a few minutes…they appear solid, self-illuminated and round. These objects…named 'High Movers'...are moving in a N-to-S or S-to-N direction, with slight east and west variations… not consistent with satellites.

"Now, here is what is interesting,” an observer said, "all but two (of 7 he saw)  were moving to the northwest, towards Minnesota!... one moving to the northwest about 9:45 p.m… just as it was about to drop below the horizon… another moving near it, more to the east.. was amazed to have two in my field of vision at the same time, since viewing through binoculars greatly restricts the field of vision. A third High Mover (UFO) streaked past both of them.. I've never seen three in the sky at once...much less in the same binocular field of view."

COLORADO PILOT MYSTIFIED BY STRANGE RADIO CALL

On Monday night, May 12, 1997, a Colorado pilot was flying near Walsenburg (population 3,945) when he picked up a strange call on his radio.

"I was flying in clear VUCU sky (VUCU stands for "visibility unlimited, ceiling unlimited") when I picked up a weak communication on VoiceCom 121.5,  the common-use emergency channel… always monitored by commercial and most large private aircraft with more than one communications radio,” the pilot reported.

"As well as I could, I was able to make out someone at Flight Level One-Two-Three-Five Hundred (123,500 feet or 37,424 meters--J.T.) requesting 'immediate traffic in area.' There was obvious anxiousness in his voice, and he was talking to Air Traffic Control," he added, "The only thing I know that can travel at this altitude is the SR-71 Blackbird. Now it is not uncommon to see high-flying aircraft in this (San Luis) valley, but this guy is calling, in what must have surely seemed like some desperation, on the unsecured 121.5 emergency channel."

"I have two wonderings--was the SR-71 on recon? For what? And why was he so concerned with traffic at an altitude that few pilots have ever been at?"

 (Editor's Comment: The pilot might use the civilian emergency channel if the military frequencies were being jammed. Then again, it might be someone playing with a shortwave radio.)

HUMANOID CONTACT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

On Wednesday, May 14, 1997, around 4 pm, at the Intersection of Bundy Avenue at Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. (See Journal Entry for May 14, 1997 at 17:00)

TRIANGULAR UFOs OVER RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA

On Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 12:07 a.m… a few hundred yards from Interstate Highway 80.

…a black equilateral triangular object about the size of a half-dollar held at arm's length, moving swiftly to the east-northeast about five degrees north of directly overhead..."It had three lights, one at each of the vertices. These were orange-yellow and appeared as bright as fourth magnitude stars. Each light appeared to be divided into two hemispheres along the axis of motion. The object was moving in the direction of one of the vertices at a high rate of speed. The duration of my sighting was about 4 seconds."

… it passed overhead… It produced no noise except perhaps the faint sound of rushing air… the nearness of the (Interstate 80) freeway makes that impression unreliable.

Twenty hours later…at approximately 10:43 p.m…made visual contact with a UFO.

… a group of lights, perhaps eight or nine clustered near the front edge of a black triangular object with angles of about 120 degrees, 35 degrees and 25 degrees." …. "The object was traveling NE at a high speed with the largest angle in the front and the smallest angle to the NW. … it was about as large as a half-dollar held at arm's length..It passed directly overhead and made no noise, … observed this object for about 6-7 seconds. Its lights were also about fourth magnitude and looked like eyes--almond-shaped with a dark center…It should be mentioned (that) the first object was moving along a flight path out of SFO (San Francisco International Airport) used by passenger craft at high altitude.”

SKY BOOM REPORTED IN MISSOURI ON MAY 15

On Thursday, May 15, 1997, two hours before a "mysterious explosion" rocked southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, a similar blast was experienced in the city of St. Joseph, Missouri (population 76,691), located 54 miles (87 kilometers) north of Kansas City.

A spokeswoman for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, said the blast was "probably a sonic boom caused by an aircraft breaking the sound barrier…that the boom might have been caused by an SR-71 flying from Beale Air Force Base in California to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

Another spokesman for USAF, said "the aircraft would have been in NW Missouri about 2:30 or 3 p.m. on that afternoon.”

BLACK HELICOPTERS IN FRESNO, CALIFORNIA

On Saturday, May 17, 1997…at 10 p.m… two black helicopters in close formation, no sound, no exhaust, and no flashing lights--just a steady white light flew very close to the ground, from the SE to the NW  (Kings Canyon Road to Herndon Avenue-J.T.).

“ Definitely looked like helicopters--but very Stealth-like…they had a wide fuselage, no visible (tail) rotor, could not see underbelly--no visible landing gear. No noise of any type. No exhaust. Both were in tight formation, with one just in front of the other. The one in the rear seemed to be on the right-hand side of the one in the lead.”

On Tuesday, May 20, 1997…the city's ABC-TV affiliate, aired a 15-minute segment on UFOs…showing "a round glowing object."…(prior to the program airing) city residents had been puzzled by reports of black helicopters on patrol over McKinley, Belmont and Olive Avenues, just north of Chandler Airport.

 (Editor's Comment: From the description, the aircraft resemble the new Eurocopter NH-90. But, according to Aviation Week and Space Technology for May 27, 1997, there are only a few prototypes of the NH-90, and all are in Europe. The first NH-90s not expected to be out of production until 2002.)

FLYING TRIANGLE IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

On Sunday, May 18, 1997, at about 6:30 p.m., a handful of people …at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 443 and Appleby Road, near Linglestown, Pennsylvania (Pa.) were startled by the appearance of a "flying triangle."

…the UFO was "to the north directly over Route 81.. was …a triangle UFOappearing to be six inches across.

…as to how high the UFO flew… it "was real low" and "moved slowly W."

… "The triangle flew overhead, moving in a WNW direction. The lights gave the appearance of protruding from the actual craft.

… lost sight of the UFO when it dropped toward forest-covered Second Mountain. The sighting took place in a rural section of Linglestown, about seven miles (11 kilometers) north of Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania.” -- Copyright 1996 - 2012 UFOINFO Editor: Joseph Trainor