We all dream of America
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The Only fans discussion at the nursing home Never will forget this moment I tried to explain to my mother two young women wanting to live at the trailer park that had a Only fans page. She kept saying explain this to me again , “they cook and exercise in the nude and people pay to watch this?” Yep. Mom they don't do porn they just exercise and cook food and watch tv naked – on camera. And they teach men that are into bass fishing how to tie lures with knots and such. “They do this nude. And people pay for this?” Yep. “Nope you do not need that going on” she said. “Imagine when you were 12 and all your playmates. Thats exactly where you boys would be.” I said, but they are really nice young ladies. “Nope, they need to find somewhere else.”
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Notes after Torah study- the Patriarch
If you are a believer—whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim—the beginning of our faith starts with Abraham, where the covenant was made. There are layers to this though that are strange.
For reference I'm going to use the acronym “NHI” to represent Non-human intelligence. This could be angels, watchers or beings referred to in the heavenly court reference in Genesis or something else we do not know of.
The story (as taught in Judaism) is this:
Abraham’s father, Terakh, owned an idol shop. One day, while his father was away and Abraham was left in charge of the store, he took an axe and smashed all the idols except the biggest one. He then placed the axe in the idol’s hands. When his father returned, he was angry and asked what happened. Abraham explained that the large idol had become upset with the other idols and destroyed them.
“You know these idols can’t move,” his father shouted.
Abraham cleverly answered, “If they can’t save themselves, then we are superior to them. So why should we worship them?” [^1]
It is Abraham’s intellectual and spiritual perception — his ability to see through what everyone else around him accepted without question that caught the attention of the Creator of the universe—whom we call HaShem—thereby becoming the father of the Jewish people.
However much the faith has splintered over the thousands of years that followed, what can be agreed upon is that Abraham gives us ethical monotheism: the belief that there is one G-d over mankind and earth, and that His primary concern is that people act ethically. The stories of Abraham’s life that follow are epic. G-d tests him in many ways, even to the extreme of commanding him to sacrifice his son Isaac.
Abraham also confronts G-d in one of the most famous lines in history: “Shall not the judge of all the earth act with justice?” [Genesis 18:25]. I do not know what to make of these stories. Beyond the text, they contain mathematical patterns. For example, the ages of the patriarchs: * Abraham — 175 years * Isaac — 180 years * Jacob — 147 years
⠀Look closely at the math: * 175 = 7 × 5² * 180 = 5 × 6² * 147 = 3 × 7²
This is deliberate not coincidence in my opinion. The coefficients decrease (7 → 5 → 3) while the bases increase (5 → 6 → 7). I have no thoughts as to what it means but it certainly hints to encoding something through mathematics that goes beyond the surface story. Archeologically this puts us in the Middle Bronze Age. At that time: * Widespread literacy was rare. * Advanced mathematics (especially the kind of elegant, intentional patterning you’re seeing in the ages) was mostly the domain of specialized scribal or priestly elites in places like Mesopotamia or Egypt. * A semi-nomadic family/clan wandering between Mesopotamia and Canaan would not have been the most likely setting for this kind of numerical sophistication. Source: Grok 7/11/226
Abraham’s stories describe G-d’s role in the world. In the Midrash it says: “So, because Abraham our patriarch was saying: ‘Is it possible that this world is without someone in charge?’ The Holy One, blessed be He, looked at him and said to him: ‘I am the owner of the world.’” — Genesis Rabbah (Sefaria) But I am left with so many questions. If the story of the Patriarchs is true, then we have a population of humans created in the story of Genesis—specifically created by a heavenly council in the image of their maker(s): “And God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness.’” [Genesis 1:26] Rashi comments on this verse: “The meekness of the Holy One, blessed be He, the Rabbis learned from here: because man is in the likeness of the angels and they might envy him, therefore He took counsel with them. And when He judges the kings, He likewise consults His heavenly council… He consulted His heavenly council and asked permission of them, saying to them: ‘There are in the heavens beings after My likeness; if there will not be on earth also beings after My likeness, there will be envy among the beings that I have created.’” — Rashi on Genesis 1:26 (Rosenbaum & Silbermann translation) The core of this faith is established by how the world came to be and by whom or what. Then Judaism forms with the story of a child smashing idols in a clever and insightful moment—an observation of what society worships. His words are as powerful as his axe.
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My dog “Autiemae” a blue healer. I got her when I had cows but she was scared of cows so now she herds me and my friends.
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ברוך השם
Its not much...but its my little place in the world and I am grateful.
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Follow-up Notes from Torah Class
I questioned again whether—assuming the Bible’s story about Avraham and Sarah is true—the higher power (G-d and the angels mentioned) could intervene in non-human intelligence. If we are to believe that Elohim/Adonai is all-powerful, we can look at the verse in Genesis 14:19, where Melchizedek blesses Abram with these words: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.” (Hebrew: qoneh shamayim va’aretz). Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High. According to Jewish tradition, he was Shem, the son of Noah, who was still alive in Avraham’s time. “And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High.” (Genesis 14:18) What we do know about Melchizedek is that he was not Jewish. Archaeologists associate the region with ancient Near Eastern civilizations, including the Sumerians and Canaanites. Jewish texts identify him with Shem. Side note: If Melchizedek was a Sumerian (or pre-Israelite) religious figure, this would suggest there is not only one path or religion that leads to G-d. It would raise a series of questions: What was their faith, and how did they practice it, did they have a holy text like the bible? Here is another thought: Assuming these events actually happened, I am not sure this type of intelligence perceives itself as “alive” in the sense that we do. Nonetheless, it clearly has influence and can alter the biological and physical world we experience. So I would argue it is very much “alive”—perhaps just in a form we are only beginning to understand. It exists. It has the ability to influence and change the physical, material world. This, in theory, could be done through humans. It could also be done through machines. So it is a reasonable question to ask: What if the same entity that appears in the Torah, that enters and controls Avraham and Sarah’s thoughts and physical actions, could also control or influence machines? Today.
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My old landcruiser “Mavis” in better days, when I was a “free man”.
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