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One of our members requested a poster-sized version of the [4] Human Growth quad. Here’s a link to a PDF version that you can print at Staples or similar office store on 24×36″ architectural print paper: https://unusualkingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/4-human_growth_poster_plusquads-3.0.20231222.pdf

[4] Human Growth

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Awesome! Let’s touch base on this soon as it starts taking shape. By the way, if we type the name of any frame we use, like [3] The Four Soils, the website automatically will recognize it and link it to the page in the CODEX wiki. So you could also mention [3] The Four Soils for Organizations and [3] Tricotomy, [3] Functional MBS Tricotomy, or [3] Tabernacle Tricotomy.

The naming of “frames” is the number of the shape in square brackets “[ ]” followed by the name capitalized.

A little off topic, but it’s a handy way of linking up content your referencing. In the future as you create “frames” — or re-usable structural ideas you’d like to use again and again — you can add them as articles to the CODEX and they will automatically link where-ever anyone types the name in caps.

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You both got 2/3 answers:

• Method: High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography with Photo-Documentation
• Results: the photo of the “lanes of material” and description of the lane materials. Polyethylene Glycol is not a contaminant, its part of the testing materials.
• Conclusion: “This test sample Organic Beet Root Powder_Vendor:A&Y Nutrition (RM023.010423) is not characteristic of Beta vulgaris root.”

[profmag]

I definitely messed you guys up earlier today with my definition of chromatography. I was totally off. What I was describing to you was actually spectrometry. It’s a really cool way of analyzing materials, but it has nothing to do with chromatography which is just separating materials into component parts and capturing that separation for analysis.

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Let’s try to get the science talk out of this and make it pretty simple. HPTLC is based on the following principles:

• separation by density
• different rates of absorption of different substances

If you wanted to know what was in the soil in your yard, one way you could figure out the components would be to dump a lump of dirt into water, stir it violently, and let it settle in to layers. These layers would be mainly based on density with the most dense material settling first and the least dense settling last.

HPTLC does the same sort of thing to sort out components. You dissolve the sample in a solvent (the mobile phase), and then you carefully pour it down a tray of silicone gel. As some of it gets absorbed quickly and some less quickly, it will separate into bands of components. These bands can then be compared with reference samples to see if the mixture matches a known substance.

[profmag]

This was a pretty good video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiS2EgYxtYc

I’ve attached a screenshot of what is a logic statement and what is not. One thing Adam Prance points out is that anything that is a question or an instruction are open ended and can’t be given a True/False truth value.

Another example of something that isn’t a statement is a paradox like “I am lying to you now”. How come this can’t be a statement?

[profmag]

One of the clearest passages of how the Fear of the Lord relates to Jesus and his Kingdom can be found in The Seven Spirits of Isaiah 11:

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.

Most readers agree that this speaks of a Messiah who will deliver and reunite Israel; a branch from the stump of Jesse (King David’s father). For Christians this is fulfilled in Jesus, David’s descendant.

The “Spirit of the Fear of the Lord” (ruah yirat Adonai) — or what one might more accurately translate as “Spirit of Awe of the Lord” is the final “receptor” in this seven-fold spiritual system: it completely manifests the end product of the other six spirits. In other words, the movement/energy begins with “The Spirit of Yahweh” or “complete/eternal being” and moves through wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, and knowledge till it completely manifests in the fear of the Lord.

It’s clear from the text that the entire seven-fold spirit is about inner perception with the fear of the Lord as the focus of this perception towards comprehending the world and action: “His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears, but he will judge the poor with righteousness…“

In other words, whatever your inner life with God, the fear of the Lord (and delighting in it) is how it gets translated righteously to your outer life. The Awe of the Lord is a filter through which one may disregard the external stimulation and see the deeper and more fundamental truth that transitions one for reacting to righteous acting.

Side Note: We’ve been working on [7] The Seven Spirits as a SOF frame and using it as the basis for [7] The Seven Questions and Project-based Learning. The idea is to create models of educating and growing for all ages that would nurture a healthy awe.

[profmag]

Time for more characters:

Xander Garvey

Elyna Farhat: (Persian & French, Scandinavian) Persan, really tall, speaks with a French accent, sometimes uses French phrases.

Stephen ????:

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Another one:

• Closer than a brother: Arbiter’s fall from grace, discovery of the truth about the Covenant, and partnership with Master Chief (laying the foundation of him becoming ruler of the Sangehili [sp?]). Sometimes friendship is thicker than blood and supports and accepts you even when family, social group, and culture will not. Aunt Bob, growing up the black-sheep, and the importance of acceptance.

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While I totally agree to this as a prophetic statement to our times where we think knowing something is the same as living something (it’s not), I would like to suggest a progression of knowing Jesus that looks like:

Jesus is a story to be told (Belong / Lordship / Seeker)

Jesus is a lesson to be learned (Become / Likeness / Servant)

Jesus is a life to be lived (Believe / Life-on-life / Heir)

I think you’re totally right that the last is the core of real Jesus-following. And the fear of the Lord relates to the PRIME that carries a person through the three phases.

One of the most common descriptors of those who were most ready for the Kingdom in the book of Acts was “God-fearing” — the movement spread quickly among “God fearing Jews” and “God fearing Gentiles”. So in my mind, when we encounter people who — because of the pandemic or life situations or the signs of the times — are seeking something deeper spiritually and it comes with a tinge of awe or smallness or danger, then we are encountering a God-fearer who has entered the path called “the beginning of wisdom”.

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This makes me think about some of the “unconventional” things were piloting in AV. This makes an effective and attentive partnership with the prophetic gift especially important. Otherwise, the evangelist could innovate too far outside the Lord’s vision for the people’s fitness.

I think about this sometimes. Take for instance our radical openness in our meetings. We’re so open now so people can have their story and discover their path. But this could feed into an distorted Western individualism that is far from a healthy individuality. There’s also mutual submission and sacrifice necessary to be community, pursue common mission, and actually build a different reality.

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Since we started building on your first place map, I think its safe to say the decision has been made.

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See Hassabis’ quote here: https://youtu.be/J6Mdq3n6kgk?t=523

By the way, though this video has a sensationalist dystopian title, it actually does present two if not three of the visions of the future.

Would anyone care to type out the quote for future use?

[profmag]

Is see now @BlackoutKnight referenced AlphaGo — the documentary — in his research above.

[profmag]

DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis could definitely be a candidate for the utopian view of AI.

See this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdeY-MrXD74

Hassabis and DeepMind are pursuing AGI — “Artificial General Intelligence” — the ability of machines to learn any task like a human or better without having to be specifically programmed for that task. One the way, they created some compelling demonstrators of AI and machine-learning capabilities, including AlphaGo, a program that defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the complex strategy game of Go.