13 November 2022

Jamál, 10 Qudrat (Power), 179 B.E

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Processed email in an effort to catch up from yesterday

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Astral Prospecting on Instagram | Astral Prospecting on YouTube | Astral Prospecting on Facebook

Marc Bosserman on Instagram | Marc Bosserman on Facebook | Marc Bosserman Music and Musings on YouTube

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Listened

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)

Notes by Discogs.com

Read

Brown, Robert L. (Robert Leaman). Colorado Ghost Towns–Past and Present. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1972. http://archive.org/details/coloradoghosttow0000brow.

Bookmarked

Alicke, Mark. “Willful Ignorance and Self-Deception.” Psychology Today, September 10, 2017. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/why-we-blame/201709/willful-ignorance-and-self-deception.

Cohodes, Marc, and Demetri Kofinas. “Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried & What Happened at FTX.” Hidden Forces (Podcast), November 12, 2022. https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/sam-bankman-fried-what-happened-at-ftx-marc-cohodes/.

Pettis, Michael. “Why the Bezzle Matters to the Economy.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 23, 2021. https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/85179.

StormChasingVideo. “Drone Video Showing Catastrophic Damage To Daytona Beach, FL” - November 10, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MetfDyMvsM.

Rothkopf, David. “The High Cost of Underestimating Joe Biden,” Deep State Radio, November 13, 2022. https://thedsrnetwork.com/the-high-cost-of-underestimating-joe-biden/.

Wardley, Simon. “Are You on Mastodon?” ThreadReader, November 12, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1591552974815363073.html.

Warren, Elizabeth. “Opinion | Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Just Held the Senate. Here’s What We Do Next.” The New York Times, November 13, 2022, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opinion/elizabeth-warren-democrat-senate-midterm.html.

Werdmuller, Ben. “The Fediverse Is Happening. Here’s How to Take Part.” Medium (blog), November 12, 2022. https://benwerd.medium.com/the-fediverse-is-happening-heres-how-to-take-part-11c42f5ebefd.

Sorted

My brother-in-law gave me some ideas about how to organize my LPs. This is like books only so much to listen to, so little time!

Quoted

Every composition is necessarily subject to destruction or disintegration. For instance, this flower is a composition of various elements; its decomposition is inevitable. When this composed form undergoes decomposition—in other words, when these elements separate and disintegrate—that is what we call the death of the flower. For inasmuch as it is composed of single elements, the grouping of multitudinous cellular atoms, it is subject to disintegration. This is the mortality of the flower. Similarly, the body of man is composed of various elements. This composition of the elements has been given life. When these elements disintegrate, life disappears, and that is death. Existence in the various planes, or kingdoms, implies composition; and nonexistence, or death, is decomposition.

But the inner and essential reality of man is not composed of elements and, therefore, cannot be decomposed. It is not an elemental composition subject to disintegration or death. A true and fundamental scientific principle is that an element itself never dies and cannot be destroyed for the reason that it is single and not composed. Therefore, it is not subject to decomposition.

Another evidence or proof of the indestructibility of the reality of man is that it is not affected by the changes of the physical body. These changing conditions of the bodily composition are definite and continual. At one time it is normal, at another time abnormal. Now it is weak, now strong. It suffers injury, a hand may be amputated, a limb broken, an eye destroyed, an ear deafened or some defect appear in a certain organ, but these changes do not affect the human spirit, the soul of man. If the body becomes stout or thin, decrepit or strong, the spirit or soul is unaffected thereby. If a part of the bodily organism be destroyed, even if it be dismembered completely, the soul continues to function, showing that no changes of the body affect its operation. We have seen that death and mortality are synonymous with change and disintegration. As we find the soul unaffected by this change and disintegration of the body, we, therefore, prove it to be immortal; for that which is changeable is accidental, evanescent. ¹