17 November 2022

Istijlál, 14 Qudrat (Power), 179 B.E

Seen

A favorite fall combination: Canadian goldenrod against a backdrop of Norwegian spruce.

Done

Set up a 30-year-old stereo system donated to me by my brother-in-law. It sounds great! I just need to learn how to use it ;-)

Noted

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

Dire Straits - Communiqué

Notes by Discogs.com

Read

Hillerman, Tony, ed. The Spell of New Mexico. 3rd paperbound printing. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

Bookmarked

Ang, Carmen. “Synthetic Biology: The $3.6 Trillion Science Changing Life as We Know It.” Visual Capitalist, May 10, 2022. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/synthetic-biology-3-6-trillion-change-life/.

Hedges, Chris. “The Chris Hedges Report with Justin E H Smith.” Substack newsletter. The Chris Hedges Report (blog), November 16, 2022. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-justin.

Hutton, Tim. “Timhutton/Twitter-Archive-Parser.” Python, November 17, 2022. github.com/timhutton…

Johnson, Sophie Lucido. “Community In Between.” Substack newsletter. You Are Doing A Good Enough Job (blog), November 16, 2022. https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/community-in-between.

Maçães, Bruno. “What Is Essentially a Confession of Imbecility Has Come to Mean a Sophisticated Knowingness about the World.” ThreadReader, November 14, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1592230990814281730.html.

Mollick, Ethan. “Take Ownership of Your Twitter Content:” ThreadReader, November 16, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1592992316989779969.html.

Studios, NeoMam. “The Type of Business Every Country Wants to Start.” Visual Capitalist, November 11, 2022. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-type-of-business-every-country-wants-to-start/.

Yglesias, Matthew. “Some Thoughts on the FTX Collapse.” Slow Boring, November 17, 2022. https://www.slowboring.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-ftx-implosion.

Sorted

Set aside two more boxes of books that I pulled from shelves in our office area. These haven’t been looked at for longer than I care to admit. I’ll catalog them and send them on their way.

Quoted

Bahá’u’lláh, the Sun of Truth, has dawned from the horizon of the Orient, flooding all regions with the light and life which will never pass away. His teachings, which embody the divine spirit of the age and are applicable to this period of maturity in the life of the human world, are:

The oneness of the world of humanity

The protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit

The foundation of all religion is one

Religion must be the cause of unity

Religion must accord with science and reason

Independent investigation of truth

Equality between men and women

The abandoning of all prejudices among mankind

Universal peace

Universal education

A universal language

Solution of the economic problem

An international tribunal.

Everyone who truly seeks and justly reflects will admit that the teachings of the present day emanating from mere human sources and authority are the cause of difficulty and disagreement amongst mankind, the very destroyers of humanity, whereas the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh are the very healing of the sick world, the remedy for every need and condition. In them may be found the realization of every desire and aspiration, the cause of the happiness of the world of humanity, the stimulus and illumination of mentality, the impulse for advancement and uplift, the basis of unity for all nations, the fountain source of love amongst mankind, the center of agreement, the means of peace and harmony, the one bond which will unite the East and the West. ¹