The Sublime & Beautiful vs. Reality

This blog is a record of one man's struggle to search for scientific, philosophical, and religious truth in the face of the limitations imposed on him by economics, psychology, and social conditioning; it is the philosophical outworking of everyday life in contrast to ideals and how it could have been.


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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
--Johannes Kepler

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

A Thought for the Day

In Proverbs chapter 14:
v.6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

In chapter 15:
v.12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

In Psalm 14:1b
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Sunday Worship

Laudamus te. Exsultate justi in Domino.

Rectos decet laudatio. Alleluia.

Salvator Dominus. Salvator mundi.

Qui tollis peccata mundi. Alleluia.


Psalm 29

A Psalm of David.

1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

2Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

3The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

5The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

7The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

8The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

9The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

10The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

11The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

From Romans 1:17

For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Kyrie eleison.

Christe eleison.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

From Easter Sunday

Adoramus te Christe, et benedicimus tibi,
quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

"No more miracles, loves and fishes, been so busy with the washing of the dishes..."

and to slightly paraphrase,

"But still the warmth flows through me
And I sense YOU know me well
No luck, no golden chance
No mitigating circumstances now
It's only common sense
There are no accidents around here..."

Romans: 4:25= HE was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Irwin Technologies and Services

These photos are before the remodeling of the 'bridge'. The first picture is myself at Irwin Technologies & Services.



Ordering parts at Irwin Technologies.



The Lab in general.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The Psalm from Sunday

PSALM 24
A Psalm of David.
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell therein.
2 For He has founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the waters.
3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD?
Or who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD,
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face.
Selah
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD strong and mighty,
The LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of glory.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Political Philosophy: The true nature of fascism


Not all those in Islam have an understanding like that found in this next link (in fact some even seem to consider Jews equal with Pagans in the need for eradication), but the article is interesting.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Personal Update: Running ahead of my studies

Bernoulli numbers were defined by Jacob Bernoulli in connection with evaluating sums of the form ∑i^k.
The sequence B0, B1, B2, ... can be generated using the formula
x/(e^x - 1) =∑(Bn x^n)/n!
though various different notations are used for them.
The first few are: B0 = 1 , B1 = -1/2 , B2 = 1/6 , B4 = -1/30 , B6 = 1/42 , ...
They occur in many diverse areas of mathematics including the series expansions of tan(x), Fermat's Last theorem†, etc.


†Fermat's last theorem states that if n > 2 then the equation x^n + y^n = z^n has no positive integer solutions.

(Please note that in the second summation it is B sub-n times x^n, etc.)
It looks like I'll have to start a separate web page just to be able to publish mathematics symbols--this text editor for the blog is rather limited.