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Saturday, the Queen of Peace Catholic Church of Ocala was set on fire with parishioners inside. That is only one of a rash of church attacks that has been taking place across the country, but it isn't being reported in the media.
... Dr. Taylor Marshall, founder of the New Saint Thomas Institute and author of Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within, told viewers and listeners of his popular podcast that on the day before the attack, “some men of the parish of Queen of Peace” had gone up to a group of police officers to give the medals of St. Michael for protection.
“They made a Catholic gesture,” Marshall said. “They were doing evangelization. They’re doing what we Catholics should do.”
“Guess what happened: Within 24 hours someone serving the invisible enemy ran his car into their church, and poured two gallons of gasoline and lit it,” he continued. “The same police officers were the ones who came to the church and got the bad guy. So you never know. I think it was the Holy Ghost leading these good men from the parish … to give this medal, these medals to the police officers.”...
The arsonist was said to be schizophrenic. Interesting how the "invisible enemy" terminology keeps popping up. Sounds like a real spiritual war.
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The above illustration is from an article that was published in the January 2020 Smithsonian Magazine. I think I missed it, but it is still a good read.
Here is the link.
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I posted this picture of a glass a few weeks ago. I knew it was relevant but it wasn't quite time to discuss it in more detail. Now it is.
About forty years ago, I would guess, I was watching Monday night football, when Howard Cosell said to Dandy Don Meredith, "You have a tremendous grasp of the obvious." I never forgot that.
People are different. They process information differently. If I didn't tell you which of those two people made the comment, but you knew something about each of them, you would have no trouble attributing the comment to Howard Cosell. It just isn't the kind of thing you would expect Don Meredith or Terry Bradshaw to say.
Some people are quite content to see the sun as coming up in the morning and going down in the evening. They are fine with a simple view of things. They see no relevance to the fact that it can be seen as anything different. They don't need Copernicus to add confusion. They would undoubtedly also be fine with saying the glass is half full or half empty and not giving it any additional consideration. Who cares anyhow? And why consider the air? You don't see it anyhow. What is the relevance, they ask.
But then there are people who aren't content to simply accept the first or most obvious view of things. They dig a little deeper. They ask questions and consider alternatives, even if things become a little more complex.
Those people might ask how you would know if the glass is half full anything? How would you measure half full or half empty? Would you go by the level of the surface of the water and say the glass is half full or empty if the surface of the water is half way between the bottom and top of the glass? Or would you measure the volume that the glass could hold and the volume of water in the glass to see if half the volume of the glass was taken up by water?
But then if you are intellectually active, you might ask even more questions. For example, you might wonder if the glass can contain anything since it doesn't have a top? And since the top of the imaginary glass is even more imaginary, why would you assume that the top goes straight across the top of the glass? Could the imaginary top not be convex or concave?
And if you are a very precise person and want to be precise in your measurements, maybe down to three or four decimal digits, it would be very unlikely to ever be half. It would be a job to get it just right. The more precise you make your measurements, the more difficult it would be to fill the glass to be exactly half.
I could take it farther, but I won't. I'm sure some of you think this is all crazy jiberty jab. But that is my point. People are different.
Some won't see the point of all this talk about liquefaction. They won't see the practical application or the potential. I'm not surprised at all by that. But for me, understanding sand liquefaction and the factors involved seem like something that might help me more accurately understand what goes on under the crashing waves of a good storm. Understanding how vibrations, water and air can liquefy sand, and seeing sand being sucked up into waves, can be important contributions to putting it all together. And once you understand that, you should have a better idea of where things will show up on a beach.
Some people are not interested in figuring it all out. They rather wait for it to become common knowledge and then go with whatever people are saying at the time.
At this point, there are still holes in my knowledge - mostly concerning exactly how things work directly under crashing waves. You add to your knowledge piece by piece. You improve your level of understanding. It is a slow and incremental process, and every once in a while, when you have enough background and understanding there are those moments of insight when it comes together for you. But before that happens, you gradually improve your understanding and add to your conceptual toolbox. Those things make that moment of insight all the more likely.
Adding new terms and concepts to the discussion helps too. Even those that are eventually rejected.
Those who do not see the relevance or do not agree help too. Old ideas can be stubborn, and people don't like to have to change their mind. Copernicus found that out. It is easy to find fault with what you don't understand.
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And for those of you who, like me, aren't tired of it yet, here is a great video showing a hot-tub of liquidized sand and how to do it.
Thanks to Bill G. for the link.
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Nothing interesting on the National Hurricane Center map for our region.
The surf continues to be low. If you are in an area where you can hunt in the water, you won't have to fight much surf.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net