Paul's Blog

May 31, 2025

I spent a day with Nick, a young man who aspires to become a carpenter, or a carpenter of sorts. As he is acquiring skills in his trade, he is also accumulating talents helpful in broadening his trade craft in a business sense.

We visited a lady who needs some carpentry done. An elderly woman in our community. I hope she has Nick do the work for her.

I prepared the broken concrete debris from my ongoing "stairs" project and the utility trailer for a disposal run. Despite the rain.

A friend sent me a good lecture about Saint Thomas Aquinas. It was dense and the lecturer was progressively animated as he reached the end of his hour. My uptake from him is, Aquinas is a brilliant analyst and accomplished categorizer "systematic and encyclopedic". Aquinas built a bridge between Plato and Aristotle within Christianity, a synthesis, according to Dr Michael Sugrue, that was inevitable and necessary in the 1200s. I had to listen to this 2 times. Sugrue even hat-tips Hegel and Cicero, in that Aquinas "baptizes" them. All very provocative.

See Suma Contra Gentiles.

See Suma Theologica.

Synchronicity = concrete

May 30, 2025

A lot has happend today. I did great deal of job work but I listened to a great lecture presented by Charley Vaughn at 7 am. The lecture was based on a significant encyclical by Pope Leo the 13th. The New Pope is Leo the 14th. Leo 13th was a pope from 1878 and 1903. What could an old pope that died 122 years ago have to say about this modern world? Well, I think quite a bit which is why I am writing it down. The encyclical that Charley spoke about was Rerum novarum 1891 AD aka Rights and Duties.

It is guidance in view of the world being transformed by the industrial revolution and the resulting rise of communism as espoused in 1848 by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Frederick Engels (1820-1895). The encyclical states unambiguously that man has a right to ownership of land and property. Leo 13th also says that government has a duty to ensure that the population is not exploited. That alone speaks volumes in light of the recent concentration of wealth by the technocracy. There is much more than that in the encyclical so I suggest you read the 21 pages of the document.

I put up a few more web pages as I expand the scope of my website as a whole. The new pages are:

GRACE

DEATH CULT

BEAUTY-GOOD-TRUTH

Synchronicity =

May 29, 2025

The Peterson Family

Tammy and Jordan Peterson have a simple truth to share...Solid wisdom

These are somebody's thoughts on desiccated liver that I just stumbled upon. I know very little about this.

Reading printed text seems to be better for you than reading the same information from a digital monitor. I read some papers that examine if there are benifits or defeciencies in either medium. Ross, Bella; Pechenkina, Ekaterina; Aeschliman, Carol; Chase, Anne Marie (2017). Print versus digital texts: Understanding the experimental research and challenging the dichotomies. Swinburne. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.25916/sut.26245844.v1 https://doi.org/10.25916/sut.26245844.v1

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May 28, 2025

New Poll Page

Polls for Nova Scotia - MEDICAL SERVICES

I just created a polls page. HERE IT IS <<----CLICK HERE

I fully expect these polls to be very popular in Nova Scotia. I will add the graphics under the poll in a couple days. Right now I will get the data and when enough comes in, I will render the histograms.

Here are the questions for the new polls...

1) Regarding Nova Scotia "Health", how would you characterize the institution as a whole?

2) Regarding your primary health care contact in Nova Scotia, what is their profession?

3) 1/3 of the Nova Scotia budget is for medical services, how do you feel about what you get from the services?

I will be doing a whole lot of polls regarding health related matters

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May 26, 2025

Fr Mark Cherry

Healing through Faith

A Beginning

Note: Father Mark Cherry is part of my journey seeking healing and who prays for people to be healed by Jesus through the Holy Spirit. That said, he does not endorse all that is posted on this webpage.

I have been on the most important journey of my life for the last 8 months. It is an existential inquiry, an examination into the depth of my faith. It has been essentially good but at the same time very destabilizing, intellectually and interpersonally. I did not know what I was doing it until I was well into it.

Ultimately, a great good has come from it, though there is substantial clean-up activity in the works. It has taken me a long time to put this all together in my mind, then longer still to find some way to express it so that it could be understood by those around me. For the most part, my friends have been wonderful with me as I sorted this out. There was no crisis that initiated it. It was an awakening by surprise, unexpected and misunderstood by me.

Attached at this link is a letter that I wrote to 2 people as they assisted me in my inquiry into Faith Healing as understood and advanced by the Catholic Church. It was in response to an examination into good people causing sick people to heal. I was inspired to make inquiry by bearing witness to healing being accomplished by a modest friend. I also did this to familiarize myself with the subject for the purpose of giving a presentation to an audience of catholic men. The letter itself became the presentation. The ghost in the machine. That alone was God’s handiwork.

The upshot is that I accept and have internalized the weekly prayer that I have said thousands of times.

“Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the Word and my soul shall be healed.” (Thanks Evan for your help on this)

A good woman, KB, thought that I needed a minor medical problem healed 2 1/2 years ago. What I needed was “my soul shall be healed”. Silly KB. She didn’t know what she was doing to me. Five persons participated in the Healing event, as well as me. I wilfully and genuinely participated. While the event was progressing I sincerely attempted, through silent prayer, to speak to the Holy Spirit and I asked Him to enter into me. He did. He manifested in me anew over the next 2 years, gently, lovingly.

If you are interested in further details of the progress of this disruptive and wonderful gesture, I have it now on this separate web page. I have, out of respect to the people involved, redacted their names from the pages. Father Mark Cherry, is a priest who lead the healing. I thank them all profusely, and love them all immeasurably:

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Peter MacIsaac Caught a Big One Today ( Photo-shopped?? :) )

Peter MacIsaac Caught a Big One Today

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May 25, 2025

Licorice

Antiviral Activity of Licorice (Liquorice)

I love the taste of licorice. I love those round Pontefract licorice cakes. I really can’t get enough of them. On occasion, my addiction has resulted in heart palpitations and gastrointestinal vigour. They are so yummy. One evening, I saw a friend delicately munching licorice. She rarely munches on anything and is positively disciplined about everything she eats. I recognized that there must be a good reason for her snacking on that particular yummy thing.

Engaging my research and curiosity predisposition, I read many scholarly papers on the health impact of licorice consumption, dose, active compounds, cautions, benefits, all that. Below are are some of the papers that I have read. Yes, there are plenty of websites about plenty of food-related and nutrition related advice and practice. I have my favourite and will keep that unstated for now, but I do not practice medicine, nor nutrition, nor health advocacy. I don’t advise anyone about what they take into their bodies. I will share the good science as I evaluate it. You may read what I have found at your leisure.

This is a link to prior blog entries on this subject. I may have to make a unique page for this if my obsession grows. Licorice is amazing. Clearly, God made it for me.

Research Progress on the Antiviral Activity of Glycyrrhizin and its Derivatives in Liquorice

This paper has a comprehensive reference section.

TABLE 1. The antiviral activity and mechanism of actions of glycyrrhizin and its derivatives.

This is a concise table of dose/concentration, reference, and virus, and mechanism.

Link to my screen-shot of the table.

Synchronicity = bobby, after

May 24, 2025

Today is physically busy. Playing “Whack-a-Mole”

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May 23, 2025

Beauty

UPDATE - May 30, 2025 New Page BEAUTY GOOD and TRUTH.

What is beauty? What is it to be seen as beautiful? Think of it this way...

The universe was made by three persons who were in love with each other. So much love.

So much love it manifested in our universe. The image of that love that made everything is beauty. Beauty is evidence of divine love. Beauty is not eroticism. Beauty is not painted onto someone. That would be art or mimesis. An attempt to copy beauty in some way. Artists copy beauty with paint, sculpture, music, poetry. People manipulate themselves to conform to their own idea of beauty, which may be some approximation of divine beauty to some extent. Beauty is the image of the divine in something or someone.

Have you ever watched an Irish step dancer or a Highland dancer? Have you watched a gymnast perform perfectly and leave you stunned? We experience beauty in that animation, that perfection.

Consider a pretty young woman. Consider a pretty young woman if you are a young man reading this. I am uncertain about what you may consider as pretty. Maybe pretty is that which facilitates that joining imperative. I would certainly say so. I have an idea of pretty, but it might not be what you think it is. Pretty-ness may contribute to beauty in that way. I think beauty is something palpably different, something more fundamental.

Consider a well formed explanation of a physical principle. I saw beauty in such a thing. I saw it in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. So to me, to be beautiful is to complete an action in divine perfection, to complete the dance just so, to say a truth without edges, to project the divine.

My bride used to care for very sick and challenging people as a palliative care nurse. She told me often how she managed, especially in the case of difficult patients with demanding afflictions. She said she imagined the face of Jesus on those patients. She was caused morally to do unto others in His spirit yes, but also to see the divine in them as they were, sick in their death beds. To see their beauty, to see their projection of the divine. She taught me to become comfortable with seeing past ugliness and see beauty in the suffering person. To witness the divine.

I learned to tell people, without hesitation, that they are beautiful. It is very difficult to tell a rugged man that they are beautiful. You may get a bad reputation doing that. With a man, it may be better to simply say “That job was beautifully done” or “you have God pouring out of you.” Women on the other hand desire to be attractive. They want to hear that they are attractive all the time. To a lesser extent they desire to be seen as beautiful. They confuse beauty with eroticism at times. Especially in these times. But beauty is connected with creation itself and the presence of the divine. So to be seen as beautiful is to be witnessed as an extension of creation, as a being with divinity.

To see beauty in another is to bear witness to their true nature, and the accomplishment of divine perfection, the transmission of grace.

I have seen beauty in a football player make a perfect catch. I have heard such beauty in a tenors voice as he sings “Comfort Ye” in the Messiah. I have seen Bobby Orr skate while handling a puck. I have seen the azure of Crater Lake.

Beauty is the divine truly projected into reality and it is all around us. When you witness evidence of the divine, then you witness beauty.

Buy the book The Dangers of Beauty by E. Michael Jones

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Licorice

Consult your favourite healer on this.... A brand new study shows that anti herpetics (herpes treatments) incidentally reduce the risk of onset of Alzhiemers by 17%. Licorice, ginger, dandelion etc are known natural anti herpetics. Below are the scholarly citations.

Licorice antiviral activities.

Alzheimers Disease Onset impacted by Anti Herpetics

The effort above is to promote Big Pharma anti-viral market development. I see a possible benefit to the use of known natural compounds found in common food items. I don’t know for sure. This is something that a tried and true healer in this area should comment on. I am guessing that licorice is anti-viral based on the above paper and maybe it will reduce Alzheimer’s risk? I don’t know. I am a researcher, not a healer.

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New Patent Filed

I had a new patent filed January 9, 2025, a continuation in part of a 2013 filing. I wrote 95% of the patent myself. It is a lot to absorb. :) Get this... we claimed projecting music into ultrasonic beam as a sub harmonic. YES!! Therapy using music, at the tissue level in 2013. :)

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Music

Joshua M Richard sent me this. Continuous musical quasi-Shepard tones.

Reminds me of this: Panorama by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor

Please take a minute to listen to Panorama. Read the comments.

It seems relaxing and mind emptying. There is that eastern “singing bowls” quality. Also, I can’t hear my tinnitus nearly as much. It has the effect of Eastern European Octavist chant or Gregorian chant to me. Maybe Tibetan monastic throat chant as well. What an interesting Mind Virus.

Here is a Shepard tone with fractal animation. This will cause a panic attack. I do not recommend it.

Good Morning Beautiful People.

Synchronicity =

May 22, 2025

Update: Incredibly beautiful day. God’s blessings. Answered prayers.

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I need my lifestyle assessed by a pro. I had the benefit of a healing orchestrated to my surprise by a dear friend. I got the healing, only it wasn’t what I expected. That, among other things, launched a full bore investigation into healing, healing vocation etc. I went so far as to present my findings to a men’s group which was well received. Unfortunately, I can’t make specific recommendations but I declare that Fr Mark Cherry is a wonderful healer. We have our technologies, we have our knowledge. We also have very gifted beautiful people who, with grace, absolutely heal the sick, and sick of the heart.

For me, certain sounds ushers in a beautiful angelic atmosphere that lowers my stress level and calms my anxieties. Even certain human voices have the same therapeutic effect. I am incapable of healing myself and do rely on external resources. Find a healer or healers. I am fortunate to have an intuitive bride and she assesses me by default. I also have doctors and surgeon friends who gently nudge me in my health-related care. I enjoy the benefit of faith healers. There remains a hole to be filled. It is in the navigation of tried and true nutritional guidance, and consumption discipline. If I get busy, which is often, I abandon my internal rules and have to recover after-the-fact. I wonder if sound and music influence consumption behaviour? I seem to do well with black tea. I drink 2000-3000 ml a day. I could always use a cup of tea. Oddly, doing bone-crushing heavy work also makes me feel awesome.

Samphire

Samphire is an Amaranthaceae. Is it good for me?

Also called:

• sea asparagus

• glasswort

• sea beans

• baby asparagus

• salicornia

Willing the good. I am utterly convinced that half of the healing vocation is the internal desire of the recipient of the healing to be healed and the desire of the healer to invoke the Holy Spirit to execute the healing. The invocation comes from the head, the heart, or the soul.

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Fibonacci and Theta

More on Fibonacci sequence and Theta

The numerical equivalent for the Hebrew word for “The Garden of Eden” = 144 ( 13^th Fibonacci #)

The numerical equivalent for the Hebrew word for “The Tree of Knowledge” = 233 ( 14^th Fibonacci #)

So,

The Tree of Knowledge divided by The Garden of Eden

233/144 = 1.6180 ~ Theta = The ratio for the Golden Ratio.

Also...

Father = 3

Mother = 41

Child = 3 + 41 = 44

Child = Father + Mother

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May 21, 2025

I listened to Dr Steve Turley tonight. He remarked on Pope Leo’s statement on Holy Matrimony. At about 8:22 of the video, you can hear in the background Hymm of the Cherubim by Tchaikovsky. Look at the ceiling of that church.

I had a number of remarkable things happen today... part of a beautiful continuum... There is more to come. I need to complete the square on it but God is with me.

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Cells and Sound

Cells do have memory...and they listen to sounds

Memory Encoded Throughout Our Bodies: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Tissue Regeneration

PDF Version

Dudas, M., Wysocki, A., Gelpi, B. et al. Memory Encoded Throughout Our Bodies: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Tissue Regeneration. Pediatr Res 63, 502–512 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1203/PDR.0b013e31816a7453

All cells respond to Music and Vibrations and Rhythm

I have a 32 year history of work in acoustics and 25 year career in acoustics-based therapeutics, involving sound projection into the human body, to ablate tissue, to heat tissue, to modify tissue, and to heal tissue. I have many patents filed and granted on this subject. It is very cool science. The body is amazing. Listen to your healer in relation to sound/music therapy.

Some Effects of Sound and Music on Organisms

PDF Version

Exbrayat, Jean-Marie & Brun, Claire. (2019). Some Effects of Sound and Music on Organisms and Cells: A Review. Annual Research & Review in Biology. 1-12. 10.9734/arrb/2019/v32i230080.

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The Vortex

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393, 196418, 317811, 514229, 832040, 1346269, 2178309, 3524578, 5702887, 9227465, 14930352, 24157817, 39088169, 63245986, 102334155

F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) with F(0) = 0 and F(1) = 1.

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Synchronicity = simulation

May 19, 2025

Peaceful Day. I wrote a poem titled Apples for Charlotte. It is being worked out. It is a special poem about a special young lady.

So I am sitting here at the moment, with my pipe, listening to Song of the Candle by Stan Rogers, the top of my music page. Imagine the peace and comfort provoked by a burning candle. So I lit one. Then add a full cherry tobacco. Friends. Family. Peace. Beauty. Thank-you.

I’ll get back to raking the leaves a bit later. I am resting now. Listening to: Peaceful Rhythmic.

I like this rendition the best: Inspiration woven into a Fibonacci visual. Start at 4:08.

Cleared the steps... Raked the leaves. Heavy wet, 2 years worth.

Synchronicity =

May 18, 2025

Got a lot accomplished on the concrete step finalization and clean-up.

It was a mess. 99% done now. Just moving lumber and tools. It was in the rain today.

Mass at 7pm was great. The second reading was familiar. Revelation 21:1-5.

The homily was unrelated. It was a message about MAID. Well stated by Fr Pirisi. Heavy.

Synchronicity = sahara

May 15, 2025

Repaired a hose that I swallowed into the snowblower last fall. Super wet snow fell and was about to freeze so I risked running the snowblower without having cleared the driveway properly. I damaged the hose. So today I repaired it with the clamptite tool. I could use regular hose clamps but they dig into the ground when dragging the hose. There is a brass barb inside the hose.

Synchronicity = Anathema, epic

May 14, 2025

Mind Virus

I think there a MIND VIRUS afoot. I see evidence that my community is infected by and is spreading a mind virus. Very much like Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess 1995, then made into a movie PONTYPOOL.

My thoughts....

The concept of a "mind virus," popularized by Richard Dawkins in ‘Virus of the Mind’ (Dawkins, 1993), describes ideas or memes that spread like biological viruses, exploiting cognitive biases to embed in collective consciousness, often undermining critical thinking. Similarly, Carl Jung’s synchronicity posits that shared patterns in the collective unconscious can amplify ideas, creating meaningful coincidences that align group thought (Jung, 1952). These frameworks align with “critical mass psychology”, a metaphysical concept explored in recent decades, where an idea reaches a tipping point, triggering a compulsive, zombie-like ideological possession (Wilber,2000).

Social media accelerates this dynamic, with algorithms and echo chambers amplifying polarizing narratives, as seen in mass cancellation campaigns. Platforms like Telegram and X foster rapid meme propagation, where a single post can spark widespread outrage, reinforcing tribalistic “us-versus-them” mentalities (Haidt & Twenge, 2021). This digital behavior extends to the physical world through ‘no-contact policies” and demand, where relationships are severed based on online reasoning rather than personal interactions. For example, family estrangements driven by ideological differences have surged, reflecting digital judgments in real-world actions (Coleman, 2021).

Social media addiction, characterized by compulsive engagement with platforms, plays a pivotal role (Montag & Hegelich, 2020). Users interact with abstractions—avatars, posts, or ideologies—rather than complex, feeling beings, eroding empathy. This mirrors metaphysical concerns about ideological possession, where individuals become conduits for unchecked ideas, losing autonomy (Lasch, 1991). The ritualistic ostracization on social media, such as “cancel culture,” manifests in real-world alienation, with no-contact demands reflecting a dehumanized view of others as ideological symbols.

Recent metaphysical thought, like Ken Wilber’s integral theory, frames this as a failure to integrate higher consciousness, where collective fixation on simplistic narratives stifles holistic understanding. The feedback loop between digital and corporal behavior—addictive scrolling reinforcing polarized worldviews—creates a self-perpetuating cycle of division. Studies show that excessive social media use correlates with reduced empathy and increased aggression, further entrenching these patterns (Vossen & Valkenburg, 2016).

To counter this, fostering critical thinking, limiting algorithmic echo chambers, and prioritizing face-to-face interactions are crucial. Encouraging care and empathy in digital spaces can disrupt the spread of mind viruses, restoring human connection in a hyper-connected world. By recognizing people as multifaceted beings with a divine spark, rather than abstractions, society can resist ideological possession and rebuild nuanced discourse with love. Kiss is kill is the antidote (Pontypool). Actively seek to suffer for your friends and love one another. Say absurd and funny things.

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Yesterday was a blow-out. I spent the whole day travelling to and from the ScoNS for a hearing in Port Hawkesbury. The whole team was there. Quite a spectacle.

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May 11, 2025

Happy Mother’s Day mom.

Short poem about my birth and my mom.

This above is a little poem about my life within my mothers womb and me as a baby. Yes it is idealized to suit the imagery of the poem. My mother did catch fire while, unknown to her, she was pregnant with me. Horribly burned, she recovered as I grew inside her. Yes I popped out, nearly on the railway tracks in Windsor Junction as my father drove her to the old Halifax Infirmary. My memory of her is fading but, on occasion, I smell her perfume in my home. She’d be 96 if she was alive. She is with God.

Paul, eponym for me, was chased out of Antioch by the Jews in today’s first reading Acts 13:14, 43-52.

John, in Reading 2: Rev 7:9, 14b-17, echos Isaiah’s vision of God on the throne...

See my 2 Poems: Deliverance and Companion

Please join us at Saint Mary’s Basilica on Spring Garden Road for 5:00PM Mass today.

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May 10, 2025

I created a new web page today. It is about lying. Since I am a liar I have all the necessary expertise to write about it. It is linked on the main page and located here. Again a work in progress.

Working on the car now, listening....

I replaced the driver front wheel bearing of my car.

It made a threatening sound and I knew it was in the process of failing already so...

Synchronicity =

May 8, 2025

UPDATE: The rest of the step photos are here if you are curious. June 6, 2019 to May 8, 2025 to date. That is 2153 days. I kept the project moving forward in fits and starts between financial uncertainties related to COVID-19, material price explosions, supply issues and priorities with other issues with the house. I just kept moving on several projects where I had no supply issues.

The 2 load-bearing poured piers were in place within 15 months. Then steel rebar, necessary for the arch in the stairs, quadrupled in price and the supplier shut down. I had no choice but to wait.

With the Kijiji accident of FRP rebar in Hubbards, an important milestone was achieved on November 5, 2024.

Synchronicity =

May 7, 2025

Yesterday was a busy day anticipating much needed rain. The hedge was fertilized after raking the autumn leave away. We just needed water. Today came the beautiful rain. The rain was going to cause a problem. I needed to deal with a few car-related items and residual matters with the rain control and the new steps below.

I repaired the downspouts, destroyed by nesting raccoons, seeking to rear their kits in our attic. The drain piping entangled, in the logic tree of the concrete stairs build, was finalized. Glue/fittings.

So yesterday was brake light, air leak, deck cleaning, gutter cleaning, downspout repair, drain pipe completion. This simple final task represents the full completion of the water control effort as it relates to the stairs. Now I can lay the decking.

Today is paperwork, inside.

Synchronicity = Full

May 4, 2025

UPDATE:

I finished removing the forms from the concrete steps. This is one photo. The rest are here if you are curious.

Accidentally, as I was sipping my coffee this morning, and in my mind, I was attending to a documentary that was playing on a channel that live streams 24-7.

I found a copy of the documentary:

The Bible Vs. Bart Ehrman

It is a detailed criticism of the writings of Bart Ehrman. The thrust of the documentary is not my point. I heard a little nugget within it, and it seized me.

At about: 15:57, the narrator refers to Adolf Von Harnack as an advocate of rational piety. That rung like a bell in my very own experience and my understanding of modern Christians, like former Jordan Peterson for example, like my former self. The bell that rang was one that revealed the hole in my awareness of God, what I am most recently seeking, that is the irrational, the seemingly impossible, the person of Holy Spirit. I never heard Him.

"Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only said the word and my soul shall be healed."

I said that line from Matthew 1000's of times with my mouth and it never occurred to me that it was an invocation, a request and a prayer to the Holy Spirit, the spirit of Jesus. A healing prayer in every Mass. I was reminded of that by Evan Marriott.

My theological life began as a God the Creator-ist then to a follower of Jesus. Now I feel my body being consumed, digested and transformed, by a new idea. Swallowed and inculcated as a part of the family of the Holy Spirit. I hear His absence in language like a Gong now. So it was this morning when the narrator was referring to Harnack. GONG!!! It is so very odd.

Synchronicity =

May 3, 2025

My yard looks disorganized so I removed some more of the forms so that I can reorganize the garage and driveway. The stairs were poured on November 5, 2024. Remember remember, the 5^th of November. How can I forget? The next day was far more..... interesting.

Here are the steps as of today with 98% of the forms removed. Yes the left side is floating above the ground. You may see forms on the right under the concrete. They are coming out too. The steps are 7’2” wide and 5’3” high and 25’ wide up top.

All the rock to the left is going away.

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April 30, 2025

Had a surprise visitor. He helped me clear the long holly hedge of leaves and winter debris.

20 bags. I am sure the neighbours are pleased. I am having a hard time sorting out what is next. Many things need my attention. Likely the forms on the news steps will be next...The steps are messy and limits work on the deck etc.

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April 28, 2025

Windy Sunny DAY. Wind is 50 km/hr from the North which is ideal for raking leaves on the NorthWest side of the property. When the wind changes to SouthEast gust, I will do the other side. The objective is to clear the leaves to allow fertilization of the ilex hedge. A perineal spring occupation.

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April 27, 2025

Spent the day thinking mostly. Housekeeping too. Preparing for later today. I will be teaching some students about some chemistry. Our schools really do not teach science anymore.

Titration is what we will discuss and do. I will use my lab to show the equipment and the safety provisions and behaviours. Then they will handle the glass implements, the funnel, the burette, pipette, the ring stand, and phenolphthalein and let them touch and feel. I will bring out the work sheets and explain the central concept: How to compare a known acid, to an unknown base. Then the discussion around “moles” concentration and dilution ( molarity, normality, formality) stoichiometry, the periodic table. Hard science. Measurement. Deductive reasoning. #moles= mass/molar mass. Remember all that?

UPDATE: Completed the titration training. We titrated ~1.0 Molar NaOH into a 1.0 Molar HCL standard solution. The kids loved it.

Today is also the anniversary of 40 years of the sacrament of holy matrimony for my bride and me. There was 5.5 years of courtship before that. So. Here we were.

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April 24, 2025

Hating people. There is a great deal of hate and suspicion floating around. I will participate in none of it. I suppose I can point to scripture to find a rationale against it and a Tomasian argument that requires it in special circumstances. Oh my! Well, if you believe that I hate you, you are wrong. I never hate being. I hate defects in being.

There are no coincidences. People come into your life to enable God’s will. So I say, Thy will be done. Enemies reveal our weaknesses. Help us to become perfected. Open my eyes, to love my enemies.

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April 23, 2025

TITRATION TIME

Setting up to teach some local students how to properly determine the concentration of a strong base solution of unknown concentration using titration. The indicator is phenolphthalein. The standard solution is Hydrochloric acid. Here is a video of a very similar test. The objective of the exercise is to teach lab safety, to become familiar with electronic scales, burettes, pipettes etc and how to perform the calculations to determine concentration, including error.

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April 20, 2025

Happy Easter to you.

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Easter Sunday. A friend of mine, a sharp young man, who is working on becoming an engineer said something to me that shook my thinking. He said: “Entropy began with original sin.”

THAT is a mouthful and I never saw entropy from that angle. So before going off on a thoughtless tangent at Easter I need to think this one through. Into the questions page for this one. Thank-you Evan.

This page describes entropy incoherently IMO for those of you who are Clausius purists. I like my sloppy approximation above. It says: For any process (closed) disorder increases. The equality is there for you purists.

Think of the implication of that simple statement! If disorder is the consequence of all processes, then ORDER was only at the beginning of everything. S=0. The universe initiating thought from God called creation. Amen.

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April 19, 2025

Attended Easter Vigil Mass at Saint Benedict’s on Dunbrack Hlfx. It was a memorable experience.

Met 2 servants of God. Karen and Rhonda Lynn. There are no accidents.

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I have synesthesia. Some of my friends know. I have music – color synesthesia. Recently I have discovered that I have color and emotional synethesia at the sound of human voice song and voices that sing-song during regular conversation. My family has known this for 20 years when I discovered that most people don’t have synesthesia. I was about 40. I thought everyone had it. Written text has an aura to me. I read very well because I had to developed strategies to suppress the aura. So as a result I read carefully. It helps me in my legal efforts and reading engineering textbooks.

I used to tell my kids what I saw when I listened to certain music. In fact, I name songs by what I see. For example Coldplay Viva La Vida presents a grey scale of moving array of 100s of rice grains bubbling in shallow boiling water. I call the song Boiling Rice. Hymm of the Cherubim by Tchaikovski at 2:40 minutes in, is golden rays and flairs of red and blue.

Recently I had an experience when speaking to a friend, listening to a friend actually, where an image appeared and altered that person’s appearance to me. I believe it was a combination of emotional import as well and raw sound-color hallucinations due to synesthesia. It was beautiful and compelling. I do not possess the ability to provoke specific responses. So I do art to capture what I can imperfectly.

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Spent the day working on code for a task I do not yet have worked out. PHP engine for an HTML/CSS page. I am doing something wrong.

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Looking at the clock. It is Easter Vigil. Hoping a friend will join me for Mass at Saint Benedict Parish in Halifax.

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April 18, 2025

Gratitude.

The Passion of the Christ.

Solemn Passion and it was the short version. However, 2 young ladies sat with me during the Passion.

Morgan and her friend slipped in after the 1^st reading. Morgan was curious about the service since Good Friday is rather different. It was a delight to whisper explanations as the service progressed. They both venerated the cross with gusto! And received blessings at the communion rail.

It was wonderful.

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April 17, 2025

Easter Lily and an Empty Crown for the carpenter.

My wife and I had Easter lilies in the Church at our wedding.

Solemn Good Friday and a Glorious Easter Sunday.

Hope to see you there.

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April 16, 2025

Thinking... Holy week.... Good Friday... The good thief.

Working...

My work at the moment is making me careful with my words. Legal stuff...So I am reflecting on Ex 20:16 in the banner, word by word as I write.

Synchronicity with word “evidence”.

Working very hard again today.

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April 15, 2025

Worked all day.

Had a meeting last night, 20 men. All good guys.

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April 14, 2025

I was attending to the reading of the Passion on Palm Sunday. I have heard the Passion many many times. This time was different. I heard the pain of Simon of Cyrene in exquisite clarity.

So. Simon of Cyrene.

Carry the unexpected Cross handed to you in the process of a redemptive occupation for she or he who is suffering, and incapable of bearing her or his cross anymore. Assume the risk that Simon feared, that you yourself may be seen to be a criminal.

It is simple as that. Pick up a cross, one for a friend, one that will kill you, and lay down your life for your suffering friend, even a friend who cannot comprehend the cross they burdened you with.

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April 13, 2025

I woke early and heard this “inspirational” piece. Very happy and upbeat. Had a little tinnitus and I forgot about it.

Added a huge topic to this site and that is the home repairs and projects section. I have 30 years of content here to plow through.

Joy is the negative space created by intellectual pain. That is, when you are enduring pain, the meaning of the pain is the joy, where pain is absent. And you can place your mind in those seclusions. A rendering of Joy.

Had a raccoon attempt to climb onto my house again tonight. It tore the downspout off the side of the house with a crash. The downspouts were weakly attached.

I put the traps out with bait.

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April 12, 2025

I have a lot going on. My mind is divided today and I have important matters related to INSI about which I must contend.

That said, recently I was confronted with a question that I will place in my QUESTIONS page. I pay attention to language and within many of my recent engagements I have detected a predisposition that made me take account of an idea. Though I do not quite understand it, allow me to roughly describe it as communitarianism. I want to know if a predisposition to communitarianism conflicts with catholic orthodoxy. They seem to flow together and I recall the language being used for years by good people who derive meaning and assign importance to the community aspect of church participation along with their participation in the liturgy of the Word and the sacrifice of the Mass and other sacraments. That said I tend not to be rigid in my orthodoxy since I am not a canon lawyer nor do I have a need for that kind of alignment.

Since the plague of socialism has ravaged our society for the past 177 years, (Marx and Engels) it is worth examining as a poisonous vector for heresy. The emphasis on community import over individual salvation triggers a sense of disgust in my mind. Maybe I am wrong. My experience has shown me that socialism rode on the coattails of the christian ethos of mutual love and care for one another to assist in its spread in society. Here I am implying that there is a tie between communitarianism and socialism. The tie I cannot attest to but is the root of my curiosity.

To the extent that the uttered language is thoughtful or reflexive is another mitigating dimension. People repeat what they have been exposed to, thoughtlessly. Maybe it is an artifact of a new mind virus infecting our language, like Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess 1995.

Is communitarianism a thing in the mind of modern Catholics and is it heresy?

When my fellow church-goers utter “community” should I carefully listen?

Had a raccoon attempt to climb onto my house tonight.

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April 11, 2025

SUCCESS!!! The troubles my friend was having is resolved. The problem was aggravated by a faulty new component. He initially diagnosed the problem correctly. He obtained the correct action and component. The replacement component was faulty right out of the box. This lead us down the garden path and away from the true problem. All resolved now.

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Was at FM645 this am. A fellow by the name of David MacKinnon urged me to go to the Isle of Skye, the place of his ancestors and take up a bed and breakfast and spend some time there. Sounds like a bucket list item.

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Ricky Joseph Tibault gave a presentation about Joseph. It was difficult subject given the scant material in the bible about Joseph. I also was primed for the subsequent discussion since I have often stated my observation that men have few models to emulate. Men have an abundant aggregation of examples but aside from Jesus Chris, who is perfect, men have to, with accommodation, pick and choose mentors as the situation demands. Jesus is the way, the truth and the light. That said I have a difficult time identifying with Him when I am worshipping him and annihilating myself to Him.

Joseph was a foster father to Jesus. He also knew who Jesus was. Not everyone did. There were only a few people who knew that Mary was immaculate and great with Jesus after the miracle of the incarnation. As such, Joseph, initially ignorant of the fact that Mary bore God, was a man who followed the law and rejected Mary given her state. After the divine intervention, whereupon an angel spoke to Joseph and revealed Mary’s true nature and who she was carrying, Joseph succumbed to God’s will and accepted the duty of providing for Mary and Jesus, even at the risk of his own ruin.

Joseph engaged in Fatherhood. He listened to the Holy Spirit at his peril. He fulfilled the prophesy as being in the line of David. And he stuck with it, as the Holy Family was hunted down during the slaughter of the inocents. Though the facts are scant, his story is as meritorious as Oedipus, or Beowulf, or Gilgamesh. or David. He drew focus to our Savior and made his life that of service.

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