Allah, Obama, and God

some linguistic numerology weirdness

'GOD' is composed of
G, the 7th letter of the english alphabet
O, the 15th, and
D, the 4th

7+15+4=26. 2+6=8
(there are 26 letters in the english alphabet)

'Allah' sums to 7, as does 'Jesus Christ' (2,5)
But I wanted to point out that, Allah can be split into 'All-a-H'
which could be interpreted, substituting H for God, as
All a God (which is what my blog is saying: we're all (a) God)

Also,
Obama can be broken down into 'Am a OB'
OB sums to 8, too...am a God (my point, exactly)

some words that sum to 2:
hey, uh, on, jesus, christian, jew, beast, it, president, white, black, time, death, monkey, force, light, africa, etc...

H can also mean
hospital, harvard..
(honda, hydrogen, heroin, hannibal)
the floor plan of my jesuit high school (St. Ignatius in San Francisco)

Don't H8! Don't be a h8er!
heart, rearranged is hater..
death, rearranged, is hated..

It's unfortunate that 'Islam' can be split into 'I-slam'
(which evokes the WTC disaster on 9-11-01 over a decade ago)

by the way
Mitt Romney is 8, 9 (I can sum the letters pretty quick in my head).
'politics' is 4. The book of numbers it the 4th book of the bible. blah, blah, blah.

God is just a word

A rhetorical device

such as:

God-willing
God-forbid
In the name of God
What in God's name
please-God
praise-God
dear, God
godawful
Gawd!
goddamnit
omg

when something extreme happens: "Jesus, Christ!"

etc.
in music: "Good God!"

Obamacare

I'll weigh in

I believe access to quality healthcare should be a human right, not just in America, but throughout the world. What good is liberty, or even life itself in some cases, without health?

Shit happens, as they say. People who roll the dice by not having or paying for health insurance might save some money, but are doing society a disservice, in my opinion. If only some have it, the price goes way up (I've read)...

We should collectively, as humans, support everyone's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness--a foundation of which is good health. I buy the argument that if we all chip in, society benefits.

I realize America is wedded to unhealth, such as obesity and smoking (aside: did you know 50% of Chinese men smoke?), and I also realize people don't want to pay for other people's irresponsibility, but we all benefit from lower healthcare costs if we all pitch in.

I have Kaiser, and I subscribe to the mottos of 1)thrive, 2)daily maintenance (diet and exercise), and 3)preventive medicine (a healthy lifestyle)

It's not socialism, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need- it's the greatest good for the greatest number, the most rational choice (if not common sense).

Submission

I submit (this to you):

Islam means "submission"
I do not perceive anything/anyone to submit to
except the law, or my own ideals (my conscience)

submission holds
can be useful

what's underneath the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

submarines and subway sandwiches and Mitt Romney

okay, sorry

Stuck-Up

God on a post-it

Someone asked me "You're not one of those stuck-up people, are you?"
and I replied, maybe sometimes.

God is usually conceived as being up.
'who art in heaven' and all.

But I get down sometimes. Angrier, more often.
I'm tired of getting angry.
I give up. Anger is exhausting.

God is conceived to be/is:
-omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, all-good
(all-knowing, all-powerful, always and everywhere, kind/loving/beneficent/compassionate/forgiving/merciful)
-immanent and transcendent (within and beyond/outside of? I think)
-loving/Love (itself)
-I am who am/ I am what shall prove to be/ I am
-YHWH, the "tetragrammaton"
-the Creator
-"Heavenly Father"
-One

that's all I can think of
I, on the other hand, am just Jesse
but I think that's enough

My Reading List

What I'm working on

I'm punctuating the list with other books I find interesting (which is most everything) that I grab off the library shelves.

I in fact checked out the source of my reading from a book entitled
'1001 Books to Read Before You Die'

on line list

I don't know how long it will take me.
A book a day for 3 years...
I'm reading Zadie Smith's On Beauty now.

Books not on the list I currently have checked out are:
-The Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind
-Dog is my Copilot, by the Editors of BARk (Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship)
-The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything
-The Best American Short Stories of the Century. John Updike, Editor; Katrina Kenison, co-editor

and, in the reference section at the public library, I've started
-The Encyclopedia of the Developing World (3 volumes)
and, at the gtu (Graduate Theological Union), in Berkeley, I've started
-Religion and Foreign Affairs, essential readings; 2012
Dennis R. Hoover and Douglas M. Johnson, editors

busy, busy!

abortion debate reductio ad absurdumb

I'm still pro-life

I found this quote in my email:
"I'm sorry, but all these 'life begins at conception' arguments are sheer nonsense. Killing a cluster of cells that has the potential of becoming human life is not the same as killing a human being. Here is a reductio ad absurdum argument for all the extreme pro-lifers. With modern cloning technology, a simple skin cell is a potential baby. Where do pro-life people stand on removing a wart or a mole? Are dermatologists the latest in the long list of baby killers?"Dialogue is Needed on Abortion; St. Petersburg Times (Florida); May 20, 2009.

I don't know the technology required to clone from a skin cell, but I imagine it requires some effort. I do know that warts and moles aren't commonly in the habit of becoming babies. A mole is not a baby. This I know.

But a life, whether conceived normally or cloned, starts at conception -which I'm sure has an analog in the cloning process. In fact, cloning seems to me to be a more deliberate process to create a new life than normal lovemaking. Killing a clone is the moral equivalent of abortion.

At first, I was tempted to think, gee well maybe all life is no different from a wart or mole, so killing, that is- murder-, is now as perfectly acceptable and as justifiable, morally, as shedding skin, a natural process that deserves no punishment. It would make a hell of a defense in court. That seems to be what the author implies. I'm not willing to take that stand.

Adoption is the loving option. Please don't forget about adoption.

Infinity

Physicists and cosmologists use this word too much/unthinkingly

Infinity should almost never be used to describe phenomena, I say.
What is an infinity?
It's bigger than a googolplex.
It's bigger than a googolplex googolplexes.
It's bigger than a googolplex to the googolplex power!

If something is infinite, there isn't anything else!
alright??

geez.