Grab the nearest book

[Snoopy]

Bees perform elaborate dances to communicate information about food sources and distances, and male birds inform others of their impressive status by the length and variety of their songs. These and many other methods of communication are critical to these animals’ lives, but these signals have fixed meanings and cannot be recombined to make new ones. In true language, arbitrary sounds or signs are combined in a potentially infinite number of ways to produce an equally vast number of meanings.

[satay]

"You are more likely to reduce total development time by spending more time in upstream activities, no less. After surveying more than 4000 projects, Capers Jones reported that the software industry on the whole is probably about 35 percent efficient. The other 65 percent of the time is spent on harmful or unproductive activities such as us of productivity tools that don't work, repair of carelessly developed modules, work lost due to lack of configuration control and so on.
"

[Impqueen]

They came to a low room with a sloping roof (a penthouse, it seemed, built on the north end of the house). Its walls were of clean stone, but they were mostly covered with green hanging mats and yellow curtains. The floor was flagged, and strewn with fresh green rushes.

[wil]

Yeah, at home this didn't work at all because my computer is right next to a stack of library shelves...all books are equally near...

But now...at work...the pocket reference doesn't have paragraphs, but on 123 radioisotope halflives...two columns of them...fifth row...

SR-90....29.1 years | U-236....23.4 million years

[dauer]

This is from page 122 because phpbb can't read my Hebrew characters:

in ancient times and in our own time.

In the days of Mordechai and Esther
in Shushan, the mighty capital [of Persia],
when the wicked Haman rose against them,
seeking to destroy, to kill, and to eradicate
all Jews, the young and old alike,
in a single day,
the thirteenth of the twelfth month,
that is, the month of Adar,
and take as plunder all they owned.

But you, in your abundant mercies,
thwarted his conspiracy, destroyed his plan.

[Tao_Equus]

cool thread

Here is mine and I obeyed the rules! green smiley for who guesses where it came, 5 big smiley's for precisely where

Interpretation: by clinging to his integrity all actions will be favourable.

Six in the second place: He reaps without having ploughed, he gathers the third years crops without having cultivated during the first year. Such is his virtue that there will be advantage in everything he attempts.

[ardenz]

'On the other hand we already find in the Sefer ha-Bahir a definition of the Sefirah Gevurah, as "the left hand of the Holy one blessed be He" and as "a quality whose name is evil" and which has many offshoots in the forces of judgement, the constricting and limiting powers in the universe. As early as Isaac the Blind this lead to the conclusion that there must of necessity be a positive root of evil and death, which was balanced within the unity of the Godhead by the root of goodness and life. During the process of differentiation of these forces below the Sefirot, however, evil became substantified as a seperate manifestation.'

Honest this was beside my desk...(I have just finished a murder thriller)

[juantoo3]

pg. 123, 5-8 sentences:

"Humankind was created in G-d's image and was given the gift of free will. This gift is symbolized in the story of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, the first human beings, were given the freedom, the free will, to disobey G-d's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge, and they used this freedom to perpetuate forevermore the freedom of human beings to think and to choose." (emphasis in the original)

-Invitation to Philosophy, ninth edition, Honer/Hunt/Okholm, chapter 6-Freedom and Determinism

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Bees perform elaborate dances to communicate information about food sources and distances, and male birds inform others of their impressive status by the length and variety of their songs. These and many other methods of communication are critical to these animals’ lives, but these signals have fixed meanings and cannot be recombined to make new ones. In true language, arbitrary sounds or signs are combined in a potentially infinite number of ways to produce an equally vast number of meanings.

what the hell was I reading???????!!!!!!!

s.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

what the hell was I reading???????!!!!!!!

s.

Well it was not playboy!!

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Well it was not playboy!!

Maybe it was what I hide Playboy in!

s.

[Dondi]

Originally Posted by dauer

And what does the mother give? Everything that is red." Blood and muscles and everything that is red in a person.

Let me guess. Does this have anything to do with establishing the Jewishness of a person from their mother's side?

From a book I hadn't picked up for some time. Uncannily, it basically summarizes the book:

'Now the work swann and Putoff had put in, coupled with all the research contributed over the years by the other SRI folks, paid off. Relying on the many lessons that had been learned over a decade of remote viewing research, a system was put together involving various stages that started a trainee-viewer from the basic, simplest elements of remote viewing, and continued through advanced performance levels. Called "coordinate remote viewing", or simply "CRV", the system was literally put together on the fly, some training modules being completed only shortly before the first students arrived for that level of training."

[Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate, America's Psychic Espionage Program By Paul H Smith]

Interesting reading.

[dauer]

Dondi,

No. It has to do with old theories people had on how babies are formed. The mom gives the blood and other red fluids, as indicated by her period when she isn't pregnant, and the dad's sperm, which is white, forms the skeletal structure, the brain, the brain fluid, the muscles, tissue, tendons. It's not a Jewish theory, just applying the science of the day to fit with religious analogy. Jewish identity from the mother is because it's more verifiable. Let me see if I can remember which book that was...

Found it. It was from Wrapped in a Holy Flame by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. I checked Mei Hashiloach and Tanya first, but I had a feeling it was from here because of the style of the commentary. He was talking about how there are three partners in making a baby. There's the father, the mother, and G!d. It looks like this is part of an explanation of how G!d breathes life into us from deep within Himself.

He gets to the point of his analogy. He says, "the Divine Soul in each person is also of the very same substance, as it were, as what Reb Shneur Zalman calls the Divine brain... The feminine will be the focus when he talks about the Divine Presence, the Shechinah... the point Reb Shneur Zalman wants to make right now is that each soul is 'a chip off the old block.'..."

Dauer

[Dondi]

Fascinating, dauer. especially about the G!d-breathe part. I have a question about this, if I may. But I think it will better serve if I ask it in the Judaism forum. See ya there!

[Muslimwoman]

Six galleys. I thought we were finished for sure.' He glanced across at the kings by the fire


From David Gemmell's "Troy - Shield of Thunder".


No matter what I am reading I always have Pratchett on the go at the same time for when I need a lighter moment. So here goes, page 123 line 6 on

'I don't understand! Is this man mad?'
Salzella put an arm around his shoulders and led him away from the crowd. 'Well now, ' he said, as kindly as he could. 'A man who wears evening dress all the time, lurks in the shadows and occasionally kills people. Then he sends little notes, writing maniacal laughter. Five exclamation marks again, I notice. We have to ask ourselves: is this the career of a sane man?'