25 Matching Annotations
  1. Apr 2023
  2. Mar 2023
    1. Man neither employs, nor knows, a force sufficient to bring two atoms into contact.

      Fusion reactors are a force sufficient to bring two atoms into contact.

    2. without form and void

      "Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;"

      T.S. Eliot ~ From his poem The Hollow Men

    3. For my present purpose, however,—that of enabling the mind to take in, as if from afar and at one glance, a distinct conception of the[22] individual Universe

      James Webb First Deep Field, a picture of the origin of the universe

  3. Feb 2023
  4. Oct 2022
    1. eschatology

      Definition: 1. any system of doctrines concerning last, or final matters, as death, the Judgement, the afterlife, etc. 2. the branch of theology dealing with such matters.

    2. Si la prospection est une rétrospection, cést en tout cas une rétrospection anticipée et comment pourrait-on anticiper si l'on n'avait pas le sens de l'avenir? Nous devinons, diton, «par analogie», que ce présent incomparable, comme tous les autres, passera. Mais pour qu'il y ait analogie entre les presents révolus et le présent effectif, il faut que celui-ci ne se donne pas seulement comme present, qu'il s'annonce déjà comme un passé pour bientôt, que nous sentions sur lui la pression d'un avenir qui cherche à le destituer, et qu'en un mot le cours du temps soit à titre originaire non seulement le passage du present au passé, mais encore celui du future au present

      Translation: If prospecting is a retrospection, it is in any case an anticipated retrospection and how could we anticipate if we had no sense of the future? We guess, we say, (by analogy), that this incomparable present, like all the others, will pass. But for there to be an analogy between past presents and the effective present, it is necessary that the latter not only give itself as present, that it is already announced as a past soon to come, that we feel the pressure of a future that seeks to destitute it, and that in a word the course of time is originally not only the passage from the present to the past, but also that from the future to the present.

    3. Die Zeitigung bedeutet kein ‘Nacheinander’ der Ekstasen. Die Zukunft ist nicht später als die Gewesenheit und diese nicht früher als die Gegenwart. Zeitlichkeit zeitigt sich als gewesende- gegenwärtigende Zukunft”

      Translation: Maturing means no 'succession' of ecstasies. The future is no later than the past, and the latter nods earlier than the present. Temporality comes to fruition as a past-present future

    4. Le passé n'est done pas passé, ni le future futur. Il n'existe que lorsqu'une subjectivité vient brisser la plénitude de l'être en soi, y dessiner une perspective, y introduire le non-être.

      Translation: The past is therefore not past, nor the future future. It only exists when a subjectivity breaks through the plenitude of being in itself, draws a perspective into it, introduces non-being into it.

    5. Soweit in den heutigen Zeitanalysen überhaupt über Aristoteles und Kant hinaus etwas Wesentliches gewonnen wird, betrifft es mehr die Zeiterfassung und das ‘Zeitbewußtsein.

      Translation: Insofar as anything essential is gained in today's time analyzes beyond Aristotle and Kant, it relates more to the recording of time and the "time awareness."

    1. autopoietic

      autopoiesis: the property of a living system (such as a bacterial cell or a multicellular organism) that allows it to maintain and renew itself by regulating its composition and conserving its boundaries

    1. ultramontane

      Definition: 1. beyond the mountains. 2. of or relating to the area south of the Alps, especially Italy. 3. of, relating to, or supporting the belief that the pope is the spiritual head of the church in all countries.

  5. Sep 2022
    1. Hope that science would heal the world has given way to gnawing anxiety over climate change, loss of environment and micro-plastics in the ocean.

      This is a deeply important observation.

    2. This phenomenon is made worse by the fact that the primary study of the text has moved into the academic institution and, by inference, away from the faith movement. This may make earnest scholarly biblical study of the Apocalypse seem irrelevant to the general concerns of the faith community

      This is strange, and points to the distain that peoples-of-the-book have towards the secularization of education. Despite this distain, I find it strange that peoples-of-the-book would be against the serious academic study of, well any portion of, the Bible.