Yesterday morning I had my medical tests done after fasting for twelve hours. My appointment was for 8:30am, but still had to wait for about fifteen minutes. All went as usual, except that the clerks now wanted a photo id. This came into the regulations last November I was told.

After the test I had a coffee and a tasteless muffin, that’s the last time I’ll have one of those. After this little break I turned to go home, but changed my mind and circled back to try to meet up with John. That did not work, but I picked up some discounted office supplies at Grand and Toy, which is going out of business nation wide.

In the aft I went to see Juliet again like Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday I typed a few pages of her hand written story, which she read out to me from her note book. We also sent chapter two to her niece in England, who has offered Juliet to do the editing. As is her habit, Juliet cooked up a tasty meal again, after which we chatted a while, until I left at around seven pm.

On Wednesday afternoon I vacuumed my apartment, before my visit to Juliet. Once there I was quite busy with the printers and the transfer of files and email addresses from the old computer - XP !!- to the new Dell with its Windows Eight. The emails keep on arriving at the old computer even though we send them from the new one using Shaw’s web mail. This I’ll have to fix yet, but that had to wait, since I felt quite tired once home after this for me busy Wednesday.

In my reading over the last few days in Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’, I have now reached the chapter called ‘Trials’. It opens with a section on Maimonides, which I now have completed. It has left me with a feeling of surprise regarding the demands that were placed on Maimonides as he lived his life. His fame was hard earned and well deserved. This becomes clear from Schama’s account of the many trails and tribulation faced by this now famous man from around the late the twelfth century.

Schama explains and recounts Maimonides’ struggles to express his ideas and vision of the Jewish tradition adding to, expanding on and explaining Philo of Alexandria’s earlier work in Antiquity.

Reading about this process makes me realise the more, that today we too, are engaged in reframing the past and adapting handed down traditions, values and frameworks to our modern day requirements.

Maimonides did not want to cut with his tradition, but he sought to give is new impetus by ‘choosing life’ as he advocates in his philosophy. I relate to this process and feel a bit like a comrade in arms with Maimonides as he attempts to reframe handed down wisdoms, formulating new guide lines and inspirations for his day.

Speaking of which, I made some more late notes last night that I will report below. These notes are my first attempt as reframing the earlier five categories of theology, expanding on their significance and range of application.

Late night notes:

2014-05-08; 10:40pm.
On Framework for Human Experience.

1. Cosmogony:
   God → creates { Creation implies a beginning.}
   God already exists. This contrast with this beginning.
   There is no beginning for god, thus: From Whence is god?
   So, we take god as the existence without end or beginning; creation means a process with an end and beginning within this existence.
   (God is a word for Existence and so ‘Existence Divine’) + add modern science.
2. Anthropogeny:
   Human existence.
   The realm of humanity within which this Human-Experience takes place. Humans discover the nature of existence in the human realm and make it conscious.
3. Redemption is this making conscious.
   Soteriology is how to affect ‘progressive’ - such as demonstrated by humans since 60kYa - change.
4. Community and Law:
   This is human behaviour codified, taught and modified to adapt - ETHICS - affecting preservation. Community vis–à–vis the individual; the diversity of it all.
5. Eschatology:
   — Redeem the universe by exploring space by human working towards continuity of conscious aware existence throughout the universe and beyond?!

This completes the note record.
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