In about twenty (20) minutes my third (!) laundry load is due for the washer and, yes, I did have an early start this morning. The first load went in before I’d had breakfast, this because I can’t run late this morning. Jack and I meet at 1:pm for coffee and that has to be on schedule. So, I decided to have my laundry dibs in early!

Friday dinner at Sarah and BJ’s was entertaining, tasty and came with a surprise! Sybil was there as well, she had joined Sarah and the little ones on their return from ‘Die Schweitz’. That was a pleasant surprise and we will have a coffee later this week.

Driving through the ‘far north’ along Country Hills in rain and water clouds I took Shaganappi trail south to arrive at the Future Shop there.

Last Saturday I decided to get Juliet’s computer fixed and drove to Future Shop in the far NE with rain all the way. That chain had closed at seven AM that morning and now I was redirected to the Northland Village Mall. Driving through the ‘far north’ along Country Hills in rain and water clouds I took Shaganappi trail south to arrive at the Future Shop there.

The personnel there was hanging up the paper blinds, but could direct me to the Best Buy on Seventeenth Ave and 8th SW. I can walk to that one; this after driving for an hour and a half, but I gained a new view on my town!
Later that aft on the way to meet Elisabeth, I stopped at the mentioned Best Buy where the service people got the problem fixed without any [laundry load change, last one due at a quarter past ten] fuss. It made me just in time to meet Elisabeth at the Roastery, but she was delayed through and by banking hindrances.

On Sunday I met with friends at the Palliser, had lunch at home and went right on to DJ’s for produce shopping. They were only open till four pm, as I had suspected. They have never been open this early, which makes clear that we are breaking high temp weather records so far this year.
9:44am, coffee time.

10:05am>
I want to write some commentary on assertions made at our Palliser meeting last Sunday, i.e. yesterday. As I listen to Herman’s talks at the various occasions, there are instances where and when I am in disagreement with what I hear him say. These can be statements of his own, but are often quotes from New Thought and science sources.

‘God is infinite mind’, is a well known claim made in the New Thought tradition. [10:33am last dryer load running.] Then there is the assertion by Hawkins that he might consider god as the sum total of all the laws of the universe. This puts a debilitating constriction on what it is that god might be. For example, this claim seems to ignore the rules of ethics that we humans use.

An inconsistency is that the infinite mind can not also be the sum total of laws, because that would make the infinite, finite, Conversely, the property of infinite means that there is no limit to the laws. The answer to these objections often is that they are figures of speech and not mathematical concepts. This I can accept, but then as a subset of the Thousand Names of Allah, the beneficent, as the Muslim scholars claim.

Instead of attempting to name and possibly personify that what should or could be, I prefer to acknowledge that my human capacity for understanding and experience is but limited.

Instead of attempting to name and possibly personify that what should or could be, I prefer to acknowledge that my human capacity for understanding and experience is but limited. This has for me the consequence, that I see myself as human being face to face with all that I do not know and is beyond my ken. This I call a mystery, but a partly knowable one and have called it ‘Existence Divine’.

My life as a person in the realm of humanity within this mystery, is one of discovering of what is humanly possible. This is a journey we humans have only barely begun! And yet, we have discovered much since the first homo sapiens came to exist on the continent of Africa, from where our species went on to populate the world.
<10:58am.

On Consciousness: More tomorrow.5:54pm and 6:12am.