Yesterday I zeroed in on the problem of inserting an image filename into an existing html figure element. That has to be done by means of JavaScript and the DOM - Document Object Model. I had forgotten about this technique all together and rediscovered it yesterday. This action has to take place at the time of markup of the daily entry web page and not during execution time, as I initially thought. So, no PHP but JavaScript is called for.

So, no PHP but JavaScript is called for.

During the aft I visited Juliet, who had a whole chapter written for me to type into the word processor. I also managed to get the printer going again by shaking up the black ink cartridge. It had sat for too long I suspect, because the ink level display showed full.

Juliet was quite interested in knowing the alignment of the super highway that China and Pakistan are planning to build. But, I’d forgotten to take the articles that I’d put ready to bring with me. It was eight when I returned home, after having left at 2:45pm. Besides the activities, we also socialise quite some time, which is welcome time spent for the both of us.

The sun just came peeking through, but faintly. Today coffee with Don in the aft, along with shopping at DJ and possibly a trip southward with birthday wishes for Tammy. And then there is acalling my newly discovered solution using JavaScript to insert the image file references!

Last night I completed reading the copied pages on Manichaeism and perused my existing sources for that topic, which now add up to five if I include the Gnostic Bible. Those, combined with some internet source retrievals present me with more than enough material for my June 14 Talk.

Yesterday I mentioned that I observe a common syncretic trend in Christianity, Manichaeism and Islam. Today, I want to add Buddhism to that as well, but with some reserve. Buddhism is similar in that its [phone interrupt of fifty minutes] sense and actions of mission. However, it differs in that it has a history of adapting to the cultures it encounters, only modifying them.

This morning I want to give voice to a notion that I have long held in idea form, but not expressly put in words. So, I’ll give it a try here for the first time.

From my studies of the religions over the last fifteen (15) years, as well as from my early acquaintance of ‘Easter philosophies’ - such as Theosophy - I discern a held conviction that humans are inadequate inherently. And, that consequently life on earth and in the body is to be despised and even to be escaped from to other realms.

Old religious views held:… that consequently life on earth and in the body is to be despised and even to be escaped from to other realms.

Using this held belief that is in our human traditions, religions add to this the notion that humans need improvement. The impact of this belief of inadequacy has led to much improvement on this our planet over the many millennia that humans worked to wards bettering their situation. This improvement is to such a large extend, that I conclude that we are not doing badly at all and that it is time for a new perspective on this our physical existence in the biological body.

The new perspective that I would like to suggest is that we should consciously make it our reason of being to be on this earth the way we are, becoming consciously aware of and enhancing our human condition. This means valuing our achievements and taking charge of this operation responsibly and in accord with the handed down traditions.

This is not quite it, but is comes close to what I want to express. The essence of human life is this our existence as human beings.