Asking the right questions

Am essay well worth reading is this from Benedict Evans, a technology pundit (his weekly newsletter is well worth reading): https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/01/11/wrongquestions

[His grandfather] published a story called 'A Logic named Joe', which described a global computer network with servers and terminals, that starts giving people the information that it thinks they ought to know as opposed to waiting for them to search for it - the Singularity, if you like, or maybe just Alexa. He also, as I recall, predicted reality TV somewhere. 

 

And yet, despite predicting half of our world, as a father in the 1950s he could not imagine why his daughter - my mother - wanted to work. 

 

This isn't an uncommon observation - plenty of people have pointed out that vintage scifi is full of rocketships but all the pilots are men. 1950s scifi shows 1950s society, but with robots. Meanwhile, the interstellar liners have paper tickets, that you queue up to buy. With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things. 

Christian Letter Mysticism in a nutshell

From Kerning/Krebs' Key(s) to the Spirit World (1833) [I haven't yet decided whether it is singular or plural for keys - it is a bit ambiguous]:

 

“From the day of the washing of feet to the death on the cross, everything is written only for us. If we believe in a child-like way, exercise blindly, then we too will rise again. Everything which the great master encountered in those three days is a model for us. We must feel the blows to the back and experience the torture, must bear the burden of the cross and, in order to give the new human space, spread weariness through all our limbs. Though reason may bristle against it, the senses rebel, even our entire nature become incensed, we must not waver, must endure steadfastly in order to transform the crown of pain into a crown of life. Someone who does not make many words, but puts those few words in actions everywhere, and thereby raises his entire nature to the ability of thinking, they walk the path to victory and will be glorified on the cross of life.”

A fair bit of solve involved before the coagula. The reference to not making many words is to Matthew 6:7: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."