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Matt 5:16

By Phillip Medhurst - Photo by Harry Kossuth, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7550068

Above is an illustration for Matt 5:14-16:

"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. Let your light shine before men, that. they may see your good works, and. glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Consider also a quote from the architect Louis Kahn:

"All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we are made of light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to the light." (LOBELL, p. 6)

Let us analyze and correlate these two quotes. I interpret the biblical quote as the self-alienated projection by pre-self-critically self-reflective people of their own autochthonous spirit. Do something of value. Let it be an example for others to do well also. But do not attribute it incorrectlyall to your personal algorithmic agency, because you didn't to it all 'by yourself". Show also that you respect that the source of your accomplishment in essntial part is in the unknowable and that all substantive accomplishment in part "comes to ue" not: "we just cook ita ll up".

Don't attribute the part that is not your agency simply to your male biological progenitor who may juat be a Jamie Spears creep (or a blackmailer like my father's father was to him), but rather acknowledge your dependency is on [to be metaphorical but also down to earth:] "the muse on your shoulder" [concerning which, of course, the real persons in one's social surround are part factors, plus and/or minus]. If you acknowlege this, then you won't go around setting arbitrary deadlines as if persons can do anything nontrivial to schedule (because they would be entirely agorithmically responible for doing it). This includes teaches ass-ign-ing busywork to students pursuant to cooked up deadlines, as well as, in the real world, such folly as folly I heard in IBM of one business planner saying to another:

"Fishkill is not coming in with the inventions on schedule."[1]

Meow!

Note a detail of the illustration of Matt 5:16, above: The man in the light casts a shadow upon the wall. The light is in the evvent of creating, not in the thing created, i.e.: that creator's creation.The light degenerates into a "crumpled mass". And the light acat a shadow: Total, absolute awareness without residue is not posible (Bruzina 2004, ref. lost). Whatever is illuminated conceals ssomething else. This may theoretically be something entirely innocent, like if Nathan Hale had had 2 lives to give for his country and our watching him hanging on the scaffold the first time momentarily oncealed his hanging the second time. But more otten shady things lurk in the shadows, and they need, in their turn, to be brought out into the light → and this recursively.... Mr. Zelensky, what are you hiding about your cynical Ukraine in NATO agenda by exposing to bright light [genuinely bad...] Russian war crimes?

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  1. Your Comment on How One of the Country's Most Storied C.E.O.s Destroyed His Legacy
    The New York Times <comments@nytimes.com>
    Nov 21, 2022, 3:04 PM (2 days ago)
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    Bradford McCormick | New York
    "prioritizing G.E.'s quarterly profits and stock price over its employees" I confess I am not an MBA man but a humanities scholar who worked as a computer programmer. But I seem to hsve hearad and read of a CEO who did things the other way: Thomas Watson Jr at IBM. System 360 was one of the great engineering accomplishments of all time. It revolutionized the computing world and made a lot of money for IBM. I read that Mr. Watson spent sleepless nights whether to commit to it because it was enormously risky and if it failed that would likely have been the end of IBM. But IBM's workforce of dedicated engineers went on overdrive and made it happen. The company treated them well and they did right for the company and it was a win-win for everybody. System 360 was not made by quarterly profit calculations. I once saw a group of men in Blue suits singing songs from the IBM songbook (an old timer gave me a copy of it). Times changed. I heard something I think Mr. Watson would not have been please to hear. In the Armonk headquarters I was walking down an aisle behind two businees planners and one said the to the other: "Fishkill is not coming in with the inventions on schedule." It was the early 1980s and the sun was setting on IBM.
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