Is it getting stronger?
Or am I getting better at acceptance?
Yesterday, the thought formed clearly - and absolutely normal and regular - that I should not go to sleep
Hours later, still wondering if I was going to observe something interesting - anywhere - I looked for a video to watch
And because I did not want to have to make another blog-post, I chose the 2016 "Cell", because, well, it and the book are really boring, despite the work of Samuel L. Jackson
I had completely forgotten about the ice cream truck scene and, especially, Ray's dialog in the creek
IMDb
Pretty Woman (1990)
Quotes
Vivian: If I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.
IMDb
The Right Stuff (1983)
Quotes
Gus Grissom: I did NOT do anything wrong. The hatch just BLEW. It was a GLITCH. It was a- a TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION. Why in hell won't anyone believe me?
{by me, Kerry Burgess: Any "God" is mere superstition. You do not have an Imaginary Friend "up there" in the clouds. You do not have an Imaginary Friend that can hear your thoughts as you plead and beg with Him to not hurt you again. Do not believe the lies told to you by any clergy peddling their bunk. "Faith" is meaningless word that is merely their marketing-buzzword because they know you're gullible and naive and you cannot think for yourself and you stopped reading this after the first few words.}
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19251027-01.2.25&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 46, Number 111, 27 October 1925
DESTINY OF MAN CHANGED BY SCIENCE, SAYS CONKLIN
Princeton Professor Describes Downfall of Religious Ideality Before Scientific Truth.
Writing in the November issue of Scribner's Magazine on the subject, "Science and the Faith of the Modern", Professor Edwin Grant Conklin asserts that science is remaking the world of our thoughts and ideals; that it has brought about the greatest revolution in human history, a revolution in the origin, nature, and destiny of man.
Professor Conklin says in part: "The old cosmogomy, philosophy, and theology, sought comfort, satisfaction, and inspiration rather than unwelcome truth. It magnified man by making him the climax and goal of all creation and the perfect and immortal image of God. In this old philosophy, supernaturalism was universal. The old ethics were based primarily on the will of God, supernaturally revealed in the code or book, and to this certain rules were added from time to time by Church or State under the divine guidance.
"Man was a free moral agent, and all good was the result of good will, evil, of evil will. There was enormous satisfaction in this view of the universe and of man, because it not only glorified man, explained evil and promised redemption, but it was a great stimilus to efforts for betterment, and a source of ideals and aspirations. And undoubtedly its commands and sanctions worked powerfully to preserve the ethical code."
Contrasting this view with the newer revelations of science, the writer adds, "The man of scientific mind seeks truth rather than comfort or satisfaction. The methods of science, observation, comparison, analysis, and generalization, are used by every sensible man in everyday life. But thousands refuse to apply these common sense methods to religion. And yet there can be no doubt that science has given us grander conceptions of the universe than were ever dramed of in former times.
"We may not accept the old ethics of supernaturalism and tradition, but we cannot accept the doctrines of pigs and hyenas, so the problem arises what is the remedy for the present condition. Fundamentalism, if logical, would demand the abolition of teaching of all science in general, for science, in general, and not merely the theory of evolution, is responsible for the loss of faith in the old traditions. The church once told scientists what they could think and teach, and now state legislatures propose to do it. Such methods of change have always failed in the past and must fail now.
"The real problem that confronts us is how to adjust religion to science, faith to knowledge, ideality to reality, for adjustment in the reverse direction will never happen. The only possible remedy is not less, but more and better science and education
by me, Kerry Burgess, September 24, 2019
Religious scholars are experts only in circular reasoning.
I keep watch for the so-called "religious professor" - notable graduates of the clown-colleges infesting the United States of America - for those intelligent persons who learn enough about the subject to finally figure out that monkeys invented their god. Bible-thumpers are too weak- and lazy-minded to ever put in any serious effort at understanding *why* the human psyche *needs* a god.
So in their delusions they read such news article about discoveries and in their idiocy they think that somehow equates to proof of their delusions.
IMDb
The Right Stuff (1983)
Quotes
Chief Scientist: Our Germans are better than their Germans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
Edwin Hubble
From Wikipedia
Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was named in his honor
Using the Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, Hubble identified Cepheid variables, a standard candle discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Comparing their apparent luminosity to their intrinsic luminosity gives their distance from Earth. Hubble found Cepheids in several nebulae, including the Andromeda Nebula and Triangulum Nebula. His observations, made in 1924, proved conclusively that these nebulae were much too distant to be part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside our own
From 11/20/1889 ( Edwin Hubble ) To 10/27/1925 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: DESTINY OF MAN CHANGED BY SCIENCE, SAYS CONKLIN ) is 13124 days
13124 = 6562 + 6562
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1983 ( ) is 6562 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 2/18/1977 ( the United States space shuttle Enterprise OV 101 captive-inert flight #1 ) is 6562 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1983 ( ) is 6562 days
From 10/21/1983 ( premiere USA film "The Right Stuff" ) To 5/14/1990 ( scheduled since 05/21/1983 - departing as enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service ) is 2397 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/26/1972 ( the departure of Werner von Braun from US NASA is announced ) is 2397 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/releaseinfo/
IMDb
The Right Stuff
Release info
United States October 21, 1983
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/not_yet_imagined_tagged.pdf?emrc=ce2a67
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
From Wikipedia
Start of mission
Launch date April 24, 1990, 12:33:51 UTC
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/23/science/5th-space-shuttle-may-be-in-works.html
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1983JRASC..77..310H
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Pirou 's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:57 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 01/24/2025
