Today is Saturday, 02/19/2022, Post #3

I like reading this sort of story-element

Reading this character's thoughts - as best I recall she's a character new to The Expanse and that is first introduced there in Book 3 - one cannot help but simply register the ridiculousness of any religion

She's a Reverend Doctor of Bible Thumping and is comparable to the shaman, the quacks, the scam-artists of these modern times that you weakling refer to a 'priest' or 'preacher' or whatever other brand you confer on their idiotic fairy-tale lies

What they are unwilling to accept is their own circular-reasoning.

In this example, comparable to these modern times, she is demonstrating that she is herself, as representative of you cowards here in the real world, her own virus

Her idiotic church never knew anything about the function, capability of virus

Science discovered the answers and now she, as does her ilk, has latched onto it and hijacked it - updating her pervasive ignorance - and is using it to bolster her idiotic fairy-tale.

Save yourself from developing wrinkles on your monkey-forehead by struggling to update your delusions about your ridiculous Imaginary Friend "up there" in the clouds.

Cavemen invented your god(s).

They were superstitious imbeciles.

You don't have to be one also.

You make the world a much worse place.









Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, Book 3, by James Corey, Kindle Edition)

Chapter 12: Anna

The things that made the protomolecule are intelligent. Does that mean they have souls? They invade our solar system, kill us indisciminately, steal our resources. All things we would consider sins if we were doing them. Does that mean they're fallen? Did Christ die for them too? Or are they just intelligent but soulless, and everything the protomolecule's done is just like a virus doing what it's programmed for?"









https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-the-congress

The American Presidency Project

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

32nd President of the United States: 1933 ‐ 1945

Address on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Congress

March 04, 1939

We use it rather to explain the tedious delays and the local antagonisms and jealousies which beset our early paths. We use it perhaps to remind our citizens of today that the automobile, the railroad, the airplane, the electrical impulse over the wire and through the ether









https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-reputation-could-clouded-222800773.html

Bill Gates' reputation could be clouded by reports about his personal life

Daniel Arkin

Mon, May 17, 2021, 3:28 PM

In a 1997 article for Time magazine titled "In Search of the Real Bill Gates," the writer Walter Isaacson reported that one of Gates' favorite phrases inside the company was "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

Luminiferous aether

From Wikipedia

The history of light and aether

See also: Timeline of luminiferous aether

Newton's Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704, 4th ed. 1730) postulated an "aethereal medium" transmitting vibrations faster than light, by which light, when overtaken, is put into "Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission"









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_Theories_of_Aether_and_Electricity

A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity

From Wikipedia

A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity is any of three books written by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE on the history of electromagnetic theory, covering the development of classical electromagnetism, optics, and aether theories.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Whittaker

E. T. Whittaker

From Wikipedia

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early twentieth century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical analysis, including the theory of special functions, along with his contributions to astronomy, celestial mechanics, the history of physics, and digital signal processing.

Among the most influential publications in Whittaker’s bibliography, he authored several popular reference works in mathematics, physics, and the history of science, including A Course of Modern Analysis (better known as Whittaker and Watson), Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, and A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. Whittaker is also remembered for his role in the relativity priority dispute, as he credited Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz with developing special relativity in the second volume of his History, a dispute which has lasted several decades, though scientific consensus has remained with Einstein.









From 3/24/1956 ( Steve Ballmer ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 11395 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/13/1997 ( ) is 11395 days



From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 1/13/1997 ( ) is 16064 days

16064 = 8032 + 8032

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/30/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Pursuit of Happiness" ) is 8032 days



http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/PPP-PHOTOS-1997-book1/PPP-PHOTOS-1997-book1-folio-D/content-detail.html

GPO U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Keeping America Informed

1997 Public Papers - Congratulating Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker in the East Room, January 13.

Publication Title Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1997, Book I)

Event Date January 13, 1997



http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-01-14/news/9701140119_1_jones-case-supreme-court-jones-allegations

Chicago Tribune

Jones Case: Clinton Can't Spin Justices

Legal Questions Present Challenges

January 14, 1997 By Michael Tackett, Washington Bureau.

WASHINGTON — A historic argument before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday underscored a running paradox of Bill Clinton's life: the seemingly open conflict between his public and private behavior.

For all the qualities that have made him one of the most successful politicians of his time, his reputation consistently has been diminished by allegations of infidelity and duplicity.

Nowhere has that conflict been presented in starker terms than in the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Arkansas state worker Paula Corbin Jones, a case that finally reached the highest court in the land on Monday.



https://web.archive.org/web/20000619090559/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates5.html

TIME

JANUARY 13, 1997 VOL. 149 NO. 2

5 of 12

In Search of the Real Bill Gates

When Microsoft began to grow in 1980, Gates needed a smart nontechie to help run things, and he lured Ballmer, who had worked for Procter & Gamble, to Seattle as an equity partner. Though he can be coldly impersonal in making business decisions, Gates has an emotional loyalty to a few old friends. "I always knew I would have close business associates like Ballmer and several of the other top people at Microsoft, and that we would stick together and grow together no matter what happened," he says. "I didn't know that because of some analysis. I just decided early on that was part of who I was."

As with Allen, the relationship was sometimes stormy. "Our first major row came when I insisted it was time to hire 17 more people," Ballmer recalls. "He claimed I was trying to bankrupt him." Gates has a rule that Microsoft, rather than incurring debt, must always have enough money in the bank to run for a year even with no revenues. (It currently has $8 billion in cash and no long-term debt.) "I was living with him at the time, and I got so pissed off I moved out." The elder Gates smoothed things over, and soon the new employees were hired.

"Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing," says Ballmer. "The difference from P&G; is striking. Politeness was at a premium there. Bill knows it's important to avoid that gentle civility that keeps you from getting to the heart of an issue quickly. He likes it when anyone, even a junior employee, challenges him, and you know he respects you when he starts shouting back." Around Microsoft, it's known as the "math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute conviction that all problems have a right answer. Among Gates' favorite phrases is "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the way they do about getting a late-night E-mail from him.

The contentious atmosphere can promote flexibility. The Microsoft Network began as a proprietary online system like CompuServe or America Online. When the open standards of the Internet changed the game, Microsoft was initially caught flat-footed. Arguments ensued. Soon it became clear it was time to try a new strategy and raise the stakes. Gates turned his company around in just one year to disprove the maxim that a leader of one revolution will be left behind by the next.

During the bachelor years in the early '80s, the math-camp mentality was accompanied by a frat-boy recreational style. Gates, Ballmer and friends would eat out at Denny's, go to movies and gather for intellectual games like advanced forms of trivia and Boggle. As friends started getting married, there were bachelor parties involving local strippers and skinny-dipping in Gates' pool. But eventually, after Gates wed, he took up more mature pursuits such as golf. "Bill got into golf in the same addictive way he gets into anything else," says Ballmer. "It gets his competitive juice flowing."



- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 3:25 PM Pacific-time USA Saturday 02/19/2022