Devastatingly important. 1901 the deadly fundamentalist Jesus was born. Read and Ponder this passage.

From the Karen Armstrong book on Paul.  "Before the twentieth century, the
phrase pistis Iesou Christou was regularly translated into English as “the faith or loyalty of Jesus.” It did not refer to the faith of ordinary mortals, but only to the “trust” that Jesus had in God when
he accepted his death sentence and his “confidence” that God would turn it to
good; and God had indeed rewarded this act of faith by inaugurating a newrelationship with humanity that saved men and women from the iniquity and injustice of the old order, ensuring that all people, whatever their social status or ethnicity, could become God’s children. But ever since the publication of the American Standard Version of the Bible in 1901, this phrase has regularly been translated as “faith in Jesus Christ,” equated with an individual Christian’s belief in Jesus’s divinity and redemptive act.11

 And then she continues, also devastatingly important.

"
Paul went on to argue that the Torah
had not been revealed for all time but had been only a temporary arrangement. He illustrated his point by comparing the Jewish people with an heir to a great estate: As long as the boy is a minor, hehas no more freedom of action than a
slave; he is emancipated and enjoys the
privileges of a son only when he reaches
his majority. So it was with us Jews,
Paul explained to the Galatians. But then
God sent his son “to buy freedom for
those who were under the law in order
that we might achieve the status of
sons.”12 For Jews like himself, he
explained, the law had fulfilled the
function of a paidogogus, the slave who
accompanied children to school,
ensuring that they behaved themselves
and came to no harm until he had
delivered them safely to their teacher,
when their true education began. “The
law was thus put in charge of us until the
Messiah should come,” Paul continued,“and now that faith has come, its charge is at an end.”13 It was because of the faith that Jesus had shown on the cross, Paul told the Galatians, “that you are all sons of God in union with Jesus Christ”; Jews and gentiles were now in the same boat, since the old divisions and categories no longer applied.14

Notice. There is a 20% chance that one of the few great Souls I know

will need everything I've got to give to keep from being crushed physically. Your help will be required too. The situation may clarify within the next couple of months.

March 10th ransoming souls log. Solid progress, solid study.

According to Karen Armstrong's understanding in her book on Paul, he was certainly a well intended fellow. And he substantially approximated the secondary science, Buddhism, the primary science being the truth, that the kingdom of God is within, serving from the soul in solidarity for the joy of it those needy souls. Her book on Paul is a wonderful contribution. Like Parker and Brock, and the Christianity that they describe, the Christianity of Paul, these were all extremely understandable attempts to decrease the suffering and increase the pleasure in an ungodly world of suffering.  and to do so Within famous ologies that they believed, that they wanted to believe, that they imagined, that they inherited from Judaism, that a God would come and fix things. But only in tangent did they ever seem to approach what Jesus taught, if you would hold on to your life in this world you will lose it. The kingdom of God is within you.

Like so many of our best intended, Paul was a highly developed cerebral cortex that had an unusual but distanct relationship, experience, sense, of the mammalian brain, the limbic system, the soul.

A gift to me is that a soul I have encountered of tremendous worth and strength, no credit to that individual, but a rare soul we need among us, is in grave material danger, and blessing to me is staying in contact with me. Time will tell if that contact is of any worth in trying to save and support and amplify that Worthy soul.

In the work just mentioned, such a surprising soul working alongside me, is providing advice, support, of my meager efforts, and maybe even indications of attempting to support the soul in question. Such a magnificent thing. Such a privilege to witness.

Karen Armstrong in the great transformation, an extraordinary necessary book for everyone to read, provides a view that I find extremely promising of the Pharisees at a certain point in time. Jews, scribes, Pharisees, demonized  by Christianity including in the Gospels. In fact in the great transformation, a comprehensive view throughout history of those who were touched by the soul, that attempted to be moved by the soul, there may be no population that did this better than the Pharisees of a certain time, the time of Hillel for example, 80 BCE, to 20 C e as I recall approximately..

Solar RV cycling log March 10th

Solar RV cycling log March 10th.

An extremely successful journey tho the metrics were not spectacular. So why successful? Probably 1400 calories at least. And with the benefit of treating this as a conventional cycle rotated back 70°, that is, making the purpose continuing through what effectively is the full down stroke, constant velocity to that full down stroke, makes this 3 plus hours of exercise background music, freeung the mind to serve the clients effectively through powerful study. Highly productive time.

The most productive time of this journey was this final 3rd. It took that long for the simple logic just described above, to become dominant. And as the simple logic of constant velocity pushing through that full extension, analogous to straight down for the conventional bicycle, and for whatever reason, exhausting alternatives, exhausting the body, 2 hours of learning, whatever, finding the groove, whatever, the metrics went from about a hundred watts per hour human, two more like 120, or 130 watts human for this final hour plus. Quite amazing.

In the interest of going slow enough to allow 1400 calories of exercise, this time we were back to relatively low Cadence probably 45, and therefore slow miles per hour, currently 1.5. This probably is not as helpful for training as a effective cyclist as the more normal 70 or 90 RPM. But with this new simple model of the bicycling mechanics in mind and operating, the body says, but it's good exercise. Very pleasing.

What a wimp this old James is. But how amusing how overtime he Gaines the competence, confidence, skills, and equipment, to push through situations that would have turned him around before. In this particular case the wintery mix rain and snow that occurred about 45 minutes out of town, cold, wet, rainy, very low visibility. And don't you think that James old body didn't want to turn around and go to the hostel? . Sure the heck did. But the soul said, James, aren't you getting a little stronger and wiser and more able? Maybe the storm will break. It wasn't in the forecast. Let's see if we can get up to the four legged ladies. And we pressed on. And here it is 3 hours later, the storm broke. We've learned that we can push further than we thought. With utilize skills and clothing that has been design for this purpose. If it doesn't kill you grow.

What was clear at the end of the voyage that I would like to remember from the beginning of the next Voyage, or two things. First, that the primary objective is to treat the stroke just as if it were a conventional bicycle, that is, to peddle out and threw the full extension of each stroke at constant velocity, and second, that to a significant degree not only can I but must I establish where the endpoint of that stroke is by establishing a appropriate constant velocity for the Cadence, and force so that the body knows where to make its transition point, it's pivot point, it's eng point, each stroke. It is clear that this can be done from the end of today's Journey. Let's see if we can carry it from the beginning of the next?

RV cycling log March 10th.

An extremely successful journey tho the metrics were not spectacular. So why successful? Probably 1400 calories at least. And with the benefit of treating this as a conventional cycle rotated back 70°, that is, making the purpose continuing through what effectively is the full down stroke, constant velocity to that full down stroke, makes this 3 plus hours of exercise background music, freeung the mind to serve the clients effectively through powerful study. Highly productive time.

The most productive time of this journey was this final 3rd. It took that long for the simple logic just described above, to become dominant. And as the simple logic of constant velocity pushing through that full extension, analogous to straight down for the conventional bicycle, and for whatever reason, exhausting alternatives, exhausting the body, 2 hours of learning, whatever, finding the groove, whatever, the metrics went from about a hundred watts per hour human, two more like 120, or 130 watts human for this final hour plus. Quite amazing.

In the interest of going slow enough to allow 1400 calories of exercise, this time we were back to relatively low Cadence probably 45, and therefore slow miles per hour, currently 1.5. This probably is not as helpful for training as a effective cyclist as the more normal 70 or 90 RPM. But with this new simple model of the bicycling mechanics in mind and operating, the body says, but it's good exercise. Very pleasing.

What a wimp this old James is. But how amusing how overtime he Gaines the competence, confidence, skills, and equipment, to push through situations that would have turned him around before. In this particular case the wintery mix rain and snow that occurred about 45 minutes out of town, cold, wet, rainy, very low visibility. And don't you think that James old body didn't want to turn around and go to the hostel? . Sure the heck did. But the soul said, James, aren't you getting a little stronger and wiser and more able? Maybe the storm will break. It wasn't in the forecast. Let's see if we can get up to the four legged ladies. And we pressed on. And here it is 3 hours later, the storm broke. We've learned that we can push further than we thought. With utilize skills and clothing that has been design for this purpose. If it doesn't kill you grow.

What was clear at the end of the voyage that I would like to remember from the beginning of the next Voyage, or two things. First, that the primary objective is to treat the stroke just as if it were a conventional bicycle, that is, to peddle out and threw the full extension of each stroke at constant velocity, and second, that to a significant degree not only can I but must I establish where the endpoint of that stroke is by establishing a appropriate constant velocity for the Cadence, and force so that the body knows where to make its transition point, it's pivot point, it's eng point, each stroke. It is clear that this can be done from the end of today's Journey. Let's see if we can carry it from the beginning of the next?

Log, ransoming Souls. March 19th. Percentage of the day as a LSGIA Being. New guiding metric.

Albert Schweitzer, example is not the major thing in influencing people, it's the only thing. It seems therefore, and from lessons of life more broadly, that only by being the change that is needed in the world, is it at all possible to bring it about, even for the one.
It seems that this is a matter of how one spends each waking breath, and this new metric will guide me until it proves itself not the optimum that I think it is.

And employing it today certainly helped sharpen the focus of the poor old tool, James.
 Most of the day was spent on study of saving Paradise, annotating the written text. Much learned, much clarity.
Jesus said, if you will hold on to your life you will lose it. Is not life more than clothing and food, he asked rhetorically?
There are many well-intended Souls throughout the history of Christianity particularly in the first 400 years. Probably none adhered to what Jesus taught, and rather, could only imagine that saving the material world was the dominant goal. One should be careful where one aims, because that is the target they are most likely to hit, missing all others.
People have spent two thousand years missing the Target that Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, Hillel, the Pharisees, and others clearly marked.  The kingdom of God is within you, as Jesus specified it.



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Updated. Working for good is life, and Life Giving. Working for anything else is cancer, life taking. This is Harsh. It is also true. It is true of every type of life, actually.

Update below. Working for good is life, and Life Giving. Working for anything else is cancer, life taking. This is Harsh. It is also true. It is true of every type of life, actually.

Ridiculous notion. Criminally idealistic. What if everyone lived that way, as every healthy cell in every organism does? And what happens when any cell chooses the way of selfishness, cancer?
Not ridiculous idealism. The only way away from cancer.
Update.If I am a person of my convictions, and true to those, then this is what you will see from me as an ever-increasing proportion of my every breath, my primary metric as of today. It is not my desire that other things that I value, kindness, gentleness, being Pleasant, are sacrificed, by being displaced by this preeminent value. But already today I've experienced that. And it is my understanding that I am a failure the degree to which I bend the other way. Attempting to work for good every waking breath is not license to violate these other things. Nor is triage on the part of the most Humane and capable nurse, license to ignore other priorities. It is sacred Duty. And it brings with it a terrible price, worth every bit.

Would you like these? The voice behind me asked. I've been watching what you do,  around town they must have meant. I like it, said the driver, the non-white young man, who did the talking. This from several young man in a car that had stopped behind me that I was not acknowledging. Two Scruffy young guys, one white,  the other Hispanic or native. They offered and I gladly accepted a bag of corn nuts. Early 20s, a long used car, I find such encounters significant and encouraging. Who knows what they really thought.

Tell me why I'm wrong. You need to be devoting your life, every breath, me too, To ransoming Souls from joylessness, by whatever words or none. Everything else has failed. No one has ever seriously tried what Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, taught. tell me why I'm wrong

Tell me why I'm wrong. You need to be devoting your life, every breath, me too, To ransoming Souls from joylessness, by whatever words or none. Everything else has failed. No one has ever seriously tried what Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, taught. tell me why I'm wrong. .

RV cycling log. March 8th. Yes, it's a bicycle and I'm still learning.

Yes yes yes it's a bicycle but instead of full extension being straight down, full extension is about 110 degrees from perpendicular. This is the lesson of the last three logs, and continues to be.
Much more sustainable than any time in the last year, much more logical, much more easy and sure to bring to mind. This seems to be the most important plateau in several years. Today was roughly a thousand calories on top of 1500 yesterday, fairly easily done, not possible in Prior weeks or months.

Yes the primary focus is on completing full extension to approximately 120 degrees, with the knee area, at constant velocity throughout the stroke, throughout the out stroke.
Particularly at lower velocity, lower RPM, and accentuated distance between the up moving thigh and the full extension is desirable and very helpful. I'm not certain why but several things seem to happen, it seems to give time for the lower leg to fully find its full extension home position, it seems to create downward momentum potential, it just really works well.
Toward the end of the trip today something surfaced that hasn't been seen for quite some time. Not sure if this is sustainable and should be happening throughout the voyage. But it certainly was nice at the end when it appeared. Instead of the focus being in the strength of the hamstring moving to full extension the focus went to the inner thighs of both legs and not sure the right words, maybe see-sawing although that certainly doesn't do it or scissoring maybe but they were almost like to Planks, the inner thighs, and they found an equilibrium of moving past each other in coordinated opposition.
And then complimenting this last point was something else that was quite nice. The notion of finding a force for all that which was in between full exoneration and significant relaxation as a mechanism for absorbing slight increases in the grade moment-to-moment or slight decreases. This would be nice to try throughout the journey. It did not result in substantial huge power but it did seem to be very sustainable.