136. Notes - the dash

136. 30 May 2019

       Mid-morning. When you awoke about three hours ago your thoughts were on yesterday's family gathering at Old Bag of Nails.  Most remembered the place as Ben Franklin's Five and Dime, but Aunt Ruthie again reminded everyone that the building was an A&P when she worked there as a clerk. - Amorella

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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind) A&P was considered an American icon that, according to The Wall Street Journal, "was as well-known as McDonald's or Google is today", and was "the Walmart before Walmart". At its peak in the 1940s, A&P captured 10% of total US grocery spend Known for innovation, A&P and the supermarkets that followed its lead significantly improved nutritional habits by making available a vast assortment of food products at much lower costs. Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer. In his 1952 book, American Capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith cited A&P's manufacturing strategy as a classic example of countervailing power that was a welcome alternative to state price controls.

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       You brought up how your mother said you were a lot like her Grandpa [Charles Fletcher] Freeman and she laughed and said "Grandpa Charlie was lazy, but everyone liked him. He would sit in a rocker on the front porch at the large white house on the north side of East College before the railroad tracks. People would walk by and say, "Hi, Charlie!" and he would respond, "How ye be?" - Amorella

       1417 hours. My other great, grandfather, Michael Bookman was well liked too. From what I heard from Grandma Orndorff he was known for being a kind-hearted banker. And, sometimes if the bank wouldn't give someone alone, he gave one personally. 

       The key is, both were kind-hearted souls - mh

       Kim, Paul and the boys stopped by and invited you both to casual supper tonight. You are going. Tomorrow you may be taking Kim and Paul over to the big Masters golf tournament in Dublin. They both have a good time spending part of the day at the course and surrounding festivities. Then, Saturday evening they have a wedding downtown, Carol is watching the boys while you again play 'Uber' driver at take them downtown for the wedding and pick them up later. While here, Paul fixed the TV so you could again pick up Prime and Netflix, both have been out for about a week. Paul said you would have to buy a new TV to pick up the extra programming from PBS. - Amorella

       1557 hours. Carol is taking a nap. Paul spent time fun working on Apple Play for the car. Looks cool, once it's hooked up. Now we have it on temporary. 

       Yesterday, when I said I was first, I meant souls were created before beings had spiritual hearts and minds. - mh 

       1614 hours. I assume souls, being immortal, always exist. I need a definition.

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immortal - adjective - living forever; never dying or decaying: our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls. 

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       Souls are not alive and never have been. Souls are disembodied Consciousness in spirit form. This 'Consciousness' is a Gravity, that provides order throughout the spirit world; it also infiltrates the material world between the gravity waves, as between the lines on a page. This 'Consciousness' is not human-like consciousness, it is a Less that is More because it is less than the Nothing that holds the material world in its underliing e-x-i-s-t-e-n-c-e. This is an understanding, not a fact. -mh

       1643 hours. Existence is the larger picture. 

       Yes, existence is without a foundation that exists only because existence exists. mh

       1647 hours. Without material existence spiritual existence would not exist.

       That's the long and the short of it. Without material existence there would be no need for spiritual existence. Disembodied Consciousness would continue to be, but without any other reference. mh

       Without spiritual existence in living material there would be no need for souls. The spiritual existence, the Disembodied Consciousness would not be Necessary. mh

       1655 hours. What does this say about the human sense of what G-D is. 

       The dash. The long and the short of it from a living human's perspective, i.e. human beings in any form, with or without souls, are always too big to see what cannot be phantomed. 

       Post. - Amorella