There are no races!

 There are no races! A race is an imaginary system of classification of human beings into groups to alienize them, to see them as being different from self! This is used to support self centered greed. One naturally sees themselves as good and everyone else as evil! We get this from our self centered hatred of others! We see outsiders as evil and less than us. We refuse to put them in the same group as us, because that would somehow diminish our view of ourselves! We call these classifications races, and we imagine that our group is a cause somehow! This is based on our self centered hatred of others. 

Toxic, toxic toxic

 

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Aleph-Null (ℵ₀) and the “God” Connection

 

Aleph-Null and the “God” Connection

Aleph-null (ℵ₀) is the smallest infinite cardinal number in set theory, introduced by Georg Cantor to describe the size of countably infinite sets — such as the natural numbers, integers, or rational numbers Wikipedia+1. It is often pronounced “aleph-null” (from “null” in German) or “aleph-zero”/“aleph-naught” Wolfram MathWorld. Aleph-null is smaller than any other infinite cardinal, and it represents the “smallest type of infinity” YouTube.

Mathematical Meaning

• Definition: The cardinality of a set is aleph-null if it can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers.

• Examples: All integers, all rational numbers, all algebraic numbers, and any infinite subset of a countable set have cardinality ℵ₀ Wikipedia.

• Properties: ℵ₀ is countable, and adding or removing a finite number of elements from a countably infinite set still leaves it countable (cardinality ℵ₀) Wolfram MathWorld.

“God” Connection in Gaming

In the context of gaming, “Aleph-Null” also refers to a boss AI in an Overwatch Workshop mode called “ALEPH-NULL God Program Boss Fight” Workshop.codes+1.

• Backstory: A once-defunct God Program AI named Aleph-Null is awakened by “Null Sector” and now operates an Omnium, manufacturing an infinite supply of Omnic soldiers for the Omnic Uprising Workshop.codes+1.

• Gameplay: Players (in teams of four) must destroy Aleph-Null and shut down the Omnium to stop the infinite production of soldiers. The name plays on the mathematical term “aleph-null” to evoke the idea of “infinite” power or creation YouTube.

• Theme: The “God” reference ties into the AI’s godlike role in the game’s lore — controlling an infinite supply of soldiers and acting as a central antagonist.

Summary

• Mathematically: Aleph-null is the smallest infinity, representing countably infinite sets.

• In gaming: Aleph-Null is a fictional “God Program” AI in an Overwatch PvE boss fight, symbolizing infinite power and production, with the name chosen for its mathematical connotation of infinity.

If you’re exploring the term, you can start with the mathematical definition for understanding its origin, and then look at the Overwatch Workshop mode for its in-game context

 

Daniel 2:43 in Hebrew and Translation

Hebrew text (Westminster Leningrad Codex):
[דִי כ] (וְדִ֣י ק) חֲזַ֗יְתָ פַּרְזְלָא֙ מְעָרַב֙ בַּחֲסַ֣ף טִינָ֔א מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין לֶהֱוֹן֙ בִּזְרַ֣ע אֲנָשָׁ֔א וְלָֽא־לֶהֱוֹן דָּבְקִ֖ין דְּנָ֣ה עִם־דְּנָ֑ה הֵֽא־כְדִ֣י פַרְזְלָא לָ֥א מִתְעָרַב עִם־חַסְפָּֽא׃ Open Bible

Consonants-only form:
[די כ] (ודי ק) חזית פרזלא מערב בחסף טינא מתערבין להון בזרע אנשא ולא־להון דבקין דנה עם־דנה הא־כדי פרזלא לא מתערב עם־חספא Open Bible

Strong’s Hebrew breakdown:

• וְדִ֣י (wə-ḏî) – “as” (conjunctive)

• חֲזַ֗יְתָ – “you saw” (V-Qal-Perf-2ms)

• פַּרְזְלָא – “iron” (N-msd)

• מְעָרַב – “mixed” (V-Piel-QalPassPrtcpl-ms)

• בַּחֲסַ֣ף – “with clay” (prep + noun)

• טִינָ֔א – “miry clay” (N-msd)

• מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין – “mingle themselves” (V-Hitpael-Prtcpl-mp)

• לֶהֱוֹן֙ – “they will” (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp)

• בִּזְרַ֣ע – “with the seed” (prep + noun)

• אֲנָשָׁ֔א – “of men” (N-msd)

• וְלָֽא־לֶהֱוֹן – “but they will not” (conjunctive + neg. adv.)

• דָּבְקִ֖ין – “adhere” (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp)

• דְּנָ֣ה – “one” (Pro-ms)

• עִם־דְּנָ֑ה – “another” (Pro-ms)

• הֵֽא־כְדִ֣י – “even as” (prep + conj.)

• פַּרְזְלָ֔א – “iron” (N-msd)

• לָ֥א – “is not” (adv-neg)

• מִתְעָרַב – “does mix” (V-Hitpael-Prtcpl-ms)

• עִם־חַסְפָּֽא – “with clay” (prep + noun) Bible Hub+1

English translation (KJV):
“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” Bible Hub

Meaning:
The verse uses the image of iron and clay to symbolize how the peoples of the world will mix together in the “seed of men” (offspring/descendants), but will not truly unite or adhere to one another, just as iron does not naturally mix with clay 

Debate in America

 You want to debate me? How dare you? How @#$%ing dare you! I am me! I am great! I have a degree! How dare you not worship my degree! I can quote people, big impressive people! They are so important! I said so! I am me! I am all important!

You really get to accuse God?

 You really get to accuse God? You are a mere human! You are a mere mortal! You are merely cultural! You are a mere breath, A mere shadow, A mere wind! What do you think that you are? Are you God? Are you Holy? Are you of old? Are you everlasting? Weren't you born? Won't you die? You are a mere human being. What is a man? He is a nothing! He is absolutely nothing at all! Who do you think you are? You think that you are God, because you have a degree from a big deal school! Look at you! Big time you! Big time you gets to call God evil! So, you have a degree! So what! That's so cute! That's so cute that you think you are awesome!👍 What are you? What is a human? A human is nothing but wind!

Watching movies with sister

 Movie nights with my sister were a tradition between us, going back well over a decade. The unspoken rule was that they were only for us. Even at times when we hardly spent any other time together, it maintained some kind of special bond between us.

The kind of funny thing was that Naomi used to always fall asleep later in the evening. She was apparently so cozy and safe next to me that she just couldn't help herself.

It had become a point of pride for Naomi at some point that she stayed up all the way through. Perhaps she was tired of the teasing about she couldn't last until the end.

She'd regressed since then, pride failing against the stresses of adult life. I had to admit it felt nice knowing I was her refuge from it all, and that snuggling with me had returned to being a near-foolproof way of putting my sister to sleep.

A little more confusingly, Naomi had also started sucking her thumb in her sleep. I couldn't remember how long ago it had been since she'd done anything like that. But like clockwork every week now she fell asleep and sucked her thumb while cuddled up warmly against me.

I tried one week, just to see what would happen, pulling her hand gently away from her mouth. Naomi's cute face took on a slight frown in her sleep and her lips kept looking for something. If I released her hand, it would slowly return and she'd comfortably return to sucking her thumb.

Because apparently I just couldn't let something like this go, I moved Naomi's hand again and this time left my hand next to her lips. It was an even slower thing, but my sister found one of my fingers and happily sucked it into her mouth.

It was an odd feeling having my little sister sucking on my finger. Intimate in a way I wasn't sure I was comfortable with. Not with her. But she did seem happy after all, and it wasn't unpleasant, just weird.

It became something of a game for me the rest of the night. Swapping out my fingers, or putting two in at once, or withholding them a while. Just to see what Naomi would do, or if she'd wake up.

I did feel kind of bad for messing with Naomi while she was sleeping like that, but that went away when she woke up.

"Welcome back," I said.

"What?" she asked blearily.

"You fell asleep again," I teased.

"Max! I did not!" Naomi said.

I frowned slightly. "You most certainly did."

"I think I'd know," she insisted, even as she wiped drool off her cheek.

"Oh yeah?" I said. "So what happened at the end of the movie then?"

"They kissed and lived happily ever after," Naomi said promptly.

I narrowed my eyes. "Lucky guess. More detail?"

"Nuh uh," she said. "I think you were asleep. You tell me more detail."

I most definitely hadn't been asleep. The annoying thing was I'd been so busy playing with my sister that I'd been ignoring most of what had been going on in the movie.

"Um... an argument," I mumbled. "And, like, a legal thing, and a misunderstanding...."

"Wow, so convincing," Naomi said, rolling her eyes hard. "Try and stay awake next time Sleeping Beauty."

An Evening of Russian Poetry" by NABOKOV

 “…seems to be the best train. Miss Ethel Winter of the Department of English will meet you at the station and…”

            —from a letter addressed to the visiting speaker
 
The subject chosen for tonight's discussion
Is everywhere, though often incomplete:
when their basaltic banks become too steep,
most rivers use a kind of rapid Russian,
and so do children talking in their sleep.
My little helper at the magic lantern,
insert that slide and let the colored beam
project my name or any such-like phantom
in Slavic characters upon the screen.
The other way, the other way. I thank you.

On mellow hills the Greek, as you remember,
fashioned his alphabet from cranes in flight;
his arrows crossed the sunset, then the night.
Our simple skyline and a taste for timber,
the influence of hives and conifers,
reshaped the arrows and the borrowed birds.
Yes, Sylvia?

                    “Why do you speak of words
When all we want is knowledge nicely browned?”

Because all hangs together—shape and sound
heather and honey, vessel and content.
Not only rainbows—every line is bent,
and skulls and seeds and all good worlds are round,
like Russian verse, like our colossal vowels:
those painted eggs, those glossy pitcher flowers
that swallow whole a golden bumblebee
those shells that hold a thimble and the sea.
Next question.

                        “Is your prosody like ours?”

Well, Emmy, our pentameter may seem
to foreign ears as if it could not rouse
the limp iambus from its pyrrhic dream.
But close your eyes and listen to the line.
The melody unwinds; the middle word
is marvelously long and serpentine:
you hear one beat, but you have also heard
the shadow of another, then the third
touches the gong, and then the fourth one sighs.

It makes a very fascinating noise:
it opens slowly, like a grayish rose
in pedagogic films of long ago.

The rhyme is the line's birthday, as you know,
and there are certain customary twins
in Russian as in other tongues. For instance,
love automatically rhymes with blood,
nature with liberty, sadness with distance,
humane with everlasting, prince with mud,
moon with a multitude of words, but sun
and song and wind and life and death with none.

Beyond the seas where I have lost a scepter,
I hear the neighing of my dappled nouns,
soft participles coming down the steps,
treading on leaves, trailing their rustling gowns,
and liquid verbs in ahla and in ili,
Aonian grottoes, nights in the Altai,
black pools of sound with "I"s for water lilies.
The empty glass I touched is tinkling still,
but now 'tis covered by a hand and dies.

“Trees? Animals? Your favorite precious stone?”

The birch tree, Cynthia, the fir tree, Joan.
Like a small caterpillar on its thread,
my heart keeps dangling from a leaf long dead
but hanging still, and still I see the slender
white birch that stands on tiptoe in the wind,
and firs beginning where the garden ends
the evening ember glowing through their cinders.

Among the animals that haunt our verse,
that bird of bards, regale of night, comes first:
scores of locutions mimicking its throat
render its very whistling, bubbling, bursting,
flutelike or cuckoolike or ghostlike note.
But lapidary epithets are few;
we do not deal in universal rubies.
The angle and the glitter are subdued;
our riches lie concealed. We never liked
the jeweler's window in the rainy night.

My back is Argus-eyed. I live in danger.
False shadows turn to track me as I pass
and, wearing beards, disguised as secret agents,
creep in to blot the freshly written page
and read the blotter in the looking glass.
And in the dark, under my bedroom window,
until, with a chill whirr and shiver, day
presses its starter, warily they linger
or silently approach the door and ring
the bell of memory and run away.

Let me allude, before the spell is broken,
to Pushkin, rocking in his coach on long
and lonely roads: he dozed, then he awoke,
undid the collar of his traveling cloak,
and yawned, and listened to the driver's song.
Amorphous sallow bushes called rakeety,
enormous clouds above an endless plain,
songline and skyline endlessly repeated,
the smell of grass and leather in the rain.
And then the sob, the syncope (Nekrasov!)
the panting syllables that climb and climb,
obsessively repetitive and rasping,
dearer to some than any other rhyme.
And lovers meeting in a tangled garden,
dreaming of mankind, of untrammeled life,
mingling their longings in the moonlit garden,
where trees and hearts are larger than in life.
This passion for expansion you may follow
throughout our poetry. We want the mole
to be a lynx or turn into a swallow
by some sublime mutation of the soul.
But to unneeded symbols consecrated,
escorted by a vaguely infantile
path for bare feet, our roads were always fated
to lead into the silence of exile.

Had I more time tonight I would unfold
the whole amazing story—neighuklúzhe,
nevynossímo—but I have to go.

What did I say under my breath? I spoke
to a blind songbird hidden in a hat,
safe from my thumbs and from the eggs I broke
into the gibus brimming with their yolk.

And now I must remind you in conclusion,
that I am followed everywhere and that
space is collapsible, although the bounty
of memory is often incomplete:
once in a dusty place of Mora county
(half town, half desert, dump mound and mesquite)
and once in West Virginia (a muddy
red road between an orchard and a veil
of tepid rain) it came, that sudden shudder,
a Russian something that I could inhale
but could not see. Some rapid words were uttered
and then the child slept on, the door was shut.

The conjurer collects his poor belongings—
the colored handkerchief, the magic rope,
the double-bottomed rhymes, the cage, the song.
You tell him of the passes you detected.
The mystery remains intact. The check
comes forward in its smiling envelope.

“How would you say ‘delightful talk’ in Russian?”
“How would you say ‘good night’?”

                                                            Oh, that would be:

Bessónitza, tvoy vzor oonýl i stráshen;
lubóv moyá, otstóopnika prostée.

(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen,
my love, forgive me this apostasy.)

But i'm the kind who would WALK WITH jesus

 But i'm the kind who would WALK WITH jesus if she or he or she/he or he/she .....ever shows up in my lifetime! (i'd say that the same yet in other poetics to other ethnicities!!) Not be a Follower. Which i understand is what 'Christian' means: To Follow.

GRANTED, i say this from the perspective of my methodology. A way to keep the poetic bridges, no matter what. Somehow. And building community around that metaphorical and not-so-metaphorical artiNg.



(Whisper this: of COURSE the duped antis will Take Advantage of this surrealism! My guard seems down! i'm 'inebriated'! Easy Pickings for the State now, eh? ?

As Pink Floyd said:

IS ANYBODY OUT THERE

How to make Tort Medovik from https://vikalinka.com/my-honey-valentine-russian-honey-and-cream-cake-medovik-or-fire-and-ice/

 The recipe was being passed on from one household to another although, of course there wasn’t one ‘master recipe”. Every cook made it her own. It was impossible to have any sort of celebration without Medovik crowning the meal.

It was so common that after a while it didn’t seem special anymore. I am glad I re-discovered this treasure because despite its simplicity of ingredients and the method of preparation the end result is far from plain.

Ingredients

Honey in Russian is med, so you can expect honey to be one of the dominant ingredients in this cake. Although only 4 tablespoons is used, they add a very rich, caramel like flavour to the cake. This is due to a high quality, flavourful honey that’s been traditionally used in Russia.

My grandfather came for a beekeeping family and as a child I always remember seeing a large 3 litre jar of raw honey being stored in a kitchen cupboard. So using great tasting honey is the key to the unforgettable taste of this honey cake. 

The rest of the ingredients are very common for cakes. Butter, sugar, flour, baking soda and vanilla extract make thin, cookie like layers of Medovik.

They are softened with a cream filling that is one part whipping cream and one part sour cream mixed with sugar and vanilla. Sometimes a filling made with butter and sweetened condensed milk is used. I however, find it too sweet. 

How to make Tort Medovik

Although the ingredients for this honey cake are quite common for a cake, the method of preparation is quite unorthodox.

Cake Layers

Instead of making cake batter and baking it in cake pans this honey cake recipe calls for preparing cookie dough, then baking the layers one by one on cookie sheets in a preheated oven. 

Baking the thin layers is the lengthiest process according to this method but trust me, it produces the most stellar results. This cake is so impressive that after it got discovered and reproduced by one San Francisco bakery, it developed a cult following! 

After the layers are baked they are cut into round circles or rectangles. As you can see in the photos, I went with rectangles.

When Medovik is made for large gatherings it’s not uncommon to make it into a large rectangular 4 layer cake instead of a tall 8 layer one. Both are authentic and equally delicious. 

Honey Cake Filling

Beat sour cream or creme fraiche with whipping cream, sugar and vanilla until sugar is dissolved and it’s doubled in volume. Fill all 8 cake layers except for the top and the sides. 

Medovik Frosting

Once again I’ve changed the frosting as in the original Medovik. The filling above is used for the outside of the cake as well and later coated with the cake crumbs. Since I decided to go crumb free, I’ve used a mascarpone frosting similar to the one I’ve used for my Naked Cake.