Monday Open Thread; March 26 is Purple Day in Canada & the US
March 26 is the 85th day of the year, there are 280 days left
Today is also Setting Orange, Discord 12, 3184 YOLD for all you Discordians out there
Today's number is 26
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Uh, 2 x 13, both primes
26 is Iron
26 is "breakfast" a notorious darts score where an attempted score of 180 (3 x triple 20) is misthrown as 1 + 20 + 5
There are 26 letters in the English Alphabet, making a string of letters a stronger password than a string of numbers
Switzerland has 26 cantons
Title 26 of the US Code is INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
26 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Taurus
(About time that somebody called bull on Augustus)
26 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Sabinus
Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea.
Tiberius retired to Capri
On this day in:
1169 -- Saladin became the emir of Egypt.
1344 -- The Siege of Algeciras ended
1484 -- The first Engllish translation of Aesop's Fables was printed.
1830 -- The Book of Mormon was published
1871 -- The elections of the Commune council of the Paris Commune were held
1885 -- The Metis began the North-West Rebellion
1945 -- The Battle of Iwo Jima ended
1975 -- The Biological Weapons Convention became effective
1979 -- Carter, Sadat, and Begin signed the Egypt--Israel Peace Treaty
Born this day in:
1850 -- Edward Bellamy, author and socialist
1859 -- A. E. Housman, classical scholar and poet
1873 -- Dorothea Bleek, anthropologist and philologist
1874 -- Robert Frost, poet, playwright, wall hater
1876 -- Kate Richards O'Hare, socialist party activist, racist, and jailbird
1879 -- Othmar Ammann, structural engineer
1906 -- Rafael Mendez, trumpet player and composer *
1911 -- J. L. Austin, philosopher (sense & sensibilia)
1911 -- Tennessee Williams, playwright and poet
1913 -- Paul Erdos, mathematician
1917 -- Rufus Thomas, singer, sonwriter and dog walker
1925 -- James Moody, saxophonist, flautist, and composer
1930 -- Sandra Day O'Connor, jurist
1930 -- Gregory Corso, poet and felon
1941 -- Richard Dawkins, ethologist and biologist
1942 -- Erica Jong, novelist and poet
1943 -- Bob Woodward, journalist and author
1944 -- Diana Ross, singer and songwriter
1948 -- Richard Tandy, keyboards player (elo)
1949 -- Fran Sheehan, base player
1950 -- Teddy Pendergrass, singer and songwriter
1956 -- Charly McClain, country singer
1968 -- Kenny Chesney, country singer
1968 -- James Iha, guitarist and songwrite
* popularized La Virgen de la Macarena, traveled with Villa as a child
Died this day in:
1827 -- Ludwig van Beethoven, pianist and composer
1892 -- Walt Whitman, poet and essayist
1945 -- David Lloyd George, celebrated in song
1973 -- Noel Coward, playwright, actor, composer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii, United States)
Purple Day (Canada and United States)
Rufus Thoms
James Moody
Diana Ross
Richard Tandy
Fran Sheehan
Teddy Pendergrass
James Iha
and, on electric sackbutt -
Ludwig van Beethoven
picture is Grant Condit's "Violaceous"
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Good morning, el and everyone else.
If the bible is to be believed, Pontius Pilate was not a perfect prefect. Crucifixion is a crappy way to die. How do you deliver someone to be crucified when you believe him innocent of any crime?
Christian churches, other than the Orthodox Churches, will celebrate Easter this coming Sunday. The Orthodox churches will celebrate Easter on August 8. In honor of that, and in light of the anniversary of Pilate's appointment as prefect, this is account of Pilate's involvement, as told in the King James version, Matthew 27:
11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Good morning, HAW, I had ducked that because my thoughts
on the subject are generally deemed incendiary. Starting with that IF. We have, iirc, some quasi-contemporary bureaucratic records of Pilate's birth and his postings. This cannot be said for JC, his trial, or, for that matter, Matthew and much of the events he narrates.
Pilate was the perfect prefect, in a sense. His job was to keep his province half way orderly and compliant. When the priests and populace got obstreperous about that JC fellow, he applied the letter of the law, allowed for a type of appeal, and then ordered that the letter of the law be carried out, thus placating the priests and populace and thereby keeping the peace. The specific punishment was somewhat barbaric but throughout the ages and continuing today, that is the general rule for the death penalty, itself a barbarism.
I would argue that Pilate, like Judas Iscariot, had god on his side. If anything ever was god's will, this event is it. It was critical to god's great master plan, the entire purpose for which JC was spawned and all that. JC knew that, too. He did not cry out "Hey Pontius Pilate, why hast thou forsaken me", but, rather "Hey dad, WTF?" or words to that effect.
Unlike JC, and more like Pilate, there is some contemporaneous recordation of some of the life and activities of Aleister Crowley. On Sunday, April 8, one week after this year's April Fools' Day/Easter confabulation, we find that he completed transcribing the first book of Thelema. He gave us many variants of "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." a dictum from a time far before Roman times, which, as interpreted in context, comes close to the Wiccan rede, because there is a ton of context in Thelema that appends a certain moderation which is inherent in Thelema based on its other axioms.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning everybody
Thanks for the OT and music, el.
Twenty six is also:
the only integer that is one greater than a square (5^2 + 1)
and one less than a cube (3^3 − 1)
The number of spacetime dimensions in bosonic string theory = 26.
(That's spacey!...and so are these sounds-7 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs]
Have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My cats, when very young, mastered string theory, and I, at
that time, delegated it to them. The only version I remember looking into at all, fwiw, had but a mere 17 dimensions. Clearly, that isn't enough to get any real work done. I also confuse easily.
a point, of but one dimension must reside in a space of at least 2. Its track will be 2 and requires that there be 3 for it to have freedom of motion, and we must add time for it to have duration and the capacity for change and expansion. But, we are told that time-space itself is expanding and hence there must be five. At this point we are at risk of creating an endless supply of matryoshka dimensional spaces, nesting within each other, ad infinitum, or we must say "basta!", enough is enough, the 4 can expand into themselves and they are sufficient thereto unto the day. Indeed, the other 13 (or 22, I guess (sigh)) are postulated not to encompass the big 4, but to be squiggles, curls, torii and such, but there is a danger here. If any of them are not wholly within the 4, then we're of and running down the matryoshka road again. I'll leave it to others to fiddle with until they have it better resolved, since I really need but four to make pasta and burn toast.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I like the part...
of the extra 22 dimensions being folded up (and put out of the way). I know lots about string theory - I learned to tie my shoes at age four. When I tie them today it still looks like a four year old did it. Perhaps it is those other 22 dimensions folded up in there?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You forgot the most important meaning of 26
The Greek Strongs number G26 is "Agape", which means "Love".
This was a love-filled bucket full of 26s in morning OT. Thanks.
Good morning, mimi, and thanks. Have a great day.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
My favorite color has a day!
Cool!
Probably got a new job, starting next Tuesday. Another bakery, of course!
This shit is bananas.
Cool. Thanks for dropping in.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Anyone else live in the Bay Area?
I'm going to this.
http://noforeignbases.org/
I'm close enough to go to Atlanta
I've got buddies in the little five points area.
Thanks for the link gjohnsit.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
East Bay, but I will be in SoCal by that date in the middle of
our annual spring desert run. Thanks for posting the information all the same.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --