This article is written to inspect the conflicts of freedom, and foreknowledge of God, and to propose some alternate ideas extending beyond orthodox theories of divine timelessness and monolism. I wrote this article before reading a segment of Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” written in 524 AD, which deals with the same topic. His explanation is not exactly what I present, but a more technical argument supporting the harmony of free will and foreknowledge.

God is not a subject of time, because He created all things, and is the God over time. Besides being timeless (beyond the bounds of time, endless, eternal), God is “time-full.” He is always past, present and future. By knowing all our actions before and after we do them, God knows what actions we will/did freely do. Since God is past, present, and future, God has freedom in all realms simultaneously. Except for God, freedom is only possible in the present. We cannot perform a different action than an action that has already been done. One cannot alter their destiny because if they decided to do something they normally would not do, it would in fact be their destiny to do something they wouldn’t normally do. Without knowing everything, like God, we cannot truly alter our destiny. Because God knows every single thing, He is the only Being that has the ability to change our destinies, but because He does not force you to do the action, He does not redefine your destiny or confine your freedom. The only way for Him to hinder a person’s freedom is to make them choose something they do not choose to do.
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It’s not very often that you see a crazy looking building, whether it be a home, business, or shack. Somebody has found and taken photos of some wacky and bizarre buildings that you can only find in the U. S. and A. site

I hereby place the following poem in the public domain. (written October 31, 2005)

Nature bends its back
and the dry mouth
of a tall green cactus
spins a tornado of heat.

Time has turned around,
dripping past the sleeper.
Wasting away, wasting it may,
run away with the wind.

New sights of old
return to the fields.
Elderly earth gives birth
to a new season.

Covered with beauty,
it blinds the weak.
Undiscovered treasure
is this place.

A mobius strip has one surface and one surface only. A klein bottle is a big brother to the mobius strip. It is a one-sided container. It would be cool to drink out of one. Read more about what it is with a picture of different models, or visit kleinbottle.com

Very often I hear that living in Tucson is boring, that there is nothing to do, and that there’s lots of old people. I don’t mind it. I think there is plenty to be grateful for, but there is definitely room for improvement. By no means am I trying to hoax tourists into coming here. There are flaws and down sides to the city, but that’s all I usually hear. The easiest way to escape the dullness and have fun would be to party, have sex, and do drugs (which is fairly popular here, as well as most of America). After doing some research, I’d like to present some things that may have passed you by.

As far as age demographics go, Wikipedia states that in the inner-city, the population has 24.6% under the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. So there are some people under the hill. More statistics here.

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Amuzing pictures of a person who looks a decade older than he really is. He is very photogenic and knows how to work with statues. His facial expressions speak more than volumes of encyclopedias. The site speaks for itself

M.C. Escher was a man who has contributed much to the art world. He is known for creating impossible objects and scenes, as well as complex seamless shapes and patterns. The funny thing is that he was a poor mathematics student, but it seems as though his drawing and woodcuts are very structured and architectural.

He was also fluent in tessellations, which are shapes that have no gaps that form a pattern. Simple tessellations are squares, triangles, and hexagons (think of a bee hive). Now you can experiment without the know-how of advanced geometry. Tess is a program compatible on Windows and Mac that makes it easy to make a cool design. All you have to do is choose from a particular starting point and you drag the shape around and move corners to make your very own unique tessellation. It also have a 3-D engine that can make donut shapes and other different tools.

William S. Burroughs used a writing technique know as “Cut-Up.” Nirvana and David Bowie have used it in their songwriting as well. The process usually involve having a typed work, then literally cutting it into four quandrants. Then you combine the unmatched squares and retranscribe it, altering the edge text to your liking to unite the teared pieces. You could also take 2 different written works and slice them down the middle and combine the alternate page. A new method involves computers. Now there are new ways to do this that might “cut” your time spent in half working with this style. There are Web Engines that you can paste text into that will rearrange your text for you. Spammers also use a cut-up or encrypted email to bypass email client filters that try to decode it.