Re: Achievement of Euler

"I had a point of view - the overall space-time point of view - and a
disrespect for the Hamiltonian method of describing physics. ... This
completes the story of the development of the space-time view of quantum
electrodynamics. I wonder if anything can be learned from it. I doubt it.
.... Originally, Maxwell filled space with idler wheels, and Faraday with
fields lines, but somehow the Maxwell equations themselves are
pristine and independent of the elaboration of words attempting a physical
description. The only true physical description is that describing the
experimental meaning of the quantities in the equation - or better, the
way the equations are to be used in describing experimental observations.
This being the case perhaps the best way to proceed is to try to guess
equations, and disregard physical models or descriptions."

~~Richard Feynman
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html

"Perhaps that's because there *is no aether."

~~Kermit, a Feynman supporter

As reckoned in your neocortex,
There can't be any aether vortex.

15 For they who believe in change, or evolution as it is known among men,
shall be damned and burned at my coming, while those whose hearts are turned
even unto the Fathers according to the truth, which varies not, shall be
saved upon eternal principles, and obtain heaven which is eternal, and dwell
forever with them, the Fathers, where there is no clash in doctrine, saith
the Lord, for they, even they my Sons, see perfectly, even with the same
mind, and understanding, even eye to eye as it is written when the Lord
shall bring again Zion.

16 Thus the Fathers have been saved according to the same gospel which must
save thee, O man, and upon the same principles which are consistent, which
is the light, even the same light that enlighteneth thy eyes, saith the Most
High God, even the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Art Bulla, whom ye know
not, Yea but I know him, saith the Lord, and have ordained that he shall
bear rule over thee, forever and ever, as mine anointed.

17 While they, even they who believe in change, shall they not die, and be
dissolved back into the dust that they lose their identities?

18 For they are liars and are sons of the father of lies, even perdition,
and have denied the truth.

19 For they have denied the light and they have denied the spirit of
revelation found within my servant that they crucify the Lord God of Israel
afresh.

20 For this is denial of the Holy Ghost, yea, even thy sciences are
organized according to this blasphemy, and are based upon the lie that all
things which are eternal are denied by them, that there is no absolute
truth.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 159:15-20

Neocortex: The newer portion of the cerebral cortex that serves as the
center of higher mental functions for humans. The neocortex contains some
100 billion cells, each with 1,000 to 10,000 synapses (connections), and has
roughly 100 million meters of wiring, all packed into a structure the size
and thickness of a formal dinner napkin. The cells in the neocortex are
arranged in six layers, within which different regions permit vision,
hearing, touch, the sense of balance, movement, emotional responses and
every other feat of cognition.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25283

vortex, n.
a whirling mass of water or air, a whirlpool or whirlwind.

Nicolas Fuss (Eulogy of Leonhard Euler):

Descartes had theorized that light came to us in the same way as sound.
Effectively, on reflection it would be difficult not to recognize a marked
similarity between the senses of sound and sight; that both extend
themselves to further distances than our other senses and that sound and
light arrive to us by straight lines and that one or the other can be bent.
Mr. Euler had seized upon this similarity and followed its parallel by
allowing us to see that light is born from of vibratory movement in the
aether and sound is produced by a similar movement in the air. As there are
differences in colors so to do those of sound depend on the frequency of
vibrations and that sounds while passing through the proper bodies for its
transmission, can change their direction and a type of refraction occurs as
for light rays.
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/historica/fuss.html

Michael Faraday:

.... as respects the deficiency of the present physical views and the
possible existence of lines of physical force, ... and I am encouraged
to make this endeavour by the following considerations. ... 4, Euler's idea
of magnetic ethers or circulating fluids;

~~On Some Points of Magnetic Philosophy (Philosophical Magazine,
Feb. 1855), also found in *Experimental Researches in Electricity*

Euler: The Master of Us All
William Dunham
....
Mathematician William Dunham has written a superb book about the life and
amazing achievements of one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Unlike earlier writings about Euler, Professor Dunham gives crystal clear
accounts of how Euler ingeniously proved his most significant results, and
how later experts have stood on Euler's broad shoulders. Such a book has
long been overdue. It will not need to be done again for a long long
time.-Martin Gardner

William Dunham has done it again! In *Euler: The Master of Us All*, he has
produced a masterful portrait of one of the most fertile mathematicians of
all time. With Dunham's beautiful clarity and wit, we can follow with
amazement Euler's strokes of genius which laid the groundwork for most of
the mathematics we have today. -Ron Graham, Chief Scientist AT&T

Without question, Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) ranks among history's greatest
mathematicians. Over six decades of unmatched productivity, and despite a
visual impairment that grew ever worse, charted the course of mathematics
throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. His reputation is captured in
Laplace's famous admonition, "Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us
all."
https://www.maa.org/ecomtpro/Timssnet/products/TNT_products.cfm?primary_id=dol-22&secondary_id=null&Subsystem=ORD&action=long&format=table

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/04/09/DI2007040900282.html
Transcript
Science: The Mozart of Mathematics

David Brown and Ronald S. Calinger
Washington Post Staff Writer and Professor, Catholic University
Tuesday, April 10, 2007; 11:00 AM

Washington Post staff writer David Brown and Professor Ronald S. Calinger, a
historian of mathematics at Catholic University, were online Tuesday, April
10 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the life and work of mathematician Leonhard
Euler.
....
Within the math and physics communities, he is known for having just as much
of a significant contribution as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich
Gauss. ...

David Brown: ... This is the online chat about Leonhard Euler, the
mathematician whose 300th birthday is coming up this weekend. I did a story
in Monday's paper on Euler. ...

Rumford, Maine: Professor Calinger,

The public, in general, tend to shy away when mathematics is mentioned
specifically. Euler wrote mathematics incessantly, but there is so much more
to this man than just his mathematics. What about his cultural significance
as a man of the church?

Ronald S. Calinger: Yes, Euler did not fit the general makeup of an
Enlightenment figure. He was deeply religious. He saw his pursuit of the
secrets of nature as a way to know God better. He was Basel reformed in his
youth, but this did not exist elsewhere, so he was a Calvinist in Berlin and
St. Petersburg.

91 For true science and true religion, are they not the same things, O man?

92 For I the Lord God am the author of all truth, which cometh from me.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 3:91-92

Bethesda, Md.: Thanks for the interesting article and what I assume will be
a great book.

Dr. Calinger, I wonder if you could make make your case for why Euler should
be considered the equal to Newton and Gauss. His life overlapped the end of
Newton's and the beginning of Gauss's, but was he really as great as either
of the other two?

Related question: Newton and Gauss both achieved considerable fame in their
own lifetimes. How did Euler's contemporaries view him?

Ronald S. Calinger: In his lifetime, Euler was considered the greatest
mathematician in Europe. I think that Newton and Gauss made seminal
discoveries that are sharp advances over the past. Euler did likewise in my
estimation, but his work cannot be reduced to a simpler form yet. His work
is both synthetic and original.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/04/09/DI2007040900282.html

The Countless Achievements of a Math Master

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 9, 2007
....
Some have called Euler the "Mozart of Mathematics," not only because of his
genius but because of his prodigious output.

Before his death at 76, he had written more than 800 papers and books on
pure and applied mathematics. In 1775, he composed about one paper a week,
ranging in length from 10 to 50 pages. (Twenty papers is considered a good
lifetime output for modern mathematicians.) His collected works fill 25,000
pages in 79 volumes, including five of correspondence to the leading
thinkers of his day.

Amazingly, that's not all of it.

More letters and a dozen notebooks will be published over the next decade.
If the past is a guide, they are likely to contain work that in some sense
is original even today.

Three centuries after his birth, Euler is far from a household name (unless
you live in Switzerland, where his face used to be on the 10-franc note).
....
"The four greatest mathematical scientists of all time are Archimedes, Isaac
Newton, Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss," said Ronald S. Calinger, a
historian of mathematics at Catholic University. He is nearly done with the
first book-length biography of Euler written in English.

William Dunham, a professor of mathematics at Muhlenberg College in
Pennsylvania, added that Euler is "an amazingly seminal figure in physics,
as well. He wrote about optics, classical mechanics, fluid mechanics and
astronomy -- in those days it was all sort of one big subject."

Euler (pronounced "oiler") was the first child of a pastor and his wife. His
father had a talent for mathematics and instructed Leonhard, who enrolled in
the University of Basel at age 13.

There, he studied under Johann Bernoulli, one of Europe's eminent
mathematicians, and met Bernoulli's sons, Nicholas and Daniel, who were to
become famous scientists themselves. Daniel was to be Euler's best friend.

The younger Bernoullis went to St. Petersburg to join the Russian Academy of
Sciences. Soon after arriving, they persuaded Catherine I, Peter the Great's
widow, to invite Euler, too. He arrived in 1727, at age 20.

Euler spent about 30 years in Russia in two long stints, interrupted by
about 25 years in Berlin, to which he was called by Frederick the Great of
Prussia. He never returned to Switzerland, possibly because he was offended
that his Dutch-born wife would not qualify for citizenship.

Now, Switzerland is honoring him as both a native son and an example of the
achievements of the Swiss diaspora. It is issuing a stamp with his image on
it. Consulates around the world are holding lectures and other events
marking the tercentenary of his birth.

"He is at the very top," said Daniela Stoffel, head of cultural affairs at
the Swiss Embassy here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800745.html

Two men even more intelligent than Euler wrote, inspired of the Holy Ghost:

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is
more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; we cannot see
it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.

~~Joseph Smith, May 1843 (Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8)

Elements Are Eternal

[Comment: The Holy Ghost testified of this line to me, about
5 years ago, as I read it one evening in a laundromat.
It was an especially powerful manifestation of the Spirit of God.]

The elements are eternal. That which has a beginning will surely have an
end; take a ring, it is without beginning or end -- cut it for a beginning
place and at the same time you have an ending place.

A key: Every principle proceeding from God is eternal and any principle
which is not eternal is of the devil. The sun has no beginning or end; the
rays which proceed from himself have no bounds, consequently are eternal.

So it is with God. If the soul of man had a beginning it will surely have
an end. In the translation "without form and void" it should be read, empty
and desolate. The word created should be formed, or organized.

~~Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Four 1839-42 Pg.181

117 And behold, this hath been done on other worlds which have been created
by the Power of the Most High and organized from the chaotic element.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 5:117 (Received by Art Bulla)

59 For the foundation of matter, saith the Lord, is spirit, and matter is
controlled and handled upon principles which are spiritual in nature.

60 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who
enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your
understandings; Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to
fill the immensity of space, the light which is in all things, which giveth
life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even
the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of
eternity, who is in the midst of all things.

61 And if your eye be single to my glory, saith the Lord, your whole bodies
shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you, if it so
be that ye are obedient unto mine ordinances, and that body which is filled
with light becometh a body Celestial which is compared to the sun in the
glory thereof, and that body comprehendeth all things, saith the Lord.

62 For behold after it is that ye have exercised your faith to plant the
seed that ye have begun to taste of the light, ye must not lay aside your
faith, saith the Lord, for ye have only tried the experiment to know if the
seed was good.

63 For behold, as the tree beginneth to grow, ye will say: Let us nourish it
with great care, that it may get root, that it may grow up, and bring forth
fruit unto us.

64 And now behold, if ye nourish it with much care it will get root, and
grow up, and bring forth much fruit.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 8:59-64 (Received by Art Bulla)

Analogy between the Electromagnetic and Hydrodynamic
Equations: Application to Turbulence

by Haralabos Marmanis
M. Sc., University of Illinois, 1996
Diploma, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1994

Thesis

Submitted in partial fulllment of the requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in the Division of Applied Mathematics
at Brown University

May 2000
....
In the 19th century, there was a considerable effort to provide a mechanical
representation of electromagnetism. This effort resulted in a number of
models regarding the nature of the aether, and some of them have
explicitly invoked the dynamics of fluids as being the dynamics of the
aether medium. In particular, the vortex model described by Maxwell [24],
in his paper 'On Physical Lines of Force', helped him to introduce
some of his most important ideas; such as the displacement current and the
electromagnetic theory of light. Riemann, as early as 1861, remarked that
the scalar and the vector electromagnetic potentials should be interpreted
as the density and the velocity, respectively, of the aether. In 1858,
Helmholtz [25], being motivated by Euler's comments, discovered that
vortex rings in an ideal fluid are structures which permanently possess
their character during their motion, and cannot be destroyed.
http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/marmanis/main001.ps

Helmholtz' contributions to mathematics and thermodynamics

.... In 1858 he published the paper "On the Integrals of Hydrodynamic
Equations to Which Vortex Motions Conform." ... One of the consequences that
flowed from Helmholtz' mathematical analysis was that vortices of an ideal
fluid were amazingly stable; they could collide elastically with one
another, intertwine to form complex knotlike structures, and undergo
tensions and compressions, all without losing their identities. In 1866
William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) proposed that these vortices, if
composed of the ether that was presumed to be the basis for optical,
electrical, and magnetic phenomena, could act exactly like primeval atoms of
solid matter.

[Comment: 'Solid' or gross form of matter yes, but not atomic as in
hydrogen and larger atoms, rather on a smaller, electronic scale.
This will be discussed in my still-uncompleted essay, where it is
acknowledged that Maxwell came closest to comprehending it all.]

Thus the ether would become the only substance in the cosmos, and all
physical phenomena could be accounted for in terms of its static and dynamic
properties.

Helmholtz' work in electricity and magnetism revealed his conviction that
classical mechanics was probably the best mode of scientific reasoning.

[Comment: i.e., Helmholtz was, like Maxwell, opposed to the
peculiar philosophy of the action-at-a-distance view, which
in many instances produces adequate results by starting with
mathematical descriptions of observed phenomena but does not
satisfactorily explain at the most fundamental, nuts-and-bolts level,
nor does it account for all observed phenomena. For example,
Feynman himself stated that his achievement, though it closely
agreed with the experimental data, was largely a way of sweeping
the unsolved problem under the rug -- his greatness consisted of
maximizing the usefulness of the action-at-a-distance approach to
physics investigations.]

He was one of the first German scientists to appreciate the work in
electrodynamics of the British scientists Michael Faraday and James Clerk
Maxwell. Faraday had appeared to strike at the foundation of Newtonian
physics by his unorthodox rejection of action at a distance, that is, action
between two bodies in space without alteration of the medium between them.
Maxwell, however, by interpreting the mathematics of Faraday's laws, showed
there was no contradiction between Newtonian physics and classical
mechanics.

[Comment: Maxwell came very close to understanding why the
inverse square force relation in gravity and electrostatics, or
apparent action-at-a-distance, comes about, as will be discussed
to some extent in a future, still-uncompleted essay.]

Helmholtz further developed the mathematics of electrodynamics.
http://www.geocities.com/bioelectrochemistry/helmholtz.htm

James Clerk Maxwell:

.... Sir William Thomson(*), to whose advice and assistance, as well as to
his published papers, I owe most of what I have learned on the subject. ...

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original
memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated
when it is in the nascent state, and in the case of Faraday's *Researches*
this is comparatively easy, as they are published in a separate form, and
may be read consecutively. If by anything I have here written I may assist
any student in understanding Faraday's modes of thought and expression, I
shall regard it as the accomplishment of one of my principal aims--to
communicate to others the same delight which I have found myself in reading
Faraday's *Researches*. ...

Feb. 1, 1873.

~~Preface to *A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. I* (1st ed.,
1873)

Note that Euler, Thomson/Kelvin, Faraday, Maxwell all sincerely acknowledged
the divinity and supreme authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God
and the Savior of this planet (under His Father's direction). Without these
men's inspired intellectual labors, there is no technologically advanced
(albeit inefficiently, due to only partial scientific truths at best being
widely taught and practiced) society as we live in it today. Thus we find
ourselves in Babylon the great.

4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the
time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.

(Old Testament | Daniel 12:4)

I've been gone for a while working on two essays, by the Lord's
commandment, first to Prof. Christof Koch (completed and already sent),
who is a collaborator and friend of the late anti-Christ Francis Crick, and
second to a couple of physicists on the nature of aethereal manifestation
or the lines of electromagnetic forces (still unfinished, though relevant
revelations of Jesus Christ have been received to grant me partial yet
much deeper understanding, to my astonishment, as I reconsidered
the crucial Stern-Gerlach 'quantum' experiment). Both will be posted
to the Usenet later this month of September, once the second essay
is completed.

For now, I merely present the promised post I had neglected to publish until
now, so to continue from where I left off:

"Sanity's Little Helper" wrote:
"Jong Kim" wrote:

<snip>

--
David Silverman C.B.E.

"***! I used up my last non-sequitur, have you got one
I can borrow, Jong?" - Andrew B Chung

I'll just play along with you in this post. I've not read Andre's posts in
a while, but in any case, to prove the point that when a person like Mark
Knopfler achieves greatness (and he did), it is because Christ was with him,
according to suggestions of the Holy Ghost making use of his innate desires
and talents. (If a person exercises the power of his brain only, or "the arm
of flesh" Scripturally speaking, he cannot accomplish what amounts to
immortality in human eyes unless God is with him, directing his efforts.
James Clerk Maxwell freely confessed on his deathbed that God aided him
in his physics researches, but Mark Knopfler took the opportunity in a 1991
Australian radio interview to do the very opposite. He said it in a 'nice'
way, twice, but no doubt his error will count against him, and I just pray
that it won't be unto his death, spiritually speaking, if it be according to
the Father's will. Knopfler is a pretty humble person it seems to me,
given what he's accomplished, but the point is, don't deny God in public
not even mildly, especially if you are a highly regarded public figure.
If you want to believe in atheism, keep it to yourself, so that you're held
less accountable for your folly.)

If any man truly believes that man can accomplish greatness through the
exertions of man's brain or neocortex alone, or what they call "pure
thought", let him raise his newborn, male or female, without teaching his
newborn, not ever speaking to him or her, but only feed his child and take
care of his or her clothing and personal hygiene while still helpless as
an infant.

17 Even so, pray unto me and I will give unto you a witness of these things
by the power of my spirit, For it is that they pray unto themselves and
worship their flesh as them before the flood, are they exalted in the
imagination of their hearts against me, the Lord their God.

18 For it is written thou shalt have no other gods before me, saith the
Lord, and it is that this whole generation lift themselves up in the
imagination of their hearts, that it is that they worship even their own
flesh, which be between their ears, saith the Lord.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 27:17-18 (Received by Art Bulla)

No person receives knowledge only upon the principle of revelation, that is,
by having something revealed to them. "Do you have the revelations of the
Lord Jesus Christ?" I will leave that for others to judge. If the Lord
requires anything of this people, and speaks through me, I will tell them of
it; but if He does not, still we all live by the principle of revelation.
Who reveals? Every body around us; we learn of each other. I have
something which you have not, and you have something which I have not; I
reveal what I have to you, and you reveal what you have to me. I believe
that we are revelators to each other. Are the heavens opened? Yes, to some
at times, yet upon natural principles, upon the principle of natural
philosophy.

~~Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol.3, Pg.209, February 17, 1856

For instance, either God reveals to me or in this case, you and Trucking
Genius did reveal to me, concerning "El Pifico" being taken out of my
Lennon quote.

"Kermit" wrote:
"Watchman" writes:
<snip>

Art Bulla is still a loon,

John Lennon was the devil's lackey (and he was a violent man also,
from what I read) speaking against Christ in a song, posing as
a peacenik:

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

~~John Lennon

and you are a loon's lackey. This is sad.

Kermit

Yeah, I'm your troubling fool
By grace, I'm traveling cool
To the glory of our Lord
With His truths that I hoard.
If it's the English tongue that I mangle,
I'd have no chance in this our wrangle.
I'm a rock of offence causing you to stumble,
'Cause Satan made you blind in our Usenet rumble.
So I grab all your sheets of Richard Wagner
And put them to the flame of your own Bunsen burner.
Still, as I watch your world crumbling,
My heart's pained to see you bungling.

(Let Andre use these lines of doggerel, if he so desires.)

I wrote the above doggerel yesterday (i.e., Aug. 26). I've written plenty
more recently that I've not posted on the Usenet, spending time to
type and edit them being low on my priority list, whether that was a
correct decision or not. I rather suspect that the Lord was with me but
not expressly by the power of His Spirit, but by the suggestions or
planting of ideas and words in my mind by the Holy Ghost's inaudible
influence. I have received revelations of Jesus Christ, including earlier
this week (i.e., in late August), that this is what happened for
Mark Knopfler, an ace acoustic *and* electric guitarist also, highly
respected by people all over the world who know anything about music,
not just from the lowly rock genre. (Though my own words above tend to
be comical and obviously cannot be considered great in any way, I can
say I understand empirically the process of creation that Prof. Knopfler,
he has at least two honorary doctorates in music to my knowledge, is
so familiar with.) In conclusion, give all credit and glory and honor to
the Lord of hosts, even Jesus Christ and to His Father.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs
and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount
Zion.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 8:18)

1 THEREFORE seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we
faint not;

2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation
of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
God.

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe
not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine unto them.

5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your
servants for Jesus' sake.

6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, and not of us.

(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 4:1 - 7)

David White: I mean are you great believer in fate or you are master of
your own destiny type stuff. I mean, you know, you're extrapolating a bit
on from that simplistic view.

Mark Knopfler: Well I don't think you're supposed to know. I don't think
you are supposed to know the answer to that question. I think what you're
supposed to do is say "I don't know". More and more things happen to
me that seem to be more of a coincidence, more and more things happen
where you're tempted to think that things are mapped out and you're
tempted to think that there's a connection between seemingly disparate
events. You're not suppose to know because if you knew that for sure
then you'd say er.. you'd say well then "I believe in God" or whatever..
"I believe in" er...and I think if you knew that for sure then it would
spoil something. I don't think that we ever will know. I don't think
we ever will know the answer to that question no matter how far
science goes. No matter how... whether you know how the universe...
think you know how the universe came about. I don't think you'll ever
know. I don't think you're supposed to know.
http://www.ada.com.tr/~modabasi/dsint2.htm

You can find in the minds of the people most admirable intelligence in
things pertaining to the world; but when you touch the intelligence that
pertains to other worlds, to the kingdom of heaven and heavenly things, they
are dark as midnight darkness--so dark as this, that, let ever so good a
thing be revealed to them, no matter how good for a nation, a people, a
community, or an individual--let a man have it revealed to him how he can
benefit the whole nation, they turn around and deny God in it. They are so
dark as that, when they never received a particle of intelligence but what
came from God. They are filled with darkness.

Instead of wishing injuries to come on them, my heart is pained for them
when I behold their situation.

~~Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol.5, Pg.126, August 9, 1857

JJ Cale:

Things that you trust
Could crumble into dust
No one can really say it ain't so.

When you go over a mountain
When you're looking down the road
When you think you're going backwards
It's all in vain, it seems insane
When you ask, nobody knows

Dire Straits:

Yes it's no use saying that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you if you don't do something
Sitting on a fence that's a dangerous course
Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the peace-keeping force
Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
....
Tell me how we're gonna do what's best
You guess once upon a time in the west

http://www.canetoadwarrior.com/better-than-mark-knopfler/
Cane Toad Warrior - December 2006
....
MARK KNOPFLER
[not a genuine Knopfler quote -- fabricated by Cane Toad Warrior]
I started out in music only one year after the Sex Pistols, yet I still
manage to sound like the guitar equivalent of Mormon Christianity.

Brigham Young, the Founder of the American West:

Now if philosophers will point out where empty space is, I will pay them
for their trouble, because all the wicked will be running to me to know
where it is, that they may be where God does not dwell, for they will want
the rocks and mountains to fall on them to hide them from His presence. I
could make money by directing poor devils where empty space is.

~~Journal of Discourses, Vol.3, Pg.279, March 23, 1856

11 For there is nothing that I the Lord thy God who it is that doth speak
unto thee, O man, cannot do in the might of my excellent power, O man, and O
woman that matter cannot withstand my might but must flee away, except
quickened by my power, saith the Lord.

12 For the foundation of matter, is it not spirit, saith the Lord God?

13 And all things are spiritual in nature, even unto me, saith the Lord God
of Enoch and Moses.

14 And it is that ye shall be swept from this land which I consecrated unto
your fathers as a land of freedom and liberty, but ye have made it a citadel
of lyings and blasphemies and whoredoms, murders, abominations, and every
other thing which is an abomination in my sight, saith the Lord.

15 Therefor repent every one of you and come unto me that ye shall be saved
from that which is to come.

16 Yea for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, yea even He it is who shall
rule the nations with a rod, yea even that of my word.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 20:11-16

25 For at my power all things move and have their beings, saith the Lord God
of Israel, even Jesus Christ, and I shall reign with the Saints of the Most
High, and eat and drink with them and laugh and make merry, and we shall
rule the nations with a rod, for at my word all things shall be done, for
the elements are controlled and handled upon principles which are spiritual,
which is according to the Oath and Covenant of the Melchizedec Priesthood.

26 Even so, it is enough for now.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 4:25-26


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