My 5th painting – Life and choices
StarCraft’s Hydralisk
A very crowded telephone booth
My 8th Painting – The Halloween Owl
The Owl
All must fulfill their three debts
I was watching the Mahabharata and they spoke about the 3 kinds of debts that one has to fulfill in his/her lifetime: God’s debt, Sage’s debt, Ancestral debt.
All must fulfill their debts three,
God’s, Sage’s, Ancestral surely,
Before death and leaving body,
Else life itself is insulted sadly.
These debts not ordinary do be,
God’s debt – Lord Vishnu’s be,
Sage’s debt – Lord Shiv’s be,
Ancestral debt – Brahma’s be.
God’s debt by charity fulfilled be,
Sage’s by acquiring, giving be,
But of the knowledge definitely,
Ancestral debt by having progeny.
God’s debt can be fulfilled by doing charity work. I am not surprised by that. It is known in many esoteric circles that charity is a very important deed. The Bible and Masonic literature talk a lot about charity.
Sage’s debt can be fulfilled by learning, acquiring wisdom and imparting knowledge to others.
And it goes without saying that ancestral debt can be fulfilled by procreating and continuing our ancestral lineage. That is not to say that one should procreate mindlessly but instead procreate with high morality and spiritual standards. One has to bring children to the world so they help improve the world and not “pollute” the world and be like parasites.
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It is a curious and helpful thing to know how much time the food we eat takes to digest. Digestion time is different than the time the food remains in our body before it gets expelled.
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Two things
Two things do not remain for ever in humans: youth and strength
Two things beneficial for every human: good manners and generosity
Two things that hurt every man: darkness and corruption
Two things every man hates: envy and bitterness
Two things pursued by every man: fame and money
Two things that never change in a human: looks and character
Two things you spend your life between: evening and day, tiredness and restfulness
Two things that conflict your soul: the lust of the body and the lust of the soul
Two things are enemies of health: deep sorrow and deep love
Two things are enemies of peace: greed and envy
Two things are enemies of the society: the traitor and the lazy
Two small things: the heart and the tongue
Two stones: gold and silver
Two alternates: day and night
Two whites: water and yogurt
Two courts: the world and the afterlife
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2019 World Predictions by Michel Hayek – The Amazement
Keeping up with every year’s tradition on this blog, I am doing a preliminary translation of the 2019 world predictions by Michel Hayek.
Disclaimer by me:
- I am not a professional translator and I do this as a hobby.
- I do not claim that the translation below is accurate or true.
- I did not translate everything. I skipped many things including predictions of events that are very local to the Arab region and Lebanon.
If you can understand Lebanese Arabic, I have edited and cleaned the TV interview with Michel and made it available here:
Predictions from previous years:
- The 2016 World Predictions according to Michel Hayek
- The 2017 World Predictions – Between reality and illusion, between today and tomorrow
- The 2018 World Predictions by Michel Hayek
Let’s get started! Continue reading “2019 World Predictions by Michel Hayek – The Amazement”
Jesus’ second coming – payback time!
He among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone
Jesus is quoted to say in the Bible:
He among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone
Everyone fell in silence and cast away their stones and started dispersing.
Jesus answered well the inquiring crowd but one might wonder if what he said also applies to him?
Was Jesus without sin? If so, why he did not cast the first stone according to the law?
Was Jesus not a child? Was he not mischievous?
Every kid is mischievous, that is part of growing up, including Jesus. I remember when I was in my childhood and preteen years, how my parents and society kept haunting me as a sinner for doing anything that they don’t agree with. Do you want to convince me that the teen Jesus did not give headaches to his parents or caused problems?
No wonder that the Bibles we have in circulations exclude his childhood stories. Those who control the populace from behind the scenes had a different agenda: they wanted to portray Jesus as being perfect and everyone else is born a sinner and can never be perfect.
In all cases, remember this:
Do as we say, not as we do
No one is perfect on Earth. Everyone errs, and that is not the end of the world.
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Riddle: How many brothers and sisters are there in this family? Z3 Theorem prover
The other day, I ran into a riddle:
A brother said to his sister: “I have as many sisters as brothers”
His sister replied: “I have twice as many brothers as I have sisters”How many brothers and sisters exist in this family?
I figured that it’s a nice exercise for the Z3 theorem prover. All I had to do is express the riddle in a series of constraints and ask Z3 to try to find a solution.
The following is a Z3Py program that expresses the riddle:
import z3
# Create a solver instance
s = z3.Solver()
# Create two variables representing the total number of males and females (m and f)
m, f = z3.Ints('m f')
# The brother said: I have as many brothers as sisters
s.add(m - 1 == f)
# The sister said: I have twice as much brothers as I have sisters
s.add(2 * (f - 1) == m)
# Check for the solution
if s.check() == z3.sat:
sol = s.model()
print "Brothers: %d, Sisters: %d" % (sol[m].as_long(), sol[f].as_long())
When we run the solver, we get the following solution: 4 males, 3 females.
If you prefer the good old systems of equations, we can solve it like this:
The brother said: m - 1 = f (1) The sister said: 2 * (f - 1) = m (2) So we have 2 equations, let's do some substitution: -> f = m - 1 (1) -> 2f - 2 = m (2) --> m = 2f - 2 (2) --> f = 2f - 2 - 1 (1) --> f = 2f - 3 --> f - 2f = -3 --> -f = -3 --> f = 3 --> m = 2f - 2 --> m = 2*3 - 2 --> m = 6 - 2 --> m = 4
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Unhealthy food cravings and their healthy counterparts
Often times a modern man craves unhealthy and junk food that did not exist before (artificial sweeteners, transfats, fast food etc.). What to do in this case?
Cave in and eat unhealthy foods? or try to find a more healthy alternative to satisfy those cravings?
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They were created for you…
The sun was created for you, so bask in its warm light
The wind was created for you, so enjoy its fresh breeze
The river was created for you, so enjoy its silky water
Fruits were created for you, so enjoy their taste
Thank your creator for all that he has given you for free
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A warrior has two friends and two enemies
A while back, I was watching the Mahabharat series by B.R Chopra. It contains lots of nice moral stories and wisdom. One thing I am sharing with you is the following:
He has two friends: Hard work and caution.
The warrior who can vanquish these enemies and befriend these two friends will be undefeatable.A person should not be jealous.
Jealousy neutralizes a person’s good points.
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