1:45am and a doubtful story submission...

I spruced up a story for submission to a magazine and it will probably be my last attempt to submit flash or shorts anywhere. I want to get SDU in the door somewhere somehow and am not sure where it fits best. Also trying to apply for a job in the publishing industry as a book / novel consultant. I have a keen eye for books and what makes authors special and I would like to work in that industry.

Didn't achieve much today, just that Mom fell and was hospitalized for half the afternoon. She's now fine, and well cared for. Tomorrow, will work on net4spice again as it really needs to get done somehow without using AI to generate the key algorithms so I can claim copyright.

I have several things to mention about books which greatly increase their appeal,

1. People read your cover first, the the blurb, then the first 3 paragraphs to know it is good. Rarely does anyone read the first 3 pages or 3 chapters -just part of the first page.
2. You can be yourself while writing the book -it is your artistic license. You may be hurt and disgruntled but still write a great book if you outline yet realize that outlines are flexible as a plot or cast of characters produces new material.
3. You have to type like the reader likes to read -even a prematurely started paragraph or an observation breaking up a description can throw a reader off.
4.  Blurbs are often too general or specific. Aim to describe what the reader will take away from the book more than what the reader will find the story is about. Sometimes the lines blur.
5. Covers are so important. Design a cover that browsers can't ignore and have to flip your book thru.
6. When you are struggling with a novel, and perhaps you break it down into manageable chunks, always consider infusing variety -a bit of dialogue, a bit of description from various points of view so the story fills each chunk and says a lot. This drives the reader to flip pages.
7. When you design a world for your tale, introduce it at opportune moments when there are story breaks. Someone ended something and there is an info dump or a monologue / dispute etc.
8.  Create memorable characters by infusing them with aspects of yourself or your role models, even both. 
9. A story can be simple with good characters. A story can be complex with characters that struggle. A story can be bland but the characters do interesting things. 
10. A story without soul is a lost cause no matter how amazing your world. Soul is what is bigger than the premise and its inhabitants. And it shows thru the infusing of a tale with wisdoms and axioms.
11. Blurbs and covers these days look very much the same because of computer generated art. Aim for traditional media to make your covers, and generate blurbs based not on the plot or the world, but what a reader can expect to gain from your book.
12. Use the way you'd talk to someone to see if you're writing unnaturally.

 I'm soon not to be writing anymore after I finish SDU. It may take all April. 

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Racialsim and the 4-6 differences…

By request, there needs to be clarification: are all races fundamentally the same? Answer: NO, there are up to 6 differences, a minimum of 4.

1. In the eyes of God, he will treat each nation differently because they use the spirit in a different way. Each nation having a peculiar way of worship. This is because God revealed Himself differently here and there to create that different nation and its history.
2. In the eyes of God, there is gentile and Jew, and there are further categories of gentile, up to 4 kinds which require different nourishments. Not every race can feel satisfied the same way in order to obey God.
3. Women of certain races do not fit men of other races. Logically, they should be treated differently. The fact that our species has highly differentiated females is a reason for racial divisions. God made most females from most all races who are desirable, very similar but the desirable men, rather different.
4. Language was differentiated by God Himself. Following from that, most races placed importance on different things. How should they treat other races the same?
5. This is minor, un-PC, but some races operate and look superior to other races, thus are treated with more honor.
6. Also minor, un-PC, some races are to be wiped out or will be much reduced, and they will be treated with less honor. This is because God is angered by their striving against Him, generation over generation.

Who goes to heaven?

There is some confusion about the following statements:

1. Salvation is God's free gift

2. We are judged according to works / deeds

3. We must fit in the Lamb's book to be saved

Furthermore, there is prophecy, something which guides and guards us, being given, as a species, free-will.

Therefore, with FREE-WILL, and FREE SALVATION, and a CHRIST IMAGE to adhere to, thus are those known to the Lord, saved.

We also have to consider that He (God) knew us from the foundation of the world and in Jesus prepared a place for us. We also consider His claim, not to have lost any of us he foreknew.

This is illogical unless you believe that we Christians (because I am Christian not Moslem or Buddhist) fit a certain type or types of people. Thus are represented in the Lamb's book of life.

Next thing is the eternal question:

Is it who you are that fits or what you've done that fits with the Lamb's book?

The answer is you cannot be who you are without doing what you like to do and to learn from it. You cannot stray far who adhere to Truth, Light, Salt, and deny Satan and his lies. Achieving every milestone in life ensures you fit the type(s) of Christian in the book of Life.

Furthermore, what innocuous things may you do that are actually sinful / destructive?

The answer is that free will allows you to be (like me) say, a watch buff. Someone (like me) who has an orgasm once in a while. Free will doesn't allow you to break laws and other illegal things. Free will can be what you do in privacy, tho not in absolute secrecy.

1. So to sum up, we can do many good deeds so why don't we?
2. We can learn from mistakes and by reading scripture so why don't we?
3. We are given FREE salvation because we must not judge or fight for it.
4. We must not fight over salvation because we believe in PROPHECY.
5. Ultimately, prophecy puts fear of God into us and hope eternal.
6. Whether or not we become a Christ image doesn't matter -just live your life well.

And it came up, that we love the pleasures of the flesh. What's up with flesh over spirit? The truth is that nothing matters more than spirit -true. But we still have to eat bread. And eating good bread is a worship opportunity. Loving your wife is loving yourself, thus loving your neighbor (paraphrase of various verses). So is sexual love a sin? Every sexual act is a worship opportunity as well. Good loving is good loving.

What about watches, cars, real estate, iPhones etc. Do Christians subscribe to these things -luxuries? IMHO (and I don't really know), there have to be some luxuries in life. We live for pampering, holidays, celebrations which are all worship opportunities and outreach opportunities. So to have say a record player or a nice watch to wear isn't strictly bourgeois. In fact it may keep you happy in desperate times and be worth something if sold. No hard and fast rules of consumerism -what sells, what's bought.

Went for a run at last...

Just back from a brief run round the block. Recovered fast. Am unable to run really fast somehow. Maybe again in the weekend. I need to do 30 sit-ups tonight, maybe 30 push-ups too. Not too many since I had my Arip jab just this morning.

I edited Super Derek Underpants into a PDF and posted its LINK in my previous post here. Scroll to the bottom and click there blue link next to the RED TEXT. Still working on chapters 6-10 which may take another 2-3 weeks.

I realized I can't read American authors like Salinger, Steinbeck, and Hemingway but am able to read Kerouac easily. I'm not sure, but I think SDU is easy-reading. It moves plot and in passing describes scenes and characters. Some may call it fast-paced and pulp, but that's the way I like to read.

Tonight, after dinner, to debug net4spice. There is some node substitution going on but no cigar. I must have the most stupid algorithm but it seems to work.

Mom has roped me in to make dinner again -that tasty fried rice with luncheon ham and reduced tomato, herb and garlic olive oil dip. Don't feel much like working on n4s. Maybe after 8pm.

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Managed to get cleaned at last and showered. Yet to brush and take my meds. Maybe circa 1am. Could use an orgasm. Then at 2am will look at the code to see why it's breaking on every node. 

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Some fight broke out in my church as we near the Tribulation week. I tried to smooth it over but it runs deep -people betraying other people, leaders making mistakes etc. 

I did some more editing on SDU first half. Tomorrow, writing 2nd half resumes. Am wearing my JP1060 on a grainy gray NATO. Looks boss. I may wear this often. Just a quartz diver costing under $100. 

Will try debugging net4spice soon. Am a bit rattled over the emotions from mindspace battles of spirit. All the guailo church members picked on me, trying to peel skin off my hand, refusing to listen to gospel truth anymore, instead being increasingly judgmental.

The parable by Jesus says it all: What shall the master do to the servant he finds beating the other servants and slaves? When he returns, he will surely have him imprisoned. Forgive us as God forgives you. We don't manipulate others -we are meek. 

Net4spice, thinking logically...

Am experimenting with a new way of finding node points in the circuit. I have the thing wired up and put into a component, input(s), output structure. Took a while to get right. Now am thinking of a general algorithmic way of solving for nodes which are common connection points shared by two or more components. This is presenting some problems and I will have to solve it before going on my torture walk this afternoon.

Otherwise, am feeling okay today. Tomorrow, psych clinic visit for my Arip jab. It's always nice to visit my shrink and I look forward to it, unfortunately have to be jabbed every time *sigh*.

Dad will be buying us lunch, Indian food. Think I will go on a run this evening instead of walking about town as I have nothing to buy and a lot to work on.

Just now, I found out how to determine the key nodes in a circuit by weaving in and out of components, and their ip / op. It might just work -it does on paper. Perhaps the circuit can be simulated tonight.

Worked out more intensively, doing 50 pushups and 20 cross body situps to get rid of my love handles. Seems I won't be running or walking today so I upped the indoor exercises. Will also diet starting today. Cut my food intake by roughly half.

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Took my meds and will work out again soon. Then to brush. Identifying the circuit nodes was partially successful. Needs more work, maybe tomorrow. I am after all retired. Some down time to roughly cement in the plot of Super Derek Underpants. 

6 Derek loses Esmeralda, and his super children to little Lotus-Derek

7 Derek meets Gabriel who limits his powers and grants him heaven when he dies

8 Derek is killed, by Lotus and Quen after an epic battle of words

9 A search and apocalyptic battle with super powers and military powers ensues

0 Friends find Derek changed, resurrected and different. He teaches them many things

BTW, you can download the whole first half, edited for typos, here: CHAPTERS 1-5.

My novel: will put it aside for a week…

Just finished the difficult part which was section 3 / 4, chapter 5 / 10. The meeting in Borneo. The rest I can fill in this evening circa dinner time. Couple hours to chill. Could use a nap. Liew witchy forces are prospecting for weak points to attack God’s faithful. Stay calm and let’s be careful.

Meanwhile war casualties mount in the Middle East. Reports of Iran striking back hard. Malaysia, with its oil fields is okay but not so, many other countries even those which are developed. Had a good lunch out with the Folks. Resting in air conditioning now.

Will try to join my church meet tomorrow.

As I was viewing Pastor Aaron, Liew witchy forces attacked in the guise of Christian ‘training’ me. Of course I don’t believe in such sin as insulting Aaron for being colored. Am I not also colored?

Something ominous is hanging in the air this afternoon. Everyone is watching for it, and I can’t really stop to smell roses or work on my novel just yet. I think the final part of chp 5 will be something more exciting than planned, with Derek’s super children attacking to kill him, controlled by Lotus’ son. Hoag reveals Derek to the world after returning from Borneo. Perhaps fame will save the kid. Esmeralda and the others watch in horror as powers fly and even Master Mark who intervenes is knocked down.

 

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Cooked dinner for the Folks. Made egg fried rice with luncheon ham and 2 kinds of veg dip: parsley garlic and cajun tomato (reduced in olive oil). We have enough olive oil for just one more meal this March, and it was a small bottle. Priced out of having it every other day.

 

Supposed to begin writing last quarter of chp 5. Am cooling off in air conditioning. Pastor and I fell out again over Biblical trivia. It seems a lot of Christianity was abused and nailed on person onto another, destroying its message. The truth is that you don't read the Bible -the Bible calls to you to read it. You don't interpret the Bible on your own, you listen to the way others interpret it. And so by tenacious grips on insurmountable Satanism, the blessed words of God / Christ were handed down and these days are here and there online -such as here for example.

Today, the teaching is that there is '3' in the Bible. Jesus says 2 or 3 gathered in my name -he needs 3 if 2 don't work. It's also in the ABY, opening sutra 11a. Of course, evil spirits corrupted the power of '3' and turned it into an incestuous relationship between the Father, the Son and the Mother -a trinity of evil. But yes, 3 is powerful -the triangle -don't say it isn't a God-sent construct / concept.

 

RIght now, I would like to say the Bible is woven in 3 strands -practically everywhere there can be found the 3-strand rule which is truth-beauty, love, and peace. Unfortunately this trinity of values has been adopted by witches down the ages and they eventually turned it sour in the face of persecution, becoming anathema to Christians in later times.

 

The book of Revelations is also truth-beauty : love : peace and I use Rev as an example as it was almost dropped from the Bible. There are 7x3 judgments on the earth. The seals, trumpets, and vials. Before that, there are the 7 witnesses (lamp stands and stars). The 7 churches symbolize perfection in TBLP. Then as the seals are opened, peace is taken off. As the trumpet opens, love is subtracted, and finally as the vials are poured out we see man's truth and beauty crumble before the Lord's perfect will.

 

The sign in Heaven of the woman and the dragon is also TBLP. Of course, what we are seeing is a 'Wonder' which is 'Supernatural'. Detour to see what John is actually teaching us with this passage: 

 

We are not told who the father of the woman's male child or seed are. But the dragon is an earthly empire and the seed are faithful Christians. It could be the birth of a super Christian via a 'Sophia-wisdom archetype' and this man is taken to advise / accompany God on the Devil now cast down onto the earth.

 

So at the 7th trumpet which is LOVE, we see TRUTH-BEAUTY then PEACE shortly taken away (war in Heaven). Then it repeats which I reckon is reversed, PLBT so the woman is cared for, loved, and TRUTH-BEAUTY (the sacrifice of Christ -the good fight -the passion) resumes.

 

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Due to contentiously teaching, it's hard to get motivated for my writing work tonight. But yes powers often come in 3's. Three is not a dirty number even to Chinese. Pastor, don't worry too much about it :-)

 

Guess I will make a start to the writing now, 1.5k words.

 

The word count is 22k exactly. 500 short but I can make that up somewhere later as there's no more plot to fill out. I guess I'm off for the next 4-5 days. May do some light debugging on net4spice tomorrow for an hour or 2.

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Drinking kombucha. Fermented fizzy tea. Almost 10pm. Better get coding soon. And dieting as well. Debugging going well. Solved the errors in the netlist. Adding some features to make it perfectly detect the positive and ground rails.

 

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The circuit simulator interface was trickier than I thought it would be and I took double the time to get it almost right. Just now, the transistor needs to have 3 nodes while right now it has 2. Solved the 0 and + rails problem well. And the nodes were generated painlessly.

 

Broke to help sweep the shoebox we live in. Later I will mop some as well. Taking a break from coding to just relax. There was a discussion about logistics leading up to the end times wars. We think it's some way away and the wars now are the wars Jesus warned us would happen, make us troubled at their ferocity.

 

So tonight we will apply the V and I for each node and maybe link circuits, which is the true power of net4spice. Feeling happy with the progress.

 

Some setbacks with n4s. The node generator is malfunctioning. It is iterative and needs some tweaking. Had dinner and finished mopping duty. I think we will not be simulating tonight, just bug fixing this last part. 

My take on Daniel's visions...

Daniel had 4 visions:

1. The metal man of empires culminating in broken feet
2. The beasts culminating in an iron monster
3. The ram and the goat
4. The folly of the kings of Persia

These are linked to the coming of Messiah. Messiah arrives like a rock that demolishes metal man. Messiah slays the little horn from the iron monster. Messiah destroys the latter day Grecian empire's king as well. The final king of Persia (or former Persia -now Iran) will attack Israel and Messiah will deal him out. The very next chapter, Jesus raises the dead in Christ and takes the faithful in-pneumos.

Where are we in Daniel, and what has happened so long ago as to be stale-sounding today? In each of he visions Daniel had, he was shown an aspect of the times of the Antichrist (the end of age).

If we could piece together a picture of it: There is moral degradation. strife even as Babylon enjoyed peace, the statue's feet crumble -there is geopolitical instability. In fact, right now there is almost east vs west, not yet the 42 months of the 10 king's reign. The iron monster has the Antichrist (little horn), it is written he will decimate the Jews and stand against Jesus / Christians(?), and America too perhaps. Finally there is the final king of Persia who will use sorcery and possibly alien help to try and conquer Jerusalem. Thus will we know the season of the Lord's coming. Not in great detail but sufficient IMHO.

More later...

So those who wonder about Daniel now know that he gives multiple simultaneous equations relating Christ to Antichrist, and that all together they pinpoint with some accuracy where we stand in God's prophetic timeline. But to keep our noses in the good book isn't going to tell us anything. We have to gather knowledge from the media and from the Spirit. Even so the Lord tells Daniel many will waste their lives and spoil their reputations trying to predict His coming.