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As a confirmed member of a Lutheran church I have certain responsibilities/ jobs that accumulate and dissipate over the years. The boring nature of some and the frustration with others tends to tug me away from doing the job with all loving and generosity I would like. I hope that my knowledge will come in handy as part and parcel with my other talents but it's always somewhat of a tug-o-war.
As a scientist as well as in religion I know the community and the individual have their flaws even when supposedly held to higher ideals and authority. Yet I must be in both if not of both. Today the subjects of consubstantiation/transubstantiation AND gay marriage were subjects of discussion in our adult Sunday school class... Heavy stuff at any time. As a scientist I know what happens to food you eat and as a religious person I know how the communion is a mystery of faith.
I know what the bible says and I know what the Psychiatric community have to say of homosexuality. Our sermon today was even about the marriage vows. I cannot say what it is like to be homosexual as a heterosexual but I can try to empathize.
I am divorced, and know which of the gospels spells things out about that subject. I have been alone for about 10 years. I know metaphorically then what it's like to feel like a beggar looking in a restaurant window while everyone else in there eats. Society does all sorts of things to say what should happen, how you should act, but can't make you feel and really cannot make all things happen for you. It cannot change the Laws of physics or physiology any more than physicists or physiologists can change the Laws of Moses.
Why should it be any easier today than it was 40 years ago or 4000 to balance faith and knowledge? Can there be peace on Earth or is there inevitable conflict where people take each others beliefs as a personal issue of some survival value? We slave our selves to a greater good as one cannot really hope to do as much as many but one person can affect great change.
We are all parts of Meta-creatures (social groupings that have rules/boundaries as surely as an animal has cell membranes) that want to survive and believe the "other" is a threat.



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Calibrating your monitor for viewing photographs correctly

The strip shows a range of greys from pure black to pure white. You should be able to see a clear difference between each shade of grey, ranging from pure black (left) and pure white (right).



Along the top of the strips are alternate patches of black and dark grey. If it looks solid black to you (look very carefully), your monitor's brightness setting is too low. Increase it until you can just perceive the difference between the grey and the black squares.

Pass this along to your journals, it will help new and old deviants view your work as it should be seen! (from =Sine-Fabula)