My 20-year round of IAP withdrawals officially start tomorrow. I’m not sure exactly when it will hit my account, but it will be within the next couple of weeks and I have received verification that the electronic deposit has been set up properly.
I submitted that at the same time I submitted the PERS retirement application. I’m not sure when those deposits will start, but considering when I put the paperwork in, I can’t see that it will take the full 92 days from retirement start-date that are mentioned in the instructions.
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There’s an article about sun jets that caught my attention. Fascinating.
There’s a new island off North Carolina. I wonder when 45 is going to lay claim to it and try to build a resort.
And Google came out of the court on the short end of a European anti-trust verdict.
This caught my eye because I like drums.
“De-extincting” mammoths is a thing. Whoopdedoopdedoo
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I have just finished reading Reversing Hermon, which I checked out from the local library. I picked it because I have heard something about the book of 1 Enoch. Reversing Hermon is about how the New Testament was influenced by the story of the angels who had children with human women before the Flood (Genesis 6:1-4), which is a major part of 1 Enoch. Hermon being the name of the mountain where the angels who decided to cohabit with women took the vow to stick together in their activities.
It is an amazing read. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 4 — which covered the vision in Revelation 12 of the woman giving birth. The chapter takes the picture described in Revelation and lays it over the constellations. The woman is Virgo, with the sun roughly at her midriff and the moon beneath her feet — the dragon waiting to snatch the birthed child (who is obviously Jesus) is in roughly the position of the constellation Hydra in relation to Virgo. While it is mentioned that the particular arrangement is not terribly uncommon, one time it is known to have happened was what was, by our calendar, September 11, 3 BC. In fact, a specific 90 minutes on that day (though the book doesn’t mention which specific 90 minutes). Apparently, that day was, by the Jewish calendar, the first day of the month of Tishri. This does not particularly matter, all things considered, but it was entertaining.
And this was not the important part of what was in the book. That was about how Second Temple Jews approached the story of the Watchers — what it meant to them and what the earliest Christians believed it meant to Jesus’s mission.
Then there is one thing I had not known before. According to Greek and Roman medical theory, hair was part of the genitalia — it seems they believed it stored semen. When puberty struck, it became far less important to men, but women required long hair to maintain their fertility. And the genitalia were supposed to be covered during worship — which gives Paul an actual reason for maintaining that women needed to cover their heads in church.