Ziklag R6.6 - The Battlefield

Smart is as Smart Does, Production and Fearlessness

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Love comes back to you. Lies are from the evil one. cf Pr. 10:6

Is talk cheap? Or just lies? cf Mt. 9.5

Production is to be preferred to reaction. cf Sun Tzu 6.4

From Today’s Stack

from the Smart Project

The Battlefield is one of several important concepts in the Deo Volente Smart Note operating system. In this case, I mean “operating system” in the way that one might refer to a base computer software package. If Deo Volente were a computer, the Battlefield is your desktop. In fact, both your cpu desktop and your actual desktop are refractive expressions of the Battlefield concept, whether or not you are Smart Noting. That is why a silly phrase like, “Beware the Fog of Pile!” can have great meaning as you look about your desktops right now, even without further explanation.

Once you understand that your desktop is a Battlefield, it will never “be messy” again. It will be *in use.* The real question is, what battle are you going to use that flat surface for? The good answers to that are manifold, but the principle is that the being is the result of resolution “in formation” in a place and on purpose. Information is a rotary express, not a static binding.

So, perhaps this is the most important take away: you are fighting a war on multiple fronts. If you want to get Smart, you must focus on the one that matters most, which you simply cannot do if you are unaware of all your many Battlefields.

You will have more than one task. You won’t win national battles fighting local wars. That you did not learn this playing Minecraft tells you, yet again, something else entirely.

From the Archive

from Without Flesh

…We are hunting for some insight, some trend, some trick that will slip just enough people back into the pews . . . er . . . cushioned chairs . . . to steer our ship back toward some “better day”.

This is not how the first Christians stepped before the world. Unlike our fading postmodern echo, the first Christians were not in search of anything. They were convinced that they had already ***found*** it. They had a message. It made them ***fearless***. And it was the fearlessness of their conviction that made them so compelling everywhere that they went. The message was so truly charismatic, so life-altering, that it only ever inspired one of two reactions: love or hate. There was no lukewarm. There was no middle ground. There was not peace, but a sword, dividing families, breaking up cultures and turning the entire world upside down.

Yet, what they found made them fearless.