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This baby-easy anaerobic (no oxygen required) exercise at your desk can
reduce your waistline and improve your blood circulation. It requires 2-minutes
and works like a charm even for lazybones like me.
You see this infinity symbol used in science and math. It is the number 8, lying
on its back. The purpose of this exercise is to integrate your left and right
hemispheres to improve learning and long-term memory. Baby-easy and fun.
1. Sit facing forward. Do not move your eyes, look straight ahead. Lift
your left hand on a level with your left-eye.
2. First 60 seconds: use the index finger of your left-hand to air-draw a
large reclining figure 8. Size: 24 inches left-to-right, and 8-10 inches
wide.
3. Think of it as an Air-Guitar. You are tracing an Infinity-Symbol in the
air in front of you. Half-the bell figure is on your left, and the other
half-bell figure is to your right.
4. Repeat the reclining number 8 about a dozen-times using your left
index finger.
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5. Second 60 seconds: switch to using your right index finger to air-draw
(trace) the reclining figure 8. Half the bell is left-of-center, and the
other half of the bell is right-of-center. Repeat a dozen times.
Coda:
The Infinity Symbols link your left and right brains (hemispheres) for
better attention, concentration, and improved long-term memory.
Ancient Knowledge
Doubting Thomas
Here is what happened: Three days after the Crucifixion, J.C. appeared to the other
eleven Disciples – Tom a/k/a Didymus (< Gk the Twin) was not among them for
the resurrection < L to rise again.
The other eleven reported the good news to Tom – “We have seen the Lord!”
[“Yeah right, in-a-pig’s ear”, he responds,] “unless I see the nail marks in his
hands, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side
[where the Roman spear entered] – I-Will-Not-Believe It.” No, never.
Next scene: eight days later all twelve disciples are together praying, dining and
playing pinochle. Suddenly and unannounced, J.C. appears.
“Peace be with you”, he starts, “Thomas, put your finger here’ see my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
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Punchline
“Because you have seen me you have believed; blessed are those who have NOT
seen and yet have believed,” said J.C. (John 20: 26-29)
Was Tom behaving normally when he rejected the words of the eleven disciples?
Modern researchers say the Crucifixion occurred in the year 33.A.D. on Friday,
April 3. Is that a hard fact with incontrovertible proof? Nada, but it is a good
approximation based on historical records.
Back then (33 A.D.) and today, we know the difference between Hearsay –
“unverified, unofficial information acquired from another, and not part of
one’s own direct knowledge, verses facts, truth, and reality a witness has
personally seen with his/her own eyes, sworn to under oath.
Two-thousand years later your local Small Claims court does not accept gossip,
rumor, and phony-baloney testimony. Witnesses must have direct knowledge or
their testimony is inadmissible under the Hearsay rule. Some judges call it the
Doubting Thomas law.
Coda
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See ya,
copyright © 2009
H. Bernard Wechsler
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