The Stanford Torus is a proposed NASA design for a space habitat to house several thousand humans.
It is not the only 'vision' for a space habitat that has been proposed using authentic engineering and technical methods for the design and constructing of such a thing in space.
Moving backwards in history now, way back to the 12th century AD, there was this fellow - Ibn 'Arabi - who lived in Andalusia, and who is generally termed a 'Sufi poet and mystic.'
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| Dubai - Arabic - perfume 'museum.' Look at the money. Absolutely no clue... |
On the one hand, ostensibly, even Sunni Muslims today regard him as a revered person, a 'hazrat' - whereas on the other hand, everything he did was contrary to Islamic law...
He is said to have composed and written 850 works, 700 regarded as 'authentically by him,' and 400 of which remain extant.
The fact is, he was an occult scholar and those works by him that are said to be 'missing' are secret underground texts decrying the foolishness of state religion, the frauds of 'recension' 'histories,' and various ideas and deceitful claims made by those in power at the time.
...Which is the main reason his works are said, even now, to be 'missing or lost.'
The plain fact staring Muslims and religious historians in the face however, when they want to claim Ibn 'Arabi as a Muslim and a religious personage - is that he himself begins his most famous work, by declaring that he has had a vision, in which the words and ideas in the book he was writing then, is given to him by a supernatural being and arising itself from a Divine source.
Now this cannot be, in Islam, since Muhammad was the 'last of the prophets,' the final messenger, the 'Seal of the Prophets' - and anyone saying afterwards, that they too 'received' or were receiving messages from a Divine source, is committing an outright heresy.
Anyone who makes such a claim is committing 'bid'ah' - that is, 'bringing an innovation,' mounting an heretical teaching, and also going against the self-proclaimed edicts of Muhammad that no one shall 'come after him with any other, or even any more message/s.'
Everything that is intended by Allah to be said, is already contained in the Quran.
Nevertheless, everyone wants to claim Ibn 'Arabi as 'theirs.'
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Even very learned Zohar Jewish scholars do it... ...and this is because they well know that most of their most occult teachings emanate from Spanish sources.
The most prominent, the most acclaimed, of his works during his lifetime, was called 'the Circled Setting of Lights...'
In addition to this book, he wrote something called 'al-Futuhat. (That word is 'al - not the beginning of a quote with a forgotten inverted comma!)
Today, people have altered the title to say 'the Meccan Illuminations' but the original work is just 'the Illumination.'
It is this work which, heavily corrupted now, is his most 'famous' work.
Ibn 'Arabi made no secret that he was claiming to have been visited by Jesus when he was a child.
In his 'most famous' book, he goes into what Arab Muslim scholars have maintained is his Sufi metaphysics, about the idea that 'Muhammad' (a title word meaning variously 'the perfect Man' and the ideal human) is of a combined divine and earthly origin: and he metaphorically (according to these scholars) calls him an 'Isthmus.'
In fact, he also makes it very clear in his original language texts, that he is translating the Greek concept word 'Christos' into 'Isthmus.'
Ibn 'Arabi was an occultist Christian...
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| Roja! ...Favorite of the rich Arabs in London, and the Middle East. |
...who was very aware, that if his plain views were to become generally known by the blood-lusting ruling elites armed with Toledo metal blades, he would come to a brutal ending very quickly.
Nobody has ever said, how Ibn 'Arabi made a living, other than the presence of a curt note somewhere, that 'at a young age he became secretary to the governor of Seville.' Whether that 'governor' was at that time a local Spanish person, or, as had been the situation with the very first 'governor' under Islamic conquest and rule, in fact the Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Marwan himself, an Arab, we are not told anywhere.
In fact, by the time of even just before the birth of Ibn 'Arabi, the then Arabic Muslim ruler of Seville, Al-Mutamid, was actually paying tribute to a Christian ruler in Castile - quite the reverse of the way Muslim invaders liked to have things go wherever else they invaded and 'conquered,' implementing the so-called 'Jizyah' taxation as they went; which is essentially a blood money protection and extortion racket.
Seville already had a two-level social/political structure - of those who pretended to 'convert' to Islam, and those who did not. It is entirely possible that by the time of Ibn 'Arabi becoming the secretary to the governor of Seville, the governor was in fact also a local Spanish person, not an Arab nor even a Muslim at all but only saying that he was.
In a few shorts years after that, the Arab Muslim 'conquerors' were completely wiped out altogether.
And... ...Ibn 'Arabi's 'lost' works, remained - er, 'lost.'
LOL
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| Literally, a hand-tied satin bow by women at Dior. Still. |
So how did, indeed, Ibn 'Arabi, make a living though?
These, and other great exciting things, will be told in the next NFT Digital Dirham 'tethered text.'
Meanwhile, here is a little something, on another subject altogether:
You know what makes a Seville orange, important to the professional maker of perfumes, don't you? That is, to the master perfumer, as opposed to the scientist who acquired a degree in rubbish somewhere - because you are not going to get this level of knowledge from those stupid places, and it is not in the hands or the heads of those stupid people!
I mean, you do know though, right?
I need to walk back something here though - please don't get the idea that this is all about something that it is really not about. I am trying to make this place as entertaining, as it might potentially, be annoying -, to some people certainly. Hell it would be annoying to me! ...If I were just reading it as an outsider. By now I would be swearing and carrying on, I'm sure.
'Come on, *'ing out with it!' You * bastard!' That's the kind of thing I would be saying.
In the next article, if you are really really clever, there will some clues - you still won't be able to work the main things out, but it will 'open your eyes,' as it were, to certain things that are 'relationships' of things.
And there are absolutely no human chemists alive, who would be able to advance any theory as to why these things work, in comparison to the evident clear fact, that they do not work, outside of those 'relationships.' Human knowledge of chemistry just ain't that advanced guys, sorry.
So... NASA and a bunch of scientists, intend making a thing that floats up there in space, where they expect y'all to live. Which presumes, of course, that they happen to know what 'living' actually is. Breathing, oxygen, blood flow, nutrition, energy, what else - Krebs cycle stuff. LOLz
Simple, right?
Joke: How many Princeton chemists does it take to make a Stanford Torus habitable for humans?
(I haven't thought of a funny answer yet - actually, I don't think there is one).
