Hi Marjan, Neely and All,
Very nice to meet you this morning at Neely's and to share the Bahai'i "inspirationals". Thank you Neely for hosting this - and for bringing us all together.
Marjan, Is this the "lotus temple india bahai" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Temple - which you mentioned? Looks like it's possible to visit the Lotus Temple virtually a little here - - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lotus+Temple/@28.553492,77.2588264,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x653beb1ee85ec67a!8m2!3d28.553492!4d77.2588264 - but not fulsomely yet in a realistic interactive virtual earth with avatar bots (which I'm hoping to develop at World Univ & Sch). (Think Google Street View w time slider/Maps/Earth & at the cellular & atomic levels with Minecraft/SL/OpenSimulator too e.g. https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/955218421267841024 ).
Here's the Farsi - Persian_language - wiki subject page / school at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language - soon to be in Farsi and newly in Iran World University and School here in our new wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) - all in Farsi.
And it looks like Persian MIT OpenCourseWare actually does still exist - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - but is no longer listed here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and I'm not sure why.
WUaS seeks to create major online universities in all ~200 nation states' official languages for free MIT OCW-centric wiki universities (and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,099 living languages).
Looking forward to staying in touch.
Scott
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
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Scott - Thank you so much for thinking of my birthday and bringing the Tart.
Neely - Thanks again for organizing, you worked so hard. Wish we could help you more.
It was great to meet all of you!
Until next time,
Love, peace, patience, and perseverance,
Saumitra
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Saumitra, Neely, and all,
Thanks for your email, and the gathering.
Like Saumitra, I'm also a bit on the nontheistic side of things/life (re nontheist Friends/atheistic Quakers, for example), and re Yoga as well, and here's something about this re my "Hippy~angali Yoga Notations" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/hippy-anjali-yoga-notations-ntf-talk.html.
Here too is the Desiderata - https://web.archive.org/web/20151224115933/http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html - which I read yesterday, and in a kind of animation here ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html ... and here's a bit about Max Ehrmann - http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/ehrmann.html - it's author, who studied law and philosophy at Harvard (so not Harvard Law).
Thanks again so much for the Bahai'i gathering yesterday, Neely (and Saumitra), and good people, all!
Love, peace, patience, and perseverance,
Scott
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Hi Maboobeh, Neely, Saumitra and All,
Very nice to meet you this morning at Neely's and to share the Bahai'i "inspirationals" (is this a fair translation/synonmym of "devotionals" here) together.
Here's the gene therapy blog link I mentioned re "Wow" and FDA approved -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/01/gene-therapy-for-rare-form-of-blindness.html.
Here's the beginning of http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) before we move into our new wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and grow this.
World University and School (WUaS) seeks to create major online universities in all ~200 nation states' official languages for free MIT OCW-centric wiki universities and Bachelor, Ph.D., law, MD and IB high school degrees (and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,099 living languages). Wikipedia is in 299 languages and MIT OCW in at least 5, by way of comparison.
Check out the "gene" label in my blog. I post daily here, much about WUaS.
Happy birthday, Saumitra!
Looking forward to staying in touch.
Scott
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Hi M,
Wow - thanks for your email. Never sure that you get these, or what you do with them/how you read them/ if you read them :)
Interesting good Bahai'i gathering this morning with Neely in Berkeley. I met her and a fairly large gathering in her apt's living room through Saumitra / Gubito (Pin's cousin, whom I met with Pin recently, when Pin visited the SF Bay Area). Quite a few academics / Berkeley students. Bahai'i's have many roots in the Persian, Arabic and English languages among an attempt to create a unity religion (re sects) ... interesting ...
When I replied to Ken Thompson's invitation to Burns' night in Pgh that I couldn't come, Nancy Condee replied too:
"Count me in. I hear Ken is doing an interpretive dance accompanied by a Reggae version of “Address to the Haggis” this year. Very thoughtful, Ken. We look forward to the performance around 7.30 or so…"
And I replied: "This video is a trip, Nancy ...
https://youtu.be/ktiONWfSL48 ... not all is well in Russia or ... what a circus ... way beyond Cirque du Soleil? Thanks, Nancy and Ken!
Happy Robbie Burns' night,
Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States"
Do you know Nancy? Check out the video. I wonder if you could relate each scene to actual events in a kind of currently "crazed" Russia ...
Are the winds turning and picking up? We'll see ... no word yet from the MIT Media Lab about the faculty position I applied for ...
Glad my piping gig on Saturday was a success (funny category) ...
L,
Scott
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