I should have known better, but...I tell myself... it was thirty years ago. Everyone knew that Chuck was a prankster par excellence. The brass horn was coiled two times and resembled a French horn, only the frayed bell curved a little further so that its sound would almost be directed into the face of the one playing it. It was definitely an interesting object lying there on the table with tubes crisscrossing and no valves to press. Everyone else was ignoring it. I figured that they already inspected it. I picked it up, wiped off the mouthpiece, and blew gently into it just to hear its tone....nothing. So I gave it a much bigger puff and talcum powder blew out at me, covering my face and hair.
So I'm not going to actually perform this experiment because I would probably be washing egg yoke out of my hair but you are probably familiar with the directions. Take and egg, put it in the palm of your hand and wrap your fingers all around it. Then try to crush it. Most people cannot. The curvature of the egg directs the pressure inwards instead of across the shell. A similar principle comes into play in the construction of the Arch of Titus and the Roman aqueducts. If you yourself are a prankster, demonstrate the experiment to a willing subject, like I was, but make sure that he is wearing a ring. The pressure from the ring will be directed to the length of the shell and the egg will easily break and splatter. I'm still not trying it.
Our republic was designed with such extreme precision that it would not collapse as long as its three branches applied equal pressure to each other. The geometric shape of a triangle gives it more strength than the other shapes. Add a fourth angle here or there and its strength diminishes. Vary the materials and its strength weakens. Make one side stronger than the other two and its strength will weaken.
An elm tree proudly stood alone in the center of Boston, Massachusetts from roughly 1646 to 1775. Patriots who would become known the Sons of Liberty would meet under that tree as a rallying point in their resistance to the Stamp Act and other offenses against the colonists. The loyalists to the king knew of the significance of the tree and cut it down.
The Founding Fathers of our nation knew very well that if one branch of our government far outweighed the other two, or if the designed triangle of equilateral strength would become a polygon of multiple sides and varying strengths, that the republic would be no more. The wood of an elm tree is known for its resistance to splitting but chop at it enough times with an iron ax and it will, and that is exactly what this present administration has done. It knows the power of Liberty. Dragoons have therefore been sent forth to fell that tree. The Director of the FBI was only the latest to lay axe to the root.
We have brought these calamities upon ourselves for we bear little good fruit today with little to no repentance. Matthew 3:10 warns us...."Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
So I'm not going to actually perform this experiment because I would probably be washing egg yoke out of my hair but you are probably familiar with the directions. Take and egg, put it in the palm of your hand and wrap your fingers all around it. Then try to crush it. Most people cannot. The curvature of the egg directs the pressure inwards instead of across the shell. A similar principle comes into play in the construction of the Arch of Titus and the Roman aqueducts. If you yourself are a prankster, demonstrate the experiment to a willing subject, like I was, but make sure that he is wearing a ring. The pressure from the ring will be directed to the length of the shell and the egg will easily break and splatter. I'm still not trying it.
Our republic was designed with such extreme precision that it would not collapse as long as its three branches applied equal pressure to each other. The geometric shape of a triangle gives it more strength than the other shapes. Add a fourth angle here or there and its strength diminishes. Vary the materials and its strength weakens. Make one side stronger than the other two and its strength will weaken.
An elm tree proudly stood alone in the center of Boston, Massachusetts from roughly 1646 to 1775. Patriots who would become known the Sons of Liberty would meet under that tree as a rallying point in their resistance to the Stamp Act and other offenses against the colonists. The loyalists to the king knew of the significance of the tree and cut it down.
The Founding Fathers of our nation knew very well that if one branch of our government far outweighed the other two, or if the designed triangle of equilateral strength would become a polygon of multiple sides and varying strengths, that the republic would be no more. The wood of an elm tree is known for its resistance to splitting but chop at it enough times with an iron ax and it will, and that is exactly what this present administration has done. It knows the power of Liberty. Dragoons have therefore been sent forth to fell that tree. The Director of the FBI was only the latest to lay axe to the root.
We have brought these calamities upon ourselves for we bear little good fruit today with little to no repentance. Matthew 3:10 warns us...."Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
