Category: Thoughts

  • Reducing every action to internalizing or externalizing

    What happens when every action is reduced and filtered down to either an (a) or (b)?

    let a = "internalizing";
    let b = "externalizing";

    For example: Reading is taking in. Writing is pushing out. Speech is pushing, externalizing. Inhale = internalizing. Exhale = externalizing.

    let internalizing = ["Reading", "Listening", "Inhaling"];
    let externalizing = ["Throwing", "Speaking", "Exhaling"];
    
    function quantify(action) {
      if (internalizing.includes(action)) {
        return `${action} is an internalizing action.`;
      }
      else if (externalizing.includes(action)) {
        return `${action} is an externalizing action.`;
      }
      else {
        return `${action} is not classified.`;
      }
    }
    
    console.log(quantify("Reading"));
    //Reading is an internalizing action.

    This program and line of thought reminds me of an idea I once read somewhere regarding equality of persons.

    Software programming is said to be humanity’s most advanced activity, but reduced to a simplicity, that software programmer is just pressing keys on a keyboard. In a certain light and a certain lens is equitable to the child hitting and pressing a button on the light and sound machine.

    I like the idea of Wilhelm Reich’s “Orgone” and I think there is something to those energy studies. There have been some projects about orgone such as the orgone accumulator. They are “generators” that have a supposed effect on the orgone energy field. Making these, you combine metal, resin (or an electric insulator like wood), and crystals to have an effect. The construction process stacks these different materials one after another. In the sense of this project, internalizing or externalizing, such action reminds me of accomplishing, through a particular lens / worldview) the advanced activities that only robots can do such as construction of nano circuitry on PCB boards.

    We are all equal, and if we look through a certain lens at the world, we can see this being true. The wisest scientist stacking an orgone generator to the holiest of Rabbi’s turning pages of a holy book to a child sticking glue to wood.

    You are special.

    In the bible are the words, something like: “each according to your abilities”. This reminds us of the power of intent and the humbleness of us all being equals through the eyes of G-d.


    Lean In

    Lean Out

    Stop Pushing!! Pull!!: The Art of Winning With People

    The Power of Pull


    LidRar Radrar technicians:

    Jim: “Breaker breaker one nine, it looks like a bogey, those are all internalizing actions.”

    Jane: “Impossible. There is no being that can be all internalizing.”

    Kirk: “What the funk!?”

    Nicki Minaj: “That’s a whole lotta lotta!”

    Jane: “Follow the money Kirk, follow the money.”

    Accountants: “Ready. Go!”

  • The Ethics of Quantification

    I still don’t know which word to use, quantification or quantization. I know how to describe what I am thinking of, but I do not know which word accurately describes what I am describing, or will describe.

    All pervasive and practically is what domain we are speaking in. For ease of effort we will use these words interchangeably: quantification, quantization, and entanglement. We must think out of the box on this one.

    So there is most certainly a process and an effort that has been occurring.

    It is to separate or label EVERYTHING, matter, actions, thoughts without judgement or opinion.

    This gets manifested, according to my awareness, in many different ways: commercially, with and through products and actions. It make connections that are and are not there.

    I will tell you a story. I once knew a person named Bojangles. Bojangles was a complicated man. He would cuss and say bad words often. In fact 90% of the words that he said were very explicit. He was mean. He loved and was addicted to cigars.

    Years later I was walking down the street and I look up at a sign. It read “Bojangle’s Fine Cigar Shop”. I go into the shop and a met another person by the name of Bojangles. We became friends. In fact, this Bojangles, unlike the cussing Bojangles, was nice and a very good person and very likable and honest. He didn’t smoke cigars but he sold them.

    I got to thinking about how the two Bojangles are connected. They didn’t know each other and has never met. They are totally different in certain aspects. Just their name, Bojangles, and their relationship to cigars connects them.

    But it is not coincidence. It is quantum entanglements of persons, a phenomena that occurs and is occurring GLOBALLY.

    There is no evading it. That is just a phenomena that is.

    There is electronic logic (quantum actually) involved beyond the human organism, yet intimately entwined within the human organism.

    Such phenomena prompts that we discuss what freewill is and how much freewill we have as humans!

    What causes our entanglement of persons? Simply existing?

    How do we opt out or not participate in the phenomena of inter-dimensional, global entanglements of our persons? Is it possible?

    For such a system to exist, there has to be some assumptions.

    Assumptions:

    1. That our thoughts, actions, words, efforts, etc… are being measured, quantified, quantized, and/or recorded in some way.
    2. There is a response. It is like and ebb and flow, a process that manifests from the first stimuli, in some way, shape , or form. Is the response IMMEDIATE, like quantum entanglement?

    What occurs to such a system and process when we become aware of this phenomena? Is awareness contagious? Sometimes with science experiment, the unbiased outcome is dependent on the test subject not being aware of the experiment.

    I encourage you to go to a store and absorb and analyze what is being offered and “put forth” from this store. For fun, make connections that aren’t there! Pay close, intentional attention to your thoughts. Might you consider that those connections really are there and were before you became aware of that product?

    I contend that the entangled persons can share DIFFERENT fates, and ONE (out of many?) ways we are connected is through our literal thoughts and maybe even electronically connected by clairvoyance thought transmissions.


    Now, regarding the ETHICS of such quantification. In specific, I am thinking about our persons and their “classifications”, labels, or connections to ideas, products, consumer goods, etc.

    Have we learned our lesson yet?

    It is all fine and good, and could be a lot of fun to call someone a pretty doll, but that surely needs not to lead to any wrongs. That is where the relevance of ethics comes in in this system of quantification of our persons.

    Giving human qualities to that which is not human (and not the other way around).

    Humanizing, increasing empathy, kindness, humility. This needs to be an underlying prerogative of the quantification, quantization effort of our persons.

    Let us come to terms with what reality now is, and prioritize universal humility, empathy, kindness. That is where such a system will find long-term success, an engrained ethics at the core.

  • African Masai Tribal Technique: Ethical Response To Child Misbehavior and Unacceptable Behavioral Deviations

    Author: Sean Macken

    Date: 1/30/24

    This may be a worthwhile technique to (first of all – accurately preserve) study and/or duplicate as an ethical technique to handle child / kid misbehavior / unacceptable behavioral deviations.

    When a child does a wrong action, or misbehaves, the tribe, as one collective entity, embraces the child with love, with feelings of belonging, and acceptance.

    Through such a ritual, the tribal bond is built so strong and of perceived importance, that the individual will make choices (out of his/her/it’s/they/them/his/her/its personal freewill) that continue to strengthen the tribe’s homogeneity and, thus, reinforcement of socially acceptable behavior and norms.

    Tupac – Unconditional Love

    Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/02/17/the-masai-model/07a7c861-17b7-4e03-be4f-c2a79cee043a/

    https://www.masaimara.com/maasai-people.php#:~:text=According%20to%20Maasai%20history%20the,the%20Tanga%20Coast%20in%20Tanzania.

    https://www.masaimara.travel/maasai-tribe-facts.php

    http://maasaiwilderness.org/maasai/

  • Bnei Manashe, Nagas, and the N word.

    “Nagas” refer to divine or semi-divine, half-human, half-serpent beings found in Eastern mythologies, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism, who are guardians of treasure and reside in the netherworld called Patala. The term can also refer to a group of Tibeto-Burman peoples, a Tibeto-Burman language, or a Hindu mendicant of a specific sect.

    Nagas in Mythology

    • Appearance: They are depicted as human-snake hybrids, living beings with serpentine lower bodies, or as entire serpents, sometimes with human heads or a many-hooded cobra canopy over their heads.
    • Role: They are powerful, often benevolent, protectors of hidden treasures and magical knowledge, living in an enchanted underworld.
    • Cultural Significance: They hold significant cultural importance in many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures and have been revered in rituals for thousands of years.
    • Key Figures: Important figures include Shesha, the divine couch of Lord Vishnu, and Nagaraja Vasuki, who served as a rope in the churning of the Ocean of Milk.

    Other Meanings of “Naga”

    • Ethnic Group: “Naga” also refers to a group of Tibeto-Burman peoples living in the Naga hills of India and parts of Burma.
    • Languages: It is also the name for a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by these peoples.
    • Hindu Mendicants: In India, a “Naga” can also be a member of various Hindu sects who are mendicants, or ascetics.

    Cultural Connections

    • India: Many cities in Kashmir, such as Anantnag and Verinag, have names with the “Naga” suffix, indicating the historical presence and influence of Naga culture.
    • Southeast Asia: Dynasties in places like Manipur, India, and the ancient kingdom of Funan in Indochina claimed their origins from unions with nagas or their female counterparts, the naginis.

    The Bnei Menashe and the lost tribes of Israel

    The strongest claim to biblical descent in the broader region comes from the Bnei Menashe, a community on the India-Burma border with roots in Tibeto-Burmese ethnic groups.

    • Lost tribe of Menasseh: The Bnei Menashe are a community of about 10,000 members from the Chin, Kuki, and Mizo ethnic groups, among others, who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The movement originated from a tribal leader’s dream in 1951.
    • Ancestral claims: The claim is reportedly based on local traditions about an ancestor named Manmasi or Manasia, interpreted as a connection to the biblical Manasseh, son of Joseph. Some members have embraced Judaism, with Israeli rabbis having visited the community.
    • Not a Tibetan or Burmese claim: It is important to note that this is a specific claim from a community that lives on the borderlands, not a belief common to the Tibetan or Burmese populations as a whole.

    My hypotheses on Nagas and the N Word

  • Combating the roots of racism

    I hypothesize that this may be one of the roots of racism… the misinterpretation of holiness. This verse in Genesis is talking through a spiritual context / lens: “And then there was light… and light is good.”

    The face is charity, it is not all that important (what we look like – our physical person).

    Our character, our intention, our (nonphysical) heart and soul is where our spiritual lightness is.

    https://www.chabad.org/6503822

    https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4769775/jewish/George-Floyd-and-the-Healing-of-America.htm

    Please consider donating to the Truth and Reconciliation project: https://www.descendants.org/

  • Be fruitful and multiply: Thoughts of monogamy, procreation, and offspring.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/QDoqWH6M6dBPBfuTA

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1maotaI-zR2LYMZL5gJY8Q79xapSXRqJQ/

    I, being without a mate or spouse or lover for so long, joke that I wish I had a harem of wives. Of course, practically, I only endorse monogamy. I’ll be very lucky if I ever find a spouse or lover or mate because I am already forty one years old. I have never married, am single, and have not had a lover, even a kiss in over eleven years. I decided at one point to proclaim my born-again-virginship. I am a born-again-virgin. There could be a number of scenarios that apply, and of course some out of the ordinary miracle may occur, too, but all of it seems unlikely. I feel as if I am more than likely never going to meet a mate.

    Humans are animals, human beings are animals, yet there is, or can be something that distinguishes the difference between our primal, primordial selves and a higher being. Self control is that distinguisher, yet we are all fallible and no one is perfect. Sexuality, our primal self seems to be the hardest aspect of living to control.

    The practicality of monogamy is because I would like to be responsible if I ever bore a seed. 

    My education level is only up to an associates, I doubt I will ever make the necessary funds to even raise a family. I am an optimist, miracles and unlikely scenarios do happen… yet I feel that I am much more likely to never meet my lover companion. Or if I do meet her, the odds are against me in that some type of actual relationship will form and be built.

    The facts: I would not be able to support a family right now, as I am financially poor. I am aging, at 41 years old, so I am over my physical prime and over my highest physical attractiveness.

    I feel that it is resorting, becoming in tune with another reality, separated by physics and technology, that I have given consent for any woman who would like to procreate with me my permission to do so. With this consent and permission, it would have to be a very alternative, non-traditional scenario because if I ever bore seed, I would like my seed to have the finest of education so their chances at survival and thriving throughout their lives would be increased. I would also prefer to be married if I procreate, so I could be there for my family. Putting my trust in the ethers of life is a gigantic leap of faith. My mate would have to be in tune with who I am and would need to make up for all I lack so our family will be successful. I would prefer such a thing occurs honestly and in my full awareness, but faith may be the only route to take.

    Also, in our modern day, I reserve the right to not know what the actual reality is or what the possibilities are.

    There are infinite possibilities.

  • Seeking The Incomprehensible

    Seeking The Incomprehensible

    by Sean Macken

    These words are a celebration of life and seeking what cannot be comprehended.

    Table of Contents

    • Episode 1
    • Episode 2: Starfields

    Episode 1

    Seeking compassion. I looked as close as I could. I looked deep. I looked beyond my visual capabilities. Into the ether of microscopic. Beyond microscopic and into atomic. Was is there? Need I look beyond atomic into Nano and Pico and beyond.

    Where is compassion?

    I found a universe in a single electron.

    Was it all ideological? I slowed time. I must find a way to contemplate this, to fathom the realness of this existence.

    Wait… I must recenter myself. I am seeking compassion. Compassion is there. Compassion is everywhere. We must believe. It is not what the eye sees. It is what our instincts, our human auras feel. We feel compassion.

    These spiritual concepts, they are all theoretical and ideological? No, they are substance. They are real. Compassion is real.

     Through actions and intentions compassion is there. 

    Yet the search for compassion, I have found compassion and I have been led further.

    I have been let into another chamber. 

    I have been led to another gate.

    I have been led to another opening.

    I have been led to another fold that is unfolding. 

    I have been led to another room to contemplate.

    Is this what reality is? 

    I looked beyond cosmic energies and I found a universe inside of a particle. Inside of an electron. Inside of a single photon packet.

    She is there, for you, for you.

    She speaks:

    “I am that I am”

    “I am”

    And she is there for you, always. She has always been there for you.

    Time stretches again.

    Finally we are alone together, her and I.

    I’ve been waiting, yet she is sacred…

    she and I have always walked alone

    through this garden… through this opening.

    I jumped into nothing and fell inside of an electron. Another single electron, yet there was no universe inside. It was only I and it took me far, far and fast beyond to the other side.

    The electron took me to her again. Yes we must. I chased her. I chased her, yet she only will be found when she would like to be found. I chased and chased her. I yearned and reached for her hand. Please reveal your hidden self to me. I yearned. I yearned. She told me she has always been there. I knew this yet I wished to drink. I wished to be holy, to have only the holiest, my sacred, natural, and pristine water on my lips. I wished to kiss her. I yearned and yearned.

    The electron flung me to another universe, to another planet, and to another sun.

    I burst in flames, and entered into nothingness.

    I spoke to her for I could not see.

    Where are you, I have been searching. I’ve been yearning.

    At the opening I walked through. She was there and spoke “I am”

    Though how could I know if she is finally mine? I wish her to be all mine.

    Yet the spirit in uncontainable.

    She told me that we have always been only each others.

    I searched and searched.

    For the spirit won’t make you want more than your fill.

    I wished for more and I looked above.

    The above told me that there is always more. Always more of the unknowable. Always more of the incomprehensible to be revealed.

    I jumped through the inside of an atom.

    The protons were praying and the electrons were dancing. 

    I jumped on a photon and rode it through matter.

    How could this be that the spirit intoxicates so cleanly.

    Earthly wines of wines cannot start to quench your thirst compared to the infinite.

    It was a puzzle that the photon showed the electron.

    They were all so organic, yet structure was there too.

    Another gate opened.

    An opening appeared.

    A chamber door opened too.

    I drank more of the spirit and she was there and told me “I am”.  

    Episode 2: Starfields

    I went surfing on starfields with nothing except my naked body.

    The winds of the spiritual ether touched my fingertips.

    I laughed with joy at how the omnipotent just likes being tickled in her armpits of the deepest valleys just when I jump barefooted from mountaintop to mountaintop.

    How could you comprehend I am asked, yet everyone knows I’ve drank the wine of her spirit and am babbling the purest logic and reason that exists.

    She wished to being me in to the opening of the next realm’s portal.

    I told her that her hair makes me wish to kiss both cheeks on her face at the same time.

    She replied that she covers her hair to keep me yearning

    and I told her that our game of love is as infinite as her beauty.

    We laughed at how the passing electrons are mere roller coaster rides

    and that stretching time is too much fun when we are to enter the chariot set for “who knows which circuit”.

    “I don’t really get everything” I told her yet I wish I said that all I would like is to hold her hand until we get sweaty and then after that we could jump into each other’s psyche and swim inside of the other’s aura.

    She liked that, yet knew it was just me telling her that “I am in love with her, soul and all” 

    The cosmos were at it again, dancing with each other.

    I yelled “Time to get serious and mind your orbits” and we laughed together for eternity… until we started crying tears of joy that refilled the waterfall’s spring.

    The water was coming out of a rock’s crevice and it filled Earth’s seas.

    Each microbe became a new planet that giggled with joy upon birth.

    I fell through the moon and screamed “Is our love amorous!?” The incomprehensible quietly whispered “We are much beyond just that!”

    Finally I felt a comfort, as if I could rest gently.

    When I awoke it was as if the world was plotting, scheming, and conspiring for my good health, wellness, happiness, and success.

    I yelled “Leave me alone immediately!” and we both laughed laughs of innocent and giggly fun.

    The metatron’s metadata was finally appearing correct and I had the spiritual guide I was looking for.

    She asked me: “Are you searching for me?” and I replied “Perhaps we are searching for each other!”

    That appeared to be the correct response because she took me by the hand and brought me to the 5th dimension’s spiral staircase. Each step enters another dimension. I wondered how that is possible and the Z-index multiplied exponentially.

    The bewildering wilderness all of a sudden was civilized and I couldn’t help but ask “Are we getting closer to the incomprehensible?”

    The only answer was silence so I knew that could of meant Yes, No, Maybe, or all of the above.

    Opening after opening was new portal after portal and chamber after chamber.

    I realized that visuals are a mere mirror sometimes and what you see may not be what is actually there.

    How, amidst such exploration could a man such as myself not yearn for her hand?

    She comforts me when I need introspection. Her hand is all I wish for. Sometimes holding hands is more intimate than any other closeness in existence. She could be she and I could be I, yet our yearning for each other continues growing stronger and stronger.

    With every sip my intellect gets sharpened.

    With every sip my spiritual thirst gets quenched.

    I ask her if I am seeing what I am seeing and she replies:

    “I am”.  

  • Yet compared to a Jain?

    Yet compared to a Jain?

    I think life is such a holy special gift. We are all special, even those unwanted.

    Life starts / begins at conception.

    If possible, I believe in responsible procreation. I would hope that as a loving couple, my seed matures all the way to becoming a healthy baby! A healthy and good person all the way to a natural, old death! It is a lifelong commitment, as a parent to your seed and to your spouse.

    Every conception is a miracle.

    I believe in honoring that thou Shall Not Kill. Yet have you ever heard of the religious sect the “Jains”? The Jains are so pro-life that they cover their faces with masks so they do not ever breath in any living organism, accidentally killing a being. Jains also walk with a broom and sweep in front of themselves as they walk so they do not accidentally step on any living creature. Jains are the quintessential and definitive standard of pro-life! Every American should at least be aware of what pro-life really is, that that perspective of EXTREME respect of life exists.

    That being said, I believe in, in certain scenarios, that abortion should be legal and available for those who wish to give up their child. I pray that if, in (the hopefully rare) circumstance that an abortion is called for, that the abortion occurs in the first trimester of the pregnancy (within the first three months from the conception).

    The “including, but not limited to” criteria for abortions should be as follows:

    • Every incestuous conception should be aborted, without exception.
    • Every conception from a rape should be aborted, without exception.

    I would hope I would never have to get an abortion, but I also believe that it should be a woman’s choice. It is her body, her choice. A woman knows her body and knows when it’s not right and not meant to be, so then I feel (G-d forbid) that if a woman wants an abortion for any reason at all that is her right.

    <?
    /* Abort ALL conceptions and inseminations that have occurred from rape */
    
    $rape = 'Non-consensual sexual intercourse or insemination.';
    
    if ($rape){
      echo 'Abort ALL conceptions and inseminations that occur or have occurred from rape.';
    }
    ?>
    /* Abort ALL conceptions and inseminations that have occurred from rape */
    
    let rape = 'Unconsensual sexual intercourse or inseminations.';
    
    if (rape){
      console.log('Abort ALL conceptions and inseminations that occur or have occurred from rape.');
    }

    Audio recording of my opinion

    Now I would like to pray: Dear G-d, please heal wounds from this sad subject. I pray women will be respected, always. That men will be loving and be there for their spouse. I pray for all Mothers – giving appreciation for every Mother.

  • Close your eyes and have Faith – Procreation Consent

    Close your eyes and have Faith – Procreation Consent

    I, Sean Thomas Macken, hereby give consent for any female to procreate with me if that woman knows and loves me. I understand that this may be in another reality, another timescale, culture, and I may not be aware of it even occurring. My main concern would be the ensure that we are being responsible and our futures will be many years filled with happiness and love and kindness to each other. I prefer to be married first, before any sexual intercourse, and I would hope that our marriage lasts our entire lives, yet whatever the circumstance, it is very important to me that you and I are honest and do so honestly if we procreate. Also, planning and the future is very important to me so we can teach our children how best to survive and thrive, while being good people.

    Minimum Criteria – diversified genetics from myself and appropriate / legitimate.

    I would hope that if I ever get married that it is in the name of love and our fire of love burns for eternity.

    I, in my reality, have not met a woman to marry or start a family with yet. I would love to be a Father and Husband and I would love being faithful to my wife and I’d love to provide for our family. I feel my natural predisposition and natural propensity is being a family man, yet in my reality I have not found a way to make that happen yet.

    Some words to my family.

    Words to family.

    More words to family.

    How to live your life.

    Family Goals Worth Striving Towards:
    
    Body - Mind - Soul
    
    Body: Being kind to our physical bodies, as if they are Holy Temples.
    Mind: Sharpening our intellects and deepening our knowledge.
    Soul: Enriching our souls with humble spirituality.
    
    Values:
    Honesty
    Love and kindness
    Charity - Giving forth value (time, effort, energy, objects, etc...) to those beyond and "outside of" self.
    Understanding
    Practicality, Reason
    Honor, Respect
    Humility

    A Female’s Pregnancy On Demand – P.O.D.

    Future Financial Planning – Make sure to try to communicate with me to get an honest and full disclosure of my financial situation so I/we can provide for our family.

    Harem Defense Techniques

  • Artificial Intelligence Action Plan Guidelines

    2/26/25

    Written By Sean Macken

    structure3creative@gmail.com


    High Level Summary: While holding the highest ethical standards of conduct, without self interest (respecting private property and citizen’s persons), a Federal Agency with the relevant knowledge, access, privileges of time and space, shall create high integrity systems to regulate such technologies - making sure Human, Basic, and Constitutional Rights are adhered to and no crimes or violations of our citizens, communities, families, organizations, occur from the use of such technologies.

    An example of ethical uses of such technological systems: All purveyors of such technologies and organizations using these technologies must give honest, full, blatant, comprehensive disclosure to consumers and users. Full, comprehensive consent shall be given by all users and consumers of such technologies. The user shall have full control over “settings”, such as the ability to turn on and off “features” such as awareness of location, awareness as to whom is “wearing a deep fake mask”, individual control and full privileges of such features, as well as the right, access, and ability, at any time, for any reason, to opt out of such technologies and to cancel / cease use.

    Relevant regulation: An “ABSOLUTE TRUTH” and accountability system of every single action, interaction, of every organization, person, user, purveyor of technology, no matter how one is “classified”, in every time scale and space, which will protect the identity of the individual and organization through a numerical encryption system. The Federal Agency shall then, blindly, make sure that no atrocious crimes are being committed.

    The government regulation of such aforementioned technologies should be focused, specific, and holding an unwavering integrity to relevant government boundaries; not to cross into the private domain, as to allow competing entities (in our free market economy) the full freedom to achieve their individual potential and intention within the context and bounds of complying to such regulations.

    Highest Priority and Core Values: Compliance to Federal Laws - of utmost important: The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights - our security of person and property, religion, etc, Title VI anti-discrimination, Human Rights, Our Needs as humans: real drinkable water, real food, shelter, sleep, clothing, hygiene, sex (and the right to choose abstinence - and the sexual need can be achieved without interaction beyond the self), the need of social belonging within family and peer groups, etc.

    Further ethical discussion: Any artificially produced “thoughts” (clairvoyance thought broadcasts) in conjunction with "mindmaps" and/or chemical influence (not comprehensively disclosed and/or nonconsensual) shall not be practiced.


  • Architecture / Design – To all peoples, I would like:

    Architecture / Design – To all peoples, I would like:

    I would like you to feel important and appreciated.

    I would like you to feel beautiful. (Women)

    I would like you to feel loved, always.

    I would like you to have your needs met.

    I would like your individual preferences to be honored and respected, always.