William Sutphin:
CLASS OF 1972
Lyman High SchoolClass of 1972
Longwood, FL
William's Story
Hello Classmates,
As events turned out an engineer I have been queuing for finally offered some time for a critical project. That well known engineer, Murphy predicted the time slot would include the LHS 72 50th reunion and Murphy's legendary predictive powers remain intact! I will not be able to enjoy the reunion fellowship.
Classmates, have a wonderful reunion. We have many blessings to count. Bill
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
“The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned, and in whom sin in some measure still dwells.
The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin abolished for ever.”
― Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
Murphy's Law is especially quoted in engineering and as most of you would well know says: “If anything can go wrong, it will”. Often, we add: “and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way”.
Highly Recommended
William M. Briggs
STATISTICIAN TO THE STARS!
I hope to renew old friendships and make new ones at the Class of 72 Reunion (Oct 22, 2022).
As Erma Bombeck said, "If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more."
Perhaps by reunion time we'll have a conclusion as to the origin of the furin cleavage site!
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Until then I hope you and yours are and remain well in the Age of COVID.
Bill Sutphin (LHS 72)
“My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come
Presidents
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. "
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Poets
My friend, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find:
The riches left, not got with pain,
The fruitful ground; the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule nor governance;
Without disease the healthy life;
The household of continuance;
The mean diet, no dainty fare;
True wisdom joined with simpleness;
The night discharged of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress;
The faithful wife, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
BY HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
“Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
The Song of Songs
15. Behold, you are beautiful, my love;
behold, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.
The Singers ( youtube search strings)
Marvin Gaye What's Going On Live 1972
Lord of the Rings - Into the West (cover) - Ella Roberts & Nick Roberts
Ricky Van Shelton - I Am A Simple Man
Vince Gill - Whenever You Come Around - iHeartRadio 27.08.2019
Highway 101 - (Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes (Album Version).
Baillie And The Boys — I Wish I Had A Heart Of Stone (Americanos Del Recuerdo)
Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere (Video)
In Memory of Mom and Dad
Steve Wariner and Glen Campbell Sing "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
Alan Jackson - Drive (For Daddy Gene) (Official Music Video)
Passing it down (Let me tell you a secret about a father's love):
george straight a love without end amen
The McCarters -- Timeless And True Love
Daddy's Hands - Holly Dunn ( Re-recorded by CRS and given to me before she left for college)
Josh Turner - Long Black Train (Official Music Video)
Josh Turner - Your Man (Official Music Video)
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon - 1978 (Audio Original Stereo, Video Editado)
HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS (African Edition) | Jehovah Shalom Acapella
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Like A Rock (Speaking for myself only, Prima Facie evidence of a personal need to renew my mind in light of Psalm 119:9-16)
9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
10 With all my heart I have sought You;
Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
11 I have treasured Your word in my heart,
So that I may not sin against You.
12 Blessed are You, LORD;
Teach me Your statutes.
13 With my lips I have told of
All the ordinances of Your mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
[e] As much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on Your precepts
And regard Your ways.
16 I shall delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
Faith
Romans 1:16 - "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile."
Philippians 4:8 Meditate on These Things
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Proverbs 31 ( For Susan ) Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character
10 A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
11 Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.
12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.
13 She selects wool and flax
and works with eager hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships,
bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up while it is still night;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her female servants.
16 She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.
18 She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.
19 In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
20 She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.
21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
22 She makes coverings for her bed;
she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
and supplies the merchants with sashes.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
29 “Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all.”
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
31 Honor her for all that her hands have done,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.
Freedom
"This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
State of the Union Address (The Four Freedoms) (January 6, 1941)
The Saint - Sir Thomas Moore, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
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[HOW FAR IS RECREATION LAWFUL?]
Anthony.— I would I could as easily mend my fault as I well know it, but scant can I refrain it, as old a fool as I am: howbeit so partial will I not be to my fault as ...Expand for more
to praise it. But for that you require my mind in the matter, whether men in tribulation may not lawfully seek recreation and comfort themselves, with some honest mirth, first agreed that our chief comfort must be in God, and that with him we must begin, and with him continue, and with him end also. A man to take now and then some honest worldly mirth, I dare not be so sore as utterly to forbid it, sith good men and well learned, have in some case allowed it, specially for the diversity of divers men's minds: for else if we were all such, as would God we were, and such as natural wisdom would we should be, and it is not all clean excuseable that we be not in deed: I would then put do nought, but that unto any man the most comfortable talking that could be, were to hear of Heaven.
Before Our Very Eyes or if you prefer "In Plain Sight"
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, or Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics (San Francisco/New York: Harper SanFrancisco, A division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002),
The truth is that our bodies have no organ called conscience. That is why no atheist country has ever guaranteed freedom of conscience. For it is an aspect of our soul. It is based upon the Bible’s view of man as a living soul, made in God’s moral and rational image. - Vishal Mangalwadi “This Book Changed Everything”
War and Peace
Operation Linebacker I - A necessary condition of my attendance at LHS 72 50th HIgh School Reunion and among the debts I can't make whole: ( In memory of Jerry Dennis USAF B-52 pilot and the names on the wall) Every man who participated in the 1972 draft which to my knowledge was the last one will or should understand.
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Unrestricted Warfare: Two (PLA) Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization[1] (simplified Chinese: 超限战; traditional Chinese: 超限戰; lit. 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗).[2]
Taylor Fravel pointed out a common error in translation of the subtitle of the book. While it was translated and understood in the West by many as "China’s Master Plan to Destroy America", the actual subtitle was "Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization".[1]
Deng Xiaoping’s "24-Character Strategy"
Deng Xiaoping’s "24-Character Strategy" first emerged in 1990 in response both to the global backlash from the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and to the CCP’s sense of alarm following the collapse of the communist states of Eastern Europe.49 The strategy provided basic principles on how China should protect its national interests while increasing its interactions with the world. The "24-Character Strategy’’ has been roughly translated as:
"Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership."
As stated in a 2010 essay posted on an official CCP website, "Hide our capabilities and bide our time, make some contributions" and related thoughts were put forward by Deng Xiaoping for the ‘special period’ of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in the midst of sudden changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the socialist camp. . . . Currently, there are people in other countries who have produced misunderstandings and distortions of ‘hide our capabilities and bide our time.’ These people believe that China’s foreign policy strategy has a long-term, undeclared content and purpose:
This is that China believes that its current strength is insufficient, and the time has not yet come to announce and implement this great strategy, and consequently must ‘Hide our capabilities and bide our time,’ concealing the true situation and waiting for the right time of opportunity. . . . However, this is . . . a serious misunderstanding and distortion of the ‘hide our capabilities and bide our time’ idea stated by Comrade Deng Xiaoping . . . the original idea of using the expression ‘hide our capabilities and bide our time’ was the strategy of ‘developing ourselves,’ and not at all to ‘seek revenge on others’ after we have developed."
CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin continued this policy throughout the 1990s, making it a central tenet of Chinese foreign policy for more than ten years. The result was that China’s strategic orientation ‘‘demonstrate[d] unusual consistency from the 1980s through the 2000s,’’ with China’s leaders "insisting on the importance of sticking to Deng Xiaoping’s realist legacy."
The phrase tao guang yang hui, “keep a low profile” was used by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s as part of a famous description of China’s foreign policy. Zhao Qizheng, dean of the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China and formal head of State Council Information Office, argues that some foreigners misunderstand the real meaning of Deng Xiaoping’s proposal.
But some foreigners read it as advocating deception about China’s true strength. Zhao maintains that “keep a low profile” is not a trick, but an expression of a particular approach. Yet other scholars point out that in a classical context, the phrase is used to indicate a strategic ruse. But the key problem is not in which dynasty or in which book the term first appeared or whether the ancients used it in reference to strategic trickery. The core is how to understand the context in which Deng used the term.
Chinese civilization is always developing and the context of the same word or idiom is changing, and our understanding of an idiom should follow its own development and changes. No matter how scholars of various dynasties understood the term “tao guang yang hui,” in the 1990s, Chinese used it to express the meaning of “maintaining a low profile,” focusing on developing China.
The Chinese people have traditionally valued “enduring humiliation in order to carry out an important task, self-reliance, hard work and plain living.” The Chinese like to believe they aren’t expansionist, colonial, or imperial, and don’t hit out in all directions to grab and keep territory.
The idiom tao guang yang hui could be translated as “to keep a low profile” in modern times and it could even be translated as “to be self-effacing.” However, it could never be translated as “to hide one’s ability and pretend to be weak” or “hide one’s capabilities and bide one’s time” in a modern context.
After 30 years of reforming and opening-up, China experienced rapid developments in all aspects and grew into the world’s second largest economy. The building up of national defense began to be modernized and the society is more diverse. A brief study of the background of Deng's 24-character principle will give people a better understand as to the meaning of "hide our capacities and bide our time". Deng made the remarks after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, when people in foreign countries and in China hoped China to shoulder up the great banner of socialism.
In the 24-character principle, Deng stressed "never claim leadership". He said China will never claim the leadership, never seek hegemony, never seek sphere of influence, never practice group politics, and never interfere with internal affairs of other countries even if it becomes a strong nation one day. Understanding the sentence completely, one will see "never claim leadership" is the core of China's strategy for development. Based on the strategy, the Chinese leaders of new generation set forth the concept to build a harmonious world.
The Thucydides Claptrap: "Prevailing theory argues that U.S. conflicts with rising powers are inevitable. It’s also flat-out wrong." (Let us fervently hope so.)
U.S.-Russia Presidential Joint Statement on Strategic Stability
JUNE 16, 2021 ("Today, we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought". Unfortunately, China remains silent. The recent historical record of the perspective of Chinese leadership is not comforting)
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STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
We, President of the United States of America Joseph R. Biden and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, note the United States and Russia have demonstrated that, even in periods of tension, they are able to make progress on our shared goals of ensuring predictability in the strategic sphere, reducing the risk of armed conflicts and the threat of nuclear war.
The recent extension of the New START Treaty exemplifies our commitment to nuclear arms control. Today, we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
Consistent with these goals, the United States and Russia will embark together on an integrated bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue in the near future that will be deliberate and robust. Through this Dialogue, we seek to lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures.
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