Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Outside of the Sheltering Wings of the Almighty God there is Only Suffering

Dog Poet Transmitting.......

Well... it looks like Planet Nibiru is on its way again and the world is going to end this month. That's kind of a drag because I was looking forward to this summer; hanging out at the beach, doing my version of Raisin in the Sun. That's not a Stevie Wonder tune by the way. Speaking of Stevie Wonder tunes, ever since I posted that article that included those Stevie Wonder videos, I can't get his songs out of my head and it is worse than you might think. They are appearing in my dreams. The full songs play on the subconscious ethers of my dream state. I wake up with them playing in my head. I don't know what the meaning of this is but at least it is Stevie Wonder and not Barry Sweet and Low.

Where was I? Right, Nibiru. Well... expert astronomers are saying that this planet is on its way and we are screwed and... to quote me, “not in the way that I wanted to be, with sweet fruits and champagne but more like the Christians and the lions with lots of excruciating pain.” My problem with this is that probably not a single one of you is preparing for this. I recognize that most of us do not have a VIP pass to those underground luxury low rise condos; seriously low rise, since they are going in the opposite direction and behaving like David Rockefeller's dick, unless there is the appearance of a young boy in a communion suit to sacrifice on the altar to Satan. Then all bets are off.

Jesus, Visible (thank god I put a comma there) this doesn't sound very spiritual so far. Well, it's just one of those things; happens now and again and maybe the saving grace of that is that Nibiru is probably spiritual, even though it is a manifest expression but surely there have been manifest expressions that have been spiritual, like Jesus Christ, not Jesus Visible, which, as far as I know, does not exist but might be a good name for a Folk Rock group, if I can ever get the band back together. The thing is that everyone else is probably geriatric by now, except for me; that is a positive for arrested development and in my case, both arrested and incarcerated. You'd think as bad as my condition in that regard is that they would have sent me to a youth facility but... I digress.

Nibiru... something... something. It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember what it is. Some massive planet is coming; ten times the size of Earth and it comes every 27 million years or so, which for me is a long time but somehow they know about this; must be algorithms or something and Google would know about that but Google is silent on the matter, except when it isn't but it is all chatter isn't it? As much as it annoys me when people quote scripture, cause of that self righteousness virus thing, I approve of and enjoy scripture because it confirms things that I believe to be true and one of the lines I like is that “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” I think I am going to go with that for the moment; given that there is only now and ever will be.

It makes me smile when people talk about God as if they know what he wants and what he will do. I think I will create some scripture; no one knoweth the Nature of God, for that is sealed up in mystery and defined only in the vanities of a presuming mind. The Lord is neither good nor evil but some measure of awareness well beyond the barking of dogs, walking on their hind legs for a time and performing tricks for an audience of laughter.

Nibiru and whatever other doomsday scenarios that are birthed of the angst of this troubled age are of no consequence to me. Come they might, or not but my personal ability is not sufficient to a control of such events. I have enough on my mind simply seeking to control myself. It is the most difficult thing in the world, given that we are meant to surrender to achieve it in the first place. I'm not Abraham wrestling with angels. I don't wrestle with angels, given that they are direct extensions of the ineffable.

I figure we can put a couple backpacks together (should this prove real) and head for the Luray Caverns in Virginia but... you know they would probably close them, saying they are not safe, because above ground is the much better option or some form of bureaucratic nonsense or... they are already secreted there with their more deserving relatives.

Like another bit of scripture says; “for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.” Amen. The truth of the matter is that if the ineffable wants you saved, he'll do it. He can whisk you into the upper atmospheres without a whole lot of thought involved. The ineffable can do anything that can be imagined and one should not forget this, otherwise one might be left to their own devices.

There is this feature where if you have the desire to be independent -that can happen- if only to prove certain enduring truths about walking through the valley of the shadow of death on your own. Many, many times a day people experience what it is like to be on their own or to believe they are. One of the most powerful lessons that attend life is that at some point one must discover that there is a divine being and whatever experiences are necessary to take one to that understanding will occur and continue to occur until one reaches this understanding. All our arguments and protestations are in vain because there most certainly is a divine being and life... lifetimes are nothing more than a game of hide and seek. Outside of the sheltering wings of the almighty god there is only suffering. It might seem for a time that there are those who cruise along in some fantasy existence of their own device but it is only one more soul bound for self discovery and there is a vast distance between actively seeking the indwelling divine and having that information brought to your attention in extremity.

As it so happens, those of us in search of the divine also suffer as well but that suffering is just money in the bank. This is how I see it. One might say that all suffering achieves something. I am not sure of that. I think some suffering is pointless but suffering experienced in the pursuit of the ineffable is never pointless. It is currency. It is an investment. There are all kinds of investment banks, bankers and investors. Some of these banks are spiritual. There are all kinds of parking meters, whether on Earth, in Heaven, in Hell. I'm not interested in temporary things; material, spiritual, or otherwise. I don't like the idea of parking meters when it comes to my saying Aloha to this place, only to come back again. This is not a natural habitat for me. It isn't for any of us, it is a place of trial and testing. So... perhaps according to the ineffable it is natural but I prefer the supernatural. Some don't. Many don't. They like it here. They get to do things that are natural and unnatural in this place. I don't understand the logic of most of it but apparently it makes sense to them. It makes little sense to me. I've tried a lot of the experiences that people are so hooked on. They just don't do that much for me except as some form of temporary palliative, a momentary escape but... we cannot escape ourselves. That follows wherever we go.

When we drink alcohol and go down or sideways and when we get high and go up to whatever levels are permitted to us... it is momentary and there is a level of attrition attendant, regardless... and you always have to come back to the level you are at because of the integration factor that attends every flight of imagination and perception. The doors close again. Only through initiation or grace is there a lasting operational impact and whether earned or conferred, it is still earned in some way. We have to keep pressing or... conversely, letting go. There are arguments for either approach. I think it is a matter of temperament which one applies ...and I think this speaks to all those different roads that the travelers each insist upon being the only way. The only way where the only way applies is when it has to do with the singular preference of any individual soul. It depends on the ray you are on and your level of advancement and then one could say that this or that was the only way, simply because it is the most expedient and that can vary widely. It still wouldn't be the only way.

The only time it becomes the only way is when it is the path of Love because that is the same slender vein of gold within every path... no matter which, so long as it be a path where Love applies, it can be the only way because... sooner or later, that path must be taken.

I believe it to be true that one can gain all the wisdom of Solomon but they will still have to come back and walk the path of Love but... if one walks the path of Love to begin with, everything else is automatically conferred as well.

I've no idea if Nibiru is around the corner, or if it is something else or something else again. I know that I will be guided to where I should be, or transited, or it won't matter. It will be as it should be because my own greatest drive is for the ineffable and that is a contract that no matter how inconsistently I might honor it, is completely honored at the other end, though there is no other end really. They are the same point but differently perceived from two 'seemingly' different aspects. Eventually we are one with what we seek and emulate and that applies across the board; no matter what way stations we may inhabit for however long, no matter what exit is taken, no matter what town or wasteland of location or being we fall asleep in, we will awaken at some point, no matter how vast the distance ahead or within may appear to be.


End Transmission.......

This weeks radio broadcast was not aired due to difficulties at the other end.

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love you, Les !

Ray B. said...

On Nibiru/PlanetX, I was recently listening to a conversation that Linda Moulton Howe was having with astronomer Michael Brown. This was on PlanetX, on which Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown published a paper in the “The Astronomical Journal,” titled, “Evidence For a Distant Giant Planet in the Solar System.”

When it got around to the inevitable Nibiru question, Brown explained Solar System distances. If you make the mean Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles as 1 Astronomical Unit (or AU), then Neptune's orbit is 30 AU. The hypothesized PlanetX is on a very elliptical orbit, with 200 AU at its closest to the Sun and around 800-1000 AU at its farthest. So, PlanetX will get nowhere near Earth and will not even have more than a minuscule gravitational pull on the Earth. At most, it could gravitationally-jostle the objects way-out in its orbital region. Therefore, we can mostly-relax...

Vis, your comment on "Nibiru is probably spiritual" did raise an interesting thought. According to various woo-woo types, there are some 'planets' which are literally invisible to us because they are vibrationally higher. If there was any gravitational binding (needed for any conventional orbit), astronomers would have spotted its gravitational-effects on our planets in their data and computer simulations, even if invisible. So, if any of these exist in our Solar System, they would have to be something really exotic...

By the way, the 27 million year extinction cycle (not known to be related to PlanetX) does seem to have some merit according to recently-published papers. But fortunately, we are around halfway between the danger points. Whew...

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"Luray Caverns in Virginia." I've been there a couple of times, long ago. Beautiful formations! Even got me into spelunking a bit while in college in Virginia...

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Vis: "...I prefer the supernatural. Some don't. Many don't. They like it here. They get to do things that are natural and unnatural in this place."

I have begun calling those folks 'perfectly acclimatized'. They see no visible (grin) dissonance or incongruity; they have no 'Neo' itch. They truly like being a doctor, ditchdigger, wife, or father. (Those not nefarious by nature.) For some reason, perhaps because they are in tune with their Soul's experience-needs, they are just not interested in the supernatural. Currently, I have decided to just enjoy their enjoyment...

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Great wisdom:
"Only through initiation or grace is there a lasting operational impact and whether earned or conferred, it is still earned in some way. We have to keep pressing or... conversely, letting go. There are arguments for either approach. I think it is a matter of temperament which one applies..."

Best Wishes,
Ray B.

Visible said...

Yeah... well, you've made the technical statements that dovetail what I think in the first place. I'm guessing I won't be going to Luray Caverns for that reason, though I might well be there in a couple of months anyway due to all my friends living within 40 miles of Rappahannock county or in it. Not that Luray Caverns is there, which I don't know but it is close by.

Love To Push Those Buttons said...

Nibiru is a name for Jupiter, one of my sources (an astrologer with a damn good track record of earthquake predictions) who is no longer posting said there is no Planet X, and that the 'end of era' is this September; if I'm (or we're) even still around then.

That source is 'lightbulb' on 'Surfing the Apocalypse'.

I think something spiritual is gonna hit us too, and those escaping to their caves ain't gonna get what they expect. What are they expecting? A Tiamat moment? Uh, if that's the case; isn't Tiamat floating around in a decillion different pieces somewhere between Jupiter and Mars or sumthin'?

What ever. I don't care. I've got enough Akashic Knowledge to not care. I know what I am. And idiotic spiritual being having asked for everything I'm going through right now, and after this; THAT IS IT! I can't stand it here. A prison of my own design. Jacob Marley couldn't have said it better in A Christmas Carol. I have a gut feeling I'm almost eligible for probation, though.

Life is so weird now. So close to The Abyss, but little things keep happening, and promises of things held in front of us like a carrot in front of an equine pulling a cart. (An analogy, for though I have not had an experience with that sort of thing, I do not think equines are that STUPID. In fact, a few years back I had an exchange with one that made me think he was smarter than me.)

Vis, your words really hit home, and they ring so true. I must also say despite a few inconveniences that I won't get into, this month has been rather magical in so many ways. In fact, so has been my life; though there have been some mighty nasty moments. Looking back at the whole thing, I suppose I couldn't have asked for much better. After all, the obnoxious moments helped avoid doing some of the stupidest things a 'nose' (Remember, I do belong to the Holey Order of the Septum.) can do, and helped me succeed in the way I wanted and drive myself to incredible ends just for the sake of various types of revenge against everything that is, and I guess I got it from my own personal perspective.

Ayuh, I've done all I came down here to do. I'm retired from life. Still here, though. Don't know why, but I'll deal with it until the fat lady sings. . .whenever that will be. Less than 21 months fer shure, me thinks. Don't know if calipornia is gonna fall into the ocean, but we are uphill a kilometre from a fault, so. . . And we do live on the top floor. ;O)

Love To Push Those Buttons said...

Radio broadcast link doesn't work.

Visible said...

I could have sworn that I said at the end of the posting that there was no radio show because of difficulties on James end of things. It will appear at some point, probably when the Easter Bunny and Santa Claws are doing something by Wes Craven in that big movie studio in the sky.

Kazz said...

The only truth that rings true is one that speaks of love for me. Since God is love it only follows that those who are really of God will present with the following characteristics.

"Place me as a seal upon your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its ardor endures to the grave.
It burns with blazing flame,
a raging fire.
Torrents of rain cannot quench love;
nor floods sweep it away.
Song of Songs 8:6-7

Love is patient,
love is kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 13:4-8

For this is the will of God, your sanctification:
that you abstain from sexual immorality;
that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,
not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God.
First Letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians 4:3-5

Luv Kazz

Ray B. said...

LTPTB: "...isn't Tiamat floating around in a decillion different pieces somewhere between Jupiter and Mars or sumthin'?"

Astronomers are having a h@ll of a time with Bode's Law, here and here. It is empirically-based, not derived from some overarching theory. Nevertheless, it forecasts the orbits of the planets (including some not known at the time) with impressive accuracy. So, scientists have decided just to ignore it...

And what do you know: Bode's Law forecasts a planet right where the Asteroid Belt now sits. Hmmm...

Best Wishes,
Ray B.

Anonymous said...

"for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.” Amen.
Quite the paradox, but so true. The more to cling to someone or something the more likely you are to suffer a loss.
-your friend and mine, ye olde beggar

Audrey twerdy said...





Surrender...
This has been on my mind a lot lately
Surrender to the whole!


To the known whole and the unknown
The good the bad
The love the hate
Master your ego
Make it surrender
To the greater Whole
Egos born out of the primal egg
Remember your true self
Remember you are but a reflection
One the many facets of the true YOU
This you
That it may be a Lion or a General or a homeless or a planet
Will die, will disappear, will melt
That me I call Audrey
Will vanish into primal matter.
Primal consciousness is my destiny
Never to take it personally
God as we call it
Is neither a punisher or a giver
He is
And through Him
We are
And through Him
we die
It is up to you how we model our stay
And how we spend our rest
Consequences
Surrender to the laws
Appreciate this grand gifts
To know ourselves better
To test ourselves
And share our experiences with the
Consciousness of Whole
You will become the whole!

A movie to watch: The fountain




Lori said...

Visible,

Your work is an inspiration and blessing to those who visit here. It feels like home.

May God continue to express Himself/Herself through you for our benefit.

Namaste,
Lori

Anonymous said...

from the devotional lore of India, a song by Mirabai:

If by bathing daily God could be realized
Sooner would I be a whale in the deep;

If by eating roots and fruits He could be known
Gladly I would choose the form of a goat;

If the counting of rosaries uncovered Him
I would say my prayers on mammoth beads;

If bowing before stone images unveiled Him
A flinty mountain I would humbly worship;

If by drinking milk the Lord could be imbibed
Many calves and children would know Him;

If abandoning one's wife could summon God
Would not thousands be eunuchs?

Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One,
The only indispensable is Love.

Love To Push Those Buttons said...

Ah yes. I am a certified Space Cadet, after all. My apologies.

Kazz said...

ye olde beggar

"for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.” Amen.

"9And he (devil) led Him (Jesus) to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; 10for it is written, 'HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU,' 11and, 'ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"… (Luke 4:9-11).

And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'" (Luke 4:12).

What does it mean to lose your life? I have spent so much time drawing near to God that I no longer have the ability to sustain myself in this world, is that not losing your life?

These questions no man can answer only our divine creator can, which is why God is the only one who can be a true judge because God knows all. This is why I believe God created karma to judge us, that way the witness within judges us according to the same yardstick as we apply to others. Do I know this is the right understanding? No, because I really don't know anything, but then neither does anyone else, unless they are claiming to be God! One can claim many things but that does not make it truth.

Luv Kazz

Anonymous said...

pierre said...

continuing with the distraction intro, might I suggest playing ELO Can't Get It Out Of My Head 100 times for a Wonder Wash? I am doing Beach Boys John B today, overdid it physically yesterday I suspect.

Having completed half a dozen Joseph Farrell books, it might not be gravity related, the effects of the cosmos. He has more than a few (not too many) scientific examples of experiments that are affected by the alignments. Spooky science at a distance, or cool comfort for the cosmically networked. Farrell suspects that the Nazis did 911 with a directed energy weapon (directed according to Judy Woods means targeted at the energy of the atoms themselves, not necessarily a pointed gun directed/aimed)... in that case the Tribe are in cahoots with their slumbering (or simmering, or underground fire) Frankenstein monster. That would not surprise me at all. Farrell is still shy on Tribe issues though, perhaps they are just the Nazi/Jesuit/Masonic cash register (what Spike Milligan called the Jewish piano). Still, that makes them accomplice$ in the fir$t degree including getting wind of the Nazi 911 plot and telling all their fellow Jews though their grapewine not to go to work the next day. Wouldn't that be a doozie for the front page of the debut edition of Truth Or Else Daily.

Litmus Test : At Stone points out Japan's 6.5 quake has plenty of damage on land, something the 9.1 Fukushima (Sendai) quake obviously lacked.

back to on topic.... God!

Ray B. said...

This article is priceless, and should be required reading.

(I disagree with his comments about the Federal Reserve System and the Securities and Exchange Commission. They are purely privately-owned and operated - by you know who - and are parasitic growths, at best.)

Anonymous said...

pierre said...

page 6 of 8 as an example of looney and sun god influences on experiments
one of Farrell's references I chased up.
http://temporology.bio.msu.ru/EREPORTS/michrowski_time.pdf
"The experiments yielded interesting observations: the phenomenon of the rate of change of time
varies according to the hour of the day and according to the lunar phase. "
and Hutchison effect there is what Judy Woods thought 911 was in her Where Did the Towers Go.

@ Ray B , I read that last one. you could replace "socialist" with "Tribe" or Jewish as one commenter did here several years ago... you go to your Jewish bank, get some Jewish fed money, down to the Jewish Mall, home to watch Jewish Cable Sports.... etc. Tesla went to J P Morgan for finance, Ford got screwed 1921 by Louis Marshall.. etc. but as an antidote to the likes of E T Willams (also worth a look at on Jewish Youtube btw) and Rense's who don't believe in the welfare that keeps me alive, and not too desperate or unruly, it was a good read... also why I like Dean Henderson (though he is drunk on Sanders Juice). Though like anything, it can be used for evil and feels like a noose partly.

Ray B. said...

pierre, glad you read the article.

The point the author was trying to make (IMHO) was that all the 'essential infrastructure' that is generally 'invisible' to us (unless it doesn't work) was paid-for out of a collective 'pot' and could be called 'socialist'. This is the 'stuff' that raises us up from living out of a cave and trying to hunt down the nearest mastodon. (Predatory capitalists would 'loot' this paid-for, low-cost infrastructure, turn-around, and charge whatever the market would bear to the public.) There is a 'truth' in that control-freaks would overuse collectivism for nefarious purposes, but that was not the 'basic items' inventory used by the author.

At Giza, are you ZDG, RB, or MT ? (grin) As you said, Farrell shies off of making the final 'connections' - in print - to a certain Middle East country and their handlers. I am sure that he is immersed in enough 'data' to know the truth. (Not to mention certain Posters, who hammer it in. *grin*) "Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford." Outside of smoking as his 'tell', Joseph's Oxford U. has been implicated as an incubator for limited-hangout people. Whether Joseph is simply 'lying low' on this issue or is an intentional limited-hangout, time will tell...

Best Wishes,
Ray B.

Love To Push Those Buttons said...

Two contemplations:

Ever wonder what happens if a psychopath asked the universe for help? Or would they even bother?! And what will happen to the psychopaths at the end of the era which really hasn't come yet?

Enquiring minds want to know.

And:

THERE IS NO GOD

There is SOURCE, and everything in existence is part of it, and eventually going back to where it came from. SOURCE. Everything the human race has deified has no right to be called a god.

Scarlett said...

If that time comes, maybe we'll meet up in Luray Caverns -- that isn't far from my "neck of the woods" :)

I'm actually far less worried about some natural disaster wiping me out than I am about being forced to watch US citizens begging their money masters to tighten their chains. I don't know if I've passed the lesson I was sent here to learn, but the last few years I think I've been making progress and I might squeak by -- by the skin of my teeth -- if the big Apocalypse actually shows up in my lifetime. I hope it doesn't though, because I think that my delight in watching the shock of those evangelicals and others (who think they have a free pass because they have been protecting God's "chosen people") as they see that they've been backing the wrong horse all along would prove my undoing. (I'm trying to get to a place where I would just feel sorry for them instead of happy they got what they deserved, but maybe that is a lesson for the next lifetime.) God doesn't put trick questions on the exam. The Old Testament "god" does: like asking you to kill your own child to prove your obedience. Either choice makes you sin. Commit murder or disobey "god". You literally cannot win given a choice like that. Much like turning a blind eye (or aiding and abetting) Israel's evil -- Jesus showed us that our integrity was even more important than our life. He could have recanted and begged the mercy of the Jewish leaders and offered to publicly bow before them to spare his life, but he chose to die rather than to lead others astray to save his own neck. How I wish Christians would take the Judeo-blinders off and open their eyes and hearts to the truth!

If the end comes, I'll be opening a lovely bottle of champagne and toasting all the good souls I've encountered in this life and pray that I am a better student in the next!

Visible said...

email me Scarlett. You can be our guest and we'll have dinner and breakfast and lunch too.

Anonymous said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD1gmXQ4rbc

Anonymous said...

pierre said (forum mode)

@Ray B
" ZDG, RB, or MT" ?

Having no idea what that means, I guess I am undereducated on the subject, so far. Speculative studies on what we are not being told about are exhausting of time though and for the most part inconclusive (I choose, it's a latter day hobby at least). But I would rather, like a child, be curious and open minded , like a boy challenge the authoritarian adult world that has had the inherent trust stripped away completely from my former world view (though I always smelled the rat).



Ray B. said...

pierre: "ZDB, RB, or MT. Having no idea what that means..."
I was using the initials of three posters at Giza. I guess I was being too inscrutable, in an upholding of privacy (grin)...

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Unrelated "Star Trek" quotes:

"I am curious. Have the Q always had an absence of manners, or is it the result of some natural evolutionary process that comes with omnipotence?"
~ Tuvok, after Q makes an unannounced visit to his quarters. "Star Trek: Voyager", Death Wish (episode 2-18)

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"...Rom says maybe they're all dead, and this is the Divine Treasury, the Ferengi version of Heaven. Quark says that's not possible; the Treasury is made of solid gold-pressed latinum, the Blessed Exchequer and the Celestial Auctioneers are missing, and they should be bidding for new lives right now. Rom says maybe they're in the other place... Nog suggests the Vault of Eternal Destitution? Quark scoffs and says that's impossible; the bar was turning a profit."
~ "Star Trek: Deep Space 9", Little Green Men (episode 4-08)

Visible said...

A new Smoking Mirrors is up now-

Welcome to Samskara Land.

Visible said...

A new Petri Dish is up now-

Dancing on the Ledge of Certainty, Nature is Going to React. It is Inevitable.

Anonymous said...

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