Monday, March 28, 2011

Bible outline tree

This is a screen shot from another one of my projects. Check the whole thing out over at many eyes: Outline of the Bible. It shows how the different books of the Bible fit into multiple levels of classifications. In the center you can see the "Bible" node which is connected to the old and new testament, from there you can branch down into smaller and smaller categories until you get to the individual books which are each connected to the one before and the one after. To read all the labels you will need to blow it up and pan around a bit.
I'll be talking about a few ideas related to this coming up soon.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Hopefully this will one day be true...

in the decades after legalized abortion ended--as we began to come to terms with the holocaust we had been blind to for so long--the realization that a unique human life begins at the moment of conception began to seep into all parts of society. A number of memorials to the unborn began to crop up around the country. The main one, at the old headquarters of Planed Parenthood in Washington D.C., comments on the fact that about as many little ones were killed everyday as there were people who died in the 9/11 attacks. In a central area It displays 365 unique sculptures of little ones, each with a scalpel crossing their bodies, and next to one such sculpture another of the twin towers falling. In the area around this-reflecting these icons over a hundred times-there are mirrors, one for each of the years that abortion was legal and a few more to memorialize the little ones killed by illegal abortions. Looking in on this are statues of women in poses of mourning, symbolizing the mothers who lost children to abortion.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

One sentance

 This is a story I wrote in one continuous sentence; please tell me if the grammar is not correct in in some way. This is not a run on sentence because it only has one subject and one predicate. It might be called horrible style but I believe it to be correct grammar.

Away from the world that you and I know, far across the sea, on the island of orem, a small nation state tucked away in the place where the fold lines of a map that was torn out of the atlas long ago obscure the tiny squiggle that frames its coast, king Edward, who was known chiefly for his wicked conduct toward those still loyal, despite the persecutions they endured at his hand, to the king who he had unjustly taken the throne from, not in battle but by appeal to the least known and most foolishly penned, though nobly enough conceived, law in the great law book which, being filled with an hundred thousand controversies now with their organic furry having been extracted from them and replaced with cold and solid legalese, read like a fossilized history of those things great and small that had been important to various generations of oremeites and which was housed in the great library of orem, where it had often unseated and raised kings but never in so patently petty a way as it had unseated the former king and put Edward so precariously on the throne and for his use of that law book, twisted and turned, read and interpreted through those few pages that others would call obscure but he called central, reigned, awaiting with great fear, a fear born of the knowledge that he alone possessed that his interpretation of that one central law, of which the short man in the swirl-striped hat had taught him so long ago as he sat reading that strange book by the grandfather of the king, a book he had then thrown aside to march into the castle and demand of the king the throne by virtue of the fact that he was the person who, in all the kingdom, was least suited for it, was wrong and that any moment someone with a sharp eye (or reading glasses) could open the book to the one page which thankfully was still considered obscure and, bringing the true king from the cave by the sea, uncomfortably close to where the castle stood on orems southern coast, close enough that Edward would sometimes wonder if the seagulls that often stole his food were the same that the king had fed with crumbs from the rations of bread taken without ceremony to him each day, where he now lived in exile, could walk into the palace their footsteps echoing, like the footsteps he now heard, along the corridor of statues where Edward’s statute would never stand, and take one man away to shame and place one in the honor he deserved.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Explanation of the Colors in the Map.

A number of people who saw the Bible map have asked what the colors mean and what they have to do with the contents of each book. The first principle i followed in choosing the colors was to make each of the seven sections distinct by going through the rainbow once each section. This led to using the same set of colors for each section that had the same number of books which was good because it pointed out some of the correspondences between the different sections that have the same number of books. (the last three OT History Books are post exile as are the last three minor prophets for example) To make the set of twelve colors I subdivided the set of five colors which worked especially well for the history books since they seem to form a set of five sections naturally: pre-kingdom, Samuel, kings, chronicles, post-exile. It is interesting to note that both the first and the last section of these five has three books: the first two about "taking the land" and the last about a Godly woman. For the last section of 22 books going through the rainbow just once wouldn't work so i split it into five sections, Hebrews is green because it is just one book and is the third of those five, revelation is not purple because the book before it is, instead it is a shade of red, a new begin.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Full illustrated Bible Map

This is the whole thing together so that you can see what I've been going on about. I have it printed off on my living room wall under that one singularly most popular picture of Jesus. If you want to print it off yourself, I'd say to print each of the four pieces on a piece of paper and piece them together. I think all the pictures are public domain, but I'm sure that I'm wrong about some of them since I couldn't find where they came from originally. in the future I'll post a list of what each picture is and where it came from.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Bible map Ilustrated, fourth quadrent

This is the glorious conclusion (and top right corner) of the Illustrated Bible map, covering the New Testament as well as (for one square) the end of the Minor Prophets.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Bible map Ilustrated, third quadrent

This is the third quadrant of the illustrated Bible map, it mostly contains the Prophets as well as Solomon's wisdom books.