Seek Ye First!

Seek ye first Over the years growing up rejected from before birth by my father- I have been hungry for success and aspired to gain many goals and prizes. And yes achieved much but not to boast because that gets us no where-Matthew 7:23! But one project I worked on for about seven years was a virtual decoding of the Chinese Written language. Using the break troughs of fellow missionaries I have reduced a complex code down to easy to remember elements suitable to be taught to three year old children allowing a faster uptake for reading and writing the Asian code languages used by Japan and Korea as well as China. And while at Yale and Hawaii Universities this intellectual material is understood with say Professor Unger’s grown breaking book ‘The Fifth Generation Fallacy’ or from Yale Professor LaTourette claiming that Chinese is 90% phonetic so that a skill scholar can see brand new characters and within a few seconds decode the character to know what it means and is telling us- but as well know what sound to say it wth- No Other Language with of course the exception of Arabic/Hebrew has that pictorial phonetic combination! But my editor is telling me I’m raving…. So instead of as a businessman taking charge of a hopelessly poorly taught code language which tells the Gospel Story of our Lord Jesus Christ in the pictorial elements of the pre simplified character- Yi/Righteousness… my 1680 character dictionary written by me in anticipation of the time when Chinese forces will invade my nation and knowing how to rapidly read everything the Chinese are writing is essential for survival- Well it goes no where- And I’m not a billionaire from that nor in a similar sized project current of equally radical reformatting the entire Hebrew Bible for extremely rapid mechanical translation and comprehension… Ah!!! Look to be blunt with you what has motivated me since I was a seven year old is one thing and one thing alone. Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God and all these other things shall be added unto to you (And for Hebrew scholars the Hebrew word Added is of course- father of Ephraim- Joseph- our good olde Hebrew 20%) OK On the face of it my life is a failure which is cool but I get to wear clothes, eat, live and well haven’t missed out on anything other billionaires have or do! But let us let look at the decision which Thomas J Watson faced in 1933. No one would know- It could be keep and was virtually kept a secret for 70 years…. ‘The question confronting all businessmen in 1933 was whether trading with Germany was worth either the economic risk or moral descent. This question faced Watson at IBM but IBM was in a unique commercial position. While Watson was famous in America the company’s overseas operation were fundamentally below the public radar screen…. IBM did not appear on any of thousands of index cards in the New York boycott organizations. Moreover the power of the punch cards as an automation tool had not yet been commonly identified so the risk that highly visible trading might provoke economic retaliation was low especially since Dehomag did not even possess a name suggesting IBM or Watson. On the other hand the anticipated reward in German was great. Watson had learned early on that a government in reorganization and indeed a government tightly monitoring it’s society was good news for IBM…. Nazi German offered Watson the opportunity to cater to government control, supervision, surveillance and regimentation on a plane never before known in human history. The fact that Hitler intended to extent the Reich to other nations only magnified the prospect for profits… As for the moral dilemma it simply did not exist for IBM. Supplying the Nazis with the technology they needed was not even debated’ p59-60 IBM and the Holocaust Edwin Black Time Warner New York 2002