Post-Industrial Captain, Individual

  Ford Explorer 2021 (Moottori Magazine)     Ford Explorer 2021 (Car and Driver)  "The Ford Explorer recipe sounds delicious: a three-liter twin-turbocharged V6, four-wheel drive, space for seven and fuel consumption of just 3.1 liters per hundred. And all this with a wealth of equipment for only 84,323 euros in 2021.  363 horsepower makes this large car very light, and at full throttle, a pleasantly powerful growl fills the cabin.  Behind the V6 is a 102-horsepower electric motor and a ten-speed automatic. The total output of the package is no less than 457 hp, and the torque is 825 Nm in total. It propels the colossus to a hundred in six seconds. The feeling does not doubt the claim."

    Veil of Veronica  A shroud is a plain piece of cloth used to wipe sweat from the face and hands. According to the Bible, the Jews used a shroud to cover the face of the deceased. Several legends tell of Jesus' shroud, as it was believed to have preserved his facial features. Jesus' facial features were preserved in a shroud offered to him by Saint Veronica. The shroud covered only the face of the deceased, while the rest of the body was wrapped in a shroud made of more expensive fabric.  Veronica (died 1st century) is the saint who gave Jesus a cloth to wipe his face on the way to the crucifixion, creating the image of a man's face on it. Veronica is not mentioned by name in the Bible, but in Catholic tradition she is commemorated in the so-called Stations of the Cross devotion at the sixth of the fourteen stations.

   Ford Ka  A friend of mine's wife used to have a Ford like this. I borrowed it once. It was handy to drive around town :)

    Society of Catholic Scientists  I have always been interested in science and engineering. I have even tried to advance them with my own modest contribution. However, I have never seen any conflict between science and faith. They mostly answer completely different questions.  People have, apparently due to ignorance, a completely wrong idea about the Catholic Church. The Church is in no way anti-science!  The link above provides an excellent introduction to the subject.  “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe...”  ― Albert Einstein

    Pope Leo XIV lays out vision for his papacy, identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity  New Pope Leo XIV chose his name as a reference to the artificial intelligence revolution.  Leo XIV has said that he chose his papal name because he wanted to be in the same continuity with the previous Pope Leo. Leo XIII was Pope from 1878 to 1903 and is known as a significant promoter of modern Catholic social thought. His encyclical Rerum Novarum raised issues of social justice, especially the rights of workers in the context of the second industrial revolution.  At present, we can consider that a new industrial revolution is at hand, as artificial intelligence develops and offers ever new opportunities and at the same time growing threats to humanity.  – Following our own time, the Church offers everyone its treasure of social teaching in response to the new industrial revolution and the development of artificial intelligence. New developments challenge human...

    Ford Fiesta (seventh generation)  I've owned the Fiesta for exactly a year now. And I've only driven 6,327 km. With these miles, I could do with a worse car...

    Gran Torino (Movie)   Ford Torino  Gran Torino is a 2008 thriller and drama film directed by Clint Eastwood. He stars in it.  Eastwood announced around the time of the film's premiere that it would be his last film as an actor, but he returned to the big screen four years later in Back in the Game.  Anyway, the car is amazing, isn't it? :)

    Pope  God bless the new Pope! ♥♥♥ 

  White smoke... Soon we will know who He is :)

    Torinon käärinliina ja sen tieteellinen todistus // Juha Hiltusen luento    "The Face of God" Michael & The Shroud of Turin | Dr. Jeremiah Johnston  The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, that depicts a crucified man. Studies have been done that date the cloth to the Middle East and the time of Jesus.I personally believe that it may be an image of Jesus that was transferred to the cloth after his death..

    New Holland  When Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation, New Holland was sold to Ford . The agricultural machinery company was renamed Ford New Holland, but the tractor brand remained Ford. The New Holland tractor brand was born in the early 1990s, when the Fiat Group bought Ford's agricultural machinery business. In 1990, Ford decided to sell its ownership of its Ford New Holland agricultural and construction unit and in 1991 reached an agreement with the Fiat Group to sell Ford New Holland to Fiat Geotech. Both brands had long traditions in tractor manufacturing. Fiat Trattori manufactured its first model 702 in 1919. Fiat Trattori S.p.A. ("Fiat Trattori") changed its name to FiatAgri in 1984. Henry Ford began manufacturing Fordson tractors in 1917. Contrary to popular belief, the tractor brand name was not Fordson because the Minneapolis company was already selling a tractor called Ford, but because Henry and his so...

  Thomas Aquinas   I ordered Thomas Aquinas' book Angels and Philosophy :)  Angels and  philosophy contains sections of Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae, which deal with the scholastic doctrine of angels. Aquinas presented, among other things, completely new ideas about the theory of motion that differed from Aristotelian physics, as well as new conceptual openings to basic questions in cognitive psychology. Thus, the work offers an interesting and best-known theological-philosophical perspective on the discussion of angels from the perspective of the history of ideas.

    Angelic hierarchy  I have always been very interested in angelology.  Angelology means the study of angels, the understandings of churches and theologians about angels. In particular, the term describes the systematic thinking and teaching of the Christian church about angels. But Judaism and Islam also have their own teachings about angels, their meaning, status and hierarchies. The three monotheistic religions of the world share the same understanding of angels as heavenly spirit beings and messengers of God, although there are differences.  The link above (Angelic hierarchy) provides more detailed information on the matter.

    Ford Motor Company  Ford- Go Further