RCB Kurzweil cpp
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Since my Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (32-bit) compiler seems to be incompatible with my new laptop with Windows 7 (64-bit) OS, and since I have found that some of my old QBasic programs work wonderfully with the QB64 compiler, FREE from the Wikipedia, I have decided to make a fresh programming start. I need to port these programs to QB64 to continue. Ray Calvin Baker 04:02, 28 November 2011 (UTC) Begin Newsletter Source Code
// This is the "Kurzweil.cpp" file:
// Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
// NO COPYRIGHT! This is a FREE public domain
// INSTRUMENT OF MATH INSTRUCTION!
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <conio.h>
int Connections(int nOldIdeas);
void Continue(void);
int ContinueOrEsc(void);
int PlayTheGame(int nOldIdeas);
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
int nOldIdeas = 0;
printf("Hello World!\t\t// NO COPYRIGHT! This is a FREE public domain\n");
printf("Wake up, World!\t\t// INSTRUMENT OF MATH INSTRUCTION!\n\n");
printf("Carrying the idea of \"Simultaneous Book Reports\" (AKA \"Library Reports\"),\n");
printf("as begun in the Wikiversity Sandbox, in a conversation\n");
printf("between Simple Simon, Tour Guide Extraordinaire,\n");
printf("and THE PI-MAN (\"Yours Truly\"), one step further,\n");
printf("I submit this collection of ideas from various sources, entitled\n\n");
printf("POEM COMPOSED IN MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 6.0 INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT\n\n");
printf("Thus begins the PROLOGUE of the epic journal,\n");
printf("_THE_LAST_B._S._HISTORY_BOOK_IN_HISTORY_\n");
printf("(where \"B. S.\" means \"Before the Singularity\").\n\n");
printf("Now is a good time to make this text window as big as possible.\n");
printf("There are small buttons \"_ [] X\" at the top right of this window.\n");
printf("Use the mouse to click on the \"[]\" button, then ...\n");
Continue();
printf("\nThis program is about as simple as programs get \n");
printf("-- no fancy graphics -- text only.\n");
printf("Its purpose is to present a game invented by Ray Kurzweil,\n");
printf("(Source: _Re-invent_, by Tom Peters, page 23)\n");
printf("adapted for second-grade level arithmetic by Ray Calvin Baker,\n");
printf("as a timely news report, for the edification of all.\n\n");
printf("HOW MANY ROUNDS OF THIS GAME CAN YOU PLAY?\n");
printf("(My computer starts giving nonsensical answers after only 9 rounds.)\n");
printf("(The ordinary rules break down at a \"SINGULARITY\".)\n\n");
printf("Before anyone objects, \"Second-graders aren't ready for this stuff!\",\n");
printf("please let me say, \"YOU aren't ready for this stuff!\"\n");
printf("The future is coming at us at 669,600,000 miles per hour,\n");
printf("and NONE of us are ready!\n\n");
printf("You are encouraged to use a calculator, \n");
printf("though the numbers may get too big, very fast.\n");
printf("Ask your teacher to make sure you \"make no mistake\" (a Presidential quote).\n");
printf("You may share this game with older children and adults, \n");
printf("but they may not believe your reports.\n");
printf("\"Who hath believed our report?\" -- Isaiah 53:1)\n");
printf("(\"And these signs will accompany those who believe....\" -- Jesus, Mark 16:17)\n\n");
printf("I'm not worried about \"no child left behind\" (another Presidential quote)\n");
printf("although I'm inclined to think that the quote means \n\"no progress for any child\"\n");
printf("-- I'm concerned about EVERYBODY LEFT BEHIND!\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\n\tTHE FIRST PART OF THE EXPLANATION OF THE GAME\n");
printf("\nHow fast do ideas grow? A very simple model suggests that ideas grow\n");
printf("about as fast as people (or computers) can make connections between them.\n\n");
printf("Let's try to understand how this works.\n");
printf("I'll start with 0 ideas.\n");
Continue();
printf("\nNumber of Old Ideas=%d; Number of connections=%d\n", nOldIdeas, Connections(nOldIdeas));
printf("That makes sense -- no old ideas; therefore, no connections!\n\n");
printf("Let's try the next number.\n");
Continue();
nOldIdeas++;
printf("\nNumber of Old Ideas=%d; Number of connections=%d\n", nOldIdeas, Connections(nOldIdeas));
printf("This also makes sense; 1 old idea, but nothing to connect it to \n-- so, no connections!\n\n");
Continue();
nOldIdeas++;
printf("\nNumber of Old Ideas=%d; Number of connections=%d\n\n", nOldIdeas, Connections(nOldIdeas));
printf("That worked. Here's a diagram: O---O\n");
Continue();
nOldIdeas++;
printf("\nNumber of Old Ideas=%d; Number of connections=%d\n\n", nOldIdeas, Connections(nOldIdeas));
printf("That worked even better! Here's another diagram:\n");
printf(" O\n");
printf(" / \\ \n");
printf("O---O\n\n");
printf("If you keep doing this long enough, you will crash the computer.\n");
printf("(I got to 25200 before I got tired and pressed the \"Esc\" key.)\n");
printf("\nThe computer will be using a simple recipe to calculate \nthe number of connections.\n");
printf("1. Remember the number of old ideas.\n");
printf("2. Subtract 1 from the number of old ideas.\n");
printf("3. Multiply the result from step 2 by the number you remembered in step 1.\n");
printf("4. Divide the result from step 3 by the number 2.\n");
printf("5. The result from step 4 is the number of connections\n");
printf("That is clear-as-crystal math -- so simple a computer can do it!\n");
printf("Press the \"Esc\" key when you want to move on \nto the second part of the explanation.\n");
while ( ContinueOrEsc() != 27 ) {
nOldIdeas++;
printf("\nNumber of Old Ideas=%d; Number of connections=%d\n\n",
nOldIdeas, Connections(nOldIdeas));
} // wend
printf("\n\tSECOND PART OF THE EXPLANATION OF THE GAME\n\n");
printf("This part of the game is as simple as the recipe to calculate distance,\n");
printf("given rate of travel, and the time of travel.\n");
printf("The recipe: Multiply rate of travel, and the time of travel.\n");
printf("If the units you use are correct and consistent, \nthe result is distance traveled.\n");
printf("Example: Walk at a rate of 4 miles per hour for 2 hours. \nYou will travel 8 miles.\n");
printf("I will make use of some variations of this recipe.\n\n");
printf("We can start the game with 2 ideas. \nRay Kurzweil supposes that it took 1000\n");
printf("years to make the connection between these 2 ideas \nand create a \"paradigm shift\" --\n");
printf("a radical change in the way people think and do things.\n");
printf("(I used a little bit of AL GEBRA here. \nSurely you will want to study AL GEBRA!)\n");
printf("To go 8 miles at a rate of 4 miles per hour takes 2 hours.\n");
printf("To make a \"paradigm shift\" using 2 ideas takes 1000 years.\n");
printf("The way I make the numbers work is to divide 2000 by the number of old ideas\n");
printf("to calculate the length of time (in years) until the next \"paradigm shift\".\n");
Continue();
printf("\nToday's topic is NOT dimensional analysis, \n");
printf("but I said above, that the units should be correct and consistent.\n");
printf("I will \"make it so\", and demonstrate.\n");
printf("Distance (the unit is \"miles\")\n");
printf("Rate (unit is \"miles per hour\"\n");
printf("Time (unit is \"hours\")\n\n");
printf("Distance (miles) = Rate (miles) multiplied by Time (hours).\n");
printf(" -------\n");
printf(" (hour)\n\n");
printf("When the equation is written this way, dimensional analysis makes sense.\n");
printf("On the right side of the equation, \n(hours) above the ------- line cancels (hour) below the line,\n");
printf("leaving only (miles), which is the correct unit for Distance.\n");
printf("I did some AL GEBRA to re-arrange the recipe. I ended up with:\n\n");
printf("Time (hours) = Distance (miles) divided by Rate (miles)\n");
printf(" -------\n");
printf(" per (hour)\n\n");
printf("When you learn to do arithmetic with fractions, \nyou will learn how to handle \"divided by\".\n");
printf("The relevant rule is \"turn the divisor upside-down, then multiply.\"\n");
printf("This puts my recipe into its final, useful form:\n\n");
printf("Time (hours) = Distance (miles) multiplied by (hour)\n");
printf(" -------\n");
printf(" Rate (miles)\n\n");
printf("The metaphorical equivalent of distance is 2000 ideas per \"paradigm shift\".\n");
printf("The metaphorical equivalent for rate is ideas per year.\n");
printf("We are trying to calculate Time Until the Next \"Paradigm Shift\" (in years).\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nThe important recipe is:\n\n");
printf("Time (years) = 2000 (ideas) divided by (ideas)\n");
printf(" ------- ------- ------- \n");
printf("per (\"paradigm shift\") per (\"paradigm shift\") (year)\n\n");
printf("\"Turn the divisor upside-down, then multiply.\" We get:\n\n");
printf("Time until (years) = 2000 (ideas) multiplied by (year)\n");
printf("next \"paradigm shift\" ------- -------\n");
printf(" per (\"paradigm shift\" (idea)\n\n");
printf("But, today's topic is NOT dimensional analysis, so let's move on, \n");
printf("\n\tHOW TO PLAY THE GAME\n\n");
printf("1. Calculate the number of connections and \n");
printf("the time (in years) until the next \"paradigm shift\",\n");
printf("using the current number of ideas.\n");
printf("2. Add the number of connections to the current number of ideas\n");
printf("to get the number of ideas to use in the next round.\n");
printf("It's as simple as that. I'll start you off with 2 ideas.\n");
while ( ContinueOrEsc() != 27 ) {
static int n = 2;
n = PlayTheGame(n);
} // wend
printf("\n\n\tWHAT DOES IT MEAN?\n\n");
printf("You have just experienced a preview of what has been written \n");
printf("about in your weekly Church bulletin since 2008.\n\n");
printf("\"'I have a time for everything, I have a time set for it all,' says the Lord.\"\n\n");
printf("\"'This is your time,' God says, 'Because I said so.' 'It seemed like\n");
printf("those promises had fallen by the wayside, but they are coming to\n");
printf("pass.' The Holy Ghost says that it will happen FAST, it will happen \n");
printf("much faster. That's why you have to make sure that you are seeking\n");
printf("Me with all you've got because I'm going to bring about the prom-\n");
printf("ises that I have spoken over this place years back. Make sure you \n");
printf("are in the right place, make sure you stay there because it is going to\n");
printf("happen fast. The harvest is coming fast. Even the answers to your\n");
printf("prayers and things you've believed for are coming fast this year.\n");
printf("But I have to warn you, says the Holy Spirit, that the blessings are\n");
printf("coming fast, a harvest is coming fast, what you have believed for\n");
printf("and prayed for is coming fast, but also those things that have not\n");
printf("been done in the right way will be dealt with fast, as well.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nThe 2nd Annual \"Holy Smoke Barbeque Fesitival\" [sic] was going on this past \n");
printf("week, I recently read to my wife a reprint of a magazine article\n");
printf("describing the Eggstravaganza, the Wild Goose Hunt, Jesus Jam, and the\n");
printf("\"Holy Smoke Barbeque Fesitival\" -- activities supported by the Easton\n");
printf("Church of God as relevant Christian ministries in the 21st century.\n");
printf("(Source: =\"21st-Century Srategies for Implementing the Great Commission\",\n");
printf("by Priscilla Hilliard, Winter 2011 _engage_)\n");
printf("We both chuckled when I read the footnote at the end of the article -- \n");
printf("\"1. Rich Marshall, _God_at_Work:_Discovering_the_Anointing_for_Business_\n");
printf("(Shippensburg, Penn.: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., 2000), 46.)\"\n");
printf("My wife had worked for Don Nori as a telemarketer for several years, \n");
printf("and two of our children had collated books for Destiny Image.\n\n");
printf("My daily readings in _The_Daily_Bible_ (Harvest House Publishers) \n");
printf("for this past week, by some curious coincidence, seemed\n");
printf("especially relevant to the high level of on-going activity.\n\n");
printf("(Source: Iaaiah 59:21 - 64:12)\n\n");
printf("PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT. \n");
printf("\"As for Me, this is My covenant with them,\"\n");
printf("says the LORD. \"My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put\n");
printf("in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of\n");
printf("your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on\n");
printf("and forever,\" says the LORD.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nJULY 20 -- THE GLORY OF ZION. \n");
printf("(Portions of this passage are suitable for singing.)\n");
printf("\"Arise, shine, for your light has come,\n");
printf("\tand the glory of the LORD rises upon you.\n");
printf("See, darkness covers the earth\n");
printf("\tand thick darkness is over the peoples,\n");
printf("But the LORD rises upon you\n");
printf("\tand His glory appears over you.\n");
printf("Nations will come to your light,\n");
printf("\tand kings to the brightness of your dawn.\n\n");
printf("\"Lift up your eyes and look around you:\n");
printf("\tAll assemble and come near to you;\n");
printf("your sons come from afar,\n");
printf("\tand your daughters are carried on the arm.\n");
printf("Then you will look and be radiant,\n");
printf("\tyour heart will throb and swell with joy;\n");
printf("the wealth on the seas will be brought to you,\n");
printf("\tto you the riches of the nations will come.\n");
printf("Herds of camels will cover your land,\n");
printf("\tyoung camels of Midian and Ephah.\n");
printf("And all from Sheba will come,\n");
printf("\tbearing gold and incense\n");
printf("\tand proclaiming the praise of the LORD.\n");
printf("All Kedar's flocks will be gathered to you,\n");
printf("\tthe rams of Nebaioth will serve you;\n");
printf("they will be accepted as offerings on My altar,\n");
printf("\tand I will adorn My glorious temple.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\n\"Who are these that fly along like clouds,\n");
printf("\tlike doves to their nests?\n");
printf("Surely the islands look to Me;\n");
printf("\tin the lead are the trading ships\n");
printf("bringing your sons from afar,\n");
printf("\twith their silver and gold,\n");
printf("to the honor of the LORD your God,\n");
printf("\tthe Holy One of Israel,\n");
printf("\tfor He has endowed you with splendor.\n\n");
printf("\"Foreigners will rebuild your walls,\n");
printf("\tand their kings will serve you,\n");
printf("Though in anger I struck you,\n");
printf("\tin favor I will show you compassion.\n");
printf("Your gates will always stand open,\n");
printf("\tthey will never be shut, day or night,\n");
printf("so that men may bring you the wealth of the nations--\n");
printf("\ttheir kings led in triumphal procession.\n");
printf("For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;\n");
printf("\tit will be utterly ruined.\n\n");
printf("\"The glory of Lebanon will come to you,\n");
printf("\tthe pine, the fir and the cypress together;\n");
printf("to adorn the place of My sanctuary;\n");
printf("\tand I will glorify the place of My feet.\n");
printf("The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you;\n");
printf("\tall who despise you will bow down at your feet\n");
printf("and will call you The City of the LORD,\n");
printf("\tZion of the Holy One of Israel.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\n\"Although you have been forsaken and hated,\n");
printf("\twith no one traveling through,\n");
printf("I will make you the everlasting pride\n");
printf("\tand the joy of all generations.\n");
printf("You will drink the milk of nations\n");
printf("\tand be nursed at royal breasts.\n");
printf("Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior,\n");
printf("\tyour Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.\n");
printf("Instead of bronze I will bring you gold,\n");
printf("\tand silver in place of iron.\n");
printf("Instead of wood I will bring you bronze,\n");
printf("\tand iron in place of stones.\n");
printf("I will make peace your governor\n");
printf("\tand righteousness your ruler.\n");
printf("No longer will violence be heard in your land,\n");
printf("\tnor ruin or destruction within your borders,\n");
printf("but you will call your walls Salvation\n");
printf("\tand your gates Praise.\n");
printf("The sun will no more be your light by day,\n");
printf("\tnor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,\n");
printf("For the LORD will be your everlasting light,\n");
printf("\tand your God will be your glory.\n");
printf("your sun will never set again,\n");
printf("\tand your moon will wane no more;\n");
printf("the LORD will be your everlasting light,\n");
printf("\tand your days of sorrow will end.\n");
printf("Then will all your people be righteous\n");
printf("\tand they will possess the land forever.\n");
printf("They are the shoot I have planted,\n");
printf("\tthe work of My hands,\n");
printf("\tfor the display of My splendor.\n");
printf("The least of you will become a thousand,\n");
printf("\tthe smallest a mighty nation.\n");
printf("I am the LORD;\n");
printf("\tin its time I will do this swiftly.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nISAIAH'S MISSION TO COMFORT.\n");
printf("The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,\n");
printf("\tbecause the LORD has anointed me\n");
printf("\tto preach good news to the poor.\n");
printf("He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,\n");
printf("\tto proclaim freedom for the captives\n");
printf("\tand release from darkness for the prisoners,\n");
printf("to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor\n");
printf("\tand the day of vengeance of our God,\n");
printf("to comfort all who mourn,\n");
printf("\tand provide for those who grieve in Zion--\n");
printf("to bestow on them a crown of beauty\n");
printf("\tinstead of ashes,\n");
printf("the oil of gladness\n");
printf("\tinstead of mourning,\n");
printf("and a garment of praise\n");
printf("\tinstead of a spirit of despair.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nTHE MESSAGE OF HOPE.\n");
printf("They will be called oaks of righteousness,\n");
printf("\ta planting of the LORD\n");
printf("\tfor the display of His splendor.\n\n");
printf("They will rebuild the ancient ruins\n");
printf("\tand restore the places long devastated;\n");
printf("they will renew the ruined cities\n");
printf("\tthat have been devastated for generations,\n");
printf("Aliens will shepherd your flocks;\n");
printf("\tforeigners will work your fields and vineyards.\n");
printf("And you will be called priests of the LORD,\n");
printf("\tyou will be named ministers of our God.\n");
printf("You will feed on the wealth of nations,\n");
printf("\tand in their riches you will boast.\n\n");
printf("Instead of their shame\n");
printf("\tMy people will receive a double portion,\n");
printf("and instead of disgrace\n");
printf("\tthey will rejoice in their inheritance;\n");
printf("and so they will inherit a double portion in their land,\n");
printf("\tand everlasting joy will be theirs.\n\n");
printf("For I, the LORD, love justice;\n");
printf("\tI hate robbery and iniquity.\n");
printf("In My faithfulness I will reward them\n");
printf("\tand make an everlasting covenant with them.\n");
printf("Their descendants will be known among the nations\n");
printf("\tand their offspring among the peoples.\n");
printf("All who see them will acknowledge \n");
printf("\tthat they are a people the LORD has blessed.\n\n");
printf("\nPRAISE FOR SALVATION.\n");
printf("I delight greatly in the LORD;\n");
printf("\tmy soul rejoices in my God,\n");
printf("For He has clothed me with garments of salvation\n");
printf("\tand arrayed me in a robe of righteousness,\n");
printf("as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,\n");
printf("\tand as a bride adorns herself with her jewels,\n");
printf("For as the soil makes the sprout come up\n");
printf("\tand a garden causes seeds to grow,\n");
printf("so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise\n");
printf("\tspring up before all nations.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nTHE BRIDE'S NEW NAME.\n");
printf("For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,\n");
printf("\tfor Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet,\n");
printf("till her righteousness shines out like the dawn,\n");
printf("\ther salvation like a blazing torch.\n");
printf("The nations will see your righteousness,\n");
printf("\tand all kings your glory;\n");
printf("you will be called by a new name\n");
printf("\tthat the mouth of the LORD will bestow.\n");
printf("You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand,\n");
printf("\ta royal diadem in the hand of your God.\n");
printf("No longer will they call you Deserted,\n");
printf("\tor name your land Desolate.\n");
printf("But you will be called Hephzibah,\n");
printf("\tand your land Beulah;\n");
printf("for the LORD will take delight in you,\n");
printf("\tand your land will be married.\n");
printf("As a young man married a maiden,\n");
printf("\tso will your sons marry you;\n");
printf("as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,\n");
printf("\tso will your God rejoice over you.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nTHE HOLY AND REDEEMED\n");
printf("I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;\n");
printf("\tthey will never be silent day or night,\n");
printf("You who call on the LORD,\n");
printf("\tgive yourselves no rest,\n");
printf("and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem\n");
printf("\tand makes her the praise of the earth.\n\n");
printf("The LORD has sworn by His right hand\n");
printf("\tand by His mighty arm:\n");
printf("\"Never again will I give your grain\n");
printf("\tas food for your enemies,\n");
printf("and never again will foreigners drink the new wine\n");
printf("\tfor which you have toiled;\n");
printf("but those who harvest it will eat it\n");
printf("\tand praise the LORD,\n");
printf("and those who gather the grapes will drink it\n");
printf("\tin the courts of my sanctuary.\"\n\n");
printf("Pass through, pass through the gates!\n");
printf("\tPrepare the way for the people.\n");
printf("Build up, build up the highway!\n");
printf("\tRemove the stones.\n");
printf("Raise a banner for the nations.\n\n");
printf("The LORD has made proclamation\n");
printf("\tto the ends of the earth;\n");
printf("\"Say to the Daughter of Zion,\n");
printf("\t'See, your Savior comes!\n");
printf("See, His reward is with Him,\n");
printf("\tand His recompense accompanies Him.'\"\n");
printf("They will be called the Holy People,\n");
printf("\tthe Redeemed of the LORD;\n");
printf("and you will be called Sought After,\n");
printf("\tthe City No Longer Deserted.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nVENGEANCE AGAINST WICKED.\n");
printf("Who is this coming from Edom,\n");
printf("\tfrom Bozrah, with His garments stained crimson?\n");
printf("Who is this, robed in splendor,\n");
printf("\tstriding forward in the greatness of His strength?\n\n");
printf("\"It is I, speaking in righteousness,\n");
printf("\tmighty to save.\"\n\n");
printf("Why are your garments red,\n");
printf("\tlike those of One treading the winepress?\n\n");
printf("\"I have trodden the winepress alone;\n");
printf("\tfrom the nations no one was with Me.\n");
printf("I trampled them in My anger\n");
printf("\tand trod them down in My wrath;\n");
printf("their blood spattered My garments,\n");
printf("\tand I stained all My clothing.\n");
printf("For the day of vengeance was in My heart,\n");
printf("\tand the year of My redemption has come.\n");
printf("\"I looked, but there was no one to help,\n");
printf("\tI was appalled that no one gave support;\n");
printf("So My own arm worked salvation for Me,\n");
printf("\tand My own wrath sustained Me.\n");
printf("I trampled the nations in My anger;\n");
printf("\tin My wrath I made them drunk\n");
printf("\tand poured their blood on the ground.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nKINDNESS TO RIGHTEOUS.\n");
printf("I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD,\n");
printf("\tthe deeds for which He is to be praised,\n");
printf("\taccording to all the LORD has done for us -- \n");
printf("yes, the many good things He has done\n");
printf("\tfor the house of Israel,\n");
printf("\taccording to His compassion and many kindnesses.\n");
printf("He said, \"Surely they are my people,\n");
printf("\tsons who will not be false to Me\";\n");
printf("\tand so He became their Savior.\n");
printf("In all their distress He too was distressed,\n");
printf("\tand the angel of His presence saved them.\n");
printf("In His love and mercy He redeemed them,\n");
printf("\tHe lifted them up and carried them\n");
printf("\tall the days of old.\n\n");
printf("\nWRATH AGAINST REBELLIOUS.\n");
printf("Yet they rebelled\n");
printf("\tand grieved His Holy Spirit.\n");
printf("So He turned and became their enemy\n");
printf("\tand He Himself fought against them.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nGOD'S PROTECTION REMEMBERED.\n");
printf("Then His people recalled the days of old,\n");
printf("\tthe days of Moses and his people --\n");
printf("where is He who brought them through the sea,\n");
printf("\twith the shepherd of His flock?\n");
printf("Where is He who set\n");
printf("\tHis Holy Spirit among them,\n");
printf("who sent His glorious arm of power\n");
printf("\tto be at Moses' right hand,\n");
printf("Who divided the waters before them,\n");
printf("\tto gain for Himself everlasting renown,\n");
printf("Who led them through the depths?\n");
printf("Like a horse in open country,\n");
printf("\tthey did not stumble;\n");
printf("like cattle that go down to the plain,\n");
printf("\tthey were given rest by the Spirit of the LORD,\n");
printf("This is how You guided Your people\n");
printf("\tto make for Yourself a glorious name!\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nISRAEL'S PRAYER TO GOD.\n");
printf("Look down from heaven and see\n");
printf("\tfrom Your lofty throne, holy and glorious,\n");
printf("Where are Your zeal and Your might?\n");
printf("\tYour tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.\n");
printf("But You are our Father,\n");
printf("\tthough Abraham does not know us\n");
printf("\tor Israel acknowledge us;\n");
printf("You, O LORD, are our Father,\n");
printf("\tour Redeemer from of old is Your name.\n");
printf("Why, O LORD, do You make us wander from Your ways\n");
printf("\tand harden our hearts that we do not revere You?\n");
printf("Return for the sake of Your servants,\n");
printf("\tthe tribes that are Your inheritance,\n");
printf("For a little while Your people possessed Your holy place,\n");
printf("\tbut now our enemies have trampled down Your sanctuary.\n");
printf("We are Yours from of old;\n");
printf("\tbut You have not ruled over them,\n");
printf("\tthey have not been called by Your name.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nOh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,\n");
printf("\tthat the mountains would tremble before You!\n");
printf("As when fire sets the twigs ablaze\n");
printf("\tand causes water to boil,\n");
printf("come down to make Your name known to Your enemies\n");
printf("\tand cause the nations to quake before You!\n");
printf("For when You did awesome things that we did not expect,\n");
printf("\tYou came down, and the mountains trembled before You.\n");
printf("Since ancient times no one has heard,\n");
printf("\tno ear has perceived,\n");
printf("no eye has seen any God besides You,\n");
printf("\tWho acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.\n");
printf("You come to the help of those who gladly do right,\n");
printf("\twho gremember Your ways,\n");
printf("But when we continued to sin against them,\n");
printf("\tYou were angry.\n");
printf("\tHow then can we be saved?\n");
printf("All of us have become like one who is unclean,\n");
printf("\tand all our righteous acts are like filthy rags,\n");
printf("we all shrivel up like a leaf,\n");
printf("\tand like the wind our sins sweep us away.\n");
printf("No one calls on Your name\n");
printf("\tor strives to lay hold of You;\n");
printf("for You have hidden Your face from us\n");
printf("\tand made us waste away because of our sins.\n\n");
printf("Yet, O LORD, You are our Father.\n");
printf("\tWe are the clay, You are the potter,\n");
printf("\twe are all the work of Your hand.\n");
printf("Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD;\n");
printf("\tdo not remember our sins forever.\n");
printf("Oh, look upon us, we pray,\n");
printf("\tfor we are all Your people.\n");
printf("Your sacred cities have become a desert;\n");
printf("\teven Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation,\n");
printf("Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised You,\n");
printf("\thas been burned with fire,\n");
printf("\tand all that we treasured lies in ruins.\n");
printf("After all this, will You hold Yourself back?\n");
printf("\tWill You keep silent and punish us beyond measure?\n");
Continue();
printf("\nJULY 21 -- GOD EXPLAINS JUDGMENT.\n");
printf("I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me,\n");
printf("\tI was found by those who did not seek Me.\n");
printf("To a nation that did not call on My name,\n");
printf("\tI said, 'Here am I, here am I.'\n");
printf("All day long I have held out My hands\n");
printf("\tto an obstinate people,\n");
printf("Who walk in ways not good,\n");
printf("\tpursuing their own imaginations --\n");
printf("a people who continually provoke Me\n");
printf("\tto My very face,\n");
printf("offering sacrifices in gardens\n");
printf("\tand burning incense on altars of brick;\n");
printf("who sit among the graves\n");
printf("\tand spend their nights keeping secret vigil;\n");
printf("who eat the flesh of pigs,\n");
printf("\tand whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;\n");
printf("who say, 'Keep away, don't come near me,\n");
printf("\tfor I am too sacred for you!'\n");
printf("Such people are smoke in My nostrils,\n");
printf("\ta fire that keeps burning all day.\n\n");
printf("\"See, it stands written before Me:\n");
printf("\tI will not keep silent but will pay back in full;\n");
printf("\tI will pay it back into their laps --\n");
printf("both your sins and the sins of your fathers,\"\n");
printf("\tsays the LORD.\n");
printf("\"Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains\n");
printf("\tand defied Me on the hills,\n");
printf("I will measure into their laps\n");
printf("\tthe full payment for their former deeds.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nSALVATION OF REMNANT.\n");
printf("This is what the LORD says:\n");
printf("\"As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes\n");
printf("\tand men say, 'Don't destroy it,\n");
printf("\tthere is yet some good in it,'\n");
printf("so will I do on behalf of My servants;\n");
printf("\tI will not destroy them all.\n");
printf("I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,\n");
printf("\tand from Judah those who will inherit My mountains;\n");
printf("My chosen people will inherit them,\n");
printf("\tand there will My servants live.\n");
printf("Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,\n");
printf("\tand the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,\n");
printf("\tfor My people who seek Me.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nNO MERCY FOR UNREPENTANT.\n");
printf("\"But as for you who forsake the LORD\n");
printf("\tand forget My holy mountain,\n");
printf("Who spread a table for Fortune\n");
printf("\tand fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,\n");
printf("I will destine you for the sword,\n");
printf("\tand you will all bend down for the slaughter;\n");
printf("for I called but you did not answer,\n");
printf("\tI spoke but you did not listen.\n");
printf("You did evil in My sight\n");
printf("\tand chose what displeases Me.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nBLESSINGS FOR SERVANTS.\n");
printf("Therefore this is what the Soverign LORD says:\n");
printf("\"My servants will eat,\n");
printf("\tbut you will go hungry;\n");
printf("My servants will drink,\n");
printf("\tbut you will go thirsty;\n");
printf("My servants will rejoice,\n");
printf("\tbut you will be put to shame.\n");
printf("Ny servants will sing \n");
printf("\tout of the joy of their hearts,\n");
printf("but you will cry out\n");
printf("\tfrom anguish of heart\n");
printf("\tand wail in brokenness of spirit.\n");
printf("You will leave your name\n");
printf("\tto My chosen ones as a curse;\n");
printf("the Soverign LORD will put you to death,\n");
printf("\tbut to His servants He will give another name.\n");
printf("Whoever invokes a blessing in the land\n");
printf("\twill do so by the God of truth;\n");
printf("he who takes an oath in the land\n");
printf("\twill swear by the God of truth.\n");
printf("For the past troubles will be forgottrn\n");
printf("\tand hidden from My eyes.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nNEW HEAVEN AND EARTH.\n");
printf("\"Behold, I will create\n");
printf("\tnew heavens and a new earth.\n");
printf("The former things will not be remembered,\n");
printf("\tnor will they come to mind.\n");
printf("But be glad and rejoice forever\n");
printf("\tin what I will create,\n");
printf("for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight\n");
printf("\tand its people a joy.\n");
printf("I will rejoice over Jerusalem\n");
printf("\tand take delight in My people;\n");
printf("the sound of weeping and of crying\n");
printf("\twill be heard in it no more.\n\n");
printf("\"Never again will there be in it\n");
printf("\tan infant who lives but a few days,\n");
printf("\tor an old man who does not live out his years;\n");
printf("he who dies at a hundred\n");
printf("\twill be thought a mere youth;\n");
printf("he who fails to reach a hundred\n");
printf("\twill be considered accursed.\n");
printf("They will build houses and dwell in them;\n");
printf("\tthey will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.\n");
printf("No longer will they build houses and others live in them,\n");
printf("\tor plant and others eat.\n");
printf("For as the days of a tree,\n");
printf("\tso will be the days of My people;\n");
printf("My chosen ones will long enjoy\n");
printf("\tthe works of their hands.\n");
printf("They will not toil in vain\n");
printf("\tor bear children doomed to misfortune;\n");
printf("for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,\n");
printf("\tthey and their descendants with them.\n");
printf("Before they call I will answer;\n");
printf("\twhile they are still speaking I will hear.\n");
printf("The wolf and the lamb will feed together,\n");
printf("\tand the lion will eat straw like an ox,\n");
printf("\tbut dust will be the serpent's food.\n");
printf("They will neither harm nor destroy\n");
printf("\tin all My holy mountain,\"\n");
printf("\t\tsays the LORD.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nGOD'S MAJESTY AND POWER.\n");
printf("This is what the LORD says:\n");
printf("\"Heaven is My throne,\n");
printf("\tand the earth is My footstool.\n");
printf("Where is the house you will build for Me?\n");
printf("\tWhere will My resting place be?\n");
printf("Has not My hand made all these things,\n");
printf("\tand so they came into being?\"\n");
printf("\t\tdeclares the LORD.\n\n");
printf("\"This is the one I esteem:\n");
printf("\the who is humble and contrite in spirit,\n");
printf("\tand trembles at My word.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nGOD'S ENEMIES WILL FALL.\n");
printf("(compare these verses with I Samuel 15:22-23)\n");
printf("But whoever sacrifices a bull\n");
printf("\tis like one who kills a man,\n");
printf("and whoever offers a lamb,\n");
printf("\tlike one who breaks a dog's neck;\n");
printf("whoever makes a grain offering\n");
printf("\tis like one who presents pig's blood,\n");
printf("and whoever burns memorial incense,\n");
printf("\tlike one who worships an idol.\n");
printf("They have chosen their own ways,\n");
printf("\tand their souls delight in their abominations;\n");
printf("so I also will choose harsh treatment for them\n");
printf("\tand will bring upon them what they dread.\n");
printf("For when I called, no one answered,\n");
printf("\twhen I spoke, no one listened.\n");
printf("They did evil in My sight\n");
printf("\tand chose what displeases Me.\n\n");
printf("Hear the word of the LORD,\n");
printf("\tyou who tremble at His word:\n");
printf("\"Your brothers who hate you,\n");
printf("\tand exclude you because of My name, have said,\n");
printf("'Let the LORD be glorified,\n");
printf("\tthat we may see your joy!'\n");
printf("\tYet they will be put to shame.\n");
printf("Hear that uproar from the city,\n");
printf("\thear that noise from the temple!\n");
printf("It is the sound of the LORD\n");
printf("\trepaying His enemies all they deserve.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nBELIEVERS WILL BE REWARDED.\n");
printf("Before she goes into labor,\n");
printf("\tshe gives birth;\n");
printf("before the pains come upon her,\n");
printf("\tshe delivers a son.\n");
printf("Who has ever heard of such a thing?\n");
printf("\tWho has ever seen such things?\n");
printf("Can a country be born in a day\n");
printf("\tor a nation be brought forth in a moment?\n");
printf("Yet no sooner is Zion in labor\n");
printf("\tthan she gives birth to her children.\n");
printf("Do I bring to the moment of birth\n");
printf("\tand not give delivery?\" says the LORD.\n");
printf("\"Do I close up the womb\n");
printf("\twhen I bring to delivery?\" says your God.\n");
printf("\"Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her.\n");
printf("\tall you who love her;\n");
printf("rejoice greatly with her,\n");
printf("\tall you who mourn over her.\n");
printf("For you will nurse and be satisfied\n");
printf("\tat her comforting breasts;\n");
printf("you will drink deeply\n");
printf("\tand delight in her overflowing abundance.\"\n\n");
printf("For this is what the LORD says:\n");
printf("I will extend peace to her like a river,\n");
printf("\tand the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;\n");
printf("you will nurse and be carried on her arm\n");
printf("\tand dandled on her knees.\n");
printf("As s mother comforts her child,\n");
printf("\tso will I comfort you;\n");
printf("\tand you will be comforted over Jerusalem.\"\n\n");
printf("When you see this, your heart will rejoice\n");
printf("\tand you will flourish like grass;\n");
printf("the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants,\n");
printf("\tbut His fury will be shown to His foes.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nDESTRUCTION OF WICKED.\n");
printf("See, the LORD is coming with fire,\n");
printf("\tand his chariots are like a whirlwind;\n");
printf("He will bring down His anger with fury,\n");
printf("\tand His rebuke with flames of fire.\n");
printf("For with fire and with His sword\n");
printf("\tthe LORD will execute judgment upon all men,\n");
printf("\tand many will be those slain by the LORD.\n\n");
printf("\t\"Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,\n");
printf("following tho one in the midst of those who eat the flesh of pigs and rats\n");
printf("and other abominable things -- they will meet their end together,\" declares\n");
printf("the LORD.\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nSURVIVORS TO BE EVANGELISTS.\n");
printf("\"And I, because of their actions and\n");
printf("their imaginations, am about to come and gather all nations and tongues,\n");
printf("and they will come and see my glory.\n\n");
printf("\t\"I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who \n");
printf("survive to the nations -- to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (famous as\n");
printf("archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands which have not\n");
printf("heard of My fame or seen My glory. They will proclaim My glory among\n");
printf("the nations. And they will bring all your brothers, from all the nations, to\n");
printf("My holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD -- on horses, in\n");
printf("chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,\" says the LORD. \"They\n");
printf("will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple\n");
printf("of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels. And I will select some of them\n");
printf("also to be priests and Levites,\" says the LORD.\n\n");
printf("\nETERNAL LIFE AND DEATH.\n");
printf("\t\"As the new heavens and the new earth\n");
printf("that I make will endure before Me,\" declares the LORD, \"so will your name\n");
printf("and descendants endure. From one New Moon to another and from one\n");
printf("Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before Me,\"\n");
printf("says the LORD. \"And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of\n");
printf("those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire\n");
printf("be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.\"\n\n");
Continue();
printf("\nFYI: The Singularity and the Second Coming of Christ are two distinctly \n");
printf("different events; one human, the other, divine. I cannot predict the exact \n");
printf("timetable for either event.\n\n");
printf("\nI hear in the previous passage a call to flourish in our stewardship,\n");
printf("whatever happens, but, above all, \"Occupy until I come!\".\n\n");
printf("Have I not commanded thee, be strong, of good courage.\n");
printf("Be not afraid, nor be thou dismayed,\n");
printf("For the LORD thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest.\n");
printf("\nI have seen one of the signs of the times, and it said,\n");
printf("\"Eglesia de Dios Torre Fuerte\n");
printf("'Yo soy el camino, la verdad y la vida; Nadie viene al padre\n");
printf("si no as por mi.\" -- San Juan 14 - 6\n\n");
Continue();
return 0;
} // End main().
int Connections(int nOldIdeas) {
return nOldIdeas * (nOldIdeas - 1) / 2;
} // End Connections().
void Continue(void) {
int nChar;
printf("Press the \"Enter\" key to continue.");
nChar = _getche();
printf("\n");
} // End Continue().
int ContinueOrEsc(void) {
int nChar;
printf("Press the \"Enter\" key (or \"Esc\") to continue.");
nChar = _getche();
printf("\n");
return nChar;
} // End ContinueOrEsc().
int PlayTheGame(int nOldIdeas) {
static int nRound = 1;
int nConnections = Connections(nOldIdeas);
double dTimeToPS = (double) 2000.0 / (double) nOldIdeas;
printf("\nRound Number Number of Time until \n");
printf("Number of Ideas Connections Next P.S. \n");
printf("%d %d %d %f years\n",
nRound, nOldIdeas, nConnections, dTimeToPS);
switch ( nRound ) {
case 1:
printf("(The \"stone age\")\n");
break;
case 2:
printf("(The \"iron age\")\n");
break;
case 3:
printf("(The \"Industrial Revolution\"! Calculus was invented!)\n");
break;
case 4:
printf("Many major technologies of the 20th century went \nOBSOLETE within 50 years!\n");
break;
case 5:
printf("New version of Microsoft windows operating system every few years!\n");
break;
case 6:
printf("One of the numbers got too big for its alloted space!\n");
printf("0.074638 years = 27.24287 days\n");
break;
case 7:
printf("Another number got too big for its alloted space!\n");
printf("0.000006 years = 3.1536 MINUTES!\n");
break;
case 8:
printf("0.000003 years = 94 SECONDS!\n");
break;
case 9:
printf("0.000001 years = 31.536 SECONDS!\n");
printf("There was more intellectual invention in those few seconds\n");
printf("than in ALL OF HISTORY before you were born!\n");
printf("(P. s. Computer overflow!\n");
printf("Did you notice we're about 1000000000 connections short here!)\n");
break;
case 10:
printf("Computer overflow (again!)! This answer is SHEER NONSENSE!\n");
break;
default:
break;
} // end switch.
nRound++;
return nConnections + nOldIdeas;
} // End PlayTheGame(int nOldIdeas);
// ENd of the "Kurzweil.cpp" file.
=End= Newsletter Source Code
