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The best-laid plans and the fog of war
1. The best-laid plans and the fog of war
In the military (e.g., as taught and learned, say, at West Point) the phrase is "attention to detail" refers to insuring that every little detail, that could cause important plans to not be accomplished, is accomplished.
The phrase fog of war refers to the chaos that often ensues during a war because of lack of information, the tendency of systems to fail, etc.
The military science work of Clausewitz appears to be the first work to use the phrase "fog of war". The same types of things happen in real life, both today and in Biblical times.
An interesting example of calendar change differences and the "fog of war" happened in the time of Napoleon.
2. Best-laid plans
Even when plans are carefully and thoughtfully made, something often goes wrong.
"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry". From "
To a Mouse" by
Robert Burns (Author) (1759-1827).
Robert Burns wrote a poem "
Aude Lang Syne" that is often sung on New Years Eve.
New Years Eve is the evening of New Years.
3. Software engineering
A principle in software engineering is that 80% of the functionality can be accomplished with 20% of the overall effort but the remaining 20% of the functionality (which may be very important) will take 80% of the effort.
This is why many projects start up appearing to be making very good progress but then get bogged down in details.
4. Chaos theory and snowflakes
The discovery that small roundoff errors in computations can cascade to cause very noticeable effects resulted in the field that is today called "
chaos theory".
A common, though inaccurate in a sense, saying about chaos theory is that "
A butterfly flapping its wings in China might cause a typhoon in California".
5. Benjamin Franklin and sleep
True or false: Benjamin Franklin one went to bed one evening and woke up 12 days later.
In the British Colonies in America, the 11 days from September 3 to September 13, 1752, were skipped in order to move from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. So, according to the calendar, Benjamin Franklin slept for 12 days. In reality, it was just the arbitrary calendar that changed.
6. Church calendars
The Roman Catholic Church church (and the Western world) uses the Gregorian calendar for dating.
Christmas on December 25.
The Eastern Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar for religious dating (13 days difference).
Christmas on January 7.
7. Year and season of the birth of Jesus
When you hear that Jesus was born in 6 BC (or 4 BC or 2 BC) does that make the Bible not true? Or is the calendar not accurate?
Some 50 years later: stories of the birth
Some 300 years later: time of year decided
Some 500 years later: calendar years decided
Monk Bede (meaning prayer as in "bid" or "prayer beads") wrote history using dates from Christ.
Best guess for time of year: Spring or fall time frame. Feast of Trumpets in fall provides immaculate conception in December time frame.
[sheep in open field, course of Zechariah and Josephus]
If your thermometer showed that water freezes at 50 degrees, would what you learned about water freezing at 32 degrees not be true? Maybe the thermometer is inaccurate.
8. Prayer beads, Beade, and year dates
Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. [kjv]
biddað … [wes]
bidjith … [got]
The Old English word
"biddan" ≈ "ask, demand" and is the source of English words such as
"bid",
"bidding",
"bead" an it prayer beads, etc. This word was combined/conflated with the Old English word
"beodan" ≈ "offer, announce".
The monk
Beade, whose name meant
"prayer", starting dating events using the (incorrect dating system for the) birth of Christ. This calendar dating system is still used today. Beade used the term "
Easter" and it appears to have been used ever since.
5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. [kjv]
… bidde… [wes]
… bidjandin … [got]
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