19. To everyone who hears the word about the Kingdom and does not understand, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart - this is who is meant by what was sown along the way. 20. And what is sown on rocky places means one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21. but has no

26. For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son to have life in Himself. 27. And he gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. To show that in this promise to raise the dead in the proper sense of the word, there is not even a trace of any

48. He who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge for himself: the word that I have spoken will judge him at the last day. See 5:45. The Word... will judge. At the final instance, the judgment will be carried out not by Christ personally, but by the word He proclaimed: people will be judged insofar as

§ 95. SIN: ETHICAL CONTENT IS NOTHING AS EVENTS OF EXISTENCE Perseverance in the apostasis of individuality means a person’s failure to be what he “truly” is, that is, it means falling away from Being. This is a kind of existence "in spite of" existence, a way

Suffering in itself is not a source of spiritual benefits that can be derived from it. Suffering is never a source of spiritual virtues that can be derived from it. It is only a favorable occasion. Suffering by itself does not produce

Tell me, are commas needed in place of question marks? Their family had three children: daughter Lyudmila(?) born in 1925, son Mikhail(?) born in 1928, son Alexey(?) born in 1930.

Commas are needed.

The reference book by D. E. Rosenthal says the following. Usually, inconsistent definitions are isolated that complement or clarify the idea of ​​a person or object, which in itself (without definition) is quite specific and is already known. This role is played by proper names (they distinguish a person-object from a number of similar ones), names of persons according to the degree of relationship.

Good evening, dear “Gramota”! I really count on your help: #Pronebo aviation festival. Should the name of an event with a hashtag be quoted? I hope for an answer and thank you in advance!

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It is not necessary to put quotation marks, since the hashtag symbol itself performs a special function.

Hello. Tell me if the Russian language teacher correctly corrected the student’s mistakes - fly - 6 letters, 5 sounds, 2 vowels, 3 consonants (3 is crossed out and the number 4 is written), the teacher argues that in sound-letter analysis the sign is considered a consonant, but it has no sound????

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This is very strange logic. The soft sign denotes the softness of the preceding consonant, but is not itself a consonant.

Please tell me, can the combination “including”, separately from the turnover, by itself, be separated by commas, for example: “citizens have the right to present, among other things, the following documents: …”?

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The union itself including is not isolated. Connective phrases beginning with a conjunction including, are separated.

Hello! “At a distance 10 times longer, Andrei also came third.” - Is it necessary to separate “10 times longer” with commas and why?

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No commas needed. Design 10 times longer is an inconsistent definition. Inconsistent definitions are isolated if they provide additional or clarifying information about a person or thing that in itself (without a definition) is quite specific and is already known.

Hello. Please tell me whether commas are used in this kind of sentences:
1. Alexander (,) with his painful jealousy (,) often kept me locked up.
2. Ladoga (,) with its frequent storms (,) is dangerous for...
Thank you.

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Commas are needed: Alexander, with his painful jealousy, often kept me locked up. Ladoga, with its frequent storms, is dangerous... Usually, inconsistent definitions are isolated that complement or clarify the idea of ​​a person or object, which in itself (without definition) is quite specific and is already known. This role is played by proper names (they distinguish a person-object from a number of similar ones), names of persons by degree of relationship (also a specific selection), by position, profession, position (the same), personal pronouns (indicate a person already known from the context). In the sentences under consideration, inconsistent definitions refer to proper names (Alexander, Ladoga).

Good day!

Please tell me, is it possible to use the plural if the object itself denotes a collection of something? For example: federal and city budget(s), cosmetic and major repair(s).

Thank you in advance.

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It is possible, but in your examples it is more appropriate to use units. h.

Is a preposition a minor part of a sentence? for example, how many minor members of the sentence are there in the following sentence: During the holidays, the children walked in the forest.

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The preposition itself is not a part of the sentence. It can form a minor member of a sentence in combination with an independent word - a noun, a pronoun. There are two minor members in the above sentence: on vacation, in the forest.

“This” and “that” - what is the difference?
Thanks for the answer.

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SOOH,-and I, -o e. pronoun. adj. Official
Usage instead of the noun mentioned above. We did not buy a ticket due to the lack of one.We did not meet the train due to its non-arrival. < Как таково й, в функц. опр.
Taken by itself, without reference to anything. to another. The question is important as such.Love as such does not interest me.

Please tell me: is the expression “by itself” inclined? For example: a cat that walks by itself - then in the genitive: there is no cat that walks... what next?
Thank you!

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Words by her own do not change by case: there is no cat that walks by itself, I see a cat that walks by itself.

Hello, Gramota team!
I tried to ask the question four times, but never received an answer. I decided that perhaps this was a conflict with the Opera browser, which can happen in dictations. I am now writing in Explorer.
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Please explain - is it possible to narrate in the second person? How can someone who is usually referred to as “you,” the interlocutor, narrate (tell the reader)?
To avoid ambiguity, I provide the context of the dispute that has arisen: “the book was written from ... a person”
I can imagine from the first and third, but the narrative from the second is something that wedges me. They convince me that this is a common occurrence. Is it so?
Thanks for your work. Sincerely.

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Hello! Most likely, this problem is not related to the browser.

The term “second-person narration” itself needs explanation; it is an atypical narrative situation. If the narrator addresses the reader as “you” (and speaks about himself as “I”), then this is a first-person narration. If narrator addresses oneself as "you" hero(“You got up, washed, had breakfast...” instead of “He got up, washed, had breakfast”), and not addressed to the reader, then probably the term you proposed may make sense.

Good afternoon, can you please tell me if I have placed the punctuation marks correctly?
Discounts do not apply, and construction chemicals (not frost-resistant) are sold according to category “B”.

Thank you in advance.

Skorpiosha
Russian help desk response

The comma before and is placed correctly, but the comma after and must be removed.
Thank you, and in what cases is a comma placed after the letter I? Can you provide a link?

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The question “In what cases is a comma placed after And?” is not much different from the question “When is a comma used in a sentence?” The sign is placed if the syntactic structure of the sentence requires it (for example, if after And follows an isolated phrase, an introductory word, a subordinate clause, etc.), and the conjunction itself And does not require any punctuation after itself.

please tell me what is the difference between the words tautology and pleonasm? the meaning is very similar

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Pleonasm- lexical redundancy of a statement (when the meaning of one word duplicates the semantic component included in the meaning of another), for example: memorable souvenir(a souvenir is already a “memory gift”), icy iceberg(the iceberg itself is a “block of ice”). It should be noted that some phrases, initially pleonastic, still make their way into the literary language through clerical speech ( month of February, today).

Tautology– unjustified proximity of cognate words ( The following features of the text should be noted).

Hello!
Tell me in what cases a comma is NOT placed before complex conjunctions! Thank you!

Russian help desk response

The conjunction itself is never a basis for placing punctuation marks, including commas. A comma separates the predicative parts of a complex sentence and is not an attribute of a conjunction.

What was VEB like when you arrived?

This appointment was unexpected for me, to be honest. Three weeks before, I could not even imagine that I would be appointed to such a position; I never thought that I would find myself in a government organization. I thought that this was not my element. Of course, I am used to changing some Soviet-type organizations. But still, Sberbank is in the commercial field, and this is more understandable to me. Nevertheless, fate turned out the way it did. So, when I appeared here, the first feeling was that this was a pure scoop. The building was built in the 1980s; various ministries and departments sat here; it is very difficult to rebuild it. We are now converting the wings into open space, but the building itself cannot be fundamentally changed. There were such dark “glasses” in the lobby, it felt like you were entering a crypt. The chairman had a separate elevator, a policeman sat on the floor, and there was no canteen. And the people, and the approaches, and the values, and the smells, and the atmosphere - some kind of atavism of the 1980s. There wasn’t even a mobile connection here, and I’m not even talking about Wi-Fi.

Did they persuade you for three weeks?

You know, I probably didn’t need to be persuaded, because that’s the kind of person I am - I accept challenges. The challenge itself is motivation for me. I'm interested in creating something in life, shaping it, launching something new. This was a very serious challenge, because the bank was on the verge of default, out of six covenants, five were on the verge of being broken, and at first it was impossible to even assess the real scale of the problems. I came to the bank, asked to see instant liquidity, and they told me: it’s possible, but in a week. I say: how about a week? Instant liquidity is right at the moment, for today's day. And they answer me that they do not have such mechanisms.

You are called German Gref's man.

I have a lot of respect for German Oskarovich; he taught me a lot as a reformer and as a macroeconomist.

How long have you known each other?

We crossed paths, but didn’t know each other closely until I started working at Sberbank.

Did the president himself call you?

I had a meeting with the president, and before that with the prime minister. Apparently there were several candidates. And in several meetings they asked me what my motivation was, and I said that the challenge motivates me. VEB is an institute for the development of the country; I have a desire to develop the country.

In fact, the president, at that time the prime minister, Putin created the Development Bank and said all the same words about the development institution that you say today. What went wrong then?

The bank's mistake was that we didn't have a focus. This is a feature of the Russian management model, we never have a focus, we are always scattered about a lot - everything has to be done, everything is very quickly, everyone runs and so on. It was the same here. VEB is a development institution, which means everything needs to be developed: agriculture and any industry. But one cannot embrace the immensity. Still, this is not a giant bank that, you know, could afford to have unlimited capital and unlimited funding. The briefcase was dispersed. Plus, keep in mind that at that time there was a good market situation, you could take money from the West and invest it here. Vnesheconombank raised funds on world capital markets at a relatively low rate, which made it possible to develop long-term projects in Russia and increase its loan portfolio.

Twenty billion dollars at the time of your arrival.

Yes. Since 2008, virtually everything has changed. After the banking system in America fundamentally changed, the efficiency of investments in Russia also fundamentally changed. But the previous model continued to exist. There is one more nuance. Commercial banks lend for shorter-term projects, mostly at risk to the company itself. And VEB financed projects for SPV (special purpose vehicle). It took about five to seven years to build and launch them. These are longer projects with more risk. The current model did not take this into account, but was guided by the experience of commercial banks. Taking money and placing it, without taking into account long terms, plus debt financing in fact turned out to be prohibitively expensive. These circumstances brought this entire model down. Probably, the risk system as a whole was not debugged. There are good factories, but the risks are underestimated. The products of some factories are not needed either in Russia or abroad; the market has changed. For example, we have STES in Vladimir, an enterprise that produces insulation. And it seems that the consumer needs it, but in fact it is a semi-finished product. What is in demand on the market is not insulation as such, but a casing with insulation for the pipe. Another example is the Mekran furniture factory; the latest equipment is installed there, better than any Italian factory. But it is designed for the expensive segment. It was believed that it was necessary to replace expensive Italian furniture. While preparations for the Olympics were underway, hotels were being built, there was a need for this, then the market shrank and it turned out that such a product was not required. And such a large factory of expensive furniture turned out to be unnecessary, we are now reformatting it into another segment. That is, this is a coincidence. And the quality of the projects, and the fact that they are long, and the market situation, and sanctions - all this played together.

VEB in its previous form resembled a government moneybox from which they took money for anything.

Well, in the literal sense, still no. A money box is when there is money there. It's a matter of lack of focus, as I said. There were separate projects and instructions that were given to VEB. There were some good ones among them. Miratorg, by the way, was formed on behalf of. Is this a bad project? At that time there was no beef production industry in the country at all. It was a completely new idea - to bring these cowboys with new technology to Bryansk. Nobody believed in this, but as a result we now have a first-class player, everything was fully financed by VEB on behalf of VEB. But since there was no overall focus, VEB eventually ceased to play its intended role as a development institution.

What strategy did VEB choose to work with the old portfolio, primarily with distressed assets?

VEB's entire loan portfolio is about 2.2 trillion rubles. When we just started working last year, approximately 1.5 trillion rubles were in the “black” zone, of which, to date, we have been able to make decisions on projects worth about 1 trillion rubles.

Since the beginning of 2017, we have sold only four assets, which brought us 4 billion rubles in profit. For all other projects, no matter how complex they were, we adopted a different strategy, the so-called turnaround approach. The idea is to launch each project first and increase its value. Because if enterprises do not work, they can only be sold at their residual value, and this is a direct loss for us. We did this for a number of enterprises in woodworking and agriculture, and launched several industrial sites, for example in the Orenburg region. All of them are generating income today; most have achieved operating profit.

Nevertheless, at the beginning of October you began preparations for the bankruptcy of the Tractor Plants concern (KTZ).

Indeed, some assets could not be launched; a default strategy had to be adopted for them. These are two large objects that have been “hanging” on VEB’s shoulders for a long time and required a tough, but correct and understandable solution.

The first one is KTZ. In December last year, we proposed a restructuring plan to its owners in order to invest an additional 5 billion rubles and pull the concern out of default. But the current owners of KTZ did not take the actions established by the plan, so at the last supervisory board a default strategy was adopted. This is a large asset, the concern employs about 20,000 people, so we are providing a plan that will prevent the plant from shutting down.

The second asset is Chek-Su, a manganese ore mining project in Khakassia. Back in Soviet times, they were defined as difficult to remove. For almost a year, we, together with leading Russian and international experts, have been trying to understand whether it is possible to develop these deposits with new technologies. As a result, we came to the conclusion that at the current stage this is impossible.

There is another example - turkey producer Eurodon. Last year we restructured, but in winter there was force majeure, the disease claimed 30% of the poultry population. We looked at this case again and, together with the co-owner and general director of Eurodon, Vadim Vaneev, developed a restructuring program to clean out the contaminated poultry houses, load them and allow the company to reach planned targets - now not in terms of populating poultry houses, but in terms of product output.

What is happening now with VEB's Olympic facilities?

Last year, a major restructuring program was adopted for all facilities. We extended the loans for 25 years at a rate of 2.5% per annum. The restructuring allowed the entire maritime cluster to function normally, which now operates with positive EBITDA, despite the fact that the year turned out to be difficult for Sochi - Turkey took most of the tourist flow.

The situation in the mountain cluster is slightly different; more capital investments were made for these objects. Additional solutions may be required, but they will be fragmented. The main step has been taken - infrastructure projects are not being carried out on such short three-year loans as the Olympic facilities had.

What is happening with the Slava plant development project?

At one time we had a plan for the development of this territory. The project was developed before 2014, when prices for commercial real estate were completely different; it assumed high rent with a small supply of space. Today this model does not work. Therefore, foreign investors and I are exploring the possibility of implementing a completely different project, with a different business logic.

How did you solve the problem with funding after Western capital markets were essentially closed for VEB?

Last year we had an acute - about 300 billion rubles - lack of liquidity. Today we have a surplus of about 300 billion rubles.

We actively worked in the Russian capital market, in addition, agreements were concluded to attract financing in yuan in China, equivalent to $3.5 billion.

But we, as a development institution, need funding at rates below market rates. Our supervisory board has identified 26 industries that we should finance. Projects in these industries are break-even and important for the economy, but not highly profitable, which commercial banks do not enter into. Now we have about 300 projects that we can work with in the future, but for this we need long-term - at least ten years - and cheap money. For this purpose, together with the Ministry of Economic Development, we are implementing a project financing factory. Its essence is to provide financing through three tranches. There is a tranche that VEB provides, while VEB subsidizes its rate. There is a tranche against which a guarantee from the Ministry of Finance is allocated so that it is possible to attract money from pension funds. And there is a tranche intended for commercial banks. Why is this necessary? Banks often say that they have money, but no projects. Why? Because the risks are high. The factory makes it possible to make part of the risk acceptable for them - through guarantees from the Ministry of Finance and subsidies. We plan that the first transactions can be concluded as early as February next year, and the total volume of financing from VEB through the factory will reach 200 billion rubles.

There are almost forty development institutions in Russia. What do you see as the uniqueness of VEB?

The fact that he is the biggest. VEB is a bank, not all institutions are banks. However, VEB is not accountable to the Central Bank. We actually have an agency function that we perform for the Ministry of Finance, we have an expert history and an asset management fund, we have the task of supporting exports - all together. Most development institutions are, as a rule, funds that invest money as portfolio investments.

Don’t you think that there are more development institutions than development itself?

It is very important to pay attention to the coordination of various development institutions. There are many crayfish, many swans and many pikes, pulling the cart in different directions. Forty is a lot, but there should be fewer of them, they should be more focused and act in a coordinated manner.

Who do you think should coordinate, the Ministry of Economy?

This will probably be right. The Ministry of Economy, due to the arrival of a new, young, ambitious, active minister, is now in a stage of change. I think it's also very important for him to have a focus. It seems to me that Maxim Stanislavovich [Oreshkin] is a talented person in this sense and will definitely be able to give additional impetus. But you always need to decide on the focus. At VEB we have decided on our goals. And if people now come to me with agricultural projects, I send them to Rosselkhozbank, this is also a development institution, a whole bank with great powers. Of course, we will not abandon the projects that we had. But new projects should be handled by an institute created specifically for this purpose. The same applies to supporting small and medium-sized businesses. We don't deal with it. Now we have 26 industries, and I can create a high-quality examination for 26 industries, but I cannot create it for one hundred and fifty. This is simply impossible. Focusing allows you to increase the depth of elaboration. This is the Pareto principle that always works: 20% of your activity gives 80% of the result. We focused on what is important for the country's economy.

What's important?

We must focus on disruptive technologies because catching up technologies are important, but they will not determine the economy of the world in the future. We believe that it is necessary to build a new economy of high value added processes, since we are sitting on low value added processes, this is bad. If we are already producing oil, then God himself ordered the financing of chemistry, petrochemistry and deep chemistry. For example, in Saudi Arabia, the depth of processing in petrochemicals is much higher than in our country, and initially, 30 years ago, they did not have a chemical industry at all.

If we are talking about woodworking, well, we certainly need to do more than just deal with round timber. We must go to a higher level of processing related to cellulose and some new woodworking products. And yes, we are not very good at making furniture yet. Or paper. Here we have a sawmill in Krasnoyarsk. I drank a lot, high-quality sawing, the quality is simply crazy, but is Russia’s task to do only that? We launched this plant because before that it stood idle, the plant began to make a profit, but we are launching a second stage. We created our own expert division for woodworking and decided to build a pulp and paper mill for the first time in 30 years. Today it is not only paper, now wood is also used in textiles. This market is growing very quickly. We think that perhaps we will also produce fabric. This is an unusual story, because the world's pulp and paper mills end with four main types of final products. Next, textile enterprises are already connected. But why not? To make a final decision, we need very serious experts.

Such a task is unlikely to be feasible for just bank employees.

Certainly. We need to understand the depth of this technology. And that is why we have now formed a special division at the bank - Business Solutions. We directly said that by the end of the year we will gather experts in all our areas. But any expert opinion now quickly becomes outdated, the volume of information and the speed of change are too great. Therefore, to such an expert we add a network panel similar to McKinsey. They have such a panel of 50,000 experts.

Especially when you have to work in a global market.

Especially in a global market, right. Therefore, we take an expert and attach a panel to it. Which, in general, was not here before. Because a commercial bank assesses risks and issues loans, but we need to evaluate the broader technological, market component and perspective, especially technological.

Look, now there are companies that become large in two or three years and then die. Look how many big companies rise and die in five years. And it seems like the business model is new, everything is beautiful, they start, raise capitalization and then fall. Why? Because technology significantly changes the market as well. And this is happening faster and faster. And you only have construction for five years. Only after 15 years will the project begin to pay off. During this time, two cycles may change, so global expertise is needed.

We will soon have a lecture called: “Multimodal strategies, Chinese philosophy and the game of Go.” The Chinese encountered this around the 1st millennium BC. e., during the Warring States era. The seven principalities, or kingdoms, were in constant confrontation, the world was very mobile, and the Chinese thought about how to describe this multimodality. This is how the game of Go came into being. The first Chinese emperor wanted to somehow prepare his son to survive in a complex, constantly changing context. In fact, it was then that what I believe was the first computer was developed that could simulate a variety of strategies. In chess there is one game, one battle. There are many battles in Go, and the main challenge is to understand how one battle can affect another. At one time, the emperor prohibited people below a certain level from playing Go and disseminating information on how to play, because the game was considered strategic and only high dignitaries should play it. Mao Zedong, by the way, played very well.

How long does it take to study?

To a high level - yes, but this can be done in a month. But, of course, you can’t play as quickly as chess; it takes time. Chess is about attack, victory, defeat and quick calculation, there is also calculation here, it’s just an order of magnitude greater, which is why the computer was only recently able to beat the world champion in Go. Next year there will be a new fight. This game is about multimodality, and now multimodality is becoming an increasingly important factor due to the speed of change. Previously, there were longer terms.

The Japanese name of the game has taken root in Russian.

Yes, in China Go is called Weiqi. The game came to Russia through Japan. There, by the way, Go is the main intellectual hobby. Although the Koreans are now in first place, which is explained by the aggressiveness of their play. China introduces Go into university courses as a basis for logical thinking. But among the leaders of Chinese companies, I admit, few people play. They say it's very difficult.

In Go can any situation be turned to victory?

For masters, the game can last five to six hours. Of course, there are losing situations, but the good thing about Go is that it is a constant multi-strategy game. It used to be like they taught in business schools: develop a good and a bad scenario. But the world works differently. There are a lot of other scenarios between good and bad, and who even said what is bad and what is good. The world is always changing. The situation at VEB reminds me of Go: many assets, many stories that influence the portfolio in different ways, of course, you need to choose the main thing, but you cannot help but understand that the small affects the big.

Go is not your only Chinese hobby. I also heard about jiu-jitsu.

My son Nikolai got me into jiu-jitsu. He started at six and has been studying for five years. Now he probably has up to 30 medals, Russian, American, European. His dream is to win the world championship. Unfortunately, last year he lost the final, but we are preparing for next year. And once we went with him to the European Cup in Sweden, and our coach fell ill. As a father, I sat as a second. As a child, I practiced freestyle wrestling. But jiu-jitsu is very different from freestyle wrestling, and at some point I realized that I couldn’t say anything other than “come on, come on.” It’s not clear what “come on” is. There, by the way, it is not always necessary to “give”; more often you need to take advantage of the enemy’s mistake. And when I returned, I asked the coach to explain at least the basic things so that I could give the child practical advice. And he said: “Well, come out on the tatami!” And I went out onto the tatami. Since then I have already participated in three European Cups - myself. It was also a challenge for me to go out for the first time.

When was this?

The first time I went out was in 2015 in Budapest. Now everyone in my family practices jiu-jitsu, except for my wife and youngest daughter, because my youngest daughter is one year old and she’s simply not up to it yet. I have four children in total. My eldest son, who is twenty, was not at all into sports, but suddenly he also started training, and my eldest daughter, who is fifteen, has already taken silver at the European and Russian Cups.

So, jiu-jitsu and VEB started in your life at about the same time?

Jiu-Jitsu a little earlier. This was also a very big challenge. I am 48 years old, and this is “master three”, I usually go on the mat with opponents 10 years younger, because there are rarely idiots who compete in real competitions at the same age as me. I was at the European Cup, where at most you can meet three or four people my age in different weight categories, and you always have a group 10 years younger. Of course, this is not football. Because in football you can screw up. You are alone on the tatami and have no one to rely on. The first step is to evaluate the enemy in order to apply this or that practice. We need to understand where the enemy is coming from. If a person has done more judo - one technique, if taekwondo or wushu - another.

Do you have any awards?

In April, he took silver at the European Cup in Sweden, but lost the final.

You probably still run like everyone else.

Yes, long distances. This year I ran a half marathon. Next year I want to run the Vienna Marathon, I’m getting ready. I can run a half marathon normally, but a marathon is a lot of stress on my joints. I believe that sport should be challenging, but still about health.

Well, this is an element of competition with oneself, because one day there is no one else to compete with.

Probably, you need it once in your life. And so my routine is to run 10 km twice a week, and I have a very positive attitude towards this. I always joke that I am the best jiu jitzer runner (and jiu jitzers don't like to run) and the best jiu jitzer runner. I do both, looking for balance.

But let me! Then it turns out that a person cognizes what surrounds him, that is, the inner reality of God, creating in himself, and therefore, in God, ordered structures that repeat the orderliness he cognizes, therefore, the inner reality of God... A fairy tale about a white bull then turns out!

But no. The fact is that a person creates new meanings that did not exist before! Remember when we said that it is impossible to understand the meaning of an unfamiliar process by observing only part of it? In order to understand the meaning of someone’s actions, we must see what the person who committed the action saw, feel the same as he did, and see the results of the actions - that is, the causes and consequences of the process must be focused on our own level ! Since we are smaller than the world, we appeared later, and we cognize a part of the world that is influenced by its other parts, we put a completely different meaning into what we know.

Man will never know God - the meanings that the universal consciousness contains, accompanying the processes of the movement of the Universe, will forever remain incomprehensible to us. There is only a consistent approach to these meanings - but a person will always be less than the world, will always remain a part of it and will never comprehend the consciousness of God, of which he is a part. This is just as impossible as it is impossible for your hand to understand you, to understand the processes going on in your mind. Only here the difference in scale and complexity is even greater. The consciousness of the world feels a person directly, directly, a person calculates God indirectly and never feels completely. So the speaker on behalf of God simply succumbed to his own illusions. The same sensation in different circumstances gives rise to different meanings.

But for the process of cognition this does not matter. After all, despite the different meaning, consciousness still copies true patterns. We are the meaning-creating mirror of the consciousness of the world.

And since the meanings contained in us are slightly different, then our consciousness produces in itself not only the observable orderliness, repeating in itself part of the sensations of the consciousness of the world, but also the orderliness associated with its meanings, and spreads around itself a new, different, different natural order (see Fig. 7).

Man is part of the mechanisms that develop the world. It creates new meanings and new orders. He both cognizes and creates the world, being at the same time a part of it and a part of the Divine consciousness - and having the same nature as the consciousness of our world.

That is, man is, as it were, the second (as far as we know) wave of development of the consciousness of the world.

But a person is not a passive contemplator! A person is active in his cognition, he influences the processes around him, he interferes in the work of the world. Here it is natural to ask the question: how do we interact with the consciousness of the world, with God?

I'll answer you. We, in the course of our activities, and especially in the course of our thinking, which precedes our activities, introduce new meanings into the world. We bring them directly into the orderliness that form the basis of the consciousness of God. Each time, plucking a blade of grass or planting a tree, we add a new sensation to the consciousness of God in two ways - feeling and understanding the action itself (we are able to realize this) and making a change directly in the orderliness of the world, and therefore, in its consciousness (the meaning that appears in at the same time, remains incomprehensible to us).

That is, a person creates something new in the world consciousness in at least two ways - by feeling himself and by directly physically influencing the world. But there are two more ways!

One of them is the impact through the collective mind of humanity. The other is direct influence by thought.

Actually, this is one way, it’s just that influence through the collective mind of humanity is more effective.

But we will consider them in detail further. For now I will only say that human thought, being the subjective side of processes occurring in the objective reality of the world (the subjective reality of God), is material. It is common to man and to the world consciousness at the same time and is capable, of course, of influencing the events taking place in the world.

I think there is enough information for this part of the chapter. We have yet to understand one of the most important rules of behavior in this reality. Let's summarize for now.

Our world has a consciousness that we call God. Man is a logical product of the same laws as God, a part of God, whether he believes in a creator or not, whether he is religious or not, and participates in the creation of our world, its complication. Man participates in the semantic creation of the world and is able to interact with its consciousness, influencing the world directly and with the help of thought, which is part of the consciousness of God.

Goodness and creation

My dear reader, before we move on to consider the aspects of human impact on the world, we have to understand one of the most important rules of behavior that operate in this world.

This rule is directly related to understanding the consciousness of our world. We may not be able to understand God’s thoughts and His inherent meanings, but this is not necessary for true understanding. Think for yourself: do you always understand even the closest person, even your best friend, in everything? Can you say that you know all his thoughts, all his feelings? Of course not. Even though you know how to read minds, you (as well as any person) will still not have complete access to the soul, consciousness and subconscious, thoughts, feelings, mind of another person. However, this does not prevent us from forming some idea about this person - we form in ourselves a certain feeling that allows us to generally feel the essence of this person. At the same time, we do not need to feel what exactly our friend is thinking about - it is enough for us to feel in which direction his thoughts are going and enjoy the joint movement.

In the same way, we do not need to know all the thoughts and sensations of the consciousness of the world in detail. After all, the main thing is that we can feel the fundamental direction, feel the principle, the essence.

So, the rule. It states that creation and goodness are fundamental concepts associated with human existence.

You are disappointed? Do you think this sounds too preachy? A call to do good for some unknown reason?

No, that's not true. This is not a moral teaching, it is precisely a rule, a law determined by the very physical nature of our world, from which there are practical consequences, regardless of whether one accepts it or not.

Let's speculate to understand why this is so.

A world with consciousness, as we already know, creates a more complex order on the basis of a simpler order. Our entire world is based on this - on the constant development and complication of the laws operating in it, on the creation of an increasingly complex and branched order.

Man, being part of the world and part of God, is naturally a product of the same pattern - he creates a more complex order using the energy contained in simpler ones, and is by definition an element of God.

Therefore, man and God move in the same direction. And the thoughts of man, which we know are also the thoughts of God, should meet with less resistance in the same direction of movement in which the consciousness of God as a whole moves.

And, as we again know, there is entropy in the world that strives to disrupt any order. It increases chaos, seeking to destroy order, because in doing so energy is released. You cannot get rid of entropy, and in order to extract the energy necessary for existence, you will have to use it.

However, there are two ways to use entropy. The first way is to simply release the energy received from the low level order. This energy will spread outward, mixing up all orderliness and creating chaos on several levels at once. A simple example: there is a set of logs that represent a low-level order. We light a fire and throw logs there. There is a destruction of order and the creation of chaos on several levels at once: the ordered structure of the wood itself is destroyed, in addition, the order of the woodpile is disrupted - there are no more neatly stacked logs. But how much energy is released - how much heat! But at the same time, there is so much chaos - if this energy is not spent on creation. The amount of entropy in the world has increased. If you do not take control of the process, then entropy will increase further: say, a forest fire may start.

The second way to use entropy: having destroyed one order, create order at the next level, for example, semantic order. In this case, the balance of entropy remains unchanged - one order has disappeared, a new, more complex one has appeared. For example, they lit a fire - but not just like that, but to use the released energy for one or another creation: for example, to cook food. Or they ate well - but after that they didn’t lie down on the sofa at all, listening to how the body suffers and suffers from gluttony - but with new strength they developed such vigorous creative activity that they made a discovery that contributed to the progress of mankind, and even introduced it into production. The chaos has not increased. As much destruction as you brought into the world (by destroying the supply of food), the same amount of creation, by your grace, was added to the world.

Therefore, there are two ways of acting in the world. One increases chaos, the other does not.

But what does increasing chaos mean? This means a violation of the order of one level or another. And if orderliness is disturbed, then what does consciousness feel? What's going on in it?

There is a destruction of meaning in it. Changing or destroying values. The destruction of order means the destruction of consciousness. We are part of the world, and our consciousness is part of the world. Therefore, everything that happens outside immediately responds inside.

Any creative action of a person increases the orderliness in the world - and therefore his personal orderliness, the orderliness of his consciousness. Any destructive action destroys the person himself - increasing the chaos in his consciousness.

And what do we feel when something outside of us is destroyed, that is, when the meanings of objects that exist within us are also destroyed? We experience unpleasant emotions. Sadness, melancholy, anger, resentment. And it is no coincidence that when we destroy something outside, we destroy our own orderliness. We cause destruction - and this is what we ourselves call evil.

But when we destroy the orderliness of one level - a rougher, more material one - in order to create a more subtle, semantic orderliness, we not only do work to improve, complicate and refine our world - we thereby improve ourselves, making our consciousness a more subtle and complex instrument . This means that the creative actions of each person are associated not only with the complication of the meanings of the surrounding world, but also with improving oneself. What do we experience when we create something? We experience positive emotions. We feel that new meanings arise, we rejoice at new opportunities and the process of learning. Creation is what is usually called good.

The direction of God's movement as determined by man is the same. He complicates and creates. Thus, from a human point of view, He creates Good. If a person is tuned in to the same direction of movement, then he creates - and experiences the world as creation.

Have you noticed that it is impossible to live in our world without destroying anything at all? And stupid is the one who strives for only good - creation and completely rejects evil - destruction. It is impossible to create something new without destroying the old. In order for the forces of good to begin to work, the forces of evil must first be allowed to work. Another thing is that everyone chooses for himself: only to destroy (and then he destroys himself) or to destroy in order to create (and then he creates himself).

Unfortunately, the concepts of good and evil in general, and especially in humans, strongly depend on point of view. We were fined by a traffic police officer while we were driving a car after drinking beer, and we call it evil. Communists, like fascists, believed that they were doing good, but for many this turned out to be evil in its purest form. The tribal shaman does not like the fact that one of the savages learns to read, thus leaving his control, and he declares literacy to be evil. Different assessments of good and evil appear when a boundary appears between two ordering systems of the same level. We perceive ourselves with the car as one orderliness, and the traffic police as another, hostile one. The shaman perceives the laws of his tribe as his “territory”, and everything that does not fit into these laws is considered a different, hostile order. But God, aka the World, is one, and there are no boundaries in him.

The world is much larger than the USSR, Germany, and even more so a shamanic tribe. And sooner or later, if not immediately, but still he puts everything in its place, because the world, and therefore God and all the people in it, still move along the path of creation. And this means that the line of movement of one person, no matter how strong he is, sooner or later (even if not in this life, and not even in the next, but after many, many lives) will be directed towards the path of creating new meanings and complicating the order peace. Just like a pile of sand will sooner or later be swept away by the wind - no matter how the grains of sand cling to their position in the pile. Just like grass, which will still come out of the ground, no matter how much we burn or trample it.

And if the main direction in the development of the world is the creation of the new through the destruction of the old, then a person who does not create, but only destroys, will constantly be swept away from the path of evolution and experience terrible suffering from this. This will continue until he grows wiser and understands that he must move on to the path of creation and do it for his own good, in order to finally stop being destroyed and suffering.

So, statistical gain is always on the side of creation and goodness. No, I will not advocate for you to immediately start doing good and foaming at the mouth to defend your beliefs about good and evil at every corner. We must never forget that where there is a personal point of view, the judgment of good and evil for everyone is always untrue. What is good is decided only within the framework of the whole world. I will simply appeal to your rationalism. Creation is more profitable because in the course of it there is a greater likelihood of creating new meanings rather than destroying old ones, which means there is a greater likelihood of creating, complicating and improving rather than destroying oneself. So here's our conclusion.