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Page [always] under construction! Yes, this USED to be the "Esoteric Physics" page but I have now retired those files. They were spreading around the Internet and picking up interest and momentum; on the other hand, I have not had any new information (or proof of any of the claims of Scalar Electromagnetics and other Alt-Science topics with which they were concerned) for a long time and I really think it is time to retire them before I inadvertently start a cult! Each year the email increases, and it's always assumed that I must be some sort of authority because I wrote a series of articles over the last decade, trying to get to the bottom of some of the claims of the Alt-Sci underground. Actually all I was doing was trying to "ping" that Alt-Sci crowd, as I've stated again and again, hoping to be able to distill a few facts out of all the dross being published in the Weird Science arena. Then I began writing speculative essays of my own, intending to stimulate thought and experimentation. But instead of getting answers, I was gaining groupies. Time to pull the plug on it. Henceforth the "Esoteric Physics" files are retired and I will not answer any more email on that subject. Sorry if I disappoint you. |
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A Little About Me
Hi -- My name is Rick Andersen. I'm an electronics technician by day, with a variety of other interests by night, related and not related to my job. I live NW of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My interests/hobbies (besides surfing the Internet) include electronics in general, ham radio in particular, playing the Theatre Organ in the style of the old silent movie house era, gardening, Qbasic/VisualBasic programming, learning and reading the ancient languages of the Bible and the Church (NT Greek and Latin, with a tiny bit of Hebrew), watching old Warner Bros. cartoons, Law & Order SVU, and listening to Beck, Hannity and Savage on AM talk radio--- not necessarily in the order cited above. The two things that interest me most are my Amateur (Ham) Radio tinkerings (I like to build minimalist QRP circuits, for those of you who know what they are) and amateur biblical scholarship/Orthodox Christian apologetics. My Ham callsign is KE3IJ (hence the funny-looking email address at bottom). I was WN2FUB when a Novice way back in 1972; I forgot about Ham radio through the 1980s but was bitten by the bug again in 1993 when I passed the Advanced Class test and then became 'grandfathered' into the Extra Class a few years ago. I'm not on the air much nowadays, except on cold winter nights when the QRN is at a minimum and I get the urge. More often I'm building a toy receiver using Ugly Construction on copper-clad boards from Radio Shack.
See links at the bottom of the page to go to these and other areas of interest.
Gradually teaching myself Koine (New Testament) Greek since my teens, and even more slowly learning the other languages mentioned above, I enjoy studying the biblical texts and history of the Church, its doctrines and dogma. I am a layman with no academic credentials at this time, so feel free to take anything I have to say with a grain of salt.
For me, the Internet/WWW has come to replace the public library, for better or for worse. Yes, a free marketplace of ideas, overflowing with a lot of trash, but still the most far-reaching communications medium since the invention of the printing press.  
Greek Septuagint and Byzantine New Testament projectsSoon after beginning this large project, I discovered that many other sites have beat me to it, and at least one site has even completed a Greek-English Interlinear translation of the Septuagint (by Vanderpool and Neimann)-- http://septuagint-interlinear-greek-bible.com-- a long-term goal of mine but not even begun yet! Their interlinear of the LXX is a major accomplishment, along with Jay Green's Hebrew-English OT interlinear released in the 1970s. My efforts pale in comparison. Perhaps readers will find my site unique in that most other LXX sites do not include the "Apocrypha" [Deuterocanonicals/Anaginoskomena], much less English translations (or interlinears) of those books; I hope to remedy this eventually, Lord willing. I also include both versions of the Greek book of Daniel -- Theodotion's and the 'Old Greek' version. So, after decades of having access only to New Testament Greek interlinears, the Christian community now has the entire OT, in interlinear form, in both the original Hebrew and the LXX Greek version. Soon we will also have the complete Syriac (Aramaic) Peshitta NT in interlinear form, courtesy of Paul Younan of the now-defunct "www.peshitta.org" but preserved and carried on by http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com (thanks for the update R.L!). I wonder when a maverick within the Roman Catholic fold will give us an interlinear of the Latin Vulgate, so that we may have a complete and balanced contribution from the textual traditions of all three major historical branches of the Church (Greek, Syriac, Latin)? Looks like we may have a taker in Ron Conte, whose website, http://www.SacredBible.org , carries a project to revise and update the Catholic Douay-Rheims Version (the English translation of the Latin Vulgate) with a new translation of his own. Conte is translating from the Clementine Vulgate, using the Douay-Rheims version as a guide. His work is entitled the Catholic Public Domain Version [CPDV]. He has not yet produced a true interlinear, but does have the Latin alternating with the English, verse by verse, at least in part. We applaud his effort and hope he will consider doing a full Latin-English Interlinear eventually, if that is part of his plan. Having mentioned the above, it seems only fair to mention that another translator/editor, by the name of Paul W. Esposito, has released an update of Brenton's English translation of the Greek Septuagint [LXX], which he is calling The Apostles' Bible, http://www.apostlesbible.com/ , not to be confused with the recently-released Apostolic Bible, which is the Interlinear LXX mentioned a few paragraphs above. We are privileged beyond compare when we consider how much information is now freely available via the Internet. To me it is utter irony that there is a general ignorance of, apathy toward, and even certain vested interests against, the Word of God and its cultural and historical associations and influences.... not to mention its eternal power to transform human souls.
en av-to gar zo-men kye ki-noo-me-tha kye es-men "For in Him we live and move and have our being" *To properly display the uncial Greek font used in these pages, you need the KOPTOS font. To install a new font, click on your Windows Start button, then select Settings, then Control Panel, then Fonts, Install New Font, and select the font you want from whatever location you've stored it to on your hard drive. |
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Electronics/Ham radio:
Simple home-made radio
receivers and transceivers I've built (with schematics!)
Theatre Organ:
My Schober kit-built Electronic Theatre Organ page
Greek Scriptures of the Orthodox Church:
Septuagint/LXX Greek OT
(with Apocrypha) in HTML format
Byzantine Majority Text
Greek NT in HTML format
A Critical Review of "The Orthodox New Testament" [.pdf file]