Since it comes up so often, I thought some people might benefit from this explanation of 'The Cloud' and why companies are moving to it.
Thank you, Jonathan! *smile*
Appreciated!
Peace to you!
Thanks. That's helpful!
Since it comes up so often, I thought some people might benefit from this explanation of 'The Cloud' ...
Oh. I thought your subject line might mean this mysterious cloud: Ex 13:21, to Rev 13:14-16.
Perhaps Luke 9:34 applies anyway: ... a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. ;-)
Some have expressed that same emotion concerning the L4 cloud. [:D]
Since it comes up so often, I thought some people might benefit from this explanation of 'The Cloud' ... Oh. I thought your subject line might mean this mysterious cloud: Ex 13:21, to Rev 13:14-16. Perhaps Luke 9:34 applies anyway: ... a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. ;-)
Hi Allen! *smile* Peace to you! And Joy!
Maybe it's this one, since we are surrounded!
Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith
Actually the best quote comes from the hymn by Josiah Alwood:
O they tell me of a home where no storm CLOUDS rise,
O they tell me of an unCLOUDED day.
Aristophanes wrote about Cloud Cuckoo Land in his play The Birds. The term "refers to an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect. ('You're living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.') It hints that the person referred to is naïve, unaware of reality or deranged in holding such an optimistic belief."
Possibly apropos to the software world... [;)]
Or this one, which clearly shows that 'the cloud' is nothing new:
For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud . . . (1 Cor 10:1).
Then there's that great 14th century classic of Christian mysticism, The Cloud of Unknowing, the central idea of which can be summed up in this quote:
"For He can well be loved, but he cannot be thought. By love he can be grasped and held, but by thought, neither grasped nor held. And therefore, though it may be good at times to think specifically of the kindness and excellence of God, and though this may be a light and a part of contemplation, all the same, in the work of contemplation itself, it must be cast down and covered with a cloud of forgetting. And you must step above it stoutly but deftly, with a devout and delightful stirring of love, and struggle to pierce that darkness above you; and beat on that thick cloud of unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love, and do not give up, whatever happens."
You all are getting carried away with your word searching [:)]
You all are getting carried away with your word searching
I'm not word searching, I'm just pulling these references out of my head, or out of the clouds as it were. [;)] OK, I confess I did look up the quotes in Wikipedia to paste here, but I knew of these books/references and have read the Cloud of Unknowing. My aunt is quite an expert on it; she studied Middle English at Oxford and translated a French dissertation on the Cloud. When I think of the Internet cloud, these two references are never far from my mind.
Searching Logos library for mystery NEAR cloud finds many results, including logosres:tpc43;art=p...397
(2) The clouds of mystery will soon be lifted.
In Pulpit Commentary on Romans 13:11-14
Keep Smiling [:)]
I'm not word searching, I'm just pulling these references out of my head, or out of the clouds as it were. OK, I confess I did look up the quotes in Wikipedia to paste here, but I knew of these books/references and have read the Cloud of Unknowing. My aunt is quite an expert on it; she studied Middle English at Oxford and translated a French dissertation on the Cloud. When I think of the Internet cloud, these two references are never far from my mind.
I should have known better [:)] Anyone who has an aunt that studied Middle English at Oxford is way out of my league [:)] I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for all of your help. It's great to have someone so willing to give hints and advice so readily.
