THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

The purpose of general comments has already been forgotten.

I answered the need for acrobat, I have Acrobat 8 3D!

I like to say something that I think is important to say about the compilation of BWs work. It has to do with software choices and their usefulness.

Word frustrates me as a learning tool. That is because it has become a standard and because of that, Microsoft's customer base will not permit its API (application programming interface) to evolve. The same is true of Excel and Access. This limits the usefulness of the Microsoft Office Suite. Meanwhile PDF (Adobe) is just a document capture, storage, and indexing technology. PDF's intelligence is entirely limited to the document formats you can output PDF documents to and this is meaningless for documents that were originally bitmap documents.

I have become a greater and greater fan of HTML as a learning tool. HTML enables you to create documents that are both A HIERARCHY AND A FLOW. Word, Excel, Access, and Adobe do not allow this to be done in a straightforward and easy manner like HTML does. Nor do they allow the universal sharing that HTML does.

NationalSalvation.net is simply my personal student notes of BWs teaching. I organize these notes according to a hierarchy and flow that on an ad hoc basis is meaningful to me according to my personal understanding and learning needs. All I am really doing in NationalSalvation.net is sharing my personally organized student notes.

I love being able to easily put things (and change things) into various hierarchies and flows. It is a very powerful learning tool to be able to do this.

You can bring a horse to water, but can't make him drink. Knowledge is very unequal in its importance, and you can attempt to convey knowledge but accurate understanding is rarely conveyed. That depends upon the receptiveness of the learner more than the skill of the teacher.

For example, BW continually tries to make the point that the Jews and their hardwired hostile and devious attitudes work to their disadvantage. Now to me, that is a deep conveyance of real political knowledge. If you really understand what BW is saying here, you have learned a great deal to guide us in the subject of ethnic relations. The Jews in their errors provide a very meaningful lesson for us.

But I doubt that most of the participants of this seminar get the lesson at all, nor understand how important it is. It took a long while for the lesson to sink into me. It is about the trajectory of how cause and effect really work in human relations. Attitudes matter.

If you are compiling a teacher's work, the hierarchy and flow you choose depends upon your needs and understanding of the moment. But if you simply use your teacher's hierarchy and flow, you are not actively participating in the learning process.

Hey gang, it is the 21st century! We have heavy duty tools at our disposal people used to not have.

Let's not do BW the disservice of using 20th century thinking to "preserve" his teaching for posterity. It is unnecessary.

I would think, as far as "organizing things" is concerned, it would be far better to throw up BWs books into HTML format. Copyright issues there, but that would help propagate BW's knowledge.

http://www.cutepdf.com FWIW

Turn every corrected webpage (post page) into a .pdf file.

This works off of Dave's good suggestions. Then if

anyone wants hard copy, or something to send to someone else, you've got it. I have demonstrated this post to pdf via cutepdf writer at this link:

http://www.whitakeronline.org/PainsWholeProposal_080115.pdf

Note: because I was logged in, the last page of the 3 I sent to the writer shows me logged in as Sys Op - whoever does this should log OUT first and do it that way, then no comment box would show at all.

It installs into your printers lineup, and when you click-- File ---> Print Preview (look to see which of the pages you want to convert) --> Print and put in page numbers you want on anything, AND then choose CutePDF Writer as your "printer" up in printer selection box at the top of your print menu -- you get a pdf file. Now hit "Print" which converts the page into .pdf format and last, asks you where you want to put it on your hard drive (i.e. "Desktop").

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Some of us have pdf ability built in.

But the reason it is good that Brain already has Acrobat, is so we can have an index menu, which eases navigation and gives a brief summary as the reader browses.