25.01.08
Governments, despite their wealth &
power, are not necessarily intelligent. Reflect on the history
of the world, mystical or otherwise. "A few years ago China's
dictat to its burgeoning population: 'Fewer
offspring.' The chinese peasants therefore murdered
newborn females raising only boys who were stronger & could
work the land.... China now has a large population of bachelors,
not enough females to go around... Today China's people are repressed,
uneducated... "Comment: Repression is worldwide. But who
are the losers? The robots who enforce the law, the administrators
& members of the ruling elite, simply because the people
are a nation's greatest resource - all those brains going to
waste. Those repressive forces & their offspring may
have forgone a cure for cancer, aids & perhaps answers to
many other problems. Yet, some 'celebrities' are given more credence.
The revered philosopher, Aristotle: "Man is the seed Woman
the soil." Does that mean woman is less important? (Growth
can be achieved without soil, just seed, nutrients and water.)
A philosopher (lover of
knowledge) should think through every pronouncement he makes.
The female provides the egg, as important as the sperm. If
he cannot follow it through he should keep quiet. I'm glad
I've read next-to-nothing about philosophy. Aristotle's remark
was published in a popular magazine. It seems to me mostly
long words & fancy dancing.
"Vanity, all is vanity."
We imagine we can control the climate, dismissing that colossus
in space - the sun, & the giant we live on, the Earth.
Even with our supercomputers we are unable to comprehend all
the variable factors. Computers are useful but even with 'substitution,'
'frequency analylis,' quantum computers some codes have been
around for thousands of years without being cracked. If a person
employed a crotchet in writing a code only he would know which
opus it came from & what it referred to - using it once
together with other symbols, no one else could possibly decipher
the code. Quantum mechanics? "Quantum mechanics is like
politics, different people arrive at different conclusions." But
we need physics & mathmatics despite "One never understands
mathematics one simply gets on with it. " John von Neumann. π. c. (called
irrational) -1 & its square root i (called
imaginary).
"Space & time are one & the same
as are electricity
& magnetism" "Space time geodesics - the equations
can only be done approximately on a computer." "If
you travelled faster than light you could look back and see yourself
arriving."
Comment: But you're already there, you'd
be looking at an old photo or watching an old movie.
"Astonomer Arthur Eddington took 16 photos
of a solar eclipse only one photo gave a result agreeing with
Einstein's prediction that gravity would bend light."
Evolution also has its mysteries: "Flowering
plants have no evolutionary predecessor." "Some flowers
change aromatically as they are picked, an unpleasant perspiration
called stress metabolites is produced."
One cannot test everything, even if one had the
time & the best instruments. But as Socrates said " Think
for yourself."
"Geneticists aim to eliminate depression." Comment:
Are they aliens? You can lie in the gutter feeling gloriously
happy? For whose benefit?
"Dali Lama advocates mind-altering
brain surgery to control emotions in everyday people. Said to
14,000 neuroscientists in Washington D.C." Comment: Forget
phychology. As far as I am concerned, if you never get depressed
you are sick.
Common sense. Ignore religion also: "The
book 'Revelations' is only one of many & the Antichrist is
not mentioned in most of them."
"Endtimers ('The Rapture') when some people
will be beamed up from earth to heaven. There's even a website
which offers to write a letter to your loved ones explaining
where you've gone. There's also an endtime watch on sale & a
handbook, flashlight & radio for those left behind"
"The Rapture was invented a couple of hundred
years ago by a british clergyman John Nelson Derby who founded
the Plymouth Brethren." Comment: Other esoteric clubs I
dismiss when searching for the truth - Freemasonary: "At
first a trade union for stonemasons, now a clique of business
associates 'with intellectual pretensions: 'the source' a point,
from a point to a line from a line to a plane, from a plane to
a solid.-. " King
Solomon
& all daat! Not exactly mapping the philosopher's stone.
The Kabbala: "Magic operates through the triad - desire,
intelligence, imagination. "It doesn't tell you how to turn
a pumpkin into a coach of pure gold. Just as well. Some lines
of mine - omnipotence is truth to tell possession of a shallow
well... Besides, the Kabbala stipulates that there are no absolutes.
Which reminds me of a sentence in physics: " The inherent
fuzziness of nature at very small scales." And that reminds
me of another sentence:
"Post modernists argue that science is no more authorative
than art or literature." I am not affiliated to a political
party, follow no established religion. I'm a pagan, a countryman.
"A lover of nature. A heathen - heath - rustic - pagan." Religion:
"Joan of Arc burnt at the stake because she was of the Merovingian
line (a descendant of Jesus & Mary Magdalene)."
"Manuscript in a Jerusalem monastery claims
Jesus had a homosexual relationship with a rich youth - (included
in the full text of St. Mark, chapter ten. (suppressed)."
I believe in nature - the Collective -
organic and inorganic - the Universe. And the self-evident intelligence
of the universe. How beautifully designed it is: As we will never
reach all the stars & possible solar systems there will always
be mystery
& something to strive for. How boring life would be if one
knew everything.
I don't want to reveal all my thoughts - so I
have an ongoing code. Why bother to encode? In case I forget.
I might wish to retrieve the details of some of my ideas & possible
inventions in the future. No surprise if the code remains a mystery.
People are more interested in websites featuring sex, violence
& gambling. And university snobs would not lower themselves
to my level, a labourer - a peasant. I'm confident, nay certain
it will never be deciphered. The point of a code is not to give
clues.