Letter 1
J. Whitehead Letter to Guy: Guy, There was no beginning. Existence is eternal. There is and always has been contrast - change - emotion. Time is emotion. Clocks, yardsticks and spatial directions are useful, that's all. Mathematical equations look very impressive in print but remember Bertrand Russell, philosopher and mathematician, spent years trying to base mathematics on logic but failed. "Even the fundamental theory of numbers cannot be proved on the basis of a fixed set of axioms. Axioms are things assumed true without proof." Nor is existence chaos as many scientists believe. Obvious question: If it's chaos why doesn't a horse occasionally lay an egg? Why doesn't a bitch, or for that matter a dog, give birth to a goldfish? Forget genetics, if it's chaos, it's a total mix-up - clouds and plumes of gas! A grape with a cape on a planet forever changing its shape while a blade of grass barks in a soapy bubble floating serenely on a sea of sparks. There are far too many 'incidents' interrelated, convenient & enduring for life to be happenstantially coincidental. Simple everyday observations will persuade you of this. For instance, flying up to Inverness last year for a long weekend in the country (first time in an aeroplane). The thought came to me as I looked out at the clouds: Earth needs to be watered intermittently with fresh water. But one can't carry a watering-can everywhere. And seas are salty. So, where would be the best place to store all that fresh water? Up in the air of course. With the wind to blow the clouds around: - evaporation - desalination - condensation - precipitatfon. Voila! Other simple observations: - volcanoes; lightning; deserts; cities; and so on. No need to study everything in detail. In fact if one did "one might be unable to see the wood for the trees." I will use another, what some might call a platitude but which I prefer to call a truism: "A place for everything and everything its place." Birds, fish, worms, etc., etc. Simplistic? Complication is infestation through confabulation. Some things are unpleasant but without them a 'perfect' day could not be appreciated because there would be nothing to compare it with. I also know from experience that other animals, birds, fish, are not utterly stupid: "...herons and kingfishers copy human anglers. They have adopted human habits by dropping bread on the surface of the water as bait to catch fish. Some even resort to fly-fishing by using insects instead of bread..." B.B.C. documentary 'Predators'. I know from my own experience that dairy cows resent their young being taken from them too soon. It seems logical to me that homosapiens or should that be 'homo-erectus', just, cannot go on forever doing what they like to every creature on earth. The individual of a species may not be able to do much but suppose a 'collective unconscious', a specific collective unconscious. Highly improbable? Yes, but not impossible. They say that rats and their fleas gave us the p1ague. "Green Monkey Disease. Laboratory technicians died of the disease after handling the monkeys in 1967." On one documentary I saw a small monkey cowering in the comer of a cage. When it was lifted out by a technician one could actually see it trembling. Memories of previous experiments conducted upon it? They say that monkeys gave us AIDS! Mad Cow disease? Suicidal?-So were Kamikaze pilots for the benefit of the Japanese as a whole. Some doctors and research workers are now suggesting that cancer may be caused by dairy products. The animals revenge? How would it operate? Telepathy? "Musk, mallow, musk thistle, mimulus moschatus - The perfumed plant of cottage gardens reverted to its original almost hairless form losing its perfume in 1913. It happened throughout the world at the same time." Of course one could formulate other theories: a genetic disposition triggered whenever precise environmental conditions occur. Or a particular form of solar radiation, and so on. On the other hand, if no other life form on the planet has enough intelligence to organize its metabolism to be detrimental to humans then maybe homosapiens are justified to indulge in speciesism, to torment and torture every other creature in the world for all time. No 'creation', no 'chaos'. Existence is a co-op. Contrast - change - emotion: dancing with the daffodils! "No man is an island." Etemally. The Oracle at Delphi declared Socrates the wisest man. What did Socrates say? "Think for yourself." I am, therefore, a believer in " democracy. I don't want some prat of meager intellect telling me what to do. Forcing everyone else to conform to his/her 'opinions'. Foisting their foibles and pressies on a whole population. I agree that in a society there has to be rules. Or go and live alone in the jungle. Rules agreed upon: obeying traffic lights; playing football; etc. Otherwise it would be chaos. Even regulations that may not at first seem Faberge but when reflected upon turn out to be golden rules: the wearing of clothes. Clothes titillate - there's no excitement in a flash of thigh at a nudist colony. Even so, I don't trust scientists, potiticians, priests or prophets. Anyway, what do they know of life? I'll tell you the people who know life: poets. Imagine if you suddenly found yourself alone in space with absolutely nothing else existing - not even the stars. Now consider Wordsworth's deceptively simple poem: "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high (Crowd: As in people, animals, etc. Flowers live, die, reproduce. "No man is an island." I trust no one completely. Not even doctors: "Physician J. Harvey Kellogg (co-inventor of the cornflake - the first breakfast cereals were all designed to control the sex drive). Kellogg wrote: 'A remedy for self-abuse which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed without anaesthetic as the pain will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases.' " I don't know if such self-righteous individuals are evil or aliens. Reflect for a moment on how they engineer the death of so many youngsters. Children who may have been involved in sexual activity, especially the homosexual kind, are made to feel so guilty and ashamed that they commit suicide. (The media condltions a large part of society. Makes one speculate as to the strength of the average human mind. A mind that can be so easily manipulated.) Because of its repressive nature I also wonder if society has a hidden agenda. A subconscious plan: Frustration - sublimation. That is, the sexual energy of individuals channeled into other inventive/creative pursuits in order to advance the human race. Or, it may have been a conscious ploy by the government in pursuit of the same goal. It should not be forgotten, however, that sex is one of the main binding agents in any society. Naturalists will tell you that. And now the puppet masters (the establishment) are considering a life sentence on child molesters. Such a law will turn more molesters into murderers. What would a paedophile have to lose? Let the victim live to identify her attacker and it's life behind bars for the molester. Eliminate the witness and possibly escape any punishment. Even if eventually apprehended the sentence is the same. Sex is an overwhelming driving force. The problem won't be terminated because paedophiles are being born every minute, everywhere. After the offence the thought in the paedophiles' mind as he's murdering the child will be: 'Rather you that me.' To illustrate how people are influenced by the establishment through the media (remote control) many citizens becoming but semiautomatic: Anyone who still believes the bible, or any "Holy Book", is a primitive. They might as well carve a totem pole and stick it in the ground! My remark had nothing to do with race. There are knuckle-walkers in every human society . Excuse the long letter but I think a short letter from a friend is an anticlimax. Moreover, "Research carried out at Manchester University shows that men with high levels of testosterone are more verbally fluent than those where the male hormone is found to be low. Furthermore.. forgot what I was going to say! JW back to homepage |