Letter 3 1.12.2000 Theo I'm writing this, my first letter to you, using
capital letters instead of a cursive script as I know how difficult it can sometimes
be to read another person's handwriting. Excuse any grammatical errors. I am uneducated.
My teachers, Catholic nuns, told me not to sit any exams because I wouldn't pass.
They were right, I was thick. I could never understand my teachers, e.g. "let
X equal.... " Why 'X'? I used to wonder if
'X' had some special significance
What kind of an answer is that? I frequently played truant and would steal into orchards to scrump apples and mulberries. Apples scrumped taste sweeter than apples bought! Of course the nuns and priests also believed sex to be sinful, so if one of us was caught ogling a girl there would be a reprimand and if one pinched a girl's bum then a punch to the side of the culprit's head would be delivered. I don't know if such self-righteous individuals are aliens or evil. Maybe they think sex is dirty. They should examine a sunbeam and see what's floating about in the air they breathe - not to mention the bits of dead bodies they eat on a regular basis. Consequently as a young lad I was very ignorant. I thought that 'grown-ups' knew everything. Especially those in positions of authority. And so therefore, as an ignoramus, I would cross to the other side of the road if I saw unclothed mannequins in a shop window ahead, believing that the 'wise ones' would think I was deliberately walking on the same side that the shop was on in order to get a closer look. I know now of course that adulthood does not automatically
confer wisdom. Nor for that matter does a 'good education'. One may be better
informed. But a computer is better informed, yet no wiser. The highest mountain,
the No, old age does not necessarily bring wisdom. Only Parkinson's Disease and dementia. Most people, old ones, still believe that some individual somewhere playing God created us. God on his tod! Surrounded by toys. "Free will"? I cannot levitate, become invisible or metamorphose whenever I feel like it. Rules? I didn't ask to play. To be 'created'. To make such a request was obviously impossible for someone who didn't exist. Thus, made into existence I am but a puppet. And the hard science of mathematics is out of its depth in metaphysics. Wranglers are just as naive as anyone else: "James Usher, Primate of all Ireland, calculated that God created the universe in 4004 B.C. on 23rd October at noon." "Oxford Devine J. Lightfoot calculated it to be October 26th at 9 am." Even
Charles Babbage, Professor of Mathematics, father of the modem
digital computer tried in about 1833 to "compute the numerical likelihood
of resurrection from the dead based on accounts since the creation. For
Babbage numbers conveyed the ultimate truth."Using calcus he made
a naive attempt! He might as well have rolled dice and multiplied by
nth Einstein: " As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain." Up to date? The prestigious journal Nature on quantum physics: "Proverb - a watched pot never boils. But according to the latest research it boils more quickly. The anti-zeno effect. Professors Kurizki & Kofman: " An arrow will increase its speed as the rate of the 'glimpses' increases. The quicker you turn your eyes to look at it the quicker It flies." Yahweee! The professors subconsciously influenced by their beliefs. People generally think scientists are great. Well, most scientists are interested in three things: fame, fortune and satisfying their own curiosity. Naturally! Any justice in the world? "Babysitter XXXX XXXXXXX broke a two-year-old boy's spine and ribs in a merciless attack while playing loud music to drown the child's screams. XXXXXXX was jailed for GBH. (Out in three years.) His brother got three months for causing actual bodily harm to the infant." "Burglar gets eight years for breaking into a judge's house." "XXXXX XXXXXXX - prisoner F76927 has spent more than two decades behind bars. At age 27 in 1978 he set fire to two pairs of curtains in an empty church. He then sat in the graveyard waiting for the police to arrive. A few months before he lost his foster parents through cancer and also the council house they all lived in. No parents, no money, no home." N.O.W. newspapers. And what did the man of God, the, Rev. X.XXXXX, vicar of the church say? "It's time he is forgiven." After twenty years in prison. How big of the Reverend! People are at least good at heart? General Von Trotha awarded Order of Merit for annihilation of Herrero tribe in S.W. Africa. "African workers were flogged, minimum 25 lashes, for straightening their backs while hoeing German farms." Etc., etc., etc. Black people? "Tutsis and Hutus (half a million dead): "Tutsis were slaughtered from the feet up by Hutus, some being forced to totter around on their stumps before being castrated and then carved to pieces." "Sierra Leone. Sam Bokarie, leader, severed the hands of children in order to eliminate the deadly skills of writing. Idi Amin, whose fridge was stocked with human limbs. Bokassa, a vicious torturer and cannibal. Other despots simply vanish with millions of pounds. Trust in civilised government and in sophisticated establishments? "Millions of Britons were exposed to a toxic spray. Unwitting guinea pigs in top secrete germ warfare tests. Toxic clouds, believed to cause cancer, were unleashed on the population for ten years. The chemicals were pumped into the air by generators on the backs of various vehicles and also sprayed by R.A.F. planes between 1953 and 1963. Lib-Dem M.P. Matthew Taylor: "They treated people in this country like laboratory rats." Report by Simon Hughes. True or not - I trust no one! Scientists, politicians, priests nor prophets. I read a definition the other day of 'Hegemony'. "A bourgeois aspiration to condition the masses to accept such rules and regulations as 'natural' and 'common sense'. Conformity to another's opinion." You will have gathered by now that I question everything. Consequently, I feel that I have, after many years, unravelled the meaning of life. Existence is not the result of some individual act of 'creation' as many clerics believe. (Who created the creator? What did he/she/it do before 'The Creation'? And so on'.) 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. They prove nothing: Do you mean the meson is emotionally involved, asked Simon. And because it's going so fast it feels exhilarated, so that the depth of the atmosphere, like the length of the day, files by! No, replied Professor Terse Adamant. (Senior Wrangler at Gallstones, Chief Lecturer at Wallstones, Resident Fellow at Poor Souls.) It's because we measure it by our clocks. What do you mean quizzed Simon. I don't know exactly, remarked the Professor. Soon to be retired. Don't forget geometry started from its own arbitrary principles and stood, I believe, unchallenged for nearly 2000 years! "The mathematician is never quite convinced that the scheme of mathematics is flawless." Sir A. Eddington, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge. "The system of mathematical equations may be reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature." Einstein. As for curved space - of course it is: Planet-atmosphere (subtle form of matter) - its radiation (a yet more tenuous form of matter). Thus, 'space' curves around, so-called, solid bodies. But that, in my opinion, is not the explanation for gravitation, as Einstein contends. In my view: Curved space:
We are in space, not on space. I will admit that at first glance there's a certain feasibility about somethings: "Mantras reinforce and refine consciousness by vibrating various glands. mantra for the chakra between the brows is "OM". " But can you believe everything you read? " A man with 98% water instead of brain tissue passed all his exams with above average marks..." Years ago I read that unripe bananas were bad to eat. Yet. I preferred them to the ripe (speckled) ones. Recently I discovered in an article on various fruits that unripe bananas act as a stimulant. Instinctively I may have .been correct. Still, I don't much care for Martini, Vermouth or Absinthe {"the green muse"). Nor for many other substances, with an aphrodisiac reputation. Although Sarsaparilla isn't too bad. As Socrates, "The wisest man", said: "Think for yourself." Researchers, not so long ago, cut off the tails of certain animals in order to see if subsequent generations would be born without tails. Common sense will tell the average person that a species improves its existence by acquiring in its own time and in its own way helpful characteristics. After all, if I gave you a black eye would you expect your children to be born with a black eye? I admit I'm not mainstream. For instance, all that clamjam on the street and on television about babies being beautiful. I always thought infants ugly. Ugly like many other new-born animals or unfledged birds in a nest. Most things you read in reputable books you have to take on trust. Its impossible to go around testing everything yourself. But, believe a little, think a lot! "Thinking creates a 'new age', loneliness and depression creates old age... senile symptoms are reversible. Bodies adapt to intelligence, not the other way around. Ageing contains a large element of choice." Makes a certain amount of sense: been there, done that. Too much too soon! Nothing else to live for. (Like the Salmon after spawning.) Anyway, what ever you do its all magic. I should say 'intelligence' but the word 'magic' floated into my mind because I remember working on the road with some other guys when one of the black workers looked up at a passing jetliner and remarked. "White man's magic." If you consider how a human being is created. (We know in principle, like the aeroplane, how it works.)
Excuse my simplification sketches. Reproduction is a controlled process, obviously. All in the mind? "Multiple personalities: ...one personality in a patient will be diabetic while another personality in the same individual will not. Some people only have to think of a substance to which they believe they are allergic in order for them to bring on an asthma attack or for blisters to appear on their skin. When a multiple personality patient is studied warts, rashes, even scars, have been seen to appear and disappear, also epilepsy, and so on. A specific personality can be colour blind, only to regain normal sight when the personality changes back..." Proof? Biofeedback techniques! Aphrodisiacs, elixirs, etc. - all in the mind. The only 'Fountain of Youth' on this planet springs in one's own mind. With it one can slow the ageing process, if you fail its because deep down you had no desire to slow the ageing process! Who wants to live forever? Outliving all your fantasies; communicating, as it were, with children. Another obstacle is having too much too soon: been there, done that. And space - it will be easier to accomplish when we start to inhabit other planets. You disbelieve in mind over matter? Raise your left arm. Mind over matter! Habits make a man feel safe. Besides, its easier to let someone else do all the thinking and then tell you what to do. Society, in many respects, is the greatest hypnotist, especially 'The Establishment'. One has to de-hypnotise one's self and, most important of all, to absorb thorouqhly a particular philosophy. (Short and simple.) Mine. Summation: No 'Creation'. No Chaos. No infinity of space. Infinity needs to be equated with Eternity. 'Time' is emotion. Contrast-Change-Emotion is Existence/Universe. Having read{his letter through again it feels a bit heavy, so I will end with one of my cartoons:
Best wishes JW PS I hope this letter clarifies to some extent the conversation we had in the pub - unlike the ale! PPS Complied as requested. back to homepage |
