2014 DIARY EXTRACTS

Monday 24 February 2014 – Seeing adverts for Reed’s, where they consider anyone suitable for any type of job however unsuitable the person, I’d wondered about going on their website & applying for anything. What would the Jobcentre say?

Saturday 18 January 2014 – Recently I’d been wondering about a biblical saying that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Couldn’t imagine it being a worry to anyone now but in the past, when religion was more central & important, those who were rich must have been very concerned. It didn’t stop them, though. They would have given away money on charitable works, founding colleges, setting up almshouses, etc. They would even have employed a clergyman to constantly pray for their soul to be admitted to Heaven.

At a rich person’s funeral now, that saying should be read out, along with love of money is the root of all evil, to remind the family & friends present that the deceased person was to be condemned to an existence in a harrowing limbo & not the usual assurance of a good place.

2011 DIARY EXTRACTS

Saturday 22 January 2011 - Very busy roads and I wondered about humans being culled like other animals. Thought about me having a vaporising weapon to do the job but when I thought of doing those who were wasting space, I’d have to do myself first.

Friday 19 August 2011 – Ended up on a website called Big Think. Was something about us possibly being Sims in a future computer programme recreating an earlier time. This was following a world wide disaster or war. There was even a short film with scientists and philosophers speaking about it.

Sunday 21 August 2011 – Did a Google search for alchemy again. I thought of myself as an anti-alchemist. In my mind I convert gold into its true state as a base metal.

1996 DIARY EXTRACTS

Thursday 4 January 1996 – In Kate Bush’s book (Whole Story), saw on one page she didn’t use drugs & on next page, that she took tobacco. I remember recently a girl died after taking an Ecstasy tablet, media was full of it but an average of 300 tobacco addicts died that same day & nothing mentioned. The difference? – Government had sanctioned latter deaths due to pecuniary gains.

Wednesday 26 June 1996 – On A14, passed by “fat cats” in company cars & I thought they were like at work: up each others arses, as they drove too close together.

Good with death

2009 & 2010 DIARY EXTRACTS

22 December 2009 - Jury Summons? I thought summons sounded like they were calling in a criminal, especially with a £1,000 fine for not doing it without good reason. It should be an invitation. Why do governments have such heavy handed ways of doing things?

Monday 25 January 2010 – In “The Simpsons” (Simpsons Bible Stories), showed Homer and Marge as Adam and Eve but they were wearing fig leaves before eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which I thought strange.

Sunday 9 May 2010 – Doppelganger – Told Louise about someone who has collected my medication before I had. He’d used my name or had same name as me. He must’ve known my details. If someone they didn’t know goes in, they usually ask for address on prescription so that man must’ve known that too. Earlier, I’d wondered if it had been my doppelganger again. He would know all I know.

Friday 9 July 2010 – In July 2009’s “H & E naturist”, in Francois Harley’s “Holistic health corner”, was about loving yourself. It said that everyone was exactly as nature had made them. Most humans on this planet aren’t exactly as nature intended. We weren’t made to live a sedentary lifestyle, over eating and becoming fat and unhealthy.

"GENERAL IGNORANCE"

I've been thinking lately about stuff that everyone, including me, isn't taught at school.

Great Britain
There's a lot at the moment about Great Britain but no one seems to know what the word Great is there for. Everyone is just caught up with the idea of being called great.

I remember years ago a series on BBC where people were given a camera to record anything to go into an archive. A foreign university student spent his time ranting & asking why Britain was being called Great, when all he needed to do was look in a dictionary.

If he looked in a dictionary he’d find it was simply a geographical term for the largest island of the British Isles. I've seen road atlases of Great Britain which show the Isle of Wight on the front cover, which isn't part of Great Britain.

It should really be called the United Kingdom.

Judge’s gavel

I have often noticed that British judges are portrayed on TV using a gavel? People are so used to seeing them being used on American TV or in films, so that when they act out the part in a British court room, the gavel is quite often included. It's a bit strange. If you asked them they'd be convinced that they were used in Britain.

Pronouncing flaccid correctly.

There are only 2 ways to pronounce a double c. It is either as in account or as in accident, and it's the second way - flaksid. This is worse when a doctor or other medical professional doesn't know!

Distinguishing between a pillory & stocks.
A person stands up with their hands and head in a pillory. In stocks, they would sit down with their ankles through the holes. Stocks are like someone wearing wooden socks or stockings.

The short billion.
The French came up with the billion (million million) but for some strange reason they also invented the short billion (thousand million).

What was the idea behind that? I can understand the normal billion, being a million followed by second (a bi-million) but a thousand million makes no sense whatsoever. I refuse to use it myself and I am mystified as to why everyone else does.

The stand by on electrical equipment.
I never use this button but everyone else appears to use it. I have been in people's homes where a room would contain numerous appliances on stand by. How can everyone complain about their electricity bills when they have left everything switched on for 24 hours? The electricity companies and governments regularly speak about meeting the future needs for power, but if everyone switched off, power consumption would drop considerably. Of course the electricity suppliers are quite happy about helping with their profits.

Some mistakes: Someone saying a woman has bosoms when they would usually only have one bosom! Calling a woman a chairman! Using hero instead of heroine; ambassador instead of ambassadress.

Political correctness

This makes people paranoid about what they can do or say. And also those who are supposedly in charge overdoing the enforcement of that paranoia to a ridiculous level. Those who they are worried about offending are not generally bothered by it.

Using a £ sign as an E instead of an L.
An advert recently showed the word STR££T which would be STRLLT.

In this town's Co-operative Travel, there's a poster showing this:
TRAV€L MONE¥ MAD£ EA$Y
When it should have been this:
TRAVE£ MONE¥ MAD€ EA$Y

No one now seems to remember that it stands for Libra. In pre decimal times the money was Libra Solidus Denarius, or pound, shilling and pence (£ s d). A solidus is a /, which was used as a symbol for a shilling (1/-). For shillings and pennies it would be 2/6.

DOPPELGANGER 3

Some time ago I went into Sainsbury’s on my way home to do some shopping. I removed the black woolly hat I was wearing and I put my shopping into a back pack at the till. As I left the shop I went to the toilet as a large number of shop staff came out of the door. Leaving the toilet, I was followed and stopped outside, where I was accused of shoplifting. I was told that I was seen in the drinks section picking up a bottle although I hadn’t been anywhere near that section. At the till, it was noticed that I didn’t pay for the bottle, which I didn’t have.

The “leader” of the group was a bit of an idiot and let me go after I’d said that I didn’t have a bottle and showed him my receipt. I carried on but the mob returned, this time with a suited man who told me again of what I’d apparently done. He then searched me but, of course, he couldn’t find a bottle. He looked a bit confused, as if I’d just performed a magic trick to make the bottle disappear in front of him. There was a bit of a mumbled apology before they returned to the shop.

I’d have liked to have seen the CCTV images of “me” taking the bottle. Nowadays they have security men that would have stopped me as I left.

GOVERNMENT

The anarchist, Emma Goldman said that, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." How true that is about governments and their politics. Another saying I’ve heard is, “Whoever you vote for, the government wins.”

Politics and government were created by the rich for the rich and those who work for the government are servants to do the bidding of the rich. Below them are the police and armed forces to do the dirty work.

In the past, government served the establishment such as the monarchy, the nobility and religion to make laws to keep the peasants in their place. In some ways it still does, except that their powers have been lessened. A few centuries ago the monarchy wielded a divine power over their people, giving them the right to kill anyone who dared to think differently. This included blasphemy against the established religion.

There are still parts of the world that use such methods, under the control of dictators.

The peasants can’t be kept in their place with that type of force as used in the past, although the establishment wishes they could. Public protest is safer without the organisers being arrested, tortured and executed. In the past, those who took part in any activity were regarded as unthinking followers of their leaders.

For example, when the nobility began to enclose land by taking over public land and expelling the common people who had farmed there for centuries, any resistance could be quelled by military force.

Now the government works for any individual or organisation that possesses wealth which still includes the monarchy and nobility. The police find it easier to concentrate on small companies and individuals who evade paying taxes. At the same time, wealthy individuals and large companies can find ways to escape paying many millions, quite often using loopholes in the law. These companies can do as they please, with the governments backing.

DOPPELGANGER 2

There have been a few times when I have been seen by other people when I know it couldn’t have been me.

When the film "The Most Fertile Man in Ireland" was in the cinemas, I'd thought about going to see it. One Friday I looked in the local newspaper cinema guide but it wasn't there. I was going to town and wondered about visiting the Tourist Information for a cinema guide. I was to go to the library on the Saturday morning and so I didn’t go that far into town.

On the Saturday, I went in the Tourist Info and browsed looking for a guide. I could hear the woman behind the counter talking and a woman near me said that she thought that it was I who was being spoken to. I was told that the new guides were in now. Apparently I had called in on the Friday afternoon. I had stood at the door and asked about a guide. I was told that they would be in on Saturday. She recognised me as the person who’d come in.

Television of the future, now?

A couple of days ago, I was watching BBC 4, which was showing the group Slade at the BBC. But I was watching on Freeview and the signal was bad. It kept disappearing or breaking up, with the sound stuttering. It depended on weather conditions and so didn't happen all of the time. When it did, most of the digital channels vanished leaving a No Signal sign on screen.

I commented to the friend I was watching with that when I'd watched Slade back in the 1970s, I didn't think that the televisions then would be better than what I was watching 40 years in the future on digital. I'd thought that the television of the future would be advanced and sophisticated but in reality it was worse.

PILGRIM FATHERS

I have recently learned something about the Pilgrims who left England to sail to America.  They left because of religious persecution but it wasn’t to seek the most obvious sort of religious freedom. Apparently England had too much religious freedom for their liking and they called for less freedom. They were too much for the English people to bear and were persecuted for it. That does explain a lot about the USA, where I have heard that some schools still teach creationism instead of natural selection.

Those Pilgrims could be described as religious fundamentalists. That’s somewhat ironic now, when the USA has so much trouble with other religious fundamentalists from other parts of the world.

HOMELESS

I heard about the number of humans being made homeless has increased as more of them lose their homes, being unable to repay their mortgage.

This again shows how money is more important than humans. The money lenders are quick to remind everyone that they will lose their homes if they can’t keep up the repayments. If they can’t, they are chucked out on the street and the property is sold to get the money back. The money lenders couldn’t care less about those who have ended up sleeping rough on the street. The government cares even less about them.

This is a ridiculous situation, in a ridiculous society. Why do humans put up with this? Could it be because those who are still able to pay would rather ignore the plight of strangers? They don’t want to be reminded that it could be them if their circumstances change.

PROPERTY LADDER

This expression really makes me cringe. Homes are to live in and should be cheap and easily available. At least that's the theory. But no, it couldn't be that simple. It never is with humans. It seems like humans have a masochistic attitude to life in the way they have to complicate the most simplest and most basic necessities. Money is god and must be obeyed.

Homes are yet another way to make money. That's their primary function. They are to be sold for more than they were bought for, with improvements included to increase the value. The additional value is then used to buy a more expensive property. Hence the ladder humans crawl up.

It doesn't matter to the owners whether anyone can afford to buy somewhere to live. It's all down to greed of the owners and the banks or building societies. Humans have been conditioned to see such a progress as a sign of success and would be unhappy at being labelled as greedy. Some may complain about their property not selling, which obviously could be improved by cutting the asking price but that would be unthinkable to those selling. The property ladder is calling them.

If someone wanted to buy a proprty they can always borrow money and spend much of their lives paying back more than they borrowed. If they later can't pay back, the banks will quickly throw them out of their home and sell it themselves.

 It's the 21st century but there are many who are living in squalor, making a choice whether to use energy to heat their homes or to cook food. When someone manages to get a home, there are ridiculously expensive bills and taxes to pay. The elderly suffer the most.

OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE. . .

Karl Marx described religion as the opium of the people. He was wrong, it’s money. It’s not just opium but every other recreational drug you could think of.

Like a narcotic drug, the effect depends on how much is taken, with a similar confusion between reality and fantasy. The user becomes convinced that they can do anything, that anything is possible. It numbs the senses, creating a cushioned bubble around them against the difficulties produced by reality.

They become less and less interested in those without money, possibly feeling paranoid about anyone planning to take it from them.

They have allies in governments who have always been on the side of the wealthy. They have created laws to allow them to prosper and to keep away the undesirables.

ARMS TRADING

During the Falklands War, the thing that struck me most was that the Argentineans were using French built Exocet missiles against the British armed forces. No one commented about this, that a supposed ally to Britain was supplying weapons to a country which was then using them to destroy and kill the British forces.

I find the arms trade a strange concept. Because of the resulting wealth they can largely do what they like. Governments become mesmerised by that wealth and the taxes collected from it. That’s more important than human life.

Countries have supplied weaponry all over the world and so it’s highly likely that they could be used to kill humans from those same countries. And no one seems to care.

I couldn’t imagine myself working for a company that produces weapons which were to be used for the taking of human life. Money acts to numb the mind away from such thoughts, to keep reality away.

WHY DO PEOPLE DO THAT?

Why do so many humans copy what others are doing rather than thinking for themselves? That applies in many situations. It can become a pack mentality.

If those who are in the world's military forces were to consider what they were doing instead of blindly obeying orders, there wouldn't be any wars. The same with governments but they are forced to conform to what their party decrees. There are many psychopaths running dictatorships, propped up by the military that follow blindly for their own advantage rather than thinking of others. They are given permission to exercise their basest excesses towards those who are considered a danger to the regime.

World governments are occupied by those who are filled with a sense of their own self importance. They are filled with corruption and greed, getting out it what they can to increase their wealth and fame.

WHEN ADAM DELVED. . .

Years ago, I bought a folder from Boots with a cover of William Morris designs including this print. I hadn't really thought about the print until someone asked me about it and I Googled it. The print was from 1888 and called John Ball's Dream. 

 

John Ball encouraging Wat Tyler rebels.

 

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men were created equal by nature, and that servitude had been introduced by the unjust and evil oppression of men, against the will of God, who, if it had pleased Him to create serfs, surely in the beginning of the world would have appointed who should be a serf and who a lord. And therefore I exhort ye to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.

John Ball (c. 1338 – 15 July 1381)

  

How right he was then. How true it is today as it was in the 14th century. Except that those who think of themselves as being in "power" now wouldn't be able to execute anyone who agreed with what John had preached.



REALITY?

When I have visited a friend at her flat, I park in her parking place and in front of me is a lawn bounded on two sides by trees and shrubbery. On the lawn I regularly see rabbits, squirrels and various birds. I have sat there looking at these wild animals and wondered at their lives and the lives of humans. I have wondered about why humans have created a world that is so difficult to live in. This is usually when I am feeling exasperated by something that I’d seen or experienced.

I have thought that those animals live in the true reality of this planet. By comparison, humans have created a world of fantasy. This world created by humans for themselves, exist because it has originated in their minds. They would not have been created without humans, not as it exists now. The poorer humans are, the closer they become to the true reality.

Humans have to do a lot of pretending in their "reality". This planet’s materials and resources have no value and are freely available but they are given an unnecessary monetary value. Money is the biggest pretence humans have created and which has become a source of evil and injustice in the world. When I watch films or television, the problems created by money and its distribution, often leaves me wondering why humans bother with it.

Money appears to be more trouble than it is worth. Of course it all depends on how much an individual has in their possession. Everyone is brainwashed and conditioned from an early age to believe that money has a value other than that of pieces of printed paper and discs of metal. Humans can never seem to have enough of it and there are those who will steal it, swindle for it and even kill to get it. Such is the basis of many films, dramas and documentaries. Humans watch this but have become so conditioned that it doesn't occur to them and, like automatons, they return to the endless round of consuming the earth's resources.

Money is used to represent the value of gold reserves held by a country but gold is itself simply a metal with no intrinsic value. I appear to be the only person on this planet who has broken away from the conditioning. To me diamonds are simply pieces of crystallised carbon, worth nothing.

Humans spend money on objects, becoming very possessive about them. That is until they become outdated by the latest technological novelty or they break or wear out. They are then converted to rubbish. Much of what humans buy was rubbish when it left the manufacturers. I walk past rubbish skips outside the houses of humans and see what they have spent money on in the past revert to their true value when their usefulness ends.

I have sometimes wondered what the world would be like without money. When Gene Roddenbury created Star Trek, his humans have dispensed with the use of money all together. It would mean that everyone would be volunteers and that everything they produced would be free to everyone. There would be no point in crimes such as robbery.

I hear a lot about humans in debt and owing money. There doesn't seem to be anyone who wants to live within their means today. They would attempt anything to get more money, including competitions and game shows. And there are plenty of organisations who are only too willing to help them to purchase what they would like. Gambling seems to be a growth industry and humans buy lottery ticket and scratchcards even though the odds are heavily against them winning anything significant.

For those who owe money, the most obvious way to prevent this happening would be to force those money lenders to reduce their level of greed and usury. But the money lenders have the law on their side, because governments are only interested in wealth. They have no interest in those who can't pay back the loans, except to get them to vote for them when necessary and to be used as industry and work fodder to create wealth for their business friends.

The more wealth a human accumulates, the larger their carbon footprint becomes. They buy larger, fuel consuming cars. They use more air travel, including the use of a private jet, for frequent holidays abroad or for numerous homes in various countries.

ORIGINAL SIN

 

A strange link exists between Lucifer’s tempting Fruit,

And a man who is wearing an expensive business suit.

Or any other clothing that we are forced to wear.

In public our bodies we must never ever bare.

By the Fruit’s temptation, all of Mankind did fall.

From the Tree of Knowledge, he condemned us all.

           

Knowledge and shame of our bodies, such was the Original Sin,

Our continuing foolish behaviour makes Satan’s gloating grin.

Religions and governments, they continue to strive,

Creating laws to help, Satan’s evil work to thrive.

Textile firms need us clothed, we follow them like sheep.

With Mammon’s generous aid, untold millions they reap.

We are born into this World, nude and unashamed.

But soon society makes sure our freedom, it is tamed.

Many would prefer to die rather than to be

Stripped naked, in public, for everyone to see.

Prurient interest in body parts we strive to keep hidden,

Only creates carnal thoughts and acts which are forbidden.

Zealous missionaries travelled from the West,

And soon the naked “savages” were dressed in pants and vest!

Upon the Fruit of Knowledge, reluctantly they feed,

Vanguard of exploitation, hatred, pain and greed.

           

But would it be possible, all humans to expect,

To treat each other’s bodies with reverence and respect?

Equate sex with nudity, you have to divide.

Accept all our bodies and never to deride.

Unclothed it’s sinful, but to be clothed is good.

That’s surely fundamental, easily understood?

But covering our bodies is the symbol of our sin.

God’s beautiful creation, shame concealed within.          

As the Bible rightly tells us, after Armageddon’s fight,

We’ll all be nude together, clothed in raiments of light.

THE AWAKENING

Night’s movement cast aside the sheet,

As prone upon the bed he laid,

To cool him in the summer heat,

To leave his nakedness displayed.

Naked, too, against him pressed,

Emerging from the sheets’ disarray,

An arm lying across his chest,

Her head against his shoulder lay.

Lying just as close as they can be,

A yawning chasm between them screams,

Through endless realms of unreality,

They travel in their lonely dreams.

But the woman’s travels are soon to pass,

Like one emerging from the deep,

Destroying the fragile dreams as glass,

And throwing off the cloak of sleep.