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If I seem a little distant or incoherent, it's because I am. I am not a NeuroTypical and I have no desire to become one. This is simply the area in which I stim my creative impulses. (WARNING: All entries are either ENTIRELY TRUE or ENTIRELY FALSE and anything claiming to be one of the latter is, in fact, one of the former. There are no exceptions to this rule.) comments, marriage proposals, and death threats can be sent here 
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Thursday, January 31, 2002
wow... just, well... wow... androphobia has finally grown to include religion... and so the final few intact patriarchies shall fall... 31 January. The direction of the wind should be noted today: the way it blows on St Bridget's eve is the way it will blow for the rest of the year. Wednesday, January 30, 2002
"Enough research will tend to support your theory." -- Timothy F.X. Finnegan [Finnegan's First Fundamental Finding] Tuesday, January 29, 2002
29 January. Feast Day of St Francis de Sales (1567-1622), the patron saint of journalists. He is said to have converted 70,000 Calvinists in Geneva back to the Romish church. He founded the Acad�mie Florimontane in Annecy, 30 years before the Acad�mie Francaise was established. Monday, January 28, 2002
Confucius said "The first rule of politics is to use the language precisely. Otherwise, nobody understands anybody else, and everything falls into chaos." Some commentators regard the ideograms about using language precisely -- ching ming -- as the single most important concept in Confucian philosophy. In creating a defense league against the rabid androphobia of Steinem & Company, we need to notice which mis-uses of language create the logical chaos that reinforces and perpetuates the androphobic lunacy. I offer two small corrections of language here. "White men still own all the corporations." I head this from a Hispanic radical on local TV recently. This sentence can serve as a perfect example of how sloppy language habits create warped reality-tunnels, because it looks almost true at first, but it actually contacts an enormous Nazi-like Big Lie. Leaving aside the facts that, internationally, many corporations belong to nonwhite males, and that, even nationally, a few corporations belong to females, let us assume that, within the U.S., the statement contains maybe 90 percent accuracy. In other words, let us assume that perhaps 90 percent of all corporations active here have white male owners. This statement obviously differs vastly from "90 percent of all white males own corporations." In fact, even the Hispanic radical quoted above, if he opened his eyes, could see many, many white males working at lowly and menial jobs in this part of the country. These poor whites do not own corporations. Neither do many others who don't eve have lousy jobs and survive by being on the street. "White men own all the corporations" does tend to get confused with "All white men own corporations." Listen closely to radicals in general, and Radical Feminists in particular, and you will hear, over and over, how this self-hypnosis works. They leap from the first partly true statement to the second totally false one without even noticing that they have reversed their logical terms in the middle. They can literally walk past a homeless white man and not observe how his existence contradicts their racist/sexist ideology. Note that the same confusion existed in the foundation of the Nazi madness. "The Jews own the international banks" has lower accuracy than "white men own all corporations," but even if it fit 100 percent of all banks, it would not mean the same as "all Jews own international banks." Nonetheless, the Nazis managed to convince themselves that it did; the Holocaust followed. As semanticists like Korzybski and Bourland have pointed out, this type of confusion, and the bigotry it perpetuates, results from the very structure of our language. "White men" and "Jews" can serve as subjects of many sentences, but they do not mean the same in all sentences. Thus, "white men came down the path" refers to a definite number at a specific occasion, "White men own corporations" refers to a larger, but still smallish number, a statistically tiny segment of all white men, and "White men are not eligible for affirmative action" refers to all white men in the U.S. today. We tend to confuse these various meanings, unless we modify the key expression at once -- e.g., "Three white men come down the path," "5,000 white men own corporations," "30 million white men are not eligible for affirmative action." (These figures represent estimates, or guesses, to convey the idea. They do not claim to represent statistics I have not collected.) (I have elsewhere suggested that when generalizing without statistics we should use the term "sombunall" -- some but not all -- in every single case where we have not in fact examined all members of a set or class.) Consider next "the Patriarchy" against which we have heard so much heated rhetoric in recent decades. Does this term really fit our society? The Rad Fem crowd repeats over and over that it does fit, but I suggest that it does not. In a Patriarchy, a man continues to have custody of his children after a divorce. In the U.S. today, the wife gets custody in about 90 percent of all cases. That seems to place us closer to Matriarchy than to Patriarchy. More important, however, since males dies in our society seven years younger than their wives, the families that own most of the wealth fall under female domination eventually. And, of course, contrary to Rad Fem propaganda, even while the males remain alive, most of them share decision-making with their wives on many important occasions; they probably share decisions with their mistresses also; and women do most of the shopping and spending. The men only earn the money; the women dispose of it. I think we can only accept Oligarchy as the proper name for that system -- not Matriarchy, as Philip Wylie suggested in the 1940s and not Patriarchy, as the Feminists have insisted since the 1960s. A group of rich families, not merely the males, make all the important decisions. This type of system has existed in every post-tribal society in history, including the ones that call themselves democratic, socialistic or even communistic. Oligarchy virtually means the same as "civilization." Ignoring this fact, and picking out some scapegoat group like Jews or males, utterly confuses our political thinking and can lead to nothing but madness. Sunday, January 27, 2002
I distinguish between information, all that humans can check by experience, as distinct from noise, those "things" [or non-things, or nothings] that they can only make noises or chatter about. Examples: [A] I can say "If you open that box on the table, you will find three chocolates inside." Going to the box and opening it, in the sensory-sensual continuum, will quickly confirm or refute my statement, because you will inevitably find [1] less than three chocolates, or perhaps none at all, [2] exactly three chocolates, or [3] more than three chocolates. Results [1] and [3] refute my statement; [2] confirms it. But [B] I might also say "Opening God for similar investigation, you will find three persons inside," as in fact Romish Magick does say. No investigation of the sensory-sensual manifold can ever confirm or refute this. Scientific philosophers generally describe such statements [about things beyond conformation or refutation] as "meaningless". Following Korzybski, I call them noise, and I venture that we cannot fathom our situation in space-time if we habitually confuse ourselves by mixing type [A] statments, informaiton, with type [B] statements, noise. We may never achieve Total Clarity [short of infinity] but we should at least have the ability to distinguish between what humans can experience and what they can only blather about. Distinguishing between these two types of statements seems necessary for sanity and survival, because all forms of illusion, delusion, mob hysteria, hallucination etc., dogma, bigotry, "madness," intolerance etc. "idealism," ideology, idiocy, obsession etc. depend upon confusing them. The people who released poison gas in the Tokyo subways, the Nazis, the Marxists, nut-cults like Objectivism, Heaven's Gate, Scientology, etc. represent some of the horrors and curses unleashed by mixing Class [A] statements with Class [B] statments. I regard "ideology" and "morality" as the two most dangerous forces on this planet. About "ideology" I have expressed my suspicions elsewhere; here I will only mention John Adams's verdict that shortening "ideology" to "idiocy" would save some space and add a great deal to clarity. He had the French Revolution in mind, but "ideologists" haven't changed much since then, have they? As for "morality" -- or "moralic acid" as Nietzsche called it -- I consider it the major cause of almost all the major atrocities not caused by "ideology." This wonderful invention, "morality," allows people -- normal, ordinary people -- to do things so cruel and violent that they could never bring themselves to do them for selfish reasons. What the sociopath and sadist do for fun, the "moralist" does on behalf of "duty" or "justice." "Morality," today, allows Moslems to stone women to death, as it once fueled the Christian witch-hunts. "Morality" has excused every war, and glorified some of them. "Morality" constantly plots to subvert the Constitutional guarantee of free speech. "Morality" inspires gay-bashing and the bombing of women's clinics. Why, without "morality" we might all suddenly go stark staring sane. My vision of Utopia would include a hell of a lot more kindness and mercy than we have now, and a hell of a lot less "morality." 27 January. A report in the Los Angeles Times on 27 January 1947 stated that the crew of the oil tanker USS Caliente weighed anchor from nine fathoms and discovered that an overhand or lover's knot had been tied in the chain twenty feet from the anchor. Caliente means hot, but it is also Mexican slang for 'streetwalker'; whether this has any bearing on the mystery remains uncertain. Was an obscure pun being made by a watery demon with knowledge of Mexico, who had nothing better to do? Friday, January 25, 2002
25 January. St Paul's Day (the day Saul was zapped by the Lord), once a compulsory holiday. It was though the weather today determines the character of the coming year: fair weather betided a prosperous year; snow or rain, an unfruitful one; clouds, high livestock mortality; and wind meant war. Today is also an Egyptian Day or Dies Mala. Don't start a new job or get married today. Lily Smith of Yorkshire spontaneously combusted on St Paul's Day, 1979. The police found her legs under the dining room table, and the rest of her, a pile of ashes, on a dining room chair. Wednesday, January 23, 2002
All recognition is a series of generalizations that are basically a brain's best guess. but not your brain of course... Monday, January 21, 2002
According to Popular Mechanics, February 1938, a new invention would soon make it possible to end the cutting of trees to produce paper for our books, offices and newspapers. Popular Mechanics was so enthusiastic about this invention that they predicted farmers would earn billions of dollars a year making paper this way and would never cut down another tree. As you look around at our devestated forestlands, you might ask yourself, what the hell happened in the past 50 years? Where did the wonderful invention go? Well, kiddies, the wonderful invention was a device that made it possible to harvest hemp more cheaply than ever before. Hemp was the chief ingredient in paper throughout most of history (our Declaration of Independence was written on it, for instance) and paper made of hemp lasted a good long time compared to paper made of wood pulp. Ever notice how 19th or 18th century books or even 17th century books like the original folio of Shakespeare's plays, printed on hemp, are still around, while modern books printed on wood pulp fall apart in only decades? Our books continue to rot away quickly, and our forests continue to be destroyed because the U.S. Government declared war on hemp. They had found out that some people smoke it and get happy. Sunday, January 20, 2002
20 January. St Agnes' eve, the night when young girls can discover their future husbands by divination. "They told her how, upon St Agnes Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adoring from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright" - John Keats Friday, January 18, 2002
Thursday, January 17, 2002
wow... today, in 1474, a cock was tried in Basel for having laid an egg. It was condemned to death, and both cock and egg were burnt at the stake on a hill called the Kohlenberg, with all due ceremony, witnessed by an immense crowd. The fatal cockatrice, which was supposed to issue a cock's egg when hatched, could be used for contacting the evil spirits, so the cock which gave it birth was dreaded as dangerous purveyor to His satanic Majesty. Animals were frequently executed for various offences in medieval times. 17 January. Feast Day of St Anthony, patron saint of pigs. an interesting synchronicity... almost a propinquity... *grins* Monday, January 14, 2002
no one � perhaps not even he � can say for sure where the truth ends and the lies begin. his story has more skins than an onion and has produced just as many false tears. Sunday, January 13, 2002
Saturday, January 12, 2002
Thursday, January 10, 2002
A neighbour once came to Nasrudin, the great Sufi sage or swindler (is there a difference?). "Can I borrow some flour?" he asked. "I'd like to loan it to you," Nasrudin said, "but unfortunately I have it drying on the clothesline right now." "But," the man protested, "how can you dry flour on a clothesline?" "It's easy when you don't want to loan any," Nasrudin replied. so my question to you is, You see what kind of flour can be dried on a clothesline, but can you see who creates the clothesline? Monday, January 07, 2002
Warning: Bad Pun... Proceed with extreme caution... I wonder if this will have something to do with the euro coins landing heads up more often than not... sorry... 7 January. In 1610 Galileo announced that he had seen through a telescope four moons revolving around the planet Jupiter and promptly got into hot water with the Vatican, According to the historian Robert Temple (the Syrius Mystery), the Dogon tribe south of the Sahara knew about them - not to mention the Sirius B, the Milky Way's spiral shape, the earth's axis and the halo round Saturn - centuries before. Their info came from extraterrestrial amphibians who landed in the Persian Gulf at the dawn of civilisation, depicted drawings and legends of Babylonia, Egypt and Greece. Sunday, January 06, 2002
wow... I just noticed a very funny mistranslation in the story of Cinderella... The English version of the story was translated from Charles Perrault's telling of it in French. In the process of translation, the word vair was mistaken for verre so that Cinderella's fur slippers became glass. Saturday, January 05, 2002
maybe if I knew she read this, it might make me feel better... maybe if I knew her feelings... maybe if I wasn't so scared... maybe if I didn't secretly fear that this is just like what happened with taylor... maybe if she had more time... maybe if I didn't screw it all up... maybe if she didn't know me... maybe this would be easier... Friday, January 04, 2002
kinda makes you wonder what else has been altered to suit what the ruling class thinks we peons should see... For all you gamblers out there... Apparently, when the new Belgian Euro coins are spun on a table, they do not produce a random outcome... they turn up heads more often than they should... Forced denial as you deny me TRUTH Stumbled and Stubbed my mind in the rocky riverrun Swept up in the current currently Eating me like only a cannibal can from the inside out and only outside of this am I safe But am I safe? never here neverwhere never Tuesday, January 01, 2002
it is becoming increasingly apparent that I need to cut a lot of ties if I am to ever get what I really want out of life... In many countries, it is the custom to wish friends a "Happy Birthday" on January 1st, rather than a "Happy New Year." This day is nicknamed "Everyman's Birthday," and is considered the day when everyone becomes a year older, whether it's their actual day of birth or not. *wipes the pain of sleep from his weary confused eyes* WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED LAST NIGHT? When did I stumble into the twilight zone. Things like that are not supposed to happen to me. I am not complaining, mind you, but I think that is quite possibly the strangest new years I have ever experienced. But if I had my choice, those would be the two people I'd spend it with... *stretches and curls up to surf this wild wild web* |
faeries have died because YOU haven't been clapping hard enough.