An aspect of our present world is that we seem to be able to extend the present instance both forward and backward in time. The obvious derivative question is whether or not this trend can continue so that in the future we will have a significantly larger present.
For example, we now have the capability to record events and characteristics of events more accurately than ever before. We have access to huge amounts of storage capacity so that it is increasingly possible for more and more of aspects of the present moment to be retained for the future. Likewise, we now have a greatly increased capacity to compute and calculate what might happen, as say in elections. We can take a sample survey and within minutes project what an election result may be.
The reach of the present moment into the past and into the future seems to be growing with the development of science and technology. Our present moments are enlarging, or are they? If we move faster do we perceive more? If we are running, human beings are relatively slow compared to other animals. As we age, many of us lose mental speed and age ever more rapidly as a result. A year becomes a relative month. Would that we could alter our brains processing speed to lengthen the now, the present. This would take exercise?
What if we could get our brains to operate more quickly within each segment of our present moment?
The Dilution of Time and One's Vision
In my earlier blogs, I assume that the universe was like my construction of the Wuh Lax world of 50 AD in which the perception of time and the flow of events was very different. We some times forget that the mind has many capabilities and one capacity is that of being able to deal with stress. People under stress perceive time differently from people who are not under stress. I think!
We see an aspect of this when we use our peripheral vision and look sideways at a rotating fan. I, at least, perceive that the fan rotates slightly slower when I view it using my peripheral vision. What if all my vision were operating at the speed of my peripheral vision?
The big question is whether time would be significantly increased were I able to speed up the processing of all my vision to the speed of my peripheral vision. What is going on in my brain?
Now if I can speed up my vision, could it not be possible to speed up all sorts of other brain activity and would not my perception of time be significantly altered?
Gaining Time
A characteristic of the human mind is that some processing seems to be going on relatively slowly, such as seeing, while other processing is proceeding at such a fast rate that we have no awareness that it is happening at all. If we can perceive more rapidly, perhaps we can gain subjective time.
How Fast are We Capable of?
One has an idea of how quickly the human eye processes information because of development in digital camera technologies. There is probably a measurable normal speed of visual processing and probably a variance between individuals as to their normal speeds, as for example created by the relative distribution of rod and cones in the eye, rods being much faster, but processing motion more than colour. Suppose we only saw things in black and white. This raises all sorts of questions.
New Questions to Consider ... I am Getting a Head Ache Just Thinking about Them
Would or could we see things at a faster rate? If so, would the present now for that individual expand indefinitely? Is it possible to create a human being that sees things so fast that he perceives the world at a very different speed from everyone else? Could such a human creature have so much time within what we perceive as several seconds to be capable of understanding much more than normal human beings and then having the capacity to do the infinite? Or would such an individual be content with just perceiving, and forget about our world of motion and time?
What is Evolution in the Modern Context of Bio-engineering?
Are human beings evolving or going to evolve in a way very different from the theory of evolution as presently put forward by Dawkins and Darwin? The Intelligent Design theorists seem to think so, and claim that the DNA stories alone are inadequate to explain the myriad aspects of evolution. By raising the evolution issue in a heavy handed way Dawkins has manged to encamp two opposing groups of thought so that emotional bias is presented by both as reasonable bias.
The problem is that whatever you think was evolution in the past will be inapplicable for the future should future man take an active role in engineering evolution, as now seems very probable.
Obviously, as a human being, you are aware of the intelligent designs created by human beings. What if one of these designs were to speed up the rate at which the eye processes information? This new design for the human being would add a hitherto undeveloped capacity to the list of human capacities and obviously would be a major step in evolution. One may ask whether the list of alternative technologies to bring about this evolution would be confined to biology.
Scratches to Sketches
Friday, 4 January 2008
Is Stupid a Word that Should Not be Used?
Logically, for me at least, the words smart and stupid are closely connected. What I have come to realize is how inexact the use of such words can be. I have a friend who advises me never to use the word stupid with reference to a person. The same friend constantly reminds me that whatever I say in any event is only my opinion.
What is Stupid?
Perhaps, nothing is stupid except in reference to something else. I can regard a statement by someone as stupid because I have heard a different statement from someone else that I would regard as smart. The distance between the two statements is in my mind great enough that one is so significantly different from the other that the statements belong to two recognizable groups, a smart group and a stupid group. My grouping of the statements is probably subjective, but may not be.
For example, if a person who has had three glasses of vodka decides to get into a car and drive, I might say that the person is stupid. I don't necessarily mean to say that the person is permanently stupid, but that the alcohol has affected his brain and the person does not reason correctly according to some social wisdom about drinking and driving. The same statement may, however, be construed differently in that I am merely commenting that the act of driving when having drunk three glasses of vodka is stupid.
What should bother me is that the stupid person, who is drunk and getting into a car to drive it, may actually be smart. Its just that an issue has arisen, a drunken state, in which his thinking and his actions are stupid, or so I assume.
Why Referring to Some one's Behaviour as Stupid Confuses People
When one looks for the word stupid in the English and American dictionaries one gets a very different impression of the social aspects of the term. The dictionaries give examples using other words that are, perhaps, as offensive as referring to someone as stupid.
For example, someone who is boring may be thought of as stupid. Someone who is foolish may be thought of as stupid. Someone who is senseless may be thought of a stupid. Someone who is unwise may be thought of as stupid.
In any event, use of the term stupid with reference to behaviour or characteristic is fraught with problems because it is something that repels people away from the individual in question. Politicians often think their rivals are stupid, but they rarely say so. The reason is perhaps that reference to one's fit within a context is a measure by which others will act.
Saying some one is stupid is a negative advertising for that individual, and is something that person may or may not know how to deal with. If the person is really inadequate, we don't often use the term stupid, and that is because the term is pejorative and demeaning.
The Unwelcome Rebound
Use of the word is likely to rebound back on the individual who uses it. Thus the very act of using the term stupid is stupid, at least for the present!
We use other words instead. We find the phrase 'shameful' an improvement on 'stupid'. One can say openly that a person's behaviour in driving while drunk is shameful, but we don't say the behaviour is stupid. Are we making a mistake? Is there such a thing as stupidity? What do you think?
What is Stupid?
Perhaps, nothing is stupid except in reference to something else. I can regard a statement by someone as stupid because I have heard a different statement from someone else that I would regard as smart. The distance between the two statements is in my mind great enough that one is so significantly different from the other that the statements belong to two recognizable groups, a smart group and a stupid group. My grouping of the statements is probably subjective, but may not be.
For example, if a person who has had three glasses of vodka decides to get into a car and drive, I might say that the person is stupid. I don't necessarily mean to say that the person is permanently stupid, but that the alcohol has affected his brain and the person does not reason correctly according to some social wisdom about drinking and driving. The same statement may, however, be construed differently in that I am merely commenting that the act of driving when having drunk three glasses of vodka is stupid.
What should bother me is that the stupid person, who is drunk and getting into a car to drive it, may actually be smart. Its just that an issue has arisen, a drunken state, in which his thinking and his actions are stupid, or so I assume.
Why Referring to Some one's Behaviour as Stupid Confuses People
When one looks for the word stupid in the English and American dictionaries one gets a very different impression of the social aspects of the term. The dictionaries give examples using other words that are, perhaps, as offensive as referring to someone as stupid.
For example, someone who is boring may be thought of as stupid. Someone who is foolish may be thought of as stupid. Someone who is senseless may be thought of a stupid. Someone who is unwise may be thought of as stupid.
In any event, use of the term stupid with reference to behaviour or characteristic is fraught with problems because it is something that repels people away from the individual in question. Politicians often think their rivals are stupid, but they rarely say so. The reason is perhaps that reference to one's fit within a context is a measure by which others will act.
Saying some one is stupid is a negative advertising for that individual, and is something that person may or may not know how to deal with. If the person is really inadequate, we don't often use the term stupid, and that is because the term is pejorative and demeaning.
The Unwelcome Rebound
Use of the word is likely to rebound back on the individual who uses it. Thus the very act of using the term stupid is stupid, at least for the present!
We use other words instead. We find the phrase 'shameful' an improvement on 'stupid'. One can say openly that a person's behaviour in driving while drunk is shameful, but we don't say the behaviour is stupid. Are we making a mistake? Is there such a thing as stupidity? What do you think?
Thursday, 3 January 2008
The Richard Dawkins' Viewpoint of God as Delusion as a Phenomena
Some people like to be at the center of controversy. Posit one absurdity and someone will refute it with another absurdity. Take the extreme of an argument and the response against that argument will probably be extreme. Develop an extreme science that posits an extreme view of reality and others will posit alternative extremes.
Going to the Edge
It is a very human pattern of behaviour that we tend to want to see an ultimate manifestation of something or other. If there is a volcano, it is very human to want to see into the heart of the volcano. This is a very human activity and we call it exploration. Take a concept and one wants to go as far as that concept will lead even to the edge of reason.
What may happen is that the science or reality that creates an invitation for exploration may be a trap, a total waste of time, a place that has nothing of real interest. The journey to that place, nevertheless, takes its toll on those that would journey to it and those that observe the exploration taking place and make judgements.
What is the Direction of your Science or Technology
My experience is that few people understand the notion of direction when it comes to something as complex as the abstraction we call science. If science is a field, there are areas of that field that we can explore. What science is not connected to is technology.
Technology has fields like science has, but technology is not the same as science. We can have lots and lots of science, but very little technology, or vice verse. It is a mistake to confuse technology with science.
Creation of Science and Technology have Different Agendas
Some people, like Richard Hawkins may be exploring technologies and confusing such explorations with science. Rather than being judgemental, I would just throw that out as a proposition. Its a lovely abstraction that can distinguish between different stages of a cycle of activity.
For example, Darwin's discovery was new science, but Dawkins' discovery was new technology. The difference arises because of the motivation behind the exploration. Science that is technology invention has a direction which is orchestrated in ways that science as science is not. We think of science as being basic or developmental. Basic science is one thing. Fundamental science is another.
I realize that English limits my selection of words to describe the processes, but I think my message is clear. It is quite one thing to receive a prize for new science that is basic to promoting the interests of all mankind, but quite another to receive a prize to promoting a development or technology that biases the value towards a specific interest group promoting an agenda.
Exploration may, however, bring about a major explosion of activity and interest. Richard Dawkins may discover something that is valuable to those promoting religion, or he may stimulate a response from the religious community quite unlike anything he expects. What his explorations of dangerous ideas do, however, is produce a notion that such exploration is safe for society rather than destructive.
The North West Passage
Being in Canada, I am awed by the explorations that sought the North West passage, but I am also aware of the injunctions by the then managers of the Hudson Bay Company not to invite people to undertake the exploration into the North West. There are risks for society of exploration, especially in the world of competitive ideas. The North West of Canada and the United States, Denmark, France, Russia and the Netherlands, is now being opened up in ways that environmentalists really do find scary.
The rewards of exploring the North West passage today are so enormous that we could end up in a war situation. Man has had a history of secret competitive alliances and agreements that produce absolute destruction in their wake. Is this what we want from science or is it science at all?
Its not hard to see how the technological or informational results of science are potentially more socially divisive in many more ways than religion.
Activities of exploring, such as science and invention, that create new knowledge or technology may be socially destabilizing, and in science as in economics, as any central banker knows, one should maintain 'economic' stability above all else otherwise you are like to get instability, social upheaval, irrationality and war. Change and new science is wonderful stuff if the organism that seeks it and the society that must sustain it are sufficiently mature to cope with the results.
This is of course where uncertainty begins, but again to use the central banker analogy, it is not good economic or scientific management to create instability to quickly otherwise one just gets a big confrontation and destructive change, the Hegelian process of explosive change rather than the more gradual process of evolutionary change.
So, Richard Hawkins' exploration of the frontiers of dangerous ideas promotes rationalization, we must become aware that the results are not so predictable as to lead to gradual improvement in religion or science. They might just result in explosive confrontation and a badly managed exchange of respectable opinions and well worn positions.
At the Edge
One has to wonder what being at the frontier of religion or science actually means. To some there is the idea that creationism is an activity that seeks to provide a mythology for religion, a vehicle for completing with the strengths they see in science.
As an alternative to the notion of religion as being evolutionary, it might better be described that religion is at the edge of risk taking. That seems strange, but possibly religion is a group response to being burned by exploration in technology that goes bad and the change brought about by such exploration.
Hawkins dangerous ideas really do destroy valuable and important aspects of our beautiful world until the science and technology and religious fervour are redirected towards stabilizing solutions. It's as though, the first attempts at coping with new social problems are catastrophic and society as a whole has to learn from its really bad mistakes, its monstrous errors of judgment that destroy people and the beauty in the world.
Much, but not all religion, may arise as a result of the mass trauma produced by war and the individual trauma at the realization of death and destruction. The rational exploration for solutions arises as a method of coping with overwhelming change. What emerges as a social solution in the form often of religious fervour and commitment is not rational in the long term, even though at the time it seems rational.
Religion as a Means for Groups Coping with Massive Irrationality in the Living Environment
Seen in this way, religion is a method of groups coping with trauma and the inevitability of uncontrollable destructive change, such as the slaughter of innocents whether as a consequence of destructive forces of nature or the acts of competing warlike peoples. Judaism arose in a period of extreme trauma. Christianity arose in a period of extreme trauma.
For example, consider the rise of religious fervour during the New Deal period of the 1930's in which the socially destructive forces of bad economics and lack of stability resulted in a search for comfort and solutions in the immediate. For some groups, there was no time for considered solutions. In the USA, while Harvard academics went crazy for the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, they ignored the more relevant but long term science of their own local professor Joseph Schumpeter in favour of short term technology to find an immediate solution.
The Economics of Religion and Science Stimulated in Periods of Trauma
Both Keynes and Schumpeter realized that an ineffective banking system was at the heart of the economic dilemmas that faced all societies at the time. Peace required a new technology. The problem was that the new technology was not put in place soon enough and the world sank into war and the Jews were trapped within a monstrous period of irrational so called 'problem' solving.
In Canada, Major Douglas, a deeply religious engineer in Alberta, came up with a new religious economics and the idea of the A plus B theorem. Douglas's science was flawed but the direction of his technology was correct. Why should there be poverty in the midst of plenty. His society grappled with the destructive forces of starvation in a time when it was obviously unnecessary.
Keynes technology for the short term was better than that of Major Douglas, but both were going in the same direction, and if Alberta had been a country, Douglas's ideas might have worked better and longer. Schumpeter's science explained what the real underlying problem was while Keynes methods provided a means to grapple with the dynamics in a meaningful way.
In the end, Schumpeter provided the real long term science, but Keynes provided the immediate and necessary technology. Economists lost sight of the Schumpeterian vision of the creative destructive forces built into capitalism because of new technology and went for the religion of absolute truth as presented by John Maynard Keynes, the rationalist speculator.
Alternatively, consider the strength of the rise of Nazism after the great inflation in Germany. The religious fervour of Nazism is easily explained as a consequence of trauma as people sought irrational solutions to what seemed an irrational situation. Nazism as a religious response is not so easily digested unless one considers that religion is often a result of traumatic experience. It was not that Jewish people were the source of the trauma, but that people incorrectly thought that they were.
The real problem was the bad economics of the peace settlement of the first World War. Had France, at the end of World War one, not demanded that Germany pay for the war destruction and had the world reconstructed Germany and France into thriving economies, then the second war may not have happened nor would the Jewish people have suffered as much as they did. Isreal would probably never have been created and the mess in the middle east that we see now would probably not have been initiated. What is the Arab-Isreali war but a flawed solution to an old problem that was the result of a flawed solution to an earlier older problem? The science of peace has been terribly exploratory and the technology employed by France to create peace at the end of World War One was seriously flawed, so flawed that it destroyed much of the world as a result. Its both the science, the technology and the religion that are flawed. When and where will this madness end!
What Context for Religion and Science
Placing religion and science within a social context is not easy, but it is necessary for understanding. Religion is not so much an evolutionary process as a reasoned and rational response to trauma. Reason and religion have common social and natural roots and are not all that different in consequence.
Going to the Edge
It is a very human pattern of behaviour that we tend to want to see an ultimate manifestation of something or other. If there is a volcano, it is very human to want to see into the heart of the volcano. This is a very human activity and we call it exploration. Take a concept and one wants to go as far as that concept will lead even to the edge of reason.
What may happen is that the science or reality that creates an invitation for exploration may be a trap, a total waste of time, a place that has nothing of real interest. The journey to that place, nevertheless, takes its toll on those that would journey to it and those that observe the exploration taking place and make judgements.
What is the Direction of your Science or Technology
My experience is that few people understand the notion of direction when it comes to something as complex as the abstraction we call science. If science is a field, there are areas of that field that we can explore. What science is not connected to is technology.
Technology has fields like science has, but technology is not the same as science. We can have lots and lots of science, but very little technology, or vice verse. It is a mistake to confuse technology with science.
Creation of Science and Technology have Different Agendas
Some people, like Richard Hawkins may be exploring technologies and confusing such explorations with science. Rather than being judgemental, I would just throw that out as a proposition. Its a lovely abstraction that can distinguish between different stages of a cycle of activity.
For example, Darwin's discovery was new science, but Dawkins' discovery was new technology. The difference arises because of the motivation behind the exploration. Science that is technology invention has a direction which is orchestrated in ways that science as science is not. We think of science as being basic or developmental. Basic science is one thing. Fundamental science is another.
I realize that English limits my selection of words to describe the processes, but I think my message is clear. It is quite one thing to receive a prize for new science that is basic to promoting the interests of all mankind, but quite another to receive a prize to promoting a development or technology that biases the value towards a specific interest group promoting an agenda.
Exploration may, however, bring about a major explosion of activity and interest. Richard Dawkins may discover something that is valuable to those promoting religion, or he may stimulate a response from the religious community quite unlike anything he expects. What his explorations of dangerous ideas do, however, is produce a notion that such exploration is safe for society rather than destructive.
The North West Passage
Being in Canada, I am awed by the explorations that sought the North West passage, but I am also aware of the injunctions by the then managers of the Hudson Bay Company not to invite people to undertake the exploration into the North West. There are risks for society of exploration, especially in the world of competitive ideas. The North West of Canada and the United States, Denmark, France, Russia and the Netherlands, is now being opened up in ways that environmentalists really do find scary.
The rewards of exploring the North West passage today are so enormous that we could end up in a war situation. Man has had a history of secret competitive alliances and agreements that produce absolute destruction in their wake. Is this what we want from science or is it science at all?
Its not hard to see how the technological or informational results of science are potentially more socially divisive in many more ways than religion.
Activities of exploring, such as science and invention, that create new knowledge or technology may be socially destabilizing, and in science as in economics, as any central banker knows, one should maintain 'economic' stability above all else otherwise you are like to get instability, social upheaval, irrationality and war. Change and new science is wonderful stuff if the organism that seeks it and the society that must sustain it are sufficiently mature to cope with the results.
This is of course where uncertainty begins, but again to use the central banker analogy, it is not good economic or scientific management to create instability to quickly otherwise one just gets a big confrontation and destructive change, the Hegelian process of explosive change rather than the more gradual process of evolutionary change.
So, Richard Hawkins' exploration of the frontiers of dangerous ideas promotes rationalization, we must become aware that the results are not so predictable as to lead to gradual improvement in religion or science. They might just result in explosive confrontation and a badly managed exchange of respectable opinions and well worn positions.
At the Edge
One has to wonder what being at the frontier of religion or science actually means. To some there is the idea that creationism is an activity that seeks to provide a mythology for religion, a vehicle for completing with the strengths they see in science.
As an alternative to the notion of religion as being evolutionary, it might better be described that religion is at the edge of risk taking. That seems strange, but possibly religion is a group response to being burned by exploration in technology that goes bad and the change brought about by such exploration.
Hawkins dangerous ideas really do destroy valuable and important aspects of our beautiful world until the science and technology and religious fervour are redirected towards stabilizing solutions. It's as though, the first attempts at coping with new social problems are catastrophic and society as a whole has to learn from its really bad mistakes, its monstrous errors of judgment that destroy people and the beauty in the world.
Much, but not all religion, may arise as a result of the mass trauma produced by war and the individual trauma at the realization of death and destruction. The rational exploration for solutions arises as a method of coping with overwhelming change. What emerges as a social solution in the form often of religious fervour and commitment is not rational in the long term, even though at the time it seems rational.
Religion as a Means for Groups Coping with Massive Irrationality in the Living Environment
Seen in this way, religion is a method of groups coping with trauma and the inevitability of uncontrollable destructive change, such as the slaughter of innocents whether as a consequence of destructive forces of nature or the acts of competing warlike peoples. Judaism arose in a period of extreme trauma. Christianity arose in a period of extreme trauma.
For example, consider the rise of religious fervour during the New Deal period of the 1930's in which the socially destructive forces of bad economics and lack of stability resulted in a search for comfort and solutions in the immediate. For some groups, there was no time for considered solutions. In the USA, while Harvard academics went crazy for the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, they ignored the more relevant but long term science of their own local professor Joseph Schumpeter in favour of short term technology to find an immediate solution.
The Economics of Religion and Science Stimulated in Periods of Trauma
Both Keynes and Schumpeter realized that an ineffective banking system was at the heart of the economic dilemmas that faced all societies at the time. Peace required a new technology. The problem was that the new technology was not put in place soon enough and the world sank into war and the Jews were trapped within a monstrous period of irrational so called 'problem' solving.
In Canada, Major Douglas, a deeply religious engineer in Alberta, came up with a new religious economics and the idea of the A plus B theorem. Douglas's science was flawed but the direction of his technology was correct. Why should there be poverty in the midst of plenty. His society grappled with the destructive forces of starvation in a time when it was obviously unnecessary.
Keynes technology for the short term was better than that of Major Douglas, but both were going in the same direction, and if Alberta had been a country, Douglas's ideas might have worked better and longer. Schumpeter's science explained what the real underlying problem was while Keynes methods provided a means to grapple with the dynamics in a meaningful way.
In the end, Schumpeter provided the real long term science, but Keynes provided the immediate and necessary technology. Economists lost sight of the Schumpeterian vision of the creative destructive forces built into capitalism because of new technology and went for the religion of absolute truth as presented by John Maynard Keynes, the rationalist speculator.
Alternatively, consider the strength of the rise of Nazism after the great inflation in Germany. The religious fervour of Nazism is easily explained as a consequence of trauma as people sought irrational solutions to what seemed an irrational situation. Nazism as a religious response is not so easily digested unless one considers that religion is often a result of traumatic experience. It was not that Jewish people were the source of the trauma, but that people incorrectly thought that they were.
The real problem was the bad economics of the peace settlement of the first World War. Had France, at the end of World War one, not demanded that Germany pay for the war destruction and had the world reconstructed Germany and France into thriving economies, then the second war may not have happened nor would the Jewish people have suffered as much as they did. Isreal would probably never have been created and the mess in the middle east that we see now would probably not have been initiated. What is the Arab-Isreali war but a flawed solution to an old problem that was the result of a flawed solution to an earlier older problem? The science of peace has been terribly exploratory and the technology employed by France to create peace at the end of World War One was seriously flawed, so flawed that it destroyed much of the world as a result. Its both the science, the technology and the religion that are flawed. When and where will this madness end!
What Context for Religion and Science
Placing religion and science within a social context is not easy, but it is necessary for understanding. Religion is not so much an evolutionary process as a reasoned and rational response to trauma. Reason and religion have common social and natural roots and are not all that different in consequence.
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
A Vision of Continuously Improving Science and Religion
In the Wuh Lax world that I envisage, the control of errors is accomplished by continuously improving on the methods of solving and coping with challenges. We sometimes forget that our world is constantly changing, that all existence whether physical, ethereal, spiritual or formal, is subject to change because everything is as an aspect of process.
Continuous process as a descriptor of everything
In such a world, there are no laws, no constants, no ultimate barriers. The goals of science, the God or gods of religion, the forms of religious or spiritual experience are processes. Nothing really is but is by process. If there is no process there is nothing.
A Vacuum has No Process
A vacuum is a vacuum by virtue of its having no process to characterize it. Introduce a process and the vacuum is no longer a vaccum.
Process as the Only Law
Everything is being processed and everything processes. Even what seems not to process is processing. This is the only law of the universe. All other laws are subject to process and change. We may not measure the change but there is change and process, nevertheless. We may not measure the evolution in the process, but processes evolve and we may never know the direction by which they evolve or devolve.
As humans, we may share processes and compare experiences. Our respective realities are to others, however, virtual and unreal, like people playing in a computer simulation.
In Science and Religion There are Errors
Yes! Indeed, we do not have the perfect science nor the perfect religion. Man is not even rational, and rationalism is a pipe dream invented by people being irrational about reason. In any event, we need to improve on our science and our religion. It is only by continuously improving these that we will overcome the many errors that both embody.
Continuous process as a descriptor of everything
In such a world, there are no laws, no constants, no ultimate barriers. The goals of science, the God or gods of religion, the forms of religious or spiritual experience are processes. Nothing really is but is by process. If there is no process there is nothing.
A Vacuum has No Process
A vacuum is a vacuum by virtue of its having no process to characterize it. Introduce a process and the vacuum is no longer a vaccum.
Process as the Only Law
Everything is being processed and everything processes. Even what seems not to process is processing. This is the only law of the universe. All other laws are subject to process and change. We may not measure the change but there is change and process, nevertheless. We may not measure the evolution in the process, but processes evolve and we may never know the direction by which they evolve or devolve.
As humans, we may share processes and compare experiences. Our respective realities are to others, however, virtual and unreal, like people playing in a computer simulation.
In Science and Religion There are Errors
Yes! Indeed, we do not have the perfect science nor the perfect religion. Man is not even rational, and rationalism is a pipe dream invented by people being irrational about reason. In any event, we need to improve on our science and our religion. It is only by continuously improving these that we will overcome the many errors that both embody.
On the One Hand, but On the Other Hand
At this moment, I feel very much like Larry David, when he holds out two hands. He is weighing what appear to be two alternatives, either the prescription from his doctor or the advice of his pharmacist which proposes an alternative prescription. The world is so made that we have alternatives, and it was my luck that I chose at a university age the science of alternatives, economics.
In this hand I have this alternative, but in this hand I have this other alternative
If you are not trained as an economist you perhaps will not appreciate what science there is in economics while at the same time appreciating what science is missing from economics. My bad luck was that I tried, in my own small way, to make economics less of a linear exercise and more scientific. The problem is that the whole field fails when one introduces science and technology. Most economists won't admit that there is a very serious problem, but there is a very serious problem with the notion that economics is a science. I found the science of economics to be more like a religion than a science despite its mathematical 'certainties.'
If you ever become an economist, you will appreciate what I mean when I say that the field is now esoteric and probably as esoteric as any religion. This is not to say that there are not practicalities in the economic field, its just that there are very few certainties. Where economics as a practical science succeeds it does so because it is able to incorporate the economic lessons of the past, make use of economic history, measure economic trends and economic potentials using statistics and econometrics.
Verification is all important in any scientific field, and in a field where there seems to be too much theory, too many assumptions, and too many conditions of an if then nature, more verification is like an act of God. Very few economists can verify all the ifs of their problem set. They can conjecture with maybe this or maybe that, but don't really know how to handle all the ifs.
Certainties and Uncertainties
What started me down this train of thought is the juxtaposition of two very important selected clubs of experts in modern society. One is the Group of Elders , the men of world peace, which includes such wonderful people as Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela, and the other is the Reality Group, the men of inventive science, which includes such speculative science people as Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies. So in my hands, I am weighing these two groups, one seems religious and one seems speculatively scientific. There are other groups that appear to be just brilliant.
As an economist, I could do the Larry David thing and think that on the one hand, we have The Elders and in the other hand, we have the Reality Group. Related to or embodying the Reality Group are the third culture people or The Edge people, which seems to include people like Lee Smolin, and then there are The Digerati that includes people like Bill Gates and Esther Dyson.
Fortunately, I realize that most people interact with many types of people, those with great heart, those with verifying minds, those that are doers and those that are thinkers. What an amazing mix the world of people is!
In My Non-Linear World, the Light World that I Occupy
On the one hand I am in control, but on the other I am not. It's a strange world.
On the one hand I must be like God, but on the other I must be nothing like God. I am amazing and yet I am insignificant. I am large and yet I am small. Who and what am I?
I did not choose to be born the person I am. I am fortunate to be born into the body that I possess, but don't really control, or if I do I must be a creature of light. I am grateful that I have so many fiends in the same boat as I am in, who did not choose to be born, but who are grateful that they were.
I am not sure that it matters whether I think this or that because I am what I am and I do not think that I have much choice in my reality, nor do I think many people have much choice. I do not think that my actions change my reality even though I am deluded into thinking that I experience a world which I can't possibly experience unless I am as fast as light. Maybe I am light. Wow! Me, a photon? Are you one too?
In this hand I have this alternative, but in this hand I have this other alternative
If you are not trained as an economist you perhaps will not appreciate what science there is in economics while at the same time appreciating what science is missing from economics. My bad luck was that I tried, in my own small way, to make economics less of a linear exercise and more scientific. The problem is that the whole field fails when one introduces science and technology. Most economists won't admit that there is a very serious problem, but there is a very serious problem with the notion that economics is a science. I found the science of economics to be more like a religion than a science despite its mathematical 'certainties.'
If you ever become an economist, you will appreciate what I mean when I say that the field is now esoteric and probably as esoteric as any religion. This is not to say that there are not practicalities in the economic field, its just that there are very few certainties. Where economics as a practical science succeeds it does so because it is able to incorporate the economic lessons of the past, make use of economic history, measure economic trends and economic potentials using statistics and econometrics.
Verification is all important in any scientific field, and in a field where there seems to be too much theory, too many assumptions, and too many conditions of an if then nature, more verification is like an act of God. Very few economists can verify all the ifs of their problem set. They can conjecture with maybe this or maybe that, but don't really know how to handle all the ifs.
Certainties and Uncertainties
What started me down this train of thought is the juxtaposition of two very important selected clubs of experts in modern society. One is the Group of Elders , the men of world peace, which includes such wonderful people as Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela, and the other is the Reality Group, the men of inventive science, which includes such speculative science people as Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies. So in my hands, I am weighing these two groups, one seems religious and one seems speculatively scientific. There are other groups that appear to be just brilliant.
As an economist, I could do the Larry David thing and think that on the one hand, we have The Elders and in the other hand, we have the Reality Group. Related to or embodying the Reality Group are the third culture people or The Edge people, which seems to include people like Lee Smolin, and then there are The Digerati that includes people like Bill Gates and Esther Dyson.
Fortunately, I realize that most people interact with many types of people, those with great heart, those with verifying minds, those that are doers and those that are thinkers. What an amazing mix the world of people is!
In My Non-Linear World, the Light World that I Occupy
On the one hand I am in control, but on the other I am not. It's a strange world.
On the one hand I must be like God, but on the other I must be nothing like God. I am amazing and yet I am insignificant. I am large and yet I am small. Who and what am I?
I did not choose to be born the person I am. I am fortunate to be born into the body that I possess, but don't really control, or if I do I must be a creature of light. I am grateful that I have so many fiends in the same boat as I am in, who did not choose to be born, but who are grateful that they were.
I am not sure that it matters whether I think this or that because I am what I am and I do not think that I have much choice in my reality, nor do I think many people have much choice. I do not think that my actions change my reality even though I am deluded into thinking that I experience a world which I can't possibly experience unless I am as fast as light. Maybe I am light. Wow! Me, a photon? Are you one too?
Friday, 28 December 2007
Being Mindful About What and When You Are Thinking
I have stressed the importance of thinking. What I have left out is the need to be mindful of our thinking. Being mindful of our thinking helps us to achieve a balance between thought, our physiology, and emotion.
Can it be that we need to be shown how to think in very specific ways?
In thinking, I seek to create as a form of journey. Without the act of creation, I can not say that I have made the journey. Nevertheless, there are pitfalls to making journeys, just as there are to climbing mountains because they are there.
Can it be that we need to be shown how to think in very specific ways?
In thinking, I seek to create as a form of journey. Without the act of creation, I can not say that I have made the journey. Nevertheless, there are pitfalls to making journeys, just as there are to climbing mountains because they are there.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
The Now as a Work Concept
World famous guru speaks and writes about being in 'the now'. Philosopher listens intently being an expert in 'the now'. Guru says that people need to disassociate themselves from matters that coddle ego and distance them from being in 'the now'. Philosopher ponders idea of 'the now'. In 'the now', what is, is.
The problem with you, philosopher or scientist, is that you are not in 'the now'.
People who are not in 'the now' cause the wars and problems that the world has seen throughout its history. Guru claims that in the new world when people are all in 'the now' a wondrous new age begins. Is this Zen and has America moved towards 'the Now'?
I am reminded how similar the now is to remembering oneself. There is an art to the enlightened master of meditations. It is helpful to realize that the journey of meditation occurs over several of one's lives.
As you mature and have a partner, use the methods that have been successful in love and intimate relationships.
The problem with you, philosopher or scientist, is that you are not in 'the now'.
People who are not in 'the now' cause the wars and problems that the world has seen throughout its history. Guru claims that in the new world when people are all in 'the now' a wondrous new age begins. Is this Zen and has America moved towards 'the Now'?
I am reminded how similar the now is to remembering oneself. There is an art to the enlightened master of meditations. It is helpful to realize that the journey of meditation occurs over several of one's lives.
As you mature and have a partner, use the methods that have been successful in love and intimate relationships.
Form Madness - Please Enter Zip Code
Wishing to purchase Apple iTunes software expert is asked to complete form. He is told country is United States, but has entered information for UK. He tries to change country but finds that it is the only element in form that cannot be changed.
He goes back to beginning and enters information starting with United KIngdom as his country. He is able to save Zip Code, but when he tries to save data an error message pops up. Email address is already in use. No way to begin to purchase iTunes because UK address and US email address and UK Zip and US form!?
When is world international, software expert wonders?
He goes back to beginning and enters information starting with United KIngdom as his country. He is able to save Zip Code, but when he tries to save data an error message pops up. Email address is already in use. No way to begin to purchase iTunes because UK address and US email address and UK Zip and US form!?
When is world international, software expert wonders?
Install New Software No Problem
Computer guy has paid for and downloaded software from internet. He clicks on execute icon to install program and enters name, company and product ID when asked. Installation program wizzes into action and blue lines cross over computer screen as files are copied across. Suddenly, there is a beep. The installation has paused and query pops up.
There is a problem installing c++ files, do you want to continue? "OK! Please continue!" More blue lines across screen and a second beep. "Error! B-1618. Cannot install program until another program has completed its installation!"
Money paid, but neither program is installed!
There is a problem installing c++ files, do you want to continue? "OK! Please continue!" More blue lines across screen and a second beep. "Error! B-1618. Cannot install program until another program has completed its installation!"
Money paid, but neither program is installed!
Little Boy Big Dog
Little boy is three years old. Big dog is three years old, a loving golden lab. No one around! Little boy wants to get from garage to living room, but big dog is in the kitchen and the kitchen is in front of the living room. Little boy has to pass big dog if little boy wishes to arrive in living room!
First time little boy attempts to get by big dog, tongue comes out and big dog aims tongue at little boy's face. Little boy is terrified and runs away back outside. "Help! Someone help! A montrous big dog is chasing me," yells little boy. Man outside hears yelling. "What's the matter, little kid," he asks? "A huge giant dog is trying to get me," shouts little boy. Man thinks about this and realizes the problem.
"I'll help you," he says, thinking that he can get little boy past big dog, easy as pie! Dog sees man. Tongue comes out. Dog runs at man and knocks him over. Dog sits on man licking his face. Little boy runs by big dog and man shouting, "Thanks!"
First time little boy attempts to get by big dog, tongue comes out and big dog aims tongue at little boy's face. Little boy is terrified and runs away back outside. "Help! Someone help! A montrous big dog is chasing me," yells little boy. Man outside hears yelling. "What's the matter, little kid," he asks? "A huge giant dog is trying to get me," shouts little boy. Man thinks about this and realizes the problem.
"I'll help you," he says, thinking that he can get little boy past big dog, easy as pie! Dog sees man. Tongue comes out. Dog runs at man and knocks him over. Dog sits on man licking his face. Little boy runs by big dog and man shouting, "Thanks!"
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Dealing With Pollution in Your Own Neighbourhood
It would seem to me that in a global environment in which the issues of pollution and recycling come ever more into the open, we will see the emergence of environment watch groups. Instead of the usual types of criminals, we will increasing focus on crimes that affect our environmental balance.
It seems logical that we will establish neighbourhood watch groups to catch out people who do not observe the emerging rules of being environmentally conscious.
One aspect of the power of these localized groups will be the enormous power they will possess for examining their local environment by satellite. It will be possible to look into the back garden of one's neighbour and search for a sticky polluting mess. So powerful will be these new technologies, that we will be able to catch out the source of light pollution that obstructs our view in the evening of the stars. It won't be necessary to have a camera watching over your local parking lot. You will be able to use your own iPhone and keep an eye on things back at the car while you are shopping. If some one steals from your vehicle you will have a recording of the thief from the air.
Once a neighbour has been reported the local 'green' watchdogs, very much like pollution policemen can raid the house in question and enforce the local ordinances with regard to CO2 emission.
Satellite technologies will be the great enabler for the environmentally conscious. It will be possible to look directly into the private spaces of people. The use of fences to keep messes from view will no longer work. The person on the computer will also see how much heat your dwelling is losing per hour. In fact, there won't be much information about you that the satellite traveller from China or anywhere in the world won't have to observe you at home. We are moving into the global fish tank age in which all will be revealed.
This is how I was able to observe the pollution going on along the borders of counties in England. As long as you do your polluting on the borders it seems that you can get away with it. Not any more because now we can all see what is going on!
Can you imagine how easy it will be to follow spies!
It seems logical that we will establish neighbourhood watch groups to catch out people who do not observe the emerging rules of being environmentally conscious.
One aspect of the power of these localized groups will be the enormous power they will possess for examining their local environment by satellite. It will be possible to look into the back garden of one's neighbour and search for a sticky polluting mess. So powerful will be these new technologies, that we will be able to catch out the source of light pollution that obstructs our view in the evening of the stars. It won't be necessary to have a camera watching over your local parking lot. You will be able to use your own iPhone and keep an eye on things back at the car while you are shopping. If some one steals from your vehicle you will have a recording of the thief from the air.
Once a neighbour has been reported the local 'green' watchdogs, very much like pollution policemen can raid the house in question and enforce the local ordinances with regard to CO2 emission.
Satellite technologies will be the great enabler for the environmentally conscious. It will be possible to look directly into the private spaces of people. The use of fences to keep messes from view will no longer work. The person on the computer will also see how much heat your dwelling is losing per hour. In fact, there won't be much information about you that the satellite traveller from China or anywhere in the world won't have to observe you at home. We are moving into the global fish tank age in which all will be revealed.
This is how I was able to observe the pollution going on along the borders of counties in England. As long as you do your polluting on the borders it seems that you can get away with it. Not any more because now we can all see what is going on!
Can you imagine how easy it will be to follow spies!
Monday, 24 December 2007
Remembering Christ at Christmas
Jesus said that whenever two people met in his name, there he would be also. Another thought to remember is that when you love someone, Jesus loves you both.
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Remember Its NOT How Much You Eat But How Well
One of the biggest mistakes that people make these days is to confuse quantity with quality when it comes to what they eat. The only way to get over this misconception is to actually experience the difference. My observation is that by eating quality food you will actually eat less food, and you will be better off for it. But, how do you begin?
Given the nature of the profitable food industry these days, you are probably being conned left and right to eat more of the same boring stuff because there is the fact that eating is seen as a means to get over hunger. If your eating habits are determined by a poor provider, whether mother, restaurant or grocer, they will normally follow the easy route of bulking you up, giving you more, rather than satisfying your need, by giving you what you really need.
The chef nearest you probably has a lumberjack chef mentality, which is to potato up the client. Almost everyone in the food preparation business is into the same game. If you doubt me, ask yourself the question whether you have eaten a really good meal lately that was half the size of your regular feed. I would claim that you are probably being fed tasteless rubbish. Its time you had a really good meal. You will know it because you will be satisfied and you will eat less than half of what everyone else is eating.
Given the nature of the profitable food industry these days, you are probably being conned left and right to eat more of the same boring stuff because there is the fact that eating is seen as a means to get over hunger. If your eating habits are determined by a poor provider, whether mother, restaurant or grocer, they will normally follow the easy route of bulking you up, giving you more, rather than satisfying your need, by giving you what you really need.
The chef nearest you probably has a lumberjack chef mentality, which is to potato up the client. Almost everyone in the food preparation business is into the same game. If you doubt me, ask yourself the question whether you have eaten a really good meal lately that was half the size of your regular feed. I would claim that you are probably being fed tasteless rubbish. Its time you had a really good meal. You will know it because you will be satisfied and you will eat less than half of what everyone else is eating.
Friday, 21 December 2007
A Snake and Ladder World, Apples and Gardens of Eden
We live in a snake and ladder world. By analogy, we experience life as a series of experiences in which we ascend and descend along the pathways that we have chosen as our preferential pathways.
We prefer certain things,certain experiences, certain combinations, certain activities. The more we make these preferences specific the greater the combination of aspects that we rely on to make them possible. To become ever more specific we built supports that give us the specificity we desire.
The problem is that we experience life as a series of periods when we can rise up towards goals, and periods when we slide down away from them. We try to predict the snakes ahead that take us away from our goals, but this is exceedingly difficult as we follow pathways that are increasingly dangerous. Some times we are not even aware of the dangers that some pathways portend.
The problems of our snake and ladder world is a very old one. Every day, you will have experiences that show you how brutal a world the snake and ladder world can be.
This is not to say that there is sin in pursuing goals, which represent our ladders, but rather there is a risk attached to all goals. The world game is a game of snakes and ladders. The more you try to achieve goals, the more you have to research the potential downside risks, the snakes than will take you down. The higher the goals the greater the downside possibilities. The more we achieve goals, the more we may suffer as a result when we leave off our effort, or relax, thinking mistakenly that we are above the downside risks. Why is this? It is because the world is a snake and ladder world.
The Wuh Lax Physical Law of Light and Energy
The Wuh Lax physical law of light and energy is that there is a tendency of all lines from light to be equidistant between the source of light and the ultimate goal of light. Since the path of light is an enormous circle, we will always, for ever, be subject to the laws governing it.
This means that there is a tendency within our Wuh Lax universe for all lines of existence or being to even out over the longer term. In other words, no matter how high you or mountains rise, there is an active opposite tendency for you to fail or mountains to fall or wear down. This is a physical law of the Wuh Lax universe.
Wanting something is not the only thing involved in getting the something you want. While you may temporarily follow the light and rise to achieve your preferences and desires, you will eventually fail and fall to your ultimate level. How far down, you fall depends very much on how high up you rise. There is a tendency in the universe for these to balance out over the long run.
Ladders
We tend to focus on the ladders because it is they that take us to our highs and safe areas far away as possible from our low points and regions of danger. We try to distance ourselves more and more from the lows and in so doing we create higher and steeper ladders to climb.
We construct our fortresses and malls for our communities and we build our castles and homes for our families, our towers and vantage positions in the landscape for our colleagues to oversee the realms that we have created and the domestic and commercial domains over which we rule.
Today our efforts are increasingly digital in a digital age as we move from operations carried out in the very large and local to operations in the extremely large and diffuse and extremely local and intense.
Rules Govern our Ladder Building and the Use of Ladders for Elevation
Increasingly, we see that the use of ladders can actually be a dangerous means of protecting ourselves from what lies below or for attaining the high up spots for repairs and viewing advantages commensurate with high faulting observation.
When we distance ourselves from the lower regions and peoples of the low lands, we bring about separations that increase risk. As we go higher, we tend to lose sight of what it takes to support the edifices we construct, and in so doing we create an additional risk of crashing ladders as well as sliding down the 'snakes' or pitfalls of our neglect of our real environment.
The ladders of our landscape give us the tree tops, the mountainsides, the points of high vantage, while the snakes like rivers in the landscape flow downward into the valleys and the crowded nether regions of our societies existence. With the lower regions we construct ladders to give us relative vantage points.
One rule of using a ladder is that it is dangerous to walk under the ladder. This is because ladders are biased towards falling down should there be any errors in their placement. Like a house it is often best to place a ladder on stone rather than soft sand.
In placing ladders it is wise to select a ladder length that will give stability. We are advised to move from lower to higher levels gradually, which greatly reduces the risk of a ladder falling.
In the modern age, we are guided to use platforms rather than ladders because platforms are more stable. Within platforms there are ladders, but it is assumed that we achieve higher levels more gradually and do not expose ourselves to great risk. The platforms themselves become ladders and we find that the incidence of toppling over is greatly reduced.
The Relevance of the Snakes
We see it in the early books that guide us how to live. The old story of the garden is the story of our passage towards our preferences, the high up apples of our existence. The danger of such gardens lies in the snakes, those slides that we experience when we take risks like going after the apples in the tree. Snakes represent failing while apples represent goals and the temptations that bring us to those goals.
The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples
The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples, but quite the opposite. We should always seek apples. The essence of the apple story has been misconstrued by those wishing to crush enthusiasm for life and living life to its fullest. It is horrible to suggest that we have or embody original sin. We may have to endure the consequences of our parents pursuing goals for which they did not understand the risks. An example is smoking. In the Wuh Lax world, the notion of original sin as portrayed by some is blatantly illogical and irrelevant to our respective realities.
What the story of the garden seeks to tell us is that we need to take account of our mortal risks. The apple story that is given as a warning about seeking rewards in a world in which there are risks. We all live in a garden of apples, and we all live in a world of snakes and ladders.
We need to research how to eat those apples in full recognition of the risks that eating entails, the snakes of our world, or the failings that pursuing goals without knowledge of risks.
What we may not comprehend is the relevance of the snakes in our landscape and the garden story was not to tell us about our sins of eating apples, but our sins, the failings of not learning and gathering knowledge about the garden and the risks that the garden, our wonderful world, entails.
We need to be aware of the snakes in the garden and the ladders that fall when we use ladders to gather apples from the tree. So it is that the ignorance of the parents can be handed down to the children, but it is not inevitable.
We prefer certain things,certain experiences, certain combinations, certain activities. The more we make these preferences specific the greater the combination of aspects that we rely on to make them possible. To become ever more specific we built supports that give us the specificity we desire.
The problem is that we experience life as a series of periods when we can rise up towards goals, and periods when we slide down away from them. We try to predict the snakes ahead that take us away from our goals, but this is exceedingly difficult as we follow pathways that are increasingly dangerous. Some times we are not even aware of the dangers that some pathways portend.
The problems of our snake and ladder world is a very old one. Every day, you will have experiences that show you how brutal a world the snake and ladder world can be.
This is not to say that there is sin in pursuing goals, which represent our ladders, but rather there is a risk attached to all goals. The world game is a game of snakes and ladders. The more you try to achieve goals, the more you have to research the potential downside risks, the snakes than will take you down. The higher the goals the greater the downside possibilities. The more we achieve goals, the more we may suffer as a result when we leave off our effort, or relax, thinking mistakenly that we are above the downside risks. Why is this? It is because the world is a snake and ladder world.
The Wuh Lax Physical Law of Light and Energy
The Wuh Lax physical law of light and energy is that there is a tendency of all lines from light to be equidistant between the source of light and the ultimate goal of light. Since the path of light is an enormous circle, we will always, for ever, be subject to the laws governing it.
This means that there is a tendency within our Wuh Lax universe for all lines of existence or being to even out over the longer term. In other words, no matter how high you or mountains rise, there is an active opposite tendency for you to fail or mountains to fall or wear down. This is a physical law of the Wuh Lax universe.
Wanting something is not the only thing involved in getting the something you want. While you may temporarily follow the light and rise to achieve your preferences and desires, you will eventually fail and fall to your ultimate level. How far down, you fall depends very much on how high up you rise. There is a tendency in the universe for these to balance out over the long run.
Ladders
We tend to focus on the ladders because it is they that take us to our highs and safe areas far away as possible from our low points and regions of danger. We try to distance ourselves more and more from the lows and in so doing we create higher and steeper ladders to climb.
We construct our fortresses and malls for our communities and we build our castles and homes for our families, our towers and vantage positions in the landscape for our colleagues to oversee the realms that we have created and the domestic and commercial domains over which we rule.
Today our efforts are increasingly digital in a digital age as we move from operations carried out in the very large and local to operations in the extremely large and diffuse and extremely local and intense.
Rules Govern our Ladder Building and the Use of Ladders for Elevation
Increasingly, we see that the use of ladders can actually be a dangerous means of protecting ourselves from what lies below or for attaining the high up spots for repairs and viewing advantages commensurate with high faulting observation.
When we distance ourselves from the lower regions and peoples of the low lands, we bring about separations that increase risk. As we go higher, we tend to lose sight of what it takes to support the edifices we construct, and in so doing we create an additional risk of crashing ladders as well as sliding down the 'snakes' or pitfalls of our neglect of our real environment.
The ladders of our landscape give us the tree tops, the mountainsides, the points of high vantage, while the snakes like rivers in the landscape flow downward into the valleys and the crowded nether regions of our societies existence. With the lower regions we construct ladders to give us relative vantage points.
One rule of using a ladder is that it is dangerous to walk under the ladder. This is because ladders are biased towards falling down should there be any errors in their placement. Like a house it is often best to place a ladder on stone rather than soft sand.
In placing ladders it is wise to select a ladder length that will give stability. We are advised to move from lower to higher levels gradually, which greatly reduces the risk of a ladder falling.
In the modern age, we are guided to use platforms rather than ladders because platforms are more stable. Within platforms there are ladders, but it is assumed that we achieve higher levels more gradually and do not expose ourselves to great risk. The platforms themselves become ladders and we find that the incidence of toppling over is greatly reduced.
The Relevance of the Snakes
We see it in the early books that guide us how to live. The old story of the garden is the story of our passage towards our preferences, the high up apples of our existence. The danger of such gardens lies in the snakes, those slides that we experience when we take risks like going after the apples in the tree. Snakes represent failing while apples represent goals and the temptations that bring us to those goals.
The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples
The story of the garden is a not story that we should not seek apples, but quite the opposite. We should always seek apples. The essence of the apple story has been misconstrued by those wishing to crush enthusiasm for life and living life to its fullest. It is horrible to suggest that we have or embody original sin. We may have to endure the consequences of our parents pursuing goals for which they did not understand the risks. An example is smoking. In the Wuh Lax world, the notion of original sin as portrayed by some is blatantly illogical and irrelevant to our respective realities.
What the story of the garden seeks to tell us is that we need to take account of our mortal risks. The apple story that is given as a warning about seeking rewards in a world in which there are risks. We all live in a garden of apples, and we all live in a world of snakes and ladders.
We need to research how to eat those apples in full recognition of the risks that eating entails, the snakes of our world, or the failings that pursuing goals without knowledge of risks.
What we may not comprehend is the relevance of the snakes in our landscape and the garden story was not to tell us about our sins of eating apples, but our sins, the failings of not learning and gathering knowledge about the garden and the risks that the garden, our wonderful world, entails.
We need to be aware of the snakes in the garden and the ladders that fall when we use ladders to gather apples from the tree. So it is that the ignorance of the parents can be handed down to the children, but it is not inevitable.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Entropy in an Inside Out Wuh Lax World
A number of things trouble me about the standard or received model of cosmology. I do not claim to be a physicist, but merely an artist trying to figure out my universe. My problem is with the notion of entropy which according to the second law of thermodynamics says that chaos is always on the increase. The law of energy associated with entropy also says that energy is unidirectional with respect to time in that the arrow of time always goes in one direction. It means that information is lost as we experience entropy
Well, if we are exploding at every point of our being then I suppose that this motion is going in one direction, which is a form of outwards expansion. We see it in the very large by observing the the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Most of us don't see it in the very small where we ourselves are being blown apart. One has to ask why one rule should apply to very large entities and another to very small ones. Of course, my Wuh Lax answer is that what applies to very large entities also applies to very small ones. What does this have to do with entropy?
The entropy and temperature measured by me are a consequence of my accelerating motion. What am I accelerating relative to? I am accelerating relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax world is zero. I have no problem going faster than the speed of light because I twist as I accelerate. The twisting gives me forward motion as well as sideways motion. The two add up to a speed greater than the speed of light except to say that I cannot travel sideways as fast as I am exploding. As I twist, can I create information?
Obviously yes! While I am twisting, I can create information that is not random. I somehow twist out of the law of entropy by creating order out of chaos using my kinetic exploding energy. What I cannot do is explode any slower or slow down the acceleration in my rate of exploding.
I don't know if this makes any sense, but it seems to suggest that in a Wuh Lax universe, there is a different physics going on, a very different cosmological explanation for almost everything. This is the world inside out that one finds in the world of Wim and Wuh. My next task is to figure out what black holes are all about!
Well, if we are exploding at every point of our being then I suppose that this motion is going in one direction, which is a form of outwards expansion. We see it in the very large by observing the the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Most of us don't see it in the very small where we ourselves are being blown apart. One has to ask why one rule should apply to very large entities and another to very small ones. Of course, my Wuh Lax answer is that what applies to very large entities also applies to very small ones. What does this have to do with entropy?
The entropy and temperature measured by me are a consequence of my accelerating motion. What am I accelerating relative to? I am accelerating relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax world is zero. I have no problem going faster than the speed of light because I twist as I accelerate. The twisting gives me forward motion as well as sideways motion. The two add up to a speed greater than the speed of light except to say that I cannot travel sideways as fast as I am exploding. As I twist, can I create information?
Obviously yes! While I am twisting, I can create information that is not random. I somehow twist out of the law of entropy by creating order out of chaos using my kinetic exploding energy. What I cannot do is explode any slower or slow down the acceleration in my rate of exploding.
I don't know if this makes any sense, but it seems to suggest that in a Wuh Lax universe, there is a different physics going on, a very different cosmological explanation for almost everything. This is the world inside out that one finds in the world of Wim and Wuh. My next task is to figure out what black holes are all about!
What is Seven Thousand Years Historically?
What sorts of threads can link peoples over a period of seven thousand years. People raising children leave genetic markings for future generations. People raise other animals besides children and the genes of these other animals can be studied. The means by which people communicate may also survive over long periods, so that language and the origins of words can be studied. If the communities remained fairly close to where they started out and if they settled then one can study the effects of settlement, which can include all aspects of the life cycle from birth to death.
Over very long periods, peoples may define territories and they may leave markings on the ground of their territories. These territories may have a mathematical relationship to each other, such that in an early period the number is lower than in a later period. If numbers of communities is reflected in numbers of other entities this helps to establish linkages between communities and the periods they were active. Again the mathematics of their impact and the mathematics of their social and survival tools will be reflected in the remnants found in the landscape.
My early training was in mathematical statistics, and my approach to the evidence would tend to be Bayesian in orientation. I was taught by different schools of thought as to how one applied statistics and formed my own views, but essentially the Bayesian methodology has stood the test of time in the social, biological and physical sciences.
What I would look for is anomalies. Things that should not happen or seem out of place given what other things are in place. The outliers strewn around a location or between locations would be interesting.
History over seven thousand years is thus for me, at least, an issue of distributions of remnants that have verifiable statistical significance in some way.
My second bias comes from communications theory a la Norbert Wiener, which seems to have had an impact on data dissemination and diffusion. At Cambridge, I did studies of the communication and diffusion of new technologies within the British landscape over time. These were studies of modern technologies and the highly developed social setting of the post war period. I wonder what parallels there could be to similar processes occurring across the historical landscape of seven thousand years.
Seven thousand years is a very long period of history. The mind boggles at a period of history that is only several years long. Lots can happen in a millennium.
When I consider the serious concern of MJ Harper, and the serious research of Colin Burgess, I have to conclude that there exists a gap between the two, but it is not that big. Both Harper and Burgess are dealing with enormous uncertainties resulting from a decaying landscape. In the case of Harper, we find someone who is looking at the evidence of words, language and the community of words, and we are questioning easy answers for some very difficult questions.
My bias is with Harper on the issue of language. I have always questioned the ease with which the origin as of words have been spelt out in reference books on English and Old English. In my own case, I had to work out for myself that the word lake, which is supposed to refer to a stream, is more likely to be associated with the word lax, a type of salmon. No book gave me this understanding. I had to figure it out for myself. With this figuring came my research into the early world of Wuh Lax and the meaning of the salmon to the early community, as part of the life and death cycle, and as an instrument of teaching and dissemination of knowledge from generation to generation. Thus it is with English, a very old and widespread language, indeed.
Over very long periods, peoples may define territories and they may leave markings on the ground of their territories. These territories may have a mathematical relationship to each other, such that in an early period the number is lower than in a later period. If numbers of communities is reflected in numbers of other entities this helps to establish linkages between communities and the periods they were active. Again the mathematics of their impact and the mathematics of their social and survival tools will be reflected in the remnants found in the landscape.
My early training was in mathematical statistics, and my approach to the evidence would tend to be Bayesian in orientation. I was taught by different schools of thought as to how one applied statistics and formed my own views, but essentially the Bayesian methodology has stood the test of time in the social, biological and physical sciences.
What I would look for is anomalies. Things that should not happen or seem out of place given what other things are in place. The outliers strewn around a location or between locations would be interesting.
History over seven thousand years is thus for me, at least, an issue of distributions of remnants that have verifiable statistical significance in some way.
My second bias comes from communications theory a la Norbert Wiener, which seems to have had an impact on data dissemination and diffusion. At Cambridge, I did studies of the communication and diffusion of new technologies within the British landscape over time. These were studies of modern technologies and the highly developed social setting of the post war period. I wonder what parallels there could be to similar processes occurring across the historical landscape of seven thousand years.
Seven thousand years is a very long period of history. The mind boggles at a period of history that is only several years long. Lots can happen in a millennium.
When I consider the serious concern of MJ Harper, and the serious research of Colin Burgess, I have to conclude that there exists a gap between the two, but it is not that big. Both Harper and Burgess are dealing with enormous uncertainties resulting from a decaying landscape. In the case of Harper, we find someone who is looking at the evidence of words, language and the community of words, and we are questioning easy answers for some very difficult questions.
My bias is with Harper on the issue of language. I have always questioned the ease with which the origin as of words have been spelt out in reference books on English and Old English. In my own case, I had to work out for myself that the word lake, which is supposed to refer to a stream, is more likely to be associated with the word lax, a type of salmon. No book gave me this understanding. I had to figure it out for myself. With this figuring came my research into the early world of Wuh Lax and the meaning of the salmon to the early community, as part of the life and death cycle, and as an instrument of teaching and dissemination of knowledge from generation to generation. Thus it is with English, a very old and widespread language, indeed.
The Mysterious Lines Running Across South West Britain
One of the great things about Google maps is that it is possible for one to verify hunches that one has had for a long time, but thought were too crazy to be true. Well, for me it appears that at least one hunch is true, and, indeed, it is very strange. This is one everyone can test out for themselves since it requires only Google and a few tools of the digital age.
Up until last night I had thought the the early British, who I refer to as the Ing people, or the hero worshippers, were very curvilinear in orientation. Now, I have to revise my view for the following reason. They appear to have done the impossible using surveying technologies to place centers in straight lines extensively across their landscape. At this point you should be saying wow, but you are probably saying, huh, or not another silly idea from Wooooohs Stream of research into the unknown.
My conclusion on looking at the evidence in the landscape relatively carefully, is that there is much more to nine stones circle near Maiden castle in Dorset than just nine stones in a small circle. What I now have to conclude is that there are nine ancient communities associated with the nine stones and these communities knew how to survey, or at least, some members knew how to survey across vast distances.
This puzzles me greatly, because when I reviewed the archaeological evidence in my copy of Colin Burgess's book The Age of Stonehenge, I was forced to conclude that these ancient people, the Ing people, had as Burgess suggests, formed stratified societies by the third millennium BC, over five thousand years ago. Now here is the mystery. In a world in which people are oriented towards curves and circles, why would they structure their society in a straight line running directly to the sea. That is what they appear to have done.
This is not a straight line running north south along the earth's north south magnetic field, but a straight line that links communities from Woodhenge, not far from Stonehenge, directly to peoples living by the sea. How weird!? What's more there appear to have been nine such early communities and they placed their community centers along the straight line, ending with the community not far from Maiden Castle in Dorset.
I am forced to conclude that not all the early peoples were curvilinear, but there seem to have been a strong deposits of early Ing people that thought along straight lines. I would agree with Burgess in saying that it would seem likely that these people were fairly well established and organized. They, after all, appear to have had some very superior surveying technology. And, this leads me to another bone to pick with the notion that the Romans were the ones who designed the straight roads of early Britain.
I have to conclude that the Romans must have organized the early tribes of Britain to live along a straight line and have their main centers located along a straight line, but we know that this was not the case. Romans of early Britain received information from the locals about straight surveyed lines that already crisscrossed the landscape, but why were these lines there, and for how long? It seems amazing that the straight lines may have already been tracks across the landscape from community to community.
My second conclusion is that the straight lines were lines of communication between early social groups and had something to do with continental peoples, possibly to coordinate celebrations of some form. Burgess suggests that the people in the South of Britain were communicating with continental peoples by way of travelling across the English Channel. Perhaps, what we don't realize is how strong such communications were at a fairly early age in the history of this area of the world. Communications may have been by the lighting of fires along a straight line to the sea. If people settled near the points at which the fires were created, then you would have a logic for people settling along an extensive straight line across the landscape.
Because of my interest in Wuh Lax and the people of the salmon, I was curious to see whether one of the communities along my nine stones line was a lax community bearing in mind that the lax community I am thinking of was a linear community predating the period of curvilinear peoples. In other words, there appears to me to have been waves of social logic and structure with a period in which linear and rectangular in terms of dwellings, and possibly settlements, dominating over curvilinear and circular. Possibly the linear period, as Burgess suggests, predated the curvilinear. I have to say, however, that this may have something to do with the development of surveying and construction technology.
In my mind, linear peoples, such as the Romans are invasive, wide spreading and expansive, while curvilinear people are oriented toward enclosure, community, and locality. It is interesting that over seven thousand years of history, both forms of community had their periods of dominance. I can only guess that there may have been cycles or waves of dominance since we are considering a very long period historically.
Up until last night I had thought the the early British, who I refer to as the Ing people, or the hero worshippers, were very curvilinear in orientation. Now, I have to revise my view for the following reason. They appear to have done the impossible using surveying technologies to place centers in straight lines extensively across their landscape. At this point you should be saying wow, but you are probably saying, huh, or not another silly idea from Wooooohs Stream of research into the unknown.
My conclusion on looking at the evidence in the landscape relatively carefully, is that there is much more to nine stones circle near Maiden castle in Dorset than just nine stones in a small circle. What I now have to conclude is that there are nine ancient communities associated with the nine stones and these communities knew how to survey, or at least, some members knew how to survey across vast distances.
This puzzles me greatly, because when I reviewed the archaeological evidence in my copy of Colin Burgess's book The Age of Stonehenge, I was forced to conclude that these ancient people, the Ing people, had as Burgess suggests, formed stratified societies by the third millennium BC, over five thousand years ago. Now here is the mystery. In a world in which people are oriented towards curves and circles, why would they structure their society in a straight line running directly to the sea. That is what they appear to have done.
This is not a straight line running north south along the earth's north south magnetic field, but a straight line that links communities from Woodhenge, not far from Stonehenge, directly to peoples living by the sea. How weird!? What's more there appear to have been nine such early communities and they placed their community centers along the straight line, ending with the community not far from Maiden Castle in Dorset.
I am forced to conclude that not all the early peoples were curvilinear, but there seem to have been a strong deposits of early Ing people that thought along straight lines. I would agree with Burgess in saying that it would seem likely that these people were fairly well established and organized. They, after all, appear to have had some very superior surveying technology. And, this leads me to another bone to pick with the notion that the Romans were the ones who designed the straight roads of early Britain.
I have to conclude that the Romans must have organized the early tribes of Britain to live along a straight line and have their main centers located along a straight line, but we know that this was not the case. Romans of early Britain received information from the locals about straight surveyed lines that already crisscrossed the landscape, but why were these lines there, and for how long? It seems amazing that the straight lines may have already been tracks across the landscape from community to community.
My second conclusion is that the straight lines were lines of communication between early social groups and had something to do with continental peoples, possibly to coordinate celebrations of some form. Burgess suggests that the people in the South of Britain were communicating with continental peoples by way of travelling across the English Channel. Perhaps, what we don't realize is how strong such communications were at a fairly early age in the history of this area of the world. Communications may have been by the lighting of fires along a straight line to the sea. If people settled near the points at which the fires were created, then you would have a logic for people settling along an extensive straight line across the landscape.
Because of my interest in Wuh Lax and the people of the salmon, I was curious to see whether one of the communities along my nine stones line was a lax community bearing in mind that the lax community I am thinking of was a linear community predating the period of curvilinear peoples. In other words, there appears to me to have been waves of social logic and structure with a period in which linear and rectangular in terms of dwellings, and possibly settlements, dominating over curvilinear and circular. Possibly the linear period, as Burgess suggests, predated the curvilinear. I have to say, however, that this may have something to do with the development of surveying and construction technology.
In my mind, linear peoples, such as the Romans are invasive, wide spreading and expansive, while curvilinear people are oriented toward enclosure, community, and locality. It is interesting that over seven thousand years of history, both forms of community had their periods of dominance. I can only guess that there may have been cycles or waves of dominance since we are considering a very long period historically.
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Unruh's Law in a Wuh Lax Universe or Something Deeper
Unruh's Law states that if you are an observer and you are accelerating, then you will see yourself embedded in a gas of hot photons for which the temperature is proportional to the rate at which you are accelerating.
I might be forgiven, since I am not a cosmologist or physicist in wondering whether or not I am in such a universe. When I look around, I see myself surrounded by a 'gas' or relatively 'hot photons'. In fact, I do think that it is the photons from the region of the sun that are keeping me warm.
According to Bill Unruh's law, I could thus be forgiven for thinking that I am an observer and I could be accelerating. I also notice that if I accelerate even faster than the rate at which I am exploding, reminded that the two speeds are potentially, at least, cummulative, I get even warmer. Well, this seems to be the case.
This logic of being warmed by photons arises from the definition that in the Wuh Lax world, we are all exploding while light is standing still. Or, have I missed something? Is light moving relative to us, or are we moving relative to light? How can one tell the difference?
I might be forgiven, since I am not a cosmologist or physicist in wondering whether or not I am in such a universe. When I look around, I see myself surrounded by a 'gas' or relatively 'hot photons'. In fact, I do think that it is the photons from the region of the sun that are keeping me warm.
According to Bill Unruh's law, I could thus be forgiven for thinking that I am an observer and I could be accelerating. I also notice that if I accelerate even faster than the rate at which I am exploding, reminded that the two speeds are potentially, at least, cummulative, I get even warmer. Well, this seems to be the case.
This logic of being warmed by photons arises from the definition that in the Wuh Lax world, we are all exploding while light is standing still. Or, have I missed something? Is light moving relative to us, or are we moving relative to light? How can one tell the difference?
Finding a Merry Christ at Christmas
Our image of Christmas is that it is a time of celebration and birth. We worship at Christmas time to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who through his teachings and personal example gave us a shining beacon by which we can live our own lives. It is Jesus birthday that is at the center of Christmas. Many of the Christmas traditions such as the tree, the date of Jesus birth, the gift giving, the feasting, the music and the biblical verses have nothing really to do with Jesus, himself as a person, these are part of Christmas because they are the contributions of many who wish to celebrate.
Having said that, it is important to remember that Jesus wanted us to share our joy and happiness about the knowledge and participation that he gave us no matter what our origins might be. Christmas is an inclusive celebration that invites all comers to join in. It is a time when we forgive and renew our vows of sharing in the way of life that Jesus wanted all of us to engage ourselves in. Forget the material things of your world and focus on what is within your heart and soul. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the message of Christmas. It is a time when we engage in sharing and loving, when we forget our petty differences and realize the wonderful world that can be gotten by following Jesus teaching, a world of peace and understanding, an inclusive world in which we cooperate together to solve the immense problems of all our worlds.
Jesus message is that of love and joy, giving and sharing, and the deeds that he would have us perform are the best deeds that people can offer to others. In the world of Jesus vision, we solve the many disagreements we have, we work together to share a vision in which we can all be partakers in a better world, in the best that our earthly existence has to offer.
Celebrate with me in rereading Jesus message about how to live your life as contained in the verses of the new testament. Explore what you feel are the best verses that the gospels and books of his period have to offer about his message. Love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you.
Having said that, it is important to remember that Jesus wanted us to share our joy and happiness about the knowledge and participation that he gave us no matter what our origins might be. Christmas is an inclusive celebration that invites all comers to join in. It is a time when we forgive and renew our vows of sharing in the way of life that Jesus wanted all of us to engage ourselves in. Forget the material things of your world and focus on what is within your heart and soul. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the message of Christmas. It is a time when we engage in sharing and loving, when we forget our petty differences and realize the wonderful world that can be gotten by following Jesus teaching, a world of peace and understanding, an inclusive world in which we cooperate together to solve the immense problems of all our worlds.
Jesus message is that of love and joy, giving and sharing, and the deeds that he would have us perform are the best deeds that people can offer to others. In the world of Jesus vision, we solve the many disagreements we have, we work together to share a vision in which we can all be partakers in a better world, in the best that our earthly existence has to offer.
Celebrate with me in rereading Jesus message about how to live your life as contained in the verses of the new testament. Explore what you feel are the best verses that the gospels and books of his period have to offer about his message. Love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you.
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Lost Knowledge and the Very Real Significance of Wuh Lax
Stonehenge and my stories of Wuh Lax are very closely intertwined hystorically. I use the term hystory to distinguish it from history, which I am claiming is further from the truth when it comes to the early period of Britain. History needs to be rewritten after it is thoroughly researched.
It saddens me to think that the successes of the early peoples of Briton go unnoticed relative to the worship historians seem to have for Roman history. To my mind the Roman history of South West Britain is more like fiction than it is history. By focusing on the Romans the British historians have missed the significance of the lax in the history of early Britain, hence the name of my main character Wuh Lax, which almost seems to have mystical or religious properties when placed in its correct context.
There are a number of facts to consider. The first is that the lax like the drax were of religious significance to the early Britons, and in particular those people who lived in Dumnonia and Durotriga, i.e. the South West of Britain. Drax becomes drake and lax becomes lake. Drax is a foul and it is a drake, and the drake was worshiped by the early peoples. Lax is the word for salmon and the salmon and the lake they swim in are worshiped by the ancient people. The fact that the hero of Britain was a man called Sir Francis Drake, who had cousins in the West Country should start you thinking that perhaps the surname name of this fellow goes back into ancient times. Why should one think anything otherwise, I have to ask?
As it happens the names Lax and Drax and very ancient and are very closely related in actual, but unwritten history of the early peoples of South West Britain, those people whose capital was closer to Athelney than London. Those people who spoke english before it was supposed to have been invented. The 'ing' people as I like to think of them, the people of the hero whose image sits on so many hills across southern Britain, or the 'bri' people, the people of the hills and the people of the tin found in the hills. Britons, and these people of the hills of the South West, my ancestors, most probably did not come from Anglia or Saxony, as the conventional history books would incorrectly have us believe.
How ancient? Well if you think that these people chose their words and named their special places well before the time of Stonehenge, and possibly several thousand years before Stonehenge, then that's pretty ancient.
You can, for example, forget that the notion of ley lines is fiction. No, ley lines are very very real and they can be seen by the naked eye from aerial photographs. Hows that for linking the past to the present. Ley lines and the ancient surveying of South West Britain go well into the period of more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. In fact, Woodhenge lies on a visible ley line that stretches right across South West Britain to the fort at Hod Hill, the ancient home of the Durotriges people. Hows that for ley lines not having historical significance. No! Ley lines really do exist, did exist and were very important to the ancient peoples, who ever they were. It is significant that the ley lines connect the henges with settlement rings at Maiden Castle, Badbury, Sarum and Woodhenge.
My evidence will be strewn, within my Wuh Lax novels and will explain among many things, who the real 'historical' King Arthur really was, where the capital of Briton, really was, and some of what the ideas of the ancient peoples really contained. My books, novels, about Wuh Lax will show the path of knowledge that these ancient peoples possessed and why they located at Stonehenge the stones they did. The Wuh Lax adventure, "The Lost King" tells the King Arthur story the way it was before his legend took over and Glastonbury and Cadbury rose to archaeological significance. For the real King Arthur story you will need to read my book when it comes out.
You might say that I figured it out. And, why did I have to figure it out for myself. It was/is because historians have thought linearly and used Roman ideas to sort out history that the Romans sought to hide. As I might say, you ain't read anything yet until you have read Wuh Lax for within Wuh Lax many of the mysteries of Stonehenge and the Pyramids are revealed. Many bits of ancient knowledge are unearthed once more and can be examined and verified or disproved by the archaeologists.
It saddens me to think that the successes of the early peoples of Briton go unnoticed relative to the worship historians seem to have for Roman history. To my mind the Roman history of South West Britain is more like fiction than it is history. By focusing on the Romans the British historians have missed the significance of the lax in the history of early Britain, hence the name of my main character Wuh Lax, which almost seems to have mystical or religious properties when placed in its correct context.
There are a number of facts to consider. The first is that the lax like the drax were of religious significance to the early Britons, and in particular those people who lived in Dumnonia and Durotriga, i.e. the South West of Britain. Drax becomes drake and lax becomes lake. Drax is a foul and it is a drake, and the drake was worshiped by the early peoples. Lax is the word for salmon and the salmon and the lake they swim in are worshiped by the ancient people. The fact that the hero of Britain was a man called Sir Francis Drake, who had cousins in the West Country should start you thinking that perhaps the surname name of this fellow goes back into ancient times. Why should one think anything otherwise, I have to ask?
As it happens the names Lax and Drax and very ancient and are very closely related in actual, but unwritten history of the early peoples of South West Britain, those people whose capital was closer to Athelney than London. Those people who spoke english before it was supposed to have been invented. The 'ing' people as I like to think of them, the people of the hero whose image sits on so many hills across southern Britain, or the 'bri' people, the people of the hills and the people of the tin found in the hills. Britons, and these people of the hills of the South West, my ancestors, most probably did not come from Anglia or Saxony, as the conventional history books would incorrectly have us believe.
How ancient? Well if you think that these people chose their words and named their special places well before the time of Stonehenge, and possibly several thousand years before Stonehenge, then that's pretty ancient.
You can, for example, forget that the notion of ley lines is fiction. No, ley lines are very very real and they can be seen by the naked eye from aerial photographs. Hows that for linking the past to the present. Ley lines and the ancient surveying of South West Britain go well into the period of more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. In fact, Woodhenge lies on a visible ley line that stretches right across South West Britain to the fort at Hod Hill, the ancient home of the Durotriges people. Hows that for ley lines not having historical significance. No! Ley lines really do exist, did exist and were very important to the ancient peoples, who ever they were. It is significant that the ley lines connect the henges with settlement rings at Maiden Castle, Badbury, Sarum and Woodhenge.
My evidence will be strewn, within my Wuh Lax novels and will explain among many things, who the real 'historical' King Arthur really was, where the capital of Briton, really was, and some of what the ideas of the ancient peoples really contained. My books, novels, about Wuh Lax will show the path of knowledge that these ancient peoples possessed and why they located at Stonehenge the stones they did. The Wuh Lax adventure, "The Lost King" tells the King Arthur story the way it was before his legend took over and Glastonbury and Cadbury rose to archaeological significance. For the real King Arthur story you will need to read my book when it comes out.
You might say that I figured it out. And, why did I have to figure it out for myself. It was/is because historians have thought linearly and used Roman ideas to sort out history that the Romans sought to hide. As I might say, you ain't read anything yet until you have read Wuh Lax for within Wuh Lax many of the mysteries of Stonehenge and the Pyramids are revealed. Many bits of ancient knowledge are unearthed once more and can be examined and verified or disproved by the archaeologists.
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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