Author: White Whale

Near the beginning of “The Goblet of Fire” a group of death eaters attacks a camp filled with magical people who came to watch the Quidditch World Cup.

Here is the thing: EVERY ONE of those people was armed.  All of them.  Even the kids, most of them.  You have perhaps a dozen people attacking thousands.  How is it that everyone ran away?

How is it that most people failed to note this?  It is because we expect OTHER PEOPLE, professionals, to defend us, at least in Britain.

We never see ANY American warlocks and witches in any Harry Potter movies, but they exist.  Let us transpose this World Cup to Houston, Texas.  Those death eaters would have gotten their asses fried.

America is unique in the world, in many ways.  We do not need to look to other nations as to how to do things.  They have tyranny and oppression down pat.  Just 60 some-odd years ago Britain kept hundreds of millions of people in thralldom.  The French still held many colonies, from which they extracted taxes, cheap labor, and cut rate prices on commodities.

The list goes on.  We may be coarse by Continental standards, and more ignorant than we should be, but if we look across either ocean the most educated people have lost God, common sense, and faith in humanity, which we still retain in large numbers, to our benefit.

According to what I read on the internet (this may be wrong), “Frui” is a verb form of fruor that can be used injunctively to mean “Enjoy the day.”

Happiness makes you more productive, too: http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/top-10-reasons-why-happiness-at-work-is-the-ultimate-productivity-booster/

This means “Seize the day”, as I was taught: attack it, control it, bend it to your will.  The day is your bitch.  That’s how I’ve always heard it. 

The intent is to live more, be more, throw off all restraints and pursue your aims without reservation.

I’ve been doing a lot of what I call qualitative work lately, which to the untrained eye would look like me drinking too much while listening to music, then sleeping in.  To the trained eye it would also look like that.

To me, though, I am trying to establish a good working relationship between my conscious mind and my unconscious.  I am trying to expand the area of free flow within me, flow which is currently constrained by dark areas, by traumas which affect the flow by preventing things from pursuing the most direct path.

Increasingly, I see that my task in this life is be a gateway of flow.  My task is to contact heaven, then become a window through which that light flows.  This is the Valley  Spirit of which Lao Tzu spoke, in which winds flow through you.  You are a conduit.  This is “baraka” (both Hebrew and Arabic share the word, if I am not mistaken), “darshana”, “Windhorse”.

You can’t do this if some part of you secretly wants to drown little kittens, due to some long ago unprocessed trauma. This is, to be clear, not as far as I can tell one of my fantasies, but is offered in the spirit of exaggeration for effect.

I was looking at a link on “tapping” the other day, which I had not heard of. Here is a link:  http://eft.mercola.com/

I was going to try it, then looked at the face of the guy doing the video, and wherever he was, he wasn’t THERE.  From this I concluded, rightly or wrongly, that this is a process for getting at external signals, but not deep underlying realities.

There is no easy way to do qualitative work.  There is no easy way to heal deep seated trauma, particularly ones going back to early childhood, or on Stan Grof’s account, even the birth process itself.  You have to revisit them homeopathically.  You have to reactivate the old pain, but within a supportive environment, which in my case means being as kind to myself as I can be.

And it’s working for me.  I can feel old, calcified emotions beginning to move, in what amounts to a flow of water through old canyons.  This, I feel strongly, is how you contact the light that makes all of us flow, dance, within the universe.

I remember reading some time ago Albert Camus’ “The Plague”.  It influenced me.  Camus was an atheist, but he always struck me in his later work as someone genuinely trying to do the right thing (unlike Sartre, who I hate).

In that book, he had a man who moved one pile of beans from one bowl to another, one by one, every day.  His claim was that that activity was as good as any other (he apparently had retired, or had others to care for him).  I would submit that if the activity activated the Valley Spirit, it WAS useful; and if it was done–as seems likely–in a spirit of bitterness and hate, then it ALSO was no different than working a normal job in the same spirit, other than that it did not benefit ANYONE, including himself.

So many people, it seems to me, aggressively move beans from one pile to another, every day.  They are out to get rich, or famous, or to gain power.  Or they are quietly unhappy, but never do anything to change their circumstances.

There is, in my view, only one real task in this world: to grow spiritually.  This growth leads naturally to spontaneous generosity, as you have an overabundance of everything you REALLY need.  You are rich, and this leads naturally to charity.

Few thoughts.  I really do have work to do, but I get a few days most weeks when I get to do this, and I am grateful.

This would
seem to indicate a check—actual or virtual—is created by someone, deposited by
someone, then self-reported.  You get the
money, then type in whatever information you want.  That information is then duly relayed by the
RATB to the taxpayers, as if they had done their job. 

This system,
quite obviously, is open to fraud.  If
you are plugged in, you get money wired to you, your buddy Twitters you a
password, you log in, then you type in anything that sounds plausible.  Can we not suppose that legitimate recipients
are cognisant of their district and zip code, meaning that errors of this
quantity cannot be random?  We are
talking about amounts equal to the annual revenues of large multi-national
corporations.

And according
to their chief spokesperson, the very agency tasked with monitoring the money
is in essence saying that if people cheat, they will not be caught.  Once the money is gone, it’s gone.

If you add
to this the fact that former Weatherman (link) Jeff Jones (link)—Bill Ayers pal
(link)—helped craft this thing as part of the Apollo Alliance (link), you
realize that maybe leaks were part of the plan all along. Consider what Jeff
Jones does: he “owns a consulting firm that helps grassroots leftist
organizations promote their agendas and fundraise successfully”.  Does it seem unlikely that some of these
checks that no one seems to want to track will wind up funding political
activities?

Why wouldn’t
they?

As any longtime readers will know, I keep an open mind towards ALL iterations of reality.  Reality is some subset of what is possible, and if we presumptively remove prior to factual analysis certain iterations of what is possible, over some time period this lead necessarily lead to large errors.  Materialism is just one LARGE example of this process.  It is untenable empirically; yet it is still the intellectual “law” of the land, and only rarely subjected to ANY form of rational, scientific scrutiny, particularly those logically oriented towards teasing out the consequences of how the universe actually seems to be constructed.

With regard to Sandy Hook, it did strike me as ODD that the presence of an AR-15 nowhere appeared in the early reports, despite the fact that he only seems to have shot up one classroom.

Without really knowing what to make of it, I will pass along a site which claims that multiple sites relating to Sandy Hook appeared BEFORE the shooting, here: http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/guide-for-how-to-talk-to-children-about-sandy-hook-pre-dated-the-massacre/

For those with conspiratorial biases in interpreting the world, it did also seem ODD that the timing was so convenient for Obama.  It began his second term on a perfect note–the mass murder of children with a “scary” looking weapon that is otherwise a virtual non-presence in our criminal landscape–for gun control.

To state the obvious, if these sites really did appear early, then there were a LOT of people involved in this thing, likely reaching up to the highest levels of government.  As I said some time ago, the “Stimulus” may have had as part of its purposes funneling money to mercenaries and radical groups for training and equipping.  I wrote a piece for some side part of Front Page Magazine some time ago on how at least $6 billion seemed to have gone missing.  It was rejected by some guy who claimed to be a former leftist, but who did not seem intelligent enough to have actually understood the moral basis of conservatism, or what I call Liberalism.

I will post that piece–which candidly may have just been poorly written–which I shows clearly AT LEAST that the accounting system was ludicrous.  That part is indisputable.

I will finish this post with a thought I have nearly posted several times, but will post here: given that most video games are linked on the internet, there is no reason to suppose that subliminal messages or outright personality attacks could not be send to vulnerable individuals over the internet.  I have specific techniques I think would work, and which evil human beings somewhere have likely already come up with, but will not further elaborate here other than to say I think it is possible.

Actually, post-hijack–that of course is the technically difficult part–let me posit that one possibility is someone downloading images of children to shoot into, say, Call of Duty, so that the atrocity could be practiced.

From here: http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=71&threadid=7354041&start=31&CurrentPage=2

It’s not popping up.  It will, I suspect, but if I typed it, why chance it?

They claim “our goal [is] trying to pass laws that make it easier to
make our communities safe”, but any fool can see that gun control, so
called, is ineffective. You make communities safer by locking up the bad
guys more often and for longer.  It is no coincidence that as our crime
rates are dropping substantially that our prison populations are
swelling.

What you do NOT do when you ban ANY gun is make that gun less available to criminals.  By DEFINITION anyone who is a criminal does not obey the law.  There
are hundreds of millions of firearms in this country, and there can be
ZERO question that absent a Nazi style police state that large numbers
of them will remain in circulation long after a ban on gun is
passed.

And we need to be clear: Bloomberg
is an unprincipled elitist who wants to tell people he considers his
social inferiors what to do, what to eat, and what access to effective
self protection he will allow them.  He has a
standard for himself–the billionaire standard–and to the extent he
thinks about anyone else, it is to tell us to live our lives the way he
and his fellow plutocrats see fit.

Obama does not fight Big Money: they PUT HIM IN OFFICE, TWICE.  Think about it: what form of government would aspiring totalitarians want?  One that is expanding, or one that is shrinking?  That is a no brainer.

Any
and all laws these idiots might get passed will make it harder for hard
working Americans to defend themselves while contributing to overall
increases in violent crime, like happened in Great Britain and
Australia.

We can’t give these awful people an inch.  Not one
millimeter.  They will have their police departments in open revolt if
they push this too far.  Most of them are on our side, that of decency and fairness.

My own world view–the cognitive paradigm within which I construct my mental reality–is that we all exist within a web of connections.  I am a sort of nexus point, a node in a network, but to say that I, per se, am somehow uniquely wonderful in any way is really just not a necessary or useful sentiment or statement.

As I live my life, the question I ask myself: what work needs to be done?  As I look across the “home” within which I live, where is the unfinished laundry, the unwashed dishes, the meals that need cooking?  Put another way, the life which needs living?

We are meant to move.  The most pernicious thing you can do to any person is to denigrate in any way the process of work.  Clearly, in our modern world we often live as machines.  We do things which are meaningless to us because the context is so large we can’t grasp it in an emotionally meaningful way.  But even in a cubicle farm, if you try to do things with a pleasurable quality of consciousness, relaxation, and diligence, it will be better for you. And these things are possible.  You can control them.

The point I wanted to make here though is that arrogance is INHERENTLY separation.  The process of feeling superior to the web within which you live your life is the process of feeling apart from it, separate from it.

No perceptive person can fail to grasp their sundry limitations, or the countless ways in which they depend on others.

Freedom is defined by how many types of behavior are possible.  If everyone is self destructive, then someone who is mentally healthy is the outlier.  If everyone acts the same, the one who acts differently defines the extent of freedom.

The great fallacy of the Left is that they are tolerant.  They are not.  They are bigoted towards any internally directed forms of morality, with religion being the most obvious example.

I wrote a note to myself some time ago that “A definition is the most basic fact.”  I feel like I posted it here, but would approach it perhaps differently than I did before.  Clearly, words can be made to mean anything, but a definition is what I mean, and the better the definition, the better you understand me.  It is a means for organizing thought, and for preventing miscommunication.

In actual science, the value is that you can POINT to a concrete thing or process or outcome, which you then term a “fact”. 

However, the need for definitions in the Humanities is perhaps only heightened by the possibility of ambiguity.  It is perhaps not overstating the case to say that virtually all of our contemporary social ills stem from abuses of language stemming from failures of definition.

What you mean by “justice” matters, does it not?  Truth?  Beauty?

This phrase keeps popping in my head.  When this happens, I try to explain what it means.

Here is an interesting data point I had not considered: Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was only 18 when she had him.  She had a November birthday, 1942, and he was born in August of 1961.  This means she got pregnant when she was BARELY 18.

Frank Marshall Davis, who I have argued seems most likely to me to have been the father, was born in 1905, meaning that in 1960 he was 55.  This is a 37 year difference.

Over and above the fact that one does not have to think long or hard about the wisdom of admitting an avowed and active Communist as a father, the mere difference in age, combined with the difference in race, would  have been HUGELY controversial.  He could have been her grandfather.

And to the point of my little “voice” (no, I don’t hear actual voices), this feels as I look at it (good fodder there for NLP’ers) more like a rape, more like an exercise of the droit du seigneur, more like a slave master raping a slave. More like a white man and a submissive, powerless black woman.

Why did she abandon young Barry to return to Indonesia?   Did she feel no maternal tugs at all?  Was it that she, too, was on an FBI watch list, and wanted to protect him?  Or was it that she always felt like he was a child forced on her, a product of the cruel abuse of her innocence?

At some point in our history, it would be interesting for someone to get a sample of Obama’s DNA somehow, and compare it to the Davis’s.  That part can be done scientifically, even if the actual personal histories are buried.