Down the rabbit hole...

Why are some people so unpleasant? What is it that makes them this way? What dark deep demons do they have in their subconscious that makes them want to lash out and cause other people emotional pain? People they don't even know. Is that just the world we live in now and nothing can be done about it? Is it something we have to just accept as being part of modern society in exchange for the benefits that the same society brings us? I'm guessing it is, it's a shame really. Whether it is racists being permitted to spout evil on tv shows and not get satisfactorily challenged as they should be or whether it is vile attacks on a handicapped child who is being bullied because of his handicaps by other children and then some adults feel that its ok to join in. And the path these actions lead to can be seen clearly as national news headlines whether a celebrity who takes her own life or the insanity of a loner who kills his mother and then destroys countless more lives before end...

We are in such a difficult place globally and things are not going to get any better anytime soon. So I think I'll write down my thoughts on the state of the world for the pleasure of future generations. Assuming there will be future generations. What there probably won't be is any record of these thoughts, mainly because they are written in bot and bytes on electronic media and not written on good old fashioned paper. I think many people make an assumption that once you write something down it will live in the ether for ever and ever. But of course that's not the case. The magnetic media that holds most of what we think as being immortal has a lifespan. The magnetic media on a disk wears out and the mechanism can break causing a complete catastrophic failure of the disk itself. But that's ok, because the data is probably stored on another disk somewhere else, and that'll be safe. But disks fail for other reasons too, a data centre can flood, can catch fire, can ...

Once upon a Weekend... I found that I needed to write to my local political party branch to state my views on the upcoming leadership elections and I needed to get my thoughts down so I though I might as well write them here and get them straight before I did so. I've been a member of the Labour party in the UK since I was old enough to vote and old enough to join a political party movement. There have been a few gaps along the years where I just became too exasperated with the party direction and/or I needed to save money, not least as during that period interest rates on mortgages reached the crazy heights of 14+%. I forget how high it actually reached, I think I just stopped looking at 14% and considering I was in a pretty well paid job, had no dependants and few expensive habits apart from drinking, it was a pretty bad time where I even had to stop driving as I could not afford the insurance for a few months. Anyway, that's trivia and long in the past but worth bearin...

Where to today, down the dusty corridors of my mind, weaving our way through the nooks and crannies and settling upon one of the many, albeit mostly pointless, topics for me to project forth my view. Which, for the record, would only be my view at any given moment in time and is just as likely to be not my view in a week or a month or a year of asked again. Not that anybody is asking, but if they did, then that would be the case. Is it not the case for everyone? Perhaps some are so dogged and immovable in a particular view that they never change and stick with that view no matter what, no matter what evidence is placed before them, no matter how the rest of the world might move on. Well, that is there prerogative I think. So long as they do not seek to harm or unduly influence others, then they can keep their dogmas all to themselves. I thought about war the other day and why people, predominantly men, go to war, to kill others with a disproportionate number of women and children b...

Seems sometimes my posts are almost prescient as I mentioned the arrival of the four horseman of the apocalypse and now here we are being swamped by coronavirus and just to rub it in the UK government use a coach company called Horseman to ferry the potential carriers around. OK so there is not really an apocalyptic event on the horizon just yet but the virus has caused some events that, I would have liked to have termed, unexpected events but all things considered and given the wave of right wing rhetoric and xenophobia sweeping the country (or is it sweeping Europe...or the whole world!) at the moment then the unexpected has become the expected. It was bad enough watching social media footage from inside China where families from Wuhan but visiting family in other parts of the country, were imprisoned in homes by locals who seem to think the virus is endemic in everybody who is simply from Wuhan or even just has family there. But when you find not one or two but potentially in ...

So what to do about the whole question of the creator? On one hand you can think there was a creator, maybe you might call him God. Although whether he is a he, or a she, or an it. Who knows. We can make up stories that the creator must be a he as he made us in his own image. But then we cannot know that. It's not like somebody found a makers label with a set of instructions. Or indeed a care label, which might have been more useful. Even if there was a grand creator, it leaves quite a few more questions than it answers. Is there only one creator? Are the creators a race? Are there any other questions I could think up without watching a box set of Aliens franchise films? And if there was a creator who was messing about one day and came up with, well, what, the universe, or just the Earth? Why? Having created the universe, or universes, or maybe just a being within the universe, then what? So the creator created the universe and the Earth within it and then all of nature inc...

I know it is simply repeating the work of others, although, to be fair, I have not read the other work but I am aware of the work and have read some short books that cover the work, I do like to think about I! That said, I am also aware that for every piece of work that has ever been written on the subject of ‘I’, the soul, the psyche, the spark inside us all… there are other works which challenge the assumptions in the first book. And, so it seems, the merry dance goes on and on and on. I suspect it will continue to go on and on until some form of proof is arrived at and then the discussion might stop. Although I doubt it, probably it will simply head in another direction in light of the scientific certainty that is arrived at. And, of course, even when scientific proof is arrived at there will still be multitudes of camps that will not believe it. Just as there are today still ‘flat earthers’ and all manner of religions that don’t care too much about science and, some of...