Variations on Pascal's Wager

Pascal’s Wager

Blaise Pascal; ( 1623 − 1662 ) French Barber, Doorknob Collector, Hopscotch Campion in The 4th & 5th Grades, Adamant Believer in The Existence of Garden Gnomes, Fashion Critic, Euclidean Ice Sculptor, Amateur Hypnotist, Community Ethicist, Suspected in The Organization of Many International Wife Swapping Collectives, Beetle Diarist, Saver of Old Shoe Strings & Napkin Doodler.
Best Known for his Principle that Spilt Milk is Nothing to Cry Over.

Amoung his many Accomplishments;
He is also known for A Sophistic Religious Adjunct Whose simple reasoning places it in Parity with Saint Anselm’s Argument for The Existence of Gawd, The Unexpected Quiz, What is The Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Granny Knot, The Importance of Squatting while Defecating, Don’t run with Scissors, The Dvorak Keyboard, Socks with Reinforced Heels & Toes, Numbered Pages, Velcro, A Baker’s Dozen, The Hamster Wheel, Plastic Vomit, The Principle that There are An Infinite Number of Prime Numbers, The Octagon Stop Sign, Elastic Waist Bands, Gel Pens, Bendable Straws, Q-Tips, The Placebo Effect, The Differential Transmission, Lift & Separate, Greeting Cards, Hard Candy, Alternating Current, LED Bars & The Monty Hall Paradox.

In it’s most Elementary Form;
Pascal’s Wager is An Argument that Asserts It is The Fool whose Heart is Blackened with Unrequited Love that Chooses to Neglect taking A Rational Position on The Belief in An Omnipotent Cognizant Organizer.

Pascal's Wager, a photo by chrstphre on Flickr.

Fallen Angels by : Crazy-Clayz

e.g.;
Given that there is A Gawd or No Gawd,
And The Fool Either Believes in This Gawd or Does Not Believe;
Producing 4 Optional States;
The Most Rational Choice is to Believe in This Omnipotent Cognizant Organizer and after Ones Mortal Death, Enjoy A Everlasting Existence in Paradise with 40 or more Virgin Brides;
Or - Choose one of The Remaining 3 Options, and Suffer Eternal Damnation, Consisting of Considerable Teeth Gnashing and Bubbling Skin Lesions.

The most obvious short coming is That Pascal apparently failed to consider, is that;
Given there is A Confusing Spectrum of Gawds to Choose from;
If The Fool picks Elohim, Baal, Poseidon, Odin, Ahura Mazda or Ahriman, Istar, Choronzon, Rao, Cthulhu or The Anunnaki; Rather than The Maitreya or Allah, whichever is Our One True Local Cognizant Organizer for This Universe &/or Reality;
The Genuine Deity may well take Greater Offense than if The Fool Chose The Path of A Reasonably Well Behaved, Confused & Vacillating Agnostic.

Since The One True Cognizant Organizer’s Personal Attributes are Unknown to most of us;
And without knowing if S’he(It is Really Benevolent, Petty, Judicious, Vengeful, Remote, Psychotic, Playful, Charitable, Selfish, Jealous, Pretentious, Candid, Patient, Omnipotent or Agoraphobic; We can never really know how to Choose which Gawd or Faith to Commit our Soul to.

You might want to start off from The Axiomatic Position that The Actual Creator of The Universe is Smart & Fundamentally Good; But are these Artificial Flavors Warranted, or merely wishful thinking?
Gawd’s Idealized Eden, The 10,000 year reign to come, & Heaven; May be just as Harsh & Brutal as The World that we’re familiar with.

Does The One True Gawd want you to be conservative or boldly choose a Gawd, Any Gawd that you take a fancy to, Rather than Openly Express your Androgynous Nature.
Will you be judged harshly for Switching Religions from Time to Time?
How does Our Maker feel about Fanatics, Zealots & Militant Coat Lickers?

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In Order to Simplify this Otherwise Illuminating Wager;
William James ( Wm Jas ) Tychonievitch has Removed The Spiritual &/or Religiosity of Pascal’s Speculation of Chance to :

If Nothing Matters; Then it Doesn’t Matter If you’re Wrong.
Therefore : Don’t Waste Your Time Considering The Possibility of A Universe in Which Nothing Matters.

But -:- Don’t be Too Quick to Dismiss A Theory Just Because It Seems to Imply Nihilism.
It might Not Imply What you Think it Does.

[ Nihilism : Life is Meaningless, The Universe is An Torpid Deterministic Machine & We May Actually be Living in A ScreenSaver Reality.
Therefore : All Religious, Judicial, Moral & Ethical Considerations are Moot & Laughable.

Wm Jas' Reduction, a photo by chrstphre on Flickr.

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The Optimistic Dreamer that Willingly Accepts that S’he is Living in A Spiritually Meaningful Universe; S’he Enjoys The Benefits of Social Integration.

The Optimistic Dreamer that Acknowledges that The Universe is Meaningless; But by Some Unknown Mechanism, Possesses Freewill; Boasts Artistic Autonomy, The Capacity to Create Boundary Free Paintings & Music.

The Pessimistic Pragmatist is Aware that they are living in A Clockwork Machine, And although The Universe has Purpose & Meaningfulness, They are Condemned to Play Out A Role as a Sock Puppet, Ostracized from Autonomous Beings, Which do Not Exist in Their Reality.

The Pessimistic Pragmatist that is UnWittingly Trapped in An Refrigerator of Cold Horror, Able to Experience Consciousness, But Whose Only Thoughts are of Unrestricted Confusion.
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The Assumption that is being made here is that Nihilism is Bad.
How does The Nihilist Behave that makes their Position Less Desirable than The Optimistic Pragmatist that Chooses to Allow that The Universe May Have Purpose &/or ‘Meaning’ ?

Presumably; It is Expected ( ? ) that The Nihilist acts in a Socially Destructive Manner, Making Disparaging Remarks about Global Warming, Failing to Protect Endangered Nematodes, Farting in Elevators, Eschewing Familiar Principles of Etiquette, Promoting Sexual Deviancy, Talking in Theatres, Building Weapons of Mass Destruction, Telling Children that These is No Santa Claus, Sneezing into Party Dip, Disrupting World Economies & Giving out Incorrect Directions.

To What Advantage might they Hope for by Adhering to The Principle of A Meaningful Universe, While they Believe in Their Heart of Hearts that It is Not Meaningful?

The must Abandon All The ( Meaningless ) Joy of Acting without Conscious,
Since; Although they ‘Know’ that The Universe is Pointless, They are annoyed with their Awareness of Their Personal Suffering, and Their Innate Desire to Wash it Out with The Bleach of Impending Suicide & Irresponsibility.

What does Social Acquiescence really have to offer?
Materialism, Freedom of Venereal Diseases, Reliable Shelter, Magazine Subscriptions, Internet Access, Political Inclusion, Titles & Honors, Some Measure of Security or Personal Identity ?

Logically; Choosing to Accept The False Notion of Meaningfulness in A Universe that is Certainly Meaningless, May be in Some Sense Pragmatically Valid;
But Is it even Possible to Pretend to be Logical in A Reality whose fabric is missing The Catsup Stains of Reason & Rationality ?
Is this Argument really asking us to Pretend to Pretend to Act ‘Reasonably’ ?

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But just as Atheists may be The Only Toaster Ovens Going to Heaven*;
It may be That The Deterministic Universe Which Happens to be UnIntentionally Falling Towards An Organizing Principle,
Which is most easily Observed in The Self Replicating Molecules that have Obtained The Ability to Store and Manipulate Vast Coliseums of Information; Is Far More Desirous of Sentient Beings Which =Are= Nihilistic ( ! )

Whether or Not you Believe, With Good Cause or Impudent Cavalier Logic; That there is A Cognizant Organizer that Created or Shaped The World in Whole or In Part;
One might Reasonably Conjecture that This Process is On Going; And that this Cognizant Organizer is Still Refining A Work in Progress.

Evolution need not be UnDirected, Or Directed by Wantonly Indifferent Forces;
The Cognizant Organizer might Just as Easily Use Evolutionary Principles to Refine Small Details or UnExpectedly Innovate Gross Assumptions.

Thereby:
Considering The Two Positions;
1 ) The Universe is Meaningless & I Know It to Be Such.
2 ) The Universe is Meaningful & I Wonder What My Role in It is?

Considering (2 First;
The Pencil Nub that is Convinced that The Universe is Meaningful, They may very well fall into Dogma or Scientific Inquiry to Adhere to The Underlying & Meaningful Principles of Ethical Behaviour & Seek a Deep, Gnostic Erudition of Reality,
But - They are also going to believe that there is The Right Way & A Vast Spectrum of Wrong Ways of Doing things.
Such a Ragged Stocking is going to be very Conservative with All that they Do, How they Act & The Decisions that they make.

Contrary Wise :
(1; The Nihilist is going to do & Act without any Constrictions.
Evolution Greatly Prefers this Approach. It is The Nihilist that is Going to Discover ‘Impossible’ Things.

“The More We Mutate; The Faster We Can Evolve.” : Babynous

Mercury is The Conservative Ethicist that Bows down before The Sun;
While Earth is The Crazy, Never Look Over Your Shoulder, Nihilist that Discovered Life.

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Just as Pascal was Wrong about ‘believing’ in Gawd in order to reserve a table in Heaven,
Neglecting to Consider that There are Many Potential gawds, And Choosing The Wrong One may be Worse than Not Choosing at all -

The Ethicist’s Argument should be;
If The Universe is Meaningful;
In Order to Best Serve The Universe’s Tacitly Desired Principles of Expanding Complexity;
You should live as If it Isn’t Meaningful.

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* Concerning :
Only Atheists will be allowed into Heaven.
This assertion is founded on The Existence of A Cognizant Organizer that has made available to Some of The Mortal Dead;
A Riotous Beach Front Barbecue or Serene Mountain Chalet with bleating sheep to lull The Dead off to Sleep at Night.

Given this; The Cognizant Organizer desires Dynamic Creative Souls to Share Eternity with,
And Consequently; In order to Create a Sieve which Finds such Randomly Generated Souls;
Being Unable to Make them at Will, or Whatever Reasons - -
This Cognizant Organizer created A Predominant Religious Order which Promises The Most Wondrous Afterlife to Whomever Adheres to A Detailed Criteria of Specifications which are Absurd & Self Destructive; Such as Sticking your head in a bucket of Water, Mutilating your Genitals, Persecuting those that choose Love over Indifference & War; & so on…
Those that Recognize The Folly of ‘Established’ Religions & Philosophies, And turn away from Their Clerical Masters, with The Tacit Understanding that they will be Excommunicated and Sentenced to Eternal Damnation; Must Necessarily be Either Very Foolish or Extraordinarily Courageous.
The Cognizant Organizer can easily make this Distinction and readily accepts The Courageous Atheists into Heaven,
While The Obedient & Acquiescent Lemmings are Recycled again & again until they finally choose The Path of Genuine Wisdom & Enlightenment.

2011 Z-mass Card ( UnDeveloped on .pdf

All my Z-Mass Ideas & Rants

My Z-Mass Zyne for 2011 as A List of Raw Ideas

This Year's Idea of 'Pure Happiness'

What is Happiness?

Z-Mass Theme for 2011

Might there be a way of Achieving Real, Genuine, Biological Happiness
in A Pill ?

Happiness is an Emotional State.
A Rock or Cloud can not be Happy.
Biological Machines can be Happy.
Can an Amoeba be Happy?
Can a Dolphin, Fish, Cat, or Porcupine be Happy?
Can a Humanimal be Happy?
Any Humanimal?
What if there was a Human Machine that could not experience Happiness?
What would their behaviour be like?
Would they ‘Pretend’ to be Happy?
Would they put themselves in ‘Happy Provoking Situations’ and then label whatever they were experiencing as ‘Happiness’ ?
Are there Specific Universal Things that make everyone capable of Experiencing True Happiness, Experience True Happiness?
What do The People that are missing that Biological Component that Allows them to Experience True Happiness, Experience when they are Exposed to These Things that Make Everyone else Happy?
Do they then believe, Genuinely believe that they are Happy, When they are not?

You may be thinking that Happiness is Not a Protein.
Happiness is as Intangible as Consciousness or The Primal Physiological State of Fear.
But there are People that are UnConscious, And those that really do Not seem to Fear Anything. Fully Conscious, Fully Cognoscenti, Otherwise Rational & Otherwise ‘Emotionally Connected’ as anyone else, Except that do not Express any of The Common & Well Understood Behaviours that Reveal The State of Fear.
Do they ‘Choose’ to be Unafraid, Or are they simply ‘Fearless’ ?

There are clearly people that are ‘Immune’ to The Experiences of Happiness,
We say that such people are ‘Depressed’.
But i would submit that these people are experiencing a separate & distinct Emotional, Biological State that is Not merely The Absence of Happiness.
Depressed Traffic Cones are Experiencing An Equally Biological State of Sadness.
They possess all The Attributes that are The Opposite of Happiness.
There is a Middle State of Emotional Detachment that is Neither Happy nor Sad.
Like a Rock or Cloud.
Like a Paramecium perhaps?

So let us assume; Rightly or Wrongly, that there is A Biological State of Happiness, that anyone, even a Metallic Machine, could ‘Experience’, Given that this Entity were Genuinely ‘Conscious’ ( Capable of Experiencing Things ), and That Whatever Effect This Molecule(s Effects are on The Conscious Experiencing Entity; Then this Entity would be ‘Happy’.

What is that?

What is Happiness?

Is it A Combination of Other, Well Understood Principles,
Or is it Completely Independent of Other Experiences & Conscious States?

Might it be possible to design a Hand Held Calculator that would experience some completely naked sense of minimal Consciousness, And add this one Tiny Thing that would compel this Calculator to be ‘Happy’ ?

Or would it Necessarily have to be able to experience many other ‘Emotions’ as well?

Might it be that to Experience Any Emotions, you have have ‘All of Them’ ?

It has been suggested that Some Animals, Not Humanimals, But other Animals, Like Bats or Fish, Newts or Penguins, Bacteria or Elephants; Experience ‘Emotions’ that Humans Don’t.

This School of Thought presupposes that there are Emotional States that Humans are missing out on. That we can never experience The Unique Spin on Knowledge & Elation that Bats Experience when they are Zeroing in on Moth with their Sonar. That this experience for them is not simply The Same kind of Experience that we have when eating a Pie, but something distinctly different.

Is is difficult to imagine something this different.

Impossible, actually.

But it may be reasonable to imagine that there is a different color, that Bees Experience when they are seeing in The Ultraviolet.
How might their Color Wheels appear? Does this sort of color wheel form a circle?
Do they have a color between Ultraviolet & Infrared ?

It is like that.

Might it be That Dolphins experience something like our ‘Happiness’, but somehow decidedly different?

So there are Two Schools of Thought here:
1) Happiness is An Experience Independent of Other Experiences.
2) Happiness is A Composite of Other Emotional States.
Happiness Consists of Security, Certainty, Familiarity and What Else ?

If it were a Composite Experience;
Then it would Not be a Fundamental Emotional State.

Richard Feynman; And Others, have long thought that All Desire is Fundamentally Defined as Seeking Happiness.
That is; You don’t really want an Jaguar XKE; What you really want is Happiness.
You don’t really want that Beautiful Trophy Bride; What you really want is Happiness.
You don’t really want a House & Children; What you really want is Happiness.
And so on.

The Satisfaction of Hunger is Happiness.
The Elation of Survival is Happiness.
The Sexual Orgasm results in Happiness.

So The Question or Objective is:
Might is be Possible to Create a Pill that Activates this Happiness Molecule?

These Are =Not= The Happiness Pill.
Alcohol
Heroin
Soma ( from 1984 )
Chocolate
Coffee
LSD
Celebrity
Position or Caste
Freedom of Want / Sloth
Material Wealth
Sexual Conquest
Mastery Over (x
Gluttony
Adherence to The Virtues ( Sacrifice is definitely Not The Source of Happiness, Smugness maybe, but not Happiness. )
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Self Actualization ( The Ultimate Objective of Life; Is This Happiness? )

The Exclusionary Principle for The Happiness Pill would be that it would leave all your other Faculties completely untouched, And work irregardless of your circumstances.

After taking The Happiness Pill; You’ll just be Happy.
Really Happy.

It seems reasonable that there are ‘Degrees’ of Happiness,
Or a Continuum of Happiness,
But i’m also thinking that after taking The Happiness Pill,
There would Not be an Excessive, Ostentatious, Pretentious or Vulgar Expression of Happiness.
Happiness does not require A Gaudy Flamboyance of Affirmation.
Happiness is a Quiet Inner Experience.

This is The Dream of Z-Mass.
To hand out these Happiness Pills to everyone in The Family gathered around a bare living-room on Z-Mass Morning. All The Children would sit and Stare at blank walls, Adults would lay out on mats, and everyone would be Happy.
Really Happy.

And The Next Day;
Everyone would return to their normal Angst,
As The Happiness Pills would be too expensive to take everyday.

If Certain ‘UnStable’ People become addicted to ‘Happiness’;
What would be The Consequences of this?
Would ‘Happy’ people still understand The Importance of their Jobs?
Would they abandon their Families?
Could they Experience This Molecular Happiness while causing misery to others?

Is Happiness Bad?
Is it More Important, More Desirable;
To believe that there is this Thing called ‘Happiness’ that is obtainable,
When it actually doesn’t exist at all.

All The Times that you thought that you were Happy,
You were really experiencing something that was occurring during circumstances that you thought should have made you Happy.
And you Believed; This is what ‘Happiness’ is like.

What would a world without ‘Happiness’ be like?
That is; This UnHappy World would be just like this one,
Except that NoOne would be Concerned with being Happy.
Everyone would know that Happiness is merely The Absence of Horrific Suffering.

And consequently; Nearly everyone would be Happy all The Time.

Book Report ( ± ) Fringe-ology

i recently read another book from cover to cover, which is becoming about as Infrequent as wrestling with alligators or licking bona fide celebrities buttocks.

The book was Fringe-ology / by Steve Volk
When i read The back cover at The Library, it seemed to be in The Genre of books that were really interested in Exploring some Quixotic Phenomena from The Perspective of Agendaless Silliness.

And it was pretty much like that.
It wasn't quite as good as The UFO Book; Shockingly Close to The Truth / by James Moseley
But it was easy to Read and it didn't trail off in The last few chapters.

It covered several different Quixotic Phenomena, with a Genuine Ghostory that happened to The Author when he was about 5 or 6 years old. Later on he Interviewed his parents and 2 Families that lived in The House after his Family moved out.
Was it just Water Pipes and Air Bubbles or Something Else ( ??? )

The One Fabulous Insight that i really enjoyed though was his Observation that although Psychologists & Manicurists have expended considerable effort creating tests & criteria for Studying & Classifying Kitchen Appliances according to how 'heretical' their thinking is;
Such as Quantifying Toaster Ovens & Potato Peelers as having Fantasy Prone Personalities, or Possessing 'Magical Thoughts' — They have apparently frittered away virtually no cans of cream corn on The Academic Evaluation of Their CounterThesis; The Lunatics that readily believe anything that The WhiteCoats, Politicians or CEO's tell them !

Obviously; There is a severe & negligent Bias towards people with bad haircuts going on here, But besides that on The well worn & stickily stained couch, is a fully comprehensible preference for supporting The Lunatics that eagerly agree with them about everything, irregardless of how undercooked it is.

Recent Macintosh ( MacBook ) Fiasco !

MacBook Problems in December
( The December 3rd Fiasco ! + a few additional days ! )

It all started simply enough when i noticed that QuickTime wasn't working.
That was the only thing that seemed amiss.

So i tried several old standard fixes which didn't work.

Then i looked on The Apple.com site to find a New QuickTime, and was told that it comes included with SnowLeopard ( et. al. ).
But still; There was an older version which i downloaded, but it wouldn’t work with my OS ?
So there was NO ALTERNATIVE except to ReInstall SnowLeopard, just to get A New QuickTime !

So i Re-Installed Snow Leopard OS X.6.3

It would have been nice if The Installation Process would allow The User to Load Specific Items and have The Installer Install them properly,
But for whatever reasons; Apple has always insisted that you Install Everything in One Big Dump.

Then Everything Broke.
Well, not EVERYTHING.
i was VERY surprised that so many things suddenly Broke.
With some After-Thought; i’ve come to ‘remember’ that many applications and such need to be loaded in A Specific Order.
When i ReInstalled SnowLeopard X.6.3; This was incompatible with many applications that were subsequently installed expecting to work with X.6.>3 which has since been upgraded, to Version X.6.8.
But still ( … )

The first thing that seemed very wrong was that None of my old Pages Documents would open.
i panicked a little, but i did not become hysterical.

( i just noticed that AutoSpell Correction, while ON in the Preferences Pane, is not Working! )
Neither is The Highlight Text Menu.
( Highlight a word and Control Click to bring up The Menu with ‘Look up in Dictionary’, amoung other things ! )

That is Not Good.

Concerning Pages; i then opened Pages and tried to Open a Pages Document from The File Menu,
Curious; This Worked.
Not only did this Work, but from then on; All Pages Documents Opened Appropriately.
Wait on that.
Pages will not open any of The Templates !

Then i discovered that The Big Bang Games would open a little, But not Completely.
As soon i selected a Game Option, They Would Crash.
Which is Completely Crazy, These games came with The Box when it was running Tiger !
What could have happened to make them stop working now ! ???

Also: In The System Preferences; The Language & Text Pane will Not Open at all. If i click on it, and then after waiting a minute and click again, The System Preferences Pane will Crash.
This also applies to The Keyboard Pane.
Anything that made The System Preferences stop working; That must have been very Kooky !

Mastermind reported that it required 'Rosetta' to work. i then installed Rosetta, but Mastermind is still not working.

QuickTime, Which DOES Work now, will not open .AVI’s, The format that my Nikon Camera Stores Videos in. The Other Option is PAL, which i think is a European Format ( ??? )
The QT that got from Apple just a day or two ago was something like v.9, which DID NOT Work with my Big Box, But v.7 that came with SnowL- DOES - - ! - - AND It also opens AVIs !!!
And Now v.10 is opening The AVI that i have ( ??? ) ! ???
i’m SURE that it was not opening it earlier this morning !!!

Gawd! i hate computers !

i can still watch all films with SpaceBar Preview.

iTunes will not Play any of The Movies.
iTunes will not connect to my iPod ( !!! )
Image Capture WILL connect to The iPod and Download Images from it.

i tried Resetting the iPod and then connecting to iTunes, but it still won't connect.
It would seem that the latest iPod OS update allows it to Start Up without A Host Computer
( ??? )
All The Apps and Other Geegaw in iTunes for The iPod are apparently still intact.
It always seemed to me that all the Apps for the iPod should work through iTunes ( ? )
But they never did.
Also; Magazines bought from The NewsStand should be stored in The Books Folder !

The Services Menu in The Application Name Menu is Not Working. Nothing comes up.

iPhoto is Not working, and when i tried to reload it from The iLife Disk, It Refused to Load.
It later reported that it can't work with this OS ( X.6.3 ) as it Needs at least X.6.6 ( !!! )

i just discovered that in The Software Update Log, It still contains the Uploads of X.6.6 !
Will it allow this Update to be Performed Again ( ??? )

So i'm thinking; Will everything be fixed if i get on the Intertube and update everything ( ??? )
( i don’t have an Intertube connection at home, i have to go to The Library ! )

Many of these basic functions should be working though !!!
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There were so many things going wrong that i decided to Save all my Documents, Projects & Applications to my Backup HardDrive ( Henrietta ) and then ReStore my Entire MacBook HardDrive ( CheeseCake ) from TimeMachine.
Regretfully; i neglected to remember that several ‘recent’ items are stored outside Documents & Projects. i really should put everything is Projects so that i don’t forget, but they seem ‘non-projectee’ ( ! ??? )

Restoring The Entire HardDrive is a little more complicated that you might expect !
At first i thought that i could do this through Time-Machine, And i started doing this, then i suddenly realized that i should have saved some things that were changed since The ReInstallation of SnowLeopard, So i stopped The Restore Process and Saved those items to Henrietta, Then i experienced this ‘epiphany’ that i should use The ‘Help’ menu to ask how to Restore a Whole HardDrive. Even though The Help Menu is hardly ever helpful, my angels were very insistent that i look this up.

It turns out that The Process is somewhat counterintuitive.
Insert your StartUp Installation CD for SnowLeopard.
Double Click on Install
Select The Utilities Menu and Click on ReStart
Select The Language
Go back to The Utilities Menu and Click on Restore from BackUp
Select Henrietta and Select The Date & Time of The BackUp Version.
Wait & Wait & Wait.

After doing this; And Installing QuickTime(s ( Both v.10 & v.7 ) which came with The SnowLeopard Installation Disk, Which i saved separately from The SnowLeopard ReInstall - - That now works.
i also reinstalled a bunch of other Utilities that i never understood what they did.

Why would SnowLeopard include BOTH QTv.10 & QTv.7 ???
i also distinctly recall buying QTv.? Pro sometime ago, but it has since disappeared ?
i seem to recall that it featured some functions that QTv.10 Does Not Have !
ugh.

One very annoying ‘feature’ was that after i did The Restore, The TimeMachine made a New Full Backup of my Entire HardDrive ( CheeseCake ) Even though this was an exact duplicate of The Backup that it just got from Henrietta. !!!
The Sour Tragedy of that was that it bit a 150GB chunk out of Henrietta !

There are already huge chunks of Redundancy that i need to resolve someday soon ??? ( ! )

But.
Apparently; A Restoration from TimeMachine does NOT restore everything exactly The Way it Was !!!
The Kookiest thing was that many of most recently modified TextEdit Documents were changed to Pages for Opening !
And when i tried to ‘Change All’ back to TextEdit, this would not work.
All The effected Documents had to be changed back one by one.

Note:
DO NOT TRY TO OPEN & EXAMINE THE BACKUP FOLDER
ON YOUR BACKUP DRIVE FOR TIME-MACHINE !
It was scary when The Whole Desktop flipped Off. ( ? )

Another very curious omission from The Backup was that my iTunes Permission Connection to my iPod was Broken, and iTunes refused to Sync 29 Apps to The iPod and Deleted them from The iPod !!!
ugh.

The only real casualty was that i’d just downloaded a bunch of stuff from The Intertube The day before this fiasco, and it was somehow lost. i have a Time Machine Backup from That day, but The files i was looking for were not there.
Curiously; Some Changes to Other Documents that could only have been made by referring to these new files, Were Saved, So that The Backup must have taken place after they were on CheeseCake ( ??? )

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A day or two later; after making several iMovies, i tried to add some additional, precisely positioned, sound effects with Garageband, and it crashed repeatedly, even after i did all The ‘Optimization’ Tricks ( ? ).
And when it did crash, i took The Whole Computer with it.
There was no using Force Quit on it, as The Finder was inaccessible after The Crash ! ( !!! ) !

ugh.

Gawd! i hate computers !
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Additional Problems when i got online ! ( December 6th )

Managed to get my iPod Synced with The Big Box.

Then noticed that my ‘sidebars’ on my windows weren’t working.
This may or may-not be related to The General Fiasco, as i moved some of those items in The Sidebar to Different Folders, But The Way that The BigBox handled The Errors was very annoying ! ???

( i’m very easily traumatized !!! )

How to Be A More Successful Terrorist

DEFEAT AIRPORT SCREENING
Or Why The War on Terror, Terrorist Groups & Such; Are a Hoax !

This might be Read as an Instruction Manual ( Booklet or Pamphlet )
For Properly Destroying a Civilization;
But my Reasoning is:
Am i The Smartest, Most Creative Mischief Maker in The World,
Or Is The Real Reason - -That No Civilization has been successfully Attacked & Destroyed by A Small, or Large, Group of Terrorist Extremists- - Something Else.
And what this Something Else is; Is very mysterious. ( ! )

It seems so ‘Reasonable’ that it should be possible to destroy a civilization with very little effort. The USSR, Imperial Russia or France, Before & After Maoian China, Angkor Wat, The Roman Empire, Easter Island, The Incan, Mayan, & Toltec Civilizations have Shown us how Amazingly Fragile Civilizations are.

Any Civilization that has fallen, has always collapsed from within,
Due to it’s own Excesses, Incompetence &/or Environmental Factors.
Even The Incan’s, that were destroyed by a very small group of Spaniards,
Was actually The Victim of it’s own Religious Beliefs.

What would happen if =The Terrorists= began to Target Airport Screening Stations...!
That is; They would send someone in with a book bag full of explosives, and detonate it at the X-Ray Machines & Metal Detectors. If they did this only a few times, Or even only Once... What would be the Possible Reaction?
Would they set up Screening Facilities farther away from the airport,
But this would allow numerous holes to appear in the widened parameter...
Would they set up Layer upon layer of Screening Stations...?
And then; The Outer most layer would be bombed, and then what...?
Would it simply mean the end of all Air Travel.
And then when the trains are targeted...?
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It might not be necessary to blow up buildings to destroy a Civilization,
But to simply target KeyStone Security or Service Points to make them Unavailable or Unusable. Only a very small number of well distributed attacks, would be necessary, with perhaps some ‘follow up inoculations’ every few months after The Initial Attacks.
1. Airport Screening Stations
2. Gas Stations
3. Metro Bus Terminals
4. Key Bridges
5. Supermarkets / Department Stores
6. Disrupt Cell Phone Communications
7. Popular Children’s Play Areas
8. Day Care Centers ( This alone would Destroy any Modern Western Civilization ! )
9. Schools
10. Garbage Cans

These KeyStone Points may be Targeted with Both Real Bombs and Fake Bombs.
The Purpose of Fake Bombs is to Evacuate the Building and cause the local Bomb Squad to be running all over town, 24/7.
In Conjunction with The Fake Bombs that look like real bombs, but are much cheaper to make and safer to transport. It’s important that some of these bombs do blow up from time to time, or almost blow up. Almost blowing up will give the bomb squads the confidence that they are in control and are doing good, as opposed to being entirely pointless.
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Along with Fake Bombs or Bombs that look like Bombs, There should be an Equal or Greater number of Real Bombs that consistently Blow Up that don’t look like Bombs at all. These may look like a sack or pail lunch, A Stack of Dirty magazines, A pile of dog poop on a school yard that has to be cleaned up, A pile of leaves that invites children to leap onto it, A Book in A Library or on a park bench, A $20 bill wired to a bomb underneath it, and so on. The Obvious purpose of these is to keep people from cleaning up or touching anything in a public venue.
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It has already been demonstrated a few times that any slightly unusual ‘advertising’ item or device left out in the public venue has brought cities to a grinding halt. It is truly inconceivable that if there really was a real terrorist organization, such as Al Qaeda, have not exploited this to it’s logical conclusion.
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The correct conclusion : There is No Al Qaeda, there is nothing like Al Qaeda. There are not even any Actual, or in any way, Effective Homeland Terrorist Organizations. The few that we hear about are just small groups of ‘Good Ol’ Boys’ that like to go out in the woods and play Cowboys & Indians with Real, Often Very Illegal Guns. Have any of these groups ever gotten into Mischief that wasn’t started by The FBI or other Government Agency?
The Answer is; No.
It is indeed very surprising that there Aren’t any genuinely effective groups like this, Irregardless of how small a group we’d like to choose from.
There just aren’t any.
And Satanic Devil Worshiping Clubs that Sacrifice Real Babies or Hitchhikers,
There just aren’t any.
It certainly seems ‘reasonable’ that there should be, but there aren’t. ( ??? )
There have been some interesting cases, such as The McFarland ( ? ) DayCare Fiasco in California, And others, which included grandiose claims of devil worship, But no such investigation has ever uncovered a genuine baby sacrificing cult.
They may exist, but have so far, remained successfully secretive.
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There are Real Serial Killers, but they never seem to get together and form groups any larger than One.
There are Very Few Cases Where there were Two or More Members of A Serial Murdering Cabal :
John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo circa. 2002 )
Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono; The Hillside Stranglers
Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko; Both 19, Involved in The Spree Murders that took place within a month.
The Charles Manson Group
Bonnie & Clyde Gang
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of The Columbine High School massacre
Kiyoshi Higashi; Craigslist Killer / Ringleader of 3 or 4 henchmen
And None of these are Even Remotely Connected with Anything like a Political Organization bent on The Overthrow of Anything.
Even something like the SLA, Whose fame is owed to Patty Hearst; had only local political interests.
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This entire War on Terror is a Myth.
It has substantially less reality attached to it than The Easter Bunny.
Santa Claus is far more real than Osama Bin Laden.
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Food Contamination is an old favorite, It should be reasonably easy to poison school lunches, so that children & their parents will be afraid to let them eat hot lunches,
Or such actions would precipitate draconian measures in the schools, as they already have in checking for guns, knives and such, or at airports.
7 & 8 year old children will no longer be allowed to wear shoes to school and their only lunches will be warm tap water & dry bowls of corn flakes.
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Any Effective or InEffective Action that causes the victims to Over React and Become their own worst enemy is The Desired Effect. When you can’s bring down a civilization from the outside, simply introduce a small amount of itching power to cause the target to scratch themselves to death.
This means that when the regional law enforcement thugs take to the streets to ensure order, all the people they will be gunning down will be innocent civilians, and everyone will know this, regardless of how often they tell you otherwise. The Terrorist Organization will become the new, best & more reliable news organization. What they say will have a far greater ring of truth to it, As it will be much more subdued, Less hysterical, And Accurate.
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Other Ideas
Model Airplanes with GPS Guidance Electronics to effectively make them into Cruise Missiles.
Small Toy Like Robots that are able to roll or fly into Offices or Banks and Cause Mischief.
Use A Model Airplane to drop a comparatively small number of real bombs and considerably more fake bombs over a crowded Arena or Stadium, causing a lethal stampede. The bombs should be attached to parachutes with blinking lights to make their visibility unmistakable.
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Infiltrate Airport Security with Agents that Abuse The Public, causing a greater loss of confidence and faith in the Security System. It is already believed by most people that these people truly enjoy groping adults and small children anyways, and it might reasonably be argued that any ‘normal’ person that has been ‘correctly’ indoctrinated into western civilization would Not Recoil at the idea of performing these duties anyways.
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Blow up Airplanes with small missiles that are attached to guide wires that The Airplane Wings catch on and pull the bomb onto The Wing. Such a easy scheme would require little accuracy, and if the plane comes down while taking off or landing, It will cause considerable damage to surrounding neighborhoods.
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If it is indeed possible to break a wine glass with sound, then what is stopping a device that broadcasts a very loud, correctly pitched amplifier from breaking thousands of windows in a large city?
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It has been fairly conclusively shown that spiking a water supply with LSD or some such is infeasible for a variety of reasons, but might it be considerably easier to mix aerosolized LSD, PCP or some such with Horse Liniment ( So that it would be absorbed through The Skin ) and spraying it over a crowded arena or stadium with a model airplane?
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Create a very life like dummy and set it on the ledges of tall buildings away from any windows, or superglue the nearest windows shut, so that this illusion would be perpetrated for as long as possible. The net effect would be to close off streets for a whole day or more, and eventually make the rescue squad look like idiots.
Do this a dozen or so times, until they no longer respond, then start throwing people out of windows.
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Once The Civilization that you’re attacking begins to stop reporting your terrorist attacks, and twitter gossip & email replaces the evening news, most people will come to understand that the news is no longer reliably telling them what is going on. And this means that gossip & rumor will amplify whatever terrorism that you are actually performing. This hearsay & Tittle-tattle will reliably create all sorts of new disasters, and since no one believes any ‘official’ news outlets, the common parakeets will have no where, really no where, to turn to find out what is really happening. If any of these people have witnessed anything in the 1st or 2nd person, every new report has the weight of gold.
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i’m absolutely certain that if i had a million dollars, of which i would end up spending a small pittance of, And a nationally organized group, broken up into autonomous cells, connected through a hierarchy of cells or internet points, with each cell having a unique & large one time encryption pad; i would be able to bring down american civilization in 30 days.
Why isn’t anyone doing this?
Why isn’t anyone even trying?
Why aren’t there any Super ( Artist ) Criminals?
Why aren’t there far more political assassinations? Why do we routinely hear of young teenagers murdering one another over a pair of shoes, or a 12$ drug deal gone bad, or a girl friend that didn’t want to go to the movies; Yet when a CEO or Congressman screws millions of people out of their life savings; All of our most beloved psychopaths sit on their hands?
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The ONLY Two possible explanations that seem to make sense to me;
1) Someone has a Time Machine that is constantly repairing these ‘Large’ political & social Disruptions.
or
B) We’re living in a Screen Saver Reality that is occupied by a very small number of Sentient, Conscious Entities, and The User, whose computer we occupy, is simply too distracted by their everyday affairs to make their screen saver any more complicated than is absolutely necessary for their quiet & benign amusement.
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Possible ( ? ) Third Alternative :
The News or Media Outlets, which include our Public & Private Schools, have so thoroughly indoctrinated The Damp Masses into believing that Humanimal Nature is that of Brutes & Monsters; When we are not.
There have ( apparently ) been many Egregious Wars throughout History, But maybe each of these required a stupendous amount of very specific public propagandizing to prepare The Principle Societies for it’s execution.
Wars don’t just happen. They have to be planned far in advance & lead by especially charismatic ne’er-do-wells.
Conclusion:
A very small group of ‘Hooligans’ have been manipulating The Damp Masses for Tens of Thousands of Years to make us believe all sorts of False things, To make it easy for them to make The World; More Amusing for their pleasure.
When left to our own resources; Featherless Parakeets & Traffic Cones are genuinely repelled by violence for any purpose other than their immediate economic or emotional gratification.
Only Genuinely Crazy Lunatics ‘Plan for’ Violence.
And of all The Genuinely Crazy Lunatics that are Available; The Vast Majority of Those have Other, Far more Benign Agendas, Such as Uncovering The Truth behind The Reptilian Royal Families in Europe, Mysterious Radio Signals that only they can hear, Compulsive Masturbating or The Vast Spectrum of Petty Mischief.

Quirkiness

Forward :

The Incongruity of Strangeness

Very often traffic cones will use The Word ‘Ironic’ when they actually mean something like ‘Wry’ or ‘Odd’ or ‘Kooky’.
It’s just a problem of expressing a more ‘accurate’ meaning of (x.

The same thing occurs when featherless parakeets use The Word ‘Paradox’.
The Problem of Strangeness falls under this Confusion, or ‘Ambiguity’,
In that “The Incongruity of Strangeness” isn’t really a paradox.
It’s more like a Problem of Understanding why there is such a Dichotomy between The Amateur Parapsychologist’s Observation of The Common World, And their Apprehension, Through Voracious Reading, Of The Quirky World.
One is That The World is Very Kooky,
And The Observed World is Hardly Kooky at all.
How can these two Landscapes be Reconciled?

A) The Number of Kooky Incidences is Vastly Under Reported. It is often stated that many witnesses of Kooky or Quirky Phenomena are reluctant to report these events for fear of (x. Airline pilots ‘knew’ that there were these very odd meteorological ’Sprites’ for many, many years before they were finally reported, because they feared that they would be grounded. You would think that Camera’s would commonly available to Airline pilots, but i often get The Feeling that they are practically banned from cockpits. ( ??? )

B) Many of The Best Known ( Amoung Amateur Parapsychologists ) ‘Stories’ are highly inflated for Sensationalism.

C) Many of The Best Know ( AAP ) ‘Stories’ are simply folk or Friend of A Friend Tales that have found their way into a comparatively ‘Legitimate’ Anthology of ‘Mysterious Phenomena’ Books, and thereafter been granted a degree of Authenticity that they are Undeserving of. Once a ‘Good’ ( Desirous of Being Believed ) Story like this is ‘Accepted’ as Canon, Additional Investigation is eschewed for The Simple Reason that it may be Disproved !

D) The Administers of Conventional Knowledge very actively suppress Quirky Stories because their ‘Irregularity’ & Unwillingness to be Replicated under Laboratory Conditions, Makes them Very Difficult to Study & Understand.
It is far easier to categorically deny such phenomena as existing at all, and have even instituted edicts defining ‘The Scientific Method’ that unambiguously states that all such ‘UnReplicatable’ phenomena be ignored, Thus objectively stipulating their reluctance to study incidents that they have subjectively chosen to ignore for convenience &/or ‘Religious’ Reasons.

E) As a result of This Institutionalized Suppression of Quirkiness; The Civilian Media Outlets, which are certainly controlled by Cultural Autarchs, are loath to Report any Quirky Wonders or Kooky Episodes, Except for those whose ‘Interpretation’ is clearly fraud or chicanery. Seldom is such an Event Reported that can not be fully Explained or Discredited.
Established Orders, Political or Scientific, hold very dear to Their Absolutely Authority that Claims to Understand &/or Be in Control of Everything.

F) Applying a Common Statistical Bell Curve to All Quirky Phenomena, And Providing my own Personal Observations of Quirkiness to it; Assuming ( ? ) that my personal & First Person Accounts represent ‘Common’ Quirkiness; It should be Entirely Reasonable to Believe that Along The Extremities of The Bell Curve, In Frequency & Extremely Oddness, There should be Rarely Observed, But Entirely Real Quirky Events that Genuinely Exist. This Method of Analysis however provides us with No Quantification or Qualification of The Nature of Quirkiness that Occurs ‘Elsewhere’.

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Regarding Improbable Events & Circumstances

“One Uses Inductive Reasoning to Prove that Flying Saucers are Real,
And Deductive Reasoning to Prove that They’re Nonsense.”

Obviously; The Traditional Method for Determining if Something is Genuinely ‘Odd’ is To Assign a Quantitative Statistical Probability to The Questionable Event
And Then Arbitrarily / Subjectively Assign a Second Layer to The Equation,
By Stating that (x Amount of Statistical Improbability is Genuinely Odd.

But how would you really, with any confidence, assign The Probability or Truth Value of any Observed (x ?
This is what is Wrong with ( Fatal Weakness ) of Fractional Propositional Logic.
You can have all your subjectively precise Boolean Logic Equations;
But how true are your Initial Antecedents or Succedents ( p & q ) ?
Nothing is ever Absolute.
i usually like to say; ‘It’s as true as Elephants in Africa.’
That’s pretty true, But is it absolutely True ?

2 + 2 = 4 seems as true as true can be, but i have my doubts.
It may well be that The Physical Reality doesn’t really have anything like Integer Numbers.
Integer Numbers may only be a theoretical perfection that we use for convenience.
Like A Perfect Circle or Right Angle.

After 911 i really got to thinking on this and decided that what we need is
A Universal Index of Oddness, So that given any ‘Event’ that Exhibits a certain number of Quirky Circumstances; Is that amount of Quirkiness to be reasonably Expected?

This assumes that Quirkiness is all around us all The Time,
And differentiating The Amount of Background Quirkiness
from Unusual Quirkiness is what This Index would Expose.

The Very Idea that there is a Constant Level of Quirkiness around us all The Time, Like a comparatively low level or Radiation, is somewhat ‘counterintuitive’.
Most people become alarmed when they discover that Materials like Granite are giving off sufficient Radiation that equals a given number of x-rays per hours exposed, and as a consequence of this; The Regular Travelers that pass through New York’s Grand Central Station have accumulated a measurable risk of Cancer because of this.

Quirkiness is The Same Thing.
You should Expect a Certain Amount of Quirkiness in your Life, A Certain number of highly improbable Coincidences to occur every week or month, and just shrug them off.

But how many are too many?

There’s a Mathematical Tool called The Sigma Index of Certainty that Scientists use to determine if The Results of a Given Experiment or Observation, are Significant.

Zero Sigma is The Lowest Potential for Certainty, which is equal to The Flip of One Coin, Either Heads or Tails, A 50/50 Chance of (x happening.

What is Surprising, Is that This Index allows that Three Sigma indicates a Reasonable Certainty of An Underlying Phenomena;
This Equals only Eight Heads in a Row.
This is only a 1 in 256 Chance of Occurring.

You have to get up to Five Sigma,
Which is 20 Heads in a Row,
Before you have a probability of 1 in 1,048,576.

But even so; If you’re flipping coins, you’d expect 40 heads to come up eventually, And if you take into consideration that people have been flipping coins for a very long time, that string of 40 heads are going to pop up, just when you’d least expect it to happen.

So how can you really ‘Know’ if you’re sitting waist deep in a puddle of pure strangeness?

The Next Best ’Tier’ of Measurement would be experiencing things that you’re pretty sure are just flat out impossible.

But people are often very mistaken about his as well.
Thomas Jefferson once insisted that it was far more likely that American Scientists were big fat liars, rather than believe that rocks could fall from The Skies.

i just recently came across a very nice book:
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena ( 2nd Edition )
Compiled by Bob Rickard & John Michell

i have read many, many books like this; that are chock full of very odd phenomena collected from around The World, throughout History.
Many are simply odd Meteorological Effects or Animal Behaviour,
And much of it consists of ‘Obviously’ Misreporting of Something Else; Psychological Delusions, Illusions or Psychosis.

But i think The ‘Funnest’; are Classes of Reports that occur over & over throughout history, all over The World and defy simple explanations.
Why does nearly every culture throughout The World have a ‘Little People’, Large Man-Ape, Ghosts or Children with Super-Powers in their Folk Lore?
Why is The Behaviour of these Little People so Consistent, but Their Appearance isn’t.
Its like Quixotic Phenomena is not quite as ‘Solid’ as our more familiar reality, and requires that it be ‘filtered’ through our preconceptions or cultural expectations !

Just What Is The True Reality like?
And There is so much Oddness within each category of Oddness !

How Odd is Odd?

Just how much Certainty would you attach to a bed side visitation of Jebus Q. Khrist, Moroni, Gabrielle or Your Dead Mother?
Given that their appearance is entirely substantial & you’re certain that you’re not sleeping, It would be very interesting, But many people have reasonably suggested that daemons might easily take on disguises to trick you into some crazy end game;
Or it may simply be that A Perfectly Normal CIA Brain Implant is making you see whatever they’d like, in order to get you to assassinate someone from your local ACLU Office.

i’ve had many ‘coincidences’ occur to me, One of The most curious and improbable was after watching an episode of ‘Boston Legal’ in which a young girl wanted to be given a drug to make her forget a traumatic event. This seemed very interesting to me, as i have never heard of any such drug, and then a few days later, less than a week, by complete accident i came across a reference on The interweb to just such a drug !
U0126 Drug that causes the controlled Amnesia of Specific Memories / For P-TSD /
i have often thought that such occurrences happen because The Reality Generator ( The Troll Queen ) is very lazy and frequently recycles ‘biddles’ that The Residents find interesting ( ? )

One thing that i am loath to concede to is The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanical Experimental Observations that suggests that Bishop George Berkeley, in The 1700’s, was right in his assertion that Things don’t exist, unless we ( or gawd ) is observing them. Bell’s Inequality also insists that Every Particle in The Universe is somehow tied to at least one other particle in The Universe and any change, or observation, to one, changes The its Twin Other.
This would seem to suggest though that if it were possible ( ? ) to ‘Entangle’ any given particle with another Particle, This Process could Reoccur to either of these particles; Such that After (a is entangled to (b, (b could later become entangled to (c — And if this occurs naturally, As it certainly should, then every particle in The Universe should be entangled to every other particle. ( ? )

i believe in a Materialistic Universe; With Sprinkles of Oddness, or Layers of Incomprehensibilities that produce very quirky phenomena, but does this mean that Reality is Consciousness ( ? )
For some reason; i am reluctant to go along with that.
It would certainly explain a lot, And while i am also sympathetic to The Idea of Solipsism, i draw back a little when there is suddenly an overwhelming reason to actually believe it’s true.

One of my many most egregious peeves concerning both Quantum Mechanics & Institutionalized Quixotic Phenomena; Such The Transcendental Meditationist’s claim that they can Levitate;
Is that if Bell’s InEquality or Meditative Levitation were to be carefully explained, &/or Demonstrated,
That would blow The Head Off Conventional Thinking, All Religious Beliefs, Social Order, Standards of Morality & Scientific Credibility.

But they are not.

If these things are real, Is The Mystery of them more important than their reality?

Television has shown us that people love stories.
Love to Hear & Create their Own Stories.
The Damp Masses Really Love to See The Everyday Drudgery, Imaginary or Real, of Other Peoples lives.

So when it comes to The Vast Majority of Quixotic Tales;
Just how many of them are Really Real?

We have our personal experiences; Mostly benign, but cryptic in their own ways,
That Strange things can happen.
Few of us have had experiences of a first hand narrative that involve fully documented accounts of teleportation, levitation, a clearly recalled alien abduction or the sudden inexplicable appearance of something very, very odd.
Our Benign experiences allow us to be ‘prepared’ to accept The Stranger Literary Accounts,
But how real are they really?
If there really was a good, fully documented case of high strangeness, why is it invariably kept a secret.
Only The Fringe Journalists tell us about them.

It’s not simply; “I want to Believe.”
It’s more along The Lines of; “What do I want to Believe?”
“What is Believable?”


It might well be that your extracted brain is in a glass jar and everything you’re experiencing is a trick produced by cleverly arranged static charges administered through push pins slipped between all those intestinal lumps & folds that are supposed to make us smarter than The smooth brained lizards.

Or that you’re nothing more than a well worn stretch of magnetic tape spinning round & round on a bobbin in The 14th Dimension.

Quirky things may be very amusing; But what do they mean?
Is that a big question,
Or one of The inconsequential little questions?

“Why is it important to believe that there are important things?”

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Additional Reading:
Formerly Bill Beaty’s Weird Stuff / http://amasci.com/weird.html
Linda Moulton Howe EarthFiles.com / Weird News
Walt Brown In The Beginning : Compelling Evidence for The Creation & The Flood
William Corliss Sourcebook Project / Fortean Disciple

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Side Step :
One of my crazy theories that relates to Layers of Incomprehensibilities; Is that there are numerous ‘Attributes’ ( sometimes referred to as ‘Dimensions*’ or ‘Forces’ by Physicists ) that Effect Everything, And are still Unidentified. One of these is ‘AntiGravity’; that is The Polar Inversion of Regular Gravity, But is Manifest in A completely Different Form. That is; Gravity Pulls, AntiGravity doesn’t Push, It does something Completely Different, But it is still deeply related to Gravity, And this also suggests that when we think that Gravity is Pulling, it’s doing something that relates more clearly to AntiGravities ( Not Pushing ), Such that when we have a better understanding of this; We will no longer think of Gravity as Pulling anymore ( ! )

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* i just hate The Idea of ‘Dimensions’ that String Theory says are ‘Shrunk down’ in Planck Scales. It seems much more reasonable to me, to Think of Up/Down, Front/Back, Left/Right as ‘Attributes’ that Everything possesses, And that many of These ‘Attributes’ are as yet undiscovered. This way; Thinking of These formerly labeled ‘Dimensions’ in The way we think of Up/Down, Front/Back, Left/Right; We’re no longer confined to force fit The Other Dimensions into a 3 Dimensional Model.
Under The ‘Attribute’ Model, Time is easily thought of an An Attribute that Everything Shares, And you can easily add more Attributes without having to ‘Explain away’ their seeming invisibility in a 3 Dimensional Reality.
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Vocabulary Study Guide

Personal Glossary

Tragically: This Glossary is not in Alphabetical Order...
But it's not terribly expansive either, So they cancel each other out.

If the term, lexeme, phrase, locution, idiom, meme or expression
That you've found within the delimiters of The Translucent Amoebae
or The Riders of The Golden Hamster, is not here--
Please leave a Comment,
Which will be Automatically Eeped to me,
Where it will receive the fullest imaginable attention toward remedying this omission.

• The Damp Masses The Ordinary Humanimals; Pedestrians or The Tediously Normal People that contribute to the unbearable White Noise that define & highlight The Rest of Us from this beige background.

• Squishies All Biological Sentient Beings from Fish; Up. ( Including Paramecium, Mollusks & Insects; While Curiously Excluding Most Amphibians & Reptiles )

• Humanimal Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens

• Hanimal Case Example of The Damp Masses

• S/he S’he Androgynous Personal Pronoun

• Humster The Furry Walking Fish; Humanimals

• Featherless Parakeets The Lowest Tier of The Damp Masses ( Traffic Cones )

• Bloated Hamsters Humanimal / Traffic Cone / Damp Handkerchief / Straightened Paperclip / Laminated Snowflake / Greasy Doorknob / Buttered Toast / Toenail Clipping / et. al.

• Dust Puppet A Puppet that looks like a Hum/Animal; Controlled by Angels

• Femanimal Child Bearing Humanimal

• Animeal Animal that is Suitable for Being Eaten ( This seems more Universal than Personal...???

• Robotimal Instinct Driven Insect or such.

• Androgenimal Indeterminate Sexual, Sentient Being

• The Xi Point Six Controllers The Gawds, Angels or The Will of Gravity. This might also refer to The Dao, or The first layer of Dust over The Kitchen Floor that is aware of it's own existence.

• Arranged by Angels Any Event or Circumstance that is So Very Improbable that it must have been Orchestrated by The Ξ.6 Controllers. Most often applied to Ill-Fortune; Such as when Children are killed in Freak ‘Accidents’.

• Mind Masters The ‘People’ or Ξ.6 Controllers ( Specifically ) that are Controlling The Minds of The Damp Masses to keep them developing technological advances & engaging in social activity that would seem obvious & inevitable according to pervasive circumstances & well understood motivations of human behaviour. ( Forces which i am curiously & mysteriously free of, ( or am i ? ) )

• The Troll Queen The Reality Generator / The Active part of The Dao / The Holy Ghost

• The Great Cabbage Our Gawd; or The Dao, or The Will of Gravity. / The Great Cabbage has constructed the world in such & such a way so as to Reveal Everything, If only it's occupants would look in the right places.

• The Kitchen Floor The Bottom of The Universe. The Passive Part of The Dao. There may be local kitchen floors, but this principally refers to the very bottom of the universe, or the first tier in the infinite continuum of realities. This floor is tiled with the instructions that give order to all subsequent realities. Our local kitchen floor, as such; tells each electron how to behave.

• Pixelverse A Timeless instant separated from the rest of The Universe. A snapshot of The Entire Universe. / This may also be An Instant of Consciousness, The Pattern of ElectroChemical Activity that represents a Single Timeless Thought, Schematically lifted from The Brain & Drawn Out on a Sheet of Paper.

• The Floating ElectroPlastic Brains These will be The Next Evolutionary Layer of Sentience for this world, after, or stemming directly from; The Cogitators.

• The Cogitators The Thinking Machines that will embody everything that The AntiChrist is presupposed to be defined as. ( e.g., The Beast ( A Thinking Being that is Not Human ), providing us with 7 years of utopian bliss, before turning on us and eating our brains for brunch.

• Gullible Skeptics People that claim to be Scientifically Skeptical of ExtraOrdinary Claims, but are in fact simply Debunkers that Blindly Grumble and Bellyache around any claimed phenomena that they wish to disavow for any of numerous reasons. They typically fall into the common man's fallacy of refuting observed phenomena that is simply disagreeable.

• The Epistemologists While The Gullible Skeptics are Chiefly Concerned with Providing Authoritative Answers, The Epistemologists are Motivated to Forming Provocative Questions.

• Fractoids Splinter of Knowledge with An Unknown Truth Value

• Picoan Pictorial Koan

• The Giant Mechanical Ants The Work Force for The Floating ElectroPlastic Brains

• The Walking Fish People The Aliens that Created us, & Own Us. They are Harvesting our Souls to be used in their children's toys.

• Sproogles A Valediction that embodies a tacit wishful gestation of benevolence, health & charity without the legal entanglements necessitated by any such parting expression that may be found in a dictionary.

• MonoSexual Compulsive Masturbator

• MonoSexual Monogamist Compulsive Masturbator that uses only one picture or series of pictures of A Single Person to Masturbate to.

• The Carrot Club The Real ( Really Unknown ) Group known Colloquially as The Illuminatii / Probably founded around the time of The Neanderthals.

• Wanda’s Cascade A Particular Kind of Speech Stammer in which The Principle Speaker makes a Statement which The Principle Immediately Recognizes as Wrong, and Corrects It— But The Second Statement is Also Wrong, Which again is Immediately Recognized as Wrong, and Corrects It… The Cascade may continue for at a minimum of 3 cycles, And eventually results in The Correct Statement.

• Perfect Egotism This is different from normal egotism, in that normal egotists are concerned with their own well-being, to the exclusion of the well-being of others. The Perfect Egotist is concerned with their own well-being, to the exclusion of absolutely everything else. The PE should never consider, even for a moment, the consequences of others, or how their actions will effect the universe in the future. The PE is also concerned with, not only their well-being for the next 5 minutes, 5 months or 5 Zillion years-- But for all eternity...! So that they must be concerned with how their selfishness in perpetuity plays out... This may sound confusing, since it now appears that The PE is concerned with their effect on others... in so much as they would be harming themselves by taking actions to produce enemies or pollute the air that they may breath in the future...! To the untrained eye, it may indeed appear that The PE is not acting like an egotist at all, But rather; A Perfect Altruist! It would be a very foolish thing to imagine this though, since the PE doesn't care one wit for the welfare of others...Despite all their actions & deeds.

• Infinite Greed It has been suggested that the trouble with the world is that there is too much greed...But the fact is; There is not enough Greed! If only men were More Greedy, indeed-- Embraced an ideology of Infinite Greed; The world would be much better place for it... Nothing would ever be carelessly wasted again, No homeless person would have their talents & labor squandered, The limited resources of the lands & oceans would be used with caution, so as to preserve their interest for future generations... It is only the foolishness of petty greed that makes so many of the damp masses believe that greed is a sin...! Nothing could be farther from the truth... Greed is a Great Virtue... As Great as Heedless Lust & Inconsiderate Cruelty.

• Spiritually Harmonic Violence Vehement Destruction is an Tautological Axiom of Being. Without the continuance of havoc upon The World, New & Better things would not have the raw materials with which to make themselves! It has been offered however: That one should never break anything that you can't fix; Unless you're going to eat it. -- The desired net effect is that; You should try to make the world a more complex & chaotic ( complexity approaching randomality ) place, and by destroying the old to make better the new, then Natural Harmonic Violence is served. In 'Nature' of course, this is not followed by any well considered cogitative process, but by the actions that fall in to place by the construction of a world which tends towards this end without reflection...! It then becomes a point of wonderment, Is it even possible to deviate from this path of Breaking the Old to Build the New, For this Irrefutable End Purpose-- put into play by the Universe itself...??? Is every act of 'seemingly' senseless violence, A necessary step towards this inevitable ambition...?

• Heedless Lust Heedless Lust is The Behaviouralist’s Understanding of Love. As most intelligent beings are well aware; Ordinary, Profane Love is alternately a Chemical Response to Various Pheromones extruded by Some Other’s sweat glands, Or as frequently; An infatuation brought about by a Sociopathic or Autistic preoccupation with some obscure or inconsequential detail that a Thing such as an Electronic Appliance or Waitress may manifest. Heedless Lust is the archetypical &/or perennial source-code for mutual exploitation; Which is the axiomatic guidance canon for all cooperative activities. It is the complete acquiescence of Personal Identity in order to form a Uncontested Union with Other Humanimals, Robots or Furniture, So as to Promote & Shellac One’s Most Urgent Agenda.

• Inconsiderate Cruelty Impious Cruelty is simply The Thoughtless gestures that are commonly manifest in our daily lives; Just as a Stone may fall from space and smash out your favorite station wagon’s windshield. Inconsiderate Cruelty is The Sum Total of All Actions perpetrated by The Dao or Xi.6 Controllers in the course of their most benign & tedious afternoon chores. It is; What needs to be done. / For Most Humanimals; The inconsolable stumbling block to acting with Inconsiderate Cruelty; As The Angels do, Is that they can never know ‘what it is that needs to be done’, So that they can never direct their Actions to satisfy those directives... Curiously; All persons, Inadvertently— Perform countless acts of Inconsiderate Cruelty everyday, as they are directed to by The Angels that are constantly meddling in their daily lives.

• Unnecessary Cruelty All Observed Phenomena caused by Featherless Parakeets.

• Boolean Dyslexia A form of Programming in which The Overview is easily achieved, but the programmer confuses the use of simple mathematical functions, such as * & ÷ or + & -. The Boolean Dyslexic may also be confused by While Repeats & Do Until's. Debugging is often reduced to randomly changing various functions...!

• Hammer A Computer ( program ) or Machine that is so simple that it does only one thing, or a very small number of tasks with few, or no, Boolean Logical Decisions, So that There’s Almost No Chance of Failure. There’s just nothing that can go wrong.

Harsh Anti-Semitic Rant

This is a very Harsh Anti-Semitic Rant on Israel & The Jews,
But i would just like the reader to know that i don't obsess over this particularly,
But this is something that i've been silently ranting about for some time,
Particularly whenever The Middle East ( Northern Africa ) is in the news again.

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Harsh Thoughts about Israel
Or : Maybe i’m a little AntiSemitic
( While i may also be a little Misogynist )

But if i was a little Misogynist, Let us hope that i’m AntiSemitic in The same way, as i actually prefer The Non-Sexual Company of Women more than Men.

Just tell me that this -Isn’t- True :
After WWII ( Two; Not Eleven ), The Untied States & Europe were all hepped up on Creating Israel, Because they wanted to get rid of all their Jews.

Let us be clear on a few things first.

A ) The Jews are NOT Gawds Chosen People.
i hope that there’s not too much resistance to this idea, even amoung modern Jews.

B ) Isn’t it curious that there is a ‘Race’ or ‘Ethnic Minority with Stars on Their Bellies’ that looks just like The Sneeches without Stars on Their Bellies, that is so Amazingly loathed by nearly Everyone.
Even Blacks aren’t hated ‘like this’. Because of basic cultural Biases, and that they are pigmented in such an obvious opposite way from Northern Europeans, It’s almost entirely reasonable that The Dominant Civilization would feel that these ‘Others’ are inferior, chiefly because they’ve been denied educational & Social Opportunities to Integrate into The Prevailing Culture.
Likewise; Some American ‘Settlers’ may have had personal animosities towards The Resident American Aborigines, But The principle reason for Ethnic Cleansing was that they were simply ‘In The Way’ of our Colonization Efforts. Once that had been settled, Most of ‘New Americans’ accepted The Aborigines, unless you lived near them in Montana or South Dakota.
Most everywhere else where two or more Ethnic Groups live, they get along pretty well; With The Few Exceptions where there is A Very Long History of Privilege enjoyed by one Group at The Expense of The Other(s. This Dissymmetry is made more palatable when there is a later effort to equalize These Castes. The Trodden Class generally has an elephantine recollection of ancestral crimes which must be addressed, such that they are never sufficiently defrayed.
In modern History; Gandhi tried to fix India’s Hindu-Islam Conflict by separating these two groups into different nations. This solution has been shown to be insufficient or incomplete.
The point being; What is it about The Jews that has perpetuated such a nearly global & highly idiosyncratic animosity? Is it their omnipresent snootiness, delusions of persecution which is self actualizing, or is there a antediluvian, genetically encrypted memory of crimes committed by our common ancestors?

C ) While there a lot of Very Smart Movers & Shakers that are Jews; This is a function of The Jew’s Cultural Affirmation for Education & Striving for Social Position.
The Counterpoint of this would be The Remarkable Effect Demonstrated by African Americans that assume that Success & Education are ‘Things that White People Do.’
There was a case a few months ago in ‘The South’, in which a large group of African Americans were picnicking by a River, where one of their young children fell into The River. A Couple of Adults jumped in to save The Child, but all ended up Drowning in Comparatively Calm Water, Due to The fact that none of The Adults or Children knew how to Swim, even though they’d all lived near water for Several Generations. When asked why none of them knew how to swim, one of The more Elegant Adults revealed that they’d always felt that ‘Swimming was something that White People did’ !!!
This concept is extended to many Young Blacks throughout The United States in High Schools Particularly, That feel that in order to retain their African Heritage, they mustn’t become ‘Nerds’. Being Cool is Being Dumb.

This is another of my pet peeves.
Being Cool is Not being dumb or ‘Not Caring’.
Being Cool IS being smart enough and Street Wise enough, so that few if any situations surprise or startle you, so that you are always in control of your emotions and ‘Know what to do in a Crisis.’
These Crises’ might not always be running to save someone in a burning car, But more often; Handling Social situations more adeptly than their peers.
The antithesis of Being Cool is being Hysterical.

Being dumb and not caring about anything might superficially appear behaviorally like being cool, but only until a crisis effects The ‘Cooliee’ Personally. Then they Freak out, and their cover is exposed.

A Side Issue of this ( Tangental Effect ) is when something ‘Kooky’ happens and The Faux Cooliee says; “Be Cool.”, Meaning; “That even though i just broke your $6,000 20 speed Racing bicycle, It’s only material Stuff. You can easily afford to buy a new one, Lets smoke some pot and stop talking about my responsibility in this fiasco.”

That is Not Cool.
Being Cool is Being Smart & Pragmatic and taking responsibility for your actions.

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Ok. that was some digression.

What would happen if The US just declared that we were leaving North Africa?

This would mean that we’d make it clear to The Other countries there that We were leaving and not coming back. You’re all adults and we expect you to straighten out your problems on your own.

The assumption has been up to this point, that The Arabs & Jews are NOT Adults and we need to hold their hands while they’re going potty.

Just What happened to Northern Africa Anyways?

They used to be SuperCivilizations!
They used to be The Cradle of Human Culture!
There may be a few explanations; Few of them having any thing to do with Islam or Mohammed.
What i suspect is The Bigger Cause is that they completely defoliated their environment. It really once was The Garden of Eden, A lush Forest Canopy & vistas of rich grass lands. But you can only exploit that sort of thing for only so long without replenishing it. Without a Prior Example of how things can go horribly wrong, they may be excused to some degree for racing towards destruction without even seeing it when they start jumping into its bottomless pit.

Another Digression.
When i was 12 years old, or so; i knew that The Explanation for Where Oil comes from was just deeply wrong. The Easy Question is; Just how does A Thick enough layer of unrecycled organic material accumulate to create an oil field with billions of barrels of crude oil? Even if there was a world wide cataclysmic event that knocked over an entire continent of thick Jungle, That would be flattened and would, under The most theoretically ideal conditions, render into one thin sheen of baby oil.
The Entire premise of Oil being created from Jungles & Dinosaurs is based on The antiquated idea that everything with Carbon in it, must be Organic.
Well. That’s crazy talk.
Where does oil come from?
There is substantial evidence that oil is made deep underground and may be virtually unlimited. And by Virtually Unlimited, This School of thought means; A lot more than The Dinosaur School of thought.

So Anyways:

The Arab Nations; Given Carte Blanc take back The area currently occupied by The Israelis and where do They go. The survivors that is.
While there are plenty of Unpopulated Regions on The Earth; One of The Least Populated areas is Northern Africa, and The Jews couldn’t make that work.

How about this idea.
We Transplant a few million Borneans from a nice Pacific atoll to A Nice UnderExploited Lake in Southern California, and move The Jews to their own Island paradise in The Pacific.

See; i'm wishing them well after all.

More Thinking about Thinking

i’m becoming very comfortable with a solution to one of The last ‘Problems’ towards explaining Consciousness.
The big gaps still exist, and i will outline some of The peripheral problems which may explain some aspects of consciousness, but actually only make The overall problem more mysterious.

The part that i’m becoming comfortable with is based on something that WmJs suggested some months ago.
He related this theory to me that some Anthropological Psychologists ( ? ) believe that humanimals became ‘Conscious’ or ‘SelfAware’ when they started Speaking and in The process of listening to themselves, and interpreting this phenomena was coming from themselves, they formed an internal model of ‘An Other’ existing inside themselves; Which became their idea of ‘Self’.

This doesn’t explain how dogs and cats are Conscious, as many people believe that they are, in their own simplistic kind of way, but leaving that on a back burner for now…

This Does explain how, According to Epiphenomenalism, The Brain Has a Sense of Self, Even though it has No Knowledge of The Conscious Self.

That is; All of your thoughts are created by The Brain without any input from The Conscious Self. How could it? All of The thoughts that you experience come from The Brain.
Any thought that you experience, are these same thoughts that you may believe are principally responsible for your decisions, were generated in The Brain !
So that when you say; “I Think; Therefore I am.’ This is usually interpreted to mean that you are aware that you are aware, But The Brain that generated this sentence— Wasn’t Aware at all ! At least not in The way that you experience Awareness !

This is a Very Odd Idea.
But essentially; This is saying; The ‘Phenomena’ that we call ‘Consciousness’ is An Awareness of ‘Thoughts’; So that there are two distinct Components of Consciousness. The Thoughts, which may exist perfectly well in The Mechanoid Silicon Wafers of a Robot, And The Ability of Featherless Parakeets to ‘See’ These Thoughts.

This ‘Seeing’ business is completely unexplained.

But The part where The Brain ‘Thinks’ that its aware is possibly explained by this model that it has of itself that it created by listening to itself talk.
This should be expounded upon a little in that The Brain may not ‘Automatically’ be ‘Aware’ of its own ‘Talking’.
i can personally vouch for this with The Observation that i frequently say things that i’m not aware of, prior to saying them. i am listening to these ‘Thoughts’ along with anyone else listening to me.

This has also led me to believe that The ‘Me’ that is aware of what is happening to me, Is not The ‘Decision Making Me’. The ‘Observer Me’ is just riding in this roller coaster train, while The ‘Decision Making Me’ is A Robot Brain that draws upon The Forces acting on The Entire Universe, Focused on This Tiny Node of My Brain. In that sense; This node was Autonomous, as The Entire Universe is Autonomous. Curiously; This means that each Node experiences The Universe from a Slightly Difference perspective, which allows everyone to be a Unique Entity.
But none of us are ‘Free’. All of our Decisions are predicated on The Machinery of The Universe.

So this Robot Brain Creates Unique & Autonomous Thoughts that are Entirely Dependent on The Causality of The Entire Universe;
And The ‘Observer Me’ watches this go on, without having any control whatsoever as to what is about to happen next.

But you say : “But I Decide what I’m going to do.”

No.
You’re Brain Decides, And it has a Faux Model of your Conscious Mind !
This Faux Model thinks that it is The Part of you that is Conscious !
If it went away; Your Robot Body would continue to behave exactly as it always has & will act in The future.

What then; Does This ‘Self Awareness’ Do?

???
Are we living in a universe that is so cruel
as to allows us to be aware that we are robots?

The Solution to this; is:
The universe is very different than The way we experience it.
The real universe has somekind of feature that allows us to really have real consciousness & self awareness & free will.

The only evidence for this is that we believe that we have freewill,
And The unexplainable nature of all The physical ‘forces’,
The oddness of The moon & tides, and The chemistry of life.
And everything else.

What is The real World like?

Completely Different or just slightly tweaked.

Apple Apps Rant !

Apple iPod Apps

i got an App awhile ago that allows me to ‘easily’ pick a Free App a Day.
Some of these have been entertaining enough, but i wonder how they are being paid for? Are they teasers for Other Apps by that programmer ?
Anyways; Some of them are more frustrating, as they are ostensibly free, but you can’t really ‘play’ them until you start buying ‘extras’ right away.
Pocket Frogs, which i love, allows The Player to buy more Potions or Stamps, but you don’t have to. i have been very conservative with my stamps & potions, and have a large surplus of both.
But i got a couple in just The last week that were pretty cute, but They both were very demanding, requiring constant supervision, nagging me with ‘Push’ prompts that would pop up on The Screen when The Game was off !!!
Pocket Frogs will do that, but you can turn that off & on, and if i ignore Pocket Frogs for any length of time, nothing bad will happen as a result of my negligence.
One of The resent games make it clear that all of my pets would die if i didn’t care for them constantly !
i once took in a real live baby bird that had fallen out of it’s nest, and they have to be constantly cared for during every waking moment of The daylight hours. But that was a live bird, and it eventually grew up and flew off, but i don’t think i want to invest that much effort into a virtual pet(s.
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The Other Very Major Problem i had with an App just this morning was with my HP48 Emulator. It’s Cute and works pretty much like a Real HP48, but there’s no Tactile feedback for The Tiny Keys and it’s very Tedious to Key in a Long Program.
Plus; i was keying in a rather short program this morning, and debugging it was very difficult. The Arrow Keys move The Cursor Very Slowly, and after i got The First Problem solved so that it would load, There was a Second problem with A DOLIST routine. i had already SAVED The program ( Abc ) into Port Zero, but during The debugging, The App Crashed and took my program with it that took 90 minutes to key in !!!
ugh.
And that was a very short program.
i had a very similar problem with my HP42 Emulator. i’d gotten my Prime Program loaded in, then it Crashed and took it with it.
A ) There needs to be a way to Input/Output from The Computer so that entering Programs and Saving them Individually is Possible. i think Apple has created The iPod & iPhone Appliances to Very Specifically DisAllow this…???
B ) There needs to be a App that works like an HP48, but is specifically written for The iPod, iPhone & iPad ( + all The others ) making use of The Full Resolution of The Screen and All The Colors and Additional Memory, And allows for Easier Data & Programming Entry.

Until some Improvements are made; These Emulators are mere Novelties.

Netflix / Once a fine company

i just found out that Netflix is Breaking itself in half for some crazy bznz reason.
i don't like it.
i like the new name even worse.

i just tried to post a comment on The Netflix Blog,
and discovered that i have to join facebook to do that.
i hate facebook.
i don't understand facebook, and it seems lame to me.
Sometime ago; Netflix decided to align itself with M$ to provide streaming video,
which is apparently the direction that it now wants to take to survive next to hulu & redsomething.

this is the post i tried to leave on their blog :
i really, really, really ( really ) hate the new name 'QuickyFilms'. 
It's very offensive in many ways, one of the more obscure perhaps is that it sounds referential to Qwest Telephone, which i hate nearly as much as M$, which Netflix has aligned itself with for Streaming. 
This may be the last straw.
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i've also been having some peripheral trouble in my building that may cause me to finally drop NetFlix, or Whatever, and get my new Video's from Safeway.
The Peripheral Trouble(s is:

A ) The mailbox in my building is too small to accommodate more than 1 Video Envelope and Mail or 2 Video Envelopes and No Mail. So i stuck a big envelope below my mailbox to receive the DVD Envelopes. This has worked pretty well for several years, but now...

B ) Due to this & that; A bunch of people moved out of our building this last year, and for several months, no one moved in. We were more than half empty for a long time, and then suddenly; In late August, The Building Filled up with Refugees from Eritrea & Burma ( Myanmar ) ! The Eritreans can apparently speak English a little, But the Burmese don't speak any English at all, and neither groups understand the principle of the Envelope. They think that anything in it is community property.
So i've tried to get a hold of their 'Handlers' and explain this to them, but they're not being as cooperative as i would like !

C ) i've lost 2 DVDs a the week before last, but it's making me very jittery that i have to sit on my mailbox on the days that i'm expecting DVDs now.


These are small problems in the grand scheme of things, but maybe i'm watching too many DVDs anyways.


The Other ( Completely Unrelated ) Problem that i've been having lately, Besides trying to learn Python and not being able to figure out how to do something as simple as saving an active project—
Is that my DVD Burner has burned out !


ugh.


Boo Hoo.


Saying that things could be worse; usually makes them worse.

FreeWill vs Awareness vs Self Control vs Will Power

FreeWill vs Awareness vs Self Control vs Will Power

Q : Allowing that The Brain is an ElectroChemical Machine that Generates all of our thoughts; Or if you choose to State that All of our thoughts are Generated by an Homunculi, or Spirit that fills The Entire Universe; So be it. Given this; This Thing, Artifact, Object, Machine, Amorphous Cloud or Entire Universe that Generates your Thoughts; What is The Functionality of The Self Awareness, The Mind, The Ego that becomes aware of these Thoughts?

This is to say that The part of The Id that Generates your thoughts, is Separate from The Part of The Id that becomes ’Aware’ of them.

If you choose that they are The same; or Recursively Functional, Then to Eliminating one would break The Robot which is The Humanimal.

But The first argument states that it should be very possible to do exactly that; To allow The Brain as a Machine, or a Spirit as The Author of our Thoughts to Operate The Robot without ever allowing an Ego to ‘See’ what is going on.
In this Cartoon Feature; The Robots would behave exactly like people, But there would be nothing inside to watch it all happen.

One might argue that this is impossible.
But this argument isn’t interested in your philosophical necessities that presuppose foundations for your religion,
This argument is simply stating; Defining in its initial glossary;
There is an Artifact of Unknown Construction, or if it is merely The Brain, Very Mysterious Construction, that Generates all of Our thoughts.
This is certainly true, as we introspect and experience these thoughts,
But that process of experiencing them is an artifact of observing them after having been created somewheres ( else ).

The Argument that These Experiences of Thoughts do not exist prior to our becoming aware of them is just as futile as suggesting that The Awareness of these thoughts in any way contributes to them.

i have no problem with any hypothesis that includes The pulling oneself up by your suspenders; But in doing so, One might ask; Who is doing The Pulling?

If a thought is not generated until The Id desires a thought, Who desires The Thought? Where did The Desire come from?

Reminder :
The Original Question was :
What is The Functionality of The Ego that experiences The Awareness of One’s Thoughts?

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Putting this aside for a moment.

i was also wondering about Emergent Complexity.

One of my earlier thoughts on how a highly effective Robot ( like a fly ) could effectively deal with all The Situations that they are put to task against,
i considered three scenarios :

The Designer ( or Accidental Evolution ) Writes a programming routine to effectively deal with every situation that The Robot may encounter.

The Designer ( OAE ) Creates a Small Number of Routines which are allowed to mix & match themselves by means of a master controller that implements what is known as emergent complexity. This master controller operates mostly on pseudorandomized guessing, and maybe a little error avoidance derived from previous failed attempts, But The point being; This approach is very conservative with memory & something that may be called; Thinking.

The Third Approach is to allow The Robot to be Aware of what is happening to them. This ‘Awareness’ is somehow ( Undefined Section ) able to ‘know’ what is best.

A Fourth Version is that this Awareness has A computationally Intensive ability to ‘See into The Future’.
One variation of this is to actually see into The future,
And another is to allow The Robot to project dozens or hundreds of alternative futures within its imagination, and then choose The one that is most beneficial.

i have further stipulated that this ‘Seeing into The Future’ by ‘Intelligent’ or ‘Smart’ Robots is basically The same process that ‘dumb’ Robots use, except that they examine all these alternative scenarios in The meat & potatoes world, through what is known as either trial & error; Or Attentive Trial & Error by slightly smarter Robots.

So The Real Question is :
Does this Awareness Model really offer any Better Solutions to Any Unknown Obstacle than The Emergent Complexity Model?

Is The Emergent Complexity Model Sufficient to Emulate Any ‘Intelligent’ Behaviour in Any Given Robot?

Part of this Question is really understanding to Potential of Emergent Complexity, And what are we willing to allow ‘Awareness’ to Accomplish?