A strange symbiosis
December 27, 2011
by Wm Jas
Commentary & Analysis by Tiny Wanda
i didn’t give this too much thought when i read it The First & Second Times, But when i finally got around to more thoroughly reading it recently; i playfully attached an arbitrary Definition to Slugs & Shells, and as i continued to read through this essay; These Definitions seemed to hold fast 98% of The Time !
The Remaining 2% Seems to suggest an Alternative, and substantially more puerile Interpretation, best used for a Children’s book with large colorful illustrations.
A Slug is The Human Soul, Spirit or Ba Bird.
The Shell is The Human ( or Animal, or Plant ) Mortal Coil.
The Ultimate Question is; Why does The Slug Attach to The Shell?
If this Interpretation is Correct; Then my long standing explanation is (x. ( See Below )
Let me tell you about an organism I know of which has a very peculiar lifestyle. Actually, it is composed of two biologically distinct organisms, known as the Slug and the Shell, each with its own DNA and reproductive cycle. However, the Slug and the Shell are so closely bound together for most of their life cycle that it makes more sense to think of them as two parts of a single organismic system.
Of Course; The Naked Ba Bird doesn’t really have its own DNA, But it must have ( ? ) some Defining Principle which may or may not contribute to The Creation of new Ba Birds.
According to this interpretation; The Slug doesn’t really ‘need’ The Shell, And The Shell, Once Animated by The Slug; Acts fairly autonomously, Using it’s inherent Behavioural Programming to Stay Alive, Requiring The Slug to only, Very Rarely in many cases, Intervene in The Shells Behaviour to Achieve some Desired End or Avoid Danger.
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At first glance, it’s hard to see why a Slug needs a Shell at all. Slugs are complete, self-contained organisms in their own right and are quite capable of living and thriving alone, without being bonded to a Shell. In fact, because of their greater fecundity, Slugs greatly outnumber Shells, and at any given time most of the Slugs in the world are unbonded, living without Shells. However, unbonded Slugs do have one striking liability: an inability to reproduce. They produce gametes in great abundance but have no external genitalia and hence no way of releasing those gametes.
Exactly how, why or if Ba Birds Reproduce, According to Common Popular Beliefs, There are a Greater Number of Slugs than Shells. These Unattached Slugs are expressed in this World as either; Ghosts, Angels, Ball Lightning, Tornados, Clouds or Exist in The Realm of Dreams, which may be The ’True’ Reality.
Shells, on the other hand, are wholly dependent on Slugs and, except during pupation, are unable to live independently. While a Shell is a complete, living organism (not a lifeless mass of calcium carbonate, as the name might suggest), it is a seriously deficient one, with an incomplete digestive system (no mouth or anus) and no means of locomotion. Unlike a Slug, it does have a fully functional reproductive system, including external genitalia, but its inability to move around nevertheless makes reproduction a practical impossibility.
In this Description of How a Shell Operates; It might be compared to An Automobile; That although it has wheels and An Engine, without A Humanimal Driver, It is quite Inert.
What Wm Jas means by an Incomplete Digestive System ( ? ) : i assume that this refers to The Necessity of The Shell to obtain Spiritual Energy ( ? ) to Survive in The Mortal Realm. The Slug somehow processes this Spiritual Energy to sustain both itself & The Shell. The Shell also needs conventional Food, which being obtained by eating once living entities, maybe these corpses contain some of The Spiritual Energy that The Slug needs as well ( ??? )
A few days prior to hatching, Shell eggs produce a powerful pheromone that attracts unbonded Slugs, which will hang around waiting for the eggs to hatch so they can bond to the newborn Shells. (If no Slugs are attracted, or if the bonding is unsuccessful, the Shells usually die in a matter of hours.) When a Shell bonds with a Slug, it plugs into the Slug’s digestive system, siphoning some of the Slug’s food into its own stomach and then routing its own fecal matter back into the Slug’s digestive tract to be excreted. Because it is mostly immobile, the Shell uses relatively little of the Slug’s food, but it is nevertheless essentially a parasite at this stage in its life cycle, living off the Slug and giving it nothing in return. The Slug-Shell unit at this point in its development is known as a Protosnail.
When exactly The Shell ( Humanimal Robot ) becomes attached to The Slug ( Ba Bird ) is a curious question ( ! ) That Topic is subdivided endlessly with additional questions of why The Shells occasionally develop incorrectly and how much The Slug ( Ba Bird ) Contributes to The Shells Development, Along with Guiding Slugs ( OverSight Slugs or Angels ( Ξ.6 Controllers ) ) .
Why The Slug attaches to The Shell at this point is The Big Mystery.
Can Slugs survive indefinitely without Shells ?
Once a Slug becomes detached from it’s Shell, Is it required to find a New Shell to survive ? How long does it have to do this ?
The Word ProtoSnail suggests that this is an Intermediate Phase in The Slug/Shell Symbiotic Relationship.
Virtually All Religions share this view, believing that The Slug drops The Shell eventually, at which time (x happens.
When Protosnails reach maturity, they mate. However, while the Slug does all the work of finding a mate and fighting off other Protosnails, it is only the Shells that mate, only the Shells that lay eggs, and only the Shells’ DNA that is passed on — for what hatches from the egg is not a complete Protosnail but just a Shell, which must attract a new Slug of its own.
This adheres very closely to The Humanimal Robot interpretation; The Robots reproduce by Sexual Procreation, while The Ba Birds watch, and possibly direct some of The Operations. It is however; Apparently very common for The Robots to take over or Dominate This Mechanical Process.
Shortly after mating, the Shell disconnects from the Slug, drops off, and pupates. During the Shell’s pupal stage, the Slug once more lives independently. However, it stays in the general vicinity of the pupal Shell and will not bond with any other Shell during this time. During its Protosnail phase, the Shell has imprinted on its Slug’s DNA, and after pupation the adult Shell will bond only with that same Slug. And the Slug, as we shall see, has a very good reason for wanting to bond with its Shell again; such re-bonding is its only hope of getting any return on the investment it has made in its erstwhile parasite.
i’m not as confident in my interpretation after examining this passage? What is this About ( ??? )
It sounds slightly more familiar to The Behaviour of Slime Molds, But that interpretation is also deeply flawed.
Maybe Wm Jas means that The Shellette ( New Shell(s ) are separate from The Slug ( Robot’s Host Ba Bird ), and Staying in The General Vicinity means remaining attached to The Robot, or If he’s thinking of The Male’s Sperm; Then During this period. The Development of The New Shell is in fact completely independent, and The Father ‘Remains Faithful’ to The Shell Factory.
This Description would tend to support The Entirely Misogynistic Interpretation that The Slug is Simply The Male, And The Shell, The Female. ( !!! ) But this would mean that Wm Jaz thinks that The Females are Inert Robots, Paper Cutouts of Males that are The Only Autonomous, Conscious Entities. ( ? )
When the adult Shell emerges from its chrysalis, its Slug is generally there waiting for it, and they immediately bond again to form the final stage in their collective life cycle: the Permasnail.
According To The Secondary Interpretation; The PermaSnail is A Family Unit with Husband, Wife & Child.
According To The Primary Interpretation; The PermaSnail is A Self Actualized Slug that has come into being by some unspecified or uncertain mechanism(s ( ??? )
This time the bonding is much deeper and more pervasive, and it is irreversible. If the Protosnail is a bit like a hermit crab (albeit with a living shell), the Permasnail is more like lichen: functionally a single organism. However, the Slug and Shell components still retain their own separate DNA. Most importantly, from the Slug’s point of view, in the Permasnail the Shell’s external genitalia connect to the testes or ovaries of the Slug, finally allowing the Slug to reproduce its own kind.
This is a Sticky Bit.
Using The Secondary Interpretation; This would suggest that now that The Husband has started a Family; His ‘Consciousness’ ( The Only True & Important Element of This Symbiosis ) can now be ‘Passed Along’ to His Children by means of A Nurturing Process.
( Regretfully; There is a Very compelling Anthropological / Sociological School of Thought; That suggests that ‘Parenting’ has Virtually NO influence in The ‘Personality Development’ of Their Children ! )
When Permasnails mate, the eggs they lay hatch into Slugs, which grow to maturity and then start looking
around for Shells to bond to in order that they may move on to the next stage of their life cycle.
This last biddle requires a Third Interpretation; As what does Wm Jas means by allowing for A Family Unit to Mate ? Is he now considering The PermaSnail as a Societal Unit that Passes along A Societies Culture ?
The Slug then becomes a Social or Cultural Meme; And The Shell becomes The Technological Industry that makes houses and slaughters cattle for The Convenience of The Slugs.
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So what am I really talking about?
What is the real meaning of this zoological treatise à clef?
I’ll reveal the answer later, but first feel free to guess.
My guess is that Wm Jas is being as Obtuse as Usual with his Crazy Puzzles !!!
Two Additional Puzzles by Wm Jaz !!!
It's a Riddle !
Universe Man, Universe Man !
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Special Effects
i just got through watching ‘Super 8’; A perfectly mediocre and insufferable Spielberg/Abrams vehicle, and after watching The Film, i endured The Featurette that accompanied it, on The making of The Alien.
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As a Small Digression; i’ve been working on another project for The last week or so on Cult Films, Since this topic has been in The News lately, And it occurred to me that after examining a dozen or so lists of Cult Films from The Internet; There is a curious absence of Spielberg Films. i would have suspected that E.T. & Close Encounters would have been included in most of these Lists, but None of Them had them !
And i thought ! ‘Oh my Gawd! i am not The only featherless parakeet that is aware that Steven Spielberg is a Horrible Film-Maker!’
Shindler’s List may have found an Historical Niche, But Jaws, E.T. & Close Encounters have already been largely forgotten.
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The Larger Point that occurred to me after watching this Featurette, and many others like it; Is that in order to obtain a particular Shot, It is entirely UnNecessary to Use all The Complicated Wire-Work or Driving Cars off Cliffs or Staging Large Scale Theatrical Productions of (x. Granted; All Film makers use miniatures and CGI nowadays, But they are still putting Stunt People is Genuinely Dangerous Situations, and Actually Blowing Stuff Up.
CGI has taught us that The End Product is Just Pixels on Film, And Many Film Makers have realized this years & years ago; But what seems to be Missing from their Vocabulary of Image Creating, Is that Whenever you’re filming An Actor; The Camera is The Complimentary Element of The Shot. Whenever you move an Actor; The Same Shot could just as Easily be Duplicated by Moving The Camera.
There is no Need to put an actor on Wires and hurl them around in The Air, when you could just as easily move The camera while The Actor stands still, and Nowadays, There is no Need to move The Camera. You could just as easily allow The Actor to Stand Still, Keep The Camera in a fixed or Nearly fixed position and reproduce The ‘Movement’ by Manipulating The Digital Information Collected by The Camera.
It is now possible for a 14 year old film maker in their basement to reproduce Any; Any Shot ever created by Any Film Maker in Any Film Ever Created.
The Real Difference between A Big Expensive Film and A Little Cheap Film is The Amount of Effort that The Film Maker puts into Post Production Detailing. The Big Film Maker has The luxury of Hiring thousands of Technicians & Artists to refine every frame of Their Movie until it looks perfect, Assuming that these Technicians & Artists know what ‘real’ looks like.
The Little Film Maker could achieve The Same ‘Real’ Effects, If they know what Real Looks Like. It should also be noted that What Real Looks like is very often; What we have Taught Movie Viewers to ‘Expect’ as Real. It has gotten so quirky that ‘Real Life’ Explosions don’t real at all. ( ! )
i also just finished watching Star Wars II ( The Clone Wars ) and found many shots that demonstrated The George Lucas Inc. Did Not Understand what ‘Real’ looked like.
Many films contain ‘Effects’ that don’t look at all like ‘Effects’, because The Film Maker understood this Axiomatic Principle. This is What makes Blade Runner & 2001: ASO so Eternal. Their Producers & Directors understood how to make Fantastic Things look Real, So that we’re unaware that a Special Effect is being Used. When you’re watching Star Wars, You’re aware that Every Shot is Reeking with Special Effects.
This Understanding doesn’t require a Huge Budget & Thousands of Technicians & Artists overworking each shot; All it takes is An Insightful Director that knows what Reality Looks like, and how to Create A Stylized Film Images that looks More Real than Real.
This is A Very Curious Cultural Effect. We are ‘Conditioned’ to Believe that what we see on Film or On TV Looks Real or Not, When it doesn’t look Real at all. The Test of This is go back and watch Old TV Programs or Movies that were at the time of their original Release, Thought to be Very ‘Authentic’ Looking, But Do Not Project that Sense Now.
What is Most Remarkable; Is Occasionally coming across an Older Film, A Very Much Older Film, Made with No Budget to Speak of, Made with The Most Primitive Production Effects, And Yet it Stands Up Very Well with Modern Audiences. The Contemporary Viewer may Concede that The Film Looks Stylized, But in such a Way that it allows The Film Viewer to Step into The Reality of The Film; In a Very different way than Modern Films ask us to ‘Suspend Our Disbelief’. These Older Films that seem very Real, Do Not Ask us to Suspend Our Disbelief, They Instead Create a Reality that we Eagerly Switch Over to, Allowing this Altered Reality to Show Us What Reality Is.
Very often; After Watching a Film like this; The True Reality that we live in, Seems Less Real than what we just immersed ourselves in.
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Examples :
As mentioned Earlier; 2001: ASO made in 1968, and Blade Runner; 1982, Seem as Real & Free of Special Effects as when they were made.
The Original Star Trek seemed much more Real to me than any of The Later Incarnations, And i think that What made it so Real looking, and this also very much applies to Blade Runner; is Lighting.
This may sound incredible Trite, but Star Trek: Next Generation did not understand lighting at all. i was ExTremely Aware in Every Episode that Every Surface was Equally Illuminated. Star Trek: OS frequently used lighting to create mood and depth, Separating Compositional Elements, Or Directing our Attention without subtly jarring our focus with Frame Cuts.
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It’s always Amazed Me. Amazed Me. That we as Viewers are able to Watch a Film or TV Program and Allow Our Narrative Observation of The Episodes to Endure Frame Cuts.
Just think for A Moment of how A Movie or TV Program Abruptly Cuts from One View to Another, Again & Again, Over & Over Switching from One View Point to Another, And Somehow, By Some Miraculous Enculturation Mechanism, We’re Conditioned to Accept This when we’re Very Young, To Allow This Entirely Foreign Narrative Technique to Override Our Ordinary Method of Viewing Reality.
( ??? )
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Pushing that Aside; Star Trek: OS, Used Lighting to Fill In Gaps of Narrative Continuance, thereby creating a fuller realization of totality.
Perhaps this is How our Minds Expect Reality to be Satisfied.
What we Use to Decide if Something is Real or Not, Is NOT The Appearance of Real Looking Sets, But A Measurement of Information that fills Our Senses with A Quantitative Degree of ‘Fullness’.
A Film seems ‘Unreal’ if It lacks a Fullness of Reality.
The Curious Point here is that our sense of Realness may be something like Point Eight, And in our Ordinary Lives; We ‘Know’ that ‘This’ is ‘Real’; So we allow that The Amount of Information falls far short of Point Eight. The Existence that you are Now Experiencing may only be something like Point Four. A Very Dull & Stimulus Free Environment may be very UnReal, And is Allowed to be ‘Believed’ as Real, by The Fact that it exhibits Features which distinguish it from Dreams & =All Other Known Forms of Reality Simulations= !
So that If you Are Watching a TV Show or Film that is Saturated with Sensory Information; It Easily Exceeds The Level of Stimulation in Your Ordinary Life, Thereby Making it Seem More Real.
But there is also something else working against A Film or TV Program from ALWAYS Seeming More Real than Reality; And that is; It is a Known Form of Reality Simulation.
We have gotten Used to TV exhibiting A Certain ‘Kind’ of Reality, that we are Conditioned to Exclude from A True Reality.
But there are Programs & Films that Circumvent that; And we DO Experience them as More Real than Reality.
Television that presents programs that are so Stylized that they are clearly Not ‘Real’ push us into an Alternative Reality that we eagerly accept as ‘Real’; Such as Pushing Daisies, The Prisoner, The Tick, Wonderfalls, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal or Dexter.
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So what is The Formula that i am proposing for Little Film Makers with A Very Limited Budget, to Adhere to, To Make a Film Seem ‘Real’.
-+ Use The Camera to Imply Motion when Moving The Actor or Element would be prohibitively costly or dangerous.
-+ Jiggle Suppression Technology, and Selective Frame Editing would seem to completely Eliminate The Need of ‘Railroad’ Tracks and such. / Selective Frame Editing refers to Digitally filming a Scene at a much higher resolution than will be eventually used; So that The Director/Editor can select a subset of each Frame to ‘Save’, Thereby Reframing a Shot, Adding a Pan or Zoom, Or Eliminating Camera Jiggle ( or Adding it! ) in Post Production.
-+ Create a Stylized Reality that Saturates The Viewer with Information that they will use to ‘Fill In’ Gaps that may be Missing from Surface Detail, Dialogue or Plot Continuance. An Example of this may be ‘The 3rd Man’ which uses The Sound Track, by Anton Karas & his Zither, to Overwhelm The Viewer into Entering an Alternative Reality.
-+ Use Creative Lighting, Chiaroscuro, Surface Textures, Composition & Timing.
-+ Imagine Each Shot in It’s Entirety, And Then Film This Imagined Shot. Rid your Vocabulary of Expressions like ‘Good Enough’ or ‘That’ll do’ or ‘We have to settle for This’. Each Shot Consists of nothing more than pixels on film, all you have to do is arrange them to complete your vision of what you know is ‘Real’. ‘Green’ Screens now allow Each Filmed Shot to be a Collage of Still Shots, Paintings, CGI & Mixing Shots. What is still missing from this technology ( ? ) is The Ability to mix Frizzle hair to Flat Backgrounds. ( ? )
-+ Along with A Really Good Sound Track of Music & Foley, Mat Paintings can make a very cheap Film look truly Grandiose.
-+ Attention to Detail, And Patiently adding The Noise of Life to a Film will push a Flat Film into Additionally Dimensions, beyound 3D.
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i just got through watching ‘Rise of The Planet of The Apes’ ( 2011 ) Which features many CGI Apes of Various Kinds, And They are just a Tad Short of Completely Convincing. The Arms Length Shots are much more ‘Real’ than The CloseUps, which are very convincing themselves; 70% of The Time.
What is most interesting though, is that in a few years; This movie will be Very Hokey!
The Effects will amusing, but not at all convincing, because while today i can see that The Effects look a little bit wrong, i’m exactly sure what it Wrong with them. Are they sometimes a little too flat, Are The Shadows not quite right, or are They missing The very subtle back lighting & reflections from nearby objects ?
It seems to me that The way to ‘fix’ that, would be to simple add very subtle random shadows passing over The ‘Bright’ surfaces with equally subtle light patches & glimmers over The dark surfaces. Our minds would interpret these as having to come from something, outside of our field of vision. This sort of thing could be, or should be added in post production, after The technical rendering is done with Ray Tracing, to allow The technical lighting artist to easily try several schemes and pick The best one with very little effort, expense or time expended.
The point being; as our attempts to reproduce reality are tested, we become better observers.
- -
As a Small Digression; i’ve been working on another project for The last week or so on Cult Films, Since this topic has been in The News lately, And it occurred to me that after examining a dozen or so lists of Cult Films from The Internet; There is a curious absence of Spielberg Films. i would have suspected that E.T. & Close Encounters would have been included in most of these Lists, but None of Them had them !
And i thought ! ‘Oh my Gawd! i am not The only featherless parakeet that is aware that Steven Spielberg is a Horrible Film-Maker!’
Shindler’s List may have found an Historical Niche, But Jaws, E.T. & Close Encounters have already been largely forgotten.
- -
The Larger Point that occurred to me after watching this Featurette, and many others like it; Is that in order to obtain a particular Shot, It is entirely UnNecessary to Use all The Complicated Wire-Work or Driving Cars off Cliffs or Staging Large Scale Theatrical Productions of (x. Granted; All Film makers use miniatures and CGI nowadays, But they are still putting Stunt People is Genuinely Dangerous Situations, and Actually Blowing Stuff Up.
CGI has taught us that The End Product is Just Pixels on Film, And Many Film Makers have realized this years & years ago; But what seems to be Missing from their Vocabulary of Image Creating, Is that Whenever you’re filming An Actor; The Camera is The Complimentary Element of The Shot. Whenever you move an Actor; The Same Shot could just as Easily be Duplicated by Moving The Camera.
There is no Need to put an actor on Wires and hurl them around in The Air, when you could just as easily move The camera while The Actor stands still, and Nowadays, There is no Need to move The Camera. You could just as easily allow The Actor to Stand Still, Keep The Camera in a fixed or Nearly fixed position and reproduce The ‘Movement’ by Manipulating The Digital Information Collected by The Camera.
It is now possible for a 14 year old film maker in their basement to reproduce Any; Any Shot ever created by Any Film Maker in Any Film Ever Created.
The Real Difference between A Big Expensive Film and A Little Cheap Film is The Amount of Effort that The Film Maker puts into Post Production Detailing. The Big Film Maker has The luxury of Hiring thousands of Technicians & Artists to refine every frame of Their Movie until it looks perfect, Assuming that these Technicians & Artists know what ‘real’ looks like.
The Little Film Maker could achieve The Same ‘Real’ Effects, If they know what Real Looks Like. It should also be noted that What Real Looks like is very often; What we have Taught Movie Viewers to ‘Expect’ as Real. It has gotten so quirky that ‘Real Life’ Explosions don’t real at all. ( ! )
i also just finished watching Star Wars II ( The Clone Wars ) and found many shots that demonstrated The George Lucas Inc. Did Not Understand what ‘Real’ looked like.
Many films contain ‘Effects’ that don’t look at all like ‘Effects’, because The Film Maker understood this Axiomatic Principle. This is What makes Blade Runner & 2001: ASO so Eternal. Their Producers & Directors understood how to make Fantastic Things look Real, So that we’re unaware that a Special Effect is being Used. When you’re watching Star Wars, You’re aware that Every Shot is Reeking with Special Effects.
This Understanding doesn’t require a Huge Budget & Thousands of Technicians & Artists overworking each shot; All it takes is An Insightful Director that knows what Reality Looks like, and how to Create A Stylized Film Images that looks More Real than Real.
This is A Very Curious Cultural Effect. We are ‘Conditioned’ to Believe that what we see on Film or On TV Looks Real or Not, When it doesn’t look Real at all. The Test of This is go back and watch Old TV Programs or Movies that were at the time of their original Release, Thought to be Very ‘Authentic’ Looking, But Do Not Project that Sense Now.
What is Most Remarkable; Is Occasionally coming across an Older Film, A Very Much Older Film, Made with No Budget to Speak of, Made with The Most Primitive Production Effects, And Yet it Stands Up Very Well with Modern Audiences. The Contemporary Viewer may Concede that The Film Looks Stylized, But in such a Way that it allows The Film Viewer to Step into The Reality of The Film; In a Very different way than Modern Films ask us to ‘Suspend Our Disbelief’. These Older Films that seem very Real, Do Not Ask us to Suspend Our Disbelief, They Instead Create a Reality that we Eagerly Switch Over to, Allowing this Altered Reality to Show Us What Reality Is.
Very often; After Watching a Film like this; The True Reality that we live in, Seems Less Real than what we just immersed ourselves in.
- -
Examples :
As mentioned Earlier; 2001: ASO made in 1968, and Blade Runner; 1982, Seem as Real & Free of Special Effects as when they were made.
The Original Star Trek seemed much more Real to me than any of The Later Incarnations, And i think that What made it so Real looking, and this also very much applies to Blade Runner; is Lighting.
This may sound incredible Trite, but Star Trek: Next Generation did not understand lighting at all. i was ExTremely Aware in Every Episode that Every Surface was Equally Illuminated. Star Trek: OS frequently used lighting to create mood and depth, Separating Compositional Elements, Or Directing our Attention without subtly jarring our focus with Frame Cuts.
- -
It’s always Amazed Me. Amazed Me. That we as Viewers are able to Watch a Film or TV Program and Allow Our Narrative Observation of The Episodes to Endure Frame Cuts.
Just think for A Moment of how A Movie or TV Program Abruptly Cuts from One View to Another, Again & Again, Over & Over Switching from One View Point to Another, And Somehow, By Some Miraculous Enculturation Mechanism, We’re Conditioned to Accept This when we’re Very Young, To Allow This Entirely Foreign Narrative Technique to Override Our Ordinary Method of Viewing Reality.
( ??? )
- -
Pushing that Aside; Star Trek: OS, Used Lighting to Fill In Gaps of Narrative Continuance, thereby creating a fuller realization of totality.
Perhaps this is How our Minds Expect Reality to be Satisfied.
What we Use to Decide if Something is Real or Not, Is NOT The Appearance of Real Looking Sets, But A Measurement of Information that fills Our Senses with A Quantitative Degree of ‘Fullness’.
A Film seems ‘Unreal’ if It lacks a Fullness of Reality.
The Curious Point here is that our sense of Realness may be something like Point Eight, And in our Ordinary Lives; We ‘Know’ that ‘This’ is ‘Real’; So we allow that The Amount of Information falls far short of Point Eight. The Existence that you are Now Experiencing may only be something like Point Four. A Very Dull & Stimulus Free Environment may be very UnReal, And is Allowed to be ‘Believed’ as Real, by The Fact that it exhibits Features which distinguish it from Dreams & =All Other Known Forms of Reality Simulations= !
So that If you Are Watching a TV Show or Film that is Saturated with Sensory Information; It Easily Exceeds The Level of Stimulation in Your Ordinary Life, Thereby Making it Seem More Real.
But there is also something else working against A Film or TV Program from ALWAYS Seeming More Real than Reality; And that is; It is a Known Form of Reality Simulation.
We have gotten Used to TV exhibiting A Certain ‘Kind’ of Reality, that we are Conditioned to Exclude from A True Reality.
But there are Programs & Films that Circumvent that; And we DO Experience them as More Real than Reality.
Television that presents programs that are so Stylized that they are clearly Not ‘Real’ push us into an Alternative Reality that we eagerly accept as ‘Real’; Such as Pushing Daisies, The Prisoner, The Tick, Wonderfalls, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal or Dexter.
- -
So what is The Formula that i am proposing for Little Film Makers with A Very Limited Budget, to Adhere to, To Make a Film Seem ‘Real’.
-+ Use The Camera to Imply Motion when Moving The Actor or Element would be prohibitively costly or dangerous.
-+ Jiggle Suppression Technology, and Selective Frame Editing would seem to completely Eliminate The Need of ‘Railroad’ Tracks and such. / Selective Frame Editing refers to Digitally filming a Scene at a much higher resolution than will be eventually used; So that The Director/Editor can select a subset of each Frame to ‘Save’, Thereby Reframing a Shot, Adding a Pan or Zoom, Or Eliminating Camera Jiggle ( or Adding it! ) in Post Production.
-+ Create a Stylized Reality that Saturates The Viewer with Information that they will use to ‘Fill In’ Gaps that may be Missing from Surface Detail, Dialogue or Plot Continuance. An Example of this may be ‘The 3rd Man’ which uses The Sound Track, by Anton Karas & his Zither, to Overwhelm The Viewer into Entering an Alternative Reality.
-+ Use Creative Lighting, Chiaroscuro, Surface Textures, Composition & Timing.
-+ Imagine Each Shot in It’s Entirety, And Then Film This Imagined Shot. Rid your Vocabulary of Expressions like ‘Good Enough’ or ‘That’ll do’ or ‘We have to settle for This’. Each Shot Consists of nothing more than pixels on film, all you have to do is arrange them to complete your vision of what you know is ‘Real’. ‘Green’ Screens now allow Each Filmed Shot to be a Collage of Still Shots, Paintings, CGI & Mixing Shots. What is still missing from this technology ( ? ) is The Ability to mix Frizzle hair to Flat Backgrounds. ( ? )
-+ Along with A Really Good Sound Track of Music & Foley, Mat Paintings can make a very cheap Film look truly Grandiose.
-+ Attention to Detail, And Patiently adding The Noise of Life to a Film will push a Flat Film into Additionally Dimensions, beyound 3D.
-+
- -
i just got through watching ‘Rise of The Planet of The Apes’ ( 2011 ) Which features many CGI Apes of Various Kinds, And They are just a Tad Short of Completely Convincing. The Arms Length Shots are much more ‘Real’ than The CloseUps, which are very convincing themselves; 70% of The Time.
What is most interesting though, is that in a few years; This movie will be Very Hokey!
The Effects will amusing, but not at all convincing, because while today i can see that The Effects look a little bit wrong, i’m exactly sure what it Wrong with them. Are they sometimes a little too flat, Are The Shadows not quite right, or are They missing The very subtle back lighting & reflections from nearby objects ?
It seems to me that The way to ‘fix’ that, would be to simple add very subtle random shadows passing over The ‘Bright’ surfaces with equally subtle light patches & glimmers over The dark surfaces. Our minds would interpret these as having to come from something, outside of our field of vision. This sort of thing could be, or should be added in post production, after The technical rendering is done with Ray Tracing, to allow The technical lighting artist to easily try several schemes and pick The best one with very little effort, expense or time expended.
The point being; as our attempts to reproduce reality are tested, we become better observers.
Contingent Fulcrum
i’ve been searching for a new ‘Catch Phrase’ for an Old Idea,
And i’ve decided to Tentatively Call this New/Old Idea:
A Contingent Fulcrum.
A Contingent Fulcrum is a Lynchpin or Pivot Point, KeyStone, Crux, Weakest Link or Problematic Missing Pie-Pan that Demonstrates that Some Grand Postulate is Wrong, Based on The Assumption that If (x is True, (y would also be True,
And The Contingent Fulcrum “(y” is Most Definitely Not True, Missing or Neglected.
Specifically;
i have for a very long time, perhaps forever, been drawn between my love for quixotic phenomena and my unease that so little of it has been unambiguously demonstrated.
If it were really possible to Levitate, or even if Saints occasionally levitate spontaneously; Why hasn’t this effect been thoroughly documented by now, Especially given that The TM’ers claim that they can do this at will, and teach this skill to anyone with a few spare thousands of dollars?
Another one of My Projects that i’m slowly developing; Is a Self Administrating Hypnoses App that will allow anyone to Hypnotize themselves for some Effect.
The question that i asked in The Development of this App, Is;
What are The Potential Effects?
How far can Hypnosis take You?
i have read many accounts of Fantastic Claims that should make a reasonable person wonder; Can Hypnosis really do that?
Can you really cause Warts to Appear or Disappear from Specific Regions on your body?
Can you really Induce The Religious Miracle of Stigmata, or Bleeding from your hands & feet?
It has been fairly well documented in Eliminating Pain or Drug Addictions, Eliminating Compulsive Habits, Controlling Phobias, Alleviating Hysterical or Emotionally Caused Ailments, Recalling False Memories of Alleged Abuse, Previous Incarnations or Alien Abductions, As well as Inducing such a full & incorrect spectrum of false memories to create a Robotitron ‘Manchurian’ Assassin that acts ‘Freely’ given The Alternate Reality that they are Programmed with.
But might it also be possible to Use Hypnosis to Induce An Imaginary Friend that is Fully Actualized, Enlarge your Breasts, Penis or Lip Thickness?
The Military performed many experiments with Remote Viewing, finding that it is a real phenomena, but useless at gathering actionable information. Might Hypnosis allow lay persons to us Remote Viewing for personal Recreation or confirm The activities of A Spouse?
Could Hypnosis be used to Learn a Foreign Language, Keep a Cleaner, Tidier Home, Stop Beating your Wife, Husband, Children, Pets or Strangers, Develop X-Ray Vision, Talk to The Dead, Find Lost Items, Or Develop The Skills that Many People seem to have, that allows them to have Sex with any Stranger?
Could Hypnosis be used to Improve your Piano Recitals, Baseketball Shooting, Paint Portraits or Enter other People’s Dreams?
As i mentioned earlier; Although i Want to Believe in many Quixotic Behaviours & Phenomena, i am also deeply Suspicious or Genuinely Skeptical of many such Claims. i would like to believe that some people have somekind of Natural Magnetism that works on non-ferrous Items, But all such claims seem to be made by people far away in foreign countries.
Then this idea of The Contingent Fulcrum Occurred to me.
If Hypnosis or Some Other Natural Mental or Psychic State were able to cure Cancers, Correct Club Feet, Mend Spinal Deformities, Expel Daemons, Remove Cataracts &/or Repair A Deviated Septum;
Then why haven’t this Technique ever been used to Replace a Tooth?
Replacing a Tooth seems like it would be The Easiest Thing to do with A Mental State that Can Cause Subtle Physiological Changes in Ones Body. All you’d need to do is turn on Those molecules in your gum line to make A New Tooth, just like they used to do when you were a child.
But no one has.
This is The Contiguous Fulcrum.
Something that Should be True, But it is Decidedly Not True.
It is perhaps easy to find excuses for all sorts of other Quixotic Phenomena which occur so infrequently or only spontaneously; But Replacing Teeth is Never Reported. One of The Most Useful & Functional Attributes of An Enlightened State of Mind or Miracle Cure, is Completely Non-Existent.
When The Simplest Case fails, This does not bode well for The Class Phenomena.
And i’ve decided to Tentatively Call this New/Old Idea:
A Contingent Fulcrum.
A Contingent Fulcrum is a Lynchpin or Pivot Point, KeyStone, Crux, Weakest Link or Problematic Missing Pie-Pan that Demonstrates that Some Grand Postulate is Wrong, Based on The Assumption that If (x is True, (y would also be True,
And The Contingent Fulcrum “(y” is Most Definitely Not True, Missing or Neglected.
Specifically;
i have for a very long time, perhaps forever, been drawn between my love for quixotic phenomena and my unease that so little of it has been unambiguously demonstrated.
If it were really possible to Levitate, or even if Saints occasionally levitate spontaneously; Why hasn’t this effect been thoroughly documented by now, Especially given that The TM’ers claim that they can do this at will, and teach this skill to anyone with a few spare thousands of dollars?
Another one of My Projects that i’m slowly developing; Is a Self Administrating Hypnoses App that will allow anyone to Hypnotize themselves for some Effect.
The question that i asked in The Development of this App, Is;
What are The Potential Effects?
How far can Hypnosis take You?
i have read many accounts of Fantastic Claims that should make a reasonable person wonder; Can Hypnosis really do that?
Can you really cause Warts to Appear or Disappear from Specific Regions on your body?
Can you really Induce The Religious Miracle of Stigmata, or Bleeding from your hands & feet?
It has been fairly well documented in Eliminating Pain or Drug Addictions, Eliminating Compulsive Habits, Controlling Phobias, Alleviating Hysterical or Emotionally Caused Ailments, Recalling False Memories of Alleged Abuse, Previous Incarnations or Alien Abductions, As well as Inducing such a full & incorrect spectrum of false memories to create a Robotitron ‘Manchurian’ Assassin that acts ‘Freely’ given The Alternate Reality that they are Programmed with.
But might it also be possible to Use Hypnosis to Induce An Imaginary Friend that is Fully Actualized, Enlarge your Breasts, Penis or Lip Thickness?
The Military performed many experiments with Remote Viewing, finding that it is a real phenomena, but useless at gathering actionable information. Might Hypnosis allow lay persons to us Remote Viewing for personal Recreation or confirm The activities of A Spouse?
Could Hypnosis be used to Learn a Foreign Language, Keep a Cleaner, Tidier Home, Stop Beating your Wife, Husband, Children, Pets or Strangers, Develop X-Ray Vision, Talk to The Dead, Find Lost Items, Or Develop The Skills that Many People seem to have, that allows them to have Sex with any Stranger?
Could Hypnosis be used to Improve your Piano Recitals, Baseketball Shooting, Paint Portraits or Enter other People’s Dreams?
As i mentioned earlier; Although i Want to Believe in many Quixotic Behaviours & Phenomena, i am also deeply Suspicious or Genuinely Skeptical of many such Claims. i would like to believe that some people have somekind of Natural Magnetism that works on non-ferrous Items, But all such claims seem to be made by people far away in foreign countries.
Then this idea of The Contingent Fulcrum Occurred to me.
If Hypnosis or Some Other Natural Mental or Psychic State were able to cure Cancers, Correct Club Feet, Mend Spinal Deformities, Expel Daemons, Remove Cataracts &/or Repair A Deviated Septum;
Then why haven’t this Technique ever been used to Replace a Tooth?
Replacing a Tooth seems like it would be The Easiest Thing to do with A Mental State that Can Cause Subtle Physiological Changes in Ones Body. All you’d need to do is turn on Those molecules in your gum line to make A New Tooth, just like they used to do when you were a child.
But no one has.
This is The Contiguous Fulcrum.
Something that Should be True, But it is Decidedly Not True.
It is perhaps easy to find excuses for all sorts of other Quixotic Phenomena which occur so infrequently or only spontaneously; But Replacing Teeth is Never Reported. One of The Most Useful & Functional Attributes of An Enlightened State of Mind or Miracle Cure, is Completely Non-Existent.
When The Simplest Case fails, This does not bode well for The Class Phenomena.
Addictive Personality Types
There was just a bit on The Radio about Addictive Personality Types, And asked; Are some people genuinely ‘Addicted’ to The Internet in The Same Way that people are generally acknowledged as being Addicted to Nicotine, Heroin, Gambling, Masturbating or Hostess Ding Dongs?
It occurred to me that This Medical Diagnoses of ‘Addictive Personality Type’, which is routinely thought to be a Derogatory Label, Might actually simply mean that these people have a greater than ‘Normal’ proclivity to adhere to something that they are familiar with, Rather than try a continuous Stream of New Things.
Addictive Personality Types might easily account for Everyone that Sticks to some activity until they become astonishingly good at it, rather than flitting from this to that like ‘Ordinary’ People.
In other words; The Psychiatric Industry has again attached A Pejorative Brand Name to An Attribute that Usually Enables certain people to become vastly superior to The Damp Masses or Professionals that entered The System through The University Footpath.
The Addictive Personality Types become attached to some (x when they are pre-adolescents, eschewing a Career Route that The Social Engineers try to superimpose on everyone.
Granted; Some of These Addictive Personality Types might become fixated on Drugs or Behaviours that are Dangerous or Socially Destructive, But are they in The Majority?
The Addictive Personality Type is Actually A Good Thing.
It occurred to me that This Medical Diagnoses of ‘Addictive Personality Type’, which is routinely thought to be a Derogatory Label, Might actually simply mean that these people have a greater than ‘Normal’ proclivity to adhere to something that they are familiar with, Rather than try a continuous Stream of New Things.
Addictive Personality Types might easily account for Everyone that Sticks to some activity until they become astonishingly good at it, rather than flitting from this to that like ‘Ordinary’ People.
In other words; The Psychiatric Industry has again attached A Pejorative Brand Name to An Attribute that Usually Enables certain people to become vastly superior to The Damp Masses or Professionals that entered The System through The University Footpath.
The Addictive Personality Types become attached to some (x when they are pre-adolescents, eschewing a Career Route that The Social Engineers try to superimpose on everyone.
Granted; Some of These Addictive Personality Types might become fixated on Drugs or Behaviours that are Dangerous or Socially Destructive, But are they in The Majority?
The Addictive Personality Type is Actually A Good Thing.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Old Scraps
i have a TextEdit Document that i compile Rants on;
And very often, they aren't posted,
But i don't redirect them to another Document for 'UnUsed Rants' Either !
These are some Rants that are in A Shadow Region of : UnRants ( ???
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Occupations that seem to attract C- Students with Schemes of Getting Rich Quick, And Consequently; Get into Endless Mischief Causing Substantial Grief for Everyone that they Come into Contact with.
Real Estate
Stock Market Trader
Used Car Dealer
Any Sales Position
Construction
Gypsy Swindler ( Traveler ) ( Opposed to Honest Romanies )
Professional Sports Player
Law Enforcement
Cartoonist
Lawyer
Nurse
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Gawd! i hate computers.
The last few days i’ve been trying to work up some video clips of my aunt telling some family stories with iMovie and it is just driving me crazy!
i used to think that iPhoto was The Worst Application that Apple Created, But their movie making Applications are much Worse!
The first problem is; There is not One Movie Application.
In order to made a fully completed video, you really need to use Four Applications.
iMovie HD
iMovie
Garageband
iDVD
iMovie HD is a simplistic little diddy that allows you to add some very quirky special effects, adjust sound ( ? ), and so on, and in theory, i suppose, you could create somekind of finished product with just iMovie HD, but not really.
You really need to Export The Video from iMovie HD and then splice all The Pieces that you tuned up with iMovie HD into iMovie Proper.
This has fewer quirky features, but it more easily allows you to put things together, add transitions, move The sound track under inserted images, add title frames and so on.
But then you need to Export The Video from that to add sound effects.
You can do this a little with iMovie HD or iMovie, but if you really want to add some sound effects right where you want them, and then add some music and really adjust all These elements together, including volume control, you need to use Garageband.
Then After The Video is really done,
You need to Export it from Garageband ( which crashes every 5 minutes if your menu clock has The Colon Separator blinking ) and then import it to iDVD.
With iDVD you can make it into a Presentation Video with 80% of The Pomp that you get from any commercial DVD.
But getting there is a freaking nightmare.
Never mind all The usual planing and thought that would have to go into any ordinary presentation video, The problem(s is that these applications are fighting you every step of The way.
One of The most annoying and mind numbingly frustrating things that Apple Applications have done for The past 30 years is that after you set something to (x, and then look away for a moment, The Application will change The setting to (y.
???
i have tried to guess why they do this, and it is still a deep mystery.
Most people believe that Apples crash much less often than Wintel Computers,
And this may be so, but Apple Application still crash pretty often.
iMovie is also very odd in that there is No ‘Save’ or ‘Save as…’ in The File Menu.
All, ALL Applications have a Save & Save as… in Their File Menus.
Except for iMovie.
When you open an iMovie, It looks through The Old iMovie Projects file, selects one at random and brings that up.
To start a new project, you have to Tell it to Start a New Project, and after Naming and Defining The Parameters of The New Project, The Old Project is still there.
You then after to Delete The Old Project, Section by Section.
Then you Start your New Project.
But since you can’t Save it, You can’t shut it down for a day or two and get back to it.
If you turn it off, It may or may not be Saved in some unspecified form, and you may or may not be able to reopen it at some future time; If you can find it.
And if it crashes, All traces of it will completely disappear.
iMovie HD will not allow you Import a .mov
.mov’s have been around for at least 40 years and been a common format for Apple, and are still in use today. iMovie exports films as .mov’s, But iMovie HD will not import them.
???
There is also another Video Application called QuickTime.
There is The Ordinary QuickTime and QuickTime Pro.
There used to be A QuickTime Pro.
Now there is just QuickTime.
The Ordinary QuickTime that is now Available has all The functionality of The Old Ordinary QuickTime, which is very barebones.
QuickTime Pro used to allow you to play around with your Videoa and to Save your Video in different Formats,
Now; They have this New Approach in which All The Old formats are being replaced with M4v’s in different sizes.
iMovie HD exports as .dv’s ( ??? )
i don’t know about YouTube, But Flickr will not take .dv’s.
To make a iMovie HD acceptable for Flickr, you’d have to import into iMovie and then export it as an M4v.
i really hate it that i can’t choose The Format Type.
???
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Proposed Flickr Group / Abby Normals
Abby Normals are The Well Dressed Hamsters & Featherless Parakeets that are Not Normal.
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What if Careless Evolutionary Forces, Freshly Starched Angels or Bulbous, Teal Aliens Created This World & Inhabited it Humanimals that would Ideally have an IQ of 100; Such that People with this degree of Intelligence would not be able to get into any gratuitous & unnecessary mischief.
Sure; They could get into Ordinary Mischief, But not ExtraOrdinary Mischief.
They would never have invented something so Elegant as a Cross Bow, or even learned to attach a sharpened Stone to a Stick. As simple & primitive as The Most Rudimentary Tools may seem to us now, They were Originally created by Genius’ of their Era.
A World filled with Nothing but IQ 100 People would be blissfully roaming sun baked Savannas, Fleeing Large Cats, Filling their Bellies with Plump Termites & Over-Ripened Dwarf Apples.
Maybe we would have developed a Bonobo Social Model and would spend most of Each Indolent Afternoon Masturbating Ourselves & One Another.
But This was not to be.
Some Humanimals were Abby Normals.
Some were A Little Slower, and Were protected and Cared for So that when The Big Cats Attacked, they would be The ones that would fall behind & be eaten.
While Others were Too Smart for Their Own Britches and Invented all that Ails us Today. They may eventually be responsible for Our Extinction, or The Destruction of This Entire World, Or just maybe; They will lift us off this World, and Fill The Milky Way Galaxy &/or The Universe with The Infection that is Us.
This group is for The Abby Normals,
To show The Damp Masses how The Abby Normals Think.
What is An Abby Normal?
Originally; i was thinking that this Group should be for The Traffic Cones & Laminated Snowflakes that Exhibited Well Documented Personality Disorders; Such as A Schizoid Personality or Any Flavor Along The Autism Spectral Continuum.
But The True Schizophrenics are Such a Interesting Species of Tube Worms that they mustn’t be left out, Nor The Clinically Worrisome Maniac Melancholics.
Plus all The Others.
The Exclusionary Principle :
( Any Three of These Applicable Features,
Would Disqualified You from Legally Contributing To This Group )
Anyone That is Not :
Luke Warm, 18% Grey, Plain Vanilla, Reasonably Attractive or Well Groomed, Married with Children, Middle Management, Sensible Drinker, Responsible Tax Payer, Community Volunteer, Filial Progeny, Cautious Driver, Prudent Social Libertarian, Frugal Shopper, Regular Duster, Circumspect Gardener, Earnest Laborer Or Sympathetic & Pensive Neighborhood Caretaker—
And Such. ( et. al. )
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And very often, they aren't posted,
But i don't redirect them to another Document for 'UnUsed Rants' Either !
These are some Rants that are in A Shadow Region of : UnRants ( ???
- - -
Occupations that seem to attract C- Students with Schemes of Getting Rich Quick, And Consequently; Get into Endless Mischief Causing Substantial Grief for Everyone that they Come into Contact with.
Real Estate
Stock Market Trader
Used Car Dealer
Any Sales Position
Construction
Gypsy Swindler ( Traveler ) ( Opposed to Honest Romanies )
Professional Sports Player
Law Enforcement
Cartoonist
Lawyer
Nurse
- - - - - - - - - - - : < o
Gawd! i hate computers.
The last few days i’ve been trying to work up some video clips of my aunt telling some family stories with iMovie and it is just driving me crazy!
i used to think that iPhoto was The Worst Application that Apple Created, But their movie making Applications are much Worse!
The first problem is; There is not One Movie Application.
In order to made a fully completed video, you really need to use Four Applications.
iMovie HD
iMovie
Garageband
iDVD
iMovie HD is a simplistic little diddy that allows you to add some very quirky special effects, adjust sound ( ? ), and so on, and in theory, i suppose, you could create somekind of finished product with just iMovie HD, but not really.
You really need to Export The Video from iMovie HD and then splice all The Pieces that you tuned up with iMovie HD into iMovie Proper.
This has fewer quirky features, but it more easily allows you to put things together, add transitions, move The sound track under inserted images, add title frames and so on.
But then you need to Export The Video from that to add sound effects.
You can do this a little with iMovie HD or iMovie, but if you really want to add some sound effects right where you want them, and then add some music and really adjust all These elements together, including volume control, you need to use Garageband.
Then After The Video is really done,
You need to Export it from Garageband ( which crashes every 5 minutes if your menu clock has The Colon Separator blinking ) and then import it to iDVD.
With iDVD you can make it into a Presentation Video with 80% of The Pomp that you get from any commercial DVD.
But getting there is a freaking nightmare.
Never mind all The usual planing and thought that would have to go into any ordinary presentation video, The problem(s is that these applications are fighting you every step of The way.
One of The most annoying and mind numbingly frustrating things that Apple Applications have done for The past 30 years is that after you set something to (x, and then look away for a moment, The Application will change The setting to (y.
???
i have tried to guess why they do this, and it is still a deep mystery.
Most people believe that Apples crash much less often than Wintel Computers,
And this may be so, but Apple Application still crash pretty often.
iMovie is also very odd in that there is No ‘Save’ or ‘Save as…’ in The File Menu.
All, ALL Applications have a Save & Save as… in Their File Menus.
Except for iMovie.
When you open an iMovie, It looks through The Old iMovie Projects file, selects one at random and brings that up.
To start a new project, you have to Tell it to Start a New Project, and after Naming and Defining The Parameters of The New Project, The Old Project is still there.
You then after to Delete The Old Project, Section by Section.
Then you Start your New Project.
But since you can’t Save it, You can’t shut it down for a day or two and get back to it.
If you turn it off, It may or may not be Saved in some unspecified form, and you may or may not be able to reopen it at some future time; If you can find it.
And if it crashes, All traces of it will completely disappear.
iMovie HD will not allow you Import a .mov
.mov’s have been around for at least 40 years and been a common format for Apple, and are still in use today. iMovie exports films as .mov’s, But iMovie HD will not import them.
???
There is also another Video Application called QuickTime.
There is The Ordinary QuickTime and QuickTime Pro.
There used to be A QuickTime Pro.
Now there is just QuickTime.
The Ordinary QuickTime that is now Available has all The functionality of The Old Ordinary QuickTime, which is very barebones.
QuickTime Pro used to allow you to play around with your Videoa and to Save your Video in different Formats,
Now; They have this New Approach in which All The Old formats are being replaced with M4v’s in different sizes.
iMovie HD exports as .dv’s ( ??? )
i don’t know about YouTube, But Flickr will not take .dv’s.
To make a iMovie HD acceptable for Flickr, you’d have to import into iMovie and then export it as an M4v.
i really hate it that i can’t choose The Format Type.
???
- - - - - - - - - - - : < o
Proposed Flickr Group / Abby Normals
Abby Normals are The Well Dressed Hamsters & Featherless Parakeets that are Not Normal.
- -
What if Careless Evolutionary Forces, Freshly Starched Angels or Bulbous, Teal Aliens Created This World & Inhabited it Humanimals that would Ideally have an IQ of 100; Such that People with this degree of Intelligence would not be able to get into any gratuitous & unnecessary mischief.
Sure; They could get into Ordinary Mischief, But not ExtraOrdinary Mischief.
They would never have invented something so Elegant as a Cross Bow, or even learned to attach a sharpened Stone to a Stick. As simple & primitive as The Most Rudimentary Tools may seem to us now, They were Originally created by Genius’ of their Era.
A World filled with Nothing but IQ 100 People would be blissfully roaming sun baked Savannas, Fleeing Large Cats, Filling their Bellies with Plump Termites & Over-Ripened Dwarf Apples.
Maybe we would have developed a Bonobo Social Model and would spend most of Each Indolent Afternoon Masturbating Ourselves & One Another.
But This was not to be.
Some Humanimals were Abby Normals.
Some were A Little Slower, and Were protected and Cared for So that when The Big Cats Attacked, they would be The ones that would fall behind & be eaten.
While Others were Too Smart for Their Own Britches and Invented all that Ails us Today. They may eventually be responsible for Our Extinction, or The Destruction of This Entire World, Or just maybe; They will lift us off this World, and Fill The Milky Way Galaxy &/or The Universe with The Infection that is Us.
This group is for The Abby Normals,
To show The Damp Masses how The Abby Normals Think.
What is An Abby Normal?
Originally; i was thinking that this Group should be for The Traffic Cones & Laminated Snowflakes that Exhibited Well Documented Personality Disorders; Such as A Schizoid Personality or Any Flavor Along The Autism Spectral Continuum.
But The True Schizophrenics are Such a Interesting Species of Tube Worms that they mustn’t be left out, Nor The Clinically Worrisome Maniac Melancholics.
Plus all The Others.
The Exclusionary Principle :
( Any Three of These Applicable Features,
Would Disqualified You from Legally Contributing To This Group )
Anyone That is Not :
Luke Warm, 18% Grey, Plain Vanilla, Reasonably Attractive or Well Groomed, Married with Children, Middle Management, Sensible Drinker, Responsible Tax Payer, Community Volunteer, Filial Progeny, Cautious Driver, Prudent Social Libertarian, Frugal Shopper, Regular Duster, Circumspect Gardener, Earnest Laborer Or Sympathetic & Pensive Neighborhood Caretaker—
And Such. ( et. al. )
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Political Slogans
Political Slogans for The 2012 Campaigns
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You’ve Elected Worse
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I’m No Pretty Boy, But This Ain’t A Miss America Pageant.
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I may have an Offensive Body Odor, But you Won’t be Living with me in The White House.
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More Face Slaps, Greater Personal Responsibility, Fewer Lawsuits & Astonishingly Offensive Free Speech
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Marry your Pets, Masturbation with Kitchen Utensils & Toeless Shoes for The Clergy
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A Safe Internet, Burqas for Poodles, Invisibility Aerosols & A Surprise Gift every 2nd Tuesday
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Phone Service to Heaven, Guaranteed Celebrity Status, The Elimination of Logic & Reason; Along with More Peaches.
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Communication with Whales & Dolphins, Squid & Octopi And Shoes that Fit all Year ‘Round.
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Guns for Children, Dildos for The Clergy & Euthanasia for Sock Puppets.
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Steroids For Every Profession, Guidance Counselors for Hobos & Crackers for The Depressed
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Pink for Boys, Green for Amputees, Lavender for The Clinically Obese & Raspberry for Big Nosed Dykes
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There’s No Such Thing as An Environmental Extremist & I Find UnRegulated Capitalism highly Improbable
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Diving Helmets for The Humor Impaired, Weighted Boots for Stutterers & Aluminum Corsets for Abusive Grammartarians
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What do You Think of My Shoes?
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Cleaner Underwear, The Return of Hats
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Weep for Chewed Gum, Laugh at The Rabbit on The Moon & Cast your Pointless Rigged Vote for Me.
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Synthetic Speech that You Can Understand, The Return of Radio & Electromagnetically Shielded Bedrooms
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Voting Rights for Chattel, More Blinking Lights & Shaved Eyebrows for Ner’er do wells.
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More Separation between The Rich & Poor, Housing for Stray Cats & Plastic, Full Color Coins.
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Free Belly Button Inversions, Ears Pinned for Children under 12 & Dimples for All B+ Girls or Nancy Boys
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Capital Punishment for Practical Jokers, Legalized Masturbation at Bus Stops & Genetic Testing on Teacher’s Pets
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More Fridays, Fewer Mondays
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I Will Reveal The Truth Regarding Flying Saucers
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Coast to Coast Taxivators, Implanted Telephones, SkyCensors & Nutritional Toothpaste for The Elderly
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Let Canada Become The World’s Policeman
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The Moon is Our Property
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Health Care, No Taxes & Nudist Tuesdays
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The Intelligent Designer Picked Me
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Real Freedom, Irresponsible Praxis
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Cat People will Live in Splendor, Dog People will be Banished to Mexico
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Not as Crazy as a $2.00 Haircut
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Amish Dwarves as Police Officers, The Colonization of Venus & Personal Loans for Anyone with A Well Kept Toenail Collection
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More National Parks, Holidays & Perks for Everyone with Fantasy Prone Personalities.
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All Politicians Must have Asperger’s, Paranoid Schizophrenia or Sleep on a Straw Bed
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A Federal Government Shrunk Down to Fit in A Hamsters CoinPurse
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Personal Autonomy, Security for The Innocent & Wealth for The Industrious
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The Most Difficult Thing about A Free Society is Enduring The Freedom of Your Neighbors
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A Common Utopian Paradise for Every Political Cult & Denomination
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Security through Understanding, Justice from Simple Principles & Wisdom for The Curious
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Free, Clean Air & Water; Inexpensive Funerals, Reasonably Priced Bread & Wine; And Expensive Designer T-Shirts.
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Nothing should be Given through Sacrifice, Everything Will be Earned from Honest, Joyful Drudgery
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Religions for Atheists, Shoes for Nudists, Books for The Illiterate & Philosophies for The Confused
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Freedom of Fashion for The Androgynous & Remote, Isolated Villages for The Luddites
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When Robots & Mechanical Cogitators Rule The World; Your Survival will be Insured along with Polar Bears & Siberian Tigers
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In The Coming World without Jobs; The New Social Order will Keep you Busy with Basket Weaving & Community Masturbating
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More UnInhibited Hugs, Perfectly Legal Tickling, Suppressed Vaccines for Tooth Decay & Venereal Diseases Provided On Demand; And Long Bowdlerized Books Furnished in Digital Formats.
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Communication with The Dead, TimeTravel for The Indolent & Sugar Cookies for The Blind
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Synthetic Food for PostVegetarians, The Truth about Forbidden Archaeology & Robot Suits for The Crippled.
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You’ve Elected Worse
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I’m No Pretty Boy, But This Ain’t A Miss America Pageant.
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I may have an Offensive Body Odor, But you Won’t be Living with me in The White House.
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More Face Slaps, Greater Personal Responsibility, Fewer Lawsuits & Astonishingly Offensive Free Speech
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Marry your Pets, Masturbation with Kitchen Utensils & Toeless Shoes for The Clergy
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A Safe Internet, Burqas for Poodles, Invisibility Aerosols & A Surprise Gift every 2nd Tuesday
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Phone Service to Heaven, Guaranteed Celebrity Status, The Elimination of Logic & Reason; Along with More Peaches.
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Communication with Whales & Dolphins, Squid & Octopi And Shoes that Fit all Year ‘Round.
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Guns for Children, Dildos for The Clergy & Euthanasia for Sock Puppets.
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Steroids For Every Profession, Guidance Counselors for Hobos & Crackers for The Depressed
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Pink for Boys, Green for Amputees, Lavender for The Clinically Obese & Raspberry for Big Nosed Dykes
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There’s No Such Thing as An Environmental Extremist & I Find UnRegulated Capitalism highly Improbable
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Diving Helmets for The Humor Impaired, Weighted Boots for Stutterers & Aluminum Corsets for Abusive Grammartarians
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What do You Think of My Shoes?
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Cleaner Underwear, The Return of Hats
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Weep for Chewed Gum, Laugh at The Rabbit on The Moon & Cast your Pointless Rigged Vote for Me.
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Synthetic Speech that You Can Understand, The Return of Radio & Electromagnetically Shielded Bedrooms
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Voting Rights for Chattel, More Blinking Lights & Shaved Eyebrows for Ner’er do wells.
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More Separation between The Rich & Poor, Housing for Stray Cats & Plastic, Full Color Coins.
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Free Belly Button Inversions, Ears Pinned for Children under 12 & Dimples for All B+ Girls or Nancy Boys
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Capital Punishment for Practical Jokers, Legalized Masturbation at Bus Stops & Genetic Testing on Teacher’s Pets
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More Fridays, Fewer Mondays
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I Will Reveal The Truth Regarding Flying Saucers
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Coast to Coast Taxivators, Implanted Telephones, SkyCensors & Nutritional Toothpaste for The Elderly
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Let Canada Become The World’s Policeman
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The Moon is Our Property
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Health Care, No Taxes & Nudist Tuesdays
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The Intelligent Designer Picked Me
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Real Freedom, Irresponsible Praxis
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Cat People will Live in Splendor, Dog People will be Banished to Mexico
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Not as Crazy as a $2.00 Haircut
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Amish Dwarves as Police Officers, The Colonization of Venus & Personal Loans for Anyone with A Well Kept Toenail Collection
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More National Parks, Holidays & Perks for Everyone with Fantasy Prone Personalities.
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All Politicians Must have Asperger’s, Paranoid Schizophrenia or Sleep on a Straw Bed
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A Federal Government Shrunk Down to Fit in A Hamsters CoinPurse
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Personal Autonomy, Security for The Innocent & Wealth for The Industrious
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The Most Difficult Thing about A Free Society is Enduring The Freedom of Your Neighbors
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A Common Utopian Paradise for Every Political Cult & Denomination
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Security through Understanding, Justice from Simple Principles & Wisdom for The Curious
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Free, Clean Air & Water; Inexpensive Funerals, Reasonably Priced Bread & Wine; And Expensive Designer T-Shirts.
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Nothing should be Given through Sacrifice, Everything Will be Earned from Honest, Joyful Drudgery
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Religions for Atheists, Shoes for Nudists, Books for The Illiterate & Philosophies for The Confused
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Freedom of Fashion for The Androgynous & Remote, Isolated Villages for The Luddites
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When Robots & Mechanical Cogitators Rule The World; Your Survival will be Insured along with Polar Bears & Siberian Tigers
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In The Coming World without Jobs; The New Social Order will Keep you Busy with Basket Weaving & Community Masturbating
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More UnInhibited Hugs, Perfectly Legal Tickling, Suppressed Vaccines for Tooth Decay & Venereal Diseases Provided On Demand; And Long Bowdlerized Books Furnished in Digital Formats.
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Communication with The Dead, TimeTravel for The Indolent & Sugar Cookies for The Blind
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Synthetic Food for PostVegetarians, The Truth about Forbidden Archaeology & Robot Suits for The Crippled.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Cabbage Code 'The 2012 Candidates' !!!
Ack !
i tried posting this New Cabbage Code to This Blog,
But unfortunately;
It required a little formatting that Google doesn't want to support,
Or, as i suspect; It is possible, but they're only allowing serious hackers & dweebs access to those secrets !!!
The Most annoying Problem is that It's not a WYSIWYG Interface.
Although there's a 'Preview' Selector, It does not accurately Preview how The Composed Blog will appear when Published ! ( ??? )
And Goggle Blog does not allow for 'Extra' Spaces, Controllable Tabs, Equally Spaced Fonts ( Although is has a Font Selector, it doesn't seem to work ! ( ? ) ) or Other simple Formatting Tools ( ! )
It should be at least as functional as an Old Style Underwood Typewriter !
It has all The Fancy Stuff, But few of The Simple, Basic Things !!!
Gawd! i hate Computers !
Enough Digression !
So i had to post it to Google Docs !
It's at : Cabbage Code : The 2012 Candidates
It contains a full listing of all The Usual Nonsense + A Lot of Documentation.
A Small Peek :
A Cabbage Codes Project
An Exploration using Ancient Jewish Mysticism,
The Qaballah; The Gematria & Plenty of Table Salt.
"The Republican Candidates"
Introductory Introduction :
The Cabbage Key for this Exposition was carefully crafted using
extensive scholarship, Interviews with Relatives of The Candidates,
Conversations with Dead Presidents, Afternoon Discussions with Angels,
Sprites, Gnomes & Shards of Broken Mirrors from
The Candidates Ex-Girlfriends.
After Several Months of Analysis & Inquiry,
This Resulting Key was Given to Thousands of 4th & 5th Graders
During Their TimeOuts to Find Sums which seemed Relevant
To The Approaching Presidential Election.
Approximately 407,827,913 man/child-hours
Were Expended Creating this Register.
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The Cabbage Key :
A = 6 : : : : The Number of Butt-Cheeks on Satan's Ass
B = -324 : : : : The Number of Bees Lost up Bachmann's Nose
C = 146 : : : : The Number of Women Cain has Helped in Their Careers
D = -41 : : : : The Number of Dildo's Sarah Palin has Broken
E = 29 : : : : The Number of Dead Republican Elephants
that can Dance on The Head of A Pin
F = 35 : : : : The Number of Goldfish Mitt Romney has Swallowed
G = 2 : : : : The Number of Gawds that Donald Trump Worships
H = 79 : : : : The Number of Steps from Texas to Hell
I = 53 : : : : The Number of Instances Rick Perry has Said 'Whuck!'
J = 59 : : : : The Number of Jockeys that Newt Gingrich as Ridden
K = -187 : : : : The Number of Kangaroos that Sarah P has Eaten
L = 99 : : : : The Number of Love Childs all The Candidates Share
M = 77 : : : : The Number of Moons that Orbit Around D. Trumps Head
N = 82 : : : : The Number of Nuns Ron P. has bedded
O = 86 : : : : The Number of Orifices that Comprise Satan's Genitals
P = 161 : : : : The Number of Times Mitt R has caught his Penis in his Zipper
Q = 99 : : : : The Number of Quirky Catch Phrases Rejected for Slogans
R = 106 : : : : The Most Rabbits that Herman C has ever fit into his pants
S = 68 : : : : The Number of Cloven Hooves on Satan's Feet
T = 5 : : : : The Number of Thumbs on Ron P.s Left Hand
U = 126 : : : : The Number of Urinals that Donald T has in his Mansion
V = 129 : : : : The Number of Vulvas that Rick P has seen in Magazines
W = 27 : : : : The Number of Witches & Wizards in The House & Senate
X = 140 : : : : The Number of Xeroxes of Rush L in Congress
Y = 146 : : : : The Average Number of Times Rick Perry says Y'all every day
Z = 152 : : : : The Number of Zoos Sarah P will Open to Hunters if Elected
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The Most Astonishing Results :
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The Republican Candidates :
Additional Anagrams !
666 = Mitt Romney
666 = My! I'm Rotten!
666 = Into My Term!
666 = Ye Norm: Mitt!
666 = Try; I'm Not Me!
666 = Try Mom; I = Ten!
666 = O! Minty Term!
666 = Omit my Rent!
666 = My Tint, More!
666 = My Mitten or (?
666 = Newt Gingrich
666 = Gin & Gin! Wretch!
666 = Crew in nth Gig!
666 = Win? Trench Gig!
666 = Rich Gent Wing!
666 = Retching Wing!
666 = nth Wig; Cringe!
666 = Ron Paul
666 = Our Plan!
666 = Lo! Ran Up!
666 = Pal or Nu!
666 = Herman Cain
666 = Inane Charm!
666 = Her Man? I Can!
666 = Enrich A Man!
666 = A Rich Man; ( en! )
666 = Ha! Nicer Man.
666 = Rick Perry
666 = Irk Rep - Cry!
666 = Erry Prick!
666 = Michele Bachmann
666 = Chance? Nimble Ham!
666 = I'm Cable Henchman!
666 = I'm Cabal Henchmen!
666 = Men? Blah! ( Mechanic )
666 = Man/Machine ? Belch!
666 = Henna Chic! ( Embalm ! )
666 = Helm? Bench Maniac!
666 = Chic? Hem Banal Men!
666 = Sarah Palin
666 = La 's Piranha!
666 = I? Nasal Harp!
666 = A Plain Rash!
666 = Anal Parish!
666 = Ah! La Rap, Sin!
666 = Hi Pa! ( A Snarl )
666 = Donald Trump
666 = Dolt And Rump!
666 = Old Dun Tramp!
666 = Pol' Damn Turd!
666 = Old Damp Runt!
666 = Damp Nut Lord!
666 = Told Ump; Darn!
666 = Don't Rump Lad!
666 = MaltDud Porn!
666 = Rant: Odd Lump!
666 = Plod; Man-Turd!
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The Cabbage Code Key
To Verify The Accuracy of this Contract with America
Use your own Kitchen Calculator to Verify The Sums of Randomly
Selected Names, Words or Phrases !
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A = 6 H = 79 O = 86 V = 129
B = -324 I = 53 P = 161 W = 27
C = 146 J = 59 Q = 99 X = 140
D = -41 K = -187 R = 106 Y = 146
E = 29 L = 99 S = 68 Z = 152
F = 35 M = 77 T = 5
G = 2 N = 82 U = 126
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Equivalencies / Definitions
573 : Americans = Moloch
565 : People = Innocent
553 : Happy = Children
541 : Hungry = Lonely
511 : Difficult = Perfect
507 : Committee = LongShot = Nightmares = Escapes
500 : Muslim = Screams = Ungodly
464 : Dangerous = Sinister
423 : Voters = America = Hopes = Dollars = River
410 : Splendid = Holy
The Answer to Life, The Universe & Everything = 42
42 = Mad!
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Are These Mystical Truths?
Prognostications To Come?
Subtle Hints or Clues To What Ails You?
Or; Are They What you've always known,
But were Afraid to Admit?
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The Number Of The Beast = 666
666 = Eighteen Days To Go
666 = Still Undecided
666 = Is Disastrous
666 = Makes Him Dangerous
666 = Appeal To The ...
666 = As Globalist Banker Bilderberg; Attending Corporatist
666 = What You Were
666 = Before They Are Allowed
666 = The Ass And Snip!
666 = Streaming Light
Gawd's Number = 700
700 = In The Laughter
700 = Cross Into
700 = What Sphinx?
700 = In Their Hearts
700 = Most Dangerous
700 = Of Louisiana
700 = As Governor
700 = Should Exude
700 = The Machines And ...
700 = 'Ness Monster
700 = An American; The Cake
700 = Negro Streets At Dawn
700 = In Their Lofts
700 = Animal Lungs
700 = Run Down By The Drunken Taxicabs
700 = They Yells
Gawd's Alternate Number = 777
777 = Around And Around
777 = Cooking Pederasty
777 = If That Doesn't Top The ...
777 = And To Play For
777 = Leroy Newton
777 = Recovery
777 = On An Independent Ticket
777 = To Reinvigorate
777 = The Reemergence
777 = It? Common Man
777 = Snyder Is True
777 = Like The Comment; No
777 = The Weak Provided Their Weak And The ...
777 = We Believe And Do Know Better Than The Rest Of The ...
777 = Of Socialism
777 = Platonic Battalion Of;
777 = Off Windowsills
777 = Of The Romance, Ta!
777 = Every Day For
777 = Last Telephone
777 = Bit Of Hallucination
777 = The Unknown Madman And Angel Beat In Time, BUM!
777 = Skull No Longer
777 = Will Split The ...
The Year Of North America's Conquering
By European Imperialists = 1492
1492 = Carolina Republican Party
1492 = His Independent Campaign Ticket Was Hit
1492 = Am Here. Post Straw Polls Of ...
1492 = Has Even Been Leading The Polls By As Much As ...
1492 = Quoted As Saying The Damn Rent Is Too ...
1492 = Race In South Charleston
1492 = The Stellar Career At Pillsbury
1492 = We'd Think Socialism Does Not Realize
1492 = We Realized Socialism Does Not Work
1492 = If This Thing, Nonviolently?
1492 = To The Claim; The Title 'Fed' With Those Attributes; End.
1492 = Allowed To Enter The Race As Its Candidate
1492 = Thus The Reader Is Left With Only ...
1492 = Of Who Were Expelled From War
1492 = Dusks Of Ash; Brooklyn, Can The Roaring Winter ...
1492 = Whispering Facts And Memories
1492 = Dollar: The One Eyed Shrew That Winks Out
1492 = Whoring Through Colorado
1492 = Hometown Alleys Who Faded Out Too
1492 = Dream Of Life; Nightmare Bodies Turned To Stone
1492 = re: Sing Moloch: Build The Vast Judgment, A ...
1492 = Is Moloch Electricity? And Whose Banks?
1492 = In Rockland; Where You Scream
The Birth Of America = 1776
1776 = Rent For The Gubernatorial And Senatorial Candidate
1776 = About Two Months By Texas Governor Rick Perry
1776 = Even When We Have So Much More Bad; Then Does Good
1776 = To Any Truth From Fox News, Msnbc, Cnn ?
1776 = Dislike Talker At Western Washington University
1776 = The Number One Issue; Those Attributes Allowed No Debt Except
In Balanced Budget; End Fed
1776 = To Actually Sit Down And Contemplate
1776 = Incomprehensible Leaflets. Who Burned Cigarette?
1776 = Who Howled On Their Knees? And Intoxication.
1776 = Who Threw Their Watches Off The Roof To Egg... (?
1776 = Who Barreled Down The Highways Of The Steam Whistles
1776 = Moloch:; Whose Cities, The Crown ...
1776 = Religions: The Whole Boatload Of Sensitive Bullshit
The Year Of The Next Election / End Of The World = 2012
2012 = Don't Look To Any Truth From Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC Or ?
2012 = What We Have To Cling To; Fighting It Seems Desperate
2012 = Dragging Themselves, Starving, By Naked Hysterical Madness
2012 = Cat Meat With The Brilliant Eyes For No Synagogues
2012 = Of The Womb And The One Eyed Shrew
That Does Nothing But Sit On Her Ass
2012 = The Imagination Or The Digested Crab
At The Muddy Bottom Of The Rivers
2012 = How? Orange Sky Surrounded By Crates Of Theology
2012 = Who Scribbled Over Lofty All Night Rocking And Rolling?
2012 = Who Jumped Off Of The Drunken Brooklyn Taxicabs
Down By The Absolute Reality
2012 = In The Imaginary Closet, And Even That; Nothing
2012 = Bashed Open Their Aluminum Skulls And Ate Up Their -
2012 = Whose Cloud Of Sexless Hydrogen Fate Is ...
2012 = Moloch: Am Without Body, Consciousness
2012 = Innocent And Immortal; It Should Never Die!
Republicans = 552
Republicans = 552 = The Noise Of:
Republicans = 552 = Who Blew, And Were Joy
Republicans = 552 = Were Forced
Republicans = 552 = In The Hanger
Republicans = 552 = Stem Cell
Republicans = 552 = Endorsement
Republicans = 552 = Tell Role
Republicans = 552 = Is One Of The ...
Republicans = 552 = The Former
Republicans = 552 = Inspire
Republicans = 552 = Does Say Lot
Republicans = 552 = The Poor
Republicans = 552 = Those Fed! The Attributes End
Republicans = 552 = Required By Law To ...
Republicans = 552 = With Last Radio
Republicans = 552 = Are Thousand
The G.O.P. ( Grand Old Party ) = 362
The G.O.P. = 362 = His Win
The G.O.P. = 362 = Does Say
The G.O.P. = 362 = Dislike The Field
The G.O.P. = 362 = Those That ...
G.O.P. ( Grand Old Party ) = 249
G.O.P. = 249 = That Dept.
G.O.P. = 249 = Easy
G.O.P. = 249 = It Needs Being Used
G.O.P. = 249 = Demanding
The United States = 548
The United States = 548 = Is Not Well
The United States = 548 = A Go Pundits
The United States = 548 = Question?
The United States = 548 = What Does Not Work? Look!
The United States = 548 = Handle The States
The United States = 548 = Good Talker At Western
The United States = 548 = And Inflation
The United States = 548 = Inflation Just As Bad As ...
The United States = 548 = To The Subways For ...
The United States = 548 = The One Eyed Fate
The United States = 548 = Under Flame
The United States = 548 = Dreaming Of The ...
The United States = 548 = Went Away To Find ...
The United States = 548 = One Symbolic
The United States = 548 = Whose Buildings Are ...
Washington D.C. = 595
Washington D.C. = 595 = Obama And The Claim That He ...
Washington D.C. = 595 = 'M, A Right Job Coming
Washington D.C. = 595 = The State Of Texas
Washington D.C. = 595 = Excitement
Washington D.C. = 595 = The "Assuming"
Washington D.C. = 595 = Los Alamos
Washington D.C. = 595 = Coughed On
Washington D.C. = 595 = Threw Potato
Washington D.C. = 595 = And Rose After Death
Politics = 671
Politics = 671 = The Republican As -
Politics = 671 = German Jazz
Politics = 671 = At The Top Of The Leaderboard
Politics = 671 = Left To Play
Politics = 671 = Victory
Politics = 671 = With Reforms
Politics = 671 = It’s Disastrous
Politics = 671 = Our Attention
Politics = 671 = Withdrawal From
Politics = 671 = America? There
Politics = 671 = Cheers, Tears
Politics = 671 = Get In 'Jam You
Politics = 671 = And Snappy
Politics = 671 = Happened And Walked Away
Politics = 671 = Of The Echoes
Politics = 671 = Emptied Down To The
Politics = 671 = Ecstasies Gone
Politics = 671 = In The River
Politics = 671 = Victory
Democrats = 482
Democrats = 482 = State Of Texas
Democrats = 482 = Even As Late
Democrats = 482 = Ambition But Personal
Democrats = 482 = Truly
Democrats = 482 = Look To The U.S.
Democrats = 482 = Otherwise
Democrats = 482 = Assuming
Democrats = 482 = To Harvard
Democrats = 482 = Imitate The Shade
America = 423
America = 423 = Hopes
America = 423 = With Shame
America = 423 = To Be In This Race
America = 423 = Dollars
America = 423 = Voters
America = 423 = Defense Or ...
America = 423 = General, End.
America = 423 = It’s Dead Issue
America = 423 = On The Odes
America = 423 = Windows Of ...
America = 423 = Rooms
America = 423 = The Streets
America = 423 = Of Winter
America = 423 = By Saintly Ass
America = 423 = And Ended Fainting
America = 423 = River
America = 423 = The Wartime Blur
America = 423 = Mustard Gas
America = 423 = Street Danced
America = 423 = The Madtowns
America = 423 = The Midnight
Planet Earth = 607
Planet Earth = 607 = Loveless
Planet Earth = 607 = Armed Madhouse
Planet Earth = 607 = The Crab At The Muddy Bottom Of The (?
Planet Earth = 607 = Of Justice
Planet Earth = 607 = Here Is Wasting
Planet Earth = 607 = Pieces Of
Planet Earth = 607 = Or Buddha Boys Or To Tangiers
Planet Earth = 607 = The Syntax And
Planet Earth = 607 = Of The Skull; No!
Global Warming = 321
Global Warming = 321 = Move
Global Warming = 321 = Freedom
Global Warming = 321 = Undesirable If
Global Warming = 321 = The Rest
Global Warming = 321 = Truth
Global Warming = 321 = U Bet You As I
Global Warming = 321 = At Midnight
Global Warming = 321 = Candle
Global Warming = 321 = Amnesia
Global Warming = 321 = The Vast
Global Warming = 321 = Antennae
Socialism = 656
Socialism = 656 = Under Heaven
Socialism = 656 = Of The Pure
Socialism = 656 = Well In; The Bachmann
Socialism = 656 = Activist Fred Karger
Socialism = 656 = To Barack Obama In The Presidential Defeat
Socialism = 656 = Allegations Of
Socialism = 656 = Campaigned In
Socialism = 656 = Mitch Daniels
Socialism = 656 = Didn’t Have Any Of
Socialism = 656 = To People
Socialism = 656 = Agree Republican
Socialism = 656 = With This Or That
Socialism = 656 = At The Romance
Socialism = 656 = His Naked And The Endless Head
Communism = 792
Communism = 792 = Ta! Gingrich Came
Communism = 792 = Celebrate Hollywood
Communism = 792 = From Minnesota
Communism = 792 = In The Bachmann Camp
Communism = 792 = Charismatic And
Communism = 792 = He Was Locked Out Of The ...
Communism = 792 = The Old Texas Year
Communism = 792 = Si! It’s Disastrous
Communism = 792 = Nor To Russia
Communism = 792 = America Is There
Communism = 792 = Not Reserve Banking, Be Fair! Pro-Tax
Communism = 792 = Mind Leaping Toward
Communism = 792 = In Skeletons Who Bit Detectives
Communism = 792 = And The Grass Of Public
Communism = 792 = Who? Them With Sword
Communism = 792 = And Fingers; Wig Of Blood, And Tears
Communism = 792 = Lifting The City
Communism = 792 = Should Never
The Damp Masses = 632
The Damp Masses = 632 = Medicare For
The Damp Masses = 632 = Have Nothing
The Damp Masses = 632 = Toward Poles
The Damp Masses = 632 = With Brilliant Nights
The Damp Masses = 632 = Grass Of Public
The Damp Masses = 632 = No? Does Nothing But Sit
The Damp Masses = 632 = Heads Shall Be Crowned
The Damp Masses = 632 = In Which The ...
The Damp Masses = 632 = Heart, Lung, Feet
The Damp Masses = 632 = Their Watches
The Damp Masses = 632 = Stores Where
The Damp Masses = 632 = And? And Intelligent
The Damp Masses = 632 = Ate Their Skulls And ...
The Damp Masses = 632 = Are Ten Fingers
The Damp Masses = 632 = Whose Love?
The Damp Masses = 632 = Who? Body Moloch
The Damp Masses = 632 = Us About Visions
Science = 553
Science = 553 = Of The Most Gifted
Science = 553 = Children
Science = 553 = Happy
Science = 553 = Nations Get In
Science = 553 = Baaamaaaa! That's All That Matters
Science = 553 = It Needs... Get Wise To Being Used
Science = 553 = Justin Cooke
Science = 553 = The Lava And Ash
Science = 553 = The West Coast
Science = 553 = Ass And Snip
Science = 553 = Empty In
Science = 553 = And Happened
Science = 553 = Subsequently ...
Science = 553 = And Not Now Safe
Science = 553 = To The Tears In ...
The Common Good = 800
The Common Good = 800 = Shrieks Of The Fairies
The Common Good = 800 = To Conform To
The Common Good = 800 = Add To The Grand Favorites
The Common Good = 800 = The Bachmann Three Terms
The Common Good = 800 = His Mark Stamp On The ...
The Common Good = 800 = Security Of
The Common Good = 800 = One Everytime
The Common Good = 800 = And Oh! Turn Off The ...
The Common Good = 800 = Property
The Common Good = 800 = Agree With Your
The Common Good = 800 = That Commentator
The Common Good = 800 = Along The Floor
The Common Good = 800 = Of Hungover Basements
The Common Good = 800 = They Bade Farewell ( Yells )
The Common Good = 800 = National Fascist
Health Care = 584
Health Care = 584 = Screamed With
Health Care = 584 = Solomon
Health Care = 584 = Astonishing
Health Care = 584 = Socialist
Health Care = 584 = Miracles
Health Care = 584 = Of The Fairies
Health Care = 584 = Her Top Two
Health Care = 584 = No Debt Allowed, Except In Budget
Health Care = 584 = Other Skeletons
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How can this Not be True ?
Caste Analysis ( ?
Caste Analysis ( ?
The Real Functionality of Assigning People with A Caste Title; Is to easily & painlessly Identify People that are Genuinely Respectable/Useful on one end of The Spectrum,
And Disdainful/Expendable Baggage at The Other.
We would like to believe that there are Genuinely Good People & that Bad People / Criminals are All Bad, So as to Not confuse our Naivé Sensibilities.
But few people are like this; And once you’ve given someone a Title of High Reverence,
Are they going to maintain it?
Very Seldomly.
And this is Why Castes Fail.
People are just too complicated.
Too mixed with Attributes of Good & Evil, Competence & Clumsiness,
Kind Heartedness & Petty Insouciancy.
The Opposite of Caste is A Theoretically Homogenous Society in Which All Citizens are 100% Equal, With All Resources available to The People, Equally Divided.
This has been tried, And it always fails.
Simply Because of Padro’s Principle. 80% of The Work is done by 20% of The People.
Those People that do most of The Work, Deserve Greater Compensation, Privilege & Respect.
i suspect that many of those that are Busy Bees, Are more productive by their Natures, Just as Actual Bees are. But There is another subset that has The Potential for being very productive, but will only do so if they believe that they are being appreciated. And The Easiest way to show, or demonstrate that Appreciation is through rewards.
The Following Casté System is Based on Pragmatism, Functionality & Application of Talents.
The reason that Capitalism Fails; ( or is Deeply Flawed ), Is because The Hardest Workers are not Routinely provided with The Greatest Rewards, And there are a sufficient number of The Wealthy that don’t seem to be working hard at all.
Many of The Lower Classes, Who should Knowingly & Willing Accept their Impoverished Condition as a Consequence of their Real or Implied Indolence; Don’t fully Understand or Appreciate The Theoretical System which is Not Being Righteously Implemented.
They see plenty of people that Seem to be just as Indolent as they are, Receiving Unearned Rewards.
It might be interesting to somehow determine which Occupations require The Greatest Effort. And by; ‘Effort’ i would suggest that this apply to many different Attributes, many different kinds of Intelligence, physical effort, concentration, attentiveness, hours spent in this effort & so on.
Occupations which would require consistently applied physical exertion & bear some genuine risk of serious injury, But consist of little actual attentiveness or training; Might be allowed to Share a Stratum with Office Workers that perform routine mental tasks which required years of classical pavlovian conditioning to master, While they must also endure constant social jostling which is emotionally stressful.
Exclusionary Attributes would be Education; Based on The Principle that once you’ve mastered your Avocation, You’re ability to perform it easily makes your occupation less stressful and requires less effort in that respect. Keeping up with New Developments would be considered in The Overall Equation that determines this Definition of ‘Effort’.
Then; The Occupations that Required The Greatest Effort would be Rewarded Proportionately.
This is in Direct Conflict with Classic Capitalism, So that if anyone brings this up;
Yes; It is in Direct Conflict with Classical Capitalism;
It is Not Based on ‘What The Market will Bear.’
This also brings up The Correlative Idea of ‘The Worth of Things’.
This analysis would require tremendous scholarship, but suffice to say; i believe that The ‘Art Market’ is no more real than The Tulip Hysteria that took place in Holland, And it’s only a matter of time before everyone ( including The Obscenely Wealthy ) will realize that A Printed Image has all The ‘Important’ Attributes of An ‘Original’ Painting. And when 3D Printers can Fully reproduce Sculptures & Objects with Moving Parts*, The same idea will apply to Everything. ( Everything ).
That is; It will soon be possible to Produce Anything such that The Manufacturing Process will Cost The Same for Everything, Of Equal Mass. It will Cost exactly The Same to ‘Make’ a Royals Royce as a Volkswagen Beetle, Refrigerator or Jungle Gym.
Of course; The Template of Each Item, That was designed by Engineers & Engineering Computers; Pulling on The Vast Libraries of Engineering Knowledge from The Beginning of Time; Would be given a Unique Value for Each thing.
But - - Because of This Engineering Computer’s Contribution to Any Given Project, Such as One Initiated by An Untrained 12 year old that could create an highly sophisticated Device with only The Barest Idea of how to proceed—
How much ‘Value’ would this Child have Contributed to The Item?
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* Now in Development.
If Castes are Righteously Earned, Assigned & Enforced; Then they must provide The Society with An Easy ( An Acceptable ) Manner by which Some People are Treated better than Others.
Of course; Everyone, should be provided with a ‘Baseline’ of Living Services, From which one works harder to Improve from. Allowing Anyone in The Society or Community to Fall below this Baseline foments violent dissent, or at least creates a Dichotomy of Environmental Segregation which The Wealthy must Endure.
i’m thinking here of The Extreme Poverty that is Present in various parts of The World that exists beside The Wealthiest Homesteads. The Wealthy must endure this poverty that surrounds them, and live in unnecessary fear of its citizens.
Here in ‘America’; We have eliminated this ‘mostly’ and thus; The Gated Communities or Neighborhoods of The Wealthy are surrounded by reasonably clean Bourgeoisie & Proletarian Homes, in Which Their Inhabitants enjoy The Gentle Brain Massaging of Television, MP3s & Food Additives that quash their natural instincts to bludgeon large animals into submission.
What Determines a Caste ?
Who is The Worthy Citizen?
Who should be given Greater access to Services, Privileges, Perks, Exculpations, Indulgences & Shopping Discounts ... ( et. al.
Who is A Diminished Security Risk ( for Air Travel
Who is Better Looking / Lighter Skin Color / Delicate Facial Features / Hairless Arms or Legs
Who Looks Normal / Exclusionary Principle: Dwarfs, Giants, Morbidly Obese, Ugly
What Privileges do The Rich Now Have?
The Ability to Buy Top Quality Items at Cost / While The Poor must pay several times this for The Same Item.
Access to Better Medical Care
Access to Better Schools
Access to Better Recreational Facilities
Access to Zoos with More Exotic Animals
Access to Exotic Foods
Permission to Engage in Ludicrous Sexual Acts
Permission to Marry more Wives or Husbands
Permission to Spawn more Children
Permission to Commit Venial Sins & Violate Malum Prohibitum Taboos
It should be noted that The Rich & Privileged would also Endure Greater Responsibilities.
They would Necessarily have to Dress Better
Keep their Yards Clean
Adhere to a Superiour Moral Standard of Social Cooperation*
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* While Enjoying More Freedoms in Private
What is The Functionality of Castes ?
To Easily Give Respect & Privilege to Some Chosen Few
While Withholding Respect & Privilege from Others
In A Moneyless Society; Those that Hold to Higher Castes, May be allowed to cut in front of those with Less Respect when a line is present. Otherwise; If The Resources are Available to all comers then no such division is necessary or desired.
By Resources; This system means ‘Luxuries’.
Food, Healthcare, Shelter, Media Access & Other Necessities are Distributed Equally to Everyone, According to their ‘Needs’, Not Desires.
Obesity & Opulence are not a Hallmark of The Wealthy in this System.
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Another very important advantage of Caste Recognition is to Allow A Person of One Caste, in Special Circumstances to ‘Out-Rank’ someone of Greater Seniority, Pay-Grade or Authority. A Problem Solver that has a comparatively Low Rank, may be called upon to Solve a Unique & Troubling Problem that The Journeymyn of Higher-Rank may be Stifled with. The Journeymyn would readily acquiesce to The Special Abilities of The Problem Solver.
In A Police Confrontation; The Genuine ‘Sharp-Shooter’ ( Journeymyn ) would have The authority to fire his weapon, while The Other Officers ( Common Laborers ) would merely provide ‘Cover-Fire’ with Blanks or Rubber Bullets.
Assigning Castes
Every Infant & Child to The Age of 9 is Assigned a Privileged Caste which Entitles them to The Best Free Education and Trade Familiarization, Access to The Arts…
And then At That time; ( Reaching The Age of 9 ( or thereabouts ) ) The Child would be Tested to Determine if they were ‘Ready’ to be Assigned a Caste.
This Caste would Not be Tattooed onto their Forehead, but it would follow them around for many different Venues. There would also be Mechanisms to Change ones Caste at any future time. Their Caste could be Incremented or Decremented based on their own desires, or The desires of The Community or Regional Government.
Since The Castes under this System isn’t about Privilege though, There would be little need or Desire to Change Castes.
If They are Determined to be Ready to be Caste Assigned; They would be more thoroughly tested and Given a Caste.
If They are Not Ready; Their Privileged Caste Status would continue for several more years, Terminating No Later than their 21st Birthday. If they are determined to still not be ready, Their assigned Caste would reflect this Chronic & Habitual Indolence.
This would not necessarily be a ‘Bad’ Thing however.
Just as many societies & communities readily ‘Accept’ or Tacitly Accept Homosexuals or Transsexuals, Village Idiots, Hobos or White Trash; This Indolent Caste would be Striped of Nearly All of The Rights & Responsibilities of Full Citizenship, But Enjoy A Nearly Animal Like Freedom, which would allow them to avoid labor and run around naked if they so chose. They might well find a niche as a Family Pet or merely roam around, begging for scraps & sleeping on sidewalks.
This niche would Not consist of The Mentally Ill or Disabled however, The Indolent Caste would have to Demonstrate Competent Intelligence to be A Member of The Shiftless, Sloth Caste. This group wouldn’t even allow Drug Addicts or Petty Criminals to be Included in it.
The Sloth Caste would be a Very Specific, Well Quantified Class of UnTouchables.
Some Societies form Castés around ‘Civilized’ Avocations that Benefit The Community, While Other Occupations, While being Equally Functional, are thought to be Barbaric; Such as Butchers, Executioners, Leather Workers, Janitors, Pollution Handlers & Such.
i don’t think that Castés should make distinctions like that.
If an occupation is Socially Functional, it should merit An Equitable ‘Baseline’ Respect when compared to any other ‘Respectable’ Vocation.
The Castes
The Solvers / Problem Solvers / Encyclopedic Knowledge + Ability to Solve Unique Problems
The Artisans & Craftsmyn / Makers of Things / Creative Artists / Creative Engineers
The Journeymyn / True Professionals / Experts / Highly Skilled, NonCreative Craftsmyn
The Intelligensia / Historical & Encyclopedic Knowledge of Things
The Supervisors / The Most Adroit & Proficient Administrators & Bureaucrats
The Media Whores / Unskilled or Marginally Skilled* NonCreative Craftsmyn
The Common Laborers / Unskilled or Marginally Skilled Workers
The Sloth Caste / House Pets ( Not a Derogatory Class
The Pariahs / Utterly & Completely Useless ( Not a Derogatory Class
The Criminals / OutWorlders ( The Only Derogatory Class
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* Marginally Skilled is any Occupational Métier that can be Picked Up in less than 2 weeks of On The Job Training by A Reasonably Intelligent 5th Grader. They may well refine this skill over a period of many months or years before reaching their personal mastery.
Each Caste is Divided into 3 Categories of Competency
Adroit / Most Masterful
Dexterous / Fully Qualified
Squire / Pupil / Assistant / Space Heater
Each Competency Class would also come in 5 Flavors
Fiduciarii/ Fully Trusted, Genuine Heartfelt Ideological Loyalist
Trusted / Understands & Embraces The Values of Morality & Ethics
Reliable / Not Imaginative Enough to Get into Trouble
Heretic / Questions Everything Too Much / Trouble Maker
OutWorlder / Enemy of The People
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Appendix A : Plato’s Divisions
1. the soul which has seen most of truth shall come to the birth as a philosopher, or artist, or some musical and loving nature;
2. that which has seen truth in the second degree shall be some righteous king or warrior chief;
3. the soul which is of the third class shall be a politician, or economist, or trader;
4. the fourth shall be a lover of gymnastic toils, or a physician;
5. the fifth shall lead the life of a prophet or hierophant;
6. to the sixth the character of poet or some other imitative artist will be assigned;
7. to the seventh the life of an artisan or husbandman;
8. to the eighth that of a sophist or demagogue;
9. to the ninth that of a tyrant
The Problem(s with Plato’s List seem to be that it was created as a consequence of personal experiences & sorrowful ordeals with bureaucrats & departmental supervisors, And then idealized by adhering to The Lessons taught to Small Children.
It’s certainly curious that Plato equates Righteous King with Warrior Chief,
Physicians with Circus Performers & Skilled Craftsmyn with Hog Farmers.
He also allows that Futurists, Which Plato calls Hierophants, and We now call Economists, are suitably reliable to be ranked above Product Designers & Film Directors.
Tyrant is an Interesting Description; In that many genuinely Great Leaders of Social Movements & Industry have been characterized as Tyrannical. Tyranny can be good or bad, depending upon The Vision of The Martinet. There is A School of Thought that allows for The Idea that Exploitation & Slavery of The Damp Masses may be A Good Thing if The Minions are treated fairly & Their Purpose is for Some Grandiose Venture which will Benefit The Community for Many Years to Come. Everyone within a Capitalist Economy is Exploited by Their Employers & Society Imposes Sufficient Restraints & Taboos upon Each ‘Free Citizen’ to Say that they are Properly EnSlaved. Isn’t it curious that The Regimes of Free Societies have to Constantly Remind their Vassals that they are Free ( ?
When We Consider The Exploitation & Slavery of The Damp Masses; The AntiThesis to this is That The Hairpins & Popsicle Sticks that The Gawds Created in Their Own Image; Should, In Some Theoretical Sense; Be allowed to Roam Naked over Lush, Tropical, Fruitful Savannas or Along Sanitary Beaches.
Is it Bad to Force The Featherless Parakeets into Self Actualizing? It may be Wrong to EnSlave These Traffic Cones into Positions of Labor which are Insufficient for Their Potential Talents; But if A Tyrannical Autarch Forced everyone in their Kingdom to Excel in Their Natural Proficiencies; Is this Bad? Do The Litters of Homeless Meerkats really have The Elemental Human Right to Squander their lives? Do The Insane Hobos have a Fundimental Privilege to Sleep in BoxCars? Is it entirely reasonable to assume that they have The Ability to Make Foolish Choices concerning their lives, Or is it more Plausible that given that These Kitchen Spoons have a record of making imprudent or chowderheaded decisions about their lives; Are they really ‘Making’ those Decisions?
Does The Tyrant have a Paternal Responsibility of Compulsively Obliging their Clammy Handkerchiefs into becoming All That their Innate Potentials may provide for them?
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Appendix B : Kinds of ‘Smartness’
Idiot Genius’ or MonoSavants are not considered as a Kind of Smartness; As a Typical MonoSavant possesses a Particular Kind of Smartness; Such as Arithmatic Fluency or Encyclopedic Knowledge.
Encyclopedic Knowledge / Memorization
Application of Knowledge
Creative Application of Knowledge
Problem Solving / Access to Unconscious Insights
Witty
Arithmatic Fluency
Vocabulary Fluency
Symbolic Fluency / Specialty Knowledge / Electronics Fluency / Programming/Boolean Fluency
Attentive Observation
Understanding Subtle Cues
Ability to Focus Against Distractions
Ability & Willingness to Become ‘Good’ At Several Disciplines
Recognizing The Brilliance of Others or Ideas other than your Own.
Recognizing a Good or Brilliant Idea
Ability to Recognize ‘Beauty’
Ability to Recognize ‘Popular’ or ‘Popularity’ Which is a Combination of Utility, Novelty & Beauty.
Ability to Access & Tame The Inner Sociopath ( or Psychopath )
Ability to Become a Focal Node to The Combined Efforts of Several Minds
Ability to ‘Find’ Answers ( Either Encyclopedic References or ExogenicInsights )
Ability to Discover Things
Ability to Recognize & Acknowledge An Heretical Idea
Ability to Recognize ‘A Job Well Done.’
Ability to See The Consequences of (x.
Ability to See The Logical Conclusion.
Ability to Pursue An Idea / To Ask Questions / To See Beneath The Sea
Ability to Recognize An Incompleteness of Knowledge
Ability to Structure A Mystery into Solvable Parts
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Appendix C : Intelligence Pertaining to Sensory Awareness & Discrimination
Is this really ’Smartness’ or ‘Intelligence’ ?
Many Occupations such as Pharmacists, Chefs, Musicians, Illustrators, Dancers & Such have special abilities that are Directly Related to Their Senses, Which are Interpreted in The Subject’s Brain, Not on The Base of The Tongue, Finger Tips or Joints. All Mental Activities should be given The Same Status of ‘Ability’, Which is ‘Intelligence’.
- Chemoreception / Smell
- Photoreception / Sight / Rods, Cones ( Red, Green, Blue ) / Tetrachromancers can see an additional color, but it's still within the visible light spectrum, so that it only enables such viewers to accurately discern a greater range of distinct hues.
- MetaSight / ElectroMagnetic Spectrum / Heat / Microwaves / Polarization of Light
- Mechanoreception / Balance / Kinesthetic ( Body Position / Joint Motion ) / Body Image / Vestibular Sense /
- Spatial Placement / What is Around Me? / Comparative Direction / Acceleration
- Touch / Somatic Sensation / Thermoception / Pressure / Sharp / Stretch /
- Sound / Audition / Perfect Pitch
- Echolocation /
- Electroreception / Magnetic Compass &/or Fields / Direction
- Vasodilation / Viscral / Internal Organ Senses / Intestinal / Internal Pressure
- Taste / Gustation / Sommeliers ( Wine Tasters ) / Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour & Umami ( deliciousness Tastes Fat & ? )
- Humor / Sense of Reason / Intuitive Logical Perception /
- Empathetic Projection / What are other people Feeling?
- Time / Measuring or Knowing What Time it is / Seeing into The Future by Means of Analytic Projection
- Precognition
- Telepathy
- Fantasy Prone / Quixotic Awareness / The Special Ability to See Fairies, Bigfoot or Flying Saucers
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Appendix D : Further Speculations Regarding Intelligence
It’s been recently suggested that Steve Job’s wasn’t particularly ‘Smart’
The same as been said about Richard Feynman, Henri Poincaré, David Hilbert & i’ve been saying this for years about Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Steve Allen, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ray Johnson & Carl Sagan— All of whom are Severely Overrated.
Part of this problem ( which has many different Facets ) is that There are many kinds of ‘Smart’ & English ( ? ) just doesn’t have a suitable Vocabulary to distinguish between The many kinds of Smart.
i have also been very skeptical of Straight A students for quite a while.
Even in Grade School, i readily observed that The ‘Smartest’ students were The Goofiest ones, and i interpreted that to mean that they understood The Functionality of Playfulness, while The C Students believed that Being Solemn & Sultry, Smoking Cigarettes & Drinking Beer were somehow ‘Adult’ Attributes.
One needn’t be Solemn or Self Abusing to be Serious or Zoologically Mature.
But later; i became more suspect of Straight A students, that didn’t seem very ‘Bright’. They certainly weren’t witty or creative or deeply knowledgable.
What were The Qualities that they possessed that allowed them to get Straight A’s?
Obviously; It may be that These Students are not being rewarded for Intelligence, but Acquiescence to Their Social Indoctrination Program, Or it may be that These Students have found that they have A Natural Ability to Shape & Control The Thoughts of Others. ( ?
As a function of this; i have now come to believe that The B Students are really The Smartest ones.
C students are generally just dull.
D & F students are an enigma. Some D & F students are clearly very bright, so there may be some application here that The Untrainable Elephants are The Smartest Ones.
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Appendix E : Foundations for National Caste Systems
Under The Hindu System; Castes are Delineated by Occupations; Which are Elitist, based on many centuries of fine tuning that ostensibly tried to rid The Social Divisions of Nepotism, Usually related to Royalty. Regretfully; The Castes are still applied through Decent, Which Skewers The Entire Point of An Unbiased Caste System.
Brahmana: The priests and the teachers
Kshatriya (or Rajanya): Administrators and Military men
Vaishya (or Arya): Traders, merchants, businessmen, farmers and herdsmen
Shudra: Servants
Below these groups are The Untouchables...!!! ( Pariah's )
Dalits
Harijans
Antyajas
Pariahs
The Curious thing about Societies that may have an Unformalized System of Specific Classes; They invariably have names for The Highest & Lowest Stations, While Excluding The Hoi Polloi, or Damp Masses.
In PreWesternized Japanese
The Samurai; Which didn’t always weld Swords, Policed & Administered Communities.
While The Peasants enjoyed invisibility; The Burakumin ( Outworlders ) are routinely & harshly discriminated against.
The Cottar (in Scotland and Ireland) are farm laborers or tenants occupying a cottage in return for labor.
Ethiopia’s poorest Class are The Bantu
Nigerian & Cameroon’s have The Osus.; ‘Who are Owned by The Gawds; In The Same Sense as Butterflies & Stray Dogs’ which are a Peon Class & Outcasts.
The Baekjeong are Korean Untouchables / Common Rabble
The Chaein are associated with Basket Weaving; A Necessary Occupation, suitable for children & trained monkeys; Not Self Respecting Adults.
The Hwachae are Korean Executioners ( or Butchers ) Which are amoung The Untouchables.
Is it indeed curious that Civilized Kitchen Appliances have so distanced themselves from The Necessary Slaughter of Their Food Resources; While simultaneously glorifying Warfare, Cinemagraphic Police Violence & Athletic Related Aggression.
Real Violence is Abhorrent, While Stylized Violence has been Elevated to Art.
Is this Related to The Awareness that many Broken Crayons have about Love?
Real Love exists only The Stylized & Romantic Fictions of Art, While The Love Experienced by Carpet Sweepers & Bicycle Spokes, Is Sultry, Vulgar & Squalid.
Reality is A Huge Disappointment.
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Appendix F : Full Spectrum Social Classes
- Gawds Supreme Authorities
- Angels Quixotic Beings with Unknown Agendas / Xi.Six Controllers
- Mighty Men / Giants
- Royalty Intermediate Strata / Ruling Families
- Knight / Philosopher Warrior / Truly Righteous Hero
- Nobility / Authority Granted Over Mortals by Royalty
- Old Wealthy
- Aristocracy / Noble Classes / Blue Bloods
- Celebrity / Movie Star / Media Whores
- Hoity Toity / New Money / Exuberant Buffoons
- Bourgeoisie Gentlemyn /
- White Collar / Executive Bureaucrats
- Bourgeoisie / 16th Century Middle Class / Capitalists
- Proletariat / Prole / Working Class
- Blue Collar / Working Class
- Plebeians / Commoners / Peasants
- Hoi Polloi / The Common Rabble / Churl
- Crackers / Schizophrenics / Autistics / Heretics & Creative Artists
- UnTouchables / Filthy & Annoying Social Degenerates
- Disagreeable Criminals
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Appendix G : Caste Subsets Which are Neither Occupations, Nor Class Positions
- Ruling Families
- Bureaucrats
- Literati / Educated Class
- Graduate Student
- Adult Student / Self Educated / Literate Adult
- Foreigners
- Geographical Divisions
- Mixed Blood Citizen
- Indentured Servants
- Women & Children
- Minority Races
- Ethnic Minorities
- Religious Minorities
- Sectarian Divisions
- Tribal or Clan Affiliations
- Exuberant Buffoons
- Chattel
- Town Bully
- Convicted Criminals
- Personality Disorders
- Drug Addict / Alcoholic /
- Slaves
- Hobo / Street Person
- Panhandler
- The Clinically Insane
- Taboo Breaking Criminals
- Untouchables Filthy & Annoying Social Degenerates
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