Bad People & Torture

Bad People & Torture

There are many kinds of Torture;

Physical Torture of course, The kinds that are designed to simply cause The recipient to suffer egregious pain or Emotional Distress; The kind that is meant to make The recipient believe they are in mortal danger; The Kind that is meant to actually bring The recipient to The Edge of Mortal Danger, The Kind that is meant to very slowly kill The recipient, with no hope of saving them after The desired information is extracted — Then there’s The kind that is designed to really, really annoy The recipient into giving themselves up, or driving them to make irrational decisions which may result in The deaths of law enforcement agents or themselves.

This Issue needs to also consider The Kinds of Criminals which may become The Recipients of Torture.

There are The Bad People. Comparatively Sane Career Criminals that commit crimes & mischief to illicit financial gain or simply get into mischief by being ‘Naughty’. Most everyone likes to get Naughty from time to time, break The rules, annoy their office Coworkers, tease their own children or whatever; But The Career Criminal usually gets into an advanced level of mischief that causes serious loss of personal Property, Injuries, Irreparable Emotional Trauma or Wide Spread Societal Chaos.

Then there’s the Psychopath ( or Sociopath ) which exceed The normal parameters of a mere Personality Disorder. These people are Crazy. As such; They are Crazy. And by this; i mean; They are Crazy. They Belong in a Hospital with secure locks on The doors & Carts with potent Tranquilizers. i don’t care how ‘Bad’ these Bad People are; Their Craziness Supersedes their Badness. They are Victims of their Craziness, just as their Conventional Victims are Victims of Them. This may be a little too subtle for some ‘Lay’ people to understand, as most people ( like my sister ) believe that crazy people should be able to just shake off their craziness, & behave themselves. This is; By Definition : Wrong. If they were able to shake it off, they wouldn’t really be Crazy.

The Point being that Crazy People, Irregardless of how ‘Bad’ they are; Even if they’re really, Really Bad, should not be Tortured.

This however brings up an Interesting point that may seem like ( this rule ) disregards or merely creates an exception to The Last Rule. But No. It does not. This New Rule Breaks The Last Rule, Irrevocably Breaks The Last Rule, & there is no Arguing that Point. But. The ‘Investigator’ that is in a position to ‘Need’ to know something that The Crazy Person knows, but isn’t willing or ‘Able’ to tell The Investigator; The Investigator may choose to impress The Crazy person with The Seriousness of Telling The Investigator (x. & this may include breaking fingers & such. This is Wrong. But The Investigator may believe that it is Necessary for Some Greater Good. This is a Decision that The Investigator must make on their own, & when it’s all over with; Their Superiour & Critics will hopefully agree that The Actions they took were all for The Best, Especially if everything worked out for everyone.

So what about The Bad People that Aren’t Crazy?

Can we Torture them ?

Obviously ( ! ) We’re not talking about Torture of The kind that The Spanish Inquisition or Puritan Witch Hunters Used to Illicit numerous False Confessions or Lists of Additional Witches. We are Now Talking about Carefully Crafted Torture Schemes that will Result in Timely & Accurate Information that may be Genuinely Used to Prevent Additional Crimes or Mischief. Is this Alright ?

No.

But.

It may be reasonable to Trick The Bad People to reveal their Secrets, & this Trickiness is a burden & Exasperation to The Investigators. The Good Guys should always Play The Game of Being The Good Guys, Otherwise; Everyone is just Guys. Guys against Guys. The Red Team against The Blue Team. Is this A Game ? Yes. It is. That’s how The Game should be played though. Are The Stakes very high. Yes. But does this invalidate The Game. No. The Game’s Rules must still be Obeyed. Otherwise; There are no Rules. And Chaos Results. The Genuinely Good ‘Lay’ People are then stuck between The Bad Good Guys & The Good Bad Guys. ( It should be noted here that ‘Bad Sane Guys’ are Never Bad Bad Guys. Only Insane Bad Guys are Occasionally Bad Bad Guys, & even then; Hardly Ever. Most Bad Guys thoroughly Understand The Game, & Know that There are Rules that they scrupulously Obey. Everyone Obeys their own set of Rules. Good Good Guys need to Obey a Higher Class of Rules that make them The Good Good Guys. If this is Well Understood; ( ? ) Most Good Bad Guys will respect the Good Good Guys & meet them half way in The Game. Again; You may believe that Bad Guys would not respect The Good Good Guys; But everyone respects Good Good Guys. The only problem is, that there are very few really Good Good Guys.

( Everyone Respects Sheriff Andy Taylor; The Criminals Respect him & know that he is A good Good Guy, & Not just acting for his Own Best Interests, But The Best Interests of Mayberry, The Criminals that Live in Mayberry know that Sheriff Andy Taylor is On their Side, Even when he is Arresting them. ! )

The other major point; Is that using Torture to Annoy Bad Guys into making poor & dangerous decisions, Is just Wrong. ( Such as blaring loud music into a Bad Guys Compound )

The Game requires that The Good Good Guys ‘Trick’ ( Honorably ( ? ) ) The Good Bad Guys ( we have already established The Bad Bad Guys are very Rare ) into doing What they Want to Do— That is; Make Rational Decisions that are in their own Best Interests, but Aren’t. That’s The ‘Honorable’ Game. The Stakes are High, Innocent People may be hurt or killed, Property may be destroyed, But The Game allows for that. It’s not ‘Ever’ “Anything Goes” so That =We= Win. When =We= Win under those Circumstance; Then The Good Bad Guys are The Victims. They Good Bad Guys may be The Losers, but Not The Victims. Good Good Guys -Never- have Victims. That’s how The Game is Played. The US Constitution is all About The Game, and Protecting The Good ‘Lay’ Good Guys from The Bad Good Guys that believe that Winning is Everything. Winning isn’t Everything, Predominantly because most ‘Rules’ & ‘Laws’ are completely Arbitrary. The Game is all about Preserving ‘Order’ in A World where most Good ‘Knowledgeable’ Guys are aware that An Orderly Society is A State of Mind, & Not an Absolute Governance of Right & Wrong. Nobody really knows what Right & Wrong are. The very fact that there are so many Courts & Judges working day & night to this very day trying to piece together individuals rights & wrongs; proves this.

Providing Equity for The Poor

Providing Equity for The Poor

The One thing that really separates The Poor from The Rich is That The Rich can Solve Simple Problems very easily. These Simple problems for The Poor though, are often Devastating.

Cancer is Cancer for The Rich & Poor, But a Broken Toilet is merely a minor inconvenience for The Rich.

To provide some measure of Equity for The Poor;

There should be something like a 822 Number for anyone to call that will provide them with sound & useful advice to solve any of these ’Simple’ Problems & get these solutions paid for in a reasonable manner without ripping anyone off.

As such; Local Companies would be ‘Included’ in this program if they satisfied The Criteria for helping people in a quick & affordable manner, & they would then be made public through The internet as a ‘Good’ Company. Encouraging more companies to be Good, to be included on this list of Simple Problem Solvers.

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What is A Simple Problem?

If Substantial Property Damage or Personal Health or Welfare is Threatened; Then Call 911.

If You are going to be Substantially Inconvenienced or A Small Amount of Property Damage is occurring or Going to Occur Soon; Then Call 822.

If No Inconvenience or Damage is Expected; 822 would be Inappropriate.

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Many such Problems may be defined as The Victim being Stymied by The Wonderment of The Situation in The Form; ‘What do I do About this?’

In this sense; The Victim doesn’t really have any idea what to do about (x ?

(x is Bad, but what can or should I do about it ?

Call 822.

Right & Wrong is Obsolete

Do Away with The Entire Judicial System

Right & Wrong is Obsolete

The Entire Judicial System should be Switched over to;

Good Behaviors and Bad Behaviors.

The Entire Idea behind Right & Wrong, Ethical & UnEthical, Legal & IlLegal is Obsolete.

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How can a person methodically plan to kill a theatre full of people, buy dozens of guns and ammunition, Then go to The Theatre and proceed to kill a few dozen people and seriously wound several more; And not be insane.

How can a Judicial System exist that allows perfectly sane people to simple decide to murder a theatre full of people The way most people make a baloney sandwich or watch an old episode of Gilligan’s Island.

i’ve often wondered if there is some simple test that can be applied to any given person that would determine if they’re crazy or not. Can Crazy People do things that only Crazy People would do? Are there such things that a Sane Person would -Never- do, No matter how motivated or what The Desired Terminal Consequences would be. Would or Could a Sane Person blow up Bus of School Children if they knew that by doing so The City would be Saved from a Nuclear Bombing ( ? )

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If there were things that only an Insane Person could do; They wouldn’t involve life & death, they would be like really kooky Things ! ( ? )

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Accompanying this Idea is :

The Problem of Taboos.

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Why would a given Culture or Society make up a Set of Often Very Kooky Rules and make them into The Most Serious Crimes?

If something is really Wrong, Why is it necessary to Make Rules forbidding them with Horrific Penalties. If they were really Wrong, Anyone that Commits them must be Insane, and would not be subject to The Horrific Penalties attached to these Taboos; But should be cared for in hospitals, Not prisons.

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Cultures & Societies know that there really isn’t right & wrong, Only rules.

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There was an Episode of CSI several years ago that considered a Crime that involved one ner’er-do-well tricking an innocent victim into something something, by producing a fake internet love interest— By taking A Picture of The Victim & Morphing it Slightly into A Person of Their Opposite Sex!

The Premise used here, Was that Everyone is Most Sexually Attracted to People that look pretty much like themselves!

Which in all other cases, Would be your siblings.

But we are taught with Taboos that being Sexually Attracted to your Siblings is An Abomination, & only The Most Craziest of Crazy people would ever hold any Fondness for their own Family.

This is Crazy ( ? ) - Right ?

So why is there a Taboo for this?

Why would ‘The Invisible Hand of Western Civilization, Or The Invisible Hand from Every Human Civilization make this into one of our Most Loathsome Crimes ?

Does it have to do with Genetic Mutations.

‘They’ Say so, but not really. That’s not it.

It probably has more to do with Property & Kinship Ties to Neighboring Villages & Such.

Money.

It has to do with Money.

When you Marry your Father’s Enemy’s Daughter or Son, you Form a Unifying Allegiance that holds a community together. People figured that out when we were still living in caves.

Loving your Siblings is a Very Natural Desire. That is why The Most Horrific Penalties must be Ascribed to anyone that chooses to follow The Path of their True Nature.

That’s what being civilized is all about.

That is why we wear clothes.

That is why ‘Being A Natural Human Being’ is The Worst Crime of all.

Most Police Officers are Terrible Shots

Most Police Officers are Terrible Shots

1. One of my crazy ideas is to insist that police officers load their weapons with ‘blanks’, so that they can provide ‘Cover Fire’ when necessary, but since most police officers can’t shoot straight anyway, they won’t ( shouldn’t be ) have to be concerned where their wild shots are ending up.

2. The Problem with ‘Blanks’ though is that it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that The Shots being fired at you aren’t chipping wood or stones, breaking windows or whizzing by your head.

3. The Solution is to provide The Officers with three kinds of ammunition, The Traditional Blanks, Melting/Rubber/Popping Bullets, and Conventional Bullets.

4. They might also be equipped with Armor Piercing Bullets, Along with even more assertive fire power, But The Emphasis will be on using Less Violence; Not more.

5. One Alternative to Rubber Bullets, which leave Rubber Bullets behind for birds to get sick on after trying to eat them or cluttering up an alley with; Are Melting Bullets. They are not made of ice, but some synthetic material that is biodegradable, and quickly degrades into a harmless vapor or dust when exposed to sunlight or rainwater.

6. A Popping Bullet is made of some harmless material that POPS when it hits something, Creating a Loud Sound and Spark that is intended to be Intimidating and effective when they nearly miss The suspect. If you’re hit with a Popping Bullet, The Effect is Substantially less injurious than a Conventional Bullet, but more irksome than being hit with a rubber band.

7. These Melting Bullets lend to The Effect of Breaking Windows, Spattering when they hit solid objects, Generate a suitably audible Whizzing while in flight, and really sting when they hit you.

8. When in Use; The police Officers would refrain from using their fire-arms until deadly force was deemed necessary, Then use their Blanks to Intimidate The Suspect sufficiently to make a clean & safe arrest. Short of That; They would quickly & easily exchange their Blank Clip for a Melting Bullets, and if this fails to bring about a satisfying result, Switch to Conventional Bullets as a last resort, And only ‘Genuine Marksmyn’ would be allowed ( Usually ) to use Conventional Armaments, & would Fire only a Minimal Number of Rounds; As opposed to The Usual Scenario of Firing Hundreds of Rounds at a Suspect laying inert on The Ground.

9. Another Idea is to allow The Police to be Equipped with A Device that they attach to The Hood or Trunk of Their Police Car that Fires very loud Rounds in a Manner suggesting A Gatling Gun. The rounds are not real bullets, but exploding shells that are made of ceramic or soft Plastic that Makes a decisive Bang with Sparks when it hits anything, lending credence to The Idea that it’s genuinely dangerous, but isn’t really going to damage anyone or anything. / Plus; It doesn’t even have to be manned, in that The Operator just sets it up, points in The general direction and it it pans gentle from side to side, while The police deploy officers &/or Robots to get closer for a safe & secure arrest or perform reconnaissance.

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To be used in Conjunction with :

The Designated Shooter

i originally thought of this when it comes to police shootings in which every single cop at a standoff will begin shooting, such that dozens, if not hundreds of shots are fired at an unarmed or armed suspect.

But i think that this also applies to interviewers on morning talk shows, in which everyone starts talking at the same time. This happens A LOT. And it drives me CrAzY...!!!

So the idea is that ONE person will be given the task of being The Designated Shooter. This person will not necessarily be the highest ranking officer, but the best shot with the temperament to know when it's appropriate to shoot, and be able to hit the suspect where it will either successfully wound/disable the suspect or kill them, depending on the needs of the investigation. This Designated Shoot must also have the team spirit to hand off the Designated Shooter Spot if they determine that another team member has a better shot, and is capable of taking the best shot.

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As a Side ( Tangental ) Issue to this;

Movie Goers are often annoyed that in Many ‘Battle’ Scenes, The Two Opposing Forces fire Hundreds of Rounds at one another; While The ‘Good’ Guys are Never hit, & even The ‘Bad’ Guys are hit far less often than might be ‘Reasonably’ Expected.

But in The Really Real Case of Amadou Diallo, who was Murdered by Police in New York City, February 4th 1999; The Two Undercover ( Plain Clothed ) Officers rousted Amadou as he was about to enter his Apartment, Demanding Identification or Whatever. When Amadou, A Blackmyn, Reached for his Wallet, The Two Officers Opened fire & Emptied both of their ‘Clips’, which Consisted of about 18 Bullets Each. Amadou was initially standing about 2 or 3 feet from The officers, then undoubtedly fell to The ground after being hit The first or second time, leaving him as a perfectly immobile target, 3 feet from The 2 Officers. Despite this ‘Fish in Barrel’ Scenario, The Two Officers of New York’s Finest, only hit him with 3 or 4 Rounds.

Clearly they were both Completely Hysterical.

Never-The-Less;

Both officers were found innocent of participating in a perfectly justified shooting.

Riots ensued.

Is This The Best of All Possible Worlds?

Is This The Best of All Possible Worlds?

How common is it that when one ( you ) are walking along or riding in a vehicle of some kind, you are suddenly possessed with The Sideways Premonition that somewhere else, in another universe, either very far away or right next to you, but painted all up with colors that our idea of light doesn’t recognize— There is another you that has suddenly experienced an horrific ‘accident’ or circumstance, & that perhaps you are aware of it at that moment because this other you is The same other you that you frequently find yourself looking out of, through their eyes, in your own dreams, & that now, at that moment, they are screaming pitilessly as their life fluids drain away & gawkers passing by in a bus laugh as if something wondrously comical has just happened, as if it were on TV.

 

If you ever have experienced something like that;

Have you ever experienced The AntiThesis of such an Event, in which this other you, The White & Black Version, is instead experiencing some moment or moments of Ecstasy or Bliss, that far exceeds any such emotional satisfaction that you have ever felt?

Now.

Either this Phenomena is somehow, somewhat, or some-sort of Reality; In which you really are momentarily in contact with a Duplicate ( Doppelganger ) & Experiencing in some Vague way through observation of their unique fate(s,

Or it is not.

Then.

In my own experiences; i occasionally ( a few times every month ) have a very vivid experience of The Prior Type, & Never of The Latter.

If The Experience is merely Psychological, like Deja Vu or The Common Urge to Pull your pants down in front of young girls, Then this would seem to indicate that i am a fatalist, imagining only disasters that may at any moment cross over this river of dimensional realities & fall upon my own affairs.

Else.

The Reason that i am not experiencing Transdimensional instances of Euphoria, Is that they aren’t manifest with The Emotional Force that is required to leap across these barriers of Existence,

Or Of all The Realities that Duplicates of myself Exist in; I am living in The One that contains The Most amount of Happiness & Merriment.

What a Tragic Conclusion. 

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There is a Theory/ies that this Universe of ours is a mere bubble of Expanding Galaxies, & that beyound our own shell, there are numerous other similar bubbles, perhaps an infinite number of them, & that these Other Universes ( Local Universes ) may exist with Entirely Different Physical Laws & such.

Additionally, or Tangentially; i don’t believe in The Big Bang, with An Expanding Universe & so on. It’s just crazy.

If The Red-Shift Evidence does actually mean that all ( most ) of The Other galaxies are drifting away from us, this may mean that The Local Universe is ‘Expanding’, But it doesn’t necessarily mean that it came from a very dense baseball some 17 Billion years ago. It may mean that we’re living in a Steady State Universe in which all The Galaxies are simply dancing around one another, & that at this particular moment, we are living in a period during which all of our ‘Local’ Galaxies bunched all up into a focal point of sorts, which no doubt actually consisted of a region billions of light years across, & just as when galaxies ‘Collide’ The Stars Pass harmless by one another, In this distant Daisy Wheel of Billions of Galaxies, They harmlessly passed through & beside one another, & are now on The outward journey of this ‘Collision’ !

My Crazy theory also explains why The Entire Night Sky isn’t illuminated with The Same Intensity as a Noon Day Sky, by The Infinity of Stars. It turns out that Photons aren’t Eternal. They decay very slowly. & The Time Span for Their Decay is several Billion Years, so that The Light from Stars a Sufficiently Long Way Off, Never reach us, they decay before they get here & slip into The ZeroPoint Region of Space ( ? )

Anyways.

If you believe in an Infinite ‘Real’ Universe that extends far beyound our ‘Local’ Universe, then; First you have to Grasp What Infinity Means.

It means ‘Big’. Very Big. Really Big.

In this Infinity, Anything that isn’t Impossible, is Required.

& Not Only is it required, it’s required to Exist An Infinite Number of Times.

So that if there is One Earth.

There has to be an Infinite Number of ‘Other’ Earths.

Some are -Exactly- Like this one.

& Some are A Little Different.

& many are Earlier Versions of this one, & some later.

i have a few slight problems with this though.

If there was another Earth in some far away Universe, The Surrounding Universes would undoubtedly be arranged differently; & so that The Gravitational & Electromagnetic Fields would be Different when they crossed over this other Earth, making it impossible to be The Same—

Unless !

All of these Different Gravitational & Electromagnetic Fields interacted in an Entirely Different Way to Produce A Duplicate Earth for Different Causal Reasons !!!

Like Two Authors writing an Identical Story, but were motivated by entirely different Emotions, & believed that their story meant two entirely different things !

Another Thing.

i don’t think that there could be an Earth exactly like this one, except for one tiny detail.

All of The Forces & Causal Particle Interactions that made Earth One would have to be Duplicated for Making Earth B, & as such, The Clockwork would play out in The Same Manner, Producing all The Same Details.

If any such Detail were changed, they The Causal Hierarchy would Cascade into an Entirely Different Earth.

Another Small Point.

Everything that is Possible must necessarily exist along a continuum of Probable Possibilities.

That is; Some things, Such as The Existence & Formation of Electrons is Highly Inevitable,

While The Science Fiction of Terry Bisson would be substantially Less Probable.

But Infinity.

Infinity & Infinity.

What a Bother.

Even so; Anything that is possible, Must Exist & Exist in An Infinite Number of Identical or Nearly Identical Forms.

Or not.

What if ( as there must be ) There were some things that are so very improbable that while in an infinite universe they would indeed occur an infinite number of times, they just hadn’t gotten around to become manifest ‘yet’.

In an Infinite Universe, these very improbable things may go an infinite period of time without -yet- becoming manifest.

Or maybe they become manifest once.

So it may be that The Earth is Unique after all.

& When you Imagine An Horrible Accident befalling your Distant Twin,

It is just that; A Symptom of a Slight Psychosis.

i hate educational videos!

i hate educational videos!

from time to time, my brain will weaken & i’ll check out an educational video from The Library, & today i checked out =The Code= A BBC on The Story of Math.

it is horrible.

it consists of nothing but talking heads, & they never really explain anything, they just tell you The ‘Results’ or ‘Conclusion’ of something, & Never explain WHY they think that that’s true.

The Main Talking Head: Marcus du Sautoy will say that he’s going to do an ‘Calculation’ & then he completely fails to give us any hint as to what this ‘Calculation’ consists of. Instead, all we see is his talking head, with maybe a squeeze of his hands scribbling on a piece of paper or blackboard, but they never really show us what he’s doing.

A tiny amount of Computer graphics, or simply walking us through The ‘Calculation’ would be great. A Graphic maybe. that would be nice.

for me. Graphic Calculators really opened up my love of mathematics because they suddenly showed me what The numbers were doing !

you’ll see none of that in this video(s.

In another segment; Marcus is trying to make The ‘Argument’ that there is something very Strange about these numbers called ‘Imaginary’ numbers & how they are integral in how RADAR works. At one point he ostensibly tries to explain how The images on The RADAR Screen are relating to these Imaginary Numbers, but what do we see instead; Talking Heads. The few glimpses that we do see of The RADAR screen are obscured by Talking Heads or hands covering up what we’re supposed to be looking at.

And he very irritatingly & Very Wrongly !!! attempts to make The argument ( ? ) that The use of these ‘Imaginary’ numbers somehow defy The Normal ‘Rules’ of Mathematics by allowing us to mulitply i x i to equal -1.

Mathematicians have ‘Contrived’ this exception to allow for The previous ‘Mistake’ of allowing -1 x -1 to equal +1.

To my way of thinking, they should never have allowed multiplication ( By ) Negative Numbers.

you can easily multiple 4 by -3 to equal -12. that makes sense doesn’t it?

But what does -4 x 3 mean? 3 units multiplied by four negative somethings ?

That should simply be forbidden.

Mathematics is full of crazy shat like this. There are countless ‘Exceptions’ that have to be ‘Filled In’ with ‘New’ Rules to pull everything together from time to time.

You see this a lot in Graphs of various perfectly reasonable looking equations, where The path of The Graphed expression will suddenly ‘break’ & shoot off to another position with no elapsed transition from x to x + ( 1 x subquanta ).

A subquanta is The gap between .999… & 1.

Imaginary Numbers are ‘Actually’ ‘Really’ just perfectly ordinary numbers that are placed in a 2 dimensional form; such that ( 2, 4 ) means 2 over to The right, & 4 steps up. Like on Graph Paper. The 4 is The Imaginary unit, The 2 is The ‘Real’ Number.

Natureally; When you start putting numbers into forms like [ 3 5 7 ] to create spatial coordinates for 3 dimensional points, which are very necessary for making films like ‘Toy Story’, You would think that mathematicians would insist on calling The 3rd number ( 7 in The example ) a Very Imaginary Number, But no. They don’t. Then suddenly step back & say that there’s nothing peculiar about these numbers at all. They merely represent positions in a 3 dimensional space.

And Filler.

This Video is 99% Filler.

It would be very nice if they just stopped once in awhile to actually explain something, rather than show us grandiose landscapes or go on & on with irrelevant nonsense & ‘Design’ Cleverness.

An example of this is when they’re ostensibly introducing us to The idea of The Fibonacci sequence as actualized in The shell of a Nautilus, he tapes an X-Ray onto The window of a taxi-cab that he’s riding in, while The city scape is seen whizzing by outside.

Plus; it’s a terrible X-Ray.

i think it would be fabulous to see a mathematical video or a physics video or a chemistry video or a gawd dang Art or Music Video that actually talked about The gawd dang subject matter & explained, carefully & with graphics why they believed what they were talking about, & made sure that their explanations were broken down into enough pieces, so that an attentive 5th grader could follow their reasoning.

Very often; if you manage to corner someone in one of these ‘hoity toity’ professions, & ask them to ‘explain’ something, they will say that it can’t be done ! But i’m of The school of thinking that any ‘Real’ Idea can explained to The most ignorant attentive 3rd grader, if you simply break it down into a sufficiently detailed series of concepts that are all fundamentally defined. This may take a whole day or 2 days to get through, but i’m sure it could be done.

In a video; They would allow that some ‘Common’ Vocabulary would go undefined, but any words used in ‘UnCommon’ ways would be defined, & from that; The explanation should proceed briskly from beginning to end, leaving no ‘Gaps’ where something too difficult to break down needs to be explained !

i hate that!

Gawd !

On The rare occasion when The talking head actually does try to explain something, but then they hit a rough patch that needs a substantial amount of ‘More’ explaining, they’ll just jump over it !!! ( And Then a Miracle Occurs… )

If you need to stop The video & watch that segment again, & again, & again.

So be it.

But to just leave it out is unforgivable.

Its kind of like The Old Testament in The Bible. In The New Testament, very often you will find that The Bible has changed The Font of whatever Jesus says to a Red Letter Font.

Wouldn’t it be fun if there was a Bible that did that will The Old Testament, Putting everything that gawd says in A Gold Font, or Purple or Whatever. There are plenty of places where it is Unequivocally stated that these are The Words of Gawd !

Such a Bible would be far more successful in Killing Christianity than all The Biologists ranting about The foolishness of Creationism for The Next 3000 years.

If Christians could just open up a Bible & flip through it, seeing that Gawd actually said from time to time, you’d have to be a lot dumber than your typical Mississippian to continue being a Fundamentalist Christian.

Science & Mathematics is The Same way; They are Terrified of actually explaining what their underlying ‘Reasoning’ is behind many of their most precious dogmas.

Haven’t you ever wondered about E = MC^2 ?

How in The Heck does The Value of The Velocity of C ( The Speed of Light ) come into Determining The Amount of Mass that is Converted into Energy, & How were these ‘Unit Values’ determined anyways ? How does the Unit Values of E align with The Unit Values of M ? They were fudged. The Equation is Fudged to make it work.

The Standard Theory that ‘Explains’ all of physics contains numerous ‘Constants’ which are not derived from any measurable phenomena. They were ‘Created’ out of Whole Cloth to make The other Values ‘Agree’ with The Equations !

Everything they are Telling ( & not Explaining ) to you, Is a Lie !

Wake Up, & let us go back to The Caves where we belong !

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As a side note to that last rant bit;

Do you think that maybe ‘Evolution’ or ‘Angels’ or ‘Whatever’ that created Homoinoid Sapianus ( People = The Damp Masses ) were ‘Created’ to have an IQ of about 100, & all The People that are substantially Dumber or Smarter, are Mutant Variants that are like A Cancer or Ebola to The Successful Functionality of The ‘True’ Species of IQ 100 Humans. ( ? )

That is; If humans weren’t producing all of these ‘Intellectual Monstrosities’ they would all be living happily on a savanna in any of The equatorial regions around The world, Never getting into serious wars, destroying The planet or thinking about spreading our infection to other worlds throughout The galaxy or universe.

( ? )

Strange Sensations &/or Compulsions.

Strange Sensations, Compulsions.

For several months now; & curiously it only started a few months ago, 

i have been experiencing a very strong & compelling sensation that i am ‘missing’ something whenever i leave my apartment. This Sensation doesn’t usually start until i am at The bottom of The Steps or about a block from The Building.

This Sensation however is not at all mysterious. 

i know exactly what is missing. 

It is my Wrist Watch.

The Oddest part is though, i have not worn my Wrist Watch for About 3 years now.

Partly because i now have my iPod that i take everywhere with me, & partly because i stopped wearing it after i broke that wrist, & it didn’t ‘fit’ right, even after it stopped hurting & most The Strength returned to that hand.

But The Sensation is very distinct that that Wrist is ‘Bare’ & ‘Empty’ & The arm feels too light ( ! )

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Another Sensation or Compulsion that i’ve had for a much longer time is that very often when i am holding something, usually something expensive, i will have a compulsive ‘Desire’ to throw it. This usually manifests as a sudden urge that appears & then subsides, without my having thrown anything ( yet ). 

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A Third Sensation is that whenever i am crossing a street or having just done some benign thing that has not expressed itself as being in The Least Dangerous or put myself in any peril; i will suddenly become ‘Aware’ that another version of me, in another universe, was just then in a terrible accident as a result of things having just occurred in ‘their’ universe, slightly differently than they did here in this universe. 

( ??? )

How Obvious is gawd?

How Obvious is gawd?

It occurred to me last night that there may be a wondrous new project to work on with The Gematria.

Now that 2012 ( December 21st ) has come & gone & The World has not yet Ended,

What is The ‘Next’ ‘Best’ Date for The World to End ?

From time to Time; Obscure & ‘Reckless’ Christian Theologists have Predicted when The World will End. i presume that Other Religions are plagued with Nuts like this, but Curiously, they don’t seem to receive The Press here in The Continental United States for me to have heard about them.

These Fruit-Baskets typically Divine this Date by ‘Secret’ or ‘UnRevealed’ methods & they are not available for Examination by The Lay Critic or Pundit. 

But.

What if.

gawd were ( more ) obvious than this ?

What if.

If.

If you knew just ( How to Look ) at where these secrets were revealed, 

Would These Secrets would hit you over The Head with how Obvious they Were ?

What is This Obvious Method?

A Small Variation of The Cabbage Codes.

Using The SEG ( Simple English Gematria ) 

( As English is The Language of Choice by gawd ( The Great Cabbage ) )

Wouldn’t it be ( Fun ) if An Gematrian Alchemist were to find 

Various Dates that Equaled The Disasters that Happened on That Date ( ! )

Null Example : ( As i have not yet begun this Project )

“Monday, The Fifth of October, NineteenSixtyThree” 

Would Equal some Value according to The SEG. 

A = 1, B = 2, C = 3 … Z = 26 

And Simultaneously;

“An Horrific Earthquake in Japan” 

Would Equal that Same Value. 

Then; 

This Gematrian Alchemist would find Several Examples of this Effect for Past Events to ‘Prove’ The method’s Validity—

Then The Alchemist would Project this Method into The Future; 

Matching Dates with Disasters for ‘Next’ Year. 

How Evil would this Be ?

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For those of you ( us ) that understanding something about The Gematria,

This project would -Certainly- Yield many Terrific Examples, 

Both for Past Events & Even more for Future Events !

Consequently; Many Gullible ( Rubes ) Traffic Cones may act irrationally on these Revelations, Ruining their lives or The lives of others. 

But still; 

The Gematria is So Deliciously Mischievious that This Project is Irresistible. 

Neglected Sins

If you believe in Eternal Damnation, The Furnaces of Hades, The Pits of Despair where Fires burn without Shedding any Light, Where Gruesome Feral Rats gnaw on your Family’s Knitwear for All Eternity, Where Screams come in so many Varieties that you never quite get used to them—
Then you may be Interested in a Class of Sins that i call ‘Neglected Sins’.

These are The Mortal Sins that will Provide you with Access to A Escalator leading to The SinkHole of Wondrous Misery, But are so subtle & ‘Ordinary’;
That as you’re lying on your deathbed, recounting all your Sins to An Unfamiliar Cleric So that they may be Forgiven prior to Your Everlasting Judgement,
You will have forgotten all about them.

i suppose i should make a cursory list of these Neglected Sins;
But i suspect that they are so Indistinct, Understated, Insipid &/or Anemic,
By The Standards of ‘Pedestrian’ Pragmatism that it would take a very keen mind to see them for what they are.
Curiously; These Violations of Moral Righteousness that we so easily glaze over every day, Are The Very sorts of Transgressions that The Gawds find so very intolerable.

Your more Flamboyant Vices & Indiscretions that Mortal Judicial Courts are Obsessed with, Are The Very Sorts of Tepid Wickedness that The Gawds & Angels take no Notice of whatsoever.

The Laws of Angels are quite Different from The Laws of Myn.

Consider things like Murder; Angels have no concerns with Murder, They aren’t worried about stealing, as Angels have no personal Property.
The Only Crime that Angels & Myn may Share is something like The Mind Fawk. Myn experience this as Rape, Capitalism, Authoritative Bosses, Dress Codes, Peer Pressure or Enculturated Tastes for Art & Music.
All Angels are Unique Beings that live in A Personal Bubble that has Existed for All Eternity. They hold their Idiosyncratic Quirks to be Holy Ground, & Any Attempts that may be made by ‘Others’ to Compartmentalize them into ‘Castes’ or Social Stations will be Fervently Repulsed.
All of Reality that we Believe is ‘Real’ is a Stage Play of Shadows, But The ‘Groundedness’ of Our Temporal Existence is Preparing us for The True Reality that we are able to glimpse fleetingly in our dreams.

What is ‘Important’ ?

Standing Idly in a Doorway.
Trimming your Fingernails on The Bus.
Charging Unfair Prices for Neglected Services.
Wearing Socks of Two Different Colors.
Tearing a Page from a Magazine at The Dentist’s Office.
Wearing too much perfume.
Pissing on a Sleeping Hobo.
Going to A Museum to Meet Girls.
Returning a Book to The Wrong Shelf at The Library.
Putting Masking Tape on The Paw of a Kitten.
Shooting monkeys for fun.
Telling Ugly girls that they’re pretty.
Bending Spoons at A Restaurant.
Biting Strangers in an Elevator.
Masturbating in Doorless Bathroom Stalls.
Using Elephant tusks for anything other an Making Piano Keys.
Arguing pointlessly with underpaid service personal.
Telling a Child how to Spell a Word, Incorrectly.
Changing The Preferences on a Friend’s Computer.

May or May Not be Examples of The Neglected Sins.

Rent Increase

i recently got a notice for a Lease Renewal & The Amount that The Rent was going up was about 4 times The Cost of Living Increase for this Past Year, As Calculated by Our National Government.
So i looked through my papers & Discovered that for The Past 8 Years, while i’ve been living here; The Annual Rent Increases have always been -Below- ( ! ) The Cost of Living Increases ( !!! )
So this struck me as very Quirky.

This also brings up A Tangential Side Mystery that Confuses me.
If The Rent as been going up Regularly, At The Rates that i’m Experiencing,
& We then Scroll this Process Backwards;
How much were The Residents Paying 5 or 10 years ago.
There must have been either very long periods when The Rent didn’t go up at all,
Or They would have had to have been paying people to live here 15 years ago.
( ??? )

Some time ago; ( 3 Years Ago ) The Building that i live in Changed Hands, & Was Sold to A Wei Yan for However much.
This ‘However Much’, In Today’s Market must have been at least a Million Dollars.
i really have no idea.
It’s a Very Old ( 50’s Era ) Brick Building, 3 Stories, 10 Apartment Units of Small & Less Small Units. My Unit; One of The Smaller Ones, Goes for Just under $400 per month.
So The Question is; How long will it be before Wei Yan makes some money off of this Building, & The Resounding Answer i believe is; Never.
Why then; Would he buy it.
For Investment Purposes? Is he hoping that it will someday be bought up by a large corporation that’s going to tear down this block & put up a ( ? ). And in this Race of Expediency during The Buy Out; This Corporation will buy The Building for 200 or 300 Percent of What it’s really worth.
Is that it?
If so; That seems very unlikely to me. This is an Ancient Residential Neighborhood, & All The Development in this City is Taking place around The Outskirts, which when i was a child, was all Farm land.
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The Other approach that i was considering was that If Wei Yan really wanted to make some money off of this building; He’s throw out all The Current Low Income Residents, Renovate The Entire Building, Put in Nice Carpeting throughout, Paint all The Walls Creatively, Acoustically Insulate The Units, Put in Some Mailboxes that allow for a Subscription to Netflix, Get rid of The Yappy Dogs that Surround The Building & Bark all night long, Rewire The Building for Post 1950’s Electrical Usage, Hire a Competent Groundskeeper to Care for The Lawn, Wash The Outside Windows Regularly, Possibly Buy up The Surrounding Houses & Bring them up to Spec ( which many are not ! ), Making A much Nicer Neighborhood, And then Rent these Units to Up & Coming New Bubble Yuppies At Appropriate Rates.*
But this isn’t A Building for Yuppies, The Windows aren’t Washed Regularly; There is a Meth House Next Door ( ? ), & The Current Residents are All Decidedly Low Income Lost Souls.
So that; To Charge Rents At Slum Lord Rates, Is just wrong.
This building is a Dump, i expect to pay Dump Rates. 

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* If i were to buy this Building, i would do so as a personal project ( Clearly not why Wei Yan bought The Building ) & Relocate all The Residents that i don’t like, finding them new apartments & paying all their moving costs. Then i’d Massively renovate The Building with The Method’s mentioned above, with some additional changes; of Taking out The 3 Units on The ‘Main’ Entry Floor & Making them into Community Areas for Social Nudism**, Activities, Seminars, Ongoing Projects ( Robotics & App Development ) & such. Then i’d find only guys & gals with Asperger’s or some other amenable personality disorders, that are artists & encourage to exercise their compulsive muse driven creativity on The Walls, Windows & Lawn Projects.
Essentially; i’d like to create a friendly, creative micro-community of quirky heretics whose long term ( 20 year plan ) would be to take over The World. 

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** My Entire Proposal for something like this is Deeply Heretical, but The Softer Points for a Larger Community; Say, Something like a Friendily ( ? ) Walled Off City Block of Houses, All Connected together, with an Expansive Interior, Park like Area— Would be to Recruit a Number of Severely Passive, Unmotivated, Ambitionless Compulsive Nudist Masturbators that would merely lounge around all day & night as Kinetic Art for The Other Residents to Enjoy. These would be The ‘Cats’.
Then The Principle Residents would be The Residents; that would work on Various Projects. Rather than thinking of these Projects as ‘Work’, It would be more like The Activities of Highly Motivated Hobbyists.
There would also be another Class of Busy Bees, who would Dress up like Busy Bees with Little Wings attached to their Backs that would buzz frantically whenever they were in motion. The Busy Bees would run around & ‘Get things done’. They would be Intelligent Creative Problem Solvers that would be available to The Residents to perform chores, do shopping, fix things & so on.
There are other things that i would love to touch on, but society just isn’t ready for them yet. You are not ready for them yet. These are Socially Necessary Changes that are ‘Interestingly enough’ Deeply Illegal Now. Society is entirely prepared to Bomb Civilization into Dust, Rather than make Changes which will lift them into Paradise. People Hate Change. Change is nearly always bad. And Important Changes are The Worst.

‘I’ ‘Think’ ( Therefore ) ‘Something Something’

To Reiterate a little.

Let us say that a TapeRecorder ( or Digital Equivalent, Whatever that would be called ? ) comes on by some UnSpecified ( NonIntentional ( ? )* ) Mechanism, & The Tape Plays The Phrase: ‘I think, therefore I am.’

Is The TapeRecorder in any way, suddenly aware, ( Or ) - - Able to Recognize The Significance Of, ( Or ) ( Something Something ) :  ( Of ) It’s own Existence ?

No.

i think everyone would be in agreement that The TapeRecorder is No more aware ( in Any Sense ) of it’s own Existence - Now, than it was a Few Minutes ago, prior to playing The Tape.

It’s a Classic ( Interpretation Of ) Category 4, Subsection B, Subliminal Analysis H.6 of The Ancient Philosophical Question;
If a Tree Falls in The Forest & there is No One there to Hear It, Does it make a Sound ?

Likewise; If a Mechanical Windup toy says; ‘I think therefore I am’.
Does The Windup Toy suddenly experience any change in it’s physical or psychological condition?
What if The Windup Toy were very clever, & it was Never Created or Programmed to Say; ‘I Think, therefore I Am.’ But it does anyways.
What if The Windup Toy ‘Created’ this Statement by way of a Series of Logical Inferences that Satisfied The Criteria of its own programming to make a ‘Rational’ Statement.
Would The Windup Toy Experience any Additional Changes in it’s Condition ?
What if The Windup Toy made note of The ’Significance’ of this Statement, Thus ‘Recognizing’ The Tacit, or Conjectural Logical Summary of This Statement; That it’s Existence is Proven, & then Stores that Supposition in it’s Memory Loops.

Would The Windup Toy -Then- Experience any ‘Awareness’ of its own Existence ?

No.

What if The Windup Toy were a Carbon Based, Very Complicated Molecular Based Robot, Whose Robot Brain went through all these Permutations & -Also- had ‘Evolved’ A Faux Consciousness that made Note of The Conclusion that This Statement ( I think, Therefore I am. ) Actually Meant that Its Own Personal Existence was Assured & Justified.

Would The Carbonbased Windup Toy be ‘Aware’ of its own Existence ?

“If a Windup Toy Makes A Statement that ‘Means’ Something, Anything at all, ( Or ) in This Case; A Irrefutable Proof of Minimal Existence; But there is No One to Hear or Be Aware of The Windup Toy’s Assertion; Does The Statement have any Significance ?

This seems very much like The Question;
Does The Number Two mean Anything in An Empty Universe ?

If The Windup Toy States ( or Doesn’t State ) ‘I Think, Therefore I am.’
In an ( otherwise ) Empty Universe, Does The Windup Toy Exist ?

Yes, Of course.

Does this ( Actually ) Mean that ‘I Think, Therefore; I am.’ is So Rhetorically Tautological as to Render is Entirely Pointless, And in Fact; Meaningless ?
Can a Statement with Absolutely Zero Significance, have Meaning ?

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There is an Additional ( Redundant ) Layer to this;

And that is : The Question of ‘Awareness’.

If we Allow that The Robot Brain in The Carbonbased Windup Toy has No Ability to Exercise any Capacity for ‘Awareness’ in The Generation of its own Thoughts;
But then; Somehow later, Generates this Residue of Awareness, which does not in any way contribute to The Generation of these Thoughts…

There is A Dilemma Here which must be set aside for a Moment while we Acknowledge that No One has yet come up with a ‘Model’ of what or how this Consciousness Works.

That is; We have a fairly well understood ‘Model’ of The Carbonbased Robot Brain as a Windup Toy that Generates ‘Thoughts’,
But What If The Additional Feature of ‘Consciousness’ is a Trick.

And By ‘Trick’; i mean; What if this ‘Consciousness’ was nothing more than The Carbonbased Robot Brain ‘Observing Itself’ in Exactly The Same Manner as it Observes Other Carbonbased Windup Toys.
When The Carbonbased Robot Brain ‘Sees Itself’ ‘Thinking’ it concludes that this ‘Observed Entity’ ( Itself ) is Doing something Remarkable, & The Carbonbased Windup Toy then ‘Believes’ that This Observed Entity is ‘Conscious’ in a Remarkable Way.

And then; An Additional Layer of Kookiness comes into Play when The Carbonbased Windup Toy becomes ‘Confused’ about whether this Belief of its own Consciousness is being Internally Generated or Coming from Somewhere Else, Since is Rightly has taken note that this ‘Observational’ Status of Itself seems to be coming from a Source other than its own Thoughts ( !!! ) .

At this point: We can ‘See’ that The Carbonbased Windup Toy is Nothing More than a Perfectly Ordinary Windup Toy that is Suffering from A Stage 4 Schizophrenic Episode of Identity Confusion; Such that when it States : ‘I think, Therefore, I am.’
It has no Significance Whatsoever beyound that of a much simpler Windup Toy in An Otherwise Empty Universe -Not- Stating ‘I Think, Therefore, I am.’

Both ( The Carbonbased Schizophrenic Windup Toy ) & The Simple Windup Toy Exist Regardless.


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* ( ? ) = Means ‘i am as mystified by this non rhetorical question, comment, suggestion or clarification, as anyone, & i’m not expecting an answer.

Whatever happened to The Easy to Use Programming Languages?

It is my personal fervent belief that Not just M$, but all The Principle Computer Manufactures, & Somehow all Additional Independent Programmers have conspired to Bury all The Easy to Use Programming Languages.

Not so long ago; Only 15 years or so ago; There were literally hundreds of Programming Languages, all of they easy to learn & use, & now The Only ( One! ) Programming Language that is available is some Variation on C++, or You have to already be fluent in C++ to program some other ‘Easy’ & ‘Simple’ programming Language.

One of The Really Easy & Fun Programming Languages, Scratch; recently came out with its long awaited Scratch 2.0 & there are NO new features.
The Chat Rooms associated with The Scratch Platform have been piling on hundreds, if not thousands of Suggestions for what The New Version would contain, & The Final Release included NONE of them.

In fact there was a huge step back, in that you can no longer download The New version & use it on your own computer ( ! ) You can only use it On-Line, Storing all your programs on The Site, allowing them to Censor your Programs, if they turn out to be too useful. Not surprisingly; M$ is a big funder of this Project at MIT, & one must wonder why, after it’s very promising release several years ago, This project has been essentially killed.
Originally; Scratch was meant for Very Young Children; But naturally; Many Adults discovered it & began writing some very clever programs with it. There are several things about Scratch that makes doing ‘Complicated’ things difficult, & its very slow, even in Turbo Mode, But all this makes it more challenging & Hobbyists that love to fiddle with such things are not going to be detoured by a few Integrated System Anomalies & Bugs.
Clearly; Scratch had demonstrated that even with all these built in limitations, it was still too dangerous to allow anyone, even children from actually writing programs with it.

Google Recently released a Programming Language that was ostensibly intended to allow dumb people to write Android Programs with a Language that Google Described as pretty much like BASIC, one of The oldest programming languages that every computer sold in The late 70’s came with. It was very easy to use. Any attentive 12 year old could master BASIC in a few evenings.
This New Programming Language by Google Called ‘Simple’ is anything but.
i tried downloading it & discovered that you need to understand how to program in Unix to even open it.
It is Not a Stand Alone Application.
It will only work inside Unix Shells, something that i’ve never been able to figure out. And whenever i tried to ask about this, The people to ‘Understand’ this, are apparently unable to ‘Explain’ it, because it is so Complicated that they will invariably leave out dozens of steps that they think are too Obvious to mention. And then if you try to get them explain these missing steps, they will become flustered & quit trying to explain it, as they come to believe that i am an imbecile.

The Macintosh comes with Several Different ‘Programming’ Languages, AppleScript, Python, X_Code, Dashcode, & Others; But none of them are actually ‘Supported’ by Apple. Although The Apple Stores will have Symposiums on how to use Their Computers, They don’t have any to even introduce these Languages. Even The Local Apple Club shuns any mention of these Languages & Offers no support for anyone interested in them. There are some books on them, But as mentioned earlier, they invariably assume that you are already fluent in C++ or Assembler.

You hear about 12 & 13 year olds writing all these clever apps, but i have no idea where they are learning these languages.
Maybe it’s all a hoax of somekind ?

None of The Young People i know have been taught any programming languages in School,
So again; Where are they getting this from?

Apple & Youtube do have ‘Videos’ & Websites that ostensibly provide The Curious Aspiring Programmer to learn these Languages, But they either Assume that you already know all The Terminology & Details, or Worse; Jump over things that The Video has Determined to be too complicated to Explain, so they just leave it out.
Or The Videos are broken up into tiny little fragments, each one that explains ( ? ) something in a contextual vacuum, & requires you to click, click, click through dozens or hundreds of these videos, each of which is a completely independent fragment, unconnected to anything else.

Even The (x for Idiots ( or Dummies ) assume that you already know all The Terminology that not referenced in any standard dictionary or even Apple’s Dictionary on their Computers.

i just want a simple language to manipulate text & draw some simple pictures.
Why does this scare The Computer Industry so much ?