More Thoughts On The Gematria ( The Cabbage Codes )

Wm Jaz sent me some more of his fiddlings with The S:E:G
Plus another rant suggesting highly improbably Biblical Nonsense...
And it included his ideas on Gematria & Poetry in another biddle that i can't seem to locate...

Where did i see that...???

He called this new combination of Poetry & Number Fun : Gemoetry
In Which Lines of Verse would all add up to a given sum...

Likewise: There should be a Class of Haiku called: Gemaiku.
In which each line 5 / 7 / 5 of an Haiku would add up to a given sum.

And this got me to thinking more about The Magick & Silliness of The Gematria.
While i am Amazed at The Results that may be brought forth
From tinkering With The Gematria,
i also believe that i have a shallow enough ( merely sufficient ) understanding
Of how these results can be fabricated without evoking An Actual Cabbage Headed Gawd.

While It is fairly easy to contrive A Cabbage Code
To find Astonishing Messages in Any Book
That one might choose to examine;
A frail comprehension of how The Gematria works
Takes a slight edge off that stupefication.

So i am now proposing...
That in order to write better Geometry & Gemaiku,
Along with Great Long Tracts with Line after Line of Prose
In which Each line equals any sum that you might choose...
...That someone with access to an easy to use Programming Language write a :
Gematria Thesaurus.

It would work something like this:
You would write a long Tract or Sonnet in perfectly ordinary prose
And Ask The Gematria Thesaurus to Analyze it.
The Structure of The Prose may, or may not, be readily adapted to your objective,
So that further pre-processing may be necessary...
But let us just say, for now, that i simply want this very long letter to my mother,
To be arranged in such a way, like The Structure of The Bible—
Into Verses...
So that each Verse Equals 666.

The Gematria Thesaurus would simply determine the actual value of each Verse,
Then suggest that a particular Verse be broken into pieces
Or combined with neighboring Verses.
Then it would find words, terms, phrases, abbreviations &/or such
That might bend the value of any given verse closer to the desired sum ( of 666 ).
The User would then continue this process by fudging the sentences,
While the Gematria Thesaurus might Actively suggest Adverbs, Adjectives & Other Bits
That would bring The Sum Up,
If a Given Sentence were in need of some Padding,
Or suggest Deletions of such if it were too fat.

Such A Project would require; As Envisioned,
To be just nearly as tedious as An Examiner might suspect
The Creation of such a document would be,
But Not quite so much...

Such a Document would indeed seem to The Damp Masses as Severely Miraculous;
While to the mildly informed;
They Would know that it was cheap hokum.

At this point; It should be noted that there are perhaps 3 or 5... ( ??? ) Classes of Examiners...

The Completely UnInformed:
That Would Think that it would be impossible by any human effort.

The Slightly Informed:
That understands the basic premise of The Gematria,
And sees in such a document the Wonder of it...
But is perhaps a little suspicious...?

The Well Informed by means of Media Outlets:
That knows just enough, without having a deeper understanding of what they're looking at;
To think that it's a cheap trick.
This last class of humnaimals make up The Great Coterie of Gullible Skeptics,
Which easily believe whatever pleases them,
And disregard the fine points of understanding anything.

While the Last Group:
Which i include myself.
Are Those that know that our understanding of The Gematria is flawed & fragmented,
But are aware of the two sides of The Gematria simultaneously.
That it's Easily Explained—
As a function of a Rich & Diverse Base Language to Contrive Nonsense From...

And— That it's Still Totally Fawking Wondrous
& Provoking of Deeper ( Genuine ) Insights.

New Fun Toy...!!!

i discovered a New Fun Toy...!
It is Called; Scratch...!
It's a very simple to use programming language intended for very small children & mischievous adults...!
This is what a Script for it looks like:


It's kind of like Lego Programming...
And it's derived - Probably - from The Logo Programming Languages
That were created about 30 years ago,
And then mysteriously disappeared...!

Since it was created for young children;
It does things very differently from the way adult programming environments work...!
It takes about as much getting used to as Reverse Polish Language
for The HP Programmable Calculators...!

Here is one of My First Programs... Is This Number Prime?

This version that i'm using is Scratch 1.3.1 and from the forums,
It sounds like this is the 4th or so actual version of it.
What is very annoying is that the programmers are apparently Not Macintosh Users,
As there are Almost No User Friendly Conventions that Are Endemic in Apple Programs!
It is also Missing many Commands & Functions;
Such as Input Structures or String Processing Functions...!!!

This really has some potential for Becoming something really Fabulous though
By The Time Version 6.8 comes out...!

The Most Freakish Audio Effect Ever...!!!

You must be wearing stereo headphones while listening to this,
And it might also help if you closed your eyes,
And it might help further if you are alone in a closed room...!

It will Freak your Freak.

AudioZaniness

Staph Infection!

Staph Infection!, originally uploaded by chrstphre.

Out of all My Images on Flickr,
This one has been viewed 7,000 Times
Which is nearly Half of all My Viewings...!!!

Lutheran Baptism Fiasco...!

Ack!

i wasn't aware that anyone was every reading my blog...

You know—

If you hamsters out there were to add a comment from time to time,

i would be much less prone to absentmindedly & frivolously add pictures from my cell phone, and then completely forget that i'd done so...!

The story behind this; Is that i was begrudgingly invited to my GrandNiece's & Nephew's Baptism,
And before that we had a family dinner, at which; i took lots of pictures,
And when we got to the church, i continued to take a lot of vacuous snapshots,
So that when they finally got around to The Baptism;
i decided that i was going to use my camera as a video camera and film it...

i had a 2Gb SD card— Which, even after all the pictures i'd already taken, left me with more than an hour of shoddy video time...!
But then the batteries died after about 3 mintues...!!!

i NEVER go anywhere without backup Batteries... Until THEN...!!!

So in desperation; i tried to take some pictures with my cell phone,
But the recycle time between pictures was about a minute ( or seemed like it )
So it was just too frustrating, so i stopped trying and just watched.

Jury Thinger

Jury Thinger, originally uploaded by chrstphre.

This is A Set of Two Rants Sent
Only The First of Which would Regretfully fit in The Postage Paid Envelope
For a Federal Jury Selection Form.
The form wasn’t calling me to Jury Duty;
It was merely making a determination as to whether i would be fit or elegible for Jury Duty.

Various DisOrganized Topics for Consideration
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i would first of all like to apologize for the incoherent structure of this rant,
but my mind flitters terribly from one idea to another constantly…
Just another very good reason for disallowing me from jury duty.

Many of These Convictions are Very Summarily Noted,
And not Intended to Be Convincing or Meant to Sway Ones
Preconceived Bias of Their Own.

Other very good reasons:

You may not be terribly familiar with Asperger’s syndrome, which is what i may have. i have been diagnosed with having A Schizoid Personality Type, Which is almost the same thing as Asperger’s. One is thought to be related to Schizophrenia, and the other is a form of Autism.
The Character Jerry Espenson; Played by Christian Clemenson on Boston Legal is said to have Asperger’s. He is a very accomplished Lawyer, and while many Aspergerians achieve many of their career goals, Some; Like me were thought & labeled when we were young as merely retarded or lazy.
Asperger’s was not even recognized as a clinical diagnostic syndrome until about 5 years after i finished high school, and Schizoid Personality had always been thought of as a Hermetic Label, not appropriate for children, So i was never really given by support or encouragement.
General Confusion & 7 Years as a Street Person ensued.

While i may not technically have tourette’s syndrome, i am often chastised for making inappropriate sounds & carrying on animated conversations with invisible beings.

If SSI Considers me 100% UnEmployable,
Which Mystifies Even Me,
i would certainly be UnAble to Serve in a Responsible, Non Disruptive Manner; On a Jury, Whose ostensible function would be to Discharge The Culpable Obligations of Truth, Justice & Righteous;
All of which deeply mystify me.

In The Sixth Grade, i experienced a very traumatic episode in which i was punished for something which i don’t even believe occurred. This event not only betrayed my trust in the system, but corrupted the one person that i had until that moment, considered the one really honorable & trust worthy person that i’d ever met.

When i was in Hawai’i as a street person around 1986, i experienced first hand how the judicial & penal system works. Such that the attitudes & conviction that i have brought back from this, are not derived from television or other pop media outlets.
It has been revealed to me that the court protocols & witness testimony, particularly by the police and other experts, are all directed to their participation in a liars contest.
The winner is the best liar.

If i were to serve on a jury, i could not, in good conscious, for a single moment, allow testimony by any paid for witness, police officer or shoeless cocktail waitress to be believed.

“Judge Not; Lest thou Be Judged” Somewhere in The Bible.

There is also this weird moral dilemma of Doing The Right Thing.
It is never possible to know if some action or inaction taken will result in a desired effect at some indeterminate time in the future.
It may well be that shooting a drunken necktie salesman will benefit a homeless plumber in the next 3 days, but severely & adversely cause hardships to an entire town in Kansas 200 years from now.
We all try to do the right thing from one minute to the next, but i have no illusions that i’m really doing anything to benefit anyone, ever.

The default is not to aimlessly rush through life, sending random citizens to jail, based on the accusations of coke sniffing public administrators that make their decisions based on the messages left for them by scratches on their living room furniture…
But to try to take responsibility for those few events that sneak up on me on any given Thursday afternoon, where i can see for myself, pretty much everything that is happening at that moment.

If i can contribute anything to The Betterment of This Plaidish World of Sour Mashed Potatoes & Hamsters running in & out of old tube socks…
i would like to donate Various ideas for an Improved Judicial System

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== The One Equation to Replace All Laws ==
i think it is just crazy that the legislative branches of our state & federal government spend some measurable fraction of their time writing a never ending toilet paper roll of laws.
Maybe the Early Jewish & Mesopotamian Civilizations had it basically right in that any given Culture should have as few laws as possible.
Maybe even Ten was too many.
i would like to get rid of all the laws and replace them with
One Equation.

Foremost; The Equation would consider the number of actual & potential victims being harmed by the criminal &/or their actions. When that number is Zero for Zero, and the only meta-entity being harmed in gawd's dignity, then maybe that shouldn't be considered a crime.

The Equation would have many, Many Variables and the whole schmeal would be set inside a computer application designed to make input of all the variables very easy for anyone.
So that if anyone were interested; They could access the program, plug in all the relevant data and the application would tell them how bad their proposed activity would be, and what sort of penalty they would be expected to suffer, should they be caught.
The program might even provide a statistical prediction of how likely it would be for them to be caught.

The program would also be used by court officials in the same manner, after an arrest is made.
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This is completely unrelated; But i also believe that Democracy is The Worst Political System for Personal Representation of The Damp Masses
i really believe that nations such as The Us of The A’s promote Democracy is because from this power base, and having taken control of the popular media & news franchises, The power moguls can make the people believe anything they want. The people then parrot this message to their handlers & the will of the people is enacted.
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== Punished Eventually for Crimes Not Discovered ==
There is a school of thought that while many innocent people are convicted of crimes that they did not commit, These people were carefully selected by the criminal justice purveyors on the bases of secret & common street knowledge, That they were certainly guilty of something, and thus; Justice is done, pretty much.

i would rather not contribute to that line of thinking & activity.
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At one time i had The Aspiration to Get Into Advertising
Like Darren Stevens in BeWitched
And then; By some mechanism that i can’t quite recall…
i decided that Advertising was a terrible scam that consisted of bending the untrained minds of the mall shopping bourgeoisie to ends designed by the lizard headed aliens that live underground in New Mexico & Arizona.
Since then; i have been completely lost as to what is right & wrong.
Everything seems exactly backwards to me.
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== Why Do Smart People Let The Dumb People Run The World? ==

== Are We Living in A Universe that is So Cruel
That It Allows Us To Be Aware that We are Robots? ==
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== i don’t believe that 911 was the work of North African carpet peddlers, Or that The Moon Landings occurred as they were sold to us, Or That Pearl Harbor was a Surprise Attack by The Japanese. ==
Everything is Wrong.
If i were so inclined to do anything that i presupposed was good for the world… It would not be to participate in the validation of those whose every bed time story was as tangental to the truth as the prongs of a fork held by Uri Geller.
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Regarding Capitol Punishment.
It validates Murdering people that you think deserve it.
i also think that murdering someone that you have an invested interest in is far more justifiable than murdering someone, as the state does, just because it’s their job.
Also: A jury system in such cases dilutes the responsibility of faulty convictions, So that no one is held responsible for executions that so result from such boo-boos.
For these particular cases; It should be arranged so that One Person is held responsible, Perhaps picked randomly by scrapes of paper placed in a hat, So that if it were to be discovered that a prisoner was falsely executed, That person would be held responsible.
Naturally; As in the case of Media Contests held by Radio Stations, All paid employees of The Judicial System would be Exempt from Participating in The Lottery.
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== The Solution: We are going through an Intermediate Stage of Justice, Like The Transitory Phase of Literature. ==
What is a Viable Solution?
i would hate to be accused of being a crazy nay sayer that just says No No No to everything…
i think that the solution to the judicial system is to use cell phones to sufficiently interconnect people, so that we can return to a system like that in preliterate, preindustrialized Amazonian hunter-gatherers.
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== Laws that Insist that We Wear Clothes
Are Laws that Make it Illegal to Be a Humanimal. ==
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== What is The Source & Consequences of Justice? ==
Either The World Makes Sense, or it Doesn't.
That is: Either The Universe is a Magickal Clockwork in which all actions have been wound up long ago, and are now stretching backwards to find the itch that comes from an explosion of randomality...
Or Things are arranged by The Ξ.6 Controllers and Justice & Fairness will find its way to the end of the paper towel roll, irregardless of how hard we pull off sheet after sheet to clean up our glasses of spilled milk.
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== Bad or Faux Justice is The AntiThesis of Justice ==
Improperly Administered Justice is Not Simply, Our Best Flawed Efforts to Do The Right Thing, But The Exact Opposite of Justice, It is merely Random Violence, Exactly What Terrorists do To Make The World Better.
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== The Solution: Justice Needs to Be Administered Locally, On The Personal Basis of One on One, One Minute to The Next. ==
This may not be a complete solution; But i think that for the most part, until the giant mechanical ants take over the world, The compartmentalization of Detectives hunting killers & Zoo Keepers feeding under stimulated Orangutans will fulfill their own destinies as the universe intended them to.

== i hate & distrust all science ==
i think that the Evolution vs Intelligent Design has made it transparently clear that the hamsters that are promoting science are lunatics.
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== Equality of State & Citizen for Governance of Rights ==
All Rights that Citizens Hold, should be equally held by The State; And Vice Versa. Consequently; If The State Contents that it has The Right to Murder People According to Established Criteria, Then Citizens should also be able to claim that Same Right, And Murder People that have met the burden of Proof for their Unworthiness to Live.
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== No One Ever Does Something that They Think is Wrong, Thus Only Crazy People Commit Crimes, Thus; All Criminals are Insane and should not be held responsible for their actions. ==
This may be a subtle idea.
It essentially states that if you believe something is wrong, then you wouldn’t do it. On an obvious level that i would like to think that most people would agree to, Is that the worst Serial Killer believes that some things are wrong, and consequently abstains from those behaviours.
Likewise; A person might easily believe that Other people believe that something is Wrong, and that when in a country that hold those crazy beliefs, it is prudent to obey their silly laws.
In such a case; Do the Police in that country treat you as a Criminal or A Crazy person if they catch you wearing white socks with black shoes.
They will probably treat you as a Criminal, as the police in this country treat people that believe crazy things.
This is Wrong.
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== Monsters breed by ensuring that non-monsters pick up frozen haddocks and throw them through windows of those that in some irrelevant way, the monsters that the media has indoctrinated us to irrationally fear. ==
i really believe that the judicial system doesn’t restrain or prevent crime, it creates criminals and instructs them as to how to engage in criminal activity.
This is true on many different Levels.
== Why Are All The Electrons in The Universe Exactly The Same? ==
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== The Amish ==
The Amish are The Solution.
Not The Whole Solution, But in a Theoretical Sense.
i might not even be willing to turn the judicial system over to The Amish, But in some pasty white version of reality, They are adding just the right amount of sugar to their tea.
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== Will Scientific &/or Forensic Evidence Be Introduced ==
If so; i will summarily disregard it. i don't believe that the elemental tenets of what is commonly called Science is nothing but irrationally held doctrines that have become established as dogma by chickens whose feet have been wrapped with inky cotton balls and allowed to run over large sheets of cheap yellow construction paper.
Your conventional religious zealot may believe that they know plenty of irrational nonsense, but when held to rationalize it, will confess that their convictions are based on ancient teachings or personal experiences which were spiritually experienced and not subject to quantifiable measurements... While those that call themselves Scientists believe nonsense every bit as ridiculous as the zealots, But believe that they know these things for Rational & Logical Reasons, And are far more intolerant of critics that demand that those ideologies be carefully reexamined & reviewed.
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== Will Eye Witness Testimony Be Proffered? ==
If so; i will summarily dismiss it.
The only time that Eye-Witness Testimony is in the slightest bit reliable, Is when the person being identified is well known to the witness.
It is patently absurd that anyone can reliably recognize someone seen for a period of less than a minute, and then re-identify that person, days, weeks or months later.
And Cross Racial Identification is far less reliable.

== Will Logical Arguments Be Used? ==
i have come to believe, more strongly, after recent examinations of propositional logical structures, that such tools for rational thought, are completely bunk.
While Boolean Logic is quite useful in the engineering of Central Processing Units for Computers, Propositional Logic & it's Operators are completely useless for Constructing Arguments which reveal anything resembling truth.
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i have an idea for Restructuring The Judicial System, So that all the rights & responsibilities of the Accused & Accusers will be preserved, But that Citizens will be lining up to be on Juries, Instead of shunning them.
The first & most elemental assumption that i'm making about the functionality of a legal trial, is that it consists of an logical & reasonable argument of guilt by The Prosecutor, which is rebutted by The Defense Attorney.
What this Trial is Not; Is a Theatrical Performance.
The New & Improved Structure that i am proposing, May seem even more Theatrical than the current structure, but it is intended to provide more & clearer information in a more confined & well regulated format.
The New Structure is simply This:
All the principles of the case; Accused, Prosecutor, Defense, Judge, Witnesses & Various Experts conduct the trial in a manner very reminiscent of a conventional trial, With the tiny exception that instead of presenting it to A Live Jury; It is simply made into a full & complete Video Presentation.
What are the advantages to this:
* All parties have complete control of what the final presentation will consist of, disallowing or sharply reducing, the possibility of an appeal by either side.
* This complete control means that there will be No unexpected outbursts, irrelevant comments, pointless delays, & all other wearisome & tedious content for The Jury to Endure. / It may be argued that on various occasions, Either side of the debate would like to introduce what may appear to an unexpected outburst, but such theatrics will now have to be carefully argued at a meta-level with all concerned parties for their inclusion.
* Expert Witnesses may be Video Conferenced from Distant Locations, or Pre-Recorded Explanations of Evidentiary Content may be inserted seamlessly into the final Presentation.
* Detailed Examinations of The Crime Scene may be included with fancy Graphics & detailed computer simulations. / These sorts of things are present in current legal proceedings, but only in the most contrived & often clumsy manner.
* These Video Presentation Arguments will be created by professionals working with all interested parties to make a final, professional looking product that will contain all relevant information, disallow irrelevant information and be pleasing & engaging to watch.
* The Jury may view the entire Presentation or a subsection repeatedly.
* The amount of time that The Jury would have to commit to the Trial may be as little as a single afternoon. / Or conceivably; They could view The Presentation from home and deliberate with other jury member within a Secured Chat Room.
* The Presentation would be available for review by anyone, in it's complete form, for reconsideration, appeal or historical purposes at any later time.

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Voting
We've become in recent times, more so now than we may have been in the past, that Voting never actually counts anyones votes, and more than that; Even under the most ideal circumstances, Voting still doesn't count votes, or determine the will of the people.
An entirely new system needs to be hacked together that:
Allows 3rd Party Candidates to Run & be elected.
Encourages & Allows all Citizens that Should & Would Like To Vote, Vote.
This means that the new system allows younger children that know the issues are allowed to vote, and dumb hicks whose votes are being bought, are discouraged from voting.
Voters are allowed to vote for all The Candidates that they like,
and Cast Negative Votes for Candidates that they believe to be exceptionally Evil.
Political Parties are Eliminated, So that Voters can't vote for a Party Candidate.


The True Crisis of Western Civilization
Legal Contracts
The Real Failure of Western Civilization is The Disappearance of The Gentleman.
( For lack of a More Appropriate; Unambiguous Appellation,
This Designation: The Gentry; Applies to All Sexes )
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And more specifically; The Gentleman Agreement.
What we; As a Culture & Viable Economic Society need to ReCreate, Is The Gentleman Agreement; Which we would continue to allow to exist on Paper, but in a starkly different form.
The New form of every contract would be that it consists of Three Sections, which may have innumerable subsections adhering to the usual & familiar structure of Contracts as they have existed from time immemorial.
The Three New Sections would be such:
** The First Sectional Page:
The First Page would be exactly that, One Page, and One Page Only, Printed or Written in a Clear, 14 point or larger text, that provides both parties with a clear & unambiguous Understanding or Spirit of the Agreement. This First Page should be written in a way so that a typical, attentive third grader would be able to understand it.
If at some later time, Either party of the agreement were to show in a court of law that any part of this First Page is written in a manner that suggests the tiniest hint of subterfuge or ambiguity, or that the page contains any text, graphics, watermark or other other markings that deviate from The Clear 14 Point Text Rule; The Agreement Will Be summarily judged to be Null & Void.
** The Second Sectional Page(s:
The Next Section may be written on more pages, In a Clear, 12 point or larger text; But will adhere to a New Rule such that it will be clear to a typical, attentive 5th Grader ( 9 to 11 years old ).
All Previous Rules that specify the complete & unmistakable Absence of Subterfuge & Ambiguity would continue to apply.
This Section will contain examples & a more detailed explanation of what will be expected from both parties throughout the duration of The Agreement.

** The Third Sectional Page(s:
The Third Section may or may not be included, And it may or may not adhere to a form that is more conversant with Modern Lawyers. Since Any violation of Ambiguity in The First or Second Sections will be grounds for Nullifying The Agreement, This Section can not contain any specifications or legalese that will be to the sole benefit of either party, in such a way that the contrary party will be caught unawares by such specifications.

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That preceeding part was the section that i printed up,
in one of those crazy broken type writer fonts,
So that the presentation wouldn’t add any gratuitous credibility to it…???

The following section was another rant that i wanted to include;
But it was too thick for the enclosed envelope with the prepaid postage & the address preprinted on it…
This was also in a kooky broken type writer font,
with the headers in font that resembled text created with a black ribbon label maker.
( The kind with the sticky backs )

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from & based on the book:
what is your dangerous idea / edited by john brockman

my dangerous ideas

•How•Past•Civilizations•Avoided•War•
Perhaps many of the grandiose projects in the past were not enacted for the reasons commonly told, But begun by farsighted politicians that genuinely wanted to avoid war, By building pyramids, earth-mounds, stupendously long walls or populous junk— Just to keep the damp masses busy. To keep idle hands busy and their thoughts off the wonder & majesty of war.

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•Screen•Saver•Universe•
Video Games are getting very close to emulating environments which are indistinguishable from Our Reality.
If they could be supplemented with device which would allow characters within the game to experience genuine consciousness, Then those entities would believe that they are living in a world just as detailed & complicated as ours.
Such an illusion would require a few clever tricks to pick up the slack of referring to each atom that we believe exists independently in our world, But these tricks are actually few in number and easily managed.
The Fist Assumption to contribute to this idea is that within each Humanimal Skull is a bowl of jello, much of which is intended to operate the robot under it. The remaining portions contain a complete model of The Universe.
That fragmentary information is all that's really necessary to allow entities in a screen saver universe to believe that their reality is entirely consistent and fully described to each unseen electron.
The Reality Generator would simply draw upon each entities repository of what they think the universe consists of, and paint that view for their sensory experiences.
What is behind a door, in a cabinet, on the page of a book or the thoughts of a stranger met at a bus stop -- Need not exist, or take up memory on The Host Computer, until it's required. And at that point, The Reality Generator fills in the gaps with what the selected entity expects, how the universe has been previously defined by that & other entities, and additional temporary details made up on the fly. Additionally; The Reality Generator can infuse into any given entity a sense of familiarity, So that everything that should be consistent in their environment, at least seems familiar.
Distant Stars, Elephants in Africa, Pictures in All The library Books & The inner mechanisms of an alarm clock remain undefined until some conscious entity within the screen saver takes a closer look at them.
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Are we living in such a Reality?
Curiously; There is really no way of Testing It.
Since everything is made up when we examine it to make us believe that it is real, and that that reality is created to meet our expectations of reality, All such examinations will pass that test!
Perhaps the one weakness that may suggest that this reality is A Screen Saver Universe, Is if Numerous Examples can be found that Infer that This Reality is Kookier than it should be.
But it must first be determined how kooky a Real Reality may be...?

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•existence•is•fleeting•
There is an idea that seems fairly plausible, And that is that it is far more reasonable & likely that any given awareness or some pocket of reality that is being experienced at any given moment or period of time; Perhaps lasting thousands or billions of years, Or Perhaps lasting only for the moment that it has taken to consider this Idea... Is An Illusion of A Past that Never Existed.
As Opposed to The Common Belief that the entire universe has been in existence by some natural order of things and come to this point from some infinitesimal point in the distant past.
Such that the prior view would be that the universe as it is experienced, comes into and pops out of existence by purely random antiforces.
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A similar idea to this: Is that while we perceive reality as continuous, occurring with one moment following the next in rapid succession, It may be that our Reality depends upon an invisible mechanism that takes gazillions of years to model each moment of our existence.
i think it is entirely reasonable to suspect that the periods of experience that we think of as Moments-- Require an Innumerable Number of Intermediate Steps, Each of Which might easily be a Moment of their own.

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•Humans•are•no•smarter•than•fish•
i've had this idea for a long time, and in the past few years, i have come across this same core idea in the writings of others... So it might Not be so Extremely Crazy After All.
The essential idea is that many animals, Perhaps the lowest Commonly Considered Animal for This Argument, Is The Crow or Raven. These are very smart animals with very tiny Brains.
This idea is extended to consider what a humanimal mind can do; Without Language.
That is; If you were to extract the Language Ability from a Person; How would their intelligence compare to a Raven?
Actual Behavioural Testing along these lines, Suggest that they would be able to count to about Seven, Solve simple puzzles, Shape Sticks & Wires to achieve some purpose, Remember what is around a corner that is currently out of view, and so on.
They would have about equal abilities.
My own view on this is extended with the observation that sometime ago, in the early days of computers, a program named Eliza was written that convinced many people that it was actually conscious. The program was very simple and consisted of about a dozen typed pages of instructions. Eliza was easily tripped up with pointed questions, but the seed of the idea that genuinely conscious people can be so easily fooled is indeed remarkable.
This is followed up with my own observation that most people speak only in cliches. They Rarely; If Ever, express an original idea or generate a unique thought.
i believe that Language & Symbolic Handling of Perceptions in The Humanimal Brain has allowed The Damp Masses to Perpetrate The Hoax of Intelligence.
By far & above, Most positions in Any Given Culture are held by people that have been trained by Classic Pavlovian Conditioning to Turn a Crank or Pull a series of Ropes to Accomplish some Task. By Codifying These Steps with The Trick of Language; The Damp Masses may appear to be accomplishing deeply complicated tasks, But this is easily exposed by simply moving the position of a crank or changing the color of a rope.
There are a tiny percentage of humanimals that appear to transcend these limitations--
But i honestly believe that if a town were to be set aside and filled with people whose IQ was 'Average' ( IQ 100 ±10 points )
...They would quickly degenerate to The Technological & Social Attributes of a Prairie of Ground Hogs.

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•most•news•is•made•up•
It only takes spotting a small number of these to begin to Rationally believe that if i have sound evidence that of all the news i hear or read, about 5% of it is Familiar to me personally, and of that; 3% is so egregiously inaccurate that it meets the general proposition that it was simply made up out of whole cloth...
Then The Greater Quantity of News that i am Not Immediately Familiar with is Also Completely Fictionalized.

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•most•everything•accepted•as•true-•is•not•
Whenever i suggest to someone that everything that have been taught in the public school system is Wrong, they naturally assume; if they are sympathetic to this thesis at all, That i am wildly exaggerating, and that i am merely asserting that public school teachers are wholly incompetent & misrepresent the material that they are ostensibly teaching as a regular feature of their duties.
But No. i am stating without qualification or reservation that in excess of 97% of all lessons taught to the children of Any Given Subset of Western Civilization, is Exactly The Opposite of What is most probably True.

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•the•conscious•mind•is•trapped•in•a•robot•
Are We Living in a Universe that is So Cruel, That it Allows Us to Be Aware That We Are Robots?
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If you allow that we are living in a Material Universe... Which may include Spiritual Elements of Unknown Specifications, which sufficiently obey the basic premise of Cause & Effect, Then This Universe would apply to all Scientific & Religious Models; Excluding only those that believed ( Reasonably Perhaps? ) That The Order that is Perceived is an Illusion, And True, Pure Randomality is the only Causation Force in This World.
Given then: That we are living in a Material Universe, Some parts of which may be UnSeen, MisUnderstood & Incomprehensible...
We are Allowing for The Time Being that The Brain is a Physical Artifact that is by Some Mechanism; The Node of Conscious Thought.
The Brain is clearly responsible for The Behaviour of The Body & The Sensory Perceptions that The Brain Uses to Think With.
If one is to allow that there are Sensory Experiences beyound those easily attributed to The Organs of The Body; So be it. This will Not Effect the Conclusions of This Argument.
In Either Case; The Brain is somehow linked to The Mind, By Some arguments; The Brain Generates All Thoughts of The Mind, By some Other Arguments; There are Additional Thoughts introduced by Other Agencies.
Which Ever is True; There is The Remaining Dichotomy of Generated Thoughts & Experienced Thoughts.
The Experienced Thoughts are The Ones that we Call Consciousness.
The Problem is then; These Experienced Thoughts constitute what we also call;
-Awareness- & -Freewill-
These are The Attributes that Define our Autonomy. It is our Awareness & Freewill that allow us To Choose Good over Evil, Peanut Butter over Tunafish, Poetry over Skydiving.
But if the source of All of our Thoughts is from The Thought Generator; Then it is The Generator that makes the Choices. We are merely Watching These Things Happen.
Might it somehow be possible that Our Conscious Thoughts, that come into being from The Thought Generator, Influence or Control The Thoughts Created By The Thought Generator?
Such an Idea is Not Merely Recursive or Circular, Nor is it Mysteriously Paradoxical.
It is merely Wrong.
All Thoughts That are Experienced, Must first be Generated Somewhere, by Some Mechanism, And then Experienced. The Experienced Thoughts are merely Experienced, They have No ability to Jump backwards into The Thought Generator.
Any such intent would be made by The Thought Generator.
Does The Thought Generator itself experience Consciousness, Awareness &/or Freewill?
If so; Such Entities may be thought of as mischievious homunculii that project onto a opaque screen what we see & think, and have No Control over.

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•Entropy•is•terribly•misinterpretted•
One of The Most Obvious Fallacies of Entropy, Is it's assertion that Any Given Environment is becoming more disorderly. If this is so; then The Universe, At the moment of The Big Bang were in a State of Perfect Order, and the moments & millennia there after were more orderly than The Universe of Today.
At the simplest level; What do they mean by Order?
At A Grander Scale; It seems obvious to me that Heat has a tendency to push things apart, While Gravity has a tendency to pull things together,
And ElectroMagnetism does both.
It may be that it is far more likely that an egg will fall from a table and break open, than the inverse of this action... But the egg on the floor is just as orderly as the egg on the table.
The Perception & Labeling of Things as Quantitatively Orderly is a Subjective Illusion.

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•quantum•theory•is•terribly•misinterpretted•
Quantum Theory is such a rich expanse for Religious & Spiritual Fact Biting that finding any book that treats this subject matter with impartial examination is very difficult.
Even most books that are ostensibly about the scientific principles of quantum theory will routinely present outrageous conclusions without justification or explanation.
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•The•legal•system•needs•
•a•quantified•system•of•Maturity•
It’s apparently quite easy to badly measure a person’s intelligence but there is, within the judicial system, no misleading or inaccurate way to measure, or even define what maturity is.
So despite the fact that most of the legal foundations are based on the idea of legal responsibility & competent culpability, this degree of consciousness is arbitrarily assigned to age without any account given to intelligence, social experience or social context.

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UnDeveloped Dangerous Ideas
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•Not•everyone•deserves•to•be•a•citizen•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•gawd•neednt•be•omnipotent•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•There•are•undoubtedly•tiers•of•gawds•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•There•is•undoubtedly•
•a•very•advanced•secret•society•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•The•Kitchen•floor•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•Mathematics•is•an•invention•
•that•doesnt•apply•toanything•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•Democracy•is•the•very•antithesis•
•of•its•idealization•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•consciousness•is•a•cheat•for•reasoning•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•magick•is•merely•incomprehensible•technology•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•an•instance•of•conscious•
•can•be•typed•on•a•sheet•of•paper•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•fat•ladies•fall•faster•than•babies•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•freedom•is•a•pure•illusion•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•happiness•is•only•the•absence•of•pain•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•Clear•thinking•and•or•logic•are•bunk•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•the•true•reality•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•impossible•things•
Faster Than Light Spaceships
Bits
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Miniaturization
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Invisibility
Bits
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Time Travel
Bits
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Transmogrification
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Immortality
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The Meaning of Life
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Scotch Tape
Bits
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Transparent Glass / Mirrors
Bits
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Hypnotism / Personal Reality
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Doing The Right Thing
Bits
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•things•i•believe•

Little People
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Dragons
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BigFeet
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Angels / Xi.Six Controllers
Bits
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Ghosts
Bits
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Flying Saucers / Abductions
Bits
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Remote Viewing
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True Human Nature is Pure Anarchy
Bits
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Humor is a Reasoning ShortCircuit
The correct solution to what humor is; has to be equally applicable to all the categories of humor.
Silly Things
Sad Things; When they happen to Other People.
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•The•great•big•lies•

Love
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Entropy
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Falling Things
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Taboos
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Mathematics & Physics
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BigLie
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•Nearly•Every•popular•truth•is•exactly•wrong•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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•The•Consequenses•of•The•universe•
•as•either•being•sensible•or•senseless•
Dangerous Idea ( Needs Work

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More Extremely Evil Things...

One of the very evil things i like to do is go to the library and find CDs and Books on CDs and rather than just listen to them;
i store them on my computer, and listen to them later. ( And repeatedly )
So...
One of these CD - Books on CD Publishers has found me out and kicked back in a most delightfully mischievous way...!
The Book on CD is The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
It is on 9 Disks...
And they are all MisLabeled...!!!
If you simply took the CDs out of the case, and loaded them into your CD player or Computer and Listened to them; There would be No Problem. All the Disks are Numbered Properly on The CD Disks Themselves...
But internally; The Names and Sequence Numbers are all Askewd...!!!
So that if you loaded all the Disks onto your computer and put them into a Folder Labeled Pilgrim's Progress, They would all be out of order...!!!

Isn't that Ingenious...!!!
The way that they are actually Labeled:
Disk One: Completely Blank, All Tracks have no identification labels...!
Disk Two: Labeled as Disk Six; a through x
Disk Three: Labeled as an Agatha Christie Novel
Disk Four: Labeled as a Stuart Kaminsky Vampire Novel
Disk Five: Labeled as Disk Six, Again!
Disk Six: Labeled as Another Disk Six...!
Disk Seven: Still Another Disk Six...!!!
Disk Eight: Deviously Correctly Labeled as Disk Eight...!!!
Disk Nine: Numbered as a through f, But Not Distinguished as Disk Nine...?

Did all this inventiveness Thwart me...!
Ha...!!!
It only challenged me...!
i simply relabeled them while they were loading,
Tedious Yes... But considering the length of Listening Time,
A very short and comparatively painless matter.

You'll have to try harder next time Blackstone Audio Books...!

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Supplement...

So i've been listening to this and Those 14th Century Writers certainly had a very Chronologically distinct writing style, Most notably indicated by extreme redundancy...

Aaannnyyywwwaaayyysss...
Those Genius ( ? ) Lunatics at BlackStone Audio Books have layered Their Encryption Schemes to Insure that No One can Load one of their Audio Books onto their Computer...!
The latest foil i've found is that The Tracks are Non-Consecutively Numbered...!!!
That is: 4a is NOT followed by 4b...!!!
The Actual Track Sequence for The Fourth Disk is:
( Which by the way is Labeled as: Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart Kaminsky )
4a 4o 4m 4g 4x* 4d 4f 4s 4l 4h 4c 4i 4n 4q 4j 4w 4r 4b 4u 4t 4v 4k 4e 4p

4x is apparently MEANT TO BE at the end; Since it's only 4 Seconds Long and only reveals that the Story = The Pilgrim's Progress = is continued on Disk 5.

???

Does this seem to suggest that they know what they're doing, or.... Not...?

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Supplement Two:

i have further discovered that Blackstone has so encoded them that i can not ( ? ) figure out how to listen to The Tracks in their correct order without watching the track display and correcting it's 'Natureal' flow at the end & beginning of each track...!!!
It would appear that despite my great hubris...! They have Won...!!!

Dang them to Heck!

i hate weekends!

OK.
in theory, everyday for me should be like any other
such that it shouldn't matter to me if one day was ostensibly called
a weekday or a weekend day...
but the problem is that everything closes down in an odd way on weekends
and long weekends are even worse.

the problem with this weekend is that i got my new debit card
the other day, and i'm pretty sure that i activated it correctly,
and so i went around on the interweb, telling everyone my new card number,
so that all my on line billing would work...

but they are not.

is it the weekend, or did i do it all wrong.
will i have to wait until wednesday to find out...?
i wish that i could verify these things some how...

like my interweb, dialup connection.
i tried opening a dailup connection a few months ago
and i couldn't get it to work.
i tried and tried.
it wouldn't work.
so now i'm afraid to try it again.
i will have to start another account,
and then check to see if i can get it to work.
and if it doesn't, then i will have to cancel it.

i don't know what the problem is;
because i can't validate the individual parts.

is it my modem?
computer software?
the interweb service?
the phone line?
ugh.

it's making me very anxious.

Level 7 Weirdness Event

So for the last 6 weeks or so, i've been getting a free internet connection in my room, that identifies itself as Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO_O1CFFC; Which i'm pretty sure is the product name of the Modem that is being used...

i've been on the interweb newsgroups asking about the legality or ethicacy of using this signal, and it's... ambiguous...???

Anyways... Today, for about 5 hours, instead of the browser opening to it's homepage, which is currently Yahoo, although most everything i use on the interweb is hosted by Google...
( i'm very loyal to both, they are not at all opposites for me! )

...instead of opening to my homepage, it opened to a Comcast Sign Up Page...???
So i thought: Well; These Six Weeks of Free Signal/Service were provided by Comcast to entice me into their web of horror...!

But then it flipped back to normal, illegal signal theft.

???

When it happened; i was both annoyed, and thankful...
Thankful that i would no longer have the means to check my eepmail & Flickr Account every 2 hours.

But now; i have that ability again.

Another curious side note is that, some time ago, i tried to hook up my own interweb,
Dial Up Connection, and although i tried & tried to get it to work, i couldn't...
So i'm nervous about trying again.
That last try was traumatic in that i allowed the service
( Seanet; My Eepmail Service )
to charge me for 6 months for nothing.
And it'll probably happen that way again, if i sign up again, and can't get it to work.

sigh.

Various Bits

Have i mentioned Nightmares...?
Do you have Nightmares...?
Do they include Monsters...?
i don't really have Nightmares as such;
But i noticed that last night i had a Dream Element that i seem to recall having previously, which suggests that it may reoccur again...
It consisted of pulling Grass out of my mouth. Lots of Grass, Really long Grass that required me to pull it out, hand over hand for a very long time.
Which brings up another element that i have in my dreams;
Repeating Memes.
This is where i dream the same little fragment of a dream over & over again.
And if i get up to take a pee, When i lay back down, the repeating meme will start up again.
Another Reoccurring theme is Urinating.
i don't pee the Bed during these dreams, but i find myself peeing in the most inappropriate places.
The last common annoying/disturbing dream element i have is loosing my bookbag or backpack. When that happens, it is a scary dream. i hate losing things. Especially those very few little things that i always keep near me, in my bookbag. If i lost them, it would be very annoying to replace them.

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Why i hate chrstmsa.
Chrstmsa is supposed to be a happy time, and it is usually very annoying.
Very stressful, Very Tiresome, Very Anxious.
And then on Chrstmsa Day; There is The Sad Present which sucks any time amount of happiness away from everything else.
The Sad Present is something really stupid, that someone got you, just because they had to get you something. And it's stupid. And it doesn't make you happy. And you're sad that someone had to get you something without really knowing you. And this Sad Present is usually from someone that really should know you well enough to get you something that is not stupid.
And it makes you very sad.

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Things i got for Chrstmsa.
An Origami Calendar. It's a kit that includes the paper and instructions to make something new every day of the coming year. It looks like it was pretty well designed, although i haven't tested it yet. Very often; Origami instructions will either forget to include or glaze over some critical step, or the next illustration will look completely different from the previous illustration.
Creating Really Good Instructions is a Neglected Art Form.
Thanx Deana & Ernie!

Money from The Abby & Auntie Barebelly.
i think i might spend it on something that i've been meaning to get for a long time;
One of those hand drill tools that are actually a bunch of other things besides just a drill.
i've been meaning to get something like that for a long time, and use it to make some prototypes for some of my inventions. Like my AntiGravity Machine.
Thanx The Abby & Auntie Barebelly!

The Label Maker; The Sad Present that My Sister got me.
Apparently she'd always wanted a good Label maker for herself, so i let her keep it.
It was a very nice Label Maker, but i just don't label things.
My computer is full of lists, but that's not the same as labeling things.
Thanx Sandi!

Sandi also got me a New Orange Sweatshirt which i like a lot.
Thanx Sandi!

And some Other Crap.
Thanx Whoever!

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There was also some confusion
That was Not Completely My Fault.
My Auntie Beverly apparently did not do To Much Shopping this year, as it has been snowing A LOT, and she doesn't drive much anymore... So she just gave out Envelopes of Money...!
And She put them all in One Bag, and Didn't come over to Sandi's to supervise their distribution...
So someone handed me this bag, which apparently had my envelope on top, and i didn't even open the envelope.
Because i was in one of my “Group DisOrientive States”;
So i was just pawing at the packages, trying not to throw up.
So later on; Sandi & Deana noticed that Beverly hadn't gotten anything for Derrick & Brandi & Sierra... So they called Beverly and asked about this, and she said that they had gotten some envelopes and a small sock of coins ( fancy coins ).
And everyone was searching for these envelopes, which were eventually; after about 3 hours of searching everywhere, in my bag, which i was sure that i had looked through at least twice...!!!
So it doesn't seem to me that it was really my fault.
There were some odd things about this bag, that should have tipped me off a little,
So i am willing to assume a solid 63% of the blame, And the other 37% should be the responsibility of the person that handed it to me.
i need more supervision. They should know that.

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There are many other stories—
But while i often complain that my relatives aren't contributing to my Flickr collection of family snapshots, in the form of more pictures or anecdotes...
i hate to type too.
And i'm a terrible typer.
Even without Debilitating Arthritis...!
Which is the most common excuse given.

If you're Phanco...

And you're still interested in Math...
Find Arithmancy in the Side Column and jump to that...

In The Absence of a Z-Mass Card...

...i would like to present all my Z-Mass Ideas that have been accumulating...
If i wasn't so depressed;
Principally because everyone hated my Hallow's Eve Zyne...!!!
...Something from this Compilation would have been condensed into a Zyne or Series of Staplebooks.


Chrstmsa & Zmas Ideas

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Bodhi Day / Buddhists
The Day of The Return of The Wandering Goddess / Kemetic Orthodoxy
Hanukkah / Chanukah / Festival of Lights / Festival of Rededication / Jews
Id al-Adha / The Feast of Sacrifice / Day of Sacrifice / Muslims
Winter Solstice / Native Americans / Gaiaeans /
Saturnalia / Nova Romans
The Saturnalia, a week-long festival celebrating the Romans' favorite agricultural god, Saturn. From December 17 until December 23
Yule / Wiccans
Kwanzaa / African Americans
Festivus / The Festival for The Rest of Us /
Omisoka / Japanese
Shabe-Yalda / Iranian Interfaith Celebration
Natalis Solis Invincti = "Birthday of the Invincible Sun God"
Sol Invictus / Winter Solstice
Quaid-e-Azam's Day ( Pakistani Holiday )
The Feast Day of Anastasia of Simium
World Due to End December 21st 2012 / Mayan & Aztec Calendars

Birthdays
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/ Name / Occupation / Birth / Death / Known for
/ Rod Serling / Author / 25-Dec-1924 / 28-Jun-1975 / Creator of The Twilight Zone
/ Humphrey Bogart / Actor / 25-Dec-1899 / 14-Jan-1957 / Casablanca
/ Sir Isaac Newton / Physicist / 25 Dec 1642 / 1743 / Gravity / Calculus
/ Cab Calloway / Jazz Musician / 25-Dec-1907 / 18-Nov-1994 / King of Hi-De-Ho
/ Annie Lennox / Singer/Songwriter / 25-Dec-1954 / / Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)
/ Clara Barton / Activist / 25-Dec-1821 / 12-Apr-1912 / Co-Founder of the American Red Cross
/ Sissy Spacek / Actor / 25-Dec-1949 / / Coal Miner's Daughter
/ Carlos Castaneda / Author / 25-Dec-1925 / 27-Apr-1998 / The Teachings of Don Juan
/ Princess Alice / Royalty / 25-Dec-1901 / 29-Oct-2004 / Late Duchess of Gloucester
/ John Ashley / Actor / 25-Dec-1934 / 3-Oct-1997 / Beach Blanket Bingo
/ Ahmed Ben Bella / Head of State / 25-Dec-1918 / / President of Algeria, 1963-65
/ Helena Rubinstein / Cosmetics Mogul / 25 Dec 1870 / 1965 / Cosmetics Industrial Magnate
/ Jimmy Buffett / Singer/Songwriter / 25-Dec-1946 / / Margaritaville
/ Dean Cameron / Actor / 25-Dec-1962 / / Spicoli on Fast Times TV
/ Quentin Crisp / Actor / 25-Dec-1908 / 21-Nov-1999 / The Naked Civil Servant
/ Patrick Gilmore / Composer / 25-Dec-1829 / 24-Sep-1892 / The Father of The American Band
/ Conrad Hilton / Business / 25-Dec-1887 / 3-Jan-1979 / Founder, Hilton Hotels
/ Mohammad Ali Jinnah / Head of State / 25-Dec-1876 / 11-Sep-1948 / Founder of Pakistan
/ Oscar Lewis / Anthropologist / 25-Dec-1914 / 16-Dec-1970 / Culture of Poverty
/ Barbara Mandrell / Country Musician / 25-Dec-1948 / / Midnight Oil
/ Robert L. Ripley / Curator / 25-Dec-1890 / 27-May-1949 / Believe It or Not!
/ Ernst Ruska / Physicist / 25-Dec-1906 / 27-May-1988 / Inventor of the electron microscope
/ Anwar Sadat / Head of State / 25-Dec-1918 / 6-Oct-1981 / President of Egypt
/ Gary Sandy / Actor / 25-Dec-1945 / / Andy Travis on WKRP
/ Hal Scardino / Actor / 25-Dec-1984 / / The Indian in the Cupboard
/ Aleksandr Scriabin / Composer / 25-Dec-1871 / 14-Apr-1915 / Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
/ Lila Wallace / Business / 25-Dec-1889 / 8-May-1984 / Readers Digest co-founder
/ Karl Rove / Government / 25-Dec-1950 / / Political Strategist to George W. Bush

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December 25, 1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6
December 25, 1995 Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
December 25, 1989 Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
December 25, 1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed
December 25, 1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed
December 25, 1983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
December 25, 1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
December 25, 1963 Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67
December 25, 1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
December 25, 1946 W. C. Fields, American Comedian dies at 67
December 25, 1938 Karel Capek, Czech author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48
December 25, 1921 Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
December 25, 795 Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies

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The Arrival by Shaun Tan
A Wrinkle in Time
Little Book Wrapped in a Bandana, Tied with Brown Twine,
With a Kitchen Gizmo Attached & A Handmade Label· Card or Staplebook

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Theme for Zyne
Evidence for SantaClaus

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Chrstmsa in Hell

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Superman Boxes
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This was based on a collection of Superman Comix 'Boxes' that i cut out,
And am still planning to rearrange into New Comix,
With New Speech Bubble Contents...???

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/ 1. / Santa Claus Lives at The North Pole
/ 2. / All The Children of The World Get Presents
/ 3. / All The Good Children of The World Get Presents
/ 4. / The Presents Given are Toys
/ 5. / The Presents are Distributed on Chrstmsa Eve
/ 6. / The Presents are Distributed on a Sleigh Pulled by Flying Reindeer
/ 7. / Rudolph’s Nose is Self Illuminating
/ 8. / The Toys Given are Made by Elves
/ 9. / Santa Claus is Fat & Jolly
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The New & Improved Guidelines for Chrstmsa Present Giving

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Christmas Trees are Bad

Jeremiah 10

The False Gods and the True God
Speaking of Christmas trees, it seems to me that this should be one of the most curiously repeated Bible passages every Christmas, and yet, i think that i'm the only one that knows about it...???

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1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs [1] of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether [2] brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the Lord is the true [3] God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude [4] of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

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Santa Claus Like Figures from Around The Ancient World.
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Laq Patachi : That serves The Joeanti of The Far North. Laq Patachi is mostly concerned with tearing the throats out of bad children, then taking them to live in deep caves where their lifeless shells are forced to make clay vessels to hold Laq Patachi's tears when it weeps for good children that are neglected by their parents. Every few years, the pots are emptied on the Joeanti's, causing either devestating floods or blizzards.

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One Eye that Either Sees The Good Child or Not. It does not see any ambiguity or two sides of any argument. It sees only truth or Nothing.
Is an Ancient from Way Back, but looks very young, as if he were a preteenager, And Has a tail that grows a joint every year, but having such a long tail is quite a nuisance, so he clips off the end from time to time. Currently; It's about 2 feet long with a brass ornament on the end.
Is completely naked, and heavily tatooed.
A transexual child of Pan & An Unidentified Sea Monster.

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Z-Mass Santa is carried by a flying turtle, that when on the ground, transforms into a beautiful androgynous caterpillar like creature...???

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Evidence for Santa
Forgotten Traditions
Z-Mass Traditions
New Songs / Haiku

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The number of days in a year used to be 216.
In Ancient times, it was given various amounts, such as 100, 360 & 32,877,652 days per year.
In the 12th Century, A Philosophical School that had clung to life from Ancient Grecian Days; Called The Coffee Club, which later became The Catholic Church, decided that the number of days should be 300. It remained 300 for about 400 years, and then when The Catholic Church began to take form, it required the consolidation of many, many different pantheistic, pagan & solipsistic cults, each of which had to be placated with all sorts of completely ridiculous concessions, which required that the year be rounded up and down, up and down to eventually settle at 365.25 days per year, and even so, it still has to be fudged every few years to keep the druids from soiling their pants.

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Mammoths are still quite common in Eastern Russia, but are kept a secret because many of the ancient traditions required feasting on them, and grinding their bones into dust for decorations.
There were approximate 17 distinct immortal figures that were consolidated into what we consider the modern Santa Claus.
Z-Mass remixes the original forms to make a New Amalgam; Henry Claws, which is still, admittedly— A symbolic form of the true immortal whose name is not known, and a consistent description provided by it's numerous eye witnesses is illusive.
The Catholic Church was originally created by a much older society that has variously been called The Illuminatii or The Bee Keepers, to organize & supervise the new holidays when the year was given 300 days. When it was later supplemented with an additional 65.25 days, New Holidays had to be created to fill in these new months.

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All The Older Holidays that have been combined to make the early forms of Christmas,
And which in modern times, became X-Mas.

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Various Loose & Raw Ideas...
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Fools
Phallus based Party Games
Faery Circles
Animals / Cave Bears / Elk / Goats / Sheep / Wolves / Reindeer /
Reindeer based Religions
Solstice / Why is Winter S- so much more important than The Summer S-?
Or The Spring & Autumnal Equinoxes
Moon Festivals
Foot Fetishes
Mysterious Wars that have been historically suppressed
Monsters that few have ever heard of
Ancient Sciences
The Secrets of Water, Air & Fire
Family Curses / Family Lines / Ancestral paths from The Mighty Men
Beings from Other Worlds; Near by and Far Away
Tricks & Jokes that were once thought to be great fun
Puzzles that have yet to be solved
Machines buried under the vatican / Flying Disks hidden in Your Neighborhood
The Origins of The Grand Canyon, The Moon & Western Toilets
Why Mars is Red & Waterless— & Venus is a Fertility Gawd
Why Aliens are Abducting Us & What is the deal with Cattle Mutilations
Why are Cats being cut in half?
Star Patterns, and their Names
How does the Southern Hemisphere deal with Winter?
Gingerbread
Ancient Histories that have just recently been written
The Real Meaning of Stonehenge
Knights of The Round Table. Wouldn't the theory of evolution require earlier experiments with Septagonal or Dough Nought Shaped Tables?
Elves = Greys
Yule Log / Slaves / Indentured Servants
In Olden times, People didn't get married and have children. That tradition started in the 1930's. Before that; Men would find children roaming the streets and take them in as Indentured Servants. Where the children came from was never thoroughly understood, and many theories attempted to explain this.
Cave Bear Teeth / Claws / Corn / Chocolate
Crows & Ravens
Swans & Snow Geese
Black Peter & The many other AntiClaus'
Profane Celebrations
Why do we eat some animals and not others.
Why is Cannibalism an integral part of nearly every modern religion and the ancient cults, and yet; Not allowed as a Secular Dietary Habit.
Why did the One True Church ( Which has no Name ? ) invent Darwinism and the Heresy of Evolution?
The Ancient & Suppressed Miracles which were later watered down and forced to fit into the modern religions.
Why have the ancient traditions & cultures created an endless repository of creation myths to explain nearly every aspect & element of our lives & technology... Except for:
Menstruation / Ball Point Pens / Electrical Outlets / The Regional Preferences for 3 or 4 Pronged Forks / Fingernail Clippers / Dribble Glasses / Binary Computers /
Why are some extremely common things kept ( nearly so ) a secret...?
Like Squirrel Nests / How Gravity Really Works / Keyboard Designs / The Myth of Simple Machines, Vowels, & What Caramel is?
Druids / Mistletoe / Stubbed Toes / Holly / The Green Man / The Yellow Dog / The Orange Sidewalk Hobo
Why were horses bred in the 14th Century to have only 4 legs?
Most Turkeys are actually stray dogs or the babies of illegal immigrants
Role Reversals
Wrapping Paper Decorations
Ribbons & Bows
Tinsel, Angel Hair from Flying Saucers / Chaff
Stockings
The Twelve Days of Xmass
The Familiars of St. Nicholas & The AntiCrimmy
Pumpkins & Squash
Foxes, Weasels, Stoats, Badgers, Hares, Long Tailed Shrews,

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Social Conventions are created to allow people to do things which may otherwise be extremely objectionable. Such as exercising infanticide, especially when disposing of dull witted or unusually unruly children. So that various holidays allow for this sort of thing. In particular many 11th Century communities throughout Europe allowed for Christmas Traditions that included the pretext that Saint Nicholas would take bad children with him to the north pole, to use them as indentured servants to make toys and care for the reindeer. The net effect would be that if children disappeared on Christmas Eve, they would simply assumed to have been taken by Saint Nick and that would be that.

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Axiomatic Archetype of The Bastardization of Chrstmsa
Saint Nikolas / Turkish Bishop
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Sans Kristmouss
Soot Chonus
Chilt Slawmoore
Hüon Faunamia
Fadder Whoskow
The Jolly Øifchumer
The Spirit Prince
The Ghost of Dust
The Solstice Smith
The Child Kismi
Mitch Kronigle
King Guiser
Doctor Kruskling
The Old Shaman
The White Witch
Ol' Peg Leg Mike
The Sheepheaded Knight
The Squire of The Red Bag
Sintaklass
Odin
Nicholas
Ol' Sir Christmas
Various forms of Ghost like, Lantern Bearing Figures with Reindeer Antlers
Santa Claus as Animals / Gorilla / FishGawd / Femanimal /
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Bad Santa that does seemingly bad things that turn out for the best
The Benign Santa that never seems to do anything, but that afterwards, things seem to turn out alright.
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Martin Luther invented his own Christmas symbol, Kristkindl, as part of his rejection of all things Catholic. What he came up with is by far the gayest of all Christmas symbols, as Kristkindl is portrayed as a "blond, radiant veiled child figure with golden wings, wearing a flowing white robe and a sparkling jeweled crown, and carrying a small Christmas tree or wand."
Source of Kris Kringle !!!

- The American version of St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus originally came from the Dutch version called Sint Klaas. The Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) brought this fun and lively tradition (some even say cult) to America.

- In China , he is called Shengdan Laoren /

- In Greek, St. Nicholas is known as Hagios Nikolaos, Bishop of Myra (in the present day Turkey )

- In China , he is called Shengdan Laoren.

- In England , his name is Father Christmas , where he has a longer coat and a longer beard.

- In France , he's known as Pere Noel.

- In Germany , children get presents from Christindl, the Christ Child.

- Nowadays the Joulupukki of Finland resembles the American Santa Claus.

- In Brazil and Peru , Santa Claus is called Papa Noel.

- In Italy Babbo Natale, which means Father Christmas, is Santa.

- In Morocco he is known as Black Peter

- In Japan , Santa Clause is called Santa Clause or just "Santa". Children often call him "Santa no ojisan," which means "Uncle Santa."

- In Sweden Jultomten visits the evening before Christmas day, pulling a big bag of julklappar (Christmas presents) in the deep snow.

- In the Netherlands , he is called Kerstman.

- In Russia , he is called Grandfather Frost that is "ded moroz" (the second "o" has its accent and the last "z" is pronouned as "s".)

- He is also called Kris Kringle - which comes from the German term "the Christ Child"
(Christ Kind).

Source: lone-star.net

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Barbie Q'ed Pine Cone Scales
Seasoned Walrus Blubber
Festive Balls of Toe Jam with Sprinkles
The Dance of Licking Stains from The Master’s Undergarments
Woven Cat Fur dipped in Fermented Molasses
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Burning off Warts
Trimming The Old Peoples Toenails
The Midnight Earwax Hunt
Filling The Washer Basins with Ticks, Bedbugs & Mites,
Chasing Witches, Hags or Annoying Neighbors with White Hot Pokers
Milking The Widows Pigs
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All the communities children would be blindfolded and made to run through a obstacle course. The Best children would find themselves falling into a pit of fermented plum, cherry or rhubarb pudding, While the bad children would find themselves running barefoot over red hot coals.
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At the Evening Festival, all the children would be wildly encouraged to prodigiously drink their fill of Grog, Wassail, Fermented Bear Urine, Soapy Wine or The Blood of Their alcoholic Relatives. Then— A Gnome would be released and whoever caught it, would be allowed to make a wish which is certain to be Granted. If the Child that caught the Gnome was a good child, then the wish would be granted in such a way that it would benefit the child. But if the child were a naughty child, then the wish would be granted as it was stated, but would result in great misfortunes.
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All the children would have their feet bound together so that they could only hop, and then a Blinded Elk, Moose, Bull or Wildebeest with a sack of hot coals tied to it's genitals, would be released in their midst. The tradition states that those trampled would invariably be the naughty children, while those that survived would be the good children, that would then be given special favors by everyone.
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An Old Hag, Witch or School Marm would bake horrible tasting cookies which would be offered to all the children. Those that politely ate the cookies, and lived would be given great favor by the community. Those that spit out the cookies and cursed the woman, would be severely beaten or sold to gypsies.
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And Why this apparently Blind Faith is superior to The Scientific Method.
When The Laity choose to believe something crazy, It is often sited, even by those that hold such beliefs, that they do so because of irrational, foundationless faith— But a more careful analysis of these beliefs is actually the result of time proven observations of reoccurring phenomena that are compiled into a self consistent hierarchy of knowledge that has the benefit of pragmatic functionality & practical day to day operational value.
In the case of Angels & Beatified Destinies; It is quite common for parents to express a favoritism to their brighter, attentive, well behaved children, while sending their dull witted, ugly children out in the middle of a freezing night to gather fire wood. But, Yet, the ugly children invariably return, none the worst for their mistreatment, and the parents usually, soon thereafter, befall some misfortune. The consistency of this effect is translated into a systematic guardianship that is provided for such children, by unseen agents.
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Jump Rope Rhymes with words or phrases that mean something very different from what the unexamined prose may suggest.

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Saint Lucia
Saint Stephan
Saint Thomas
Yew : Wood with Magickal Properties /
EggNog

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Today, most advent calendars are made for children. Many take the form of a large rectangular card with many "windows", one of which is opened every day during Advent. In less elaborate calendars, each window opens to reveal an image, a poem, or part of a story such as the Nativity story itself. More elaborate Advent calendars have a small gift concealed in each window, such as a toy or a chocolate item.
The constraints upon which The Advent Device must adhere to are virtually nill.
It may take the form of candles on a wreath, chalk marks on a wall, boxes to be opened, a miniature house with doors &/or windows to open, as well as extending the number of units to suit special occasions.
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- 1 Christmas Eve / The Real Holiday
The Source of All Anticipation & Glee, Before all ones hopes are crushed on Christmas morning.

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Not Counted.

1 Saint Stephan’s Day / Boxing Day / Day of The Wren
Take the Servants out into the yard and beat them within an inch of their lives.
The Wren is supposed to have betrayed Saint Stephan, The most holy bureaucratic accountant in biblical times. The Wren went to King Herod and told him that Saint Stephan was embezzling money for The Western Palestinian Independance Front, and was consequently beaten within an inch of his life. Then beheaded. The detached head then sang bawdy sailing tunes until sunset.

2 Mother’s Night / Saint John’s Day
The Faery Host; Frau Gode, would go throughout the village, bidding her ghost dogs to leap through windows and take babies from their cribs. If the residents attempted to interfere, they would be saddled with misfortune for the coming year. If they minded their own business, then sometime thereafter, a better, smarter, more attractive baby would be returned to the crib.
The Modern Version of this is to take babies from Shopping Centers & sell them to South American Adoption Agencies.

3 Holy Innocent’s Day / Childremass
This day is a wild reinterpretation of the slanderous myth that King Herod had all the first born ( in some traditions; The most attractive, tallest or any wearing striped diapers ) babies taken from their cribs and sold to Egyptian Adoption Agencies; when he heard that A New Bureaucratic Administrator was born in his provincial region.
How this is celebrated locally, in modern times, varies wildly; The most popular in North America is to take ones children out and beating them within an inch of their lives.

4 The Feast of Fools
At Midnight leading into the Fourth Day of Christmas, All Roles are Reversed, The Young Take on The Roles of Their Elders, Men wear The Dresses of Women, The Smart become Imbeciles, The Dull Witted are Treated with Reverence, And there is every kind of Sexual Perversity. At The Striking of The Hour of 12 Midnight, All Roles are returned to Normal, But Financial Transactions, Persons sold into Slavery, Children Conceived & The Consequences of Crimes are Held as they have been Altered by this Day’s Activities. Persons that have committed crimes, and not yet held responsible however, are pardoned & forgotten.

5 Bringing in The Boar
Ideally; A Very Large Wild Boar ( Tusked Pig ) is hunted down and slaughtered for a Great Feast.
When no such animal is available; Considerable Divergence is allowed, So as to allow for an Unwanted Horse, Dog or Unpopular Bureaucrat to be used as The Festival Beast. The Criminality of Cannibalism or Livestock Rustling ( Where Applicable ) for this day is set aside.

6 The Druid’s New Year’s Eve / Hogmanay
In some places; New Year’s Eve is celebrated with more vigor & enthusiasm than New Year’s Day Proper, Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or The Epiphany. Which basically means that more unrestrained violence is perpetrated & such crimes, murders & sexual deviancies are severely overlooked or moderated into venial indiscretions.

7 New Year’s Day / Kalends of January
The Kalends are The Seven, Twelve or Fourteen Days leading up to the Ides. These Kalends would be counted backwards, and for the duration of this Day, As a Singular Holiday Gratuity, All things would be done Backwards. Including all the things that most reasonable people would consider impossible to do backwards. Consequently; Adherents to this Feast Day would either be Intellectually & Physically Challenged by The Kalends, or Surrender to The Irrationality of The Day, and Sleep Through it.

8 Snow Day
Anything & Everything having to do with Snow. If no Snow is Available;
Then Cornstarch is used in it's place.

9 Evergreen Day
Is more accurately Held to as Sacred Tree Day. There were many Sacred & Magick Trees in Olden Times, Such as; The Oak, Yew, Maple, Cedar, Spruce, Fir, Holly, Laurel & The Many Variations on Evergreen & Pine. These Trees would very often delineate the home of Faeries, Ancient Ancestors, Buried Treasure or Alien Technologies.
Adherence to The Feast Day is to Burn only NonSacred Woody or Alternative ByProducts, Such as Chattel Dung or Clipped Hair During the Daylight Hours.

10 Saint Distaff’s Day / Rock Day
The Distaff is The Spindle used by Weavers to hold their Threads for Spinning.
Saint Distaff was not a proper historical figure as such; But rather a facsimile or histrionic caricature of The Mill Master or Administrative Bureaucrat that went throughout the village, gathering all the unwed girls, and unrestrainingly whipping them through the streets, on their way back to the mills, after the various days of Christmas Festivities & New Year’s Celebrations.

11 Eve of Epiphany / Festival of The Three Kings
Technically of course, we all know that there were no “Three Kings”; But rather, An unspecified number of low level administrative bureaucrats that sought out The Chosen One, from which, they hoped to consolidate their constitutional & regulatory authority in what they believed would be The New World Order.
Nevertheless; This day is meant to symbolically reinstitutionalize the manifestation of a greater sovereignty by supernatural forces; vis-à-vis; The Appearance of Deified GawdKings from Far Away. These GawdKings are arguably The Ego, SuperEgo & Id of our Singularized Modern Santa Claus.

12 Epiphany / Twelfth Night
The Apex, Accumulation & Pinnacle of The Winter Solstice Festivities, and also it's Terminal Conclusion, when all the decorations are taken down & either burned or put back in their damp boxes.
All Christmas Toys should have been broken by now, Relatives should have returned home, Children return to School & The Dreariness of One’s Mundane & Tedious Existence is ReAcknowledged.

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Mithras
Attis
Aion
Horus
Dionysus
The Unconquered Sun
Humprey Bogart
Cab Calloway

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The steps of the investigation
towards giving credence & authority to
A Visitation from Santa Claus
are mandated as follows:
An initial evaluation of the facts of the alleged event,
based on both positive and negative criteria:

Positive Criteria

1. moral certainty (the certainty required to act morally in a situation of doubt) or at least great probability as to the existence of a private revelation at the end of a serious investigation into the case
2. evaluation of the personal qualities of the person in question (mental balance, honesty, moral life, sincerity, obedience to Church authority, willingness to practice faith in the normal way, etc.)
3. evaluation of the content of the revelations themselves (that they do not disagree with faith and morals of the Church, freedom from theological errors)
4. the revelation results in healthy devotion and spiritual fruits in people's lives (greater prayer, greater conversion of heart, works of charity that result, etc.)

Negative Criteria

1. glaring errors in regard to the facts
2. doctrinal errors attributed to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or to the Holy Spirit in how they appear
3. any pursuit of financial gain in relation to the alleged event
4. gravely immoral acts committed by the person or those associated with the person at the time of the event
5. psychological disorders or tendencies on the part of the person or persons associated

After this initial investigation, if the occurrence meets the criteria, positive and negative, an initial cautionary permission can be granted that basically states: "for the moment, there is nothing opposed to it." This permits public participation in the devotion in regard to the alleged apparition.

Ultimately, a final judgment and determination needs to be given, giving approval or condemnation of the event.

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20 Cases Suggestive of Santa Claus

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2008 Zyne Pages / Content / SubTitle
With 6 Sheets = 24 pages /
1 / Cover
2 / ©
3 / Introduction
4 / Poem / Worms come in, The worms go out... Adapted for Z-mass
5 - 21 / 17 Santas /
Alternate Santas from Around The World
Real Santa's seen
PreSantas
22 / Bonus Material / Bible Passages That Bash Chrstmsa
23 / Conclusion
24 / BackPage

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Z-Mass Ideas & Such...

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ZMass
The next generation of XMass & YMas
Ways that Zmass is Better than either Xmass or Ymas

/ 1. / Xmass is the Celebration of Christ's Birth...
/ 2. / Ymas was the corruption of this holiday by introducing Santa Claus & The Commercialization of the holiday...
/ 3. / Zmass is the complete overhaul of X & Y masses to integrate a new holiday into the fundamental spiritual, social & economic needs of The Damp Masses leading up The Reevaluation of our culture in the year 2012. ( Which curiously; will occur around December 21st. )
/ 4. / faux holiday that is based on an imaginary deity whose teachings more accurately reflect the mores of western civilization.
/ 5. / rules of present giving clearly delineated and enforced by law.
/ 6. / chrstmsa trees that are all electric lights, festooned with tiny bows of evergreen twigs.
/ 7. / new tradition in which standing under mistletoe gets you to second base.
/ 8. / santas at the department stores are nude, which make them especially popular amoung sexually precocious teenagers.
/ 9. / The Entire Point of X-mass, Y-mass & Z-mass is to find & exploit various permanencies of happiness. X-mass, on it's most superficial religious layer is about finding happiness in an eternal boundless nirvana of eternity. Y-mass struggles to find happiness from commercial equity. Z-mass asks; What is Happiness? Can a Cat Enjoy Television? Is it Good to try to Inflict Happiness on People that may not be capable of experiencing happiness?
/ 10. / If Happiness is a Real Artifact that is a consequence of An Evolutionary Strategy to Achieve some Primary Objective— And; It is possible to trick The Evolutionarily Manufactured Happiness Receptors into Activating, without Achieving the Evolutionarily Mandated Primary Objective ( Which may be Socially or Economically Impossible or Fundamentally Suicidal )...
/ 11. / Then what is The Simplest Implementation of This Primary Activation Deceit?
/ 12. / Simply allowing that there is Primary Happiness Objective, and that There Exists a Continuum of Deceptions along a Bell Curve... Such that The Right Most Occurrences most successfully Result in True Happiness, while the Middling Hump Manifestations are More Easily Accomplished, But Yield a Less Satisfactory, Shorter lived Happiness Effect. All the Spatial Instances on The Curve Represent Faux Happiness Evoking Events, and it may even be that the Least Accessible, Most Infrequently Allowable Exemplarations that result in this Happiness Effect are More Effectual Than The Primary Happiness Behaviour that Evolution has constructed as a PreActivation, End Consequence of The Happiness Response. Such that this UnSpecified Activity that The Bell Curve Statistically Implies Must Exist, Will Result in a Greater Response of Happiness than Happiness was Ever Originally Designed For.
/ 13. / What is This Faux Artifact that will result in a Happiness Greater than what The Designers of The Universe Ever Intended? Is it Complicated? Is it Simple? Is it Expensive? Is it one of those Crazy things that is right there is front of you... All you need to do is Twist your head to just the right Angle, and there it is— Or is it far away in another galaxy, and to find it, we need to build giant Star-Ships and leave this world, never to return.
/ 14. / How can we discover what this Utensil of Unimaginable Happiness Is? Perhaps we need to construct this Bell Curve of what makes us Happy in the degrees that we're familiar with... Once we can begin to discern patterns, we'll know where to look harder for the things that will make us more happy. It would seem that this approach has Not been successfully implemented in the great expanse of the last 25,000 years of civilization, as people are still struggling to find happiness in all the wrong places...!
/ 15. / If The Primary Happiness Activity; Devised by Evolution is some unspecified 'x' and there are undoubtedly many activities that result in a finite representation of what seems to be happiness, that in No easily discernible way resemble the Primary Happiness Activity.... Then What is Wrong with this Analysis? Maybe the Primary Happiness Activity that we have always imagined it to be, is Something Else...
/ 16. / We Really Need to Push Aside all Previously Assumed Axioms of Happiness Causality Generators and ReEstablish First Apophthgms.
/ 17. / Is the thing that makes a man happy, the same thing for a woman?
/ 18. / Is the thing that makes a humanimal happy, the same thing for an angel or gawd?
/ 19. / Is the thing that makes a cat happy, the same thing for a daisy or cloud?
/ 20. / Can a shadow be happy? Does the universe want something greater than happiness? Is this greater thing, that does not result in happiness... What does it cause? And should be seek this other thing more directly?
/ 21. / Is Happiness a Scam? i love Contrarianism, and the thought that we have been, since our earliest days as a social animal, been brainwashed into thinking that the most elemental drive, fundamental to sex, hunger, or survival is the quest for happiness... Is just wrong... Fills me with delight. If this is so; Do humanimals really have Any Fundamental Drives...? If we, as robots, lacking autonomy & freewill, can not have any real drives that are essential to the universe, but only those superimposed upon us by social architects or gawd... Then the meaning of life becomes all the more pointless. We can't even take comfort that we are comparatively happy, as this is a commercial slogan that we have been taught to recite, to keep us, once again from going at each other with sharpened forks or the broken pieces of furniture.
/ 22. / Does this thing that is greater than happiness, that does not result in happiness, demonstrate that happiness is an illusion intended to trick us into serving this greater good by some means which is not in our best interests? Are we ( Sentient Beings ) an intermediate tool for that which is satisfied in a way that we can only imagine as happiness, but for which happiness is a shadow of the thing that casts it?
/ 23. / If this thing that is greater than happiness is what actually serves the universe in a way that we sentient beings can not truly imagine, then are we committing a sin of unspeakable horror by seeking happiness in false guises which do not serve the true -Intermediate- cause which gives us happiness as the universe intended?
/ 24. / If it is true that we do not really know what it is that makes us happy, and seeking that which makes us happy in a false manner is a great sin... Is seeking any kind of happiness the very worst kind of sin?
/ 25. / How can you be sure that when you laugh, The Joke was funny?
/ 26. / If The Responsible person wants to serve the universe by avoiding false causality activators of illusionary happiness; Would this make them happy?
/ 27. / Clearly: The universe desires this something which is greater than happiness, and that it has gone to a lot of trouble to see to it that each damp electron will serve it's purpose to this end. If a caterpillar was created to serve the good that is greater than happiness, and is too dumb to be lead astray by the confusion of false happiness— It must be that the functionality of what we must do to serve this greater than happiness end consequent that the universe most cherishes, is something that can not be done by acting to that end.
/ 28. / That is; Whatever The Universe Does; It is acting to this greater end, in which happiness is an inconsequential, illusionary artifact.
/ 29. / Stop trying to be happy.
/ 30. / Stop trying to buy happiness.
/ 31. / The Search for Happiness is getting in the way of That which the Universe Loves more than Happiness, ( Which we will never experience ).
/ 32. / Does the Liver know why it is told to Love Bile?
/ 33. / The Correct Salutation is : Buoyant Zmass— All & Sundry...!!!
/ 34. / The Recognition that in the various previous versions of —mas, The presents; that were given to make the recipients happy, were in fact, nearly always; crap. And consequently; only made people sadder. So that; with Zmass— Only happy invoking presents may be given.
/ 35. / What are “The Happy Invoking Type Presents?”
/ i. / All items must be of the highest imaginable quality.
/ ii. / All items must be from a particular giver to a particular recipient
/ iii. / All items must be life sustaining, rather than life depleting
/ 36. / The principle instigator of Zmas is “Larry Claus”— Santa’s unkept older brother who never quite ‘Got on track.’ ( this idea has been spoiled by the new 2007 Movie: Fred Claus )
/ 37. / The True Story of Yolanda the Two Headed Reindeer with Seventeen Legs that Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer is based on—
/ 38. / Reasons Why There Really is a Santa Claus; And what s/he/it is really like...
/ 39. / Testimonials from children & adults that believe in Santa Claus & Why.
/ 40. / The principle instigator of Zmas is “The Zmas Giant Mechanical Ant”
/ 41. / Before X-Mas there was:
/ i. / P-Mass : Exchange of Damp Rocks Initiated
/ ii. / Q-Maz : Yowling restrained to Special Occasions
/ iii. / R-Masss : Discovery of Snowflakes
/ iv. / S-Maph : Gawd Clothes Distinguished from Work Clothes
/ v. / T-Mezz : Sticks Painted with Stripes are Tied to Trees.
/ vi. / U-Miez : Horrible Gifts are blamed on a Quixotic Archetype
/ vii. / V-Muppies : Everything Wonderful is Attributed to The Quixotic Archetype
/ viii. / W-Noggiluffessicratcklemotten : Self-Loathing Institutionalized as a Commercial Holiday
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Santa’s Pack held Thirty Toys
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Author Unknown / Probably due to carelessness on my part...???

Ole Santa’s pack held 30 Toys
Made by his elfin crew;
And though none made the same amount,
Each elf made more than two.
Th elf named Cher made one more toy
Than the elf who dressed in reds,
But Cher made one less Christmas toy
Than the elf who made the sleds.
Spry Johnny Elf made racing cars;
Five toys were made by Jane.
The elf who dressed in yellow suits
Made each and every train.
The elf who always dressed in green
Made one-third as many as Sue.
Cute Marcia Elf was dressed in orange,
And one elf dressed in blue.
The elf who made the spinning tops
Made the most toys of them all.
Another perky, smiling elf
Made each and every ball..
Ole Santa’s pack held thirty gifts
All tagged for girls & boys.
From the clues that you’ve been given
Now guess who made what toys.

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26 Cases that Strongly Argue towards
The assertion that a Quixotic Entity that closely resembles
The Character Known as Santa Claus Exists in This Reality
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Page Structure
Picture of Child/Adult
Name & Age
Year of Experience
Experience
Drawing of Entity
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Statistically significant correlations that are common to all experience
is being magickal
not an angel, jebus, or dead relatives
witness does not smoke, drink, disease free, never famous, doesn't appear to be unusually good, but friend relate several curious anecdotes that make them seem saintly in a really quirky way , compulsive masturbator, monosexual , uses expressions and idioms that one one else seems to be familiar with
most refuse to reveal what the present or circumstances that lead to gift
some gifts discovered after substantial needling
shoelace
candy common at that time, invariably keeps the wrapper
doll with missing arms
pencil stub on a silver chain
sock with a peculiar odor
radio that doesn't need batteries
stained quilt / stain appears to be something but no one can agree to what it is
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Other common misconceptions &/or myths
Forgotten Traditions that support this argument

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Poem
Subject: Fw: Happy Birthday, Jesus!

It was the night before Christmas
and all through the town
Not a sign of Baby Jesus
was anywhere to be found.

The people were all busy
with Christmas time chores
Like decorating, and baking,
and shopping in stores.

No one sang "Away in a manger,
no crib for a bed".
Instead, they sang of Santa
dressed-up in bright red.

Mama watched Martha Stewart,
Papa drank beer from a tap.
As hour upon hour
the presents they'd wrap

When what from the T.V.
did they suddenly hear?
'Cept an ad.. which told
of a big sale at Sears.

So away to the mall
they all flew like a flash...
Buying things on credit...
and others with cash!

And, as they made their way home
From their trip to the mall,
Did they think about Jesus?
Oh, no... not at all.

Their lives were so busy
with their Christmas time things
No time to remember
Christ Jesus, the King.

There were presents to wrap
and cookies to bake.
How could they stop and remember
who died for their sake?

To pray to the Savior...
they had no time to stop.
Because they needed more time
to "Shop til they dropped!"
On Wal-mart! On K-mart!
On Target! On Penney's!
On Hallmark! On Zales!
A quick lunch at Denny's.

From the big stores downtown
to the stores at the mall
They would dash away, dash away,
and visit them all!

And up on the roof,
there arose such a clatter
As grandpa hung icicle lights
up on his brand new step ladder.

He hung lights that would flash.
He hung lights that would twirl.
Yet, he never once prayed to Jesus..
Light of the World.
Christ's eyes... how they ! twinkle!
Christ's Spirit... how merry!
Christ's love... how enormous!
All our burdens... He'll carry!
So instead of being busy,
overworked, and uptight
Let's put Christ back in Christmas
and enjoy some good nights!


Merry Christmas, my friends!


With God behind us and His arms beneath us, we can face whatever lies
before us.

Live your life as though God is watching, because he is!

Joshua 24:15 "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"

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Bughead Bill /
Louis / Saint / Barbers
Luke / Saint / Artists
Crispin / Saint / Cobblers
Dorothea / Saint / Florists
Bosco / Saint / Editors
Claude / Saint / Sculptors
Homobonus / Saint / Tailors
Joseph / Saint / Wine Growers
Sebastian / Saint / Pin Makers
Venerius / Saint / Lighthouse Keepers
Ambrose / Saint / Bee Keepers
Benedict / Saint / Speleologists
Anthony / Saint / Gravediggers
Hororatus / Saint / Bakers
Zita / Saint / Maids
Matthew / Saint / Tax Collectors
Gabriel / Saint / Broadcasters
Giles / Saint / Horses
Brigid / Saint / Dairymaids
Fiacre / Saint / Taxi Drivers
Jerome / Saint / Librarians
Mennas / Saint / Pilgrims
James / Saint / Pilgrims
Cecilia / Saint / Singers
Roche / Saint / Invalids
Stephen / Saint / Bricklayers
Nicholas / Saint / Children
Barbara / Saint / Miners
George / Saint / Syphilitics
Armand / Saint / Hoteliers
Julien / Saint / Hoteliers
Gabriel / Saint / Diplomats
Ohhe-buk / i love you / Arabic
T'estimo / i love you / Catalan
Je t'aime / i love you / French
Se Erotao / i love you / Ancient Greek
Ti Amo / i love you / Italian / Spanish
Keyagorata / i love you / Tswana
Kocham Cie / i love you / Polish
Ndinoluda / i love you / Shona
Te Iubesc / i love you / Romanian
Melchior / King of Arabia / Gold
Caspar / King of Tarsus / Frankincense
Balthazar / King of Ethiopia / Myrrh
Adelsburn / Jester
Cardinal Soglia / Jester
Merry Andrew / Physician & Amateur Fool
Abgely / Fool
Rosen / Fool
Berdic / Joculacator
Colquhoun / Jester
Longely / Jester
Patche / Jester
da’Gonet / Jester
Patison / Jester
Will Somers / Jester
Yorick / Jester
Aksakoff / Fool

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Rudolph invented by Montgomery Ward in 1939 / by Robert L. May
Dasher / Dancer / Prancer / Vixen / Comet / Cupid / Donner ( Donder ) / Blitzen / Rudolph
Blackie / Chief Sitting Bull's Horse
Magnolia / G.Washington's Horse
Strymon / Xerxes' Horse / Great King of Persia c. 500 b.c.
Rosinante / Don Quixote's Horse
Arion / Hercules' Horse
Marengo / Napoleon's Horse
Hippocampus / Neptune's Horse
Vic / Lt. Col. Custer's Horse
Kantaka / Buddha's Horse
Silver / The Lone Ranger's Horse
Haizum / Archangel Gabriel's Horse
Shadowfax / Gandalf's Horse
Bucephalus / Alexander The Great's Horse
Trigger / Roy Roger's Horse
Phallus / Heraclius' Horse / Byzantine Emp. c. 600 a.d.
Savoy / Charles VIII's Horse
Talc / Mohs Scale 1
Gypsum / MS 2
Calcite / MS 3
Fluorite / MS 4
Apatite / MS 5
Orthoclase / MS 6
Quartz / MS 7
Topaz / MS 8 / November
Corundum / MS 9
Diamond / MS 10 / April
Garnet / January
Amethyst / February
Bloodstone / March
Emerald / May
Pearl / June
Alexandrite / June
Ruby / July
Sardonyx / August
Agate / August
Sapphire / September
Opal / October
Turquoise / December
Frankincense / Gum Resin
Myrrh / Gum Resin
Helium / Noble Gas
Neon / Noble Gas
Argon / Noble Gas
Krypton / Noble Gas
Xenon / Noble Gas
Radon / Noble Gas

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One of the most common arguments against Santa Claus is that it would be impossible for him deliver all those presents to all the children of the world.
But this is a straw-man argument, based on the common, commercialized representation of Santa Claus.
The Real Santa Claus delivers presents only to the very best or very worst, special case children. Which means that you may be a very good child, or a very bad child and Not Receive a gift from Santa.
You must be both very good or very bad, AND meet Santa's criteria for being a special case.
These criteria are somewhat secretive, and change from year to year in a ficklish manner.
But essentially; The child must have some potential for a bright future.
A very bad child with potential to change the future in a positive way, may be selected by Santa with the hope that s/he will be turned to use their special powers for good.
That's another thing, Any child, either good or bad, that receives a present will undoubtedly have an active or latent special ability or power that may be used for mischievious ends. Whether these mischievious ends serve the world or destroy it, is what Santa is trying to influence.
Also: Santa delivers presents year round.
When awarding a present, Santa may appear in any one of many different forms or personages.
The present itself will be deeply meaningful for the child, but will rarely strike anyone else as being remotely valuable or special.
Does Santa know when you're sleeping or when you're awake?
Yes.
Does he see everything? Yes.
What is the cut off age for receiving presents?
When the child is no longer a child. This is determined by each individual. It is when they begin to refer to themselves as adults or often when they yearn to be an adult. The moment that you no longer find being a child useful to your growth, they you cease being a child.
Very often; This is the point when most people become very poorly developed adults.

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“Chrstmsa; The Terrible Taskmaster.” The Babynous Cult
“Quote” Source
“Quote” Source
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Most of These were Contrived by Babynous

Molecules adhere
To each other, like small words
In a Cold Haiku.
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A Cold Lost Sparrow
Sits beside a Chimney Spout
As Warm Smoke Rises.
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Playmates keep calling—
With the early sun setting,
We sing in the dark.
/ —Sphere
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Do Not Open Until Christmas

I shake-shake,
Shake-shake
Shake the package well,
But what there is
Inside of it,
Shaking will not tell.
/ —James S. Tippett
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That is suffering—
The agony of not knowing...
What Guatama meant.
/ —Ali Hassan
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An Old Man in Red—
Sits worrisome in the dark,
Cutting children back.
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Snow Geese fall asleep
When their small heads are removed
For a festive lunch.
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Goosehead soup – So fine!
Practicing “No Mind” in the
Dead cold winter white.
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White flakes are falling...
The wonder in the child's face
—Eating yellow snow!
/ —David Green
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A crust of hard bread
Thrown for a small cold sparrow
Then– Cat is fed too.
/ —David Green
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Odorous Reindeer
On a precarious rood,
Think; How sad is life.
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Cat at the window
Watches the first snow falling,
So pleasant inside.
/ —Droll
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Beggars Rhyme

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;
If you haven't got a penny, a ha’penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha’penny, God bless you.
/ —anon
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When the cold wind blows
A thin grey mouse, with ear muffs
Hears forgotten love.
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He who rides the ox
Has calmed his passionate self
Into the sunset.
/ —Ali Hassan
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He who rides reindeer
Has calmed his impulsive self
Stands atop the world.
/ —Ali Hassan
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A forest of trees
Become gay joyous papers
& Then damp brown sludge.
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A dull homely girl
Sits beside a frosty window
& Dreams of calm sleep.
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Like a young child
Seeing the world as it is
How beautiful.
/ —David Green
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Weather beaten dolls
Wait for the new toys to break
To be loved again.
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The blessed angels
Darkly hover over children
Whispering cruel fates.
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Old cranberry sauce
Tastes funny on cold burnt toast,
& Worse coming up.
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A wondrous gift
Sent from The Gawd almighty
Never seen as such.
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Tall children screeching
Huddling together on steps
Pretending to sing.
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There is nothingness
Hiding in the great parade
Of this holiday.
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Dad gets drunk
On Chrstmsa sherry
So does the cat.
/ —Jenz
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Axis turns again,
From green to red-gold, yellow,
Brown, then somber white.
/ —Ali Hassan
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Whiteness & whiteness
A thick blizzard stupefies
Ones mind into Zen.
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Decay of the truth–
In the moment of being,
A tree blown over.
/ —Sphere
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Roots up in the air,
Broken branches everywhere,
Behold the calm sky.
/ —droll
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Eggnog & scotch warms–
The early holiday heart
Sad head in toilet.
/ —David Green
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Freezing rain & snow
Made for a horrible mix,
If you're sitting down.
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Bright grass in the sun
Turns a sad hazelnut grey
When gawd’s heart turns cold.
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A thoughtless present
Is hiding beneath the tree
Waiting for hot tears.
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That night Susie waits
Peaking at the chimney hole
Blinks & misses Klaus.
/ —Kathy J. Martin
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A sugar cookie
& Tepid milk wait past two–
Still remain at dawn.
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Snowflakes quietly
Dropping from Heaven above
Vibrate secret truths.
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A joyous tiding
That’s hiding in a worn sock
Is eaten by mice.
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A red tricycle
Can't be ridden that morning,
Thumb-nut is missing.
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A round jovial
Turkey finds peace in the gloom
Of a glad dinner.
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Cirrus wisps above
The land of once forgotten
Promising flowers.
/ —Sphere
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Thirty pine needles
Don't burn beside hot bulbs
Instead; They explode!
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Jolly Santa Klaus
Hugs all the little hamsters
quietly in the dark.
/ —Kathy J. Martin
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Frosty patterns
That appear on chilly panes
Come from gawd, Sneezing.
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The wold somersaults
Around the sun, & a year
Passes unnoticed.
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Haiku
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Origin of Chrstmsa Tree was integrated from Norse Traditions
In which in order to worship their Thunder Gawd, they would sacrifice humans & animals at the base of A Thor’s Oak.
You know who did notice? Christian missionaries. They notice everything. So, one missionary of the Christian persuasion, Winfred (aka Saint Boniface), came upon an imminent sacrifice and sternly disapproved. He took an ax and chopped down Thor's freaking oak, which in itself should make him some sort of god by default. Of course, because of his boring ass monotheistic beliefs, instead of declaring himself the god of thunder, Winfred focussed on a tiny little fir tree that grew from the hacked trunk. And as all Cracked readers likely know, the fir trees' triangular shape represents the Trinity, and voila, a Christian tradition was born.
However the tree did not, according to legend, spring out of the ground with little blinking lights and tin foil on it's branches. The thing with decorating the tree goes as far back as the 16th century, when people in Germany used to decorate their trees with apples, a tradition we can only assume stemmed from some crooked tree salesman who ran out of apple trees one year and wouldn't admit it. Other decorations included nuts and cheeses which again appears to be the same salesman testing the gullibility of his clients.
A guy brought the tradition to America in the 1800s, and when we say "a guy" we literally know who it was: a German immigrant named August Imgard. He was the first to stick little candy canes on it, and to put a star at the top. Whatever German strand of mental imbalance caused him to do that, this guy's spur-of-the-moment decoration idea now utterly pervades the imagery of the holiday. He was just a very bored German dude that needed a place to hang his candy canes.
( Stolen from Wikipedia / e.g., Kristi Harrison )

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