Fear and guilt are critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize.

 

Fear and guilt are critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize. They succeed, he believes, by moral “narratives” above facts. What animates believers of this religion? McWhorter believes that it is not chiefly “money or power, but sheer purpose, in the basic sense of feeling like you matter and that your life has a meaningful agenda.” Narrative abovefactd  ntimidation and by terrifying people with the threat of being tagged racist: “We have become a nation of smart people attesting that they ‘get it’ while losing control of their bowels

Our universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years.

 

. It explains the universe’s large-scale structure

Starting out as a singularity, the universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years. (

Our best theory of the universe’s origin is the Big Bang. Yet it was modified in the 1980s to include another theory called inflation. In the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, the cosmos ballooned from smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit. That’s a whopping 10^78 times bigger. Inflating a red blood cell by the same amount would make it larger than the entire observable universe today.

As it was initially smaller than an atom, the infant universe would have been dominated by quantum fluctuations linked to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Inflation caused the universe to grow rapidly before these fluctuations had a chance to fade away. This concentrated energy into some areas rather than others — something astronomers believe acted as seeds around which material could gather to form the clusters of galaxies we observe now

Can something be in 2 places at the same time? Yes - in our Quantum world

 

 Objects can be in two places at once

Erwin Schrödinger used the idea of a cat in a box to simplify superposition. (Image credit: Mopic / Alamy Stock Photo)

Wave-particle duality is an example of superposition. That is, a quantum object existing in multiple states at once. An electron, for example, is both ‘here’ and ‘there’ simultaneously. It’s only once we do an experiment to find out where it is that it settles down into one or the other. 

This makes quantum physics all about probabilities. We can only say which state an object is most likely to be in once we look. These odds are encapsulated into a mathematical entity called the wave function. Making an observation is said to ‘collapse’ the wave function, destroying the superposition and forcing the object into just one of its many possible states.

This idea is behind the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. A cat in a sealed box has its fate linked to a quantum device. As the device exists in both states until a measurement is made, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead until we look.

Aregentina is a land of the most beautiful women

 Like Olivia Hussey who  played Juliet in Zeferelli's film of Romeo and Juliet

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What Dickens' character does Biden remind you of?

answer:    The Ghost of  Christmases Past

the restriction of GENDER within the binary pair

 I feel like a natural woman

one is one gender to the extent that one is not the other gender

Here we are guided by an ontological - (the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being:) concept that deals with the

nature of being along with a whole nebula (a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter) of other primitive concepts.

The overthrow of compulsory hetreo sexuality

 will inaugurate a true humanism of 'the person from the shackles of sex

the diffusion of a non phallocentric erotic economy which will dispel the illusion of sex gender and identity

this will inaugurate a true humanism

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there are not two genders - there is only one the feminine

there are not two genders

there is only one - the feminine

the masculine not being a gender

for the masculine is not the masculine

but the general

(Judith Butler Gender Trouble  page27)

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Shoring up the heterosexual hegemony

 Gender norm ie heterosexual hegemony are culturally policed

for a cultural normality to shore up  that  Mums are Mums and

Dads are Dads

Intellectual promiscuity in American texts makes it foreign to French or other European countries

 Say Gender as a category of analysis

Gender must be approached through active verbs that attest to the constant transformation  indeed the in -betweenness or the ongoing

becoming that that puts the being of gender under scrutiny

  

2 kinds of criticism

  self criticism that is democratic and inclusive

and criticism that seeks to undermine the whole structure

how I yearned for that fence

 As the argument grew till it blazed 

during this I was unable to sit on the fence

how I yearned for that fence as it developed into

name calling

  

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Tom Stoppard

WE ARE HAUNTED BY MORTALITY WE ARE ALSO HAUNTED BY MORALITY?

 WE ARE HAUNTED BY MORTALITY

WE ARE ALSO HAUNTED BY MORALITY

POSTERITY OR OBSCURITY?

 SOME OF US CRAVE FOR POSTERITY 

WHAT DID THEYREALLY  THINK OF ME?

WILL I BE REMEMBERED F0NDLY

0THE ARE CONTENT IN THEIR OBSCURITY

SEARCHING FOR CLICHES

 IN HIS SEARCH FOR  CLICHES HE 'EFT NO STONE UNTURNED

are the SILENCES in conversation just as REVEALING

 are the SILENCES in conversation just as revealing as to what is said

a cIRCUS SEAL LAMENTS

 'AFTER BEING THROWN BACK INTO THE SEA 

'......it is bloody hard in the sea...the fist are hard to catch its bloody cold and there's no music

when I was at the Circus the fish was handed to me in buckets...'

a MESSAGE FOR 'LEFTIE' MEDIA TYPES

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 There is a 2 word anglo saxon saying - the second part of which is 'off'and the first

part for obvious reasons must be omitted.

The GIFT OF IGNORANCE IS WHEN PEOPLE APPROACH A PROBLEM WITHOUT PRECEDENT

 WHEN  PEOPLE APPROACH A PROBLEM WITHOUT PRECEDENT

The 'sacred cows' or ART and RELIGION are not my favourite animals

some people's ideas for Xmas gifts

 If you want a second hand ungrateful goldfish for xmas come along and collect make sure to bring  bucket

Does being female constitute a natural fact or is it a cultural performance?

 Doe's being female constitute a natural fact or is it a cultural performance? 

What is required is a radical enquiry into the political 

construction and regulation of identity itself.

Or are we living under a kind of tyrannical rule of assumptions about identity 

that works in favour of those  hierarchies who construct a self serving identity itself

(The above are extract from Judith Butler's book

Gender Trouble)

What happens to the stability of Gender categories when...?

When the epistemic (knowledge) regime of presumptive hetrosexuality is unmasked as that which produces

and reifies (makes real)  ostensible categories of  ontology?  (what  reality is)

WHY IS it that small men need to wield power?

 a FRIEND WAS REFLECTING ON THE ukranian war the other dAY

Why is it that 'men' of small stature ie height etc  - Hitler. Mussolinii Stalin

become such tyrants?  iS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE 'MEN'?

he asked and went on...

'...CURRENTLY 500.000 RUSSIAN FAMILIES ARE GRIEVING OVER THEIR

KILLED OR WOUNDED CHILDREN AND YET THIS LITTLE MAN WILL NOT RELENT

INSTEAD HE AND HIS HENCH MEN CONTINue TO TERRIFY THE  CHILDREN OF THE WOLD WITH THEIR DOOMS DAY

THREATS, AS THE children COME HOMe FROM SCHOOL

AND ENQUIRE, EYES FILLED WITH TERROR

'...iS THERE GOING TO BE A WORLD WAR, DAD?

as if yelping and yapping was in their DNA

 didn't take long before the 'leftist' media were railing and ranting

about Trump's landslide victory,  they are like unruly animals

who will not be told,  as if yelping and yapping was in their DNA

received grammar is not the best is not the best vehicle for expressing radical views

Given the constraints that grammar imposes on thought

it follows that received grammar is not the best is not the best vehicle 

for expressing radical views.

Equally 'styles' that are available to you are as free as one conceives

for neither style or grammar are politically neutral

IS 'INTERNAL' WHEN SPEAKING OF OUR PSYCHE A FALSE METAPHOR

You have been accused ...so you wait for the LAW

 LOOK AT THE DOOR THAT LEADS INTO THE COURT ROOM

THERE IS AN AUTHORITY INSIDE THAT DOOR

WHICH WILL IMPOSE MEANING

The bewitchment of our intelligence by language - our aim should be to show the fly the way out of the bottle

 What should be your  ajm  with language?

it should be to show the fly the way out of the bottle

reason in the service of the passions

reason is the slave of the passions  and never pretend any other 'reason' but to enslave

and obey this 'passion'

When your thinKing loses its justification and comes to an end

 this happens when your EXPECTATIONS  come to an END

when i use a word it means just what I chose to mean

 when  i use a word it means just what I chose IT to mean

Humpty Dumpty  from Alice in Wonderland

Trump was a venerable Joan of Arc as he was torched by the the virulent U

 have you noticed something about the world political order to those who disagree

Trump was a venerable  Joan of  Arc as he was torched by the the virulent US

 'Lawfare'

Next in the firing line is Marine Le Pen .....how can we shut her up.....put her in prison

why? because she is a non-believer' comes the cry from the inquisitors those adherents

of that  new Religion  wokism

WILL TRUMP ELECTION WIN PUT AN END TO THE 'WOKE' RELIGION?

Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID

Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska.

tHE REFUSAL BY THE US to adopt identity cards for Elections opens it up

to charges of being a third world country

The soul we seek it here, there and everywhere but where is it and seeing the light

 Seeing the light

It is late evening in London, I am hurrying home, my step falters because up ahead there is a man well dressed who is

scrabbling in the dirt under a street lamp I have to ask...are you alright? do you need any help? No, no, just looking for my watch, Did you drop it here? No, no, I think back there

if you don't me asking why are you searching for it here?

Because there's some light here/

Right, right, well, good luck.

Is it silly and misleading to speak of the 'SOUL'?

well not if you are referring to a singular purpose of the 'soul' as the constructed model qf a 

'self' a coherent agency of singular purpose which  we can resort to and which helps us to survive

99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE NOW EXTINCT is this part of a HEAVENLY plan?

 99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE NOW EXTINCT

is this part of a HEAVENLY plan?

Wisdom is KNOWING that you DON'T KNOW

 SOCRATES CLAIMED THAT 

Wisdom is KNOWING that you DON'T KNOW

The US CONSTTUTION has fossilized into an object of near sacred veneration

 The US CONSTTUTION has fossilized into an object of  near sacred veneration

Trumps' lack pf support for Ukraine is a long term geo political problem

 Trumps' lack pf support for Ukraine is a long term geo political problem

> are you voting for a further 4 years of quite spooky laughter?

 are you voting for a further 4 years of quite spooky laughter?  when one listens to this cackle

one feels one is in an insane asylum  - and you are

Should Americans be bracing for bloodshed if Donald Trump loses the 2024 presidential election?

Should Americans be bracing for bloodshed if Donald Trump loses the 2024 presidential election?

Alexander Cohen

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson Universitya political who studies American politics, 

"I can easily imagine a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection – or worse – following this November’s presidential election." On Jan. 6, 2021, over 2,000 people stormed the United States Capitol to forcibly prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election. 

Four people died and 138 police officers were injured during the riot, which inflicted nearly US$3 million of damage. Four officers who responded to the riot would later kill themselves.

Is the US morphing into Russia

 What is one to think? with the endless 'show' trials of  Trump, and now another 'dissident' Elon Musk

has a 5 year jail threat hanging over him, 

meanwhile  the real political  US gangsters, pocket Mafia families,  stroll merrily on. 

iF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THE WORDS 'WORRY' OR 'ANXIETY

STUDIES OF REMOTE  TRIBES  IN THE  aMAZON find that 

 iF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THE  WORDS 'WORRY'  OR 'ANXIETY'

OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WORD TO CONVEY SUCH EMOTIONS

if YOU DOONT HAVE THE WORDS TO BRING COHERENCE TO YOUR INNER TURBULENCE

An Irish friend of mine wants to talk Politics

He asks '....Why has the term 'far right' morphed into 'freedom fighters'? Is it because 'Far right' was an anodyne political cloak draped over civil unrest, by the 'far left' to neuter and mystify civil unrest....'

Pausing for breath he goes on '...Has the term 'far right' morphed because of the indigenous citizens of  (Austria,Germany, Ireland, UK, USA, Scandinavia), are with vigour raising their voices about the threat to their  own rights and freedoms?'

'Have to think about what you said...would you like a cup of tea?'

Mastering the language of emotions requires three key skills

 Mastering the language of emotions requires three key skills

PERCEPTION

UNDERSTANDING

and REGULATION OF EMOTIONS

How we come to be riding our mental consciousness as if on a bike

 your perception is not random bu organised  in a huge amount of brain activity

which happens beneath the radar of our consciousness.

throughout our lives our brains undergo more changes than any other part of our bodies

 through out our lives our BRAINS undergo  changes more than any other part of our bodies

The point where the BRAIN will will no longer accommodate DISTRACTIONS

 Once the BRAIN REACHES the limit of its sensory processing It will no longer accommodate

DISTRACTIONS

When asked how he would design the universe

 A different, complementary, more existential side of Hawking comes alive in an interview conducted shortly after the release of A Brief History of Time and found in the out-of-print treasure Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (public library) — the 1990 collection of interviews by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer, exploring “the ways in which personal, philosophical, and social factors enter the scientific process,” which also gave us pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin on women in science, dark matter, and our never-ending quest to know the universe.

When asked how he would design the universe if he could design it any way he wanted, Hawking, beloved for his dry humor, answers

Turning over the question of meaning to Nobel-winning physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous assertion that “the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless,” Hawking offers a laconic yet spirited counterpoint:

What is the most powerful driving force in the USA?

 Violence

Vladimar Putin and how he terrorises the children of this world

 Will there be a Nuclear War sir? Is the anxious question asked by school children of the Western world and no doubt Soviet world as  well as 'Mad Vlad' carries on with his insane threats

If only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words

Matter is made of atoms

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

When the mind is at sea the word God is a life raft

 

Those innocents who dabble in the occult with Ghosts as their God

this desperate processes has a degree of intellectual revulsion

dabbling with the occult is capricious and has a degree of insatiable perfectionism - when the mind is at sea

the word God is a life raft 

If you're being manipulated by someone...

 

• If you're being manipulated by someone, they're trying to control how you act and take away your ability to think for yourself. This tactic can affect not only your relationship with them, but your relationships with others and your mental health. To deal with a manipulative person, it's crucial to set firm boundaries and stick to them.

 

Our Galaxy Might Not Be Doomed After All

Scientists say there’s a 50/50 chance that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy.

tHE CAT IS NOT IN THE ROOM any more- but it smile or grin is still here

Cats are very clearly crucial to the very fabric of our reality. In 1935, Austrian physicist Edwin Schrödinger demonstrated the idea of quantum superposition using the analogy of a cat that’s both dead and alive—at least, until it’s measured. However, the famous experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat isn’t the only feline-themed property of quantum mechanics.

Meet the Cheshire cat paradox.

Named after the troublesome cat in Alice in Wonderland who’s known for his disturbing smile and frequent disappearing acts, the Cheshire cat paradox pertains to the strange (and controversial) quantum quirk that properties of a subatomic particle (in this case, a neutron) can be separated from the particle’s mass—similar to how the Cheshire cat disappears and leaves only its unsettling grin behind.

the tiny blue dot that we live in

Underscoring our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another

Carl Sagan said it best, reflecting on the significance of a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from about 6 billion kilometers away. Our planet appeared in the photograph as a tiny distant pale blue pixel against a reflected band of sunlight. The picture famously became known as the Pale Blue Dot. Here's Sagan:

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives . . . . Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light . . . . There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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