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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE IN OTHER WORLDS 1c "Curb your enthusiasm" I wanted to write, I usually write 5 or 6 nights a week, but my schedule has been a mess, or out of sync, maybe just excuses, who knows. I have been lazy. I know there is so much going on un the world. But lucky for us, we don't care, really don't. I know we say we care, and that is important, not what we care about. Doesn't matter. There is a story of Din Quixote, he fought the windmills, we are keeping up the tradition. And like I said, life for us is like a football game, when our team loses it is always someone else's fault, usually we balme the referees, we blame the bad calls. So it is, it is always someone else's fault. We are stuck somewhere between "I don't know" and "they did that". We look for solutions from those that have never found one, we call them our leaders, because they are just like us, always pointing fingers at the otherside, always supporting our BS, because it makes us feel good about ourselves. And why not, if we/us/they blame those "others" we neither have to take any action, be held responsible, or to offer any solutions, we are happy, though we are still spinning wheels. Or we are humans, our solution to any problem has always been to kill the others, problem solved. Didn't Cain kill Abel, didn't we have an #Inquisition, and then the #Reformation and the "witch trails". Problems are always solved with murder. We are exceptional indeed. I am amused, we complain about the "globalization" the "globalists", the corporations and guess who do we look to solve our problems? The same globalists, the elite, can we do something on our own? There is a lot of complaining going on, we complain about the mainstream media, and what is the mainstream media, o the channel or the commentator the we are not listening to, because the channel or the commentator we do listen to told us not to. We refuse to see what is in front of us. Me too, some nights I open the refrigerator for a snack and go through twenty items and say we have nothing to eat. We love to call things we refuse to see, or sometimes do not understand a conspiracy, so yhe world is full of conspiracies against "me", against "us". I can assure you, dear reader, regardless of any and all disagreement ls between you and I, any misgivings, you and I have much more in common than either of has in common with say, Trump, Biden, Musk or Soros, we can work together better than we can with any or all of the aforementioned. We must learn to see the facts and take off the blindfolds that have been placed over our eyes. We should learn to see and accept the truth. Ephesians 6:14 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 21 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE IN OTHER WORLDS 1b Or "curb your enthusiasm". How was your day? I had some good news, will talk about it later. A fee days ago, I had pasted a meme about swimming in a pool with dead body, as opposed to swimming in the ocean with a possibility of many dead bodies, I had said it sounded different if we look at it from a philosophical point of view. We tend to, learn to ignore many things, and sometimes the truth is among those many things. True that we ignore the "known" fact that there may be many, may be even thousands of dead bodies in the ocean, we choose to ignore that reality for our person comfort. If there is murder next door we act differently than if they are reporting say a tornado with tens of deaths in a neighboring town, which is always different than if the tornado happens a few states away. Isn't it the same about wars? I posted a story about an inmate dying of heat in a prison, there was atleast one "so what" response, predictable. We are upset at our government about the high cost of food, but we ignore the fact that due to the same war "that we started" and are supporting there are millions facing starvation in Africa and South Asia, so what? Right. It is just like that body in the pool. We like to stay in our comfort zone. It is called "human nature". I am not trying to make you feel guilty, not trying to make you change your mind, I am saying that I understand. We are simple people, us humans that is, and half of us are "below average", we are easy marks, once we understand that, internalize that fact, we can start to make progress. Yet to think that we are all alike and that the super rich can save us or only want the best ( or atleast what is good) for us, is a falsehood. The only people that think like us are the ones we surround ourselves with or we are surrounded by, I am sure that Biden, or Trump, Obama or Musk do not, can not think like you or I , or even think about you and I. What keeps you up at night is not what keeps Bill Gates up at night, we are not living in the same world. Going back for a minute to what the world will be like in 10 or 20 years, you and I can not imagine, but it will not be like the 1960s, it will not even be like 1990s or 1920s. It is just not possible, no matter what you are told and by whom. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 16 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE IN OTHER WORLDS a I was going to name this series "curb your enthusiasm" but you know how things are these days. There is a show by that name and the phrase is Trade marked, so I don't know if someone would've sued me, or this platform would have got in "out of shape", anyway, I have never watched the show, not even interested, don't care. But such is life, we are supposed to be excited, about something, about everything, I guess, I don't, only thing that gets me excited these days is seeing my kids and grandkids, and that is all there is. I have a comfortable life, even though tornado warning has been on and off tonight, my lights are still on, and it is kinda warm, supposed to be in the 20s next week. Merry Christmas. I have a heart cath the 28th, I had to check in with a kidney specialist today to see that my kidneys can handle the radioactive dye. Not a problem. On the way, a 45 minute drive, I had a revelation. No matter how long you have lived, how you have lived, what you have or what you want, your desires, they all cease to matter at all, the moment you cease to be. I am a cynic, I guess, I don't like people posting Happy Birthday in (wherever one maybe), actually the day of one's demise is the actual day of their birth in the hereafter, so instead the Anniversary of one's passing should be celebrated as their day of birth in their new life, but! If you have followed my page for a while, then you know I get excited about sciency things, and yesterday we had a huge scientific break through. Not really, at cost of literally billions we created more energy than we used ( in layman's terms). How soon you will be able to plug in your toaster or coffee machine into that "fusion" based power, if ever, is anyone's guess, they are saying billions will be invested in the new technology, I say wait, a long time. We are still working to get that "renewables" thing going, and that will be a few years yet. But we have faith, we know we will survive the Armageddon, the Apocalypse, a nuclear war and (the rapture too?). Anyway it doesn't hurt to be ready, just in case. Every single one of us believes that we will be the last person on the face of the earth, or the last man/woman/ person standing, no problem, have at it. Then there is another problem, I was going to stop here for tonight and wait for your comments, please do say something, What do you see our country as, in the next five or ten years, what will it look like and how? Let's talk I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 15 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM THOUGHTS M3 I had posted a meme about "being yourself", a lot of people liked it. Yet I know that most people are not "themselves", heck I wrote about being an "enigma" many years ago. We like to be accepted, even to the point that if is dating someone with tattoos or piercings ( or wants to hangout wit such a group), they automatically confirm. Same with a biker club, a bowling league, a church group. We adapt to the ways of the others, no individuality. And of course the same gruoos won't have you if you wish to be "different", so much for one's personal choice and freedom. It is tough being different, I appreciate that more than many, thank goodness that I am loner, and I am totally happy doing my thing. I don't need to be accepted, or maybe that I don't mind being rejected, it works either way. When a corporation or a billionaire sponsors a news person, a news channel, a university chair, a think tank, they are paying to have their views affirmed and promoted, you don't think a person being paid hundreds of thousands or even millions can have an "independent" viewpoint, do you? So you like a certain program, a certain writer, a certain magazine or a channel, that is your default choice, and soon you start sounding the person you have been paying attention to, you are no longer free to think. Try this next time you are watching TV, try to think what can think bad about the point being made, if you cannot come up with one single point against the opinion, your brainwashing is complete, you have no use for a brain. But I let you think it over. Then it was the quote from Confucius about what should one give up for "wealth and fame", apparently a lot. Morals don't matter in today's society, we love to watch the scum float on /to the top, Confucius actually wanted (admonished) the leaders to have good morals and to set an example for the "peasants", he said that if the leaders have good manners the public will also. He wanted the leaders to have good taste, good etiquette, even "good taste in music". I could go in further detail, but you can do your own research or just ask, we will talk. My third post was about "establishing a bad precedent", from the speech of Julius Cesar, Have we not allowed our leaders to establish bad laws? We have been sold to the bankers, the corporations have the power to undermine our #Constitution our freedoms and our democracy. Average American has no standing and no recourse, from home foreclosures, to drug addiction to pollution we are at the mercy of our betters. The FED and the corporations control whether we will be able to eat, be employed, our businesses stay open. And we are being watched and surveilled and our information sold and traded, while we are "free to do what we want". And if you like, read the whole text of Cesar's speech, study it, and think about what we, today, wish to do to those that we disagree with. Maybe it is time to stop and learn somethings before we take any steps. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM THOUGHTS M2 I can live in a reality that is known to me, or make up a reality in another universe, but if I keep worrying about the universe I created, I will lose touch with the one I am living in, that will be really uncomfortable. M. N. R. We all wish that some where in the past something would have been different, we forget that the present that we are experiencing exists only because the things happened exactly the way they did, or we wouldn't be here to make that wish. There is something called "the butterfly effect", it goes something like this that unbeknownst to us a butterfly flutters it's wings in the Amazon and it causes a hurricane in the fareast. Things work together. How far in the history, personal or the world would you like go to back and change "one thing", that would have made things better, or worse. We talk about the European invasion of the Americas, it was bad, that is true, millions were killed unjustly and their lands taken, fact, but if not so, you and I wouldn't be here talking about it. We would still be in Europe "hacking" eachother, for all it is worth, the US, not considering all the evil that we do", has contributed greatly to the advancement of humanity. I am too practical I guess, or just great at making excuses, we all can be, maybe, but it is how I make sense of my world. I go back over on my life each day, more so now than before, I have spent the last 25 years wondering what I could have done differently, what difference that would have made, but I am here because of the road I took, and to some extent so are you, everyone. Let's make the world a better place I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 08 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM THOUGHTS M1 It is getting late finally, it is the perfect time. My house is quiet, since my wife , the only other occupant of those has gone to bed, I have one neighbor and at the back of the house are hundreds of acres of woods ( not my property). It has been a long day, of news, people are still trying to find out what was so important on the Hunter laptop, they keep looking, Tucker is not telling, Hannity is talk still, still. Well, Warnock won, Trump company lost, the Capitol police got medals that the conservatives didn't vote for, and the market was down again, along with oil prices. On a long enough timeline, we will all be dead! Where am I today, in life, where are you? What was to you or for you by the government, how did you get where you are, how did the government effect your life, for better or for worse? Yes there are many that are affected by the government policies, but seriously, we are more affected by the local and state than federal policies. And again, we are a free country, with free markets, therefore there is much that is done to us by the federal reserve and the mega corporations than the big government. There are too many noise makers out there. They say there was something that happened on January 6 of 2020, by who though? I didn't see a single state or higher political leader, no corporate leader, not a single billionaire or a head of a multi national. I didn't see a Federal Judge, a senator a congressional leader, not even a member, most of the mob was clueless and leaderless, and for that the Capitol Police got medals? And Herschel lost, Herschel who? Did you ever listen to the guy? But like John Kennedy said, we don't need smart leaders, maybe useful idiots, maybe that is what we deserve anyway. Are we going in a depression, we need one though, average person has too much money, poor people are buying up blocks of properties and raising insurance rates, people are buying islands and beach front homes, and toilet paper too. And people make points that they can neither explain logically or defend. Facts don't matter if they are against what you believe. If someone tells you "life is good" ask them to explain what all the complaints are about in this country. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 06 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 162 b Some people have wet dreams, I don't know what that means, kids believe in tooth fairy and Santa Claus, it is okay to grow up. We live in a culture of "perpetual adolescene", never willing to grow up, throwing a fit every time we don't have things go our way. Don't believe me? Look at your boss, your coworkers, at your workers, at your "partner" even. If you don't throw a tamper tantrum everytime things don't go the way you like, you are an exception in today's society. We complain about the economy, and worry if the economy slows down how will we survive, not because we will starve, but because we are over extended and spend way too much, we have been buying things on the assumption that we will always make more money. We also worry that someone else may get food to eat or have healthcare. Years ago I had explained why we need the poor to keep the economy going, we need the poor to keep our stores open, our Wal-Mart and Dollar stores, our used car lots busy, our rentals rented, our trash picked up, our power bills, cable bills , cellphone bills low, and much more, it is even totally worth it to pay some people not to work at all, just so they will have " spending money". But many do not understand, we are, have been programmed to look down upon and abuse the underclasses. You have heard of the economies of scale, what will happen to cost of a phone line, a cable service, a car, gasoline, food, if only half the people had the money to buy the service or product. If half the people had cars, if no one could afford a used car, if half the people had a phone, if the Dollar store lost half its customers? Proverbs 22:4 King James Version 4 By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. Let's talk I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 04 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 162 a I have had a long teen belief, a thought, an idea, that one can drive one's self insane if one doesn't control their own thoughts. What we call obsessions sometimes turn into borderline insanity. And if , as some say, insanity is caused by hormonal imbalances, then we can infer that a thought pattern over time will cause our brains to secrete hormones that are not helpful. We notice how people in "love" can become depressed, depressed people go deeper in their depression. People that are unable to control their anger and do irrational things, you get the point. If one can have obsessive compulsive disorder of behavior, then why can't we recognize an obsessive compulsive disorder of "thought patterns". Just as we have an obsessive compulsive disorder of drug use, only that is designated differently. The base is the same, all related behaviors. It is the same pattern, if you will, when a person promises something to another, they keep going down the rabbit hole, the promises keep getting bigger, same is with the politicians that keep promising more and more, those in power want more power, those with money want more money, it is the same obsession same sickness, if you will. We all want to be right yet, what if we run out if facts and the truth to support our claims, ofcourse everyday life is not like the science, we can make up our own theories and facts, many of us do just that, bit making up facts and evidence doesn't get us anywhere. May be you never heard a real life snake oil salesman, but listen to a used car salesman, listen to a politician, the longer you listen the more the story gets bigger, you start to think that the "Pinto" they are selling you is really a Porsche. THINK ABOUT IT I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 03 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT M1b THE CASE OF OUR SAVIOR "ELON MUSK" AND OUR MINDS Please read, part 1, it is linked in the comments, leave a comment also and let's talk No, it is not that I keep repeating myself, it is that I have to keep reminding myself as to who I am, what is the truth, what are the facts, where we are and where we are going. I am a retired soldier, at 70, I have lived a good, long and free life, doing my thing. Times have changed, I am no longer living in the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, you know, the world has changed, whether I liked it or not. I was at a funeral today, the preacher gave a sermon about "Humility" , Matthew 18, I was going to talk about it also, which would've been appropriate, considering we are talking about a billionaire, but no, let's talk about sincerity instead. Someone commented why I am suddenly talking about Elon, well I have talked about him since he announced his intention to buy a social media platform, and suddenly there were millions that became his fans, not me. What do we know about this guy. Let me back up here. Are you one of his new fans? How much you know about him? Are you an environmentalist that is all for renewables, do you own an electric vehicle, are you buying a self driving car,? Do you have solar panels on your residence? A battery backup for your home? Are you a fan of astronomy, space travel, living and working on Mars. Are you a fan of robots that can take over jobs, not flipping burgers, but doing home building, welding, auto repair, robot cops on the streets? How about face recognition, how about 24/7 surveillance. We are not sincere, really, we think that Elon can be used to advance our political aims and agenda, but at what cost to our own personal freedom, we are not thinking. In the greater scheme of things, if not Elon it will be someone else, another individual or a corporation maybe. The Congress will pass a defense budget, billions will be alloted to DARPA, no one knows what technology DARPA will subsidize and buy, and if not Elon someone else (Jeff Bezos) will make billions with "your" tax dollars and buy a 600ft yacht or an underground bunker with a swimming pool and a basketball court. And then there are government subsidys to buy electric vehicles. You are really not sincere, are you? You don't even know the guy. I don't begrudge them, I don't begrudge Elon, but in all your sincerity with which you believe him to be the savior of our democracy, I will actually do my own research on the guy first. And the Pied Piper took all the children of the town. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 02 DECEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT M1a THE CASE OF OUR SAVIOR "ELON MUSK" AND OUR MINDS We sometimes we do things without knowing, understanding or acknowledging that we did. We drive a car without thinking that we are driving, we snap at child or a food service worker, it is automatic. We learn things, we watch our family members, neighbors, friends and we learn things (habits) without realizing that we learned, and no one ever told us that they were teaching and we didn't realize that we were learning. Later on in life, we will even argue that what we "picked up" is is "the only" right way of doing/ saying/ meaning/ understanding a thing. Most of our learning also happens without saying that we want to learn, even when we are in school we do not sit our seats telling ourselves that we are "learning". There are two things to consider, what if we go to school and each day the lesson is the same, exactly the same, nothing new is taught. For 12 years, each day we go over our abcs and numbers, that is it, what did we learn? Exactly, are we now educated because we went to school for 12 years. What if I am a mechanic who is great at fixing washing machines, would you allow me to work on your cars? We need to learn new things, we need to know different things, we also need to know how to live in a society. And to live in a society we need to understand that that there are differences, just look around our country, there are different foods, different traditions and customs, there are different dialects and so on. We need to recognize the limits of our understanding and knowledge, we need to know we are not always right, if we were, we would not need a god or a message. If I am not always right, then I must also understand that no "ordinary human" is always right, none. Through out human history and in all nations, there have been some that have been thought of as being superior to the rest, but we also believe that humans are fallible, which is it? Lately there is a fad that the rich are smart, but what other qualities do we consider besides that they somehow have made a lot of money. No matter how they became rich, last night I talked about "Peaky Blinders" and how they earned political power though they were "corrupt". Sometimes we don't know what we want, from one day to the next. I'm the grand scheme of things, I am sure you or I have no chance of becoming a billionaire, atleast not in the next two years. And this much is also sure that when a billionaire says or does something they are not thinking of you and I, or how their decisions and moves will our lives. Just like a weapons manufacturer doesn't consider what country the weapons will be used in or whose parents or children will end up dead. Let's be serious, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, or Zuck, or Theil or Bezos or Musk are not worried about improving your life or mine. Most of them (if not all) want to control us, use us, and make them rich. THIS IS GETTING TOO LONG THERE IS MUCH MORE I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 30 NOVEMBER 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 82 A Before I get you and myself in deeper waters let me say this first, "anyone , male or female, that physically rapes (however, whatever the method, or purpose) a child under the age of eight should be given the death penalty, no if ands or buts, regardless of the reason, or personal status, wealth, history of abuse , except for a prior and well established history of mental defect or deficiency. When you start to believe a lie, it becomes difficult for you to believe the facts that contradict your beliefs, it is the old game, you buy into a lie and if I try to offer contradictory evidence, I become part of the conspiracy to fool you , and to cover up. So there is that, that is why the conspiracy theories don't die, Sandy Hook, 9/11, the Illuminati, the Deep State are all real, anyone saying different is part of the plot, ( I can see you are paying attention). We can't really blame the internet, even in the stone age people would gather around and someone will tell a tall tale and take would be repeated endlessly, each person adding some more details and there would be people believing the story and pretty soon the fiction would become the conventional wisdom, the fact and real. It is no different today, the idiots on the keyboard will see something that purports to support their idiocies and they will pass the story around as fact and the fiction becomes their truth, start the Salem witch trials, bring out the lynch mobs, whatever turns you on. Be it the illegal immigrants taking away jobs and simultaneously receiving welfare benefits, and committing all the crime, or the police committing murders willyBilly, or the violent crime being out of control all are acceptable facts, though they are not facts at all. Back in eighties, there was a sudden outbreak of stories about child molestations, "the daycares were involved nationwide", hundreds of investigations by all the law enforcement didn't produce anything but still lives got destroyed, businesses ruined, a few people even went to jails in trumped up charges. The fad also gave a rise to a phenomenon called "Repressed Memories", and a lot of men especially older one were tried, convicted and sent to prison where some psychologists "recovered" these from the female, generally middle aged, victims. Destroying lives, homes and relationships. Some people are willing to believe anything that is totally baseless or utterly stupid, just to be different. Or accepted in a group, and so as to feel smarter than they really are. In my "short lived" practice in psychology, I noticed that many psychologists had their own personal agendas and prejudices that they would implant in their clients, thereby increasing the problems of the client, transposing their pathologies and creating issues that did not previously exist. With freedom comes responsibility, without responsibility we lose our freedoms. Understanding freedom requires education, and thinking, a less than well "educated" person will not understand the limits and transgress. In my twenty plus years of writing and blogging I have constantly emphasized the "boundaries of character" , some people call it morals, but I am not religious, or moral, I am just barely smart enough to understand what is wrong and what is right, I define it as what if someone else did this to me? Would I like it to be known by all, and most importantly, am I stepping on somebody else's toes or territory. We live in a "society", a society is defined by its rules and boundaries, if we live in a subdivision we have to follow the rules of the HOA, right? So is the case for the society at large, with a few exceptions to be made so we can have everyone included, and no one is excluded. We are of course "one nation" right. Yet we are in trouble on two counts, one, there are some that want to make all the rules for the rest to follow, ( even under the threat of violence) and two, there are some that say I can do whatever I want, and no rule should apply to me. Neither situation is workable. Everything in your life is a lesson, right or wrong, good or bad, we learn something, hopefully, what we do with that lesson depends totally on our intelligence and our intentions. I have written about sex and sexuality before, good and bad , ask for a link if you like, even if out of curiosity as to how I think. I grew up a hippie, experimented and learned a few lessons. What works, what does not work, how it effects our lives , the lives of others, lives of our kids, our partners, you may be surprised. All this to make this point, what is pedophilia and what to do about it and the pedophiles. What is a "child"? What is consent,? What about physiology? What is good? What is bad? What is right? What is wrong? What is trafficking? How big is the problem? Where is the real problem? We really don't know, don't want to know, we make laws to cover it all and destroy good with the bad. There is no good child molestation, rest. Earlier today, I posted Leviticus 18, I am not religious, this is not a religious debate, I posted it to point out that many of its prohibitions are a joke today, it is not uncommon for a man to have sex with a mother and her daughter, or a woman to have sex with a man and his son, step brothers and sisters to have sex. Aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, not as rare as we think. We laugh about a woman having sex with a thirteen year old boy, and it is only a crime if an older man gets caught or is reported for having sex with a girl over 14. I could give you examples, but you watch the news, or know the people in your community, even your relatives. But if you take a picture of your naked 2 year old child you can be busted for producing and possessing child pornography. I shouldn't have to parse my words, and stratify and classify different forms of pedophilia and child abuse, but we do not have a universal definition, nor do we have a standard meaning of the phrase, different people do have different definitions and opinions about what is or is not pedophilia, what is child sex, what is child abuse, and what role anyone or any phenomenon plays. If two 11 year olds of any gender are engaged in any sexual behavior, what would you call it? What about a 12 and a 14 year old? How about a sex partner of a parent holding a nine year old on their lap while the two are minimally dressed? What about an 8 and a 12 year old siblings changing in presence of eachother. Or an 8 and a 10 year old bathing together. It is not my intention to make light of the child molestation or pedophilia, it is worthy of all the panic and attention it has and deserves, but some are spreading and falling for sensationalism, pedophilia is a fact, I am writing about it, but stay with the real. Some are trying to make it a much bigger issue only to make the democrats look bad and promote the pizzagate conspiracy theory. When your attention is diverted, you miss the mark, keep your focus on the problem. If we are taking a worldwide number then say that, not many will look up the facts and will just assume the number relates to the US. There are many kids in the third world, and even in America that are abandoned, that are run aways, that are kidnapped by non custodial parent, In America the teen runaways are generally found within few days, sometimes they refuse to go back to their families, there is sex trafficking in the far east, in south America, our "tourists" go there to buy young children, the problem thus is much more involved and complicated. Even though the allegations against Epstien may be truly factual, and a lot of powerful people maybe involved, making it a partisan issue is not productive. That is my basic contention, look at all those involved and let the chips fall where they may. One thing we need to make clear, even the DSM was called out on defining "pedophilia" as one term without regard to sexual development and age differences, many recently (since pizzagate and subsequently the Epstein saga) have misused the term pedophilia to define sex with even 14, 15 and 16 year olds. That is a misuse of term, pedophilia is sex with prepubescent and the infantophillia for sex with children under five, I stated earlier that we should separate the two with the age of eight as the line of separation. I am in no way encouraging or promoting sex with minors, but lumping it all together is a stretch and we open a can of worm that we all could fall into, as in the examples I gave above. I started writing on this last night, will add more as I find time M. N. R. 10 AUGUST 2020 If you noticed where I had said that it should not be made a partisan issue. Today there were headline that Qanon is trying to hijack the issue. This is not news, what issue has not been hijacked and destroyed after being made a partisan issue. I have written about this phenomenon before. The deficits and the Tea party, the ERA and the feminists, the abortion and the religious right, the war on drugs, the BLM , the list is long, and we keep going in circles and we keep getting lost. #SAVETHE CHILDREN sounds like a great idea until we realize we have no idea what we are talking about. The numbers are huge, but we don't know what these numbers refer to. We really don't. Are we talking about the #American kids only? The kids that are kidnapped and sold only, the kids that are victims of wars and famine? The kids that are kept in cages what kids? How old are they? Sixteen is the normal age of consent in the United States, so if a sixteen year old has consensual relation with a sixty year old there is nothing you can do about it. Is it about sexism? There are girls that work at Hooters, at strip clubs, get in wet T shit contests, to make living are we policing these? If a sixty year old man goes to a house of prostitution in Thailand, in India, in South America or in the US he is not looking for a 70 year old great grandma, are we going to police that also? Many runaways turn to trading sex for food, shelter and spending money what are we doing. We support wars, we support and create poverty, misery, pain and suffering, child trafficking is a part of the bargain, where do we stand. In Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, Somalia, Yemen, central American countries, in the far east, sex trafficking of children has been a direct result of our foreign policy, what do we do? I am not complaining about our roles, I am not suggesting changes ,I am not blaming, I am only pointing out the hypocrisy. We have kids in state custody, we have kids in ICE custody, we have kids in court system all being sexually abused and exploited, what are we doing? Our leaders have offered no solutions, not even plans, not taken any steps and here we are talking about "save the children" and we don't know what the devil are we talking about. M. N. R. 13 AUGUST 2020

HISTORY IN CONTEXT L3d

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT L3d We don't go off on tangents, really, that will give us too much credit. So many like to sidestep the subject not to change the conversation but because that is all they know, or that is all they want "you" to know. When someone is caught cheating in a relationship, a child that didn't do their homework, or a politician that has no plan other than to hold on to their seat and power, we end up in the same situation. No clear answer is available, pointing fingers, transferring blame, making excuses, always the same story, unless one is aware of what is not being addressed one is lost indeed. So many times, no matter the subject, some people have the same answer to all the problems. I stated before, so many have learned a few words of psychology and they try to play the analyst on line. Not to say that everyone can be expert on everything, I admitted that last night, that no matter what we believe, half of us are still below average, if we would only admit that to ourselves and actually do some learning instead of playing geniuses. The world is changing, if you are 40 or 50 or older, just look back at how the world has changed, (if you can actually see that), how we, ourselves have changed, then think about how can we go back, what all are willing to give up, and more importantly how we will replace what we lose. I can shoot, I can hunt, I can live in a tent, but for how long? And what will my children and grandchildren do without their TV and internet and without their friends, their jobs, you know, going back to the nature stuff. Really? What about the advances we have made in taking care of the average people alone, worker's right, healthcare, child labor, 40 hour work week, sick leave etc. What we get back in return? We need to make a lot of things a lot better, and yet no one has offered a plan. We are constantly sidetracked with things that neither help us nor hurt us, we just stay spinning wheels. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 30 NOVEMBER 2022 and do let us talk about "Peaky Blinders"

HISTORY IN CONTEXT L3c

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT L3c It's almost a week since I sat here to write myself, what with Thanksgiving ( it was a great one, so much to be thankful for), family and the grand babies. My time here is short, I have lived a good life, the times are changing, as they always have, what will the future look like for my children and grandchildren ( 3 years, and a 7 month old), and the ones that are not yet born. But life still goes on, as a side bar, ( but we still don't understand) world keeps moving forward, no time to go back, we have never tried going back in time, to the past, without destroying the future, that needs to be understood. Any real student of history will tell you the same. Are we so selfish that we are willing to destroy all that we have had for the past so many years and leave the world barren, and society heartless for the future generations? What are the plans? Who is doing the planning? Does anyone have a better plan? Where is it and how does it work? Are we just deluding ourselves? Maybe it is true, we will have a barren landscape and a heartless society in the near future, there are signs already, on either side of our philosophical divide. I am for freedom of speech, I like to hear "any" new ideas. But I am also cognizant of the fact that by definition half the people in a society, and the world have a below average intelligence. It doesn’t matter one's race, gender or place of origin. Whatever "population" you choose half the people are still below the average for that group. Certainly it is a cliche that level of education doesn't matter, but we are not talking here about castration pigs, we are talking about the future of the country, and the future of the world. If education and training didn't matter you and I could've been brain surgeons, atleast part time. Most us talk about things we don't understand and yet wish to be taken seriously and considered equally. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 29 NOVEMBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 198a

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 198a Here it is, almost 1 A.M., as I sit down to write a few lines. It is a habit, it is like keeping a journal, but I actually do not keep a journal, never did. We have too many secrets nowadays, it is called "modern living", and what good is keeping a journal if one is just going to fill it up with lies, or only write down things to make one's self look good. The thought of telling the truth will horrify so many. We lie, we cheat, we steal, we fornication, how can you say all that, how would you like your own children to find our that you were not the nice person that you led them to believe all their lives. Reminds me of the play "The Glass Menagerie", everyone has secrets and a secret agenda. We all dream of a life other than the one we are forced to live. It is also good to a point, if one wishes to improve their condition. But what if one wants do better by "whatever means neccessary". I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 23 NOVEMBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 197c

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 197c How ironic, we don't know who we are, what we want and where we stand, our feelings, our morals, our preferences, our relationships are all transitory. We can say one thing and act completely opposite and vice versa. But we pretend to be solid. Really. How many of us support the schools, but not education, we are avid fans of college football here, in Alabama, but like everywhere else, majority of the fans have never been to college, not that it matters. It is the 59th anniversary of the JFK (death), I am not using the proper word because of the "community standards", . Ironic! Of course we support the blue, we support everyone , without exception. Back in the days after 9/11 when W. Called people "first responders" I cringed, I wrote about it then. "Culturally, we are "elevating" everyone so everyone is "special", all have a title. There are no regular ordinary Americans, don't believe me, look at the "essential" worker. Damn, we have people pulling rank everywhere being called "Karens" and "Kens", I would like to the manager myself. I had mentioned propaganda in my comments yesterday, if we look at the programming on the TV , all the police shows , even the murder ones, law and order, the Blue bloods show the police as uncorrupt, efficient and ethical, "I guess they are". I have been talking about the corruption of the same for the last 20 years, I was against the Patriot Act, against the NDAA of Obama, against the TSA, against the arrest of Snowden and more, so you can say I don't back the blue as it currently operates. But many here do, I'll say probably a majority. There also movies about the corruption in the system, we could take a hint, bit we choose to ignore. Which side? The same people that whole heartedly support the blue are also now saying that the FBI is corrupt, that Wry can't be trusted, so who do we trust? How and where do we find justice. Once again it goes back to the local judges, the local cops, the local DAs, that we choose to corrupt and like them to be corrupt. Back in 2006 I had observed, when you corrupt one person you corrupt the whole system. RIP JFK I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 22 NOVEMBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 197b

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 197b You know, one of my favorite quotes is "all truths are but half truths" , bit what if we only know half the truth without kn6the the other half, what we ourselves ignore the other half. We cannot make a magnet with only one pole, nor can we make a coin with just one side. So we might as well pay attention to the otherside also, it is in fact neccessary. I posted the article from "the Daily Beast" talking about Tucker and his rant on diesel shortage, obviously Tucker failed to consider that the number was about the reserves being low, obviously the refineries were still producing and we are able to produce more than what we use, if everything is normal. Also he didn't consider and the article failed to note that we have also been sending heating oil to Europe for the winter which reduces the production of diesel. What with the Russian oil being embargoed and the gas line explosion. Another thing that the article misses is that right now, China is under partial lockdown due to the ongoing health problem, so demand for oil is reduced, also that Europe is entering a recession if they are not already in one and that we ourselves may follow. Therefore price oil is dropping, and the price of diesel also. It is that simple. I once said, after Katrina I think it was, if the price of gas drops to a dollar a gallon, not many will have the money to buy it. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 22 NOVEMBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 197a

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 197a Why so I use different titles when the subject is always the same. No matter where I start, no matter where I go, it always goes to the same place. Everything is interconnected, everything depends upon everything else, all is related. I am not lonely, never, I am probably not very friendly, or atleast I am standoffish, don't talk to many. I never call, my relatives complain, and the few friends I have, I do not wish to impose. I grew up alone, mostly, from the age of ten till I was married at 34, most of my time was spent alone, good thing I didn't need company. Now I relish the few hours a month whenever I have a chance to see my three kids and two grandkids. I love them and miss them, but they are fine wherever they are. One of the advantages of being alone is that you have time to study, time to read and time to contemplate, to see the logic or the lack thereof, to evaluate. And the more you read and the more you study more you learn and have original thoughts that are not polluted by the opinions of others. I can't say I never watched TV, but I didn't watch talk shows, what we watch is what we learn, what we learn is what we become, wasn't there a meme ( a quote) I posted a couple of days ago. There is a verse in the scriptures 1Corinthians 3:2 “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” King James Version (KJV) When do we grow up and try the "solid foods", and why the media and the politicians believe that we are still babies? When do we mature? Ask yourself. Someone mentioned "propaganda" in the media today, everything we hear from the media and the politicians is just that, propaganda, and that is a fact! Left, right or center, it is all propaganda until you decide that you are grown up and ask them (demand) that you want the solid food. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 21 NOVEMBER 2022

HISTORY IN CONTEXT L 3b

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT L 3b We always seem to end up in the same place, I have used a hundred cliches to explain this conundrum. Once again, we are really not looking for a solution to our problems, we are looking for us to be proven right, and we end following the same snake oil sellers, and the same Pied Pipers. History doesn't change because we don't change, we are humans. I asked someone to name some honest politicians , I was given two names of people from fifty years ago ( Both Democrats), no MTG, No Jim Jordan, No Paul Gosar, Not even Ted Cruz or Kari Lake or Matt Gaetz, what world we are living in? How about Rep. Katie Porter D-Calif, she has been exposing the big banks, the big Pharma, and the oil Industry among others. We just can't afford to be honest. I've repeatedly asked if anyone has questioned their own corrupt politicians or police or judges at local level, no noe dares, because these are the people that we deal with and make our deals with. The democracy and freedom are under attack the world over, it not the WEF, the IMF or the NWO, it starts with us in our towns and cities and states. Our problem as a people, as a nation, and as the people of the world is the same, no matter what we think of ourselves. The average person is not free, the average person is just a cog in the wheel, the average person is the one in the bottom 90% of his or her nation's wealth level. So if you are in the US and have a net worth of under 3 million you are "average" person. Now at your local level (in your town or county) you maybe a big shot, but even at the state level you are not important. And that sucks for you. We refuse to look at the big picture, I had explained before, if you are looking the Picaso's Guernica and focus on one scene you don't see the whole story. We don't see the connection between a poor neighborhood, with lack of jobs and opportunities, and crime and police abuse, and drug abuse and prostitution and child and family abuse, and mental illness and more, but they are all interconnected. We don't see the connection between sexual freedoms and use of social media and the teen pregnancy and drop out rates and lack of motivation but they are also interrelated. We don't see the church's involvement in politics and its dropping of moral standards, and church's acceptance of out of wedlock sex, for a ban on abortion, but it is a natural consequence. We don't want or can't see how the things are interrelated. In 2006, I wrote a series on how our economics and politics mirrored what was happening in the 3rd world countries, but it is a fact, our politics is no different, no less corrupt. It is a fact, just start to learn about any 3rd country and see for yourself. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 20 NOVEMBER 2022

HISTORY IN CONTEXT L 2

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT L 2 It is hard to convince someone that they may have been or are wrong, we tend to consider our convictions as facts, alternate facts are as real as the facts themselves could ever be, we have seen that. How many in the working class and even the poor classes are sure they couldn't be worse off, or that their employers ( we no longer use the term masters) are fair and treat them well. But compared to what though? In the not so distant past the employers were called and considered masters. I discussed this phenomenon before. What are the "associates" at a Walmart or a Dollar store? Associates of what? What is one's association with their employer? Privately ask a local contractor about his workers. Anyway, what is new in the world, do we care, there is a major war going on between Russia and whoever wants to fight Russia without fighting Russia, and this a war where neither side is allowed to win or lose, must be the "new world order" , atleast the IMF is making money, and the defense contractors, the oil companies and other major corporations, every body wins. The world population has grown past 8 billion, and hundreds of millions are facing starvation, there are floods, droughts and hurricanes, rivers are going dry and and crops are being destroyed. But, who cares, the GOP has won the house, the Dems have the Senate and the 2024 campaign has started in ernest. We are too busy to worry about anything else, while we are busy complaining about everything else. Life is good. So what about the next two years, we will complain, we will gripe and we will undermine eachother and nothing will be done, nothing will get done, and we don't even know what we want done, so far so good. Life is good. We don't want our government to do anything, yet it is the same people that don't want the government to do anything that blame the government for everything. What if instead of asking the government to get involved in social issues, like banning this, that and the other , or not, we ask our representatives about the budget deficits, about the cost of healthcare, about actually fixing the price gouging by mega corporations, about the housing costs for the poor and such, aren't these the issues that the government should be fixing, from our cities and towns to the state and federal level. Doing something about the poverty and homelessness. But we believe what we believe and you don't question anyone's beliefs. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 17 NOVEMBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS L 5c

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM THOUGHTS L5c I should write, I know, I want to write, but my mind is scattered, it has been a tough few days. I went and saw the grand babies last Sunday, it was great, my daughter was home, her husband was at work, we talked, we reminisced, the babies are only 3 and 7 months, the older was running a fever and standoffish. I like to write, this is my blog, I tell stories , what I see, what I like, what I learn, this a part if my journal that is open for you to read. We should all write, a little, everyday, something we will look back at and remember, something we want someone to know when we leave here, or burn it after we read it over again. One thing about writing down our thoughts is, if we are courageous enough, that we can face our prejudices, our short comings, our feelings, and if we are honest, we can evaluate ourselves also. If we so desire. In Psychology, in Counseling, in rehab, we are asked to write, for the same reasons, to be honest and to evaluate ourselves and judge our actions. Many today are not the same person. We say we are authentic while we try hard to hide ourselves. Honest writing should/ could make us better people. Most of us today have a dual personality, what we think and how we act are two different things, and we also judge/ expect others to be the same way. No wonder so many end up in therapy, have messed up personalities, causing us to have broken homes and broken lives, we end up drugs or alcohol, sometimes on illegal stuff. Not good. We have anxiety and depression, because we try being what we are not, never being able to be true to anyone, because we are not true even to ourselves. And that has seeped into our society at large and we complain . We project, we deflect, we become dishonest and untrustworthy, and that all is par for the course anyway, welcome to world of the 21st century. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 16 NOVEMBER 2022