RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 165A

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 165A BEING PROGRAMMED I received my Master's in Psychology back 1990, at 38. Kinda slow you may say, but when I joined the Army, I only had an eighth grade education. I was hippie, a hitch hiker, I drove a cab, worked as a street light technician, and even a janitor, I had learned many skills that I had learned over the years, they got me work to keep me from starving, keep me in money, wherever and whenever. I did also enjoy reading, I read anything and everything. I am old now, I do still drive and am able to look after myself, but I do get short of breath, I don't do hard work anymore, luckily I don't have to. Even though I have even done plumbing and flooring in my time. I have done many different things, real estate, land, rental property, I have made a decent living and provided a comfortable living for my family, even put all three of my children through college without debt. If you have noticed, I have worked many jobs( even as a part time psychologist). Working two jobs and managing rentals, doing my own repair work. Not shy, nothing was beneath me, nothing too high either. We get locked into what we can or cannot do. What we are allowed to do or not allowed to do. Sometimes it just happens, we don't even notice, we don't even know that we have been programmed. We all get programmed. Most of us do anyway. Couples that have married a long time, will have similar habits, same preferences even if they had been quite/ completely different at the start. Subtle programming works best. People don't realize what is happening, they will say that it has always been there idea. Not something new, I have discussed this many times before. Most people think of programming as being sent to a "school" or being drugged or even tortured. It is not so. Whether you watch your favorite program on TV or YouTube, you only read certain books, subscribe to certain programs, listen to your favorite music, you are being programmed, by YOU! I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 26 FEBRUARY 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 15A It is difficult to predict what comes next, what the future holds, not just for myself and my kin, not for the country, not for the humanity itself. NOTHING, it doesn't matter really, at almost 73, I have a shorter future than my past. We don't like to worry, we are told so, as if it is being programmed, we are programmed, aren't we, by our culture, our customs, cliques, society and some will even say education, as is the education agenda itself is not established by society. I don't predict the future, I just think about it lot, as if my thoughts matter or as if my posting those thoughts will change anything, any minds. We are cursed, or blessed to be individualistic. Oscar Wilde explained it so, ( thusly?). "Society exists only as a mental concept, in the real world there are only individuals". That is so true, don't you think? When we talk about the people of another state, country, race or whatever matrix we choose, our idea of society narrows, our idea of humanity changes, charity, care, compassion, mercy, love, forgiveness, all the qualities we think that we have go out the window. Today as we talk about "firings", "layoffs", reduction in benefits, elimination of basic Healthcare for hundreds of thousands, possibly more we laugh and brush away any thoughts of our "moral values", our care for our elderly, or those who are not as well off as we are. Our idea of society, is weak indeed. And those the are above us are ready and willing to exploit our "moral dogma" or maybe a lack there of, but who am I to judge, the goodbook tells me not to. Where do I find my moral compass. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 20 FEBRUARY 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 14B I repeat myself! "It is not personal, it is strictly business", said Michael Corleone. So right. A few days ago I had said, if we talk about annexing Canada and buying Greenland, then Russia will take Ukraine and China will take Taiwan. It is just business. When the Ukraine invasion came about, I said we probably were not interested and will let Ukraine go, but then, Biden started sending weapons, lots of weapons, Ukraine also had a lot of potential, rare minerals and a lot of crops. I noted. Also we had invested a lot in Ukraine, as I brought up the overthrow of their elected government, our support of NeoNazis there since 2011, another project of Obama mind you! Ukraine had potential, IMF and World Bank stepped up to back their loans. Yes the money spent in Ukraine is loans backed by aforementioned. And it also created jobs here, Biden said so. We sent older equipment, older weapons, older ammo and made new stuff to replace it. Arms manufacturers were happy, bankers too, Ukrainians did the dying, and half or so of their population left. Whether Putin takes all of the country or just the eastern part. Ukraine will owe hundreds of billions, probably more than the mail order brides can send back home. And of course Blackrock and Carlyle group (I have shares in both) will get contracts. It is strictly business! Zelensky will be coming to Miami or go to Tel Aviv, who cares? He has millions, if not billions, not bad for street comedian turned actor, he put on a great show for the same people that use to "eliminate" his kin. Like Biden always said, ANYWAY! I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 14 MARCH 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 14A I am a procrastinator. Just so you know, I have always known this, I like working under pressure, I guess, and when you delay the inevitable, you get that pressure going. Never mind! I also like to think about what I an going to say first. I go around all day, thinking things over, even arranging sentences and arguing and re-arguing my points. Almost visualizing a discussion, a presentation, as it were. The thing about writing a commentary is not just knowing about an "anecdote", but also knowing the background information, or atleast remembering enough pertinent information to do some research on it. We don't exist in a vacuum, in a bubble, and we also have a history. So everything is connected, for every "fact" there is a reason, there are facts behind the scenes that make those things make sense. Yes, even fraud, waste and abuse. When the news about the USAID broke, I was there to say that USAID was a front for the CIA, atleast the two have a similar mission. There are many, even right here, that will say that the CIA is out of control, that it is gone rogue, and you are probably right. But the CIA is also what makes the USA the greatest country ever! Yes, I said that. The CIA with all its clandestine activities keeps the US safe, keeps it prosperous, even if it is by bribery, blackmail, extortion and even murder, revolution and overthrow of "legitimate governments", and USAID helps do the same. ( somehow it is all connected to Ukraine also) I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 FEBRUARY 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 13Ba I mentioned two things last night. But why? At my age (almost 73), I am no longer impressed by the loud noises, not only that I no longer listen to loud music, but having been on tank gunnery ranges, listening to gunfire, being in helicopters, working on generators, on diesel engines, and such (not to mention speeches. Political and otherwise and the talk radio too), I am not impressed by noise or its source. I like to see the results, most of the time, I am not disappointed, I don't expect any. So it is in real life too. Many long years ago, I mentioned, I am not a fan of anyone, I don't idolize anyone, I don't worship anyone. You are free to disagree. When the music stops, and get off the "merry go round", nothing will have changed. Yes someone may lose there job, some may lose their healthcare, foodstamps and such, but the system will remain, it will only be more corrupt. What we forget in our unbounded excitement is, that there are tens of thousands of contractors, and millions of other "hangers-ons" that will not disappear, the Hydras will survive, be it Boeing, Raytheon, Blackrock, Frontier Resources Group or any other mercenary outfit. Even if we do away with the CIA and USAID, the FBI, then Palantir, Google and Musk’s own AI and robotics companies will do the surveillance work, (of no limits on domestic spying). There is no reason to believe that the government will save money, no such thing. Privatization only works for those that have the capital, you can take your 250k IRA and pound dirt. Children are easily impressed, a clown, a simple magic trick, a balloon popping can make them happy, a peek a boo, with eyes partially open is AMAZING. But such is life I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 07 FEBRUARY 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 13A It is late again, as usual, actually it is earlier than my normal. It snowed here, in South South Alabama, the 21st, 8 inches here at the house, couple of frozen pipes and usual stuff. Followed by my first case of covid and a secondary chest infection, haven't been the same since, but I am getting better and I will get over this too. When I was younger, much younger, even younger than that, stereo systems were new and even the modest speakers were expensive, but one could turn up the volume high as it would go, and get out of the "real world", even better if you had a smoke. I am telling on myself. Didn't matter if the music was scratchy, or the beat was off, the lyrics( if you could even make out the lyrics) didn't make much sense, but you could shut yourself off from the "world", hear only what you wanted to hear, nothing else mattered, not the truth of yourself or the facts of life or how the "other half lived". Which brings me to another thought exercise, you know, the Theseus's paradox. ( you can Google it for more). Change for the sake of change can be destructive. Yet destruction without a clear plan for reconstruction is even worse, you wouldn't want to destroy a home without a plan of what will go in it place, how it will be built, and what you will have on the "other side". And that is only part of it. As in the paradox of ship of Theseus, as we change the parts of the ship, plank by plank, board by board and all, at what point it is still the "original ship"? What is the plan, where are we going, what happens when we get there? I have questions. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 07 FEBRUARY 2025

IT'S ONLY WORDS 5A

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 IT'S ONLY WORDS 5A For those of you that are familiar, you know I'll get long winded, for those that are new here, welcome, please be patient with me, I'll get to the point. Atleast in my own mind, I am always sure that I have made a valid point and it is clear in its own. We all do that, to some extent, like when we present a paper to the teacher, we are always sure of what we've said, and teacher MUST be impressed, it is not like so, however. Anyway I try to be as clear as possible. Even you don't agree. And I don't ask you to agree or to disagree, but to consider my position. In a previous post, it's only words 4B, I have brought up the point of "character", what we think (say) we are and what we truly are (in fact) are two totally different things. We don't like to admit, but we know. It is like when dealing with people we don't talk about things in a manner that will be confrontational but at the same time we may, knowingly appeal to their "lower" self, to their self interest, something that will make them feel good while they are expected to do something underhanded, sly, whatever. It happens every day, we do things against our "moral guide" while feeling good about the same. When we talk about our SNAP benefits, Medicaid, Social security, Medicare, VA cuts we forget two things, first that we call ourselves a nation built upon a certain "moral code", and we claim moral superiority over some other "backwards" societies, then how do we reconcile these differences in "attitude". How are we morally superior when we are literally okay with making the children without food and the elderly the means to survive. Something is very wrong here. Secondly, what is the difference between a fifteen percent cut to someone's benefits and a fifteen percent tax on the same person's income instead. What we are doing is not "cutting the benefits" per se but charging a fifteen percent tax, or do we get fooled so easily? I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 04 FEBRUARY 2025

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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 READING THE TEA LEAVES 12B I hope that I am wrong, for the sake of my children and grandchildren, for the sake of each and every American, for the sake of every person in the world really. I hope that my fears are unfounded , I hope that what I believe could happen, what I believe is about to happen, that I am wrong, wrong, very wrong. Even though all my knowledge, education and experience tells me different. I know that the government needs to cut spending, that we need to cut the deficit, that there is corruption in the system at all levels, but what we may be about to do is what is akin to "killing the host to kill the cancer". Individually, many actions being considered or taken, maybe beneficial in the long run. But a number of actions being "promoted" may have an such an adverse reaction for which the public, the country and the economy are not ready. It is my sincere hope that the wiser/saner/cooler minds will take the lead and stop certain individuals or groups from destroying the country in short order. Simply ( for starters), economy is interconnected, therefore also interdependent. Whether it is your paycheck, my social security or someone else's unemployment check, we all buy goods and services. If your paycheck is gone or my social security reduced, Walmart will lose income, as will the phone company, the cable company, the gas station around the corner and the restaurant in town. Not to mention the car lot, the insurance company, the pharmacy and so on. Our economy is in fact 68% of the GDP, try to cut 25% of that, or fifty, heck even 10 percent, things don't look that bright suddenly. For all of us hoping that the "next guy gets it", maybe getting it ourselves. Whether one owns a barber shop, construction company, lawn care business it matters not. A shock to the economy will be shared by all of us. Here is hoping I am wrong. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 03 FEBRUARY 2025