HISTORY IN CONTEXT L 1

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 1 MONEY, MOLOCH, ELON MUSK AND THE GOLDEN CALF Times have changed, we don't live in hovels, we don't farm by hand, or with domesticated animals. We don't worship other humans as gods, we dont worship a golden calf, Moloch, or kings, or so we say. Anyway. Have we really changed? Let's think this one over for a minute. Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, most people, around the world, idolize "celebrities, the beautiful, the famous and the rich, ofcourse the rich. The rich are always special to us, for no other reason than that they have more money. We believe they earned it, no matter how, we believe they deserve it, I don't know why, but we do. We believe they are better than us, smarter than us, better looking than us, they are our betters, and I better not argue. Japanese and the Egyptians both thought their kings were divine. We are not that far off, honestly. Imagine when Musk talked about, and has since taken over Twitter, we all collectively thought of it as divine intervention, nay we saw "salvation" of our nation, Moses had shown up to part the Red Sea and slay the Communist "serpent" in one fell swoop. We were going to be a free nation. Lord forgive us for we know not what we do. Are we so desperate, so lacking of self respect that we are always looking for a savior, no matter who? Are we so lacking in faith that we don't think that we are capable to help ourselves. Why do we worship money and the people that have money. Yes Elon is still the richest person in the world, if every penny that I am worth ( and I am not poor by any means) was worth a million he will still have more money than I, yet his net worth was down by 62 Billion as of July, as of October Tesla was down 50 percent from its top, so much for smart business man, reminds me of that other guy. Not to forget , Tesla has had an almost 10 billion subsidy from the federal and 3 billion subsidy from California, And in most states there is also a state incentive to buy an electric vehicle, so much for your "tax dollars" going in the right pocket. There are also subsides for Elon's space X. Combine that with the government contracts for Starling and other services. Elon Musk is getting rich off of your tax dollars. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 02 NOVEMBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 9

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 ANOTHER DAY 9 I has been a good day, my days are always good, yes I hurt in places, yes I have "illnesses", I have heart problems, blood pressure problems, I am diabetic, I have bad knees and back problems, still I am blessed, much more so than many. I am thankful, my stomach is full, my bills are paid, my kids are doing well, on their own. I am thankful. I get up, I get out of bed on my own, I wash my own face, I wash my own behind, I dress myself, ( simple, t-shirt and jeans), I don't need a diaper, I don't need a catheter), I am a lucky one. My car and truck both have enough gas, they crank up every time and take me where I need to go, life is good, life is great. I don't need much, I have enough of everything, land, money, businesses, good credit, what more can one ask for? I am honored by "Gods" and I honor them back. (I use the plural on purpose) people have different gods or none at all, we are a free country, don't take it personal, it is in the #Constitution). I am very content, to the great dismay of my wife who considers me a total failure. I think, after 37 years of marriage she knows something. I talk a lot on here, a whole lot more than I should, probably, I hope to get your attention, not to see things "my way", but see things as they "are", going back for second to "the thing in itself" idea. We don't learn much of anything if we just listen to someone else, we internalize ideas when we have no defense against the untruths. The more you know, the more you can "see". It is never to anyone's advantage if their lies are not sold. A pimp, a politician or a snake oil salesman ( a used car salesman), will not tell you the truth, neither will your stock broker, your lawyer, a cop, or your financial advisor. But we adjust, if we don't know much we don't have many questions, if we do have "questions" we don't know enough to argue the answers. Earlier I posted a quote from Will Rogers. The more you know, the more questions you have, the more you know, the more you can protest the answers, if you are asleep, you have no questions, nothing to protest. Also the more you know, the more you can see problems, the more you can see the connections, remember ( maybe you are too young) when there were belts to drive the alternator, the water pump, the air conditioning compressor, and the fan on the radiator was on the main drive, one loose belt caused problems with the whole system. It is similarly difficult when you focus on just a part of the system and do not understand how the whole thing is put together and works together. Of course a 5 year old child doesn't understand that their parent was laid off because the company needed to downsize to save the shareholders value, nor an 85 year old grandmother understands that the representative she voted for their support for the corporate tax cuts is going to cut her social security to balance the budget, we hope to die in peace, while asleep at the wheel. We all have our moral values to preserve. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 01 NOVEMBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 7

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 ANOTHER DAY 7 I know, it is one of my pet peeves, and get really upset when I say something and a person asks, " you really mean that" , well , if I didn't mean it why would have I uttered the words? But I also understand, I am child of the 60s, remember that John Lennon song from 1974, "whatever gets you through the night........ do it wrong, or do it right", https://youtu.be/6lFTD9O-XMw well that was back then. And "are you for real" is pretty much a valid question. It is , however, sad that " are you for real" is even a valid question for our kids to ask of us. We have normalized "a make believe" concept of a family, our promises to our kids are no more factual than "there is a Santa Claus". Yes, they are kids, it the same kids that wanted the same book read to them everyday and the same bedtime story every single night, and now they ask if we are for real. But atleast they question, we, the "grownups" on the other hand have grown so accustomed to lying and being lied to that we no longer know the difference. We actually enjoy lying and being lied to and believing in lies "of others and our own" that we don't even question. We pay people to tell us lies that we want to hear, the preachers, the police, the law makers, the lawyers, the pimps and psychologists. It's wonderful world. Then I wake up, and I am mindful that the root word for honor is "honestus" which is "honest", yet we honor or liars and demand that our lies be respected. The world has a strange way of paying us back. Be it the environmental degradation, the population decline, or spread of a disease or wars, pollution, storms, death, crime, corruption all result from our faith in lies. Our own and those that we allow to lie to us. https://youtu.be/uCGD9dT12C0 I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 23 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 6

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 ANOTHER DAY 6 I guess I missed a couple of days, I needed rest, time to study, time to learn new things, learning to ley go, still. It is our egos, our hubris, often that makes us choose the wrong path, the wrong approach. How many times we go shopping and fill up the basket, still loading up more, we want everything, we get arm loads of stuff and still try to pick up as the stuff already in our arms falls. There is a play in poker where you drop that bad cards and hope to draw a better hand. In the end though, you still have the same number of cards. There are signs in everything, there are lessons to be learned, good ones and the bad ones. Here we should learn to limit our wants, when we overload our buggies or arms, or we drop something maybe something we really wanted, more than others. Similarly we could learn to give up the bad cards and hope to get something better instead. Holding on to a sinking ship is never a good move, no matter what. We can let the fear hold us hostage or allow the fear to be a motivator. No matter who we are or where we are, the life will change greatly in the next twenty years, or even ten. So many today are being blackmailed in to choosing what will truly be a catastrophe in any case. Sometimes we don't like to make choices because they are not what we want, sometimes we are not looking for advice, we are looking for a painless solution, especially when it is already too late. We don't want to have to work, we want handouts without strings attached. We get comfortable in our misery till we wake up one day and realize that it doesn't have to be that way, there is another way. But leave it to us humans, when asked to grab our nose, way too many will try to reach around their heads, but to get from a to c, the easiest way is to go through c, whether you want to or not, that is also the right way. As the world is changing, and we have put it on that course, the solution is not infighting, the solution is not you and i fighting, the solution is to work together and move forward, reduce our wants and make the right choices, and find a workable path, at least for now. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 22 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 5

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 ANOTHER DAY 5 What if time stops, (time does exist, we know), the universe will collapse. Strange. We need "time", for the universe to keep expanding. All the laws of universe depend upon time, speed of light is limited by time, speed of electrons in an atom around nucleus, gravitional waves, everything. Days, months and years of our lives, and the time since the Big Bang. Not that time is material, or important, but we pay it a lot of attention, yet we waste it like we ourselves, have a lot of time in our lives, and we have designed so many ways to waste what we have. Not just on line, or just procrastinating, we spend more time making excuses about why we don't have time than we have spent doing what needed done. One things is for sure, even the science knows, that we can not go back in time, science fiction stories not withstanding. No matter what the slogans say, wherever we end up will be the "future" like it or not. And change is inevitable, I am not the person that started writing this last night and decided to go to bed instead, I am a day older. Just like you are also. We can not undo what has happened since last night, let alone over the last however many years and decades, and we don't have the time to go into details of all of that. It will surely be a waste. Let's just talk about you or I. If you are not better off, if you are not happy with how things are, what would you like to change? And what it will look like when that change is made? No one wants to honestly answer that question without so many caveats. There is always some other wish, a desire, an agenda. We cannot get across the river with a boat tied to the shore still. ( well you can, under some conditions, but that is another story). And although there is a theory about the otherside of our universe (mirror universe) where time itself flows backwards, it is hard to imagine a universe where old dead people come to life and "grow" younger and become babies, you know where that is going. We say (most us do) we take life to seriously, I wish we did , look around, give me a few examples of such people. Most of us don't realize that we are "living", most of don't understand that where we are today is all because of the road we took, all that didn't matter at one time seems to matter now, if we were to be honest with ourselves. If we are on our 4th marriage and happy, and have six different sets of grandkids is because we have learned to accept all our failures and shortcomings as not so. And it is harder to forgive yourself until the ship of life is upright and floating again. A child recognizes the difference between a nipple and pacifier when it is hungry. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 19 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 4

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 ANOTHER DAY 4 The Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" is the first of three Delphic maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek writer Pausanias. The two maxims that follow "know thyself" were "nothing to excess" and "certainty brings insanity". Wikipedia I admit that I am afraid, I have secrets, I hide things from others, I don't want anyone to find out who I really am, my dearest friends, my family, there are things that will go with me to my grave. I am sure that the same is true about most ( not all, by any means, especially you, the one reading this). Speaking in generalities only. Yesterday, I talked about what we call light, what we call seeing, but the truth is that we do not "see", per se, the light is focused on the nerve cells, and our brain tries to translate the image based on what we have "taught it". There is a story that the ancient Mexicans that had never seen a sail ship, thought that those ships were floating islands. And didn't most of the ancient culture believe the sun to be "god". Can you explain a "cat" to someone what is cat when there is no cat and they have never seen one, and also they can't see anyway. We don't know who we are, we can't see ourselves, we don't want to know who we really are and we show others what we want them to think. Few are honest enough to tell all, even fewer care to know. Life goes on, "Know thyself" is a huge task, but what if we dare find out? Star Wars, the Matrix, ask the same. Do you want to know? I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 15 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 3

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 ANOTHER DAY 3 And we don't know who or what we are, except for personna that we have created, that lives in our "thoughts", in our mind as we call it. And we are a creation of our mind, don't believe me? There are people that believe that they are the "Jesus", there are skinny people that think they are fat, there obese people that believe they are healthy, and ofcourse we know of people that after an amputation still feel that phantom limb, there are experiments that show that people's reflexes react when some stimulus is applied to a fake limb. And we have something we call a "munchausen syndrome". So what is reality? Light does not exist. Really, it is only that our eyes are made to see some certain frequencies of "energy", and lucky that we only see those certain frequencies or there is so much energy floating around in the universe that we couldn't "see" anything, our brains would be overwhelmed. Your partner and your children are away from you for a period of time, what happened during that time? Did the smoke? Did they have a drink? Did they have an affair? Did the child have sex? Or a million other possibilities. They are literally older now since you seen them last, millions of their body cells have died, millions new one were generated. We don't know reality we only care about what is "obvious", we don't know what they were thinking. We don't even know what the person sitting next to us is feeling. We create our own reality to the limit of what we know. "We are limited in our knowledge (understanding) by what we know". (M. N. R.) It is hard yet to understand. It is hard to tell a drug user that it is a bad habit. Or a gambler, an abusive spouse or parent, We are creatures of habit. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON 15 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 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 ANOTHER DAY 2 May be you knew, maybe you did not, " thing in itself" is commonly attributed to Emmanuel Kant, but as in the movie "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lechter, Speaking to Clarice Starling correctly quotes Marcus Aurelius, so much for the "thing in itself". Consider light, I light really a thing? Yes we can measure it, we know its speed, we know how bright, but can we actually put light in a can or a box and carry it around? Then how is it a thing? We imagine it to be so? A rock has a potential to destroy a home, a truck, even a bunch of homes, but things have to be right, same is true of us humans, we are potentially everything, good, bad, indifferent and everything else, but things have to be "right", so is a rock the same as a person? What is then the "thing in itself" who are we? Do we know? How can you or I define a person, when the person himself has no idea? If you were to write your own true story, with every true detail, with every true motivation, you too will probably disown you, you too will probably not know yourself. We live by impulses, by the urge to try to fit in, to please someone, to please ourselves in the moment, so what are we? What do we become, what becomes of us? Our political ideology, our preferences and our prejudices, our faith our religion, our relationships, our regrets, all depend upon something external, we are different only in as much as we claim to be different when we are not at all. We claim to know ourselves when we are complete strangers to ourselves, we know the least about who we really are. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 14 OCTOBER 2022

ANOTHER DAY 1 A

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 ANOTHER DAY 1 A It's been a while since I talked about the universe, the cosmos, the man, the non existence of time, time travel, quantum mechanics, parallel universes and such. I do go there, I do talk about things other than psychology and politics. Reality is a big topic, and every part matters, or nothing matters, both points of view are equally valid. Depending on my mood of the day. We do know that mathematics and sciences evolved from philosophy. We all know about the Pythagorian equation but few know that he was a philosopher and even had his own cult followers. It is hard to talk about the universe, the time and the multiverse without becoming philosophical. Can we be a part of the universe and still look at it as an outsider, of course all of us know something about it, but what we know is based on our personal level of "study", whatever we know is thus colored by our own background The same is true about individuals, what we think of a person, or understand of a situation, is always based on what we know of that person or situation, colored by our own preferences and also our prejudices. As Kant tried to clarify in his philosophy of "the thing in itself", we need to look at people and situations as they are and not as we think they are, easier said than done, right! I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 14 OCTOBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS L 4

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 L 4 I am sure there is hope, but how long do you wait, and to what end. Remember hope is also the crutch for the dying, and the other that are hopeless. And yet I do believe in miracles and do believe in solutions that actually work. A misplaced hope is a waste of time, prayers also work better when there is some action involved. Sometimes we need to give a miracle a chance to happen, like when people survive an accident, the accident must first happen for them to survive. I'm just kidding, or may be not, but a broken heart must first break for it have a chance at mending. Faith is something, but faith on the lips is nothing, faith requires sincerity, it requires a commitment, it requires full trust, and it requires surrender. We can fake our way for a very long time, but we can't live a lie forever, though we try, we try hard, but one day somewhere somehow it fails. And some do get away with it, but what if it doesn't work? We keep digging the hole, we keep digging and the we hit water and drown, or dig so deep that we can't get out, yes miracles do happen, take a chance if you like. Luckily, we live in a society today, where everyone is a liar, and no one dares call another out because it will only expose them also, take a chance. We get comfortable, no one calls anyone else out, no one points a finger at their own kind, because it is just pointing a finger at yourself. So where we go from here, we all lie, we all lie about our commitments, our relations, our acts, and our intentions. We should stop digging that hole, we know the consequences, we know how it may end. Or maybe not! I WILL WRITE MORE SOON 12 OCTOBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS L 3

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 L 3 One of the most famous poems of English language is by John Donne, you should read it, and it ends "for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee". The whole poem is worth reading, worth meditating upon, to reflect, to understand, to internalize. But, we are humans, aren't we the ones that squint, or even close our eyes when the lights shine bright, yes, we don't want to see the "whole truth", we want to live in our own reality, our own facts. When nature, when circumstances nudge us, guide us toward the shore, we fight the waves of time. At the start of the movie "Gladiator" there is a dialogue , "People should know when they are conquered", to which Maximus replies, " would you, Quintas, would I", such is the human nature, but who can understand, fifty percent of humanity has below average minds. "ALL TRUTHS ARE BUT HALF TRUTHS " We do not wish to admit defeat, yet in all military campaigns we know when to escape and regroup, we survive to fight another day, or atleast to change strategy. We must learn to open our eyes, to see where we are. As the waves of time try to nudge us to the shore, we are only focused on the siren songs that will take us to the rocks and smash our souls. We promise to change but we don't, we wish to fight the system that we created, we forget that we are the system, we follow any Pied Piper but we are lost. The sun still shines bright, the nature still wants to save you, the waves still push you the shore, let go. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 12 OCTOBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS 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 RANDOM THOUGHTS L 2 "After all, tomorrow is another day" , the last line from the novel/ movie "Gone with the Wind". But what is even more important is the line before that , "I'll go home and I'll think of some way to get him back.", Sadly we never want to stop, never give up, and that is a perfectly good approach to many situations in life, in work, in studies, in a profession. But the same attitude can be destructive in many other situations in life. Sometimes we have to understand that the whole idea is counterproductive and a waste of time. And even if tomorrow is an other day, our days are numbered. We stay involved in non-productive endeavors, in relationships that are not going anywhere, in addiction, in lousy careers. Sometimes, instead of facing a problem on its own we also blame one problem for all of the rest of the problems, even if true it doesn't solve any of the problems which must be dealt with individually. Taking up drinking, or doing drugs or having affairs has never solved any problems. And then there is the very real problem of the late 20th, early 21st century of "finding one's self", and I can empathize. Well have you lost something? How can you fund yourself when you haven't "lost yourself". Isn't ironic? To find yourself you must first lose yourself. But we live in the "me" age, it is all about "me", it is always about "me". And we go searching for "myself", we are so deeply attached to our own egos, that the idea of "losing" ourself is inconceivable, we don't even understand the concept, we can't even pretend to. "Sometimes, I find myself, looking for myself, sometimes, when I am not looking", (M. N. R.) I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 OCTOBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS L 1

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 L 1 Something different, but it is not. Things are not "different" in an interconnected world. It is how we connect them one to the other. We are all looking at the same picture and see things totally differently, and therein lies to problem. We can be friends, understand eachother, see the other person's point of view, or look at the picture differently and refuse to understand what the other person is seeing. We live in the same world, on the same planet, we have the same economy, same problems, crime, poverty, unemployment, sorry education system, overloaded prisons, pollution, and the problems are not local, they are nationwide and worldwide, yet we, each one of us sees something different. Let's once again ponder the famous quote from Shakespeare " All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players", but what role? When we watch a great movie, or we read a really interesting book, we become involved in the story itself, we want the story to take one direction or the other, we don't know how the story will end, yet we, in our mind wish. We take on the role of the hero, or the heroine, or the villain if we so desire, actually we take on all the characters. We want to be a part of the story. No? Think about it, we see children role play the characters of their favorite shows, we are just not that "obvious", but then again what are "fan clubs" and "comic cons", and how about those "furries. We do spend our lives in fantasies, sometimes more obvious than others. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 OCTOBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 196 B

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 196 B We should know, we do know, if one doesn't personally yet know, those the are running the world today know, that the world as we know it will probably not exist in about 50 years. There us no track that we can take, no move that we can make today will change that. I have mentioned this before, the population will decline drastically, life will become harder, and there will be two kinds of people, the masters and the slaves. Within the "system" on will live by the rules of the system, those that reject the system will be banished and will not survive long. Many today have an almost romantic view of life outside the said "system" , the fantasy world of "MadMax", or "Book of Eli", where the tough ones hunt the hapless like it is a game. It will not be like that, luckily even as such it will not last an year. What the survivalist believe in their major fantasy is that they will still have farm equipment, fuel and parts for their tractors, and seed and the rest. With supply chain gone, that will not be a possibility. What the rich and the industrialists belive that with the population down bellow a billion or half that production will continue as always, and the "masses" will continue to obey the masters. The "futurists" believe that even if the earth becomes inhabitable we can colonize Mars or something. None of this is realistic. There is far chance that we can even have 5,000 people living on Mars or even the moon in the next 50 years. First step here should be to start moving the population centers further away from the coasts, the money spent on hurricane relief should be used to move people further inland and not rebuilding on the shoreline, as with billions spent after Katrina, Andrew, Sandy, Michael and Ian, we could have hundreds of thousands away from the coast, yes you can go to the beach, party at the beach and all but you just have to live 20 miles inland. I WILL WRITE MORE M. N. R. 09 OCTOBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 196 A

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 196 A So it goes, what to do next, whom to believe, what it is all about anyway. Last night I talked about how we create our own reality, again. And here we are, we hate the world, we hate the government, we hate our neighbors, "all others" , defined and undefined, for world that "they" have created for us, we never admit that we had anything to do with it, of course, we ate always beyond reproach. Welcome to the 21st century, it almost a quarter over too, you know. People like myself (in there 70, or younger ones, in their 60s or 50s never admit that we were party to the ruining of the society. Now we complain how the world has changed, that there is a conspiracy, we forget that we were always willing to change, to be the avant-garde, and we destroyed ourselves and the country and now we search for someone else to place the blame on. Yes there is a conspiracy, and it covers all countries and continents, it is enslave the population, to reduce the population and to limit the power in the hands of a few "elite". And we think that the "elite" the billionaires have our best interest in their heart, whether it is buying the Congress or backing a presidential candidate ot loading the Supreme Court with their handpicked ideologues. Why not, the ones that are "the Cabal" are also our friends and benefactors. O how innocent we are. We will never buy snake oil though. We don't listen to the "corrupt" media, we only like the media that is paid to tell us what we want to hear. And we also know. There is a very simple equation in Algebra, a+b = c, can't get any simpler than that, but can anyone, anywhere know what c is if either "a" or the "b" is not known. But we don't care, we honestly don't care what either the "a" or the "b" is we only care about one or the other, and we think that we can figure "c" out regardless. Thus we fail, we have stopped caring. I WILL WRITE MORE M. N. R. 07 OCTOBER 2022

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 195 D

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 195 D If we were to open our eyes, were to be honest with ourselves and recognized our reality, we will see that much of humanity has always lived, and continues, to live in an alternate reality. Plato recognized it in his "Allegory of the Cave". How many still watch a movie, or read a book or follow a show and have to be told what the message was, or what a scene meant, what a character really meant. Life is complicated, those that understand the least make up their own truths, it eases the pain of existence. We have philosophers, we have psychologists, we have politicians and many others that tell us things, tell us how to feel or what "things mean", how they affect us, and we buy it all, lock stock and barrel. But we listen to others we only admit to our ignorance, we admit that we don't understand things, we all child like, we are the buyers of snake oil, we are ready to be conned and mislead, and we are taken advantage of. It is simple, it works like a charm, every time. No one wants to be wrong though, and to admit that one is or has been wrong is unimaginable. And the knowledge has always been there, but we were, we are too busy to learn. Even in our suffering we can always find excuses as to why we suffer, we don't take responsibility, it is nature, it is the circumstances, or who knew, whether it is accident caused by inattention, or drug and alcohol use or it is a hurricane that wipes out a city built too close to water, and nature is always a great fall back. We don't even try to mitigate the damage when we know the cause, we deny that we had the neccessary information to take corrective steps. Our country keeps going deeper in debt, our cities and towns resemble a third world concoction and we are happy We are so well adjusted to being a failure that we don't even search for answers, we are too busy enjoying our total ignorance. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 04 OCTOBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 195 C

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 195 C What do we really want in life, or want in the hereafter, we have choices, we open our eyes to what is meaningful in life and what is not. The modern culture and society has been designed do deliver material goods but our souls are empty, our stomachs are full yet our hearts are empty. We search for meaning in life, but we have little idea as to what will fulfill us, so we grab at the straws. The society that promised us, we can have it our way, has left us wanting. Happiness that we look, and work so hard for is fleeting at best. We want everything to be handed to us, delivered to us and we have no idea, no appreciation for what we have, it has been all so easy. Being successful today is not really that hard, money is easy, credit is easy, labor is cheap and we pat ourselves on our backs because we "worked so hard". Not really. In the United States today, one person in a hundred is a millionaire, so being one is not such a big deal, people can become millionaire by just finding a good lawyer and suing the VA, the social security or a doctor even. Most millionaires become such by borrowing a lot of money and getting others to do the work, some get into politics and sell their soul, no one becomes rich by digging ditches all day or picking strawberries. Those that are not able to get shortcuts, have family money, or other connections can take decades of actual work to make that kind of money. Either way, most of those that do make some kind of money by "using the system" also complain about how the system is broken. Just like those that rant against big government, and government spending or socialism are also going to Florida to help with the "recovery", because the money will be growing on the trees there now. Think about this for a moment, for a long while even, there are those that believe that we are ready to live in a "virtual reality", they are not wrong, we already do live in a virtual reality, of our own making. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 04 OCTOBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 195 B

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 195 B Well, it didn't take long for #Facebook to restrict me for the next thirty days, as my last post called their censorship fascist, they found something in my comments that didn't meet their "community standards", by now I am used to it. Atleast they didn't unpublish me yet. In any case, I had been telling you for days about my back at 1TOMBSTONE2.WORDPRESS.COM , give it a like and follow also, thank you. As we know that the country, as well as the whole world, is facing a multitude if problems, and there is no easy, simple or quick solutions, if there are, no one knows. In such a situation it is easier to search for quick fixes, and sadly, over the last 70 or years, we , the humanity, have come to believe that yes there are, and we can still have our way. There is one thing that we all must admit. If there is a scam and someone is scammed, then the person being scammed was a willing participant, wittingly or unwittingly doesn't matter. Most people that are scammed will tell you that they "fell for it". We live in the age of information, and there is information of all kinds available, but it is your choice as to what you want to believe, if it happens to be a scam, you buy into it, no one else's fault. We all want to appear to be smart, going back the example once again of the "snake oil salesman", they always had a plant in the crowd that will step and make a buy to encourage the rest. Somethings never change. Today think tanks are employed, the media companies have an agenda, the billionaires control what you can or cannot hear, it is a lot easier to be made a fool of. This goes on every level of our society today, our spending habits, buying more than we can afford, to our personal intimate relationships and even our child rearing, no boundaries needed, we know it will always turn out right in the end, until it does not, and then we declare our worst failures either a success, or we just say that we tried. Our world is turned upside down and we are totally okay with it. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 02 OCTOBER 2022

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INTO THE ABYSS 195 A

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 195 A Well, can't say it was a surprise, I had called out #Facebook for leaning #Fascist over three years ago, so today I got thirty day restriction for calling out the Fascist for clamoring that their freedom of speech was being truncated. Ofcourse they will say that they are not the real fascists and it is, as always, in the eye the beholder. No doubt, when the chips are down no one likes the opposition to be heard, and the liberals are also guilty. So what is an open minded person to do. Freedom of speech comes with a great responsibility, to seek balance, to have true knowledge on the topic that one is addressing, to promote welfare of others, not be destructive, and much more. Then we run into what is right and what is wrong, and what should be said and what should not be promoted. Of course in the age of mass communication we have lost those boundaries, and the same time we have corporations and media companies deciding what is appropriate and what is not, and they are the self anointed judges and the juries. I had originally intended to write about Ian and its aftermath and the lessons learned, that will wait till later. As it has been with Ian, the world today is more complex than ever. Just as what I had said about Alito and the Supreme Court, referring to Thomas Paine, the people can't be ruled by the laws from centuries past, the same is true about free speech, and the same is true about the hurricanes and their aftermath. The world problems today are too big for small minded thinking and easy solutions. Ironic, that I am talking about the Supreme Court, the weather and free speech as if they are somehow connected, they are, in a way. Doesn’t it all go back to the same things, balance, fairness, knowing and justice. Whether it is about making laws, or it is about what should or shouldn't be said, or how to deal with a hurricane that is as unpredictable as it is ruinous. If we should take care of where, how and how much to develop, should we also care about how and to whom the laws apply and how they will affect people's lives, or what should and shouldn't be said to keep peace, and not alarm or entice people into doing unpleasant and unproductive behaviors. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 29 SEPTEMBER 2022

THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 2 A

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 THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 2 A I was talking about the kids and monsters the last time. When we build a chair or a table or a house we have a "plan". When we buy land or a tractor or a car even we have a plan. Well is the car for just getting to work or to impress someone or we want drag race, whatever, a car can be a used a thousand different ways. We get a in a relationship we have a plan, whether we want to build a family, or just ghost the other party in day. Nowadays it has become a common practice it seems , especially among the younger populations, but I can admit I did a few times back when I was young. But as always that is not even the point. Do I have your attention though? When I was teaching (for the Army), I had lesson plans, when I moved to war planning of course planning is what we did for a living, when I was in deconfliction , we planned, what equipment what space, what area, and what technology. As technology changed everything had to change. You get the idea. We have been a country for over 246 years, times have definitely changed, the population, the laws, the technology, our demands our needs, you name it. We surely have been a great country, some today wish to go on , some wish to take the country back also. What we have not seen, from our leaders is an articulation of a plan, what do we envision the future will look like. Does anyone know? Has anyone asked? Have you? Forget the Jetsons, forget Orwell, for the fourth Reich, what is our vision? What we do with our poor and uneducated masses, how do we incorporate the new technologies in our lives, what old traditions and mannerisms we bring back and how will it all coexist. What freedoms do we gain, what freedoms and choices we must give up. What we gain for what we give up? Ask yourself even, ask your friends, ask your politicians, or have you already? What we do with our elderly when they become to numerous to be taken care of, and too expensive for the economy to support them, who will feed them, clean their diapers, bathe them and keep them alive? If we are taking America back then from whom, or just in case where to? What will it look like? And we are taking America forwards then what that future look like? I know there is a "NWO" and there is a cabal of baby eaters and then there are the Illuminati, and the witches that occupy Greg Locke' mind, the Scientologists and the Mormons and the Catholics all have their eye on the prize. Yet no one has offered a plan. The saddest thing is that those that offered their loyalty to the cause have no one that has stepped forward and said I wanted this. No one has offered a plan. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 27 SEPTEMBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS K 5

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 K 5 There are two or three things to consider, actually in almost all cases there is more than one thing to consider, otherwise we ignore things that will someday come to haunt us. 1. I have often said that I am not here to promote or prove my faith or beliefs, I, however, often quote the #scriptures, I study the scriptures, and read and reread and study the depth of the message, my studies are not superficial and I don't just read to reaffirm my belief in salvation, I also believe that one's salvation doesnot depend on pointing out the wrongs in others but being true to one's faith in one's actions also, if I hide from a friend's spouse their infidelity but look down at someone else because of what I believe them to be doing wrong then I am hypocrite. If I am okay with someone being punished hard by a judge, but also help a friend get away with something illegal stuff, I am not true to my faith. 2. All kids create monsters, well atleast most of them do, children have wild imaginations and many may create a "monster" just to be near their parents instead of being alone. Also ofcourse as they grow up they overcome the monsters, and the monsters disappear. But even as grown ups we really never grow out of the habit. Most grownups have some monsters, under their bed or in the closet, ( we call these boogeymen) , most all of us have them and we fight these. Always winning too, it makes us feel better about ourselves when we win. 3. I have stated before that I post stuff from many viewpoints, don't be upset if you don't like a post, and if you really hate it, present your views, and be willing to consider any rebuttals, it is called being a grown up, I have found that most of the time when I want to confront someone else, I have to reconsider my own views first. By all means post something that in no way applies to you also. 4. Many of us believe that our understanding of various historical viewpoints is beyond reproach. Problem is that many of us misquote or misinterpret the intent. We only know what we know, that never means that we know everything. Most of us don't. If I post something that is not true, please be sure to point it out, "not true" does not however mean that you don't like what it says. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 26 SEPTEMBER 2022

THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1C

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 THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1 C I am not a smart person, I am not a genius. But I like to read, study things on my own, physics, medicines, astronomy, history, politics, money and a few more, I listen to commentaries, lectures, and I remember things, then I relate things, one to another. One thing I don't do is to pick and choose who I listen to, I have brain and can discern between the wheat and the chaff, to keep it polite. If you know history of the United States, many among the founding fathers were against slavery, but did you know that even at that time they wanted a public education system, they discussed paying parents of children so that a child could go to school to learn basic skills like reading and basic math. They discussed paying worker a stipend in old age, something after 50 years of age a full pension at age 60 to be paid for through taxes. No many don't, many have never heard of it because it was never taught in school. Social security was not established until 1935, and at time even it was designed to keep the poorest workers off the streets and the for the "working class" it was to supplement their employer paid pension. Social Security was never a ponzi scheme , no matter how it is derided by some politicians. For one thing the Social Security was to "supplement" a pension! And what happened to the "pensions" of the Americans. As I explained earlier, with the huge tax cuts in the corporate and individual tax cuts, the cost of benefits for the workers went up, from around 10c per $1 of benefits to 50c per dollar of benefits and more as the taxes were cut further. The Social Security benefits had to be reduced as the jobs were moved overseas and wage growth stagnated, the benefits depended upon a percentage of wages, lower wages meant smaller benefits, and the circle tightened. Also as the birth rates declined there were fewer workers working, overtime, fewer and fewer workers had to support more and more older workers drawing social security. And it is not just the older workers that did not earn an employer "sponsored" pension, it is the current workers also, from Walmart and Dollar General to the military soldiers and the low wage civil service workers all have been duped. As the wages have stagnated or worse, the current workers can qualify for assistance, foodstamps and such, yes people in the military and civil service also get "assistance", but when you are older your social security check is even smaller because it is based upon what you earned, and you didn't "earn much. People that work "under the table", there are millions also don't get very much as they "have" no income at all. Another thing is that the social security reserves were supposed to earn interest as the government borrowed those funds to finance the tax cuts for the rich. With the interest rates at or near zero, the elderly workers and the future retirees were again looted. So the next time anyone talks about how the social security is a burden, and will bankrupt the country, just ask them how they managed to bankrupt the American workers. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 25 SEPTEMBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS K 4

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 K 4 My comments or writings are never meant to be personal attacks on anyone's feelings or preferences. But we do live in a society (among other people), "no man is an island" was never more applicable. Yes we do have choices, we have preferences, and most of us still live however we like. Yet we are also not immune to criticism and judgment of others, there are norms and there are exceptions, we cannot escape the judgment of others or the consequences of our choices. There are laws that allow people not to dispense morning after pills and there laws that state that one cannot be forced to pray, or recite the pledge of allegiance, and there are laws that allow establishments to refuse employment on basis of faith. Just because I am smart and good looking ( i am actually neither) to the point that people faint doesn't mean that everyone should faint at the presence of anyone that would like the people to faint at their presence. Just because I like something doesn't mean everyone else must. Similarly if I don't like something the world is not obligated to follow. We are grown ups, and we will have differences of opinions, nothing personal. There are differences of opinions, on all topics, there are differences of opinion on who had the right of way at a given time, if we take a stance of "stand your ground" in every instance, we fail at being a decent human being. No one hates a Narcissist more than another Narcissist. Just an idea. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 24 SEPTEMBER 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS K 5

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 K 3 I am sure one day I will realize that my life has not been about how much money I have made, what awards and degrees I earned, where I lived or who I slept with or even how my kids turned out. We consider these things important. But allow me to use a very base example from real life. You and all know that know matter what we eat, it all comes out the same, but how what we eat nourishes our body is what matters. What we "do" or "don't do" in our lives may or may not matter either, but how "we live" does. May be it doesn't even make sense, I am not holy, don't even claim to be particularly religious or pious, but I try to be a decent human being, and isn't that that any religion requires of us. Societies have a few basic tenants, don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, do be greedy, selfish or gluttonous, it is so simple, so easy, so basic. It is, until our egos enter the equation. Who am I? Have you ever stopped and asked yourself? We are pretenders, we are not real, or are we? Do we know who we are. We , somehow either ask someone else as to who we are, a psychologist, a preacher, our partner, yet we don't ask ourselves, because the answer may scare us. We have labels, we label others all day, using the labels that we really could use on our own selves. We are afraid to know who we are. I am surprised, no, not really, how we come up with excuses for our bad behaviors, or point in a different direction when someone else is caught. If I had happened to be a self proclaimed "righteous" person, would I not be obligated to always follow the path of truth. I used to go to the AA meetings, one of the basic tenants of the AA was always to admit that I was wrong about what I had been doing. How could I say that my alcoholism or drug use was okay, or may be a little bit. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; --- , would I be fooling myself if I did, well, I won't know that until too late, wouldn't I. Ask me if I want to take a chance and find out I was wrong when the choices were obvious. Going back to what I said earlier tonight, Consequences are just coincidences we didn't expect . Most religions also tell us that once we become "followers" there no exceptions or short cuts, 2 Corinthians 5:17 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. May be we should think before it is too late to change our minds. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON 23 SEPTEMBER 2022

THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1 B

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 THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1 B Taking America Back I am an open minded, self educated person, even though I have degrees, I also have a personal collection of books, on many varied topics. I like to read, I study things, I follow trends and analyze things. Not to brag on myself, if you question about something and I happen to have the phone in my hand the answer you will get is off the top of my head, I may also follow up with a Googled reference to confirm my reply. Now then though, 48 years ago, I started job, working for the City of West Palm Beach as a street lighting technician, si. Months probation, starting salary $6.25 an hour, after six months, permanent job, healtcare, holidays, vacation, retirement, it was a great time, I quit at six months to the day and left for hitch hiking across the country. Okay, so I will try to keep it short, and not bore you with a whole lot more detail, Back in 1974, if you had gone to work full time at say Ford, or Sears, or Burger King, you were guaranteed a retirement , a decent wage, healthcare, and other benefits, it was easy, as the top corporate tax rate was 74% it cost the company only 26 cents to give the employee a $1 in benefits ( the employee compensation is not considered a taxable income,). When tax rates were even higher the corporations and the super rich built hospitals, they built universities, they built museums, and art galleries. At ninety percent tax rate it costs you a dime per dollar to do good or even great things. As Mr. Reagan became president he was supported by the rich for a promise of tax cuts. As the tax cuts went into effect it cost the corporations more money to give pay raises or to provide benefits to the workers, or do charity work. You see where as it used to only cost 26c for a dollar increase in benefits now it cost 50c, and with more items available to cut the tax bills the worker compensation and charity work had to compete with those newer deductions that benefited the owners directly. Retirement was eliminated and replaced with a 401k, and healthcare was replaced with healthcare savings accounts. The average worker was at a disadvantage, first it is hard to save money already, and when wages came under pressure due to lower taxes for the rich, the workers lost big. And all this before the NAFTA that was originally pushed by Reagan and finally signed by Clinton (not a true friend of the poor either, we will talk more about the Democrats screwing the poor too). There were other items in the Reagan tax cuts that also hurt the working class and we will talk about those also). Another thing about the tax cuts that also hurt the average citizen was that the corporations and the rich had more cash (saved due to lowering the costs of employment) to buy more politicians. This how the tax cuts for the rich have been working, another tax cut by W, and another by Trump, no wonder we have the richest people ever in the history of mankind, another politician for sale, anyone? I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 23 SEPTEMBER 2022

THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1 A

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 THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 1 A I had to start a new title, the old ones are still good, but in this series I want to explore a few ideas about what we talk about, what we say and believe and what is the real reality. No matter what we believe it will not change the "facts", and ignoring the facts does not bring better outcomes, in the long run it does not help us focus upon and resolve any issues. Also when A + B+ C+ D does not give us the expected result, then all of these must be examined, all the factors must be looked at. Just as in an accident investigation we must consider the weather, the speed, the road conditions, the driving experience, the construction of the vehicle, the condition of the engine the brakes, and more, we can not just declare that any issue, national or local is anyone or any party's fault without doing a thorough and detailed examination of the issue. When we do an accident investigation we have teams of specialists that have experience, yet we sit on a couch in our living room with a TV remote and pronounce judgment is issue of great import. We shouldn't though. One thing about being a true expert is that one must be able to back up their assertions with facts, figures and references, and also they should be able to accept a rebuttal with grace, any investigation can can or may be proven incorrect, any assumptions may have been wrongly made. We should be humble. And understand that in the end we are humans after all. Earlier I had posted a verse, JAMES 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation It states that we shouldn't presume ourselves to be "masters" since masters are scrutinized more severely. Although it is talking about being a "preacher", it would be wise for us to consider the admonition in all manners of expertise. In this particular series, I will talk about the myths of "hard working Americans", the tax cuts, about the inefficiencies of our economic system, the problems of our political divide, the sexual revolution and such, hope you will follow along and comment, I an sure there are many experts out there, I am willing to learn. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 21 SEPTEMBER 2022 A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WIFE OF 36 YEARS AND OUR ELDEST DAUGHTER today!

INTO THE ABYSS 193 C

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 193 C Too be fair, most of the people have a real hard time being "fair", no wonder most every philosophy teaches us to be fair, to be honest, to be even handed. Still most if the people also have a difficult time with being fair. Especially when being fair will mean losing something. Even in our most personal relationships we find it difficult, in family discussions even, spouses and significant others do not always play fair, even at the cost of losing that relationship, we are not fair in matters of divorce, child support, visitation, custody, most are not amicable. Not to call someone a liar, or dishonest, sometimes we don't know all the facts, sometimes we are misled by those we trust, even the lawyers lie, and politicians too. Had a little conversation with someone on the page, I admit, I, like everyone else that you talk to , may have an agenda, I most probably do, as you do also. And when one does have an agenda, admitting to all the facts places one at a disadvantage, don't you agree? In my posts, as well as my replies to comments or questions, I try my best to sound non sarcastic, I try not to offend your sensibilities. I try to be respectful, and nothing here is personal and should not be taken as such, I thank and appreciate everyone of you. Now then, five years ago I explained that if one has little knowledge or understanding of a situation and they are given a tidbit of information and told that it is special and privileged they will believe it. I don't believe anyone or anything unless I study the topic, the background and how it relates to the reality, what are the possibilities and chances. We were told about child raping and killing cabals, so far no one has exposed anything, just claims, no one has produced a JFK Jr. , NWO is still thriving, WEF is not underground. What we do know is that the Walmart is reducing inventory, what we do know is that companies flipping houses are losing money, what we do know is that the FED is increasing rates, that the FEDEX is expecting a recession. These are the things that will directly impact our lives. The climate change may be a Chinese hoax, but the droughts in China, in Europe and in the West are real, the glaciers melting in Europe is real, the floods in Pakistan and Nigeria are real, the thousand year rains in Texas and Kentucky are as real as you and I. What is needed is not that you and I buy ten acres of land and plan to survive the Armageddon on our own (we can't, we won't) but how we survive as a people, as a nation. Those on the left and the right that wish for an authoritarian government are fools, no where in the history of mankind, an authoritarian regime has ever been for the benefit of many, Italy, Indonesia, Soviet Union, Chile, Iran, it has never turned out well, not even for those that supported them. There are serious problems and real solutions are still possible if we come together. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 20 SEPTEMBER 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 193 B

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 193 B "ALL TRUTHS ARE BUT HALF TRUTHS, ALL PARADOXES MAY BE RECONCILED" The Kybalion Isn't it funny that we know there is a problem, and then see a solution but we say well this does not apply to me or to my situation. Yes we do have answers, someone asked, so where we go from here, what is the solution? First though, like we all know "the first rule of the fight club is that there is no fight club". In the Bourne series, Jason doesn't realize that there is something wrong until the very end, and then he tries to seek the answers. As in any addiction, we have to accept that there is a problem, and the problem is with "us" and we must accept our role and then solve the problem. But that is not us, we are Americans, we don't have a problem, we are above all, if there is anything wrong, it must be someone else's fault. We can not solve problems like this. I have noted, for many long years how we are creating a society that is misinformed and also clueless that there is an issue here , if you go to my original blog, you will see that I was talking about all of these 20 years ago. How we were being programmed, misled, misguided by the politicians, the media, the therapists and yes even the preachers. I am not religious but I often quote from the scriptures, these quotes are selected as a guide to the message and the meaning. If are already saying that I am full of it, then you may just be the one I am talking about, or someone you know may fit the profile. Using one of my favorite examples again, of a person driving down the road that doesn't realize what they are doing and the suddenly realize that don't remember anything or saw anything for a longtime, sometimes for hours. We have been hoodwinked for a longtime, or that we have just been asleep at the wheel, and only now we have come to realize it may be getting too late to get this ship on an even keel. We will get back to all of it soon. You will be interested to know that whatever conspiracy you thought was afoot is also failing, WEF, NWO, the Illuminati, the space laser people, the baby roasting club, they have or are losing control also, that is both the good news and the bad news, as their best made plans fail, they are looking to take control through ruthless power, to crush any desent, by whatever means and under whatever guise. And they will make deal with the devil or whoever that will help them. They are going to play bothsides against the middle, they have dome this before, they always do. So what makes me say that their conspiracy/ plans/ predictions are failing, stay tuned I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 19 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 193 A I know that I am lying when I imply that these are just "random thoughts" not connected in anyway. I spend most of days looking for my brains that keep wandering off, I am typical of those that can drive 20, 30 minutes and the wonder how they got there, "God watches over fools and babies" (yes I know it is not in the scriptures). Anyway, over the past 20 years I have written on many topics, psychology, economics, banking, bailouts, sexual freedoms, education, and more. Most of the time, my writings have not been "conventional wisdom" but totally the opposite, I have tried to show the falsehoods in what we are told, and falsehoods in what we say we believe. We lie to ourselves, we lie so much that we even change our personna to fit our own narratives. We are always pretending to be and act like something that we are not, no wonder so many of us have "personality disorders", so much so that we need therapy, actually we need someone to reassure us that we are not as bad as we really are. Yes it is cruel of me to say that, yes it is okay to think I am out of bounds, bear with me, please. Okay so I will work this backwards so as not to upset you, we will take about persons later. We all believe that we are the subjects of a conspiracy, NWO, WEF, Agenda ----, population control, G-5, HAARP and many more, that there are UFOs waiting to invade, that storms and fires, droughts and hurricanes are all results of conspiracies. Whatever gets your goat, have fun. The real conspiracy is, and it is not a conspiracy, that we believe that we can save the planet by "renewable energy", the fact is that we are killing ourselves and the planet through consumption. We are either running out of resources or destroying what we have, which either way will lead to death, starvation and reduction of population. BUT I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 18 SEPTEMBER 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 K 2 So last night I wrote about "choices" as to what we choose to belive in, facts or not. I has also posted about a company making a battery operated plane, today I made a post about dreams, real or not. Funny that the discussion on each post, somehow, got turned into discussion of some conspiracies, population control, Agenda 2030, NWO, WEF and so on. Stop please, we need to clear our heads. A conspiracy, by definition, is a secret plan, none of this is a secret, it never has been, the plans are in the open, and we'll defined, if it surprises you, you have been sleeping. I had to explain I'm my comments on a post that George H. W. Stated at the UN that we were under the NWO, World Economic Forum has meetings all over, in different places, they are announced and thousands go there. Just because someone mentioned it on their channel or their program doesn't make them a prophet. Get serious. Who is actually taking these "cabals" on, and how? What senator, what governor, what cabinet member is standing in front and calling them out, exposing their aims, doing something about it, name one, and tell me what they did? I can be proud that I can name all these forms, groups, and societies and their members even, and then what? I also asked a simple question, if you are saving (hoarding) currency then what currency are you hoarding, since if the "cabal" or the government is overthrown that money becomes worthless as the new regime will issue its own currency. If you are buying gold and silver, the new government will need it to finance itself. When the USA was established, we had land we took from the natives and the government either sold the land or people mined the land, neither is an option now, as the land is already distributed. So what does a new government do, it takes the property from its owners and uses it as she sees fit, you understand that, right!! Well that will not be a great sacrifice as you will have won your "freedom". Which brings me to the point my post, "Are you awake, when you are dreaming"? I know this is short, I usually don't wrote on Friday nights for personal reasons, but let you look at it and ponder a while. Thanks for your time. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 17 SEPTEMBER 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 K 1 Welcome to all those that have followed my "personal blog", Thank you. If you are new, I post something here on most days, I pin that post, till I write a new one, last few months I have also posted the link to the previous post in the comments. I welcome any and all criticism, comments and questions, and try to answer as many as I can, I am busy, but I have time. There arr two thoughts, and I always have more than one thought, sometimes many, as I tried to explain in the two previous posts. We think that we think for ourselves but we don't. And I can prove it to you all day. But that is not what I wanted to talk about tonight. But I will, sort of. We reject or accept ideas not only in what context they are presented but also by whom, if you don't like someone, for whatever reason, it is more difficult to accept their point of view, no matter how valid. Let's say you go to a car dealer and you see a car that you like, and you are getting a fair deal, it is more than likely that you will at least have some reservations if you don't like the salesman. It is difficult for us to see and evaluate an idea just on its own merits. We have seen this in discussions about "yoga" in schools, and we saw this when some people tried to post banners of " in God we trust" in Arabic. We have also seen people go against using the "Arabic" numerals. An idea should be accepted on its own merits and not the source, if we are honest. But our honesty is so limited that we can not, and we do not. Somethings in life are just simple, plain meaningless, and without reason, accept that. I have a post, a quote from Carl Sagan "nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity", the idea itself is not that unique, many people have said the same about our culture today, and it is true, yet people have commented about him being an atheist, or pointed out that the party that they oppose is full of idiots, well have fun, is all I can say. Our thought process is manipulated, I posted an item where a Disney employee was among 160 people arrested in a sex trafficking sting, many commented about that single Disney employee and nothing about the other 159, why? Were you really being fair? Then there were headlines about pillow guy having his phone taken at a Hardee's and Hardee's took the center stage, similarly an item about an employee of Chick-fil-A helping a car jacking victim and Chick-fil-A became the center of discussion for many. How do we perceive reality, really? We forget what is real, we ignore what is good, we are side tracked by the source and don't pay attention to the facts. What is of benefit here, what are we gathering? What do we put in our heads? Once again , I am not religious or claim to be pious, I have plenty of faults and shortcomings, but I am careful as to what goes in my head, MATTHEW 7:16 says You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? Should we learn to tell figs from the thistles? Or should we allow our minds to be so easily manipulated? And then the admonishment, Isaiah 5:20 "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 16 SEPTEMBER 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 J 2 Should we really think about many things, yes, but that will also require us learn about many things. It is said that while we sleep, our brain connects various things together and tries to make sense of the "jumble", but, then again we must allow "many things to enter our brain, and "making sense" will depend upon what we do allow our brains to gather. Otherwise as the old computer adage goes, "GIGO", garbage in garbage out, we must control what gets in our heads. And if that input is not monitored we could end up in serious trouble. The thought occurred to me, if we take a box and place two marbles inside, there are two things that we will discover, 1st there is only one possible connection between the two marbles , and 2nd that if we shake the box we can make a lot of noise. Now if we were to place say a hundred marbles in same box, the box will actually make less noise if shaken, and there will be a million possible ways to go from one marble to another, going thru the other marbles. More information making it possible not only to see the connections between "items", but seeing how the information relates. If we do not know this and understand that the price of Tucker Carlson's Sara Lee chicken dinner is affected both by the number of illegal aliens and the war in Ukraine we shouldn't be talking about the economy and the money. And the cost of diesel will go higher (possibly) this winter because the Russians have cut the supply of natural gas to Europe. But we do like to talk, and we do have "are own" "pinions" . I am not making light of anyone in particular, we generally talk about things with little understanding. We have professional "therapists", that know little about life, and lawyers and judges and the police, that don't know the laws. And it is the same in many professions. We have Yale and Harvard graduates that don't know the Constitution and members of Congress that could care less about what their job is. Well , I got badly distracted I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 15 SEPTEMBER 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 J1 I have had an interesting life, no, I am not going to bore you, or brag to you, I am just that. I have always been busy, mostly, but my mind has a mind of its own, usually thinking on twenty different things that I have come across, per chance or by study, I have had days and weeks of being busy without practically doing nothing at all. It gives you time to "contemplate". Contemplate is a big word, and contemplating is harder than you think. You try to focus, you try hard and the harder to try the less focused everything becomes. Think about it. Now if you dare go back to my writings over the last four, five years, you will find out more. Obviously you and I are not here to talk about that. I posted and article about the economy below, and I posted a link to my blog page from ten years ago, read both, read the two and see what has changed, actually nothing. We are deeper in debt and thus we have further to fall, you are welcome. We always congratulate ourselves as to how we are the richest country, we are this and we are that. I sorta let you know that I am not too bad off financially, unless the proverbial "excrement meet the rotating blades". ( I am more careful about my language now than I used to be). A Many today think they are well off, they have saved, they have assets, blah blah, still hard the people have no savings at all, I was reading an article, how to sell your "assets" to finance your retirement, of course you can get a reverse mortgage on your house, move to an apartment and such so when you die you leave nothing ( but you better vote against the estate tax if you want to go to heaven because the #Republicans are against the estate tax, you have zero assets but you are against the "carried interest tax", and such other taxes that will only apply to multi millionaires. But that is not news, we are accustomed to believing in lies, we are in a habit of agreeing with things we have no clue about, we are simple, we are easily fooled. Don't we belive that sending kids to school gets them educated, without parents being involved, even in their kids life when at home, let alone at school. Don't we also believe that having kids is more important than making sure that the kid will have food, and love and a home. Don't we believe that everything good is our work and everything wrong is the government's fault. We could go on though. BTW the government is trillions in debt, how much of that money is in your pocket? We should really be thinking about many things. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 14 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 192 B Fact are just facts, but reality is based on our perceptions. To misquote and to mis paraphrase Detective Carter from "Rush hour", we neither know nor understand the words that are coming out of our own mouths. We talk, endlessly, saying words that won't make sense to ourselves if we were actually paying attention, what is an "authentic self", please explain, someone, if I wish to rob banks, fight people , join a gang, commit murder, scam people, defraud people, because that is what I really want to do, am I being authentic or should I just lie to myself and have an inauthentic existence? Complicated, isn't it? And what I claim to be religious yet I want to be hateful, or commit adultery, or perjury, or something worse then what? Can I? We confuse ourselves with meaningless definitions, we try to pigeonhole people and life itself. If use definition to define "others", yet dislike ourselves being defined or pigeonholed. It is why I like to keep an open mind, we judge others but desire never to be judged, we like to brand others and don't want to be branded. But yes, in life we are judged by others, and we judge others too, so no, no name calling, no branding, no judging, if we wish to solve problems of life and advance. Yet we must first advance our own selves, we must grow and mature. For the last fifty plus years we have been lied to, constantly, to the point that we don't even know that we are being tricked, left, right and center, we have fallen behind in every possible matrix, education, healthcare, retirement, living standards, we are poorer than we were fifty years ago, yet we think we are better off, yes maybe, in some immediate self gratification measures , but not overall. We think we are environmentalists, yet we buy water in bottles for $2 and more per litre, we waste 40 percent of our food, we drive our SUVs everywhere. We order food to be delivered of which we only consume little. We say we are conservative, yet we have affairs, we divorce frequently, we look down on the weak and helpless, we wish to impose our ideologies, that we don't even follow on others. If you listen to those that say that "They" should get better skills, that "They" should work harder, that "They" should do something different, then have you asked what if "They" did, who will work at "Dollar General", who will cut your grass, who will work at the "Wal-Mart" distribution center, or drive the UPS trucks? Talk is cheap, real world is not. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 13 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 192 A Let's talk, to eachother, like grown people, and not like two 8 or ten year olds complaining to mama, that is not who we are no matter how our "leaders" treat us or want us to behave. Pretty sure a few of you may be already upset that I am the one that is treating you all like kids, but if the shoe fits! Yes there are problems in society, serious problems, but what politicians have honestly dealt with the issues. For how long we have been promised things that never get delivered, we are offered "solutions" but there are no results. And yet we are happy, I have no idea why, and as to how, may be I am too old to fall for this claptrap, or to smart to believe in "Santa Cluase", I don't want words I want results, I know what a pile of crap looks like, and I am not even impressed. There are a few things to keep in mind, too much of a good thing is as bad or sometimes even worse than none at all. Too much liberalism or too much conservatism is also the same way. Enumerating problems without offering any realistic and practicable solutions is worse than not doing anything. Talk is cheap. Even the scriptures demand action, we forget to demand actions and then forget to ask for the results, our politicians know we are just as full of it as they are, and thus here we are. There are no simple problems and there are no simple solutions unless you yourself are just "simple". As long as you and I are busy pointing fingers we will never solve any problems, and if we don't demand proven and provable solutions , and results, we will just be spinning wheels, and we will stay stuck in the muck. So let's talk, as Americans, as grown-ups even, I WILL WRITE MORE SOON REAL SOON And will post the link to the next part in comments M.N.R. 12 SEPTEMBER 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 I 2 The post last night was well received, thank you all who took time to read it and more so for your comments. I also made two post today about the difference between a discussion and an argument, and like I said, many people like tonstart an argument only to gain the satisfaction of having won, no matter how nonsensical the whole exercise. I have said many times that at the national politics level there is no difference between the two parties, both are beholden to the corporations and the banks, and they win no matter which side comes on top, it is the workers that lose. Giving extra monet to the workers and the poor? The money still goes to the bottom line of their ledger, we are just the conduits. Tax cuts let them keep more of it and faster, how fast is the difference. There are a few partisans that refuse to see any thing, whatever the point of discussion, they always have the same one line answer, it is all Trump' fault or it is all Biden's fault. We are being played. Some do try to quote scriptures as if that gives more credence to their side. I can also quote scriptures all day, but if I am wrong I am still wrong. I still study subjects, I study issues and problems, I follow the national and international news and events, and I see the realations. Proverbs 1:5 KJV “A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” When we live out in the world, when we deal with the world, we must learn. Yes we want power, at all cost, but do we even realize that the power that we want will actually be wielded by others to oppress us only, and by then it will be too late to take it back. There is no power that you and I can win for ourselves, when we must still work for someone else, or be obligated to someone even for a place to live, for food to eat and more. What is the possibility that we all could be anywhere close to equal and equally powerful. Were we not told to live a good clean life, to give up greed and gluttony and be nice to others and take care of eachother. Or did we forget. 1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So how do we "put on incorruption" when we have ulterior motives, when we twist the "words" to fit our desires, and make excuses for our short comings and failures. Is it always better to win even if we don't follow the rules? Matthew 10:26 King James Version Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. Maybe it is time to rethink before too late I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 SEPTEMBER 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 I 1 I just checked, the page has 5044 followers, it was created on 27 September 2018, not bad, I hadn't expected this. Thank you all of you. This page is not to make money, I don't need the money, if you wish to donate to your favorite charity. Please do so, or have a beer or a few. As it says, it is my personal blog, things that I find of interest, I share here, I also write a few tines a week, more or less, what I am thinking, things don't bother me, I like ideas, I like thoughts, I like to hear your thoughts and ideas, olease make them relative and interesting. I don't expect you to with everything I post or I write. Please comment. The country needs our helpful ideas, our "leaders" need to hear from us, and we need to talk to eachother also. There is no room for finger pointing, back biting and believing that anyone of us superior to others. We are all in this together. Name-calling only stops an exchange of idea, if you are married or have ever been in a relationship you know what I am saying. Nothing here is directed at anyone, don't take a news article or a post personal, no one is so important that the world is for or against them, world is random and stuff happens, daily. Thank you again for being here, let's keep talking More to follow soon M. N. R. 10 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 191 B Well at least this much is not news, I have told you for years that I am not a "fan" of anyone, no movie stars, no sigers, bands, politicians, not even philosophers. There are many many people that I like, but I can do with them and I can do without, I can listen to a song and love it and also not care about who sang it. I like philosophies, not philosophers, I like policies and not the politicians, that is true independence to me. When you become a fan you give up your own personality, your persona, your thoughts and your freedom. Think about that. I can love a movie and not care about who played what part. What is the 1st of the 10 Commandments anyway, what does it even mean, do we understand, do we follow? I could see a random person not seeing this as a problem, but what if one claims to be "moral", really, we can never place so much faith in a person. Nor should we, ever. And it is not just about being a fan, we lose our minds, we lose our freedom of thought, we lose perspective, we know about the jugaloos, the deadheads, the groupies, and we forget about the followers of David Koresh, and the Jim Jones, we lose our heads, the queen is dead. There was a big deal being made about a rainbow, what the heck? This 21st century, grow up. I am sure she was fine lady, ( actually not though, but we can discuss that later). Are we so starving for attention that we will.make a scene just to fit in, yes we will. We are Americans, we dumped the Brits 246 years ago, we are free, we are on our own, have been, for centuries, enjoy your freedom. I'll probably talk about monarchy again sometime, but It doesn't really matter if you are a person of faith or not, humans are supposed to love their freedom and independence, being a fan or a follower of anyone devalues us. Going back to the 1st Commandment, we cannot elevate someone to a godlike status, period, and call ourself free. We can not even love someone so much that our life "depends" on them. Humans are subject to flaws and shortcomings, we set ourselves up for disappointment if we do. The whole idea of monarchy is against freedom of a person. As we know the citizens of a monarchy are called "subjects" not people, subjects. So it is big nono from me. Earlier today I posted a verse, 1 Samuel 8: 6, but read 5-7, where as God is offended that people want a king other than God, so if I were to be a true believer, I would be rejecting my faith. And like "Meatloaf " said, I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that. Would you? I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 09 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 191 A Well, so far I did survive my stress test, I didn't have a seizure or a stroke, so that is a good thing, I suppose the doctor will look at the report and call me in a few days. Life is strange, regardless of what the corporations tell us, want us to believe, we get old, older, everyday. We spend most of our time wanting to get "older" ( as in to continue living), without getting older. Right. Young people in the teens think that people in their 20s are older, in 20s we think of 30s as older and so on. We spend most of our lives as "old" people, if we live long enough. As the Eminem song says "I love the way you lie", and there is no better lie we wish to hear than , "you are not old". Well, I am old! And I love it, I wouldn't have leaned as much by dying early/ier. Not trying to be cute here. I am still learning, everyday, and thinking, new things and old things, lessons I learned, and things I didn't learn a very long ago when I had a chance, but didn't. I am not as lucky as so many us are that know everything and have a solution to every single problem, in most cases it is just that "one thing". One and the same! When someone is selected as a guard for " the Tomb of the Unknown " they sign up to a code of conduct, it is for the rest of their life, the Mafia has code, so do the gangs, and there is a code of conduct for a soldier and an officer, you follow that code, in every and all situations, always. A month or so ago, I wrote what are your beliefs, what code do you follow, are you true to that code at all times or do you make exceptions? We always fall short, most of us do. We make excuses. It is not new with me, many years ago I stated, we need "boundaries of character" what is acceptable and it should apply to everyone, at all times and without exceptions. No society can function without such boundaries. Yet we expect all others to have boundaries but not us. Look around, this is why we are failing, we swear while we have our fingers crossed behind our backs. We are failing. We don't keep our word but we want others to be honest, and fair and just. So what is your standard, are you true I'm your words and deeds or do you just want others to do what you are not willing to do yourself. It is really not that complicated, 2 Timothy 2:11-12 The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us The words alone are not enough, righteousness is not proved by words but by acts,, but you always knew that I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 08 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 190 B And just like that, the labor day 2022 is over, I am glad you survived it, whether you are anti labor or someone that is used being called a Communist. It doesn't really matter, in the great scheme of things, everything thing is a waste. But we don't like to admit to it. We like to think that we matter, we like to believe that we are important, and what we do makes a difference. It is a human fallacy, but we like it. Have you ever argued with a 13 year old, tried to tell someone that they are doing something wrong, tried to argue with a person that has been diagnosed with a mental illness, it is the same really, it always the same. One cannot argue or reason with a person that already knows everything, someone that is convinced that they are absolutely right and everyone else is wrong. One has to really know a lot to know that they know little, it is something even the ancient philosophers had noted. But rest assured, today there are plenty of self acknowledged "smart" people that also claim to know everything. It must be close to the end times. We go along merrily, we argue about the CRT, the BLM, the tax cuts for the rich or the student loan forgiveness, like these are the most important issues of today. Meanwhile we are facing critical food shortages, and housing shortages, the deficit spending that is put of control, the drug problem that is taking over whole communities and small towns in many if not most of the states, actually all of them, we are facing pollution, lack of clean water and the oceans that are dying. The problem is the world over, and there are few governments actually that are even doing anything at all to change the course. We are still spending, and consuming as if there is no tomorrow, and in fact there many not be too many tomorrows left. I was talking about psychology last night and how it is used by the people in power ( of all manner), it is not that you are a liberal or a conservative, capitalist or a socialist, no matter who you are you have been programmed to believe that you know everything, that you don't need to listen to anyone else, you don't have to agree with anyone else. And you truly have bought into it. You have total faith in your knowledge, you are always right, because you have been told, every day and every night you listen to some that reaffirms your thoughts, reaffirms your prejudices, and you are more certain than ever. Like Limbaugh used to tell his listeners, " Don't doubt me, folks", we have no doubt that we are right, we are always right, no doubt! I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 06 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 190 A Well, it is Labor day, unusually late this year, here it is 5th of the month already. I didn't write last few days, had the grand kids home for the weekend, three year old and 4 month old, how blessed I am to have lived long enough to see them. If you have been reading what I write, I said this much a few times, I have been interested in Psychology for a very long time, even though I didn't get my Master's till I was 38 years old. Anyway, in 1984 I picked up a copy of "Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard, you know the basic book of Scientology, I read it cover to cover, and read how one can become "clear" and can become OT. Funny that Scientologists are famously against psychology and I saw how it was all related to psychology, to "confessionals" and to biofeedback, and to some or a large extent to even "lie detection. I will talk about it more in the next chapter. We know how applied psychology is used today, just depends who is using it and for what purpose. I mentioned it earlier that people use certain terms without even realizing that they are revealing their own self and their own motives. And this why one should not be using these terms because they only give themselves away without meaning to. Psychology today is used for marketing, we know that, it is used by politicians to sway your opinion, it is used by casinos, by pimps and even preachers, really. You should be aware. In most cases it is used to harm yourself. But here we are, you can not be on line with seeing offers of "counseling" and therapy, then there are selfhelp books, and self development programs, programs to teach you how to raise kids, and how to mange money, and how to stop self harm, and how to get in a relationship and how to get out of a relationship. How to make someone love you and how to stop loving someone. We have lost it, after thousands of years of existence we forgot how to be and how to live. We all self assured, we are self reliant and we don't even know how to be, welcome to the 21st century. But it is Labor day, we are hard working Americans who have no idea what "work" means, we have know idea how to provide service in a service economy, we have no idea how our workers live, and what it will take for our workers to "make a living", not be happy, just to be fed and clothed, have transportation to work and have health care if they get sick. The workers don't want to work and the bosses don't want to pay. There used to be an old joke we told about the Soviet Union, where workers pretended to work and the bosses pretended to pay, that is what America looks like today. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 05 SEPTEMBER 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 INTO THE ABYSS 189 B Think of this as a letter, lately I have been placing a link to my last post a comment, so if you like to read more, you can click the link in the comments, and again at the link in the comments of that post and keep going back. Thank you, and most definitely to the hundred plus that have joined the page within the last week, and especially extra thanks to those that have shared the page or the posts from here, let's keep talking. Yes I post different things, some of my posts are inane, some are irreverent, some meaningful, some not, just to keep the page interesting. But if you are so proud of yourself that you believe you can't be wrong, you are "never" wrong, then I hate to break it to you , you are already wrong, it even says so in the scriptures, if you happen to be a person of faith. In my writings I have used the example of a brain in a jar, where the brain has a story, and the brain has a memory, but the brain doesn't know that it is in a jar, how will it know? Last time I used the example of a puppet, how will a puppet know that it is not real, that it is being used by the puppeteer, that all its actions and reactions are being controlled. Give it a serious thought, if you will. I will write more about this again, later. But for tonight, consider this, our country is going down the same path, politically as Pakistan, Brazil, Mexico or the Philippines and such. No one has any faith in the government, the institutions, (congress, executive or Justice), everywhere people are divided, parties are refusing to accept results of their elections, parties in power are demonizing the opposition and the opposition is demonizing those that are power, police are out of control as are the people, crime and drug use are rampant , please look around and pay attention, no one wants or supports a democracy, everyone is trying to take power and control, it is not just the future of freedom that is in jeopardy, it is the future of humanity. And there is no way out, not unless we , the people, wake up and realize that those we think are taking care of us are nothing but thieves and conmen, the "Pied Pipers" taking us to the river. Think about it, let's talk, and keep it logical, and civil, no name calling, no finger pointing, it for our grandkids, okay. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 01 SEPTEMBER 2022