Random Archive Two
The quality control is basically nil.
I’d skip it.
It’s an archive, mostly.
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Wednesday, 11th February 2026
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Low effort post coming right up!
What is the most British thing in the world? Well.... corporations, bailouts, granting government monopolies, private armies, tea and cricket.
The British government bailed out the East India Company (EIC) in the 1770s, notably through the Tea Act of 1773, due to immense debt, poor management, and a massive surplus of tea in London. This "too big to fail" corporation was saved with a £1.5M loan, allowed to ship tea directly to America, and gained a virtual monopoly, which directly triggered the Boston Tea Party.
The most Anglo (English) thing in the world is a corporate bail out, preceded by the granting of monopolies to said corporations as well as supernormal profits already divvied up in the form of dividends. That is, privatise the gains and socialise the losses. See also: massive private armies armed by corporations. The bailout was worth about a billion NZ dollars in today's money. Which might not seem like much, but it is still very significant.
The history of the East India trading company is well worth a read. Buy a book about it!
Also, on the positive side, some of the most English sorts of things are Wilberforce, working himself to the bone and dying only three days after being victorious. Inventing proper boots, inventing proper sports shoes, inventing modern engineering, inventing electromagnetic science, inventing nuclear physics, basically inventing steam power, and massively outstripping much of the world in inventiveness, textiles manufacturing, mass production, the meeting of needs through manufacting, inventing capitalism and industrialisation and feeding people properly for the first time ever. They brought us the Magna Carta, common law, good accounting standards, they pioneered good policing, they brought us the chartists and proper parliamentary democracy (without the need for a political revolution!). They also have the best engineers and did wonders with sanitation, sewers and toilets. And they invented the modern universities (anglos). I played fast and loose with English/Anglos and Scottish people. Including Scottish in the mix too. Honorary English just for the purposes of this conversation (sorry!). By the way, Telford, Brunel, Faraday and Rutherford are the guys to admire and learn about. Those guys are amazing. Best engineers and scientists ever. Forget Einstein and Feynman! Alexander Graham Bell is awesome too.
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I got a question about this just recently:
Reverse Social Engineering
Reverse social engineering was supposed to put the power back in to the hands of the people, especially in (formerly) democratic countries like New Zealand.
Note: I had studied the ideas of reverse social engineering, and thought about it. And formulated the theories. But I didn't want to implement it without first discussing it with a bunch of normal people. And I didn't know how the world worked. I didn’t want to implement it!!!
Note 2: reverse social engineering was in favour of “people power", pro-democracy, and opposed to corporations, banks and the wealthy. Or rather, opposed to the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of those three, and also the inappropriate use of power and wealth by those types of people. It was also opposed to the way that universities, bureaucrats, the media, and schools, and the international free trade people have too much power, and ruin economies and dumb the culture down and stuff like that.
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A fun concept:
It is a thought experiment about carrying things through to their logical conclusions. I don’t think it actually happened to Epictetus. But it is illustrative.
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Pig Toilets
While the practice of using "pig toilets" (outhouses built over a pigsty for the pigs to consume the human waste) was once common in rural China and can still be found in limited, remote areas, it is generally discouraged by authorities for public health reasons.
Health Risks: Feeding raw feces to animals intended for human consumption carries significant health risks due to the transmission of bacteria and parasites (such as Salmonella and tapeworms).
Modernization: Chinese authorities have actively discouraged this traditional practice in favor of modern sanitation and waste management systems to meet international food safety standards.
Modern Practices: In modern commercial farming operations, pig waste is managed through systems like composting or anaerobic digestion to produce fertilizer or biofuel, which are safer and more environmentally sound methods of waste disposal.
Therefore, while a historical and limited contemporary practice in some rural areas, feeding feces to pigs for food production is associated with significant health concerns and is not a legal or standard practice in modern, regulated farming.
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Could you stare your pet pig in the eye (and you can actually see them through the privy hole), and then evacuate your bowels through the hole onto their head, while they greedily shove their face into the area from which you defecate to try to catch the feces as they fall. Perhaps catching the feces in their mouth as the feces fall?
You wake up in the morning, say hi to your fattened pig, and they oink happily to say hello back. And then you do a poo in their mouth. Which they actually catch, because they are so hungry. And later in the evening, you feed them scraps as well. Eventually your eldest son (12) sticks the pig while it screams (hauntingly like a human). And you eat your poo eating pig.
Please visualise your smiling happy pig as you greet it in the morning. Please picture it. Before you poo straight into his (or her) mouth.
What would this do to your psyche long term? What does it do to your empathy and sympathy levels? Does it cause you to become less moral? Less decent? Is it any wonder that Jews and Muslims hate pig eaters?
But be practical, as _pedagogy_ what does it teach your children? What does it teach you, your husband or wife, your parents.
And even the _dust_ from the pig pen is toxic, carrying salmonella and other diseases with it. As are the sticky little toes of the flies who come from mucking about in the pig pen. Those sticky little toes can infect your food and make you sick.
And the feces dries, turns to dust and goes airborne…
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Can fecal dust spread disease?
Yes, fecal dust can spread diseases. When feces—whether from humans, rodents, birds, or other animals—dry out, they can turn into dust. If this dust is disturbed, it becomes airborne and can be inhaled or land on surfaces, food, and in water, leading to the transmission of bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Key Diseases and Pathogens Spread by Fecal Dust
Hantavirus: Inhaling airborne dust from dried rodent urine or droppings is the primary way humans contract this serious respiratory disease.
Histoplasmosis: A fungus found in bird and bat droppings can become airborne when dry droppings are stirred up, causing lung infections.
Salmonellosis: Bacteria from animal or human feces can survive in dried particles and cause food poisoning.
Q Fever: Caused by Coxiella burnetii, which can be found in livestock feces and spread via dust.
Parasitic Infections: Dried pet feces (such as from cats) can contain parasites like Toxoplasma gondii.
Enteric Infections: Bacterial, viral, and parasitic, including E. coli 0157:H7, Campylobacter, and Norovirus.
How Fecal Dust Transmits Diseases
Inhalation: Dust containing pathogens is breathed in, often during cleaning activities (e.g., sweeping, dusting) in attics, sheds, or barns.
Aerosolization: Toilet flushing can release fine mist droplets containing pathogens, which settle as "fecal dust" on bathroom surfaces.
Contamination: Particles settle on food, food preparation surfaces, or in drinking water.
Disasters: Flooded areas with raw sewage can create contaminated dust once the water dries.
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Conversation
They pretend that I am talking to them a lot of the time. When in reality, I’m talking to me. That is, out loud. Or in my head. I’m not referring to this blog. I’m not 100% sure who the target audience is for this blog.
I’m engaging in reverie, or reasoning something out, and they interrupt my reverie, as though I am talking to them. And I respond in a silly manner to them, and they then take what I say and misquote it. Also, I poke fun at them.
Furthermore, they keep up the pressure all day every day, and much of the night. And have done so since late 2023. Which makes it about 2 years and three months. I think. Yeah.
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B-side comment
I love this movie. It's amazing. It was my favourite movie when I was 15. Or at least in my top three, alongside movies like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Count of Monte Christo. I also loved Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail and also Life of Brian.
The name of the movie is “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist”. It’s a masterpiece. It’s awful, it’s terrible, but it’s amazing. It’s a spoof (aka piss take) of kung fu movies. It was made by editing, overdubbing and using cgi and green screens on top of footage from a movie called tiger and crane fists. This particular movie was chosen as the basis because of the scene in which the antagonist is struck multiple times in the groin without flinching in pain.
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They pretend that I am talking to them a lot of the time.
When in reality, I’m talking to me.
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I’m engaging in reverie, or reasoning something out, and they interrupt my reverie, as though I am talking to them. And I respond in a silly manner to them, and they then take what I say and misquote it. Also, I poke fun at them. And engage in deliberately nonsensical conversations to annoy them and to pass the time. They pretend that I'm not lucid. They are daft.
Furthermore, they keep up the pressure all day every day, and much of the night. And have done so since late 2023. Which makes it about 2 years and three months. I think. Yeah.
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Monday 9th February 2026
The Death Penalty
This is a very good book:
I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is already interested in criminology, policing, the justice system or penal reform. By interested, I means for anyone who has already taken an interest in these areas (and actually done some work to study them).
The book is anti death penalty, and on the whole so am I.
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I grew up in a guitar shop. We had electric guitars and bass guitars and amplifiers and microphones. And acoustic guitars, and digital pianos. And drum kits. And electric organs and sheet music. I mean, it was a music shop. It was nice.
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Xi said that I can go do whatever with anyone. Something to do with being able to play electric guitar when I was young.
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I am hoping that we can deescalate this situation.
Speaking of that, I do wonder whether or not the Chinese had bad information from here in NZ and that is why the situation got so screwed up. Don’t forget that it was a set of New Zealanders who started this whole thing, and created this mess in the first place, not the Chinese.
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Cambodia
In the Killing Fields, more than 1.3 million people were executed and buried in mass graves. Pursuing complete egalitarianism, money, religion, and private property were abolished and all citizens were forced to wear the same black clothing.
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Primary Funder: China
The Main Source: Throughout the 1970s, China was the primary supporter of the Khmer Rouge, providing at least 90% of all foreign aid, with an estimated US$1 billion in economic and military aid in 1975 alone.
Logistical Support: China provided arms, funding, and political backing, which continued even after the genocide was known.
Ideological Alignment: The support was driven by a shared, extreme Maoist ideology and a common goal of opposing Vietnamese influence in the region.
My opinion: Chinese people are awesome and make great company. But their leaders are highly suspect and cannot be trusted. And when they fund and support stuff, bad things happen.
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Saturday 7th February 2026
Only just recently became literate
In 1950, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the nation faced an immense literacy crisis, with an illiteracy rate estimated at roughly 80–90%. Over 400 million people were illiterate, with rural rates exceeding 95%. The government immediately launched major, politically driven campaigns to promote literacy, aiming to educate workers and peasants.
It’s genuinely hard to develop as a nation when you have these sorts of literacy rates. It’s a complex issue. This time it isn’t an insult. It’s actually hard. Genuinely hard.
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Wednesday 4th of February 2026
The Hungarian Revolution and subsequent betrayal and abandonment by the Western Powers (NATO)
If you want to understand the Cold War, you absolutely must learn about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Most of you already know about it, but some of the younger readers might not. This article might be a good introduction to the topic. I haven’t checked it carefully myself.
I’m actually busy, and I need to make a few phone calls and push to get information about IVF. But I’m getting hurt a fair bit.
Ps: my grandfather, his parents and his sister Eva fled in 1956 in the aftermath of the revolution. They became refugees and were dispossessed of their (considerable) wealth. This was on my father’s side. They also had to change their name from Spiegal to Solt in order to avoid antisemitism (they were Catholics, not Jews, but the name was a Jewish name, if that makes sense. Ethnically, they were more Magyar (Hungarian) than Jewish if I remember correctly).
PPS: that’s one of the problems with “the west”. Sometimes they’ll leave you in the lurch. You make certain assumptions, and then they let you down. Another good example might be South Vietnam and their democratically elected government. The Americans let them down too.
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Kung Pow
In joke:
From my favourite movie at age 14, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. It’s two kung fu movies spliced together with a bad overdub.
It’s a masterpiece.
Don’t watch it. You won’t appreciate it.
It was written, produced by, and starred, Steve Oedekirk, who is a friend of Jim Carey.
Ps: it is loosely based on footage taken from this movie, Tiger and Crane Fists (1976).
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Tuesday, 3rd February 2026
A brief note about boxing
Introduction:
I have received many questions about boxing. And also have faced many false accusations, either of being secretly useless at the sport or of being too “psychologically aggressive” for even doing it in the first place, let alone talking about it. Or I have faced false and misleading insinuations that I am trying to train up an army of angry normals. So I figured, why not side step all of that nonsense and tell things in my own way and in my own words. And so I’m just going to tell the story my way, and explain it my way.
That is, dryly.
The target audience are normal people in places like New Zealand and Australia. At least that is the primary audience. The secondary audience are people further abroad. For example, people in places like The United States of America, Japan, Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, or any number of different places around the world. But basically anyone normal, and especially anyone who isn’t a member of the philosopher-kings (aka, the fae). I’m not doing it to impress girls either (that is, I’m not posting this to impress women).
I’m not going to understate things so much this time. Sometime I downplay things a bit, but downplaying things and soft pedalling things might seem smart at the time only to cause confusion further down the road. So this time I will try to write plainly and clearly.
Here goes…
I think I might just give you a diary entry that I wrote for my own records, largely unedited. And then refuse to defend it through argument or debate. This will upset and bother some people, but perhaps that is the best approach all the same.
Perhaps that is the best approach all the same.
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This was first written for my own records…
A brief note about boxing
I was decent at the sport without being spectacular. (That is an understatement. I tend to understate things. Modesty and humility are fairly important to me, in a non-committal sort of way).
By the time I quit, I was satisfied with what I could do, and with what I had learned, and with what I had achieved (I.e. I had become genuinely decent at what is a fairly challenging sport, and developed some solid fundamentals and learned the basics thoroughly). And I felt that it was right, sensible and appropriate to move on. I wanted to quit while I was ahead.
I had developed what I would call a “reasonable amount of comfort” in sparring and was fairly comfortable in the ring.
I had become good at punching and had what I considered to be fairly good power, speed and accuracy for someone of my height, weight, build and age.
I preferred to use my jab as my primary means of defence rather than relying on, or focusing on, head movement for defence.
You kind of control the situation with the jab, and the use of space, distance, range and timing. I boxed orthodox (not southpaw) and I didn’t switch stances (except as a training drill, in shadow boxing).
Also, I could block, parry, deflect, slip, duck and move around lightly and freely on my feet. I didn’t do much of the bob, weave, roll “type of thing”. I didn’t like it either. That is I didn’t rely as heavily on complex head movement for defence as some other people did, preferring to use my jab, as well as straight punches in general, as already mentioned above. I would rather go head hunting.
(If I might elaborate, I was quite comfortable with things like sidestepping and slipping punches, while I parried or deflected simultaneously. Before pivoting, resetting my feet/legs for throwing the next combo. I was also perfectly comfortable with ducking (or rolling) under punches. I just didn’t like hyper complex head movements. That is perhaps over explaining, but such is life.)
I had some experience in controlling the space I was in, like not getting cornered, cornering them, paying attention to where I am in the ring. In other words. I practised fairly conventional ring craft.
At the time, I thought about training for, and then finding an amateur fight. Just for the experience. Kind of like as a capstone experience for me before I quit the sport. But in the end I felt that I that having done plenty of sparring was enough experience for me. And given the nature of the sport, the risk to reward ratio, and a bit of cost-benefit analysis, the wear and tear on the body, brain and face. I felt that it was time to move on. So I quit. There was always an “unspoken time limit” when it came to my participation in the sport.
I devoted plenty of time to shadow boxing. At the time I believed it to be one of the most important and useful ways to practise boxing. At least once you have all of the other fundamentals and basics in place. Sometimes it is like sparring an imaginary partner. Sometimes it is like sparring an imaginary sparring partner. Sometimes it’s just doing drills and scenarios. It’s kind of like mental practise you’re doing. You’re learning the mental side of things through visualisation and practise. But you’re learning it kinaesthetically, because you’re actually doing it. It is important anyway.
I developed good reflexes. That is, I had good reflexes in general before starting boxing (thanks to table tennis and judo), but developed even better reflexes by practising boxing. It's good for your reflexes. It makes you quicker.
And over time, you also develop some instincts and intuition. Shadow boxing helps with that too.
The style of boxing I had was fairly conventional, and the training and instruction I received from my instructors at boxing was also fairly conventional. (Please note: the quality of training at Dion Crouch’s “Zero Tolerance” Muay Thai class before I even showed up to boxing was excellent. I went there for six months before I even moved to the same town as my boxing class. I learned a lot there. But he is an expert in pedagogy with a masters degree in educational theory - you can look him up on LinkedIn if you want).
I jumped rope, I did bag work, focus mitt work, did some sparring, and plenty of shadow boxing, amongst other things. I also felt that cardiovascular fitness and endurance, strength and conditioning, and other elements of fitness were important, so I did those too. There was some breathing stuff as well (exhale on a punch - I used a “sss” sound. I understand that people now might use a grunt sound when they hit bags or throw punches? Im not sure what is currently fashionable. I used a “tchh” sound if I got hit in the abdomen, while tensing my abdominal wall and exhaling. It’s hard to explain in words, but I just did it). I practised the breathing stuff when punching, sparring and doing particular medicine ball drills.
I also made fairly good use of a number of online resources. I tried to stick to the most conventional and respectable advice possible. That is, I stuck mostly to the staid, tried and true methods, with a strong emphasis on basics and fundamentals (please note, this was back in 2004).
I tried to avoid excessive analysis, that is I wanted to avoid “analysis paralysis”. I also wanted to avoid overdoing with research and reading. I also wanted to avoid being hyper cerebral (technical? Geeky about it?). And I succeeded at this. I wanted to keep it super simple, and so I did.
I focussed on basics and fundamentals. And the things I learned online meshed well with what I learned from the instructors at boxing itself.
I also learned a lot just by watching the other guys spar, and from sparring myself. I also imitated their technique in bag work a little bit. By the way, sparring is kind of like a laboratory. You experiment! And if it works there, it works. If it doesn’t work there, it doesn’t work. And you have to go back to the drawing board (what going back to the drawing board means is that maybe you try stuff out in shadow boxing, see what works and what doesn’t, and try it out in sparring, and see if it makes more sense). There are exceptions though.
That’s just about it. My brief post about boxing.
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Early hours of the morning:
Please see this as just a few ideas… nothing more, nothing less.
Women and self governance, adulthood, responsibility, accountability and autonomy
Ideally, I would like women to be viewed as and treated as fully fledged adults. I would like for them to be able to make their own decisions in life, I would like for them to be responsible for their own actions and to be considered accountable both for their actions and the kind of person they are. I would like it very much if their capacity for self governance and right to self governance were similar to that of a man.
For example, I would like women to retain access to education, employment, voting, public houses (bars), credit, banking, mortgages, doctors, the property market, lawyers, courts, getting a drivers license, driving their own cars, making their own immigration decisions. I would like for them to be able to start businesses, borrow money, make their own investment decisions, manage farms and raise children. I would like them to have the ability to make their own decisions when it comes to marriage and divorce. They can get married if they want to, and they can involve a church or a religion if they would like to. And make their own decisions when it comes to religion and other matters of belief. I think they should be capable of joining organisations and entering into things like religious orders on their own. They should be capable of joining unions and going on strike. And they should be capable of swearing oaths or making affirmations in court (this is a genuinely controversial point). And they should be capable of making vows, entering into agreements, signing contracts and being held accountable for those. That one is also very controversial, for reasons I can’t explain (for example, in China, even the men don’t honour agreement and contracts). I would like battery to remain a crime within relationships.
They should have rights and responsibilities similar to those of men.
That was all a pretty tentative statement. It's not set in stone.
I don’t necessarily want men to have to babysit women for the next 1000 years!
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The Four Corners Model of Faraday Shielding a House
Here is a picture from my ideas page.
There is a full discussion on my ideas page, aka “the skunkworks”. This image represents a fairly large house shielded by the four corners model. It would work just as well, or better, with a smaller house.
Edit:
The price for four containers (20ft size), it might be 130k NZD. That shields a house (in theory).
[Note: It is quite possible that a 10 ft container on each corner of a small-medium sized house might be enough to shelter it and the inhabitants. For the 10ft container version it might cost about 75-80k NZD to do it (that is just an estimate). The 10 ft container version is where you put a 10 ft container on each corner of your house instead of a 20 ft container on each corner of your house.]
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By my estimation, the cost per container (including bales of crushed cans and the container itself) might be in the vicinity of about 32k NZD (or 20k USD). This is just an estimate. I might be quite a bit off though. Second hand containers are much cheaper than new containers. And the price of containers varies with location. You might want to try to find “C grade containers”.
C-grade containers might cost as little as $1500 USD in some parts of the USA, plus the cost of transportation to your location. The same type of container might cost about $3500 NZD in NZ, plus the cost of transportation to your location.
30 cubic metres of crushed aluminium cans might cost $16500 USD or $28000 NZD. This estimate excludes the a cost of transporting the crushed aluminium cans to your location, and the cost of handling also. One container can probably hold about 30 cubic metres of cans.
I would estimate the total cost of a basic faraday container to be approximately $19000 USD plus the cost of transportation of constituent parts and general handling. Let us say $20000 USD or thereabouts. Or $34000 NZD (that’s what 140000 yuan).
Those are just estimates.
If you can put just one of those in your backyard, you could let a friend pitch his tent in your backyard to take shelter from the mind rot or brain fry attacks. Two of them can shelter a small home (like my old two bedroom semi-detached cross lease in Paraparaumu, 17 Princeton Road, where I used to live).
And four faraday containers can shelter a normal sized home.
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Here is an example of what I mean:
This satellite image was pulled from Apple Maps. This particular location was randomly selected. I have no ties to or relationship with the house pictured. It is just outside of Houston, Texas. It is just an example.
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Monday 2nd February
Sharp Objects
Umm. Amanda put sharp objects into the carpet sometimes. Including a razor blade embedded in a piece of plastic, and a sharp piece of crockery. She also put a piece of glass into my morning cup of tea once (broke/chipped the glass to make it look like a mistake, but nevertheless I found the glass in my cup).
I actually cut myself fairly badly on the razor blade embedded in plastic.
I have a picture of the crockery and razor plastic below. There is no picture of the glass.
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I like the scout’s motto: be prepared. I was a member of keas and then cubs when I was a child. It was fun.
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B side comment, and perhaps dangerous and unnecessary to post.
“Playing dumb” when actually a bit daft
The Chinese are actually a bit daft, and also intellectually mediocre. The nation, the Chinese mainland nation.
And on top of that they play dumb, and they play silly buggers with words and definitions, they tend to try to be tricky and "tricksy". But end up coming across as dishonest, and kind of mean. It's a problem.
Bad morals overall as well.
It's dangerous to play dumb when you're already intellectually mediocre and a bit daft.
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Counterpoint:
A lot of the Chinese diaspora are actually pretty cool. And they're not stupid, and a lot of them make a lot of good decisions in life, and invest wisely in education. But I'm ashamed to say that I have never made any close Chinese friends. I've lived with them though, as boarders, and met quite a few.
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Sunday 1st February 2026
I suffered quite a bit of damage to my digestive tract over the years. And doctors weren't very helpful. I actually still get problems to this day from harm done over a decade ago. I'll explain it better sometime. It's annoying.
And I suffered quite badly at certain points in my life. Digestive problems are awful.
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My favourite album when I was 14 years old was "Marvel" by the Lads Christian band.
My favourite movie at the age of 15 was Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
My best friends at the age of 14 were David Walker and Jess Mackenzie. Ben Jack was in the top three.
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Saturday
B-side comment (c grade tbh) - seriously, it’s rubbish.
In China they trained people wrong in martial arts. And I think they did it on purpose, as a joke. They trained students to be rooted/grounded. Through horse stance and their connection with the earth.
They trained them to be flat footed.
And this affected their whole stance, form, posture, shape, as well as quickness and power generation.
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In boxing they just jump rope and hit bags. There is actually more nuance and depth there.
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I wonder what would happen if you trained a boxer to have "bad feet", and a bad connection with the earth? I wonder what would happen if you trained boxers wrong, and helped them to have bad feet? As a joke? Or as an act of cruelty?
As opposed to just...
First five:
Jumping rope, everyday for months and months and months
Learning your stance (one basic stance only, left foot forward, right foot back and heel lifted, left shoulder guards chin, right hand guards face, alway have live feet, light on feet)
Learning basic punches, like six-seven of them (straight left and right [aka jab and cross], left and right hook, left and right uppercut, left and maybe right body blow [rips]).
Hitting the medium weight bag, a lot
Working on fitness (push ups, sit ups, side planks, squats, medicine ball, cardio-especially jogging)
These five are awesome^^^
Based on my understanding of science, history, pedagogy, epistemology, education and sociology.
Second five:
Sparring
Shadow boxing, ie doing imaginary fight snippets kinaesthetically, by practising them irl. It’s the best thing ever c once you’ve got the first five working
Watching a few old masters fight, like Tunney. Like, 30 minutes total footage. Copy them a bit
Learning from people actually at the gym, just copying them and their combos and bag work
(Doing just a few random drills, like ducking under punches [hooks], or practising darting forward a couple of steps, having tennis balls thrown at your face, or just dancing around the room, a little focus mitt work).
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What if it was actually better to just never do any of those footwork drills, or practise slipping, or weaving, or fancy bobbing, or any steps or ladders or L steps drills or anything!!! For at least 6-9 months, if at all. The jump rope alone will train your feet and ankles, and teach them to be “alive”. And you can keep training your feet and ankles with shadow boxing. Just call it “foot shadow boxing”.
And just be free form in footing in sparring, at least at first.
Ps: I still love kung fu movies though (Jet Li is the best). And martial arts movies in general.
PPS: I would still do like 6-12 months of non contact karate first (or low contact), just to train my mind/body b4 doing boxing. It’s just efficient.
Haha, I didn’t even own proper boxing shoes. So I just used ordinary sneakers. And I had no contact lenses, so I was blind. I had no job when I got started, my dad was cheap, and so was I. I just didn’t lag for proper equipment. He also hated boxing and didn’t want me to go. So he didn’t fund it. Not asking for sympathy for that paragraph though! I was just slack. I could totally have afforded proper equipment it if I’d set my mind it (like gloves, better mouth guard, proper shoes and shorts, my own bag/s). I was lackadaisical. I should have done better! But I was genuinely decent at it by the time I left the sport. I didn’t even mean to get into Muay Thai let alone boxing. It just happened, and it was the only way I wanted to exercise once I got into it. I originally just wanted to learn to do flying karate kicks ahaha. I might have had tone issues there.
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Low quality content coming up:
Being lectured by Xi and his supporters about morals and ethics is absurd. It's like being lectured by a member of the Manson family who later joined the Nazi party and wants to do a pol pot esque "year zero" on the human cognitive and intellectual landscape. Oh wait... the CCP are totalitarians no better than the USSR or Nicolae CeauÈescu, they funded Pol Pot, and his father dumbed down China on purpose (for ease of governance), contributing to mass deaths in the years that followed. And Xi is strongly committed to a policy of en-dumnening the human race, turning us into Judd's Idiocracy.
A society of dunderheads is easier to control.
Ps: they literally slaughtered 20 million people in the great famine because they collectively “soul rejected” bourgeoisie ideas about economics and sociology, basic biology and agricultural science, basic business administrative practises etc, and wouldn’t take proper advice, NOT EVEN FROM KHRUSHCHEV!!! So they suck, due to weaponised and deliberate stupidity. I just can’t even.
PPS: Khrushchev had sent them planners and advisors with actual expertise and knowledge, and they were doing these things called “five year plans”. And Mao said, “fuck you and the horse you rode into town on, and did the Great Leap Forward anyway”. Khrushchev wanted to help them, support them, and give them the intellectual and planning capacities they needed. And yes, the five year planning models the soviets used were mediocre compared to the economic models of development we used in the western world, but they were more reliable than Mao’s nonsense!!
Xi’s family legacy is that of dumbing people down. They damage the intellectual capacities of people. They make them stupid. Xi’s father was education minister, and also in charge of the department that was in charge of shaping the future Chinese mind (publicity department). And he dumbed people down.
It’s easy to come across as shrill when taking about the CCP. But when you’re saying what needs to be said, it’s okay if you accidentally sound shrill.
My background was economics btw, and religion.
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Thursday, 29th January 2026
If you haven’t read them yet, please read these two pages. They are quite important pages.
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Please read these two pages as well:
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I have wanted to be an inventor ever since I was maybe seven or eight years old. And I have educated myself accordingly. I have selected books in science, engineering and technology to learn about how stuff works. I practised study techniques, practised brainstorming techniques, and kept ideas books, and lists of inventions I wanted to make. I day dreamed constantly of inventing things. I trained my mind, and fed my mind. With all sorts of useful things. Along with science, engineering, technology and business, I learned about education, religion, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, history, geography, criminology, policing, building and construction, video game design and video game theory, ministry theory and practise, architecture, economics, sociology, and many other things. I also wanted to be a video game designer, builder, engineer or scientist at various point of time. I did accounting at university, because I figured it is just a piece of paper. And also you need business skills to be an inventor and make money at it.
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Kung Pow
^ kung pow is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It’s awful. It’s truly a dreadful movie. Don’t ever watch it. Don’t look it up on Netflix, Disney+ or Hoopla, don’t push play, and don’t sit down for 90 minutes to enjoy it. It’s horrible, offensive and poorly made.
It’s made by splicing content from two old kung fu movies together, superimposing another actor on top of it, and doing a bad overdub.
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A random assortment of poorly thought out and badly selected video clips on YouTube:
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One more clip:
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Never be rude to an Arab, by Monty Python ^
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Archived, from table of contents:
The “things I like page” and the “background stories” page are basically an “about me”. The photos page is worth looking at too. Misc stories and the education and reading pages help as well. The education and reading page is horribly long, but it will give you a lot of insight into my background, but only if you’re interested; a skim of it is probably enough.
There is a lot of “misc” in the text dump and garbage dumps and archives and ideas page, most of it isn’t very good. And then I keep on archiving things.
I tried to use the microblog to store information for people to refer back to, but it didn’t really work. A lot of real time stuff just ends up in places like the “garbage dump” or the “text dump” or in the ideas page or in the “random archives”.
The “not a hive mind guy” essay/post or open letter is a little out of date. Perhaps it needs work. But new ideas have made a lot of it possible. The faraday cube has been remixed into a settlement model, or a barn model, for shelter and privacy. Now remixed into either a backyard cabin model or a garage nook model, or a “shelter the whole house” model.
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Archived, because it didn’t fit the front page.
^never be rude to an Arab, Monty Python song
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Some b side comments just as I was waking up from a nap.
Just joking..
lol @ Einstein, Rutherford invents splitting the atom. Einstein just lame. Rutherford proper physicist, Einstein just stealing thunder. Einstein very sad, probably borrowing ideas from other people.
Kiwi physics > Jewish science
Also nz invent plane, but yankee scum steal credit. Lame. https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg24132121-900-richard-pearses-claim-to-a-new-zealand-first-flight/#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20historical%20fact,months%20before%20the%20Wright%20brothers.
Everybody in New Zealand knows that New Zealand was first. Ahahahahah. But we had to let it go.
Zzz.
Also, faraday deserved a knighthood. Got offered one. Turned it down. Still a better scientist than Einstein, and Newton too. Was a Christian, until the bitter end. Even though fae harassed him till the end, even on his deathbed!
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If you want to understand the world, and are a normal person, study Faraday and Rutherford. Not Einstein or Feynman. And look the experimental physicists, not the theoretical physicists. And also study the works of engineers before the theoretical physicists too. Read a biography of Rutherford first, then one on faraday. Then read a biography of Telford, one of Brunel, read a copy of structures by J.E. Gordon, and read a bunch of Petroski.
Ps: Feynman was legit, I used some of his ideas and methodologies of thought in developing mine. I have read his books, and even borrowed his physics textbooks from the university library after I had dropped out due to poor health and needed something to do (using Amanda’s library card). I liked his wobbly spinning disc thought experiment. It led me to believe that you just need to “strip polarity” from the rays.
Also, when it comes to physics maybe there is no “is”, there is just observation at different levels. And then models to describe and predict what will happen mathematically at these different levels. Disclaimer, if you are a dunderhead, you’re not allowed to repeat that. But see the concept “map territory relations”. Note: that concept is only useful if you’ve already mastered basic understanding using western thought, where everything is “objective” first. Do that first, then change how you see things (be objective first, then be subjective). Also: Rutherford studied Latin, English and debate at university. These things improve the mind greatly. Debate sharpens the mind, as does the study of intelligent languages such as English and latin. He was an excellent student at both school and university. And you do want to be good at both school and university, both of those are very useful don’t denigrate university just because it’s gotten a little off track.
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This guy wrote a good biography on Rutherford. But I think the system killed him!
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Btw, if you want to brush up on science. And get smarter. And you’re a normal guy or a normal girl. There are three really easy course available on the great courses: there is one on philosophy, one on science, and on one on the Industrial Revolution. I’ve referenced them elsewhere. Those three will help you a lot. At the same time, read a biography of faraday, and one of Rutherford, and read two books by JE Gordon, and any two Petroski that tickles your fancy. And that will help you to train your mind to think like a scientist. And also do at least 6 months programming, just for fun. And pass stats 101.
After that, learn about the history of technology. Take a look at some of the stuff on Leo Laporte’s triangulation podcast to begin with, and then read about inventions by the likes of Alexander Graham Bell. Read up on Texas Instruments and other stuff like that.
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Wednesday, 28th January 2026
I have no confidence in the system because I think it probably doesn’t work out due to sociology and physics. The sociology and physics combined mean that I think it fails. As well as the “game design”, computational theory (information science), and bandwidth costs…
Monday 26th January 2026
Here is a random article that is good, but I didn’t think deserved a place on the table of contents.
Edit: I put it into the table of contents.
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Eyesight
My eye sight is very bad. I am supposed to be wearing glasses, but I can’t wear them at the moment because of the issues I have had for so many years with my neck and back. My eye sight has been bad for a long time. I started wearing glasses in childhood, and my prescriptions kept on increasing up until the age of 24, after which I didn't increase my prescription further.
In addition to that, can’t focus my eyes properly due to the neck and back issues, which makes things difficult.
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Thursday 22nd January 2026
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B-side comment
Cooking
I post this merely for the sake of information (because people keep asking me if I can cook, or to prepare a meal or something!), not as a means of bragging or making myself seem special or important. It’s just food, and ordinary home cooking. It’s delicious, and nutritious, and it’s just ordinary food. It’s not bragging, it’s just part of my life history. And it’s not competitive, or based on status. Cooking is just something nice you can do for other people. It goes back to about the years of 2009-2012, and the ages of 20-23. After that I didn’t cook so much. I was unwell.
I used to cook food like this for dinners, back when Amanda and I were living at 5 Weka Road, Raumati Beach, and still had flatmates.
We would have roast chicken pieces, roast vegetables, roast mushrooms, fresh fluffy white rice and a little bit of roast onion. The chicken might be free range, if we felt we could spend the money on it. I preferred thighs, and we would flavour them with salt, pepper, ordinary dried mixed herbs, and olive oil. I would baste the chicken half way through. The onion was simply halved and cooked in the juices from the chicken pieces. Amanda refused to eat chicken from the bone (a bit fussy and silly about food, she used to have a vegetarian and/or eating disorder thing going on), so I would remove some chicken from the bone for her. The roast vegetables were stuff like carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, courgettes or sometimes asparagus. However, with asparagus I’d be more likely to cook that just by itself, because it’s kind of special and nice as a vegetable all on its own. The mushrooms might be ordinary brown mushrooms (the small ones) roasted in a Pyrex dish. And that would be a fairly ordinary dinner for us. It’s not fussy, it’s not too fancy, it’s healthy without being too healthy. It’s normal food, and it was fairly tasty.
It’s a tasty, nutritious and normal sort of meal, and it isn’t difficult.
Other things we had were tacos, home made burgers, a conventional Sunday roast with (very popular) crispy roast potatoes, leftover chicken was common, as were “potato cakes” made from leftover roasted or mashed potatoes (you mix leftover potatoes with egg and finely chopped onions, and fry them in a frying pan as though they are corn fritters or the size of pikelets). I often served those to Amanda with a “sauce” made from chickpeas, crushed tomatoes, and canned pasta sauce. And topped with lots of chopped parsley. Another use for leftover chicken was pilaf. I made nice pilaf, albeit a slightly bastardised version. I could cook a risotto from scratch, but I doubt I could do it now. I don’t even like risotto? It’s too fancy for me. My risotto was nice. I made lentil curry often, but only for the two of us. With raita. Another common meal was to chop up one red kÅ«mara, one golden kumara, one orange kumara, one beetroot, and then mix them in a bowl with herbs, salt, pepper, and olive oil. Then bake it in the oven at I think it was 160/170 Celsius for about 45-55 minutes, turning once (I honestly forget). After which we served it with crumbled feta on top. If I felt like being nice, I would make a garden salad of greens, cucumber and cherry tomatoes and perhaps we have some chicken with it too. I cooked green Thai chicken curry as well, often with extra herbs or “homemade” curry paste from the market. I could cook a Pad Thai that passed muster with Amanda, even though I don’t like Pad Thai. If was having a fancy day, I could do tasty pan fried salmon (it was genuinely very nice) with mashed potato and roasted vegetables (such as asparagus). I could also do a decent beef scotch fillet, medium rare. But overall, I think my most popular food was my roast potatoes. I think that my tacos weren’t half bad either, and I loved my roast kumara medley with feta. Oh, and I could make nice enchiladas. They’re a real crowd pleaser. Just like tacos.
It was just home cooking, you know? It’s something you have to do if you want nice food to eat that is affordable, tasty and nutritious. And it is something nice you do for others! It’s an act of service.
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I also used to make a tolerable apple turnover, but I have lost the recipe (It was actually really nice!). My apple and rhubarb crumble was nice. My self saucing chocolate pudding was nice, but nothing special or better than anything anyone else made. It was just out of the Edmonds cookbook (the same cookbook everyone else used). I could also cook muffins, but I have completely forgotten how.
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Edit, a few more things
I could also cook beef stir-fry, Indian curries (both from jars and some from scratch), potato salad (I hate potato salad, but other people like it). I used to make fairly nice pumpkin soup. And I could make a good slow roasted roast pork shoulder. And a decent lamb roast too, although my roast chicken and roast lamb were better.
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It’s just normal cooking. Nothing special.
I really enjoyed it though. It’s nice being able to do nice things for other people. And the process of cooking itself is a calming, satisfying, relaxing process.
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Take this segment lightly...
I engage in brainstorming and problem solving as a leisure activity. I do it to relax. And then sometimes I get misrepresented by people who pretend that the things I say inside my own head during my brainstorming sessions were intended as assertions of truth that then require some sort of a defence by means of rational argument and debate. But that's nonsense. In many cases, I was just engaging in the leisure activity of brainstorming and problem solving inside my own head. I do it for fun, and to relax. It's my way of idling or replenishing my mental energies.
I also enjoy day-dreaming. I create silly scenarios in my head to think about. I do it to chill out. And it is partially a survival strategy. These people sometimes interrupt these day-dreams, and insert themselves into the middle of them. And act as if my responses are meaningful. But I'm just bullshitting. I'm trying to chill out by creating funny scenarios in my head, or just hamming it up in a humorous manner. And then when they ask me questions, I say some nonsense to them to waste their time. But then they pretend that what is happening passes as conversation.
Or sometimes I'm having a reverie that is deliberately nonsensical and thoroughly humorous. As a way to amuse myself, and they take exception (get offended). And then I have to defend themselves against their taking of offense.
This is only _some_ of the time.
But it should help people to understand me and my personality. And it might also help people (nice normal people) to understand why I am as quoted as saying funny things sometimes.
[note: Also, they are talking to me all day long. Sometimes without even a five or ten minute break. And they have been doing this for ages. Like... all day they talk to me, or keep me occupied? For 18 months, in various ways. And before that, there was the "music" thing, which was creepy and horrible. I had hardly 5 minutes to myself think a lot of the time].
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Change of topic...
What sort of things do I think about when I engage in the leisure activity of brainstorming and problem solving (inside my own mind)?
I tend to create mental models of reality that merely describe and explain underlying realities. They just describe reality, but aren't reality. Models. Everything is models, abstraction. And I do it in a pretty slapdash way. And I create working hypotheses of how you might do something or solve something or of how something works. Perhaps using these aforementioned mental models as a foundation. I tend to be pretty slapdash about that too. And I update them on the fly.
I do thought experiments that involve a lot of visualisation. Just like Einstein or Feynman. But at the end of the day I have the iron clad belief that you need experimentation to verify things, or to be able to do useful stuff. Thought experiments ==> practical trials ==> useful knowledge and products
Rutherford and Faraday were very practical physicists. And I think about science a lot. I used to think about science a lot, as well as the intersection between language and epistemology and experimentation. And the difference between a model of reality, and reality itself (I.E. map-territory relations).
I also create somewhat comical narratives and stories in my head, as a way of testing out ideas. Or just for fun. But I do it to chill! Like dreaming up scenarios or whatever. And there is a huge amount of humour involved in this. There is a lot of irony, sarcasm, plenty of puns. In basically taking the piss with some of these scenarios. Sometimes it is like a skit in my head, or a sketch. I do it for fun! To keep myself sane. For example, I might day dream up the best way to do something, or a scenario to illustrate a point. And sometimes I'm just riffing on what people are saying in my head. This is a very difficult point to explain, and I can't think of good examples.
And when I am ready to make a statement, I draft again and again, until I am ready to say something.
This is only _some_ of the time.
Uhhhhh. I am actually pretty comfortable inside my own head.
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I hope you took that segment lightly...
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A fun video clip:
Is it a movie? Or good social commentary about the direction of our culture?
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Wednesday 21st January 2026
I used to want to do courses like these, just as a hobby.
It’s no big deal.
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Sunday 18th January, 2026
This next comment isn't fully coherent. But I had to store it somewhere.
Why such bad photos?
Why did I end up with bad photos of myself as an infant? Or as a toddler?
I think my grandfather deliberately selected the worst photos of me, he selected photos where I was trying to wriggle out of being held still while they were taking family photos. Or photographs were looked like a derp.
He was making a photo book near the end of his life.
He was dying of electronic harm at the time, and possibly blamed me. Yes, really, I think they used “gravity” on him. And it might actually have killed him. After a while, he couldn’t walk. I think he paid the “cost” for me. I’ll write about this elsewhere. These photos were found by me in his pre-obituary book. That is, the one he wrote just before his death. He knew he was dying at the time. I think the whole situation is bizarre. But that’s freemasons and lunatics for you? Maybe? His son Andrew (former currency trader and former parliamentary researcher for the national party) is in parliament now, and used to be mayor of our capital city, Wellington. Grandpa was a graduate of the London School of Economics and an employee of Shell Oil (turned environmentalist).
Update: I think Dad took him out, using electronics. I think he wanted to sleep with more women related to this situation, and Paul and the women took offence. And uncle Andy colluded with him. Furthermore, Uncle Andy took his own mother out when she was living at the old folks home, using electronics and satellites and cell towers etc. She wanted to blab about me and his connection to it? He is a parliamentarian after all! He is in the NZ first party and our ruling coalition. If there’s any demographic that needs these faraday four corner solutions, it might be old folks.. Her name was Joyce Foster.
Edit: I think that he put those photos in there to mislead me and other people. I don’t currently have many good photos. I think he didn’t out of spite.
^This segment might not be fully accurate! I’m still working it out!
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B-side comment (worthy only of the archives page, not the main pages):
Who might use the four corners model of shielding a house with faraday containers?
This is an extension of what I said on the ideas page, but I don't think it makes the cut for the ideas page itself, which is blowing up.
The comment in the ideas page was as follows:
"It might be able to give us peace, quiet and solitude.
The best type of person for this is someone who wants peace, quiet and solitude simply for their own sake. And just so that they can enjoy their normal lifestyle of things like socialising, reading, conversation, hobbies and relaxing.
It would be perfect for someone who just wants to be left alone."
And this is what I would have liked to be able to add to the page...
Personally, I might use the peace, quiet and solitude to enjoy hobbies like reading, study or video games. Other people might prefer hobbies such as meditation, yoga, tai chi/qigong, table tennis, martial arts, boxing, knitting, sewing or wood turning. They might also like dancing, music, painting, or being a "maker" (whatever that means).
As part of socialising, I might want to play "modern" geeky card games such as exploding kittens, or board games such as Settlers of Catan. Or casual video games such as "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band". Other people might prefer games such as "Dance Dance Revolution", Warhammer or poker. Or just having people over for tea and baked treats?
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Who else?
What other sort of people might be interested in the four corners model for faraday shielding a property? Just for the sake of argument here are a few ideas....
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/3468078/Spy-base-activists-walk-free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
https://stories.ehf.org/i-can-smell-the-uranium-on-your-breath-anti-nuclear-new-zealand-30-years-on-1d870838332c?gi=8f3f004d36ca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_nuclear-free_zone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society#:~:text=In%20January%202021%2C%20Sea%20Shepherds,allow%20them%20to%20remove%20nets.
The "wooly jumper brigade" might like the idea, and find it to be both useful and appealing. The type of people who were anti-nuclear and anti-surveillance might like it as well. The anti whaling and anti poaching "greenie hippie environmentalist" types might love it too. And the permaculture-organic-dirt-worshipping hippies and eco-maniacs might like it as well. These sorts of people might want to shield their homes, so that at least they might have some peace and quiet at home. Solitude and silence are essential for being able to think clearly and intelligently, after all. As for communication, they might then communicate by letter, encrypted Skype calls or email, or they might use in person conversations. Or just socialise over drinks or food. These are just examples.
And perhaps New Zealand might be just the right place for it. Here in New Zealand we have a history of things like anti nuclear activism, opposition to whaling, opposition to the American surveillance state, opposition to the American war machine, and of deep concern regarding the American style corporate capitalist and banking way of life (we basically got thrashed in the late eighties and early nineties by the corporate machine and the corporate/academe/bureaucratic model of how society should be run, and we never really recovered) aka neoliberalism.
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Who else?
This is a strange one... And also weirdo gay people who just want to be left alone. There are small fringe minorities of really creepy and/or weird people. And they weird you out. They really do. But honestly, they just want a place where they can simply be left alone. And desperately need a place where they can be left alone. They might like it. There are plenty of fringe people who are best left alone and/or would love to be left alone. It is a complicated matter.
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And the Chinese
And last but not least, Chinese people who love China but hate the CCP, hate the PRC and the way the world is currently governed. That is, morally decent pro-China patriots who love their own people, love their nation, respect and value the lives of non-Chinese people as well, and want the world to be a better place, but loathe the CCP and want to be able to think clearly and also to criticise the party, both in private conversation and in written correspondence. And also would like to be able to publish and distribute actual paper newspapers and paper newsletters.
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This is a food post, cross posted to the bottom of the quacks, hucksters and charlatans page
As for me...
I like normal food
I like normal food such as roast chicken and scalloped potatoes, served with salad. I like schnitzel and mashed potatoes, with salad. I like roast vegetables, mashed potatoes, steak and sautéed mushrooms. I also like beef stir fries (including vegetables) on rice, and things like green Thai chicken curry with plenty of fresh vegetables, served with rice; topped with chopped coriander and other herbs. I also like a good cubed roast kūmara and beetroot salad, topped with crumbled feta, served beside cranberry chicken wrapped in bacon. And maybe a salad. It's all fine. I like plain old roast chicken with crispy roast potatoes and some boiled vegetables on the side (I used to use ghee for the potatoes, they were good, and fairly popular). I like homemade sushi. Or tacos made with lettuce, grated carrot, chopped tomatoes, avocado, I would put sauteed onions and garlic in with the mince, as well as a bit of tomato paste. Or maybe a half way decent cottage pie, with extra vegetables to pad it out. I like a good lasagne with a bit of salad on the side (probably a bit rich and unhealthy) and I like my home made lentil curries. And I like an ordinary spaghetti bolagnase, of course. Chicken stir fry is good too, as is chicken curry from a packet made with chopped vegetables served with rice (Taste of India, Tikka Masala is a solid brand and flavour in New Zealand); frozen vegetables are tolerable in a pinch. Please serve with freshly chopped coriander and a bit of natural unsweetened yoghurt (or better yet, homemade raita).
For lunch, I like things like sandwiches and toast. For breakfast, I just plain don't like breakfast. But cereal is okay, or avocado on toast if I had my way. Or fresh bread with butter, salami, cheese, orange juice and tea/coffee. I also like American style breakfast food, like waffles with cream and jam and American pancakes with butter and maple syrup. But it's best not to eat that way.
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Basics for me though:
Roast chicken pieces, mashed potatoes (or rice), roast vegetables.
Stewed red meat (like beef shin) in the slow cooker, vegetables (carrots and onions), fresh fluffy white rice, chopped herbs, and some additional green vegetables cooked on the stove on the side.
Sunday roast with roast potatoes and boiled vegetables.
Tacos, using a packet mix and chopped lettuce, tomatoes, grated carrots and cheese.
Chicken Tikka Masala using "Taste of India" branded sauce and spice sachet. As well as ordinary vegetables like onions, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower thrown in.
Or cottage pie.
Or beef "burgers" with mashed potatoes and boiled/sauteed vegetables.
I used to avoid making mashed potatoes because of Amanda, she hated them. I would focus on the first two meals on the list, because they are easy, tasty and healthy. If I were free to do my own cooking, I'd cook meals like those ones just above. And ditto if I had children to feed (or maybe I would have to modify what I cooked if they were fussy). Lastly, when I was a child, I had a lot of schnitzel. My mother made it a lot (from scratch). So I might end up making that if I had fussy children to feed, alongside mashed potatoes and some tolerably cooked vegetables. Perhaps seasoned with tomato sauce.
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Repost:
History of Ivan, my paternal grandfather
Ivan Brody-Solt
Hungarian-Jew, refugee from the USSR in 1956, spoke fluent Hungarian. Hungarian in ethnicity and nationality, but part Jewish by ancestry. His family name used to be “Speigal”, but was changed to Solt in the late 40s (afaik). For religion, they were Roman catholic. Not that he was very religious. At all. They used to be wealthy, lost everything fleeing Hungary.
He fled Hungary in 1956 along with his father, mother, and sister.
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Tldr;
His ex-wife (Carol) and youngest daughter used false accusations of pedophilia and child molestation to destroy his life, years after she had divorced him.
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Misc stories
He taught Dad to do calculus at age 11. They were travelling through Europe in a caravan doing a world tour. He wanted to teach my father that “there is no such thing as impossible”.
He was a good chess player, and taught my father to play. My father later become the Taupo chess champion. Papa was the sort of person who kept chess scores from games in the past to brag. My father eventually got better than his father.
He once did things like stand outside the Kelburn tunnel below his house with a sign saying, “honk if you believe in diligence, decency, hard work.”
He ran for council in 1989, got 3k votes.
He liked making things in his workshop. Had a rocking chair with a different rocking mechanism. And special custom opening mechanisms for things for his cupboard doors.
He tried to get elected to council once:
By the time I was in my teens and knew him much at all, he had false teeth and just sat there watching CNN all day. He’d had two strokes, broken his leg once, and gained weight. He wasn’t well by then.
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Marriage:
Why did he marry Carol Solt? She threatened suicide if he didn’t do it. They were in a relationship, and she told him that if he ever dumped her, she would kill herself.
They had two sets of two kids.
Once the first set (Paul and Wendy) had halfway grown up, she went and got pregnant with a second set (David and Monica).
She then divorced him, leaving suddenly, and took the second set of kids with her and turned them against him (David and Monica). He lost his relationship with them.
He went and got a new wife from Hungary, and had two extra kids.
According to his ex wife and children, he was a “bully”, and sometimes mean. But given how much horrible stuff they did to him, including false accusations of molestation (Monica confirmed to be a liar), I fail to see why I should have any confidence in anything they say.
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Accusations against Ivan Brody-Solt:
Years and years later, after the divorce, and after the new wife, and after having new kids (Marton and Andrew).
There were some accusations of historical offences and abuses:
Monica, his daughter, accused him of molestation. She claimed that he came into her bedroom late at night to do awful things when she was in her teens.
Cousin Glynn accused him of one instant of digital penetration while wrestling.
He was also accused of sexual harassment by some of Monica’s friends.
I suspect (but cannot prove) that these accusations were orchestrated by my Nana (his ex partner).
There was police involvement, and a court case. He was charged with a crime. My father had to give testimony. He stated that he knew nothing of any of these things happening.
But a kluge was found. Ivan pretended to be suffering dementia, early stages. He had to take some medication for a bit too. But he stayed out of jail. I think it was a mistrial.
I repeat:
Had to fake mental impairment and alzheimers, and go on medication to avoid conviction. There was a court case. I can’t find the records. I think it was a mistrial. I tried to find the information when I was back in Raine street. I was a teenager when the court case happened.
He didn’t end up with a conviction. I think it meant that he was under a ton of extra control after that.
Ps: a lot of this is based on what my father told me.
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As mentioned in an another one of my stories. I stayed with him and Eva at around the age of 18ish, when I started going to university. She ruled the roost by that point (he had suffered one or two strokes by that point, and had broken his leg falling down the stairs).
He didn’t want to rock the boat too much. I suspect he wasn’t supposed to help me. He was quite old, had false teeth, and would watch CNN all day.
Ummmm.
He actually relied quite heavily on Paul, his eldest son, who visited often. His youngest two adult children had abandoned him. His eldest Paul kept in contact, as did Aunty Wendy. But she never liked her father much.
They lived above a nursery. Aka childcare centre. Just above the Kelburn tunnel at 1 Raroa Road. And his second wife never left him.. which I think makes it pretty obvious he wasn’t a danger (read between the lines lol).
I stayed with him when I was 18. My health was falling apart. It was caused by electronic abuse. But he never told me about the electronic towers. They (the system) were waging a systematic campaign of destruction on my health and wellbeing. I saw doctors, and I was really ill. Even in his own home, he wasn’t allowed to tell me that I was getting electronically damaged.
I had a mystery illness while living in his house. He knew that I was unwell. He knew what was causing it. But I was never told the truth.
He was too controlled to simply tell me, “the reason you are sick is that the system is doing it electronically”
Ps: you can see “how I got this way pt 2” if you want more information about my illness.
Note: I need to rewrite this segment later. They’re hammering my mind too hard.
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For the sake of clarity…
Boxing
I did boxing some years ago, and I was basically competent.
It's not a big deal.
Other people want to make it a big deal, but I don't.
I got some experience in both boxing and kickboxing over the course of about two years. I did two terms of Muay Thai, and about 8-9 months in boxing. Also, I worked hard to build up my cardiovascular fitness, strength, and overall coordination, because it is a sport.
It's not a big deal.
Other people want to make it a big deal, but I don't to make it into a big deal.
Talking about boxing can make someone seem like a "try hard". And I prefer to be a little bit self deprecating.
Humility used to be a core value of mine in many aspects of life (genuine humility, as opposed to false modesty).
Ps: I also did 6 months of judo as a child.
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Saturday 17th January 2026
Four Corners Model: using faraday containers to shield an ordinary suburban home
I mean, does it shield us from the passive surveillance of our minds and get the voices out of our heads?
If the four corners model can do that, then it is a win.
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Thursday 15th January 2026
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B side comment:
A random article I found online, with a few random quotes and excerpts, and a comment or two from me
“Driving force from the ground”
Tyson learned through deliberate coaching to drive force from the ground through his entire neurological network, creating full-body force generation with each punch.
“Neurological strength”
“The body adapts to the load placed upon it”
And the resistance of the bag (heavy or not) builds strength over time. It’s just enjoyable reading about it.
“For Tyson, the heavy bag was the primary load ('means') stimulus, developing neurological synergies“
“ By 'means,' we refer to different forms of resistance, whether it’s a steel barbell, dumbbells, or, in Tyson’s case, a heavy bag.”
It’s resistance training, and it’s also driving force from the ground. It think that it’s about learning all about driving for from the ground first, and then it becomes resistance training.
(For example, for me, in training, Every jab, every cross, every body blow, every hook is driving off of the ground. Hooks are a little different, but not much. Because there’s rotational movement?? But you’re using the ground anyway. And you just take your stance/frame, and bounce it around the ring, so that you can place it like a “platform” for delivering these basic punches that all drive off of the ground. Not sure if that makes perfect sense. It was kind of like about personal development. Don’t worry about the perfect use of language. Treat this just as a discussion).
But yeah, “driving force from the ground”, like in terms of the science of physics. Newtonian Mechanics. And “building neurological strength”. It’s fantastic stuff.
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B side comment:
A quick change in direction:
If you’re just looking to start out in boxing, then you need a punching bag.
Practical advice: get a normal, medium weight boxing bag. Idk what weight exactly. I have heard that one about half of your body weight is a good rule of thumb. That’s what you want if you’re starting out at home. One that you hang from the rafters. You have to hang it from something sturdy! You can practise punching on it. It’s good. Some of it is learning how to punch (like the skills) and some of the benefit is that you are simply conditioning your body to get better at punching. It greatly improves both overall fitness and strength.
Here is an example of a good bag (for a lightweight):
Or at least I think it’s a good example.
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The second bag to get might be a speed bag. It’s good for conditioning your muscles. It teaches you to keep your guard up, improves timing, and improves endurance in your shoulders (delts and traps). If you have weak endurance in your shoulders it can be hard to enjoy and benefit from sparring.
Example of a speed bag here:
But the main thing you need is a medium weight (normal) boxing bag. It looks like a cylinder, it’s short and squat, and it’s fairly sturdy. Yes, it swings around when you hit it, and yes you have to stabilise it, but that’s the one you most need.
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For gloves, get 16 oz gloves. Unless you’re massive or tiny, in which case move up or down 2 oz. Buy proper wraps. And also any decent jump rope. You don’t really need a speed bag. It is actually a bit silly to buy one. But you actually could, if money were no object.
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A quick observation:
These people (the international fae aka philosopher kings) are backwards when it comes to physical training.
That is, they are deliberately slightly retarded, because they want to create confusion.
When it comes to the training of the body and the mind, and how the muscles and nervous system work, they promote a “pro-ignorance” approach.
If should be noted that the PRC promoted an anti intellectual, pro ignorance approach to the study of the science of genetics and the science of economics in the fifties, and that directly led to the mass deaths that occurred during the “great leap forward”. They are the “pro ignorance” people. They love weaponised ignorance.
Ignorance and stupidity under their version of communism is a feature, not a bug. And mass deaths are merely an acceptable side effect.
Ps: the Chinese also banned the study of sociology in universities back in the fifties, because it was “bourgeoisie”. They were actually daft. Seriously.
PPS: they do all sorts of stuff to obfuscate matters, so that it is harder to criticise them. Or scrutinise their actions. They love obfuscation and the avoidance of scrutiny and criticism. But behind it all, they are still kind of regarded. CCP, that is. The wider fae are kind of loopy and daft too, but in a slightly different way.
These people are trying to make it really hard to have a clearheaded discussion about how to do things intelligently, particularly in the fields of things like fitness, self defence, exercise, physical sports, combat sports and martial training, or other training for unarmed combat. It’s absurd.
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Another observations: people like Holyfield and Tyson were swimming up to their eyeballs in anabolic steroids. There is still a lot of steroids or pharmaceutical assistance going on. Sometimes they just have to take the substances in the off season. Back in Rocky Marciano’s day, or in the day and age of Gene Tunney, they weren’t on steroids. They did use stimulants though. I think that Muhammad Ali was on steroids.
By the time of Muhammad Ali, the sport of boxing was considered a tacky, tawdry disgusting and dishonest game. And honour and decency was gone out of it. At least that’s how the history of it seems to me, when I read it.
And so you have to ask yourself, are you using the training methods and style of a steroid and stimulant user, but as a person who is all natural (no stimulants, and not steroids)? Also, many of them have to “make weight”. Normal people don’t.
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Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano famously used an extremely heavy, custom-made bag, often reported around 270-300 pounds, for his grueling workouts, much heavier than standard bags, to build immense power, stamina, and proper punching form, forcing him to punch with full force for extended periods, developing his signature knockout ability. He'd hit it for 45 minutes straight, often with bag gloves to ensure good wrist alignment, alongside other brutal methods like underwater punches and medicine ball core work.
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This comment was written 3-4 days ago, and I just archived it now.
Clarification:
Boxing
I did boxing some years ago, and I was basically competent.
It's not a big deal.
Other people want to make it a big deal, but I don't.
I got some experience in both boxing and kickboxing over the course of about two years. I did two terms of Muay Thai, and about 8-9 months in boxing. Also, I worked hard to build up my cardiovascular fitness, strength, and coordination, because it is a sport.
It's not a big deal.
Other people want to make it a big deal, but I don't to make it into a big deal.
Talking about boxing can make someone seem like a "try hard". And I prefer to be a little bit self deprecating.
Humility used to be a core value of mine in many aspects of life (genuine humility, as opposed to false modesty).
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Wednesday 14th January 2026
Ever since I was 7-8 years old I have wanted to be an inventor.
Other aspirations have been: scientist, mad scientist, engineer, builder, video game designer, video game “mod” maker, high school teacher (yes, really. It’s a Christian I felt it was okay to take a low position in life even if you could aim higher), pastor, accountant, engineer, investment banker, briefly a doctor, entrepreneur, computer programmer, business titan, fund manager. Mostly scientist and video game designer.
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Tuesday 13th January 2026
Sexual intercourse ... that it is merely internal attrition and the spasmodic excretion of mucus - such, I say, as are these impressions that get to grips with the actual things and enter into the heart of them, so as to see them as they really are, thus should it be thy life through, and where things look to be above measure convincing, laying them quite bare, behold their paltriness and strip off their conventional prestige. For conceit is a past master in fallacies and, when thou flatterest thyself most that thou art engaged in worthy tasks, then art thou most of all deluded by it.
Marcus Aurelius
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Pinched from elsewhere:
Don’t Abuse This Power
In one of the weirdest passages of Meditations, Marcus Aurelius notes with pride that he never laid a hand on any of his female slaves. Since he makes no other remarks about slavery, most historians assume he is making a statement about self-discipline. When considered through the lens of Meditations as a set of private reflections never meant for publication, one could easily view this entry as a kind of self-reassurance of his goodness: that as the paterfamilias of a wealthy household and the leader of one of history’s largest empires, Marcus could have had sex with his female slaves, but by choice did not.
Not cheating on your spouse, not sexually assaulting a captive person, these are hardly achievements worthy of being feted for. They are the bare minimum, you could argue, to be considered a good, moral, virtuous person. And yet, they are not nothing, especially back then, it’s worth taking a minute to consider. Because when you remove the cultural and legal permissibility for Marcus, as emperor, to do whatever he wanted, what you are left with is a man who had power over another human being…and chose not to use it. It’s the kind of position, in the abstract at least, that we all find ourselves in from time to time, in our own ways.
Can we all say that we have acted with the same kind of restraint, the same kind of self-discipline, the same kind of virtue? How often have we exercised that power, consciously or unconsciously? How often have we taken advantage, gained advantage? Have we always respected the people society takes for granted? That we take for granted?
Do you know the answer for certain? If not, it’s important to think about, because we must all be conscious of the power dynamics, the privileges of our positions. Because of our age. Because of our job. Because of what someone thinks of us. Because of our platform. Because of our gender. Because of various traditions, expectations or social norms.
From all this comes power, and responsibility. We can’t take advantage of that, sexually or otherwise. We must be kind, respectful, generous, decent, honorable. We must insist on clear and clean boundaries. We must do what is right, not what feels good or what we can get away with.
This is, as Marcus Aurelius did, the bare minimum.
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How bad do you think Rome was at the time? How bad do you think that it was for the common folk? Why else would you think that the cult of Epicurus had the motto “live hidden”, and Christians were so willing to risk death? How awful must it have been?
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Monday, 12th January 2026
As I have said before, this is one of my two favourite poems. It’s by Emily Dickinson.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
To me, this poem is about privacy and living in obscurity.
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Here is my other favourite poem:
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
It’s by Yeats.
Why do I like it? Perhaps it is because I value peace, quiet and solitude. Or at least I value the option to have a bit of peace, quiet and solitude.
I used to repeat this poem to myself again and again. And used to visualise and imagine what it would be like to have a quiet place to stay beside a lake, where I might enjoy some peace. I mean, after all of the awful problems in my life. And I used to have a piece of paper in my wallet, with “goals”, or visualisations, back in 2022. Of what I wanted. And I mentioned this poem on this piece of paper. Because I wanted and needed both peace and quiet. And this poem provided a symbol of what I needed and wanted most. Other than good health.
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Who do I look up to?
I admire men like Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I also admire men like Alexander Graham Bell, Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur. And of course Michael Faraday and Sir Ernest Rutherford. I admire men like James Watt, but don’t know much about him. I respect the importance of the work that he did. I’m a huge fan of Gregor Mendel as well. I admire the public health researchers and scientists who solved polio. And last but not least I like Thomas Edison and his approach to innovation and invention.
Who are some other people I look up to? I like J.E. Gordon, I like Archimedes (don’t laugh). I admire and learned a lot from Professor Benjamin Graham (an academic and intellectual). I also learned a lot by reading about his protege and student Warren Buffett. I like William Wilberforce as well.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Telford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
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If you enjoy reading, then to add a biography of Telford, Brunel, Buffett, Bell or Rutherford to your reading list wouldn’t go amiss. Nor would it be a foolish idea to buy a book written by Benjamin Graham (even though it is a little out of date), or J.E. Gordon (Structures is a good book).
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Other people I have learned from…
I also learned a lot from people like Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Gina Trapani, Steve Gibson, Roman Mars, Dan Benjamin, Professor Frank Snowden (Yale), Dan Carlin, Professor Martin Lewis (Stanford), Laurie Taylor (BBC), Steven Levitt (economist). I also learned a lot from ministry podcasts created by people like Bill Hybels, Rick Warren, Mark Driscoll. I'm fascinated by mega churches and megachurch pastors, in a value neutral way. I learned a lot from people like Stewart Brand and the clock of the long now. I used to listen to a lot of podcasts and other spoken word audio.
I used to read a lot of material on “thestandard.co.nz” (that link is very important) and also a lot of material from the Ludwig von Mises crowd. And back in in youth, I liked Peter Cresswell’s blog notPC. He got me into J.E. Gordon, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacob’s. He also linked me through to Ludwig Von Mises and the Austrian school of economics. All three of their books were recommended on his blog, so you never know which book recommendations will find their mark! I became interested in Peter Cresswell’s blog because the nz libertarian party linked me to him, and I took a pamphlet of their home from university in 2007/2008. And I came to be interested in them because I read some of Ayn Rand’s non fiction work on the way to university in 2007 (literally on the bus to university). Ayn Rand is a better philosopher than most philosophers they teach in university. Also, the Bible and Christianity have better philosophy and epistemology than any of the rubbish than most people push in our institutions. Voltaire was fun to read, and genuinely thought provoking. But Terry Pratchett is just as good philosophically and epistemologically as many so called philosophers. Anyone who stimulates actual thought is a winner as far a I’m concerned. If you want to know a bit more about outlook in life, read Pratchett. I can’t tell you exactly which ones, but don’t start with a Rincewind novel.
Silly stuff: I used to read a lot of blogs and listen to a lot of podcasts. I listened to Timothy Ferris, Joe Rogan Experience (ahahahah I jokes that was ashamed to be listening to a meat head podcast, but oh well), read James Altucher, listened to Merlin Mann. Craig Groeschel, Andy Stanley, Hello Internet, AEIR, tons of sermons: Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Mark Driscoll. I used to read kiwiblog. I used to be extremely interested, very very interested in podcasts and blogs to do with entrepreneurship and starting businesses. Especially in the tech sector. I was a business school student!! And going to business school is a huge part of who I am (I never stopped reading about that sort of stuff, the academic materials). I used to consume any content I could find. Because I had time, but was too sick to do anything in my life.
Sunday, 11th January 2026
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I liked these five books
The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
If you’re trying to figure out my character, background, perspective. Don’t look at sports or video games. Look at books, websites, reading habits, podcasts and radio shows. Especially the clock of the long now, and in particular the “pace layers” model. The Clock of the Long now book was a Stewart Brand project, and the clock itself was closely tied to Jeff Bezos.
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Low effort post...
Some books I liked, just as a way to see what I used to be into...
The Clock of the Long Now
Structures, or why things don’t fall down by J E Gordon
Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
I used to like a lot of business books
The Long Earth by Pratchett + Baxter
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
Discworld, all (huge fan)
I also really liked Douglas Adams
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How did I fill in my time?
I listened to a lot of these shows..
Twit Network shows including:
TwiT
Windows weekly, this week in Google, triangulation, Security Now
I learned more from podcasts than people might realise.
Church planting podcasts, and ministry podcasts.
And lots of politics blogs
Thestandard, bowalley road, kiwiblog, bfd, NotPC, counterpunch, Ludwig von Mises articles and forums, AEIR. And lots of news websites.
Go back further, and I spent tons of time on things like Halo 2 forums, trying to glean new ideas for how to play. Or just killing time.
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B side comment
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river.
Will And Ariel Durant
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On the banks of the river reside the actual people, while the powerful cause chaos in the stream. But the majority are on the banks, or would like to be. I call them the "eighty percenters". It is not a perfect model for reality, but it will have to do. And all of the people at the top of the food chain (politicians, academics, corporate titans, bureaucrats, and the wealthy) have their own ideas about what to do. But the problem is that these people have a long history of incompetence and intellectual ineptitude. They just aren't sensible people. So is it right to do things that might disrupt their plans in favour of the normal people? Or should you work via the conventional channels? It's a difficult situation! Ideally, I would rather work with the major players to try to improve the lot of ordinary people, because disruption can cause chaos, and chaos can cause massive loss of life and catastrophic harm to economically productive assets. It's awful. But sometimes it might be better to take a chance and try to something beneficial for the 80%, just because the so called leaders are so dumb anyway.
But it's not the leaders, it's more like the science and technology have ended up getting out of control. And the science and technology in combination with historic forces and various interest groups and powerful blocs and institutions have caused us to end up where we are today. And long term inertia combined with wealth. Maybe a lot of it is just an accident of history.
Is it better to do something about it, or just to let it pass? I think that if it is probably going to fail anyway, and if the people are suffering, and if the leaders are idiots, and if it is dumbing people down, and if we need all hands on deck to deal with the environmental issues and the "carrying capacity" problem on earth, then it probably is a "moral" thing to do to try to change things. Or to come up with ideas that are helpful for the 80 percenters. Our "leaders" will continue to act insane, but at least the plebs of society (the 80 percenters) can shelter themselves in the mean time.
I think that is moral to try to get involved, or at least, it isn't unethical to try to do something.
I am always in two minds about everything.
Ps: for what it is worth, I first had the idea of "steel chimes" in my head about four (?) years ago. The design challenge was, "if we lived in a world with ubiquitous mind reading from cell-towers that oppressed the people, and someone like Gregor Mendel would wanted to go for long walks to do independent scientific research, would he have anywhere to go to do it?" And my theory at the time was that you would have a basement beneath the floor of a monastery with steel chimes hanging from the ceiling. And that would do it. Not exactly, but that was the idea!
It's smart! I also visited a small museum dedicated to Sir Ernest Rutherford in the Christchurch Arts Centre. It is in the same part of the building of his old laboratory where he researched radio waves for his masters degree. It used to be the university.
PPS: chaos is dangerous, very, very dangerous. And disruptions to the way societies work can be catastrophic. It’s a crazy world.
Well, that was a bit of a ramble??
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FYI, Australia has 15 Nobel prizes, thirteen of which are for actual science, medicine, chemistry or physics. China has three, only one of which is for actual science (and that’s just for a natural herbal folk remedy for malaria). Taiwan has a few Nobel prizes as well.
Link to China and Nobel prizes.
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Funny national anthem, for those of you who like Pratchett.
Don’t be offended! It’s just witty social commentary! I’m quite ambivalent about some aspects of the English system/s. Note: Ankh Morepork is London.
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Scientific Achievement
How many nobel prizes in science, medicine, physiology or chemistry does New Zealand have?
3
How many nobel prizes in science, medicine, physiology or chemistry does the People’s Republic of China have?
1
Why do we look at China as though they are the equal or equivalent of places like America? Just because of their GDP or Olympic records?
India has four citizens who have won the Nobel prize in science. Including the discoverer of the Raman effect. Japan has 24, the Jewish people have 154 in the sciences alone. America has 294 across the sciences. Germany has 79. Australia has 13. China has 1.
Is China an intellectual backwater?
Ps: Xi’s Dad was minister of education back in the 50s hahahahaha.
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Ability in science (and other fields), as demonstrated by success in winning Nobel prizes
Just for the sake of comparison, let’s compare three nations
Jews = over 200 Nobel prizes won
New Zealand = three Nobel prizes
Mainland China = three Nobel prizes, and their only prize in the category for science (or to be specific “physiology or medicine”) was a politically correct sop, a salve for the Chinese ego (it was for some sort of application of a natural medication based on traditional herbal remedies).
Population:
Jewish people = 17 million people
New Zealand = 5.3 million people
Mainland China = 1400 million people
Are the Chinese an intellectually second rate nation? Are they academically sub par, scientifically third rate and mediocre in the extreme?
From my point of view, they dumbed their own people down and now they want to “dumb you down” too.
Ps: I also reckon that their language dumbs them down a bit
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Why should we treat them as though they are a top notch scientific nation? Why should be behave as though they are a first rate nation when it comes to matters of the intellect? Why should we pretend that they “make sense” academically, or intellectually?
They’re behind.
Hungary has 16, Italy has 21.
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B side comment
Schnitzel, rice and microwaved vegetables
When I lived with just my dad (post divorce) we mostly ate schnitzel, rice and microwaved vegetables (from frozen). Or roast chicken pieces, rice and microwaved vegetables (from frozen), seasoned with sweet Thai chilli sauce. It was fine. Ummm. Although sometimes we had domino’s pizza like three times per week? Because pizza was really cheap, and he was self employed and busy. They had a special discount deal of $4nzd per pizza for a while. The pizza isn’t optimal, but roast chicken pieces, rice and microwaved vegetables is okay. I legitimately think that’s fine. And schnitzel is fine too. We had two meals that we stuck to, and those two were fine.
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I’m a big believer in the “bare minimum”, as opposed to doing nothing. Like, bare minimum exercise might be walking + a racquet sport, or walking + cycling, or walking + swimming, or walking + moderate gym attendance, or walking + a fitness class (dancing, boxing, yoga, Pilates, anything).
As for food, eating something like meat, potatoes and vegetables every night. And having fresh fruit every day, at least once a day. And not over consuming sugar. And drinking water and tea instead of fizzy drink (aka soda). That sort of thing, as opposed to doing absolutely nothing. Some people actually just eat calzones, sausage rolls and lollies from local dairy, washed down by monster energy drink and cold canned coffee. Ps: rice or pasta are perfectly good substitutes for potatoes in this example.
Bare minimums are actually really good. Just like covering your bases in general.
I do kind of worry about people who take it too far though, even though their job doesn’t require it. They’re crazy about diet and fitness. And I wonder if there might be better and more sensible options other for some people that aren’t based on vanity, pride, “gourmet” eating, fetishising health, fear of aging and death, or otherwise doing nothing.
Ps: By pride, sporting prowess for the sake of pride and glory is one example of pride.
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“Good” might be walking, a racquet sport, thrice weekly moderate resistance training (a combination of weights, machines, and bodyweight, or other resistance such as something based on elastic/springs) followed by a few stretches. And maybe a “mini exercise” session thrice weekly on your off days (very low intensity).
And better might be that… you place this within the context of “life long education and development” in the area of fitness, exercise, coordination and posture (And you learn new stuff over time, and maybe try different sports and different things like dancing, martial arts, and maybe stuff like Pilates or yoga. But you do it over time! Some of these things only need to be a part of your life for 6-18 months).
“Good” might be that in food you do the bare minimum, but maybe you cook your vegetables appropriately, and grow some of them at home. You eat greens at least 3-4 times a week. You find high quality meat (suggestion: import it from New Zealand haha). And you eat a sensible breakfast like Weetbix or avocado or poached eggs on toast. And good might mean that you juice your daily serving of fruit, because it’s easier than eating it (oranges are good, as are apples, carrots, capsicum and a few others). And you include some foods _like_ whole milk, ordinary cheese, yoghurt, sour cream. Nuts like roast cashews, roast almonds and peanuts. Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, black beans (in moderation). Oh, and you eat normal bread (in reasonable quantities).
Also smart might be that you make sure to have enough “active relaxation” in your life. And make sure to have adequate rest and sleep. That counts for a lot, when it comes to health and wellbeing. Also, lots of gentle walking can be invaluable when it comes to weight management, metabolism, stress, health, posture and good digestion.
Ps: racquet sports include tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, pickleball. And they’re amazing because they’re convenient. You don’t need a whole team to play them.
Go up to the heading “schnitzel, rice and microwaved vegetables”.
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What is …
A “mini exercise” session thrice weekly on your off days (very low intensity).
The sort of thing where you jump rope for 2 minutes, do 10 lunges, 10 calf raises, 10 squats, and 10 pushups (whichever type works best), one 60 second plank, a few star jumps, shake it all out, and then do it again a second time. It warms the whole body up. And you feel good. And then you dance for 5 minutes, or do a kata that you learned years ago at a karate class, or shadow box. But you don't push yourself, and you're not trying to work up a sweat or be puffed. That's the "mini exercise break/session" on your off days (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday). The main resistance training is Monday-Wednesday-Friday.
But what do I know? I'm a former economics geek, a recovering video game addict, a lifelong reader, a wannabe engineer/inventor, a bit of a mad scientist, somewhat of a genius. I'n a huge fan of history and sociology too. I'm not a physical culture wonk, diet expert, or sports scientist.
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Ignaz Semmelweis and Joe Pilates
Semmelweis got killed because he tried to tell the medical establishment how to do their jobs.
Secondly, Mr Joseph Pilates got “Semmelweissed” because he tried to tell the medical establishment how to do their jobs.
Pilates (reformer sessions with a great instructor) is good for helping people to get fit. But it’s the sort of intervention that is best enjoyed for 6-18 months.
I don’t want to push this conversation much further at the moment. But there is more than one way to skin a cat. Like boxing, judo or karate you’ll do pretty good stuff as well to improve the connection between the brain and the muscles. You can even learn many of the same things via high quality bodyweight training, or body building at the gym. It’s about good education, and good instructors (another cool thing to look at is “bioginastica”, just for fun; or ginastica natural. Rickson Gracie liked bioginastica, and breathing techniques. More bioginastica here). FYI, Pilate’s methods were called “contrology”. They were about improving the control of the mind over the body.
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B side comment
Dumbing them down
Prior to the Great Leap Forward, Xi Zhongxun (Xi Jinping’s Father) and the CCP "uninstalled brain.exe" among the populace. They damaged the intellectual landscape, ruined the education system, prevented or banned the study of sociology, economics and many of the skills of basic administration, and they pushed Lysenko over Mendel (even banning Mendel, who is actually one of my personal heroes). They dumbed their population down.
And then they killed 30-40 million people. In peace time. With starvation. By pushing stupid policies that had already been proven to cause mass deaths. And failing to use even the most basic skills and techniques of business administration (economics, accounting, statistics) and failing to use high quality science.
Dumb.
Ps: I talked about this a lot elsewhere. Just search for it in the archives and other drop boxes. He really did engage in the “dumbing down” of the Chinese population. Please just search. It’s there somewhere.
PPS: my educational background was in economics and business administration. And I’m from a successful agricultural export nation.
For more about Xi Zhongxun, try this link:
And go “control f” or use the search function to find the name Zhongxun. There are about three segments about him.
In my youth, and well into adulthood, I was an economics geek not a physical culture wonk.
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More Exercise History
Umm. Chest trainers and chest expanders have existed since forever. And nautilus machines are owned by the same company that gave us the Bowflex machine.
Just Google chest expander.. example second example
People act as though all fitness science and practise magically burst into existence with Arthur Jones Nautilus machines, barbells, Arnold, Lalanne and muscle magazines. But nah. I’m just talking about random stuff now though. To let people know that there are plenty of ways to create resistance.
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What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Incidentally, Ecclesiastes is one of my favourite books of the Bible. Written by King Solomon.
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By the way…
Ãlvaro Romano is a thief. Stole Orlando Cani’s ideas, and made them accessible and easy to buy. Like, made a website and materials that made himself wealthy. He was Orlando’s student. And it’s sad.
Orlando put them together by travelling and thinking. He’s an intelligent and well travelled professor. Studied tai chi, yoga, dance, breathing and martial arts. Lots of things, and synthesised his own methods. It’s clever.
Personally, I always wanted to do stuff like Orlando Cani’s Bioginastica. But I’m too unwell to do it!!
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Another guy: Ido Portal!!
I like this guy too, but you've got to take his stuff with a grain of salt.
^I like him but I couldn't 110% vouch for his stuff. He’s great though. I’ve always wanted to do something like his type of training, or something very similar. Always. Ever since I first heard of it.
Even when I was a child I wanted to do circus arts, or gymnastics, or martial arts.
More Ido:
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I’m not naming any names here… but maybe a tiny bit of _mild_ hucksterism is good for you. Like just a smidge. Not too much, but just a tiny bit.
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B side comment
From NHK World
US media outlet CNN has reported that the US Central Intelligence Agency launched a drone strike on what US President Donald Trump claims is an illicit drug-loading area in Venezuela. The possible first US attack inside the country could raise further questions about the legality of a US anti-narcotic campaign under international law.
It is because of things like this that I want to legalise all drugs^
The war on drugs enables American "imperialism" in Latin America. That is why I hate the war on drugs. Drugs are bad, drugs are dangerous. But the government of the USA is bad and dangerous too. And the actions of the USA in Latin America is more probably harmful than drugs on the first place.
The USA is at war with Venezuela. And China is just the weak, sad little sidekick of America. All they do is lick the boots of America and serve their interests by keeping the people quiet so that America can push its international trade agenda by squashing nations like Venezuela and Lesotho.
They have done so, so, so many wars and regime change operations in Latin America in the past.
Ps: I’d want drugs to be legal, but for virtually no one to do them. And if they do, it’s maybe only once or twice in a year.
It’s just a whinge. I guess.
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Venezuela has the biggest proven oil reserves in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
And America has been doing all that it can to prevent them having a functioning oil industry. America does horrible things in Latin America. Take a look at Chile and Allende by the way. And look at war is a racket by smedley butler, and read up on some of the regime change operations they’ve been involved in in Latin America. By the way, restrictions on access to oil and control over the oil exporting nations is bad for countries like Japan, New Zealand and China. Especially Japan. These are oil importing nations. America wants to control global supply, and set the agenda (long term) over oil.
And more importantly, Venezuela is a socialist nation, and if they have a functioning oil export industry, then the socialist world has plenty of access to oil, with security of supply. And also, they have enough funds to support socialism in Latin America. And I think they might even support what I call “non retarded” socialism, as opposed to Chinese Marxist-Leninism, which is hardly socialism at all (it’s basically just corporations and academic institutions and the fetishisation on the education industry, combined with the repression of the MSS).
A lot of people might not know that Venezuela has one of the biggest supplies of oil in the world. And they have tons of oil by multiple different metrics and statistics.
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Monday, 29th December 2025
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B-side comment?
What sort of body type, or aesthetic are women into? Like if their preferences are unobserved? And they could be honest with themselves.
Youthful, but not Greek levels of youthfulness? It is “the spirit of evil”, the “genius of evil”, Le génie du mal. Genius is the right word, but you have to look up the word root in French.
The universal prostitutes collective was created as a response to the threat of revolution by the proletariat against global capital and international finance. It is supported the hardware of the military industrial complex of the USA, and the information warfare department of the PRC.
Now you can enjoy Sex as a Service, delivered to the comfort of your home while eating franchise fast food, and listening to Taylor Swift. The games are merely a transaction cost.
Please sell your daughters, sisters and wives into prostitution to keep the system afloat, it is the only way to save globalist capitalism. It is literally too big to fail, and there is no alternative (TINA).
But I'm not a good writer, sorry.
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Too tired, need to come back to it later. Will do better job later.
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Oil.
China = dependent on oil/food imports. And dependent on foreign markets for exported manufactured goods. Veg fragile, very dependent. They are not in a position of strength.
I used to think that socialism perhaps needed a functioning Venezuela, and a better set of leaders in China. And maybe I was right.
Germany, Italy and Japan lost ww2 because of lack of oil.
New Zealand was ruined due to energy policy and oil shocks (or a major contributing factor). China has oil, but it’s all in Xinjiang. Under the feet of ten million Uighur Muslims (Uighur is the ethnicity/culture).
Why can USA block oil? Answer: they use the war on drugs as a justification. And they have total and complete surveillance capacity. Perfect intel.
Look up proven oil reserves, and look at Venezuela.
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I dunno, very tired
What if instead of being manipulated or goaded into becoming a mass shooter, stabber or whatever, you had the option of becoming a shut in backyard faraday cabin dweller? And you could do correspondence school? Or go on welfare?
These people drive people crazy enough that they start stabbing people in the streets. That they take a knife and start stabbing people, at a factory or a preschool, or shooting people at schools. What if those they electronically bully had an escape? A safety valve? And could become a faraday cabin shut in, and like do correspondence school. Homeschooling. Or work from home instead of becoming one of these stabbers. Or live in a cabin in their mother’s back gardens as a shut in, on welfare, instead of stabbing people.
That’s what the Chinese do, they goad or manipulate people into doing horrible things.
Or what if someone who has done bad things could become a shut in backyard cabin dweller, so that they don’t have to do more bad things. And maybe share a cabin with two friends so that they can afford it! Or maybe someone like my grandfather could have taken refuge, or my grandmother.
Or maybe a woman could take shelter to prevent being further pulled/pushed into weird sex work. Maybe some people just need an out, and they need one early. Like the bad ones.
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Another few hypotheticals:
You’re a Chinese person living in Australia, as a citizen. You’re mixed up in things that the MSS (I think it’s the MSS, is that their CIA?) doesn’t like, like you’re a dissident against china. You maybe shelter in a friends backyard faraday cabin for two years, sheltered from view of the satellites and cell towers. You become a shut in, living off of savings. You’re safe.
You’re a Chinese girl of 15 years old, living in the suburbs of a small Chinese city, and you don’t want to play mind games (or sex games) at home, so your father builds a faraday cabin in the backyard, and now you don’t have to play games. You’re safe, and can just keep your head down and study. You just relax.
Or you’re getting bullied very badly in school, and you’re in the UK (I don’t know if it is a bad example) so you whinge at your parents to build you a back-yard faraday cabin sandwich, with a bathroom. And then you never, ever leave. You become a homeschooled Hikikomori shut in. You do school online. You literally never, ever leave. Your parents are disappointed, but at least you have a safe space. You even do university from home, and then get welfare for something like “mental health”.
Maybe Japanese Hikikomori as well.
Or maybe someone does something in rural China or Thailand, that starts with just a few cabins in a backyard, then expands and explodes into hundreds of people taking refuge. Everyone moves into them, and live adjacent to one another. Or Tibet? Who knows. And then maybe tibetans (individually, in spite of the instructions of their religious leaders, give refuge to all and sundry).
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Hikikomori (åŒãããã) is a Japanese term for extreme social withdrawal, where individuals (often young adults) isolate themselves at home for months or years, avoiding work, school, and social contact, functioning as "modern hermits" often due to intense societal pressure, academic failure, bullying, or shame, creating a culture-bound syndrome not easily fitting standard diagnoses, though similar patterns are now seen globally. Key features include prolonged seclusion, lack of interest in the outside world, and reliance on digital connections, with symptoms often linked to Japan's rigid social expectations and ease of online living.
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Sunday, 28th December 2025
Reverse Social Engineering
Reverse social engineering is a design philosophy, not an ideology. It helps with coming up with new technologies, innovations and inventions. It also helps with coming up with policies and strategies that are pro-democracy, and also strongly in favour of weakening corporate, banking and academic (international universities’) power. It does three things: technological innovation, policies, strategies/tactics. It is like a skunkworks (inventors’ workshop), think tank and strategy/tactics brainstorming session.
It could easily be used in favour of social democracy (aka democratic socialism). It could also be used in favour of liberal democracy.
I repeat, it is not an ideology. It is a design philosophy.
Ps: I had to write this up to clear the air, and to clear my name. Because I was being falsely accused of pushing a dangerous ideology, and a revolutionary ideology at that. And also, reverse social engineering was falsely and inappropriately labeled as an ideology. And also because I was falsely described as being a “person who was fighting for the ideology of reverse social engineering”.
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If we had a faraday “shed sandwich”, and they worked. It would mean that people like me could take a nap without being harassed. Perhaps that ought to be on the New Zealand bill of rights.
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From a brief out loud conversation about China and their labour laws:
China isn’t a very good “socialist” nation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
Independent labor unions are illegal in China; the government only recognizes the state-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) as the sole legal body to represent workers, viewing truly independent unions as threats to stability, leading to crackdowns on organizers and persistent worker exploitation despite existing labor laws. Attempts to form independent groups, like the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation (BWAF) during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, are met with suppression, even as workers often organize spontaneous strikes (like at Honda or Foxconn) demanding better conditions, bypassing the ACFTU.
David: the Chinese don't even have independent labour unions, and they can't even strike in order to get basic things like an eight hour work week. They're not a proper socialist nation. It's a horrible place for workers rights. The people of China are persistently mistreated by their society. Look at the history of places like New Zealand (pre 1984) or Sweden for examples of how to do things better. For more Union history, take a look at the history of unions (and the working class anti-war movement) in places like New Zealand, Australia. Look at the history of unions and democratic socialism in Sweden, as well as reading up on their cold war foreign policy. Look at the history of unions in the UK as well (along with Chartism and the reform acts, and the importance of coal minting, especially as it relates to the Industrial Revolution and fuelling steam power, and steam transportation).
The Chinese are not credible as a “socialist” nation, and the Chinese people deserve better.
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Saturday 27th December 2025
The CIA does shady things too
From Google, “The CIA's regime change efforts in Latin America involved numerous countries, notably supporting coups and destabilization in Chile (1973), Brazil (1964), Ecuador (1963), Bolivia (1964), and Panama (1989), and orchestrating the overthrow of Guatemala (1954) and attempting to overthrow Cuba (they’re still in Cuba to this day, strangely enough), alongside broader covert operations like Operation Condor with Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, targeting leftists and countering perceived Soviet influence throughout the Cold War.”
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And before that…
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket
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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket
My note: war often serves corporate interests, and seeks to preserve to “corporate way of life”, and to make sure that the world is made safe for the maintenance of corporate assets, corporate profits, the safety of corporations, the safety of corporate investments. War is often waged to protect the sanctity of private property rights and the concept of private property itself (See Cuba). Now I am in favour of private property rights, but you do have to see that often war is fighting to maintain, preserve or create a particular model for how life is supposed to work (liberal democracy and the market economy). Take Matthew Perry and his expedition to Japan for example. I like history, so I enjoy looking at multiple angles. Nothing ground breaking or special about anything I said.
I just wanted to point out that it’s just just China that does dodgy things. And also, Google the rainbow warrior and France.
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History: some basics and fundamentals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics_(politics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Hungary
Umm. The workers party and/or stalinists were in charge of the avh. Even though they weren’t the biggest party.
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MSZDP (Social Democrats) merged with the workers party. Big mistake.
Look at the history of the AVH as well.
1956 was a huge turning point in history. Massive.
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My paternal grandfather Ivan, his sister, and their parents fled in 1956.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Boys
They actually had two communist revolutions and one suppressed rebellion. One in 1919, one by stealth in 1949, and one suppressed rebellion in 1956. And they executed people every time. It’s no wonder Hungary doesn’t love a lot of this stuff (communism). They also share a border with Ukraine.
I’m not a proper history buff on Hungary, but it is important.
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Read a book (an actual book) about the history of Romania as well. The surveillance situation was awful.
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Friday 26th December 2025
Unedited:
B-side conspiracy theory (personal life)
Did my Uncle Andy kill his mother Joyce to shut her up? Because she might have talked too much? And she wasn't willing to keep her mouth shut?
What might she talk about?
Her son is currently a member of parliament and a member of the NZ first party, and the governing coalition. Prior to that, he was mayor of Wellington, a city councillor for 27 years, a parliamentary researcher working for the National Party (our largest party), and a currency trader. He is currently the chairman of the transportation select committee in parliament (which is related to energy policy, one of his areas of major interest). He has two degrees, a Bachelor of Arts in history and economic history. And a bachelor of commerce in business management.
Her husband (Michael Foster) was a graduate of the London School of economics with a degree in economics, a Freemason, an employee of Shell Oil (in purchasing) and a legitimate and competent amateur historian (Google Michael Whitfield Foster history). He literally wrote the book on the history of the oil industry in New Zealand.
Her husband was _crippled horrifically_ and then murdered by Paul and Andy (using gravity). He wrote his obituary book (available on one of my photos page) just before his death. I was forced to miss his funeral because I was too unwell to travel into Wellington. I was not yet fully crippled, but I was already pretty unwell (I suddenly became crippled in 2017, he died in 2016). [I was already being afflicted with "gravity" back in 2015 and 2016! Not that I knew it!]
Her grandson was crippled for five years using "gravity", and then exploited for IVF and then it was covered up by dangerous doctors, corrupt judges and lawyers and controlled police, while he was electronically kept in a prison of his own body. I (her grandson) studied economics and finance, as well as accounting. And was very interested in things like energy policy and hydrogen power. Our energy independence, and the formation of a hydrogen export industry, and the maintenance of refinery capacity in New Zealand were important to me. By the way, the marsden point refinery has been shut down. We lack a refinery in NZ. So we have to export our crude, and import our petrol. This is a very, very serious national security issue. We have suffered major oil shocks in the past. We have also had bans on things like oil and gas exploration.
Google's take on his point of view:
"New Zealand First MP Andy Foster strongly criticized the previous Labour government's ban on offshore oil and gas exploration, calling it "economic vandalism" that cost the country economically and led to more imported coal use, advocating instead for domestic energy security. While he supports renewables like wind and geothermal, Foster emphasizes a diverse energy mix, including fossil fuels, to ensure affordable, reliable power, believing New Zealand needs more exploration to reduce reliance on volatile international energy markets."
My father used to hint at long term plans about oil, gas and fossil fuels.l when I was a child. By telling about a story he was writing called "Noah's Ark, the starship". Which is set in a world which is running out of fuel. The earth is set on fire, and then the fuel comes back. While Noah's starship floats above the earth.
I also used to be a die hard Ayn Rand supporter and libertarian. As well as a Christian, pro capitalism and pro markets, a fan of economics and above all, a huge anti-totalitarian.
(I also thought that social democracy was okay, always. Because pragmatism is often a good idea. But never mind that.)
What else, who knows how many awful things my Grandma could have talked about. I do wonder how many. And did I ever really know her? I loved my Grandma though. She was a school teacher, university educated before that sort of thing was normal for women, and fostered my love of reading from a young age. But such is life. She also lived through the blitz in England.
Uncle Andy was Paul's best friend when they were young, or close to. Although my father's marriage to just sister (Tedge) put a strain on that.
Michael Foster all but forbade Paul from marrying his daughter, and didn't like Paul much at all (at first). Paul later killed Michael Foster.
Paul killed Michael Foster.
Andy killed his own mother.
The clique of Paul, Amanda, Matthew, Siobhan, Brynn, Lesley, Sarah crippled me. Using gravity. But also involved doctors (2013) like a women they knew from their Karori Baptist days (Dad was a big deal in the Christian community, and had ties to Christian music back in the day). Back in 2013, the doctor used psychiatric medication along with the clique doing stuff electronically to my brain and body. They had been doing stuff to my brain, body, back (I couldn't even lay down normally flat on my back or in my side! That was how much they did to my back, neck and hips), colon, as well as sleep of course. It was horrible. They exploded my life back then in an attempt to get me enmeshed with mental health services. My Dad had/has ties to things like Youth for Christ, who had an employee working at KYS as well. Kapiti youth Support deliberately lost a lot of my notes. There was Chinese money involved from as far back as 2010 - for a scheme that involved eugenic breeding.
Andy Foster's wife worked for nz telecom rebranded as spark) and shell (rebranded as z).
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Why did I agree to any sex at all with them!?!?!?! In the first place!?!?!
Why did I participate in their games back about two years ago, at the old apartment. Honestly, a lot of reasons. Most of them because I feel obliged and or coerced into them. I actually just wanted to run away and do something else. Move up north to a place few hours away from Wellington, and away from everyone I knew. Or down south to a place like Nelson. Or even a random small town to recuperate.
One of the fears that I had was that they would hurt me so badly that I’d be unable to go to the courts to seek justice, information or custody re: Lily. They called this crematorium (communicated by hints). But I’ll explain this later.
I told them over and over again at the time that I didn’t want to do “love island”, which was my name for their game at the time. I thought it was like a reality TV, and that I was on camera. Literal camera. I had no knowledge of the satellites, cell towers or kind reading or muscle/nerve control at all distance. I was badly crippled/disabled.
I was unsure as to whether or not to flee and leave Lily behind or not. Probably I was leaning towards fleeing, because I didn’t know why I was sick or what to do about it.
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What I should have suggested as tests.
They kept on wanting me to explain why I don’t m want sex.
Also, I should have said I don't want sex until I can jump rope, do bush walks and shower normally. Those would have been better treats than anything else. The whole "system" was screwed up, but those three are perfect "tests". Once I can do those, I would be fine.
Once the feet were working, everything else would be fine.
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I didn't shower for six whole years by the way!!! The moment my back fell out of place in 2017, I could no longer shower!! I used to have a woman "Geraldine" come to my place to wash my back and arm pits. Because couldn't shower or wash my back. Or my own armpits. Later on I learned how to do mini squats (my own invention). Which helped with strength. That was 2022. And I also had to modify my gait in about 2019ish (I called it the “totter walk”. It actually took me ages to figure out. My body was so screwed up.).
Unedited segments over.
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Uncle Andy, Michael Foster, and my father. And Aunty Wendy.
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Misc Discussion
So what you’re saying is that I have to fight to have sex with women who are emotionally and psychologically hostile towards me?
Why?
Their whole culture makes no sense to me.
Or, I have to fight for a trafficked(?) woman’s hand in marriage concubinage?
That feels unethical to me.
Their whole culture makes no sense to me.
*Maybe trafficked is the wrong word. But “badly bullied” might be a better term. I have to fight for the woman’s hand in marriage concubinage, even though she was broken into sex work by being badly bullied in high school? Even though she is coerced into sex work? To me, that seems unethical, immoral, unjust, and basically unnecessary. Maybe if you’re a fat worthless old man (that comment and/of turn of phrase probably was a bit unkind) who has never done anything but serve the interest of your own greed, lust, gluttony, pride and vanity you might want a coerced sex worker. But I could quite happily have found someone outside of this perverse and oppressive system.
Perhaps that is a little bit excessive in terms of use of language. But for a victim of long term (5 years), state sanctioned (hi Ardern) torture it may perhaps not be inappropriate for me to be slightly passionate in my choice of language. Also: eugenics.
The important part is that they’re bullying girls really hard to “break them in”, and pushing them to sleep around. And it’s really similar to trafficking. And at the very least, it is highly coercive. I don’t agree with it at all (digression: I used to be a massive fan of Ayn Rand and was also a Christian. Christianity gained a lot of ground in the first 200 years partly because women could join it to get away from the skank/prostitute lifestyle, aka halfway paid prostitute, and start over. And Christianity was a mutual support and aid society that helped them to survive, and protect them in a hyper patriarchal controlling society that wanted to exploit them. It was about giving them a life and lifestyle that was antithetical to the dregvant way of life. It was a woman’s religion. It’s actually really worthwhile reading about the history of Christianity, even if you hate it. Also, Islam might be worth reading about, but I never got around to it).
Ps: I put this whole post in the archives because I didn’t think that it was good enough to keep on my normal page.
PPS: meanness, like psychological hostility on the part of a woman, isn’t cute!! It’s not attractive!!
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Thursday, 25th December 2025
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I’m half blind without my glasses. Seriously.
But I can’t seem to manage to wear them anymore? Not since ages ago.
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Vignette/memory
My first taste of counter strike and PC FPS was playing counter strike with Ben, Tim Jack and their “teenager friends” at an internet cafe in Taupo after I had already moved to Hawkes Bay (aka Napier, aka Taradale). I was still a kid.
Cs_assault was the map, half-life one was the game engine, and I forget the version of counter strike it was. Probably about cs 1.3
I read the manual at their house first, and apparently you had to use “burst” fire instead of just holding down fire. It was love at first sight.
Tim and his friends made butter chicken and naan bread for dinner afterwards. Food was good. Their mum was/is a lesbian and used to work for the UN in the field of mental health. I think she actually moved to New York.
Hanging out with their family was cool. Always cool. Not a bad memory at all iirc. We used to do cool stuff like dismantle fireworks, play with matches, climb trees, play with pet kittens, have peashooter wars and game obsessively. When younger, we’d play Lego or go to the pools. His family was weird, but maybe in hindsight so was mine.
Just as an aside, we went to the pools or the lake a lot. In Taupo we had geothermally heated water, which means we had clean, safe, chlorinated warm water pools to swim in, plus hot mineral water pools to soak in (Note: it was safe to put your head under water in the heated pools, not the mineral water pools). And the lake in Taupo is a very large, highly swimmable freshwater lake. Taupo is full of geothermal activity, which means that there is cheap energy generation. And cheap heating of water for pools. Some people want to use geothermal energy from that area to power the creation of hydrogen fuel. Also, it’s MÄori country around there, a bit, I think. My dad wanted to be mayor of that town, just like Andy became mayor of Wellington. He even had endorsements from the previous mayor lined up, as well as support from major players locally. Sorry for the digression.
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Sunday, 21 December 2025
Testing this statement?
For reasons of public health, I would like it if women were basically healthy. Had a bmi of about 18.5-25. And a normal, healthy amount of muscle. This is for their sake.
In terms of my personal aesthetic taste, I like the skinny ones, and the muscly ones. Mostly I like the normal ones. But women who are a little bit scrawny or too skinny, still many of them look nice. And plenty of the women who have just a little too much padding look nice too. It’s kind of like: normal looks good to me, and just outside the range of normal looks nice to me.
But there are plenty of other traits that are very important as well. Like their voice, or how soft their hands are, or their eyes, lips, hair, teeth, smile. Or their height, posture, how they walk, how they move, or overall facial features. What it’s like to talk to them, and whether or not I feel comfortable around them. And this holds true whether they are a girlfriend, wife, fae-prostitute, or concubine.
Umm. By the way, I was misrepresented when it comes to how attractive the women of this set are. People made it look like I think that they were all ugly and unappealing.
The better question to ask is, are the women pretty enough for me to date? And the answer is yes! A great many of them are pretty enough, and plenty of them are more than pretty enough. But silly language issues (and other questions or conversation topics) sometimes get in the way.
I’m planning to replace the main pages about women.
[[[ hyper-detail mode: Ps: I would like it if women had good, strong legs. Like ordinary strong legs. I don’t really care about upper body strength for women, and I don’t “believe” that much in the ideology of “core strength”. But that’s a public health thing. On a totally different topic, if I were dating, I would be happy with a girlfriend with ordinary strong legs or skinny/scrawny legs. It’s no big deal either way. They all can look really lovely. But in terms of public health, I would like women to have ordinary, strong legs. Just like I would like for them to have a BMI between 18.5 and 25, which is the range for health.
PPS: for “aesthetics”, are ordinary strong legs and a normal BMI preferable. Ummmmm yeah. If I’m people watching!?!?!? But if I’m people watching I’m looking at the way they walk, their posture, their smile, their eyes, eye lashes, their hair, their mannerisms, their hair, their hands, their overall shape and appearance, their clothes, their shoes etc. But if I’m looking for a girlfriend, I’ll look for a nice smile first, nice brown hair if I can find it. And maybe blue eyes. Or A decent personality, a kind, patient disposition. That sort of thing. possibly a blonde, or south East Asian. But if I’m looking for a girlfriend, of trying to date, I’m happy with someone normal. I full understand that they’re trying to frame things in terms of “what sort of commodity fuckbuddy do you want”, but I’m blasting straight past that and pretending that it’s about dating, and relationships formed on the basis of voluntary free association, verbal agreement, and conversations conducted in an environment that has “mental privacy”, and where relationships are exclusive, monogamous and formed with the intention of there being mutual benefit. I just ignore their framing of the question, and reframe it my way.]]]
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Edit: girls with a bit of muscle on their legs, such as quads , hamstrings, glutes, shins and calves, outer hips (abductors), inner thighs (groin and hip adductors), are more aesthetically pleasing to me, and also more sexually appealing (those are two different things). But if I put that on a main page, they’ll crucify me.
Note 2: controversial take, in order to maintain a decent pair of moderately muscular legs, AND HAVE NORMAL ENERGY LEVELS, you probably need to maintain maybe an extra 2-3 % body fat over what the underwear models on TV and magazines are carrying around. The numbers are made up. But if I talk too much about this, then they’ll douse me in petrol and light me on fire. If a woman has decent pair of moderately muscular legs, she possibly doesn’t really need to worry about having a ton of upper body strength or perfect. Or core strength. Not for “public health”, and not for aesthetics either. I reckon it’s like the Pareto principle. If you can have decent legs, then the core strength and upper body strength thing becomes less relevant for health. And for my tastes, just decent legs are fine (and women don’t need a perfect set of abs, or perfectly shaped tummy, and they don’t need either perfectly slim arms, or muscularly developed arms). But some of the aesthetic judgements here are quibbles, because I’m more worried about the public health aspects. Lack of strength, and also lack of muscle tissue on the legs (both of these are issues!), of women is a public health issue. Just like obesity and being overweight is a public health issue. There is nuance here.
For people who can’t read, if a bunch of women asked me “am I pretty enough to date”, I’d say: the normal looking women are pretty enough to date. And that even includes some of them who are a little too scrawny (ie, no muscle) and those who are a little too skinny (not enough fat) and those who are a little too skinny plump (just a little too much padding). But I’m looking at things like personality, disposition, character, their smile, hair, lips, eyes, nose, face, hands, feet/ankles, gait, coordination, posture, voice, education, literacy, and love of books, interests, intelligence (and the inner liveliness that goes with that), and their quickness of wit, their sense of humour, kindness and patience before becoming totally worried about body composition. Tldr, I like the normal ones, the skinny ones and the ones with too much padding. But there’s nuance.
Another additional note: to maintain a particular look, or body composition, or body shape, and have decent energy levels, and to maintain looks, often requires rest and adequate sleep. You need rest, relaxation, sleep and leisure time. And plenty of time to chill. And if you have an actual job, and a life, and demands, then you just might have to have a little bit of extra body fat to be able to simultaneously maintain: normal muscle mass, especially in your legs, but all over your body too, decent energy levels, and the ability to exercise, and to have a good mood and temperament, and decent skin. And you might also have to fight hard to get extra rest.
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Totally different point: for cultural programming, look at the music performance video for “pretty girl mantra” by Jennie. Notice how the Asian girls have scrawny, skinny legs. But the white girls have thicker thighs. But the girls with thicker thighs have those thighs due to body fat, not muscle development. And they have emphasised the glutes over the quads. And they wear unflattering short shorts. And compare them to white chicks who have good quads, hams, calves, hip adductors and abductors, and wear flattering clothes.
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Ideology. My ideology at 20 was anti totalitarianism (or that’s one point of view). Also, it was libertarianism and capitalism and any Rand and Christianity.
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But also it was social democracy. Sort of. I was always in two minds. Ideology isn’t everything.
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I like Pygmy marmosets, they’re adorable!
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Friday 19th December 2025
This is a good read, if you’ve never heard of it.
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Vocab: When I say “imperialism”, I am talking about a particular type of capitalism. That combines banks, corporations, military, intelligence and government.
I am also often thinking about things like “war is a racket” by Smedley Butler.
That is the sort of idea I am trying to get across when I use words like imperialism, and terms like American imperialism.
Ps: I don’t hate America, or Americans.
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See the new ideas page, scroll down to the base of it for the most recent idea. It’s good, but just needs a bit of tidying up.
Link:
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Archive from sports + martial arts (aka combat sports) page
This next segment is just a bunch of random stuff left over after I did a hard edit of my sports and martial arts page.
Start:
That’s about it. We can look back at some of my childhood now, if you’re interested. But it’s okay if you skip it.
What else?
I learned to ski, roller blade and ice skate as a child. I loved climbing trees as a child. I loved going to the lake, or failing that, the local pools. But that’s just normal kid stuff.
In primary school, we played plenty of rugby and bull rush at lunch time. But again, that’s just normal kid stuff.
At youth group, we played all of the normal games like indoor soccer, indoor hockey with plastic sticks, and sometimes went swimming. We also went to places like rock climbing wall venues. And learned to shoot .22 at youth group. But again, that’s just normal teenage stuff?
I was comfortable trekking around my friends’ farms on foot.
I did all of the normal stuff at Christian camp, like archery, slug gun shooting (air rifles), mini golf, hiking and such things. With my mother I did things like kayaking and I even played canoe polo once (hated it). I tried horse riding a few times, and always wanted to do more. I had swimming lessons as a child, and could swim. I tried karate once, for a few sessions. They taught me a few kata. But I ended up choosing boxing instead. I even went to one taekwondo class, where I broke boards for the first (and only) time. My father taught me a tiny bit of wrestling as a little child.
Oh, I liked riding my bike. But every one likes riding their bike as a child.
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China and Christianity
Last time China tried to convert to Christianity, 30 million people died. It was called the Taiping Rebellion, should be better described as the repression of the Nanjing Christians, followed by a civil war, followed by the mass execution/slaughter of all of the Christians. In total, about 30 million people died (more people than died in World War One).
The Japanese later slaughtered many people in the same place what is now known as the "rape of Nanjing".
But anyways, if you’ve never read about it, you should check it out (I’m actually bending the truth a smidge in my comment for dramatic effect - but you need to learn whiny it for yourself! A boom from the library is a better idea than this link, but you should try to do what you can. Good luck.).
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Thursday 18th December 2025
Edit 3: some of the local physio-therapists deliberately harmed me, while also lying to me. Including Nathan Scott (team medical). He was formerly the lead singer of my Church’s worship band, and the son of our main preacher (Bruce Scott, head elder and main speaker). He gave me deliberately bad advice, which caused me harm. While also deliberately deceiving me as to the nature of my health problems (electronic satellites and cell towers).
Another physiotherapist clinic that gave me deliberately bad advice while also deliberately deceiving me as to the nature of my health problems (electronic satellites and cell towers) was the back institute in Kapiti. They gave me bad advice, which then caused me to suffer damage and pain. Amanda Clarke, my GP at KYS referred me to them.
Lastly, Gayle Snyder and her clinic “Willis Street Physio” deliberately caused me problems and harmed me while misleading me as to the nature of my health problems. They were licensed, trained physiotherapists. And expensive too.
I also saw a physio in Raumati Beach. She caused me harm. Just plain hurt me. I don’t know if she had anything to do with the “fae”. But the husband of the main physio there was arrested for possession of child pornography shortly afterwards. He ran the neighbouring computer retail and repair shop.
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General History and more pleasure reading
Just more general history (even though I shouldn’t post it, but I love history, and I love encyclopedias more)
Taiping Rebellion, a religious war: 25 million killed
WW1: 22 million killed
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Japan: killed and banned Christianity, closed their country off. And then it was forced open by Matthew Perry’s “gunboat diplomacy” expedition. Resulting in regime change, followed by the Meiji Restoration.
If you have audible, this series is cheap and good: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/understanding-japan-a-cultural-history
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If you haven’t read it, then the page “a quick setting the record straight” is probably worth reading.
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Wednesday 17th December 2025
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Someone clutters up the skies: the space junk model
New comment:
Maybe in 2032, France throws 50 tons of titanium micro beads into low earth orbit, using rockets, and they stay in orbit as “space junk” rendering low earth orbit unusable by the satellites for the next 30 years (when satellites hit space junk at high speeds, it damages the solar panels, and if they take too much damage over the course of weeks and months, it might become too expensive or impractical to keep them in orbit). And that’s how the satellites thing fails.
This is just for people who assume the satellites are here forever. It’s a bad assumption to make. There might in fact be half a dozen ways that this technology (or the social structure implied by it) fails.
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Another possibility is that people can DDoS the system. It’s a mesh network, and it has to communicate within itself. And the communication requires “timing”. And if you could do a “man in the middle attack” and maybe just mistime some packets travelling from satellite to satellite, then it might throw off their timing enough, you might be able to disrupt them enough that they stop working. That is, disrupt communication between the individual satellites in the network. Or maybe just copy packets they sent already, and resend them 10000 times per second, to clog the system.
And then once the satellites are disrupted, they throw 30 tons of space junk into earth orbit.
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Old comment (superseded):
Maybe someone like Iran or Iraq just starts a rocket program to fire 10 conventional rockets (not nukes) every 2-3 months into low earth orbit, eg 250km high. And they explode, sending out a payload of 2 tons each of tiny titanium ball bearings. These become space junk, and get in the way of the satellites. They get hit by the solar panel arrays of the satellites, slowly destroying the satellites solar panel’s ability to generate power. Remember, these satellites do an orbit of earth every 90 minutes, or whatever. But they disable the satellites first, using remote laser disabling technology. Who knows?? Something silly like that might happen. It might be cheap and easy, and then the satellites are down. Fill the “orbit shell with” tons of ball bearings that become “space junk” and space litter. Maybe this stimulates some new ideas, and new thinking?? Perhaps the space junk stays in orbit for years once it is there, rendering the area unsuitable for satellites. Zone denial. Even if you get hit by one ball bearing every 4-5 days, maybe it adds up fast?? And the whole area around the earth is no longer useable by satellites in an economic fashion. It is just an idea? I think that merely hiding in faraday circles is a better strategy though.
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Random photo:
Amanda and Jenna, childhood best friends. Jenna actually has a friendly face, okay? She’s not overly important to me or anything, but she was my flatmate for a bit. We used to play video games together. Like arcade games on the PlayStation. And singstar.
Brynn^
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Tuesday 16th December 2025
This following statement got cut from the front page. I didn’t think it was good enough.
Would I prefer to have a girlfriend, or a concubine?
[a girlfriend? Yeah! Someone I can trust. Someone kind and decent, who I can rely on. Someone characterised by honesty, rather than characterised by falsehood and deceit. And someone decent enough that I can be affectionate towards her? Care about her? I’m not sure the attitudes amongst this set towards women make sense to me? If I have a girlfriend who is a good person, then I can love her!!? And also, ordinary physical affection (other than sex) is the main draw card of having a girlfriend. I.e. you can hug her, and hold her hand, and kiss her every time you see her, cuddle her while on the couch while you watch tv shows, or movies. Sex and then good company (such as conversation and companionship etc) are the second and third most important things. I’m still trying to figure this out, because I don’t yet know what the rules are. But am I going to take any of these women for a walk on the beach, or waterfront and hold their hand, and care about them? Or are they just bad people? I think they’re just bad people.
Even cute little monkeys (Gibbons, primates) need affection and friendship.
New video added^
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Edit: Maybe basic hugs, and basic physical affection, when it is with a primate who you’re attached to, and in a high trust relationship, to is the primary or one of the primary needs in a relationship for a person. Like, hugs and putting your arm around them is one of the biggest features/benefits of a relationship. And having a “mate” means you have ordinary physical affection, and the warm presence of someone you’re fond of and attached to all the time, and basic good company. And sex is only part of the big picture. Maybe basic physical affection, combined with trust, feelings of fondness, feelings of attachment, and a belief that the relationships is secure, and the good faith willingness to repair the relationship when conflict occurs (ie, apologise and make up).
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I need to sleep. I didn’t even want concubines in the first place. I felt that the whole thing was too coercive and I didn’t want to use a system of violent coercion to force women to be my concubines.
Added after transfer of comment:
I really would like it if I had someone I could “love”. And also someone I could behave affectionately towards. Non sexual physical affection is half of the attraction of having a girlfriend? I.e. you can hug her! But that seems not to be on offer in their system of concubinage.
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From a discussion about gallipoli, mission creep and Churchill
Was Gallipoli mission creep?
Yes, the Gallipoli campaign is a classic example of military mission creep, evolving from a purely naval plan to a massive, disastrous amphibious land invasion. Initially intended as a quick naval show of force by Winston Churchill to force the Dardanelles, it ballooned into a full-scale land assault by troops (including ANZAC forces) after the Royal Navy failed to break through the straits alone, requiring a costly amphibious landing to capture forts and control the area, a task for which forces and planning were severely inadequate. The Dardanelles were formerly known as the Hellespont.
The Naval Phase (The Initial "Mission")
Goal: Churchill's original idea was for the Royal Navy to force the Dardanelles Strait, capture Constantinople (Istanbul), and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war, opening a supply route to Russia.
Method: Use obsolete battleships to overpower Turkish forts, a task thought feasible with naval power alone.
Failure: The naval attacks in early 1915 failed due to strong Turkish defenses, mines, and bad weather, leading to losses and a decision to switch to a land attack.
The "Creep" to Land Operations
Shift in Strategy: After naval failure, the plan expanded dramatically to include a large land invasion to seize the peninsula, requiring troops (like the ANZACs) diverted from other fronts.
Lack of Preparation: The hastily assembled ground forces faced intense, entrenched Turkish resistance on difficult terrain, leading to horrific casualties.
Result: A prolonged, bloody trench warfare stalemate, a significant failure, and a prime historical example of how simple plans can escalate into major disasters through added tasks and poor execution, a concept now called "mission creep".
Note: I just stole this from google search’s ai and edited it. I acknowledge that perhaps I’m a little too bombastic or harsh when I talk about people like FDR or Churchill. But oh well. I don’t like Churchill. So what? I’m from New Zealand, and New Zealand isn’t the UK, nor is it the USA.
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Are we Marmosets and Gibbons, or Bonobos and Chimpanzees?
Maybe we’re more like marmosets and gibbons than chimpanzees or bonobos. See also teilhardina and purgatorius. It’s honestly like a matter of opinion though. And it doesn’t matter that much, because evolutionarily we’ve come so far. Our biology has changed, and our culture, language and habits have changed enough that maybe it doesn’t matter that much.
But all the same…
Maybe we come from cute little squirrel rat monkeys like purgatorius, or lithe, active little monkeys like teilhardina.
And the most similar beings to who we used to be are marmosets (voices and names) and then later gibbons (socially, affection), not bonobos and chimps. It’s just food for thought.
There is more about this in my random archives #2
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Basic Conversation
Basic Conversation, conducted face-to-face and person-to-person
Sometimes basic conversation is all it takes to solve problems. And when I say basic conversation, I mean basic conversation in a pleasant face-to-face situation. And you can solve tons of problems. It’s just problem solving. If you can swallow your pride, and be humble, you can just have a conversation.
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Basic face to face conversation works, and it’s not like you have to power up to go…
Kaio-Ken (king kai fist) mode to manage to have a basic person to person face to face conversation.
Kinda Jokey
The Kaio-ken (King Kai Fist) is an iconic, high-risk technique from Dragon Ball taught to Goku by King Kai, allowing the user to instantly multiply their power, speed, and durability for short bursts by enveloping themselves in a fiery red aura. While it provides immense power boosts (x2, x3, x10, x20), it places extreme strain on the body, risking injury or death if pushed too far, and requires intense training to control, though Goku famously combines it with Super Saiyan forms like Super Saiyan Blue in Dragon Ball Super.
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But a lot of people are happy to talk!! Like, some of the diplomatic problems they had in places like China in the past could have been solved through simple conversation!
But some people (like a Chinese emperor) act like you have to go kaio Ken level 100 just to get over their bad case of social anxiety and agoraphobia well enough to leave the forbidden city and have a normal trade and diplomatic conversation.
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Random Acts of Education:
The Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in Mainz, Germany (part of the Holy Roman Empire), around 1440-1450, revolutionizing communication by enabling mass book production, starting with the famous Gutenberg Bible in the 1450s, using metal type, oil-based ink, and a screw press design.
See also the link between the printing press, Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation.
These are essential parts of history to know about for someone from places like NZ, Australia, Canada, USA, UK etc.
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Other topics worth reading about, if you've never done it.
Next, James Watt and the steam engine. And how it affected the world. See also the history of the Industrial Revolution on great courses.
Next, Charlemagne and his struggles with the "technology" of reading. As well as the whole phenomenon of reading. And how it changed and changes human consciousness.
If you're looking for some random education: I'd read a whole book about the technology of the printing press abs how it affected human civilisation. And then a book about the Gutenberg Bible, Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation. And if you're interested in Charlemagne, there are some lectures about him on open Yale that are pretty good.
The internet is kind of like the printing press. But it’s limited by this weird tech in the sky? But what happens if…. That’s no longer a problem? Maybe what if 50000 of us were safely ensconced within faraday circles. Living comfortably, but networked? All over the world? Via the encrypted internet?
And then podcasts, radio shows, photocopiers, classrooms, education, and barbecues and dinners open to the public (or at least tickets sold to the public).
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Technophobe
I’m actually a bit of a technophobe.
I love tech. But I’m a bit of a technophobe at the same time.
Speaking of technology, I used to listen to TwiT, relay FM, Dan Benjamin’s 5x5 tech shows and the wired podcast. These are all podcasts. I was too sick (an invalid) to do much else with my life at the time ð
. Maybe about 2012-2016?
I also listened to a ton of stuff from “librivox”. Like short stories and novels. And also many, many short stories from YouTube. For example, these five:
I had to pass the time somehow??
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Tuesday, 9th December, 2025
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The chinese and my cat, cupcake
(And they gave the green light to kill cupcake and use the vet to cover it up by pretending it was a car accident! Btw, I think it was symbolic of my “killing” Brynn by not responding to her advances in around 2011).
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Reverse Social Engineering
It could have been called:
Societal re-engineering at the level of the civilisation itself
Aka, the reboot sequence in favour of genuine democratic governance. But done from the point of view of someone without a massive amount of power.
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What I mean by that, is it could have been seen as or labelled a re-engineering, and that it wasn’t about destroying society!!! I’m actually really pretty well intentioned! I want people to have good and decent lives!
A lot of it was just hypothetical scenarios, and theories and ideas relating to those. Lots and lots of hypothetical scenarios.
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Some stuff taken from an old page, it's a bit meh. But it was archive there already. Probably should definitely skip it.
// ignore from here on down
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keeping this from old page...
im not doing well now
all of the things are causing me harm, I'm not just being bullied and "wirted". It's wearing me down.
I keep getting hurt, day after day. It's adding up. I have very little sleep. It's damaging me.
i can't walk down the road properly, my body is fucked.
The pain screams are disguised by the screams induced by the machines. Pain, fear, "threat to organism feeling"
Modi thing: gutter scream, not that loud, "threat to organism feeling"
They parasocial to me, a bit.
Do I have a coherent ideology??
guy sitting on a chair, looking weak
"I am sad, and hurting, but am actually pretty reasonable"
"what is going on"?
"I want to be happy and healthy, can we talk about it?"
Point of view
from where I stand, the oligarchy and telecommunications companies are working together to hurt me. and my Dad (who is a very sick person) keeps talking to my brain about politics while he hurts me. The telco/oligarchy/tech facilitate his abuse. He keeps bringing old friends into it, to make me hurt even more. Xi jin ping hurt me badly the other day.
7 weeks ago, I could walk down the street and jump off of a picnic table. Now I'd struggle to walk to get a beer. I can't jump off of my deck. Very sad situation. I'm being broken down physically.
we keep talking about politics. Umm. Idk.
I have been brainwashed for about 1 year and 3 months. The brain washing failed. I am reclaiming my mind because "fuck you, kill me" it is a useful concept. To me it feels as though the power of the techno-telco-oligarchy system is being inflicted upon me by my father.
The system doesn't want me to have pen and notebook. I need pen and paper to think.
we keep talking about torture, but the point is that I keep getting hurt. And they are breaking me down physically. I haven't had a shower in about 2 weeks.
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Minds eye is blind
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Modi messed with rib cage
Feeling disturbed, the feeling is very strong
centred in my belly, but all around, very disturbing
modi hurt me badly. Maybe very badly
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im hurting pretty badly, very horrible
body horror torture using science fiction methods
you guys are causing me pretty bad damage
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To Larry Page [[text dump on WhatsApp]]
This happened to me about 2-3 days ago:
Modi tortured me! He took my rib cage, with his electronic hands and forced it down, towards my pelvis. He didn't have to do it all that hard, because my rib cage is already screwed and not well supported. It was torture, it was horrifying! I let out a guttural scream. There was a strong feeling of pain/terror. I would describe it as a feeling of inner horror, a feeling of "organism under threat".
Umm, I had to stifle my scream a bit because the (excuse the tone! Being tortured fucks with you a bit) "the part of the organism that lets you scream was being placed under threat too" (the rib cage).
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i has a convo with modi... he apologised etc
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i can discuss postmodernism theory with modi in a rational way, according to him, I am a rational actor.
[[modi hands me a note saying that I am a rational actor]] that was a postmodern act
Modi certifies tone issues
modi apologised unequivocally for the torture, after we had a conversation. I accepted his apology, even though though I feeling tremendous unhappiness about the situation. We agreed that the "empathy space" wasn't good due to the medium. He also hadn't quite realised that I was a rational man and intelligent enough to discuss stuff
[[larry page certifies severe torture, unequivocally]]
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Open Statement on internet:
Over the past 8 weeks:
Paul Solt and these who collectively ally with him are dealing out a "politically serious" amount of physical harm to me. Over the last 8 weeks I have taken a bit of damage. 8 weeks ago I could walk down the street comfortably, jump off of picnic tables, bar tables, take a taxi ride, take a flight etc. I could jump off of fences (ish). ((Walking down the street was nice, and comfortable, and beneficial back then)).
I've taken a bit of damage since then. Modi hurt me badly twice. Xi Jin ping damaged me badly over time, I called him a terrorist etc. My father keeps on blasting me to make me scream. Some of the screams are induced but not painful. Sometimes I scream because I am in pain. Some of the induced screams camouflage the screams caused by pain. I can be broken down to the point where I can be caused to emit a piteous moan at will. I keep on getting hurt. I am being broken down physically. The torso has lost a lot of integrity.
Some of what I have experienced could be described as science fiction body horror torture*.
There is a preschool next door and a car yard over the street. The screams are loud enough to be heard in both locations when the door is open.
I have experienced a fair bit of sleep deprivation, and keep getting bothered during the day.
Now I cannot jump of off tables, fences etc. I cannot jump off my deck safely. Walking to the shops isn't possible because it would munt me a bit. My body is screwed. I haven't had a shower in about a fortnight. I can't wash my hair. I can't lift my arms properly. I'm getting weaker.
*some of the body crush/squash stuff could be described as body horror
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I haven't had much rest lately. I am badly sleep deprived. I usually get only a couple of hours sleep (?) idk. I don't get much time without interruption. Usually stuff going on most of the day. Seldom get any rest. I keep on getting interrupted. Haven't had long to myself to rest eyes closed. They bother me almost constantly.
some of the body squash stuff was used as dread torture. I.e. fear of "organism under threat". Ie what my father did
Note: this page is skippable
This page contains a variety of things, just dropped here. The first thing was intended as humour/irony. The rest was just dropped here for storage. Some of it reaches back to about April. The other pages are perhaps more useful. You can skip this page if you want. It is here for the sake of completeness.
It includes some materials that I uploaded before or around the time I created my blog on the Google "blogger" platform. In hindsight this web hosting platform, hosted by a different company, is actually better. But hindsight is 20/20.
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Begin page:
// postmodern take. Someone paid me, a generalist-economist consultant for consulting work.
// they’re afraid of the humanities, and in particular, sociologists hurt their feelings. They struggle with philosophy, literary analysis, history etc
// they’re getting bullied online by the humanities grads..
// I’m paid about $600 for three hours consulting
White guys who play too many video games
==> reframe it, straight away.
don't do political theory, or philosophy
do things like history, accounting and law, a bit of anthropology. A tiny bit of humanities and misc. You also need some general knowledge from general reading. A military history paper is helpful, but not essential. I put it in your document mostly for boffo (see: Pratchett)
Post modernist theory targets the uneducated (and therefore vulnerable).
And that means you, dear white gamer guy!?!?! Iq 115 or higher. You are intellectually vulnerable to these ideas, due to ignorance. Fix it, but reframe it by studying outside of philosophy first.
Bullet proof yourself against bad ideas:
First zone:
Read 100 non fiction books, any kind
(Including history, popular/easy science, popular/easy engineering, technology, art, or anything!?!?)
Use your local library, or Amazon
If you have already read 100 non fiction books... then you can just leave it?
Second zone:
Do Introduction to Accounting 111 (Victoria University) and Introduction to LEGAL106 OR LEGAL103/104 (Waikato) through a local university online. Or in person, if you can’t do it online.
Do one more papers online through MIT OCW or equivalent.
Something from: Military history 101, geopolitics, modern warfare 101, military history 101
Or
Something from Humanities: sociology 101, psychology 101, anthropology 101, criminology 201, policing 201
[it might be possible for me to help you to find substitutions for you, for example, just listen to the lectures + do readings for the humanities/military part. Or perhaps listen to a ton of very suitable online audio content??]]
Third zone:
Read one book on anthropology, and two on the history of words or dictionaries or how dictionaries are made.
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
Dictionary of word origins - John Ayto
Dictionary people - Sarah Ogilvie
those three, or equivalent
finish:
This will give you the intellectual heft you need to the things you want? Idk??
see also, basic physical fitness, playing a sport, and not having a bmi over 30
ps: accounting is probably the most important thing here, followed closely by the 100 books. Although some think law is more important
~ this is all stuff you can actually do while living in a trailer park lol. You don't need much money, just time. As for reading, you should already have read 100s of non fiction books before you finished childhood, or your teens? The uni suggestions are a bit tough, but many of you already have a bit of university under your belt.
if you can't find a good law/accounting option for reasons of money..? Then find other options.
in nz I might just do: Introduction to the Legal System
LES501 from open polytechnic
Umm. The antidote to postmodernism is basic education. Actual things actually happen. History involves specific events. Specific things happen at specific times. And if you study law and accounting, you learn things that are specific and useful. If you study a sociology, or a criminology, or a geopolitics course, you gain specific skills and knowledge and models that are directly useful. And you learn that the development of language involves specificity, as does the writing of dictionaries. You sidestep it. And say whatever. To postmodernist wank.
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Completely unrelated:
A random walk through history…
Sometimes you could get convicted to transportation to Australia just for stealing like a handkerchief. Any theft. Also, it was used for the purpose of getting rid of chartists who engaged in the non peaceful wing of the activist movement. By the way, if you don’t know anything about Chartism, you don’t know England or the colonies. Maybe take 10-20 minutes to look it up on Wikipedia. A lot of transported criminals to Australia weren’t really very bad people, and they often didn’t do much worthy of punishment. See also “the bloody code” and the poor law. The “bloody code” included the death penalty for attempting to bring about religious reform, by the way. That is, treason against the Protestant establishment. See the history tab under the bloody code. A lot of it was concurrent to the strife and issues going on in “the colonies”.
It’s just history, and basic education.
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Friday, 5th December 2025
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Not allowed to think
For the period of time from Khandallah until Auckland (many months). I wasn’t allowed to even think in a straight line. I would seldom be able to get through more than a few sentences in my head before they would interrupt me. And also, I didn’t have a notebook to collect my thoughts in. And they punished me very, very badly for even trying to collect my thoughts on paper at all. Even just writing on supermarket receipts with a pen and paper was punished badly. They would interrupt me all the time and use extra questions and answers. I seldom had time for mental idleness, let alone day dreaming or deep thought. I need time and leisure to think, and pen and paper to think. I am a leisurely, discursive thinker. And their style of thinking doesn’t mesh well with mine.
They prevented my even thinking in a straight line, or getting up steam, or clarifying my own thoughts inside my own head. And they did so for months and months.
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What is reverse social engineering?
Another description: it was an intellectual exercise in aggressive interventionism in favour of democratic reformism.
It is a design philosophy and a framework for analysis. It is multidisciplinary and project based. It is not and was not intended as a mass ideology.
It requires some “inventiveness”. It also requires some knowledge of things like religion, applied psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy (especially epistemology), economics, commerce, history, anthropology (especially around the topic of conversation, speech and language), and the history of languages.
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Just as an aside, what sort of democracy?
Basic democracy, with representation, participation and some direct democratic elements. Preferably some social elements such as the welfare state, and some retention and expansion of state assets (such as utilities, power generation, lines companies, most hospitals, most schools, airports, seaports, telecommunications companies) and good union representation. But for the purposes of reverse social engineering, I’m not enormously dogmatic on these points. And different countries have different needs. For example, Switzerland seems to do okay without universal socialised healthcare.
A good democracy probably needs better social engineering, just in general. And perhaps it ought to be decentralised, grass-roots social engineering. But that is perhaps beyond the scope of this comment.
The important part of the segment on reverse social engineering ended with the words "history of languages".
I’m trying to move away from the idea of reverse social engineering?? But they won’t let me… and that’s not what I was trying to do when I got arrested!? And it isn’t even an ideology!!
But before I can move away from it, I need to clear my name and tell my story. Because they still accuse me of pushing a “revolutionary ideology called reverse social engineering”, when in fact that is just lies.
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Old school libertarian stuff
Back in 2010, I used to muse and daydream about libertarian political reforms, but that was a little different. Over time, that led to and evolved into some of my later ideas. But it is very, very separate. I was actually quite unwell physically, and wanted to be healthy enough to do other things in life. My whole life had stalled, due to severe illness and bad health. At the time I wanted to be something like an engineer, inventor or video game designer. I also wanted to get really fit. And play some sports/martial arts. But honestly, I would have settled for just being healthy and finishing my degree. I just couldn't do anything at the time.
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Tuesday, 2nd December 2025
Soil Loss
There are some places where they are using up soil as though it is a non-renewable resource like oil or gas. This is when they are growing maize or wheat. I am getting some of the terminology wrong, but it's true. And it's not just desertification. It's something else. Some parts of the world are not good stewards of the land.
They're actually losing a lot of soil.
It is one of the most important issues in the world, along with "peak oil" and gas. There are a ton of ways to talk about it, and words can be mollywoodled in fifty different ways. But it's a major issue.
And yet we have to have baffling and inane arguments, and engage in inane games revolving around sex and relationships.
See also: Guy Debord, and the society of the spectacle. We can’t even touch the true nuts and bolts of how our society functions. It’s all obfuscated by “the spectacle”.
I am about.,, 80% right in this.. but they’ll nickel and dime me on language.
Places like Henan for example have pretty bad erosion, due to bad farming practises. Also, take a look at the “dust bowl” problems in the USA ages ago.
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Monday 1st December 2025
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Here is a back up of a post from my other website. I pared that one down a bit, to just a segment about anal sex. But I wanted to keep the other segments also.
Anal Sex and why I disapprove of it.
This is a weird and awkward topic, and so I apologise in advance.
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Anal, that is "anal sex"
Physical:
It is an exit, not an entrance. Poo comes out of there. It is a part of the body dedicated to waste management, not recreation. It is unsanitary. Also, I don’t think that is healthy long term for the muscles of the anus, or the lining of the anus. I don’t think that the lining of the anus or rectum is 100% adapted to penetrative sex, or *ahem* friction based sexual activities or any kind. I just don’t think that that part of the body evolved for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
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Physical abrasion/damage and anal sex:
The friction from anal sex or any foreign object inserted into the anus or rectum may break the skin, making it more susceptible to infection. Any kind of trauma to the rectum or anus increases the risk for things like anal fissures, infections and abscesses. As well as being linked to fistulas.
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Once you push through the anus. You enter the rectum. Which is the repository for stool. And is probably not the place where I wish to place my penis.
Anal sex can cause a fair bit of pain in many cases. And can be associated with increased incidence of fecal incontinence.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11588838/
Furthermore, aside from anal intercourse, that part of the body (the anus, rectum etc) can suffer from a wide variety of issues that often require medical attention (particularly those that occur during and after childbirth). Things like fecal incontinence and hemorrhoids, and anal fissures are already a significant problem among women. There are also severe problems that can occur later in life with that part of the body. Just in general. For example, a lot of women over the age of 55 suffer from serious pelvic floor issues, and other issues down there, including but not limited to areas such as the anus, rectum etc.
And given how many issues have occurred in women over time, and throughout history. I’m not sure anal is the best and healthiest sexual activity to engage in with a woman.
However, the vagina exists. It is pretty close to the anus, and it is highly suitable for a variety of highly enjoyable sexual activities. Furthermore, mouths and hands exist.
Relational/emotional
Anal hurts women sometimes/often. Anal sex I mean. And I don’t really want to do something that hurts them. And it is degrading. I don’t know that I want to behave in a degrading manner like this. I’m not sure that I want to have a relationship that involves behaving in a manner that involves sexual cruelty and degradation.
And it is gross and degrading. Not just cruel or mean. It is disgusting. Sort of. Bowel movements come out of there? You’re degrading the woman in a way that is unsanitary, and just gross. And you’re getting poo on yourself. I just don’t think it is a good activity from a relational point of view??
Perhaps I’d rather have a relationship based on genuine care and concern for the other person?
Mammalian
On a basic animal level. I don’t think it is healthy (psychologically) for a woman to have penises thrust into her anus, and perhaps more importantly, for men to go doing it. There is actually an instinctive revulsion feeling (and/or fear) that goes along with engaging in anal sex. And perhaps we (or I) ought not to blast past that. I can’t explain it.
When I first viewed anal sex in pornography, I felt a visceral sense of disgust. I felt sick to my stomach. I was appalled. I think that these feelings of disgust are hardwired and might be there for a reason. I think mammals have it hardwired into them that penetrating the elimination orifice of the female is disgusting. And the female has it hardwired into her that it is wrong, painful and awful. And some sort of violation. To ride roughshod over those feelings of disgust and fear of violation might be a mistake psychologically. Those built in “guard rails” might be there for a reason.
I just don’t think that orifice is built for that (evolved, adapted, designed natural selection etc).
Conclusion:
It might just not be my cup of tea. There is contact with feces. There are visceral feelings of disgust. And I think it is gross and degrading in an unsanitary manner.
I am also a little reluctant to encourage or participate in a culture that seems to be working to normalise anal sex.
Anal sex may perhaps just not be my cup of tea.
Here is a good slogan, "poo should be taboo".
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This next post isn’t as important or good. It is a quick exploration and discussion of what I might want, if society were a little less screwed up.
What might have I preferred to all of this harem and coercive nonsense?
What do I want? And what do I value?
Maybe a relationship based on mutual agreement and voluntary association. Where we are both happy to be a part of it. Like finding a girlfriend, through friends. Like a normal person, as opposed to all of this fae-druj philosopher-king silliness.
Perhaps the sort of relationships I’d like are those where… You might love, cherish and adore them.
I’d have be okay with something like a friends with benefits type of arrangement where you care deeply about them and for them? Or to have a partner, girlfriend, or wife, that type of thing? Of course, once I had sorted out my health and fitness.
I keep on getting asked… what do you want? And maybe I want good faith relationships based on trust, where you love them, and value them. Where you cherish and adore them. Maybe I don’t want “sin, debauchery and lust” like I was ordered to (they forcibly indoctrinated me into those values). Maybe I would prefer things like… desire, love, adoration, and ordinary affection, along with good company and a bit of friendship.
Umm. By relationships, I mean things including a friends with benefits type arrangement, or multiple live in girlfriends. Or even just one partner. These people are obsessed with polyamory? But having one partner might not be so bad.. but they seem to insist that I needed multiple partners?? I would actually, in an ideal world, be really happy with a normal girlfriend, at least once I had improved my health.
Maybe an important aspect could have been that we make arrangement for what we want by means of plain speech, conversation and agreement. We figure it out in words. That is just a thought. I might rewrite it later.
What if it was: I get to know someone for 2-3 months, as friends. (This is after I am totally healthy and fit). And then ask them out on a date. And we get morning tea, and that is our first date. And then a week later we have our second date, maybe lunch. And a few days later we go to a concert at a bar, or something. After this, we become an item. Eventually the relationship “turns physical”. But there’s no rush. That’s just a thought. And we are exclusive or something? I’m not sure. It’s just tentative thoughts. And if I were not obliged to play these games. Then I’d have aimed for that. Maybe a 31 year old solo Mum who I meet at university, after I’ve finished one year. We make arrangements through the use of words, outside of their system. And without regard for it. And we are happy.
Ummmmm. I’d like a fair bit of ordinary sex with women (or at least one woman) that I really like and care about?
I do really "want" women, I just don't see it as sin or debauchery? I value, appreciate and desire them (or at least one of them, at a time)
[A digression: Way back in Khandallah, these guys told me that I needed “sin, debauchery, and lust” but I don’t agree. Firstly, I don’t think that sex is “sinful”. I don’t want “debauchery”. And I prefer the idea of desire to lust.]
Define: To "debauch" is to debase or corrupt through intemperance..
I don't want to corrupt..? I don't want to corrupt them??
I don't really want to debauch women!! I would rather have someone good and trustworthy!! But everything I am interested in in life is illegal!!
I would rather someone trustworthy, decent and genuinely lovable! But that's not allowed. Also, the skank brigade wanted to sperm jack me.
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However,
However, I won because I "shagged Dasha and loved it" (according to Xi), and then half a dozen women gave themselves to me forever, with carte blanche consent to do whatever I want with them. So I guess I'll hold on to the harem I never really wanted, but now have.
They were all bad people (except one), who have harmed me. So I guess that to accept a life time supply of sex from them is morally acceptable as a token form of reparations for the harm they have done to me. I see it as: they are professionals in the area of sex work. They're sex workers, and the offer sex as a service in return for economic benefit. That is, remuneration. And if they wish to repay me for some of the harm done to me by their organisation, then they can provide it in services. I would rather that they pay me in cash, and also spend 20 years in jail (crippling a man for 7ish years is a big deal). But I don't have the option of getting them all out in jail for 20 years, and I can't sue them for cash. So I guess I have to settle as sex in lieu of damages.
And so, Ambika*, Angela, Grace, Brynn are all mine forever. Carte Blanche consent to do as I please.
Sarah (lawyer) and Siobhan both said yes, but then pulled out. Siobhan said both no and yes a few times. Clare said yes, but I politely said no.
They all volunteered. And signed up for a lifetime contract.
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I planning to do a proper post on this topic later.
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I just quickly updated the page on charlatans and mountebanks.
Jack LaLanne
Jack LaLanne was a fitness pioneer who opened the nation's first health club in Oakland, California, in 1936.
He is considered the "Godfather of Fitness" for popularizing exercise and nutrition, inventing fitness equipment like the leg extension machine, and hosting the long-running "The Jack LaLanne Show" on television. His business expanded into a national chain [with over 200 branches], which he later sold to Bally Total Fitness, and his influence continues to shape modern health clubs and fitness routines.
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Health clubs, fitness, and juicing, as well as appropriate healthy eating are all still valuable. But I do not have a great deal of fondness for Jack LaLanne or his legacy.
Here is the page: An unfinished page about charlatans and hucksters in the fields of fitness and diet
Paul Bragg was his guru, mentor and saviour. Which should tell you everything you need to know him. Men like Jack LaLanne “poison the well” on fitness.
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Ayn Rand
I used to be a massive fan of Ayn Rand.
I liked “atlas shrugged”, “the virtue of selfishness” and “capitalism: the unknown ideal”. I used to be a libertarian (Ayn Rand small Government libertarian). Mostly out of a concern for the possibility of totalitarianism and fear of rampant, excessive collectivism.
I didn't like the fountainhead.
I also used to like the Ludwig von Mises institute, AIER, and some other libertarian blogs.
I was a commerce student (accounting and finance). I loved economics. And the history of economics. I read my way through the major works of people like Ludwig von Mises, FA Hayek. I read Menger, jevons, Hayek and Bastiat. I read JSM. I also read Keynes and Friedman. I was a massive fan of capitalism, and I thought that most of life as adults, and including relationships, should be voluntary, un-coerced.
Here are a few randomly selected quotes of Ayn Rand.
I was opposed (in my late teens into early twenties, when I gave up on ayn Rand) to the initiation of force or fraud or coercion on other adults. But that is possibly a long conversation, best suited to a face-to-face situation. At the same time, I was strongly pro capitalism, pro market, heavily christian. And very altruistic. I subordinated my to whatever I thought was true, good, lovely, worthy and right. (I’m not willing to justify myself on that one. But I did so without reference to the morality of people who I consider unworthy of so much as being consulted in the matter lolol).
I was more into Christianity and Christian morality/ethics than I was into Ayn Rand.
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Speaking of altruism and morality. I used to think that child sex trafficking, and child groomers, were some of the worse people alive. And that people who fought against that were good people. I also thought that totalitarian communists and Nazis were the worst people on earth. And people who stymie those things, or het hen after were doing good work. I also thought that privacy was important, and intellect, and creativity. Last but not least, I thought that intelligent economic development was extremely important! Like water, sanitation, food, infrastructure, housing etc. jobs, productivity. At least until everyone is fed, watered, housed, clothed and shod. And is employed, educated (at least a tiny bit) and has access to at least a tiny bit of healthcare.
Pimps and the sex industry are horrible too.
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Sunday 30th November 2025
By the way, if other people are being unjust, it is okay to just spin about in a circle and be silly, until they explode. Or otherwise self destruct. It is a dangerous strategy, but sometimes it is the best one available.
And at the same time, I repeatedly told people that I wanted to recover my health and to be left alone. And that is still what I want! I still want to be able to recover my health! And to be left alone!
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Archived from the negotiations page
The quality control at the moment is minimal. They’re blasting my brain all day long at the moment.
IVF, babies etc
Ummmmm.
I need to redefine this stuff.
I think that calling it a cult might not work. Or a lesbian cult.
Maybe rename it as an organisation. A business syndicate, where they wanted to make money. And have high iq babies. And where president xi had oversight.
I’ll do the proper page later.
Edit: it is illegal in New Zealand to get IVF without the written consent of the husband.
Amanda used IVF and then a protection order and the police to get rid of me. The protection order was for “emotional abuse”.
Amanda and Siobhan are in a long term sexual relationship. Or were in one for 20+ years. They were friends and were engaging in sexual intercourse often. Unknown to me.
Amanda and Brynn are in a long term sexual relationship, and were in one for 24 years. Since they were 13 years old. They have been sleeping together for years. Unknown to me.
Brynn and Angela are friends, and have lived together, I think? And are sort of in a long term lesbian relationship.
These people, along with Sarah, the “lawyer” formed a lesbian sex and fertility cult. These people purpose of the cult was to make money, and get pregnant. They wanted babies and money.
They turned me into an invalid, in an attempt to control me.
And then crippled me back in 2016, possibly to stop me getting away. Some foreigner signed off on it (president Xi Jinping). Let’s talk about it later. I might make a new page called…
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More stories: Amanda, Brynn, Siobhan, Lily, IVF, a profit oriented lesbian sex and fertility cult
By the way, Brynn is the egg donor for Lily.
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They exploited me for reproductive purposes, using IVF. Which was a criminal act.
And then they tried to use the police to cover up their crime (I started asking questions). And they lied to and misled the courts and police along the way. They also undermined my public defender. Public defence service.
And then the DIA covered for them too.
Ps: back in 2016, I deconverted from Christianity (and kept quiet about it). Perhaps they were worried at that point I might divorce Amanda.
^For pictures of Lily and Brynn and Amanda and I.
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Unrelated:
I am not a Taoist or a Buddhist.
But speaking of monks, I’m a fan of Gregor Mendel. The Augustinian monk and geneticist.
They had lied and pretended that you wanted to be a Taoist or Buddhist monk.
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David further discussion:
They fail to admit that David were trapped on purpose: sickened, made an invalid, crippled for 6 years, so that they could exploit you for financial and reproductive purposes. They had all wanted babies and money. Tons of money and babies (Amanda, Brynn, Siobhan, Anna etc).
They wanted to trap you, so that you could be exploited for reproductive and financial purposes.
And the Chinese president signed off on it.
And then participated in a coverup. Which included "brainwashing, aka thought reform technique" of a sexual nature, enforced by violent threats and coercion, while walking on extremely squashy floors (see Khandallah).
They also had foolish ideas about how the body works, and about how the mind works, which aren't really reflected in reality.
Proper story later.
They also lie about the health issues back from 2016-2022 being caffeine related, or that it was deconditioning.
The biggest issue is that we cannot get the computer system to "soul receive" or "reality download" the nature of what happened to my back for 7 years. Not are Siobhan, Brynn and Amanda willing to be honest about it. This is a real challenge for me to try to explain.
I cannot fully explain to people the nature of what happened to my back. Like, physically, I cannot out it into words. I can’t explain the physical nature of what happened. I think I’d need an honest second person perspective to explain it, and the right words and diagrams. It’s disturbing!! It’s not what people think it is. It’s mengelesque. And I had no way of knowing what it was at the time!!
I’ll explain it properly some other time.
On a physical level, I think that these people are out of touch with reality.
Umm.
Maybe just see it as a black box?? It’s just that I had been sick from age 18-22 and invalid until 28, and then crippled until 34. And just “something happened” when they pulled the plug on my spine (over 2-3 months) in 2016. And then they kept it that way. And maybe that is the way to see it. Just take it on faith that they did something horrible long term to my back and spine, and then kept it that way.
Why else would I not even go for walks outside? Going for long walks outside is one of my favourite ways to pass the time? Why would I got for 7 years without going for walks outside.
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They got a protection order, for spurious reasons. “Emotional abuse” to get me dragged out of the house (by six police officers). I chucked that on my other website.
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Gregor Mendel:
Why being a monk worked for him.
Without the drama and hassle and confusion and distraction of a wife and children, or the need to worry about personal finances, you can get so much more done!
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Friday 28th November, early am
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The Retaining Wall Metaphor
They had this concept of a retaining wall (a metaphor). Which is that I needed to have a “retaining wall” of women, to be considered “safe” to them, before they would let me out of the house long term.
This is one of the main reasons I fought for the women (a so called “harem”).
I needed them to feel “safe” enough to have me roaming society before they would let me out, because I thought they were afraid of my story of being crippled for 7 years getting out there into the world.
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Harem and “domination”
To have a harem doesn’t imply coercion.
Why not?
Because in this case, it consists of adult women who volunteered themselves to be a part of it, and badgered me into participating in their games. They were pushing themselves into my life when I just didn’t want to have anything to do with them!!
To me, they wanted to voluntarily sign up for harem duty, as independent, rational adults. Mostly to make money, but also to get pregnant so that they can have children (high IQ blah blah blah).
But they insist that a “harem” automatically = violent control and domination. No. It doesn’t.
It is fundamental to their point of view that a harem = violence or coercion. But it doesn’t hold true. They invited me to have a harem. They nagged me into it. It was very important to them! I wasn’t chasing them, they were chasing me.
One of the biggest fundamentals of their point of view has fallen apart. They use this fundamental belief of theirs to justify their violence against me. But the fundamental that they push is bollocks. It is total nonsense.
And I even told them that I was 95% uncomfortable with the idea of fighting for a harem, because I thought that the system might be too coercive towards women, and towards people in general.
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If I had known that these people equate “harem” with “coercion”, then I wouldn’t have bothered to fight for them.
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Violent control and coercion
At one point, I was “fighting” for a harem of ten million women, a “billion dollars” and to have my health back (aka, the magic wand). This was about a year back? I can’t recall exactly. Now, they claim that because I tried to fight for a harem of ten million, that I want to fight for the control through violence of a harem of women, but that is lies. I was obliged to play that game, because I wanted my health back. They said that if I wanted my health back, that I was obliged to have sex with at least one fae-druj woman, at least once, in order to have the “magic wand”. The magic wand meant (to me) that I would have my health back for the first time since I was 18. Also, that they would uninstall the computer program that keeps my torso locked down, by means of AI.
What I really wanted was “to have nothing to do with any of these freaks”, and then to rebuild my health, and then to rebuild my life (education, friendship), and then to find a “muggle” girlfriend. And the relationship with the muggle girlfriend would be on a mutually agreeable basis. Like, not anything to do with the “fae-druj-philosopher kings”. By the way, you whole world view, and all that you are, and all that you do, and all that you think feel and assert, is daft and asinine.
And they use the idea that I “want” a harem as an excuse to be violent towards me. And also they use the theory and belief (erroneous) that I was fighting on behalf of a non-existent revolutionary ideology (known as “reverse social engineering”) as an excuse for insisting that unplayed their games. Note: firstly, reverse social engineering is more like a design philosophy, and a framework for analysis and study. And secondly, I had chosen not to implement it.
Dumb.
Their whole thing is dumb.
I might have to fight to change many of their points of view in the AI computer systems “memory banks”. But I don’t know how to do that.
Also, they pretended that they had actually changed me, like reprogrammed me. But tbh, not really. I’m still me. I’m just really exhausted and a bit miserable. They’re just full of it. They just lie all the time. And they’re actually pretty ignorant.
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I had wanted a period of singleness and celibacy while I recovered
I had wanted a period of singleness and celibacy, during which I piece together my health, and rebuild my fitness, and then to find a “muggle” girlfriend. And I wanted the relationship to exist on the basis of mutual voluntary agreement. Kind of like voluntaryism? On a mutually voluntary basis. And I wanted an actual relationship.
Just for some background, I used to be a libertarian, and was fairly serious about the concept of the non-initiation of the use of coercion, whether by force or fraud. And I used to be a massive fan of Ayn Rand. Especially the book Atlas Shrugged, not so much the fountainhead. And I loved her non-fiction work especially, “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”. I was simultaneously a sincere Christian and a fairly serious libertarian.
I was mostly a libertarian out of concerns about possible USSR style totalitarianism in the future. Or other types of totalitarianism (like Maoist, or something I had never heard of).
As a Christian, I believed in the birth, life, crucifixion, death, burial and literal resurrection of Christ, and that he ascended afterwards. I also believed in life eternal. And the following literal things: miracles, angels, demons, heaven and hell, the existence of speaking in tongues etc. I believed that the Bible was the word of God. And that God spoke directly to people. I believed in the existence of sin, and in the importance of repentance. That you could pray and have sins forgiven. I also believed in the rules about lying, murder, hate, sex, relationships, divorce, marriage, envy, idol worshipping, not having any other Gods to worship, altruism and love.
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My life was all but over at the age of 18 when I lost my health
To me, my life was all but over at the age of 18 when I lost my health and never regained it. So I’m stuck in the past! I think about the past all the time. Ever since then, the thing I’ve wanted most is to have my health back, so that I can rebuild my life and do the things I want.
I lost my health during the dreaded and hated Europe trip that I had with my mother (she lived and lives over there) in early 2007. I was there for six weeks, and I got really sick. And never, ever recovered. I have described this elsewhere. My life has been mostly over since then. Or at least that is how it felt.
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Custody, and the comment get sloppy after this, and falls apart after this
I also had wanted to get custody (possibly, if healthy enough) and to fight for justice (of a legal kind, like Paul, Amanda as a few others in jail, as well as negative MSM publicity for a few others, and to sue the fertility clinic and the DIA for money).
Also, they made me sick for four years.
An invalid for 6 years.
And crippled for 7 years.
The harm they did to me was extreme. And the suffering was extremely significant. Why should I want to associate with anyone who causes me the kind of suffering that I experienced for seven years in Princeton road, between the years of 2016 and 2023. The suffering I experience between age 28 and 35? And it really was significant. But now they are lying to the system and pretending that it was either caffeine addiction or “just de-conditioning”. Which is obviously nonsense. But to live for years with the “torso integrity compromised” for years, was just no good. It was tortuous.
FYI, the “transition moment” (or at least the final one) came when I was sitting at the laptop computer trying to do feldenkrais head nods. [This isn’t a good explanation, but I was doing head nods, and then my upper back collapsed inwards. And my shoulders went up, and then I “had no neck”.] It was hell to live like that, by the way. They could have restored me to health at any point. Just by “uninstalling” the “computer program” from my nervous system.
I had already been doing some tai chi, and tried a few other things recently. But they basically took me out using my own muscles. Why? I’m not sure. But it happened
Is it because I had deconverted from Christianity, and was questioning what else I believed?
Is it because of so called misogyny?
Discussion: and also, there were nonsense people who made claims (unbeknownst to me) relating to hatred or contempt for women. Which I don’t think were based in reality. The word they used was “misogyny”. (Misogyny is defined as hatred of, or contempt for women.)
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That is about it.
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More stuff archived from my negotiations page, starts here:
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This is just discussion, this next segment: in fact, this whole page is just current discussion.
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Here are some deranged ramblings from when I just woke up. It’s not a very well thought out comment. But I’m leaving it here.
Why did I end up with a reputation for not “wanting” sex? A history lesson. And a discussion about words.
This was ages ago...
They would ask, "do you _want_ sex". And I would say, "I don't truly desire sex". Or “I don’t want sex!”. Because I can't move my hips and back!! And I'm covered in dead skin and caked in filth! Why should I care about sex!! It's not a draw card!! I tend to tell the literal truth.
But then I'd say, "I could acquiesce to sex, even though I don't actually desire it". Like, duty sex?? FYI, I was having duty sex for years.
And then they say I have to _want_ it. And I'm like, I suppose I could manufacture feelings??! I could try to "feel" a certain way?? Manufacture feelings of longing, closeness, affection, warmth, arousal, physical desire? Connection? I could almost do it as a biofeedback thing??
But I still didn’t "want" sex!? Because why should I!!! I just wanted to be left alone.
So I ended up with the reputation for not "wanting" sex.
It’s language, and blatant miscommunication. Deliberate misunderstanding.
It’s just a history lesson? As to how I ended up with a reputation for not wanting sex!!
I had six years of duty sex with Amanda. Because she told me she wanted a baby. It was out of obligation.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
Very often, I tend to be a “literal truth” guy. Almost all the time. Like, I just don’t lie. Sort of. But someone who almost literally doesn’t lie, can’t say I don’t lie, ever. Even though I have a habit (or had) a habit of not lying at all.
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Perhaps the whole premise for the “game” was nonsense.
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This was ages ago...
They would ask, "do you _want_ sex". And I would say, "I don't truly desire sex". Or “I don’t want sex!”. Because I can't move my hips and back!! And I'm covered in dead skin and caked in filth! Why should I care about sex!! It's not a draw card!! I tend to tell the literal truth.
But then I'd say, "I could acquiesce to sex, even though I don't actually desire it". Like, duty sex?? FYI, I was having duty sex for years.
And then they say I have to _want_ it. And I'm like, I suppose I could manufacture feelings??! I could try to "feel" a certain way?? Manufacture feelings of longing, closeness, affection, warmth, arousal, physical desire? Connection? I could almost do it as a biofeedback thing??
But I still didn’t "want" sex!? Because why should I!!! I just wanted to be left alone.
So I ended up with the reputation for not "wanting" sex.
It’s language, and blatant miscommunication. Deliberate misunderstanding.
It’s just a history lesson? As to how I ended up with a reputation for not wanting sex!!
I had six years of duty sex with Amanda. Because she told me she wanted a baby. It was out of obligation.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
Very often, I tend to be a “literal truth” guy. Almost all the time. Like, I just don’t lie. Sort of. But someone who almost literally doesn’t lie, can’t say I don’t lie, ever. Even though I have a habit (or had) a habit of not lying at all.
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Perhaps the whole premise for the “game” was nonsense.
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“Alice” from school is in.
Ummmm. There was a girl at school, I have forgotten her name. I think it might have been Alice. She was much cuter than Siobhan. I far preferred her in looks to Siobhan. She was also really friendly. She wants one of those faraday circles. If they can be made.
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How important was “Siobhan” to me?
Also, I preferred both Emma Mackay and Leah (forget last name) to her. Siobhan wasn’t important to me. I was really keen on both Emma and Leah when I was young. Siobhan was hardly on my radar.
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Siobhan lies even to the computers. Mis-programs them, gigo. Garbage in, garbage out.
How can we solve the GiGo problem?
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Also, I preferred both Emma Mackay and Leah (forget last name) to her. Siobhan wasn’t important to me. I was really keen on both Emma and Leah when I was young. Siobhan was hardly on my radar.
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Siobhan lies even to the computers. Mis-programs them, gigo. Garbage in, garbage out.
How can we solve the GiGo problem?
Just a quick discussion about “wanting”
Want?
They say I didn’t “want” anything…
To be an ideas guy
An inventor
A video game designer and creator (in my teens I wanted to be a professional in this area, but decided at 17/18 that I wanted to be an amateur/hobbyist, because the industry sucked)
To develop and design products
To get fit and go to the gym
Sports and martial arts
Finish a degree, any good 4 year degree (commerce in accounting/commercial law, or engineering, or science)
Maybe do a PhD sometime
Engage in life long learning
Ongoing formal education, on-and-off
Read a lot
Come up with ideas that relate to fitness and movement: but not for the jocks and gym enthusiasts. MAYBE, but actually so good research, with funding and controlled trials and good metrics. Don't focus too much on this one!
Kittens, cats
Video games, play many (seriously, both fps and rts) always loved games (and still a better hobby than recreational polyamorous sex)
Have a tree house (unironically)
Have a daughter
Maybe, have a wife who's actually amazing?? That's a weird and difficult thing to discuss??
And to be a good person, [is what I wanted throughout most of my life. My values changed in 2016, at the age of about 27/28. But I still felt that I wanted to be a good person.]
Ps: I am not a Taoist. Nor a Buddhist.
My point of view is more influenced by any one of:
Christianity
Stoicism
Ayn Rand
Than Taoist thought or Buddhist thought.
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I was also influenced heavily by:
Economics
Libertarianism, Anarchist, Anarchism and anarchic-capitalism and classical liberal ideas etc
Reading about Zoroastrianism (as far back at 2016/2017, and the idea of keeping the light/divine fire of the intellect alive, by going to war against falsehood. And also of protecting the creative aspect of the mind also, by avoiding the corrosive effects of “falsehood”).
Those influenced and inspired me more than Taoist thought and Buddhist thought/practise.
And I wanted to flee from these people completely, and rebuild my health fully, and get really and thoroughly fit before even looking at a woman as more than a friend.
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Even things like reading the Wikipedia page for Zoroastrianism, or my experiences in programming/coding, as well as years of video gaming probably influenced my frameworks for thinking (ideology, theology, fabric of belief, theory of mind, structure of thinking, cognitive structuring, perception, and ability to categorise things in my head, and use logic) more than Taoism or Buddhism. Yes, literally video games are of more “spiritual” importance than Taoism. Things like video games and coding provide “thinking tools” that can be useful, and can provide tremendous benefit in training the mind. Also, business books can teach you so much about thinking. I was influenced more by business books, Zoroastrian websites and video games than by Taoism and Buddhism combined (those three>those two).
Uhhh. See these as influences and inspiration?? I’m not a Taoist or a Buddhist, nor an orientalist larper. That’s the point I wanted to make.
There are many ways to train the mind.
There are many ways to educate yourself.
And multiple types of “moral and ethical education”.
Siobhan lied:
Siobhan could have said years ago, he’s not a Taoist, that’s for sure. He’s more like a Christian and an anarchist, who won’t admit to either, and doesn’t believe in either. Who has had some inspiration and education from Zoroastrianism and stoicism. And used to be fanatical about Ayn Rand style capitalism libertarianism (including: 1. The thing about non initiation of force and fraud, 2. Pro capitalism 3. Anti-totalitarianism 4. Pro small government 5. Belief in the excellence and capacity of the individual mind, unhampered)
Idea: it wouldn’t be inappropriate to label me as a lapsed Christian. It would be technically be incorrect and inaccurate, but it might nevertheless be useful.
Brief digression: this will only make sense to a few people: As for the super silly idea of a “techno-Taoist”, which I never believed in at all, it was almost a throw away concept, I replaced it even in my head with the idea of a Christian anarchist, but those were symbolic and metaphors anyway!!! I just liked the character Ogion in a wizard of earth sea, and the house with goats he had, and the idea of a Taoist dude with robes and a staff. It was just a fun idea, to sharpen my mind. The idea of a collective of people not motivated by altruism, trying to bootstrap a way to reprogram and reprogram people. But that wasn’t what the idea of “revsoceng” was exclusively about anyway. It’s complicated. But anyway, not a Taoist! And I wasn’t trying to do reverse social engineering! It wasn’t my ideology!
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Angela, Ambika, Grace and Brynn said they are all mine forever. Please see the micro blog for more information, and for reference points and dates to help you find the moments that they said it. It is in the history, and you can ask the system to let you know what they said. They said that they are “mine in perpetuity, to do with them as I please” I.e. carte blanche consent. I don’t know why they said it, but they did (one exception, I think that Ambika said that I can do _almost anything_ I want with her, within reason).
And they are all more interesting than Siobhan. Can we please politely ask Siobhan to leave me alone. She’s an attention hog, who has taken up way too much of people’s time and attention.
Brynn Huso is also an attention hog, and the other women are more interesting than her. She takes up a little too much prominence. Angela, Grace and Ambika are all more interesting and worthwhile to me than Brynn. I’m still planning to keep Brynn though. Maya seems to be in as well.
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What might have I wanted to do differently?
If I had had _full information_ about what had caused my health issues, and that it was electronic. But also what the fae (philosopher-king, see Plato) culture was like.
Then I might…
Get really fit and pretty strong.
Get back into a sport and/or martial art (just hitting a bag is fine, or learn karate).
Make a bunch of friends
Finish a degree at university - any degree.
And then:
Find one good girlfriend, who is a "good faith actor" with good intentions, who is free to make her own decisions. Honest, decent, faithful.
Have a few girlfriends over 3-4 years, then find a wife for 30 years.
But that doesn't exist.
[and in a daft, broken world I might as well have some of the women who have promised themselves to me forever]
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I would probably decline to interact with any of the people associated (even loosely) with any of the people associated with what happened to me from 2016-2022, or even 2011-2023.
And probably have nothing to do with the fae aka "philosopher-kings"
By the way, the psychological methods of the fae (aka philosopher kings) don't really make sense, or hold together coherently. They have the same vibe as religion, or a poorly designed NRM to me.
I also don't like the relationship structure of the fae (aka philosopher kings). I don't like the coercive nature of them. I'd probably have declined to participate in any of the games.
And also, if I had known about "wifi", I would have flatly told you guys "no" to anything and everything.
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I would also fight for justice, and that includes custody, spousal maintenance, a bigger share of the assets, multiple people in jail, or banned from their chosen profession, and then to describe and explain the events that happened in my life, so as to name and shame those who harmed me or were otherwise responsible. And to chase up government bureaucrats and/or politicians also.
And possibly sue anyone who needed it. And had deep pockets. And criminal charges. Abuse cases are a criminal offence, as is conspiracy to commit a crime. As is perjury.
Criminal exploitation and abuse for the purpose of extracting sperm and/or creating an IVF baby probably have very significant civil liabilities associated. I’d have to get in there before I figured out what was worth money. But I think Amanda, Brynn and the fertility clinics are liable. As is the department of internal affairs, who lied to me on purpose, via the HART register. My wife used to be an employee of the DIA. And Paul used mental health services to push a cover up, and is probably highly liable. After assaulting me.
And the police sided with my father, even sending two of the police officers who attended the assault call-out to the arrest (six police officers in total). I still have badge numbers somewhere. Before putting an invalid in the side seat of the prison transport van, and deliberately jostling me about. They deposited me in his are, after he had assaulted me and made a false statement in favour of a section 8b, which can have me institutionalised. Also, my two lawyers might be liable for at least a few things, but I probably needed to deal with other matters first. Also, they were working for my father.
There were probably civil liability issues, criminal issues and issues relating to losing their license relating to my doctors clinic, as well as Janet Turnbull NZOM. Criminal issues: failure to report abuse might be a criminal matter, as is conspiracy to cover up abuse a crime. And Janet Turnbull and her agency had long term involvement in my situation. And she straight up lied in her letter to my doctors clinic, possibly to support a cover up. And to flatly declare that it was a mood disorder and deconditioning also. Which meant my father could do things like get a section 8b. Because she lied. And that last me things like custody, and ability to fight my own battles. And meant the police sided with my father.
By the way, you have been provided with a false view of things. When it comes to my life, the view presented and curated by these people is misleading.
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By the way, to live as I did from 2011-2022 (especially 2016-2022) disorganises and discombobulates and disorients the senses. Really quite badly. A bit of an understatement.
“Confuse or disorient completely”,
Mind-body-consciousness-posture-memory-kinaesthetic awareness-habit-proprioception-vision/eyesight/focus-hearing
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I am actually still so traumatised and disturbed by a fair bit of what has happened in my life (physically) that I often cannot describe it correctly. Which sounds naff, but it actually works that way.
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I do understand that these people have psychological theories relating to that sort of thing. But I engage in floccinaucinihilipilification when it comes to almost the entire field of current day secular psychology.
Ps: I insist on using my own language and words for things. It is necessary. Even if the language often seems silly. It’s a choice. Even if I end up using silly jargon. It’s just my way of doing things. Also, when it is the inside of my own mind, I like to use any jargon or words I like.
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People think what they want to think, and believe what they want to believe. And sometimes you just have to talk past it ð€·. Or otherwise work around it.
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I could have made money off of the DIA and fertility courts. And a lot of it. And possibly the police. And I could have named and shamed whoever did this to me (the physical stuff for years, and the fraud) in the media, including political figures. And that matters to me more than women or “CCP fae money”.
I didn’t care about the other stuff (women, “money” and sex). But after the DIA messed me around, and misled me, I decided to be passive and wait. Oh, and the courts were corrupt too. Both family court and district court. And possibly probably so.
I couldn’t even be presentable for court, or find lawyers in person, face-to-face or walking to talk to them. By the way, what happened to me (for those years 2011-2022) was probably an order of magnitude worse than some of you think it was. They denied me the basic use of my limbs, which is why I couldn’t seek justice.
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This whole segment is pretty slapdash^
But it’ll have to do.
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Also, Amanda took my favourite kitten (young cat) and had her killed by the vet, and then had the vet call me to tell me that my kitten, cupcake, had died after being hit by a car. I only found out recently.
I loved that cat.
She was a completely perfect cat, and the first one that was truly mine (we bought cupcake and umiboshi together). I adored her. I can’t understand why anyone would do that? Why would you even want to?
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By the way, I need about six months to restore my body to proper functionality.
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Siobhan lied to the system, and told them that I’m a Taoist. I’m not a Taoist. Taoism is kind of meh. Can she tell the system that I am not a Taoist? And that she lied to it, by telling it that I am a Taoist. She knew that I wasn’t a Taoist.
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Just a few ideas, because I’m supposed to pick an ideology? I’m not sure. I’m not sure that I’m totally committed to this ideology? But just for the sake of argument? Because reverse social engineering wasn’t an ideology to begin with? It just wasn’t? Not that it was something viewed as an “active ideology”?
Liberal democracy
Rule of law
Property rights, Including private property rights (but also collectively owned property has proper rule of law based property rights) - see “the mystery of capital” by Hernando de Soto.
More respect for both the written and spoken word
More respect for the importance of privacy; and active measures taken to improve privacy
And some direct democratic action as a check against the forces of international trade, international governance. And also as a check against attempts to harmonise our business regulatory environment with the international world. And also some direct democratic action as a means of the people choosing their own morality and sense of reality, as opposed to morality pushed by the international system of universities and other academic institutions. Some good examples of this, are allowing members of the general public to be elected to school boards by parents, and also allowing school boards to engage in the “at will” firing of teaching staff, without severance pay, at the start of every year. Or allowing a “people’s seat” on the RNZ or TVNZ boards of directors, elected by mail ballot. Or abolishing defamation laws altogether (they protect the dishonest more than the honest). Or legislating against polyamory. People could choose their own morality codes, as a check against the over reach of the so called intellectual and academic elite.
Market economy with private property (maybe a mixed market economy, with some state assets, and plenty of union engagement. Some level of regulation is inevitable and necessary, but beyond the scope of this comment).
Edit: 65, not 67
This isn’t technically liberal democracy, but I would like to retain women's suffrage, but restrict suffrage by age. I.e. you don't get the vote until the age of 25, and you lose it by the age of 65. Old people lack the neuro-plasticity to cope with our high tech world, and the implications down stream of it. They’re often a little bit past it. And their interests align too closely with the performance of both the property market, which ought to be deflated, and the performance of their KiwiSaver funds (similar to 401k). I am in favour of universal old age pensions though, like we have in New Zealand. Starting at the age of 65 (currently), with some exceptions for certain professions, perhaps. Like early retirement in certain professions, like factory work or being a full time line cook (you should be able to retire and get the pension at 62 if you’ve done something like 20 years labour in a factory, or 20 years in a kitchen, but maybe you work until 65 if you’re a civil servant with a desk job). [apropos of nothing, I think we should get rid of the KiwiSaver scheme, and double down on the superannuation scheme].
If people over the age of 65 are losing their vote, then to balance it out you have to wait until 25 to vote. I think it helps everyone.
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By the way, if we retain the concept of women adulthood and female suffrage, then women can be treated as fully accountable, autonomous and independent adults. Capable of entering into agreements and contracts, and engaging in honest dealings with other people. Which is good for everyone.
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Ps: just imagine if the plebs could legislate morality via direct democracy? I know that technically isn’t “liberal democracy” but I like the idea.
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Independent judiciary? The ability to sack and black list the judiciary. And the whole of it, but direct democratic mail ballot.
Civil liberties, such as freedom of assembly. And the ability to assemble in private. The ability to organise political parties and unions, in private. Freedom of association.
Maybe some way to break the monopoly of universities and other organisations of higher learning over the intellectual and moral landscape of our society. Such as grassroots direct democratic moral legislation, or grassroots DIY education.
Ummm. Social democracy is good, and even bureaucratic managed market economies can be really good. It’s fine. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. And the world isn’t all about specific mass movement based ideologies based on economics at the moment. There are other issues that have come to the fore.
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No morals at all
This is how I felt, maybe 12 months ago;
From my perspective, the fae-druj (aka Plato's philosopher-kings, or the social meme descended from it, or Asimov's foundation), have absolutely no morals standards at all. Why do I think this? They turned a good man into an invalid for six years, and then kept him good man crippled for 7 straight years. In horrific conditions. And they did it to make money. And the wider set maintained oversight, including the New Zealand parliament, and did nothing. There basically is no coherent reality on planet earth.
And they allow and encourage their woman to function as sex workers, for pay, and coerce normal women to become paid sex workers. And also allow people like my father to get away with the Tomoe Takahashi thing. And so they have no moral standards at all. Zero.
That was 12 months ago.. I have learned a bit more now. And changed my mind since.
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From the front page
Why did I end up with a reputation for not “wanting” sex? A history lesson. And a discussion about words.
This was ages ago...
They would ask, "do you _want_ sex". And I would say, "I don't truly desire sex". Or “I don’t want sex!”. Because I can't move my hips and back!! And I'm covered in dead skin and caked in filth! Why should I care about sex!! It's not a draw card!! I tend to tell the literal truth.
But then I'd say, "I could acquiesce to sex, even though I don't actually desire it". Like, duty sex?? FYI, I was having duty sex for years.
And then they say I have to _want_ it. And I'm like, I suppose I could manufacture feelings??! I could try to "feel" a certain way?? Manufacture feelings of longing, closeness, affection, warmth, arousal, physical desire? Connection? I could almost do it as a biofeedback thing??
But I still didn’t "want" sex!? Because why should I!!! I just wanted to be left alone.
So I ended up with the reputation for not "wanting" sex.
It’s language, and blatant miscommunication. Deliberate misunderstanding.
It’s just a history lesson? As to how I ended up with a reputation for not wanting sex!!
I had six years of duty sex with Amanda. Because she told me she wanted a baby. It was out of obligation.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
And I tend to tell the literal truth, and speak the literal truth, in plain clear English. Out loud.
Very often, I tend to be a “literal truth” guy. Almost all the time. Like, I just don’t lie. Sort of. But someone who almost literally doesn’t lie, can’t say I don’t lie, ever. Even though I have a habit (or had) a habit of not lying at all.
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Tuesday 25th November
The Club of Rome
The Club of Rome has published several notable books, including the pioneering "The Limits to Growth" (1972) and other important works.
If you are an educated man or woman, then you might want to be at least aware of them and what they're about.
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Oil, Gas, Top Soil Depletion (particularly in prime gran growing regions), access to water for irrigation, fisheries management, desertification, land ownership and usage rights, pollution of streams and water ways due to nitrogen runoff, access and price of fertiliser. Things like long term global "economisation" of things like the first three are relevant. I can't explain more at the moment. But I thought that I would just bring it up. General environmental degradation is of course an issue.
Long term "carrying capacity" is something worth knowing about.
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Living standards are probably going to plummet fairly soon. We will all get much poorer, and have to cut back on resource consumption. The plan is to do something like that. I think.
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Umm. This is just basic information and education. I’ll put it into the education page also.
It helps you to understand the motivations of the people who run things. But remember that the club of Rome is just a think tank. But it was a mega influential one back in the day. And the intellectual trends and opinions from it resonate through time.
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Monday, 24th November
Sex on the Sabbath
A man wonders if having sex on the Sabbath is a sin because he is not sure if sex is work or pleasure. So he goes to a priest and asks for his opinion on this question.
After consulting the Bible, the priest says, "My son, after an exhaustive search, I am positive that sex is work and is therefore not permitted on Sundays".
The man thinks: "What does a priest know about sex"? So he goes to a Lutheran minister, who after all is a married man and experienced in this matter.
He queries the minister and receives the same reply: "Sex is work and therefore not for the Sabbath"!
Not pleased with the reply, he seeks out a Rabbi, a man of thousands of years tradition and knowledge.
The Rabbi ponders the question, then states, "My son, sex is definitely pleasure".
The man replies, "Rabbi, how can you be so sure when so many others tell me sex is work"?
The Rabbi softly speaks, "My son, if sex was work, my wife would have the maid do it".
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Rabbi Jokes are great
A man goes to see the Rabbi.
“Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it.”
The Rabbi asked, “What's wrong?”
The man replied, “My wife is poisoning me.”
The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks, “How can that be?”
The man then pleads, “I'm telling you, I'm certain she's poisoning me, what should I do?”
The Rabbi then offers, “Tell you what. Let me talk to her, I'll see what I can find out and I'll let you know.”
A week later, the Rabbi calls the man and says, “Well, I spoke to your wife. I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?”
The man said YES and the Rabbi replied, “Take the poison.”
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Catholic Priest and a Rabbi were walking down the street
A Catholic Priest and a Rabbi were out for a walk when they see a kid across the street.
Priest: Hey, let’s go screw that kid.
Rabbi: Out of what?
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Radio Armenia Jokes
Q: Is there a difference between capitalism and communism?
A: In principle, yes. In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it's the reverse.
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Q: Is it true that there is freedom of speech in the Soviet Union the same as there is the USA?
A: In principle, yes. In the USA, you can stand in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. In the Soviet Union, you can stand in the Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished.
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Q: Is it true that the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide?
A: Yes, it is true, and even the record of his very last words is preserved: "Don't shoot, comrades."
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This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: “When the final phase of socialism, namely communism, is built, will there still be thefts and pilfering?”
We’re answering: “No, because everything will be already pilfered during socialism.”
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This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: “What is the most permanent feature of our socialist economy?”
We’re answering: “Temporary shortages.”
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This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: “Why is our government not in a hurry to land our men on the moon?”
We’re answering: “What if they refuse to return?”
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Friday, 21st November 2025
History never repeats
Last time these tards did something, they did the free love movement, followed by the aids crisis, followed by the "moral majority" aka silent majority, a reaction. Moral majority was conservative American Christians. Each was caused by the previous one.
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Thursday 20th November
Largely unrelated to previous topics
Here are a bunch of shady diet and fitness quacks and hucksters. Who deliberately mislead people.
Banting, dietary advisor and noted undertaker
Very serious scientist. At one point he considered becoming a comedian
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Raw vegetables
High intensity
Uhh. Jack LaLanne just plain lies about the type, intensity and quantity of exercise he did on a daily basis. And he lies about this diet too (99% sure). He gives bad advice on purpose. His mentor Bragg is a deliberately bad adviser as well. Also, Arthur jones engages in some mis-advising as well. He pushes the “high intensity” lie. Which I refuse to explain. But too much intensity in the wrong way at the wrong time burns people out.
They mis advise people, but also mix in some advice too.
They are a mixed bag.
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The Atkins and Banting stuff is fascinating too.
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This is a b-side comment, I don’t think that is very good
Mormonism is occultism
Mormonism was invented by occultists, and it’s all occultists behind closed doors. They have funny ceremonies when you end up as an elder in the organisation. With Masonic aprons and funny underwear. And full Masonic regalia. Like free masons stuff. Which is why once the internet came along, everyone one went ex Mormon so fast.
Source: I used to read ex Mormon and atheist content. Like “the thinking atheist” in around 2016ish. Before I de converted from Christianity. FYI, it was at about this time that Siobhan decided to pull the plug on my health.
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Ummmm. They just wanted polygamy, but they also wanted pseudo christian values. And they wanted white babies. Later on they split into the non polygamist set, and the polygamist set flds (fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), run by Warren Jeffs. Their whole society/religion is pretty shady. But as far as I am concerned, the men of the druj-fae are no better than men like Warren Jeffs.
Sorry, I’m not coherent. But it’s true. They’re just occultists. Unironically. Most people reading this know it, but not everyone. It’s not that important.
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Ps: my family had/has ties to masonry. Such as Great Grandpa (foster) and a few others. I think my grandfather and his eldest son maybe as well.
Ps: my grandfather (foster) indirectly invited me to join the Freemasons once. His Dad was a member. I don’t know who else was a member. I don’t know if that is important. I didn’t cotton on to what he was saying at the time. I just found great grandfathers old masonry book/diary (whatever it is called), and I asked if great grandpa was in it. And he said he could get me in, if I wanted to join, because I had a family connection. And I said no thanks. Uhh. I didn’t get the hint/s at the time.
I didn’t know much about them at the time. I thought they were shady though. I had read a conspiracy theory book about them once, lent to me by my pastor. As a Christian, I wasn’t interested.
Btw, my father and uncle Andy used to be best friends.
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I think that his health might have been linked to mine? I think that they might have crunched his torso down using evil space weapons, until he was crippled. Maybe a 2% chance that that happened.
I only visited him once about 2 weeks before he died, because I was too sick to travel. Iirc, the trip in and out of Wellington caused issues with the veins in my ankles that actually never healed up. Travel was so difficult that the trip into town and back damaged me. No lie. Also, he couldn’t walk when I visited him.
This comment is pretty much… I can’t verify or stand by everything I wrote. I don’t have full information. And my head is fuzzy. Sorry.
There is something strange about my family.
See also: Noah’s starship story, talking about Russia losing all of the weak parts, and all the world burning because we were running out of fuel. That story was written in the mid nineties.
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Sunday 16th November 2025
Archived from my other website:
I kind of want to write a swiftian satire of the "universal prostitutes collective".
The universal prostitutes collective was created as a response to the threat of revolution by the proletariat against global capital and international finance. It is supported the hardware of the military industrial complex of the USA, and the information warfare department of the PRC.
Now you can enjoy Sex as a Service, delivered to the comfort of your home while eating franchise fast food, and listening to Taylor Swift. The games are merely a transaction cost.
Please sell your daughters, sisters and wives into prostitution to keep the system afloat, it is the only way to save globalist capitalism. It is literally too big to fail, and there is no alternative (TINA).
But I'm not a good writer, sorry.
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Friday 14th November
Short Stories and Music Videos
Black books clip - Space prostitute robots from the future!!
Weird j-pop link - creepy unc slang
Another j-pop - who are they appealing to here?
^ this is anthropology tbh
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See also Neuromancer by William Gibson.
The female co-lead is Molly Millions: A "razorgirl" (space samurai) with razor blades under her fingernails and cybernetic eyes. She is a tough, dangerous mercenary who is a central character in the Sprawl trilogy.
She works with the male protagonist, Case (a computer hacker), on a heist and initially takes the job purely for payment.
Past Work: To afford her numerous and expensive cybernetic enhancements, she worked as a human sex doll. That is where you work at the “doll house”, switch off your brain and let a computer chip control your body, so that men were able to act out and enjoy any disturbing fantasy they had with her, without her having any memory of it.
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The main character is Case is the drug-addicted, former cyberspace hacker protagonist of Neuromancer, with a blurry perception and fragmentary memory due to his drug use.
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In one scene, she takes Case “for a ride” in her nervous system when going on a mission, and she feels herself up, just to try to turn him on. Typical male mind, amirite? Writers are weird.
Published in 1984, Neuromancer is a fantastic book. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.
Ps: both of the j-pop songs are in the top 40, link here.
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A Few Short Stories
The Dark Tower and Other Stories - book of short stories, including “ministering angels”, “the dark tower” and “the shoddy lands” by C.S. Lewis
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I am really, really trying to sell you on reading “The Dark Tower And Other Stories” by C.S. Lewis. They’re short stories, so it’s fine. I’m not asking you to do too much. They’re not long. I am especially trying to sell you on The Dark Tower, Ministering Angels, and the Shoddy Lands, in that order. You have to click through a couple of ads to get to the download link for the PDF. Here is the link to “The Dark Tower And Other Stories” by C.S. Lewis. The author is not a “Christian” by the way, he is a deeply cynical man with a seat at the table at Oxford, along with a set of deeply cynical long term social planners (and a very influential set at that). He just masquerades as a Christian.
In these stories, he is trying so hard to be edgy or raunchy, but he just can't quite pull it off. He's such a puritanical goody two shoes in most of his works, and I guess he wanted to cut loose in a few of his shorter works. They're still so good, and so informative.
They were released posthumously, presumably because he couldn’t release them while he was alive!
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Ministering Angels: Super weird. Someone said that, if men were to go to Mars consistently (because it would be just men, mind you), society would need to send "nice girls to Mars at regular intervals to relieve tensions and promote morale". So, Lewis ran with that idea. He sets this story on Mars and has these two "nice girls" sent out to keep the men company (wink, wink) in order to tide them over during their six-month stint on Mars.
Review from goodreads^
C.S. Lewis was describing plans to turn normal women into sex workers, that that they could keep men occupied while the men created a new world. It also gives you some insight into the attitudes held by such men about women. The shoddy land is very good as well, it talks about vanity and how it is used to control women, by causing them to become self centred and cut off from one another, and people in general. And lastly, the dark tower is amazing. It is all about the intersection between education, psychological conditioning, and social control. All three of these stories feed into the ideas playfully (disturbingly) expressed in some of the videos above, as well as in Neuromancer.
PS: C.S. Lewis was one of a group of long term social planners living and working at Oxford University. And he wrote this story in the 60s. He was obsessed with making it into “space”, that is in getting satellites into the sky. He died on the 22nd of November 1963, on the same day as JFK, as well as Aldous Huxley.
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The Dark Tower is even better. It is an unfinished short story about the “shadow curriculum” being taught at universities, as seen through the lens of a “time travel” story. That, and psychological control. It’s a little dated, but still amazing. It’s eerie and slightly unsettling. I felt it to be somewhat disturbing. I didn’t know that C.S. Lewis could actually write well before this story. Some people think he didn’t even write it.
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One more song:
Skip this one, it’s deranged:
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Saturday 15th November
Trivia
Did you know that in Tudor England there was a club called the no nose club for people who had lost their noses to syphilis.
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Three Important Concepts
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Garbage in Garbage Out
Confirmation Bias
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Tuesday 11th November
Education Minister
“Xi Zhongxun was designated as Minister of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party and concurrently served as deputy director and Party Secretary of the Government Administration Council's Committee on Culture and Education.”
==> Deputy director Government Administration Council's Committee on Culture and Education
That role is “Government” not party.
Given that he is one of the “8 influential elders” at the time, and also head of the party’s “publicity department”, that makes him education minister.
He is in the Mao Zedong’s “cabinet”, and he is education minister equivalent.
The publicity department could be renamed the party committee for values, organisational culture, cadre curriculum, and censorship.
Given his other role in the publicity department, and the fact that he is the party secretary on that committee, he hight actually be the most influential member on the Government Administration Council's Committee on Culture and Education.
I just wanted to let people know that he was the equivalent of Mao Zedong’s education minister. As well as being head of propaganda.
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You need to know a bit of background for this one
They used AI generated software to automate it
2016 to 2022… Uhh. They set up an AI generated computer program to keep the muscles on my insides taut, or to maintain excessive tension. Even as I shifted from sitting to standing. They did it for years, to maintain the crippling.
It wasn’t “water guns” as these delusional people claim that it was (they keep on telling me that it was “just water guns”, and showing me a picture of a small water pistol, but it wasn’t).
It meant that I couldn’t heal or otherwise restore the proper shape of my torso. Language doesn’t capture the information or truth of the matter properly: but it was a travesty, and worse than you realise. And there was no way to solve it.
They were and are totally out of touch with reality on this one.
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A body into that shape is wrong
To put a body into that shape (I.e. position and arrangement of bones and muscles and sinew) and then to keep it that way for six years deserves a lifetime in prison. A worse punishment than that for murder. Uhh. I’m not being over the top. It was a highly unnatural way for a back, pelvis, hips and shoulders to be. But it is very difficult to pain the right picture for you in words.
You have to have read the other things that I wrote to understand it fully.
Ps: I get manipulated into sounding “shrill” but to tell the truth about these sorts of things makes a person sound shrill. And this set of people have desensitised themselves to human suffering. But it really was incredibly bad.
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I like the term “cruel and unusual punishment”. And it was done in service of the hopes of enriching and impregnating bunch of women/lesbians. It was for money and sperm.
Torture is a fine term, but cruel and unusual punishment fits the situation better.
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Clarification for some of the guys from “Chinese intelligence” who were asking questions
Back at 5 Weka Road when we were 20 (this is in 2009), we were a couple, Christians, married and faithful to one another (so far as I knew, at least). I wasn't a “run away”, and I still had a relationship with my father and mother. My brother even lived with us for a while.
I attended the Coast Community Church, along with Amanda (where both of us were baptized). Many of our friends went there.
I was as sick as a dog; and had just dropped out of university.
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Health problems = caused by satellite/cell tower
Wife = no good
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Everybody knew what caused my health problems, and that my wife was no good. And no one told me the truth. They all kept me in the dark. Including my father, my friends, my mother, my pastors, my many doctors, my physiotherapists, and my in-laws. My bad health (labeled chronic fatigue syndrome - cfs at the time) was a common topic of conversation, and what I could do about it. They kept me in the dark about my very bad health also. I’ve written about this elsewhere.
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Sick as a dog
I was as sick as a dog from 2007 to 2011 (I scraped my way through two years of university before I had to quit), and then I was badly impaired, very badly impaired, for 5 years until 2016. And then crippled for seven years, until 2023.
It morphed from chronic health problems early on into back problems. The health problems were caused by “remote control electromagnetic spectrum nerve splicing”, combined with the manipulation of my bodies own internal systems and muscles to destroy my health, sleep and wellbeing. They caused me to experience significant symptoms using my own body’s systems.
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Ps: these women (Siobhan, Brynn, Amanda, Sarah) have lied to you, and misled you, causing you to behave foolishly.
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Just some history and practical general knowledge.
Cadre System of the Chinese Community Party
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains a system to train, organize, appoint, and oversee personnel to fulfill a wide range of civil service-type roles in party, state, military, business, and other organizations across the People's Republic of China. The system is composed of the several million full-time, professional staff.
China is a one-party state under the CCP. The management of cadres is one of the key ways in which the leadership of the CCP controls Chinese society and disciplines the state and the party itself. Personnel must keep allegiance to the CCP and not develop any competing loyalties. To this end, the CCP enforces tight restrictions on the freedom of cadres to affiliate themselves with any other organizations, movements, ideologies, or activities or to practice any form of religion (although this last rule is sometimes not fully applied or can be partly evaded under certain circumstances). Cadres are not always official members of the party, but most of them are, and those who are not are usually limited to much more technical or specialist roles than their party-member colleagues, with little or no involvement in explicitly political matters. Cadres are trained to be not only competent and dependable administrators but also unwaveringly faithful to the party line and to the pursuit of socialism with Chinese characteristics.“
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The CCP runs party schools that provide training and education to mid-career Party cadres, as well as some military, government, and business cadres. The highest of these are run by the CCP Central Committee and cater to cadres from across the country. They've got special schools, and special curriculums and special beliefs. Like a ministry school. These curriculums seem to be set by the publicity department? Or at least used to be.
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The Central Party School
The Central Party School is responsible for training the cadres of the CCP. It is the highest party school among a network of approximately 2,700 party schools.
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Publicity Department (propaganda department):
In 1938, Mao Zedong stated that the department's focus should be publishing text books for soldiers and instructional material for cadres.
During World War II, the department was assigned leadership and censorship tasks in the areas of theory, opinion, education, and culture as part of the war effort.
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There were always strong links between the central publicity/propaganda department and the educational function of the cadre system of the Chinese communist party.
Their history is discussed on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity_Department_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party
5-7 minute read.
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The dark tower, short story
You have to download the pdf first, and skip a couple of ads. But the download itself is fine.
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Amazon link:
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Short story: no moving parts by Murray F. Yaco
This is a fun metaphor for our current intellectual and technical landscape, our current mode of civilisation, it is in the form of a short story. It’s a fantastic story, and it’s really short.
In audio:
In text:
No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco
“A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine.
MURRAY F. YACO, Unspecialist”
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What does it mean to be a bad egg?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Boys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
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Monday 10th November
B side:
Too tired, need to come back to it later. Will do better job later.
You just live there. But also you might have a few classrooms/meeting rooms, an electronic library, space to study, lecture theatre, radio studio, and a small directional radio transmitter (and receiver), printing press (books and pamphlets), and a file server, and a small cafe/restaurant/bar for visitors. But mostly people just chill out and live, and love life. Still hooked up to utilities. Uhhh. Maybe sixty people live there. It’s mostly accommodation. And you have hundreds of visitors every day.
It becomes a cultural meme. Spreads mimetically.
Goes viral.
And evolves over time.
You can daisy chain them too, if you have adjacent apartments.
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Epistemology
A good way to improve your understanding of epistemology is…. All this stuff.
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge, asking how we know what we know. It examines the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge, considering concepts like truth, belief, justification, and evidence. Key questions include what knowledge is, where it comes from (e.g., perception, reason), and what can and cannot be known.
To understand epistemology and the scientific method, just take a look at some of this. Don’t be too linear in how you understand the materials. Think of it as that you are learning bunch of history about how people created knowledge in the past, and you’re looking at the traditions and customs associated with the creation of knowledge. You’re looking at dogmas and frameworks. You’re looking at actual experiments, and the search for evidence. You’re looking at people trying to “problem solve”, or create useful products. Or to fight disease, and save lives. To keep water clean, or remove waste. Or to manage behaviour. Or increase profits. You look at the lives of many individuals who have done things in the past. And eventually you gain some genuine understanding. You really do.
Start:
Listen to this lecture series, Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World. It covers epistemology, but in a less formal manner. It covers it in a way that positions it within history. Within the story of civilisation. It talks about epistemology, as part of the history of science, engineering, technology and philosophy. It is perhaps the most suitable course for a lot of people. It is ideal. For those who wish to know more about the theory of knowledge, it is absolutely perfect. 110% perfect. And it’s bring enough for a university graduate, but easy enough for a high school graduate. It’s perfect. It’s a soft ball pitch (is that the term?). It’s easy enough that even a business school student or an engineer could cope with it (joking!). That is, it’s not as hard as the openYale courses I keep on recommending.
Next: And then read the life stories of ten scientists. And then the life stories of five engineers. And then read five books in the area of “popular engineering” or “popular science” (stuff like Petroski is good, anything by Petroski is good, J.E. Gordon is fantastic (new science of strong materials or structures or why things don’t fall down), and Engineering In the Ancient World - John G. Landels, Amazon purchase. You can Feynman though; Bill Bryson’s, a short history of everything is actually really good for many people! Sapiens is decent-ish (I reckon language and evolution of throats and mouths is massive)… Guns germs and steel is fun, if you can think, btw, you should use the methods of analysis in geography and biogeography, but not the conclusions. It gives you a lens.) Followed by two books about the “scientific method” itself (hunt one down at your local university’s library. Followed by one introduction to statistics course, university level, like Quan111 or stats 193 (that’s what they were only university, but your local university might have a different name for them). And then a quick primer on how to use APA referencing. Referencing is so important in understanding how knowledge is created and promulgated etc.
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And then do these next two courses (it helps you to understand a lot about math, science and knowledge so much. So much.
History of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600, a lot about epistemology in here. There’s soooooo much epistemology in medicine and the history of disease.
“What is knowledge? How does it work, how is it created? How so we use it? How do we filter out low quality knowledge? How do we sift through knowledge to find useful knowledge? How do we test it? What is reliable, what is relevant? What is useful? How do we catalogue it? What is a dogma, and what is a useful framework? And what’s the difference (if any)? How do you know which methodology to use, and where, and when? How do you communicate with other people, how do you let them know what you know? How do you know that your theories and models are “right” and true, as opposed to simply fitting the data at a particular level, or within a certain range? Do you know how to ask good question? Umm. Did you ever study statistics?”
And then perhaps graduate from second year financial accounting at university (plus audit). Then look at half a dozen medical research papers just for practice, and a dozen social sciences research documents for practise, or whatever. Oh, and read a book that talks about the different between analysis in medical papers, scientific papers, and social sciences, and academic works in commerce.
And learn about accounting frameworks. Actually look at the NZ IFRS handbook. Hold it in your hands. Do it.
That’s a good start.
Epistemology, umm. A lot of it is habit and traditions, customs. History, theories and practise. A lot of it is institutional memory and culture. A certain culture of thinking. You can get a feeling for it. Glhf! Accounting helps a lot. So much. So much. More than you weirdos realise.
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A solid second year level financial accounting course (just pass something financial accounting accy231: financial accounting for second year at university) is absurdly helpful. But audit and management accounting are incredibly beneficial as well. Also, you need to read the frameworks a little bit. But if you want to understand epistemology the hard way, skip it. ^This is the easy way.
Theory of knowledge, and practical “know-how” associated with knowledge.
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Time for a Digression, no, a tangent!
Speaking of Sapiens by Yuval Harari, if you are a learned man, and love education, check out this Wikipedia page on behavioural modernity. Theories and models, such as Late Upper Paleolithic Model or "Upper Paleolithic Revolution". Look at that. But your. Use be aware that there is some obscurantism and misdirection in this field. Glhf.
Personally, I think it is language and the development of our minds associated with language and speech that made us human, and placed us above the animals. Not bullshit nonsense like opposable thumbs. But also I think it is conversation and facial expressions too. I don’t necessarily believe in foxp2, but I do believe in the importance of language, speech and written communication (preferably in an alphabet that includes consonants and vowels; whole syllables are okay too, as in Japanese), as well as face-to-face conversation. Perhaps face-to-face conversation is why we evolved to become bipeds?
The fundamental underpinning of what caused us to be humans, as opposed to mere dumb animals, might be the development of language and the capacity for speech, and the changes to our brains and minds associated with this. That is, evolutionarily. Language spoken out loud, face to face, in words, with some tone and expression to it. And a bit of a sense of humour. In words recognisable across a wide range of people (not just your own clique/family/tribe). The ability to to this. And the practice of doing this. [Just as an aside: if your group of people has even the capacity to learn a spoken language that is mutually intelligible across a wide group of people 5000+, then they count as people. And that includes pretty much every group of people, so far as I can tell. Edit: literally every group. I shouldn’t have to say it but oh well. And that counts as merely my opinion, but there you have it. I got side tracked, because I just wanted to talk about language, speech and reading. Not race/ethnicity. Aside is over.]
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Intelligence
And also written language helps us to develop genuine intelligence, because it allows the transferability of knowledge across space and time. And language written down, in a language including consonants and vowels, or (whole syllables, as in Japanese) helps so much. Because it meshes with spoke language. That helps us to develop intellect. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters can stultify intellectual development in a society, as compared with better languages. See also Arabic, Roman characters, Greek letters, Phoenician script, Hebrew, Aramaic, hiragana and katakana, etc.
Reading changes the mind enormously.
For further development of the intellect, look at the popularisation of the printing press. The Gutenberg press. It is an essential technology because it makes access to writing ubiquitous. Even among the common folk.
Is it stupid to destroy the ability of people to speak openly, and enjoy the fruits of the written word? If this is what set us apart as human (speech), and then gave us the ability to develop our intellect?
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Also, to become people, I think you need not only speech, but relationship. Maybe half a dozen people with whom you are on good terms. Because they are a part of you. And you are a part of them. Such as family and a few close friends. A mother and a father. A brother or a sister. A spouse and two friends. And maybe a son or daughter. You NEED relationships. And if all relationships are mediated by computers in the sky, is this not a mistake?
You, and your consciousness, are made out of the pieces of all of the people you have ever known or cared about. You are not strictly speaking an individual. We are made out of the people we associate with and care about. We need relationships. Especially family and close friends. As well as wider community, such as churches, synagogues and mosques. Or social clubs such as knitting clubs, craft circles, women’s groups (especially church women’s groups), RSA venues, other clubs (used to be invite/membership only) (for example, the “Kapiti Club”) and traditional male clubs (dining and accomodation). Uhh. Or a dinner club. Or a martial arts dojo? Places where you know the other people, and they know you, and you can exclude people to keep the place nice.
Uhhh. Lunch with friends would be nice.
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Saturday 8th November
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The actual episode is good: Springfield buys a monorail from a con man.
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Collectivised Agriculture Costs Lives
“Millions of people died in the Bolshevik revolution”. No, many millions died in both the USSR and Soviet bloc states as part of the re-organisation of society in the direction of collectivised agriculture. Especially in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. They died horribly.
Was China aware that collectivised agriculture policies cost lives? I think so. And I think that the deaths expected and predicted to be caused by collectivised agriculture were considered acceptable collateral damage by leadership. But they overshot their predictions, and they had even more deaths than even they expected.
Please read the Kazakhstan article. It’s a very good one.
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Scientific Achievement
How many nobel prizes in science, medicine, physiology or chemistry does New Zealand have?
3
How many nobel prizes in science, medicine, physiology or chemistry does the People’s Republic of China have?
1
Why do we look at China as though they are the equal or equivalent of places like America? Just because of their GDP or Olympic records?
India has four citizens who have won the Nobel prize in science. Including the discoverer of the Raman effect. Japan has 24, the Jewish people have 154 in the sciences alone. America has 235 across the sciences. Germany has 87. Australia has 15. China has 1.
Is China an intellectual backwater?
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HPV and Cancer
There are more than 150 different strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), a common group of viruses.
They change and evolve a bit. They can cause cancer.
If you can catch them early on, like with a cervical smear, you still have to have your cervix amputated or possibly your uterus amputated.
Note: To use the word amputated might seem a little bit over the top, but I prefer the effect of that term to a softer term like “surgically removed”.
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Anal Sex
It damages the brain-muscle connection, or otherwise modifies and reprograms it. It re-maps it. It damages the mind-body connection as well. That is how it causes you incontinence.
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I made a page about it on my other website ages ago.
howcommunicate dot com slash anal-sorry-awkward-conversation
Or just go to the tab for it.
It’s an awkward conversation.. and I don’t want to lose this website on blogger.
I don’t even want to do it. It’s gross.
But this set of people has/had a fixation on anal sex?!
Poo should be taboo.
Probably.
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Random info dump
I updated my:
There are some more uploads of letters, pdfs and images related to it, linked to at the bottom of the page. The page is really, really messy though. It’s worth wading through if you have time.
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Refuge
I want people to be able to take refuge, and seek shelter.
During the Cold War (including the “cultural revolution”), refugees from the USSR and PRC often struggled to get into the West to seek asylum, refuge or shelter. During the second Great War (ww2) many Jewish, Gypsies (Roma), homosexuals, Polish and trade unionists were unable to escape, or seek refuge.
There should be places to take safety.
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Serious point: cognitive anomalies and cognitive outliers like me may have alternative needs, and may need refuge also. If you have an excellent mind, and like to think discursively, and just let your mind wander, then this system might be incompatible with your mind. And they may fail to accomodate your type of mind. In other words, day dreamers like me may also need refuge. Day dreaming is an incredibly important part of who and what I am. I am a day dreamer, that’s who I am. I am also someone who always wanted to be an inventor. I am a day dreamer and someone who always wanted to be an inventor.
And so I thought, why not create an invention so that people can take refuge? It is a compassionate and wise thing to do. It does an end run around the stupidity inherent in most politically minded individuals if we can just take refuge. Perhaps my ideas will get the ball rolling in the right direction.
Make space for us to live in peace, please? Else we might have to figure out a peaceful, non-violent way to create space for ourselves.
Early on, I wanted to have a policy of non intervention towards what I call “the normals”, in the interests of avoiding too much chaos. But they denied me that.
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IP and patents cartels
By the way, the intellectual property cartel/s are the most evil and dangerous cartel/s in the world. They are worse than opec, and worse than drug cartels.
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// this is only for the curious, or for those who value life long education, and those who are willing to make the time investment to learn these things. Some educated people already know much of what is on this list (many educated people have already covered a lot of this, and don’t really need it). You don’t really need to do it. Voluntary.
Fundamentals in Education, history
If you want to know how life become liveable, and why we should be careful in not losing the good things we have, check these materials out:
Start first with the THREE lecture series I have recommended many times elsewhere (The Industrial Revolution, Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World, History of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600).
Then listen to HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts.
The first three tell you how things changed, and the fourth one tells you about where we came from. This is mostly for people in the Anglosphere and/or English Diaspora (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, American, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, but also a bit France/Dutch/German).
People outside that set might like it also. I took the time to learn some history for Japan, China and India (one lecture series each). So why not?
And then take a look at the “bezoar” reading list. Just read a dozen (mostly histories or biographies) from the list, to pull you out from being poisoned by ignorance (it’s kind of like a bezoar in the popular novels Harry Potter). Or maybe ten will do.
Bezoar:
Michael Faraday
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Ernest Rutherford
Gregor Mendel
James Watt
Humphrey Davy
Charles Goodyear
Thomas Telford
Sir Isaac Newton
Louis Pasteur
Haber and Bosch
Watson and Crick
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
Alexander Graham Bell
Tim Berners-Lee
Johannes Gutenberg
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Niels Bohr
Robert Boyle
Edmund Cartwright (powerloom)
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Josiah Wedgwood
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Warren Buffet
Larry Page and Sergei Brin
Thomas Edison
Other history of sci/eng or pop sci/eng
Wedgwood Ceramics
History of Mercedes-Benz and the invention of the automobile
History of Sheffield Knives
History of the personal computer
History of Texas Instruments
History of steel making (also in lectures)
History of steam power (also in lectures)
The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin
Ancient Greek Engineering by John Grey Landels
Structures or why things don’t fall down by JE Gordon
Invention by Design by Henry Petroski (everything Petroski wrote is good and fairly accessible, albeit a little dry. He writes “popular” works on engineering.)
Reading proportions, do maybe 60% first list, 20% second list, 20% third list OR just read whatever you want.
Biographies and histories are one of the best ways to learn about science, engineering, invention and industry.
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[See also: studies in accounting, economics and business administration; as well as histories in capitalism and biographies of big CEOs, like Welch, Jobs, Walton, Clarence Saunders, Ray Kroc.]
[See also: understand corporations and the corporate model, as well as the concept of a “limited liability company”, a board of directors, shareholder elections, fund management entities, private capital, partnerships as a model, auditing, and financial reporting, and how to do things like IRR and NPV. Understand the concept of stewardship, and accountability. Who is responsible. And with whom does the buck stop? As well as the concepts associated with fundamental investment analysis and druckerian management - see Peter Drucker and Jack Welch, Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet. Even PRC and the CCP have adopted the corporate model for ownership, control and governance].
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Random comment:
Science Stuff
Biography of John Tyndall
Biography of Faraday by John Tyndall
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B-side comment, really messy
I respect the Mao era CCP about the same as I might respect the Idi Amin Regime, or the Ethiopian Derg.
But the way, wilful ignorance in the areas of business administration, science, engineering and development leading to mass deaths is a form of deliberate mass murder. Particularly when a fields such as economics, science and engineering are already fairly well understood. And the history of death in Kazakhstan, Ukraine as well as deaths from collectivised agriculture were well understood. Hi CCP.
And to deliberately stir up conflict just like was done in Rwanda, with predictable results, is a form of mass murder (just learn about the history of the Rwandan Genocide).
Weaponised incompetence is still a weapon.
And to feign ignorance of these policies in the USSR is no excuse.
And mass murder by means of implementing polices almost certain to fail is still mass murder.
Mass murder by means of forced implementation of collectivised agriculture was deliberate (but unofficial) party policy. They play the blame game with one another, but it’s all bullshit.
Death by starvation, it’s a feature not a bug!
Ps: if you understand the other stuff from history (science. Engineering, Industrial Revolution, English modern history, inventor/scientist biography, then the rest gets easier. And if you also understand some basics of accounting, economics and business administration (such as finance, management counting and investment decision). Then you can see that the Chinese killed those 30-40 million in famine on purpose (sort of). They were acceptable collateral damage!). It also helps if you understand some of the history of the ussr: holodomor, Kazakh genocide etc.
History!! Especially in science, engineering history, industry and business administration (economics, accounting, cost accounting, investment analysis, scientific management aka Taylorism, statistics)! It will set you free! It will liberate your mind! Then you won’t need me to tell you it was mass murder, because you’ll already know.
Once you have these fundamentals in place (science, the Industrial Revolution, the history of engineering, the history of mathematics and an understanding of business administration. And some understanding of the history of disease, sanitation and medicine. As well as the history of currency. Then it’s way easier to interpret and understand other parts of history, like the deliberate mass murders by means of starvation that occurred in China. Furthermore, look at the psychological history that happened in Rwanda (that genocide was stopped by Ugandan Christians).
[Digression: By the way, Tutsi were pastoralists, and Hutu land owning grain farmers iirc (don’t quote me on that). There is often tension between pastoralists, and land owners who want to maintain grain farming serfs. Common property versus private property. See also: the international system and its hatred of nomads and pastoralists, aka goat herders, shepherds and certain cattle based nomadic groups such as the Kazakh. Note: the economic mode of agricultural production is incredibly important!). Weird digression is over]
[And then, if you really want to know where the bodies are buried, look into the history of education and the history of universities (but there is a TON of nuance there).] [take a look at what I call “the empire of ideas”, a phrase borrowed from a Harvard Business School professor’s book title, I have never read the book, I just like the phrase. It refers to the world of ideas, ideology and ideologues associated with the university sector].
[digression: Corporations and the corporate model + pre-programmed drones deployed by the “empire of ideas”. Is that how the world works?]
[Accounting based analysis, economic analysis, statistical analysis, and other business administrative analysis. Along with an understanding of science/engineering/medical stuff (via history). These help, so very much.]
Bottom line: education is essential. It is education that helps you to know what you need to know, and I can only help you out my pointing you in the direction of good materials!
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Silly thought experiment on housing
For New Zealanders (we who live in a silly environment for housing).
I really admire the way that Japan deliberately deflates (?) their housing market. If you have a good background in commerce studies, as well as some education building/construction/architecture and the economics of property development, and a rudimentary understanding of Keynes as it pertains to the construction industry, they check out the history of real estate in Japan (along with banking and interest rates). Argentina is also an interesting place to look at. You have to be able to look “behind the fluttering veil” of money though (a phrase borrowed from Leland Bennett Yeager).
I kinda want to crash our housing market deliberately… but I’m so rusty in economics, that I could even do it if I wanted to.
I’d start out with eminent domain being used on land bankers in New Zealand, but pay 1995 prices. Let the land bankers take a bath. And sell only to real estate developers who can guarantee that they can get houses up within two-three years (or have land seized). Pre approve maybe exactly 5 types of houses for the land (weatherboard villa or weatherboard bungalow style) , 2 bedroom semi detached (two types), 3 bedroom semi detached, and only one type of 3 bedroom detached family home. Medium-ish section. Single glazing only, floors and walls unfinished. One story only. My old house in Princeton road was a single level semidetached. It was a cross lease with one shared wall. It has a garden and section and separate garage and driveway. They’re fine. Real estate developers must provide plumbing and electricity and roads. Like the American model for development. Or maybe the council has to do it, and then flood the market with houses.
And then central government provides interest free loans to first home buyers only. And out for these cheap houses. With an option for a partial debt write off if housing prices plummet within 3 years of purchasing it.
Government also buys up these cheap houses.
Housing prices plummet.
First home buyers are underwater: debt relief for them.
Investors are screwed, government buys up their houses on the cheap, and sells them on interest free loans to first home buyers. They buy up houses and rent them cheaply, or sell them cheaply (but not too cheaply).
Just keep flooding the market with cheap houses to buy and rent, until the market collapses. Then chill. We win. Housing is cheap again.
Alternative: Umm. Maybe public private partnership where local councils buy the land, central government puts up the capital, and then local councils assume ownership of the housing, and sell it off cheaply (repaying the debt to central government as they go). Building done by private construction companies, creates jobs. Plans for pre approved houses done by the equivalent of ministry of works. Unsure who does street level planning. Probably central government?
Bottom line: flood the market with cheap housing, both to buy and to rent, to cause the inflated market to collapse. Burst the ”bubble”. Housing should be cheap.
Just a thought experiment.
I studied accounting and finance at university.
End result: cheaper housing, and everyone can own a home. Especially two or three bedroom single level, town houses with a section. Not the evil modern two story townhouses with no privacy, but the comfy one story townhouses that we have in a lot of parts of New Zealand. Like the cross-lease town houses with a shared wall in the middle and garages in the middle. Collapse the market from the low end. Some will understand, some won’t. I’m rusty though.
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Muslims > China in treatment of women
Even Muslims treat their women better than the Chinese, historically.
China is just projecting when they accuse people of mistreatment of women. They have such a bad history.
Confucian scholars had multiple wives and concubines, and had to have their females fed broken, so that they couldn’t run away.
Historically, they just rape their harem, break their feet so that they can’t run away, and then commit suicide by elixir. And they don’t even bother to make sure that their women have sufficient clean water to bathe in, or to drink.
It’s disgusting.
The Chinese are just projecting.
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Note 1: Although, to say “even Muslims” is perhaps insulting to Muslims… it brings them down to the level of the ancient Chinese
Note 2: Ummm. I came from a Christian background, and I think Islam is still a kinda screwed up religion. And I don’t put it in a pedestal. Muslims are still okay though, I think.
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Friday 7th November
English history: two pieces
Here are two important parts of English history, apropos of nothing.
Loss of common property, for good or for ill (sometimes it improved agricultural efficiency, and made it possible to feed the population), English poor laws (giving way to the modern welfare state and the economic philosophies of John Maynard Keynes).
They might be of particular interest to those with a background in economics, accounting, or those who are interested in history in general.
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More Education
To learn more about England, please see
HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts by Professor Keith E. Wrightson of Yale University.
I took the liberty of linking you directly to the second lecture in the series. It is a fantastic lecture series.
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Thursday 6th November
Evolution and ancestry
We evolved from what I call “squirrel-rat-monkeys”. See purgatorius and teilhardina.
^Don’t read too much into the origins and divergence between east and west biologically at that stage of evolution (many 56 million years ago), it’s just academics being weird so that they can confuse you. Evolutionary pressure seems to have modified the Chinese somewhat over the last 2200 years, but not 56 million years ago (bad water, intestinal parasites, disease, broken feet, feeble mothers, small babies and Confucian examinations [do well in exams, have more wives and concubines, and therefore more babies]). Please don’t be offended by this!! Please don’t!! Sometimes you have to be brutally honest! It’s unscientific otherwise. Maybe they developed to cope with poor environment, but needing to do well in exams. And all the same, they had their culture, clothes, tableware, food and music. And bravery and brotherhood in war/banditry, and cleverness in invention etc.
You can skip the small print. Seriously.
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We may perhaps have evolved from cute little squirrel-rat-monkeys (don’t over think it), not chonky chimpanzees or bonobos. And we were nothing like gorillas. We may perhaps have evolved from fairly lightweight, lithe, squirrel-rat-monkeys. This has implications.
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It has implications for exercise, diet, culture, language and intellect.
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Evolution, our voices, and personhood
I reckon we developed personhood when we found our voices. When we developed the ability to speak. And we developed language, which is to say we standardised the mouth/throat noises we made for communication amongst our set of people. What is language but the standardisation of speech among a set of people?
And by speaking in a standardised language to our peers we developed a sort of individual personhood. We developed it by hearing our own voices in our heads. It is by hearing our own voices in our heads that we developed our intellect and personhood. And we got this voice in our heads by speaking out loud to our peers, and hearing our self speak, and then this voice became habit in our head. It just stuck.
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Pre-history
Perhaps our voice boxes and jaws and mouths (see soft palate and tongue) developed, and that is what changed us? And as our voices developed, we gained a competitive advantage over other similar animals, and thrived and reproduced. And then very suddenly, we went from creatures with poor communication to very good communication. I think it’s called punctuated evolution. Within a tiny geographic niche. Maybe over a few thousand years. And then developed from there. And our brains and voice boxes and language capacity developed in unison.
And it is language that makes us who we are. And stuff like fire, tool making, writing, bipedalism, opposable thumbs aren’t what made us who we are.
Our voices make us who we are.
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Abstract Thought
Abstract thinking develops along with all of that, but we had abstract thinking before that. Even dogs have a bit of abstract thought.
I think we ended up using writing as a means of doing accounting. Sumerian cuneiform was created in temples for inventory management, trade and commerce. They used tokens with symbols, and then started writing down the same symbols on clay or whatever to keep records.
Later on the Phoenicians started using Phoenician alphabetic script. It was a very good script for traders (easy enough to learn, unlike character or pictorial scripts, which are too hard, and only good for priests - see Egypt). The Greeks stole that and updated it, adding in vowels, and then I think it became the Roman alphabet via the Etruscan alphabet (don’t quote me on that). The Greek alphabet was phonemic (iirc, that might be the term). And then you can read it how it sounds, and speak it based on reading. This was a pretty big innovation! And it meant that ideas and texts become much more transferable across time and space (aka generations and geography).
It helps people to develop their collective consciousness, and to improve their individual intellect. Again, don’t over think it.
It transfers and spreads via traders who need good ways of keeping records. Often for accounting and accountability, good stewardship and inventory management (are my staff ripping me off).
These languages help us to think intelligently. And are part of the reason that we developed the ability to think clearly enough to do commerce, science and engineering.
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Tonal and character based languages
Tonal languages, and character based languages aren’t like this. They are… different?? It might be best to be polite about them though. I think tonal speakers and character language readers might rely more heavily of peer pressure and “generalised status feel” and guessing what other people think, and empathy, to try to understand what other people mean? It’s just harder to communicate well, without good standardisation. I want to be nice! I’m too soft and fluffy in this paragraph!?
Philology is harder in tonal languages. Or languages with hieroglyphs, or kanji (Chinese characters).
Some people think that science and engineering are easier in languages with phonetic alphabets than in places with logographic writing. Or without a tonal language. But I don’t know. Some people even think that a logographic writing system and/or a spoken language without an appropriate alphabet that represents the word/mouth/throat sounds properly can hold a nation back intellectually and culturally! But I wouldn’t know about that!
Years ago, China had to use English for its scientific and technical manuals, sort of. I’m not sure if they have changed. English is still the Lingua Franca of science and technology.
You have to be uber nice about this sort of thing though!!!
Take this segment with a grain of salt.
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis touched upon this topic a little bit (philology). And anyone who looks at Bible studies and Bible translation will learn about language too.
That’s all for now.
Ps: our evolutionary branching on the tree probably diverged before chimps and bonobos happened. Different branch altogether. Sorry. And our voice possibly has more to do with it than our opposable thumbs.
(Way out there beliefs: maybe we evolved to be bipedal so that we could see one another’s faces better, and talk face-to-face, and this gave us an evolutionary advantage, and that is part of what made us who and what we are? See also the Abrahamic scriptures: were we made in the image and likeness of God, and spoke into existence by God?)
Voices and faces.
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Apropos of nothing…
Marmosets are uber cool
Marmosets use chirps, trills, and "phee" calls to communicate with each other. "Phee" calls are long-distance vocalizations that help monkeys identify each other's locations.
They name one another.
Edit: what if we were more like marmosets and gibbons? Rather than chimpanzees or bonobos? We have all been “conditioned” to compare ourselves to chimpanzees and bonobos. But what if we’re actually more like marmosets and gibbons? Or descendants of creatures more like them?
Gibbons, friendly. But feel sad if you don’t hug them when they show up?? And that’s more similar to our ancestral biology?
Now, you can’t just throw out all culture and the traditions associated civilisation, and be dumb like that. Or abandon all customs, behaviours and educational practises, and all of the social engineering methods of the past, but maybe we’re less like bonobos and chimps, and more like marmosets and gibbons!! We still need rules, customs, education and social engineering though. Just imagine though, what it the chimp/bonobos thing is a false dichotomy?
And maybe we are characterised by voices and faces, friendliness, and the need for affection, avoidance of feelings of rejection, and also enjoyment of moving around. Instead of bonobos and chimps (mean, territorial or obsessed with sexual politics).
Silly “David jargon” incoming; they forces you to “soul receive” the idea that we’re like bonobos and chimpanzees, and we had that installed into our “emotion gestalt”. That is, we were conditioned to feel that way. But maybe we’re more like marmosets and gibbons. And maybe the ideas about chimps and bonobos were silly to begin with. And we should tread lightly when comparing ourselves to chimps of bonobos. Maybe say we’re like all four, a little bit, but more like the first two? But also kinda like rats and squirrels too! And we have a variety of ancestors. It’s just a thought.
Don’t let them tell you that either you are a mean, territorial and violent chimp, or a nice, sex obsessed, matriarchal bonobo. Maybe we’re neither!! Just because some people might look like chimps (lol), it doesn’t mean we evolved from them (or a common, or parallel ancestor).
False dichotomy!!
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Wednesday 5th November
This next segment on hookworm is too long. But it’s still worth reading. You can skip it if you like.
Hook worm
Historically, this is one of the reasons that certain societies failed to thrive. There are many diseases and health problems that cause a society to fail to thrive. Iirc, the philanthropic community eliminated it in the southern states of the USA. Just like they dealt with yellow fever in Central America. The philanthropic community did a lot of good work in disease control.
Sometime people groups get falsely labelled as lazy, when in fact they’re just suffering from too much disease as a society.
Malaria is a big one. As was typhoid. 2-3 bad bouts of typhoid, and you might not thrive as an individual. Something to do with weight gain, historically.
China:
* Hookworm was once considered a major cause of illness in China, contributing to its reputation as the "sick man of Asia".
Still is a problem.
They used to use a lot of “night soil” on their crops. But they didn’t process it properly first!! You’re supposed to either hot compost it!! Or slow compost it for an extended period of time first…
“due to the widespread practice of using human waste as fertilizer, leading to high rates of infection.”
People should learn all about the life cycle of the hookworm, and what it does to people’s health, constitution, energy levels, ability to thrive, and intellect.
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Maybe a documentary series would work? Like a good one.
It isn’t covered in the Yale lecture series I listened to. Stuff like that is a different “school” of medicine. Tropical medicine and parasitology.
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Quote ripped from google:
While public health efforts, including those under the People's Republic of China, have reduced the prevalence of the disease significantly since its peak in the mid-20th century, it remains a public health concern today. Early 20th-century medical missionaries also played a role in introducing Western treatments, though their use was linked to colonial practices.
Pre-1949 and early 20th century
High prevalence: Hookworm was endemic and was a major factor in China's reputation as the "sick man of Asia". Infections were common in rural areas, especially those with intensive agriculture like rice cultivation.
Cause of infection: The main transmission route was contact with contaminated soil, often facilitated by the use of human waste ("night-soil") as fertilizer, which was a common agricultural practice.
Symptoms and impact: Infections contributed to poor health, with symptoms like bloody stools, anemia, and listlessness, especially in children. These issues were linked to economic underdevelopment and malnutrition.
Early medical interventions: Protestant medical missionaries introduced Western medicine, including anthelmintic drugs like santonin, to treat parasitic infections and gain public trust, notes a study on Wiley Online Library.
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We sent things like missionaries!! But they’re often ignored in the past in China!! It’s so hard! So hard! Not related to hookworms, but China has an alarming habit of killing missionaries (as well as envoys, emissaries, diplomats etc). Apropos of nothing, Protestant missionaries tried very hard to stop the Chinese engaging in the traditional Confucian mutilation of the feet to control their women, but with little success. Chinese = too proud to listen to advice! But look at the Japanese and the Meiji restoration, history here. They actively sought out advice, and thrived because of it. Why can’t the Chinese be more like the Japanese? Seeking advice isn’t a sign of weakness, it is a source of strength and wisdom. Humility is a virtue.
People should read up on the history of intestinal parasites like hookworm. And need to understand “tropical medicine”, as well as normal medicine.
Here in NZ you can walk barefoot.
Education Action point: after studying the three main lecture series that I keep on referring too, and the bezoar reading list, you might want to spend 3-4 hours learning about hookworms. A book from your local library might be best.
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Try this:
Technically, it is a child’s book. But I might even buy it myself! I could do with a solid primer on this topic.
“What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centuries? This exciting medical mystery uncovers the secrets of the parasite hookworm, commonly known as the "American Murderer," and is the latest title in Gail Jarrow's (YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults award-winning author) Medical Fiascoes series.
Included on NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" List
Finalist, 2023 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
ALSC Notable Children's Book
What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centuries? This exciting medical mystery uncovers the secrets of the parasite hookworm, commonly known as the "American Murderer," and is the latest title in Gail Jarrow's (YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults award-winning author) Medical Fiascoes series.
Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s.
Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of the first public health organizations, he and his colleagues treated the sick and showed Southerners how to protect themselves by wearing shoes and using outhouses so that the worms didn't spread. Although hookworm was eventually controlled in the US, the parasite remains a serious health problem throughout the world. The topic of this STEM book remains relevant and will fascinate readers interested in medicine, science, history-and gross stories about bloodsucking creatures.”
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Iirc, the Rockefeller society eliminated it in the southern USA. Just like they dealt with yellow fever in Central America. Rockefeller society did a lot of good work in disease control. Sometimes people like that will just get things done, even if you hate them. I have mixed feelings about the involvement of billionaires in public health.
Sometimes billionaires have the freedom and capacity to just say, nah, whatever, and just fix a massive intractable problem. And they can blast past red tape, and human stupidity. But there are also problems with that approach.
End segment about hookworm.
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One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
Genghis Khan
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B side comment (or c- grade tbh)
Sewerage in the water
Pipes dumping sewerage into the ocean. This is what happens when you have the fae-druj in office. (Note: fae is equivalent to elves, aka fair folk, but not the nice version of elves, see Pratchett, C.S. Lewis, and also on Faerie Stories by Tolkein).
When i talk about hygiene and sanitation, you have to watch out for this sort of thing.
See my educational materials for more information. When fae-druj and those who embrace mediocrity and low quality thinking run things, you can expect sanitation and public health to suffer.
Ps: oriental parade is our fancy beach, for fancy people. Inner city.
Andy was the major, but the pipes bursting wasn’t all his fault. Although he was on the council for about 30 years all up. Not all his fault! Mostly not his fault! A lot of that sort of stuff is down to bureaucrats and maintenance staff. Low quality people don’t care about getting faecal matter all over everything. It’s a wider cultural issue. Good people maintain good hygiene and sanitation. Low quality people don’t bother.
His main house is in the Wairarapa now anyway. He moved out of Wellington. He’s now an MP for New Zealand first, our “nationalist” party.
This is all just for background.
End segment about sewerage in the water.
See also: eastern (including India and the far east) beliefs and sewerage in the water. Things may look nice on the surface, or at first glance, but they’re not so nice when you put it under the microscope. Some places are nice who have eastern beliefs, but mostly they aren’t very nice.
They out up with corruption, and bad treatment of people, and ideas! Sometime! Often! There is a strong correlation!
Abrahamic values are usually better, such as Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Mormon, Secular Humanistic (judeo Christian in origin). Geography also matters. Like Japan is an island nation, and I think that helps. They also have forests and plant life that _feels_ right. I’m not sure why the Japanese don’t suck in the area of hygiene, but they don’t.
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Eastern values: turn a blind eye… esp Buddhism.
Close your eyes, close your ears, hold your tongue. And society degrades.
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Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.
Genghis Khan
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I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
Genghis Khan
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Tuesday 4th November
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Miki Matsubara
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Eastern Religion
If you want to know why Eastern religion is bad for women, look to India’s ancient history, not China’s.
A society with millions of prostitutes, thousands of brothels, where wives are controlled, and husbands dread marriage, a place where widows are forced to kill them selves (it’s not love, it’s game theory; to prevent wives poisoning husbands, and to clear away "annoying" widows who become busy bodies). A society conquered by Muslims. A society that is highly oppressive, including to the “untouchable” underclass. A society of almost unimaginable misery, darkness and despair for the common folk. Some people act like war is the worst thing that can happen, but I disagree. Generations of miserable existence in ancient India might just be worse. It was full of disease, famine, vice and misery.
For more information:
https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/a-history-of-india
This will start you in your journey towards a better understanding life in places like India.
Also, far too many of you have no concept of how bad things like filth, disease, and material poverty were in places like ancient India. In the ancient past. So many people have NO clue about the material lack and poverty of the past, and the implications for famine, disease, lack of education etc. (back to China for a moment, the poorer commoners were literally cold, hungry, poorly dressed, sheltered and shod. Partly for Malthusian reasons. And no healthcare after having kids. And no dentists. And no glasses and books are too expensive to buy. A lot of people lack perspective. So badly. So much.
The public health was appalling! Disease would spread, and just hang about in the population!!
We can move past it! No more eastern religion! No more ignorance! No more darkness! Polytheism and idolatry are horrible. Eastern cults are dreadful.
It really was awful for women, and for the poor. Awful for a lot of people. Awful place. Don’t insult the people, but it wasn’t a nice history.
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And yogis were traditionally considered to be creepy weird sex pests, and not held in high regard. If you want the true Indian “physical culture” of the past then look at Indian wrestling, not yoga. Men like the great Gama.
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Ideas for “pleb politics”
Remove all taxes from beer. Including excise taxes and GST. GST is currently 15% (thanks John Key). Make it cheap.
Remove 50% of taxes from cigarettes and tobacco.
Then people will drink beer and smoke tobacco, instead of switching to spirits and methamphetamine? We could create a culture of beer drinking instead of a culture of harder drugs. And people tend to moderate their consumption of beer, due to fears of weight gain!
These are things you can do by means of what I call "pleb politics" (I.e. direct democracy at 66%). Petition initiated referendums. And you can bypass the gremlins of public health, and social planning wonks and academics.
They are easy wins.
[FYI, for the international set, we don't have much cocaine here in NZ. Mostly just weed, meth and alcohol.]
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Prohibition was a Scam
By the way, alcohol prohibition was a scam, so was the temperance movement. The system wanted to create and fund a criminal underworld, so it pushed prohibition. It sucks.
Bootlegging alcohol is profitable.
See Al Capone, also see Chicago in the 30s.
See all of the other crime families to see if alcohol had anything to do with financing their activities. For example, Kansas, just to pick one at random.
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If prohibition and the temperance movement was a scam back then… then what does that tell us about prohibition and the war on drugs now?
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Two more ideas
These two ideas aren’t any good for “pleb politics”, but they are good policy ideas. Maybe
How about having a "class c drugs license" for taking class c drugs. You can get a special license by meeting certain requirements. Firstly, be employed (or independently wealthy). No welfare recipients. Secondly, be over the age of 23 (both weed and ecstasy cause brain damage by the way, and your brain is still developing). Thirdly, pass a multi choice test about drugs, just like the NZ learners drivers license permit, and Fourth, get a doctors note stating you are of "sound body and mind" and can cope with taking class C drugs.
And you can only take them in a licensed venue. Cannabis at a cafe venue (with food, no alcohol, closing time of 6:30pm. Not open on Sundays. The only supplier and importer for cannabis is the New Zealand government. Don’t grow it here.
Ecstasy, you can take it only at a government licensed venue, and these places can open only on Friday and Saturday. The person dispensing drugs is a government employee, show your license to buy it. But pay the venue salesperson. The only MDMA importer and wholesaler is the NZ government.
This de-escalates the war on drugs, thus reducing scope for police intrusion into our lives, and cutting off (and reducing) funding towards gangs. It also sequesters annoying druggies and no-hopers away and down-and-outers away from the decent normal people.
Note: I don't like drugs, and I dislike both the people who do them, and those who sell them. But I do favour a deescalation (and perhaps cessation) of the war on drugs, combined with a harm reduction approach.
I don’t want to normalise drugs, or encourage more drug use. I just want to deescalate the “war on drugs”. Or perhaps bring an end to it.
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I told you guys over and over again that I wasn’t at war with you!
I asked over and over again to be left alone. Both for your sake, and for mine. For your safety and for mine! Because I thought I probably had enough intellectual heft to come up with a few good ideas!
I wanted peace, and I wanted to chill!
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Monday, 3 November 2025
Ignore tbh this one
B side comment:
Posture
Firstly
Simple walking helps with posture, 45 minutes a day.
Secondly
Simply closing your eyes to listen to the radio (quiet classical music or similar, bbc radio four or similar, quiet panel discussion shows/podcasts or similar) for an hour helps. Everyday. But! You need to get up for two minutes every 20-25 minutes to yawn, stretch and flex.
Bonus points, sit in an upright posture, as though you are meditating. But only if you know how. For a total of one hour. Keep those eyes closed, mostly. Let your breathing become steady and even, if you can.
Reason: the eyes link into the head-neck-back relationship. And without giving your eyes a break, the posture degrades over time. Some people read literally ALL day, or work all day at a computer, or stare at screens all day. And there is a particular type of people (hyper driven industrialist/entrepreneur/capitalist/inventor) who sometimes takes it too far. And ands up with bad posture and tons of surgeries, or other issues.
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Third idea, do a funky dance in front of the kitchen kettle every time you make your morning and afternoon tea. It keeps your body and muscle-brain connection from shutting down.
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Fourth: a bit of basic fitness of any kind is good. Like table tennis, or swimming, or cycling, or the gentlest gym resistance training exercises, or body weight poses and stretches suitable to your fitness level (see stuff like Tibetan five, or hatha yoga). Or gentle sports and body weight fitness. Or maybe you love hockey and jump rope and hitting punching bags. Whatever works for you.
Use your own judgement for the fourth point.
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Wait a while. And see what happens.
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Five:
And then solve the following problems.
Use your own judgement
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Lack of basic quadriceps strength.
Small quadriceps.
Small glutes.
Decent calf raises, range of motion.
Adequate "pushing" muscles (pectorals, triceps, deltoids). Swimming and gentle gym résistance training can help with this.
Adequate "pulling" muscles in the upper back, such as mid traps etc. gentle climbing can help with this, or seated rows. You actually have to be specific with these muscles. And rotator cuffs.
Build a climbing wall:
Climb a mini climbing wall, use it daily, get to the top and take the stairs down.
Here are some ideas for a climbing wall:
Like these, but a little bit bigger, and for adults, and with stairs down. Take it easy though. Some people believe “no pain, no gain”. I disagree, for gentle climbing wall daily nervous system “activators”, the philosophy is “pain is no gain”.
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6th point
And then do a little tai chi, thrice weekly for 6 weeks, and quit. It’s actually bad, because flat footed, but has some okayish ideas.
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Those six items
That might indirectly improve posture, and breathing. Without creating weakness and feebleness.
Age… might be impossible to overcome.
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Sunday, 2 November 2025
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I admire the Jesuits, and also the Augustinian friars (like Gregor Mendel).
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B-side comment:
Random ramble
We evolved from squirrel-rat-monkeys (I think). Teilhardina, purgatorius. And if we’re really badly evolved, and we’re still working with badly adapted hardware! What if the adaptability of our organism is good enough for survival, but not thriving.
What if we can’t actually thrive based on traditional habits, or on modern “scientific habits”.
Ideas: maybe… vitamin C and beta carotene is needed, and from fresh sources, in large (ish) quantities. And that means we need to have plain apple/carrot juice daily, 300 ml, from extremely fresh organic produce, picked and grown from high quality soil - for apples, picked and stored appropriately. But that the system “borked” juice and vitamin C and brought juice and vitamin c supplements into disrepute. Maybe as squirrel-rat-monkeys we had vitamin C, and our badly put together bodies still need it. And lots of it! But we don’t get it. What if we also need lots of fresh green tender herbs. And we evolved for that, and we don’t get enough. Stuff like mint, basil, cilantro (coriander leaf), Thai basil, Vietnamese mint. And also we need some amount of tender green leaves, similar to rocket, spinach, mustard greens, mixing, miner lettuce. We evolved from squirrel ret momentous!! But these things actually hurt our digestion, because we’re actually really poorly adapted to life as bipeds. Just poorly adapted to anything. And maybe the only way to eat greens is to eat them young and tender, and sauté them. And many the industrial food supply gives you awful, awful greens that aren’t worth eating at all.
And the system lied to you, pretending that you need 10 raw vegetables a day. Or some stupid nonsense. But maybe your body can only cope with and benefit from cooked vegetables (especially greens), and needs good soils and fresh to be worth eating greens at all. And you actually genuinely need to have something like and carrot juice (or fresh orange juice, from fresh oranges) to thrive at all. But we get lied to and told that we need green juices (which are bad for you) juiced raw greens turn out to be bad, maybe. And spirulina and other powdered algae turns out to be bad for you. And so does matcha. Or whatever. And maybe rice, pasta, plain white bread (no fast bake method, and no “crusty” exterior, just normal white bread, perhaps bread rolls or buns (see brötchen, weggli, Faluche, baguette, English dinner rolls, any white buns, normal white bread, home made white bread) are the true staples (whole grains are okay as well, but only in moderation, they aren’t actually ideal). And beef has health improving qualities (at the level of 4-5 pints per week). And wine turns out to be a scam, and it was just correlated with the “chill” gene when it comes to life extension.
Me aren’t chimps or gorillas who are adapted to devour masses of vegetation! But even they struggle!
Too much vegetable matter, particularly uncooked, can be bad for you. Too much fibre is actually bad. Excessive “roughage” from excessive whole grains, excessive vegetables, nonsense like LSA mix, or excessive black bread. It’s a scam. I reckon oats are okay though. Stuff like raw buckwheat, soaked and sprouted and then toasted is bad for you. Too much fibre. Can be tasty if ground up and out into pancakes though. Whole grains are overrated.
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What if….
Umm. You need greens, but have to be cooked with oil, tender, and fresh and daily. From great soil. (If not fresh = worthless)
And maybe you need fresh, sweet juice of fruits, daily, or else you lack basic goodness (vitamin C, and associated compounds).
But uncooked leafy greens are worthless and bad for digestion.
And raw vegetables in large quantities aren’t very good for you. Including leafy greens.
And weird juicing is a little bit bad for you, like broccoli in your carrot and apple juice. Or spinach, rocket, dandelion greens and cabbage. Or wheat grass.
And wine is actively bad for you.
And maybe too much rice is bad for you, and causes failure to thrive. And lifespan isn’t everything.
Maybe chicken and fish are very good for you. And beef and lamb are great in moderation.
Black tea with milk is good for you. Coffee with milk is good for you. They’re both just as good as green tea for health. Moderation is important with coffee and tea.
Maybe water quality becomes a huge issue. You can taste and feel the difference so much. SO much, when it comes to quality water for drinking and cooking.
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Squirrel rat monkeys
Quadrupeds
Poorly adapted
Vitamin c from exactly 300 ml apple and carrot juice (sweet juice, nothing green) fresh from your home juicer.
Sautéed or stir fried greens daily, stems chopped out, daily, excellent quality, painfully fresh, always fresh, always organic (you engage in the organic philosophy of soil quality first).
1-2 serves of cooked vegetables from among things like carrots, parsnips, pumpkin, leeks, onions, green beans, peeled and deseeded tomatoes and a few others. Cruciferous only in moderation. Garlic, and plenty of it. Chillies.
No mass consumption of raw vegetables (raw water melon is fine, and readily digestible)
Raw berries are overrated, turn them into jam. Superfood my foot.
Wheat grass juice is a scam
Spirulina is a scam
Raw greens in juice is a scam, total scam
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We came from purgatorius, maybe. With a brief stop as teilhardina. We were lithe, active, cute little squirrel rat monkeys. And our body remembers. Perhaps exercise habits should take note? But you can’t really ape the past too much. You make mistakes that way. So maybe we look at what works in modern times, while being informed by the past. Maybe we weren’t bulky chimps who are strong and lift!
Stuff like jump rope, running and playing and jumping. Tennis and soccer and ball tag. Playing on playground equipment with a nerf gun, or ball tag on playground equipment with a koosh ball. Retaining the agility, dexterity and playful liveliness that we ought to have. But as former quadrupeds, our bodies need to have their forelimbs stimulated. And they need resistance. And our nervous systems need to climb and scurry.
Or be conservative: walking has been shown to be well tolerated by many generations of humans. Very many! Maybe that is the best!
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Maybe
But maybe some upper body exercises help too, like literally anything at all. Like tiny exercise machines, or mini weights. With extreme moderation, avoiding burnout of over doing it. Maybe walking for an hour a day, and then doing a half arsed workout a few days a week in the gym on the machines, without really fatiguing yourself much. And then playing a racquet sport.
Or swimming.
No action points here. None. Just food for thought.
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Wednesday 5th November 2025
Random quote:
I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
Genghis Khan
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See also: Wrath of the Khans by Dan Carlin, available on his website https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-the-khans-series/
I couldn't recommend it more highly. It's like a documentary and/or lecture. It's educational, but makes fantastic listening. It's amazing. It's the best out there. He defined a genre with his work. The history podcasts genre and the medium of podcasting was changed by his work.
See also:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12868041-genghis-khan-s-rules-for-warriors-writers
Maybe Chinese culture was just so corrupt and evil that Genghis Khan just said, “yeah whatever” and conquered it.
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21 December 2025
I just pulled this from my other website. This comment sucks, but I’m keeping it for reference purposes. Honestly, just skip it. And yes, I’m breaking the rules of my ordering system for archives!!
Tldr: the women are cute, but these guys misrepresented my point of view!
The women of this "scheme" are "basically physically attractive to me". They are. But the waters get muddied all of the time. And a lot of it is due to language issues.
The other issue is that a lot of them are really, really bad people.
rephrase: in other words, they are "pretty enough to date". But the system has been messed with so much that it fooled the viewers into thinking that things are otherwise. They fooled people into thinking they I think they're all "not hot". But that's just semantics.
This page was placed here a long time ago in the past for the purpose of responding to accusations that I did not find the women associated with their scheme or organisation physically attractive. It is perhaps no longer useful. But it may be interesting to some people. It isn't well written. The language is clunky.
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"Basically Attractive", aka they look good to me!
The women of this scheme are basically physically attractive to me...
Angela, Emma, Clare, Brynn, Anna, Siobhan, Grace.
It is just that their images don't/didn't cause feelings of lust... Explanation, there were some points where I was supposed to look at images and feel turned on. But I wasn't. I just didn't care. It is a very specific thing. There was a specific "game" involving biofeedback and pictures, but their pictures don't do much for me. The games are stupid. By the way, context matters. That was for a very specific situation.
And...!!! They are part of an evil, profit oriented operation, which is a massive turn off. The scheme is so evil, and so horrible, to cripple a decent man for seven years, that it makes their souls repulsive to me, even if their bodies are attractive.
But their bodies are attractive. If I wanted a girlfriend, would I be happy to have one who looked like any one of the above mentioned women? Yes! Or like any one of the women mentioned below.
And many, many other women in this.
It saddens me that I even had to make this page, but I wasn't falsely accused of not being attracted to any of the women in my life!
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Have I seen any other women who I considered "basically attractive" during this maddening scheme? Yes!
All of the following are classified as basically physically attractive to me as well:
Tamara
Leah
Gianyu (I forgot name!)
Desiree
Amanda - KaikÅura
Kickboxing class girl
Keri
Amelia
Rihanna, the bar woman at the abandoned bar
Bonnie
Hayley Anne
Hanae
Emma (1st form)
Monique
Ambika
Clare
Brynn
Emma McKay
Lucy
Anna
Grace
Jenna
Anita
mckaylah
Kavita
Angela
Jessie Hendie
Jess Mackenzie
Emanuela
Sarah - name forgotten
Thu
Nikita
Margarita
empire bar
French at Te Anau
The Indian woman in the lobby of the sky tower
The 3 bar women and waitresses @ speights bar on the corner
The Japanese woman in the "bed rock bar" in the Hutt
Maya, the bar woman at the Brook at Rangiora
I’m just stashing this here, because why not?
This holds (kind of) true for mainland China as well. Just look at their nobel prizes. They have only three of them, and two of them are useless prizes in worthless categories. And the only one in physiology/medicine is only slightly better than a participation trophy to me. If you look into it, it’s just for a little bit of research based on a herbal remedy for malaria. If you need a benchmark to compare it to, look at Australia’s Nobel prize winners (relative to population). Or look at Canada, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Norway. And Japan.
This next comment is ripped straight from some forums:
While I'm not going to say that Singaporeans are entirely incapable of innovation possessing the great and creative qualities to qualify for a Nobel Prize, it's our inherent cultures that make it so difficult to freely express our ideas in the society we live in.
If I may point out the majority of the population here, we Chinese may have had lots of inventions, but we hardly know who the inventors are. Maybe we have highly romanticized and fictionalized tales of the invention of paper, but nobody knows who the heck figured gunpowder, silk, the bank note, the printing press, or the compass out, et cetera ad infinitum. That's because our culture that dates back millenia has always been obsessing over scholarship and education. Scholars that take and pass the imperial exams become government officials and generals, and one may note that the only remembered inventor of paper was a high-ranking courtier of the Emperor's court. The rest of Chinese society was considered too insignificant to remember, no matter how brilliant their inventions were.
So there you have it. All along, we Chinese have always placed a very low priority in our culture on the innovative and off-the-beaten-track qualities that encourage invention and innovation, preferring the safer path of rote learning and spoonfeeding in education. That's why no matter how much money nations like China or Singapore could throw at our scholars, we'd never have a Nobel Prize - because our societies tend to suppress the factors and qualities that are needed to earn the Nobel Prize in the first place. The casual observer will note that Nobel Prize winners of Asian descent were either born in the West, or moved to the West at very early stages of their lives.
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Chinese Nobility and the Quest for Immortality
Also known as, the tragedy of Chinese civilisation
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Edit: I am lost for words. Lost for words.
What a tragic nation. A tragic people and a tragic nation. Deserving of so much pity.
They sought salvation through the consumption of elixirs made from lead and mercury and deadly mushrooms, and killed themselves again and again.
They did it to achieve metaphysical goals, and also to engage in spiritual/religious experiences, I.e. visions and hallucinations. And for drug related euphoria. But they did it to make their corpse in-corruptible. That is, to achieve salvation beyond death. Like the pharaoh of Egypt, they wanted to preserve their bones forever. But they started mummifying themselves before death.
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This is well worth reading. I read every word. I just don’t understand how anything this awful exists. If you have a Christian background, you might really benefit from this. They did awful things to themselves. For “salvation”.
People like this are worthy of pity. But I’ll explain more later. It’s worse than you can imagine!!!
See the section: hypothetical explanations, and read all the way to the end of it. And then start from the start of the pages even if you think you know it. It is mind bendingly insane. It blows my mind.
A lot of people know it, but every day new people are born. And there are 17 year olds who have no idea!
“Despite common knowledge that immortality potions could be deadly, fangshi and Daoist alchemists continued the elixir-making practice for two millennia.”
"It is almost ludicrous to assume that a Taoist (commoner or emperor) could have died from accidental elixir poisoning"
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People like this are worthy of pity. They did awful things out of fear, dogma, and because of superstition.
But you must also understand that a society this damaged will produce people with deep and all pervasive inferiority complexes, who then sublimate that into feelings of resentment towards the outside world. They are hurt so badly emotionally by the idea that maybe their culture is so screwed up that they want to show themselves as “good enough”, or worse “I am as good as you” (the attitude from Screwtape gives a toast, cs Lewis). And they may do horrible things, just to feel like they’re good enough.
They may take their own feelings of perceived inferiority, and turn them outwards to prevent their feeling bad about themselves. It happens. It’s awful.
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Sometimes I am just trying to educate the general public, who can read this blog.
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The book of revelations and the book of jude are lies. They’re just philosopher-king propaganda. Aka, fae propaganda or dregvant lies. I am 90% confident that this is true.
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Posted in the wee hours of Monday morning
Draft….
I haven’t finished this post yet. But I’ll update it and post it in the right location in a few days. It’s draft version one. Full version posted in a week.
Draft:
A brief note about boxing,
Introduction
I have received many questions about boxing. And also have faced many false accusations, either of being secretly useless at the sport or of being too “psychologically aggressive” for even doing it in the first place, let alone talking about it. Or I have faced false and misleading insinuations that I am trying to train up an army of angry normals. So I figured, why not side step all of that nonsense and tell things in my own way and in my own words. And so I’m just going to tell the story my way, and explain it my way.
That is, dryly.
The target audience are normal people in places like New Zealand and Australia. At least that is the primary audience. The secondary audience are people further abroad. For example, people in places like The United States of America, Japan, Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, or any number of different places around the world. But basically anyone normal, and especially anyone who isn’t a member of the philosopher-kings (aka, the fae). I’m not doing it to impress girls either (that is, I’m not posting this to impress women).
I’m not going to understate things so much this time. Sometime I downplay things a bit, but downplaying things and soft pedalling things might seem smart at the time only to cause confusion further down the road. So this time I will try to write plainly and clearly.
Here goes…
I think I might just give you a diary entry that I wrote for my own records, largely unedited. And then refuse to defend it through argument or debate. This will upset and bother some people, but perhaps that is the best approach all the same.
Perhaps that is the best approach all the same.
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This was first written for my own records…
A brief note about boxing
I was decent at the sport without being spectacular. (That is an understatement. I tend to understate things. Modesty and humility are fairly important to me, in a non-committal sort of way).
By the time I quit, I was satisfied with what I could do, and with what I had learned, and with what I had achieved (I.e. I had become genuinely decent at what is a fairly challenging sport, and developed some solid fundamentals and learned the basics thoroughly). And I felt that it was right, sensible and appropriate to move on. I wanted to quit while I was ahead.
I had developed what I would call a “reasonable amount of comfort” in sparring and was fairly comfortable in the ring.
I had become good at punching and had what I considered to be fairly good power, speed and accuracy for someone of my height, weight, build and age.
I preferred to use my jab as my primary means of defence rather than relying on, or focusing on, head movement for defence.
You kind of control the situation with the jab, and the use of space, distance, range and timing. I boxed orthodox (not southpaw) and I didn’t switch stances (except as a training drill, in shadow boxing).
Also, I could block, parry, deflect, slip, duck and move around lightly and freely on my feet.I didn’t do much of the bob, weave, roll “type of thing”. I didn’t like it either. That is I didn’t rely as heavily on complex head movement for defence as some other people did, preferring to use my jab, as well as straight punches in general, as already mentioned above. I would rather go head hunting.
(If I might elaborate, I was quite comfortable with things like sidestepping and slipping punches, while I parried or deflected simultaneously. Before pivoting, resetting my feet/legs for throwing the next combo. I was also perfectly comfortable with ducking under punches. I just didn’t like hyper complex head movements. That is perhaps over explaining, but such is life.)
I had some experience in controlling the space I was in, like not getting cornered, cornering them, paying attention to where I am in the ring. In other words. I practised fairly conventional ring craft.
At the time, I thought about training for, and then finding an amateur fight. Just for the experience. Kind of like as a capstone experience for me before I quit the sport. But in the end I felt that I that having done plenty of sparring was enough experience for me. And given the nature of the sport, the risk to reward ratio, and a bit of cost-benefit analysis, the wear and tear on the body, brain and face. I felt that it was time to move on. So I quit. There was always an “unspoken time limit” when it came to my participation in the sport.
I devoted plenty of time to shadow boxing. At the time I believed it to be one of the most important and useful ways to practise boxing. At least once you have all of the other fundamentals and basics in place. Sometimes it is like sparring an imaginary partner. Sometimes it is like sparring an imaginary sparring partner. Sometimes it’s just doing drills and scenarios. It’s kind of like mental practise you’re doing. You’re learning the mental side of things through visualisation and practise. But you’re learning it kinaesthetically, because you’re actually doing it. It is important anyway.
I developed good reflexes. That is, I had good reflexes in general before starting boxing (thanks to table tennis and judo), but developed even better reflexes by practising boxing. It's good for your reflexes. It makes you quicker.
And over time, you also develop some instincts and intuition. Shadow boxing helps with that too.
The style of boxing I had was fairly conventional, and the training and instruction I received from my instructors at boxing was also fairly conventional. (Please note: the quality of training at Dion Crouch’s “Zero Tolerance” Muay Thai class before I even showed up to boxing was excellent. I went there for six months before I even moved to the same town as my boxing class. I learned a lot there. But he is an expert in pedagogy with a masters degree in educational theory - you can look him up on LinkedIn if you want).
I jumped rope, I did bag work, focus mitt work, did some sparring, and plenty of shadow boxing, amongst other things. I also felt that cardiovascular fitness and endurance, strength and conditioning, and other elements of fitness were important, so I did those too. There was some breathing stuff as well (exhale on a punch - I used a “sss” sound. I understand that people now might use a grunt sound when they hit bags or throw punches? Im not sure what is currently fashionable. I used a “tchh” sound if I got hit in the abdomen, while tensing my abdominal wall and exhaling. It’s hard to explain in words, but I just did it). I practised the breathing stuff when punching, sparring and doing particular medicine ball drills.
I also made fairly good use of a number of online resources. I tried to stick to the most conventional and respectable advice possible. That is, I stuck mostly to the staid, tried and true methods, with a strong emphasis on basics and fundamentals (please note, this was back in 2004).
I tried to avoid excessive analysis, that is I wanted to avoid “analysis paralysis”. I also wanted to avoid overdoing with research and reading. I also wanted to avoid being hyper cerebral (technical? Geeky about it?). And I succeeded at this. I wanted to keep it super simple, and so I did.
I focussed on basics and fundamentals. And the things I learned online meshed well with what I learned from the instructors at boxing itself.
I also learned a lot just by watching the other guys spar, and from sparring myself. I also imitated their technique in bag work a little bit. By the way, sparring is kind of like a laboratory. You experiment! And if it works there, it works. If it doesn’t work there, it doesn’t work. And you have to go back to the drawing board (what going back to the drawing board means is that maybe you try stuff out in shadow boxing, see what works and what doesn’t, and try it out in sparring, and see if it makes more sense). There are exceptions though.
That’s just about it. My brief post about boxing.
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This piece was cut from my blog on the 3rd of February. It wasn't good enough. It just plain didn't make the grade. It's just here for the sake of completeness.
For Perspective
Just use these as a way to improve your perspective. To develop your understanding, and how to develop good and better judgement.
These aren’t orders, and are not part of an ideology.
I will probably rewrite this while bit soon. I probably could merely have posted a clip of the Benny Urquidez mini clip, and the Gene Tunney video. I reckon you learn most stuff just by doing it though, in sparring.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhIlPOk_vUD1oOlGGeLMVSlU3cyVRPdm1&si=yl7AOeF5lryhIc4g
Another addition:
I like the bit at 2:09 and 3:54 in the Tunney clip, that statement is made without explanation. The whole Benny clip is gold, that statement is made without reservation. It's gold. And the type of training in the first clip (the Kata) is fantastic education, especially when starting out. It is magnificent training for the mind and body. It prepares the mind and body (you have to stop it over time, please do less kata once you know it). Other than that, you need to look at as many clips of old school boxers jumping rope as possible!
If you want to know how to move around the ring, just watch a clip of Gene Tunney half a dozen times, but don't be "too technical" or too "scientific" about it. But just observe the way he moves around _in general_. He's just moving around! Just don't stay in one place. And then also watch the clip by Benny about two or three dozen times. And absorb it. And then practice jump rope again and again until it's "part of you".
KISS = keep it super simple.
And then practise moving around in shadow boxing, as well as punching. And practise moving around in sparring. Just practise.
KISS = keep it super simple, or keep it super simple.
It's not about what's inside your head, it's about what's inside your bones. It's about what's been engrained into your "muscle memory" and your nervous system. Because that's what's going to come out when you need it. In fact, that's what you can "access" when you're stressed out, or under pressure. Contrary to popular belief, men seldom rise to the occasion. Rather, they sink to their level of training. And as a fairly notorious fellow once said, everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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Those are the only clips worth watching of the ones I posted.
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I like that clip of Terrance Crawford shadow boxing. He moves nicely. But don't try to imitate him. I like him shadow boxing. He does nice shadow boxing. It's just an example of shadow boxing. You move around, but you're imagining fighting. It's giving your mind practise, by moving around. It's kinaesthetic education. But when you practise shadow boxing, you don't have to throw 100% punches. You can just throw half punches, or whatever.
Shadow boxing is extremely important.
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I don't know why I put in Harry Greb. But look at him jumping rope. It's sloppy to look at, but it's conditioning him. And it makes his legs "alive". It's good for putting oomph into him from the ground up. It trains the legs. It trains the legs. It trains the legs. It doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be flash. You're not a peak performance athlete on steroids with sport psychologists training you, okay? You're just some random. Look at as many boxers jumping rope as you can. But keep it super simple! Keep it simple, stupid!
Jumping rope is fundamental.
Do it.
Do it, do it, do it.
But keep it super simple.
He's actually a genuinely bad example to follow for jump rope. Find better examples. But then once you've seen some examples, just do it. Lots of it. Lots and lots of jump rope.
Greb died of his injuries though. He fought so much. He and Tunney were epic guys. Tunney was "scientific", Greb was a windmill of damage and harm, but his training was extremely "scientific". He understood things. These guys worked so hard at it.
Greb is weird. But fascinating.
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I can't find any good examples of basic bag work online. Not one. I haven't searched hard.
I saw one of Joe Louis training on a bag. That was the least shite one I've seen. But maybe it is just a YouTube thing. There's so much garbage online these days. I didn't do the internet thing that much when I gave boxing a go.
You might have to just watch a normal guy on a bag. I can find no videos.
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I would actually advise against doing the sport for any real length of time. Teeth are expensive, and damage to your face and brain is no joke. As well as damage to hearing or eye sight. And I'm not sure it's the healthiest training in general, long term. But it's great to learn to at least throw a punch, hit a bag, jump rope, and how to stand right, in the correct stance, and to move around a bit, and how to guard.
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Tldr; just watch the Benny clip a few times, it's good advice. And it's actually enough for a lot of people.
Watch the Tunney clip and learn from it. It's enough for a lot of people. Sooooo many people. It's enough. Just the advice from Benny and the Tunney clip.
And then jump rope plenty. But find better examples, and just do it.
Also, I like this little thing some boxers do to close the distance (with the feet, it's one-two, one-two rear foot, front foot, rear foot, front foot). But it's not hyper technical. I can't explain it. You can see Tunney do it. But the Benny clip covers almost everything tbh.
Look at the Gene Tunney clip again. Look at how he sometimes double steps his way in (back leg, front leg; back leg, front leg).
By the way, if your reflexes suck, just play table tennis, hand ball and squash until they aren't. And if your feet are garbage, just play soccer and jump
rope until they aren't.
It's just about basics, and getting back to "normality". Fundamentals matter, and basics are nice. And there's a lot of bogus nonsense.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I do know a thing or two about education, pedagogy, learning and science. Including how these apply to sports.
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I have been writing under difficult conditions for the past year-ish, or since about April last year. It hasn't been pleasant.
The first few months included many yowls of pain. Sometimes it was quite awful. I suffered excruciating pain on many occasions.
This is one of the reasons the quality control I exercise over my writing has been poor. And so I apologise for that, even if it isn't totally my fault.
Ps: I'll edit this whole thing sometime. I'm not sure when. I'm just doing it to kill time until the ivf information comes through. I actually need to write up some better articles.
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Another clip, apropos of nothing. He’s just moving around the ring.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTm9W04DR_Y/?igsh=MXBqNHZqMGRmZ3JhcA==
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