you can fool me easily enough ... but you cannot fool god-or-nature

08_06_2004
Dear 'private diary',
I do hope that no one reads this and takes what is written as evidence of 'psychosis' ... or whatever ... because as I had actually spelt/spelled out explicitly on a few occasions it this is an open sketchy notebook - with 'raw id' elements - ... so what is written here is rather impressionistic and subjective and 'of the moment' and not to be taken as is an indicator of 'conclusive states' ... or whatever ...
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Anyway ... Venuse Observed ... well it was by some today ... but not by me or the natives in my neck of the woods ... because it was cloudy and there were lightning-thunder storms ...
... still ... wihtout historical conext ... and some astronomical and other forms of understanding  ... the 'transit' of Venus 'over' the Sun was only a brief black spot to look at for a while ...
... in other words: what you know does colour what you see ... and what you look for ...
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As it happens clouds and storms was quite venus-like in some ways ... because it is a hot cloudy stormy planet ... runaway greenhouse effect and all that ... and there is no life there as a consequence ...
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Lessons to be learned ... if you have a mind to learn them ... include ...
Astronomy teaches you patience ... [8 years to wait for the next transit of Venus ... more than 100 years after that] ... and humility ... [you cannot control the clouds, etc] ...
... and ... well imagine the Earth as Venus like ... cloudy [so you never could see the sun] ... stormy ... too hot for life ... way it might go if we do not pay more attention to the way we are wrecking the environment ... but that is another story ...
... as is the possibity that 'earth systems' might well wipe out humanity before we became too much of a threat to Earthly life continity ... and that is a direct warning ...
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Anyway ... sexing up the dossier ... Venus could not be properly observed because she was s frigid cow and kept her legs shut ...
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... but that is just 'psycho-babble' ...
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Anyway ... one reason I do not comply fully with the 'caring' parts of the psychiatric and psychological research networks is that stuff they learn is fed - albeit mostly unwittingly - to the less caring parts ... eg the corporate advertizers ... and the military establishments ...
... consider the deliberate and systematic [and that is what it was] mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq by American, British and other forces ... now ... there was a truly dreadful lot of psychiatric and psychological understanding went into that ... not just into the humiliation and torture techniques ... but also into the manipulations used to get the humiliators and torturers to do the disgusting deeds ...
... but that is a long story ...
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Anyway ...
... decisions ... decisions ...
... despite the fact that I have been pushed to the political margins by circumstances I remain more mainstream and moderate in my political opinions than is generally understood ... I am certainly still a parliamentarian of sorts anyway ...
... I would not vote Labour again for the forseeable future though ...
... certainly not with Tony Blair as leader ... he is no longer trust worthy ... he misled the country over the reasons for going to war ... he ordered an illegal aggressive war ... true Labour leaders just don't do that sort of thing ...
... and the local MP who is a Blair lackey and an arrogant elitist tried to trick me - and others - personally ... so I would never vote for him again ...
... what are the alternatives though ... ? ...
... every time I look at one of the slimline 1992 10p piece [some short changing going on there surely] I am reminded of 'Black Wednesday' ... and that the people who almost bankrupted the country then were never properly called to account for it ... and that all of them seemed to personally prosper, actually ... some signs of some deep systematic corruption there, I rather think ...
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Anyway ... the reasons people have for supporting or not supporting one party or another are often quite odd seeming ...
... take the Liberal Democrats for example ... I would never even consider voting for them ... because ... C. was a Liberal Democrat ...
... this might seem very irrational but ... an ex-girlfriend was a disloyal lying cheat ... and a Liberal Democrat ... so I have it in my mind by a sort of association that the Liberal Democrat party is full of disloyal lying cheats ... absurd, I know, but that is the way it goes ...
... and anyway ... it is a party of watered down social democracy ... diluted greenery ... that has abandoned most of its former principles Liberalism ...
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Cookie was an odd enigmatic one ... wasn't he? ... Navigator ... Venus Observer ... Continent Discoverer ... Diplomat ...  etc ... actually impossible to label satisfactorily ... same goes for eveyone in fact ... but that is another story ...
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... eventually Cookie got careless in his diplomacy ... or else just got tired of  'enduring' [I know that feeling ... even though I am not actually actively suicidal ... my resources are used up ... and I have more or less given up the ghost ...] ... and Captain Cook got killed by some angry natives ...
... anyway ...
... where was I ... ? ... lost in the past ...
... while in the present ...
... so much bad faith bullshit about ... and too many people who just don't seem to give a damn about anything much except themselves ... [it is not 'all about' individuals and families ... or 'selfish genes' ... (oh ... and by the way ... the new fascists are a serious threat because they do have a new agenda based on corruptions of 'selfish gene' theory) ...]
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Meanwhile ...
... oddly enough I do not take kindly to - or find myself inclined to give more trust to - people who lie to me and try to cheat me ... and I do not think that is a symptom of paranoia ...
... but anyway ...
... as I have said often enough ... you can fool me easily enough ... but you cannot fool god-or-nature ...