satguru 
|
Besides rain and darkness it's nice and warm at the moment, it has been since about Monday after one night of ice and after the last few years a great relief. It's been a busy week one way or another, a trip to the woods, seeing the TV producer, went to the gym and scanned even more old photos when I thought I'd added them all, but the albums still have material worth using. It's also the worst week for photography of the year and although will hardly change for a few months at least isn't getting worse now. I've got a growing list of places to go next, and at least some can just about get done before the clocks go forward.
The rain was at its heaviest all day, and with an hour to go before the holiday closures got my broken watch back to the post office after being offered a refund. Selling faulty goods in Britain is almost impossible without an awful lot of careful wording, and basically can't understand why anyone would do so as you always return them to the manufacturer's and get the money back in full. You can't see something coming you don't expect to happen. Now I just have to see the money in the account as (although we pay before things arrive) I don't know if they'll wait till mine does before they pay me back.
As it's Christmas then although nothing else around it has changed that'll stop me going to the gym and as always if I wake up early enough will keep on taking the photos. I discovered a firework display last new year I couldn't go to as people were coming as always, now they're not I can go this year. Otherwise I've had no replies from the article, summaries or copies, I expect most are deleted before they're even opened. But information does not wear out over time so is sitting there like the one I had published which was about four years old before it was. |
Reply #801. Dec 23 11, 6:42 PM
|
satguru
|
Almost Christmas now (less than an hour), but history means dinner is in the evening for a few years at least and will see if I am up to take photos tomorrow as usual which I've done on the others before the family arrived later. I am a collector first so like to see all mine add something as soon as possible.
Otherwise it's the outdoor gym for a couple of weeks, better than nothing but no big weights. They're closed but a free one nearby I have to use instead during all the holidays. The rest of my plans are handed over to others now, having sent articles all over with absolutely no response besides one request to see it and nothing since. I really don't want to put it online as no one takes any notice unless things are on paper. It's like the difference between hearing something and reading it. I've sent another new article off as well but she's a fussy one and not expecting much after not liking anything else I've sent her. I expect the TV lot will be away till the new year although they start filming then, but unlikely to get the decision there much sooner.
Back to my old friends and associates, I am thoroughly mystified why my old object of desire is so nice to me and wanted me to go all the way to where she lived (after asking to meet half way) for tea and sending me all sorts of nice messages. She was never interested in all the time I knew her and has been happily married (as far as I can see) since she got in touch more recently- she's actually one of the only people who found me rather than vice versa and although I've never seen a single woman change their mind had she been single I'd have had a job to do much worse.
I went to about 7 schools (depends if you count council colleges and two I went to on trial) so know far more people than most, and a good many followed me to one or more as there was the local route of primary school, public school and tutorial when people got kicked out. I did the full circuit (I wasn't kicked out of public school but the one after) and followed by many more while I was there. Other characters included the two suspected (ahem) druggies who both threw furniture at the deputy head and called her names normally reserved for referees. The chair flying through the air will never be forgotten by those of us hiding round the edge of the room to keep watching and hope nothing hit us.
There was David Amias, only known for his acne and fact his name had been slightly altered to Ay My Arse, Patrick Kemmis who looked like a chipmunk and only talked about transistors, Bryan Land, whose sole qualification to mention was even bigger teeth than Patrick Kemmis and never actually talked about anything, (god help me, one day someone's going to find their name here and I'm going to get it big time...), a poor girl we called Hippo and probably half the people to this day only know that as her name as a result, poor Marilyn the student maths teacher who also had acne and got more flak in a term than anyone else in a whole career, and unless another set of memories follow at a later date, Charles Camilleri who was one of my swearing tutors in primary school. One used to feed me material whenever he got it from his older brother, while Charles just sat at the front of the class just in front of me and let it rip. He wrote a song about us once which could probably have made a hit on Youtube had it been 40 years later and covered at least half the words in itself, I may even remember it soon.
I expect over half my school days were pretty dull and in the case of the public school three years of misery, but luckily we tend to save the good bits and can take the parts in between for granted we all had to put up with. |
Reply #802. Dec 24 11, 5:49 PM
|
satguru
|
Another day, except it's Christmas. I realised yestderday I don't remember having a cold for a few years, the first time ever. Then I got one, Christmas day. Go figure. Not a bad one at least but what timing. We did the usual walk and I went to the outside gym, and regardless of the light the temperature was more like October. But the internet still has people who would miss their daily dialogue, and been chatting away today as normal.
My books tell me nothing is wrong. Anywhere. Everything is exactly as it should be. That of course comes from enlightened teachers, and our work is to trust them that if we aim for it we'll see the world that way as well. And even if it feels like caca we must look for the meaning in it. My only guidelines are how things were in the past, and can't imagine life being much better, but can't imagine it being the same either, as firstly that was over 30 years ago and secondly most of the people aren't here now. But once we know how we want things we appreciate them if they do as most of us don't at the time.
Another spiritual theme (mentioning that usually means I haven't done anything worth reporting) is that mankind as a whole is evolving spiritually, and the tribulations happening now are designed to teach everyone to grow and wake up, meaning if millions of people are being misled then once a few realise it they'll make such a fuss they'll tell others. Sitting on the sidelines watching the lemmings not just heading off the cliffs but trying to drag the goats with them is not a pretty sight. Bringing it back to my schooldays it was the same as when Tony had an accident and tried to hide it (and similar happened to me). If you poo your pants in class basically everyone knows. If you are found with the dinner money with someone else's name on the envelope you're busted. If you have mashed potato falling out of your pockets it's a fair cop Miss. But admit to colleagues you made up climate data, get someone who finds it in writing and covers the media with it and no one who didn't guess it was happening already believes it. Well that turd is sitting stinking in the middle of everyone's carpets, and pretending it's a bunch of roses will never make it into one. The Climategate2 emails are now the subject of a private prosecution, and as only the minds of 12 random citizens are involved then I wonder how they'll see it should it get that far, but the real question is that if everyone else had admitted fraud openly and been busted they wouldn't be free now pending trial. When a step is made in politics, whether busting a cheat or vetoing a treaty, it's only a little way there. Cameron is already considering a new German version of the treaty, as the EU has more patience than a female snail waiting for her children to come home from school. The system is try the way you want, and if anyone objects move it around a bit (a bit like moving the poo into different arrangements, excuse the theme but you must be used to it by now already) and eventually all the stragglers come back to the fold.
It's been good for my mind, as having information for the first time in my life has proved inadequate, I had to learn presentation skills, not my forte. Not that they've worked yet but I have learnt how to do it a lot better from being sent flying like a jokari ball. My clients come to me for help so have open ears and minds, but ordinary people on the internet don't expect someone to question their absence of facts. You get nothing but hostility and as we're all in the same boat if not part of the problem then we have to try and be part of the solution. Finally of course millions of people worldwide have worked out entirely on their own that man made global warming is both diverting the world from real issues and absolute nonsense. We're around 20 years now since the stirrings of the Club of Rome followed by the Kyoto Protocol, while energy is taxed like alcohol not being a luxury has not altered in usage, and the CO2 emissions have completed the test of charging more does not (and could not) reduce usage. Eat less, starve. Travel a mile less to work. That's he logic they try and use, and it's really no different from trying to pick your nose with a glove on. You can try as hard as you like but you'll never get a thing out of it (see the smooth segue from one bodily function to another). So their methods have failed, no question. But meanwhile temperature data grows annually, as does ice and not sea level. The figures are ordinary. And if you learn the trick which made a 30 year cycle stand out like an erect phallus (can we say that here?) rather than a beer sodden passing reaction you'll see the ordinary figures are even more so. Totally made up in fact.
So who polices the police? You're left with one group and no other, the people. Yes, the ones they work for. Most people have forgotten that situation, they all work for us and we pay for their wages. |
Reply #803. Dec 25 11, 5:32 PM
|
satguru
|
Having not had a cold for the longest period of my life it had to come Christmas day. I managed a walk today but that was the best I could do. Otherwise it's the normal winter routine once I'm up to travelling around again. It's a shame as I had the time to go a lot further but not up to it. Let's hope it doesn't hold me back much longer anyway although would need a couple of hours at least traffic permitting for my next planned trip to Essex.
It's always been incredibly irritating when news stories begin and then take indefinitely to play out. You get a start and then it drags on and on, little happening with the odd breakthrough, goes backwards for a while and then seems to drop off altogether, having finally been killed by the powers that be who were responsible for the wrongdoing attempting to put back each story as it comes out. But wrongdoing is about doing the wrong things, and can't undo the crimes after the events. Like any good detective show the traces never go away. But it takes forever if anything ever does get dealt with.
The same goes in our own lives, not so slowly usually but just as maddening. The media of course are the worst, they start projects and end up using a handful, and is pure chance if and when you get a call back to use your work. As far as I go I have the model of life I'd like from the 60s and 70s. You can't create a family or community to order, and although I still see my parents (separately for 30 years) most of the rest of the formula has long gone as you'd expect. On the inner work I keep doing that as have since finishing college 20 years ago and having the time to study for personal growth ever since. But changing to the sort of level where things just don't bother you is pretty much like going to the gym and expecting to make the heats of world's strongest man. However irregular my work has been if you add it all together it amounts to a heck of a lot. But reaching that stage is a luxury, until then we are as we began, suffering with whatever life throws at us and enjoying the bits in between. I wonder sometimes how few people on this path do actually change in a permanent way, as although I've crossed a line impossible to do without meditation and the like, it is (as the teachings tell you) not the goal and only a little gift along the way. Only the permanent changes count and can't see a single one as far as I can tell.
I try not to moan, but when you get to a certain time in life and realise most people have more or less done everything already and you haven't and the time is running out then you do wonder how long is left to get anything you need. I've been researching UFOs and aliens most of my life, and the evidence that we can communicate with something far more advanced than us, but they refuse to show themselves to more than one person at a time seems to pretty well kill that topic from the beginning. Spiritual teachers promise things either after lifetimes of work as they used to, or after any amount of work as things have begun turning to. But the general issue is this, you get clues the whole time but almost all of them fail to deliver. I do know what it takes to cross that line in every area, and am still waiting. I may be waiting forever but that is the nature of the problem. |
Reply #804. Dec 26 11, 2:09 PM
|
satguru
|
I spent half the day in bed today, which was clearly needed to regain my energy after barely sleeping on Saturday. Then the good news, the ex called and said she was about to leave, but this was 9pm. I said do you really think you should get here at 10 and then expect me not to eat until then and then take you home god knows when considering I'm not 100%? I think she was half expecting that as otherwise she'd just have turned up anyway and not called to tell me. She of course wanted to come later in the week but may well be going to the gym for the couple of days it's open before it closes again for new year.
Otherwise I have a growing store of new photo trips to make. Nature decides when I wake up and then if time get out as far as I can before it gets dark, rather than just choosing an area during the summer and even if not leaving till 4pm am still snapping away at 8. Of course if I had a replacement hobby for indoors I would take over, but so far I just keep up by general research and wander around locally . I was just sent today more background into carbon trading, discovering Enron was actually set up originally in 1985 by none other than Michael Milken, one of the greatest frauds of the 20th century, who created and sold worthless bonds until getting caught and going down for who knows how long. These junk bonds are now alive, well and legal as carbon credits. Rather than waste such an opportunity the UN have adopted a method of generating revenue on a virtually limitless scale simply by literally charging us for the air. If it was a film we'd simply watch it and accept as an extreme fantasy version of income tax or property tax, but no, it's real. A growing percentage of our income is now paying for the air we breathe. If one day enough people woke up and realised this there would indeed be a revolution. But when? |
Reply #805. Dec 27 11, 5:51 PM
|
satguru
|
A lucky break yesterday, the ex called at 9pm and said she hadn't left yet, so I said to forget it as it takes almost an hour to get here. So I had the night off, watched TV and messed around here. Just as I was going to bed there was an interesting topic to call the radio about so got straight on and was on till the news on the hour. It was sunny today and still not up to long drives just went to get more printer ink and some drinks and went for a quick walk before it got dark. The free photo paper my friend gave me was two types, one was marginal but the other stuff can't be used at all (apparently some only work with their own ink) but only lost a little ink on wasted prints. The cheap stuff I usually get appeared OK so will go back to that, the Kodak paper is better but not spending that much the number I make.
There's a little TV later, no other plans, and hope to get to the gym tomorrow before it closes again for another few days. I still wonder if any of my big projects have an end to them, the number of clues to alien life are incredible, but they still prefer to work incognito, as if we could be any worse as we are without their help. If your children are about to walk in the road you don't wait till they grow up and learn the road is dangerous, you pull them back. Unfortunately if alien life really is here they may be harmless (they as a rule have never hurt anyone), but as they are clearly able to travel across a galaxy or more then our problems will be so easy for them to fix and they would know it would take hundreds of years for us to get there, so why not speed it up a bit? I would in their position unless it breached intergalactic law. My arse... |
Reply #806. Dec 28 11, 11:18 AM
|
satguru
|
It's free, two posts in one day, I should worry. You're getting more value than me as you can read it not knowing what is says in advance.
It's been a nice easy day, sunny so got my photo ink and drinks, had a little walk and went home. There was a reasonable run of TV (one left on video for later) and worked my way through various items of donated food as when I don't buy it I have to eat it sooner as most of it will go off otherwise except what's frozen. Christmas was better for that than usual, not for me directly but my father only eats organic sort of stuff from health shops, so all the cakes and things he gets end up here and save half my shopping for weeks. And this year was a record, fruit cake made not with the usual beetles and caterpillar eggs but dried fruit- apricots, almonds, dates, etc all stuck together and filled with strong alcohol. Now that's a fruit cake. It did have some beetles but the alcohol was so strong it masked the taste along with the nuts.
My cleaner then said she's coming tomorrow, and had I known would have taken money out when I was passing the post office. So I went back on foot and it was busted. The nearest one is two miles away and I'm not driving there after midnight, and means before I go miles to the gym tomorrow I have to park where no man can fit a car in the opposite direction, or walk again and waste even more time, just to either find it's still busted or go over the road and have to buy something from the supermarket to get cash out.
The rest of the week is booked up with my mum and new year fireworks, and then if I can get up in time of course the next photo trip. Grace has been incredibly busy so I am off the current radar, not such a bad thing as her best asset is not on the menu. My intellectual female friend (also rejected by, as per) has now studied finances for her investments (lost them all, but now understands the system, better to learn from books in my opinion) and thought the difference having to listen to a list of shopping and films seen over the holidays and spiritual development and economics realised you can't make a professor out of a pussycat. Even if some cats could learn economics and politics we'd probably never be able to translate what they were saying. If there is the higher power directing these women at me, as my books and experience imply, what the heck is the point of approaching 40 years of junk? The filter works this way. There are so many women I like and so many who like me, and as with most people the two groups are about the same size. But in my case the overlap is tiny. Under ten in all that time. There were many at the margins where we thought it was OK until we spent a couple of months learning about each other and one or the other going off. Only that tiny sliver in the middle continued unabated, except Liz where we both ran out of material after a few months despite her being one of the best looking and cleverest women I've met. That was the cause of my full testing process being created as I needed to know why on the same night we both wondered what we'd talk about. She had no sense of humour. She was a bleeding misery, and nothing which happened, except other people's misfortunes, put a smile on her face. It was a great shame as she was good company usually and bloody attractive.
I only need one of course, as marriage is not meant to be until a replacement arrives. My friend asked me yesterday what I do about it nowadays. I said I am alive. What can you say? With the internet now you don't even have to go out to meet a woman anyway, although I do. But dating sites are the only equivalent of a single woman shop as most other things are simply placed in a building and offered for money (am I missing something else here?), but even if I am I am looking to buy and not rent. The person filter for both sexes (I can't be accused of sexism can I?) is age related. The mid to late 20s stops the majority of conventional people and like flypaper takes them out of the market, and by 28 about 80% of my friends were married, within a single year. Those left are not conventional. Mental illness, physical issues, social problems, you name it, whatever basically puts you off puts almost everyone else off. So while there's maybe another 5 years for the few stragglers to be mopped up by the early 30's miss that round and you're up brown creek.
I was dealt my last joker at 36, as she was 31 she was one of the stragglers I describe, absolutely normal and attractive and never met the right man, apparently. She dumped me after about 6 months as she had met the right man a few months before meeting me and I was just to try and divert her on her mother's orders. The family have two sons and twin daughters, and they have tried to marry me off to both as this was Grace's sister. The normal one. Although she has improved since, back then Grace was a far nicer person, but as described earlier. Pussycats will always be nice but not scientists or professors. Or even librarians or teachers. Just pussycats, purring, rubbing up to you, licking their bottoms and killing rats. Great friends but you could never marry one.
So the higher power is seriously taking the peepee. As with all men the older I get the more accepting I become. The opposite to most women who try and avoid anyone like their exes until there's hardly anyone left. My circle of acceptance widens, (not suitable for metaphors here, use imagination) while the available pool dries up like Lake Baikal. All the water was drawn off before it reached the old destination. Friends are suggesting sponsoring someone abroad who wants to live in the country, but with a top divorce lawyer in the family know the tricks there too well to lose all my money now and for the rest of my life. This seems a problem with no solution, as described the other day. Maybe the one on Facebook would start grating on me after a while (she certainly used to) but has softened with age and may have grown out of the old rabbit that stopped her from rejecting all my phone calls. I phoned as I always wanted to see her, but it was just an opportunity for her to rabbit and that's all that ever happened. But bottom line, I've started seeing how other areas of my life appear to be guided, and the teachers all say it is not selective, it covers everything. If you can't see the reason straight off you must look for it. I need an image intensifier here and infra red vision. Blimey...
|
Reply #807. Dec 28 11, 9:37 PM
|
satguru
|
I had to wait for the cleaner today so no chance to take photos. The cold is almost gone so went to the gym and hadn't lost any strength after the much shorter gap than usual over the closed period. Not being able to alter body clocks no matter how early I went to bed I would still usually sleep at the usual time, so can't just do a King Canute in reverse (he sat there to prove he couldn't stop the waves) and sleep early by going to be early. I want to go to Hertford next (far easier than Essex which will probably be easier in the spring) and would need to have enough light to get there and take photos as well as eating and doing my ablutions etc. I would tomorrow given the chance but am thinking a miracle is required.
I've heard nothing from the TV producer yet, of course it's the holidays but as they're filming in less than a month the situation is different from usual. Otherwise I'm learning little bits of physics for the first time since I finished at 16 and did actually manage to pull apart a theory correctly (I have a MSc on board to judge) although the new paper I was shown was all Greek (not metaphorically, the majority of it was equations using Greek letters). Having tried two science A levels for a year and giving up as there were too many equations (like a subject introducing more meat if you're a vegetarian) I had to switch to the arts, and did find myself in the world of maths for a year by default when I took my accounting training but being shifted into law when they found my shortcomings.
I must say this global warming nonsense, although making our lives a growing misery through higher prices and other restrictive practices, has forced me to return to my scientific studies, as I've always loved it but only after they've taken the equations out. Like cake with raisins in it. Even law has a few maths bits in, the worst being Capital Transfer Tax (no, I don't know why we studied it as part of law either), but the tutor then said she wouldn't put it in the exam (phew!). Strict settlements (trusts for succession in a will) and the like are the closest, and I had to spend two weeks going to a tutor every weekday evening who gave me a lesson and homework for the next day, and I spent a fortnight doing nothing else except property law as it was the hardest exam I've ever managed to pass besides the O level physics. Now I'm using my knowledge of politics and economics to combine with the science and actually forced a lot of items I hadn't needed to use for ages into action while meanwhile I just did psychic and related advice and development. I still do this for myself but rather than discuss it (which admittedly teaches me no more than I knew from the classes, which I still take, albeit online now) I discuss politics and economics. The A level disaster in 1977 pushed me into it simply as after dropping my first love of science there was nothing else left besides art which I did for a year but missed registration the second year when I had an exam according to their reason when they barred me from the class. Except I never remember seeing a letter telling me the date to register either, even if I was taking an exam that day.
Anyway, when you've lost an entire year of 6th form you roll up at the local college and work your way through the list until you find a topic you may cope with, and mine were politics (success), sociology (not quite success until carried over to degree level) and economics (took in 6 months as needed more points to get into a degree). Had I the energy, money or offer from a local university full time my masters was in sociology or criminolgy, depending which college did what. I picked up sociology as my minor subject and after three years or so realised how all the theories fitted together rather than conflicted, and became my best subject, only beaten by Kathy Butler (well grade-wise anyway) and again in jurisprudence where she was the only one who beat me. But neither of us crossed the upper second line but got close so it didn't get her any more in the end, although getting a first in anything is damned impressive. The only top mark I ever got was O level statistics, every other exam was a struggle and although I improved over time could never manage it again.
By a weird coincidence I've been talking to a fellow local radio listener on twitter as she's a socialist and I am (as you may have guessed) not, who just said she had a law degree. It's very odd for someone else to use a degree, especially law, to make a point about their personal quality, but I was indeed impressed and wonder her reaction when I said I did as well. I don't think she was expecting that. |
Reply #808. Dec 29 11, 4:47 PM
|
satguru
|
Just little things and business as usual so far. My main ambition is the trip anywhere near Hertford and will then have crossed my next job off the list. Fireworks tomorrow for new year, and hope it's dry as the November ones rarely have been except for one that felt about -10 instead which was actually a lot worse. More housework than usual as well, I remembered to move the spare pine drawers off the old one to the new room, emptied another bag and tidied a couple of drawers to find things I needed and removed a few items although mainly to other drawers rather than the actual bin. But at least each one is now a bit less of a mess as a result.
If (big word that) I go to bed earlier today I may get a chance at Hertford tomorrow, although it rained all day today and dark at 3.45 as a result so no point going anywhere. The new year from Sunday beyond is an open book, a photo trip is the only definite aim, and if I hear from the TV producer hope it is good news. I am not at the point where I need advice to liven up my life any more (although I get plenty), I've done enough lively things to complete the quota already, and like someone who's run a marathon or passed a degree, would be mad to do it again (although many do I am not one of them). Anyway, all I am looking for are a few tweaks to how things are now, which I'd expect nearly everyone else would as well. The girlfriend is a given, and a local friend who has a mental age in double figures, preferably actually over the minimum adult age. Otherwise besides half a million to return to the promised land around Golders Green (any ideas on that one?) I will stay right here, see who I can and hope my constant output of material will keep getting onto the TV and magazines. But I'm gradually learning contentment as for most of my life apart from wanting to go and see and do things for the first time, and possibly second if I liked them, I was happy just with my freedom and people to enjoy it with.
If I still feel like doing something ambitious I will from time to time, but because something different from before I need to add to the list, rather than just go away because I always have. So rather than go to Brighton yet again because it's there (and the same places which were there every other time and nothing that different in the shops from before) I'm going because despite the lifetime of visits I've never taken any photos there. I've done loads of shopping, been to the lecture halls a few times for my meditation course, spent almost no time on the beach (it's painful as made up of large size builder's gravel), been chucked off the pier at closing time (no chance now as the second one has burnt down now as well), finally found devil's dyke by taking a new road by mistake, visited my uncle in Hove when he was a live, another distant cousin once and a friend's friend, etc etc. But each time I did something new there until there was pretty much only the photos finally remaining.
So for the wife of the future she has to be the same. Grace of course has already passed that test but imagine qualifying a doctor who couldn't pass dispensing. You really need all the requirements for a job as unlike a doctor you can't borrow another wife every so often when you want to have an adult conversation. Like the one legged Tarzan. Maybe I should just hang out on Golders Green Road like a few other single men I know and sit in the street drinking coffee all day hoping you'll see the same women a few times who are clearly on their own and ask them to join you. Not a bad idea actually. Except you can't drink that much coffee and would die of exposure after an hour or two at the moment there... But the idea has potential. |
Reply #809. Dec 30 11, 7:12 PM
|
satguru
|
Unless you attach significance to numerology the end of the year is just another day. 2000 was fun, I was up half the night at a railway station with my friend who was on duty there directing all the passengers after an earlier party. The next day I went to stations to collect newly discarded tickets with the date on them.
2012 is just the year we all get a bit older, and the main theme of 2011 was my hitherto uncovered photo trips around the south of England. I also found many more old road signs as there are so many roads it's easy to hide them. It wasn't a bad year actually, especially compared to some of the others before it, so for a change seem to have made a profit. I've also created and stuck to my 24 hour rule, that as long as I have plans for tomorrow the rest can take care of itself, as I have today.
Anyone from London and around will know Croydon, and probably due to German bombs has one of the most modern centres in Britain, so much so it has unsuccessfully applied for city status. I have a couple of photos of it already but one of those places I usually only either drive through to get somewhere else (you have little choice south of the river as all the roads go there) or to use the new trams which are an anorak's dream. So no dedicated photo trip yet and is set up for the next one if I get up in time, maybe even tomorrow.
No doubt offices will all start arriving back on Monday although there's no guarantee any will contact me because they do. Besides the TV producer I've sent two more articles to the fussy editor who turned down everything I've sent her since I sent the one article she was interested in to somewhere else. Other than that I can only create my own news and career by continuing to produce more and using the machine gun approach throw it all at the target and hope something sticks.
I am pretty doubtful a country will leave the Euro, there's no reason why they should as the plan is so much bigger than any money involved, and if it starts wobbling they can devalue it, bring in billions from the mafia, make new laws to stop people leaving, basically write the rules as they go along. I can't see any situation not catching them out with a plan in reserve. If it does fall apart it will mean it is not run by invincible dictators and Europe and the world is a lot freer than I thought, which is why I expect it to hold together like Castro managed for over 50 years whatever came up.
I seem to have covered everything so far, I didn't get an MBE or more as usual, not that I'd know what to do with one, but there are many letters I'd like a lot more after my name than ones I will never have or mind about that much. And not FA either thank you very much... |
Reply #810. Dec 31 11, 12:36 PM
|
satguru
|
Another day, another year. How often can you say that (once a year actually). The fireworks were nice, although after rather a lot of years the effect has all but worn off. There isn't a lot more they can actually do besides what they always have. It was at the church where I used to live (fireworks outside it of course) and as far as I know our school carol services must have been in the one next to it as I don't recognise the inside at all. All my local friends and their families were more or less gone before we left in 1993, and the only person I knew was the organiser of the art gallery and half the other voluntary groups there, and he didn't recognise me, but after doing the same thing for about 6 years in a row made a great change to be somewhere besides at home.
Once my cold finally leaves I'll be better to go anywhere distant, it was raining today anyway but now the other symptoms have nearly gone it's left me pretty tired. The usual new year people are coming on Tuesday instead now so hopefully will not get through so much food as it's a fairly quick visit this time. Everything else is out of my hands, but no point worrying about it now. |
Reply #811. Jan 01 12, 4:23 PM
|
satguru
|
So far most of my activities have been online (OK, what's new). There are gaps in the way the world is run, I find them and then try and fill them. While Barack Obama becomes president and gets a Nobel prize before he's done anything (I suspect the same would apply had they given it this year, but that's another story, just checkout the debt), I get to bed the next day and often sworn at. Same work, different reception. Meanwhile while I sit here the radio has police saying certain departments don't have enough diversity, and the presenter calling a London suburb a racist area.
English and logic seem to have left the entire country nowadays. Firstly, diversity is not a virtue, quality is. You don't want a random mixture of anything, but the best, or at least what you want. If you buy a box of strawberry creams and they throw in a few truffles that's diversity. It's not what you want but what they authorities tell you you should have. The Soviet bloc has broken up and being replaced by Europe. As for calling a racist area, then if Eltham is racist, Putney is musical, Finchley is depressed, Wembley is creative and Peckham is sporting. What utter total nonsense. An area is a plot of land inhabited by people of similar economic and partially cultural groups. But not racists. Can you imagine the estate agent's ads? House for sale in Eltham, membership of the BNP recommended, whites only? For god's sake, as every year passes I see the sanity of the people deteriorate. If people were stronger the governments wouldn't be able to force this junk on us. |
Reply #812. Jan 03 12, 11:40 AM
|
satguru
|
I didn't even realise the election was on to start with, but I ended up going to bed at 5am last night talking about Ron Paul on Facebook. There are a few decent runners for the post but he is the only one who clearly isn't part of the wider system who got Obama elected, and explains the lack of media support and inevitable smear campaigns. When I finally got up today it was raining and still is, so the local shops will be visited tomorrow, and after last night's escape from a late night with the ex as our friends came here at took her home early she's now coming tomorrow night as well as her line dancing isn't back on yet. How lucky I feel...
I did realise one thing last night. I have all the time in the world to do my research while many do not, so am really providing a service telling people what I've found, much took ages to discover and is well hidden and I've collected it all. These can provide missing pieces to other people's work, and better still while I have no means to prosecute the guilty others who learn from me may do, so work together. The levels of corruption at the top are phenomenal and basically assume they are part of it unless not, rather than the other way round.
Grace wanted to go out for coffee tonight, it was raining and I was watching TV, and managed to head her off at the pass and luckily found my team were also playing football on TV after the first programmes finished so had a very good unknown reason to stay in. I said she could come here but is one more no longer prepared to sit around when I'm watching TV (although I do when I go to her). I won't make any specific plans ahead besides essential shopping as everything's too marginal when it gets dark or rains. I've got the photo trips lined up and when I get the chance will do the next one. Otherwise I just do whatever I can in the dark and rain.
Unlike the news and life in general at least we know the light comes back every 6 months if nothing else. |
Reply #813. Jan 04 12, 4:49 PM
|
satguru
|
For a few years now my route east has been blocked partly by road works and partly the problem which caused them in the first place. Due to very limited river crossings it meant the alternative to the south was taken by many more, a dire road at the best of times with lights every few hundred yards. But the work is now finished and I crossed the river yesterday in less than half an hour like the old days. I went east on a route I'd only even been close to once, and kept going for some miles before it got dark. Turning off to stop to take more photos and then turn round I kept going till there was some room, did some interesting houses, and when I got home found I'd also managed to just cross into Essex as well, which was a complete bonus.
So whenever it gets dark I've done a decent trip right at the beginning of January, so a good start. I can relax a bit for now as I've started 2012 and have a good few in reserve for the next opportunities. I am guessing all the TV and magazine people aren't interested as a week back at work and none have got back to me, so written off the lot and carrying on as normal. I got my shopping around 3am taking you know who home, but easy to park and no competition so pretty useful. Something else I couldn't do in my youth.
The northern ex has planned to come tomorrow and impossible to think of a good excuse, so unless the changes her mind (around 50% normally) I'll have to be dragged around wherever she tries to get me or else, unless my own determination wins over hers. But a bossier woman you will never meet (not ex for nothing, she wasn't that bad 25 years ago but went off a bit after her return a decade later). I can do without seeing her full stop but my prayers are just for tomorrow anyway.
The gym is now open again so will return to the old routine. I talk to a few people there but from the 10% maybe who are women pretty much zero. They don't mix. Also most stay half an hour or more on the running machines so never have a chance to interact in the weights room next to it. Plus 99% are there with partners either inside or outside.
So another week was completed successfully, more than the minimum done and hope it continues and improves, although it got dark at 3.50 yesterday (for the camera) and only 5 or so minutes more a week so hardly change till March at the very earliest. I think that's about it, besides some crook phoning me today offering me a free scan as they'd found some junk on my computer. Anyone with a computer knows if someone can read your computer they are hackers, so why would you give them full access and then they can clear out your bank account as well? They sounded very professional, claimed to come from Microsoft although the number I checked showed the call came from Djibouti. Probably the second largest Microsoft office centre worldwide. Maybe. |
Reply #814. Jan 06 12, 6:35 PM
|
satguru
|
The media seem to have let me down, as so far a refund from an Italian site on Ebay who, because of having pages of information in Italian, caught me out and sent the useless item back the day it arrived, still nothing heard although it must be there now regardless of Christmas post. We will see. But last week was better than I could have expected, and now have a quarter of the area to visit back now the road leading there has been widened. I will have a nice new area to cover now after the first easy run on Thursday only curtailed by sunset.
So absolutely no specific plans, I'm back to looking for road signs on streetview as little else to do when dark and no TV, and if another turns up can go at night if necessary as the flash does the work on them. I have been educating people on Facebook as well, as with so much time and a grounding in law, politics, sociology and economics can put it all together nicely when needed and can form a picture of how everything fits together in my mind which allows me to share whichever aspects are needed, and have been getting some thanks now from people who have now had their suspicions confirmed. Investigating and exposing wrongdoing is what I do, and unless it gets me in prison (those you try and expose do not like amateurs showing them up and use all their weight to take you out of the picture) hope one day all my findings will be taken and used to tell the world. More material keeps arriving, and confirms earlier suspicions, making a good number of powerful people legally guilty of fraud. They know it, many now admit it, and they are protected as working for the governments who told them to do it so immune from any consequences, until the revolution. That is what we need and what I'm giving people to understand how we are all being exploited to the ultimate degree while claiming to help us. Increasing energy and food prices helps no one except those who sell them and take the taxes, and any government who tax essentials has to go. And guess what, the EU are now planning to tax food at 20%. God help us all. |
Reply #815. Jan 08 12, 2:32 PM
|
| lesley153
|
Taxing food? That's one way to reduce the population. We've managed to opt out of some VAT changes - hope the boy David can stand up to that one too.
Reply #816. Jan 08 12, 5:49 PM
|
satguru
|
The utter criminality and growing similarities with Mugabe are signs our (unelected) leaders are certainly out to get us. The EU has commissioners making most rules in private, and the parliament is performing a function I have yet to discover besides using up billions of Euros a year on salaries and expenses. They don't make laws, so what do they do? Someone must know, but calling them a parliament is like calling the Irish president or the Queen a ruler. They don't make rules, they may have done once but not for a very long time.
The whole affair is pretty well dictated by UN Agenda 21, dressed up for the environment but containing the mechanisms to bring down everyone's standard of living, and the population, while redistributing their wealth to the leaders and their friends and associates. This is now well into its stride and after the energy taxes we've been paying now for years (petrol would be 82p a litre without them for example, not 1.32p) food had to be next as if you keep them hungry and poor you can pretty well carry out anything else you like as they will be too weak and busy surviving to stop you.
I don't think it's ever too late to stop them. At the moment 99.9% of people aren't aware of these plans, and most who are reject them as a conspiracy. Our fuel taxes and renewable subsidies aren't a conspiracy, they're the 2008 Climate Change Act. VAT on food isn't a subsidy, it is an EU working document. A world currency is not a conspiracy, the plans are already drawn up by the UN. All this is already going through while people still worry about which Miliband brother should lead Labour. I don't want to get myself targeted, but that's a bit like worrying which pile of dog poop you want to tread in. Enough said. So while everyone's busy reading what the papers do want us to know and watching ice melt all day on the BBC (if you channel hop it's virtually possible 24/7) the plans are already some way to controlling us all not from the EU but the UN itself.
I have written a single article on this, virtually everything I say and a lot more is included, and not a single publication has touched it. I doubt all but one who asked to see it (and took no notice when it did) have even bothered to look as they must get heaps of this sort of stuff and only publish what their staff and their friends write, and see no need to write further on related topics as the direct plan to invent a problem of man made warming to create a world tax and currency pretty well covers all the smaller areas in itself. The banks being fed almost free money despite losing it all last time continues to sap the world's economy and prevent any recovery as they can still manipulate the market with ghost bids, short sell commodities they can't deliver if lost, lend five times more than the standard amount they should hold in deposits despite risking default if enough people cash their accounts, do not have to separate customers' money and their own for trading purposes, can still sell mortgages of 100%, etc etc., all held up by interest rates 5% below the market requirement, which mean anyone who has worked for decades can no longer pay all their bills on retirement as investments can't guarantee more than a few percent, well under inflation.
You can teach most people basic economics if they want to learn, my problem is not they can't follow all this, but no one wants to. That is how and why it is still happening.
|
Reply #817. Jan 08 12, 7:12 PM
|
satguru
|
Assuming it is still there I found another road sign last night which is on one of the worst routes I know, I've been there once last year and passed within yards, but who would have known. I've no idea when I'm going but really need to some time.
Otherwise I sit looking at Facebook and amazed how easy it is to believe absolutely anything. On a single page opposing theories face each other, each person unaware of the other as only joined by me, and besides some which are pure opinion many are not based on actual evidence but what people assume to be going on. I drop the odd comment where I can add actual material to their empty talk, and recently a couple of people have actually thanked me, but even when most see the evidence it's rejected as they can't believe human beings, especially those they trusted, could behave like that. Anyone we don't know could be a murderer of fraud, so firstly if someone does such a crime many people did know them, and many of them would never have expected them to. Secondly trusted professions are no less likely to commit crimes than anyone else, they may not use violence to steal or pay others to carry out the murders, but the results are identical, loss of property or life. How easy it is to fool most people.
There is most definitely a line to cross of naievity. We all start off ignorant and learn over time. But there are certain landmark points to do so, and clear when people have and have not crossed them. While still trusting people accept everything they are told by those they should trust. Even when enough evidence that would unite a jury in hours they still trust. So those aware of this exploit it and use the mass acceptance of authority to clean out the bank. Just think if the mafia ruled the world how they would do it. There are some good honest people at all levels but what does the mafia do when they come across them? Well that's exactly what happens now in every other field. As long as most people toe the line the others can easily count for nothing despite holding the true answers. Only knowledge and information can win over this situation. |
Reply #818. Jan 09 12, 3:49 PM
|
satguru
|
Has it been that long? The usual rule, if I'm actually doing something I don't get here to write about it. I managed another photo trip on Tuesday before the ex arrived and didn't leave till 3.30am, but having found the red triangle sign in furthest Surrey (a lot is very near but not all of it) was determined to get it as soon as possible and my father, who lives in the near part, offered to drive me there on the motorway so headed straight there yesterday and somehow got there before it was dark as well. I don't have to mind for signs as the flash actually captures them better than natural light, but did want some other photos there as hadn't been along the road before.
So today was a rest, I couldn't go out anyway before the cleaner arrived and then walked to the garden centre and found they have what must be a new aquarium shop, as I'd told Grace I wanted to get her family goldfish some live food and hopefully some plants, so collected a bag of daphnia and then went there later and saw them chase round and round the bowl, and while mine took a few days most were gone in a couple of hours.
So my main photographic mission is complete as far as the sign was concerned, it's only my third with graphics and fourth altogether with a red triangle, that rare they are, and saved me the possible need to go near Cambridge for a few more there now I have a different variety. Anyone British will remember them, and I now have school (minus a corner), children and bend (right). The red triangle had been squashed but still visibly triangular and posted in the photo forum.
So I can relax now, I continue to streetview as having almost done the London roads am now doing the counties around it and still popping up. No one's responded to my article but lots are asking for it who the family knows, and at least it's getting passed around and hopefully shared on after that. The TV producer could have let me know but like all the best job interviews you never hear from them again unless you get it, let alone learn why you didn't to allow you to perform better the next time. The only time I ever did was only because I applied for one at the community centre I volunteered for and the boss explained how I didn't relate many answers to the questions on the form, or mention the things they want to hear. As far as I'm concerned the only equal opportunities I need to know about are when people are taking an exam, as their names aren't given so the markers have no idea who wrote them. If you can perform anonymously then obviously it's impossible not to have an equal opportunity. Otherwise it's called survival of the fittest. My mother became a barrister at 21 in the 50s and went on to become a judge, at a time when few women even qualified let alone got promoted. That's true equal opportunities, the rest are spheres, if you get my drift. |
Reply #819. Jan 12 12, 6:44 PM
|
| veronikkamarrz
|
Re: Goldfish...By 'gone' do you mean dead? Just wondering. You know I love Grace stories, but I must have missed the one about the Goldfish. ;)
Reply #820. Jan 12 12, 9:36 PM
|
Legal / Conditions of Use
|
Play Now! 
: