Jeffrey’s Bay, Saturday 11 March 2023

The feeling of slicing through the waves,

might resemble the sensation enjoyed by

dolphins when diving into the sea - and I

think that when mermaids go  swimming,

they must feel like I do at the beach

 

The moment I declared the wind sand-blasting

us would be an enjoyable sensation, the terrible

aggressive sandblasting-wind caused so much

pain we both cried out in shock & now I’m not

so sure how other life-forms experience -

 

- Various things - but I still love swimming in the

sea, regardless of how other creatures register

this experience - it is the best sensation in the

world & a holiday at the seaside adds spice to

life - without it life would be so boring -

 

Totally bereft of any real charm…

Minds Together

It is just as irrelevant which religion,

theology, spiritual or atheist idea is

used as paradigm, as long as they

provide the same predictions for

events and people’s behaviour -

 

To produce a mindset focused on

respect for self & others, for life &

possessions & integrity, & speaking

truth, words & deeds being equal -

as a result honest teamwork can 

Bring about comfort, beauty, 

   technology and progress 

Minds Together Compose A Symphony

The Universe is infinite & spacetime

is flat & curved - without offering an

Archimedes point from where to look

from outside to the universe, there is

no outside place to evaluate all from

an objective perspective - therefore

Spacetime can be curved or flat, both 

views give same experimental results

& can be used interchangeably - ‘true’ 

nature of reality’s irrelevant in physics,

there’s no need to find a final truth that 

applies equally everywhere all the time  

 

Each and every description is a song

which covers only a single aspect of this

multidimensional, pulsating, holographic

phenomenon -- in which every quantum

particle has awareness & keep choosing

existence all the time; the universe is fun

                        - ask every physicist -

 

Every theory is simultaneously true, being

determined by subjective perspective, and

every theory is fulfilled by what we do: my

theory is that life is eternal consciousness

manifesting in infinite possibilities - beyond

the grasp of any single human mind - and

 

All minds together compose a symphony

which is based on an infinitely expanding

array of themes; played on an infinite

variety of instruments which keeps

growing - for all eternity - 

Dying White Dwarfs

Physicists use poetic

language and similes

when describing their

scientific discoveries:

 

Physicists travel through

exotic labyrinths - where

spinning black holes collide

creating encoded symphonies

 

Physicists use special

instruments to decipher

these symphonies of

massive neutron stars

 

Turning into --- Dying

White Dwarfs

….……………………

The massive neutron star

turned into a dying white dwarf

which became a spinning black hole

colliding with other black holes

thus - a symphony was encoded

- - and they wanted to decode it

….……………………………..

 Based on “Black Holes And Time Warps” by the

Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics,  

                              Kip S Thorne

         [1994, Norton & Company]

Walk My Path In A Responsible Way

For Terry Pratchett there were only two kinds of people

in the world - those with integrity and those without it,

regardless of their creed or religious affiliation - which

held no importance for him: you were either as strong

 

And immutable in your principles as Granny Weatherwax

and Mustrum Ridcully, or you were a traitor like Reacher

Gilt in “Going Postal” - you could be as unreformed and

wonderfully maverick a character as Moist von Lipwig in

 

The same novel, but no amount of religious faith was going

to save you from your fate, such as stealing a potato from

a professing believer - which only allowed the criminal to

return as woodworm in an old wooden desk -  you were

 

Responsible for whatever happened to you when Death

walked you into the darkness - and the integrity shown

by Terry Pratchett is a shining example to help me 

walk my path in a responsible way….

Never Have Touched With a Red-Hot Stick

Pratchett showed up the ridiculous nature of the literary

establishment by writing a bad and boring book weaving

tedious debates about atheism and colonialism aimed at

brainwashing the youth, into a story without dialogue &

character development - and amazingly enough -

 

Simply because he incorporated literary and sociological

fashionable themes into this book, it was “an Honor Book

in the 2009 Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young

Adult Literature” and won the “Brit Writer's Award Published

Writer of the year 2010” yet it is the kind of book -

 

Terry Pratchett, the avid young reader himself, would never

have touched with a white hot stick - he never admitted to

any deceit after publishing it, but it sure is the best satire on

literary convention of all time, I can just see Douglas Adams

laughing with glee seeing what academia tried to do with it:

 

Trying to force it on bright young kids who quickly unmasked

this attempt at propaganda - Terry enjoyed the joke without

ever saying anything and stoically accepting the Doctorates

knowing that the establishment is dishonest, self-justifying

& the book’s arguments will convince no-one of anything…

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 Some reviews of “Nation” on Goodreads:

 “We had to read this book for school and it was awful. This book was extremely confusing, obviously was not proofread, had an embarrassingly large amount of typos and was tortuously BORING.

 Confusing: Throughout the book I was never sure of what was happening. When they made the huge discovery near the end of the book, it didn’t even register with me. The confusion made the book...

Boring: This is one of the top ten most boring books I have ever read. I would stare at a page for ten minutes and not understand what was going on. I have found that a book needs ACTION and DIALOGUE  to make it interesting. In this book, surprise, surprise, there was essentially NO ACTION except for two parts of about five pages each. And until about 1/3 of the way through the book, there was no dialogue. I was bored for a large percentage of the book. My peers all agreed with me that it was INCREDIBLY BORING. I cannot stress enough how tedious this book was.

….………………………………………………………..

“Ugh I had to read this for class... Not good. Our class read it, hated it so much, so the teacher pulled it off the curriculum for the upcoming years. Wow.

….…………………………………………………………

 “Sadly, this story seemed to go nowhere. There was little to no character development. The same plot lines carried on for far too long with seemingly no end in sight.

….…………………………………….

 “I wanted to love this book, but I just couldn't connect with the characters. There's a saucy parrot with an extensive vocabulary of swear words thrown in for comic relief, but it's not enough. The ending is far too pragmatic to be satisfying.

….………………………………………………………..

 “Boring as hell. Most chapters feel/seem all filler. I don't enjoy any of the characters. I dislike the writing style even more than I despise the "island saved by white girl" trope.

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 “I should have known I wouldn't like it when the author misused 'literally' on the FIRST PAGE. "The cargo was flying out of the ship, literally; the cranes strained in their efforts to get the bales out as quickly as possible"?! The book had potential, but I never felt respected as a reader. Or rather, I usually don't think about it - but this book made me realize I need to be respected. For example, I was constantly reminded of why the British (shipwrecked) weren't culturally superior to the natives on the island ...and I never thought they were."

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More Rain Falling Down [Rev]

The old rags with which I clean the floors and 

Tiaan his bike, are hanging on the clothesline; 

thus rain doesn’t stop as the devil is watching

and always ordering demons with glee to keep 

rain coming because he thinks I want them dry 

in the sun - but actually I want to rinse the soap:

 

Too lazy to do that myself - Beelzebub knows 

that my menfolk want to watch cricket tonight - 

so he insists on more rain falling down - to flood 

the cricket stadium nearby - while I’m overjoyed, 

for ages I've looked forward to non-stop rain and

I’m enjoying it - so if I have to leave those rags  

 

Inherited from my housekeeper on the line for a

long time to keep it raining, I shall as Beelzebub

normally orders the sun to come out after rainfall; 

but I prefer a soft rain falling for seven nights &

seven days & I shall leave the rags on the line

indefinitely - it’s fun watching them get soaked

 

Hoping they’ll even be cleaner afterwards..