Where shall I begin...

to tell a story...? Well, the beginning, perhaps? In the beginning, there was chaos, century after century of it (hey, in Europe - the rest of the world...well, we'll get to that later; maybe...), and then we had two World Wars, and then a little bit of peace - a piece of peace. The world did what it had done countless times before (go on, count them, I dare you!) and picked up the pieces and tried its best to move on. We sort of managed. I have to admit that I wasn't around then, so I'm taking as read that you allow me to admit that I have 'education', which has allowed me to get to grips with some of this. Politics is, at best, a dark art to most of us, and we rely on the loonies that are able to take to the world of politics and get on with it. It is not for the faint-hearted. Which is why, in recent years, a lot of people have started to take an interest in politics, both in general and in many cases in specifics. This is good news! Yes, really, it is! Think about it. All that went before was the rather boring Blue/Red divide, with none of the others standing a snowball in hells chance of getting anywhere. Tory or Labour - that was it, and they kept taking it in turns - Blue for this period, they upset a lot of people, and then Red has a go, trying to undo what the Blues did, without upsetting a whole host of people. They eventually fail, and then - yippee! - its the Blues turn. Again. (boring...:() The short-lived (and by now notorious) Coalition between the Tories and the LibDems was a straight-jacket joke. The Tories had a lot of votes, but no overall majority. They went to bed with a minority party, the LibDems, and what did we get? An unelected Government, that's what. Certainly the LibDems could not have expected such a rollercoaster of a ride, since so few people actually voted for them. Oh, yes. Voting. Why is it that so few people, until very recently, have actually bothered to turn up and vote? Seriously, why? What is it about politics and voting that makes it such a turn-off? Well, if I didn't know better (and I don't) I would take a line out of the Josh Whedon film Serenity. The ruling classes try every experiment under the sun to generate a population that will follow orders, and they succeed in one case, where the entire population just lies down and dies. I would suggest that the last few decades has been an attempt to create a population who doesn't care, can't be bothered, and certainly can't be interested in politics. That leaves it up to the Eton snobs, the ones who are bred to go into this arena. And milk it for all that it's worth. Oh, yes they do. Which means that you and I, the plebs, the unwashed scum, actually subsidise these snobs, and encourage them to milk more and more. And that brings me around to the mid-1970's, when most of the population didn't understand politics (hey, most of us still don't) and we got roped into the European Union. No, actually we were roped into the EEC, which bred the EU. From this point on, it's all downhill, but we were blindfolded and didn't think to ask, or lift the blindfold! Except that recently, something was started that nobody really understood (I wonder if the people who started it up, back then, really understood...) and that is UKIP. Oh, wow. http://www.timesofisrael.com/british-boxing-champ-warns-of-zionist-jewish-brainwashing/ You may look at this and go 'Gosh!' or you might go 'WTF?', which tends to be my reaction. Brain-washing starts at a very early age (yes it does - come on, admit it!) For the first time in many a decade the public has woken up to the in-fighting of politics. We are interested, dammit! We want to know what goes on, how you manage to pull that off... The interesting thing (well, one of many) is that since the BrExit referendum, we have some astonishing details. The people who complain the most (about the result) are the ones who voted the least! https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/brexit-referendum-voting-analysis Now is that not scary? We should at least be moving to accountability - if you don't vote, then why are you bleating? You couldn't be bothered, and yet you moan? Just what are you smoking...? This, on the face of it, makes F.A. sense...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32810887 Oh, 2016 has been a very interesting year, so far, usually for all of the wrong reasons. And we are only half way through the damned thing!

Man is going places

All the way through the written history of man – sorry, ‘Man’ - there were adventures to keep you interested. Everything from the use of the first tools to the discovery of managing fire through to the first flights of the Montgolfier brothers, people had wanted more. During the 20th century the people of planet Earth started to realise that they were running out of living space, and in the first few decades of the 21st century there was an endless number of skirmishes, resulting in the all-out war of the Middle East, which cost Israel half of its people, and wiped out seven countries in the surrounding area. It seems that Israel’s neighbours were stupid enough to think that they would go down without a fight. During 2185, with the planet seriously over crowded, and more and more battles going on all over the place, an unassuming student from South Africa discovered the missing pieces in quantum physics and ion propulsion. The result was the first ever Faster Than Light drive. He announced it to a few close friends, and then within two hours the whole planet knew about it. He was instantly wanted by every TV and radio station across the planet. Three days later he was assassinated by a right-wing Christian group in the United States of America who had decided that since Faster Than Light wasn’t written about in the Bible then it was Blasphemy to even mention it, and utter Heresy to think about making it possible! Of course, having discovered the missing parts of the maths and physics that were necessary, it was another matter entirely to build the device. That took another century, and a lot of heartaches and deaths along the way. Tests and trials had failed, one after the other, until an Israeli scientist realised what the problems were, and refined the formulas. Within a decade they had the first craft assembled in orbit, and the team of four on the craft were looking forward to a quick trip to Jupiter and back, in the same day. No-one was more surprised than they were that it went completely to plan! Millions of miles were covered in minutes. For the rest of the 23rd Century, and into the first 20 years of the 24th it meant that Man had started to conquer the Solar System. It took another two centuries to establish the Solar System Bases (SSBs), as initially all the supplies had to come from Earth. After the hydroponics had been sorted out, and most of the SSBs were semi-independent, Man began to look further out. Since the only identifiable stars that were close were still over four light-years away, this was a bit different to the activities within the Solar System. A few more adventurous types had already gone - they couldn't wait for things to be sorted out on Earth. Working spacecraft became cheap and easy to assemble – families got together and created their own ships, and went on their own exploring journeys. Thousands of families vanished from the planet over just a few years. It was the ultimate explore - even more so than those early pioneer settlers of the USA, all that time ago. None of those early explorers had yet made it back home, to tell of what they may have found, and since the communications signal still had to go at light speed, it would be some time before any messages were heard. But Man being Man, he went soon enough - huge ships, some over a kilometre in length, with 2,000 people on board. The journey to the neighbouring stars was to take a few weeks, instead of centuries, and before long a sphere of settlements had been established around the Solar System. Some of the ships were government funded, but some were private - the big Corporations had the money to create and staff some of the big ships. So too did the Religions. Not that they knew where they were going, or who they were going to find, but they went, with their Religious fervour, to convert anyone who would care to listen, each to spread their Word. For all of this time the push for this was from Earth - massively over-populated, the Governments of Earth used every excuse that they could to get people off-planet. And it worked - the subsidies were quite large, and it did allow for an easing of pressure for those left at home; the planet started to breathe again. And so it was for century after century - they went exploring, and making claims of planetary ownership along the way. In all that time, no intelligence was found - of a type that was akin to that of Earth (self-aware, building, using tools, exploring...). Not a one. There were basic creatures, on a par with the lower-end life forms of this planet, but nothing higher. And still Man persisted. After a while the only explorers that were left were the Religious ones; they had the idea that it would be in the next system, that it will have the planet we are looking for, the people to show the Word of their God to... And it never happened. For the next 4,000 years Man explored, everywhere that he could. And slowly came to the conclusion that Man is the only one. There is nothing else out there. Which is where it all started to fall apart - the Religious followers began to question, and doubt their leaders. Why have we wasted all of our lives doing this work, when we could have settled, and had a good life? So they started to fall apart, and splinter. And disintegrate. Over the next 500 years it all crumbled - having established the Earth territories of thousands of light-years in diameter, the conclusion was that they could not go on. We are alone - if we are alone in all of this space that we have now mapped, we are alone in all of the Universe. And so Man started to die out; Why should we bother...? Each of the planets slowly died out. They had literally lost the will to live. They gave up communicating with others of the group, they abandoned all plans of building any more churches or mosques or temples of all kinds. They stopped having families, and just died out. The last remnants of the Governments on Earth put things in place. They secured everything that they could and put the robotic controls in full command. Then each of them, separately, got into their own space craft and left Earth. They flew in random directions, and after the first few days lost contact with each other. Man was gone. In all of the huge expanse of the Universe he had made his presence felt, and achieved – nothing! Man as a race was extinct and over the next few centuries Nature, on every planet, took its course and removed all traces that Man had ever been there. The weather systems eroded all of the buildings, and the bacteria in the ground and the air attacked everything, reducing it all to dust. Had there been anyone left to see this, they might have remembered the line from one of the earliest Holy Books “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust”. Adam was reported to have come from the ground, and Man had now returned to its origin. Nobody was to know that two thousand years later a lone space craft – huge, with over 10,000 people on board – appeared in Earth space. They were not at all Human, but had arrived from another universe, where the technology had been similar to that of this Earth, just bigger and slightly better. But there was no-one left in this Universe to meet them.

The GENESIS project

“Ladies and Gentlemen...we interrupt this program with a News Flash. It seems that the mysterious experimental designer, who goes by the name of Yahweh, a.k.a. 'God', is trying to do it again! He has announced that he will be having another try at creating, in his words “something from nothing”! We go now, live, to our reporter on the spot, Moloch. Over to you, Moloch.” “Thank you, Gabriel. As you say, the mysterious experimental designer, who no-one really knows the identity of, is having another go at his latest experiment. We know that he has tried, and failed, 12 times already, so we are not at all sure what will be happening here.” “We do know that his latest trial is to be called the General Energy Stimulation In Stasis. He has already shortened this, to Genesis, so we are here, waiting to see how today pans out. The cameras are ready, the experimental artist is ready, and so we are all just waiting to see what will happen next.” There was excitement everywhere, with no-one, not even the artist, actually knowing what might happen, such was the level of this experimentation art. The cameras were rolling, the crowds were hushed, and the artist was standing very still, in front of his apparatus. All of it was designed and built by him – he was a brilliant mind, able to handle many different sciences. There had been rumours that the military were interested in some aspects of his work but no-one would either deny or confirm this. He raised his arms upwards, fingers outstretched, pointing to the stars. There was a pause, and then instantly he dropped them and they flew over the many controls in front of him. Nothing happened for a few moments, and then the crowd could see the familiar cloud forming in the middle of the huge room. He looked up briefly, to check that it was working and then his hands flew back to the controls. On and on this went, the artist moving so fast across the controls that he almost vanished as the clouds got darker and darker. All of this was done in silence. No-one spoke, few dared to even breathe, such was the excitement, and then, suddenly, they could see the beginnings of sparks within the cloud. It was happening! Perhaps this time he would make it to the end? The cloud now filled the rest of the chamber – it was a huge chamber but this cloud had grown to fill it. There was little to see, it was all formless and empty, and very, very dark. The sparks now turned to proper lightning and the tiny crashes of weak thunder could definitely be heard. Within minutes it had reached the next phase. The crowd could see that something was forming within the cloud – something solid! Oh, this was so exciting! It took shape, vague at first and then more solid. It was round, like a ball! It was also absolutely plain with no markings on it all – it was black everywhere. The artist decided that it was time to announce his plan. “People, if you will bear with me for a moment I just need to check some things.” He moved from the consoles towards the cloud, and peered into it, trying to see what was there. At one point he prodded it with his finger, and was pleased to see that a watery ripple went out from the point of contact. He turned and went back to the consoles. “People, thank you for your patience. So far, so good.” He played a few more moments on the consoles and then the crowds could definitely see that the cloud was getting clearer – it was as if someone had put a bank of lights up on one side of the dark round thing. Suddenly half of it was clear, while the other half was still in darkness. The artist was totally focussed on what he was doing, and the crowd could see that there were changes within the cloud – some form of solid masses were showing, where before there was only a rippling liquid, like water. Ooh, this was exciting! The cameras zoomed in to the newly formed land and they could see changes taking place. The artist turned to the cameras and announced “Ladies and Gentlemen, this concludes the first part of my work. As it has gone so very well I anticipate that it may take a few more days, after which I will need a rest!” He smiled to the cameras, feeling very well rewarded. “If I am lucky it should be over in just less than a week.”

What can be achieved in a few days...

Experimental Designer “Ladies and Gentlemen...we interrupt this program with a News Flash. It seems that the mysterious experimental designer, who goes by the name of Yahweh, a.k.a. 'God', is trying to do it again! He has announced that he will be having another try at creating, in his words “something from nothing”! We go now, live, to our reporter on the spot, Moloch. Over to you, Moloch.” “Thank you, Gabriel. As you say, the mysterious experimental designer, who no-one really knows the identity of, is having another go at his latest experiment. We know that he has tried, and failed, 12 times already, so we are not at all sure what will be happening here.” “We do know that his latest trial is to be called the General Energy Stimulation In Stasis. He has already shortened this, to Genesis, so we are here, waiting to see how today pans out. The cameras are ready, the experimental artist is ready, and so we are all just waiting to see what will happen next.” There was excitement everywhere, with no-one, not even the artist, actually knowing what might happen, such was the level of this experimentation art. The cameras were rolling, the crowds were hushed, and the artist was standing very still, in front of his apparatus. All of it was designed and built by him – he was a brilliant mind, able to handle many different sciences. There had been rumours that the military were interested in some aspects of his work but no-one would either deny or confirm this. He raised his arms upwards, fingers outstretched, pointing to the stars. There was a pause, and then instantly he dropped them and they flew over the many controls in front of him. Nothing happened for a few moments, and then the crowd could see the familiar cloud forming in the middle of the huge room. He looked up briefly, to check that it was working and then his hands flew back to the controls. On and on this went, the artist moving so fast across the controls that he almost vanished as the clouds got darker and darker. All of this was done in silence. No-one spoke, few dared to even breathe, such was the excitement, and then, suddenly, they could see the beginnings of sparks within the cloud. It was happening! Perhaps this time he would make it to the end? The cloud now filled the rest of the chamber – it was a huge chamber but this cloud had grown to fill it. There was little to see, it was all formless and empty, and very, very dark. The sparks now turned to proper lightning and the tiny crashes of weak thunder could definitely be heard. Within minutes it had reached the next phase. The crowd could see that something was forming within the cloud – something solid! Oh, this was so exciting! It took shape, vague at first and then more solid. It was round, like a ball! It was also absolutely plain with no markings on it all – it was black everywhere. The artist decided that it was time to announce his plan. “People, if you will bear with me for a moment I just need to check some things.” He moved from the consoles towards the cloud, and peered into it, trying to see what was there. At one point he prodded it with his finger, and was pleased to see that a watery ripple went out from the point of contact. He turned and went back to the consoles. “People, thank you for your patience. So far, so good.” He played a few more moments on the consoles and then the crowds could definitely see that the cloud was getting clearer – it was as if someone had put a bank of lights up on one side of the dark round thing. Suddenly half of it was clear, while the other half was still in darkness. The artist was totally focussed on what he was doing, and the crowd could see that there were changes within the cloud – some form of solid masses were showing, where before there was only water. Ooh, this was exciting! The cameras zoomed in to the newly formed land and they could see changes taking place. The artist turned to the cameras and announced “Ladies and Gentlemen, this concludes the first part of my work. As it has gone so very well I anticipate that it may take a few more days, after which I will need a rest!” He smiled to the cameras, feeling very well rewarded. “If I am lucky it should be over in just less than a week.”

What a mess...

Does anyone actually understand this mess anymore? Who is fighting who, and for what?. The plot has now been developing for so long, and involving so many people, tat it seems that all they are interested in is fighting, with no real goals in sight. Look at the pictures - it is a war zone! Men (those that haven't fled to Europe), women and children are dying, and nobody is winning anything. I thought we'd seen enough in Bosnia, but now we have that Arab Spring coming home to die in Syria. Unfortunately it looks as if it might bring down most of the surrounding area, too. Ghastly! Ghastly! What a mess Deadly By all accounts, we in the West are as much to blame as anyone for this humanitarian disaster - the politicians, that is, not the people! They thought it would be a grand idea to back the rebels, which escalated nicely, and then ISIS, Russia...the USA is a sick joke, so we won't count them as REAL players... And then, you read this: Boutros So far 2016 is a real loser of a year - we have lost so many famous faces, and we haven't got past the starting post yet!!! Deaths in 2016 This is a disgrace, on the part of the current government Disgraceful! How much more screwed up does it have to get? Screwed up thinking - or a lack of it! This is just stupid on so many fronts...Jaw-droppingly stupid! As the man said - LLAP!

What is it all for...?

There seems to be a massive amount of 'religion' in the world today, all of it being shoved into everyone's face (including mine!). There is also a (seemingly) growing amount of atheism being portrayed as a better alternative, and it has come down to a war of words between all parties. The religious can't even agree among themselves, and come up with the most bizarre utterings, trying to prove themselves better than anyone else, all the while missing the point that they are not. All they are proving is that they are as raving and deluded as the next one. In America, they are all trying to prove that their God is better then anyone else's (Heidi Cruz) or a selection (Select). Whatever happens, and whoever wins, you just bet that God - somebody's God - will have had a part in it. Except for some people, that is, and you just never hear of them. Why not? Zoltan Istvan or any of the others. Why are they 'invisible' to the press and the world's media? So, Presidential competitions aside, what are we here for? Why has Humanity been created? How has Humanity been created? If you believe some people (who should know better, but can't, because they are lost in their little world, and these people insist that we should all follow them into their dark and ignorant world, too) then there is some Grand Designer who made it all. This is patent nonsense, but you just can't tell some people why the sky is blue, or why there are tides, without them saying it's God's will. A few Creationists (Creation Museum, Genesis Expo, and of course Ken Ham). Just google Creationist or similar. You'll either be pleasantly surprised or horrified. The Bible, and most of the stories in it have been shown to be false, fiction, conflicting or just plain weird/daft. Most other religions follow the same lines. Someone, centuries ago, managed to get a load of tales and put them together, and portrayed it as Gospel Truth. Even the Mormons are still buying in to the Smith 'wonder' (Joseph Smith) even though it has been shown to be utter junk (Mormon Disproved and many more - just type in 'Mormon fake'). So where does that leave all of the others? It leaves them with lies being piled on top of lies. If you shout a lie loud enough and long enough then people will believe it to be the truth. The latest one to be publically seen to be failing miserably is Islam. Given that there are a few million who follow this then why are they buying in to a tale written centuries ago? A description of Islam. If you follow these things, as I try to, then it is worrying. Islam cannot even agree with Islam - the different groups are at war with each other, never mind the fact that they are trying to convert or kill everyone else! Some articles on the why and how... American Thinker, Guardian and many, many more. Do your own research, please. Do not think what I tell you to think - work out how to think for yourself. That is what we are seeing so little of today, especially in the USA Electioneering and the Middle East. The madness of Syria is now spilling into most of Europe, and threatens to bring that down to a level not seen in centuries. How is it that the governments can be so clueless? Anti-Migration, check the date on this - Sep 2015, before Paris and California. Worried yet? Immigration or Invasion? Be concerned - it is no longer someone else's problem - it will be your problem all too soon, and you cannot say that you have not been warned. I love this one - Brigitte Gabriel, and then this lady: Pamela Geller, or Robert Spencer. There is more, lots more. So, what is it all for? It cannot be for the madness that we see today - the deluded thinking that God has played a part in our making. We are capable of so much more than we are currently achieving, if we could only remove the religious blindfolds that have been forced on us for so long. LLAP!

Now here's a thought. Although it's only a matter of time before the likes of Angela Merkel get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (yes, I know...but wait...) there are a lot of people who seem (still) oblivious to the notion that Europe has been invaded. Oh, and the USA, too. And Canada. And who know where else? I've lost count of the numbers here... Obviously we are now seeing a diaspora. There have been many before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora) and probably more will happen down the line. Sad, but there you go... I was wondering what would happen if there were more 'ejections' around the world? Would Merkel accept people from Boko Haram if they got thrown out? If the likes of Hezbollah and Hamas were chucked out by Israel (or even their own countrymen, should they ever wake up from their slumber...) then who would be the first country to say "Come right in, make yourself feel at home!"? How long after that would the natives of that country feel that they were now the aliens...? This is what is going on, and we, the usual stupid public (go on, that's what the politicians want from us - dimness) have voted these oiks back in (I didn't vote for Blue in 2015, by the way, and I will be voting for BrExit and UKIP when next offered the chance!) How does it happen that a backward-mentality gets offered (encouraged!) seats on a trip to a 1st world status set of countries, when any half-wit could see that their intentions are not nice. Bring them in, at your peril. So, we have Germany about to go bankrupt - how is this even a choice? http://europe.newsweek.com/europe-refugee-crisis-germany-angela-merkel-424026 There goes the neighbourhood - http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/09/german-police-search-two-houses-in-anti-islamic-state-raids-following-television-tip-off/ Let's invite all those poor widows and orphans in...and this plank is in charge!!! http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/18/obama-syrian-refugees-widows-and-orphans/75983352/#and more. It is disgusting, on all fronts. That Merkel even agreed to it shows an incredible lack of understanding for anyone, never mind a world-leading country like Germany. She should resign immediately, and Donald Trump should be appointed in her place. More than likely this won't work...http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj066b4suvKAhUC8RQKHUpZCDA4ChAWCDMwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2F02%2Fmerkel-visits-turkey-fleeing-syrians-wait-border-160208045039438.html&usg=AFQjCNE0UknyYiqoRmWlp_HNqfruUoXpKA&sig2=wyGJrh6YamcLJLV25NGWWg&bvm=bv.113943665,d.ZWU Until we see borders marshalled, people vetted, and only the genuine refugees allowed through, then this will get worse. And worse...