Thoughts I don't want to have

 Sometime in the early 1340s, there was a massive volcanic eruption. No written record of the event is known to survive, the exact date and location are unknown. Technically, we are not even sure if it was a single eruption, or multiple ones. We do know it happened, and that it was likely somewhere near the equator. What evidence we have for this event is in physical evidence left behind; tree ring data shows a cooling between about 1343-1345ish, ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica show that it was massive as well as showing it was near the equator because the amount of ashfall shows they are about equal in amount, with a little less in Antarctica, thus equator. Now, a forest gets cold and grows slowly, no one cares. But crops are plants too, and people do care about those, and the reduced sunlight stunted their growth as well. And places like Germany, France, and the British Isles started to show a marked downturn in yields. There were reserves in these places as well, but ...

 I want to share with you one of my oldest memories. It's an important one though, probably the most important one I have. I was in 1st grade, and was already reading at a 8th grade level. I was a smart kid; always observing and thinking, you know, the kind of kid that gets beat up first, usually while the teacher is watching. i couldn't tell you the day of the week, the name of my teacher or classmates, heck, I am not 100% sure it was 1st grade and not 2nd. I do remember it was directly after recess. We had just returned to the classroom when we were ushered into a different class, joining the kids already there. I remember it was right after recess because the teacher for the other class was the duty teacher from the recess before. The one that made eye contact with me while two older boys were beating me up, and then walked away. We were doing a science thing that morning, and we were there to watch a show on octopus and squid. It was probably an hour or two long, and we...

I pull my information from a variety of sources, scientific, philosophic, esoteric, mathematic, all the branches of reality. One of the most interesting fruits of the scientific branch is the idea of Evolutionary Psychology. The idea is simple, as the divine force of evolution shapes our bodies, it also shapes are minds. A thought form that encourages survival is encouraged within a population, from the supporting brain structure up. Let me walk you through how it works on the large scale. Let's take a group of early mammals, let's say that they are bipedal, hairless, omnivorous, and give them a rudimentary intelligence. Let's also make them reproduce sexually, with a pair of sexes, one base on carrying a fetus, and the other based on inseminating the carriers. For ease, let's call them dams and sires. Because of the complexity of a large brain, necessary for intelligence, dams carry for most of a year, gestating a small liter, usually only one maybe two. During a l...

 Recently, I was cruising the interwebs, when I came across a YouTube video on the Saw franchise. The video was very good, intelligently put together, talking about not the movie itself, but mostly on the public views of it. It referenced Paradise Lost, the movie Se7en, Reservoir Dogs, and views of crime and punishment on both the left and right. It was fascinating. As one is want to do, when one finds a creator whose works we like, I started looking further into their body of work. At the time of this writing, their newest video is on conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theorists. In the first 20 or so minutes of the video they start talking about the events of January 6th, 2021 in Washington, D.C. They talk about The birther conspiracy, QAnon, and Pizzagate, disregarding them all as fluff and nonsense. And they all were. I mean look at the last one, Pizzagate, the notion that a powerful cabal of billionaires were trafficking in adults and children for sexual exploitation and...

I want to start this little endeavor by warning you about the way I communicate. I have been told, even when I was in my teens that I have this weird tendency to go off on seemingly random tangents. The problem is, they aren't random. I was raised in a very, strange, religious family. Though my family was nominally fundamentalist in nature, my dad also believed that the Christian god was not the only one. He would cited the ten commandments of all things, pointing out that they said, "You shall have no gods before me," not "There are no other gods." My dad still thought Jesus and his father were the winning team though, and I was encouraged to study all kinds of religious works to understand them. I started this with the New Testament, thinking as all children do that my parent was right, and figuring that starting with the 'best' source was probably the way to go. I learned a lot from reading Jesus' communication style. He talks a lot in parable...