North Stoke Life

Dear father, I was listening to your podcast today on the plight of people convicted of brutal crimes. And it made me wonder about how you might understand the meaning of 'the grace of God'? I was alarmed that you are confidently committed to asking for the death penalty in the cases you support it for.  May I ask, if you were in the same position as those you want killed, would you have not done the same thing? I hear you. You might now be thinking "I would never commit such a crime don't be ridiculous". I would respond ironically by suggesting we have a veritable Jesus Christ before us, if so. My point is, how do you know that you would not commit the same crime in their position? You have been saved by the grace of God. Can you then know what you would have done, if you have already been saved by His grace? If my interpretation of grace is 'if I do not sin, God will save me', then I will think this way.  But if my interpretation of gr...

Where it matters. I spoke to Dermot Turing and the other nice history guy present at a cyber networking about this the other day. They were both simultaneously horrified and confused though not disbelieving when I brought it up. They have no involvement in it I'm sure but obviously even being seen to hear these things is not good for their profile, obedience wise. On my cryptography quasi conspiracy theory, where no cipher is secure if it's allowed to be used in public. Because the nation state will always demand a back door from the developers on pain of blocking exports of the tech otherwise. The state must have control over all communications as a first principle, they will say, is because of national security. I'm not saying this is a good thing or bad thing. It is simply observed.  Still, this is all supposition from my own intuition. Remember how I told you about 'insight', from listening, learning about and watching Colossus running for a year -  it was what ...

Capitalism is where a small group of individuals gets to decide who gets to keep the goodies and how they get distributed. Socialism does exactly the same thing.  I'm showing you how both socialism and capitalism are both a fallacy, used to gain power through the vote by causing division and conflict. Call it 'diversity' if you like.  As a capitalist, a small group of individuals gets to decide who gets the goodies and distribute them. Socialism does exactly the same thing.  Thats right. There is no fundamental difference between both. There are tiny differences at the margin, such as how the freebies and power get distributed. But that is all.  Even socialism has private ownership in those who run it for cryin' out loud. Even capitalism has state control and redistribution.  Both are neurotic worldviews. If you are possessed by either, GET HELP QUICKLY! It's a wonder that something which does not really exist causes so much division and conflict. But we are hum...

notice Grok has given me all white men! I'm going to talk about how wealth and power, though often pieces of shit, are not the real problem. But the people on the whole, are. This will be extraordinarily hard for most people to accept. Because if true, no one will be able to project themselves onto wealth and power any more to blame for all the people's self induced problems.  Try the following thought experiment and see where it takes you. Imagine a nation with 200 million people. And an administration and security force of 200 thousand people. And the people of this nation are always complaining about how corrupt the administration is.  Clearly the people are always unhappy with the administration but for some reason are not yet ready to revolt. It cannot be reasonably said that the people are happy with the administration. Yet they do not act honourably for their descendants and take the administration down. So is it a stretch of your imagination to say that the people are ...

Remember the benefit scrounger of old? Those able to work, but not willing. Even 40 years ago it was of frowned on to bring the question under proper scrutiny. Largely because of the Labour Party. Has anything changed, fundamentally? No! There were fewer scroungers back then. But productivity was much lower too.  Today there are far more scroungers, but the economy is holding up because it is so much bigger now. The relative difference is probably close to zero. It doesn't matter who the scroungers are: migrants, indigenous, white, black, fat, thing etc etc. What matters is no one is doing anything about TAXATION - root cause of unemployment, bankruptcy, poverty and ultimately war. But why not? Because all people, you and I too, have snouts buried deep in the trough of rent seeking.  I am your worst nightmare, owning lots of real estate. I do it because I know it is the only way to secure the future of my household in a world of other rent seekers. Is this another iteration of...