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  • Leaders of nations, Leaders of tribes

    President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin

    In the current times where conflict is everywhere it seems, what’s in a name? The two men above are both Presidents of their respective jurisdictions, and both are often shortened to ‘Trump’ and ‘Putin’.

    For this blog, which measures human activity to the baseline facts of Helios, Earth, and gravity, these times of complete and utter chaos in the human realm of the life zone on the planet called Earth are very illuminating. There is the western world, under the general umbrella of Christendom, and within that the overall division of Catholic and then all the variations which have come about since the 1500s, and the western world looks out onto the Middle East and China, which it could be said really generally still hold their own place as not being under Christendom or Empire. Sure the west drew lines through the Middle East with the resulting chaos now, but in belief and practices, still it can roughly be said that China and the ‘Middle East’ still maintain their own identity.

    Where does that leave the northern latitudes? Scandinavia is seen as sort of pure, uncomplicated, practical, not the region which is generating this catastrophic dimming of the life zone, And Canada also, the great outdoors, vast wilderness, and any stresses between French and English are far over in Quebec. But in between those two is the might Russia, and this last week of news headlines is raising a question which this human finds deeply interesting.

    The zone of conflict between Ukraine and Russia on a map is a fairly small area compared to the measurement of the land mass of Ukraine, and definitely a small area of the land mass of Russia. Information states that some in the conflict zone are Russian in heritage and language, and wish to be back within the perimeter of Russia. The fairly small conflict zone, to which most non Ukrainians or Russians have never been, is writ large on the agenda of the west, especially Britain who has been opinionating way above any functional ability.

    The really useful thing about Donald Trump being the President of the USA is that a top down measurement is now placed in the western world, and of course therein lies the dividing line between those who hate him and those who admire him. For the point of view of this blog, the increasingly complicated conflicts are increasingly complicated because the baseline of Earth is not considered relevant anymore. And if it is, quickly the terms populist, racist, radicalised, extreme right wing are thrown about, because politics has so completely removed itself from Earth itself.

    The two Presidents, of the USA and of Russia, are providing the clearest illumination on what is a leader, and on the different realities within the human zone in 2025. President Trump has spent several days in the mid latitude of Britain, from where this blog is physically written into the entirely tenuous digital realm (dependent on electricity, and which will disappear in a second along with the rest of digital tech at the first big Solar flare). This juxtaposition of the last week, with President Trump here, within latitude 55′-56’N, from where this writer inhabits, and ‘here’ because his ethnicity is half Scottish. He is also half German, which is not a million miles from the sites he visited, yet he is President of the USA, a vast land mass, until a few hundred years ago the lands of native tribes, as was all of Earth until a couple of thousand years ago, give or take some larger groupings in the Euphrates region and in what is now called South America. But all measured fully to Earth. Where else would they measure? And President Trump is certainly a leader, performing the role of a leader, and cutting through the bloated democratic west with the return of simple one liner facts. But he is still the President of a jurisdiction within the ‘west’, the major power of the ‘west’ actually, and it is the ‘west’ that engages and opinionates with the USA.

    President Putin, now put as the one obstructing peace in Ukraine, is again the bad boy, even though it is said both men get on pretty well, which they would do, being both leaders in personality and ability. So, why this public impasse? Why has President Donald Trump found himself in this position of being unable to bring an end to the war in Ukraine? This blog is looking at governance from the baseline of Earth, which is governed by Helios and gravity, and so this last week has been endlessly fascinating. The question of where does power arise is in nature not something the participants have to ask or analyse, because it arises from within the life zone. The questions the two Presidents have to ask themselves are showing as either side of this line. President Putin only answers to the land and the people of the land, whereas President Trump answers to the land of America, but which is organised within the beliefs and practices of ‘the west’, and which is not ultimately measured to the land but to the zone of politics, and with that global trade, global movement of people, a dumbing down through the use of English as the common language, and the firm belief that digital tech will create a nirvana. Russia on the other hand, never does not believe that it is not land. If that sounds Irish (and it might do because this writer has quite a lot of Irish in it) that is meant to say that a Leader from the Land has less questions to ask and answer, because the land itself asks and answers the questions.

    The impasse between the two Presidents is illuminating, and although the role of a leader is top down in every sense, it is the leader of a land who has the advantage of a pyramid base arising from geography while the leader arising from a western development of 500 years has only the top down. In this historical juncture with President Trump reasserting the need for clear jurisdictions and the welcome (for some of us) shake up that has been, who holds the cards in ‘a solution for the Ukrainian situation’? Will geography reassert itself, as the ultimate definer and arbitrator? Can another power ever successfully solve a regional zone, in which the ‘UK’ has its own going on that is for sure, and can one latitude arbitrate for another, one latitude which lives by heating and large appliances, while Russian latitudes can go all winter without heating and the ease of modern living. It’s a curious equation when the powers which criticize Russian leadership are dependent on buying the energy which is taking down the life zone, and the leader of the USA who is acting like a leader amidst the detritus of democracy ideals is the product of Scottish and German fortitude, along the same latitude, but born into the western realm which is now so truncated from geo-graphy. Who will prevail in the Ukraine situation? On the world as now a stage, it is revealing the baseline again, which has never changed.

  • Nuclear equality?

    A Logical Blog asking Logical Questions

    The Equality of no Nuclear. Over the early months of the year 2025 by the Gregorian calendar, President Trump raised the subject of nuclear weapons, saying, ‘There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons. We already have so many. You could destroy the world 50 times over.’

    In February statements spoke of America, Russia and China, and the idea of nuclear arms control, and that was said from the American President, not from Russia and China, but it was put out there. Where is ‘out there’? Well, that is into the modern digital tech world, entirely dependent on electricity from big power stations down to the i-phone charger, and without which nothing now would run, not that world leaders consider that real baseline.

    But out there it was stated, and then in early March President Trump told reporters that he was in favour of denuclearization amongst global powers. That would be the global powers who ‘have nuclear’, being the nine of America, China, Russia, France, the ‘UK’, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan and India.

    The nuclear spectre raised its head as Pakistan and India faced each other, the world held its breath, which of course is a meaningless term because the natural world never follows news events on a digital screen and it is only the human stuck is this strange in between, and President Trump again took the role of a leader and some talking was done, and the nuclear button was not pressed over on the complicated border region between Pakistan and India. Phew.

    Now the matter of nuclear weapons has swung the other way, not among the top dogs in the global realm who have this nuclear facility, but looking down the ladder, the same President Trump took on Iran with a smaller than could have been missile lobbed over, and Iran responded with a smaller than could have been, and possibly the heat was taken out of the explosive situation, for the time being. That’s clever leadership tactics too, because leaders should be engaging with each other in that mixture of talking for mutual benefit or engaging in a kind of thinking martial arts tactics because leadership is a difficult role, and for us masses, it is none of our business to sit and opinionate all day when we don’t have any responsibility.

    This blog is not an opinion but a measurement, and as the question of nuclear arms has appeared in these various ways in the first half of this year, it would be a very good idea to freeze the frame and keep both directions on view, before they sink beneath the daily new events in this tragic human world. As 9 countries have nuclear weapons, and they are meant to be a deterrent, why should Iran not have one, or a few, too? The west says nuclear weapons aren’t safe in countries not part of the civilized western world, and already views North Korea as somewhere far out on the fringes of inclusion. But if nuclear weapons are a deterrent should not every jurisdiction have a nuclear? Then it would be an equal safety for all.

    Looking the other way, up the ladder, to return to President Trump’s radical statements on denuclearisation made only a few months ago, will this be the paradigm missed in the modern era? If, on paper, a little diagram was doodled of the lower orders, seen as mad, bad and dangerous and who must at all costs be prevented from gaining these dangerous nuclear facilities, up through the perceived order of things to the major powers who believe they and their nukes hold the balance of peace, why can we not start at the top line instead of the bottom line?

    As the ‘UK’ gears up to invest more in missile and arms manufacture, and talks of security in this dangerous age, yet at the same time relies on manufactured goods from all those countries who come in for the stinging criticism from the pious ‘UK’, and as gun boats were despatched to the Channel Islands to scare France, not so many years ago over fishing questions, the existence of nuclear weapons designed to obliterate the enemy only stands like a great towering mountain, brooding over the daily life below.

    If President Tump followed though on his statements given out a few months ago on denuclearization amongst the global powers, what would the world look like, the human world that is? Or rather, if it was followed through to actual denuclearization? If no country has any nuclear weapons the top slice of stress would be evenly sliced off, the line brought down evenly instead of the see-saw reactions and this Russian roulette of friend or foe. If all jurisdictions were nearer ground level and the nuclear deterrent became a nuclear equality of no one has nuclear, how much aggravation would evaporate in international relations?

    It would a really good weekend event if the leaders of the 9 met for a serious chat. Are we going to actually use a nuclear? If not, just come down and start the dismantling process. Such a move would show that global co-operation is possible, and maybe the best proof of all, and really there’s nothing to lose because no world leader would really want to go down in history as the one who pressed the button, not that anyone would know about it anyway after that, but still…not great if there is any posterity. But if a summit of 9 came out and announced that hereinafter the line of this towering aggravation will be now calmly taken down quite a few notches, what is there to lose? And there would be a lot to gain.

  • A Logical Blog

    Trump -v- Iran – a Disaster Day for Logic?

    Trump -v- Iran on Summer Solstice 2025 – a Disaster Day for Logic? What on Earth has happened this weekend? As Solar time remains the same as ever, human time has now gone mad. The news of a rapid escalation of ‘events’ in the ‘middle East’, the term given by the west because of the spin of the earth, spinning into Sunrise and where there is no middle because there is no beginning or end of a spin, is this the last nail in the coffin of logical government? Or, has President Donald Trump massively shot himself in the foot?

    Is it the same man who somewhere back in February of this year said words to the effect that the USA had plenty of nuclear missiles ‘which could destroy the world 50 times over’ so why add more, and were there not noises of talks between President Trump, Russia and China about ‘de-nuclearization’? No more missiles is one thing, but a coming down, a de-nuclear, is, or was, possibly the most Logical action anyone could take in the human world in this present time. An open-handed action to bring a line down would have filtered down a great deal of other matters, like the biological world has a vast network of seen and unseen processes going on in the zone around one fact, and which the modern humans have well lost sight of.

    In this muddling of geography, ethnicity, belief, historical let’s call them ‘matters’, not to mention the climate disaster (some call it change), and the imminent collapse of supply chains, water supply, etc., if President Trump had followed through on that comment of de-nuclearization, how much would that have filtered on down through the chaos going on? Intention is like the subtle zone in the biological realm, it is not quantifiable yet has a profound factual outworking.

    The ‘middle East’ is geographically and ethnically neither western Europe nor the USA, which is its own landmass with ocean on both sides. It could be said that the nuclear issue is the nastiest of all controversies between the different political zones on Earth. In this crazy age of globalism where the ‘west’ seeks to bring (or impose) democracy and individual values on just about everywhere from North to South Pole and all around Earth, the nuclear issue stands totally opposite to that, the nuclear powers retain the right to err.. retain their nuclear weapons, while telling other countries (and where the divisions are already there in history, religion, culture) that they are very, very bad for wanting a nuclear weapon.

    If nuclear weapons are so bad that some countries cannot have them, and the USA, or President Trump himself ordered, that Iran should be attacked without warning, then Logically the only solution is that probably now throw-away phrase (because it has been thrown away) of “de-nuclearization”. Why has this President who was overwhelmingly voted in for the hope that some common sense can be slotted into the last days of human existence on earth committed this completely idiotic act?

    As well as heightening the nuclear issue with these ‘bad Iranians’, the credibility which President Trump had in restoring some common sense to trade (and apologies to all the hard working trades people who are affected by tariffs but overall, that is common sense and a pity the UK doesn’t have a leader who thinks of its own security) has now evaporated. Any people or any country which is humiliated, as Iran now is, doesn’t bow the knee and accept their wrongdoing, it only makes bad matters so much worse.

    Nearly there was a nuclear button pressed between Pakistan and India, so recently, and it was the same President of the USA who quickly stepped in, and the world breathed a sigh of relief, disaster averted. Now the same President does this inflammatory and idiotic action in the middle East like a bull in a china shop.

    As the UK does not have any, or not nearly enough, young people who could turn up to even train for a fighting army let alone go off and actually do it, and as there are nuclear weapons in the UK, this would be such a very good opportunity for the UK government to show it had some teeth and unilaterally announce that it is to disarm its nuclear weapons. Hypocracy is just the worst situation of all and on the principle of ‘if you don’t use it, then lose it’ which is usually used for cognitive brain exercises that if you don’t keep active then you lose your faculties, but applying that to nuclear weapons, if the UK are not intending to actually use the nuclear weapons then what’s the point of all that time, money and effort to maintain them, and the UK could be the first to both announce and act – the two together – that it is beginning to dismantle all nuclear facilities.

    A long time ago philosophers from Damas, Cairo, Paris, London, would meet and discuss, and a long time ago the trading network on the major ports and inland networks from there, all took full account of difference in geography, culture, belief, language, the long history, and it was a vibrant and engaged world. That time has passed and will never again be possible, because the west has burnt the bridges behind and in front, but of all the actions which could put the widest and most pervasive signal that this high tide mark is very very bad, if President Trump had continued on the de-nuclearization idea and even if just an idea, instead of what has happened this Summer Solstice weekend, then maybe the tide would have turned back and something of a normal ebb and flow just might have held. Instead we have a tsunami of god knows what, and the concept of governance in shreds.

    Thank goodness Solar times does still hold. The northern hemisphere on Earth is now going into shorter days, less Light, down to the Winter Solstice, from where the baby Light will be born and the days slowly slowly lengthen again. No hope of such predictability for the human realm now.

  • A Blog

    Drawing a fine line: the draw of Catholicism.

    Why are young people heading to Catholicism? The facts show that Catholicism has grown a big following, almost from nowhere, out of the several decades of runaway consumerist, credit fuelled, lifestyle image, cheap holidays, 24/7 internet shopping and the general turning upside down of anything considered normal or natural, and until the 1980s there were still a few normal and natural places and spaces even in the Protestant western world. Since then things have taken even a new turn of illogicality and is about to take the whole life zone down with it.

    The repeated appearances of ‘the Catholic church’ as opposed to the Church of England, or the very many different names of Protestant denominations (and which a quick look up of that word meaning is to state which currency a transactions takes place, though to de-nominate could also presumably mean someone who was nominated is now de-nominated, but who knows…and one thing is for sure, the very many thousands of Protestant denominations do keep themselves very clearly separate)is taking on a kind of identity in the media, at events, and when something has become like a shorthand, it is a good thinking exercise to ask what it is a shorthand for.

    Now Jordan Peterson has entered the zone of ‘Catholicism’ though it sounds like that is raising more questions than planned, the shorthand of ‘Catholicism’ must be an entity in itself. That does not mean to say anything profoundly philosophical in terms which are far beyond this writer’s ken and not just from dyslexia, but the more philosophical the terms, the further the focus goes from the basic logic for life on earth, which is that everything is governed by the Sun, the Light emanating from that vast and remarkable source, and the ball of rock pulled into a circle by gravity, orbiting Sun along with various other bodies, and which we are so lucky to have a life zone on Earth, and for how much longer we do not know. This is why it is a curious thing when after something like 2,000 years since the emergence of the Christians, not as the New Testament would have it but from an overstretched Roman Empire, a few fairly psychologically unstable people, and a lot of things cobbled together from existing Greek and Roman practices, and given an extra something to appear novel, and of course after the 2,000 years since to the point where in western Protestant civilization the new religion of science and data now hold the call on what is right and wrong, ‘scientific method or unscientific’ is the terminology, why is specifically Catholicism taking centre stage in this way?

    It is not even as though it is the religion of Catholicism appearing like this. Certainly the recent passing of Pope Francis was a global event, and as this Logical blog asked, why such a difference between the public Catholic events and the public Church of England events collapsing in on itself. There are a very many people in the world today who genuinely believe the belief put by the Christian church, whichever Catholic or Protestant or whichever denomination it is in Scotland, England, Wales, or anywhere around the globe, and that is the curious thing about this recent return to Catholicism, because it now does not appear to be really about the religion, as in the belief, the practices, the rituals, because of time as measured to basically heaven or hell. If it was really asked in a tick box exercise which of the fundamental teaching and beliefs did someone interested in Catholicism really truly believe, it might be hardly any, or even none. So, what is Catholicism, if not Catholicism?

    For a start there are the buildings, the beautiful cathedrals built on geometric principles and which geometry alone formulates a human’s psyche and sense of place, because micro is to macro and the whole of earth is really within such a geometry even though it has been so lost from view for so long. Many of the major cathedrals, Chatres, Glasgow, so many, have significant springs and water energy lines which dowsers can visibly trace, and often a meeting of significant points is found right under a font or an altar. The materials were the best, the stained glass, gold, oak wood, stone floors and steps worn just a little by thousands of feet over hundreds and hundreds of years. Candlelight and choirs and an organ, and the still sense of activity in different chapels, the lines of candles to be lit with 50p in the box and place a candle amongst others already lit by people we do not know, and for people who are never spoken but in our heart we know who they are, and even if a busy city is going on outside, the timeless few minutes or an hour, it is magical and mystical. A world waiting for the plume of smoke to rise over the Vatican, first black this year, heightened the tension, and then the white, and to have still one in the Catholic system in this world of plurality and cut and paste and viral multiplication, the clarity of the Catholic organisation in equal measure enables the visitor to enter without being bothered.

    Catholicism also, even with the fairly terrible abuses that have gone on by the nuns and monks, and the relentless reminder of guilt that many who actually grow up in the Catholic faith are burdened with, for the visitor is not at all demanding on the state of our soul. The average Protestant church greets at the door with the question of the state of your soul, even if not asked implicitly, it is hanging in the air, there is not much else. But Catholic churches with all the trimmings of magic and mysticism, the many beautiful objects, the white marble basin of water, the general silence of the place, paradoxically it is appearing as the geometric place where all the simplicity and beauty and ritual can be given, with no need to account for one’s belief or progression towards heaven. For the Protestant west this is a very strange occurrence in society, though for the Catholic continentals there has always been the threading through of popping in to Mass, the acknowledgement even if not devotion to the local saint, and the stronger family and community networks that exist around that, as the Protestants imploded into rational science and individualism.

    Jordan Peterson is talking about Catholicism, and it appears the true Catholics and the true philosophers are hard at it to explain whatever their position is, and to make sure he is limited into a really non Catholic box, because Catholicism is, well, religion, and philosophy is, well, philosophy. But what he is talking about in having been so important to young people, especially the boys cut adrift as feminism started to really destabilize society and normal behaviour of dating and socialising and societal rough and tumble fell silent now to the point now of the kind of religious witch hunt turned against men and against ‘populists’ who speak of tradition, and against those who see the necessity of basic structure in society, what he is talking about is quite fascinating to those interested in the long history of belief, of which this writer is one. The cathedrals are there, still as geometric and beautiful as ever, though mostly empty, and the many people young and old who have no place in society, because the form of society has been collapsed like the collapse of a big marquee, so really this is a marriage made in heaven, of the stability and gravitas and beauty of the Catholic structures should now be filling with all those put off the wheel by the deconstructualists, from New Labour onwards.

    It is really for a few decades that something has been changing, as shown by the numbers of people who walk The Camino to Santiago. Many many of those would say they are not Catholic believers, yet the act of a significant walk to a sacred place, and Santiago was an important pagan site long before the Christians appeared, and the rigours along the way, it changes everything, because of the limitations. Because of the limitations. Limitations bring focus, and focus is the logical position for us humans, because really there are no other options, and when the water runs out or supply chains are disrupted, then the focus of limitation appears like hitting the buffer. Midnight Mass also, in the last what? 10 years maybe?, it has become a significant event and many Catholic churches and high Protestants have seen an astonishing rise in people coming, but just for that event. Some churches have even put on a Midnight Mass if there wasn’t one before, because supply and demand are basic principles. And for us pagans who watch from the purely geometric position of Summer and Winter Solstice, the placing of Christmas so near the Winter Solstice and switching the Sun to the Son, and true Light to Jesus being the Light of the World, well, we can generously say how much we understand the desire for non religious folk to go into a church for midnight, the deepest darkest turn of one day to another, and watch the new candlelight being lit out of the darkness. It is a profound thing, though purely factual from the position of Earth and Sun and now so utterly lost in our society.

    Those wise young people looking for clarity and a sense of order, and who are finding it paradoxically in the buildings from where natural rhythms of society were taken away, it is a beautiful societal circle that old fashioned relationships could be made again, of whatever nature from friendships to partnerships where children will be along, and confidence grown again and a living civic model restore again with no doubt most Catholic priests not too fussed about what someone does or does not believe doctrinally, but just the sight of so many bums on seats, pews, and an appreciation of the formal ceremonial rituals and some coins in the donation box, well, what a surprise, civic society is to be found in Catholicism, in the geometric sense.

  • A Blog

    Would reverse logic be logical in Gaza?

    Would reverse logic be logical in Gaza? The natural human action if someone has a grievance is to continue, continue, continue, enough until the grievance is balanced out by action onto the other. When enough has been proved, then at least there is some satisfaction that the grievance did not go unnoticed. And of course in the natural order of things, the balance of life is held not by peace and love man, sharing and caring, empathizing and including, but by that basic and unalterable equation in the life zone on the Earth’s surface where everything is limited, and all participants (except the human) balance between themselves of resources and networks, and that includes eating each other, because where else would they get their food? From the tiniest bacteria to the biggest elephant, all are within a network of survival where the life zone is circulated within the defining parameter of gravity, water, and Sunlight.

    Several species of ant take slaves, lions work together to get a gazelle, just as the large sea creatures position themselves together when the shoals come into shore, to ensure maximum food at the optimum time. Such is the connectivity and intelligence within species, and the native tribes would be more a part of the natural world than what is now the different perceived habitation of the human. Even the early empires of the eastern Mediterranean, of the vast Persian empire, the Egyptians, Hellenistic Greece, everything measured still to geo-graphy, but also the psychology of the modern human species to control more than is needed for food. Was it the Third Punic War, where Rome triumphed and the stage was open for expansion, domination, and the watchful eye of Fortune conveniently avoided? In 63 BCE the Roman army sacked Jerusalem, and the various sieges and destruction during the 60s BCE is a long time ago, but the geography is the same.

    In 2025, the Middle East (as defined from Britain, but in the Middle East they are just where they are) is a crisis and way beyond the ken of this writer. However, if focus comes back out instead of in deeper, there are just a few cogs in the chaos which show as a cause and effect. The modern human, when there’s a cause, just continues, beyond the need for food and water and sex which is the natural biological drivers but because Israel and Gaza are not a large empire territory, would it be possible to hold two things together? The biological ethnographic difference of peoples who have been natives in the area for thousands of years, and warring tribes are as natural as quarrelsome rooks, combined with the complications of modern politics, the west’s obsession with imposing democracy on every corner of the world (which has no corners, because it is sphere formed by gravity), the supply of weapons, which are called arms, armaments, and the global media conveying all aspects, from all points of view.

    If the one event of Hamas taking Jewish hostages in October 2023, and from which has unleashed a kind of nuclear bomb reaction, not surprisingly for the hostages and families involved, if that were seen as the highest peak of upset, regardless of how the whole conflict came to be, but just taking that one incident and drawing a line around it, what would happen if Hamas just released all remaining hostages and said, ‘We’ve made our point.’ Does focus become clearer when combat goes on, as logically it would be thought, or does it become clearer when reverse logic is applied, and the tug of war rope put down? If one side just stops, where does the winner/loser equation lie? What would Israel do, or the leader of Israel do, if all hostages were released, walked to the conflict line and returned to where they belong, what happens next?

    There is a phrase of someone who doesn’t take prisoners, and the general meaning is that they then don’t live with the confusion involved, the uncertainty, or the need to keep your prisoners secure but also fed and watered, all of which take resources which you might not have. To not take prisoners which have to be kept, is therefore liberating, and liberation of course is the opposite of being a prisoner. What if the people of Gaza had a poll to vote whether they wanted Hamas to return all prisoners, and to see if that would stop the bombing. To demarcate just that one action, and do it, is that warfare or leadership? Long gone are the days when conflicts were settled by an arm wrestle, and more’s the pity, but also long gone are the days when a leader also had to use some philosophical manoevering, some checks and balance for their own survival even apart from warfare, and as natural and inevitable as conflict is, why could not this very local and yet polar opposite conflict be a zone for a new kind of more cerebral conflict. Total destruction of the other is understandable, especially as the suffering grows by the day, but in such chaos there is even more possibility for testing out a reverse logic. If instead of losing it would be a gain, by showing one has the power of thought and action, then why not?

  • A Blog

    The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury

    2025 is showing itself to be a complicated year for the Christian religion. A few months ago the very public exit of Justin Welby from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury, for all the reasons the exit was for, was preceded by weeks and months of air time and print space from the now so many different people and viewpoints holding some level of office within the CofE (Church of England). Without even a tiny diversion into the fascinating history of the 1400s and 1500s in Italy and northern Europe, and of course England, as to why and how Protestantism and the Church of England arose, this blog will just put all Protestant beliefs, including the Kirk in Scotland and the roughly 45,000 different denominations and sub groups and tiny groups under ‘Protestant’ meaning it arose from the 1400s, which is only about 500 years.

    In this same year, and very recently, a loved and respected Pope died, and the air time and print time and TV time was one huge global outpouring of grief, ceremony, gathering, traditional processes to be followed, plus the information that many young people are attending Catholic churches. Yet the Catholic church has a fairly terrible history of abuses, scandals, financial issues, (and looking back in history, were responsible for severing the relationship of the human to Helios, the governing power of Earth, before of course themselves being treated as the evil ones by the Protestants). Even for those who are within the Catholic church and hold to the beliefs and to the Christian god in the afterlife, the less than positive aspects of the Catholic church are public knowledge. Yet events as in recent weeks, and the smooth transition to a new Pope, have been as a united group of people, under one event and one person. And further, because the new Pope is an American, the Catholic church has seamlessly joined global politics with the offer of a possible Vatican hosting of peace talks thereby leapfrogging into the centre of the present day world crisis.

    So, the question is, why do these two underlying structures of western civilization show in public to be so diametrically opposite in 2025?

  • A Blog

    Assisted Dying, who is the relevant person here?

    Assisted Dying, that current heightened subject in the ‘UK’, has been passed by the Scottish Parliament today, to move on to Committee stage. The media channels, and especially BBC Radio 4, gives the matter central air time and not from the decision of a Parliamentary vote in favour. The subject is dying, and we are all going to die, because all humans are part of the life zone on planet Earth, just one of the bodies held in gravity around Helios. Because we live, we die, it is just a fact of life, no pun intended. The fact of life is also the fact of death, which in this question means physical matter death. The realm of spirit is different again, and one which evidence proves is as natural as life and death of physical matter, but spirit dimensions and ‘life after death’ are not the subject of the Assisted Dying debates going on in the present day.

    Each time this question meets the public sphere, as it certainly does when a Parliament votes to move it forward, as Westminster and Holyrood have now both done, and the Isle of Mann, and Jersey, but let’s stick with Westminster and Edinburgh, while strangely the go-ahead Welsh on language and respect for landscape features such as Yr Wyddfa (and you’d have to be a native Welsh speaker to pronounce that one, wouldn’t you!) have less room for discussion on the matter of assisted dying, because it is really Westminster and Edinburgh which BBC Radio 4 follow. Again today, again, because the subject of assisted dying is public news, the reflex is to give air time to someone in a wheelchair. In England that person is a well-known sportswoman, and in Scotland today, that person is an MSP. If it was said, what’s it got to to do with them, then accusations of discrimination against disabled people would fly, both are women so accusations of misogyny would soon follow, and everything heads to the usual shut down of any real discussion or relevance.

    What is missing in this debate on assisted dying, it could be said,(as one must say in this age of near paranoia of offending someone), is that it is nothing to do with anybody except the person errr……dying. In a logical blog it is the height of illogicality to interview anybody on the subject of assisted dying – with the stated framework of a likely 6 month expectation of life, before a certain death (which we all will have), in England at least but still the same principles are in the motion in Scotland – who does not have a terminal illness that is very likely to lead to a bad end, a painful end, a traumatic end for them and all around them, and a period where life is not the lovely exchanges around a bedside as someone gently slips away. Some people have that, the one who is dying and then those around them, and what a lovely way to go. For others who will not be having a peaceful ending with perhaps a bit of pain relief at the end but nothing too grotesque, how incredibly disrespectful is it to have BBC Radio 4 interviewing people who use wheelchairs. To use a wheelchair must be unbelievably frustrating, but it is not a terminal illness. Nor is mental disability, nor is old age, nor is depression and nor is anything else except a terminal illness which is only going one way.

    Why is it in this age of individualism, the ‘person centred’ obsession, the empathising and all the sugary psychological talk, that a person in bad pain, bad failing of bodily functions, possibly weeks or a few months, bad psychological state of having all the caring people staring at them 24/7, a person asking, begging, to be helped to move on, and which has no other interpretation than what they are saying, often someone who has lived a life to the full and not sat around, someone who is in a network of loving caring people who also do not want to see this unfolding horror of their last few weeks or months, why is it that they have to hear media channels holding a theatrical debate on everything but the obvious?

    Since the unfortunate case of Harold Shipman despatching many people under the job title of doctor in the NHS a certain paranoia has risen, that anyone talking about death means they want to kill people. The Christians have always had their own rationale, based on beliefs which are not logical – as measured to Earth and Helios – and no doubt other religions also have their reasons. The NHS believes citizens live in it, from cradle to grave, and to reject the NHS is not far off the Christians in their belief of salvation and hell. Isn’t it strange that there is an obsession of crime writing, crime films, crime research in the ‘UK’, where literary festivals not put on a crime event because that is the one which will sell out on opening sales, while history, geography, natural history, the makers and observers are lucky to fill part seats. Put against the obsession with crime, murder, problems in life, why does something as natural as assisted dying, for someone who is only going one way and which any physician with any basic understanding can see, why is this subject such a public spectacle in the ‘UK’?

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    The transgender crisis in Britain

    In the last few days a news item appeared in the ‘UK’ of how girls wishing to change gender are going to be tested for autism. This is an interesting one for several reasons and of course is only relevant at all because of the strange obsession with sex and gender which has taken hold in the last decade or so, and of course with the possibility of actually being able to go through a medical change. This post is not about what is a biological woman, and which has also been in the news recently, causing hours of debate. Logically that subject is as it always has been, and where the ancient Greeks had such a very sensible view that there was male and there was female, and then there were some males who were a bit more female and there were some females who were a bit more male, and such has ever been the human population all over Earth. Happily for the ancient Greeks, men-men had their place, men-women had their place in the household, and for the real women-women well, there was Lesbos just over the water.

    This comment is about the link made between girls wishing to change gender and that a test for autism could be made. Apparently statistics show a higher percentage of those wishing to change gender are autistic than the average, so there is a correlation. Why would this be? A few decades ago when a tiny number of people did change gender, to now when it has almost become those not questioning their gender have to apologise for being just as they are, where do sex/gender and autism stand? And why autistic girls, and not autistic boys? Why do autistic girls want to become boys but not so many autistic boys want to become girls?

    Because this blog is measured entirely from the logical point of view, where does logic sit in this matter? A logical approach would be to cross reference back over recent history, because as the medical facility to change gender has been a bit of a boom industry in the 2000s it is very easy to compare back to say, the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s when these sort of societal questions were just not in the public parlance. What is missing in this question of autistic girls and changing gender?

    Well, logically, society itself is missing in this debate in Britain. The public realm in which young and old live, males and females, and all the variations, never gets a look in now. The inversion of the public sphere – meaning a measurable public area – used to have an identity even if not actually living like a biological being, it still did have an identity to which the human related and engaged. Now in the strange psychological inversions that have taken place, probably largely from the digital screens which invert and invert again, those born in the 1990s, almost it seems into a digital screen, have no knowledge of society as an entity only a few decades back. In that society were groups of young people like the Famous Five, with George, real name Georgina, who wore her hair short, wanted to be called a boy’s name, and could stand as one of society’s greatest icons to the tomboy. What a great position to hold. If the balance of hormones puts a girl into a more masculine category and society allows the freedom to cut the hair, use a boy’s name, and not have to worry about the feminine complications in life then what better a life could there be?

    If ‘the tomboy’ was restored to its previous natural place, and autistic girls who felt uncomfortable in the present day female realm did not have to consider medically changing sex, with the proviso that you can’t actually change into the other sex, would that be a logical solution to this massive problem? In the distorted world of digital images and the selfie and the limitless supply of cheap clothes, make up, strange looking nails from a nail bar, hair extensions and large eye lashes, it is not really a surprise that autistic girls do not wish to identify with such things. If a specific category of ‘tomboy’ was restored, even with a box on forms to tick, how much confusion would reduce just from that? Possibly quite a lot.

    But if the societal identity was further asked, where does Britain stand on all humans measuring their identity to the public place? Nowadays the words space and place are used interchangeably, but on the Earth’s surface a space has to be a place. If instead of young people being encouraged to define themselves by anything but the public realm, this was turned on its head and the public realm was the definition, how could that be useful in lessening individual identity confusion? Hannah Arendt talked about the three realms of the public, the private, and then the social sphere, Walking around most British towns these days it isn’t possible to see any definition at all is it. What if the ‘UK’ government made a law to say that in the public realm, in which biological people look at each other, everyone regardless of sex should be covered by clothes from collar bone to elbow, and down to the knee. How would that change the sexual identity confusion going on today? Probably it would be a great relief for the autistic girls who grow up amongst females putting out sexual availability, obsessed by every like on their screens, obsessed by who is looking at them, by who said what to who and where, while autistic girls spend their time on more useful things and in more useful pursuits yet with no societal place now, only with the guys, the non transitioned guys that is. If there was both a law passed to take this overt sexual availability out of public places, and transport, and in the way females dress in organisations and conferences and out jogging, along with an official restoration of the place of the tomboy in society, how would that change the statistics of autistic girls wishing to change gender? Probably it would change it a lot.

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    Societal benefits of autism in the USA, and the ‘UK’

    After RFK Jr. made his comments about autistic people not working or paying taxes, did he ask himself how much tax Bill Gates pays? It is probably quite a lot, plus Bill Gates shows the classic autistic pattern of ….. dedication to work without the ego directing matters when he stepped down from Chairman back to running the functional side of his company. And how much money is raised in tax for the USA by clever young people who once upon a time would have been accounts clerks, librarians, technical drawers, engineers, natural scientists, indexers, patient teachers of useful subjects like maths and geography, and are now sucked into the digital world of coding and worse, the new AI. Whether they worked in the real world or in the new world, still a great deal of processes underpinning western society are done by those who do not have an ego, do have immense concentration and care about getting things right, and can be relied on to sort it out when a problem is identified.

    Yes of course there are some autistic people who don’t work and pay tax but the percentage overall is probably very small for those who don’t. Instead of making a public spectacle of himself in going after a cure for autistic people, who incidentally are not a recent blip in the progress of western civilization but we go back a long way, yes a very long way, and even in more recent history Sir Isaac Newton showed every indication that he was autistic, along with many others who could focus and observe over long periods, RFK Jr. could take a different approach.

    In order to improve workplaces generally to enable more work to be done rather than open plan chat, unhealthy buildings of artificial materials instead of stone and wood, bright lights and computer systems which will all fail at the first large Solar flare, RFK Jr. could put forward a policy initiative that there is an autistic person on every Board, every management committee, every facilities department, every school, every everything, and he will see just how useful autistic people are.

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    Solar flares, beautiful aurorae, earthquakes, digital collapse

    The Earth, the ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere and containing a life zone in which humans inhabit, along with the millions and zillions of other organisms, is experiencing the affect (or is it the effect?) of the 11-year cycle of solar flares. These massive ejections are creating beautiful Northern Lights for those living in the north-ish of the northern hemisphere, and Southern Lights for those living on land masses near enough the South Pole to see. These magical light shows in the sky are not visible around the Equator due to the electromagnetic pull at either Pole, which creates the awesome display. It could be a huge concert, lights, action, plugs, the sky lit up, the humans amazed and entertained and it is something like that because electricity generates marvellous sights, from lightning flashes to aurorae. Science knows it is not an assistant of Helios flinging down flares onto Earth, neither is it the entertainment show and which this year are providing some spectacular images captured on the smart phones. The science of solar particles and the 11-year cycle is way too complicated for this blog, only the logical view is relevant, and the fundamental equation of gravitational balance between Helios and Earth.

    If another equation is measured, not scientifically but on the back of an envelope, is this time of solar flares causing greater than usual disruption to the earth surface. The 1859 Carrington Event flare was a big one and nothing has been seen on that scale since, but this year Myanmar experienced a big earthquake with the resulting devastation on the surface above it, California this week, and Spain also have had quakes. As some humans look outward at the more vivid than usual aurorae at North and South Poles, and some pick through rubble for weeks after a quake, what is the equation of impact if a big Solar flare in this time of big Solar flares just crosses the threshold of domestic, corporate, government, scientific, space technology, street lights and traffic lights, railways, water pumping stations, sensor operated entry doors and oh so much more, and the new kid on the block of the AI data generator centres. Has belief of the modern human crossed the threshold into now a religious certainty that the digital world looks back at Earth from a protected zone, a realm and place completely outside of Helios and Sun and utterly invincible (as long as you have the right charger). It is not an easy prospect to contemplate, but when is the flare going to be hurled to Earth which does just that, it turns out the lights. The aurorae will go on, beautiful because of the strength of the flare, but who would be appreciating them then?