Oct
26
Thank you lord
Filed Under Religion | 2 Comments
A quick dig at religion. Next time someone tries to convince you that God worked a miracle, ask them to explain why a loving God, guarding over us all the time, should fail to intervene in this true scenario :
Debby Mills-Newbroughton, 99 years old, was killed as she crossed the road. She was to turn 100 the next day but, crossing the road with her daughter to go to her own birthday party, her wheel chair was hit by the truck delivering her birthday cake.
If they say that God’s works in mysterious ways, explain, without getting to annoyed, that it was the lack of any activity that was his failing. So, he was happy to watch this stupendously tragic event unfold in all it’s gory, pointless, ill-timed glory?
Oct
23
Extrapolating Corporate Power
Filed Under Business, Life | 2 Comments
I am tired so will write this on the fly. I hope it still retains some sense.
The idea here is to explore, as I write, a theoretical extrapolation of corporate power to envisage the consequences. I do so because the World appears to be heading that way. One stagerringly powerful ally that is tempering them is the WorldwideWeb, linking the voices of the masses together in an unvetted anti-power unity.
The scenario I want to envisage is where there are a finite number of corporations that control all human ‘work’ practices. And that they collude together to curb salaries forthe masses to near poverty levels. Aside from a few who choose to subsist on own-cultivated foodstuffs, the low salaries have to be endured by most. Even those trying to survive with self sufficiency have to forgo services such as water, waste, power.
With Governments merely puppets dangling from the greedy hands of the Corporations, democracy has long since vanished.
The Corporations essentially use the masses as slaves to provide goods and services for the elite minority who exist in the positions of power.
Any uprising, any rebellion is swiftly snuffed out by millitary force, also under Corporate control.
You see, the Corporations own all the World’s resources and run the World for the benefit of the few.
OK, this is far fetched, but the chilling aspects of this scenario are that we are many steps on the way to achieving it. But, most alarmingly, the Corporate juggernauts no longer have functional brakes, and the Government are turning a blind eye in case they take their business elsewhere and with it the large taxes they pay. Large but not correct - even now Corporations invest in various and many tax avoidance schemes that are by an realistic definition fraudulent means of avoiding due payment.
Oct
7
It’s not what happens to you
Filed Under Health, Life, Psychology | 6 Comments
Life for both humans and animals is periodically beset with mishaps, difficulties and challenges. The established wisdom is that :
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to what happens to you
a sentiment I entirely agree with - crying over spilt milk does not unspill it.
However, reality does not often match the simplicity of such proverbs.
First, I will question what is meant by you. In the simple sense, it is the entire you as a human being. And here in lies the problem. We experience our lives as only a small part of this whole, via our subconscious mind. It is only a small part of our brain. So I will rephrase the proverb :
It’s not what happens to you, but how your conscious mind reacts to what happens to you
And now we introduce a complexity, because your conscious mind is made aware of what happens to you via the subconscious interpretation of the input from the senses. The amygdala (the emotional organs of the brain, as it were), part of the primitive brain, vet the situation before it arrives at the conscious mind. This allows us to pull our hand away from a burning hot plate before we are consciously aware of the danger.
The amygdala can set up an emotional state that it deems appropriate to handle how it assesses what has happens.
When the conscious mind is duly made aware of what has happens, it then has to handle both it’s own judgement of the event, and the parallel surge of emotions in the background.
If you have suffered trauma, or have acquired phobias, the emotional reaction to what has happened can swamp you - your subconscious goes on red alert. I call it emotional hikacking. The adrenal glands can flood you with adrenaline and cortisol. Until that dissipates, you are very much at the mercy of the effect of these chemicals on the body.
Regardless of the rationality of your conscious reaction to the situation, you as a whole being is reacting intensely, and it is simply draining and distressing. It can takes hours or even days to recover.
Those whose emotions are well contained can have no real conception of what can happen to those emotionally hijacked. Nor, indeed, really appreciate their freedom. They live a proportional life.
Please feel free to give your own thoughts on this.