Observations on the world and its inhabitants
One of the big reasons I hang out and interact on social media, is to explore cultures and ways of thinking/behaviour. So when you see some of the same represented in the utterances of Stupid (that imaginary impish figure in my mind), you know where that came from. The example below shows that individuals feel ...
At any one time I have several posts in the backend that I am drafting, some over weeks and others over months. Obviously a topic may hit me and I decide there and then to get on with that, instead of creating yet another draft. So this morning (Sunday 8th May 2022), the topic of ...
Often times I make assertions based on my experiences. Social media occupies a lot of my time. I can observe how the humans think and react. I gather a lot of evidence, but I don’t often have the time to show what I gather. Well today provided a classic. Some chap or chappess, did not ...
If your name is Rip van Winkle, you would not know that there is an energy crisis on over the last couple months. That was brewing for over a year but the war in Ukraine made it more prominent. It would have happened anyway but that’s a different story. I’ve seen my diesel bill jump ...
Belief and believing (etc) have been a big part of my attention for many years. Having read a lot on this, I decided to start all over. What I mean is, I’m going back to the roots of belief. There are things that determine beliefs and I will go into that as well. Why should ...
If you hate Sci-Fi and films that go deep, then move on swiftly to avoid causing yourself distress! You have been told. The following scene is from the film Equilibrium. Having grown up ‘on Spock’ in the early years of my life, I came to think that emotion was the enemy. But Star Trek changed ...
Meaning and purpose are important aspects of human life. I don’t think many will disagree. It becomes intolerable for many people when these two things are absent. Meaninglessness and purposelessness are very difficult to cope with. I’m a bit afraid to alert anyone reading this that there is a YouTube vid down below, because I ...
As some may know, I spend a fair amount of time on social media forums. I’m bewildered about the sort of ‘thinking’ – if you can call it that – that goes on up there. The following was a classic. HM I don’t understand why hardly any of the comments get deleted. American company. Clearly ...
I should have been spending time on Netflix – but over the last few hours (near midnight on 22nd Jan 2022), I came across the video below (which could disappear). It is about Dawkins among a panel and a bunch of people in the audience. This triggered me to explore – again – the nature ...
Oh well, here we go again. Another social media conversation ending with me being called arrogant. The outline is below. So it made me wonder again what is the definition of ‘arrogant’ – and by extension condescending. There’s a wide open information superhighway where anyone can find the dictionary meaning. Google is your friend. Ahhh.. ...
1 – Politics can bend science. 2 – Politics can bend minds. 3 – Politics can cover up the truth. 4 – Mathematics and the truth are good friends. 5 – Mathematics cannot be bent by politics. 6 – The truth will always prevail, even if delayed by politics. 7 – Bent minds create bent statistics*, ...
Well, I nearly died of laughter. This is a play on that tree which fell that know one knew about. Of course it is about something else too – obviously!
I’ll say no more. The existence of God is proved – but instantly disproved! (See mindmap with grey background below).
It’s a new year and there will be new developments. Walker is breaking out on Substack! Interestingly, Substack blogs can accept paid subscriptions quite easily when linked to Stripe. Everybody calm down! This blog will remain in place and continue to be posted to at the usual average frequency. Several Substack blogs will develop in ...
In case some didn’t know ‘Don’t look up’ is a movie on Netflix. I have to say that I avoided watching it for the last 7 days because it appeared to be rubbish. But today someone gave me a nudge. If you don’t like Sci-Fi, or DiCaprio then tough. I then went on YouTube to watch ...
In 2022 – I aim to lose one more so-called friend. Did I say friend? I did not. I have no friends, so it is always so-called friends. They’re not many anyway – so it is easy to happen really. Now – as I was about to say, on 30th June 2018 I said that I ...
The word evil comes up many times in ordinary life. I’ve encountered it in professional life as well. Of course, I just have one life. In these posts the word ‘evil’ has been applied as a tag. On reflection I have never explored deeply the concept of evil. So that’s what this post is about. ...
Wow! I came across the video below that explained it very well – how stupid people are so powerful. Like a panorama opened before me. Fear of intelligence was explained very well. It is something I’ve been observing for years – obviously because I am statistically in the top 5% of the intelligence distribution curve. ...
What on earth am I on about now!? I ‘heard’ hundreds thinking it. Calm down. This is metaphor. Oh dear I should be more cautious really cuz it is a new world where metaphor has been replaced by the concretised thinking often seen on social media. Yuh know – this is where only mention of ...
Mathematics rules! You may not like it – tough! What’s this about? I’ve been saying that mathematics and probability applies to COVID-19. Of course – being NOBODY – nobody else is interested? Do I give a flying banana? I do not! Well, I’ve decided to post all that I’ve said in various forums. You like ...
I amuse myself on various forums; observing how the humans think. After all, the human race is gifted with a kind of thinking ability that has allowed them to split the atom and fathom quantum physics. They’ve even created quantum computers. So – you would think that this species is highly intelligent if you were ...
This is a very short take. The British Medical Journal created an interactive map. See it embedded (legally) below. I’m already expecting anyone reading this to go, “It’s confusing… I’m not a doctor!” Am bovverrrred? This infographic will display on browsers that support iframes.
I’ll try to keep this short. Intelligence quotients are fairly well correlated with abilities to reason. But it doesn’t mean that if your IQ is 130 that you will most times make much better decisions than everybody else. How? Because intelligence and thinking skills isn’t everything. Emotions can cause the smartest thinkers to make stupid ...
For quite some time I’ve been thinking that there must be a term to describe something I was observing over the last 25 years. Then I finally found it by accident today! This is not a lecture – just in case. I found it in Bo Bennett’s book ‘Uncomfortable Ideas‘. Definition The Semmelweis reflex is ...
All technology is ‘confusing’ to most people. Read that again – carefully this time. Anything that is new, is on ‘computers’ and requires thinking through more than two steps – is confusing. Look, I’m not debating it – the latter is what I have seen repeatedly. Right – let me get on with the OneDrive ...
Yes words are cheap. It don’t cost much to say, “I care” or “I’m sorry” or “I love you“. You don’t have to pay to say these sorts of things. It is totally free! And somebody is gonna say ‘obviously’. Well, tough! I’ll say the obvious. I was going to write this blog as ‘What ...
This weekend I was busy completing a course on creativity in problem solving. I completed it. It was meant to take only about 4 weeks but it took me 6 months. There was no limit of time. In any case I read and think deeply about 90-odd percent of the materials and links they provide. ...
What a bold assertion – ‘Reading is dead’? I’ll explain what I mean as I go on. Experiences in the last few years have led me to conclude that people actually: I’m not talking about novels. I’m talking about stuff that makes a real difference to personal and professional development. Oh sure, nobody has a ...
I’m pretty sure some will be jumping on the net to read up what cliché means. Nobody is getting a dissertation here today. To start off net-crawlers, go here to read up. The one that has been getting to me more in the last 2 years is ‘.. to be fair‘. Every time I hear ...
Yep. That’s what I was told in a real FTF conversation tonight 2021-09-04 between 20:00 and 21:20PM. Some must wonder why I even engage in those kinds of discussions. Well, I discover how the average human being thinks. It is stupid basically – the patterns of thought – and the gross disregard for the rules ...
