Volcanic Ocean

When boredom takes hold, if you feel creative one can buy some very cheap canvases from a very cheap store.  One can play and imagine, one can try different things, and sometimes one can make something they actually like.  I like this I call it my Volcanic Ocean, it might grow larger, I may even buy larger canvases to experiment further.  I am sure it is not everyones cup of tea but hey its not finished, it was shot with a phone camera that's why it looks so crap,  I thought a black frame around the six canvases would make it look quite impressive, the six parts are 6ft by 4ft.

Fate blinded

The road if weary and long,

A heavy heart casts a shadow,

A shadow drained of hope,

Desolation breeds like a plague,

Swamping any faith the light will break through.

The ocean is deep and infinite,

It swallows the thought of goodness,

Sucking away precious life,

Drowning all salvation,

No light can penetrate its depths.

The mountain goes on forever,

An insurmountable barrier,

It blocks out the light,

Its sheer size is overwhelming,

Nothing can go over or around it.

The bridge is hidden from me,

Invisible I am blinded,

Perhaps it is there,

Yet I am unable to find it,

Should I stop looking, resigned to my fate?

Breaking me

There is a devil inside me,

Devouring all,

Ripping out my soul,

Its squeezes my heart,

Suffocating, tightening the knot,

I try to move but I dare not,

Collapsing on top of me,

Like an infinite weight,

I feel like I am bait,

Please do not hate me,

Never forsake me,

It is trying to break me,

Will it succeed I do not know,

Perhaps I will know one day soon.

Cool and Warm

Crazies run the world

It is apparent to me the most insane humans run the world.  They are the ones who want power and wealth, because they are not satisfied with normal life.  They blindly follow their own agenda, not really caring a hoot about anything or anyone.  They want to dominate, they want to rule and they find whatever position of power is going to give them the most satisfaction.  They enjoy being in control, they don’t care if what they are doing is good or bad, as long as they are getting a buzz from doing it.  As long as it fills their needs and desires, but it never does unfortunately, and they will continue to destroy us until someone with a greater power agenda destroys them.  Then the greater power pulls the blind sheep, the mob, in their direction.  As Shakespeare describes in Julius Caesar, he who controls the mob controls Rome.

These people see the world as a game, as their own private playground, they give the impression they are for the people, but under the skin, deep down, they do not give a damn.  Some do great things and we never forget them, they become immortal.  However, they are no different to the scoundrels; it just happened that their obsession was good or great.  Others are pure evil and cause a massive amount of damage and they become infamous.  Then there is the rest, they are not great or evil they are just self-absorbed only interested in what they like and what they want.  They are the petty inbetweeners, not good enough to be great, not bad enough to be evil.  They are more like an annoying itch on your back that you cannot reach to scratch.  However, the itch is actually a small spot, which can grow into a boil, it is harmless but it is there and it can become painful and full of poisonous puss.

Sometimes this puss-filled sore does not go away, and for whatever reason it grows and grows, its starts to debilitate you and it may if not treated become a cancer.  I know this is becoming very metaphorical, but imagine the world is your body.  Unfortunately, we are full of cancers, they are infecting every part of our insides, and they have control of our brain so we cannot function properly.  They have infected our heart so we find it difficult to keep our body alive; they have infected our lungs so we cannot breathe properly.  The rest of our main organs are on deaths door, if true, the doctor would give us less than a day to live.

We live on an anatomy of disaster, with the worst type of human running it and controlling it.  The worst type of human to run the world and I mean all the major governing powers, not just governments.  The worst type of human is the one that wants control, wants power and is not interested in anyone else; they are only interested in their selfish concerns, come what may they would be happy to see death and destruction, as long as in the end they got what they wanted.

Crazies run the world, and we are all screwed.

We need to end popular party politics

Not sure if I had written about this before, I probably have since it does not seem too unusual a comparison.  Extreme politics is about to rise in Britain, I know it’s not exactly the same as the rise of fascism and communism that we saw at the beginning of the last century, but perhaps it is this centuries version of it.  People are sick and tired of being force-fed crap, bullshit, and all the other political slurry imaginable by the current political parties.  When this starts to occur, the people look for extreme answers to difficult questions.  Political parties like UKIP arise. 

I am not discussing dictatorships, or any kind of despotism in the post, though by some unfortunate happenstance, the fact we have the political system we have encourages that sort of regime.

One thing that is true in life is you can never find a happy balance, I know we all strive to find this, but as far as large collections of humans are concerned, this is currently impossible.  Therefore, we try our best using our current political system or a similar system.  The idea behind this concept is that if we can find the popular middle ground, we will eventually make most of the people happy.  The big problem with popularity politics is sometimes the popular choice is not the right choice, and then the party in power has the difficult choice of weighing up whether to make the tough choice, or the popular one.  If they make the tough choice, the one that is not popular and they get it wrong, it can cause one of two things to occur, a loss of political power and / or, a loss of political face.  Either of these changes can have devastating effects on the country and its international standing.  Unfortunately, we still live in a very immature world, where the countries of the world are like six years olds in a playground.  The overall effect is to make the parties in power sometimes if they are not strong, hesitate from doing what is right over doing what is popular, and then they can do the worst of all, and choose the middle ground between the two. 

Over time, this ineffective policymaking, constantly watering down, creates a blurry nothingness, with many meaningless laws and policies.  Occasionally a strong party will enact a good policy, which they see as a glowing beacon to follow, and it will sway the wishy-washiness one way then the other, like a meandering dirty, muddy, river.  As well as good laws and policies, we also get bad laws and policies.  Of course, because we use the popularity system a bad policy will generally force the parties to change and the other party does exactly the opposite, believing that the opposite must be right because it is the opposite.  The reactive party system starts to grow, instead of a proactive party system we find the political system degenerates into one group of six year olds against another.  They are constantly reacting to the others policies, or laws, or whatever.

After a while, we get a system that is like a cancer in the brain, it has hideous tentacles devouring the brain, slowly killing it.  This cancer covers the world; growing, multiplying, its tentacles are devouring us, killing us slowly.  This makes people want to see change in a big way, an extreme way, because they realise the present system, the one that has caught us in this mess, is not working.  People use scapegoats, which are generally the people most different to them.  That is why the UKIP party has its migration policy. 

Immigration is not the cause of our austerity; it is the popular party politics.  Voting for an extreme party like UKIP will not change the way Britain works.  It will not make energy prices cheaper; it will not decrease immigration, because if UKIP were by some bizarre twist of fate to gain power they would be just as helpless as the other parties would.  The system is wrong; the system needs to change.  Until we change the system, we will always be heading towards ineffective, wishy-washy politics.

The real irony is all of this is that changing the system in itself is extreme, and this is the conundrum facing the world at present, how do we create an effective way to manage society.  What is the best solution so that everyone is satisfied, and all have a chance to develop and flourish in their short time on this wonderful planet?

Popular party politics is not the answer, it has to change, someone has to find the answer, or the vast majority of humans will always live an existence of predominant unhappiness.

Universe, Reality, Perspective and Perception

I had a thought the other day then quickly dismissed it thinking it was perhaps too obvious.  My thought was a simple one, does the observable universe follow the same patterns as atoms, only on a larger scale.  I wondered if the birth of the universe was like a solid, and as it expanded it changed into a liquid (or how we perceive a liquid at a molecular level), and as it continues to expand it changes into a gas (these are all metaphorically speaking).  Is it possible that the universe is following the laws of physics only on a larger scale, and in so doing show us the way atoms work.

However since the universe is much larger than our perceived notion of solid, liquid, gaseous states, we cannot image it in any other way than the way we observe it at present.  My reasoning behind this is as I have mentioned before, is due to the similarities between atoms and the universe.  If we were the size of an object observing the universe from the same perspective as we observe an atom, I would imagine there would be plenty of similarities.  An object which is mostly empty with a binding force of dense material, enclosing small amounts of matter (I think it is best to call dark matter a dense material or object,  than use  matter, as it is not matter it is something entirely different to matter and in a way the word probably misleads).  I would classify the newly discovered Higgs Bosom field as being the analogous form to what we call dark matter.  Alternatively, perhaps it is not, we may in future know, but you have to admit there are similarities in their purpose. 

Now I think further, where would dark energy come into this equation, forgetting my previous posts about dark energy being a storage facility for our collective consciousness (though that is still plausible), the vibration of atoms is the cause of them to disperse and change from solid to liquid to gaseous states.  Perhaps the reason for the discrepancy is our perceived perspective of each object in our reality.  As I have said before, our reality must manipulate our perspective, as a magician or illusionist does, to make what may seem impossible seem possible and plausible.  It can only be this way, as we see our universe, our reality as perfect.  I am digressing slightly.

I believe we are part of a large, complex pattern of continuous evolution, and somehow for whatever reason it is our gift to try to understand it.  The pattern is simple, at least it is in our reality, and all objects are part of a larger object and made up of smaller objects.  Whether this is infinite, we will never know but I believe it is and that we are unable to comprehend that at present, because our perspective parameters have not reached that level yet.  Another part of the pattern is the transference of energy from one form to another.  Whether this is the true purpose of the universe is unknown but it is an essential part, energy has to change form constantly, and it seems to want to find ever-diverse ways of achieving this, our brains are an example of a complex incredible way to transfer energy. 

Going back to perspective parameters, we seem to have the ability to grow ours, I mean humanities, the more we learn and achieve the further our perspective parameters grow.  We are constantly growing, learning, understanding, observing and thinking of ways to improve and perceive reality in a better way.  This continuous learning and expanding could be seen as comparable to the expansion of the universe which is one of the reasons I thought our consciousness is a small part of the ever expanding universe.

Now I am really going off track, back to the beginning when I first started this blog, I wrote about this stuff then deleted it thinking it was more fantasy than reality.  Of course, everything is fantasy until it proved otherwise, and it is fun to use ones brain to think beyond and just try to imagine what we are dealing with and how it works.  Obviously, this is just using my imagination, my brain, with all the knowledge I have accrued over the years all the hidden details my subconscious remembers but I do not.  All of it working to create an idea that in my view must stem from something.  I believe everyone has this gift if people bothered to use it. 

So using that creative gift and enormous imagination, I will continue.

The correlation between the smallest objects we can observe at present and the largest is too much of a coincidence to be unconnected.  I do not mean, how we observe them in a quantitative state, I mean the physical attributes, the emptiness, the fact that the further we go into an atom the more we find.  The only constant in all of this is that we humanity, with our large conscious brain, sit right in the middle of this perceived reality.  Everything we understand and comprehend using our senses and our brains creates a universe where we are the centre objects.  I know everyone now says we are not the centre of the universe but we are; we are the centre of our universe there is no other way of stating this.  Everything is away from us from our perception of reality, from our perspective.  You could argue that this does not apply to the atoms making up your own body, but still if you think of it as you are the one object then everything inside you is moving away getting smaller, and everything outside you is moving away getting larger.

What if, we were able to move along the scale, as if using the electromagnetic scale for an example we moved away from white light, the light we can see, and moved into the infrared scale or the ultraviolet scale.  Another example would be if we were suddenly observing the universe from the size of a galaxy or perhaps an atom.  How would it change?  Would it change, would it be the same as we perceive it, for some reason I suspect it would and would not at the same time.  If we were a galaxy, I imagine stars, planets, and whatever exists on those plants would seem like atoms, molecules, and the like, and the observable universe would suddenly expand, and we would see more of what is the great universe.  We would observe things that at present we are unable to imagine.  Perhaps when they launch the new telescope into space we will see more of what the universe is, I am truly excited about when we get the first images back from the James Webb telescope whenever they decide to send it into space.

Now I think further the speed of light and how we observe and perceive it, has always had a strange fascination with me, why is it the way it is?  Think about it further, light is photons hitting our eyes, then I presume though cannot be certain, an electrical pulse is sent to the brain and it creates an image.  Does our brains capacity to transfer the energy of light into an image determine the speed of light?  When we measure the speed of light, using instruments, we created, and observations we make, then from this we use the same brain to calculate mathematically what it is we are observing.  I have had many arguments with friends who did astrophysics as a degree course that the mathematical equations for the laws of physics are set in stone and that is the way the universe works, end of story.  My argument was always, it is only from our perceived reality that we can assume these laws work, and it is ignorant of us to presume it is the same if we were in a different reality or perspective.  Then again, we are not in a different reality or perspective, but we now know other realities exist, and certainly, other perspectives exist also.  I would say the first person to observe the universe from a different perspective or reality would be a cert for a Nobel Prize.

Anyway I have waffled on for too long, but I feel it is good to flex ones imagination now and again.