ORNITHOSAURUS

The University of Southampton has caused to be produced a reptilian remake of the famous phony ape-to-man graphic, this time to reinforce the determinedly held nonsensical notion that dinosaurs ‘evolved’ into birds.

Anything that is going to take fifty million years to do needs a fair amount of persistence, a hundred or more times the vision of our current world leaders, and a bloody good reason for doing.

Palaeontologists are notorious for gathering piles of old bones, forcing them together and, with the aid of metal armatures and hundredweights of plaster of Paris, creating Mesozoic muppets or things that are half dog, half dinner.

The jolly old Smallfilms-style archaeopteryx was half bird, half pterodactyl, and not a little half-baked. His long search for a mate would have made a moving episode of ‘Walking with Disney’. He could have succeeded in the last reel, and they could have given birth to an egg with a little lion stamped on it. But he won’t do for the modern computer-generated world.

There have been too many things in the past that were half and half.

Scientism won’t give up its quest to prove Darwin wasn’t even slightly mistaken until it does for all of us in the process.

This handy, and comparatively harmless, graphic clearly shows how the drawing evolves from a lizard thing into a little tweety bird.

Clever old mindless and accidental evolution usefully, if somewhat long-windedly, modified the heavy, scaly lizard into something that wouldn’t break a bird-table. Its balancing tail shrivels away, its weakest features (spindly arms) become magnificent multi-directional wings – and, by these clever ruses, ornithosaurus is able to avoid the asteroids that fall from the sky to explain the disappearance of its non-feathered friends, and figure out how and why to fly to freaking Africa!

Pull the other one – it’s got scales on.

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MESOZOIC MIX-UP

As production of this book nears its closing stages, I’m pleased to learn that that amorphous and indefinable entity, the ‘Scientific Community’ has found itself able to restore existence to the brontosaurus.

You might think a creature anything up to a hundred feet in length, whose tail was capable of breaking the sound barrier, would be an unlikely candidate for hide & seek, but we’re here witnessing another miracle of the new godhead – the ability to create and uncreate at will, as long as you don’t mention creation.

Not that long ago in a very long scheme of things, Bronty was dinosaurus non grata, a SORNed saurian. So how did he manage to overturn the ‘scientific’ verdict?

He was first discovered by palæontologists alongside another swamp-dweller of similar proportions. Both creatures’ skeletons were fairly complete, but both were lacking their heads.

It’s probably best not to dwell on how they lost them. What we do know is how they acquired replacements: the palæontologists stuck some on from other creatures.

Thus the specimens were exhibited, transfixed and transplanted long enough to enter the minds of the general public and Ray Harryhausen.

The two differed in the way things tend to, especially when they have had to ‘evolve’ from a whelk or a fungus into something the size of Tesco’s.

Probably because of the noise no one had heard it make with its tail, or perhaps because it lived on a diet of vegetables, the marketing department christened one ‘thunder lizard’, or brontosaurus.

The other composite was distinguished by the title, apatosaurus, meaning ‘deceptive lizard’. In what way deceptive is not clear. Did it pretend to be a lizard, or pretend not to be one? Can something be deceptive without something or someone to deceive? There seems not to be a corresponding classification for ‘deceived palæontologist’.

As it turned out, Bronty was actually the more deceptive of the two, appearing to be just another apatosaur, so he was air-brushed out of prehistory and the world became a poorer, and still less accurate, place.

Bronty was dead, but he wouldn’t (probably couldn’t) lie down. Non-existent though he was declared to be, he remained a children’s favourite and the one with the star quality – even with his new pin-head, which was apparently so short on grey-matter that he needed a second brain at the other end of his body, like a pantomime horse.

For his come-back this partnership has also been dissolved.

So good old Bronty is not only restored to us, he’s got a new solo act and is lighter headed. He still holds his thunder-producing tail in the air for no better reason than that he is forbidden by the aforementioned ‘community’ to float it on the abundant water with which he was surrounded in life.

He’s not taking any chances. He knows from experience that what ‘science’ giveth it is just as ready to taketh away.

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AS IF

 

It seems we ‘evolved’ a big brain so we could delude ourselves that we are conscious. But, if we weren’t conscious in the first place, the delusion would be wasted on us. And if we were not, and are not, conscious, what the hell would it matter?

The logic is not merely flawed, it’s non-existent.

Why would Dawkins’s ‘lumbering robots’ need all his beloved science, and why would he need to pontificate or write books if there was no one on the receiving end?

Why have paintings, sculpture, radio, television, theatre or clog-dancing if no one is conscious of any of it? – and why keep harping on about evolution and brains and psycho-rot and big bangs and god particles if there is no one to convince?

If we were not conscious, it wouldn’t matter what we were not conscious of. Even if Dawkins’s little genes are mysteriously endowed with the consciousness and self-will denied to us, why would we need to be consulted, never mind deluded?

The whole rigmarole is not a rational attempt to understand, but a cockamamie construct designed to actively rob the human race of its individuality, free-will and potential.

MIND OVER MATTER

If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter

The old joke actually expresses a blindingly obvious truism that is missed by many toilers after enlightenment through science; especially those whose capacity for thinking themselves ever deeper has led them to conclude there is no such thing as consciousness.

Baldly stated, without consciousness there would be no science. If you rule out the awareness and the faculties for thinking and evaluation, you rule out the very basis and possibility of the ideas and experimentation that have brought us to wherever it is we stand today in relation to the scientifically modelled world around us.

Every atom, every rock, every stream, every star and every universe between here and not here is meaningless, unorganised, insignificant and indicative of entirely nothing until someone with the capability and impetus to observe and evaluate it applies such meaning or significance to it.

Consciousness alone sets out to impose order on randomness and chaos. Only consciousness cares. Such order exists not at all until it is so imposed. Conscious units can argue themselves blue in the physiological face about whose imposed order is the order of the day, but all order is the application of theory, viewpoint or understanding to that which is inherently chaotic and without advertised purpose.

Missing this point, it is possible for scientific theorisers to decide which bits of the chaos they accept, or feel themselves able to explain, and in so doing  create a skewed reality for those who will blindly believe anything as long as it is spoken with, or backed up by, accepted ‘authority’.

Only thus is it possible for the ruling consciousnesses to convince them that they are not conscious, despite the fact that, by whatever mechanical means information and experience reaches them, it still, ultimately, has to impinge upon their consciousness to make any difference.

Someone might tell you what you think you perceive is an illusion borne of ‘brain activity’. Illusory or not, it is you, as a conscious individual who is experiencing it.

The lie that consciousness does not exist may seem as idiotic as the old joke, but it is no laughing matter in a world where dogmatic science rules – especially where it rules in the service of those with no fellow feeling. The stimulus response principle serves those who would rule and poison us very well, but edits out a crucial factor.

The stimulus is not the cause, but the response.

People are not a generality. They are individual consciousnesses, capable of their own unique emotional and intellectual responses.

One man’s girlfriend leaves him. He hurts, but he understands. There are more fish in the sea.

A second man’s girlfriend leaves him. Life is not worth living. He turns to drink or drugs and lets it ruin the rest of his existence.

A third will not allow the girl to leave and uses threats of violence to get her back or to try and prevent the possibility that she will form another relationship elsewhere.

Identical stimulus, multiple responses. There are many millions of other variations – as many as there are bereft boyfriends.

We are able at this time to see how a relatively new ‘science’ sets out to impose order without understanding of this simple truism. Psychology is an enormous edifice built on fictional entities – the id, the ego, the censor and so forth. None of these is identifiable or definable by any scientific method – they are not even neologisms for new discoveries. They are part of a mythical pantheon upon which the subject draws for spurious credibility.

Actually it has none. It is not a science but a meaningless and mostly useless construct. But it is far from alone in being a created subject in which an interest group can claim esoteric knowledge. Such fraudulence has gone on since time immemorial, and persists as much in the realms of so-called ‘science’ as ‘religion’ or the ‘paranormal’.

It has been a conscious effort of material science to divide human perception into these arbitrary categories – to define which belief is right belief and where the boundary of ‘normal’ is to be drawn. Neither of these is a path to truth or understanding and only the denial of consciousness can make it seem so.

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