No Rain Last Evening

 

Heat Relief

 We finally get a break in the heat, and once again we had a rain storm between nine and ten pm. This time it was quite a heavy rain that produced some local flooding. It must be that monsoonal flow I saw in certain forecast models recently. Keep it up, I say. Keep it coming. 

Lately I've been playing around with the cosmological implications of "many worlds" and a certain interpretation of "many worlds" applied to inflationary theories. Come to find out, there are testable predictions in the form of features that would appear in the CMB. But there is a bit of ambiguity. If we simply assume non-Markovian processes during the epoch of inflation, would those features appear in the CMB anyway, without regard to any other assumptions? I think I've gone as far as I can go with this, but it was a diversion and far better than wasting my time with World Cup. And by the way, one of those CMB features has been already detected, although I believe the statistical significance of those observations is still somewhat less than five sigma. Another confirmation might be lurking in the noise. I have no idea whether that can be teased out of the background. 

Rain and moderating temperatures have got me in a much better mood. 

More RAIN!

 Not very long after sunset, thunder and lightning and yet more rain but it was a brief shower and I did not see any evidence of heavy rain this morning. And it was another great morning to do some work outside. Meanwhile--

A local preacher has been charged with sexual indecency with a child. Judging by the photo it's a white guy. Of course. I'm not going to speculate about his guilt or innocence. The presumption of innocence must be respected. But this incident triggers some thoughts regarding white evangelical males in general. Several other cases make me suspect that these white MAGA Christians really do have a thing for the kids. They love children but not in appropriate ways. It's the kind of behavior I associate with white trash, and they certainly ARE white trash, and an affinity for child sexual abuse would explain their admiration for a scumbag like King Don. I suspect that every conservative white Christian male is a rapist and pedophile at heart. And I'm sure they have no shame about this, because they've got the hot sticky blood of Jesus slathered all over their bodies. And maybe that turns them on as well. They're washed in the blood of the lamb! That gives them a license to sin without guilt or shame. If they're called out, if they're caught, then they just turn around and blather that everybody is powerless over sin, and imply that everybody is really just like them: lowlife white trash scumbags who love to sin! I really don't accept that, and I find such "reasoning" offensive in the extreme. At any rate all this is nothing but speculation on my part. But I will continue to avoid evangelical Christians and treat them like plague carriers. And sick shit in general. I don't have an open mind about this. 

And I'm somewhat ashamed of my attitudes toward certain people. I hope to improve. I hope to become more tolerant and more understanding. And that's a hell of a lot more than the typical evangelical would do. 

The World Cup

 FUP FIFA and FUP the World Cup. How do people get conned into an enthusiasm for something that stupid? I'm sure the TV broadcasts feature the same fake continuous crowd noise you hear in the background of every football broadcast. You don't hear that in any real game, if you are there in the stands. That noise is a product of social engineering, and it is designed to keep the viewer on edge. Otherwise you'd fall asleep. And the tension it creates is relieved by the commercials, which makes the advertising more effective. In short, when you watch the world cup crap, you are being manipulated, just as the football broadcasts manipulate you. And if you ever watch a slow moving sport like baseball on TV you even hear a fake sound when the pitcher throws-- baseballs in the real world, don't sound like that, don't sound like a rocket or jet airplane when they are thrown. Another example of sonic hype to keep the morons watching. And all of this shit exists in order to sell you something. And if you fall for any of it, well, you're stupid. Objectively, the human animal is rather stupid and easily conned. Sorry. It's always possible to wake up, but that's dangerous for the ruling classes, who have a vested interest in preventing you from waking up. They need to keep you stupid. They need to keep you under control. Welcome to reality.

That's really the true purpose of religions and their associated institutions: CONTROL. 

Still Clustering

 And the other part goes on as well. Was anyone really dumb enough to believe that "peace deal" 41 would actually hold? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything Mutt Rubio says? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything the top turd says? Sure! Of course! MAGA! They're dumb enough to keep eating the shit they're fed. They'll believe any lie as long as it comes from the top turd in the outhouse. They have a definite affinity for sick pieces of shit. Maybe they sense some sort of kinship there, like calling out to like. "I believe I LOVE that man, because he is just like me!" Ah, love. A majestic thing. 

Meanwhile, summer-like heat rolls on, though it has not been quite as hot as the earlier forecasts had it. Air is drier and we continue to have somewhat windy conditions as well. Hot Junes are typically followed by a milder July, and rain chances are not zero, either. Might get some more rain midweek, and that would be a nice turn. 

I've begun my study of the I Ching. It will be quite a while before I'll even begin to feel competent enough to use it. So much ancient wisdom! So many books to read and so many books to re-read! I doubt that I'll have time enough but I'll do the best I can. One book I'd like to re-read was something by Arthur Koestler on synchronicity, a Jungian concept involving the deep roots of what we call coincidence, as I recall. Acausal relationships among events. I read that many years ago. I'd like to explore that in the light of what I've learned since then.

Speaking of MAGA perversions-- look at the Bible Belt.