Remember when an algorithm was called a recipe? Remember when a cohort was called a bunch? Remember when a paradigm was called a serious limitation of thought? Creating new euphemisms doesn't make a person smarter, it just contributes to the knowledge that they are, fundamentally, a real wanker...and a bit of a dick...and that doesn't change.

NORTH ASIA:I tink Mr Trump has realised the Great Levelling Understanding about North Asia...and North Korea...compared with the Middle East...if a few nukes go off in the Middle East, we'd only really lose a few million arabs and jews who most folk don't particularly like anyway, but in North Asia, there'd be around 300 million due to the Human Density of that area. The human scale of North Asia is the amazing thing, and it is massively productive all the time...and the speed of development and improvement in the present!!! Never seen before on Earth...North Asia, and its rapid development, is the only reason on Earth that there is far less poverty now, world wide, than there ever was...and it is why North Asia is the Wheel of the ...well,...pretty well everything on earth that needs to turn.If the wheel of North Asia doesn't turn, then neither does the wheel of London, New York, SE Asia, Africa, India, Australia etc. North Asia is the place that's actually happening for everyone, and for every economy on Earth. You don't bomb that place. Ever. You include it.

someone had a theory once that a god created everything and every creature just so the god could see, hear, touch and feel and experience the universe through the eyes and consciousnesses of all the amazing different creatures. if i was a god, being a curious being, if i had some spare time, I'd probably do that too.

I am really quite pleased that Mr Trump spoke basically well of Korea's Mr Un. The usual process of America is to dehumanise and vilify the enemy target (Saddam,Gaddafi & Assad) and then just destroy everything...so speaking basically well of Mr Un's capacities as a smart cookie who is a great survivor is quite impressive. This augers well that America may well be changing a bit, or at least understanding Mr Un's savvy unreachability...or some understanding as to the US's poor dysfunctional economy at this time. Does the US really want North Korea to fall and China take over? No. Russia take over? No. Does China or Russia want the US to take over the North? No. Would either of the 3 great powers allow the other to pick up the most strategic piece of real estate on Earth? No..No...No one wants the other giant to take over...so Mr Un is quite secure really, and he knows it. A quirky Switzerland of North East Asia with 500,000 rockets, a few nukes...and a huge mine-field, a mine-field to die for...and a far worse outcome for everyone on the planet should Mr Un be got rid of. He is a smart guy.

I am pursuing my spiritual interest in, basically, latin tridentine christianity, certainly not based upon the love of popes or Christian leaders etc at all...as I dont think any kind of god would ever have had anything to do with the various belief-seeking profiteering cxxts...whether christian, judaean, islam, buddhist etc...but I find it is best to find joy and meaning in this remarkable creation on my own terms...thus free will to choose a deity and, to define that deity in my own terms, also, interestingly, never have to give them any money. I'd be a sucker for any faith that does not demand a tithe from believers. This is why even the Reformed Church of Spongebob Squarepants holds a higher status than any of the organised world religions to me. If a god can create a universe, he certainly should be a lot better at managing his own money, rather than needing mine every fxxking payday just to keep his organisation going...with the main purpose being to root young boys. "I don't need your organisation...I've shined enough shoes."

"Well, by 63, if I hadn't picked up a few habits, biases, contradictions, spiritual dilemmas, failings, eccentricities and addictions, then I have no idea what I would have done with most of the time. I expect I would have wasted it on something meaningful to others. It has never really been part of my 'life plan' to contribute to the world at all, except in the form I prefer, which is writing things...and sometimes painting things...but that is all mostly just for me anyway...that was a decision I made when I was 'wise' and twelve, and I have stuck to it and done a range of jobs necessary for living coinage through the decades. I did tell my kids that if I do well in writing things then they will have that legacy, and maybe a few coins from me, but otherwise it would be much wiser for them to make their own fortunes and establish themselves as their own best providers. One is a great artist and teacher of art, and one is a successful weapons distributor, and neither rely on the state at all for anything. I love and have respect for both of them. One of my grand daughters, Justice, is a hunter with both high velocity accuracy bullet, and fine arrow, and also a very good taxidermist. I am very proud of her. She has found, and quite young, her own high mountain shining path."

Regime Change in North Korea isnt possible because it is a military society, albeit with a monarchy/emperor at the top. One will be replaced by the next. You can't remove the 'bad guys' because they are at least 30% of the entire population. We are stuck with North Korea as it is for a long long time...decades...so we need to talk and work out something better...well, not 'we' in the west...the north and south brothers, and they are blood brothers, need to work out whats best between them...and I expect, as between all kinds of difficult brothers, there will be push and shove and a bit of blood from time to time...but no one else can solve the artificial split in the people of north and south provinces except the people there. Vietnam springs to mind. best to let the boys work out their problems in their own fashion. They were a united country for longer than they have been divided by outsiders. Korea was given full independence by China in the old days of the Dynasties etc and China wont go back on that agreement. China is the only country on earth that has basically good relationships with both South and North Korea, and that is a diplomatic skill the foreign devils from America do need to learn...and then the US needs, mostly, to just go home.