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The Sands in Time

Time for a mug of tea
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It is interesting to watch an electric kettle being boiled to make the tea or coffee.
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You fill the kettle up with water, plug it into the power point and switch it on.
Nothing happens for a few minutes until – the water changes state – it has reached a eutectic point. With continued application of power it changes into steam, gets channelled down the handle, heats a bi-metal strip which switches it off.
Everyone knows all of that when it comes to kettles and boiling water, but how many extrapolate it to see what is happening in other areas of life?
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An article titled, Ubiquity, Complexity Theory and Sandpiles, an updated article from 2006 by John Mauldin, gives a good starting point to think about that. Link
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“As kids, we all had the fun of going to the beach and playing in the sand. Remember taking your plastic bucket and making sandpiles? Slowly pouring the sand into ever bigger piles until one side of the pile starts to collapse?
Imagine, Buchanan says, dropping one grain of sand after another onto a table. A pile soon develops. Eventually, just one grain starts an avalanche. Most of the time, it’s a small one. But sometimes, it builds up, and it seems like one whole side of the pile slides down to the bottom.
Well, in 1987, three physicists named Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld began to play the sandpile game in their lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Actually, piling up one grain of sand at a time is a slow process, so they wrote a computer program to do it. Not as much fun, but a whole lot faster. Not that they really cared about sandpiles; they were more interested in what are called “nonequilibrium systems.”
They learned some interesting things. What is the typical size of an avalanche? After a huge number of tests with millions of grains of sand, they found out there is no typical number:
Some involved a single grain; others, ten, a hundred, or a thousand. Still others were pile-wide cataclysms involving millions that brought nearly the whole mountain down. At any time, literally anything, it seemed, might be just about to occur.
To find out why [such unpredictability] should show up in their sandpile game, Bak and colleagues next played a trick with their computer. Imagine peering down on the pile from above and coloring it in according to its steepness. Where it is relatively flat and stable, color it green; where steep and, in avalanche terms, “ready to go,” color it red. What do you see? They found that at the outset, the pile looked mostly green, but that, as the pile grew, the green became infiltrated with ever more red. With more grains, the scattering of red danger spots grew until a dense skeleton of instability ran through the pile. Here then was a clue to its peculiar behavior: a grain falling on a red spot can, by domino-like action, cause sliding at other nearby red spots.
If the red network was sparse, and all trouble spots were well isolated one from the other, then a single grain could have only limited repercussions. But when the red spots come to riddle the pile, the consequences of the next grain become fiendishly unpredictable. It might trigger only a few tumblings, or it might instead set off a cataclysmic chain reaction involving millions. The sandpile seemed to have configured itself into a hypersensitive and peculiarly unstable condition in which the next falling grain could trigger a response of any size whatsoever.”

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Instead of applying it to the financial sector which Mr. Mauldin did, I would like to highlight a couple of examples in the present moment.
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Afghanistan – 20 years of pouring in trillions of grains of sand, one on top of the other until the situation turned critical – about to hit the eutectic point.
And along comes a grain of sand (Donald Trump) who sets the volcano rumbling, on the verge of explosion, by planning to withdraw. And then the final grain of sand – the Taliban – finally starts the unstoppable reaction in motion.
Unstoppable and catastrophic for Empire hegemony.
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Pandemic Australia. – 2019 and the start of the pandemic.
A number of grains of sand have been added to the pile over the last 20 months.
Notably: lock-downs, border restrictions, financial ruination of many small businesses, deliberate generation of fear etc.etc. Just some examples of the grains of sand piling up. After some thought you will have plenty of candidates yourself.
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The point is thus. Coercive dictates by currently elected officials backed by deeply embedded bureaucrats (Bourgeois Kings and Queens) are piling up. Piling up without us knowing how close we get to an avalanche in societal cohesion.
One might think that the current push-back by a number of churches, or the opposition from the construction workers, are a couple of examples of early signs.
No one of course can predict if, how, when, what, severity of sandpile collapse might take place in the future?
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It will be interesting to see if a phase of ‘lightening up’ is embraced to try to cool down the nuclear reactor for a while and enable consolidation of grains. But then again Evil does tend to overdo itself.
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The more interesting thing for pew sitters perhaps is how the institutional hierarchy respond in relation to the Jesus story and if it will have any impact on the young, in regard to a possible spiritual lifeline for them. The current youth suicide rate can only be invisible to the wilfully ignorant. It is a much more immediate catastrophe that the longer term climate catastrophe.
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Keep your eyes on the sand castles and be ready to respond if necessary so that you don’t get suffocated.

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Ozymandias

Catch me if you can
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My name is Ozymandias.
My name is very synonymous.
My words are super religious
but then I am Fluenza Pandemicus.
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Wait, watch, view and see
who in the end can truly be named twenty-first century
as the most formulated brief
as a pandemicus of such viral content –
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had all the money, tax-payers I may add,
spent on tests endlessly, no quota just do …
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and then let us pray no one catches any one thing
especially ones like a transport hub or shopping mall disease.
For then, in future edicts we will have to live
as a rat or mouse caged endlessly
until another scientific, madly placed, experiment epidemic.
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++++++++++++++++++++ Hollow words, substance free, well,
++++++++++++++++++++that is a form of life once ignored,
++++++++++++++++++++and then of course, a holocaust.
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++++++++++++++++++++Take your chances penned or penned.
++++++++++++++++++++Either way experiment.

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Time for another Prayer

The Confessing Church
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Dear Lord
I have been re-reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. This is not something one finds easy to do as he clearly lays it on the line.
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Does one live by your call or not?
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In this moment of history – this moment of the secular pharisees, this moment of the almost wholesale semi-violent usurping of cohesion of our society, the question becomes:
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On what do I base my response? – is it as Bonhoeffer shared:
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“The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question with its responsibility toward history that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are humiliating.
… it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.
The rising generation will always instinctively discern what we make the basis of our actions, for it is their future that is at stake.”
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Dear Lord

Did you go through this during your 40 days in the desert?
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The idea of your path to martyrdom is rather fearful.

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But
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If that is necessary in all of the decisions we have to make along the way ahead, gift us with your strength to follow you faithfully.
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Lord hear us.
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Time for a Change in Outlook and Value

The Clock in Ticking
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Time for us, the people, to revert back to the original version of who we are. What we really believe we are and have at our own disposal.
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We are a body of influence. We contain knowledge beyond our own abilities, but only then when we give time to research, estimate, understand and negotiate. But then what are we doing with all this characterisation of a human being?
What are we becoming in a world of un-rested-ness and shamefulness?
Are we truly a reliable source, of the we we know, given time to decide the outcomes for our future? How do the present dilemmas, of forced change in outlook, decision making and corrective behaviour affect that freedom to choose?
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Are we capable of standing for our own rights, our liberties, our own histories of past generations who actually decided to stand strong against any violent form of protestation by political elites and their cohorts; whatever in their time that did actually mean?
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What are our outcomes likely to pose in a future of no more decision by comparisons, no more ability to decide where or whatever one does choose to express? The whole mess is folding in on us and we appear to settle for a type of second nature, a type of irrevocable disaster.
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God, I said one morning earlier in this pandemic extremism, what are You on the face of this mess? Some form of back-ender as if on a political platform of no one able to understand in your complex authoritarian motif? No was the reply, I AM on the bench waiting and watching if you can only wake to the turbulence before you and make a stand for your own right to exist and live as freely and comfortably as is possible, without a dictatorial influence to subject you to fear of any of the following: right to have a say; right to have freedom of speech regardless as long as it is not of the form to inflict harm and subject another to a state of fear from the banal but hurtful stand; freedom of choice as in your own being, your own state of human and being, being that you are more than the eye or ear, tongue or mouth can concur is the all, the everything we are as a frail human species.
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Can we become a source of our own human and being, of being, that source of mysterious nature that comes in through the mind of thought? Can we? Can we consider our past and future in the present situation at hand or do we consider handing over is far simpler until the walls are built high and the barbed wire on top shows something of a future; reminiscent of our own past as in a concentration apartment block, or a Sydney-sider living at the lower end of the spectrum? Can we? Oh yes we can but it will take a change in the value of who we are and the rise of an outlook which is present but of which we are not yet able to comprehend. We are still swirling in this ubiquitous state of manufactured, fear inducing affairs, and have handed over to some sort of consortium of which no end is in sight.

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We fell into the spell of lunacy. And now we are in the land of no value and no way out, suffocating the sense of our own validity and worth, our own human birth right and sense of purpose, direction and longing to enjoy whatever is possible within reason while we are to live on this once green and pleasant land.
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Enjoy what you can, given the outlook is penury if no change.

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Come on Watson

The Game is ON.
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If you want to control a country through tyranny, you first of all have to destroy institutions of influence in which the population has a sense of sure footing. And so … as Sherlock Holmes calls to Dr. Watson, ‘The Game is On’ The battlefield needs to be salted with foot soldiers whom, similar to the US Military, you have to offer fabulous incentives to get on board, or else recruit fanatics. Not the grunts, but the mid-level officers (maybe around the Major-Colonel level).Now those are more easily seen in the military but where do they come from to salt the bureaucratic fields?
The so-called Bourgeois Kings and Queens. Or the Trotskyism type true believers.
The faceless ones who are essential to Moriarty are difficult to target because they live within upper middle class society, well versed in fifth column techniques. 
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Asymmetric gorilla warfare by the rancorous, helped along by generous doses of power worship and the golden calf of greed. A generous dose of hubris would round it off!

The only thing that will cause Moriarty any concern is if something is done to start waking up the sleeping masses. Kill off the institutions first, you are home and hosed.
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Maybe it might be a suitable subject for the next quiz-night fund raiser?

Which targets:
• Judiciary
• Medical System
• Chemistry
• Churches
• Military
• Police
• Veteran’s Associations
• Why not all high profile professional associations
• Oops – Science being the greatest hit so far

You name the areas that stand out for you, seeing as how you are the quiz master.
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Follow the link and see what one tentative area of push-back might look like.
A tough call this one, because you have some very small load voices currently allowed to dominate the sound stage, due to the mainstream denominations still being stuck pretty much in their idea of Christendom – not a dialogical approach. – Even though Chistendom’s bell in the West has well and truly tolled at least 50 years ago, but this one dies hard.
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