Its like some Law of the Universe thats only become obvious now I've seen it:
Nirvana vs Rick Astley (Video)
Its more freaky than good, but it had to exist.
Monday, 20 July 2009
Sunday, 12 July 2009
L Ron Hubbard's Tone Scale
"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind." - L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival, 1989 Ed., p. 145
(Wikipedia entry on the Tone Scale, google "Scientology Tone Scale" for a variety of other explanations.) Anxious about anything? (Your position on the Tone Scale maybe?) You are at 1.02. Grieving the loss of a loved one? You are at 0.5, and don't expect sympathy, that is at 0.9 on the scale.
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down"
-L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival, p. 170
Don't have nightmares. Scientology isn't in control yet.
"Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not." - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
(Wikipedia entry on the Tone Scale, google "Scientology Tone Scale" for a variety of other explanations.) Anxious about anything? (Your position on the Tone Scale maybe?) You are at 1.02. Grieving the loss of a loved one? You are at 0.5, and don't expect sympathy, that is at 0.9 on the scale.
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down"
-L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival, p. 170
Don't have nightmares. Scientology isn't in control yet.
"Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not." - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
Scientology makes you nervous.
On Twitter - all the clam news, freshly baked. The latest: Journalist's discomfort in Museum of Ron, "the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology where writer, explorer and founder L. Ron Hubbard worked from 1957 to 1960 and established a legacy that increasingly influences human rights, religion, literature and education." Not always by socially acceptable (or legal) means.
Edit - I just found another example of Scientology making one's shoulderblades itchy. This time, its a blogger who went for a job interview at Narconon, not knowing it was a Scientology front-group.
Edit - I just found another example of Scientology making one's shoulderblades itchy. This time, its a blogger who went for a job interview at Narconon, not knowing it was a Scientology front-group.
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Black in the 80s
Colin Vearncombe (was "Black" in the 80s.. kind of like Michael Jackson but.. no, sorry, bad joke) is giving away an album on his website. He is a jolly nice chap, do swing by and check it out. I'm going to bed after listening to "Sweetest Smile".
(edit to clarify that its my naff MJ joke, nothing at all to do with the lovely C. V. who would probably be horrified.)
(edit to clarify that its my naff MJ joke, nothing at all to do with the lovely C. V. who would probably be horrified.)
I, Pack Robot.
I missed this when it was new, so I'm probably commiting some kind of blogging sin by posting it now that I've only just come across it. Thanks to James May on Twitter : Boston Dynamics "Big Dog" pack robot. Footage from July 2007, and March 2008.
Warning: you may wish you had not seen this, if you are the kind of person who believes that robots with Artificial Intelligence could one day take over the Earth.
Warning: you may wish you had not seen this, if you are the kind of person who believes that robots with Artificial Intelligence could one day take over the Earth.
Friday, 10 July 2009
anti-papparazi device
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/celebrity-shielding-flashgun-handbag-defeats-paparazzi/
Anonymous protesters against Scientology have been using bright torches for this purpose. Upgrade time? But then again, why swap out a useful torch for a one-purpose expensive gadget?
Anonymous protesters against Scientology have been using bright torches for this purpose. Upgrade time? But then again, why swap out a useful torch for a one-purpose expensive gadget?
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Personal. Iran.
I've prayed more in the few weeks since the Iran elections than I've prayed in the whole rest of my life. I keep finding myself wanting to somehow tell the people on the streets and the ones afraid to protest that they are not forgotten. Their government has so shut off from the world that they fear nobody can see what is happening.
Before anyone (if anyone even reads this) jumps on me for being sucked in by all the Twitter and the rest of the internet coverage, and by implication deems me heartless for not caring about all the deaths in the other countries around the world, all the time:
Humans can only recognise a certain number of other humans as distinct people, everyone else gets lumped together as "the rest of the humans" and are not regarded as being as real and human as the people we know in our everyday lives.
I saw a man die in a video on YouTube a few days after the election results were declared. It was posted probably within 12 hours of it happening. I think he must have been one of the first to die from a sniper shot. I felt my body try to make me feel what he was feeling as the life left him. I saw a man become something that looked for all the world just the same as he had moments before, except for far too much blood where it should never be. Some part of my awareness was in denial. It sounds simplistic but the only way I can describe it is a little voice saying "No. No, that looks wrong." Even that doesn't really capture the feeling.
If I felt them all as much as I do (and I have a very all or-nothing brain) I would soon be as good as dead myself. I don't believe it is possible to survive that depth of sadness, and it certainly isn't a good idea to try.
Before anyone (if anyone even reads this) jumps on me for being sucked in by all the Twitter and the rest of the internet coverage, and by implication deems me heartless for not caring about all the deaths in the other countries around the world, all the time:
Humans can only recognise a certain number of other humans as distinct people, everyone else gets lumped together as "the rest of the humans" and are not regarded as being as real and human as the people we know in our everyday lives.
I saw a man die in a video on YouTube a few days after the election results were declared. It was posted probably within 12 hours of it happening. I think he must have been one of the first to die from a sniper shot. I felt my body try to make me feel what he was feeling as the life left him. I saw a man become something that looked for all the world just the same as he had moments before, except for far too much blood where it should never be. Some part of my awareness was in denial. It sounds simplistic but the only way I can describe it is a little voice saying "No. No, that looks wrong." Even that doesn't really capture the feeling.
If I felt them all as much as I do (and I have a very all or-nothing brain) I would soon be as good as dead myself. I don't believe it is possible to survive that depth of sadness, and it certainly isn't a good idea to try.
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