A few afterthoughts: A population can often make their disease situation worse, by well intentioned actions: "How Civil War Soldiers Gave Themselves Syphilis While Trying to Avoid Smallpox" https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...avoid-smallpox If the Mariner poem be based upon a kernel of truth. Commissioned by the powers that be, to be used for social effect / inoculation, then how could that kernel have grown? A seafaring tradition of tattoos come to mind as a possible vector that might have infected all but one Mariner, who resisted a ship's lucky tradition of accepting a communally shared brand of ink upon his skin. A big tattoo or a small one, it would just take one prick (of a needle) to have the same effect as a brothel's visit. And a situation like that would, if the tale was heard by the right ears, could teach a lot about a disease condition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_tattoos Isolation in the hills can be a preserving tactic in regards to disease avoidance... but a tactic that only works for a limited period of time. Isolation might let people miss the first wave of a virus outbreak, but not the second wave. ‘Unheard-of Mortality’….The Black Death in Ireland" https://historyireland.com/unheard-o...th-in-ireland/ The parchment thin sails mentioned in the Poem of the Mariner, could be describing the real effect of weather upon the cloth... but they could also be conveying a second meaning to a cohort of learned members of society. About a different condition, that also might seem as though it had it's root in sexual behavior, and that second condition could have been Lichen Sclerosus. 'Officially" discovered in the late 1800s, but that does not mean it wasn't known in a limited fashion prior to that -- and have the prevailing thought be that it had to do with sex and passion... for it had a couple overlapping symptoms with Syphilis (the great imitator) At a glance and a guess, Lichen Sclerosus was a MAST cell activation related disorder, it would take a few princes and princesses to have it for the condition to be secretly discovered long before being 'officially discovered.' Perhaps, Condition A, known but to a few, becomes a hidden / cloaked teaching metaphor about condition B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen_sclerosus The length of the ships voyage could have been around 300 days +-. At a rough guess. Perhaps much longer, not likely to be shorter. Tons of variables contribute to how long the Mariner's ship was possibly at sea, from the ship's design, the route, the weather, et cetera, and none seemed in the ships favor. The ship sailed long enough for for all aboard to realize the diseased course it traveled. Ships are a common metaphor. But historically, one major metaphor is 'the Ship of State.' A distressed sailing ship, as metaphor for a distressed Ship of State. 50 years before the Mainer was published / launched the Ship of State had experienced a death rate that was reminiscent of the great plague. A second dip of war deaths and disease, before a tenuous feeling of economic and population recovery. https://www.artandpopularculture.com/Ship_of_state Breeding a replacement population. I added this graph to the main blog post above because attachments cannot be added to comments. This graph tells a big story. The time of a rhyme matters greatly, if it be used for maximum effect. And the Ship of State most often steers slowly, especially back then. I believe I am done with this topic, may a greater pen than mine pick it up someday. I have used no AI in making any of my content (other than the occasional use of the top of page one AI search summary answers that pluck data from relevant pages). All my writing/content/ideas/theories have been a natural human expression. Of course, informed by access to the 'digital library' which is the internet.
Nice job on the replacement. I’m going to replace about 8 feet of a log but I’m already chinked and living in it. Not looking forward to it but not afraid of it either.
Here's is a post I made in the member's only area. Since it relates to language, and has implications, I repost it here. There are some possible implications regarding Toki Pona and Ithkull -- and a future intellectual hierarchy by design. Originally Posted by posted March 15, 2025 by Ellsworth An interesting aside, here's a link from Drudge today. "Have humans passed peak brain power?" https://archive.is/nycxV I did a deep dive into IQ a while back. That article isn't totally right, but they express the overall theme just fine. IQ has seemingly peaked. It has big implications on communication. Something that might give insight is cursive. Once required and common place, now cursive is a dead language. So much so that there's a rush to try and get old documents 'translated' into 'English.' Absolutely no joke, it's a call to action from the Federal Government / National Archives. "Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...elp-180985833/ They make it really easy to volunteer to translate the old cursive documents. Easy log in, no minimum time limit (just 5 or 10 minutes is aok). I've tried to convince several cursive writers to give it a try, no luck so far. I recall taking cursive in elementary school. Required, mandatory. Heck if I could translate it today, much less write it. Some irony to pull from what's above in this post... "Do Signatures Have to Be in Cursive?" https://legalclarity.org/do-signatur...be-in-cursive/ "Does a Signature Have to Be Cursive? Quick Answer" https://signaturely.com/does-signatu...be-in-cursive/ "Signature Styles: Cursive Not Required Anymore" https://nodumbquestions.net/educatio...to-be-cursive/ ^That last one has really always been true. A signature is defined as intent + mark. But generally, in the real world, a signature IS cursive. Cursive is dead, long live cursive! Text is dead, long live text! I've been posting regularly on the forum since July. The 8-9 months of practice has truly had a transformative effect. It has helped me practice writing and organizing thoughts for writing (and expression in general). YMMV, but I don't think it will -- practice at organizing and expressing thoughts on 'paper' should help anyone. It has been like a regular gym work out, preparing me to write website content about log homes. I started in July on this thread, and it started rough. Very rough. But trended better over time: "Skip Ellsworth in new Bruce Lee biography " https://community.loghomebuilders.or...-Lee-biography IMHO the posts got better as the months passed. But lead to things like this: "AI Pendants + AI Copyright + Gibberlink + Ithkull" https://community.loghomebuilders.or...erlink-Ithkull And this: "Red pill / Blue pill = Bull crap social / cultural programming attack" https://community.loghomebuilders.or...ramming-attack And this (I just recently checked again, font size was 9): "Jury Summons: category all, invalid" https://community.loghomebuilders.or...ry-all-invalid And if you care about gun rights, check this one out: "Thomas Paine, Common Sense" https://community.loghomebuilders.or...e-Common-Sense Writing and logic go hand in hand, it's thought organization ymmv, it's true for this animal (me). Writing it out adds depth to internalized clarity. And since in this day and age one must express a position on LGBQT+Trans in order to really do business on the internet, it took me a long time to think the issue all the way through. I had to first develop my theory called the Left Handed Freedom Index. Agree or disagree, love it or hate it, my position has been expressed in one of the links above. #ModernTimes One must explain themselves as a person, before transacting business. One must express their positions.
Addition to the first post above: A Bernie Sanders example, as a counter point to the potential issues surrounding conservative youth. "Punk rocker causes outrage with 'evil' lyrics during performance at Bernie Sanders rally" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ly/ar-AA1ADgpE "Irish Star – Bias and Credibility" https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/irish...d-credibility/ It is often the extreme fringe, in either direction, that is most easily manipulated and activated by those in power and by media / social media. To let the extreme fringe, in either direction, wag the dog is generally a bad idea. It's the extreme fringe that is used to generate outrage the easiest emotion to spread on the internet, or trigger the very visceral disgust response. Both side uses small, fringe cohorts and those psychological weapons. "As your social media emotions go viral, anger spreads the fastest" https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/yo...est-4B11186087 "Disgusted by Someone’s Behavior: Navigating Strong Emotional Reactions" https://neurolaunch.com/disgusted-by-someones-behavior/ _______________________________________ I suggest not judging college itself, by the crowds that Bernie brings out. I suggest not judging college itself, by the crowds that Crowder's controversy attracts. That said, I sought education at a Jesuit University in part because it offered aspects of a more traditional curriculum at the time. We are all 'social products' of our time.
I am going to stop posting my edit notifications / edit counts. It's time consuming. By now folks get the point, it's work.
There is one more thing... (Yeah I know I already used that line). I have a theory of marketing: 'manipulation transparent / transparency marketing.' (MTM). You can read a bit about it here: https://community.loghomebuilders.or...e-vs-Log-Cabin I used some swear words in the posts above. I did so authentically, while KNOWING that using swear words makes a person seem more authentic -- and thus tends to increase trust. What a conundrum knowledge is! "HONEST — I SWEAR! Swearing makes people seem more honest and trustworthy to others, finds study" https://www.the-sun.com/health/10023...tworthy-study/ "Do You Curse All the Time? A Study Says You Might Be More Authentic" https://crm.org/articles/do-you-curs...more-authentic "A new study linking profanity to honesty shows people who curse are more authentic" https://qz.com/881289/a-new-study-li...more-authentic "Frankly, do we give a damn…? Study finds links between swearing and honesty" https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/...ng-and-honesty So now that you know what's in the above articles, now that you know the concept that swearing projects honesty which increases trust, you get to start second guessing like I second guess. (at least that's my best advice). Because not everyone who swears is honest. And some who know about the study in the articles above will swear on purpose, simply to gain trust. #SomethingToThinkAbout https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19C6cNw4YV/
There is one more thing to add about Doctors. I was going to make it a stand alone post, but since this is likely the only blog entry / article where I'll address the Trans issue via straight line from Matrix-redpill-bluepill-trans justification for bringing it up, I shall place the data here. The least well studied cohort in the field of psychology are the licensed practitioners themselves. Doctors are more well studied, by a bit. Regarding physicians, Doctors in hospitals and healthcare, here are a few things worth considering. I shall not post a link to 'back-up' what I say... do your own research if you're curious. The Adverse Childhood Experience test was first created / used in 1988, thanks to the CDC and Kaiser Permanente. Nothing contained within this post is intended to malign the test. It's a blunt tool, and the most frightening aspect is that it scales up or down -- it's just a social construct (Spartans!). Shortly after the test was created a study was done in Canada, Vancouver BC if I recall correctly. Late 1980's or early 1990's. It was given in a hospital setting, to recent medical school graduates. The declared premise / expectation was that Doctors should have a lower ACE score than the General Population (Gen Pop), due to the fact they mostly came from wealthy families and were high achievers. Then the study hit reality, those newly minted Doctors had a higher average ACE score than Gen Pop. In future studies the opposite was found: lower average ACE score than Gen Pop. Here's my theory on that. The first cohort of Doctors that filled out the form were taken by surprise, in their ignorance about the test and it's implications they told the truth about their experience. Ever since then, Doctors have lied on that test (is my working theory). For like an Air Line Pilot being asked about their off-shift drug / drinking habits by their employer, the motive for secrecy and deception is very high. I found a study from England that showed Doctors have a higher rate of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) than Gen Pop. Guess what overlaps nicely with a high ACE score? AUD! Why would Doctors in England be honest when self reporting alcohol use? 1) Different culture than America / Canada 2) ADU is pretty much a national crisis in their country. Then a thought came to me, Doctors are a lot like extreme athletes. Super motivated, super long hours. Just compare their requirement of Internship / Residency to running a year long marathon. And when that is done, the rate of patients seen each day in our modern system is nuts, about 2000 per year. In some settings, less than 5 minutes per patient is the goal / target / requirement. There are old school forums for doctors online, anyone can access / read them, that's where I got some of my data. The first athletic cohort I looked at was ultra marathoners, extreme ultra marathoners. It's the highest ACE scoring people that make for the absolute greatest extreme athletes. There are a lot of reasons for that expression. Now consider the medical field through that lens. This morning I realized, regarding that earliest ACE study on doctors, it was expressed as 'Average ACE score' (or at least iirc that's what I focused on at the time) OMG, think about the outliers in one direction: the highest ACE scoring Doctors. Then profile them, which fields, behavior patterns, quest for validation / superstardom, miscuing empathy, hard core tendency for biases, largest hero complex, Praise / validation seeking from small tight dedicated cohorts, social reward dopamine seeking, et cetera. High ACE stuff. There might be a small number of those Doctors with very high ACE scores, and it could be many of those highest ACE Doctors are working in the area of treatment for Transexuals (it's a theory anyways). Motives. Whose using who. Everything in the paragraph above could all dovetail into the issue of how treatment is effected by experience and bias. Everything above is expressed by an Ally of Freedom, by Freedom's Ally. Sure you might think I'm just a Fucking Asshole for giving voice to all this data and opinions, but... It is your actions that define you, not me. It is my actions that define me, not you. Most of what a person encounters in life is either BS, a trick or the opposite of what it seems. Or somewhere along a spectrum of deception. Question those with declared good intentions. I self identify as retired, and I know that's not true! (not a joke) I shall keep thinking all of this through, as I suggest you do too. Matrix, red pill / blue pill, a load of bullcrap: just keep thinking, ideally as impartially as possible.
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I walked away, then came right back. This was difficult data to find, when I searched today. When I researched the topic years ago I did not have to rely on generative AI, it was much easier find some sources. East and West Germany... it's particularly hard to find a straight answer. Narrowing the search to 1990 helped (immediately after the fall of the wall). Finding data on East German military recruits seemed easiest, but that seemed to be data for males only, and that is a narrow cohort. Consider how that will affect pursuit desire and frustration tolerance in search engine users, over the coming years. It used to be, few users went on to page two of the search results.The new normal will be, few users scroll down page one -- because AI generative answers are at the top. It's easy for Google to increase the effect by manipulating the SERPs below the AI Generative answer.
The above post is intended to pair with my other post, Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
The above post is intended to pair with my other post, Jury Summons: category all, invalid.
One last reason why the Matrix and Trans is a non-issue for me: because I see the LGBTQIA+ (1, 2, 3, pick a simpler acronym please) issue as being equivalent to the Left Handed Freedom Index, a theory I developed looking at statistics. A while back I developed the Left Handed Freedom Index. A country's / culture's level of freedom can be determined by the degree to which the citizens / participants are able to express left-handedness. Going from memory, here are the stats: In the least free countries / cultures only 1% of the population is left handed. In the most free countries / cultures up to 13% of the population is left handed. It came down to China vs Denmark. The same theory can be applied to the Alternative Sexuality Community (ASC) / Alternative Sexuality Cohort (ASC). Grrrrr, labels! Heck I can't get upset at those labels, because I made them up, just like I made up the Left Handed Freedom Index. But I recognize that people generally don't like labels that they don't create or voluntarily opt into. ASC was the most simple, inclusive, logical and easy to remember concept I could come up with. Somewhere between 1% and 13% is the natural, likely genetic based number for the percent of population participating in ASC. Anything above and below that % is likely due to cultural / experiential influence. The natural number is likely comparable to autism / neuroatypicalness (less than 5% of the population). I base this on a lot of research, cross cultural and various regions -- research done twice, about 10 years apart, so I noticed how the statistics changed. I saved the most controversial part for last: bathroom use and sports are real issues. Safety versus false feelings of safety. Subjecting others to dangers. Age of medication / hormone / surgery: 18. Solve the suicide risk / problem some other way, until the day of the 18th Birthday. Perhaps apply the 'soft' science of psychology/therapy* until age 18, not the hard science of 'Medicine'* -- a verbal touch, not a scalpel or syringe. Finding a path to respect all Rights is like climbing a hard mountain trail at night with no light. That's real, strong opinions will vary, other people (than me) will sort this all out (may they be smart and wise, more-so than I). I'm sure it'll all work out fine, over the next 100 years. #LongView Left Handed Freedom Index: "A country's / culture's level of freedom can in part be determined by the degree to which the citizens / participants are able to express left-handedness."Alternative Sexuality Freedom Index: "A country's / culture's level of freedom can in part be determined by the degree to which the citizens / participants are able to express reasonable alternative sexuality." #2 has to have the qualifier 'reasonable,' and that makes it far more of a socially / politically disruptive logic trap than left handedness. Want to inquire about someone's membership / participation in the Alternative Sexuality Community / Cohort? Just ASC them. Want to know if a person is an Alternative Sexuality Community / Cohort ally? Just ASC them. Want to know how someone identifies? Just ASC them! Pick a form of empathy, show some compassion, protect the vulnerable <- one of the ways humans judge humans, and yet there's still disagreement on applying the fundamentals. *The lines are blurred between soft science psychology and hard science medicine. They likely always have been, and perhaps always will be -- in fluctuating degrees. And that is a cause for concern, for they are largely and significantly separate fields. 3/8/2025: I'm likely done with edits/ additions on this blog topic, until additional hard or soft science is available. Edited to add on 3/9/2025: "Which hearing aid goes in which ear?" https://improvehearingaids.com/which...-in-which-ear/ "As a rule, hearing aids are labeled by the hearing care professional. However, this marking is not always easy to find. If it is missing – ask your hearing care professional for a side label for hearing aids. When the part of the hearing aid which red or blue is fairly small an additional colored marker can be applied on the hearing aid to identify the side faster." Red pill / Blue pill is deep social / cultural programming emotional hack attack: capitalizing upon the colors which are associated with work, anxiety, disgust, frustration, undesired / uncontrollable change, feelings of powerlessness, et cetera. Colors that can be used to activate psychological triggers within many different cohorts (income, age, gender, et cetera). https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/...at-vs-patriot/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'Em_Sock_'Em_Robots https://pokemondb.net/red-blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego
Major edit on 3/7/2025. Today I checked this post and realized it said "Partisan" and not "NON-partisan." I believe the forum is currently not secure and that the above post was edited by someone else after I made it. By definition it's not secure, it's running on old, unsupported version of the software. I firmly believe I would not have made such a mistake regarding an issue of self-definition. I have a learning disability and didn't learn to write properly until around the age of 28. Sure I could write in K-12, just not well, not exactly at 'grade level.' I didn't understand the parts of speech properly until my last year of college (umm, frankly that's a difficult topic. Most people never properly understand the parts of speech. And at my current age, heck I've forgotten how to explain them, I just know how to use them). When I make a post, I spend half the day reading it and editing it until I feel it is just right. This blog is a living document, so long as I am alive. It's the final edit that is most meaningful. But I publish on the internet, which means I can only guarantee what I type. I cannot guarantee what you read. Generally I only edit posts for a few days. Rarely I'll edit within a few months of making a post. I don't anticipate additional edits past that time, except in some cases when new facts/events/developments occur that are worth motioning because they increase understanding of the topic(s) discussed in a post. I try to always list the number of edits and the edit dates. If it's a major edit then I make a separate post, or if it's in the original post then I set the new edit apart from the original content. My posting process is mostly explained here: "Writing process, errors omission and corrections." https://community.loghomebuilders.or...on-corrections
The post above is more than a soundbite, but less than a full meal. It would take at least 100 pages, and massive amounts of documented research, to satiate real hunger: to really flesh out all aspects of what's written above. It would take about 100 pages to properly justify every aspect of the expression. I've done most of the research, I have no interest in doing the formal writing. More than a soundbite, less than a full meal. That is usually what I will offer. As an aside: It is your actions that define you, not me.It is my actions that define me, not you. The importance of those distinctions matter incredibly.
I'll wrap this up with a few related thoughts about GMO Homo sapiens sapiens 2.0. 1) The average age of child soldiers is 13. The age spread is often described as 8 to 18 years old. 2) Professional video game players age out of being truly competitive at around age 20 (that number is from memory, it might be +- a year or two). It has to do with reduced reflexes / slower reaction times. That's neurological / developmental. That's peak human performance as defined by video games -- watching screens and fiddling buttons / joysticks. 3) Warfare has rapidly become reliant upon video game like skills, for instance POV Drones. A trend that is likely to continue, in combination with AI use in the battle field. I envision use scenarios where a human operator might always be preferred, for instance simple digital security of mission details (nothing typed, nothing uploaded). 4) It would take a minimum of 8 years for a nation to field troops of GMO Human 2.0 child soldiers. 16-18 years if the goal was devastating the enemy in a manner more akin to the traditional battle field. And these numbers are only specific to Humans 1.0, perhaps they might be different for GMO humans 2.0. -- It would take exactly 18 years, if adhering to international law (see the irony?). 5) Regarding Ithkull, it's perfectly suited for two voices: Homo sapiens sapiens, neuroatypicals / neurodivergent (I prefer the term neuroatypical).GMO Homo sapiens sapiens 2.0. Perhaps AI too, but ignore that for now The rest are naturally cut off from access to the content. We can have our native languages, and Toki Pona. "Age-Appropriate Speech and Language Milestones" https://www.chop.edu/health-resource...age-milestones Humans 1.0 learn 100 words by age two, 300 to 500 words by age three to four. The difference in the two voices that can capitalize upon Ithkull might only be one of degree, and that worries me. GMO Humans 2.0 might be, just humans. If it doesn't worry you, research the "demon core," then research Lake Karachay, then consider man's / human's proclivities (they are gender neutral imho, kings and queens, and know no borders -- they are global). If GMO Humans 2.0 are not humans, then we might really be in trouble. For once there were many sapiens that were a notch 'above' great apes, monkeys and chimpanzees -- now there is one. (mostly one?) 6) There is a whole separate topic, leaving aside the issue of GMO: the potential of gains made by simply using the top 1% of genetic material of Homo sapien sapien 1.0 is massive. Just look at the farming industry, and also the vanity field of show animals. Regarding humans... Run multiple programs concurrently, each optimized for different characteristics, and within approx 40 to 60 years you have 3 generations of quick change. 7) Regarding all the above -- Reasons to enjoy building a simple log cabin, nestled in the woods, near a stream, off grid. edited to add -- I realized that the topic in the articles below greatly affects most of what is posted above. "World’s first ‘artificial womb facility,’ will let parents design child’s height, strength, intelligence" https://studyfinds.org/ectolife-arti...-grown-babies/ "Artificial Womb Trials in Humans Could Start Soon" https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ld-start-soon/ # file everything in this post and the ones above under 'reasons I don't care about the piddly stuff.' And all the current, popular zoo / circus distractions are the piddly stuff (aka the comparatively meaningless, emotional driven wedge issues that are dividing society and blinding it).
